Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1891 — Page 1

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NG II I Coke Strikers Once More on the Warpath. The Sheriff and Posse Defeated by a Mob. Women Take a Prominent Hand in the Fray. Bloodshed Will FollovS- if Evictions Continue. Tho Lawless Element in Power and Serious Troublo Feared. Uxioxtowk, Ta., April 16. Sheriff McCorraick and his handfull of deputies clashed with tho strikers at tho Trotter works near Connellsville this afternoon and a riot ensued. He arrived there about noonand.began the work of eviction.IIehad put out several families without encountering any resistance until he came to the house of a giant Folander, named Fred Strousack, where he attempted to enter to carry out the furniture. Strousack rushed forward, but was thrust aside. Then the women of the household rushed on the officer. One seized a teakettlo and pouring some boiling water in a pan, threw it in tho officer's face. Tbe others struck at him with whatever they could reach. The excitement meanwhile had pprcad to the crowd outside which by this time had numbered fully 200. They attacked the deputies at the door with Etones and several were struck. McCorxnick seeing that his force was powerless in face of euch a mob, came out and drew his men oil amid a shower of etones. Strousack was afterwards lodged in jail here. McCormick swore in a number of deputies this evening, and will start out again tomorrow on the disagreeble business of eviction. Deputy Crawford, with a pos-e, will go to Lc-isening, No. 2, in the morning to evict a dozen or eo families there. The riotous element is in the ascendency there now, and serious trouble is apprehended when Sheriff McCormick begins the evictions tomorrow. The fcentiment here is in favorof calling on the miiitia now before there is achance to have the scenes at Morewood reenacted. NEARING THS END. Tbe Coko Strikers Mowly Losing GroundSeveral Plants Itesuuie. Scottdale, Fa., April 16. Nine weeks ago today the coke region was plunged into idleness by the strike, but it looks as hough it will soon end. The muchpromised aid materialized this evening, vhen James McBride, the local represen'ative, who has been in conference with ihe executive councils of the Federation of 'abor and the United Mine AVorkers, arrived from Columbus with a large sum of relief money. On reaching labor headquarters he was besieged by committees from nearly every plant in tho region and several thousand dollars were auickly disbursed. Labor officials eay that the sum received is sufficient to carry on the strike several weeks. The operators continue their inroads on the strikers' ranks. Today the Frick company started their Summit plant with thirty men. Thev increased their operating forces at Kyle, where twenty-eight ovens were fired, and at Leisenring No. 2, where 150 men are at work aud 128 ovens charged. They also report recruits in the working forces at Adelaide, Jimtown and eitiewhere. At Morewood there was no increase. This company shipped about one hundred and ten cars of coke today. The Calumet plant, near Mammoth, was resumed today, but the number of men at work could not be learned. Tho McClure company report 113 men at work at the Fainter plant, which was started Monday. The Whitney plant had more men at work than yesterday and shipped coke in large quantities. Laughlin's Tyrone plant was retorted full. It is stated that efforts will be made to start more plant in the morning. Twenty-six Italians arrived at Summit mines today, where they are to go to work in the morning. More are expected. A force of 200 Italians was also shipped into "Whitney. They will be used to break the strike and labor leaders are now among them in the hope of influencing them to abandon their intentions. Five families were evicted by deputy sheriffs at Morgan and Summit today. A large crowd of sympathizers congregated, but offered no interference. The eviction notices at Morewood will empire Sunday and as a number of families have thus far been unable to secure house?, the labor organizations will engage tents for them. Scottdale, Pa., April 17. The exodus of the elate troops, coupled with a large consignment of relief money, has braced the backbones of the 14,000 striker still out, and labor headquarters are radiant tonight, as compared with the deep g'.oom of the few days past. As the soldiers boarded the train in squads bitter epithets were hurled after them. Capt. Loar was especially an object of ridicule. Two companies, however, were left at Morewood, where they are to remain. Operators are grow ing nervous and have doubled the guards at several points. The Frick company baa shipped 110 cars today, and other shipments run the total np to 135. Several hundred eviction notices were served today and a dozen tame evictions occurred. Deputies are gathering at Trotter and will force evictions at that place, where they met with such determined opposition yesterday. Small sized riots are now of nightly occurrence, generally led by women, who inflict co great damage. Scottpai.e, April lf. This was another lively day in the coke region. Numerous mass meetings were held, and preceding the wholesale evictions which will occur tomorrow, they are taken with significance. "With a bra3 band a mass meeting of several hundred strikers was held this afternoon at the Summit plant, where the imported foreigners have been at work. Every effort was put forth to tot tbe Italia'ns to attend, but without avail. They are quartered in what is known as the "Soup house," which is situated near the Summit plant, and are heavily guard

ed by deputy sheriffs to prevent interference from the strikers. The strikers exercised great precaution to keep off tbe the company's premises. They passed resolutions to remain linn. Another enthusiastic mass meeting was held at "Whitney. Italians are nlo at work there and tho meeting was called for the purpose of getting them out on a strike. Tonight the labor leaders say they hope Ciovernor I'attison will come to the region as intended, and make a rigid and Eearching investigation of aflairs. They claim that the strikers aro accussed innocently of many occurrences and that nothine barring an investigation will bring out these facts. This evening thero is great activity all nlong tho line. The coke companies will make persistent efforts to resume moro of their plants tomorrow morning, and the labor leaders are out to a man in the hope of defeating the movement. The Cambria iron company will make an attempt to rekindle tho lircs in some cf its plants, which have been idle ten week?. The eviction movement will be fully inaugurate!. That many families will resist seems to le tho general impression. Several hundred eviction notices were served by the coke companies on rtrikers between this place and Bradford last night. At Summit and Morgan a couple of hundred papers were served. The Morewood notices expired to-day, and evictions will take place to-morrow. From a source believed to be trustworthy it was learned to-day that colored workmen would be shipped into the region during the coming week. A d if patch from "Uniontown, Fa., says: Adjt.-Gen- McClelland arrived here at 8 o'clock this morning, having left Harrisburg at midnight and coming here fromtireensburtr on an engine. He has established his headquarters at the McClelland house, lie notified Sheriff McCormick that company C of this place end company E, Capt. Loar's company, of ML Pleasant, were assembled and ready to move wherever he (tho sheriff ) decided that their services were needed. In conversation with a reporter the adjutant-general laid great stress upon the fact that the troops are not to be used to assist in evictions or to do police duty at any of th works, but to quell disturbances an 1 maintain order when Sheriff McCormick's means have failed. Scottdale, Fa., April 20. Today was prolific of excitement and small riots throughout the region. The women generally are leading and are most bitter in their attacks on the deputies. Heretofore they have been silent, but when evictors attacked their homes the foreign women especially were driven wild. During several equabbles today a couple of deputies were struck with stones and one M as cut on the arm while pushing his way through a crowd. Fut few evictions were made, as the sheriffs evidently fear opposition and are gathering large forces of deputies. In anticipation of trouble when the evictions and arrests are made at Lefcenrinc tomorrow, the force of deputies is being largely increased. There are alo fears of trouble at Adelaide, where a number of eviction notices will also expire tomorrow. There is a report in circulation this evening that Finkerton detectives will bo imported into the reirion and stationed at the works w here efforts are being made to resume. Master Workman Wise is at Whitney tonight to give passages to a number of imported Italians who aro desirous of leaving that point. But little of consequenco was done at the Whitney plants this afternoon, owing to the rai ling of the company's forces by the strikers. The labor leaders do not have much to say about the coroner's verdict on the Morewood occurrence which was rendered this afternoon. John McSloy, worthy foreman of the United mine workers, has had Superintendent J. A. Kicer of Leisenring plant, and three subordinates, arrested on charges of conspiracy, shooting with intent to kill and assault and battery. They are under $1,000 bail. A dispatch from Uniontown, Ya., says: The boys of Company C spent a quiet night at the armory and the forenoon passed without incident, but they were startled at 3 o'clock this afternoon by an order from .vherill" McCormick to move at once to Leith. McCormick had gone up at 2 o'clock to make several evictions and the order to th troops meant that there was trouble. This was immediately countermanded to the relief of tho soldiers. The trouble at the Ieith arose over the determination of Andy Dunsko not to be evicted, and Andy was backed up by all the Ilnncarian women in the neighborhood. The sheriff had evicted Joseph Ilartman, who offered no resistance, but when he attempted to enter Dunsko's house he was met by the women, who rushed at him and struck him with their fists and any weapons that came handv. One woman aimed a blow at tho sheriff's head with a hatchet w hich barely missed its mark. The sheriff rushed to the company's office, armed himself and sent a deputy to hurry up the troops, but the Women begsred him to reconsider. Deputy Crawford went to Leisenring No. 2 today to serve the injunction papers on thirty-two of the strikers engaged in the riot there on Saturday morning. Closely in his wake came Constable Chick to arrest the rioters. Twenty-six of the latter were arrested and taken on board the train by the constable when their wives and the wives of other strikers, to the number of forty or fifty, poured into the two coaches and took possession. The women refused to pay their fare and they refused to get off, and the trainmen, after making a number of ineffectual efforts to unload them, finally ran the train on a uide-track,' cut off the coaches, prisoners and all, and came on the engine to Vance's Mills junction, and reported the situation to railroad headquarters. The engineers bronght the engine to Uniontown with Constable Chick and three of his prisoners aboard. Nothing has been heard of the train load left behind. Late tonight a telephone message was sent from Lamont to Leisengring No. 2, notifying the deputies and company of officials that 2"0 strikers had just left Lamont for Leisenring and a riot is imminent. Adjt.-Gen. McClelland this afternoon telegraphed to the governor: "No news is good news," implying there was as yet no necessity for troops. Tho Coroner's Vsri'is.' Mt. Pleasant, Fa., April 20. At 3 o'clock this afternoon tho coroner's jury announced its verdict on the Morewood riot case as follows : That the deceased came to bis death at Morewood on Thursday morninr, April 2, 1S01, about 3 o'clock by a bullet discharged from a gon or revolrer in the hands of the deputies of the sheriff of Weitmoreland county. This applies to each man killed in the riot Another Miner' Strike. Locisville, Ky., April 20. Seven thousand coal miners are expected to strike today at Jelliro unless some agreement in regard to the spring scale of wages is

reached.

SEVERAL U CLOUDS.

England nnd Portugal Get Into Difficulties. The Portuguese Fire on a British Expedition. Lives ot the British Colonists Seriously Endangered. Another Bloody Massacre in Madagascar. llussia. Nearly Ready to Open the lOuropean Carnival. London, April 20. Dispatches received here from Durban, South Africa, show that tho Fortugucse authorities are taking a high hand in Mashonaland. The latest instance of their hostility to the British interests in that district is likely to cause a further tension in the relations between the governments of great T.ritain and Portugal. There are a number of British colonists who have settled in Mashonaland and mails destined to them are carried by way of Beira, a Fortugueso settlement. Upon the arrival of the British mail Backs at Beira the Fortuguese authorities held them and refused to allow them to be carried to their destination. Great indignation on the part of the British colonists has been aroused by this high handed proceeding of the Fortuguese. Further details regarding the firins upon the British steamer Agnea, which was engaged in conveying the expedition under the command of Col. Willoughby, and the seizure of the cargo boats engaged in the same service, show that Col. Willoughby endeavored to secure he release of his vessels by tho payment of the usual customs duty of 3 percent, imposed by the Fcrtumese. The officials who commanded the force which seized the boats refused to accept this payment, and ordering the British flag hauled down, hoisted the Fortuguese flag in its place. The Portuguese declare that the British are excluded from the Pensive river which the boats aro navigating when seized and which is the chief water route to Mashonaland. .Several of the British colonists have been imprisoned and most of the British settlers have returned from Mashonaland on account of the arbitrary action of the Portuguese. There is ever evidence that a serious rupture is impending between the Fortuguese and British authorities. A dispatch from South Africa says that Col. Willoughby has reached Delagoabay. He reports that on his arrival at Beira he applied for permission to proceed to the Pungwe river and offered to pay the prescribed duties, but as he received no answer after forty-eight hours he started without permission, when the Fortuguese opened fire upon him, seized his two steamers with mails and provisions and imprisoned eixteen of the crew. Col. Willoughby says that tho lives of the British at Beira are in great danger. The explanation of the seizure given at Lisbon is that Col. Willoughby's vessei attempted to proceed to the river without paying the dutien. A report of fighting between the British and Fortuguese, published to-day. is believed to refer to the seizure of the Willoughby expedition. The llrlllcoao Manlpiirta. . Simla, April 20. A dispatch from Rangoon, received today, pays that tho jobraj, the younger brother and heir of tho maharajah of Manipur, who deposed the latter in September last and who has been proclaimed regent, has, with 2,000 Manipuris, occupied the strongly-entrenched jiosition po successfully held by Lieut, (irant until the latter was ordered to evacuate it. It is presumed that the position in question is Ft. Alongtaiug near Thobal (previously referred to in dispatches ns Ft. Thobal) where April 4 Lieu ( i rant repulsed a force of 4.000 Manipurs. Another Imbroglio. Ottawa, Ont., April 20. It has been learned that the schooner Maud S. of Shelburn, X. S., which had sailed a short time ago for the Bering sea sealing grounds, put in at Good Success bay in the Argentine Republic and discovered numbers of British sailors there who had been ship wrecked and compelled by tho authorities, who succored them, to man a life saving station at that place. It is believed to be a case demanding prompt action by the British government and further information has been asked from the captain of the Candian schooner. Another Mailaucr Massacre. Marseilles, April 20. The latest mails from Madagascar bring a report that the Sakatavas of Marrombo have massacred the governor of Tubear and fifty-seven Hova soldiers after the Sakatava king had promised the governor an audience. The victims' bodies were horribly mutilated. Thirteen Hova customs officials were also murdered. The inhabitants of Tubear fled in terror to the French colony on tho Island of Nossibe, near Madagascar. At last accounts a French gun-boat was cruising slong the Madagascar coast waiting for Hova reinforcements. Further Complications. LoN-poN, April 20. A telegram from Pretorio, South African Republic, announces that a Boer expedition, with the consent of Portugal, will establish a republic in either Mashonalaod or Manicaland. This project, if carried out, will affect Manica territory, claimed by England, and will result in further trouble between Eng'and and Portugal. Will Attnk the Insurgents. ' Loxiox, April 21. The Valparaiso correspondent of the Times says that the Chilian men of war Imperial, Lynch and Condell, all of which are supplied with torpedo catchers, are starting for the North under orders to attack the squadron which is commanded by officers who have revolted against the government. Oplarcd Siruarm. Calcutta, April 20. The British advance force in three columns has captured Famana Ridge. The casualties on the British side were Blight. The Miranza losses are not known.

THfcY DIED TOGETHER. A fair of Lovers Commit Suicide Under I'ecullar Circumstances. New York, April 20. A young couple registered at the Grand Union hotel, For-ty-eecord-et. and Fourth-ave., Sunday morning, as F. B. Brand and wife, and were assigned to room D 8, a large room on the third floor. Tonight at 8 :30 they wero found dead in tho room from gas asphyxiation, locked in each other's arms. They bad employed the old familiar method ot inhaling gas through rubber tubes held in tho mouth. On the woman's breast was a large and beautiful bouquet, evideutly purchased by tbe young man for tho occasion of death. None about the hotel know who the couple were, but they were evidently Germans. Ho was of light complexion and she was dark. The young man was last seen about tho hotel alive yesterday morning, and the fact that there was anything wrong about room I) 8 was discovered by the chambermaid reporting that 6he could not enter it or get any response to her knocking. When the door was burst open it was found that the cou"ple w ere in the bed wrapped in each other's'arms. The bed had been pulled out into the center of the room to a place directly under the big chandelier so as to give a better opporcunity for their work. The man was about twenty-five years old and the woman twenty-two. T,hey left four letters, two to Mrs. Miller, of 210 E. Ninth-st., one to the coroner and one to a woman in Williamsburg. The remains were reriioved from the hotel tonight with some attempt at secrecv, tho undertaker removing the plate bearing his name from his wagon. The Mrs. Miller to whom one letter was addressed refuses to state who the suicides are. The letters have not yet been opened. MYSTERIOUS POISONING CASE. Another Victim Conut Among the Dead A Second Case. Louisville, Ky., April 20. Another victim is counted to the poison in the food at the wedding feast at Lyndon, Ky. V. B. Snooks, father of the groom, W. B. Snooks, died at his home at Eminence today. Of the others tho following are not considered out of danger: In Louisville Mrs. B. F. Guthrie, George Peacham, tho colored driver ; at Anchorage, William C. Terry; at St. Matthews, Mrs. S. S. Hite; at Ormsby, Mrs. Gus Hardin; at Lyndon, L. L. Dorsy and J. R. Terry. Terry is expected to die. The others are considered better. There are more than forty doctors engaged on the many cases in one capacity or another and they have at least three distinct theories as to how the poisoning occurred. Another poisoning is today added to that at the wedding. At the boardinghouse of J. C. Janes here yesterday ice cream and strawberries were served and this morning Mrs. Janes, Mrs. Lena Janes, Monroe Janes, Lafayette Janes. J. V. Davis of Paducah. Russell Janes, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Badgelev ard Mr. and Mrs. Ilite Shepperd were all taken sick. Davis was vory seriously affected for some hours. All are now better. REFORM IN MARYLAND.

A New Democratic Organiiatlon Formed to Purify Politics. Baltimore, April 16. The political movement within the democratic party looking toward a reformation in ttate legislation and administration has taken definite shape in the organization of the Maryland democratic reform club. The Sun says the members of the club are gentlemen from the state of divers professions and callings, but all known as democrats and in favor of reform in state and national politics upon democratic lines and principles." The president of the club is Philip D. Lakrd, who in the course of his address said. "I need not remind you that this is a party association ; that its aim is to promote the welfare of the democratic party byjadhering strictly to its principles which time has made venerable, and in the battles of the near future by upholding the strong, clean hands of Grover Cleveland." WORK OF THE WINDS. Towns in Texas hikI Oklohams Almost Wiped Off the Map. Liberal, Kas., April 17. Reports brought in this afternoon state that the court house at Hansford, Tex., in courseoi construction and nearly completed, was destroyed by a cyclone Wednesday afternoon. A brickmason and another man were killed; names not given. Huff Wright, a citizen of the little town was injured. Every house was more or less damaged. From there the cyclone traveled in a northeasterly direction to Paludota, a little town on the Beaver river in Beaver county, Oklahoma, which place is reported ns entirely destroyed. Both localities are many miles from railroad and telegraph and this accounts for the lateness of the news. Further particulars could not be 'earned. AN ILL-STARRED ADVENT UReI Misfortunes of a Party of Oklahoma Gold Ilnntars, Arkansas City, Kas., April 20. Henry Buchanan, a gold digger from Oklahoma arrived here Friday last and told marvelous tales about the rich gold fields in a certain portion of the new territory. He declined to give the location of the field and Sunday, eluding the vigilance of his friends, started back to his digging. A party of sixty secured a bloodhound and followed his trail for some distance into the territory. Yesterday, while encamped in a gnlch, a cloud-burst overtook them. The gulley was flooded and the gold-hunters barely escaped with their lives. Many of their horses wero drowned and all their outfit was lost. The adventurers returned today a disconsolate looking crowd. JOE MULHATTEN INSANE. The Boss American Liar Taken to a Chicago Hospital. Chicago, April 20. Joseph Mulhatten, the traveling salemans' nominee for president of the United States during the last presidential election was tonight locked up at the detention hospital. Jast January he was thrown from a street car in New Orleans and the fall froduced concussion of . the brain, which as now apparently caused insanity. Previous to being taken to the hoepital tonight, 11. B. Mulraney, a ledge brother, found him roaming about the streets in a demented condition. At their room Mulhatten drew a revolver and attempted to 6hoot Mulvaney. Mr. Mulhatten will probably be sent to a private asylum for treatment.

DUEL Wmi STILETTOS.

Horrible Tragedy in a New York Tenement. An Italian Murders Two Old People, And Is Himself Slain by One of Their Sons. His Wife in tho Plot to Kill Her Own Mother. A Bloody Duel lit the Dark Fought to tho Death. New York, April 20. In lloboken at about a quarter of 1 o'clock this morning Angelo Gaboth, thirty-five years old, of New York, murdered his mother-in-law, dangerously stabbed his father-in-law and was then killed by Conoquito Chinchella, a son of the murdered woman. A general light followed in which Gaboth's wife was stabbed and also her brother. Antino Chinchella aud his wife and their two sons, Conoquito and Anzelmo, aged eighteen and twenty years respectively, lived in three rooms at 105 Grand-st., lloboken. The house is a tenement. The Chinchella? daughter and her husband, Anpelo Ciabotii, were visitintr the Chinchclla's last night. Gaboth was a shiftless fellow of evil disposition. Mrs. Chinchella had saved up some money and there is no doubt that (iaboth knew about this and wanted it. It looks as if his visit was planned for the sole purpose of securing it and it is suspected that he contemplated murder when lie wont with his wife to visit her family. When the retiring hour came last night. Gaboth's wife slept in one room with her mother and Gaboth 9lept in the second room with the elder Chinchella, his father-in-law. Chinchella's two sons occupied the third room. At 12:00 o'clock this morning while all the others were soundly sleeping Gaboth arose from his bed, and, with a stilletto in his hand, went into his mother-in-law's room. Tho next instant a shriek rang through the apartments. It lasted but au instant, however, for Gaboth with oue blow had sunk his stilletto in the abdomen of his mother-in-law. The cry or the dying woman slightly aroused her husband in the next room, but the sound not being repeated, he rolled over in bed and went to sleep again. Gaboth's wife, sleeping with her mother, made no 6ign or motion, remaining perfectly quiet. The blood from her mother's wound ran over her, but still she did not etir. It seems, therefore, that she was well aware of what her husband was doing and it looks as if she was a party to the plot to murder her own mother. Gaboth stole again into tho room where old Chinchella slept and a moment later he thrust tbe stilletto into the ne k of the latter. He meant to end the old man's life with one blow, but he missed the vital spot. As the blow descended Chinchella gave a cry which woke up Conoquito, his son, who was sleeping with his brother in the next room. Conoquito jumped from his bed, looked through the door into his father's room and took in the situation at a glance. He quickly seized his own Btilletto and sprang at Gaboth like a tiger. A fierce contest followed, the two men fighting up and down the room, striking nt each other, but warding off each other's blows. Suddenly Gaboth's' wife sprang out of bed, flung herself between the combatants and partly separated them, but was stabbed twice herself in doing so, though not dangerously. Then Chinchella's older brother seized his sister, tore her away from the contestants and let the two men right it out. A moment later Gaboth flung up his arms with a loud cry and fell dead upon the floor, young Chinchella having driven his stilletto through Gaboth's left eye into his brain. As (iaboth was falling Chinchella drew out his weapon and plunged it into the other's left side, piercing the heart. Gaboth's wife flung herself on her husband's body, wailinsr and screaming. Her lamentations and the previous noise of the conflict had aroused the other inhabitants of the house. A clamor followed for admittance, and to the new comers, Frank Geripralla and Joseph Caperaut, young Chinchelbt explained the terrible scene of bloodshed. Gerigalla .and Caperaut advised him to sro to police headquarters at once, and he did. The sergeant in charge detained him and Dr. Simon hastily dressed young Chinchella's wounds, which he had received in the fight with Gaboth. Chinchella was stabbed during the fight, but not dangerously. Old Chinchella was removed in an ambulance to !SL Mary's hospital, unable to speak. Mrs. Gaboth and young Chincho'la's brother were alpo taken to 8t. Mary'e hospital. The bodies of Mrs. Chincheda and Gaboth were taken to Parslow's morgue. THE CAMP MORTON CASE. Editor "Wlnshlp Takes Serious lime "With Dr. Wjeth Boston, April 15. Editor A. E. Winship, of the Boston Traveller, who was in the Sixtieth regiment, M. V. M., a't Camp Morton, Indiana, in 1S64, and knows the condition of the camp and its prisoners.takes issue today editorially with Dr. Wyeth, who, in the Century for April, makes grave charges of cruelty, neglect, etc., at that camp. The editorial says: This is the purest fiction, as we srs in a position to know. Geo. Csrringtoa of Boston, on tbe retired army list, who bad command of Indiana and organized most of its regiments, states that no man was either starved or frozen to death at Camp Mortoo; that the article of Dr. Wyeth will be irovra by unimpeachable contemporary records and the testimony of anrvivipg officers and confederate soldiers. to be in every essential statement absolutely false. Fortunately the document! are available and ererr way complete for the disprove! of every ipeoifio charge. ' W. rld's Fair Laborer Stria. Chicago, April 20. Yesterday the laborers engaged in grading Jackson park in preparation for the world's fair decided to demand increase in wages from $1.50 to 75 ner rla'. The demand was made hv a J committee this morning and the contract

ors declined to aceede to it. The order to strike was then given. About tO0 men oufof the 050 employed struck this afternoon. There has been no disturbance.

MORE DIRTY LINEN. Seelat Tarltf TlSjllanie Unearth StartlingSeandals Among; M. I's. Lonpojj, April 17. Copyright. A lobby report associates others besides Capt. Verney and Mr. de Cobain wi)h scandals that w ill require their retirement from the house of commons. "Social purity," vigilants to whose private shadowing are due the charges against Capt. Verney and the flight of Mr. de Cobain have been hunting down other members j suspected of being unfaithful to j their wives. Evidence so obtained i has been sent in several instances 1 to the wives most conctrned. Some of ! the wives have resented the action of tho vigilants and joined in the demand for an apology, while in other cases the result has been an inquiry leading to the di- , vorce. Regarding Capt. Verney, intimate friends and associates hold that he is guiltless of knowingly abetting the procure.-s Florentin inveigling the i:iri. Tho police have lest track cf Flormt. Letters signed "Wilson" (who is supposed to be Capt. Varney) can be given an interpretation les-4 obnoxious tlmn tho oiienso of asking her to work in a procuress. If Vamey turrendera for tri.il it will be a mooted point whether the letters alleged to have bepn written by him in France and delivered in England will be udicient ground for prosecution. The question of the expulsion of Capt. rney from the house of commons greatly agitates tin members. Precedents ehow that niust be done under a direct vote after the trial of the o'lender or absconder from justice. In tlie event of Mr. de Oobains fni-um 1 to surrender to justice, the liberals id move to expel him from parliament. Mr. de Cobains was a conetnnt attendant at tho prayer meetings held by Christian peers and members of the housa nt commons in the cliimb-r of tho house, in which meetings no one U allowed to join except legislators and officials. The accusations agaiu:-t him, dating back two years, are due to the arduous "rooting"of viirilants. A COWARDLY ATTACK. TV. M. Frteen' of Leavenworth Marder. oasly Assaults 111 Political Kivnl. LtAvrxwoRTn, Kas., April 15. W. M. Forteecue, late republican candidate for mayor in this city, made an attack upon Col. Anthony this evening on Delaware k. with the evident intention oi murdering him. The men met at tho corner ot Fourth and Delaware and Fortesque approached Anthony, asking him if he was armed. Cob Anthony replied that he was not. j Fortescue then drew a slungshot and i aimed five or tix blows in quick succession at Anthony's head. The blows wero warded off so that they did little damage. A bystander then interfered and stopped the cowardly work. With an invitation to wait a few minutes Col. Anthony proceeded to the Times office and procured a revolver and within ten minutes was back, but Fortescue did not wait. Ho was gone. During the late campaign the TY?? supported the people '8 party candidate in opposition to Fortescue. Fortescue was defeated, and, thouirh he aligned no cause for his brutal attack, it is supposed ttiat it was on that account. Fortescue was surrounded by his friends and apparently was awaiting an opportunity to make the attack. Col. Anthony is sixtv-seven years old. It is well known in the city that his right arm is disabled aud his left arm has been so crippled by rheumatism for months past that he has been unable to put his coat on without help. Fostesene, while not a big niau, is big-boned and muscular. AFTER M N Y YEARS Oue of Ohio's Leading ilplnnt the Hero of a lluuiiinre. Springfield, O., April 17. Special. The Hon. Lawrence T. vea!, oue of Ohio's democratic wheelhorjes, is the hero of a pleasant little romance of many year standing which is nearin z it- culmination. Mr. Xeul, be it known, is a bachelor, and to those who did not know the facts this has been a source of no little wonderment, for Xeil is tolerably well od in this world's goods, has fame and bright prospects and has seemed in every way a very desirable husband. Tho facts have now leaked out and make a charming story of lid 'iity to a first love. During the war Mr. N':d engaged to the daughter f Millioua re Goode. who diod a few davs ve'. Fcr some renson, presumably the poverty ot young al, the engagement did not meet the views of Mr. (joode, and at his instigation it was broken oil". Neal v nt t- the front with a heavy heart, resolved never to love another. To this resolve lin h;is steadfastly adhered for more th:in a quarter ot a century. Now the obstacle to the union of these "true hearts is re.noved by the death of Mr. tioode. Mr. Neal arrived today to renew the engagement and the marriage will occur in the near future. BRIBED THE WEIGHERS. Members of a Wealthy Lumber Company la Serions Trouble. CniCAGo, April 15. It appears that S. R. Howells, head of the wealthy firm of .S, B. Howells & Co., dealers in lumber, with headquarters in this city and blanches at Omaha and Atchison, Kas , was secretly arrested by the federal authorities yesterday, brought before U. S. Commiseioner Iloyno and held in $5,000 bail for his future appearance. The reason for keeping tbe arrest secret is the fact that warrants are out for the arrest of two of Mr. Howells' brothers. One of them lives in Atchison, Has., and the other in Omaha. Jt is said that evidence is in the possession of the interstate commerce commission which will prove that Mr. Howells has systematically bribed certain weizhmasters ot the .Western railway weighing association at Missouri river ?oints to record false shipping weights, he weiffhmasters in question will be arrested and proceeded against under the' interstate commerce law. IT IS MAYOR WASHBURNE. Mayor Crleger Withdraw All Objections to tho Lata flection. Chicago, April 20. When the official canvassing board met this morning to declare the result of the late mayoralty election Mayor Creiger (dem.), through his attorney, withdrew all objections to the canvass as completed last week and asked that Hempstead Washburn (rep.) be declared mayor-elect.

M1XTI ftV. IU1 Eighty Insurgents Killed by Starvation. A Tale of Cruelty That Appalls tho Mind. The Blackest Page of Human Warfare. Awful Vengeance Wreaked by Calmacedn's Officers. Sickening Story Related by On of the Survivors. Brr.xos Avr.r.s, April 15. A story of atrocious cruelty on the part of tbe Chilian government forces is told here by the captain of a Portuguese bark which Las entered the port hereafter touching at Iquique and Arica on the west coast. The c.iptatn relates the story as told him at that stronghold of ths insurgents ly a Peruvian named Miquel Sivuerz. Ibis raan il.umoj to have escaped from a government prison at Aranco. The horrors painted by hia In a temporary prison at LI I'urto aro more ghaitlr d blood chilling than thofe of the Spanish inquisition. No detail is wanting to emj has 'n the fierce rancor and malignity which auimstes cither Bide in this fratricidal struirir'.e by ascribing every species of ferocity to the othf r. Surrz was driren off during: tbe Backing of Coquiniba with a large looy of inaurcent Chilians and a few Peruvians, of which nationality he reports a lare number in tbe northern army. The government without delsy, ordered tbe carrying of these jinsrnTs by transport to Valparaiso. Maddened by their reversei at Coo.uirnba, the Ualmacedists determined to wreak horrible vengeance on the insurgents who had fallen into their hands. The sicVeninz scenes consequent upon their inhuman rape stain blacker the darkest page ot human warfare. From the moment this band of wretched car tires, numbering nearly eighty, , were driven through the doorway of their prison they were doomed to death by the raosthorrib'e torments which can be wrung out of the human frame. The prison was nn abandoned wrr honse in the ell portion of Valparaiso, called Ll Pnerto. Hour after hour went by, and the abandoned rebels f aw no orlort made to provide them with the common necessities of food and drink. A fctrong cordon of government troops was drawn up around the jnil in full view, but refused any ettempt at communication. Their sullerings fr"Ui hunger and thirst became hourly more frightful. When the second day went by with no change but the usual relief of the guard outside, their despair settled into the awful conviction that they wer doomed to be wracked to death by thirst and hunger. Tney heat their hands and heads against the bars. They beggrd the sto'cal guards withoat for mercy. They were met with calm iadiiJerence. Ily the fifth dcy their conditions had become horrible. The.: screams, curses and entreaties for a little food and a little drink could be heard for blocks. Tbe only answer returned to them was, "ileraember Couquimbal" "Hemember Iquique!" Imprecations on Balmaceda and shrieks of "Msy the dogs of hell tear his soul!" came back from the fiery throats. For two days a number of the men had been silently and painfully workinz at a tunnel which was intended to cirry them free to a tannery directly in the rear and without the guard's line. With blackened tongues protruding frcm their mouths and hands cramped by their appalling suilerincs, the work was carried on with dogged desperation. Mendoza, commanding the investing force, had given strict orders that none of the government men were to approach the bci'dlng or in any way communicate with the occupants. 'this was the only britht feature tnat gare the starving wr"tche a glimpse of succor by means of their luru' burrow which would otherwise soon have been discovered. As the excavated earth parsed along from hand to hand it was simply deposited in the cellar, where il foimed a vust pile. linlmneda. himself, or some of those clnely ronnectt-d with hira, are charged within? infamous act ft coming down to gloat over the fiendish woric of signal vengeance wh eh wii beiii cerrivd on in the desolate quarter, but the relator et(rad to think that the president was ignorant oi the full atrocity of their treat ment, the details of whc'i be Lai con Sued to subordinates. But the ninth day the main floor of tbe building was littered with the purple and bloated carcase of the victims who bad thus eariy and happily succumbed to the fierce ravages of thirst and hunger. Some were ciad and sung comic songs at ths windows, while th rest toiled at the burrow which ucarcd completion. Ti e hideous dio kept up by the mad demons above drowned the groans of the weiry workmen below. The truly sicLe uiiff scenes of the territlt famine followed. htn the burrow was "tapped out" into open air. The first captive found himself surroundei And was liecten back into h i hole. It was evident that the whole scheme of escape had bees known to the men outside for sometime pre vious to i's termination. At the same time c company of the tioops was thrcwa in quictlj through the lront of tho building who, acramb ling over the slimy corpses that strewed tht lloor, pained the ini e- issue from the tunueU It was literally packed with miserable prie. ners, decoyed by the sweet scent of exptcted retdom. None but ghouls eould have been capable of the infamous work which is 6aid now to havs been done. Both ends of fie tunnel were corked up with a mans of earth. Not eO'i a hushed scream from the entombed victims pfntl-ated the walls of this hotrlbla living grave. Death must have lollowed within a few minutes. How many were blotted out by this fiendish act is uot known. It is thought that over thirty men were in the tunnel when it was sealed. The corpses were thrown ont to bo carted away, and ti e remaining prisoners, who bad not succeeded in gettina into the tunnel, wera driven to Ft. Bureau, whence ths Peruvian, Saurezwas subsequently removed to Araace, and their made his escape. Even he could not be forced to express a belief that Balmaceda was at all cognizant of the full extent of the Chilian horrors. He ascribed it to a mist ke ia interpreting orders carried out by a cold-blooded subordinate. The Balmacedists, he thought, had ued every means to prevent a knowledge of the faet from lesking out into tbe opposing camp or tho oat side world. DEATHS. At Grand Rapids, Mich. M. IL Ford, congressman from that city. At London Edward Green, M. P. foi the Stow market division of Suffolk. At St Louis Judge Garrett S. Van Wagoner, a prominent member of the bar. At Nevada. Mo. J. J. Lindley, a distinguished ex-member of the St. Louis bench. At Boyleston, Mas. Mrs. Mary E. Gough, widow of the late John B. Gough. At Benton Harbor, Mich. Father Atkinson, the oldest methodist preacher in Michigan. At St. Augustine, Fla. Mrs. John W, Chandler of Massachusetts, wif of the ex congressman.

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