Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1892 — Page 1

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FIRST PART. ESTABLISHED 1821. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MOHNING, MARCH IG, 1892-TWELYE TAGES. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

MERELY ÄS A DUTY

Would Cleveland Again Be a Candidate. The Presidency the Office of the People And Not to Be Sought by Any Office Hunter. HILL ON HIS TRAVELS. Making Numerous Speeches " Along the Route. The Texas Legislature Refuses Him an InvitationPeople's Party Committee Calling for Funds. Cen. Brass Calls Upon the r.v-Prcsi-dent to Be a Candidate Tor lie-HIec-tion and He Responds in a Characteristic Letter Hill Greeted by lllg Crowds Along His Konto Through the South Other Political News. Milwatkee, "Wis., March 14. Gen. J3dward S. Bragg, author of the famous phraao "We love him for the enemies ho baa made," hag been urging ex-President Cleveland to make public avowal of his position in connection with the approaching democratic presidential convention. Under date of March ü he wrote a letter to Mr. Cleveland from Fond du Lac containing the following paragraph: The danger to the public interests which a failure of the democratic party would involve seerns to me to require the open avoval of your willingness to submit to any service to which jour party and the people may assign you. Many entertain fears that you may decline fur ther publie duty, which cone but you can effectually remove, and your voice will be everywhere heard with benefit aad eflecL I believe your usefulness to the nation may be greater now than ever in the past, to carry to victory the cause of tarill reform and to restore the blessings of i?ood government to our people; and, as your fellow democrat and fellow citizen, I ask you to say to your party and the people that your name may be presented to the national democratic convention as a candidate for its nomination to the presidency, and that you will accept that nomination if the convention shall make ir, and aja:n undertake the duties of president if the people shall, as I believe they will, chooee you for that office. In reply the ex-president writes as follows : I.akkwooi, X. J., March 9, ISC'2. Hon. Edward S. Brajre: My Dear Sir Your letter of the 5th insL Is receive J. I have thought until now that I micht continue silent on the subject which, under the bi;n sanction of your position as my "fellow democrat and fellow citien," and in your relation as a true and trusted friend, yoa present to me. If, in answering' your questions, I might only consider my personal desires and my individual ease and comfort, my response would be promptly made, and without the least reservation or difficulty. But if you are right in supposing that the subject is related to ft duty I owe to the country and to my party, a condition exists which makes such private and personal considerations entirely irrelevant. I cannot, however, refrain from declaring to yoa that my experience in the great office of president of the United Statei has so impressed me with the solemnity of the trust and its awful responsibilities that I cannot bring myself to recard a candidacy for the place as something to be won by personal strife and active self-assertion. I have also an idea that the presidency is pre-eminently the people's office, and I have been sincere in my constant advocacy of effective participation in political aOairs on the part of all our citizens. Consequently I believe the people should be heard in the choice of their party candidates and that they them elves should make nominations as directly at is eonsistent with open, fair and fall party organization and methods. I speak of these things solely for the purpose of advising yoa that my conception of the nature of the presidential office and my con viction that the voters of our party should be free in the selection of their candidates preclude the possibility of my leading and pushing self-seeking canvass for the nomination, even if I had a desire to be again a candidate. Believing that the complete supremacy of democratic prirjiples meant the increased happiness of our people, I am earnestly anxious for the success of the party. I am confident suocess la still within our reach, but believe tbis is ft '.ime for demoerati thonghtfulness and deliberation, not only as to candidates, but eoneerning party action npon questions of im tniojo Luis rest to ib patriotio and iateliijent

voters of the land, who watch for an assurance of safety as the price of their confidence and support. Yours very truly, (Signed) Gboveh Cleveland.

HILL ON HIS TRAVELS. He Speaks to the 1'eoplo of Virginia at lloanokr. Marion-, Va., March 14. Contrary tohig first program Senator Hiil made several stops today. At lioanoke he addressed several thousand people from the platform of his car. He eaid: Feliow Citizens of Poaxoke I assume that the majority of this audience are friendly to the principles and the policy of the great party to which I am proud to belong. Idonot intend upon this occasion to enter Lpon any discussion of demoer a tic principles. They are as dear to yoa as they are dear to the nonnli r .JsP? throughout the Jana. e oelieve in an hon est and economical administration of public affairs. AVe believe that co more money DAVID U, HILL. should be raised for the support of the government than is necessary for its actual administration, economically administered. We believe that the place for surplus taxes is in the pockets of the people and not in the federal treasury. "We believo in the right of each state to regulate its own domestic aäairs in its own way. We claim that right in the great Krupire state where I live, and we freely concede that rieht to the citizens of old Virginia. I congratulate you upon the signs of the times ; it is evident that the majority of the people of the country relieve in democratio principles. Although in the lust rational election our candidates were defeated through the machinery of the electoral college, you have not forgotten the fact that they received a majority of the popular vote. Our principles were sustained. '1 hey are vital to the suocess of the country. They are essential to the welfare of the people. We are opposed to monopolies. We are in favor of that course and policy which gives g. eatest good to the greatest number. The democratic party legislates for ail the people and while we are not able now to accomplish much by reason of the fact that the L'nited States senate is republican and the president is republican, we caa at least, having, through the house of representatives, the control of the purse strings, see that we have an economical administration of the public moneys (by wifhuolJing extravagant and unnecessary appropriations. In this state of Virginia, I congratulate you that you have a state administration of which you have reason to be proud. I understand that your party here is in good fichting condition. I understand that you arc prepared tor the ureat contest that awaits us during the coming full. In this sectiou of the country I am informed that your industries are growing. 1 congratulate you upon the fact. The democratic party is in favor of reasonab'e encouragement of all the industrial iuterests of this country not by taking money out of one man's pocket to olace it into another's, but by just and reasonable and fair legislation. We make no war upon any of the industries of the land. Our platform states our position; and, while I do not intend to argue it here at tnis time, I simply say to you that the industries of the country, yours "bere anff elsewhere, will be, as they always have been, safe in the hands of the great party that has always built up the state of Virginia and that is entitled to control this great country of ours. I bring upon this occasion the good wishes of the people of the Umpire state. Today we have not a republican state otlicial from one end of the state to the other elected by the people at large. We have a democratio legislature in both branches, the first time for many years. Our republican friends have kept control of the state for many years, so far HS its legislative branch is concerned, because they have refused an enumeration of the inhabitants, but I ran safely assure our democratio friends in tin section of Virginia that it is the last you have seen in my judgment of a republican legislature in the Umpire state. Pear in mind, fellow citizen, that in the contest that is to come yon have not an easy fight. The enemy are intrenched. They have the possession of the government and they will use it for all it's worth. The candidate of the other side will probably be the present occunnt of the white house, and, my friends, surrounded as he is with nil the power of this Croat government, it will not bo easy to dislodge him or his party. It is not enough that the majority of the people believe in democratic principles; it is not enough that the sentiment of the people is with us. There must be organization in every school district, in every town, in every county throughout your state and throughout the country. Th6 pHrty that is best oryaai.ed. in my judgment, will win the right this coining fall. Therefore, in parting from you, I simp y desire to say a few practiced words. Organize for the right that is to come; organize your people; instruct them; circulate your documents; subscribe to your newspapers; inform the peoplo; airitate, aeitate and organize everywhere. If this be Jone we can rejoice this fall, ia my judgment, in the redemption of the country. Fellow citizens, I thank you for this kind reception. I accept it not so much as a compliment to myself re rsonaliy, because 1 am a stranger to most of you, but as a compliment more to the great state of New York, which I have the honor in part to represent. And in behalf of that state, in behalf of its citizens, I tender you my heartfelt thanks for this kind and flattering reception. At Padford, Va., a city of T.,000, the train stopped three minutes. A delegation boarded the train and insisted that Senator Hill address, the people briefly, fend yielding to the people's dema -s.l the senator etepped out on the platform and made a ehort speech. He was greeted with loud cheer3. At Pulaski and Wytheville largo crowds had assembled and at each place Hil.'a appearance on the platform wa3 the ei'jnal for great enthusiasm. At these towns, however, he refrained from any extended remarks and limited himself merely to thanking the people for their welcome. Chattanooga, Tenn., March 14. At liriPtol a large crowd greeted the senator and Charles St. John made him a neat Bpeech of welcome. Senator Hill repponded paying a high tribute to Andrew Jackeon and to the people and resources of Tennessee. At Morribtown Gen. J. C. J. "Williams introduced the senator as "Young Hickory." Arrived at Knoxville Senator Hill was greeted by 5,000 peoplo to whom he spoke briefly. At Johnson City, among other things, ho said: Our national convention will soon meet and frame the issues of the party. There will be no divisiors upon any question. All good democrats will acquiesce in whatever choice may be made, in whatever platform the wise and able men of our party see fit to adopt. The senator arrived hero tonight and, after making a brief speech at the depot, went to his hotel. I'nlitlral Notes. The Massachusetts governor has signed the anti-free pass bill. The Missouri house passed the bill dividing the state into fourteen democratic and one republican districts. A democratic legislative caucus bill divides Iowa into six democratic and live republican congressional districts. A poll of the Texas legislature 6hows Mills to have within three of a majority over all other candidates for the senate. The Texas legislature, by the speaker's vote, defeated a resolution to supply the members with daily papers at the expense oi the state.

URNED TO DEA

Over Two Hundred Miners' Lives Gone Out In the Very Bowels of Their Mother Earth. SCORES OF WOMEN DEAD. Thirty-Three Bodies Recovered from the Mine. The Dead Unrecognizable and. Every One Perished. Greatest Mine Disaster in the History of Belgium Many of the Dead Working Fifteen Hundred I-'eet Under Ground The K.vplosion Followed by Fire "Which Destroys I!uiltlin8 and Other Property The Mino Flooded to Save the liodies Lamentations for the Dead Government Aid Administered. Brussels, Belgium, March 11. Fire damp exploded today in the Anderlis colliery, near Charleroi, in a pit where nearly I'OO men were at work. The rage and ventilator were shattered, increasing the danser of death by choke damp. The explosion occurred in a gallery below the surface. Here were working 270 men. The explosion occurred at 8 o'clock this morniDg. It was very heavy and the shock caused by it resembled an earthquake. The ground for a large area in the vicinity of the colliery rocked and trembled for several seconds from the immense force made by the exploding gase6. Houses were shaken to their foundation, windows w ere loudly rattled and smashed and crockery and other articles of the household were throwa about and broken. Shockingly liurned. The cries, prayers and shrieks of the anguished crowd were redoubled and died to a hush as the men at the windlass had at length brought to surface the limp and black forms o from thirty to forty of the unfortunates. All the victims were either dead or badly injured and the face of each was fearfully disfigured. Their countenances were covered with blood and were black from the volumes of smoke and dust which followod the explosion and were swollen out of all proportions. A great sheet of llamcB must have swept through the mine, as the hair, beards and eyelashes of all the unfortunate men had been completely burned ofF and m addition to the cruel cuts and bruises they had received their bodies were horribly burned. Kind hands bore the victims from the place, and the wounded men, groaning pitifully at every step taken by their carriers, and followed by their "sorrowing friends, were tenderly conveyed to a place which had been cot in readiness for the reception of the large number of patients which it w.ts known would soon tax all the resources of the institution. A large stall" of doctors and nurses had already arrived at the infirmary when the first batch of blackened and disfigured humanity was carried in to the place, and all necessary medicine and instruments were lying at hand ready to be used for the alleviation of the wounded men's sufferings. Every thing possible was done for tlie relief the victims, doctors and attendants vieing in their attentions to the patients. At the Pit's Month. The crowd surrounding the mouth of the pit had constantly increased in numbers as the day wore on and news of the catastrophe spread throughout the surrounding country. People Hocked from every direction and soon the place was packed with a mass of men and women, all endeavoring to get nearer to the pits and catch a glimpso of the mutilated formB as they were elowly pulled up the shaft. All were anxious to gain the slightest information in regard to the safety of relatives ami friends, but in the great confusion and excitement which existed no deScite or reliable news could be obtained. The large force of gen'darmes which had hurried to the spot when the authorities learned of the ditsaäter were almost unable to copo with the unreasoning crowd and it was only with the greatest difficulty that they were able to force a paeeage through the dense mass whenever a number of men bearing a stretcher containing a mangled form would pass from the mouth of the pit to the infirmary. Deadly Damp. Gf the men thus far brought out of the mine alive only a few are likely to recover. In every instance the unfortunate men were bruised, torn and burned in a dreadful manner, and were also prostrated by inhaling the deadly choke damp the bane of every miner's existence which prevailed through the mine, filling every crevice with the noxious gas and which still prevail in the mine. The ventilator was destroyed by the explosion, thus cuttine off all means of furnishing; puro air and greatly retarding the work of the rescuing parties, as it is impossible to safely breathe the heavy, overpowering air for any length of time and there is the constant danger of another explosion as fatal as the lirst. Mona Escaped. From the condition of the mine, as reported by the life savers, hardly a shadow of hope is entertained that any of the miners who ire still entombed in the dreadful prison can survive, and this terrible stato of affairs adds greatly to the overwhelming sorrow visible on every side. The latest odicial estimates place the number of dead at 200. The miniiters of husbandry and public works are at the scene of the disaster and are personally directing the operations of the rescuers. Brussels, March 12. There has been little abatement in the excitement in and about Charleroi, near w hich placo tho appalling explosion occurred yesterday morning in tho Anderluis colliery. AH night long hundreds of men, women and childron have kept their drear watch at the pit mouth hoping for the best, yet almost knowing their hope was without reason. Many pitiable scenes have been witcessed ftd wives and childxea have recog

nized among the bodies recovered the features of eome dear one, distorted and blackened bv the eheet of scorching flame that had enveloped them. The fire caused by the explosion ia still burning in tho lower gallery, where the accident accurred. The shock of the explosion detached huge mase3 of rock and earth, and the galleries are so blocked w ith tho debris that it is impossible to approach nearer than 100 yards to the place where the great body öf the miners were working. Beside the dirt and rock, the carcapees of forty horses block the approach to the lower gallery and these will have to be cut up and removed before the rescuers can proceed any further in the direction of the gallery where the bodies are known to be. The gendarmes have treat difficulty in preserving even the semblance of order in the vicinity of the pit mouth. The crowd of relatives of the miners are so distracted with grief that the orders of the gendarmes fall upon deaf ears, and the iatter are compelled to use gentle - force to compel obedience. A Tarn arsrj Morgue. The police stationed at the office of the mining company which has been transformed into a temporary morgue were not so gentle in their dealings with the crowd. Many of the mourning relatives made an attempt to enter the office and were forcibly repulsed. omo of the more determined in the crowd insisted upon beinc: admitted, and the result was that several ecullles occurred between them and the police. Finally as it was feared that serious trouble milrht follow it the police persisted in refusing admittance to the building, the doors were barricaded to prevent ingress. The lodi that have been recovered were covered with a thick, black dust which in some instances had been blown deen in tho fkin. As they were taken into the office they were place d upon 6traw that had been spread on tho floor and the faces were then cleaned as far as possible to allow of identification. Many of the faces, however, were entirely unrecognizable. Women Meet Death, The fact that eome, if not all, of tho women employed in the mine have met their death by the explosion will afford an almost unanswerable argument for those who oppose female labor in underground employment. Among the bodies recovered is that of a fourteen-year-old girl. That ehe suffered indescribable agony is shown by the younz face, which is so horribly distorted that it can not be reco;,'uized. The blackened features are swollen almost beyond all semblance to humanity. It has been ascertained that 270 persons were working in the mine at the time of the explosion. Fiftesn Hundred Feet Vnder Ground. Most of them were at work in the two galleries where the greatest damage was done. One of these galleries is 450 and the other Ö30 yards below the surface. Mining experts acquainted with tho Anderleus workings say that every person who was working in the lower gallery must be dead and few are expected to be rescued alive from the upper gallery, which is filled wwh deadly gases. Altogether thirty-three bodies have been recovered. The tire in the mine grows fiercer and fiercer, and since 2 this morning the heat has been so intense that it has been impossible for the reecuing party to remain in the pit. They have been compelled for the present io abandon all ellbrts to reach the palleries. After it was found that the tire was training in etrentrth a consultation was held between the mineowners and engineers and it was decided that as there was not the slightest doubt

I that everybody in the mine was 'dead, the only course lett open for them to follow was to Hood the mine if they hoped to recover tho bodies. To Flood the Mine. Preparations were being made to carry out the plan for before any water could be pumped in, the cries of "lire" were heard on all sides and at Ö, Harnes ascended to the pit's mouth and spaiks were scattered in every direction. A few minutes later an immense column of flame shot through the ventilating f haft, piercing the thick clouds of 6iuoke that were overhanging the shaft. The siht was irrandly magnificent as the mass of lire shot upward, but it meant the certain death of every person in the mine. This fact was fully recognized by tho onlookers and the wailinir and ehrieks of those near the pit's mouth increased in violence as tho lurid flame tore their last faint hope from them. For a ereat distance around tho country was illuminated to almost the brightness of day by the vast column of tiro pouring out of tho mine. Ilizher and higher eoared tho Harne and the heat was so intense that the crowd was driven back some distance from the mouth of the ventilator shaft. Swayed by the wind tho flame in graceful curves would bend toward the earth and then again with a finighty roar would ascend in a perfectly straight line. The engine and other buildines near by began to show the effects of the heat. Fir .A l.ts Horror. The elass in tho windows broke, the wood work began to ware and then in an instant they were wrapped in a eheet of flame. The firemen had been working heroically to prevent the spread of the fire, but their efforts were entirely fruitless. In the meantime water had been commenced to be thrown into the burning pit. Before it had descended any distance it was conveited into steam and escaped with a tremendous roaring noise, which added to the horror of the situation. The scene hua seldom if ever been equaled in the mining disasters of Belgium. The destruction of the buildings on the surface proceeded without opposition and by 7 o'clock only the walls were standing. All the heavy machinery at the mouth of the pit wns destroyed and fell caashing down the shaft. This acted as a damper against the flames ascending the shaft to the surface and thereafter little tire could bo eeen. But it could be heard roaring and seething through the galleries far below the surface. Tturncd hj Scores. The total of the death roll is 21". Of this number it is estimated that 170 were burned alive. The calamity has crushed the entire Charleroi district. Nothing is heard save lamentations for the deaths. Many of the women who have lost their only support have become hysterical through grief, and tho doctors are busy attending to them. In eome cases all the surviving members of families still surround the blackened pit's mouth, attracted by the very horror that has rendered them without a head. SufJering is bound to follow the disaster, for many of the miners' families have lost their only means of support The government has taken prompt action to relieve so far as possible the suffering entailed by the sudden and appalling catastrophe. The minister of public works has ordered the distribution of relief, and the work is now being carJrieioa,

THE GREAT STRIKE

I Four Hundred Thousand Coal Miners Quit. The Like Has Never Been Known in History. FURNACE FIRES DAMPED. The Mines Are Barricaded Against the Strikers, Who Will Not Submit to a Lower iScale of Wages. A Protracted Strike in tho Coal Fields of FJngland Looked For Tho Strikers Are Determined to Fight tho Mine Owners with. Their Only Weapon at Hand. n. Strike Tho Eight-Hour Question Arbitration Itejectcil A Water Famine Expected Millions of People Airectcd Foundries and Mills Will Shut Down. London-, March 12. The great coal miners' strike was inaugurated today in accordance with the plan of the miners' federation, whic h ia its manifesto insued a few days ncro declared that the holiday the men proposed to take was ior the purpose of clearing the markets of the surface coal and for restricting the output in order to prevent the masters from using low prices cs an excuse for lower wages. At 2 this afternoon the men employed in the mines in Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire district stopped work and the ponies were removed from tho pit. The only men now at work are tho surfacemen, pumpers, ventilator attendants, etc., who the federation has not called out. In Durham mining work has also completely stopped. It was hoped until today that some sort of a compromise would be arrived at, but no agreement could be reached and the strange spectacle presents itself of the employes quitting work in the masters' interest, for it cannot be denied that if any advantage is to be derived from higher prices the mine owners ns compared with the miners will reap the preater portion. Belgian shippers are sending coal to the Tyne and the Thames, but they refuse to give any . information as to the quantity they have shipped. The coliieries carrying the consignment are expected to arrive on Monday. The coal porters will attempt to prevent the discharge of these cargoes, and it is feared this will lead to a renewal of the dock troubles. Twenty Thousand Out. Twenty thousand miners in Nottingham quit work at noon toda) When they came out of the pits they brought their tools with them. The coal 6tocks in the I'.ristol district are already nearly exhausted. The miners thero have also stopped work, and as a result the pi ice of coal ha3 gone up four shillings a ton. Many manufacturers refuse to pay the price demanded and have closed their factories. In this respect the action of the miners is working greatly to the harm of the operatives employed in other industries. One of the results of the split that has occurred in North Wales miners is that the mine working in Flintshire will not go on a strike, but will not work more than five days a week. Wooden barricades are being built around the mouths of the various pits in Durham and none of the miners will be allowed inside theselinclosures. It ia believed that at the conference to be held on Wednesdaynext by the miners' federation it will be decided to limit the holiday to a week and to restrict the output during the summer. Dumped the Klrrs. Many of the large industrial establishments in Leeds and Manchester and on the Tee side and Tyne side and other places in the vicinity of the -collieries damped their fires when the operatives left their work this afternoon. This means that work will not be resumed on Monday, the manufacturers refusing to pay the extraordinary prices now demanded for coal. The miners' federation will pay tho men strike wages during the period of idleness. The only exception to this, bo far as at present known, is the Durham miners, who will not receive pay. It will require a very large sum of money to pay the 400,000 men who, it is said, have quit work, even though they receive strike waes. To recoup the drain the treasury of the federation will be subjected to a levy which will be made upon the men as soon as they return to work. The weather today is stormy, and the pnow lies several inches deep in the villages about the collieries. This afternoon delegates from the collieries in the county of Durham, met in the town of Durham and decided that they would eubinit to no reduction in wages. The Durham and Northumberland miners are not members of the Miners' federation, hut have an organization of their own the National union. This union and the Miners' federation of Great Britain -and Iselaud are entirely distiuct. There is some considerable divergence of opinion between them on essential and leading questions. For example, the miners of tho federation are practically unanimous in support of the legislative enactment of an eight-hour day. The miners of the national union prefer to let the labor day settle or "evolve" its own duration. A I'rotrarted StrlUe. The action of the Durham miners promises to cause a protracted strike in that county, as the mine owners there declared that if the men stopped work at their own convenience ther would not be employed again except at a reduction of 12 per cent. To put the matter of the socalled strike briefly7, the question at issue bet ween the owners and the miners is one und the same, but there are several solutions to it. The question was a reduction of wages. In some cases the owners' proposal of redaction was met by a Hat refusal on the part of the men, in others it was met by a counter proposal to reduce temporarily the number of weekljr working dais U

five; in ethers again it was met by the proposal to stop work altogether for a certain time. Th 3 second and third proposals were based on the principle that a reduction of output would by causing a ris? in prices obviate the necessity of a reduction in wages. The third proposal is that which the federation has adopted. The membership of the federation is enormous. It comprises about 20,000 miners, of whom 2C0.CO0 are bottom workers, the remaining 8J.OG0 being employed on the surface or at the "pit bank," as it is called. This va.-t number of workers is scattered over the coal pits of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Nottingham, tafiordshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Cumberland, Ieicelershire and North Wales. The federation delegates, who met some time ago at the Manchester conference represented 175,000 working miners. The conference to be held on Wednesday next will take place in Ixmdon. The statements that the strike will last a weik and a fortnight are little more than guesses. Th. lllglit Hour miu There is a special and immediate reason for selecting London as the place for the next conference namely the expected parliamentary discussion on the tight hour bill. Mr. Parrot, a leader in the federation, in speaking on the demand for an tight hour . day says: "The choice lies between parliamentary act and recourse to strikes. We want to avoid the harsh and costly plan of strikes. In agitating for the eight-hour day we are consulting the owners' interest as well as our own." Only an act can protect those owners who are willing to try the eizhthour day ngainst their rivals who are opposed to limitation, legislative or otherwise. Another scheme; .f the federation is to rescue women from the rough, demoralizing and uneconomic labor at tho pit mouth. The main question at issue in Durham and Northumberland was not whether the output should be reduced, but whether the men should accept the owners' offer of reduced wages. To the lirst offer of a reduction of 10 percent, the men replied wuh the threat of a ptrike. They were almost unanimous in rejecting the suggestion of arbitration, and their action today shows that they intend to fight the masters with the only weapon at their hands a strike. The most of tho water used by the miners in their household and other duties has been obtained from the mines, the pumps thero furnishing them with an abundant supply. It is now feared that a water famine will follow the cessation of work. Tho women and children are procuring water from evenavailable eource and etoring it in all manner and kind of receptacles in their houses. The miners have plenty of coal as the masters have allowed them to provide themselves with liberal supplies. London, -March 14. Flintshire, in Wales, appears to be the only place where the order of the miners' federation to quit work has not been obeyed by the members of the association. The latest estimates of the number of miners who are now idle place the ligures at 550,000. Owing to the closing down of other industries because of the strike, fully 200,000 men in other employments have been thrown out of work. DEFENDANT PARKINSON

Made a Party in the Suit by Italians at New Orleans. New Orleans, March 12. A suit was filed this afternoon in the U.S. circuitcourt and is the outcome of the Parish prison killing. Unlike the other suits filed yesterday and the day before, this one includes besides the city, the following: W. Parkinson, W. D. Deucgre, Albert Baldwin, jr., James D. Houston, W. M. liailey, C. J. lioulett, George Denegre and tf. l Walmsly, and calls for damages to the amount of $100,000. The petitioner is Anna Habbell, wife of lxretta Comitez, one of the Italians who was shot, and the grounds on which the euit is brought is the alleged neglect of the city authorities and the alleged innocence of Comitez. REPEATEDLY OUTRAGED. The Act of Inhuman Ttrutes, Who Accomplish Their Vile Purpose. New Haven, Conn., March 11. Three men entered the home of Albert Denslow, in Hamden, a suburb cf New Haven, last night, bound and gagged Denslow and a man named Monk, who boarded in the house. The men caught Mrs. Utnily Johnson, Denslow's sister, tied her hands behind her and carried her into a bedroom adjoining. They then ravished the woman repeatedly. The men were in the house two hours, and all this time Denslow and Monk lay helpless on the floor and were unable to render assistance. The police are working on the case. Mrs. Johnson's injuries are quite serious. Rhe is thirty-nine years old. On of the men has been caught. SENATOR MORRILL DYING. It Is Not Uellered Tliat lie Can Re. cover. Washington, March 14. Tl is not believed that Senator Morrill can recover. The senator contracted a cold last Thursday which rapidly developed into congestion of the luns. This morning it was apparent in the family that there was scarcely any ground to hope for his recovery. The senator himself did not realize his condition, and although the right lung was completely con- ? rested, he wished to a a order to deliver a speech ' upon the West Virginia ' . , .... " , ' direct tax bill. It was f. s. Morum.L. -with difficulty that his wife and son induced him to remain in his bed. The signs of vigor have served to keep alive a faint hope of the ultimate recovery of the senator in the breasts of some intimate friends, but in view of the fact that he is now in his eighty-eecond year there is little tangible ground for encouragement. Another Victory for Cleveland's. On March 4th the contract for supplying the U. S. army with baking power was again awarded to the Cleveland Baking Powder company. This makes the sixth consecutive order for Cleveland's Paking Powder from the government, and now the proposals specify that baking powder oll'ered must bo "in qualitv equal to Cleveland's." That ia commendation that speaks volumes. Order The Sentinel's ''Indiana Almanac for ISO'S' of your newsdealer. Price 23 cents.

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NOT A STEP BACKWARD,

SAY THE GALLANT DEMOCRATS C PULASKI COUNTY. Tbe Tariff Tax Mnst We Red need An Em tliuatastto CotiT.ntlon at Wfssmse Tb Nobles-Hie Democrats Select Delegates to trie Various ConTrntluci-TIi Position of Cnpt. Jlyers Marsh Indorsed for Con Cress lu Harrison County Other Political! Matters. Winam at, March 14. Special. Au enthusiastic meeting of tbe democracy of this county was htli at Vurpidat's opera house Saturday for the purpose of select ing delegates to the various conventions. Ilearj- A. Steis, Peter A. Fallmer, John J. Garrell, M. II. Ingrim, John BarkerSenator W. II. Thompson and Mont M. Hathaway were selected as delegates to the state convention. The democracy of this county believe in taking no backward step on the tariff question, as will bo eeen by tho following resolutions, which were passed unanimously : The derancrcv of Tulftski county in conven t:on afst ::ible J fir the selection of Jeiegates to thy various conventions do by a unanimous voiC'5 atiopt the fodowicg resolution.: Whereas, The tsri:T;iK:iou i by us deemed the principal political i.sue bei'ore the American people at tl.e present time, thare:ore be it iiesolvt'ii, That we favor a pemitent warfare against the levy of a tariti or a tax to enrich ttie few at the expense of the ir.aeaes ; that favor a levyof taxes suirrent only to conduct the business arhiirs of tLia ijovernment caa La is of strict economy. We inrior.e th acts of onr senators, the Hon. D. W. Veorhee ar.J David S. 'lurpie and Keprf-eiitative l'attea in conjrres, and esyKcitiily iudoree and approve the ablo eiTorts of Senator 'lurf-ie in si vocation a meamra providi;j? for the election of U. S. senators by tiirect vote cf the people, and we hereby urge upon aad instruct our legislators r.:.tl delo:atea t the tt.itj convention to ue a 1 honortble ciecos to secure his noruEation for and reelection to tho l'nite i :at-s senate. That the lieni'jcrats to our Einte convention are instructs! to cist the vote of this con:ity tor the Hon. (ieorze 1'urpon, whose Jeaicin and experience on the bench eminently qualify V-.'.nx tor the hitfh position 1 1 m; rene juöte, and to e every licnortl lc ire.is to rare his LOici nation, and that lLo vote of Pulnsiii county b uuacituously cast for L:m from start to finish. After the convention adjourned a meeting of the county central committee was hehl and reorganized by tho re-election of M. M. Hathaway chairman and William K. Jackson secretary, after which Friday, June 11, isr2, was set as the time for tfi selection of delegates to the county convention. Each member of the eorainittea epoke encouragingly of democratic prospects and there is no douht that Pulaeki will come up smilicg in November neil with her old-time democratic majority. EVEN REPUBLICANS FOR IT. The Shelby Coanty Ticket is ev Very Good Onr. Shelby ville, March 8. Special. The canvassing boards completed their work of canvassing the returns of the lata democratic primary election today. Tho returns ehow th&t in addition to the) report given in The Sentinel yesterday James P. Curtis was nominated as joint representative and Albert F. Wray as joint eenator. The ticket is a very strong one and meets with ceneral approval except from a few disappointed candidates. In fact the ticket is tho strongest ever nominated in the county. It is approved both by republicans and democrats, and last night a meeting was held in tho office of a leading Crm of lawyers in this city in which representative republicans joined, among whom was "tinr'Tbompson.late editor of the Lebanon, IJatrict and now editor of the fchelbyville Jicpublican. It was there agreed thai no republican county ticket should be nominated. It was also understood that the republicans would support the democratic ticket nominated inasmuchjta it U composed of hont.it and capable men who deserve the support of all citizens irrespective of party. Put the republican editor, "Sim" "Thompson, reserved the right to support the state and national tickets, provided Michener is nominated for trovernof and Harrison for pteeident. Today th republicans came out strong for the democratic ticket, and it will from now on support it. There will be no republican county ticket put in the field, as "Sim" Thompson thinks it is no use. The democratic ticket wili be elected by a unanimous vote. j MARSH INDORSED FOR CONGRESS. The Action of the Democrat! mt Harrison Coanty. Cokvpon, March 1L Special. Tha democratic primary in Harrison county waa held Saturday, everything going off quietly and orderly. The chief interest centered in tho congressional race. The Hon. J. K. Marsh of Jeflersonville has carried the county over both his opponents, notwithstanding that tbe frienda of Mr. Brown, the present incumbent, made a hard ficht, and Funk, who lives in Corydcn, waa sanguine of carrying tho county. One Tery remarkable feature was the fact that Marsh received thirteen more than twice as many votes as did Funk in his own precinct. A strong ticket has been nominated all round aad a pood hope prevails that Harrison will come up with an increased majority for the ticket next fall. Every precinct in the county has been heard from, but one, and this will increase the vote of Marsh for eongrepa. Everything eise is now settled. "Uncle" John Marthis, eizhty-seven years old, who was a membef of the etate constitutional convention ia 1SÖ2, and afterward elected to the) senate in 1SÖG and again in 1S01, carried the county for representative. The Hon. J. K. Marsh, the successful congressional candidate, arrived here today and is receiving the congratulations of liis friends. His overwhelming vote here w ill give him additional etrength in tho counties yet to vote. The Hon. Mason J. N'black, candidate for governor, arrived today to confer with, friends. He will probably go from here to Floyd county. Capt. Myers I'otltlon. Axpfkson, March 14. Special. Capt. W. Ih Myers is very much annoyed over the repeated publication by the state press that he is a candidate for the nomination of secretary of state. To The Sentinel correspondent today he denounced in the mot emphatic wsy these publications as untrue and unauthorized by him. HokVkI that not only was he not a candidate for secretary of e'.ate but that he was not a candidate lor any ttnte ollice. In epite of thee protests it ia generally understood by Mr. Myers' intimate friends that if the nomination of reporter of the ßupreuae court is tendered him by the state convention he will not decline ir