Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1893 — Page 1

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ALL HANDS GO UP

When Train Robbers Make the Request And the Passengers Stand and Deliver. The Mail and Express Cars Looted. EIGHT MASKED BANDITS Hold Up a Train In Indian Territory And Go Through It nt Their Leisure, Doing a Very Neat and Scientific Job. STlie KuM)M Evidently Old Hands nt ! llufiliimn ;ocl l'rotprcti of a Krittle vtlltt the Marshal PoMr-Ore-n HnDiii frum Sun Franrltco Mnke a Pour Haul front a Southern. Pur-ado Tiuln Dynamite I eil on the Kiiire! nr V Train Klint luto on the .llehlgim (rulral. PAIISCNS, Kas., Dec. 24. Another find 0:10 of the bohlest train robberies ever pcrpetrateel has leen recorded in the Indian territory. The robbery occurred about S o'cloek tonight at Seminole, a small station on the Kansas & Arkansas Valley, which ii a division of Ihe Missouri l'ae-iiie. The train was a train bound from Little Bock. Ark. As the train approached Seminole the enuineor saw a danger t-ignai ahead anl slowed up, being und. r the impression that he was flagged to Meet anoih.r train. As the train iieared the switch, however, the engineer perceived that a 11 a tear tad been run out cf the side track onto the main line and n red light placed on the car. As soon B3 the train reae hod the obstruction the rngir.e wan hoarded by two r three men who commanded th enrine.-r and fireman to jump out of their cab which they did with alacrity. As they did so they vvore confronted by half a eh.en other inen armed to the teeth with Winchesters und revolvers. A detachment of the bandits then started toward thf back of the tram, ana as t!.-v. 'W-eded -tia-cred In the rest of the train crew who had r'tepin;d oft to ascertain the reason for Ihe sudden stoppage of the train. When the robben had collected all the crew the latter were corralled and a. Eiiard placed over them an l then they proceeded to their work of muletimr the rxpre-ss find mail cars. They attacked the mail car tirst and met with no roristance from the mail e h rk. I'oueh after pouch was opened and rilled of its contents. Then the letters which had "been distributed in the pigeon holes were Krne through deliberately and all their valuable contents extracted and placed In a receptacle which the robbers carried. After completing their work in the mail car the robbers turned their attention to the expiess car and looted it cf its contents without the least obJecion from the express messenger, who Vas powerless to protect the company's 1roperty against such odds. Ilaving sutbiieel themselves that they liad secured all the valuables in the express car, the sang then proceed -d through th- coaches and in;wl a clean weep of all valuables in the possession cf the terrorized passengers. It would liave leen more than folly for the pas--ncir: or crew to resist, as the band was made up of eight desperate-looking men, and it was evident from the way they went at the job that they knew their business. "While the robbers pro-CH-d-d through the coaches each pasFenger was compelled to hand over ail his cash and jewelry. No violence was rffered because everyone gave up qukkdy, glad to escape with a whole skin. The work of the bandits was so deliberate and painstaking that it Is believed that they ai; old-timers, and that thy are the same pang who held tip the Missouri, Kansas & Texas train Jiight before last. They secured big "booty, but no estimate can be given of th,j loss. A posse was organized as soon as it vas possible to advise the authorities cf the facts, and the deputies are hot cn the trail of the robbers. It is barely possible that if the posse gets near the Strang a fight will ensue. IJTTLE ROCK. Ark., Dec. 23. Additional details of the hold-up on the Kansas & Arkansas road at Seminole, Kas., last evening reached little Rock at 2:50 this afternoon when the robbed train arrived. Seminole, the scene of the robbery. Is a. small station nine miles south of Coffeyvllle, Kas. There is no town there and nothing to mark the spot save a teide track and a small platform. Train No. 232 reached ßeminol Sunday nirht shortly after dark. The switch had been turned, throwing the train on the tiding. The switch 13 on a heavy up-grade and the train Immediately came to a stand-still. There were no cars on the side track, as has been stated. When the train stopped two men mounted the engine and began by robT.ing Kngineer Uush Harris of his watch end 40 in cash. They then proceeded to the -mail train anl Tifled the mail Touches. Mall Clerk II. B. I'lnckney, who was in charge, was forced to deliver the registered package:?. After abstracting the cash the letters were handed back to the clerk. Finckney was relieved of his watch and fci cent3 In change, 25 cents cf which was returned to him to buy a lunch. An entrance to the express car was gained without resistance on the part of the expresä messenger, as there was nothing of great value on board. The robbers commanded Messenger Ford to open the safe, from which they took two Email packages, value unknown, and $100 in money. Finishing f-aoir work la, tha express car, the rob-

bers turned their attention to the coaches. Two men went through the cars while the other two maintained a constant firing on the outside. So much time had been consumed in robbing- the mall and expresj cars that the passengers had an opportunity to secrete their valuables. Little of value was obtained in the coaches. The robbers appropriated all the overcoats and watches in the cars, but the sum total of the cash they secured will approximate less than J500. Several passengers saved large sums by hiding their purses under the car seats. Both of the men who went through the coaches were young men, neither being over twenty-three, and had the appearance of unsophisticated country youth3. When they went through the sleepers they displayed an utter ignorance of sleeping car berths. The robbers did not use abusive language to the passengers and offered no violence. None of the passengers were armed, and there were no acts of heroism or unusual incidents. The train was held one hour and twenty-five minutes. It i3 stated positively that the railroad officials here have the names of the four robbers, and It is believed their capture is only a question of a few days. Chief of Detectives Thiel, who has been at work cn the Oliphant robbery, was Ir the city and immediately, on receipt of the news of the hold-up Sunday evening, left on a special train for the scene of the crime, reaching there a few hours after the bandits had taken their departure. The five or six train robbers were all young men. They were dressed like cowboys, wearing top boots and broad brimmed hats. The gang is believed to be the same that attempted to hold up a passenger train on the Missouri, Kansas it Texas road last Friday evening at Kelso switch. Bob Rogers and Charles Woolen are thought to be the leaders. The gang has oi-erated in the northern portion of the Indian territory, terrorizing- the entire community. One of the gang was killed by officers last July, and another is now serving a term in the penitentiary for larceny. Marshal Crump of the western district cf Arkansas has telegraphed his deputies stationed in the territories to spare no pains to capture the d.-speradovs. Deputy Marshal Brunner left VInita last night with a strong posse for the scene of the hold-up.

DY.VWITH IV ( AMl'OItMl. Green Hund (et Into tltc lZrci far ii nd That I All. BOS ANGFLFS, Cab, Dec. 24. The railroad brigands have again appeared in California and this monüng attacked a Southern Uaciiie train bearing the treasure of the Wells-I'argo express. l'assemrt r train No. 20, which pulled out of this city late last night, northbound, vas held up at Uoscoe, a final.' station twelve miles north of hne, early this morning. The train w.-J-.i'Vf "c oM men- with" revolvers a:. J rt'V.' th"7 door of h-i exprtss car with djnan'.Tte. After the robbers had K"ne through the expr.ss o;tr the train v.4s all wed to proceed, after a detention of about thirty minutes. It is claimed that ttv robber? got nothinjr. with the exception of $t'l, which was taken from the emriiuer. They were unable to op-n the safe and everything was locked up. William Smith, a Southern Pacific detective, who started out from here about 4 o'clock this morning with a Ioss, returned about noon. ITe says the work was that of frroen hands, who went out from this city and returned immediately after the robbery, lie thinks they are bxal men, and this evening officers are working on a clew which promises to lead to their arrest. One of the robbers went out early in th eenlng with horses and the others followed on the train. At Iloscoe the first man built a lire by the track and as the train approached poured oil on the flames us a signal to his confed erate, who w.is on top of a freight car just behind th tender. The latter then clAnilrf-red down over the tender, and covering the engineer with Ids revolver, ordered him to stop the train, which h" did, when another man approached the cab and the hold-up was proceeded with. Another story is that the rob bers went out on the train as passeiw gers, having purchased tickets to Burbank, where thev left the train, ostensi bly, but made their way forward in the darkness and again boarded the train, when they nuuJe their way to the en gine over the tender. The Southern Pacific has nnnounced a reward of $1,00 for information leading to the arrest of th roblrs, in Addition to the regular Wells-Kargo reward. No one was hurt and no damage done beyond the breaking open of the express car. SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 23. Inter views with trainmen and passengers who were on board the tiain which wa;. held up near Bos Angeles yesterday elicit the following facts regarding the robbery: "The train left I,os Angeles in charge of engineer Stewart, or 'Rocky Hill' Stewart as he is known by trainmen, and Conductor Simpson. Near Roseoe, a little station this side of Buibank, the engineer was shot at from the tender and told to stop the train, lie stopped It. A lively fusillade followed to in timidate anyone who might desire to interfere) with the plans of the robbers. The engineer and fireman were made prisoners and the engineer compelled to light the fuse of a bomb, placed against the door of the express car, three separate times. The first two at tempts failed. At the third he was told to stay by the fuse till it fizzled and to run afterward. He obeyed. The express car door burst open and Express Messenger Potts was thrown from the cot where he was asleep. The express messenger held up his hands and got out of the car. Just what happened after that is a mystery, for Lxpress Messenger Potts has been cautioned not to speak about It by the officers of the express company. After the robbers left the express car they made the engineer, fire man and epre8 messenger walk up the track a quarter of a mile, fired off a fusillade and then let them walk back to the train. Prior to bursting in the door of ths express car with a bomb the robbers ter rorized every head which showed from a car window by taking a shot to con veniently near, and the San lernado constable who attempted to reason with them and assert his rights as an officer, was driven back into the coach with some pretty strong language and a pistol I ehDt. A shot was taken at the baggage man and others were told to stay in and keep quiet. It is reported that th robbers did not get over 110 in booty, but the mystery of the affair, outside of the j identity of the robbers, la what they did I to the safe, which the ofrlclals cf (he Wells, Fargo & Co. will not, for the present at least, explain. A Train Fired I'pon. DETROIT. Mich., Dec. 24. A special from Jackson. Mich., to the Free Press says: "The Boston, New York & Chicago special or the Michigan Central taa fired cn neax Michigan, Ceutec at 9:39

this mornlne-, while running at a speed of over forty miles an hour. No one saw the persons doing the shooting. When the train reach ?1 here oiTleers were notified. Seven bullet holes were found in the car windows. Sheriff Beck. Chief of Police Boyle and Constable Wilcox Immediately started lor the scene of the shooting on an engine, arriving thero oliinit iw tninnt.'.a fitter

n v . - - ... ' ' . . , r i in ii m n .i " but unable to find any clew to the" snooiers. .o one seemed to know anything of the affair. The oilicers believe the shooting was done by tramps, but they are unable to learn that tramps were in that neighborhood." . i.... A ABOllO'S II AI L. I ;i-' He Knocks Dona a Messenger and Tnkcn the Punch. MARS 1 1 ALB, Tex., Dec 23. As Express Messeng?rs A. F. McCullocP and F. Neardall were transferring their business from the Texas fe Paciflc passe.iger train to the New Orleans Pacific train at 3 o'clock this morning McCulloch "vas knocked down by a negro, who snatched a pouch from him and ran. Ne.ordall fired one shot at the robber as he fled, but failed to stop him. He was pursued by officers as quickly as they could be notitled, but miule his escape. The robbery was committed on the depot platform under the glare of electric lights while there were probably one hundred people standing around. Parties who saw the robbery differ as to the Identity of the man, the majority saying he was a very light mulatto, others that he was a white man. The express people do not tell the amount secured, but it is estimated at J3,0u0 to $S,000. NOW THKY'KC OFF. Oovrrnor W'nlte Stnrla ill Financial Hobby Borises, DENVER, Dee, 25. Governor Waits tonight issued the long-talked-of call for a special session of the legislature to meet AVednesday, Jan. 10. 104. The call consists of about five thousand words, and mentions over thirty subjects on which legislative action should be taken, In the governor's opinion. The governor justifies his proclamation by declaring that "the mining interests of the state have been unjustly and unconstitutionally attacked by congrtss and the present administration; tint the panic has fo reduced values and Increased burdens of taxation that agrieulturalhts, fruit growers and stock raisers are obliged to sell their products below the cost of production, and that the extraordinary remedies now granted to creditors in Col. nolo should be repealed." "Appealing to Almighty Cod for the rectitude of my intentions and willing to sssume the entire responsibility of the act," the governor solemnly declares, "I to issue this, my proclamation." The first busin.-.-s" for the legislature suggested in the call is to provide that all silver dollars, domeslie and foreign, containing not less than 331 '-i grains of flue silver shall e legal tender for all debts collectible in Colorado. The governor also suggests the passage of an act forbid Hng the making of trust deeds, mortgages or obligations of any kind payable in t.jLJUJ iws providing for the issuance of tWCT -it ox. small denominations in VA.lLiv.n J'-yi. .rt uti canals; said v. ol&'attfs tö lie receivable for water carriage önd leasing or purchase of Internal Improvement lands and to be convertible after three years into $100 certificates; repeal of all laws authorizing the issuance of municipal bonds and the enactment of a law to protde for the issuance of certificates of small denominations in payment for work on public improvements. The governor also suggests many subjects of legislation affecting various local interests in the state. Finr.D nv iiwamitb A Wnrd Mne Slciimcr Sunk In Havana lltirhor. NEW YORK, Dec. 2. Yesterday the Seneca of the Ward line caught fire in tha lower hold Just after leaving Havana, She ww about seventy miles from port when the crew was startled by an explosion. When they reached .the deck the shi; was in flames and the cry went up time a dynamite bomb had e plodcd. Immediately the wheel wns put to starboard axnl the vessel put back to part. The ci ev having become exhausted they appealed to Capt. Stevens and askod hlia to abandon the ship. He stood on the bridge and commanded them to return to their duty. Twice this action of the crew was repeated before the steamer made the seventy miles which brought them hack to the island. The rirglng was then ablaze and the efforts of the crew having been unsuccessful In subduing tho flames the order was given by Capt. Stevens to sink her. The seacocks were opened and the v.-s-sei filled In a short time. She lies at the bottom of the bay near Havana, Tiie crew and passengers are all safe on shore. avau is im:vitahli: l'nle Hie 'Iii n ndorer It A'erjr Mncu M KtnUen. LONDON, Dec. 23. The Times, reviewing tho general political situation, dwells upon the discord at home and says that circumstances throughout the world generally appear to favor the prevalence of peace and good will equally as little as in South America, where the politic al movement is conducted with the aid of shot and shell, adding, "while everywhere the gnat powers stand watching each other with incessant suspicion, straining their resources to the utmost in preparing for the anticipated action. Happily there is no immediate clanger of war, but it is idle to deny that in many quarters and between many people the tension Is greater now than it was a fw months ago." The Times then proceeds to urge that the safety of the empire demands urgent attention being paid to the defenses. A MI'ItDKIl 1 ClimCII. Jealousy Inanlrea an Avrful Crime at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, O.. Dec. 25. Great consternation was caused at Zion baptist church, colored, on Walnut hills, a suburban point, tonight by a cold-blooded murder. John Tyler, aged thirty, single, boarded with Armstead Morten, aged thirty-seven. The latter had accused the former with being intimate with his wife and they had previously quarreled over the matter. Tonight Tyler was in the rear of the church when Morten entered. Tyler, on seeing his man, said, "Now I have got you," and fired twice. Morten was shot in the head and j side and dropped dead. In the excited scattering of the congregation Tyler j made good his escape. The evening serv- ; Ices were in progress at the time of the shooting, but were not concluded. All parties are colored. Cbrtatmnn Vinlta in (ionilolni. BRANTFORD, Ont. Dec. 23. The Grand river has overflowed Its banks and the residents here are paying Christmas visits In gondolas. The damage will reach up, IntQ the thousands.

CAUGHT IT LAST

The Washington Crank With Murderous Purpose, He Has Bean Alarming the Senators And Writing to Vics-Presi-dent Stevenson. THE PRESIDENT, ALSO, Said to Have Boon Threatened by the Fellow, Who Claims to Hnve Been Paid for Hi3 Work, But Declines to Name Any of His Employers. An Analrlnn !' ninli anI n Telegraph Operator by Occ-ipation He Denies Amtlntloi with Anarchists or Socialist Cool and Collected AVlieu Plnrrd Inder Arrest lie Scem En. ttrrly Rational I. at CI a tin pi to Hare a l'lnn for lletterlnjr Ifce Condition of the Country. WASHINGTON, T ?c. 2S.--Jo?eph Dongan, the man wh nas been writing threatening letters i a number of prominent rublic men . iring the last two weeks, is in jail to 'ght. He walked into the detective bure. i of James A. McDevltt this afternc n, arking for food. The doctor took r,m into a co?Tee house and had som ething prepared for him to eat. Met ;iime he questioned him and learned et u0'h to fix his identity. He started ti 7-url the police station with his man, and on the way met Detectives Ned We,. Ion and George Hoyel, In whose h-i ids" he pl-ccd him. It will be reme.heied that a letter from this man to Sen -tor Mills a few days ago caused the ."gator's fnn, Charles H. Mills, i o sei -jre leave from the authorities to f o anred for the protection of his fa j.tr. This was the cause of bringing the rr.n'R acts more prominently before the public. For several months past se as been writing similar letters to a nvrvber of prccninent pubüo men, amo.i r h-ri were VicePresident Stevenr V. -to crman, Senator Mills, V"o.u. r :inn 'uiw, ur; the man himself cldms, President Cleveland and Secretary of War Lamont. As long ego as during the fight ovt the silver question in the senate VicePresident Stevenson received letters almost daily from Donjon, who was then In Newark, N. J. No attention was paid to them and they were eonsiprned to the waste basket aa fast as they arrived. Tho vice-president today received on which was dated from 30 1 Leigh-st., this city. The Crunk' Story. A number of reporters were at tho First precinct police station to see the man and he talked very freely to all of them. He Is twenty-eitht years old. about live feet ten Inches in high, weighs IS) or 10 pounds, i dark and sallow, has a greasy complexion, small dark moustache and a rather slouchy look about hint. He has the drooping eyelids which usually accompany a brooding and melancholy disposition. The man's manner of relating bli ftory gives ample evidence that he dors r.ot belie hw f.ppearance in this re.pect. He talks very rationally and with a rather studied effort to avoid any appearance of bitterness or the expression of any anarchistic views. Donjon is an Austrian by birth and lays stress upon ihe assertion that lie is a catholic and professes a degree of piety. His story is that he came to this country svhen be was fifteen years old. He had been u telegraph operator in the old count IT. IIe manifested considerable prlle In his nationality, but denied With spirit the public statement that he is a "Pollack." Ho gave up telegraphing when ' be came to this country because there was tmne slight diflerence In the instruments and in the alphabet. "Under Iheee circumstances" he continual, "If I bad secured a Job they would have sent me to some remote office in the far West, where there are coyotes and cougars and other dangerous creatures." Donjon became a bench molder after he came here and claims to have worked for a time at Salom. )., as well cs In the wine mil's at Johnstown at the time of the jrreat Hood there, but was in Pittsburg on that particular occasion. Later, with bis father, mother and brother, he went to Newark, N. J., and last May, having been long out of employment, went west to Washington and Idaho and prospect"d for gold there. He tells a rather fearful tale of the dangers he encountered from rough miners in that country and says that ro man who was not willing to epend his earnings in drunkenness and debauchery was permitted to stay there. He went back to Newark and claims to have been endeavoring to secure work there ever since. He says he lived with his father, mother and brother at 12S l'urnett-st. This agrees with the address of the earlier letters received from him here. He claims that his father and brother went to Florida to take up lands, but that he did not think it was worth while to go, as lie could get nothing to do anywhere. With considerable emphasis Donjon dftnies that he is an anarchist or socialist or ever attended any meetings of those bodies, but contends that he was prevented from securing employment because he was not a member of the Knights of Labor or any other labor union. Inspired lr Others. As to the letters that he has been writing Donjon claims that he was incited to write them by other people, receiving 5100 for doing it. Asked as to the character of the persons who did this, he disclaimed that they were anarchists or that they formed any association. They were merely private persons. He also denies that there were any threats In the letters he had written or any references whatever to dynamite. "I never saw dynamite and would not know It if I law It," he said. When asked what right he had to compose euch letters at the bidding of other people he simply inquired, "What right have you to write down what I am

telling you? It was simply a business I went Into to make a living, Just as you write news for the newspapers." The prisoner claimed that all that was contained In any of the letters was a proposition to each of the men addressed to forward him the cost of transportation to "Washington, and an offer to come on there and make a business proposition to them. This was after he found that there was no work to be had. and he Intimates that be bad a plan to tetter affairs. As to what this plan Is he declines to say anything, bat will probably make a statement of it later at his trial. The man came ti Washington three days ago from Haltimore. Night before last he applied at the police station for lodging, and the oflicer in charge directed him to the municipal lodging" house next door to the police station, where he slept that night and sawed wood next morning to pay for his lodgings. With reference to this Donjon i very earnest In Iiis assertion that it is the llrst time he ever slept in such a place. The Washington poiiee had no description of the man ut that time in their possession. Yesterday he fell in with a German on a bench in one of the public parks in this city. The man was drunk, but spoke sme words of encouragement to him and told him that he was out of work, but gave him a quarter and hoped that he soon would find something to do. He thought the best thing he could do with the quarter was to get some postal cards and make another effort to secure answers from them to whem he had been sending. Hi took lodgings at C04 Tenthst. In this city and slept there last night. This is the address on the postal card received from him today. His story is that he waited about this place all today waiting for some one to appear in reply to his postal cards, but that no one came. He then determined, he says, to start out to look for Chief Drummond. He was very much disturbed and astonished at tho character of the publications In the newspapers regarding the letters he wrote from Baltimore last week, but wanted to eee the authorities and set himself right. With this in mind he stopped at the detective oriics of James A. McDevitt. He knew perfectly well that he would be arrested when he made himeelf knov.-n to the authorith but this did not seem to distucJj him. Well Educated. The man speaks very good English, but with a very strong German accent, lie la evidently well educated and says bo has spent much time In redm cb:n tine works on electricity and ci.cmi try aril kindred topics. In re-ply to a ciuest'.r.n be paid lv br.i also rer.d works on po!i'.t."3l economy and social tcieno, but haste fed. f i-id that they were not such a v.'d ' ' .. out by the socialist and a::QU; - "- ciatlona In New York City. The police oülcials say Mmt 1? i; n i probable that his hearing will take p ''( tomorrow, and It may be delayed r.e.e a. clays. The letters from him which thhave now in their possession do not centals threats of a character that Vom'.. I be likely to make a case against hi.;i on that charge. It is believed, however, that threatening letters can In? secured from among the earlier ones be sent if sny or" th-.-m have been prvrerved. If ihey have not it may be ,nx i -ary to proceed against him on a char;;o of vsIng the malls to defraud,; The man tells a conneoliV i to. y. 1--t

th- - 'i. vi. -v ijv - by other persons. ;" ' c. . A SCENE IN A CHURCH cAisr.n nv Tiin nr.MwiKs or tiih rOI'.MLIt l'HILST. He Demand the Ilemovnl of I lie Man Who CnuHoit Hin Cain viel ion of n Heinous OnVne The Congregation Sympathises edlh the Conilemncd Man. KOCHnSTEIt. N. Y., Dee. 20. A special to the Hjchestcr Herald from Mt. Morris says: There was great exciteme!t at St. Patrh h's church Sunday night at 12 o'cW-k mass. It was caused by somo remark i mt' le by tin Kev. Charles Flaherty, who f -r the past ten years and up t b.-o than a year ago, had charge of thb ch'irch, but who was vcmcv-d afi-r his tiWl and conviction for criminal intimacy with a young girl of his pariih. Father Flaherty wai granted a stay and the motion of Iii counsel for a n-w tri 1 1 will be argued before the general term in January. St. Patrick's chure.it, which is, the largest country church in western Jew York, was crowded to overllowing last nicht. After mass had been said by the Kev. James 11. Day, who now has charge of the rhrrch and while the usual custom of Chrlttmas offeilng was being taken, the 11c v. Charles Flaherty passtd up the center aisle to the alter raJl, and facing the congregation, spoke in substance as follows: "One year ago tonight I wa a t) is altar as your priest, while tonight I am convicted and under sentence to a condemned man's coll. There is a man in this church tonight who was instrumental in n.y conviction, and that man is Cornelius Leary. This man cime here tonight with no sacred intention, and why he is here I eio not know. It i the sentiment of this coneregatlon that he leave tills sacred edifice." At this point voices of "put him out," or words to that effect and hisses were heard. Leary arose in his seat and said: "If Charles Flaherty or any of his friends attempt to eject me from this church I will leave Work for the coroner in the morning." No attempt was made, however, to put Mr. Leary out. Father Flaherty continued speaking, Faying: "Mr. Leary harbored Mary Sweeny (the girl who made the charges that resulted In this conviction) for several weeks previous to the trial, schooling her in what to say in order to bring about my conviction." The congregation was in a high state of excitement, but under the intiuence of Father Day was soon quieted and left the church with no further demonstrations. This morning at early mass Father Flaherty made remarks similar to Sunday night, but there was no excitement. OVKU A AVOMAX. Bloody und Fatal Fit; lit nt an Illinois Du nee. ELIZAEETIITOWN, Ills., Dec 2".. At a dance at Rook creek near here last night Dave Evans and John Howell appeare! for the purpose, as they said, of raising a disturbance and "doing up" George Barnard. They found Barnard and drew their revolvers, but Barnard was too quick for Evans, the spokesman, and sent a ball cra.'hlng through hhs mouth. Barnard's revolver only contained two cartridges. and after firing the sexxmd fchot he was' at the mercy of his assailants, who emptied their revolvers at him, Howell following him up and shooting him until he fell dev-J. Frank Ledbetter, a bystander, was shot In the thigh. Four bullets took effect in Barnard's body. Howell gave himself up and Evans walked to a house nearby, where he lies in a critical condition. An old grudge is at the bottom of the affair, occasioned by trouble over a woman.

A HOT-BED OF CRIME,

sich is Tin: imiiw i i:nm roitv at tiii: i'i!i;i:M' tim::. Governor I'islibne!; of .rl:ni:ii Writes to I'resbb-nt Cleveland SuaKe tiller Thut Something lie Done The Territory I'.ciüue f.sr Tr;iln ltohbern. ST. LOUIS, Dee. A special to the rt'-pubiie from L.::t!? Lock says: Governor Fishl ack has written a letter to I 'resident Cleveland complaining cf the fact that th Indian t rriiory is an asyltUi for danp.-rou.s criminal of all kinds. The Utter is in part as fd!ows: "The developments incident to the recent train robbery and murder at Oliphant in this state render it pr. per. it seems to me, that I call your attention to the dangerous re-la ti.n which the Indian territory west cf us occupies t. the states of the union, and especially to the adjacent states cf Arkansas. Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma .territory. "Upon the person of one of th- captured robbers was found a map of th ? route they had taken from the Indian territory, 17j nibs, to the sr-. ne of th.robbery and also a map of the eoun'.rv around Ciintano. .ga, Tt-nn.. showing that another robbery was contemt dated at or near that city. "I have good reason to suspeet thüt a very larire percentage ef the b'tnk rel train robherbj which take i lav we ft C'f the Alk-gaenics and e;-t of th? Kocky mountains ?r ordj,lzd ..- criminate in this Ind:.:a ti.rri'ore. I,--t me H'i'l thn thj i vhic'.t t Li s sparsely settled re"de7.w. s oC oiü.uv affords to criminals is . coa.-.ta.it t-,-t -,ta-tion to crirro in all the o-uniry ar..ü.-,d. During the pf.st tv.V'lve mc-ntM th r liKe issued frcm the Ma's of Arkansas, Tes Kar::. 'Khorna t- i ri .;-y i-ixty-on- requisitions t:'.r. the In.lian territory e;u- r:t ir-s i e- fagitb s, while ve vc r-v.?.jti i be lli ve tt-.t v many r. -re sue bili'VT i":0r.r th"!r c :-.T:j b s In rrin;.. it- i '..I., fijl:-Tn ee Ol ii: .it a!.,-. ( ii,r.ir.i.l.s r-j I. v. I; i v.'i s; In t:.; ter: ir -rv ;vre ra.'b !y r;iv. rtbi;; the Iviian t-Tlt .:V I 1 .to 55. "! crin. f! r.IJal! t't lt fti.it-Ji j at ail s-.i r.s nearly f.' i t pru". ;:t r.:; from this n n it c-y, 1 l-j i'd'r..! Court I....!.' s s.-:.;s o...:'..i.i.?. vlir-.vgh I'.'.oly c-. ry month i'i th :. yvlV This s-tato of s-ri!-ei;aos i'd 'hi )'Mv-"5 of govn.fnt: t vhi h e.i" i ' j territory s;,..:g--st the very '-r' .is qe-'st io'.i vhctle r the time has I '-. ..;!v-. ; t i .'. f.-1 .Tal got errmcnt, ; - i J:s Jl.-,ht of emiiunt domain' rt cf the rational domain. ' 'o r..r.g" i's p..;iti.-al rc!ati-.-.s i-i United Strst-s. 'ot only the p'!i food, but Public safety, a.? well t''e h -;'u st nt-rests of the Indian i;jm-. :i ueoianrl Jfce sun'-nste.i change." is .viTJsun m:d. Mr. rt. -cl.lnri.lfie "Viil ot Consent to u. Coiaproieike. bSl!li"ilW,- Dee, 2",. The rumor . ..H lijjj V -Vollar . against K'Yr Ureckinridge for Jüii.öOO for breach e promise will be compromised and Fettled outside of court is r.ot credited in this city. Knooh Totten, one of J!r. Breckinridge's attorneys, said today: "I saw Mr. Breckinridge day before yesterday and he paid nothing to r.ie of any sttlenv-iit or, indeed, of any proposition on his rrt or cn the part cf rdiss Bollard respecting a sttl-ment. Had there been any such proposition made I would cettainly have Le-m informed of it. Hence. I cannot only say that I know nothing uf it. but nl , that l am very sure tliere is no truth in the story. How it originated I am at a loss to understand. You can say that as far iLS his counsel have been informt d there is no intention on the part of Mr. Bnckinridge to agree to any settlement which would in any degree retiect upon Iiis chara-ier." Cel. Bi.iiip B. Thompson, another attorney for Mr. Breckinridge, said. "I have heard nothing of th;iu If such a report hr-s become current it has become spread about with no foundation. We have made no advance looking toward a settlement out of the court." Miss I'oildtd could not be seii, she i fid to be visiting friend in Kentucky. Beprcsent.itivo Breckinridge alio in Kentue ky. T!iT i:iiTmit AKi:. Very I'ereeptible In I'en nv 1 va n la, und A irinl.i. HUNTINGTON, Fa., B e. 2". A very pe-.rceptible s.hoek of i-arth-r:ake was felt in this section this morning between 3 aiu1 4 o'clock, listing only a few second, and apparently moving from southwest to iie'ithea.;t. The shock w;is sufiicient to awaken many persons front their slumbers. BBIFOBl, Pa.. IVe. 2.! Itepo; ts from various parts of ilie this county indicate that ycsKrd.'y's earthquake lasted eighteen (.r twei.iy st-o:ids. In many places lmu.... wc-e shaken to 'suoli an extent as to s.-ri-aisly alarm .he inmates. The shock appears tohae irave-bvl in a h uithi'-isi'-rn dire-tiin, and was most pt rceptihle to those who lived near the mountains. ni:roitr. 1 1 1 : it ta i:sts. A Itiiofcian Actrcn 'I iilc Her On n Life. ST rFTFRSBUBU,. Dee. 2".. Mülle. Michaelova, a favorite danseue of the Imperial theater, invited a party cf friemls to supper yesterday. While they were all sealed at the tabl th? hostess arose and in a few, brief, shaip words he bid farewell to her guests and before anybody could prevent her she swallowed a dos of joison which phe had poured unobserved into a wine glass and fell dead before h-r horrified friends. niDULCI) WITH Hl 1XI1TS. The Fale of n llltirk HhvMht nt IlHlnhridKe, (.a. BAINBRIDGF. Ga.. Dec. Cairo last Sunday Calvin Thomas, big and black, outraged Mrs. Hellers, wife of a baptist preacher. 1-as.j. night the guard-house was broken open and Thomas riddled with buliets. He v. Ill die.

AGENTS W"AIsrTSr). A prominent financi.il institution of New York desires a few vnerctic agents of . tandinjr who can give pood references. A gooel income can bo'obtained hy a lady or gentleman haviug ÜMlö to devoto to the work. Address SUDLOW, WILSON & DO SWELL, MANAGERS, OUsTOHsTXTA.TI. O.

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S AFTER ARMOUR I A Chicnrjo Crank with t. Fancied Grievance Makes Threats of Using a Dynamite Bomb. HE WANTS MANY LIVES Atid Will Blow Up the Armour Institute After Disposing of tha Wealthy Philanthropist. He Ilni Tlelijns AtjrlnM Dr. (innKanin The lallfr' Little Pnnchlrr I. ol the ;:t Out of the line The Crnnk. n l'lTmir Atti'Che ttf the ln1 1 1 ute The TIi i mi 1 cued Partie Hetieeut. CHICAGO, 1V-. 24. Armour institute, .u Tk:r ty-thi: d-.-t. an-1 Armour-eve., h- s '- e:i i v v i. 1 with destruction by a dn.innt- crank. ?r.d it is said alj that th- lives et" Is.ibp D. Armour, foi;rdM- of the institute, und Dr. Krank. GuhEaulus, its ires;', nt and pastor of llere uth c'iur..l.. has b plcol in jeeparily by t"n same Individual. N'-ithj-r Fr. Gu"-au!'is nor Mr. ArP.our will -.". a. si. v.r rd cmiTnins ihj ftrry .1 l'::f :r o-.vi lives lrjng la iir.r-. r, b :t at the r :re tiir.o it is positively known that 1 n: CJunnilus haa ebcl-ire-I that a iomti who was. at one th.v ( i.t:'o vitn th" Armot:- in-s-i t ti t has U.reatf-r. 1 to blow It up '.th dy!..!;e,l: nt a ti?:v wlvu s j- h a d-e I '.'wuM , r .ve a terrible calr rmty. W'en the threat wl.i u.a I? the dietor, !,v ,U pe'r.' ;:;-Si.rs ar. l threats, had for ihe tim b.-::ig cr.vrtei the would-bj dy v. ir iter, ;r.d tt- - hitter dparte.l pr.e.r.:-"i::g i."t to carry bis threat irto ir. i.ei. 15 h::A a wil l look in v s, b -. -s-. ! ai he had later on r---v-er il o. i':iM":! w'c.eii I r. Omsaul.- -t him ( ;i ihe s-i. t. Th st r.y is f; t th" crank de man led U:at Ir. c'l-nsauL-s fur.iish bin with m.t'i. y or f-t it fjn.m Mr. Armour. Vhs millionaire is a member of the conpTegatieui of I'lj mouth church ami a warm Personal fri r.d of its l asb'r. It was on this thst the crank countexl when be demanJel that Dr. Gunsaulus use h:3 influence with Mr. Armour in order to procure tho money, vn.en the request Wc C.riel bv.the j-a'-tor then came fi-jr:..:im , .'j."'- 1 :! b'.'n r.nd Mr. Armour, i.s w" :1 as th institute. Beatrice Gur.saulu. the twelve-year-old daugbtor cf the pa.-dor, t-ald two d;i s sin-e thai "a man w ith a pistol has been fallowing my i-a; a around and one day a nan weaiimr a light overcoat came to the bouse an 1 papa was a frail to have him around." That va the. cxt -nt of th little frirl information f.nd vcuhM for its truth by faii.g. "My fathsr told me h-.tt mx h iit'ivjt it." pr. Gur.snul as tonisht ifucei to say nnytL'.n ".bont h'.s p-rsor.al danger, but said: "It i lru that threats have been mad t Mess- up the institute vith clyr.amite. A ir.:.a s1.') was connected with it was disch.tr g :d and when he left r ninrhed to m: 'I e'on't care. 1 can Ii this i !'.-; any day with a little dynamite.' "I tcld him th.Tt J.i y further talk of that kind wouhl h ad to hi arrest. paid he Iii not r.'.-n anything and went away. 1 have . n l.im feveral times since- ?.r.d I ti.i still a little api rehensive concerning the institute. Concerning mys'If and Mr. Armour, I guess we are all riht up to the pre-Tit time." Furtht-r than that the doctor woull say üJthlng. A Illl!S It!,OCK II t It CD. Iu t lor tsileel liy :i I)Intro.l l ire nt an I'.arly Hour. MUNCH', D c. ?pTal. One of the we'ivt f.te.s that has vi.--.fsl this part of the state f. I s. -me tim" oe curre.1 at Montpelhr, r. iit!: e-r Mun-i", this morning at ü o 1 ;:. Th fire Maite.l in an oil building o. hi id by J. I. "VAT. kins cn Main-st. in th.- bii.-imv j u t t f the little city. Tha town has no !'.n; j-t ot'V-tion, and th heavy -vest wind carried th blaze to adjoining buiMimr-. s s e '. jiing everythim; bef re it in the lb, k. TI:" p! i ' s i -;r t'e l were the Cera m-rcial h t !. .1. 1'. G1i.-2.le, proprietor. .1. F. K hoi. h r's barnes- and buggy s'.or .1. t'l"',!.l A: Son, furniture stole and under.:' eis, J. F. McDorman, salo.-n, i.r I ti e V.'ilki ns restaurant. The total I -ss i. estimated at f:.0.e'iJ or more, wit!i htt!e ii'Mir.iiic A year ac i tin town wa visitej by a dam i -i: g lire, as a result cf having no jrote-t ion. lii'.'l sine. the n insurance -i.nipanh s have l'oi tumite ly been careful in invest : g th.re. Ke ently the f.svn has e-vp-i i'-nced a big bevrn, telng in t!;e heart i the e il IK 1.1. and a. very mo.brn hot' I was built anl elegantly furtilshed. V.':e building was damageti and it it'iuirel united work by the citii;.'ns to save it. The town i on the l"t. Wayne, Cincinnati & Lo.ii.-vllle railroad, an.I at that hour it wns impossible to pet an engine nt liartfedd City, Munoie cr Ft. Wayne to bring a tire department, and the wildest excitement prevailed for fear the whole town would be destroyed. The fire is thought to have been the result of the careless handling of natural gas, which Is tise.l loth for heating and lit-Iiting. But a very small amount of goods was rescued from any place, and the badly frightened guests in the hotel in several instate escaped with only their nicht clo.thes. An elecant business block will replace the burnt Ftructure s. l'ennoyer Agnln. PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 23. Governor T'ennoyer hs written an opn letter to Fresideiit Cleveland demanding that he "carry out the pledges of your (his) party."