Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. O. E. MARSHALL, - * Pubusheb.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. A Btt.i. Increasing the salaries j>t Judges of District Courts to $5,000 passed the Senate March 25, with the proviso that no Judge shall appoint to position tn his court any relative within the degree o. first cousin. A joint resolution was passed that Government laborers ■ shall be paid their regular wages to.: holidays. When the etfuc ition bill came up. Mr. Brown argued that its provisions were demand' d by the < nfranchisement of the negroes, and Mr.] Shennan Showed that the States were left practica’ly without restriction irf expending t’io money appropriated. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate} The Hi n. David J. Brewer,of Kansas, to be United States Judge,,fit.lhfeJiighth Judicial Circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary; Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan. Solicitor of the Treasury, and Col. David S. Stanley, of the - Twenty-second Infantry, to be Brigadier General. Thirteen members of the House of Representatives gave their views on the bonded whisky bill. Mr. Ellis asked leave to report a joint resolution for the distribution of $1’5,000 among snflerers by the overflow of the Mississippi, but an objection by Mr. York caused an adjournment. A bill for the allotment of lands in seven alty to Indians on the various reservations, and extending to the red men the protection of the lawsof their Slates or Territories passed the Senate March 78. Speeches on the education bill were made by Messrs. Vance, Dolph, Hoar, Jones, and Butter. The jointresolution giving a balance of sl2">,’K)o to the Mississippi suiterer.s was passed. The nomination of Aaron A. Sargent, now Minister at Berlin, to be Minister at St. Petersburg was promptly-confirmed.. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution providing foi' the distribution in the overflowed district of the Mississippi River an d its tributaries of SI2SJ)(M) of the Unexpended appropriation for the relief of the destitute in the Ohio Vallby. A bill was introduced for the erection, of a_pedestal for 6he-statueof thedat.e Pres - ident Garfield at Washington. There was some debate on the. bonded whisky extension bill; President Arthur sent to both houses a special message advising appropriations toward commencing the construction of three steel cruisers and fonr gnnboats, to cost $4,2< i, o<r >. Thei Executive thinks it imprudent to delay work on these vessels for one year. He also urges the appropriation of $2,000,000 for finishing four doublo-turreted monitors. A bill appropriating $1,50) to pay the claims of eleven persons for depredations by the Utes at the time of the massacre at White River agency, passed the Senate March 27. The Committee on Library was directed to inquire into , the expediency of printing the official papers of President Monroe. A memorial was presented from the Legislative Assembly of Utah, protesting against the passage of measures affecting thb Territory without a full investigation by a Congressional committee. A favorable reSort was made on the joint resoluon to pay $25,000 reward for the rescue of the members of the Greely expedition. Mr. Hampton reopened the debate on the education bill with an appeal for aid by the General Government in educating the wards of the nation. In the House the bonded Whisky extension bill was- taken up Mr. Randall de lOuncedTtlie measure as tending to give permanency to the 2. internal revenue system. Mr. Blackburn made the closing appeal for the bill. A morion to strike ont the enacting clause was agreed to, and the House confirmed the action of the committee by 185 to 83. The bi 1 for the retirement of the trade dollar was discussed without action. Mr. Palmar, of Michigan, from the new Committee on Woman Suffrage, reported to the Senate, on the 28tli.ult., an. amendment to the Constitution to extend the right to vote to women. A resolution was agreed to calling on the Sec etary of the Treasury tor information as to what amount of the war tax of 1861 is unpaid, and whether the General Government has withheld money due to any State. Bills were passed authorizing a reward of $25,000 for ascertaining the fate of the Greely explorers, and permitting vessels to unload bulky articles, under the superintendence of customs officers, at placss to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. When the education bill camo up, Messrs. Lamar and George earnestly urged its passage, and Mr. (Jullom advocated an amendment mak-, Ing the tola! appropriation $40,000.00 >. In the House of Representatives, a concurrent resolution was introduced for the final adjournment of Congress June 2. The Commit tee on Judiciary made an adverse report on the bill for the relief of William McGarrahan. A measure to permit the citizens of Indian Territory to organize national banks was favorably- reported. An evening session was held for fife consideration of pension bills. Both hotises adjourned to the 31st. THE KANT. A microscopic examination of the } limbs of a young girl who died recently in : Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, of ' trichiniasis showed it to be full of parasitic worms. It is probe tie that eight or ton per- i sons will die on sx-esmst of jianakiug of the same animal of whose meat thy young woman ate. At Thompsc-n’s Point, N. J., the nitro-glycerine bouse of the Repauno Chemi- ■ cal Works exploded, killing and mangling six persons, among them Lamont Dupont, Vice President of tb- company; HIE ’WEST. The special Commissioner sent out ■ West by the Chicago TrCiunc to investigate the gold region of the Creui d’Alene Mountains. reports that there is no doubt of the existence of gold deposits along the banks of Eagle Creek, t>n a bar-claim forty feet above the water be himself washed out 15 hr 20 cents' werjh of dirt, and another worth tn the same way-.- Blithe doe- no* undertake to say f jis that there is gold in anfficont aT out. ttoph y. Claims are not being worked at the present time, owing to the , deep snow, arg; they likely L "QIJWSI. for six weeks to come. Jt believed’. there will be trouble in the dFstrlct on accouut’of opposing claims when the mining season opens. Ail person? are warned against attempting to enter the region for the next six weeks, as during the spring breaking-up travel will be far lucre difficult than it was during even the severest portion of the winter. A hurricane swept over Denver, . CoL, the City Hall and some of the finest blocks in the city being unroofed, whits signs and awnings were scattered in alßdirections. For hours together the wind blew at th? rate of sixty milts an hour. Several poisons were injured, but none fatally... .The first through train from the City of Mexico arrived in Chicago March 28.,..1n defiance of the prohibitory law of Kansas, a man named Herold opened a saloon at Canton. On the third day he was shot by a constable. The next morning the women of the place poured bisjiquor* the streeti lLAte reports from the Coeur d’Alene gold district in Idaho arc to the effect that the snow lies heavy on the ground, and operations have not yet begun, nor are they likely to commence lor weeks. In tho meuntimo the impatient prospectors amuse themselves in the l est way they can. and the gamblers appear to be doing a good business. Already disputes about claims have started. Many apparently rich discoveries have been made, but time alone will shpw whether they will “pan out" according to expectation. The price of everything is going up in conquence of the additional arrivals each day. Some opinion of what it costs to live there may be formed by the statement that a bushel of potatoes costs $27. Directors of the Northern Pacific and experts representing the company and the Drexel, Morgan & Co. syndicate, who have just returned from a tourtif inspection’ are said to have discovered that much valuable rolling-stock is practically useless, and that the road is vastly overstocked with all kinds of machinery. THE SOUTH. The Hon. J. Floyd King, member of Congress from Louisiana, has received 4 the following- telegram at Washington: BOPMXY* Miss., March 24.—Kemp Levee gave

Iway at 12:16. This makes the disaster complete and the Mississippi Valley one vast inland sea. This will make the loss beyond oalculaculation, to say nothtnituif the loss of life and suffering of the people. Congress must come to our relief mid feed the people at once. The lofts of onr gin-houses and floating, rafts will be the only place of abode. I believe the best mode, of distribution of supplies. is through the Engineer Department in charge of flip river ImprovPriient. They have every appliance ncbrnsnryf und less wtistenndirnrosttio-n .would attend’their efforts. E. L. WitrrNEY. WASHINGTON. Hon. David J. Brewer has been nominated by the President to bo Judge of the Eighth Judicial District, to succeed Judge McCrary. Judge Brewer lias been on the Kansas Supreme Bench for twelve years, is between 40 and 50 years of age. is a nephew of Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, is of New Englund stock, and a graduate of Yale, lie has lived in Kansas about twenty-five yours, and is one of the best known men in the .State, He .was born ih Asia Minor, where his father wus missionary, and ho is a nephew of David Dudley l-’ieM.... .Julius C. Burrows, of Mich‘igan, has been nominated by President Arthur for Solicitor of the Treasury. Min i stkbS argent’s i .t.rftnsfarfroni Berlfh to St. Petersburg, for which the pre liminaries have been completed, will take The country by surprise. The views of the adutinist rat ion are clearly stated tiy Secretary Frelingliuyeen, who cabled Mr. Sargent that his course in. the Lasker matter was approved, and that thg change’ was prompted only by regard for the .Minister’s personal feelings. ... .In the second trial at Washington, Hallett Killoiirne was awarded damages of 337,500 for false imprisonment liy John G. Thompson, -ex-Sergeant at-Artns of Hie Hpus<y of Repre--sentat ir es. ‘ ~ The House Committee on Posfoflices has decided to report favorably on the bill, giving letter carriers of the free delivery offices leave of absence for fourteen days in each year without loss of pay. Minister Sap.« ent’s proposed transfer from Berlin toSt; Petersburg is attributed to the peculiar dlplematieudeas of Secretary ErelingluiysenTlie .ti-ansfer w.as-Qppas.ed in., the Cabinet, and iLwas -proposed- that after his resignation of the German Embassadorship the post at Berlin should not be tilled for an indefinite period. The ways of Frelinghuysen pass the understanding of ordinary Americans. .—__x_ —_—. POIATICAJu. A Chicago Tribune correspondent at Missouri Valley, lowa, claims to have carefully interviewed every Republican within reach as to his Presidential Choice, the total number interviewed leingJlO. The result is: Blaine, lt)7; Logan, 62; Arthur, -41; Edmunds, 10. The Democrats almost unani•inously favor Tilden, and seem to think that with him success is unquestionable. McDonald and Payne are second and third choice. Horatio Seymour, after expressing the opinion that the nomination of Mr. Tilden would be a wise one for the Democtrey, claimed that the latter’s feeble condition and inability tohfalk are~positive advantages, as protection against intrusions. Out of sixty prominent Mississippi and Arkansas Democrats interviewed by a Chicago Times traveling correspondent there were twenty-six in favor of McDonald for President, fifteen for Bayard, fifteen for Morrison, the remainder scattered. Hon. James G. Blaine and Senator Logan were the favorites of she liepublicans interviewed, with a majority for Logan. The following is a list of the DemocraticCohgfes'smehwhdvotedagainstthe Morrison resolutions in caucus: Seymour and Eaton, of .Connecticut: McAdoo, of New Jersey; Arnot, Peach, Muller, Robinson, Spriggs, Wemple, Van Alstyno, Hardy, Hutchins, and Campbell, of New York; Elliott, Randall, Ermentrout. Mutchler, Storm, Connolly, Post. DuiU'ail. Cyrtin, Boyle, Hopkins, and Patton, of Pennsylvania: Murray, Warner, Seney, LeFtvre,Wilkins, Foran, Converse, Paige, and Follett, of Ohio; Lamb, of Indiana; RoSecrans, Tully, Glascock, Henley, Budd, and Sumner, of California; Snyder and .Wilson, Of West Virginia; Finlay, Covington, and Talbott, of Maryland; Cabell, Barbour, and Wise, of Virginia; Dibrell, of Tennessee; Hunt, of Louisiana; Scales,' of North Carolina; Clardy and O’Neill, of Missouri; Shelley, of Alabama; Dibble rfnd Tillman, of South Carolina —H Northern Democrats and 16 Southern Democrats. Ex-Senator Dorsey, in n letter to Congressman Springer, gives the names of prominent persons, heretofore not mentioned, as being connected with the Star Route frauds. Springer refuses to give the names now, preferring to let them be made public through Dorsey’s testimony when he appears before his. committee. A prominent Pennsylvania Republican has been saying at Washington that Blaine will not be'a candidate for the Presidential nomination this year, but that beds desirous of securing a largo following in: the National Convention, that he may be able to dictate who shall be the nominee. The Pennsylvanian seems .to think that the Blaine strength will go to Logan. GENERAL. Duncan C. Ross says he will give John L. Sullivan $10,l)(X>- to stand before • Mervine Thompson for four rounds. If Sullivan should accept, Ross asserts that he would hire a farm on the outskirts of Cleveland. fence it, there hold the exhibition, and make a fortune on the gate receipts. -lires of tlie- weolt ■ include tiie burning of an oil warehouse at Kansas City, Mo., loss 315,000; several storesand dwellings ,al TitMiTwaufcee.t2s.oof; a hotel nt fioodhou§e, 111.. $10,000: the Electric Candle Company’s factory. New York, SiOO.tOi; the City Hall, Postottiee. find many other buildings at. Greenville. Texas, $70,000; Chanpello’s acid works and a guano warehouse, Baltimore, StjO.OtO; seven stores at Hillsboro, Texas, $50,b00: an ax-handle - factory at Chattanooga, Tenn.. $15,003; the Holmes Block at Jacksonville, Fla., $40,0.00; a business block at Griyville, 111., $75,000 ; mining property near Wilkesbarre, Pa.. 320,04k);. a furniture store at Cheyenne, W. T., $150,000; a machine shop at Nashua, N. IL, 325.000; a tobacco ward ouse at laincaster. Pa., $30.04,0; a grain elevator at Metamora,' 111., $10,000; a saw mill at Grange, TeXas, 320,000; a saw and grist mill at Waterford, Pa., $25,000; a store at New Berlin. N. Y'., $20,000; Ilra.-.il, Ind., brick block, $10,030; a hotel at Auburn, N., Y., $30,000; a flouring mill near Galena, 111., $10,000; a hotel,at Ga., SIO,OOO. Dan. Dowd, James Howard, O. W. Semple, William Delane, and Dan Kelly, bandits, were hanged at Tombstone, A. T.; William R. McDonald was executed at San Bernardino, Cal.; Francisco Peres, at Placerville, Cal.; and Joe HoWard at Columbia, S. , C.—all for murder. Minister Sargent sent to Secretary Frelinghnysen a cablegram expressing his gratitude, for substantial ’indorsement, but declining to s bee pt a transfer to St- Petersburg. In reply to a second communication from Washington, Mr. Sargent stated that ill health caused him to take a leave of absence, alter which he wou’.d formally announce to the German Government his resignation. foreign. At a private political banquet in London, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Tory leader in the House of Ixjrds, said that the Feers had definitely agrsedto reject Mr. <sladstone’s franchise bill with the avowed intention of forcing a dissolution. The Torie* will then appeal to the coun-ry on a platform embracing a vigorous foreign policy, “which I shall make. British diplomacy and British anas respected abroad." The cable bripgs. th&news of the sudden and unexpected death of Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria’s joungest son. at Cannes, while en route for Darmstadt, to attend

the' wedding of the Princes Victoria of Hesse. Tho Prince was borp in 1853, and although always weakly and delicate, was intellectually stronger than any of his brothers. He was betrothed Nov. 21, 1831, to tho Princess Hclena -of- Waldeck, tout}- r owing to his poor health, tlfiff , wedding did not take place, iifitil April 27. 1882. a union from Which: one? child resulted, Mary Victoria Augusta Paulino..., Igidy Colih'Catnpl'en, formerly Miss Gertrude Blood, the beautiful daughter of an Irish gentleman residing in the County of Clare, has j ust procured a decree of divorce from her husband,/a son of the Duke of Argyll, on tho ground of adultery and other marital sins on his part. Lord Colin Campbell is the brother of Ix>rd Lorne, late Governor General of’ Canada.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A canvass of the Republican members of the New Jersey Legislature has developed the fact that a majority of them favor Blaine for the Presidency. The exSecretary of State has more supporters among the legislators, and among tho people, it is said, than all the other candidates combined. Senator Logan has eight or t n frit nds out of eighty-seven members. President Arthur has few backers... .Dun reports 3,24’6 failures the past three months, with ?4(l,00!),0()0 liabilities, against 2,106 in the eorresponding period of 18S3, and liabilities amounting to $37,000,000... .Reports from the thvent.v-six leading clearing-houses of tho United States for last week show the total clearances to have been only $847,380,455, Decent deaths: John J. Cisco, a well-known Now York banker, formerly As--sistiuit Treasurer of the United StateKtiTlenTry 11. Hurlbut, of Cleveland, a prominent railroad man; Hofl. Henry C. Land, a leading citizen of Cincinnati; Francois Mignet, French historian; James Hamilton, of Bath County, 'Kentucky, the largest sliort-liorh cattle-dealer in the world; Editor Danielson, of tlie Providence (H. I.) Journal: Mrs.,..Sarah_ Smith, of Mattoon, 111., who used tobacco all her life, aged 100 years; Absalom Watkins, of Chattanooga, Tenn, one of.the oldest and best known editors in -the Smith ; Mrs. - Kate N- Doggett, of Chicago, a prominent advocate of female suffrage, and President of the Woman’s Congress for several terms; Au- - gustus Schell, a veteran banker and Demoeratic politician of. New Y'erk; Matt HF Finelr,- —a prominent, lawyer of Milwaukee; Mrs. Sftratton, of Now Haven, Ct., mother of the late Tom Thumb; Judge Granger, of Washington, D. C., a brother-in-law of the late, Stephen A. Douglas; John Parrott, the pioneer banker of California; Prince Leopold, known as the Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria; the wife of Hon, Geoige W. Julian, of Indiana (she was a daughter of the late Joshua R. Giddings). The Citizens’ Committee at Cincinnati, on Monday the 31st ult., passed resolutions thanking the Governor of the State and the Mayor of the city for their prompt action in dealing with and suppressing the great riot. GoV. Hoadly was requested by the committee to withdraw most of the troops, leaving the jail to the care of. special polieeiuen. T!ie barriciuii-s around the Court House square were well guarded, and everything was quiet. There were vilgue rumors floating about that the German socialists were collecting arms, ammunition, and dynamite torpedoes, and would renew flie-attack upon the withdrawoi of the troops. It-has been ascertained that the Court House records, deeds, mortgages, etc., are almost unharmed, save some documents dated thirty years back, and that the safe in- which —the wills wo. c kept is intact. All the Judges held a consultation touching the prwsur.' nt court business, and the Colinty Commissioners reported the Public Library as the only available structure for court purposes. Several deaths among the wounded had occurred in the hospital, and many others were in a dying condition. A ' njfihber df bills were introduced in the Ohio Legislature, at Columbus, dealing with the Cincinnati riots, among them one appropriating $500,000 to replace the records destroyed in the Court House. - . A communication from the Attorney General, stating that his force of employes was too small to supply promptly the voluminous papers called for, and asking for more help, was .ptesentett tn the Senate on the 31st ult. Favorable reports were made on bills for the erection ot public buildings at Chattanooga. Opelousas, and Portland. A petition was presented asking compensation to citizens of Kansas for property destroyed in the Cheyenne raid of 1878. Mr. Platt explained the provisions of his bill to organize the Patent Office in separate departments. David J. Brewer was confirmed as Judge of the Eighth-Circuit: In the House Mr. Fiuerty, of Chicago, introduced a resolution thanking Minister Sargent for the able, faithful, and dignified manner inwhichliedischarged - -the duties of his office as Minister to Berlin. Th? Committee on Public Health reported back a resolution directing an investigation as? to the adulteration of food and drugs as not within the province of Congress; but it, was recommit-t<j<l,-by a vote cf 117 to-Fife A -resolution was offered by Mr. Nichols, requesting the Sherman committee of the Senate to inquire into the circumstances of the riots at Cincinnati. Bills w ere introduced to grant r ight of way through Indian Territory for the Pacific and Great Eastern Road; to make Oakland, Cal., a port of delivery; to repeal the internal revenue tax on tobacco and the distillation of apples and peaches; to equalize the taxation of foreign and domestic insurance companies, and to appropriate SRO,OOo for sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi. Robert Smalls was sworn in as a member from South Carolina. Mr. Bland led the debate on the trade-dollar bill, and urged the unlimited coinage of silver.

THE MARKET.

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CINCINNATI’S HORROR.

4 Tlu’ee of Terrible Mob Violence. Repeated Assaults Upon the >' City Jail.* i Burning of the Court House—Scores of Men Killed. Some months ago William H. Kirk, are- ; speeted citizen of Cincinnati, was'killed in I his stable by the blow Of a hammer and i robbed of $10) in money, put into a wagon, i hauled off toward Cumminsville, and dumped ! into Mill Creek, where bis body was found two days later. Joe Palmer and William Bcr- I ner confessed that they did the murder and robbery. On Jrial, few days ago, Berner testified that Palmer did the actual killing, while he only looked on and got his share of the money. Much to the surprise ami indignation of the community, tho jury rendered a verdict of manslaughter against Berner, and assessed his . punishment at- .twenty years in the penitentiary. Tho verdict was declared privately, by the Judge who tried the case, to lie an outrage, and the jury, after leaving the court room, were hooted at by the crowd, wRJi suggestions that they should | be hanged. There was furious indignation among all classes in (im innati. One of the | jury was driven from the city and another ; severely beaten. A call for a mass meeting of citizens, signed by prominent business men, brought out an immense croivd, who literally p icked the large] Music Hall until there, was . not even standing room. The meeting, held Friday evening, the 28th ult., was presided over by Dr. A. C. Kemper, and speeches were made by two or'three leading citizens denounciatory of the prevalence of crime and the lax administration of justice. After the adjournment of the meeting a surging, howling mob started at once for the jail. The bloody and exciting scenes that followed are chronicled in the telegraphic reports herewith appended: The-news that a lynching party was assaulting the jail spread like wild-fire, Sffifcßoofi the entire neighborhood swarmed with thousands. The advance guard ot the would-be-lynchers arrived with a piece of joist and rushed down the steps leading to the basement entrance of the jail office. These were backed up by the crushing crowd behind. First, a window was smashed and a wild yell went up from the crowd. Another shattered window and a wilder yell. Then the thump, thump of the improved battering-ram, pounding against the office door, began, and every thump awoke a responsive yell. Bricks and stones were hurled at the jail windows, and the shouting mob grew wilder as success seemed nearer. The door at last gave way and the crowd poured into the jail office. Sheriff Hawkins and the few deputies who were inside were powerless to stem the fierce human tide, besides the Sheriff had given orders that his officers should not-use=their weapons on the mob, believing that such a proceeding would only make bad worse. Wild with excitement in finding themselves in iwssession ot the jailoliice, it wasJshoit work to force the door to the cell floor. Soon the stairs and corridors, indeed the entire interior of the jail, was alive witli the mob yelling and hunting for the murderers they came to hang. They soon found their work had been for naught so far as Berner was concerned. Disappointed and disgusted, the ardor of some of them b v.ran to cool. , . About this tjme a squad of fifteen policemen, who had been stationed in the tunnel that leads from the jail to the court-house, were brought into the jail corridors and began to clear the mob from the second floor, or the rotunda — At 9:55 the fire bells struck the ominous 621, the riot alarm, and followed liy a regular alarm, as for lire, giving the number of the bux located at the court-house corner, just back of the county jail. The alarm started thousands of people all over the city, and from all directions they flocked by scores, by hundreds, toward the county jail. Police, too. to the number of thirty or forty were hurried to the scene in patrolwagons. Bricks and stones were hurled through the jail windows, and down at the jail floor was a gang of men with axes or sledges,heavily poundingon the jail door. The crowd in the meantime every few minutes broke out in bloodthirsty cheers, groans, hisses, and maledictions on the murderers and Hamilton County justice. There were no less than 500 men in the crowd for every officer, and the mob showed the most dogged determination and fierceness from the first. Once a light was struck in an up-stairs room of the Sheriff’s residence, and men were seen carrying pictures and furniture out of the room. One man attempted to close the Inside shutters, but instantly the mob hooted at him and a shower of bricks and stones riddled the glass and broke the shutters to splinters, and effectually cleared the room. But for self-pro-tection the gung of men with the axes, at the doors below these windows, called out to tho mob behind them to cease throwing stones, as they accomplished nothing except to scatter the broken glass down on the heads of those at work at the doors. At 11:30 o’clock the sound of axes at the Court street entrance announced that a fresh attack was being made from another direction, and cheer after cheer rent the air. When the wagon started through the crowd of people who were densely packed around it the greatest consternation and excitement was created; Col. Reilly arrived shortly alter the riot alarm was sounded, ams after taking in the situation entered the jail through the Court Hoqse and tunnel. At just about midnight the mob on Sycamore street succeeded in battering open the entrance a second time, and swelled into the jail-oflice. Here thev were stopped by the heavy iron g&te shutting off the office from the jail proper. Behind this were the policemen awaiting the attack. Which was not long in being made. The mob had a heavy piece of timber a foot square and eighteen feet long. Fifty men swung this back and forth against the iron gate, and in a very little time they broke it squarely in two in the middle. Tfien followed a hand-to-hand fight between tho police under the leadership of Cot Reilly, EMttSSE Police, The first man to enter through the breach was a negro, who was instantly seized by half a dozen policemen, who hustled him up stairs and locked him up. Other rioters, to the number in all of twenty-five, were similarly treated, and were all locked up in upper cells. Under strict orders from Chief Reilly, not a shot was fired during all this melee, although several of the fighters, both rioters and officers, were knocked down and more or less injured. All sorts of weapons, knives, and revolvers were captured with the prisoners. It was impossible to ascertain any of the names of the rioters at the time of the arrest. The officers did not stop (qi thqt, them off to the uppermost cells as rapidly as possible. The mob Was too mueh for the officers, however, and while a few hundred were left down stairs to fight the policemen, hundreds of others carried the heavy battering-ram up-stairs to where the murderers’ cells were. The mob continued determined. At exactly 12 o’clock a heavy beam borne by strong men was applied to the south Sycamore entrance, and after three or four vigorous blows the door gave way and the crowd poured In. Almost immediately afterward they made their way into the corridor. “Where is Berner’s cell?” was the crv. Some one answered: “Nd. 13," and that number was soon found and a vigorous batterv began. At this time the military began firing from above, and the mob were at once arrested in their mad career, and forced to retreat, though very sullenly. It is charged that the militia shot recklessly, and,, some of their number were wounded. Corporal Cook, of Company J, was shot in the chest, and another grivate.was shot through the ear, and another 1 the month. Officer Adam Mechlev was struck on the head with a brick and knocked senseless. He was taken off in a patrol wagon. Officer Von Secuern was shot in the head near the ear, but not fatally. The shot came from some one on the inside. The crowd had forced Its way into tho jail yard and soon learned the way to the underground passage- Some of these started Into the tunnel while the few police at that time at hand attempted to suy them. Another man, a citizen, was shot in the arm above the elbow. All the windows of the basement and first and second stories of the jail residence are broken In the sash torn out, the doors broken down, iron gratings torn out or bent into all sorts of strange shapes from the force Of bowlders and heavy beams applied to them, and there is general destruction. The stair-ways, some of them are considerably demolished, even though of iron, and inside doors are battered and 6i ATI2 o’clock the people were in full possession of the lower reception-room of the jail for the second time. A brawny fellow, a blacksmith, they said—was at work with a sledge hammer nnon the iron barred gate leading to the cell room. It gave gradually but surely before what seemed herculean strength. As bar by bar was shattered, cheers arose from the crowd back in the reception-room and jail-yard and were taken nn by the crowds ontiide. ’ ■ Stovriy ta*t surely the toon gate gave way. and

finally went down far enough to admit of two or three men entering abreast. Just before this Sheriff Hawkins, perhaps because he found the resistance of the ivrtlice almost passive, sent for tie party of Sboflt forty citizen soldiers, who were -under arms 4n their azrnory hard by. These men were matched over and wore taken iuto the jail through the tunnel fi om Main street. Just as the p irty working at thte gates were About to take possession of tho cefl-room-the order was driven to fire, or at least filing coinmenctd. Tt.e result was. beside the distressing casualties, to give the police, for the moment at least, moral control. '1 hey took advant ige of this and cleared the jail through the Sycamore street entranees, while the wounded were taken out by the M;yn street way. ? A portion of the mob broke into the armory ot the State Guard and captured all the nuns and ammunition of the troops, and thus armed, returned and confronted the militia. The military again fired on the mob, killing four and wound.ng fifteen. The mob returned the fire bijt did no damage. The heavy firing drove away, but the mob worked with fiercer de ermin'atibn than ever. The jail was fired by rolling coatorfl iiarrels into the basement and firing them. At the same time a cannon was brought up ,by a crowd of about fifty men, the leader of whom said they were thirsting for revenge. The can non was fired a number of times, but produced no effect. Tire police by this time (4 a. pi.) had gained full control ot the jail, and the greater part of the tupb hail dispersed. A summing of thu casualties of this night of horror showed eight persons either dead or dying, and seventeen wounded, some of them dangerously, ‘ —tIt now appears that Berner, after his sentence, was disguised aiid placed in a buggy with Deputy Sheriff Domiikck Pevoto and driven to Linwood, where, they got aboard the Morrow accommodation, and went to Loveland to await the arrival of Criminal Deputy Joe Moses with the necessary papers for his committal to the penitentiary. It became known . that Bernerwas at Loveland and aterowd gathered. M hen the train with Moses aboard came in, and Devoto and Berner went to b .arc! it. the -e rewd-nladc a,ttis h for Berner; H e ran t lirough the car and escaped, and is still at, large. ~ Quiet reigned throughout tho early part of tho day, but, in anticipation of arenewa of trouble, Gov. Hoadlv ordered three regiments of State! troops aud two. batteries to tho city. Tha_ apprehensions of . the Governor and ot the city authorities were fully realized. Early in the day anonymous -circulars were distributed through the city,calling for the organization of a vigilance committee ot 309 in each ward; A Gatling gun was taken to the jail, and the streets were barricaded qbypoliceandsspldiersfor 1 <:■().yawls. A militia regiment" was placed inside the Jail, and seven-ty-five policemen were stationed outside. About 8 o’clpek stones were thrown through the jail windows, and pound dynamite cartridges were displayed by rioters. At 10 o’clock the treas-urer's-office in the court house was set on fire. The troops fired on the mob from the windows, with deadly effect. Captain Desmond, of the militia, endeavored to suppress the flames andwas shot dead by the rioters. The fire-engines were not allowed to work. Tho yells of the mob could be heard for six blocks, and they appeared to be thoroughly organized. The Dayton militia arrived at the depot, but found it impossible to reach the battle-ground. The iiaint s consumed the courthouse, with the county records and one of the’most valuable law libraries In the United States. The 14th regiment, marched to the jail at midnight, but the 4th regiment turned back to the depot after hearing of the atrocities being perpetrated. About 10 o’clock a. m. the Gatling gun was turned upon the rioters with deadly effect. The mob broke into the Armory of Battery B, took three cannon, and dragged them several miles, creating intense consternation. A police squad tired on them, and recovered the pieces, butnot before the mob had broken several stores open to seat ch for ammunition. The artillery was turned over to the Sheriff. Firing between the mob and tho militia stationedabout the jail was kept up at intervals through the night. Twenty-eight persons were killed,, and "Sixty or more severely wounded. The police were entire masters of the situation shortly after midnight, and the Sabbath broke on a quiet but very feverish city. Smoldering ruins, pools of blood, and pickets of militia maraed the section about the Court House and jail. The monetary loss was fully $1,000,00 >. All the criminal indictments were destroyed, and now there is nothing to show against the prisoners in the jail. ’1 lie <s>unty records are safe. Five <’ead bodies lay on Sycamore street. '1 he wounded had sought shelter behind protecting buildings on Walnut street, and pool after pool of blood spotted the ground, while iu the hallways the floors were smeared with blood. The troops were lying on their arms,, taking such rest as they could get when not called for special duty. The polfcs, worn out, were also lounging. about in such manner as was most comfortable. The prisoners in the jail were locked in their cells, trembling with fear. Not one slept through the night. One of the saddest episodes of Saturday night was the killing of Capt. John Desmond. He had been apprised of the purpose to burn the court house, and was sent with a squad of militia to try, to put out the fire. The mob fired on him and the ball crashed through his head. At the same time Private McGuire was shot through the breast and fatally hurt. Capt. Desmond was a young lawyer of mneh promise, a fine looking soldier, the pride ot his regiment, and one whose loss is on every account deeply deplored. The fire engines were powerless; first, because the firemen refused to go out without an escort of tioops, and second, because the crowd could easily have cut the hose and prevented the use of the engines. So the tire had its way. Mayor Stephens on Sunday morning ordered all saloons closed for twenty-four hours, and it was fairly complied with. He then asked Governor Hoadly to send on all the available mill- ’ tia, and special trains were soon set in motion, the Sixth Regiment, from Chillicothe, being the first to arrive. All persons were warned to keep off the streets after dark. At 8:30 last evening the rattle of the Gatling gnn showed that the conflict with the mob had recommenced. Briggs Swift, a prominent packer, while conversing with a friend on Seventh street,was seriously wounded by a volley fired by the militia. The rioters broke into Music Hall, whence they were ejectedby two companies ot the 6th regiment. After this the mob dispersed, and quiet was restored. The casualties of Sunday night’s fighting include eight men killed and fifteen wouujK'L TJe total killed sol ‘ three da Y s was seventy-five; wounded, 150. It appears that Berner, one of the murderers of Kirk, who escaped at Loveland, ran several miles up the track, spent some hours in an empty freight car, and then took to the woods. He was found by two bailiffs;.-who were driving along in search of him. He gave way to tears like a child. The officers drove to Foster’s Crossing, remaintng until dark, when they prothe penitentiary, notwithstanding determined attempts to lynch him T. C. Campbell, the Cincinnati lawyer, who was Berner’s chief counsel, has been warned away from the city. Following is a partial list of the killed and mortally wounded: ; James Condon, carriage blacksmith; John Havenkanrp, coal-cart driver; Fritz Havemyer, hodcarrier; Frank Hettusheimer, employed in furniture factory; Ben Fink, shoemaker; John Sagger; Joseph Besold, cigarmaker; Mike O’Day, driver; Anton Fouler, John Dickey, Frank Bergman. Thomas A Green, colored; Anton Singer, shoemaker; John Goeble, bartender; Sam Henan, Jacob Metzer, stonecutter; Fred Sleusser. bartender; four bodies unidentified; John J. Hennessy, Henrv J. Peiser, an unknown man, Walter Fay, Peter Roell, brewer; C. Breslau, Capt. J. J. Desmond, of the Lytle Greys; Police Officer Joseph Stem, Police Officer Pbilip Nunn, Henry Kates, cabinet-maker; C. T. MetMarv Smith, Will Bates, P.Raate. John Hetten. calf,"Jesse Bright. John Griffith, Martin Rafferty, sfaelm, Alfred Hopkins, Charles Bloom, J. Camper.

CONVICT LABOR.

The Vicious Contract System Brought to the Attention of Congress. [Washington Tefegram.) At a meeting of the House Committee on labor Representative James was unanimously instructed to favorably report the bill providing that It shall be unlawful for any person in the employ of the United States, or any State, to contract with any one to hire out as laborers prisoners confined in any prison or jail for the violation of any laws of the United States. The violation of the act is made a misidpmeanor, punishable by a fine of from SSOO to SI,OOO or Imprisonment from one to three years. Mr. James has prepared areport to accompany the bill. It says that in some cases the State prisons have taken persons convicted for violation of the laws of the "United States without cost to the Federal Government, and then, in order to make the arrangement profitable, have inhumanly treated them. The contract system, the report says, is wholly adverse to reform. The prisoners are treated as dumb beasts, being driven to work by men whose only aim is to get a certain amount of work from them every day, men who look upon the convicts as only so much machinery for making money, and whose chief recommendation for the position is that they are the highest bidders for the human beings hired by them. , ' . 1,, 1 ■ ■ ■■ =—= At a wedding in Hannibal, Mo., the bridal march was played on a mouth organ.

PRESIDENTIAL TALK.

Tilden the First Choice of the Democrats of the New England States. Blaine and Randall Strong l in Pennsylvania—Preferences of Illinois Democrats. OHIO. The Shermans, John and Tecumseh. [Washington Telegram.] ——— “Mack,” of the Sandusky Register y who, is ■ here, says that if it is deemed expedient to present the name of John Sherman at Chicago he will secure pretty nearly all the delegates from Ohio, although the Blaine sentiment among the voters is very strong. Some who have been attempting to organize a movement in favor of the nomination of' Gen. Sherman for the Presidency are disturbed by the rumor that he voted for Hancock at St. Louis, and are endeavoring to ascertain the truth of this. PENNSYLVANIA. Hlaine and Randall Prime Favorites with the Quakers. [Philadelphia Dispatch.] Blaine and Randall hud the call in the county conventions just held in this State." In Wyoming a resolution was adopted by the Republicans Instructing the delegates to use all honorable means to further the nomination of Blaine. In Columbia the same act ion was taken, and in (enter a similar feeling prevailed. On the Democratic side Tilden's old friend, Wilh’atn L. ScO’t, was elected a •Senatorial Delegate, and will go as a National Delegate to Chicago, together with some men who have heretofore favored Wallace, but who are now instructed for Randall first, ? Inst, and all the time. Scott, in a strong speech, warned tlie Democracy of a scheme on the part of Wallace, to defraud the people of the State of their choice, Samuel J. Randall. , NEW ENGLAND DEMOCRATS. They Want Tilden and a Revenue Tariff. [Boston DispatchJ— X The Boston Post prints several columns of letters from Detnocratic members of the Legislactires of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, in which the writers give their preferences lor a Presidential candidate. Tilden leads in each State save Massachusetts, where he and Butler are about even. The Greenback members of the Maine Legislature favor Tilden as first choice. On the tariff question the majority are for tariff for revenue only, and the overwhelming majority favor the Morrison bill and a gradual reduction of tariff taxation.- - Of the members who declare unequivocally for a continuance of the present tariff two are New Hampshire men. three Connecticut, and one Massachusetts. Two New Hampshire manufacturers favor an immediate reduction, and one favors the tariff as at present. IT.LTNOIS. The State Polled by Counties. [Frorii the Chicago Inter Ocean? Not long ago a Chicago gentleman had occasion to write to every County Clerk in Illinois upon a matter of business. After writing perhaps half a dozen letters it occurred to him that ho would ask what the political outlook was, and thus, without hardly any trouble, get an idea of ".he situation> The Inter Ocean has been favored with the privilege of perusing the answers, and would be glad to publish them, only so many of the writers ask that their letters may be regarded as confidential that we are not allowed to do so. An idea of their contents, however, in' the aggregate ean be given without the violation of confidence. Neither party seems to be afflicted with any latent elements of discord. Not a single letter expresses any fear of trouble on th< temperance question, or any other side issue. Local and personal quarrels are referred to, if at all, as not likely to stand in the way ol success. In regard to candidates the Democrats seem to be of one mind. Not a single county is reported to be in fnvor of any other than the old ticket, with Harrison for Governor, except that St. Clair favors Morrison if he has any show. It is the old ticket first, last, and all the time. Letter after letter speaks In the most positive way as regards Democratic preference. Ono would say that Harrison would bo nominated by acclamation and a delegation solid for the old ticket sent to Chicago without the slightest doubt. No such unanimity is expressed In regard to Republican nominees. As for Governor, a good word is spoken for both Oglesby and Hamilton, no Republican betraying the Slightest ill-feeling toward either. As for President, the names most favorably mentioned are Logan, Arthur, Blaine, Edmunds, and Lincoln, the latter very frequently for Vice President. GRANT. In Favor of John A. Logan. [Washington Telegram.] Senator Cullom has had an interview with Gen. Grant here, and says Grant in the most unqualified manner expressed himself in favor of the nomination of Gen. Logan.

A KANSAS LYNCHING.

Samuel Fryer, the Murderer of John Bennington and Wife, Hanged at Marysville by a Mob. [Marysville (Kan.) Dispatch.] Intense excitement has prevailed here for some days over the trial of Samuel Fryer for the murder of the Pennington family, which has been in progress here. Thursday evrn itig the jury returned a verdict of “Guilty,” and the prisoner was taken back to jail. It being expected that trouble would ensue, a strong guard was placet! around the jail, which is a flimsy concern. Last night twenty-five or thirty masked men rode up to the jail, took Fryer out, and, going to Spring Creek, a small stream half a mile from town, threw a rope over the boom of the bridge, and he was swung ofl Into eternity. When the rope was placed around his neck, he was asked if he had anything to say." He said, “Yes,” and proceeded’ to give a full, detailed account of the awful and cold-blooded murder of John Pennington and life wife, which he committed about the middle of February near Frankfort, Kan. It will be remembered that the victims were found dead in their barn several days after the murder. They had been robbed, and Mrs. Pennington had been assaulted in a most brutal manner and afterward killed by the inhuman brute, who paid the penalty of his crime last night at the hands of a m<*>. William Cline, of Westvili®, N. J., a few days ago killed a hog of Chester white breed, which, although only a lew months over 2 years old, weighed 1,040 pounds. It was considered the heaviest hog ever raised in New Jersey. According to Japanese custom, age is counted from the first day of the January succeeding birth. At that date a child is 1 year old, whether bom the previous January, at midsummer, or on the 31st Of December. A wild duck took a direction parallel to a locomotive leaving Tarfytown. and it was a close race for two miles, but just before reaching Irvington the bird forged ahead of the engine. A panther measuring ten feet from tip to tip and weighing 200 pounds was reported killed near .Hartland, Wash. Ter., recently. Benedict, M<l., has 100 Inhabitants, of whom seventy are sick with typhoid fever.