Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — Page 6

The Republican. Gxo. E. MjWusu au,, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - .INDIANA

The jail where the anarchists are confined was guarded, Thursday night, by about 50 policemen. It was learned that thia precaution w&s taken, because ( of a mass meeting by the anarchists at Battery D. oa that evening, and if there should be a collision between the police and “Reds" the latter conld not divert the affair to an assault on the jail. No trouble arose from the meeting, and the extra guard, therefore, so far i? known availed nothing. » • ,l Ex Covurkssman Ti’ckkk “tells the whole story of the put pose of the Mormons in seeking to secure the admission of Utah as a State when he siys that whatever constitution is row adopted by that Territory, condemning polyg amy, could be changed so as to reestablish polygamy the next day after such admission to the Union, and .Con- ' grass would be pokerless to interfere-in the matter. The only safe and practical way out of the difficulty, he urges, is to adopt a constitutional amendment making polygamy a crime, like treason, in all States and Territories, and investing Congress with authority to provide for its punishment through the Federal courts. _____________ It would be a strange combination of circumstances which would impel Turkey into an alliance with Russia against England. And yet some of the French newspapers haye already hinted at such a contingency, In this event Germany, Italy and Austria, with England as a special partner, would be opposed by Russia, Turkey, France, Denmark, Holland and Sweden and Norway. Of .course if war should out over any of the issues which are now threatening the Balkan Slates would probably take sides against Russia. But the magnitude of the interests which would be arrayed on each side in case of any such contest, as well as the tun. certainty of its outcome, is one of the strongest influences which tend toward a maintenance of peace.

» American inventive skill promises to make India a more formidable competitor to the American wheat-grower than it has thus fat been. India is handicapped in the race for supremacy in the world’s markets by the crudeness and cost of its transportation facilities. Its rolling stock has hitherto Deen largely obtained in Great Britain, and is not adapted to the uses to which it is applied. It is clumsy as well as expensive. The absence, too, of many of the labor-saving appliances which cheapen and expedite the work of handling the grain is seriously felt in India. There is some reason to believe, however, that a revolution in methods in this enterprise is about to beain. Americans have secured contracts for building railroad bridges in that country on the United States plan, and locomotives and cars of the American model are soon to be introduced. There is a hint also that grain elevators will be built next year. If, in addition to these changes, farm machinery like that employed on this side of the Atlantic should be obtained, India would become an important competitor of the great wheat exporting countries.

A QUEER TRANSACTION.

More Than •44,000 Paid Tor Rank Shares Worth Only *I,BOO. When C. W. Fonda,defaulting cashier of the St. Joseph National Bank, at Constantine, Mich., absconded, five years ago, he left ten shares of SIOO each in stock io cover an apparent deficiency. These the bank attached, and they were finally bid in for $1,600. Since then tw<f factions have arisen-in the bank, cul minating in the displacement of one under the leadership of C. W. Fonda, tor a long time president.by a faction under the leadership of C. H. Barry, jr., at the election last January. Recently Homer A.. Nash, hank examiner for Michigan, discovered these scares as illegally figuring in the assets of the bank and reported the fact to the Comptroller of the Currency. That functionary ordered their sale at public auction to the highest bidder. The sale took place on Saturday .and excitement at Constantine was at white beat. Possession of seven of these shares would give ths Fonda sac tien control, and at the sale a strusnrie took place for supremacy. The stock was worth SIBO per share. For rhe ■hares the ins bid, with Barry as spokesman, and the outs, represented by J . B Beburtz, went fl Better. This rivalry continued until SSOO was reached, when Mrs. Thorne took Barry’s place, marking $1 bids until she had bid fl 992, when ■he stopped, and Schur z raised her M ■nd took the first share at $1,993. In like manner the sale proceeded, the remaining shares selling at $2 099. $3 001 $3,141, $3,344 $3 501, <3 9X), $5060. $6,271. and $12,000 respectively. Barn capturing ti e last and retaining tsi presidency end control. These shares. wbrth only $l.B 0, sold for ~44 350

More Enrtuu't b^J r ore»|p» Lan<3»'if«. Word was received from Vob“e*je, Texas, Thursday night, that the CrossiMndand Cattle Company, a te-ree*-syndicate, had ordered 150 eeZ'Her- to get out of their immense pastures. The set iters wdl £*htthe proposed eviction

INDIANA LYNCH LAW.

Amar Graan, Mia® JUkMu’i Morderer, Take* from Jail and Hanged. A Mok of «OO Miukfil Maa the Delphi Jail »i>a Kroake the Leek* With ChUel and SHw*<e—Green Tnken Seven Mile* in the Country and Swnoc fryat a Limb. —T“ • About midnight, Friday night, a mob consisting of nearly two hundred men made an assault on the Carroll county jail, for the purpose of securing Amer Green, who was confined there awaiting trial foil the murder of Luella Babbitt. Green was brought to Delphi, Wednesday, from Michigan City penitentiary, where he had been placed for security against such an attack. There had been Ifttle fear of a mob, from the fact that those who would be most likely to undertake a lynching, lived in the. extreme Eastern part of the county and in Cass county, adjoining, and their prepniations were not known in Delphi. As a consequence, the sheriff - took no extra precautions to guard his prisoner, iind when the assault was made he had no one io assist him but one deputy. The mob first formed a line in the street surrounding the jail to guard against afiy interference from the out side. Then, without any demand upon the sheriff, they hammered in the wooden door leading into the residence part of the jail. About twenty men, with handkerchiefs over their faces and pistols in their hands, rushed in and demanded the keys to the jail proper. This was refused, and a man with sledge hammer and cold chisel began on the locks. Four locks were broken and the doors forced. The opening of the last door, by an automatic arrangement, opened the lock of the cell in which Green was confined, so that when thsy reached the cell they had only to swing open the door. The prisoner, who had. up to the time he heard the mob approaching, maintained the coolest demeanor, now began to cry and to beg. His cries wear piteous. In his desperation he wrenehed off a piece of waterpipe with which to defend himself, but four men made a dash and clutched his arms and throat so quickly that he was unable to do them any injury. He was then bound and hustled off into a covered wagon standingready. The mob, which had, by this time,gained a large number of recruits, then started south across Deer creek. The wagon was driven so fast that those on foot could hardly keep up with it. After crossing the bridge south of town, about seventy-five wagons, which were in waiting there, fell into procession, and all started for Walnut Grove, about seven miles east, and not far from where the murdered girl lived,

When the wagon with its victim arrived at Walnut Grove, two large fires had already been built, and illuminated the woods. There the leader of the mob told Green he must either produce Luella Mabbitt or die. He called for Mr. Mabbitt, and, standing face to face with him, stated that Luella was living with a man named Samuel Paine, at Fort Worth, Tex. He was asked why he had not produced her, and said his attorneys had advised him to the contrary. Convinced that he was lying, a rope was stretched around his neck by the mob and he was drawn under the tree. Green stood up on the seat -as ereet as a statue, his ’hands pinioned and the rope so tightly drawn that he Was almost choked. The crowd was as orderly as a sheriff's posse could have been had Amer Green been going to his death in' accordance with the mandates of the law. The wagon was about to be driven ahead, wh,en a correspondent, who had been a mute spectator, asked the doomed man: “Are you an innocent man?’’ “I am an innocent man.’’ “What is your last request?” continued the newspaper man. “That you inform my mother, send her my body and tell her I desire to be buried by the side of my sister in Ohio.” “At Hebron, Ohio?’’ ~7 “Yes” —but here the horses gave a lurch forward, and A mer Green was suspended between earth and sky. His body was cut down _at • o’clock Saturday morning, after it had been viewed by thousands. When the sheriff found that the mob was on him, his first move was to secure Win. Walker, who was in jail awaiting trial as an accomplice of Green’s. He was in the women’s department,, and was easily and quickly put into the cupola of the building, but the moo made no demand for him. The whole affair was . w-il planned and executed. One man., who used the sledge htmmer, was familiar with every detail of the locks and cells. Members of the mob had been in town ah day, but their purpose was not suspected until they were at work at night. Green’s crime was committed in Aug-u-t, 1886 when he abducted and is supposed to have murdered Luella Mabbitt, i a daughter of a wealthv farmer in the eas'eru part of Can-oil county. He fled t-itte West where he joined his brother, Bill G-een, who was also-a murderer And a fugitive from justice-,■ and both in Texaelast July. The articu *-rs of the cri ne have been pub-li-h<-d very extensively. . r t T T~l T I ’ Ar' V £ ’ a 1 I- r io Sht rijl Vangiwdy, of Carroil county, censuring him for not taking pitcautionary measures to prevent the

hanging of Amer Green by a mob. Mr. Vangundy has written a vigorous answer in hie own defense- He says that be had no apprehensions of a mob, and, that he did not think it necessary to take precautionary measures to prevent it. If the Governor knew there was danger of an outbreak, it was his duty to have communicated such information to him (the sheriff), or to call out the military to help the civil authorities preserve the peace. The letter continues, that from the best informati on obtainable, the mob wa’ made up of men living on the borders of Cass, Carroll and Howard counties, a neighborhood that had been infested with a gang of robbers and thieves known as the “Jap Choen Gang,” which some time ago was broken up. On this subject the sheriff says: '■The leader* and other members of the ga«g were convicted, after much expeura, and .'•ent to the state prison? and those who were uneonvicted seeing the fate of their Je> der, lied the Slate. Outrages Spon peaceaAle citizens ceased, and mill, women and children slept in conseioas security Bat on an *lll day,without thoreenmme’datiou oi ilitfjndge.the prosecuting attorney, or the jury time Hied him. and in, violation, i ani told, of the rules 01. yout predecessors, you pardoned rite leader ot ibis lawless band. Upon hit return a,so eame the.other outlaws who had lied, an.l agaia there was the former insecurity for life and property. Then it was that a vigi lance committee was formed among the best citizens for self-protection. But whether any of the members of this committee were engaged in the lynching ef'Greeu I am unable to say. People draw their own inferences. "Now. 1 am a plain man. but as you see fit to give mealecture eoneerulug my duties, perhaps it would not lie inappropriate for me to ask yen; with due respect if you consider your own otii cial ssiris entirely clear? Courts and juries discharge their duties, convict notorious criminals, giving security to the humble firesides of the land, and all their labor and expense go for naught when the Governor of this uobie State, with one stroke of the same pen wi h which ne presumes to lecture others concerning their duties, undoes the good wont.” . , This letter has caused considerable comment. Regarding its contents, Governor Gray Tuesday morning, in answer' to an inquiry, said:

It is not my intention to have any controversy with the sheriff in regard to his failure to take steps to protect the prisoner Green while in his custody. 1 did no, intend to enarge in my letter any intentional wrong on the part of the sheriff, but simply lack of vigilance, aud I think 1 was jitstified under the ilredm.stanees. The sheriff knew that the prisoner was guarded against mob violence while in the txigausport jail (not by the mililary, but by the sheriff aud his posse), and he also anew that the prisoner was sent to the State prison for protection against mob violence, and he further knew t at he was brought from the State prison to the jail at Delphi aud dilivered into bis custody. I was not aware that the prisoner bad been brought to Delphi until Tread an account of his being lynched by the mob The sheriff asks the question: That if I knew the facts as stated in my letter, why I did not call out the military?’ I am surmised that one occupying the position of sheriff does not snow that the Governor has no right to interfere with the administration of the civil law, except in cases where the law is over powered and the civil authorities call upon the Governor for assistance to enforce the same, and I am equally astonistjed that he does not know that unde, the law he is authorized to call out the militia himself for assistance, if such assistance is necessary. The facts-are, as I am informed, he did not have the jail guarded at all. I infer from his letter that he expected the mob to iiotify_him of its coming. He says that the borders of Carroll aud Cass counties are infested with agaugof robbers and thieves, and from that locality -he thinks the mob came, and it is reasonable to inler from his letter that Green was eotine- ted with the lawless gang. This js something 1 never heard of before, and, if true, is in ad'iiiioual reason why he should have been on his guard. He refers in his defense to my having pardoned one JapChoen. That pardon was granted w hen I was serving, out the unex pired term of Governor Williams." nearly eight vein s ago, and the p -rdon was recommended by some two bundr. d and. fifty of she best citizen’s of-Cass coiiniy and vieunty If I nimie a mistake in granting that pardon.: I am free to say that I d d not have th ■ experience then that I have nowiti the exercise of executive clemency, yet, if it was a mistake, I ean not see how the sheriff’can plead that as a ju tificatibpof his own dereliction of duty in his failure to protect the prisoner and uphold the law, as it was his swoah duty to do.”

Mr. Mabbitt, father of the murdered girl, testified Tuesday that he was not present at the hanging, and had not seen Amer Green since last Thursday—this in the face of the statement of a hundred people who saw him there, to the contrary; and thus it is impossible to get any testimony to implicate any one. Amor Gretn’i lulamuim Record. Delphi Letter. Green’s entire life was one of infamy. Scarcelv. a man or a family witbin a distance of five miles of his former home but had some personal grievance against him. He would cheat, lie and steal and was familiar with the entire calendar ot crime. He was feared bv every man in his neighborhood, and on numerous occasions, when arrested for some depredation, he forced men, through fear, to perjure themselves to acquit him. He would cail people up at all hours of the night to make some tyrannical demand of them, such as to go into the cellar and get him a glass of milk or other equally ridiculous thing. But no one ever dared to complain. He robbed nearly every man in theneighborhood, but to prosecute him or testify against him possibly meant to be flogged or have a barn burned or a horse poisoned. He was a member of what was once known as the Jap Choengangof thieves, which was broken up a few years ago when Choen was sent to the penitentiary. Prior to the Mabbitt sensation Amer Green’ had the reputation of being a shameless libertine. He had blighted the life ot a young eirl and taken refuge in cowardly flight" His victim afterward died, and the child never received any assistance from its fa’her. He hid also taken another young girl from the neighborhood and kept her imprisoned from hey parents for weeks before he allowed h<-r io return home, ruined. Bntlhe, latest and most ima nous dinclosure concerning his character is a record written by his own hand. But for this n<> one would havq. been able to form even a fair conception of his iniamv. It is a diary found in his trunk at Young Ameri a some time ago. which ;is now in • ossession of a man at that i place. In this diary he had kept a care- ; Hit record of his licentious conquests, l it covers a period of fifteen years, and I shows, according to his own computation that he has accomplished or aided in the rum of sixty three girls and marijied wonn-r . -"Hrthis--rimwts e had lived .m.-Careludw he npiedthe naoitfe of his victims, the cirenmstauees attending his conques s, and other incidents intended to recall to his polluted mind the days when he was

permitted to ream at will and blacken and poison all he touched. A reporter has talked With three men who have seen this list. It contains a large number of girls and women in the vicinity of Young America and Burlington., Some are from Watseka, 111. Many of them are now, and props’dy were at the time of their association with Green, recognized as loose characters, but many of them are women who never before have been suspected. „ Tears ago a new church was built near Green’s home, and pine shingles hauled fiom Logansport to roof it. At the same time Amer was building a new stable. The next morning Amer was shingling his stable and shingles at the church weremiseing.'The wagon tracks told the story, but the church people were afraid to move on him.lest he burn their building and otherwise injure the members of the church. Several years ago he was arrested for stealing two valuable lap-robes from a sleigh at the church, an officer searching Green’s house and finding them both in the garret. When the case came to trial he produced’witnesses who swore that, they were with him when he found the robes in a fence corner. . While riding home from a dance with a companion he said he would relish a glass of milk. He rode up to a farm house and aroused the farmer, who asked what was wanted: “I want a glans of milk,” said Green. The farmer protested, and was on the point of retiring when the fellow said: “I’m Amer Green, and, by , if you don’t get up and serve me with milk I’ll remember you.” The farmer served him with milk. He had a number of horses on his place and always had a surplus of harness, yet no harness maker in that section of the country ever made him a set of harness. He stole a kit of carpenter’s tools from a man in Logansport and they were found in his possession. brought witnesses who swore they were with him when he bought them in Kokomo. The night he murdered Luella Mabbitt the buggy in his possession belonged to on® man, the horse to another and the harness to a third.

With all his villainy and scoundrelism he could pose as a polished gentleman, and his influence over women was most remarkable. About four years ago Green made the acquaintance of Luella Mabbitt. After that they were in each other’s company frequently and were soon engaged to be married. Time and again they quarreled and made up again. At length Green was arrested for chicken-stealing and put in jail at Logansport, and Luella broke theengagement Time and again he attempted to renew it and failed. The afternoon of the night he went away with her he announced to an acquaintance that he.would either renew the engagement or kill her. That night he called at her house, and called her from her bed. Her sister and William Walker left them alone and strolled up the road. When they returned Green and Luella had gone, and the girl was never seen alive again. The finding of her bloody clothing. Green’s flight, and the discovery and identification of the body in the river at Lafayette told the story of her cruel murder. The wonder is that years ago Green did not fall before the anger of the scores of people he had outraged.

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

Two of Tliem Occur in rhe South, Injuring Many People. A freight train from-Spartensburg and a passenger train from Atlanta collided at Grier’s, twelve miles East of Greenville, S. C., Thursday morning. Two persons were killed and the number injured is variously estimated at from three to ten, some of whom will die. The collision occurred three miles West of Grier’s and was caused by the freight train not side-tracking at Grier’s to let the passenger train pass. The passenger train consisted of nine coaches. Both engines were wrecked, also the postal, baggage and express cars of the passenger train and the first three cars of the freight. Engineer Harris and conductor Reville, of the freight train disappeared. A negro saw them running through the woods. The engineer of the passenger train was one of the two instantly killed. About noon Thursday, the fast express on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was wrecked twelve miles below Charleston, W. Va., by a defective switch. Twenty-six persons were injured. None were killed outright, but Several were severely hurt. Report of the Comptroller of the Treasury. The First Comptroller of the Treasury has made to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the work of his bureau tor the fiscal year ended June 30 last, in which he recommends that Congress legislate especially on the assignment of claims against the United States; that United States District Attorneys, Marshals and Clerks be paid sa’aries, and that fees shah be abolished; that a maximum be fixed to the amount of compensation of United States Commissioners, and that each Commissioner be required, in issuing warrants for the arrest of persons charged with any offense to make such warrants returnable either before himself or some other Commissioner, so that a return may be made before the Commissioner located nearest to the residence of the party arrested; thus saving large amounts to the government and preventing injustice being done to the accused, and perhaps innocent persons, by taking them long distances from their homes. He also urges the passage of a law limiting the time within which claims against the United States may be presented, reserving the rights of persons laboring under some legal disability. The Comptroller, reports that most of. the old back work has been disposed of. and that the current business of the bureau is well in hand. ~~7 Boldßen ‘Butjer."? " Ban Bufler has been retained attorney for the anarchists before the United States supreme court for a retainer of $6,500 and $250 a day.

SOLDIER SENTIMENT.

It ia Not Against the South, but Against the Present Disloyal Democratic Atlministrration Whtch Has Taken Pams to Wantonly Insult and Degrade Union Soldiers. Chisago tu Ur Qcssn. . A good many very excellent people are concerning themselves about the drift of what they please to cAll the soldier sentiment of the country. The fear is expressed that the ex-soldiers of tne Union army are feeling more bitterly now against the South than they did fifteen years ago, and that the tendency^ 1 of those who belong to the Grand Army of the Republic is toward a lower level of bitternsss and hostility that ia likely to engender a war feeling. -’Attention is called to the fact that soldiers, when gathered at reunions and encampments, speak more freely and more excitedly on political topics’than they did ten and fifteen years ago, and the conclusion is that the meddling of politicians has developed an unpatriotic sentiment' of hatred toward the Southern people, and tnat, while the South is feeling less bitterly toward the South every day, the soldiers of the North are feeling more bitteriy toward the South as ths years go by.

There could not be a greater misconception of soldier character, or a more misleading interpretation of soldier sentiment. Soldiers are speaking more resentfully, it may be, than when the National administration was in th® hands of the Republicans, but he is deaf and blind who fancies this sentiment is against the South. We venture to say that of a hundred resentful speeches made be soldiers not halfa dozen exhibit any feeling toward the South. The resentment whether justified or not, is against a Democratic administration . that has taken pains to wantonly insult and to degrade or humiliate or embarrass the ex soldiers of the Union army. The Southern people not the ex-Confederates are responsible for this growing resentment. They are not the objects of it, and they are only concerned in its manifestation so far as it aids their own cause. The use that they are making of it leaves open the inference that they are taking advantage of it simply as a political engine or force. They do not even resent its manifestation, but speak of it gleefully and exultingly with intent to turn the tables on the men who fought against them. They understand that this new hostily of the soldieris toward a President elected by the aid of mugwump votes, and it is very plain that they enjoy the situation and are disposed to make the most of it.

The question of responsibility for this, growing hostility of the soldier element towards the Democratic administration can easily be fixed. It has been fixed, and the question at issue is not between the Northern and Southern people, not between the Union -soldiers and exConfederates, but between a Northern man elected by aid of Southern votes to the Presidency and the soldiers and their friends. The issue is between the soldiers who fought the battles of the Union and the administration that is endeavoring to turn back the wheels of progress and to undo the work of the Union armies. The issue will be fought out without engendering any war feeling and without exciting any new hostility toward the Southern people. As to the main point or as to the fear expressed by these gentlemen that the; soldier organizations are cultivating a war feeling it may be said thst the very opposite iff true. The men who bore their full part in the fiercest battles of the war or who went through the long and tedious campaigns are the men to desire or encourageanother war They know something of the disappointments and the trials and the privations of army life, and they are disinclined to tolerate anything that would precipitate another war. This is so patent a fact that it can not escape the observation of any one inclined, to investigation. Instead of there being -a growing hostility among the Northern soldiers to tne ex-Confederates, the very opposite is true. Wherever opportunity offers the ex-soldiers of the Union army and the men against whom they fought come together in a spirit akin to Wherever exConfederate soldiers are located in the North they have the fullest measure of respect. They express themselves free ly, they keep up their organizations, they establish close business relations with ex Union soldiers, and they never experiencffinconvenience, hostility, or ostracism in the North. They are making their way here in Chicago, in Nebraska, in Kansas withot any one questioning their record as ex-Confederates and withouranyone attempting to supervise their political action. When exConfederates find Unionists come together in reunions, or in incidental gatherings, or on Decoration Day they certainly act toward each other with the profoundest respect, manifesting soldierly sytnpa'hv that must be touching to even the«most cynical. This feeling is growing, and it will continue to grow. There is less disposition on the part t>f Southern pipers to,speak contemptuously of the veterans of the Union army than there is on the part cf the Copperhead or-Bi-rurbon shee 3 in the North, and it must be remembered all the time that the growing hostility of the Northern soldiers is toward the

Damocratic intriguers and meddlers who haVe tried drive them Into the support of thb administration. There never wag in poUtica a more. idiqtiiic~~ scheme than this, and that it has been rebuked both North and South is evi-Jk-n/je of the common sense and patriotism of the ; people.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Chicago press is busy discussing the situation of the sewing woman, and sttggesiing all manner of remedies for the exactions of employers. The task is a fruitless one. Any relief which the press can®bring about must, in the natjire of things. be purely tentative. The women should organize for self protection. The brethren ’’of the labor organizations should? make common cause with them, and back them up in their revolts against gieed and extortion. When the dollar ont-ranks consideration of humaniry.employersshouldbemadeto feel that what the law does not and can not do, public opinion and the concerted action of their employs can and will do.—St. Paul Dispatch.

The fact that there is some fear among certain classes of business men of the occurrence of a panic next year or the year after is a good indication that it will not take place so soon. This fear has already produced one good result in curtailing land speculation, shortening the duration of business credits, and curtailing loans by banking institutions except upon the bes; of security. Heretofore panics have come without warning, and there are many reasons for believing that this will be the case, to a large extent, in the future. In thiri particular sense the expected seldom happens.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is to be feared that the anarchists will not be confined much longer to the North and West. They are beginning to show their heads here and there in the South. During the session of the State convention of the United Labor party at Birmingham the other day, one of the speakers boldly eulogized the condemned Chicago anaichists as heroes and martyrs, and urged the raising of a fund to aid them in escaping the sentence of the law. Of course this kind of talk seals the fate of the United Labor party in Alabama, if its members take any stock in it.—Atlanta Constitution.

All over the country there is a disposition to sink party prejudice in the selection of municipal officials. People are finding out that the man who gives the best promise of keepins: the streets clean and honestly administering local government makes a far better Mayor than the one who knows everything aho ut the surplus and tariff ielorm but nothing about the concerns of his own particular bailiwick.—Brooklyn Eaglo. It would be interesting to have Mr. Powderly or anybody else to take a list of the present members as the United States Senate and point out the member who were elected by railroad or National bank influence. It would be found that, instead of a majority, .only at most an insignificant minority were elected by such influence.—New York Sun. The Indiana “White Caps” might make themselves more popular if they could turn their attention to the management of the Chicago and Atlantic railroad, on which the recent unpardonable collision occurred.—Louisville CourierJournal. Starvation tn Labrador. Reports of dire distress are again come from Labrador. „ Two families have just reached Montreal and tell a pitiful story of the condition of the people. They say the people are in a state pf semi-starvation. They are slaves of dealers who never allow them to see a shilling, well-knowing that if they could secure money the people would fly from the land as from a pestilence. They are paid for their fish in goods and clothes, and have to pay three prices for everything. season 01 labor lasts but three months, and their wages will little more than sustain them during that period. A Big Fire. A fire broke out Saturday night in the Woolman-Todd wholesale boot and shoe store, 412 Washington avenue, St. Louis, and before it was subdued ithad extended to John Martin & Co.’s wholesale clothing house, Scarrett & Mitchell furnitures companies’ stores, Leonard Roose’s furrier establishment, and A. Weiss & Co’s cloak factory. TLe total loss is $500,003, with insurance of about one-half.. Warfare in the Kuightg. Charles F. Siek, Secretary of the provisional committee appointed at Chicago by the anti-Powderly Knights of Labor, has issued a circulartothe members at. large, making twenty charges against the executive board, mostly of increased expenses and luxurious habits, coupled with arbitrary and unsatisfactory methods of doing business. Luokiug for Job-. The swallowing of the B & 0. by the Western Union is hard on the telegraph operators Over 2.000 of them were notified Wednesday that their services were no loneeT rpq”tr-» —The Bureau, of .8 latisiics estimatea this year’s wool crop at S7O 000,000 in value; number of sheep 40,000,000, aa increase of 5.000,000, .