The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-08

breakers, went from his home in Pine Grove.
about the time of Mr.. Carpenters disappear
ance, and he, too, has not been heard from,
Near New Castle, where the Frankville mer-
cnant, Elias Tesher, disappeared somewhat
strangely, about a month since, various out
RACES have occurred, the latest victim In
bnao a y and dark spot
Coal and Iron Company. Serious
riots have transpircd at GirardviIle.
on the northern side of Broad Mountain.
one OF these happened on a Sabbath, be-
tween the Molly Maguires and "Sheet-Iron
Men"E rival outlaws organization. The
constabulsry and citizens of G~irardyille
turned out en- masse. aud, after a long and
desperate fight, in which a dozen persons on
Doth sides were injured, forced the rufians
from the ground. Last week another out
oreak OF a similar character took place at
l.annigsn's Patch, near Mahanoy City. One
OF the participants, an Irishman, was killed at
the time, while two others, wounded during
the Tray, have since died. AS Is customary
with the Mollles, all three were buried Sc
cretly, as Bishop Wood has issued stringent
oroers That none OF these malefactors shall
Do inferred In consecrated Catholic burning
grounds. During the past week Daniel
campbell was beaten to death at Tamaqua
Dy TWO unknown men. A miner named
Munro, While driving a Wagon in the vicinity
OF fremont was attacked by three men,
murdered, and left upon the ROAD. The
corpse was found Sunday morning. Miners
vile isgreatly excited over the commission of
A STRANGE MURDER.
The victim was secretly inferred, but. so far.
the Pottsville detectives have failed to gain
any clew, further than the fact of the cause.
Previous to these murders, Frank SheyIey
and Henry Fisher were murdered in the up-
per part of the region. The most strocious
ueed perpetrated IN Schuylklll county was
witnessed at Fishback, within the corporate
limits of POttsviile, the county seat. While
James Hunt, an industrious and lnoffen-
slve man, who had been to Pottsville with
his wife, making some purchases, on q
Saturday night. two weeks since, was re-
turning to his home at Mount Toffee, q
number of Mollies attacked him, and beat
his brains out with heavy stones. Mrs.
Hunt was bound and gagged to prevent her
giving alarm. Although this horrible tra0-
edy was contaminated within sight of the
county court house, no arrests have vet
been made. Centralia, which is known
as the "dark and bloody groundD
Of the middle coal fields, has been
the scene of numerous bloody dramas.
Hardly a day or night passes but what q
riot or fatal shooting or stabbing case oc-
ours. A short time ago a school teacher
censured a Molly Mcguire, and was shot.
For this, the would be murderer received a
"a thO NOuuNl tdlls CDOu
his liberation he again shot the teacher-this
time fatally. Since then the murderer was
shot dead by a relation of his victim.
THE VENDETTA Is STILL GOING ON,
and will doubtless not terminate until a
number of persons are killed. Old and in
nocent citizens are subjected to the greatest
outrages. Several were recently compelled
to leave the place because their lives had
been threatened through the agency of Ku-
Klu notices. Operators and mine bosses.
against whom the murderers have taken a
deep hatred. are meeting bloody and premA-
ture graves. All through the region this
same state of affairs exists, and but little at
tempt is made by the authorities to alter it.
The representative journals are depiOring
this sad condition of things, anG call
strongly upon the powers that be to take
prompt measures to arrest the rapidly grow
ing anarchy. TIE miners Journal. the lead
ing paper in the ~Schuylkill district, says it
looks as if the days of Pat Haster, the
BLOOD Tubs" and "Flour- Barrel Hotel -
a retreat where victims were decoyed and
slaughtered-were about to be returned to.
10 Luzerne county, an equal amount of law
lessness prevails murders, cruci6xions.
and outrages of women being perpetrated
on the principal t~horoughfares of the cities
and towns. No less than ten assassinations
have occurred in the Lsckawanna and
Wyoming districts in the past week.