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

THEIR TERRIBLE REIGN OF BLOOD AND TER
MURDERs COMMITTED WITHIN
ONE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., MURDER AND
RAPE OF DAILY OCCURRENCE.
A correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune,
writing from Central Pennsylvania, gives
the following statement of the horrible flood
of crime which at present overspreads the
mining regions of the state: A short time
ago the leading Catholic clergymen of
Schuylkill county sharply rebukei the
criminal doings of the Molly Msguires,
the organized outlaws who have for
some years infested the anthracite
coal regions of Pennsylvania. Imme-
diately subsequent to these clergy
Frederic Wood, bishop of the diocese of
Philadelphia, published a lengthy state
ment, also condemning the lawless secret
society. The Molly Maguires, becoming
thoroughly enraged at this action OF the
priests, at once commenced to perpetrate ter
rible and ssnguinary outrages. Shamokin,
formerly the home of Pat. Haster,
"King of the Molly Maguires," was first
made the center Corporations. Inoendiarism
was quite frequent for a time, much valua-
BILE property being destroyed. But the Mol
lies were not satisfied with this, and origi-
mated the work of murder. One morning
Mr.. Ignatius Deideman, a well known coal
operator, was discovered near a "breaker."
terribly stabbed and in a dying condition.
He was unable to describe his murderer
or murderess; and thus no one was arrested
for the crime. Soon after John Bowers, an
employe in a mill at Tamenend, was.found
in the mill race. When the corpse was
taken from the water, gaping wounds were
detected upon it. Bowers had been muir
dered, and thrown into the race
to cover the crime. Not long
afterwards several corpses, so d~isfgured
as to be unacceptable, were found
in the Susquehanna River. Then following
Thomas Closes assassination at HELEN
stein. The Molly Mcguire, John Luescher,
was arrested, and is now awaiting trial in
the Northumberland county Jail, at Sun
bury, where Mike Smith and Mlchael Cal
lager, two notorious Mollies, are also lam
gushing. 1t is stated that these parties,
with the assistance of their king" Pat
Haster, have
MURDERED NO LESS THAN TWENTY PERSONS.
1t was only a week. later that Chief of
Police Simon II. Clowser was fatally shot, at
Hazelton, by Frederick Lapp, who is now
serving cut a short Imprisonment. Ma
hanoy City, long recognized as the retreat OF
the desperadoes, was the mex theater OF a
terrible tragedy. The Mollies, determining
on a grand revolt, started several fires in vari-
Gus parts of the town. While the c%onflagTa-
ton was destroying the surrounding prop
erty a riot was commenced. For some time
the conflict was fearful. Finally the citi-
zens~ conquered the Mollies, but not until
Chief Burgess George Major received his
death wound from a pistol fired by Dan.
Dougherty, who headed the assaulting
party. Dougherty was arrested and locked
up in a hotel, about which a powerful guard
was posted. The greatest excitement existed
in Mabanoy, as it became whispered around
that the murderer's friends would storm the
town and free him. The county authorities
were tel~egraphed to, and a posse OF
officers, accompanied by a company OF
troops from Shamokin, arrived. Dougherty
was manacled, put aboard a special train,
and in a little while, safely lodged in the
Pottsville Jail. Since that time the Mollies
have INDUCED in numerous riotous demon
STATIONS, the latest being on Saturday, Sun
day and Monday nights last. In all these
outbreaks, persons are wounded. The
trouble is not over yet. Father Maus, who
made himself conspicuous by rebukiDg these
disgraceful proceedings, has been the
recipient of a notice to leave the
town. Others have had mis-
sives, illustrated with skulls, cross-bones,
collins, pistols, knives and similar diabol-
cal designs, sent them, and threatening
death if any further reflections are cast up
on the organization. A telegraphic opera
tor, employed by the Philadelphia d Read
ing Railroad Company, who had sent a dis
patch of the lawless transactions, for some
one, to a Pottsville paper, was visited by the
gang, and only escaped with his life by
telling the Infatuated wretches that he
would take no more such dispatches. DIR.
Carpenter, for some time a resident OF
Mahanoy Plane, made himself to
the Mollies. He recently
A DISAPPEARED
The supposition is that he is murdered.
Elias Yoder, another enemy of the law !