The Press., 1886-07-22

building are progressing. One of the best of lots IS already secured, and there is considerable enthusiasm ill regard to 1t on the part of people from the state who are domiciled here The affair grows rapidly and has great future before it. I hope that as the years pass many Stafford peo- pie will avail themselves of it's grand op- portunltles. .tt T. H. J.
 The Chicago Lehr und Wehr Verein, of which the witness, Waller, in the anarchist trial was a member, and whose plottings against society he detailed to the jury, was organized in 1875, and on April 18th of that year was incorporated under the laws of the state. The incorporators were about thirty German and Bohemian social ists, whose object was to train and drill in military fashion and get ready for the great conflict between capital and labor which agitators have for many years de- clared was to come. The society attracted but little public notice until 1879, when the legislature passed the law creating the state militia and forbidding the formation of private military organizations without 8 license from the governor. The law caused a great deal of discussion among lawyers, many of whom believed it was in conflict with the United States militia act
 In December, 1879. the Lehr und Wehr ,Verein, then forty strong, paraded in the streets of Chicago, armed with rifles. At their head rode Herman Presser, work ingman and socialist, carrying 8 saber.
 Presser was arrested and was indicted un- der the new law because his company had refused to take out the required license
 In test case he was tried in the criminal court and fined BIO, and in both the state supreme court and the United States su-
 preme court the new law was sustained.
 The Lehr und Wehr Verein never paraded in public after that, and it was lost sight of, but the members never ceased to drill and own military weapons. During the six years they have increased greatly in numbers, and at the time of the Haymar- ket riot there were six groups in the city.
 "It has been no secret for years" said 8
 well known labor agitator, "that the Lehr und Wehr Verein were training to fight
 the police. They have drilled in their halls, and have steadily increased ill num-
 bers until there are probably two hundred or three hundred of them" . .a...
 They are socialists of the ultra type. Every socialist who is in favor of dynamite is among them. The most of them have served in the army in the old country, and hate government and law. The men who first formed the society were not dynamit- CTS, but they were men who believed that that the only way for working people to secure their rights was to fight. .
 Felix H. Sadlier went to the war with a Pennsylvan1a regiment and was reported killed shortly after he reached the front. His young wife removed east. The re- port of his death was not correct, and he turned up shortly after his wife had de- parted She had not been treated kindly by her husbands friends and left no ad- dress. The husband tried to trace her. but failed, and, as his money gave out, he went back to the army, counting death. After the war had ended he went to New York, and through small speculations at first his money increased until he had snug fortune. He purchased residence at Sladevllle, O., town near Columbus, and continued his Wall street business.
 Through detective he learned about 10 years ago that his wife had been mar ried to MT. Deming at Watertown, Mass. : about three years previous. MT. Sadlier was greatly unneryed at this information, but he resolved to hide his feeling and crush his longing for his wife and the child who had been born while he was in the south. Detectives watched the Dem ing family for MT. Sadlier, and reports were made to the broken hearted old man in Ohio. About two months ago MT. Deming died in Philadelphia, and two weeks ago the patient Mir. Sailier was made aware of the fact. He at once came east, and on Monday last he met the de- tective at Lowell. The pair went to a small house in Dracut, on the Lawrence road, where Mrs. Bennington Sadlier, was living.
 The detective did not witness the meet ing or the explanations, as he remained outside the house, but the coming togeth- CT, he says, was very dramatic. There had been born by the second husband two girls, now 10 and II years of age, and after the situation had been talked over for more than an hour they returned to Low ell. Purchases were made at Lowell stores during the afternoon, and last night they all went to Boston. The detective said that the mother and oldest daughter acted as if dazed, and at times it seemed that they would be prostrated as the terrible circumstances were unraveled. MT. Sad Her seemed 20 years younger, chatting with the members of his own family and entertaining the other two children in hundred different ways. The detective hlnted that he had been promised large pay for his services in the matter, MT, Cushing declined to say where the family would go. but said that they would com mence life anew in quarters where their past history would be unknown.
 Senator Platt's motion to postpone his resolution calling for open executive ses- sions of the senate does not mean that he has been won over to the star chamber idea. He explains that he moved post ponement because he is more concerned to secure favorable action on it than he is to get mere record of the senate. It could not get majority now, but the longer the senators think about it the more favorably they regard it. When it was first introduced there were not dozen senator's who indorsed it. Now there is large party ready to support it and Sena- tor Platt has no doubt about getting l clean majority in December. The press reaches conclusions more rapidly. The | eading newspapers of both parties came ;o the support of the resolution within a | few days after Senator Platt brought it | onward.
 Frank Hirth, Carl Simon and Anton Palm, anarchists, convicted of conspiring | Q burn the Milwaukee court house and of | netting people to deeds of violence, have been sentenced by Judge Sloan to nine