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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
The Cruel Work of Monopoly.


There appears to be no depth to which
the Journal will not descend to screen the
millionaire coal operators OF Clay county
in their attempts to starve the miners into
submission The article printed Thurs
day, signed W. A. W., is tissue Of the
hoods ever put into print. w. A. W. tells
of miners who, he says, earned as high as
$50, $40 and even $50 a week during the
last year. There is no miner on earth,
working all his waking hours from weeks
end to weeks end, who could earn such
Clay county for several years past, and the
Journal knows it. The men have worked
not from choice, but from necessity
less than half time for the past
twenty months, and during that period
have not averaged as much as s. a week.
A large proportion of their earnings has
been stolen from them by the robbing
screen system-a method OF plundering
labor compared with which the practices
OF the highway-slugger are highly re-
spectacle. The rent of company houses,
and the pluck-me stores, carried on in
violation of law, have absorbed most OF
the remainder. Meantime the operators,
who claim that they have not been max
ing any money in Clay county, have been
revelling in splendor and luxury in Chi
cago.
The condition of affairs in Clay county
is blot upon American civiliza-
ton. Nearly six thousand pow
erty-stricken people in single
county, where no calamity has occurred to
cause restitution, focking to relief stations
to draw a dole OF corn meal or an ounce
or two of bacon, supplied by public char
itv, is a spectacle which no humane person
can contemplate without feelings of pro-
found sadness. Even more pitiable is the
spectacle presented by the public journal
which uses its columns to aggravate the
sufferings of these poor people, and to
discourage the public from coming to
their assistance. This is done, of course,
in order to facilitate the program OF the
coal monopoly, which is to literally starve
the miners into submission.
There is restitution and suffering
plenty of tin Clay county. Hundreds
of little children are going to bed hungry
every night Hundreds of women
sad-faced, weary, overworked, pre-
maturely old-are without food except
the scanty morsels served them by the
charity whose sources the indianapolis
Journal is trying to dry up. Hundreds of
men, able, willing and anxious to work,
are denied the opportunity to do so, except
upon terms that mean a condition worse
than slavery. The humane, Christian
people of Indiana ought to come to the as
sistance OF these unfortunate people in
their unequal struggle with the brutal
greed of corporate wealth. They ought to
see that their actual necessities are sup
piled until the coal companies are willing
to treat them as human beings.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN KNOX.
AwIFs MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND.
Seth Murray, After Killing His Spouse,
Commits Suicide With Prusssic Acid
The Details of Two Horrible
Crimes Near Vincennes.

NINcENNEs, Ind, June l2.-Especial. +
A horrible murder, eliminating in the
suicide of the murderer, occurred this
morning on farm four miles below the
city. Seth Murray, aged fifty-two, and his
wife, aged fifty-four, after partaking of
breakfast, INDUCED in periodical quarrel
to which their five sons and two daugh-
tiers paid but little attention. After leav-
ing the table the boys went to the fields,
and the girls proceeded with their usual
household duties. Mrs. Murray went into
the smoke-house to skim milk, and when
about to emerge therefrom with 8
crock of tactical fluid in her hands
she was fired upon by her hus-
band, who emptied the contents of
a single-barreled breech- loading shotgun
into her abdomen. The woman reeled
and fell prone to the floor, and while in
this position the irste husband rushed in
and Selling a corn-knife dealt her terrific
blow, almost severing her head from her
body. The oldest son, hearing the report
of the gun, fastened to the house and ar
rived just in time to prevent his father
from killing his the sons wife with the
bloody cudgel he had in his hand The
son and daughter-in-law then carried the.
lifeless body of their mother into the
house. While they were thus engaged.
the murderous father ran a distance Of
100 yards and digging from the ground
phial of prussic acid that he had secreted
at the root of a tree. drained its contents
4 half hour later a member of the family.
hearing his agonizing grosns, was attracted
to the spot where the old man lay. Aid
was summoned promptly and the husband
was conveyed to the house a corpse.
The report of the tragedy created the
utmost excitement. and the first conclu-
sion was that jealousy prompted it, but
the most diligent inquiry failed to disclose
any such motive The coroner's investi-
CATION, which was very thorough, did not
elicit the least bit of information touching
on the direct cause of the dreadful crime.
Members of the family and neighbors
testified that their father was mentally
sound and had no occasion to be jealous
of his wife, also that he had not been
drinking. The only satisfactory theory
advanced is that he was driven to the deed
by rage acquired in the quarrel with his
wife
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
..The Loot of the Mail Service"


The decentralization of the postal service
is not confined alone to Indiana. In this
state the service has been abominable for
the past sixty days. The most stupid and
amazing blunders have been committed
almost daily by the political bummers who
have been installed in our city postofice
or put in charge of the mail cars running
in and out of indianapolis. 1t has re-
Gently taken from four to six DAYS for In
dianapolis newspapers to reach Monticello,
distance of fifty miles or so. Letters ad
dressed TO well-known citizens, long estab-
lished in business, whose names appear
in display letters in the city directory,
have been returned to the senders be-
cause the addresses could not be found, 5"
or have been forwarded TO Cincinnati, and
sent back from there, finally reaching the
persons for whom they were intended.
Letters have been sent out from the Indi-
annapolis Office within the past few days,
postmarked "Aug. 81, 1889" Route agents
have come in from their runs with their
work only half done, and the efficient and
experienced men who had been displaced
to make room for them have been called
upon to finish it. These are few illustra-
tions OF the manner in which the postal
service in Indiana is being carried on by
the BILLY" Pattersons, and the Marshal
Woods, the Bsgbys, Hamlins and Moores-
whom the administration "of many
prayers" has installed in this most import,
ant department.
1t appears to be the same way all over
the country. Reports of missent and de-
layed letters and newspapers come from
ali quarters A republican, who is men,
Der of the Boston scientific society, writes
to the Herald of that city that some of his
letters apparently miscarry, as he can get
no answers to them, and that it took him
three days to hear from an adjacent point
in New Hampshire. The New York Times
prints a communication which shows that
letter was mailed in New York, May 81,
at 6 p. M, and was not received in Boston
| until June 5 at p. m. The st. Louis Re
public mentions several cases where letters
mailed in that city and plainly directed to
places in Missouri were sent on circuitous
routes, one occupying twelve days in its
transit. The New York Aqe, republican
paper conducted by colored men, has had
within month more than five hundred
complaints from subscribers in all parts OF
the country of failure to receive the Age.
But what else was to be expected?
| Hundreds of the most efficient and COM
petent men in the mail service have not
only been removed, but to great extent
their places have been filled by former
employees, who had been discharged for
incompetency or neglect of duty, such as
| PAUL NANDERvooRT of Omaha, who was
dismissed by P. NJ. Gen. GRESHAM for in
subordination and for absence from his
post 265 days in the year. 1t would be
idle to look for decent service under such
circumstances as these.
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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 49, 1889
spired organ. In speaking of the white

spired organ. In speaking of the white
house apology, it says:
The journal has already expressed itself
plainly in the matter and has nothing to take
back. When a party or its representatives
make mistake, it does not follow as a matter
of course that honest party newspapers must
justify their action and try 10 make the worse
appear the betters reason" 1t was great
mistake to appoint ZIMMERMAN over Mrs. De
La HUNT, and time will prove it. The friends
OF the latter hare papers the constituting
complete record that toiU be s1oTfh ten thousand
C0tes IN this state TO the democracy an The hands
or s1,ch drffid politicians as Gray and Voorhees,.
That record an the case of close national con-
tes tcOtd be sufficient TO turn the scale and elect
democratic president WE HAVE READ THE
PAPERS AND KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT. They 1cOutd turn the scale eUen IN III
nOiS IN the hands OF such nldllG Gen. Palmer.
The democratic party could rel afford TO buy
these papers regardless Of expense.
The best thing that the administration can
do is to make reparation for this mistake the
best way IL can. The men responsible for it
and there others besides Mr.. POSEY-will
have lively time during the next political
campaign in explaining their action. Some of
them are aspirants for high elective positions
in this state. The best thing they can do is to
repair this great wrong before the excitement
of a close political contest commences.
These remarks lend piquancy and zest
to the evidently inspired intimation in the
always inspired organ that
"H IS not unlikely that something may yet be
done for her," Mrs DE LA Hunt
Certainly not Something will of course
be done for Mrs De LA Hunt. And it
will he done quickly-very quickly. Those
papers, you know
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
SEATTLE'S BURNT DISTRICT.
The Work of Clearing Away the Debri
Begun in Earnest.


Begun in Earnest.
SEATTLE, w T., June 12.-The work of
clearing away the debris in the burnt dis
trict began yesterday in earnest. All the
contents OF the vaults of the various
banks have been found to be in perfect
order. Telegraph. telephone and electric
light wires are being rapidly replaced.
The telephone system will be in operation
in few days and the electric light in
few weeks. The water works are already
in operation. Railroad and steamboat
transportation has hardly been interrupted
by the conhagration, though considerable
inconvenience has been experienced by
both in landing passengers. Business
houses are finding locations in tents and
temporary structures. Schools have
started up again and all the churches, ex-
cept the Trinity episcopalian and the
methodist protestant held services as
usual Sunday. The daily newspapers are
all issuing as usual. Offers of aid con-
tinue to pour in, together with much
money and more provisions. No state
ment of the losses can be made more ac-
curate than that already given. The loss
is placed at SIS, 100000 and this, it is be-
lieyed, will be found to be good estimate.
Contributions of cash now aggregate
c2e 500
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19

comforts Of life, or to give their children
the opportunities which belong, as a mat
ter OF eternal justice, to every human be-
ing. Meantime, the employers-masters
is the better word-of these unfortunates
live In palaces; are surrounded with
every luxury; deny themselves nothing
that money will buy; and some of them,
the while, pose as Christians. And their
newspaper organ coolly tells the victims of
their rapacity and cruelty that they will
have to take their chances" that they
'can hardly expect to get the old [starva-
tionl wages"
It's the old, old story of mans inhu-
mainly to man. But there is GoD in
heaven and there is a future. Human
flesh and blood will not always be held so
cheap.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
Prohibition I'm Kansas.

The prohibitionists are very emphatic
in their claims that prohibition has
proved an unqualified success in Kansas.
There is good deal of testimony to the
contrary, however. Judge WIDAMAN, the
probate Judge of Comanche county, tells
the Voice prohibition organ, that prohibit
ton has closed reputable drinking places,
but has increased the number of dives,
the number of drunkards and the rate of
taxation" Mr.. =. p. WAGGoYER, the
leader of the Atchison bar, general coun-
sci for the Missouri Pacific railroad, and
one of the few democrats who voted for
and advocated prohibition, says:
lam now convinced that it is failure. 1t is
impracticabe in cities, and has done a great
deal to retard business and immigration. 1t
builds up a system OF spies, OF joints and OF
general hypocrisy, all of which are bad for the
community. Prohibition in Kansas is really
what has given such boom to Kansas City, in
Missouri. 1t drove ont of this state good
many wholesale dealers and others who went
to that city and began to boom it. The result
is that 1T has now grown far beyond any place
in Kansas and no city in the state can hope 70
rival it. Then, too, prohibition has deprecated
values here. A good many people who don't
believe in such laws, but who are orderly and
law observing have moved away preferring to
to go to other cities where there is no such re-
striction on their liberty.
Mayor KELSEY of Atchison, q repub-
can, says: where it has hurt business it
has not stopped drunkenness. 1t is said
that Atchison has been at stand-still
ever since prohibition was adopted. eight
years ago. Stores which formerly rented
for 81 900 year are now idle because the
owners cannot get 5000 for them, and local
sentiment lays the blame chiefly to prohi-
bition.
II is not strange that other states are
reluctant to try for themselves the expert
ment which seems to have produced such
results in Kansas.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
Mrs. De La Hunts Case.

Itisthe expressed opinion of the inspired
organ that "the explanation in regard to
the Cannelton postoffice completely ex-
onerates the president in that matter, and
should put stop to all unfavorable criti-
cism." That is rich, indeed; but what
follows is good deal richer. Thus:
This is the case of the soldiers widow, Mrs.
De Ia HUNT. 1rh0se Temogat by President
UeUelGnf 1cdS serere'g commented on bu Gen.
Harrison IN q speech made IN the senate IN TIE
summer Of 1855. Being an applicant for reap
pOintment under this administration. she and
her friends naturally expected that President
HARRISON would restore her to the position
from which she had been uniustly removed.
The appointment Of another applicant a Mr.
ZTMMERMAN, was surprise to Mrs. DE LA
HUNT and her friends, and has been made the
cause of severe criticism of the president by
democratic papers. Upon its face, and ia Uielc
OF Gen. HGrTiSon's speech IN the senate, the
failure TO appoint Mrs De LA HUNT did look
strange, but the explanation now given TO the
public is perfectly frank and satisfactory.
The inspired organ proceeds to explain
that "out of about 5000 postoffices, about
5000 are called presidential offices, while
the rest, some $4,000, are called fourth
class The president may, of course, APP
point any fourth-class postmaster, but he
very seldom does. The commissions of
fourth-class postmasters are not even
signed by the president. They are signed
and forwarded by the postmaster-general,
and never come before the president at
any stage of the proceeding, unless for
some special reason some particular case
is brought before him."
This stuff carries it's own commentary.
In so far, if at all, as it exonerates President
HARRISON from responsibility for the fail
ure to appoint Mrs. DE LA HUNT, it con-
dennis Senator HARRISON for attacking Mr..
CLEVELAND in the senate for not retaining
Mrs. De La HUNT. II President CLEvE-
LAND was responsible in that case, Presi-
dent HARRISON is responsible now II
President HARRISON is not responsible
now, President CLEVELAND was not re-
sponsible then, and it was indecent for
Senator HARRISON to attack him.
The INSPIRED organ" wants people to
believe that ''the president HARRISON was
under the impression that Cannelton was
a presidential Office" Everybody of
course knows Detter imam tnls. Iannel-
ton is in the presidents own state, and
there is nothing BENJAMIN HARRISON has
kept such close track OF during his entire
political career as the Indiana postoffices.
And as to this particular Office he must
have been especially well informed, in
view of his investigation three years ago,
resulting in the great speech" in which
he described the case of Mrs De LA HUNT
as infinitely full of pathos and indigna-
ton" (?). The infinite pathos and indig-
nation are now relieved by good deal Of
humor.
The Evansville JoUrn0i-the ablest and
decentest republican newspaper in In
diana-takes a very different view OF this
Cannelton business than that of the in
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
GAVIN S. eRIcE ELECTED
To Be Chairman of the National Demo
cratic Communicative New Members

cratic Communicative New Members
NEW York, June I2.-This morning the
corridors of the Fifth-ave. hotel were
crowded with democratic politicians from
all parts of the country. At noon
the democratic national COMMITTEES
was called to order for the.
first time since the death of Mr.. Barnum.
The members of the committee, who have
been in town several days, were rein
forced last night by number of others,
while the morning trains brought
the number present almost up to
the total membership. The business of
the committee to-day was to take action
upon the death OF William II. Barnum,
its chairman, and the election of his sue
cessor. Other business OF Importance
transacted was the seating of two new
members of the national committee, one
from Connecticut, in place of Mr.. Bar
mum, and one from South Gasoline. in
place OF Col Dawson, and the election of
q member OF the executive committee IN
place of the latter.
Shortly after noon the committee was
called to order and Carlos French pre-
scented resolutions expressing regret at the
death of William II. Barnum, eulogizing
the deceased as a citizen and statesman,
and for his fidelity, liberality, impartislity,
sound judgment, tireless energy and acute
penetration into the causes of political re-
suits.
Senator German spoke at length upon
the good qualities of the departed leader
and the resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
Secy. of the Committee S P. Sherrin of
Indiana then made an address on the death
OF Capt Francis W. Dawson Of South Caro-
lima, in which he paid high tribute TO his
worth and memory and briefly reviewed
his life. He also presented resolutions
testifving to regret at his death and the
high esteem in which he was held by the
committee of which he was a member.
These were also adopted unanimously.
The nomination of Calvin s. Brice to be
chairman of the committee was then
made by Judge McHenry of Kentucky
and was seconded by Senator German.
He was unanimously elected. The other
business of the meeting was the accept
ance of Carlos French as Connecticut's
representative and ID. NJ. Haskell for South
Carolina.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
RUN DOWN BY a TRAIN.
Frightful Accident in Canton, O..-Four
Persons Instantly Killed.

CANTON, O., June Pat noon to-day
the west-bound limited express on
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q
Chicago railroad ran down a
horse and buggy containing Lawrence and
Peter Streb, brothers, and two boys,
brothers, Edward and Frank Sefert. The
two Strebs and one of the bows were in
stantly killed and their lifeless bodies
flung distance of thirty feet forward at
the side of the track. The heads of
all three were crushed beyond recognition
and their bodies badly mangled. The
other boy suffered like injuries, but lived
about half an hour without gaining con-
seriousness. The horse was killed, and,
with the buggy, thrown distance of 100
feet Lawrence Streb was Canton mer-
chant, and Peter Streb a wealthy farmer.
Both were middle-aged and married, but
neither had a son. Recently they decided
that each should adopt boy from the
catholic orphan asylum at Louisville.
They did so this morning taking the two
Sefert boys, and were on their way home
with their adopted sons when the awful
fatality overlook them. The place where
the accident occurred is a grade crossing
in the middle of the town. Residents say
the train was running at from forty to
fifty miles an hour.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19

AT the meeting of the national demo-
cratic committee on Wednesday general
interchange of opinions on the political
outlook took place. The great majority
expressed themselves as heartily in favor
OF carrying on the fight in behalf of tariff
reform, which Mr.. CLEVELAND began and
led in 1888. They believe we can win on
that issue in 1892, and they do not pro-
pose to weaken in any degree. As to who
will be the candidates in 1892 they agreed
that it was too early to speak.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19

ONE of the officers of the Cambria iron
company of Johnstown says that about two
thousand of the company's employees were
lost in the food, but that their places can
be at once filled without the slightest diff
ficulty. Just think OF it! Two thousand
men in the service of single corporation
are suddenly swept out of existence, and
their loss does not occasion the least in
convenience-not even amomentary furry
in the labor market. Is there anything
quite as plenty and quite as cheap in this
republic as human beings?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
AclTY DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Ten Thousand People Burned and Tram
pied to Death.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1S.-The steamer City
of Pekin arrived yesterday from Hong Kong
via Yokohama. The Shang Hal Courier of
May 10 contains news which the latter received
from correspondent at Chung King to the eff
feet that Lu Chow. a city of some importance
in upper Pangtsze, was reported as being
nearly destroyed by fire q month previous.
Seven out of the eight gates of the city are said
to have been destroyed, and the loss of life,
burned and trsmpled to death, IL estimated at
ten thousand.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19

THE Rockport Democrat predicts that
"GRovER CLEVELAND will be the demo-
cratic nominee for president in 1892, if he
can be induced to accept" This seems
like safe prediction at this writing. But
it is long time until lS92-long enough,
perhaps, to develop some western demo-
crat with the right stuff in him for the
presidency. The SENTINEL would like to
see western man at the head of the
democratic ticket in 1892, just for change.
But if the nomination goes East again,
there is no earthly doubt that GROVER
CLEVELAND will be the man.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

READER, city: The membership of the lead
ing religious denominations ir the United
States in 1888 was as follows: Roman catholic,
100000; methodist episcopal, 4,6p9. 500; bap-
fist, 3,s71 ,6s5 presbyterian, 1855; lutheran,
9S7, 600. We are unable to give the wealth Of
these respective denominations.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19

"GIvE us HARRISON and Protection"
shouted the Clay county miners who came
to see BENJAMIN last July. Well, they
have got HARRISON and Protection. And
still they don't seem to be happy.