The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-09
VARIOUS HAPPENINGS.
Undertakers Quit Work-A Ruling in Regard
to Whisky-Beer Destroyed.


to Whisky-Beer Destroyed.
JoHNsTowN, Pa. june s.-The Pittsburg
undertakers' strike against Dictator De-
wore has not vet been settled. but Devore
received word to-day that Mrs. Spencer,
Mrs. Willison, p. Lowry. w. Temmelrock,
Dennis Boyle and P. Hersherger would
be up tonight and 60 to work in his de-
partment. Every man in the Pittsburg
delegation, about 8 o'clock yesterday after
noon, suddenly discovered that he was
wanted at home. and left. 1t was on busi-
ness, they said. but Mr. Devore declares
that 1T was nothing more than the break
ing ont t Of an ola sore Just because some some
selves they. quit. Devore explained the
trouble to-day. He said: James Flan-
merry was disgruntled because l was given
charge of the work by the State Board
sion. Yesterday he asked to see my Gre
dentials. and l showed them to him. An
hour afterward the men quit, and am told
that when they left there were five bodies
ton. Perhaps make myself obnoxious by
making them behave themselves and pre-
vented liquor drinking. / fOrcibly elected
from the building one young man, who,
though he may have been an embalmer,
was a blackguard. / claim that there was
a better system in effect there than at any
morgue in the town. We can. get along
without the kickers." The old funeral
directors, were. it is apparent, in the quar-
rel.
The most serious loss to the Cambria iron
works was the destroyed papers, letters,
order books, etc. Vice-president Powell
Stackhouse. of the Cambria Iron Company,
is the busiest man around the works. He
has large force of men at work, and car
loads of debris are being hauled away as
rapidly as they can be filled. None of the
big stock of pig-iron that the firm had on
hand was lost. Mr.. Stackhouse, in conver-
satiOn with reporter this afternoon, said:
Il don't know that can tell you to what
extent we have been affected. and cannot
make any estimate of loss The entire
operated in full before the Fourth of
July. Everything will be going
all right We will not lose any of our con-
tracts, and If other firms are expecting TO
receive some of them they will soon dis
cover that they are mistaken"
"How many of your men were lost by the
food9"
"Oh 1 can't tell" Mr.. Stackhouse replied,
sadly, probably 1000 are missing"
of the worksp
Not at all We have almost all of the
places filled already, and can secure all the
men we want"
Mr.. Stackhouse declined to talk on the
prospects for the future in the iron and
steel business, but said he was very well
satisfied with the outlook.
A young lady of woodvale, who lost all
her effects in the food. had two dresses
ordered of a dress-maker in KernvIlle, in q
portion of the town where the houses were
not wrecked. AS the only dress she had
was the one she wore when she escaped
and as this was muddy and damp. she
naturally was anxious TO get the two at the
dress-makers. To reach there she had to
twice cross the river by boat and follow a
long and rugged path along the mountain
side. distance of nearly five miles. She
Hubbard dress, which the wind blew about
III q most shameful manner. When she
reached Kernville, and located the dress
maker she found the house inaccessible by
reason of the large number of wrecked
houses about it, A workman. however,
entered the building and found the two
dresses. They were both ruined by the
water and mud, and with tears streaming
down her face the poor girl turned wearily
homeward.
Judge-advocate Rogers, of General BEEN
er's staff. this morning decided an impor-
tant question which arose by the discovery
of forty barrels of whisky in building on
5iain street. Adjutant-general Hastings
was disposed to confiscate it as safeguard,
according to q section of the military code
which prohibits the sale of liquor within
ID. limits of a military camp. Judge-advo-
Ca te Rogers ruled that il was private prop
erty. ara licensed dealer had right to
sell lieao Besides it was not military
camp. out posse comitatus, the militia
men only doing police duty.
Last evening employees of Lutz & Son
unearthed ten barrels of beer from the eel
lar of building on Main street. A body
of man was found close beside the bar
rels The driver was bringing his capture
away. when Maj. Samuel Hastings ar
rested him. Adjutant-general Hastings
knocked in the head Of barrel, and the
soldiers let the beer run into the street IN
der orders, and it was all destroyed. You
will be paid for the beer" said General
Hastings to the owner.
There seems to be some misunderstand-
ing about the alleged syndicate topurchase
real estate here. 1t has been said that syn
dicate of sharp and unscrupulous real es-
tate men from distance were scheming to
take advantage of the impoverished condi-
tion of property owners here, and buy their
property for much below its value, and hold
1t for q rise and handsome proflt. 1t turns
out tnat the so-called syndicate consists