The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-09
ORDER NOW REIGNS
No Serious Rioting in the Indiana
Mining Regions.
Governor Matthews Requested to With
draw All But $50 Soldiers from
Sullivan County.
JUDGE BRIGGS TO THE JURY
Urged to Indict Every Person Con-
nected with the Riots.
Shelburn Miners Bitter Against the
Southern Illinois Operators Who Are
Charged with Prolonging the Strike.
PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR
Committee Appointed to Visit In
dianapolis This Morning.
The Executive Will Be Asked to Recall
All Troops, and Citizens Will Agree
to Preserve the Peace.
The Executive Will Be Asked to Recall
All Troops, and Citizens Will Agree
to Preserve the Peace.
Several More Harmony Suspects"
i'm Jail at Brazil.
COrOnerS Verdict in the Barr Murder
Case-Statement from Cannelburg
Strikers-TrOops Ordered Home.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SULLIVAN, Ind, June S.--Judge Briggs,
of Sullivan county. believes that the civil
authorities are in position to control
the riotlng miners. and he announced to-
day that would wire Governor Matthews
tonight asking him to withdraw all except
$50 troops from the county The railroad
officials are dubious of the effect OF this
order. for there Is fear that the dynamit-
ers and train-wreckers will return rein
forced as soon as the soldiers leave.
All afternoon the special grand jury has
been In session here listening TO witnesses
subpoenaed the day before. and deputies
are in various parts Of the county serving
additional summonses. The jury consists of
Henry Shake, Bailey Mcconnell, William
Wyble, William F. Knots, William w.
Johnson and George w. Wyatt, all farmers
from the northern and southern portions of
the county, where there are not many min
ers. There are .ifty witnesses already sum-
moned, while the deputy sheriffs expect to
have two hundred appear before that in
quisitorial body before 1t concludes its
work. One man who saw several Of the
dynamiters run from the track at Ebenezer
graveyard, and who knew them, gave tes-
timony before the jury and another TO
whom a miner boasted of firing a shot
through engineer Hyde's cab, testified to
that effect
Judge Briggs delivered a set of forcible
instructions to the jurors, urging them to
indict Immediately every man who. it ap-
peared, had participated in the riots. The
judge read the statutes covering the vari-
GUS crimes and showed that numerous fell
onies had been committed, the stealing and
burning of cars, placing obstructions on the
track and interfering with trains. He also
called attention strongly to the white
Cap law, which makes it felony for men
to meet at night to conspire towards the
destruction of property or life He said the
prosecuting attorney would give the jury
every aid in bringing the criminals to JUS
tice. The special grand jury plan is deemed
much better than that OF having railroad
men file affidavits before magistrate,
against strikers, as it does not endanger
the life of the informants.
The miners at Hymera. small mining
camp, FIVE miles east of Shelburn, have
taken the wrong bull by the horn in at
tempting to drive T. A. Combs, butcher,
out of the place. Combs, together with 9TH
er citizens. was ordered to leave within a
few hours, the specific offense charged
against them being that of selling meat to
soldiers. Combs advised with his friends,
and, last night, he loaded several pistols
and barricaded his store, holding the fort
until morning, when he came TO Sullivan
with neighbors TO tell the grand jury of the
threats. The respectable people of the
place are tired of the lawlessness.
Judge Briggs says that no attempt to ap-
point an eiisor has been made in the coun-
ty, and that the deputies were appointed
by him under full consent of Sheriff Mills
He was asked if Sullivan county would
compromise the claim of the Evansville 81
Terre Haute road for damages sustained
during the riots, but he declined to discuss
the matter, as the claim might come before
him in case the County Commissioners do
not make a satisfactory settlement with
the railroad. He did not TO talk about
the sharp correspondence between Governor
Matthews and the sheriff
The men who have been arrested so far
are Ed Van Arsdel and Perry McCarty, of
Pittsburg; Gosh LaFoilette, Of Alum Cave;
John Bullock, and Ransom Kemp, of Shell
burn. the latter having not yet obtained
bond; Ben Adams and an unknown tramp.
found at the graveyard; Clay Price and NJ.
NJ. Springer c. LIP