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CONVICTS FREED.
THE MINERS GET IN THEIR
WORK AT BRICEVILLE
By Swooping Down Upon the Stock
ode and Liberating' the Occupants.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says:
At an early hour Friday night an attempt
was made to get through a business mes¬
sage to Briceville. There was no re¬
sponse to station, the telegraphic the signal. Then
the next and next was tried,
until at last Clinton responded. The
operator there was asked what was the
matter. He looked out in the direction
of Briceville. and at once replied: “I *ee
« flected great light, as of an immense fire, re¬
in the sky. The wire to Brice
ville is cut, and I can’t call it up.”
At once the suspicion arose, a moment
later to be strengthened into conviction
—the miners had cut the wires and taken
possession. Iutense excitement prevail¬
ed. A telegram fiorn Clinton read:
“Three thousand miners had gathered
around among the hills during the day.
As darkness came on they gathered in
little parties, these parties joining each
other, until four parties were formed,
As by a preconcerted signal they closed
in upon the camp.
They were halted by a guard, but he
■was quickly silenced by the command:
“There are 3.000 of us here. We have
come for business. Call out your bos 3 at
once and. let us settle this affair.” By
this time there were a number of the of
ficers of the camp on hand. They were
d is posed to resist. The discharge of a
thousand shots in the air convinced them
that the call was serious. The messen
ger blew a policeman’s whistle, and, in a
minute, coming in at a double-quick,
theie were in sight hundreds of brawny,
determined-looking did men. Not a word
they say, but they had their Win
chester rifles in readiness. Reluctantly
the officers stepped of the "
out way.
The liberators came from every
tion, and, assembled in force, marched
on the stockade. Their first act was to
blow up the magazine: the uprights of
the stockade were knocked off. Then
began a scene which beggars descrip
tion. The 150 convicts, who had been
awakened by the shots, were terrorized.
They were screaming for mercy, fearing
that the mob inteuded to kill them. The
miners closed in within a circle of about
one hundred feet from the stockade. A
detail was sent in, and the work of
breaking the shackles began. As fast as
they were freed they were told in no un¬
certain language, to get out,, and it is
needless to say. they skipped out with
alacrity. There was a large quantity of
citizens’ clothes near by, which many of
them donned. When the last prisoner
was free the torch was applied to the
stockade, which, with the exception of
the norih wall and the rifle pit, was re¬
duced to ashes. Ten eight-room houses
and a large dining hall inside of the en¬
closure went in the general conflagration.
At the lower end of the Coal Creek
stockade the office building was burned
and the guard “shacks” demolished.
The interior of the convicts’ dining
hall, sleeping room, with hospital ward and
kitchen were filled broken furni¬
ture, shattered glass and queensware.
The store of the warden, Jack Chumley,
was rifled, and about fifteen hundred
dollars’ worth of goods taken and de¬
stroyed.
ANOTHEB ACCOUNT,
The citizens in Bricveillcbegan to hear
squads of men passing through the place
on their way to the stockades between
eight and nine o’clock Friday night.
This was kept up for nearly an hour. It
was about 9:30 o’clock when 200 men
descended Walden’s ridge, approaching
the stockade from the east. deliver They called
upon Warden Cross to them the
keys of the prison, While this was go¬
ing on, the magazine was blown up, and
the stockade surrounded by 2,500 men.
Cross gave up the keys, and when the
141 vonvicts were released, they assisted
in burning and destroying the property.
TO THE CHUMLEY MINE.
The attacking party then moved on
the Chumley or Coal Creek stockade, and
a halt was made near there. Twenty
five men were sent forward to demand
the surrender of the convicts. The men
up continuous volleys from their
Winchesters. Only one guard was on
duty, and he lost no time in obeying.
The convicts were told to go, and many
of them, as at Briceville, were given citi
icn’s clothes. When the convicts were
liberated destroyed they plundered stockade Chumley’s furniture. stove
and the
The office building was accidently set on
fire by the overturning of a stove. The
mob then descended to the valley, where
they set off several dynamite bombs, and
fired a small cannon they had with them.
The racket occasioned by these dis¬
charges, together with the explosion of
the ammunition stored at the Briceville
stockade, which the fire touched off 1
created the impression among in non-par¬
ticipants that a small war was progress.
This, however, was not the case, as there
was not a single shot fired at any man or
any personal violence.
THE CONVICTS IN GANGS.
Saturday found the woods and fields
and railroad tracks around the two stock¬
ades generously strewn with the striped
suits of the released convicts. Convicts
in gangs of tens and twenties were wan¬
dering all over the Surrounding country.
Sheriff Rutherford and deputies, of
Anderson countv, were busy all day
Saturday recapturing convicts, and the
sheriff wired Governor Buchanan that his
jail was about full.
The president of the Tennessee Coal
and Mining Company, whose stockade
was the first attacked, was asked what
he proposed to do. He says matters were
in such shone at nreseut he could giveuc
definite information, but lie thought he
would hold the Mate to its contract. Tin
excitement has considerably h bated.
A. Nashville dispatch say -: Governor
Buchanan and the state board of prison
inspectors held an informal conference
ill day Saturday considering the Rrice
ville outbreak, but arrived at no decis¬
ion as to what to do. The problem is a
knotty one. Adjutant General Norman
says of the affair: “The convicts him
been released and are scattered to Mu
four wind-, and the mob has dispersed
to their homes. Of course, wo want to
vindicate the law, but the question is
how to go about ir. The improbability
several of its inhabitants by Nanbui In¬
dians on the night of Monday, October
19th. Santa Rosa is an interior village
with a population of 600 people living in
thatched huts. The Indians came down
from the mountains and suddenly fired
the village and killed several Mexicans
who failed to escape.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
The Outlook as Reported by Dim & Co.,
for Past Week.
Dun’s review of trade for week ending
October 30tb, says: Business failures
during the United the past seven days number for
States 207, Canada, 48, com
pared with a total of 249 last week and
259 the week previous; the corresponrl
vveel j last year, 218, representing 190
failures in the United States and 28 in
Canada.
B Improvement is in business continues,
greater than before at, the west, con
sidcrable at the south, and is clearly per
<;e ‘ 7ed even at the eist. Yet discourage
ment in som e branches of industry is not
' es s * l 311 ! more apparent than before,
evidently . because calculations have been
made u P on a “ore rapid and greater in¬
crease in business than has been realized,
The peculiar expansion in some forms of
production and of trade has invited the
? sual incorrect view, and depression ex
fats which is so general that it might
easily be misinterpreted.
The iron industry shows most change
for fallowing the large increase of output
change m onth, there has come a decided
of tone. Extreme anxiety to
9el1 P*g iron > au d financial weakness in
unexpected depression, quarters produce the present
which is in curious contrast
with the abounding confidence which
prevails ragardiug the future. Plate
mills have a fair business at. the lowest
P™ es ever recorded, and structural iron
18 irregular and also very low. The
mithracite coal market is more cheerful,
the production to October 24th being
31,608,975 tons, or 3,059,44? more than
^ ast J ear to date.
The dress S 00,is market is active and
works wel1 employed, though narrow
margins of profit. Cotton mills have au
increasing business in fancies, but the
fa ac *° m staplgs is falling off and buyers
urge that lower prices are justified by the
decline in raw cotton. Yet the southern
demand is better and trade, on the whole,
fairly good.
York Reports from decidedly other cities than New
than usual, are though more encouraging im¬
at the east the
provement is not rapid. At most southern
points general trade improves, but at
Charleston money is tight. Wheat rises
2 cents without any excuse. Speculative
manipulation has hoisted corn 5 cents,
but pork products are a shade lower, and
cotton declines a sixteenth with continu¬
ing eighths, heavy receipts. coffee, Oil has fallen three
but ia a shade stronger
and sugar unchanged.
No fears entertained of a monetary
pressure, for it is not believed that the
advance in rates by the Bank of Euglaud
can much diminish the shipments of gold
to this country. The treasury has put
out $1,500,000 more new treasury notes,
but has taken in the same amount of
other forms of money. Throughout the
East and West, and at most Southern
plied points, the money markets are well sup¬
for legitimate business, and rates
tend lower, while collections improve to
some extent almost everywhere, but es¬
pecially at the principal Western points.
RED HOT POLITICS
Causes a Big Row in an Alliance Meet¬
ing--Several Killed.
News reached Little Rock, Ark.,
Thursday night of « terrible hand-to
band encounter at Bucksport, twenty
miles from Eldorado, Union county, at n
Farmers’ Alliance mass meeting. State
Lecturer Bryan, of the alliance, was the
principal speaker of the evening. Shortly
after he had concluded his speech a
quarrel took place among several specta¬
tors, which was soon taken up by many
others in the audience, Winchester
rifles, shotguns and pis'o!s were used
with deadly effect. Burt Manning, J.
H. Town and thiee others, whose names
could not be learned, were killed.
Several were slightly wounded. Sheriff
Dunn, of Eldorado, left lor tho scene of
trouble. Red-hod politics was the only
and sole cause of the trouble.
GREEN GOODS SHARPERS.
A Den of them Unearthed in New
York City.
A New York dispatch of Sunday says:
Central office detectives have just un¬
earthed the headquarters of a “green
goods” business in that city, together
with a cipher code, books of reference,
lists, names and some six thousand let¬
ters received from different people in
reference to the purchase union. of goods from
every state in the They have also
arrested Frank Brooks aud Terrence
Murphy, head operators and leaders in
the business, They also learned that the
combination had just sent out 500,006
circulars and letters preparatory to the
winter’s work. Inspector Byrnes has the
name* of people to whom these circulars
are addressed, and will look after future
correspondence in his own peculiar way.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The (rial of Wo id niff, ex state treasu¬
rer of Arkausas, began at Little Rock
Thursday.
The porte is enforcing the recent de¬
cree tering prohibiting Turkey. Jewish families from en¬
Work on the Mantagua canal has been
abandoned. Estimated cost to Guate¬
mala, $100,000.
The Teutonic has arrived at Queens¬
town, having beaten the fastest previous
record from New York.
Lieutenant Colonel Howlette, one of
the few survivors of the British officers
who fought at Waterloo, is dead.
The president has appointed Richard
Ilerbet, of Ohio, to be United States
consul at Antiqua, West Indies.
tive Dispatches of Sunday say that destruc¬
prairie tires are sweeping the coun¬
try between Monon, Ill,, and Chicago.
About eight thousand miners in Staf¬
fordshire and Worcestershire have struck
against a reduction of 10 per cent in
wages.
The damage from the recent earth¬
quake iu Sau Salvador was not very great.
The government is vigorously prosecuting
the work of interior improvements.
S. Simon, of Berlin, has sold to the
University of Chicago a library of 280,
0*00 volumes and 120,000 dissertations in
all languages. • The price paid is not
known.
Simonson & Weiss, cloak manufactur¬
ers at Green and Canal streets, New York,
failed Saturday. Liabilities estimated at
$180,000, The firm began business in
1870.
The employes of the June Manufactur¬
ing Company, at Belvidere, III., went out
on a striae Friday because of the dis¬
charge of five men who had been agitat¬
ing a strike.
Patrick McDermott, McCarthyite can¬
didate, has been elected without opposi¬
tion to the seat in the house of commons
for no th Kilkenney, left vacant by the
death of Sir John Hennessey.
A convention of militiamen at Chicago,
Wednesday, decided to hold a national
encampment near Chicago, August 5th
to 20th, during the world’s fair. Con -
gress is to be asked for appropriations
for expenses.
The Henry G. Allen Company, dealers
in subscription books, at New York, is
asking for an extension from its credi¬
tors. Liabilities about one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars and nominal
assets considerably larger.
The Adams Express directory met at
New York Wednesday. The auditing
committee reported that a thorough ex¬
amination of the company’s securities,
loans and cash corresponded with the
entries iu the books. A committee was
appointed to devise a plan to prevent
misappropriation of the company’s prop¬
erty and breaches of trust.
The bark Liberia sailed from New
York Saturday morning with fixty-six
negro colonists for Liberia. Only thir¬
ty-three of them are adults. They go
under the auspices of the American
Colonization Society, which defrays ex¬
penses of passage and of maintenance
for several months after they reach then
destination.
A Chicago dispatch of Friday says:
The chief of constructin of the world’s
fair has ordered the contractors to double
the force of men now employed on the
buildings. The chief of construction
made the order imperative, and said they
would have to work two shifts of men
eight hours each day, or make sixteen
hours constitute a day’s work.
Suit lj|ps been entered in the United
States court, at Pittsburg, Pa., against
the officers of the Lousiana Lottery Com¬
pany for unlawfully using the mails. It
is alleged that circulars and tickets were
mailed to the city on July 24th, and that
in order to conceal the crime envelopes
of the United States Express Company
were used. At Boston, Mass., suit has
also been entered.
A dispatch of Friday from Guay mas,
Mex., says: Information has reached
this city of the burning of the Mexican
of village securing Santa conviction Rosa and the of massacre of the of
a, any
leaders will not be taken into considera¬
tion. The law passed by the geueral as¬
sembly, at its recent extra
session, ou the subject of
interfering with convicts, is in sub¬
stance this: That peisons interfering
with ,r releasing convicts in jails, pris¬
ons, mines or elsewhere, shall be guilty
of in the a felony, penitentiary, punishable the by principals imprisonment for
not
Jess than three nor more than seven years,
and the accessories for not less than three
nor more than five years. About all that
can be done is to prosecute the leaders
of the mob under this statute, but even
this would have no testify result, as nobody
could be found to against them,
and there is sympathy all over -the state
with the miners in their determination to
resist an odious law.”
FOR A CURTAIN DRAMA.
Johnny—Popper, does it follow be¬
cause a man wears glasses he has bad
eyesight Pepper—As ? rule, Johnny.
a
Johnny—Then you must have awful
poor Popper—Oh, eyesight.
no, sonny.
Johnny-—Then why did mommer say
you look ten glasses a day ?
Popper—I’ll explain it to mommer to.
night.—[Jewolers’ C ironlar.
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--AND
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The Most Astonishing Medical Years. Discovery of
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It Is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.
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This wonderful Nervine Tonic Las onlr recently been introduced fat*
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To the Gieat South American Medicine Co.:
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Co,
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CRAWFORMVnxit, twelve Imd., May 19,1886. af¬
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could not walk, could not talk, could not swal¬
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Mrs. W. S. ExammsM. every¬
one.
Slcle of Indiana, ) I" , 5 .
Subscribed Montgomery and County , to ' before thi* Mar
sworn me
19,18S7. Ckab. M. Travis, Notary Public.
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State of Indiana, 1 **' .
Subscribed Montgomery and County, j to before tfat* fun*
tswa.-a at
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