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^ \ \ ^(Smro flaindcaler 1. VAN SLYKE, Editor w id Publisher. McHENRY, - • ILLINOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. •'! " XEAB Brie, Pa., Mrs. Kreider and her three daughters were drowned while doing the family washing in a creek. The young­ est fell into the stream, and the others were lost in the endeavor to rescue her.... While bathing three daughters of Henry Wyman, a fisherman of Far Rockaway, Queens County, New York, were drowned off Breeze I'pinf. THE personal effects of Dr. Carver, the crack shot of the world, were sold at •action at New York last week. A gold watch, a present from the Prince of Wales, brought $400; the German Em­ peror's present, ft diamond ring, was sold for $200... .Rollin M. Squire and Maurice B. Flynn were arraigned in New York be­ fore Judge Cowing to answer to the indict­ ments found against them by the Grand Jury. The case was set for trial Sept. 5. ../Michael Metz was hanged nt Pitts­ burgh for the mustier of a fellow-Italian named Cassidente. from whose pockets he took several hundred dollars. .. ,R. C. Stevenson, the father of the railroad ticket brokerage business in the United States, died in Pittsburgh.... Banks and trust com­ panies in New York report that G per cent, is the basis for all loans. THE schooner Orizon capsized in Boston harbor and four person were drowned. A few .ninutes later the sloop Frolic sunk, and it is thought six of her crew were drowned... Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson was arrested at Boston, charged with poisoning her husband, her three children, and sev­ eral other people of her family. The in­ surance on their lives is said to have been the actuating motive. THE WEST. " boiler of a threshing machine en­ gine at work on the farm of William Mus- sehl, near Jefferson, Wis., exploded, kill­ ing three men and a boy and severely in­ juring another man and boy, neither of whom is expected to live. The names of the killed are: A. G. Klein, the engi-f neer; Joseph Haas, Robert Lester, Lester, a young son of Robert Lester. The wounded are: Michael Fisher; Lester, an 8-year-old son of Robert Lester. Several other persons were slightly scalded. All of the men who were killed leave fam­ ilies in rather needy circumstances. The scene of the accident is covered with pieces of flesh, clothing, leather, and iron. BEBNARD MARTIN, of Weaver, Arizona, Bold his ranch in July for $4,000 and started eastward with his wife and two children. The corpses of all four were found the other day near Ph>mix.... . The window-glass works of Wetherow & Wells, at MassillonJ Ohio, were burned, with a loss of $50,000. A spark from a locomotive caused the fire The Grand Legion of Secret Knights, in session at Ottawa, 111., elected officers for the ensuing year and adopted the new constitution of the Grand Legion, with amendments for subordinate lodges. It was decided to form the legions into regiments, brigades and divisions, with officers corresponding to the usual military work. IN a blaze of glory the Cincinnati Rag­ pickers' Union started out last week. A fund was subscribed, and after a treasurer had been elected the $'28 collected was de­ posited in his hands. When the second regular meeting was held the report of the treasurer was called for. There was no response; there was no treasurer; there was no money. There is no Rag-pickers' Union in Cincinnati now. who has filled the position since 1875.... Mai. S. W. Clara, whose removal as Re­ corder of the General Land Office was rec­ ommended by Commissioner Sparks, was suspended by the President... .The acting Secretary of the Treasury has called $10,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds, interest to cease Sept. 15. Ho*. DANIEL W. YOORHEES prodded over the Indiana Democratic State Conven­ tion, at Indianapolis. The following ticket was nominated: Lieutenant Governor, John C. Nelson, of Cass; Secretary of State, R. W. Meyer; Auditor, C. A. Mnnson; Treas­ urer, Thomas B. Byrne; Supreme Court Justice, John R. Coffroth. The platform approves the administration of President Cleveland; favors A reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis; commends the action of Congress in reclaiming from rail­ way corporations about 100,000,000 acres of laud; reiteraies the opposition of the Demo­ cratic party to sumptuary legislation, but advocates a reasonable increase of the liquor-license tax; favors a financial policy in which gold and silver coin aud paper money readily convertible into coin shall be tho circulating medium; and insists that the surplus in the National Treasury shall be promptly applied in payment of the national public debt. A NUMBER of prominent North Carolina Republicans, who are angry because of the State Committee's decision not to hold a State Convention this year, have issued a' call for a mass convention of that paity, to be held at Raleigh on September '2a. The purpose is to elect a new committee.... Congressional nominations: Ninth Michi­ gan District, B. M. Cutcheon, Republican, by acclamation; Sixth Ohio, R, D. Hill, Democrat; Seventh Ohio, 1). G. Kennon, Democrat; First North Carolina, Louis C. Latham, Democrat, on the 163d ballot; Sixth South Carolina, G. W. Dargan, Dem- ociat; Third Alabama, W. C. Outes, Dem­ ocrat; Third Georgia, F. C. Crisp, Demo­ crat. THE Texas Democrats, in convention at Galveston, nominated General L for Governor, and adopted a platform which indorses the administration of the President; gives pledges that expenditures shall be confined within revenue; favors an amendment to the judiciary articles of the State Constitution; favors the best system of education for white aud colored chil­ dren separately, but by State, not national aid; favors internal im­ provements and the development of manufacturing interests; denounces un­ lawful interference with corporate prop­ erty; protests against the acquisition of railway property by foreign companies; opposes the consolidation of competing or parallel iines of railway; favors making comprehensive the mechanics' lien law: de­ nounces the convict labor system; declares that the members of the party may have of attendance. A painful feature of the riots is the number of children wound­ ed.... A report is current in England that a number of dynamiters have left the United States for the purpose of attacking the British Government. The conspira­ tors will go to Paris and afeoit a favorable chance to begin their deadlySvork... .Brit­ ish imports decreased £2,1 jd,000 for the month of July, as compared with the same month last year, and the exports decreased £(i!K),<Xl0.... Mr. Gladstone, who was re-, turned to the House of Commons By tw*6 districts, has decided to sit for Midlothian. THE Orangemen of Londonderry, while promenading on the site of the town wall, were vigorously stoned by a mob. Rev. Thomas Alphert, canon of the Episcopal eathe tral, was wounded... .Louise .Michel, the Paris agitator, has been fined 100 franc® and sentenced to fqur months' imprison­ ment for inciting to murder, at Decazeville, during the minors' riots last May.... A bill providing for local self-government throughout Great Britain and Ireland is said to be in preparation by Lord Ran­ dolph Churchill.... Turkey, it is rumored, has obtained a loan of $5,000,000 in Lon­ don, the money to be spent for army pur­ poses .... United Ireland calls Premier Salisbury's declaration at the Lord Mayor's banquet a proclamation of war.. . .Russia is reported to have agents in every Bulga­ rian town, stirring up the people -against Prince Alexander ADDITIONAL KEWS. THEBE is little change in the Cutting af­ fair. The Government's demand for the surrender of the prisoner is still on file in the office of Mexico's Secretary of State. It is said, however, that the United States will stand firm by its demand for the re­ lease of Cutting. The Government denies that any foreign power has the right to arrest, try, and imprison an American for crimes Committed in this country.... The week's business, failures number­ ed 132, against 124 the previous week. The total number in the United States this year to date is against 7,307 last year. C. Ross J Bradalreei's reports note "a continuance ' of the favorable feature in trade circles heretofore noted. Staple diy goods in Eastern markets are firm and in good de­ mand. Some cotton brands are i to h cent per yard higher. * Raw wool shows signs of weakening, after a steady advance during two months past. There are no changes in iron or steel. Anthracite coal is ,15 to 20 cents higher, only a portion of which has been realize.l. Fears of serious effects from the drouth are stiffening corn prices. The actual yield of spring wheat appears to be in excess of the quantity lately an­ ticipated. " AT a summer resort near Oswego, N. Y., a Miss Pelty and her accepted suitor horse­ whipped a landlord named Bartlett for cir­ culating slanderous reports. She was fined , , - . $10 by a justice of the peace. Four suits what views thev choose on local option I have grown out of the m.vlter john Mc_ without forfeiting their right to be known | Carthy, of Boston,, swallowed his artificial THE SOUTH. STATE troops have for months been stationed at Morehead, Ky., to preserve the peace between the Tolliver and Hum­ phrey factions. These leaders have re­ cently signed agreements to quit Rowan County forever. State's Attorney Caruth agrees to compromise by dismissing the prosecutions. Ex-GOVERNOR JOHN W. STEPHENSON, of Kentucky, died at Covington, aged 74 years. The deceased had been a Congress­ man and United States Senator. THE heavy rains in Maryland have proved destructive to the tobacco crops. An extensive tobacco planter in Calvert County 6ays there will be but half a crop in that and other counties of Maryland.... An engineer was killed, and a fireman fatally injured, at Lexington, Ky., by the explosion of a locomotive boiler in the Louisville and Nashville yards. THE Rev. F. M. Bandy, of Grayville, Tenn., quarreled with a farmer named John Davis, the cause being the attention paid by Davis' son to the preacher's daughter. Young Bandy took a hand in the dispute, and was killed by the farmer. The min­ ister closed with Davis, and he, too, was slain. The combined efforts of the Bandys proved too much for the farmer, yrho lies at the point of death. WASHIXQTOrV. % AS Associated Press dispatch from Wash­ ington says: The State Department is sorry that so much has been said in the newspapers about the Cutting affair. An official who ought to know what is going forward said that the following would prob­ ably be the outcome of the whole matter: "After all the forms of trial have been gone through with and Cutting has been formally disposed of by the Chihuahua au­ thorities President Diaz will pardon him, as he has a perfect right to do under the Mex­ ican constitution. When Cutting is at lib­ erty then will be the proper time to con­ sider the methods that have been pursued toward him. The Mexican authorities claim to have followed a course of law, while we claim that they have not. With Cutting at liberty the whole matter is a proper subject for arbitration. It is absurd to suppose that there will be war over so trivial an af- . fur and so cheap an adventurer." THE Treasury Department has decided that spirituous liquors can only be imported in casks of not less than fourteen gallons, or in packages of not less than one dozen bottles The President has appointed William G. Langford to be Associate Jus­ tice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory, vice S. C. Wingard, suspended, «ndC. Van Hoorebeck to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illi­ nois, vice J. C. Connelly, suspended. These were among the nominations left over Daniel Haggerty, of Baltimore, has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of Railway Mail Service* THE receipts of the Government since Jnly 1 have been nearly 14,000,000 in ex­ cess of the receipts during the same period of last year. The increase was about $2,- €00,000 from customs and about $1 800 000 from internal revenue. These figures are •Sid to be indicative of a good state of traflineBS throughout the country The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of the exports of domestic breadstuffs, from the United as Democrats, and, lastly, declares it to be the duty of the Government to piotect the humblest American citizen against the un­ lawful acts of any or all nations... .Robert L. Taylor, who has been nominate d by the Democrats for Governor of Tennessee, ifsa brother of the Republican candidate. Til i: 1611LMA VS. THERE was a meeting of the County Recorders along the line of the Big Four at the Bates House, Indianapolis, last week, to sign a $10,000,000 refunding mort­ gage of that company. The loau was ob­ tained from the Central Trust Company of New York at four per cent., and will cover the entire indebtedness of the road... .The Northwestern Road is gonipletin^ its track in Wyoming to the new city of Douglas, on the bank of the >&rth Platte River, at the rate of two miles per day. The town stands in the center of the best grazing region in the Territory. IT has been officially ascertained that the number of passenger trains arriving at and departing from Chicago daily is 527.... There is reason to believe that the North­ western Road is backing the Oregon Pacific, with which it intends to connect at Boise City, Idaho. THE Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad has abandoned the proposed line from Dubuque. Iowa, to Bismarck, D. T. Fear of a lack of business was the reason assigned for giving up the enterprise. GE îEKAL. JOHN JARRETT says that only in the cheaper grades of iron can the South com­ pete with the North A letter written by General Meade in relation to the battle of Gettysburg is printed, in which he holds General Sickles responsible for crip­ pling the Army of the Potomac.... The National Department of Agriculture reports for July an improved condition of spring wheat in Iowa and a marked retro­ gression in Dakota. The heaviest decline in the condition of corn is in Illinois. Wis­ consin, and the States west of the Missis­ sippi. The harvest throughout Europe is estimated at ten per cent, less than last year. LARGE numbers of Chinamen are con­ tinually entering the United States over the Mexican border. The attention of Secre­ tary Bayard will be called to the matter so that he may place it before the Mexican Government... .The Canadian Govern­ ment has issued orders forbidding American vessels from entering the Bay of Chaleur on pain of instant seizure The captain of the Portland schooner James G. Craig reports that he was boarded at Liver­ pool, Nova Scotia, by the captain of the Canadian cruiser Terror, who acted in a very brutal and abusive manner The Canadian government has bought John Roach's steam yacht Y'osemite for $50,0(10. It is rumored that she is to be used to drive off American fishermen who may be found within the "three-mile limit" of the Cana­ dian coast. LOGAN C. MURRAY, of New York, was chosen President of the National Bankers' Association. The association adopted reso­ lutions urging all civil and political bodies to make urgent efforts for a suspension of the coinage of silver dollars... .A dispatch from Danville. N. Y., announces the death of James H. McLean, the millionaire pat­ ent medicine manufacturer, of St. Lotiis. His demise was caused by nervous pros­ tration and a partial sunstroke received some years a_go. teeth one year ago. He lived, but the pas­ sage of the food to the stomach was seriously interrupted. Lately he was un­ able to take any food, and a few days ago Dr. Richardson took out the man's stom­ ach, removed the teeth, and then replaced the organ. McCarthy is doing well. No FUKTHER appointments of Presiden­ tial postmasters will be made until the Pres­ ident's return from the Adirondack®.... The amount of three per cent, bonds field to secure national bank note circulation in­ cluded in the fourteenth call is §7,850,750. .... Postmaster General Vilas left Wash­ ington last week for his home in Madison, Wis. He will stop at New York, Buffalo, and Ashland on the way, and will be ab­ sent about a month... .There are rumors in circulation in Washington that Treasurer Jordan intends to resign, through dissatis­ faction with the policy of Assistant Secre­ tary Fairchild. ABOUT 1,200 delegates and visitors were in attendance at Chicago upon tho annual session of the Grand Temple and Taber­ nacle of the Knights of Tabor, an organi­ zation of a benevolent order among the colored people. The committee on the condition of the country made a detailed report, showing the status of the negro in the several States where the order exists, as regards his material prosperity and in­ tellectual educational improvement. Fa­ vorable reports were made on all States except Alabama and Texas. In these States the committee took gloomy vie*# of the out­ look for the negro. «. Miss MAMIE LITTLE, from Savannah, arrived at Macon, Ga., and asked ex- Policeman Jim Moore for directions. He p:ocured a hack for her, and, getting in himself, put his pistol to her head and compelled her submission. He took her to an assignation house, keeping her under cover of his pistol. Moore was arrested and jailed. An angry mob stormed the prison, battered down the doors, took Moore out, and, despite his piteous cries for mercy, hanged him to the limb of a tree. A DISPATCH from Leigh, Lancashire, England, states that a tenible explosion occurred in the Woodend colliery at that place. One hundred and forty miners were below at the time, forty of whom per­ ished .... A cablegram from Belfast states that a body of Orangemen seized a Catholic on his way home from work and gave him a coat of tar and feathers.... Christine Nilsson was married at Paris to Count de Casa Miranda, of Spain. The ceremony was as private as possible. The couple started at once for Spain to spend the honeymoon.... Sir Michael Hicks- Beach, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is con­ fident the British Government can main­ tain order in Ireland without having re­ course to special legislation. . FOBEIGX A CAME dispatch from London says "the situation in Belfast causes the grav­ est anxiety in political and social circles, and is creating a great deal of uneasiness in the cabinet, while it arouses indignation and severe criticism among the general Eublic of the apparent incapacity exhibited y Lord Salisbury's government in dealing with this lamentable crisis in the north of Ireland. The riots are no longer confined to the original localities of the conflicts be­ tween the mob and the police, but are rap­ idly increasing in area, and at the same time, far from being lessened, they are growing in intensity. The attempts of the authorities to subdue the disorder seem only to inflame the rioters the more, and the affair is assuming the proportions of an extended uprising. During the four days' rioting in Belfast eleven persons were killed and 130 seriously wounded. The majority of the injured persons have shot wounds. Fierce encounters took place be­ tween the soldiers and the mob. Re-in- THE MARKETS. NEW YOKE. BKEVEB J4.50 HOGS 4.75 WHEAT--No. 1 White 89 No. 2 Red 86 CoitN--No. 2 51 OATS--White ; 38 POKK--Old Mess 10.50 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prima Steers Good Shipping Common HOGS--Shipping Grades FLOUR--Extra Spring. W HEAT--No. li Ked COBU--No. i OATS--No. 2 BCTTEK--Choice Creamery fine Dairv CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar.. „ Full Cream, new EGGS--Fresh t POTATOES--New, per brl ] POKK--Mess . .. 925 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash COKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 1 PORK--Mess @ 5.75 @ 5.25 & .90 ^ .87 ,siyz & .42 @11.00 5.00 4.00 9.25 4.50 4.25 77 .43 © .31 & .19 & .12 & .07 (01 .08 & .09)4® 1.50 ~ @ 5.25 (<$ 4.50 (s§ 3.75 @ 5,29 (!i 4.75 tax ,7714 <® .44 & .32 .14 .08^ .10 TOLEDO. DETROIT. States during the month of Julv 188B and « en . 80ljHers aufl *he mob- . -K?-"1- dnrine the seven months emW I, I forcemeats of troops to the amount of 12,- e arrived at Belfast. The city, ow- ponumg penoa 01 the preceding ^rec^_ and ruin of houses, year were as follows: July, 18S6, $11 570 - - -Jutis >701 kill. , ' 649; July, 1885, $8,721,811; seven months ended July 31, 1886, $81,432,215; 1885 $85,473,135... .A. M. Keiley has been ap­ pointed to represent the United States in the court of the first instance at Cairo to •ooceed George S. Batchellor of New York, •m presents a deplorable aspect. Its appear­ ance is similar to that of Paris after the commune. It is feared that numerous deaths resulting from the riots have taken place which will never be heard Of. The hospitals are taxed to the utmost to accommodate the great number of wounded nersons in neei WHEAT--No. 2. CORN--No. 2... OATB--No. 2... BEEF CATTLE HOGS BHEEP WHEAT--No. 1 Whit* CORN--No. 2. OATS-No. 2 White *..* * „ 8T. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2. CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed ' PORK--Now Mess CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Ked CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 * PORK--Mess LIVE HOOB ; BUFFALO. WHEAT--NO. 1 Hard CORN--No. 2 Yellow CATTLE.. INDIAN APOLia BEEP CATTLE Hoos SHEEP WHEAT---No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 3 EAST LIBERTY, CATTLE--Best Fair Common. 1 Hoos * Shxbf .75 .43 .31 M 9.50 .78 .44 .28 4.50 &.60 8.50 .70 .45 m & 2.00 @ 9.75 ® .78 & .43^ & .31}$ & .56 10.0» .60 .45 .28 & 5.25 & 4.50 & 4.50 ,7« .4514 .83 .V7H® .40 & .47 m 10.25 .78% .42 .28 &10.H .78 .<2 .28 10.00 4.50 .85 .48 @ .75*4 & .43 .29 @10.50 & 5.23 & . f t .48 W THE ANARCHISTS. Extent of the Society In America --Expose of Their Secret / Workings. Their Flans for Removing Capi- ' talists--Dagger and mite Advocated. Scheme to Arm the Tramps -Many Fttttal* Members of the Qrf j ganization. Startling Development* by a Member of fiukerton Detective if> ? t Agency. ; > I '?;] . ' &.& ' I" i inl • A'l: • At the present time there is scareely a mat­ ter of more interest to the American people as a whole, and society at large, than that of the anarchist organization throughout tho country, threatening, as it does openly, their lives and property. The recent terrible riot in Chicago, and the fearful work done by the anarchist weapon, tho dynamite boinb, is fresh in the memory of all, and is kept so bv tho trial of tho leading members of the organization in Chi­ cago, now drawing to a close. This murder­ ous outbreak opened the eyes Of the American public to the danger which con­ stantly threatens it, and has filled the authorities with a determination to destroy the organization, as far as possible, root and branch, and to place the prime movers in it where they will bo harmless. It is well known that the hotbed of anarchism is located in Chicago, but very few kuow how extensive it is, even in that city. The ramifications of the anarchist organi­ zation extend throughout the country in every direction, and it numbers in its membership sev­ eral thousands of people. Next to Chicago, New York contains the most believers in the doctrines of anarchy, Milwaukee coming next. Tho revelations at the trial have been start­ ling in many respects, and a great deal of in­ formation had been given upon the stand in The above out represents the weapons used by the anarchists in the recent riots in Chicago, and which were captured by the police of tn&t city. No. 1. A dagger made from a file. No. 2. Giant powder cartridge. Nos. 3 and 4. Hand grenade shells. No. 5. Dynamite bombs. *00 <0 4.75 8.50 4.25 2.25 .74 .40 .98 6.00 4.25 S.50 *.75 3.50 @ 5.25 & 5.00 @ 4.00 & .74 >4 <9 .41 (9 .27 & 5.25 © 4.75 @ 4,00 <9 5.25 & v> 0 regard to the anarchists and their doings. The most thrilling and at the same time reliable story has been told by one of Pinkerton's men-- Cape. John Cornish, Superintendent of the Eastern office of the great detective bureau. It has been an open secret that this celebrated firm of detectives has bad its men . lo­ cated in the very midst of the anarchists in Chicago and have boen posted as to their doings all along. It is stated that when the anarchists began to arm themselves and manufacture dynamite bombs the Pinkertons warned the authorities of Chicago as to the volcano be­ neath their feet; but the story seemed so incredible that they paid no attention to it, and so fell an easy victim to their deathly designs later on. Just how the Pinkertons have gained their information concerning the anarchists is, of course, unknown outside of themselves and operatives, but it is generally conceded by de­ tectives that they are better posted than any one else on the subject. The anarchists, says Superintendent Cornish, are an outgrowth of the socialists, and were first devoloped in this country in New York City, through the exertions of the saloon-keep­ er Schwab, whose name is entirely familiar to the public in connection witn socialistic mat­ ters. While Schwab was hard at work in New York converting socialists to anarchism, a printer named Paul Grottkau, who had just come over from Germany, was laboring with a similar amount of zeal for the same purpose in Chicago. His plan was to attend all the meet­ ings of the socialists and make speeches of the most blood-curdling nature against the capital­ ists of the country and society in general. It was not long before Schwab and Grottkau suc­ ceeded in ingratiating themselves with the socialists and in making many converts among them. These converts were mostly made up of Germans, Poles, and Scandinavians, and a few who called themselves Americans simply be­ cause they could speak the English language. One of the first to blossom out as a red-hot anarchist was A. K. Parsons, a Texas printer, who had been known for years as a labor agi­ tator. This man is one of the leaders now on trial in Chicago. In order to prove to the satis­ faction of his followers that he practiced what he preached--the equality of the human race-- he married a negress. Of the two Mrs. Parsons ia the fiercest fire-eater, and always 6poke at every meeting of the socialists and anarchists. She is a desperate dynamiter, and in addition to advocating the employment of that fearful explosive, advises tliroat-cutting and the torch for property owners and their possessions indis­ criminately. Parsons soon took the lead away from Grottkau, and gathered about him a num­ ber of outcasts from foreign countries, who had left their native land for its good. These ho formed into an organization known as the L U. W. P. A., or, in brief, Anarchists' Society. Parsons took unto himself a bosom friend in the person of August Spies. Spies w as a printer, and tho editor of the German socialist news­ paper known as the Arbeiter Zeitung, which was pnblished at No. 107 Fifth avenue, Chicago. Spies brought with him a host of anarchists, among them the man Fischer, a member of the staff of the Arbeiter Znitung. This paper has changed from a socialist organ to a rank an­ archist sheet. This paper had a great influence in making anarchist converts, for it had a large circulation among German and Polish socialists throughout the country. In order to increase the membership, advertisements were placed in the daily papers, and large bulletins pasted upon tho hall door, announcing the meet­ ings at which all would be permit­ ted to speak. The topic discussed was usually "Capital Against Labor." These meet­ ing were held upstairs at No. 54 West Le.ke street, and were attended by as bloodthirsty a set as can be imagined. Beneath the hall was a saloon kept by a man named Grieff, who is as enthusiastic an anarchist as can be round anywhere. There is nothing too murderous for this man to believe in with reference to the re­ moval of capitalists and property owners. He believed so firmly in socialistic doctrines that he married a widow with 0 number of children who owned No. 54 West Lake street, started a boarding house, made his wife attend the boarders and the children the bar, while he preached anarchy and destruction in its most ferocious forms. To illustrate what kind of a man he is to have in a community, I will relate the substance of a conversation which occurred in his bar-room one night after one of their meetings. Spies, Fielden, ParsonB, and a man named Dusuy were present. The party was drinking beer in Grieff's bar-room and dis­ cussing what had been said at the meeting. Mrs. Parsons had made th« speech of the evening, In which she strongly advised that all the mem­ bers should at once arm themselves with dyna­ mite bombs and proceed immediately in the night time to the palatial residences of the rich on all the avenues and streets of Chicago, and at the stroke of a certain hour hurl the weapons of destruction against the structures and blow them and their cursed occupants to pieceB. "Of conrse, some innocent people will be killed," she said, "but wo can not afford to waste our sympathy upon them. You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs." In sneaking of this Grief! said that dynamite and pistols were all well enough, but he . advocated the free use of the knife and dagger, I as they made no noise and did their work effectually. Fielden remarked that white he knew they must use dynamite without hesita­ tion in destroying property, he believed in throat-cutting as the surest and best way of re­ moving the capitalists. He fully agreed with Grieff, Spies calmly listened to all that had been said, and then remarked that what they proposed was all well enough, but he had some­ thing better to olTer them. "My scheme,* said everr man aim himself with a little syringe just lam enough to be oonoealed in the closed hand. The point of the syringe should be just as t-mall and fine as that or a needle. So that it can easily penetrat9 the clothing and skin. The bulb of the syringe must be filled with prussic acid, and then it is all ready for business. Armed with this, yoa«aa walk up alongside of the napitalist to be removed, quickly insert the needle point through his clothes and into his flesh, and at the same time squeeze the bulb, sending the prussic acid into his veins. The victim would not mind the attack any more than he would notice a slight prick of a pin or the bite of a fiea, and the poison would kill him in a very few minutes, and his death would be a horrible one. He would not know, and If he did he could not tell, what had been done to him." This ingenious, death-dealing scheme was greeted with acclamations of approval by all. Fielden had joined Parsons, Spies, Schwab, and Fischer shortly before that. At that time he was the driver of a stone wagon. Ho is an Englishman, and was bom at Tormorden of poor parents.In this country he has worked upon tho farm of "Long John" Wentworth, and in a stone-quarry. Without exception he was the worst throat-cutting advocate who spoke to the anarchists at their meetings. Fielden brought with him another agitator named Gor- such. The whole precious lot of thugs then be?an systematic organization in dead earnest. The anarchist organization was divided up into groups, each holding regular meetings twice a week under the general name of the "I. U. W. P. A." The Germans, Poles, ohd Bohemians of tho city flocked into the groups, and listened delightedly to the fiery talk of prop­ erty and life destruction. Everything was to be accomplished by force, and that in its most barbaric and inhuman forms. They never spoke of building up anything, it was nothing but destruction. In a very short time there were five or six anarchist groups in the city. They had as their banners, very natural­ ly, red and black flugs, signifying blood, de­ struction and death. The Arbeiter Zeitung was their organ. In tho fall of 1884 the principal group, known as the American group No. 1, was formed by Parsons, Fielden, Spies, Holmes, Barker, Keegan. and John A. Henry. Homes was a young man connected with an "insurance agency. Barker was an expressman and a great dynamiter. Keegan was a blatherskite sort of chap, while Henry was a smooth-talking villain of a printer. Henry always delighted in stating at the meetings that the public called him blood­ thirsty, and seemed unxious to appear a fero­ cious anarchist, as all the rest did. Henry was out of his group, and was not very well known. One of the first to join the group after its orga­ nization was a man named Doucey. a stair- bu'lder by trade, and a property-owner him­ self, and, in addition, one of the worst landlords in tne city of Chicago. Doucey was a French Canadian, and a very mean man. He was tho first to call upon the aniirchists to abjure the ballot. This was unnecessary, so far as the German, Polish, and Bohemian groups were concerned, for none of the members were citi­ zens. The American group, which was the principal one, as I have stated, mot every Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon, "on the third floor of No. 5i Lake street (west). The man named Holmes was elected permanent treas­ urer, and Fielden permanent secretary. These were the only permanently appointed officials connected with the group. About all that Fielden had to do was to note the subject dis­ cussed at the meetings, and the speakers, in a little book, and to give out tho subject to be spoken on at the next meeting. Tho treasurer initiated new members and collected dues and private subscriptions. He paid the expense bills. No bonds were demanded from him as a guarantee of his honesty. All surplus money was divided between Parsons, Spies, Fielden, Holmes, Henry, and the saloon­ keeper Grieff. For his share of the surplus, Grieff supplied the meeting with vile beer and worse cigars. The leaders secured most of their living from these surplus funds. The secretary usually called the meetings to order, and a chairman was then elected to act during the session. The principal speaker was allowed one hour in which to give his views, and was followed by others who were confined to fifteen-minute speeches. At the conclusion of the speaking Fielden would announce to the audience that as they were not millionaires it would bo necessary to tako up a collection to defray tho expenses of the gas aud hall. Nearlv all generally responded to tins request, and sub­ scriptions ranged from five cents to SI. After tho cash was safely taken care of, Fielden would announce that anybody could join the group by signing their names in a book and paying a fee of ton cents. If any one didn't happen to have the ten cents, why it made no great difference. During the fall of 1854 and the spriug of 1SS5 the organization of anarchists thrived wonder­ fully, and the little meeting hall was packed always. It soon became a great resort for tramps, who could air their grievances, enjoy a good fire, and get an occasional glass of beer from Grieff for nothing. Women were as eager­ ly welcomed to the organization as men, and some of them were tho most earnest and hard­ est workers of the lot. Among the most promi­ nent female anarchists was, quite naturally, Mrs. Parsons, the colored wife of the leader. Mrs. Schwab came next to her, and was a very active worker for the organization. Bj>th were as homely as sin, and it was a toss up as to which was the prettier. Next came a Mrs. Ames, who was the next most enthusiastic be­ liever in dynamite to Mrs. Parsons. She be- lioved in the use of the dagger, pistol, and other weapons as well. Anything that would cause death suited her perfectly, no matter what it was. She was a perfect vixen and a decidedly dangerous person. A Miss Moore, who had turned the shady side of 30, unmar­ ried and disgusted with the world and society in general and herself in particular, also took a prominent part in tho work, and never failed to make herself heard with the rest at every meeting. Apparently all that was being done or said transpired at these meetings, which were open to the public, but in reality all important busi­ ness was transacted at a secret meeting hold after the public one had been adjourned. None but "true bluo" anarchists were admitted to these secret conclaves. All the women were admitted to these, how­ ever, for no stancher supporters of the doctrine of anarchy than they could be found. They were desperately in earnest in all they said and did. It was at these secret business meetings that ways and means were discussed. The principal scheme was to raise funds enough to procure the services of a thoroughly skilled professor of chemistry, one who was away up on the subject of explosives in general, and dynamite in particular. This professor was to take a class < f anarchists and instruct them fully in all the mysteries of explosives, so that they could in tram instruct their fellow-anarch­ ists and prepare them for the revolution which was to arrive in time. This matter of a revolu­ tion was openly agitated at all the meetings, and preached to the people constantly. Attempts to raise the necessary amount of money to advance this scheme failed, so it was given up, and the members were asked to de­ vise methods of destruction of their own which they could carry out individually. The man Barker got disgusted because nothing was ac­ complished, and, being thoroughly earnest in his ideas of anarchy, he sold his express business and started for Europe, with the avowed intention of studying tho ways and means of the European anarchists, more es- ' pecially those of England, where he said they j were all ready for a revolution. j A prominent figure at all the business meet- j ings was a young German named Burdendeck- , er, who has been in Chicago about six years. I He posed as a boss tramp, or one who had a j kingly control over an ariuy of these lawless, good-for-nothing men who travel the coun­ try over, steal, and commit outrages upon the ! community. His chief hobby was to raise a subscription for the purpose of arming every tramp in the country, so that as they went about they could easily inako away with bloated bondholders and people of wealth who refused them what they asked. Burdendecker wanted to handle this subscription money, but tho an­ archists did not seem to put much trust in him as a holder of cash, and so did not contribute to any great extent. The boss tramp, in conse­ quence, was obliged to give up his hobby, and the vast army of tho unwashed were left help- lesa and unprotect .d in a cold, heartless world, which owed them a living and refused to pay its just debt. Burdendecker, however, did not lose heart or his appetite, for he hung around Grieff's saloon until that bold anarchist bounced him. because he -never missed a meal and never paid a cent. Even that did not disaourage tho boss tramp; he had got hardened to such treatment, fie gained tho idea, somehow, that ho bad not talked wild enough to keep In solid with the anarchists, and that he had only to "shoot his mouth off" a little more vigorously, and do something in the way of deviltry to inspire the men of the red and black flag that he was just the kind of a man they wanted, and then secure a living from them without working for it. About that time, a Chicago business man got into trouble with his servant girl, the latter claiming that he and his wife had beaten her. This "outrage" upon a poor working girl was brought before one of the business meetings of tho group. Burdendeoker realized that the glorious opportunity to prove him­ self had arrived. Tho affair was dis­ cussed in lurid language. Spies said that the girl's wrongs must be avenged. Thereupon Burdendecker constituted himself a committee of one to act tho avenger. Ho provided himse'f with an old pistol, which be carried in one pocket, and what he called a dynamite bomb in another, and sallied forth in the role of a Nemesis. Burdendecker, however, took care to Of)prise his intended victim ot what he intended to do by means of anonymous letters, and so finding the man on his guard he gallantly backed out and announced to tho anarchists that he could not ftnrt the man, as ho had run away in fear of his life. The dynamite bomb which he carried was something like a pepper caster bot­ tle in appearance, and he claimed that it was filled with dynamite. He warranted it to do terrible execution, and said that it was his own invention. THE B0MB-THR0WER3. Progresi of the Celebrated Trial : y- Haymarket Biotersfl' 'r ̂ Chicago. of _ •**. H, TRIAL OF THlf^NABC ̂ Spies, Schwab, a*4 Parsons •!* ̂ 8tawl and Tell Their Stories. The Defease Set Up la Their Behalf -4 Glance at tbe £vi- dence. At the time of the Haymarket riot in May there were no less than thirteen regularly constituted groups of anarchists in tho city of Chicago. In addition to theso, there ar6 about seventy- five anarchist groups located in different parts of the country, ull bound in the firm belief of the dangerous doctrines of anarchy. "I tell you," said Supt. Cornish, "that these anarchists are dangerous people to have around, and they should be crushed out of existence as quickly as possible and not allowed to epring up again. This is a 'free country' and all that, but it has no use for such murderous scum. Now is the time to do it. Certainly the people of Chicago be, -'is the best in the world." I have given a j have woke up to their danger, and I think that good deal of time to it, and have studied it, out • an example will be made of the leaders they carefully and closely. My plan is this: Let J now are trying." [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.} Another week of the anarchist trial has come and gone, and yet the end seems a long way off. The chief gossip of Chicago is in respect to tho probable outcome of this now celebrated case. A great many express fears that the weakness of the law and the tactics of the defense will to­ gether furnish means of escape for the eight criminals, who are held to be at least morally responsible for the Haymarket riot and its dreadful results. Others seem to hold to the opinion that some of them, at least, will be con­ victed of murder. The defense set up by the prisoners' counsel is regarded generally as a very weak one, though probably the best that could be offered under the circumstances. A large number of witnesses have been examined, nearly all of whom were regular readers of the Arbeiter Zeitung, and either avowed socialists or social­ istic sympathizers. Most of tne witnesses thus far examined by the defense have been called for tho apparent purpose of attempting to prove a negative. Under the rigorous prompting of the couusal for the prisoners they have been made to testify to what they did not see, what they did not hear, what they were not in­ formed of, and what they were not in a position to know anything definitely about. We have had a series of witnesses to prove that they did not see pistols in the handB of the socialists who were assembled in front of the speak­ ers' stand. An effort to prove a nega­ tive must inevitably result in failure. Indeed, under any strict rules of evi­ dence such testimony would not be per­ mitted. But apparently both the court and the counsel for the prosecution are disposed to allow tho widest latitude to the defense, for the rea­ son that it is clearly as much for the interest of the people as for that of the prisonors that the whole truth shall be brought out during the ex­ amination of witnesses. But for the purpose of establishing any moral probability as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, all this testi­ mony as to what was not seen or heard is worth­ less. Up to this time tho chain of proof sub­ mitted by the prosecution has not been broken at a single point. But the most ridiculous proposition the de­ fense has been laboring to establish is that the police did all the shooting at tho Havmnrket: that the anarchists were a peaceable lot of lamb-like innocents, and that the gathering whero the bomb was thrown was a perfectly legitimate and lawful assembly of highly respectable gentlemen that met together for the most peaceful purpose imaginable. While their orators were occupied in calm and tem­ perate discussion of some public questions, counseling their hearers to abstain from all manifestations of violence, to respect and obey the laws, and to conduct themselves as quiet, orderly, and well-behaved citizens, a squad of policemen appeared and commenced shooting them down right and left. Being un­ armed, the peaceable gentlemen composing tho assembly did not return the fusillade, but hastened to get out of the range of the guns of their wicked assailants as fast as they could. Nevertheless, the Satanic policemen continued shooting at them; and, not content with killing and wounding many of them, turned their deadly weapons against each other, and, to make the work of death in their own ranks more complete, throw a dynamite bomb into their midBt. In this way the infernal police­ men managed to kill seven or eight of their own nnmber and to maim,mutilate, and wound sixty or seventy more, in addition to the number of peaceful and unarmed citizens that they either killed or wounded. Briefly stated, tho defense judged by the trend of tho so-called testimony thus far adduced, seems to be about this : Tho defendants did not advise, encourage, aid, abet, or perpetrate the Haymarket butchery: 1. Be­ cause that monstrous crime was advised, en­ couraged, aided, abetted, and perpetrated by the police. 2. Because tho defendants exerted all their strength and influence to prevent the police from committing it. 3. Because the de­ fendants were somewhere else when tho police perpetrated that awful crime. These are the thro - propositions which tho attorneys for the defense appear to be struggling to establish. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago,was the first witness placed upon the stand by the de­ fense. The purpose was to show that after list­ ening to speeches at the Haymarket meeting he told Inspector Bonfield that tliero was noth­ ing in the affair to justify interference by the police. Dr, James D. Taylor, an aged physician and an avowed socialist, testified that he was on the edge of the sidewalk at the Haymarket meet­ ing before the speaking commenced, and re­ mained there until bullets began to fly. He saw the bomb thrown, but did not see a mem­ ber of the retreating crowd fire a shot, tho po­ lice alone emptying their revolvers. Barton Siinonson, a traveling salesman,was ex­ amined at length. Tho main point of his evidence was that concerning the point from which the bomb was thrown and its direction. The prin­ cipal witnesses for tho State swore that the bomb proceeded from the mouth of the alloy- way in a westerly direction. Simonson. stoutly maintained that it was thrown from the sidewalk, twenty feet south of the south line of the alleyway, and proceeded in a northwesterly direction. There were two other witnesses examined to corroborate Simonson. Their answers as to the direction of the bomb were too pat to be convincing, and in the minor details they differed materially from the chief witness for the defense. Their sympathies with the prisoners were scarcely concealed. One of them, a Secretary of the notorious Central Labor Union, told the improbable story that the light­ ed fuse preceded the bomb in its course through the air, and lie swore that it was thrown from bohind a wagon, which appears, as far as the evidence has gone, to be almost impossible, A witness named August Krumm, who in size and general outline somewhat resembles Spies, was put on the stand to testify that at about the time when Gilmer says he saw the editor of the Arbeit r-Zeiluntj light the bomb fuse he (Krumm) went into the alleyway with a companion and ignited a match with which both lit their to­ bacco pipes. Krumm's alleged companion on that occasion, William Albrecht, was put on the stand to corroborate this story. The weakness of this line of defense is apparent. It is a tacit admission that Gilmer had some ground for his statement, and that he was honestly mistaken-- mistaking a tobacco-pipe to be a bomb. But Gilmer swore that he saw the fuse "sizzle" after ignition, and that the person who he says was Schnaubelt advanced with the substance to which the fuBe was attached and threw it into the midst of the police. Neither Krumm's nor Albrecht's evidence can be made to correspond in any way with this portion of Gilmer's story. Besides, there is no resemblenco between Al­ brecht and Sohnaubelt. The witnesses contra­ dicted each other in minor details, and Krumm broke down completely under tho Stato's At­ torney's cross-examination. Like most of the socialistic and semi-socialistic wit­ nesses, he attempted to prove too much. He swore that he saw Spies, Fielden, and Parsons on the wagon while he wan standing wit 1 his back to the north wall of Crane's alley, four or five feet from the corner. As tho wall inter­ vened, and as the witness'face was turned from the speakers, it was impossible that ho could see them in that x>osition. Krumm fell into the mistake of some who testified previously as to the point where tho bomb ex­ ploded. He said it exploded at leaBt twenty feet south of the south line of the alleyway, whereas, as proved by overwhelming testimony, it exploded directly opposite the alleyway. The witness gave a rambling and unsatisfactory account of the circumstances which led to his being at tho Haymarket meet­ ing, and before he left the stand the State's At­ torney wrung from him the confession that he had spent a week in the bridewell last sum­ mer. Krumm's confederate, Albrecht, told a more consistent story ; but he, too, broke down. The eagerness of tho German socialist wit­ nesses to swear that the bomb was thrown from a point Bouth of the alleyway suggested "coach­ ing" by the anarchist sympathizers, and led to numerous blunders as to details. One witness swore he saw 110 boxes on the sidewalk near where he said ho stood, though If he spoko the truth he must have been pushed against them. Another witness swore that the bomb must have fallen about forty feet south of the alley­ way, or about twenty feet behind where the police stood. That the coaching has been with> out the knowledge or consent of the lawyert for the defense is apparent. They could hardly conceal their annoyance at its manifestation. A number of witnesses were Introduced to prove the bad character for veracity of the painter Gilmer, who gave such damaging evi­ dence against Spies. They swore they would not believe Gilmer under oath. In rebuttal of Gilmer's statement, that he Baw or thought he saw Schwab at the speaker's wagon when spies was lighting the fuse in the alley, or about that time, witnesses were called to prove that Schwab was then in Lake View, having ad­ dressed a meeting of the Deering employes on the prairie there the same night. Mrs. Holmes, the assistant editor of the dynamite or­ gan, the Alarm, was put on the stand to prove an alibi for Parsons. The tirosecution, in cross-examination compelled ler to admit that Fielden was interested in the Alarm and had charge of tha "complaint" de- Cartment, and that he and Parsons were mem-era of the "Bureau of Information" of the In­ ternational Working People's Association. The attempt to establish an alibi by her evidence for Fischer was a complete failure. Much interest was manifested in the court when Fielden, one of the de­ fendants, took tho witness-stand. He is the typical English anarchist, burly, bearded, and heavy-browed. His protruding forehead overshadows all the rest of his face. He gave his evidence in a frank, earnest, easy, and apparently truthful manner. He preferred making an affirmation to taking an oath, and tho Judge allowed him to affirm. He graphic and vivid story of his experiences in the riot, tho audience listening with strained at­ tention. Arising in his chair, ho illustrated how, when Capt. Ward had ordered the meet­ ing to peaceably disperse, he had bent forward to tho Captain and replied in concili­ atory tones : "Why, Captain, this is a peaceable meeting." He told how people "howled in ag. ony" as they frantically tried to escape the terrible storm of bullets po"ured on them from the ranks of the police after the exnJosion. A Surprise Sprang Upon Spies, ia tie of a Letter from Herr Most. [Chicago telegram,] • eouusel for the defense Anarchigta' trial rested their case Wednesisy morning, somewhat unexpectedly, and .tho State spent a short time in rebuttal. Schwab, Spies, and Par­ sons, three of the parties on trial, were plaoed in the witness chair and allowed to tell their stories. All three of them, so far as they wen permitted by their counsel, acknowledged their open advocacy of the use of dynamite to overturn the existing order of society. Spies and Parsons acknowledged this in so many words, and Schwab assented to it so far as he had liberty to do so. But 8pies did much more. He proved the fundamental' fact of. the conspiracy. He even acknowledged that he knew the meaning of the "Ruhe" signal, and gave a very gauzy explanation of how it came to be written by him and inserted in the Arbeiter-Zeitung. The sum of his testimony was virtually a statement to this effect: "All that the State claims is true, except I don't know anything personally of that particular bomb thrown at the Hay­ market. Fischer knows more about it than I do. I am a dynamiter, an anarchist, a revolu­ tionist, a friend and disciple of Johann Most; I want to kill the law and over­ throw your so-called u civilization, and I urged others to do so; but I did not throw that bomb." Most's instructions for anarchists on the witness-stand were faithfully followed by this trio of confessed dynamiters. First says Most, try to prove an alibi; second, use your position for tho declaration and dissemin­ ation of our principles. These two rules were obeyed as far as was consistent with the pres­ ent attitude cf the defending counsel. All three tried to make speeches, and Parsons suc­ ceeded so well that in one instance, while giving an alleged recital of what he had said at the Haymarket, he spoke for thirty- five minutes without a break. Schwab, Spies and Parsons are all declared atheists and ene­ mies of religion, aud declined to take the oath. They simply affirmed. Schwab, when he took the stand, amid some laughter, gave his residence as No. 107 County Jail. His occupations are co-editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung and brother-in-law to liudolph Schnaubelt. He did not see Spies on the night of the 4th, neither was he in the neighborhood of Crane's alley at that time. His direct ex­ amination took up only fifteen minutes of the court's time. Mr. GrinneU, in his cross- examination, led the witness step bv step to the Deering meeting. The witness wanted to make a speech when Mr. Grinnoll asked him if he was an anarchist, but was promptly choked off. Spies, when put upon the stand, admitted that he authorized the printing of the signal- word "Kuhe," and confessed it was in his own handwriting. He pretended that he did not.un- derstand its significance ; vet it was printed in full-faced type at the top of the editorial an­ nouncement column. In the manuscript it was underlined and followed by exclamation points. It had come to him in the regular form of an­ nouncement, he said, and with the request that it should be printed prominentlv. He learned its full meaning from Fischer "and Kau after the paper had gone to press. They agreed in stating that it was a notice to the armed sec­ tions to arm themselves and to resist the attacks of the police, though there was 110 in­ dication that the police were going to attack them. Spios' effort to shift the blame on Fischer and Kau seemed cowardly. He also tried to unload a part of the responsibility for the violent articles in the ArW- iter-Zeitung on his fellow-prisoner, Schwab, and on the pub­ lishers of the paper. His explanation of his conduct at the meeting near McCorinick's fac­ tory was at variance with his own account thereof written the swrno evening and published in the Arbeiter-Zeitung the following day. He said he exaggerated the casualties on the occa­ sion on the basis of a report published in an evening paper of the previous day. Ho failed to state that the morning papers containing the true statement of the facts appeared 011 the streets ten hours before his o?. 11 paper went to press. Ho took credit to himself for rebuking the persons who had a circular printed inviting the workingmen to come to the Haymarket meeting "armed and in full force," though he admitted havin" written the "Kevenge"circular, which was much more violent in its language • than the poster calling the meeting. His ex­ planations as to the presence of dynamite bombs in his editorial desk, and dynamite packages on his shelves, and his apolocy for his Interviews concerning street-fighting and £1 use of explosives were flimsy and unworthy'Of credence. He tried to make the explanation of his Haymarket speech the occasion of a har­ angue to the jury on the woes of the working- men, but he was not successful. In the cross-examination of Spies by State's Attorney Grinnell, something of a sensation was created when a letter from Herr Johann Most to the witness was produced. Spies, in- his direct examination, had pleaded total ignor­ ance of everything concerning dynamite or bombs, and when this letter was read be waa placed in on exceedingly awkward position, and showed it by his looks. Following is the letter: DKAH SPIES : Are you sure that the letter from the Hocking Valley was not written by a detec­ tive? In tho week I will go to Pittsburg, and I have an inclination, also, to go to the Hocking Valley. For the present I send you some printed matter. There Sch. and H. also existed but on paper. I told you this some months ago. On the other hand I am in a condition to furnish "medicine," and tho "genuine" article at that. Directions for use are perhaps not need with these people. Moreover, they were recently published in the "Fr." The appliances I can also send. Now, if you consider the address of Buehtell thoroughly reliable I will ship twenty or twenty-five pounds. But how? Is there an express line to the place? Or is there another way possible ? Polus the great seems to delight in hopping about in the swumps of the N. Y. V. Z. like a blown-up ibloated) frog. His tirades excite general detestation. He has made himself immensely ridiculous. The main thing is only that the fellow cannot smuggle any more rotten elements into the newspaper company than are already in it. In this regard the caution is important, The organization here is no better nor worse than formerly. Our group has about the strength of the North-Side group in Chicago, and then/besides this, wo have also the soc. rev. 6, the Austrian and Bohemian leagues--three more groups. Finally it is easily seen that our in­ fluence with the trada organizations'is steadily §rowing. We insert our meetings only in the 'r. and cannot notice that they are worse at­ tended than at the time when we yet threw the weekly $1.50 and S2 into the mouth of the N. Y. V. Z. Don't forget putting yourself into com­ munication with Drury in reference to the En­ glish organ. He will surely work with yoa - much and well. Such a paper is more necessa­ ry than the Tooth. This, indeed, is getting • more miserable and confused from issue to is­ sue, and in general is whistling from the lost hole. Inclosed iB a fly-leaf which recently ap­ peared at Emden, and is perhaps adapted for reprint. Greetings to Schwab, Bau, and to you. Your JOHANN MOST. P. 8.--To Buehtell I will, of course, write for the present only in general terms. A. Sides, 107 Fifth avenue. Chicago, 111. Anarchist Albert R. Parsons was the third and last witness. Parsons was the best witness of the trio. He is 38 years old, thin, ldng-haired, and Ballow; and is keen and intellectual both in face aud manner. He was somewhat affected in speech, and careful about what he said. In his story of the riot he gave a mild version Of his speech, taking nearly an hour iu the telling of it. He had said that the press was subsi- dized by capitalists end monopolists, and be­ lieved it He had told them law was for sal»| that "you couldn't got justice without money, lust as you couldn't get bread without money. The ballot was a farce. Wage-working was Slavery. He had advised his hearers to anBf believing that other means were hopeless. In cross-examination, Parsons practically ad­ mitted advocating dynamite--he advocated any­ thing "necessary to success." "Where were you born ?* he was asked by Mr. Grinnell. "At Montgomery, in Alabama." "What have you been doing in Chicago? "For eight or nine years I set type--was a printer. About five years ago my wife and I' went into the business of making suits on Lam- bee street. In October, 18S4, the Alarm was started and we have been engaged since then in conducting it." , . „ . .. "Y©u say you told the workingmen that tha Chicago Times had advocated throwing hand- grenades at the striking seamen, that the Trib­ une advocated giving strychnia for tramps, and that Tom Scott advocated using rifles upon the railroad strikers?" **Ycf sir*" "Did you tell them at the same time to retat late by "using arms and dynamite?" "I urged them to defend themselves by BUdtl m eans. I don't think I used tl^e word dynamite that night, though." "You do advocate the use of dynamite?" "Yes, as a defense against those unlawfully attacking them." "What do you mean by the words 'Woikinf* men. to arms'?" "I meant that workingmen should provide themselveg with arms with which to defend themselves against force, if necessary." "Are you a socialist?" "Yes. sir; and an anarchist, as I .under­ stand it." The defense failed to produce any testimony which materially affects the credibility of any of the witnesses'for the State except the painter Gilmer, but the prosecution produced a host of good men to show that he is truthful and re­ liable. They proved that he was a veteran soldier and a memoer in good standing ef * local artillery company. Ex-Gov. Merrill, eB- Supreme Judge Cole, and U. S. Circuit Clerk Mason, all of Des Moines, Iowa, besides severlu prominent Chicagoans, testified that they Gilmer and would believe him.