Five Men Shot

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Corydox, Ind., Aug. 7. - Boone townehip, not far from here, was the scène oí a terrible tragedy early Sunday inorning, four men being killed and one fatally wounded. The dead are all farmers, as follows: Edward Houston, Isaac Howe, John Timberlake and William Wiseman. William May, also a farmer, was fatally injured. CAUSE OP THE BLOOD8HED. Four months ago Samuel and William Conrad, farmers, aged 27 and 21, living in Boone township with their mother and sister, were suspeeted of killing their father, who was found in a field with his head crushed and a bloody club lying near by. After a short time the boys were arrested and cbarged with the crime, the supposition being that they put their father out of the way in order to get his property, the old man being pretty well off. There was a good deal of excitement at the trial, the court room being crowded at every sitting, but the state could get no prooi and the prisoners were discharged. 'J'his angered the farmers in the communit y wherethe Conradslived and it was determined to raise a body of men and try the young fellows in the eourt of Judge Lynch. QUIETI.Y WAITED. But the neighbors had misjudged the metal of the suspeeted brothers. The latter said nothing wheii they heard that a mob was proposed, but quietly loaded up their shotguns and waited. About midnight Saturday 100 men or more assembled at a small schoolhouse not far from the home of the Conrads and marched to the house, reaching there about 1 o'clock in the morning. Some of the members of the mob were masked and others raade no attempt at concealment. F1KED FROM BELOW. After the Conrads had received wai-ning of the visit they hid themselves under a porch on the front part of the house. They had made several auger holes in the flooring of the porch, through which the muzzles of the guns could be thrust and fired at close range with deadly execution. When the gang approached the house and stepped on the poreh they deinanded adimttance. At that moment the Conrads fired. The contents found lodgment in the bodies of the mob and two men feil dead on the porch. Two others were found sev eral hours later a few hundred yards from the house stone dead. It is also reported that Mrs. Conrad was injuret in the fight. THREE RIDEltLESS HORSES. Corydon, Ind., Aug. 8, 3 a. m. - The white caps of Booue unvnship burned the house of the Conrads during the night. Monday three riderless horses owned by three white caps - John Kendel, William Fish and William Hubbel - were found. It is thought that their owners have been killed by the Conrads, who have returned from Kentucky. They say they have three more men to kill. It is thoujfht they are in hlding in the woods. Harrison county is excited as it never was before. The murderers are in ambush and everybody is going armed. The Conrads are asking relatives to help them, and a bloody battle is expected in the next twenty-four hours. DEATH BLOW TO WHITE CAPS. One thing is certain, the Conrads have frightened the white caps of Harrison county, whose strength has been heretofore in numbers, into the palsy. (Jood citizens are praying that the Conrads have struck the death-blow to the reign of the grim "night riders." It is plain that the sympathy of the people in general is with the Conrads. The sheriff of Harrison county, it is thought, will make no attempt to arrest them, for, as onc old farmer put it, "they have done nothing but defend themselves right smart." Even men who are known to be themselves white caps daré not defend the action of the night riders.