Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 August 1897 — Page 2

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The Itccord,

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the first, paper in

Crawfordsville, established In 1831, and to the People's

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established In 1814.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. 18g7.

JOAQUIN MILLER was born in Franklin county, this State, the same county in which (Jen. Low Wallace was born.

A TIMELY tip to our local calamity howlers: "Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone."

THE per capita circulation of money in the United States is §22.35, or SI.35 more than it was a year ago. Mr. liryan's name lor this is a contracting currency,

A MEMO AN corn is in demand abroad as well as wheat. The shipments of corn last month exceeded those of July, 1S0G, by 32,000,000 bushels. If European cooks only knew how to make corn bread and corn cakes as do American cooks the demand for our maize would be ama/.ing.

BRYAN is to speak at a silver camp meeting at Springfield, Ohio, some time in the near future. To secure his services it required §1,500, good currency of the realm, worth more than $3,000, to use his method. of computation. This is certainly a pretty steep price for a rehearsal of that same old Bpeech. Prosperity has struck the Hoy Orator of the Platte and struck him hard.

AN anti civil service .paper has been launched at Indianapolis under the title of the True American. It is rather late in the century when the reform has made such progress and has obtained such a firm footing for disappointed spoilsmen to start an organ. A newspaper born of a single idea and that idea at variance with the best thought of the country will be of few days and full of trouble.

A MEXICAN dollar contains considerably more bullion than an American dollar yet the Mexican is now quoted in the markets of the world at 4l cents. And yet we have a large class of voters in the United States who favor knocking the gold prop from under the American dollar and Mexicanizing it. Had they succeeded the American silver dollar to-day would have been worth about 40 cents. Fortunately better counsels prevailed.'

TIIE world's product of gold in 1873 was §90,200,000 and of silver 881,000,000 total, $171,200,000. The world's product of gold alone last year was 8)20,000,000, and this year will be about $250,000,000. Next year it will not improbably reach $300,000,000, and by 1900, when the next presidential battle is to be fought, will probably be more than double the product of both gold and silver in 1873. Furthermore, the world will have largely increased its use of both silver and paper, for gold is nowhere the money of retail transactions.

TUK managers of the State fair are putting forth every effort to make the '97 meeting the most successful and most interesting in the history of the State. An entirely new and varied programme has been arranged and visitors can expect a departure from the usual entertainment of this kinj. The utmost care will be exercised in the granting of privileges, and the public can rest assured that no questionable shows or gambling of any kind will be tolerated upon the grounds. In fact, the new blood in the board of managers is asserting itself and will use every effort to make a good showing.

Coi.. JAMES H. BRIGHA.M, acting Secretary of Agriculture, has made an estimate of the amount gained by the farmers of the United States as compared with the crops of 18%. Eight products are shown as illustrating the vast financial benefits which they have received by the recent rapid rise in prices. These are cattle, wheat, corn, potatoes, cotton, sheep, swine and wool. Careful comparisons have been made of the prices now prevailing with those which were obtained during the whole of last year. The results show an inflow of $410,000,000 to the pockets of the farmers. To this large sum, •which is already in sight, must be added an estimate of $90,000,000 for the increased profits that have been realized on oats, barley, rye, ilax, hay, hops and other miscellaneous but valuable products of the farm. Five hundred millions added to the farmers' exchequer means-tliat they have shared and are sharing in the new era of prosperity.

T1IE AMERICAN "WAY, NOT THE .MIJXICAX. O The JOURNAL has been asked to ex­

plain the difference between the Mexican and the United States silver dollar. The Mexican and United States dollar are of the same degree of fineness, but the Mexican dollar is a little heavier—our dollar having 412.50 grains and the Mexican dollar 410 G9 grains. In each country the Mexican dollar has purchasing power according to its market value as bullion, while the United State* dollar has in both countries the same purchasing power as a gold dollar. The latest quotation of the purchasing power of a Mexican dollar is 4134 cents. There is no limit to coinage in Mexico. The government has mints there, and everybody can have silver or gold coined by paying a small seigniorage, estimated to cover the actual cost of coinagc. Mexico has free coinage for both gold and siiver, but practically it is as much on a silver basis as if there were no gold there. In the United States we have free coinage for gold, but not for silver, the policy having been for the government to buy and coin all the silver put in circulation. The policy of our government has always been to maintain the silver and gold money of the country on the same

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of pur­

chasing power, and we have never yet failed to carry out this fundamental monetary idea. Mexico has no such policy, and there is nothing back of its silver dollar except the intrinsic value of the metal. There is no such word as parity in the financial system of Mexico. Here there is back of the United States dollar the fact that the government has never yet forced a silgle payee to take silver who preferred gold. So long as that policy prevails the purchasing power of the American silver dollar will have the same purchasing power as the gold dollar. Whether to Mexicanize our money or to maintain its Americanism was the issue of the last campaign. The people by their votes signified their willingness to maintain the gold standard. They prefer the American way to the Mexican way.

WHEAT is putting money into the pocketB of the farmer, but we have a tariff bill that will help take it out.— Indianapolis News.

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such meat as this that

free trade Ciosars feed. The assumption thai the Dingley tariff law will help take a dollar from the pocket of the farmer is the rottenest kind of rot. What the farmer

buyB

is governed by

the same law that governs the sale of his wheat, the law of supply and demand. If there is a great demand for that which he consumes and the supply is short the price will be increased. And pray why should not the other fellows who have commodities to sell obtain a better price as well as the farmer? Is it a virtue for the farmer to receive a big price for his wheat and a vice for other people to get a good price for what they have to sell? The farmer's consumption of the things he buys is infinitesimally small as compared with the things he has to sell. And the same rule is true of the manufacturer and every other producer. The News should pool its issues with those of the anti-civil Bervice fellows al Indianapolis who have started a newspaper and consent to be buried in one common grave. Both are so dead that they emit a stench.

ON Monday silver bullion estab lished a new low record on all the word's markets, falling to 54:i cents an ounce in New York. The Mexican dollar sold at 4 IK cents, and the actual bullion value of the American silver dollar was not quite 4234 cents. This enormous and continued decline can not be attributed to manipulation, for there has been no sign of any such thing anywhere. Nor can it be attrib uted to a falling off in the East Indian demand, for India has taken this year 815,303,000 worth against only 89,952,500 last year. Neither can "demonetization" by the act of 1873 in this country be responsible, for wc coined last year 21,000,000 full legal tender silver dollars, or more than twice as many as were coined from 1789 to 1873. The main trouble is that under cheapened methods more silver is produced every year than the world wants, and that the demand for it in markets important hitherto has recently ceased or greatly declined. The circumstances are certainly destructive of all arguments for an attempt by our government alone to restore silver to its place as a money metal at 16 to 1. The market ratio is now about 38 to 1.

TIIE Commissioner General of Immigration, Terrence V. Powderly, has asked American consuls in Europe to keep a close watch upon the movements of anarchists sailing from foreign ports to the United States, and to inform him of every departure for this country. Sensible citizens everywhere will be glad to hear that the public authorities are not indifferent to this matter, but are already preparing to shut arriving anarchists out of the country, so far as the law can be availed of to exclude them. It is to be regretted in the interests of civilization that the law does not permit steps more comprehensive and specific. Men who band together for purposes of assassination, who stand ready to become assassins themselves any time at

the command of the organization to which they belong, who applaud assassination when committed by their fellows, are not entitled to the protection of law and order. Men of their confessed lawless stamp are not wanted here, and if the law as it stands is not strong enough to reach them, Congress would do well next winter to remedy the defect.

THE great question, "Are the Rich Growing Richer and the Poor Poorer?" is discussed in the September Atlantic by Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor. He proves that while the number of rich men is growing larger, the relative number of the poor is decreasing, and that the tendency of our population is towards an increase in universal well being. Fortunately we are not obliged, says Mr. Wright, to depend upon the increase of rates of wages to show that the ordinary man is better off than at any former period in our history, because our censuses report aggregate earnings and also the number of persons among whom the earnings are divided. Looking to this side of the problem, we find that in 1850 the average annual earnings of each employe engaged in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits, including men, women and children, in round numbers were $247 in 18G0, $289 in 1870, $302 in 1880, $347 and 1S90, $445. Here is a steady, positive increase in the average annual earnings of the employes in our great industrial pursuits.

RUNAWAY'S LUCK.

Illinois IJoy Kcturits Home With Klondike Gold. ROCKFOKD, Ills., Aug. 17.—Charles

E. Meyers, who disappeared from his home in this city 21 years ago, has returned bring a fortune from the Klondike gold fields. Meyers went to Alaska in 1892. Ho located a claim on Bonanza creek and for five years has been adding to his hoard of the yellow metal. Oil returning to the states he brought over §100,000 and will give his Rockford sister, Mrs. Marguerite Beddoos, a fortune.

SALISBURY OBJECTS.

Refuses to Allow Turkey to Occupy Tlicssaly. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 17.—The peace

negotiations between the ambassadors of the powers and 'Eewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister, are at a complete standstill.

This is due to the refusal of Lord Salisbury to allow a Turkish occupation of Thessaly, pending a partial payment of the indemnity agreed upon.

Lord Salisbury's objection is based upon a fear that an occupation thus begun might become permanent.

SILVER REPUBLICANS.

National Kxecutive Committee Appointed by Chairman Towne. DULUTH, Aug. 17.—Chairman Towne

has announced the executive committee of the national Silver Republican party. The members are: Chairman, Fred T. Dubois, Idaho Judge J. J. Harper of Washington Court House, O. Ben S. Dean of Jamestown, N. Y. A. M. Stovenson of Denver, Nathan J. Cole, Jr., of Los Angeles, James H. Tomer of Chicago and Charles S. Hart man of Bozeman, Mont.

TOWN DESTROYED.

Four Hundred Houses Humeri and Four Thousand 1'eoplo Homeless. BERLIN, Aug. 17.—A dispatch to the

Kreuz Zeitung from Warsaw says that the town of Ostrow, in the province of Seidlce, Russia, has been destroyed by fire. Four hundred houses have been burned down and 4,000 people arc homeless. Four persons have been killed and many children are missing.

The most remarkable feature of the conflagration is that it began simultaneously in four different parts of the town.

HUNTER BRIBERY CASE.

Judge Cautrill Overrules the Demurrer to the Indietment. GEORGETOWN, Ky.t Aug. 17.—Judge

Cautrill yesterday overruled the domuiTcr to the indictment returned against Godfrey Hunter and others at the last term of the Franklin circuit court for attempt to bribe certain members of the last Kentucky legislature.

Weather.

Indiana and Illinois—Fair warmer in northern portion. Ohio—Fair.

NOTES BY WIRE.

The Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education is in session at Toronto, Can.

The courtmartial that tried the assassin of Premier Canovas has sentenced him to death. He will be garrotjd.

Cottoumills at Full River. Mass., and Providence, R. I., have resumed operations giving employment to 5,300 people.

Wliitelaw lieid denounces as trash the stories published about a stormy interview between liim and Secretary of State Sherman.

AH attempt to dynamito a confectioner's store and saloon was made at Harper, Kan. It is believed to have been the work of crusaders.

Hugo Wesendonck, president of the Germania Life Insuranco company of New York, and its founder, has tendered his resignation to the board of directors of the company, owing to ill health.

Judge Hanford of the United States court at Tacoma, Wash., has just rendered a decision by which the Northern Pacific railroad seoures 300,000 acres of land in Clarko and Cowlins counties, Wash.

Low Kate to Indianapolis.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West show will exhibit at Indianapolis August 27th, 18'.)7. For this occasion the Big Four will sell round trip excursion tickets Kirt Warner, to Indianapolis and for the round trip, tickets good return-1 dug them out. ing the day following. ly injured.

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INDIANA MAN'S FATE

Young Laswell of Princeton

Drowned at Atlantic City.

UNAWARE OF THE UNDERTOW.

J. M. Parrott Nearly Lost llis Lift) Trying: to Save His Friend—Duel Fought lu Paris Between Count Turin of Italy and Prince Henri of Orleans—Tragedy

In a Pasture.

ATLANTIC CITY, N..J., Aug. 10.—Two ventursome bathers wcro drowned in the surf here yesterday. They were Thomas C. Laswell, aged 21 years, of Princeton, Iiul., and an unknown man, supposed to be an excursionist from Philadelphia. Young Laswell came here with his friend, M. Parrott, also from Princeton, on his first visit to the seashore. The young men -went into the surf and Laswell, who seemed to be unaware of tlio dangerous undertow, was soon beyond his depth and calling for help.

The life guards made a brave effort to save him, but the surf was so heavy that they werO unable to reach the drowning man.

Laswell struggled in the water for about 15 minutes in full view of 10,000 people. Parrott liearh lost his own life in attempting to save that of his friend and was taken out of the water in an exhausted condition. One of the life guards, nained Reed, was also overcome in the water and was rescued in an unconscious condition.

Late iii"the afternoon the body of La-s-well came ashore. It was turned over to a local undertaker, who prepared it for shipment to Indiana. When Laswell checked his valuables at the bathhouse where he obtained his bathing suit he laughingly remarked to the cleric: "I will leave my address, so that in case I am drowned you can send my valuables home." The jest was a tragedy in less than an hour.

The second drowning occurred in the afternoon. The surf was the heaviest of tiie season owing to a gale which prevailed, and between 25 and 30 persons were rescued, many of them women.

II:I NCH-ITALIAN

Count of Turin and Priucc Henri of Orleans Cross Swords* PARIS, Aug. 10.—The Count of Turin

and Prince Henri of Orleans fought a duel with swords yesterday in the Bois de Marecliaux Vacresson. The duel was the result of criticisms passed on the Italian army by Prince Henri. The fighting was most determined and lasted 20 minutes. There were five engagements, of which two were at close quarters. Prince Henri received two serious wounds in the right shoulder and the right sidejof the abdomen. The Count of Turin was wounded in the right hand. Prince Henri was taken to the residence of the Due de Chartres and received medical attendance.

The details of the duel show that the encounter was very sharp and determined. Immediately on the crossing of swords Prince Henry .vigorously pressed his adversary. The count of Turin retreated to the limit of the ground, and then, resuming the offensive touched his opponent. The third and fourth assaults ended in long engagements within guard. The Temps says tnat the wound in the abdomen of the prince is serious but not alarming. The count of Turin, accompanied by his seconds, left Paris for Italy late in the afternoon. He was not experiencing any special distress from liis wound.

News Received at Itbme.

ROME, Aug. 10.—The news of the result of the duel has been received here with the greatest of enthusiasm. Crowds filled the streets cheering for the Count of Turin and the army. Many of the houses are decorated with flags in honor of the result and congratulatory telegrams are showered upon the members of the royal family from all part* of Italy and many have been receive from abroad.

Tragedy lu a Pasture.

BRISTOL, Yt., Aug. 10. Dora E. Cushman, the 15-year-old daughter of Dr. A. J. Cushman of Lincoln, was found dead in a pasture near her father's house yesterday by a searching party which had been out all nitrht. The girl went blackberrymg Saturday afternoon and when she did not return search was made. An autopsy will bo held to determine the cause of death. There are suspicious circumstances attending the death.

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II. W. Harrington Pawns Whiskey. CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—"Yourhonor, this

man pawned his legs to buy liquor," said an officer in Justice Foster's court. "What man? Where?" demanded the magistrate, and a couple of policemen held up H. W. Harrington for inspection. Tho prisoner was without both lower limbs. The officers explained that ho was found on Clark street in a hopeless state of intoxication and unable to propel himself. Aftor being locked up he told tho officers that he had Dawned his cork legs. Tho justice dis missed the prisoner and instructed the police to assist him in the recovery qf his artificial limbs.

Itali:in .Minister 1° Justice Dead. ROME, Aug. 15.—Sigrror G. Costa,

minister of justice, is dead. Shortly before he expired lie sent a touching deathbed telegrath of farewell to King Humbert. Marquis di Rudini, the premier, will temporarily assume the portfolio.

Sower Caveil In.

HICKSVILLE, O., Aug. 1G.—Tho heavy rains caused a cave-in in the city sewer late Saturday, catching Pat Morsoy and Kirt Warner. They were working at

the bottom laying tile. Other workmen Both men were serious-

JUSTICE S. J. FIELD

He Has Broken the Record on the

Supreme Bench.

COMMISSIONER JONES' WARNING

The Trail to the Klondike Blocked. Forming a New Reciprocal Agreement With France—Archbishop Zvenn's Visit to This Country—Canadian Tells Englishmen of the Dangers of Kloudike.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—If Stephen J. Field, associate justice of tho United States 'were to retire today ho would leave behind him a record of service longer by two days than that of any other man who over sat on the supremo bench. John Marshall has held the record hitherto, with his 34 years of continuous service, but Field, who was appointed by Lincoln in 1863, will hold it from now on. He is now in his 81st year and has reached tho age of retirement, but prefers to remain in active

JDST1CE FIELD. *.

service on the bench and at tho supreme courtrooms it is said that there is no present indication that ho will retire, it will be many a day before another justice come forward to rival this record.

Field is a wonderful old man. He is feeble now and tottering, walks painfully even for short distances with his two canes, and betrays signs of liic extreme age in his consideration of legal questions. For months he has done little active work as far as the machinery of the court was concerned, and the tasks that naturally would fall to liim have been divided among the other justices.

In his younger days Field was possessed of a voice of marvelous beauty and power. It used to be counted one of the attractions of the capitol to hear him read a decision, and when he was down for an opinion the supreme court room was crowded to its doors. His elocution was perfect, his voice captivating, his presence imposing and magnetic. He invested the driest legal disquisition with the interest of an oration. Now it is painful to listen to his efforts on the bench. His voice is feeble and faltering and scarcely can be heard, even in the narrow confines of the supreme court.

ALASKA ISLDOIIADO.

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United States Commissioner Jones ports on Present Conditions. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—William J.

Jones, United States commissioner to Alaska, assigned to St. Michaels, has sent to the interior department the following report 011 the gold rush, 111 a letter dated at Dyea, Alaska, Aug. 4: "There arc nearly 1,S00 people in Dyea, and Skagaway routes and both trails are blocked. People are throwing away their packs and provisions and rushing headlong to the mines. Great distress, hardships aud suffering and possible death from hunger aud exposure is sure to follow next winter, an opinion that is entertained by all old Alaska prospectors who have visited that part of the world in late years and know the situation."

Mr. Jones is one of the two men whose duplicate appointments for the same post created a complication which has not yet been entirely straightened out. Neither man yet knows that the other has been commissioned.

Canadian Warning.

LONDON, Aug. 17.—Mr. Louis H. Davies. Canadian minister of marine and fisheries, addressing the London chamber of commerce yesterday warned intending emigrants against the tremendous difficulties of the Klondike, saying they would go there at their own risk and the Canadian government nad not advised it. Hundreds aud thousands, he said, were going there ill-pro-vided with money or supplies and thoy would die in the passes before reaching the Klondike.

Forming a New Itcclprocal Agreement. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Since the

new tariff act went into operation negotiations have been in progress between the secretary of state aud the French ambassador here, looking to the formulation of a new agreement between the two countries on the basis of reciprocal tariff concessions under the authority conferred by Section 3 of the new tariff act. It has finally been agreed that Secretary Sherman, Assistant Secretary Howell of the treasury department and the French ambassador shall join iu a conference on the subject in the near future and it is fully expected that a new and satisfactory agreement will be reached.

Archbishop Kean.

^WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Archbishop Kean, who is here from Rome, paid a visit yesterday to the Catholic university with which he was so long identified as rector. The archbishop says that his visit to America is in pursuance of a purpose expressed before going to Rome, to come to this country each year, and he expresses regret at recent reports to the effect that his coming would inau gurate a controversy between church factions.

1'rlnco Henri's Condition.

PABIS, Aug. 17.—A rumor, which is not yet confirmed, is in circulation that the wound of Prince Henri of Orleans, is not he iling satisfactorily and that the patient is suffering from high fever. Tho physicians decline to givo any definite information as to his condition.

Contagious B'ood Poison has been appropriately called the curse of mankind." It is the one disease that physicians cannot cure their merdurial aud potash remedies oniy bottle up the poison in the system, to surely break forth in a more virulent form, resulting in a total wreck of the system.

Mr. Frank B. Martin, a prominent jeweler at

926

Peusylvania Ave., Wash--. ington,D.C.,says: 1 was for a long time under treat ment of two of the best physicians of this city, for a severe case of blood poison, but my condition grew worse air the while, notwithstanding the fact that they' charged me three hundred dollars.

My mouth was

filled with eating sores my tongue was almost eaten away, so that for three months I was unable to taste any solid food. My hair was coming out rapidly, and I was in a horrible fix. I had tried various treatments, and was nearly discouraged, when a friend recommended S.S.S. After had taken four bottles, I began to get better, and when I had finished eighteen bottles, I was cured sound and well, my skin was without a blemish, and I have had no return of the disease. S.S.S.saved me from a life of misery." S.S.S. (guaranteed, purely vegetable) will cure any case of blood poison. Books on thediseast and its treatment. mailed free by Swift Specific Col, Atlanta, Ga.

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BEGINS

Tuesday- Sept.

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ELAM T, MURPHY CO.,

MONEY TO LOAN.

At 6 per cent, on first class farm and city securities in sums to suit the borrower. Also do a general insurance business, life and fire. Ofllce fiirmerly occupied by C. N. Williams & Co., lOlHi East Main Street.

GRAVELLY RUN.

A wedding is reported to occur in the east end soon. C. VV. Pritchard and others have disposed of their fat hogs.

J. C. Francis attended Newlight conference near Lebanon this week. Friends' quarterly meeting will be held at Sugar Plain Aug. 28 and 20.

A much larger acreage of wheat will be sown this fall than last by farmers in this locality.

Chicken thieves are abroad and a night watchman has been engaged to watch all intruders.

Chas. Warren and Harry Coombs are rejoicing over the advent of a daughter to their homes.

Irvin Quigg has returned to his home near Webster, having been the guest of his uncle, F. S. Quigg.

Master Roy Peebles returned .ome Sunday from visiting his aunt, Mrs. Richard Walters, at Wesley.

Miss Sybil Gallion, of Thorntown, has been the guest of her aunt, Lucinda Johnson, the past week.

Miss Alma Enoch, the invalid daughter of A. P. Enoctf, is now under the especial care of a trained nurse.

S. T. Middleton returned to Indianapolis Tuesday, having concluded a two weeks' visit with relatives here.

The reunion of the JOURNAL correspondents last Saturday was one of both pleasure and profit. With the lisit of new officers and committees appointed for the coming year betokens as bright and prosperous one for all those connected with Montgomery county's best newspaper, the JOURNAL.

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