Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1891 — Page 6

©he decatujflind. Mt BLACKBURN, ... Pubusheb. RECORD OF TfIBSJKEEK. TENNESSEE MINERS ARE UP IN ARMS. They Drive Convicts Out of the Mines— The World's Harvest—A Noted Iturglar Escapes—Fire at Sea—A Miuo on Fire. PEFI LAW. „ Tennessee Miners Are Up In Arms; A special from Chattanooga, dated the 22nd inst., says: The mining region was the scene of renewed rioting; growing out of the employment of convict labor. An armed band of miners and farmers surrounded the BriceviHe mine, and forced a company of Chattanooga militia to withdraw with the convicts in their charge. After the departure of the troops the mob began every sort of violence.' After the release of the convicts at BriceviHe this morning and the troops and convicts had been placed on the train, the mob went to the mines of the Knoxville Iron'Cbmpany and surrounded the stockade and captured the 125 convicts there with the guards, which they shipped away to Knoxville. All convicts are now there in an olcTbuilding under guard. A call by some labor leaders lias been issued for a mass meeting. It is reported that the miners at Oliver Springs have released the 130 convicts The excitement at Knoxville is intense. Streets are crowded and a diversity of opinion is heard. Many of the laboring men say the miners have done right. Memphis special: The Governor has called out the State militia and companies are now) being hurried to the mining district. The miners are armed and trouble is fehred as the strikers declare their fam lies are starving and hoot at the idea of interference from the “spider-legged,c garette-smoking dudes,” as they characterized the militia. THE WORLD’S HARVEST. Russia and Italy Short on all Crops, While Aiuerioa and Ehgland Have au Abundance. The London Times shiyniarizes the harvest prospects of the world as follows: “In Russia therj is a gave deficit, the peasantry are starving and there is small hope of relief. In India there is [serious anxiety, as famine prevails over a considerable portion of the country. Madras, Rajputua and Punjaub are the worst sufferers. There is drought in Bengal, aigk the need of more rain is urgent. Bombay alone promises a good hardest. The American harvest will be good in quality and amount, but with the failure of the Indian and Russian supplies, it is- more important that the English crop shall not be short. The prospect, on the whole, is good. In the chief wheat counties, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, the crop is above the average, and in other counties it is up to the av- • The harvest will be late and prices will be high. There is, therefore, a good outlook for the English farmer to break the series of disastrous years.” - Fierce Forest Fires. Oshkosa (Wis.) special: People returning from upper Michigan say that terrible forest fires, the worst ever known in that region, are now raging there. So hot are the flames that when the trains are passing through them it is impossible for a person to put his head out of a window without being burned. Pilot engines are sent ahead of regular trains to see that bridges are all right. Deer and rabbits follow the trains for miles in the hope of escaping the fiery furnace. Flown Iroin the Cage. Jim Anderson, the notorious burglar, who was arrested with his pal, George Duncan, on February 8, after a terrific battle with the police, escaped from the county jail at Cincinnati. A dummy was found in Anderson’s cot and a rope and two or three wire lock picks were left in his-cell. The prisoner evidently had the assistance of ft lends on the outside and the jail officials suspect he was aided in his flight by sorae one inside the walls. An investigation is in progress. Will Give His Whole Attention to the Fair. Pres. William T. Baker, of the World's Columbian Exposition and of the Chicago Board of. Trade, has concluded to close up his business on the Board, this action he says, is taken in order that he may devote his entireltime to his duties as President of the Exposition, which have for some months demanded the greater portion of his time. He will not, however, resign his office as President of the Board. Firn In a Mine. Marquette (Mich.) special: Fire started in No. 5 shaft in the Great Republic iron mine. ' The entire force of the mine was summoned, but not before the 'fire became unmanageable. The lumber in Nos. 5 and 6 shaft is now burning fiercely. The fire is spreading underground, and part of No. 5 shaft has already caved in, The night shift men escaped by another shaft. The Republic employs nearly a thousand men. The Navsyos Are Quiet. Telegrams received at the War Department from Flagstaff, Ari., state that no immediate trouble is apprehended from the Navajo Indians. Their chief, however, has only been released on bail and new complications may arise when he is brought to trial. Unrestricted Reciprocity. The Provincial Legislature of Prince Edward Island has adopted a resolution favoring unrestricted reciprocity between Canada and the United States. ■< Fire at Sea. Boston special: The tug “William Spurgeon,” while twenty-five miles east of Scituate, discovered the British bark “Olive Mount,” Capt. Foley in charge, for Scalteo, Ga,, was on fire and abandoned. The tug put out fire and towed the vessel here. The bark is damaged about $3,000. Drownetl. Henry Daqiels, of LaPorte, Ind., fell out of a boat while pleasure riding on Stone Lake and drowned before his companions could render him any aid. The body was recovered. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. t At Jersey City, N. J., William Brennan and his wife were shot by Policeman John V. Ryerson. Brennan was killed outright His wife, although able to walk to the city hospital, was mortally hurt Officer Ryerson claims that he had to use his pistol to save his own life. Two of the finest business blocks In Lynn, Mass., are in ruins and a third badly damaged, as the result of a fire. When the fire started every one thought Lynn was to have a repetition of its memorable experience oi November, 1889. It originated in the same district

as the former fire, and for a time threatened to sweep in the same direction. It is -estimated that the loss on the two blocks destroyed and that of the Currier Block, partially burned, together with contents, will reach nearly $300,000. An explosion of dynamite on board the steamship G. R. Booth, at the Erie Basin, Brooklyn, two men were killed. The Boston Boot and Shoe Company, a corporation controlling five retail stores, has assigned. At Birmingham, Conn., the discovery was made that not a child had been born in the White Hills School District in nine years, and that the youngest child attending school is 9 years old. The population is about 500 persons, and soon the school will have to be abandoned. An explosion of nitro-glycerine occurred at Washington, Pa. Two men and a team of horses were blown to atoms and other damage done. Within a radius of half a mile every window was shattered. The shock was terrific, and a hole in the ground large enough for a cellar is the only mark of the explosion. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A fishing party from Pine Lake Minn., has just returned from the pine forests of Snake River, bringing with them a wild woman and her 16-year-old daughter. The daughter tolls a story of terrible suffering and privation. She says the husband and father of the family was eaten by wolves last March while drunk. Since that time they have had no food in their humble cabin. The three younger children died of starvation, and were cooked and eaten one by one by the mother and eldest daughter. The mother’s mind finally gave way, and she is now a raving maniac. A telephone message received at Lima, Ohio, from Kenton says there I was a bad wreck on the Chicago and I Erie Railroad at Hepburn, a station five I miles east of Keitton. Swift’s refrigerator meat train, east bound, running special, ran into the work train pulling into a sliding, killing nine laborers and injuring many others. Both locomotives wore in ruins, with ten or twelve cars. | The telegraph wires along the Erie arc : down east of Kenton and west of Marion, and further details could not be learned. At Kensington, 111., two persons were hurled into eternity and a third so badlyinjured that his life is despaired of by a swift south-bound passenger train on the i Panhandle Road striking their buggy. : The di ad are: Miss Eliza llaiser, aged | 53 years; Milean llaiser, aged 11 years. | The injured: Lawrence llaiser, aged 14 ' years. ° A logging train on Lake Valley Railroad was ditched at a lumber camp on Lake Tahoe, Nev. Three men were killed, and Fred Johnson, engineer, and Charles Forbes are both badly hurt Two men employed at the Rock Springs, Wyo., mines were shooting at a mark on the company magazine. The • magazine blew up, half a ton of blasting ■ powder and 500 pounds of dymfmite ex- i ploding. Both men were killed. The i eastern part of the Rock Springs Mining 1 Camp was badly wrecked and a number i of women and children injured by falling glass and furniture. Particulars of a bloody encounter in the Creek Nation have been received. Partisans of Chief Pipieehe and Wesley Smith, candidates for principal chief, came together at a barbecue near i Fisher, Ark. While Smith was making ■ a speech the followers of his opponent precipitated a fight. Guns, pistols and knives were used with terrible ednse- I quences, and four persons were fatally j wounded. The village of Roundhead, in Hardin j County, Ohio, was destroyed by- tire. J The large wheel factory was struck by lightning and the whole village nearly consumed. The town is inland. The loss is estimated at 8500,000. The insurance is not known,. Frank Dice, confined in the Spencer, Ind., jail, charged with murder, w,as taken from his cell the other night and lynched by a mob. Wm. Daniels, who fought a prizefight at Crystal Falls, Mich., was arrested for murder, his antagonist having died. Five prisoners made their escape from the jail at Deadwood, S. D. J. B. McCullough, of the Secret Ser vice Bureau, at St Louis, has arrested Nathan Cohen, an agent of “Dickerman’s Counterfeit Detector,*” who wanted for passing some of the counterfeit money that he was permitted by the Treasury Department to carry around with him. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At Middleborough, Ky., Francis Bartley, who is wanted in Missouri for the murder of Thomas D. Moore, of Brown County, Kansas, was captured. A lynching without cause occurred at Love, DeSoto County, Miss. Samuel Gillespie was arrested for rescuing another negro charged with larceny. A mob of masked men marched him to a tree, tied him and shot him to death. The corpse has been found with twentyone bullet holes. In a free fight at a Louisville beer garden, in which twenty-five men participated, Ad. Shane was fatally stabbed. Tom Harrington and five others have been arrested for the stabbing. Judge J. A. Warder, of Chattanooga, Tenn., under indictment for the murder of his son-in-law, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. Since the death of his son-in-law, the result of a family quarrel, Judge Warder has been attacked with melancholia. Since his release from confinement he has been residing on Lookout Mountain with his wife and mother. He secured a pistol in Chattanooga: after saying his prayers in the presence of his mother he bade her an affectionate good-by, placed a revolver at his temple and fired Mr. Warder, before the tragedy in which he killed his son-in-law, was one of the most prominent Republican politicians in the State. He served for a time on the Supreme Bench of the State. At Louisville, Charles Thiele, aged 50, a well-to-do cigar dealer of that city, blew his brains out. He was jealous of his wife. The following message was received at the Tennessee State capital from Coal Creek, Tenn., the scene of trouble between discharged miners and convicts who had been sent there to take their places: To Gov. Buchanan, Nashville: We, the miners, farmers, merchants, and property-holders of BriceviHe and Coal Creek and vicinity, assembled to the number of 500, who have come together to do-* fend our families from starvation and property from depreciation and our people from contamination from the hordes of convict laborers being Introduced in our works, do hereby beg you to prevent their introduction and thus avoid bloodshed, which is sure to follow if their taking our livelihood from us Is persisted in. Answer. The Governor and about 120 State soldiers in his command went to the mines at mice. In a speech to an angry mob Governor Buchanan said that he was not thweto discuss the convict lease law but to seb— was not over-

ridden. The discharged miners are well armed and the outcome is doubtful. At Village Springs, Ala., a negro assaulted Mrs. James Cowden, the wife of a prominent farmer.* The same night Mac Brown was captured by a posse and fully identified. While being taken to jail) Brown was taken from the officers by the posse and riddled with bullets. . POLITICAL PORRIDGE. At Cleveland, Ohio, 690 delegates assem-, bled at the Democratic State Convention, and were called to order by State Chairman Norton. His introductory speech dealt chiefly with the McKinley bill, and accepted the challenge voiced in the Republican platform. He was followed by Allen W. Thurman, who also assailed the McKinley measure. Both speakers joined in expressing admiration for Mr. McKinley as an honest and able citizen, but assailed the wisdom of his judgment upon the tariff question. The majority report of the Committee on Resolutions, containing clauses favoring a graded income tax and the free coinage of silver, was accepted. The minority report differed only in these particulars. Ex-Congressman Follett, heading the Hamilton County delegation, presented the name of Lawrence T. Neal, of Chillicothe, as candidate for Governor. He was followed by S. D. Dodge, of Cleveland, who named Virgil P. Kline, of Cuyahogo County. Gen. Michael Ryan, of Cincinnati, then presented the name of Gov. James E. Campbell, and a ballot immediately followed with this result. Campbell,soS 7-16 Nea1..124 9-16 Kline. 56 Congressman T. L. Johnson. 1 After Gov. Campbell's speech of acceptance, ex-Congressman Yoder, of Lima, named W. V. Marquis for Lieutenant Governor, and he was chosen by acclamation. The completed ticket is given. Governor James E. Campbell Lieutenant-GovernorW. V. Marquis Auditor of StateT. E. Pecktnbaugh Treasurer of StateC. F. Ackerman Attorney-General?John P. Bailey Judge of Supreme Court... .Gustavus H. Wald Commissioner of Schools.. .Charles C. Miller Member Board of Public Works. ..J. McNamara Food and Dairy Commissioner. ...H. S. Trumbo Matt Quay, United States Senator, has told a friend that he would probably retire before long from the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. FOREIGN GOSSIP. It is believed that the French Government has decided to accede to the request of Hon, Whitelaw Reid, the United States Minister, to remove the embargo upon American pork, as it is known that the Government has agreed to bring forward a bill modifying the general customs tariff of May, 1881, and fixing the duty of 20 francs per 100 kilos on all salted pork, ham and bacon imported from the United States. A terrible accident occurred along the line of the Manchester ship canal, near Liverpool A train passing along the railroad rm ning near the canal fell over the latter’s embankment, killing eleven men who were working under the heading. In addition to the men killed, many other workmen were injured. The accident was duo to the fact that the pointsman, a boy 17 years of age, mistook the pointsand turned a railroad train consisting of, twenty-two wagons loaded with ballast into a siding leading into a cutting. The train then crashed into a slight buffer at the end of the cutting and toppled over upon the men at work below the enbankinent FRESH AND NEWSY. The Howell Lumber Company has already decided upon its plan of procedure under the financial distress which has overtaken it. The first shock of the mammoth failure, which swept east from Kansas, striking the Chicago end ot the business like a tornado, being over, the management of the company is collecting its entire strength to make an effort to tide over the storm that threatens to wipe the firm out of existence. They must raise $200,000. The Government Immigration Bureau says that the publication of advertisements in foreign papers for laborers, in this country is a violation of the alien contract law, and that all offenders wili be prosecuted. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has prepared a statement of the probable production of sugar during the current fiscal year, of which the following is a summary. Estimate of amount of sugar which will be produced: Cane sugar, 500,000,000 pounds; beet sugar, 29,210,000 pounds; sorghum sugar, 2,500,000 pounds; maple sugar, 8,000,000 pounds; total, 539,710,000 pounds. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: « Business clearly grows somewhat more active, though midsummer dullness is still the rule At Eastern cities there is noticed more demand for manufactured goods with larger call for materials. At the West trade is enlivened by the largo yield of winter wheat already harvested and by the bright outlook for other crops. At the South, however, though the crop advices are also favorable, no improvement appears in business, which Is duller than usual even for the season and at some points is pronounced quite unsatisfactory. Imports at New York have sharply declined since July, amounting to about §4,300,000, or 18 per cent. less thau for the same weeks last year. On the other hand, exports ot domestic products at this point show an increase thus far in this month of $3,323,000, or nearly 33 per cent, in comparison with tiie same weeks last year. The money markets are generally in fair shape, and collections' fair for the season. The -busjness failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 274, as compared with u total of 247 last week. For the corresponding week cf last year the figures’were 207. MARKET KKI’UKTS. ■ —■ v CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primos3.so @ 6.50 Hoos—Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red... .86 & .87 Corn—No. 260 & .61 Oats—No. 240 @ .41 Rye—No. 276 @ .77 Butter—Choice Creameryl6 @ .17 Cheese—Full Cream, flatsCß & .09 Eggs—Fresh 15)6@ .16)6 Potatoes—New, per brl 2.75 @ 3.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3,50 & 5.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 3,50 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Bedßl @ .82 Corn—No. 1 White ,62)6@ .83)6 Oats—No. 2 White4l @ .42 ST. LOUIS. Cattle.. 3.50 @ 6.25 Hogs . 4.5) @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Redßs & .86 Corn—No. 2 56)6@ .57)6 Oats—No. 2.... .33 @ .34 Pork—Messlo.so @ll.OO CINCINNATI. Cattle. 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.50 Sheep ; 3.90 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.Bs @ .88 Corn—No. 2 .61 @ .62 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. .3. .41 @ .42 DETROIT. / Cattle3.oo @ 5.25 Hogs 3.00 & 5.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Redß6 @ .87 Cobn—No. Is Yellow 62J6«4 .63)6 Oats—No. 2 White4l @ .43 TOLEDO. Wheat—New 85)£@ .88)4 Corn—Cash »«•* 61)6@ .62)6 Oath—No. 2 Whit*4l @ .43 Cloveb Seed 4.20 4.30 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle 4.53 @5.75 Live Hogs 4.25 @ 5.75 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.04)6@ 1.05)6 Corn—No. 265 @ .66 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Springß7 @ .89 Corn—No. 8 .60 @ .61 Oats—No. 2 Whit*4o @ .42 Rye—No. 182 @ .84 Barley—No. 69 @ .70 Pork—ll.oo @11.21 REW YORK. Cattle. 8.50 @ 6.50 Hogs. 4.00 @ 5.50 Sheep 4.25 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Rsd. .95 @ .97 Cobn—No. 2 .71 @ .73 Oats—Mixed Western....l2 5 .47 Butter—Creamery 14 @ .18 Pork—Naw Mm*. 12.00 4*12.00

BUCKEYE DEMOCRACY. AGAIN CHOOSES JAS. E. CAMPBELL FOR GOVERNOR. Patriotic Addresses by Chairman Norton and Alien W. Thurman—Gov. Campbell's Confident Review of His Party’s Work—The McKinley Iniquity Unmercifully Scored. For Governor. James e. Campbell For Lieutenant GovernorW. V. Marquis For Auditor;.T. E. Pkckingbaugh For State TreasurerC. F. Ackerman For Attorney General John P. Bailey For Supreme Court Judge..G. H. Wald For School CommissionerO. C. Milleb For Food and Dairy ComfrH. S. Trumbo For Com’r Public Works.J. McNamaba The beautiful music hall of Cleveland (the Forest City) looked like a veritable fairy grotto. Red, white and blue bunting in fantastic designs enveloped the pillars and the railing of the balconies until not an inch of the corridors was visible; the platform was banked with tiers of majestic palms and noble chrysanthemums, over which the mouths of big brass cannon frowned ominously, and huge baskets of Mareschal Niel roses shed their fragrance from the tables allotted to the press. From the glass deme of the hall depended a magnificent floral design with the inscription in white violets: ‘Democrats of Ohio, Welcome to Cleveland." A monster American flag, and a profusion of choice exotics made an appropriate background to the stage, while from the roof and supports countless hundreds of star spangled banners fluttered in the breeze created by electric fans. Tubs of lemonade to a total of five hundred gallons were ranged about the hall at points most convenient to the respective delegations. When the doors were thrown open it seemed but a few minutes before every one of the five thousand or more seats had its occupant. From the rear of the stage a large number of ladies viewed the proceedings with interest. As a Side to the formal proceedings, the combined s in the balcony rendered a medley of national airs, and afterward—prompt to the minute— State Chairman John S. Norton called the gathering to order. The blessing and protection of the Creator was invoked by Rev. Dr. T. W. Campbell, pastor of the Cleveland First Methodist Episcopal Chmroh. After the prayer the convention was entertained with a song of welcome by the Thurman Quartette of Columbus. State Chairman Norton then welcomed the delegates iu a rousing speech, in which he congratulated the convention on the encouraging outlook for

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the Democratic party, and predicted its triumph in the coming election. Ho then took up tho McKinley bill, and devoted the greater part of his remarks to that measure, saying : “To-day you meet to demaud that the wrongs that the people have suffered for more than a quarter of a century shall bo righted and not perpetuated ; that the clutch of tho protectionist freebooter shall bo loosened from the throat of the nation ; that the foot of tho oppressor shall be removed from the necks of the laboring millions, and that in a free country under a free flag the people shall bo free from the despoliation of their hdmes and the impoverishment ot their children by the law that is no more to bo honored than the levy of tho bandit and buccaneer. They (the Republicans) met, as they say, to 'emphasize and courageously defend the principle of protection,’ that principle that for twenty-five years and more has been undermining tho life foundations of our Government; a principle, as applied by men, that has almost nullified the blessings vouchsafed to the people by an all-wise and beneficent Creator; a principle that has made the rich and fertile acres of our husbandmen almost ns worthless to them us the sand desert of Sahara; a principle that has closed the markets of tho world to the most productive and busy country of the earth; a principle that has centralized the wealth of the nation until it. rests in tho vaults of tlie arrogant monopolists who to-day fix tlie price of all our necessities ; a principle that is antagonistic to the interests of tho millions, beneficial only to the few ; a principle opposed to reason, justice, intelligence, education and Christian decency. “They say that tho author of this law that is the acme of this principle is a good man, kind, generous and gentle. I believe that it is ho. Moro than that, ho 1b my friend, I would to God that his law was so good and harmless and gentle and kind as he. But alas, it is not so. McKinley may bo as tho dove or oven the bird of paradise, but his law is as the hawk, the vulture and the coyote. They say McKinley is an honest man; I grant that b o is, and al) honor to him for being so, but his measure is a burglar, without heart and without mercy, who robs alike the helpless child, the strong man and the defenseless woman. McKinley law, monument of wrong whose every stone is from the quarry of oppression, whoso dwarfing shadows fall athwart every threshold in the land—how long, oh, how long must your blighting curse be endured? How long can you stand upon your false foundations against tho fierce blasts of reason and the rocking storms of indignant justice? May this convention be potent in hurling you into tne deep sea of the dead past and hide yoUr hideousness in eternal oblivion.” As Chairman Norton concluded with hi* touching eulogy of-Allen G. Thurman the delegates and spectators broke into enthusiastic applause, and when Allen W. Thurman was introduced as the temporary presiding officer and the tall majestic form of the son of Ohio’s “Old Roman" appeared before the footlights, tho enthusiasm was intensified tenfold. Not until they were exhausted did the thousands cease their plaudits, and then in clear, ringing tones, the temporary chairman began his address. As he proceeded every tolling point was punctuated with cheers and shouts of approval. It was a most successful entree to that political stage to which his venerated parent bade faroweU a few months since. Mr. Thurman said: “In his speech nominating Major McKinley, Governor r ora ker said that, even the wiles of the devil seemed unable to Kill tho Democratic party, which undoubtedly meant that it will never be destroyed by the Republican party. Evidently the fact must have odburred to him that this grand,old Democratic party has seen the birth, grow th, and death of every political organization that has ever arisen in lids country. Now. an organization that cannot be killed, even by the evil spirit, must be immortal ; that is, it can never die, an 4 in the end it will certainly put all of its enemies under its feet, including Major McKinley and the Republican party. “In a few weeks the Democracy of Ohio will by its ballots most emphatically condemn an industrial policy that is a continual barrier to commercial prosperity, they will demonstrate that they no longer believe that the only way by which a country can be made rich is by buying from itself and selling to itself; they will also show that they do notbelieve a country can be mode rich by excessively taxing itself; they will, in thuuder tones, denounce the wanton extravagance and wastefulness of a party which, in two short years, by profligate expenditure completely wiped out the tremendous surplus of $140.000,090 which had accumulated under the honest, economical, Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland.” The speaker criticised the policy of the ReSublican party in raising the average rate of uties from 47 to 57 per cent.; in clothing the President of tho United States with unconstitutional powers: in his pernicious class legislation, driving the American marine off the high seas ; in assisting England in her attempt to establish monometalism; in adding in a short time 2,000 names to the list of officeholders ; in blocking al] legislation for months, in an endeavor to enact au infamous, villainous and partisan force bill. Speaking upon reciprocity, Mr. Thurman said: “The time is near when the people wiU express their belief in complete and not restricted reciprocity; if reciprocity—which has always been a Democratic, not a Republican, doctrine—is a good thing with South America, why would it not be a better thing with Canada and Europe, countries with which our trade is a hundredfold greater than with South America? The time has also come when the people will say to the powers that be, the honest workingman shall no longer be compelled by law to contribute a part of his hard-earned savings to help maintain those who, under the forms of law, have robbed him for over a quarter of a century; when they will no longer sustain any party which levies and collects one dollar of taxes over and above that which is required to wisely and economically administer the affairs of the Government; when they will give due notice that infant industries that have been nursed for a hundred years have arrived at the age when they must take care of themselves ; when they will brand a protective tariff as stealing, its advocates as beggars, and demand tha* we must have a tariff for revenue only. “The greatest curse that can be Inflicted upon a country is that of excessive taxation, and when collected indirectly by a tariff, levied only for the sake of protection, it stealsand saps away the very life-blood of a country’s prosperity. And it does this by such insidious way* that the true causes of commercial depression, when it comes, are lost sight of, ar?Jin seeking remedies the people are led off into false trails, made to scatter Instead of concentrating their forces and thus their power is wasted; therefore, no matter how important they may appear, let all side issue* alone until this one of taxation is settled upon an honest and just basis. “I most earnestly beseech the farmers, whose interest* ore identically the same a* my owg|

to follow thia course. Th* wild MhMnea'of Government loaning money upon wacehouae certificate*, or upon land*, th* firing possession of the railways and telegraphs by the Government, the internal improvement* that are demanded and a dozen other minor issues that all lead, not only to greater taxation, but the rankest kind of socialism, I say to them, put to one side and stick to the tariff issue until you get what is due you. ‘I say to the farmers, do not, like protectionist*, be beggars, but rely upon your own strength, resources and * manhood. Advocate nothing that has the least semblance of steallaw‘ Bud ' b y tbe eternal’ make these tariff beggars quit stealing in thia way from you. “On this issue the right is absolutely on our ■ide, and the challenge having been fairly given by the nomination of the high chief of protection—Maj. McKinley—let us meet it, ana make every hilltop and every valley iu the whole Statering with the battlecry,'industrial freedom for the many,* Can you doubt the result ? Do you believe the people of this State will say by their votes that they are still willing to pay tribute for imaginary and fraudulent blessings ? That they cau any longer be deceived by the old, worn-out cry of a home market? That the people of this State can be gulled by telling them what a good thing it is for the people of the United States to be permitted by their Government, when they pretend to be treemen, to sell a very small portion of their surplus products to one part ot the globe and what a ruinous thing it would be for them to be allowed to sell all ox them to another portion of it? “From time immemorial commerce and trade, which are only the exchanging of commJ>dities, have been sought after by all people and considered beneficial by all nations. In all exchanges iu the long run there must be a profit; why then limit these exchanges ? If the people of this country can make $100,003,0J0 eacn year by exchanging their products for those ot some other country wouldn’t they be fools to indorse a policy which permits them to Exchange only enough to make $50,000,000? 1 say let the people themselves decide where and with whom it would be beneficial to trade and not let the Government decide this for them.’ The speaker continued at length to discuss the tariff law in its relation to the farmer and the industrial classes and dwelt in stirring language upon the tin-plate iniquity, and concluded by saying that last fall the protected classes poured out money like water, intimidated workmen and strained every nerve to carry the McKinley district. In conclusion he said: ‘Thanks to our Democratic Legislature, they cannot again duplicate this iniquity in Ohio, for that Legislature passed an election law under which fraud and intimidation can no longer be used to corrupt and destroy the freedom of the ballot. Democrats, see that this law is enforced in every voting precinct in the State. See, too, that it is preserved in the future, for • upon its maintenance not only does the success of your party depend but the integrity ot your institutions. “Intrenched monopoly win not surrender without making a desperate struggle; therefore, I implore every man in this convention to work after he leaves here with his whole soul for our success. Let no personal differences or feelings of disappointment in any way deter you, but be diligent, be active, be alert; organize in every school district, and above all be courageous; let there be no dodging upon the issue; this is no time for the faint-hearted, but a time when honest, true and brave men should be willing to fight with their whole power for what they know to be right." Mr. Thurman's dosing remarks, hi which he urged the party to be united and harmonious, were almost drowned in applause. From the Committee on Permanent Organization came a report submitting the name of ex-Congress-man Frank Le Blond, of Mercer, as permanent S residing officer. It was adopted with a hurrah. ir. Le Blond spoke briefly, but to the point. He told the delegates that they were the repre. sentativesot the intelligence of the State, and that Thomas Jefferson, had he lived to this day, would have been proud of them and of the Democratic party as it now exists. This and the usual thanks was all. Under the new State election law it is necessary that each party shall select a device to be S laced upon its printing, and Major W. W. rmstrong propo ed that the Democracy should adopt a barnyard rooster. Some of the delegates preferred the American flag, but it was explained that this was prohibited by the statute, and Armstrong's resolution was adopted with a chorus of “crows." The delegates then settled back in their seats to listen to the report of the Committee on Resolutions, which was presented by Gen, G. B. Finley, who pathetically lamented the fact that although the majority had labored with the minority in and out of season, they had not been able to get a unanimity of sentiment on the silver question. The majority report read as follows: “The Democracy of Ohio, in convention assembled, hereby resolve that we most heartily indorse the honesty and economy of the ad. ministration of Gov, James E, Campbell, and commend the Sixty-ninth General Assembly for its business qualifications, economy and reform, and especially for having provided for a secret ballot by which every voter can cast his ballot iu secret as he desires and have his vote counted us cast; and we invite attention to the fact that the Republican party, though hypocritically professing to favor 'a free ballot and fair count,’ yet opposed and voted against the bill for providing for a free and secret ballot, thus demonstrating its sions to be insincere and for political effect only; and we cordially indorse and approve the act of the Legislature regulating the compensation of county officers by providing tor a fixed salary. “Wo are opposed to all class legislation and believe in a tariff levied for the sole purpose of producing a revenue sufficient to defray the legitimate expenses of the Government, economically administered. We accept the issues tendered to us by the Republican party on the subject of the tariff, uh represented by the so-called McKinley tariff act, confident that the verdict ot the people of Ohio will be recorded ngainst the iniquitous policy of so-called protection championed by the Republican party in tho interest ot favored classes against the masses. “We favor a graded income tax. We denounce tho demonetization of silver in 1873 by the party then in power as an iniquitous alteration of the money standard In favor of tho creditors and against debtors, taxpayers, producers, and which, by shutting off one of the sources of supply of primary money, operates continually to increase the-value of gold, depress prices, hamper industry, and disparage enterprise; and wo demand the reinstatement of the constitutional standard of both gold and silver with the equal right of each to free and unlimited coinage. “We denounce the Republican billion dollar Congress, which by its extravagant expenditures exhausted a surplus in the National Treasury left there by a Democratic administration and created a deficit; ivhich substituted despotic rule for free discussion in the House of Representatives, and we congratulate the people on the defeat of the odious force bill demanded by a Republican President and championed by the Republican party for the purpose of perpetuating its rule by perverting the constitutional powers of tho government, destroying free elections and placing the ballot box in the hands of unscrupulous partisans, in order, as declared by Speaker Reed, ‘to register the voters, supervise the elections, count the ballots and declare the result.’ “We are opposed to the enactment of all laws which unnecessarily interfere with the habits and customs of our people which are not offensive to the moral sentiments of tho civilized world, and wo believe that the personal rights of the individual should be curtailed only when it is essential to the maintenance of tho peace, good order, and welfare of the community. “We favor the passage of such laws by the General Assembly as will give us a system for the government of our municipalities uniform throughout tho State, as the Constitution requires, in which the executive and legislative flower shall be separated, the former to be odged in a mayor and the latter ir a council, both to be elected by the people, thereby realizing tho principle of home rule, safe from the dangers and evils of special legislation, •We favor closer commercial relations with our Canadian neighbors and the removal of the embarrassing and annoying restrictions which only vex our people without yielding any substantial revenue to the Government. “ We favor liberal and just pensions to de*erv. ing and disabled soldiers and sailors who fought for tho maintenance of the Government and liko pensions to their widows and orphan children. "The persecution of the Jewish people by the Russian Government justly deserves and receives our unqualified censure. We extend to them our sincere sympathy, and believe that this Government, in connection with the enlightened Governments of Europe dispe Sad to unite with us, should -take proper steps to alleviate the wrongs thus inflicted on this longsuffering and oppressed people.” All the planks were greeted with applause, especially that referring to the administration of Governor Campbell. A minority report opposed the graduated income tax. and favored the coinage of gold aud silver on a parity, but this report „was rejected by a vote of 399 to 300. The name of Lawrence T. Neal for Governor was then presented by ex-Congressman Follett; he was followed by 8. D. Dodge, of Cleveland, who named Virgil P. Kline; but when General Ryan proposed the name of Gov. James E. Campbell for renominatlon the convention broke forth In wild cheers of approbation. The first ballot was taken at once, with the following result: Campbellsoß 7-16 Nea<l24 9-16 Kline 56 Congressman Tom L. Johnson 1 Gov. Campbell was conducted to the platform amid a perfect storm of applause. When quiet had been restored be said: “ While gratefully accepting a second nomination from the Democratic party of Ohio, my thoughts naturally revert to the record and achievement* of that party since the memorable Dayton convention. Victorious in the ensuing election, the Ohio Democracy has legislated for the State and administered its affair* for eighteen month*. In that short period it has destroyed every vestige of the dangerous centralization which has made the office of Governor a menace to the liberties of the people, It has restored to seventeen cities the control of elections. I® has provided new and better forms of government In conformity to popular desire for several of the larger cities. It has devoted time and care to the perfection of a law securing secrecy of the ballot, thereby assuring an unbiased and unbought verdict of the people at the polls. This essential reform was frustrated at the first session of the General Assembly by the unanimous vote of the Senators belonging to a political party which recently gathered in convention at Columbus and prated with hollow mockery of a tee* bal- | lot and a fair count.

"The Democratic party ha* done mare to advance the cause of higher education by its legislation for th* Ohio State University and appropriations for the other universities than had been accomplished in all the long history of the State; and it has also been mindful of general education by enacting a salutary law for the cheapening of school books to the children of the poor. It had the courage to attack the excess fee system whereby public officials were excessively compensated, and has substituted a system of just and reasonable salaries. It has especially looked after the welfare of agriculture, which has been continuously imposed upon by Republican Congresses. Sixty thousand dollar* was appropriated in one item to provide farmer* with the result* of agricultural experiments; and laws were passed in their interest with respect to oleomargarine and other product*. The great laboring class, which hopelessly appealed to the Republican party, ha* not been forgotten either, as the institution of Labor Day, important law* for the protection of railroad employe* and the establishment of free employment agencies will show. “The Democratic party has done what lay in its power to rectify our inequitable tax laws and to provide for their improvement by an amendment to the Constitution. It has decreased taxation more than $603,000 a year by the repeal of the sinking fund levy. It found a deficiency in the Treasury of more than $600,000, which was subsequently slightly decreased by us. The timely receipt from the Federal Government of the direct tax fund was all that prevented the startling spectacle of an empty treasury—a direct legacy from former administrations. “It has been charged that our appropriations have exceeded those of our predecessors. Without stopping for detailed explanation, merely stating that we have not exceeded our income, let us inquire which of the new appropriations our enemies would curtail. I have already named the expenditure in behalf of agriculture and education. Do they attack these? The largest new item of our appropriations was the sum of BJIX),. 000 for the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home. Do they deny the propriety of this ? When we came into power the helpless orphans of men who had given all for their country were dying at a rate which shocked and alarmed the public. The administration of that institution had been one of the most personal and partisan in the State. High-minded trustees had been stricken by the chief executive because they did not prefer his interests to those of their dead comrades' children. To restore the health and save the lives of those orphans we were glad to make unprecedented appropriatiqns, and if there be' one spot where a citizen of the State will feel a mingled joy and pride it is there in the midst ot the 900 happy and healthy children for whom a Democratic administration has freely expended its money. We have built some new ana roomy cottages at the Soldiers and Sailors' Home. Do our Republican brethren begrudge the old veterans this additional comfort? We have made large appropriations for completing the new reformatory in the hope of reclaiming young convicts before age and bad associations have hardened them beyond redemption. Does the Republican party criticise the expenditure of money for the prevention of crime? We have provided for an epileptic asylum, and have added to the capacity ot the insane asylums and to other benevolent and penal institutions. We are proud of them all. Their management is economical, firm, and efficient. We invite from the taxpayer ana the humanitarian searching investigation aud thoughtful comparison. “The electors of Ohio have other reasons for voting with us this year besides such as solely affect this State. The battle before us is essentially a national one. Not only is this true because the result must seriously affect next year's Federal elections, but also because the Republicans of Ohio have unreservedly identified themselves with every phase of the iniquitous legislation accomplished or attempted by the Fifty-first Congress. In their platform they have reaffirmed their adherence to the infamous force bill—the Republican lost cause-a measure so obviously designed to destroy free elections that Republican Senators, unwilling to violate their consciences and Itheir oaths, refused to inflict it upon the country. The Republican party of Ohio appears as the defender of the arbitrary disregard of minority rights which disgraced the last House of Representatives. It upholds the fraudulent unseating of lawfully elected members, the steal of .Montana by tlie Senate, and all the other high-handed outrages by which that party has sought to perpetuate its power against the wishes of the people. It represents the reckless extravagance and as. founding profligacy which have dissi}>ated the splendid Democratic surplus : forced the extension of national bonds and compelled an Ohio Secretary of the Treasury to resort to tricks of bookkeeping and subterfuges unworthy of his office in order to conceal a deficit and deceive the people. “Pre-eminently also does the Republican leader in Ohio (whose high character and conspicuous career but emphasize his advocacv of bad legislation) stand for that pernicious tariff measure which was rejected at the polls last year by the people of the entire country; a measure identified by his name, saturated with his ideas aud wrought by his hands, and a measure designated, as has been well said, in the interest of ‘monopoly for monoroly,’a measure which is bringing about the worst of all centralizations—the centralization of wealth, with its debasing and destructive results; a measure which has already in many cases made less work and lower wages for productive labor; a measure which has forced the farmer of Ohio to sell his wool in some instances as low as 20 cents a pound, and that, too, in a market where he pays more ’dearly for hundreds ot necessary articles which are but insufficiently sweetened with the humbug of bounty produced sugar; a measure which forces from the labor of the country $14,COJ.OOO each year for the benefit of prospective tin mines owned by capitalists who live in England and prospective tin plate works to be operated by labor iiuported from Wales ; a measure which, as it came from the hands of its author, did not, in the opinion of an eminent Republican, ‘open a market for another pound of pork or another barrel of flour;’ a measure which could not bo forced down the throat of a reluctant Senate until sugar-coated with the old Democratic doctrine of reciprocity—a doctrine finally though feebly embodied in the bill in spite of opposition from the great Ohio protectionist. ••In his recent speech of acceptance this": same champion of higher protection said: ‘We follow thetariff teachings of Washington and Hamilton, of Clay and Webster, ot Lincoln and aud Garfield.' Let us see how wide of the mark this statement is. The tariff of to-day is at the rate of 57)6 P e ? cent.; the tariff of Washington was 7'6 per cent.; the protection sought by Clay was for the benefit of 'infant' industries; the tariff to-day increases protection upon industries which have been coddled for more than ninety years; the protection of Garfield was, to quote his owh words, ‘that kind of protection which leads to ultimate free trade.’ “Let the Republicans of Ohio who have not gone mad on protection come over this year and start with us on the backward march toward the tariff of Washington, or, better yet, enroll themselves under a banner inscribed with those burning words of Garfield. Lot the well-meaning men who train under the names of the Farmers’ Alliance or People's party, and who seek to remedy real grievances brought about by Republican legislation, remember that no third party can succeed; but with us and as a part of us they can help to swell the joyous hosanna that will peai to heaven from the tax-burdened people of the entire country when the glad tidings go forth next November that we are yet iu possession of the old Republican citadel, now the Democratic Buckeye State.” Ex-Congressman Yoder, of Lima, then renominated W. V. Marquis for Lieutenant Governor and ho was renominated by acclamation. -The balance of the ticket, as above, was chosen in a very few minutes, and the convention adjourned to enjoy the hospitality of Cleveland’s citizens. How the Grip Travels, Dr. Parsons of London, has presented to parliament the government report on the recent influenza scourge. The report contains a mass of interesting evidence, but does not solve the problem as to the origin of influenza, nor does it provide any sure prevention of the disease. On the other hand, the report dispels the common idea that influenza gs spread by atmospheric conditions,'and proves that it ispropagated by personal contact. This is shown by the fact that isolated persons, such as those confined in prison, lighthouse keepers, and others; enjoy immunity from the disease, while the greatest mortality from its effects has been found in large communities. Iu this connection it is a curious fact that the general postoffice heads the list of “large communities” where the disease has been most prevalent. The “communities” represented by railroad stations, etc., come next to the general postoffice in showing themselves spots where influenza has played sad havoc. The period of incubation is short, Sixteen hours to three days being held to be sufficient to account for the simultaneous incidence of a whole community where only one or two people originally suffered from the infection. It is expected that in accordance with precedent the disease will disappear after two successive years of epidemic. The timber on our railroads amounted to 516,000,000 ties, or an average of 2,694 per mile of railroad, in use in this country in 1890 ; 801 ties per mile, or a total of 60,000,000, were annually required for renewals, and 15,000,000 for new construction. Poet Whittier is losing his eyesight and he admits that the period of literary labor has closed. In the winter of old aga his muse is “Snow Bound.”

BY POST AND WIRES COMES THIS BATCH OF INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Week's Important Oeeurrences Throughout the State — Fires. Accident*. Crimes, Suicide*. Etc* —A penurious swain at Waynetowu recently gave a ’squire 15 cents as a mar* riage fee. —Harry Lewellen, a Muncie boy, was buried in a gravel-pit by a cave-in, but was rescued alive. —Mrs. Joseph Carr, of Charlestown, was seriously injured by being thrown from her buggy. —That vinegar and pickle factory Lafayette wants would add 2,500 people to her population. —Maco Chapman, St. Louis, express messenger, was drowned while bathing in the river at Henderson. —Columbus run its electric light plant last year, sixty-eight lights, on a “moon schedule” at a cost of $2,462.37. —Harvey Allen’s ff-year-old son was thrown from a mule at Monrovia, and was dangerously hurt. He alighted’ on his head. Charley Long, a Monon fireman, got his arm caught between the bumpers of the cars, at Ladoga, and had the flesh torn from the bones. —Mrs. Roxcna Alderson attempted suicide at Paoli by taking morphine. She was dissatisfied with her daughter’s marriage. Her life was saved. —The wheat crop yield in Luce Township, Spencer Cdunty, this year is estimated at 125,000 bushels, and the best crop ever raised ail over the county. —Near Fern the 3-year-old daughter of John Cox was playing close to a hayfork which was in operation, when her hands were caught in the pulleys and terribly lacerated. —Attorney General Smith has rendered and opinion to tho effect that all franchises, whether granted by the State or not, to corporations doing business in this State, must be assessed as personal property and taxed accordingly. —Pearl Birchfield, an 8-year-old girl, of Crawfordsville, fell through a bridge over the Monon Railroad, to the track below, a distance of thirty feet, and received injuries that may result in death. The city will be sued for damages. —Tho Town Board of Leavenworth and tho citizens aro arrayed one against tho other, tho latter claiming that the Board was illegally elected and withholding payment of taxes until tho question of its legality can be passed upon. The trouble springs from improvements ordered by the Board. —The head of the boiler in the Reasor flouring-mill, at West blew the explosion tearing away the end the building and tho water and steay badly scalding Thomas Gregg, the fir»» man, who was the only one standlrv, near, Mr. Gregg is scalded from head to foot, but there is hope of his recovery. —Charles Smith, a druggist of Eminence, Morgan County, was indulging in target practice with a self-acting revolver. He let his arm fall at his side, when the revolver was discharged and the ball penetrated tho calf ojf his leg, ranging downward. The wound is a very painful one, but no* necessarily dangerous. —A party of Crawfordsville people who were out camping near Bluff mills, discovered a small dwelling on fire, and rushed to the rescue. Will Humphreys got on tho roof, and while throwing water on the flames the roof gave in and ho foil through into the burning house. He was badly injured and slightly burned when his friends rescued him. —The list ;of names of revolutionary soldiers who now sleep beneath Spencer County soil has been increased to seven by a late repdrt, which furnishes the names of Thomas Turnham and Henry Wagner. Mr. Turnham was in the battle of Brandywine, died at the age of 86, and was burled at Pigeon Church, about two miles east of Gentryville. Mr. Wagner was buried somewhere in Luce Township about fifty years ago. —At Muncie, the other night Officer Floyd found the young wife of John Redup, at her home in the outskirts of the city, in a pitiful condition from hunger. Over a week before tho woman’s husband abandoned his home and little 3-year-old daughter. Mrs. Redup was so much prostrated she preferred death by starvation to begging. The child was ill and would have died if the officer had not discovered the condition x affairs. —The Indiana Horticultural Society will hold its semi-annual meeting and exhibition in Bloomington on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 13 and 14. Visitors will be guests of tho Monroe County Society, and will be shown everything of interest In and near the city, including the stone-quarries. Tne exhibition of fruit will probably be held in one of the buildings of the State University. Addresses will bo delivered by Prof. John W. Coulter. Rev. W. R. Halstead, Mrs. Louise Bolsen, John W. Ragen, and others. For the best collection of fruits, open to every grower in the State, the prizes are: First, sls; second, slo;thlrd, $6; fourth, $4. There aro also numerous prizes for the best plates of individual articles. —ln Lagro Township. Wabash County, Charles Lynn, a young farmer, while packing hay in a mow was caught by the rigging and lifted nearly to the roof and then dropped to the floor, sustaining injuries which may prove fatal. —Jacob Goodrich a well-to-do farmer > living southwest of Princeton, was bitten. ,' the latter part of last April, by a young / pup belonging to him and taken qulW sick, Dr. Long pronouncing it a case hydrophobia. He died the other morning, his death being a horrible one to witness. —A startling discovery was made at tho Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Logansport, when friends called to remove the body of Ira Ewing, of Wabash, who had died. The body had been placed in what was known as the dead-room, and during the night rats had burrowed through the clay floor and mutilated the body tn a horrible manner. Bdth eyes and lips were gone, and other mutilations made the scene sickening. Dr. Rogers, the superintendent, states that this is the first Instance of the kind on record, and that every care had bee* taken to prevent such an occurrence