Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1891 — Page 6

IDjemarrai DECATUR, INFIX *■ BDADKBURN, - <' Pvbubhxb. | =?■'■"!., . — ONLY HALF a glance - — WILL SHOW YOU THAT THE NEWS IS ALL HERE. Twelve Killed and Several Injured in a Switzerland Disaster — floods in tbe West—Base Ball Changes—A Wile’s Con. session. ~ r . A ;■ A SWITZERLAND HORROR. A Rear find Collision Results In Twelve Deaths and Many Injured Passengers. Berne special: A terrible accident, resulting in the Instant death of twelve persons, and the serious injury of maay others, some of whom will probably d|e, occurred bn the Jura-Simplon Railroad near this city. A special excursion train, which was conveying hundreds of villagers from the surrounding country to witness the fetes in connection with the 7OOth anniversary of the foundation of the city of Berne, was stopped at a siding a short distance from its destination, in order to allow the regular Paris express to pass. The engineer of the'express, as'nearly as can be ascertained, had not been notified of the fact that the excursion train was on the track ahead and the conductor of the excursion train seems to have neglected to send a signalman back to protect the rear of his train while the shunt was being arranged. The express running at high speed, came upon the excursion train so suddenly that the engineer’s efforts to check its speed and avoid disaster were unavailing. An Expert Accountant Arrested. Little Rock (Ark.) special: J. L. Bay, an expert accountant employed by exTreasurer W. E. Woodruff, to look after his interest before the State Board, authorized by the Legislature to settle the treasury muddle, has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Treasurer Morrow, charging him with the theft of 8100,000 of State scrip. When the Legislature adjourned the Joint Committee left two boxes filled with State securities which they had examined and found to be correct. Morrow claims that Bay has broken into another box belonging to the State and extracted therefrom SIOO,000 'worth of scrip that was cancelled about two years ago, which he put into boxes left here by Legislative Committee. Bay was taken before a justice of the.peace, and gave bond in the sum of 82,000 for his appearance September 1. The Platte River on a Rampage. <- St. Joseph (Mo.) special: Platte River Valley from Oakland Mills to the north and east for a distance of many miles has the appearance of an ocean. The river is out of its banks for a distance of about a mile on either side. Tributary streams and creeks are swollen, and the water is coming down the narrow valley with a rush and roar. The Platte River rose fully twenty feet in less than twelve hours. The “One Hundred and Two” River was out of its banks in places, where the night before there was scarcely a more than three to five feet of water. Hundreds of farmers along the banks of these streams have suffered the loss of cattle, grain, or buildings. Milwaukee in the American Base Ball Association. St. Louis special: It is settled, beyond all question that the Milwaukee club will enter the American Association and so purchase the franchise of the Cincinnati club. The price agreed upon is not given out, but President Gillette, of Milwaukee, put up 86,000 cash and the balance required in notes. Os the Cincinnati club Milwaukee gets Seerey, Dwyer, Carney, and Canavan; Washington secures Marr, Vaughn, and Mains, and “King” Kelly goes to the Boston Association team. Manager Bancroft has been signed to manage the new Milwaukee team. A Heavy Doss. Fire almost completely destroyed the machinery of the mine of the New Pittsburgh Coal and Coke Company at Alum Cave, Sullivan County, Ind. There has been a strike at the mine for a week past, and it is thought tbe mine was set on fire. The mine worked by machinery, which was of the costliest kind, and the most complete of any in the State for handling coal and burning coke., The Company estimates the loss at 8100,000, with two-thirds insurance. It will be impossible to resume work inside of several months. Bold Attempt at Train Wrecking. A dastardly attempt was made to wreck trains on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad between {Sturgis and Burr Oak, Mich., by piling ties on the track in several places. It is evident there was more than one person engaged in the business, as some of the ties were too heavy for one man to handle and they were piled quite high. A Wife’s Confession. Indianapolis special: Henry Dillon, marshal of Iloughville was murdered a few months ago and no clue to the murderers could be found. The other day Mrs. Chas. French accused her husband and Chas Hubbard of the crime and they have been arrested. When the woman threatened to expose her husband he nearly killed her with a base ball bat Fire in a Mine. Fire broke out in the shaft of the Louisville minepiear Leadville, Col., and burned all the timbers up the shaft for 500 feet. When the flames reached the top they consumed the shaft house, ore bins, and everything else except the engine house. Damage is over 830,000. No insurance. A Family Feud. Jesse Lee killed Bill Boon by shooting him just below the heart with a pistol at Purvis, Miss. A family feud is the cause. -Both men were farmers. The murderer escaped. Fatal Aeronautic Accident. A balloon which ascended-atMacerata, the Capital of the Italian province of that name, was carried out over the Adriatic, and while it was hanging over the water the aeronaut either fell or jumped out oi the car and was drowned before he could be reached by craft which put out . to his aid. ** Labor Riots at Formles. Labor troubles have again broken oul • at Form les, France, and the situation has become to serioiis that troops have bees sent there tp preserve order. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The five-year-old son of Charles (Adams, of Ashland, Mass., who was one of the children taken to the Pasteur Institute in New York City for treatment for a supposed mad dog bite, ’ has died, and it is. believed that without doubt hydrophobia was the cause of death. The children were discharged as cured. Alfred White, of Medina, N. Y., Induced thirtqen-year-old Ida Bissell to elope* with him. The couple were cap- § ■ tured. ' The establishment of Cleveland, Brown & Co., manufacturers and dealers •

.7 . In gentlemen’s neckwear, Boston, was entered and upward of a thousand yards ,of silks, aggregating fully $3,000 in value, were removed. Wm. Spellman, in jail at Camden, N. J., awaiting trial on a charge of obtaining money on false pretenses, stabbed Jailer Andrew Robinson and then committed suicide by cutting his throat. Robinson’s injuries are not fatal. At Goshen, N. ¥., Miss Anna Dickinson lectured on “Joan of Arc.” The house was crowded, and Miss,Dickinson had an enthusiastic reception. She showed no sign of derangement, and with all her well-known eloquence. « At Jamestown, N. Y., a section of the dock crowded with excursionists gave way, precipitating about thirty persons into the water, but all were rescued alive. At Taunton, Mass., Mrs. J. F. Montgomery, one of the best-known women in the city, of a wealthy family and prominent in temperance circles and in all movements for the amelioration of human woes, has a 16-year-old daughter suffering with a dysentery trouble whom the faith cures have been treating for some time. The girl has been gradually sinking, and the pastor and many friends of the family have expostulated in vain with Mrs. Montgomery, whose only regret seems to be that she once disregarded the “treatment” by giving the child some blackberry cordial. President Wilson, of the New York Health Board, has announced that the Chinese lepers Ong Mow Tow and Tsang Ding, have been removed to North Brothers Island, where they will be placed in a hospital tent, isolated from the other buildings. The extensive paper warehouse of A. G. Elliott & Co., at Philadelphia, Pa., was gutted by fire. Loss, 855,000; fully insured. The sale of 90 per cent, of the stock of the Saratoga Racing Association to the Hudson County Jockey Club is completed. The track and grounds will be transferred at the close of the present race meeting. Rev. Dr. John Henry Hopkins, a distinguished Episcopal clergyman, died at Troy, N. Y. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. At Huntington, Ind., Mrs. John Collins left her baby in a carriage on the sidewalk to got a drink at a fountain. The baby carriage rolled off the sidewalk into the street, throwing the baby under a horse’s feet, where it was instantly crushed to death. The yacht Nellie C., with a pleasure party oi four young men and six girls aboard, was caught in a sudden §quall on Maumee Bay, off Toledo, and capsized. Three of the girls—Lena Sanberg, Ellen Feeley, and Clara Bourds—were drowned. During five days of unusually hot weather in Chicago there were seventeen suicides reported, and several deaths from unknown causes, believed to bo self-destruction. Poison and drowning were the favorite methods. At Burlington, lowa, while tho two children of James Mooro were at play, one of them, a boy of six, got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid, tho contents of which he poured into his brother’s ear. The little follow died after terrible agony. •> A most terrific storm struck Ellsworth, Minn., and left the town a pretty comcomplete Wreck. A dark oloud with a greenish tint along its edges camo swirling in from tho northwest and crushed everything in its path. The lowa, Minnesota, and Dakota elevator was completely blown to pieces. The Congregational Church was partially blown down. The dwelling of D. F. Cramer was thrown from its foundation and the Burlington depot suffered great damage about the west end. Several box cars were hurled from the track. No lives were lost. There is not a building in the village that was not hit by the storm. The loss will reach 825,000. Around Lake Benton, St. Cloud, Fulda and Worthington, the storm was very severe, the wind and hail leveling what promised to be the largest crops in the history of the country. Geo. S. Haskell, ex-President of the Illinois Board of Agriculture, died at his home in Rockford. For twelve years he had been an active member of the Board, and was one of the most prominent seedmen of the State. In boring for water on his farm near Crothersville, Ind., Thomas L. Davis struck a strong flow of petroleum and strong indications of natural gas, and the find has caused great excitement. A company will be formed to make further explorations. John E. Valentine, alias “Stiffy Jack,” a noted bank robber, is dying in the Ohio state prison of consumption.One of his big pieces of work is said to be the robbery of the Ocean Bank in New York in 1866. The Nebraska Columbian Commission formally organized by the election of A. L. Strang, of Omaha, as President, and J. H. Powers, of Stratton, as Secretary. Among the resolutions adopted was one calling upon the architects to submit plans for the erection of a building for Nebraska, the cost not to exceed 815,000. At Elkhart, Ind., Anthony C. Manning, aged 77 years, and Mrs. Amelia Thompson, aged 79, both among Elkhart’s oldest and most highly respected citizens, were manned. A meeting of the World’s Fair managers for Colorado was held and reports made showing that nearly every variety of fruit bad been collected and that arrangements were being made to properly preserve 1,500 varieties. One hundred varieties of wild flowers have been collected by the florist and botanist. John R. Gamble died at Yankton, S. D., of paralysis of the heart. He was elected Congressman from South Dakota last fall. Springfield, Ohio, workmen, in tearing down “Welch’s Arcade," found several skeletons in the debris in the cellar. The place has been the resort of toughs and crooks of worst description for many years, and the finding of the skeletons suggested a dark and mysterious crime or series of crimes in years gone by. Wolfgang Ballestrom, a German tramp who has been staying at Santa Cruz, Cal., has inherited a fortune of 8500,000 and the title of count by the death of hia father near Berlin. The storm did much more damage in Minnesota than was at first reported. A special dispatch from Portsmouth, Ohio, says that there have been three more incendiary fires at Rardon, a village of probably 200 inhabitants. There is a lawless element in that vicinity, and it is thought these fires are set by them to avenge themselves on those who voted liquor out of the place. The citizens of Rardon are tn a state of terror. It was also found that seven dogs had been poisoned in the immediate neighborhood, and a fresh biscuit, split in two and nicely buttered, was found on the doorstep of one of the leading citizens, just where hie little children would have picked ft up. He I brought the biscuit ,to a competent

chemist, and the analysis showed the butter permeated with “rough on rats.” George Bender, a brakeman for the Kansas City Road, while in the act of crawling into the cupola of the caboose of a moving train was struck by a projecting waterspout and knocked off, being horribly mangled about the face and head. Michael Mahon, a prosperous far-, mer, residing nine miles south of Slayton, Minn., was killed by lightning while unharnessing his team. One of the horses vyas also killed. > ~= SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At St. Martinsville, La., the dead bodies of Mrs. James Robertson and her daughter were discovered. Mrs. Robertson’s throat had been cut and her daughter had been choked to death. The object of their murderers appears to have been robbery. At the inquiry by the Federal authorities under direction of United States Attorney General Miller, as to the alleged brutal treatment of Federal convicts in the penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark., Abraham Davis, a convict, testified that shortly after his term began he was branded three times on the hips with a red-hot iron, severely whipped and subsequently confined in a dark cell two days and nights and fed on bread and water. The lessees of the penitentiary denied branding and in justification of the whipping and confinement introduced testimony to show that Davis was lazy and impudent. The counsel of Martha Millen, the negro woman who was to have been hanged at Chester, S. C., for poisoning her husband, has secured a stay of proceedings and carried the case to the Supreme Court. The powder mill at Central City, Ky., on the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad, was blown up. The building contained 14,000 pounds of powder. Policeman H. J. PintoSt, of Tallahassee, Fla., has resigned to capture, dead or alive, Harmon Murray, the negro desperado and murderer, and thus win a $3,500 reward. R. Dudley Frayser, President of the Security and the Memphis City Banks, and one of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Memphis, Tenn., was chloroformed and robbed at the Gayoso Hotel by a man giving the name of John A. Morris and his residence as New Orleans. z FOREIGN GOSSIP. M. Dxbrowsky, the explorer, has telegraphed from De Brazzaville, West Africa, that the failure of Crampel’s mission is certain. The official organ of the German Government says that no reduction will be made on the duties of grain imported into Germany. The last mail from Panama brings a copy of a manifesto issued by the Executive Council of tho Chilian revolutionists. It is a long, boastful declaration and contains nothing of general interest. FRESH AND NEWSY. George E. Belknap, in command of the Uniteds States squadron in Chinese waters, has two ironclads at the scene of the missionary troubles, and has cabled the authorities at Washington for five more. It is believed that the United States steamer Pensacola, which is now at Mare Island, will soon be put out of commission, as her present condition is hardly seaworthy. John F. Attfield, civil engineer of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf Railroad, who has just returned from a visit to tho Alamo ’ and Hondo mines, says that they are together producing 450 tons of coal daily. * The miners are. Americans and Chinamen, and the mines are reached by a branch line of the International Railway. Acting Secretary Grant, of tho War Department, has declined to grant the request of Mr. N. P. Ramsey, the General Manager of tho Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway Company to construct an elevator on the Government dyke at Benton Harbor, Mich. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The prohibition of exports of rye by Russia because of official declaration that famine is impending has suddenly affected the grain markets of the world. Crop prospects grow brighter every day, and with assurance that the country will not only have enormous supplies of grain, but a market for it at good prices, business is improving throughout the North. The movement begins close to the farms; country ’merchants are buying more freely, and their purchases are felt by wholesalers and manufacturers. In the main the interior money markets are in fairly good condition, excepting at the South, and at Philadelphia confidence is gaining. If Europe is able to send cash for all the food it will require this year it is probable that this country will not lack money long. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number, for the United States 202, and for Canada 25, or a total of 227, as compared with a total of 231 last week and 247 the week previous to the last. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 197, representing 174 failures in the United States and 23 in the Dominion of Canada. market kkfoutm. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... ®3.50 @ 6.25 Hoss—Shipping Grades. 4.00 & 6.10 Sheep’. 3.00 @6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 99 @l.Ol Cohn—No. 262)6® .68 Oats—No. 2 28 @ .28)6 Rye—No. 298 @ .95 Butter—Choice Creamery...... .19 @ .20 Cheese—Full Cream, flatsoß)6o .09)4 Eggs—Frevh. 14)6® 15)6 Potatoes—New, per bu4o © .45 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 8.50 © 5.15 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 0 5.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 8.50 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red .90 0 .90)6 Cobn—No. 1 White 62 & .64 Oats—No. 2 Whiteßl 0 .34 ST. LOUIS. Cattle; 3.50 0 5.75 Hogs <SO 0 5.50 Wheat-No. 2 Red. 95)6© .93)6 Cohn—No. 2.67 0 .58 Oats—No. 228 @ .29 Pork—Mess 10.25 010.75 CINCINNATI. Cattle. 8.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 8.00 © 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 92)6© .93)6 Corn—No. 268 0 .64 Oats-No. 2 Mixed.Bl)6o -82)6 DETROIT. Cattle. 8.00 & 5.35 « Hogs 8.00 @5.25 Sheep 3.00 0 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red .97)60 -98)6 Corn—No. 2 Yellow. 63)6© A4)6 Oats—No. 2 White 84)60 .38)6 TOLEDO. Wheat—New 1.01 0 1.02 Corn—Cash64 0 .65 Oat»—No. 2 White. B4 © .84)6 Bye .96 © .98 BUFFALO. J Beef Cattle 8.60 0 6.75 Live Hogs. 4 4.25 0 8.00 Wheat—No. 1 Northern LOT 0 1.07)6 Cobn—No.2.. .69 0 .70 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 9 Spring *97 0 .99 Coax—No. 8 .62 © M Oats—No. 2 White..... M 0 .84 S I:» xiw'ibM." ““ > .. . 1 I v;. '

- — WHY SUPERIOR SHIPS? MORE INCONSISTENCIES OF PROTECTIONISTS. Wealth Then and Now—Contract tabor— War to Ee Waged Against the Importation of Tin-Plate Workers — Another Trust Announced—Minor Points on Tariff Reform. It must make the protectionists sad to know that the steamship Majestic has crossed the ocean between England and the United States in five days eighteen hours and eight minutes. Os course no protectionist can see with satisfaction any improvement that brings us into close relations with Europe. Why, in Europe they sell goods cheap, and wicked Americans have been known to go over and wear back the cheap clothes made by the pauper laborers of Europe, thus defrauding American manufacturers of the natural right to fleece every creature that wears clothes. It was a Pennsylvania political economist that discovered the peculiar evils of sailing the ocean blue. Trade with foreign countries should be discouraged, he thinks, because, among other things, you dan do nothing worse to a man than make of him a salt-water sailor. Fast ships, light-houses and all the conveniences and safeguards of ocean travel should be neglected if our protectionist friends are right Above all things, why dredge rivers and harbors, especially harbors? If the protectionists were consistent they would produce a bar across every harbor now carrying water deep enough to admit any ship bigger than those engaged in our coasttag trade. “Oh,” say the protectionists, “we are willing to send our goods to foreign countries, but we are not willing to receive theirs. ” “What," says the astonished tariff reformer; “you wish to give away the goods to Europeans?” “Not at all,” says the protectionist; “We’ll take gold in payment. " “But gold must bo carried in ships?” says the reformer. “To be sure; and as the ships must come back they can bring the go d. ” “What, enough for ballast? Why, they could not find so much in all Europe, and besides, if they could, what would we do with it? We as a nation could not afford to buy diamonds, for example, with all our products; that would be exchanging necessities for luxuries, and gold is a luxury just as diamonds are.” “But we can coin the gold into money,” says the protectionist, “and besides Europe would make payment by means of bills of exchange. ” “You couldn’t have bills of exchange without indebtedness both ways, and if we buy nothing of Europe we shall owe nothing to Europeans. There’s nothing left for you but to take metal, and after you have coined it into dollars its only effect would be, to raise the price of home commodities in .the home market. It would not flow back to Europe in accordance with the laws of trade, for your prohibitive tariff would have made trade impossible. ” WEALTH THEN AND NOW. What Would Washington Have Thought of Mr. Carnegie’s Millions’? Ex-Senator Ingalls, who seems to have learned a good many things since his fall, declared upon a recent occasion, when speaking at a prohibition meeting near New York: “Ninety years ago in this country the richest man was George Washington, our first President. The estimated amount of his wealth aggregated about SBOO,OOO. It is safe to say to-day that scores of men have annual incomes that largely exceed that of the richest man in the country ninety years ago. One man at whose touch everything seems to turn to gold has a monthly revenue larger than General Washington’s total wealth. At that time, ninety years ago, there was not a millionaire, a tramp, or a pauper in the country. Most of this groat transformation occurred within the last forty years. To the great mass of the people life is but a hopeloss toil that prevents .them from seeing wife and children by daylight and leaves them an old age of hopeless mendicancy. ” Mr. Ingalls probably overestimated the first President’s real wealth, but whether he did or not, the figures that accompany this estimate are interesting. Would Washington ever have signed that first tariff bill had lie known that the tariff, under the name of protection to American labor, would be used in the next century to make millionaires by the score? What would Washington have thought of Andrew Carnegie rolling in wealth acquired by means of the enormous tariff on steel rails and various forms of iron and at the same time waging an annual war over wages with the powerful union whose labor produces these very manufactures? What the Fanners of Minnesota Think of the Tinned- Plate Duty. The case against the duty on tin plate is admirably summed .up by the Minnesota journal Farm, Stock, and Home. No one ever denied, it says, that we could import block tin and skilled labor and make tin plates in this country. The only question was whether it paid to do so. That it did not pay was proved by tho fact that we did not go into the business. It was cheaper to import tin plate than to make it Hence, if we are to make it now, it must be sold at a higher price than formerly. But it asks: “Is that a matter for rejoicing? No, unless spme compensation to the buyers and consumers of tinware accompanies the advance. No such accompanying compensation is possible. Making tin in this country cannot raise the price of farm products, because at the utmost it will not take the products of over three average Western agricultural counties to feed all the help that will be employed in the tin-plate industry. It will cause no increase in the price of labor, for it is confessed that the labor must be imported; but if it is not, tho quantity employed will be too small to affect the labor market It follows, then, that all the rejoicing about tin is because tin dinner palls, fruit cans, etc., are to be higher priced.” The article goes on to declare that if the Welsh manufacturers can make tin more cheaply than it can be made in this country, and “will pay our farmers as much for wheat and meat as the latter's own tin-making countrymen will pay, than it is an outrage on our farmers to make them buy the home-made tin. ” The sentiment that is attached to the idea of the home market may be glorious, but in the opinion of this journal, “as business or common sense it may be idiotic. ” It might be glorious to grow oranges in Minnesota at a cost of 50 cents apiece, but it is better on the whole to get them for 3- cents from Florida or Cuba. The sentiment might be tolerable If it worked both ways—if it compelled payment .to the farmer of higher prices for all he sells when it exacted higher prices for all he buys; “but the old thing doesn’t work that way, has not worked that way, never will work that way."— New York Evening Poet. They Muat Have a Subsidy. v The McKinley newspapers'contfnueto tell their readers that bar tin could not now be produced at the California mine if there had not been inserted in the McKinley act a paragraph imposing a dqty on Imported bar tin two years hence. To them every part of that act 19 sacred, and no one but “an enemy of his country* can question the wisdom of a sentence or a word in it The price of bar tin in this market is about

cents a pound. The San Jacinto Estate, limited, professes to be able to produce bar tin at a cost of less than 6 cents a pound. Does that show that a duty"“is needed?" Here is a part of it: “The reports further show that by reason of their high percentage of yield, accessibility for economic working, their absolute freedom from wolfram, mundic, and other impurities found in most tin ores, and their exemption from all dues, metallic tin can be produced from Temescal ores at a cost not exceeding £25 per ton (less than 5J6 cents a pound). Based on a daily output, of 200 tons of ofe, yielding 10 per cent, of metallic tin, costing £25 per ton and sold at £95 per ton, the Cajalco mine alone—which is the lode from which the company is now taking ore—would produce a yearly profit of £420,000, or nearly double the total profit from all the mines of Cornwall. It should be borne in mind that the above profit is based on the estimated output from the Caialco mine .alone, without taking into consideration the profits to be derived from the ous other tin lodes of the estate.” This is taken from the Official statement of the company, which wai published in the London Times of July 10, 1890, and in other London journals of the same date. The price of tin in this market at present is equivalent to about £95 per ton. And now, because the sacred McKinley act provides for a duty of 4 cents a pound two years hence, the organs of McKinleyism cry out that such a duty is needed for the protection of these Englishmen who assert that they can produce, at a cost of 5% cents, tin which is sold in this market at 20% cents. There must be a duty, we are told, in order that this English company may be able to exact more than 20% cents for its California tin.— New York Times. CONTRACT LABOR. Tbe New Fight ot the Amalgamated Association of Steel aud Iron Workers. Labor unions are peculiarly unpopular among protected manufacturers. Several of the most important protected industries have for years b en waging an annual war with a view to resisting the demands of labor unions. Ono of the most powerful unions is the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. These men treat with their employers as one hostile power treats - with another. There are conferences lasting for days, many discussions, demands of all sorts, finally compromise, sometimes preceded by shotguns. It must be remembered meanwhile that protection is always demanded in order that the American workingman may have high wages. There seems an inconsistency here, but a good many steel and iron workers go on supporting the policy of a high-protective tariff. J ust now, however, the Amalgamated Association has other fish to fry. The association is making ready to wage war against the importation of foreign tinplate workers. Their first move will be . an attempt ,to checkmate ex-Congress-man Niedringhaus, who is interested in mills in St. Louis. They say that, although he was one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the McKinley bill, he has nevertheless gone back on the spirit of protection and secured a ruling from Superintendent Owens, of the Treasury Department, to the effect that the alien contract law does not prohibit engaging “under contract or agreement skilled workmen in foreign countries to perform labor in the United States, in or upon any new industry not at present established in the United States; provided, that skilled labor for that purpose cannot be otherwise obtained. ” The association takes the ground that there are sufficient skilled workmen in tin plate manufacturing already in this country to meet all demands. In proof of this they have been gathering information as to their number and experience. In one iron mill in Pittsburg there were found enough foreign-born and trained Welsh tin rollers to man three tin plate mills. They say that it is surprising what a large number of practical tin plate men are to be found in the iron mills in this country, and that by their proper disposition others could be rapidly trained and broken in. Hero, then, is a new aspect of the protection question. Why import labor if we have it at home? The contract labor law was passed in order to please workingmen, who said protection was right, but it should be given directly to labor as well as indirectly through capital. But the moment there is a loophole of escape protected manufacturers evade the intent of the law. Jndge Lawrence and Thoma« Dolan. We hope that while Judge Lawrence is filling the Republican papers of Ohio with dissertations on wool, he will not overlook the following remarks of Mr. Thomas Dolan in a letter written on the 27th ult.: . ° “It is an interesting fact, deserving much emohasis of statement, that the prices of wool are lower now than they were one year ago. This decline was distinctly promised by. protectionists during the discussion which accompanied the framing of the McKinley tariff.” There are two large and powerful hightariff associations in tiffs country, and Mr Dolan is the president of one of them. Judge Lawrence asserts that he wrote the wool schedule of the McKinley tariff, and he tells the wool-growers of Ohio that the price of their wool would now be higher if the Eastern manufacturers had not “conspired” to buy foreign wool in order that -the price of Ohio and Michigan wool might decline and that the new tariff might thus suffer in the estimation of Ohio and Michigan farmers. Another reason which he gives is that the new tariff is not strictly enforced, because there are traitors in the custom houses. Mr. Dolan’s club asserts that the new wool schedules were made by a committee of its members, thus permitting the inference that Judge Lawrence did not do the work. The design of the Pennsylvania protectionists appears to have been to reduce the price of Ohio wool by increasing the duties, and everybody knows that Judge Lawrence’s purpose was to increase the price of the same wool by increasing the duties. Judge Lawrence should speedily assure his friends in Ohio that ho is not one of “the protectionists” who “distinctly promised the decline. ” Another Trust Announced. The McKinley tariff raised the duty on glucose 50 per cent, and Chicago advices say that the glucose trust has been reorganized after extensive negotiations covering a period of three months. A pool has, it is said, been formed with a capitalization of $15,000,009. The greatest secrecy has been observed by the new trust in the making of negotiations, and the full details are not yet obtainable. v This is the fourth trust formed within three weeks, the others being the Wire Rod Combine, the Leather Board Syndicate. and the Flint Glass Trust Does th|s show that the trusts are afraid of Sherman’s anti-trust law? A Leather-Board Syndicate. An English syndicate has purchased practically all the leather-board factories in the Eastern States. The purchase includes the plant of tbe Harwood Manufacturing Company at Leominster, Mass., with its opera-chair factory, also the Moncan Manufacturing Company of Kennebec, the Leather Board Company of Boston, and the plant of Clegg A Fisher of Lawrence. The local managers are to remain in charge.— New Yorit Times.

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WENT OVER A DOLLAR. A WILD RUSH IN THE PRICE OF WHEAT. On ’Change at Chicago It Takes an Unprecedented Spurt and Rises Nine Cents in One Day—Conservative Brokers Say It’s a Stampede—Fell Nearly a Mlle. Wheat Brokers Excited. Wheat at SI.OB a bushel, and next to none to be had at that rate! This was tho sensation on ’Change in Chicago the other day, says a dispatch. The news of wheat at a dollar a bushel had spread far beyond Board of Trade circles, and when the Board opened the following morning the galleries were crowded to suffocation. Scenes on ’Change are interesting even at ordinary times, but when the market is at fever heat; when there are no reasonable indications where it will stop in a wild upward rush; when, on the other hand, all signs point to the existence of a strong syndicate in control of the supply, then the pit becomes a veritable bedlam, a pandemonium such as only several hundred howling, shouting and madly excited traders can produce. Now this was the case. While everybody was prepared for a rise, each onward revolution of the hand on the big indicator was greeted with yells that would have done credit to a gang of Apaches on an attack. The spectators caught the infection, but inasmuch as they were so closely wedged together that motion was impossible they could do nothing else but perspire. Many of them even shouted as wildly as the traders below, though there was no earthly reason why the visitors should yell. They simply did it by contagion. December wheat opened at $1.02, within a very small fraction of 2 cents above the closing price of the preceding day, but it did not remain longer than a few minutes at that figure. Presently the indicator marked $1.02%, then $1.03, and at this Interesting point the rumor gained ground that Jim Keene and B. P. Hutchinson, backed by a syndicate of wealthy New York men, were manipulating the market This caused a jump of 2 cents, and from that point the market advanced by quarters and halves to SI.OB, where it remained until selling brought it down again to $1.06%, which was the closing price Experienced brokers claim that they see nothing extraordinary in the rush, apd they maintain also that it cannot last very long. At present the farmers deliver little or nothing. Tiie spring wheat is not yet harvested, and the supply of winter wheat is exceedingly small. All commercial exchanges have an upward turn, so have the domestic markets, and everybody seems crazy to get wheat. This was illustrated on ’Change, when the price at one time was bid up 2 cents, and not a pound of wheat could be had at that. FELL NEARLY A MILE. Woman Killed While Attempting to Make a Parachute Drop in Ohio. One of the recent attractions at Coney Island, near Cincinnati, was a balloon ascension by Miss Annie Harkness, whose home is in Terre Haute, Ind. At the appointed time the young woman came forwaid and stepped into the car. The ropes were loosened at once and the balloon rose rapidly. At an elevation of about 5,000 feet the parachute was let go. The buzz from the gazing multitude was at its height The on-lookers watched with trembling delight The parachute slowly began to unfold. Suddenly there was a dreadful hush like the silence of death. The parachute had closed and with its human buiden was falling with frightful velocity. Then the silence was broken with shrieks of fainting women, with children wailing and crying, and men turned away their faces to shut out the awful sight. Suddenly there struck upon the ears a dull, sickening sound—the end had come. A life ijad gone out in the midst of pleasure. Annie Harkness had made her last parachute descent. THE PUBLIC PULSE. the world’s fair. The earth will be in Chicago in earnest.—Omaha Bee. Let the Emperor come, by all means.— Richmond Times. The work of giving Kansas a proper bxhlbit at the World’s Fair goes right along.— Kasisas City Journal. That man, woman, or child does not exist under this government who will not feel the lofty inspiration of the occasion.—Topeka Capital. The South American States nromise an exhibit at the coming WorldTs Fair that may well astonish visitors from Europe.— Boston Globe. Os course it would be highly desirable to have France properly represented at the Columbian Exposition, but if the French people don’t see it that way the show will go on all the same.— Kansas City Star. The encouragement given to the W’orld’s Fair of 1893 by foreign nations increases the responsibility not only of the United States Government but of the State governments. — Baltimore American. The Women’s Department at Chicago will do much toward universal feminine emancipation if it removes even a fraction of the popular foreign prejudice Cgainst tho participation of woman in every field to which she may aspire.— Troy Times. , RUSSIA’S RYE. Russia has scored a point against Germany and England.— New York Mall. It’s an ill wind to Germany, AustroHungary, and our good English cousins, but it blows good to the American farmer-— Hartford Cewrant. The immediate effect will be to cause an advance tn wheat and breadstuffs in ail European markets, and, in a very short time, in those of the United States. —lndianapolis Journal. It affords the strongest proof of the short crops in Europe creating a deficit which cannot be supplied except by the farmers of this country.— Baltimore American. While this action is doubtless partly due to the short wheat and rye crops in Russia, it is probably intended also as a measure of retaliation for Germany’s attempt to commercially isolate France. —Philadelphia Record. The order of the Russian Government forbidding the exportation of rye can be regarded In the United States with entire complacency. The American grain crops will be very large this year, and whatever the Germans may lack in rye can be abundantly supplied by prime Western wheat— Philadelphia Times. MACHINE-MADE BAIN. Os course the one experiment is not conclusive.— Minneapolis Tribune. Isolated experiments of thia sort prove nothing in themselves.—Philadelphia Record, The fact is, no discovery has yet been made how to make dry rain, or rain without moisture.— Washington Star. The coincidence of explosions and rains In one or a dozen instances is not conclusive that there it a relation of cause and effect Sentinel. Os course other testa will be necessary to settle the question whether man has actually gained another victory over the powers of the air, banished drought, and reclaimed the deserts.—OtewinnaN .Q * WFOVO • ». n < . -‘..kV? > < -Ji.V; i .. - ’-a*. •. z W >-

BI POST AND WIRES COMES THIS BATCH INDI** ANA NEWS. A Catalogue the Week’s Important Oecurreaces Throughout the State — Fires. Accidents. Crimes. Suicides. Etc. —Frankfort will soon have a new bank. —Thortown will soon have natural gas. —Jackson County will have 700,000 bushels of wheat. —Maj. Smock’s hairless calf, worth S2OO, is dead, Terre Haute. —Capt. W. L. Reed, of Orleans, never turned away a hungry tramp. —Charles Goodbub is the name of a master builder at New Albany. —Burglars cracked the safe of Jacob Strach, at New Albany, securing SIOO. —Eli Lampheare was droWn, while bathing in the mill-race at Jeffersonville. —Mrs. William McNealy found dead in a woodshed at Columbus. Heart disease. —Tipton County Alliance has horse sales at Tipton on tho first Saturday of each month. —A 10-year-old boy had his leg badly lacerated in a mowing-machine near* Mooresville. —Christian Swaim, a wealthy farmer, was robbed of SI,OOO while attending a circus at Muncie. —Two barns were struck by lightning and destroyed by fire at Crawfordsville, two horses being burned. —John Caldwell, originator of the present system of distributing mail on trains, is dead at South Bend. —lsaac Pesch, of Evansville, drove his family out of his room and took a dose of Rough on Rats, from which he died. —The supply of natural gas at Vernon has been exhausted, and the pipes and mains laid two years ago are being dug up. —Oliver Brown, who was bumming from Philadelphia to Indianapolis, fell under the cars at Richmond and had a leg cut off. —The 12-year-old son of Bass Thatcher was given whisky by Chas. Riffer at Frankfort. The boy got drunk and Riffer got In jail. —The State Board of Education has decided that teachers holding six-year certificates are not required to again undergo examination. —William Shepard, of Fortville, accidentally covered up his 6-months-old baby with bed clothes, and the infant was smothered to death. —Robert Young, of Cross Roads, near Muncie, lost a SI,OOO barn irom spontaneous combustion, caused by the mow being filled with new hay. —Oliver Barker, a tramp, stealing a ride from Richmond to Indianapolis, fell under the wheels and was ground to pieces at the former place. —lndiana farmers who sold their farms and went West are now wishing themselves back again. They have heard of the crops raised this year. —Mrs. Fannie Rapp, of New Castle, desires the address oL any soldier who served in Company D,fOne-hundred-and-sixty-flth Ohio Volunteers during the war. g, —A swinderhas been taking subscriptions in the neighborhood of Seymour for magazines and books at reduced rates. He gets the money and people who subscribe get the rates. —Noah A. Breedlove was instantly killed while attempting to couple an engine to the separator of a thresher at Sullivan. His head was crushed. He was 25 years old and a single man. —The Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners are arranging for an elevator. Experts give the assurance that the vibration incident to running an elevator will not be injurious to the monument. It will run by steam, and the cost, including engine, pumps, well, etc., will be about SIO,OOO. —Jefferson street, the main thoroughfare of Huntington, was the scene of a dreadful and heart-rending accident. Mrs. Frank Collins, with three children, was on .the street, the youngest, a daughter aged 6 months, in a baby cab. The mother stopped at the public wells to give her children a drink, when the baby cab rolled noiselessly away from where it was standing, falling off the curb at the feet of a team of horses. The infant was rolled in the gutter, and one of the horses kicked it in the head, killing it instantly. The agonizing shrieks of the mother were the first intimation of the occurrence, and the scene was one which made % the faces of the strongest men turn pale. —A few days ago there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Elias Spott, of Lafontaine, Wabash County, a son, and- it is likely, that the offspring has more grandparents living than any other child in the country. On the father’s side there are grandfather and grandmother, Jerome Scott, and the father and mother of Jerome Scott, who are, oi course great-great-grandparents. Then Mrs. Jerome Scott’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. McPherson, are also living, and are great-grandpa Vents. On the mother’s, side are grandfather, great-grandfather* grandmother and great-grandmother. Grandmother Lynn’s father is also living, making in all eleven grandparents. —David Plake, the 15-year-old son of Lafayette Plane, had both legs cut off at Tipton, and he died in a few hours. He was attempting to get off a Lake Erie and Western passenger train. —Churches In Indiana are now paying off debts by having "hugging societies.” For fifteen cents one-can hug a 16-year-old girl two minutes, ten cents for a. short squeeze. Old maids three cents a piece or two for five.. Editors pay in advertising, but can't hug anything but old maids and schoolmams. —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels have already been shipped to Northern points. —Jacob Heaton, residing five miles east of Muncie, turned a large drove of fat hogs in a wheat stubble-field, and, with his family, went to the city to see Barnum’s show. When the family returned home at night Mr. Heaton found seventeen of the hogs dead from suffocation, and aa many more would have died only for careful nursing. Ho had forgotten to provide water for the stock.