Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1891 — Page 6

r \ .'S»U- "Illi. ■I, I . . ©he democrat DECATUR, IND. N. BLACKBURN, * - - Publishbb. AN OCEAN OF NEWS. IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST WEEK. The Pearly Party in Search of the North Pole—The Columbus Grove Murderer Ideu tilled—Frightful Mine Explosion. Kills His Sister. A sad accident is reported from Dunkirk, 0. Mr. and Mrs. John Decker were in Ada attending the funeral of young George Stokesbury, who was foully murdered in the streets of. that place. They left the children at home. George Decker, aged 17, was fooling with his father’s shotgun, and pointed it at his sister Rosa, , aged 14. She • stood abou.t three feet from the end of the gun. Rosa screamed with terror, but George assured her .it wouldn’t hurt her and pulled the trigger. The heavy load of shot entered the right side, cutting off the third and fourth ribs and penetrating the right side. The girl sank to the floor speechless, but remained conscious to the last, aboutthree hours. Her parents arrived before her death. The ,scene upon their arrival was heartrending. They returned from the closing scene of one tragedy in the family to witness another ten times more terrible. The brother is crazed with grief. The unfortunate girl was a prime favorite in the vicinity. “Parson” Davies Nearly .Kill » an Austra” lian Pugilist. A sanguinary encounter between two of the most noted characters in the sporting world occurred at Mount Clemens, Mich. Jim Hall, the Australian pugilist, who claims the title of champion middleweight of the world, was fearfully worsted in an attack on bis business manager, Parson Charles E. Davies. The encounter was the outcome of a quarrel in the bar-room of the hotel. After an angry word or two, Hall struck viciously at Davies with a bottle. The big. prize fighter’s arm was caught oy a bystander, but shaking himself free, Hall attempted to repeat the blow and Davies at bay, grabbed a lemon knife lying oh the bar and dodging Hall’s powerful fist and lunged back at him, cutting a terrible gash from chin to ear on the right side and narrowly missing the jugular vein. “You’ve done me,’ Charlie, but stay with* me,” exclaimed Hall as the blood spurted in a horrible flow from the wound. Hall will recover. In Search of the North Pole. A brief dispatch from St. Johns, N, F., announces that the steamer Kite has returned to that place. She safely reached her destination at Whale Sound and landed the Pearly party, the house in which it is to livp next winter, and the supplies of the expedition. Lieutenant Pearly has had the serious misfortune to break his leg. Tlie dispatch gives no particulars. The subsidafv expedition headed by Professor Pellprin, of Philadelphia, has been successful in its work and has got as far as St. Johns on its way home. Eight months at least must elapse from September 1 before the sledging conditions will be so as to enable him to start on his long trip on the inland sea. This will give the lieutenant ample time to recover from the injury to .his leg. .Wheaton the Road. Kansas City special: The receipts of wheat at this point within the past few weeks have bceen very large. The receipts in one day are reported at 6G7 cars, which is the greatest number of cars of wheat ever received in one day. The largest number heretofore received in one day was GIO cars in 1883. The Chicago and Alton Railroad has refused to take any more grain as both of its elevators are filled. The Missouri Pacific road has 650 cars in its yards waiting to be unloaded; the Santa Fe has 500; the United Pacific 700, and the other roads enough to make a total of over 3,000 cars of unloaded grain. An Absent-Minded Father. North Lime (Conn.) special: George Bump, an eccentric Yankee, while heading a barrel for cider, placed his deaf and dumb five-year-old son inside of the barrel to hold the head up while he tightened the hoops. He forgot that the child was in the barrel and a fruitless smirch was made. The boy was not discovered for two days and when taken out of the barrel immediately went into hysterics. Bump has been arrested, as the boy will probably die. “Just Over.” New York .special: Rebecca Rubenstein has arrived at the barge office from Odessa, bringing with her her twentyfour children. Their ages range from Ito 2,5 years. The Rubensteins are in good circumstances and will settle in this city. The father of the interesting family also accompanied the children to this country. Mrs. Rubenstein is 45 years old and is still plump and pretty. She is about to give birth to the twentyfifth child. Through » Trestle. A freight train -on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad went through a trestle near Tula, Miss., killing two men outright and injuring three others. William A. Balton and Henry Toggart, brakemen, were mashed to death and Conductor Fairbanks, Fireman Clifford, and Engineer Kelley were fatally wounded. He Is the Man. James M. Roberts, the alleged Columbus Grove murderer, has arrived at Ottawa, Ohio, in charge of Marshal Faith, of New Washington, and Deputy Sheriff Reuve, of Ottawa, and was positively identified by Cashier Maples, of the Columbus Grove bank. Brakeman Fatally Injured. Edward Skeers, an Air Line brakeman, fell from a freight train in the cut near Milltown, Ind., and rolled back on the track. His right arm was cut off near the shoulder, and he received painful internal injuries of a fatal character. A Frliglitful Mine Explosion. A dispatch from Swansea, Wales, says that an explosion occurred in a mine pit near Merthiery Tydville. So far two bodies have been recovered and it is feared that many more are buried beneath the debris. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. There has been a mad dog scare in Hamilton, N. J. A number of dogs affected with the rabies have been killed. Two women inmates of the Buffalo jail committed suicide. Anna Gossoworska, - supposed to be insane, was found hanging by a rope made from her clothing. Mrs. Catharine Smith was slso5 Iso found dead hanging by her skirt, rhich she had twisted into a rope. • Mrs. James Lyons was shot and Allied by her husband at their home in Pawtucket, R. I. -The woman had a

—•' ~ baby In fie/ arms and the shots were fired at such close range that the burning powder set fire to the infant’s clothes. The murderer was arrested. At New York, Special Treasury Agent Cummings stopped four cases of Paris costumes for various fashionable women. They came from Charles Lauer, of Paris. Lauer is the man dressmaker, $3,000 worth of whose Paris dresses were seized recently for undervaluation. He had to pay $50,000 in duties and penalties to secure their release. Taylor’s Building, Park place, New York, five stories high, covering three stores, collapsed without a moment’s warning, and over a hundred people were buried in the ruins. The building was occupied by a drug store, restaurant, and a paint shop on the ground floor, and above were printing offices, binderies, and similar establishments. The collapse was caused by the enormous weight of fifteen cylinder presses and printing material on the upper floor. The number, of dead will reach sixty. Harry Wright, at Little Britain, Pa. was fatally shot by James M. Jordan. Jordan’s motive was revenge. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Clark Woodman, of Omaha, Neb., one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of that place, was found dead in his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. Apparently he possessed everything in this world for which a man could wish, yet it is thought that the man ended his life through the agency of chloroform. Pour men were locked up at the Central Police Station, Chicago, for eonspfring to blackmail Siegel, Cooper & Co. out of $20,000. Their names are Thomas Higgins, William Dalton, John Anderson, and George Washington. The last three named are negroes. Before the recent fire which destroyed the big notion house of Siegel, Cooper & Co., and caused a total loss of about $1,000,000, the men were employes of the firm. While the ruins were still smoldering, the men under arrest and two others entered into a plot to get $20,000 from the insurance companies by offering to show that the fire was of incendiary origin, and that members of the firm had put a torch to the building. » The convention of the Irish National League of America will be held in Chicago next month instead of in Baltimore, members of the League in the North--west claiming that they could not go so far away from home. The Conferring at Milwaukee of the pallium on Archbishop F. X. Katzer, the successor of the late Archbishop Heiss, took place in St John’s Cathedral. Cardinal Gibbons was the bearer of the vestment, and he conferred it in person. The occasion was given unusual interest by the presence of no less than seven hundred prelates and priests, representing almost every State in the Union. A shock of electricity from a motor at Chicago prostrated Motorman James Boyd. Falling upon the motor, his right arm was caught between the wheels and horribly crushed. The arm will be amputated. The accident occurred when he was polishing the motor wheels with a bit of sardpaper. The postoffice at Zumbrota, Minn., was entered by burglars. The safe was blown open and S4OO in stamps, $25 in silver and two registered letters secured. One letter is known to have contained over S2OO. No clue to the robbers. Governor Francis has granted a six weeks’ respite to Harbin, the Sedalia, Mo., murderer, who was to be hanged at Poplar Bluff. A qonvict in the penitentiary has confessed to the murder for which Harbin was sentenced to be hanged. One of the Canadian Express Company’s sealed bags, containing money and valuables, was rifled at Richmond, Ohio. In place of the contents was substituted brown paper. Indiana railway men thought $69,000,000 too high for their assessment, but they may be taxed on $400,000,000 if the Board of Equalization adheres to its latest figures. Lewis Davis, aged 18, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen, at Lafayette, Ind., with a shotgun and died in a few minutes. At Shelbyville, Ind,, Charles Hawkins, a noted desperado, shot and fatally wounded City Marshal Dan Bruce, and at midnight a mob of men took. Hawkins from the jail and hanged him. Hawkins’ deed was premeditated. The Marshal had arrested Hawkins’ 12-year-old son, who had thrown stones through some plate-glass windows, and Hawkins said he had come to the city to get even with Bruce. ’ ■ < James Roberts, arrested at New Washington for the Columbus Grove, Ohio, robbery and murder, was fully identified by Cashier Maple and John Crawford, the hardware dealer who sold him two revolvers. He was taken to the Ottawa jail. He went from the scene of the robbery to New Washington, where he had been the guest of his uncle, Mr. Carson, postmaster of the village. Dispatches from points in Missouri indicate that the storm which did so much damage at Atchison, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., played havoc with the grain in stacks and standing corn, as well as doing immense damage to houses, barns and outhouses. William Zirn opened his mine at Pine Nut, Nev., for inspection. Zirn was offered SI,OOO for permission to work the mine twenty-four hours. In four hours he took out $1,500. Ida Smith, aged 19, of Trowbridge, Mich., and pearl Scholey, of Lansing, aged 11, were drowned at Pine Lake, near Lansing, by the.capsizing of a boat. At Springfield, Ohio, a mysterious case of a man’s bone structure gradually crumbling away is attracting the attention of the medical fraternity. A drunken brawl at a christening party in Chicago resulted in the murder of Mrs. Amelia Darwald by her brother, Albert Kinkl, a laborer. At Ada, 0., John Bristol, of Fort Wayne, and John Fruth, of Fostoria, killed Jacob Stokesbury with a stone. Both were arrested. The Minnesota monument in memory of the New Ulm massacre by the Sioux in 1862, by which 1,000 people lost their lives, was dedicated. John W. Miller, the proprietor of a saloon at Nicollet, Minn , was shot dead by his divorced wife. The woman was jailedSOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Albert Bryant, a brakeman, was killed and Conductor C. W. Rubey and Brakeman C. S. Thomson fatally injured by a rear-end collision at Viaduct bridge, Md., on the B &O. railroad. One engineer is said to have been asleep. At Chattanooga, Tenn., a month or more ago Yen Wee killed himself in the laundry of Chan Yee, in which he was an employe. According to the law of the Flowery Kingdom, when a man is found dead the man nearest the body is held responsible for the death. As a result, Yee was compelled to pay the funeral’

,11 yn. ■■ I ; , i. expenses, and to sell his laundry to meet other claims. At Chattanooga, Tenn,, the Masons and Knights of Pythias laid with due ceremony the corner-stone of Baroness JSrlanger Hospital. The structure will stand in a beautiful grove and will accommodate 120 patients, and will cost, when completed, SIOO,OOO. Near Wilmington, N. C., Charlie Williams, a negro helper to an aeronaut, became entangled in the guy ropes of the balloon just as it was ready for the ascension, and was carried up 5,000 feet. The balloon fell a mile away, and Williams, just before reaching the ground, succeeded in disentangling himself, jumped away, and escaped unhurt , Last April a young actor made a journey throuzh De Soto Parish, La. His dead body was found near the railroad. Gus Simonds and ‘Frank Garret, both colored, were arrested, and the trial has just resulted in a verdict of guilty. At Montgomery, Ala., Chandler Bros., savings bankers, real estate and insurance agents, have assigned to W. T. Hatchett and Hartwell Douglass. Assets, about $90,000; liabilities, about $58,000. Roy Porter, a young negro laborer killed Henry Parr, a young white stationary engineer, near Clanton, Chilton County, Ala. With an ax he nearly severed Parr’s head from his body. Porter was tracked by bloodbounds and lynched. POLITICAL PORRIDGE, At Hastings, Neb., the Independent State Convention completed its labors by placing in nomination J. W. Edgerton, of South Omaha, for Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, and Professor D’Alemand, of Furnlss County, and E. A. Hadley, of Stromsburg, as regents of the State University. State Auditor...D. McM. Gregg State Treasurer.J. W. Morrison The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met at Harrisburg, and on first ballot chose the gentlemen named above as candidates for the respective offices, The cohvent’on took a lively interest Jn the surface indications, but committed itself to no candidate for the Presidency. The platform adopted favors the free coinage of silver. INDUSTRIAL, NOTES. United States Marshal Hitchcock telegraphed one of his deputies at Peoria to arrest any men found interfering with the United States mail trains passing through there. Not only can they not interfere with a mail ear, but under a decision in the Philadelphia District Court the entire train in which is but one mail car must not be molested. The strikers now ignore the movements of the mail trains, but all others are stopped. FRESH AND NEWSY. It is rumored that Claus Spreckels will join the Sugar Trust, and that his son, Adolph, will be elected a Director of the American Sugar Refining Company. Sugar certificates advanced seven points in three days. On the last western trip of the Obdam the firemen and the coal passers refused to work, drove the chief engineer on deck and threatened violence. The steamer drifted in tire face of an approaching storm. The ringleader, Peter Duzen, approached Capt. Bakker threateningly, and was shot through the body. He died two hours later. The mutineers were finally compelled to work at the muzzles of pistols. The steamer El Dorado, which was wrecked near Bahama Islands, will prove a total loss and the greater part of her cargo is so badly damaged that none of the Pacific coast freight, comprising nearly iifty carloads of high class goods, can be forwarded to the coast. The Southern Pacific Company's loss will foot up $250,000; no insurance. The steamer was owned by the Southern Development Company and was valued at -500,000, fully insured. It is said that the British and United States Governments will subscribe $1,500,000 to complete the building of the Chignccto, Nova Scotia, Ship Railway. The British Government will furnish two-thirds of the amount. Gold qf a very fine quality has been found! in the vicinity of the old Consolidated Mining Company's lands in Hastings County, Ont. Crowds of prospectors arc rushing to the scene. A boiler in Spencer’s sawmill, at Wallaceburg, Ont, exploded. Fireman Clark Brunson was hurled a distance of nearly JOO feet and nearly every bone in his body broken. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: During the past week attention has been absorbed by . great excitement in grain. There is little room to doubt that the foreign demand will be greater than ever if prices here are not so advanced as to check it. The general business of the country does well, with gradual improvement in nearly all branches, based on actual increase of demand from farming States. The general feeling is cautious and conservative. Though the prospect of large trade is bright, in scarcely any branch is there seen a disposition to venture upon large speculative purchases.. Yet the volume of business is probably as large as ever before at midsummer. The business failures during the last seven days number: United States 199, Canada 17, as compared with a total of 227 the week previous. For the corresponding week last year 172 in the United States and 20 in Canada. MARKET HEROKIS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 & 6.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 & 5.75 Sheep.... 3.09 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2Red....- 1.04 @1.05 Corn—No. 266 @ .67 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .31)$ Rye—No. 2.-: .95 @ .96 Butter—Choice Creamery2l @ .23 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 08)$ @ .09)4 Eggs—Fresh ,14)$@ .15)$ Potatoes—New, per bu.4o @ ,45* INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 5.75 Sheep—Common to Primo 3.50 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 @ .97)$ Corn—No. 1 White63)s@ .64}0 Oats—No. 2 White 33 <gi .33)6 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 @ 1.03 Corn—No. 261 @ .62 Oats—No. 2 80)$« .81)$ Pork—Mess 10.25 @10.75 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.5 C @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 99 @l.Ol Corn—No. 266 @ .68 Oats—No. 2 Mixed3l)s@ .32)$ DETROIT. Cattle.... 3.00 @5.25 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.25 Sheep.. 3,00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red..., 1.05 @1.07 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 67 @ .68 Oats—No. 2 White.. .34 @ .35 TOLEDO. Wheat—New 1.05)5@ LC6)$ Corn—Cash66 @ .68 Oats—No. 2 Whiteßl @ .33 Rye9s @ .97 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 3.50 @5.75 Live Hogs 4.25 @6.00 Wheat—No. 1 Northern 1.16 @ 1.18 Corn—No. 273 @ .74 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1.00 @ 1.02 Corn—No. 3...65 @ .67 Oats—No. 1 White 33 @ .35 Rye—No. 1 .. .93 @ .95 Barley—No. 265 @ .67 Pore—Messlo.oo @10.50 1 NEW YORK. Cattle, 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs . 4.09 @6.00 Sheep 4.25 @ 5.85 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 1.14 @1.16 Coen—No. 8 83 @ .84 Oats—Mixed Western.37 @ .41 Butter—Creamery ,15 @ JI Pore—New liui 11.50 @IB.OB

HURT BY M’KINLEY. WHY A MANUFACTURER HAS CHANGED HIS BUSINESS. A Knitting-Machine Maker Turns Bicycle Maker—How McKinley Put In His Little BUI —An Export Trade Spoiled. It must not be supposed that the tariff Is an unmixed good for the manufacturers. ’There are frequent cases where the manufacturers are not only hurt by the tariff but are actually driven out of business. And it is to be noted that whenever such is the case they do not let their modesty keep them silent. The case has recently been reported of a manufacturer of knitting machines who has been hurt by the McKinley law. A representative of the American. Wool Reporter, a leading protectionist trade paper, has had an interview with this manufacturer. Here is a part of what was said: “So you are making bicycles. Is not that a novel line of goods for a knitting machine factory?” “Oh, yes,” replied the manager, “but our export trade is destroyed. Twentyfive per cent of our force can produce enough goods for the. home market, and we have as large a domestic demand for machines as any works in the country, to state it mildly; so happily, circumstances being favorable, we are able to keep 75 per cent, of our men at work in a totally different field, which for their sakes we are glad to do.” “What is the cause of this great falling off from your export trade?” “The reason is very simple. When the tariff on German knit goods is so high as to exclude them from the American market, the Germans will not buy American knitting machines. You may say that, so far as the export trade is concerned, the manufacture of American knitting machines is paralyzed. We have been in business since 1867. manufacturing machines, both for making seamless hosiery and for making underwear; topping machines, looping machines, and machines for making ‘union suits.’ Ours are distinctively hand labor-saving machines. Our factory, in the aggregate, is 305 feet long, forty feet wide and three stories high. We have adequate water power, nine months in the year; employing steam power for the remainder of that period; giving labor to 300 men. We have sold 100 machines year to go to Germany. We se 1 none now in that direction. You may say: ‘The latest tariff legislation lias destroyed that part of our business.’ ” An ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory. A New England protectionist manufacturer gives the foregoing incontrovertible testimony to the ruinous effect of the McKinley tariff upon a legitimate American industry. The Big Foreign Market. It is pleasant to the American farmer to watch the growing demand in Europe for his grain. During July there were exported from this country breadstuffs valued at $16,379,291, as against $lO,733,669 in July, 1890. The exports of wheat were 9,418,775 bushels, compared with 4,366,554 bushels in July, 1890. The great and only McKinley tries to belittle the foreign market, and asks, “Wnat sanctity hangs about it?” Our farmers care nothing about the “sanctity” of tlie foreign market, but they find it just now a mighty good place to dispose of a wheat crop about 200,000,000 bushels too largo for the boasted home market. McKinley’s sneers about the foreign market will win small sympathy from them when they see how the big orders from Europe are causing wheat prices to mount upward. But McKinley would never think of crying down the foreign market, if it were not that he has his high tariff law to defend. He knows that this law tends to contract our foreign market: hence his absurd attempt to show that it is no good. But the big foreign market is vindicating itself. It seems certain now that when the present fiscal year ends on June 30, 1892, and our farmers count up their year’s sales, they will find that the foreign market has taken a far larger quantity of our breadstuffs than ever before, and that it has compelled the home mar-, ket to pay much higher than average prices. This will all bo in spite of our McKinleyism, not because of it. We should have a still larger and much steadier foreign demand for all foreign products if our tariff permitted us to buy more largely of European manufactured goods. Protection Defeat ng Itself. The greatest advantage which European manufacturers of woolen goods have over our manufacturers is to be found in their cheap raw materials. It is a serious fact that, while our tariff on wool is intended to equalize things, it has just the contrary efiect, since it throws a large part of the world’s wool into the European market, and enables the competing manufacturers of Europe to buy it at a much lower price than they would have to pay if our manufacturers were free to bid against them. How this works may bo seen from a report of the recent wool sales in London. in the following words: “The great bulk of the East India wools are sold at auction in the Liverpool market. We have bought on the average, at each of these sales, from 4,000 to 4,500 bales. When the question of applying the sorting clause to carpet wools began to be agitated in the spring, importers were afraid to buy these wools at the May sales to any extent, because they are all sorted to a greater or less degree. Consequently but 900 ba'es were taken for America. English buyers being thus relieved of one of their greatest competitors, at once refused to pay the old prices, and values declined. At the July sales we took even a smaller amount, only 2CO bales being bought Values have in consequence further declined, and English manufacturers are now. securing these wools at a lower price than they have paid for years. India wools are peculiar, and the purposes for which they are used cannot be supplied by any other grade. ” The Ex-Czar on Reciprocity. Tom Reed, the ex-Czar, has recently returned from a trip to Europe. On board ship he indulged in some very free-hand criticism of reciprocity. The editor of the Chicago Advance, who was his fellow-passenger, reports that the one-time Czar relieved himself in the following fashion on that subject: “As to reciprocity, that is an attempt to carry on commerce by diplomacy. Two Secretaries strike a bargain with each other for their respective states. But the commercial world can only do business on great commercial principles, not on correspondence between state departments. Then again, if we must have a tariff to protect our business in New York City, how can we compete with the same rivals after we have shipped our goods to some distant republic in South America? If we cannot compete on equal terms here, it is preposterous to suppose that we can there. And it is equally preposterous to suppose that our neighbors will keep up a discrimination against other nations in our behalf." Not a Fabrication. Early in the year lists of reductions of wages were printed in many papers. At the time no general denial of these reductions was attempted, since many of them had been printed In protection organs themselves. Recently, however,

».|i. — 'J 11 — an obscure organ In Kansas has printed what purported to be a denial from many of the manufacturers concerned. One prominent Republican has evidently forgotten that such denials were belng printed and circulated broadcast over the country by nearly all professional high-tarlff organs. This is John 1 L. Wheeler, of Red Bank, N. J., who ' has recently written a defense of the McKinley law. In this defense Mr. ' Wheeler has something to say about ■ wages, and among other things he says: 1 “The potters of Trenton have accepted a reduction of 10 per cent ” Yet this case of the Trenton potters was one of those which were denounced i by the protection organs as “free trade fabrications. ” The Protection Principle in Court. The judges Cook County Appellate Court have recently rendered a ; decision at Chicago which is of very great importance in its bearing on the tariff question. The case involved the question of competition among stenographers. In its decision the court used this language: “Any agreement which in its object or iccessary operation tends to diminish comDetitlon as to anything the public have for sale or it is necessary the public should use is void. Public policy requires that the public shall obtain the things necessary for its use upon fair competition in a free and open market or under such rules and regulations as the public laws may prescribe.” The court said further: “Combinations looking to the destruction of competition have always been unfavorably regarded by the law, for it is manifest that without competition there can be no such thing as freedom of trade. ” This decision leads the Chicago Herald to make the following timely reflections: “The judges assume that freedom of trade is a good thing and that combinations are odious, not only when they destroy, but even when they tend to diminish competition. But a great political party which has for thirty years shaped the economic policy of this country assumes that it is not restriction of trade but freedom of trade that is odious. That party has formed an irresistible cpmbination with classes engaged in the pursuit of certain industries to diminish competition and to •ompel people to pay more for certain lings than they would have to pay under free competition. The Chicago judges agree with other able judges in' condemning the policy of the party which has formed the greatest of all combinations for the suppression of competition, the destruction of fraedom of trade and the practice of licensed extortion on the greatest scale possible. When the principles of justice are applied the trade policy of the Republicans will not bear the test one moment. ” A Trained Alligator. A very extraordinary wager is reported to have been made by Capt. J. R. Speer, a native of Jacksonville, Fla. He has trained an alligator fourteen feet long to obey him, has named it Jacksonville, Jr., and has made a bet of $5,000 that he will ride his alligator from Jacksonville down the coast, around the Everglades into the Gulf of Mexico, and up the west coast of the State to Apalachicola, making the distance (about 900 miles) in ninety days. He will make frequent halts for rest and food. It is reported that Capt. Speer started recently from Jacksonville, mounted on the alligator’s back, and followed by a small steam launch, with medicines, provisions, the judges, and a time-keeper on board. Many wagers are said to depend upon the result. The continued jubilation of the protection organs over the low price of sugar leads the Boston Hernia to remark: “If our high tariff friends continue in this state of enthusiasm over the fall in the price of sugar from the removal of the duties upon that article, isn’t there danger that they will implant a desire in the minds of the public to try this experiment of reduction upon some other articles? We really fail to see how there is any possible escape from this logic. Thus a broad avenue maybe opened to that fearful free trade which has before not been mentioned without a shuddering apprehension. ” It is said that a fund is being raised among the manufacturers of Pennsylvania to aid in the election of McKinley as Governor of Ohio. In this renewal of fry-the-fat methods the Republican magnates know where protection piles up fortunes and where it makes people poor. They turn naturally to the protected manufacturers for “soap;” but they cannot get up enough cheek to pass the hat around among the farmers. Should not the farmers be asked to pay something for McKinley’s higher duties on wheat and corn? The high-tariff people need to be cautioned that the more they talk about the beneficence of free sugar, the greater the danger that there will be a popular demand for other things to be free which are now made costly by tariff taxes. The average person is so densely ignorant that he cannot see why, ir it is a blessing for a poor man to have cheap sugar, it would not be a good thing for him to have cheap clothing, cheap provisions, and cheap everything else.— New York Times. The consumption of wool In Great Britain and in the United States in 1885 and 1889 was as follows: 1885. 1889. Great Britain. .366,000,000 469,000,000 Ino. 28 p.c. United 5tate5..400,009,000 385,000,009 Dec. 4 p.c. Why is it that our high protection does not help us to outgrow England in manufacturing woolen goods. Some silly protection organs have the “gall” to say that “free trade” is selfish, and to claim that it is protection only that takes a large and unselfish view of the common good. But only one person in twenty is interested in protection. How can the interest of that one be claimed as the “common good” of the nineteen? We produce more iron and copper in the United States than is produced in any other country. How much longer will the people in this country who consume iron and copper submit to a policy which keeps those metals dear for home purchasers and cheap for foreign purchasers?—Philadelphia Record. All of the 63,000,000 people in the United States are consumers, but not more than one-twentieth of them are protected producers Legislation for the consumer is therefore legislation for all the people; legislation for the producer is legislation for one man in every twenty. If sheep vote in Onio, will they vote for those who are proven to have engineered a drop of 3 cents in wool, that the woolen manufacturers might contribute to the protection party the money they skinned out of the Republican farmers?— New York World. Major McKinley is still harping on the preservation of the home market, but he falls to tell his hearers that the home market is preserved for a few mil--11 onaixe manufacturers at the expense of the remainder of the people.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Th® Merchants’ Review, of New York, says than nine-tenths of all the industries of the country are controlled by combinations or trusts.

HEADS HIS OWN TROOPS. BALMACEDA SURPRISED, BUT GALLANTLY FIGHTING. A Desperate Conflict—Over 3,000 Casualties, with but 30,000 Troops Engaged— The Crisis Has Probably Arrived—Valparaiso Wild with Excitement. In the Scale. Even while the battle was raging, news reached this country of a collision between the Congressional and Government forces of Chili. The dispatch was sent from Valparaiso, and reads: President Balmaceda and the Junta DeGobierno are clenched in the final desperate struggle for the mastery of the Republic of Chili. The chosen battle grounds are in full view of the city of Valparaiso, and thousands of anxious eyes are watching from every point of vantage the battle which is to decide the fate of .the country. The battle has been raging practically for three days. first engagement was at the mouth of the Aconcagua and resulted in a reverse to the Government. The final test of strength is now being made at Mar Beach, directly across ValparAisq Bay and less than five miles away. When the news reached here that an army of 8,000 rebels had been landed at Quintro Bay, Balmaceda and his generals were taken by surprise, but the utmost activity was used in getting troops to the front, so as, if possible, to prevent the invading army from crossing the Aconcagua River immediately south of the bay. The arrangement-; were made hurriedly and only a little over half of tho troops were available for this purpose. Six of the insurgent war ships were anchored in Cosnon Bay, at the mouth of the river, and under tho cover of their guns the army of tho Junta undertook tho task of forcing a passage of tho river. A most desperate and bloody battle resulted, lasting nearly all day. A galling tiro from tho insurgent artillery, which was formed on tho northern bank of the river, aided by tho heavy batteries and machine guns from tho ships, was too much for the government troops and they were forced to retire, which they did in good order. Both sides fought with the utmost valor and the desperate character of tho battle maybe judged from tho fact that, while less than 20,000 troops wore engaged, the list of casualties will foot up nearly 3,000 men killed and wounded. Balmaceda found out that the insurgents aro something more than “nitrate stealers. ” The general in command of the government forces selected a strong position on tho beach of Vina del Mar, tho eastern shore of Valparaiso Bay, as his second lino of defense, and leaving force enough in front of tho enemy to check his progress somewhat, took his place there and went to, work to strengthen it as much as possible. All day long tho insurgent forces pushed their way steadily forward, driving the comparatively small government force before them. It was a constant skirmish for fifteen miles over broken countrv. At every point of vantage the Balmacedans made a stand, and while they were constantly forced to give way before superior numbers they retarded the advance, and gave the main army at Vina del Mar a chance to better prepare itself for tho decisive fight. , It was not until late in the evening that the attacking army arrived in front of Balmaceda’s line of defense. It was then too late to give battle. In the meantime President Balmaceda, with every available man in this department,, himself in command, wont to tho front. He had over 13,009 available fighting men. while the insurgent forces had been reduced to less than 7,000. At the back of the government line is Fort Callao, tlie heavy guns of which have done good work, both in raking the enemy by land and preventing the insurgent fleet which had entered the bay from doing anything more effective than long range firing. Tho, CongressionaUsts attacked in force and the battle has raged with the utmost fierceness. The war ships did all they could to aid their lan 1 forces, but they had a healthy regard for the heavy guns in the forts, and were compelled to do their fighting at long range. They sent as many men as they could spare, with all their available machine and rapid fire guns, to aid as a naval auxiliary brigade the attack on Balmaceda’s position. The ino<t intense excitement prevails in this city. The roar of heavy attillery and the sharp rattle of small arms resound through the streets and are echoed back from the high hills surrounding the city. Everybody who is left here has sought some place overlooking the battleground, and thousands of people are watching the desperate struggle which is being fought under their very eyes The scene from Valparaiso is one of awful grandeur. A heavy pall of smoke hangs like a cloud over the < ontendlng armies. It is lit up almost continuously by sharp flashes of light from the cannon and rifles, and the thunderous roll of the artillery can be heard continuously. FLOODED THE TOWN. Fierce Storm at Pottsville Drives People to Their Garrets. A cloudburst broke over Pottsville, Pa., and the water poured down in torrents for an hour. The culverts were unable to carry all the water, and portion's of the town were flooded. Fully 400 families were driven to the upper stories of their homes, and the cellars and kitchens were filled with water and mud. The business portion of the toyn sufferred greatly, the cellars of stores being filled with water. Railroads and streets were turned into rivers three and four feet deep, and tho raging torrents carried all sorts of goods and debris down to the Schuylkill. It was the worst storm ever known in Pottsville. The damage is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Reports from Minerville, St Clair, Port Carbon, Schuylkill Haven, Girardville and Mahanoy Plane tell the same story of devastation and damage by the rain and flood. Ailssim; Links. A cattle range in Washington is over 300 miles long and 200 miles wide. The Georgia mother who sold her twin babies for a dollar probably made a good bargain—for the twins. South Norwalk, Conn., boasts of a dftg which recently swallowed at one gulp a good-sized live chicken. There are so manjir people in the world of the kind that discover you have gray hairs coming in your head. Talk to any man in town, and you will discover in five minutes that he believes he has the worst luck in the world. Don’t flatter yourself that you can commit a sin without being found out. Thousands of men have tried it, and failed. A woman always has one object upon which she is concentrating all her thoughts, all her affections, and all her prayers. In some parts of Georgia, crops of melons that should have been marketed long ago are still green, with no signs of ripening. According to a New York Appellate Court, a man’s note made payable “sixty days after death" is good against the meter’s estate

THESE ACTUAL FACTS ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors -«■ Crimes, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. —At Milton, Oliver John shot and killed Thomas Dodd in a saloon fight —George Bowen's store at Mattsville, near Carmel, was burned down by incendiaries. —Some person has poisoned the fish in the pond of Asher West, near Crawfordsville. —There are seventy-five cases of typhoid fever reported from the vicinity of Charleston. —Frank Morrison, of near Garfield, Montgomery County, had seventeen hogs killed by lightning. —Farmer Krithline, near LaPorte, while beating a farm-hand, was seriously stabbed near the heart by the latter. —Peter Morganthaler, a wealthy Fort Wane merchant, has bAen consigned to the Richmond Insane Asylum for treatment. —Bert Dermon, about 17 years old, lost his left hand by coming in contact with a buzz-saw at the Greensburg handle factory. —‘Patrick O’Brien, an O. & M. brakeman, was run over and killed at Shields. He was sent to flag a train and went tosleep on the track.. , —Guy McPherson, an employe at the Structural Iron-works, at New Albany, had both eyes nearly burned out by a flash from the rolls. —A bottle of ale exploded at the bottling works at New Albany and broke the bottle, one of the fragments cutting the eyeball of James Finzer in two. —Hettle Thawley, housekeeper for L. N. Hendricks, of Franklin, fell and crippled herself on a broken doorstep, and sues her employer for $5,000 damages. —John Darr, returning home near Goshen, was stopped by highwaymen, two of which held his horse and covered him with weapons while a third robbed him. » —Mary Loveless,aged 73, of Lafayette, has sued her 53-year-okl husband for separate maintence. She alleges he has neglected her for her good-looking granddaughter. —Hiram Simpson, an employe of the Centreton brickyard, Morgan County, fell under a moving fly-wheel and was crushed between it and the floor. Ho is perhaps fatally injured. —William Orr, an old and respected citizen of White County, was instantly killed near Gurnsey, by the east-bound vestibule train. He is partially deaf and failed to hear the whistle. —George Littell, a Greensburg horseman, has secured a genuine freak. It is a black filly, two years old, and perfectly formed in every respect** except that it is absolutely hairless, there being no tail, no mane and no hair on any part of the body. He secured it from a man near Batesville, in Ripley County. The dam was an Appaloosa mare and the sire an ordinary horse. —With a of one, Muncie’s City Council passed the saloon-screen ordinance, requiring all saloons to ro move all screens and blinds from their places during legal closing hours. The ordinance has, for sk long time, been hanging fire, and its passage is a great surprise, as it was thought to have been killed. Tho action is a result caused by the “wide-open” manner in which the saloons have recently been doing business on Sunday. —Hiram Connard, of Crawfordsville, has received a proposition from a man in New York, offering to sell him counterfeit gold “so perfectly made that the best government experts have been unable to detect the fraud.” It stated that Connard could taka in a partner, but this proposition was to be considered strictly confidential. If the proposition should be accepted a telegram was to be sent ta No. 135 East 110th street, New York, The fellow was very cautious in his proposition, and in offering to take $250 for $3,000 he omitted to say whether it was $3,000 or 3,000 something else. A newspaper clipping was inclosed, showing how perfectly made was the gold he offered. He cautioned Connard not to write to him. w —At Richmond, Walter Guyer was assisting Andrew Phillips, lineman for tho Central Union Telephone Company, In putting up a new wire along Main street, when it came in contact with a wire running from the trolly wire of the electric street railway to a motor which propels the fans in a saloon. In an instant Guyer was flat in the gutter, giving utterance to the most inhuman cries. People ran to his assistance, but so thoroughly wan he charged by the electric fluid that wav fast burning out his life that they could not hold him. He had to lay and take the current with a coil of wire on his left arm. Phillips, the lineman, hurried down one pole and uu another, cut the telephone wire, thus destroying the connection. When Guyer was taken to an undertaking establishment it was supposed that he was dead, but the doctors brought him to in the course of two hours. There is grave doubt of his recovery. —John Aimer, a saloon-keepei, died at Vincennes, and owing to his great size a coffin could not be secured to hold his body which weighs 389 pounds. —The parents of Anna Harkes, who was killed by falling 300 feet from a balloon at Cincinnati, are poor but honest people at Brazil. The father is a miner. —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. —At Laketon, a station on the Chicago and Erie road, in Wabash County, the second section of freight train Na 90, east bound, ran into the first section, which was standing at the station. The first section had stopped to do some switching, and Conductor Howard Falk failed to send a flagman back. Engineer John Darr, of the second section, with his fireman, jumped tn time to save their lives, but his engine, Na 500, was demolished, as were twelve loaded freight cars. The loss Is hot less than SBO,OOO. All traffic was delayed ten hours, until a track was laid around tho wreck.