Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1893 — Page 6

©he licmocrnt DECATUR, INJD. N. BLACKBURN. ■ - - PrßT.isHßa. hm march. isn.t 8u Mo Tu. We |Th Fr Sa “• • • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ® • • • ® ® © ®_ FINE PICKING OF NEWS, AS FOUND IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Great Damage by Falling Walls at Toledo —lmportant Appointment* by President Cleveland— Death In a Coal Mino —A Destructive Hurricane. GIVEN OFFICK. Several Appointments Made by the Presldent* The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: James 11 Eustis of Louisiana, to bo Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to France. Thodore Runyon of New Jersey, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Germany. John E. Risley of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of the United States to markJustice G. Jenkins of Wisconsin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit Ernest P. Baldwin of Maryland, to be First Auditor of the Treasury. Thomas Holcomb of Delaware, to be• Fifth Auditor of the Treasury. Wade Hampton of South Carolina, to be Commissioner of Railroads. William H. Hawkins of Indiana, United States Marshal for the district of Indiana. William L. Issenhower, postmaster, Bloomfield, Ind. An Offer to Ex-President Harrison. Indianapolis special: Ex-President Harrison is to be tendered the Presidency •f the Indiana State University, at Bloomington, made vacant by the resignation of Prof. J. M. Coulter. The trustees of the State University have been casting about for a new president ever since they received the resignation of President Coulter, but not until the latter part of last week did it occur to them that it would be a wise stroke to make Mr. Harrison the President of the institution. A delegation of Bloomington citizens, among whom are Elmer Corr, the local trustee of the college, and John W. Cravens, editor of the Bloomington World, arc in the city to discuss the proposition with friends of the university from other parts of the State, and to offer the position to Mr. Harrison before they return homo. Great Damage Done by a Falling Wall. During a heavy grfie of wind at Toledo, the west wall of the burned Wheeler Opera Bouse which was left standing after last week’s fire, was blown down, completely wrecking the buildings recently occupied by Peter Sattler, harness maker, and T. D. Parker, grocer, and tearing the east side out or a three-story building owned by W. A. Gjlbouse, flour and feed merchant Parker had just sold out his business to George H. Davis, and it is thought that Davis and two others are buried in the ruins. An explosionpf gas or oil followed the falling of life wall and in a few moments ' flames shot up from the rains, bit in a short time the blaze was extinguished. The loss or the three buildings will bo about $25,000. IXeaUi in a Coal Mino. London special: A horrible accident occurred in a coal pit near Chesterfield. Derbyshire’ While the cage was descending loaded with miners, going to their day’s work the cage,owing to some accident to the apparatus, suddenly fell to the bottom of the shaft and eight of the miners were killed. The affair caused great excitement and men, women, and children hurried to the mouth of the shaft to see if their relatives were among the dead. The Hoys Wouldn’t Apologize. The entire senior class in the medical department of the State University, of • Minnesota, has been suspended. The students said Dean Millard, who holds the chair of medical jurisprudence, had exceeded his authority, and they complained of the matter to President Northrop instead of the Executive Committee. The committee asked the boys to apologize, which they refused to do, being suspended as a result. Senate Confirmations. The Senate has confirmed the nominations of Josiah Quincey, to be Assistant Secretary of State; Isaac P. Gray, to be Minister to Mexico; Josiah P. Eustis, Minister to France; Patrick O. Collins, Consul General to London; Robert A. Maxweii, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General; William McAdoo, Assistant Secretary ot the Navy; Wade Hampton, Commissioner of Railroads, and all tho small appointments thus far. A Boiler Explosion ana Four Men Killed. A terrible accident occurred at a sawmill on the Skunk River, three miles north of Lockeridge. lowa, whereby four men lost their lives and several were injured seriously. The engineer had allowed one of the boilers of the engine to run out of water and a terrible explosion followed. More Cholera. Paris special: A choleraic disease has been prevalent in tne Orient for a week. In six cases it has been fatal. A Town Wiped Out. A special from Nashville, Tenn., says: ‘•Athens, Ala , 100 miles south of hero on tho Louisville and Nashville road, was totally destroyed by fire. Several lives wore lost” Ches* Matcfi Postponed* The international chess match between Lasker and Showalter, which was to have taken place at Kokomo, Ind., this week, has teen postponed to April 3. Killed In a r , Tn a fight in the h .biotic club rooms at Graud Rapids, y-e c, Edward Broom, a young mail of that, city, was knocked out in the third t until sustaining concussion of the brail, from the effects of Which he will die. The spectators and the principal promoters of the match arc keeping undercover. In the first two rounds Taylor, Broom’s opponent, made a chopping block of him. In tlvi.third round Taylor got in a right-hand swing on th.: pqiht of the chin and Broom dropped like an ox, blood .streaming from bis mouth, nose, and ears. The sbe.cdatiirs and Taylor fled, leaving tho bov with his

friends. A physician was hastily summoned and pronounced It concussion of ’ tho brain. Broom was removed to his homo, and is still unconscious. Tho surgeons think that his skull Is fractured and say that he will not recover. • Paralysis has already seized ijls Taylor skipped the town, but was arrested at Hastings and brought back and placed in jail to await the result ot Broom’s injuries. JUDGE KICKS’ FIRM RULING, He Order* Engineers To Do the Work Devolving Upon Them or Quit the Company. Toledo special: Judge Ricks, in fixing ' bull for Lake Shore engineers who refused to handle Ann Artxir cars, spoke of his firm purpose to impose the court’s mandates with promptness and vigor. “You are engaged in a service of a public character,” continued the Judge, “and the public are Interested, not only in the way in which you perform your duties while you continue in that service, but are quite as much interested in the time and circumstances under which you quit that employment “Your employers owe a high duty to the public, which they are compelled to perform under severe penalties of the law, and they have in turn a higher claim upon you and your service than that due from tho ordinary employe. This Court does not assume power to compel you to continue your service to your employers against your will, but it does undertake to compel you to perform your whole duty while such relations continue, and doos further claim, for the purposes of ascertaining whether its orders have been violated, the right to determine when your relations to your employers legally terminated,and when your obligations to observe this or, der ceased. Tho time for leaving your post of duty might come under circumstances when you could by such act unintentionally imperil the safety of lives intrusted to your employers,and do their business vast and irreparable damage. It might too, unintentionally, involve you in a conflict with the Court through obstructing its process and interfering with its mandates, “The only safe way to obviate trouble jaJo quit the service of your employers . ■Bou do not intend to observe the orSrs of the Court as made, and which are binding upon you while that service continues. This you have a right to do, but if you continue in that employment this Court will expect you to do your full duty to your employers and to the public, and to observe the orders which have been made In this case." GOING TO HA WAIL Mr. Blount Will Make a Thorough Investigation. Washington special: There is a suggestion that Mr. Blount may go to Hawaii alone, just as Mr. Sedgewick was sent to Mexico by Secretary Bayard, as special envoy to investigate the existing state of affairs there. Mr. Blount has occupied a conservative position on the annexation of Hawaii ever since it was first broached bv a secret commission from the Island last winter. He is credited with having a suspicion that the United States officials might have encouraged the revolution and thereby put themselves in a position to be accused of having a part in the establishment of the government with which they are now asked to treat Mr. Blount it is further said, will investigate the questions as to how the overthrow of Lilolukallni's government was accomplished; whether or not the provisional government really represents the popular sentiment of the islands and whether or not the annexation of the islands is desirable as a business matter. While settling these questions it is further asserted that Mr. Blount will inform the Provisional Government that the United States will not aid in maintaining it against any but foreign aggression. It will not sustain it against any other form ot government the people of the islands may see fit to attempt to establish. A Bomb Exploded. Rome special: A bomb exploded tn the ancient Mattel palace, the residence of the United States Minister Porter. The explosion of the bomb did but slight damage to the building and nobody was injured. Al I sorts ot surmises are afloat in regard to the affair, but nothing definite has yet been ascertained. Mr. Porter called at the foreign office and told Signor Brin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was convinced that the explosion was not intended to injure him or to affront tne United States Government He expressed his [regret that such an embarrassing incident bad occurred, and assured Signor Brin of the sympathy of the Uhitcd States Government and its willingness to Jet the affair pass unnoticed. Signor Brin thanked him for his visit and two hours later he I returned the call to Inform him that the ! Italian Government felt the deepest re-! gret on account of the inconvenience caused te him and his family by the explosion. Rear End Collision. Port Jervis (N. Y.) special : The ! east bound Erie passenger train Na 12, j was run into by No. 10, another passen- • ger train, at Lackawaxen, twenty-three [ miles west of Port Jervis. The rear; Pullman sleeper was demolished and ten passengers, the occupants of the coach, were injured, some of them seriously. No. 12. was waiting at the station for a locomotive to replace one ot which was ; disabled. The other cars were unin- i jured and no passengers in them were • hurt. Surgeons and physicians were ; sent to the scene of the wreck on a : special train from Port Jervis and the '■ injured passengers were brought here . and placed in the Hunt Hospital, where their injuries are being attended to. Toledo Opera House Burned. The oldest and leading play-house In Toledo, Ohio, Wheeler's Opera House, was completely destroyed by (ire. George Thathor’s Tuxedo Company played there ! tho evening before, and run the curtain i down on a quarter of a centurv of com- | edy, drama, and tragedy. Fortunately j the company lost none of Its scenery or ; baggage. It is not how the fire , originated. The block was the property of the Wheeler heirs, and twenty-five ■ years ago cost 5100,000. The insurance will not amount to over 537,000. Some i fifteen attractions were booked for the remainder of the season, among them : Joseph Jefferson, Digby Bell Opera Com- . pany, and Evans and Hoey. A new ' flrst-ciajs theater will be erected before the fall season opens up. Carlisle on the fellow Fever, Secretary Carlisle has Issued a ch-cu- ; lar amending paragraph 18, article XI • of the quarantine laws and regulations, | Feb. 24. 1893 ito read as follows: Steam j vessels from a suspected or infected port o where yellow fever prevails; ’ may be - allowed to center at the . port of Baltimore and ports north of Baltimore, Md., after five days from ’ data of departure from such ports with- . out disinfection or detention unless in bad sanitary condition or with baa «an- ’ itary history. In either case they will be , detalnedjn quarantine live days after ? disinfection. This regulation to apply to ’ the north' Atlantic coast only. I‘oor Wheat In Kan ■ ». ' From all the information that can be ’ secured regarding the new wheat crop in 3 Kansas it can be said that it is far from 1 beiug encouraging. In the eastern half

- T of the State the plant la generally <a F fair condition where wheat has sprouted, i but in the western division a great many i fields were not sown until January, aud - some as late as February. In many places there has not been any moisture ,» to cause tho grain to sprout, and it lie* • in the ground unsprouted. I •Squire Abington Dead. Tho sporting world has received a severe blow in tho death of 'Squire Abington. Ho was to be Mitchell's backer In t tho coming tight of Corbett and Mitchell. . lie was a true sportsman, and pugilism and the turf will suffer by reason of his death. The Immediate cause of bis serious illness was extrema dissipation *on tho evening of the Fitzsimmons-Hall fight. The steamer on which lie as a 1 well man expected to sail for homo, will now bear to his friends hie last mortal ' remains. A Coni Miner’s Terrible Kevwnge. Berlin special: A miner named Boeheme purposely exploded ten pounds of dynamite in the iron mine Volktnarskeller, in the Harz district. He aud six other miners were torn to atoms. Upon leaving homo Boeheme gave his wife a letter, which, he said, was not to be opened till noon. The letter raid merely that Boeheme would never return. Boeheme’s motive is supposed to have been revenge, as he had tremble recently with the superintendent of tho mine. No Art* Rehan Statue. A Now York paper says that the full length statue of Miss Ada Rohan, in silver, for the Montana exhibit at the World’s Fair, which has caused such widespread discussion, will not be mada Sculptor Park of Chicago, it is stated, has changed tho plan entirely, and only a silver bust of Miss Rehan will bo made. No reason Is assigned for the change, but it is believed Miss Rehan objected to the full length statue. To Abolish Capital Pttnlahment* The Colorado Senate has passed Senator Boyd's bill abolishing capital punishment. This provides that life imprisonment shall bo substituted as a penalty for murder in the first degree, and that those convicted of murder shall be subjected to solitary confinement ten days of each month. The bill will doubtless become a law, as Gov. Waite is known to favor it, and it is almost certain to pass the House. Jones Quietly Lynched. Jesse Jones, who shot and killed Sheriff John Burnett of Campbell County, Tenn., on a Knoxville and Ohio train, was taken from the jail at Jacksboro and swung to a gate post There were not over a dozen men lu the mob and the lynching was done so quietly that the citizens knew nothing of it until next morning. One Leaped, the Other Perished. In a fire In the City Hotel at Lewiston, Idaho, Mrs. Meyers and her two children were badly scorched. George Gibson, a prominent sheep man, leaped from an upper window and escaped with minor injuries. Frank Shevy, a young man who aroused Gibson, hesitated to make the leap and was turned to death Sliver Justice. The largest silver statue ever known since the world began was successfully, cast at Chicago Sixteen hundred pounds of sterling silver were melted in a crucible at Grand Crossing, the molten mass was poured into a huge mold, and Montana’s silver statue of Justice was an accomplished fact. Mr. Ferry Dead. Paris special: Jules Ferry. President of the Senate, is dead. Mr. Ferry’s death was caused by heart disease. The affection of the heart from which Mr. Ferry suffered was due to the effects of a bullet striking a rib near the base of the heart at the time he was attacked by Auberlin in 1887. Gresham’s Private Secretary. Mr. Kenesaw M. Landis of Chicago, has been appointed private secretary of the Secretary of State. Mr. Landis is a young lawyer of Chicago and is an intimate friend of Judge Gresham’s family of long standing. Fight the Gerrymander. A conference of Republican politicians was held at Indianapolis, recently, and it was decided to institute suit to set aside the legislative apportionment act passed by the recent Legislature. California Athletic Club Assigns. The once famous California Athletic Club, the scene of so many celebrated pugilistic events, has assigned for the benefit of its creditors. No figures are given. Hot Whisky at Covington, | Walsh’s distillery in Covington, Ky., was damaged by tire. The loss Is estimated at 8100,013, partially covered by insurance. The origin of the blaze is a mystery. Miners Strike. One hundred miners struck at the Wheeling Steel Works’ mine. Bellewood, ;W. Va., for higher wages, laying the , entire plant off. One thousand men are out of work. Big Mall Kobl>ery at Akron. Drafts from Aultman, Miller & Co., ■ and the City National Bank, aggregating I 825,000, have been stolen from the malls I at Akron, Ohio. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. I Cattle—Common to Primelß.2s @ 6.25 i Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.60 @B.OO Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 @ t>M Wheat—No. 2 Spring 72 @ .73 Cobn—No. 2.... k 41 @ At Oats—No. 2..... X 30W .30$ Rye—No. a4O & .so Botteb—Choice Cieamery26 @ .27 Eggs—Freeh/....16 @ .17 Potatoes—New,'per bn 75 & .85 INDIANAPOLIS. ; Cattle—Shipping 3.26 @ 6.50 Hogs—Choice Light'. 3.50 @ 8.00 | Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @4.75 ; Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 @ .68 1 Cobn-No. 2 White4l @ .42 i Oats-No. 2 White I ST. L0UI& I Cattlß 3.00 @ s.oft i Hogs 3.00 @ 7.75 ‘ Wheat—No. 2 Bed 6415« MH : COBN—No. 237 @ .38 ' Oath-No. 331 @ .32 Rye—No. a aa 9 M I * CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 6.50 Hogs 3.00 © T.so Sheep 8.00 @ 5.26 l Wheat-No. 2 Bed K> ® -TOK 'Cobn-No. 2 .42 @ 43 Oats—No. 2 Mixed .3454© Btb—No. 2 A* ® A7 DETROIT. „ l Hogs 8.00 @ 8.26 ' 2 8ed..;.::,. 71 & .72 : Cobn-No. 2 Yellow .*» 9 i Oats—No. 2 White -38 ® M I TOLEDO. „ Cobn—No. 2 Yellow , Oats—No. 2 White ® g -J® f BYB ir-' -A 68 ® •” BUFFALO. „ , Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3.60 ® a.w HoGB-Best Grades COO @ 8.00 Wheat—No-1 Hard y @ .83 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow -4814® MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring •** ® Oats-No. 2 White..., Babley—No. ’‘“f PoBK — Mesa @18.50 NEWYOBK. o>tn Cattle »■<» ® Wheat—No. 2 Bed ,g Cobn—No. a........ "J Sis Oats—Mixed Western ■« » Butteb—Beat...! •" Poux- »•» ® w ’ w

' LOOKING BACKWARD. ; . ! 1 SOCIETY ORGANIZED TO DELVB INTO THE MUSTY PAST. An Attempt in IMO to Study the Strange Faonajqaio Ballot of a Peculiar Reot Known*, MoKlnlcyitee—A Pew Tip* lor the Society* •The McKinley Hlatorloal Society.” In about tho year 1020 will bo formed the “McKinley Historical i Society;* the object of which ’will bo to delvfi into tho mysteries of McKinleylsm, tbataKsurd economic belief that obtained sway in tbe United States about 1870 and culminated in 1890 in that monstrosity—the MoKinley tariff bill To study the causes and the effects of the growth ot the idea that a nation can “protect" itself by making laws in tho interests of a few, nnd can tax itself into prosperity by constructing artificial barriers across nature’s highway of commerce and civilisation; and to record and preserve in the public archives, alongside of the history ol witohciaftand otherstrango ideas that have fascinated men's minds In this country, the history of the delusive teaching of McKinieyism and the dime museum features of tbe tariff act ot 1890. Here are a few "tips" that may serve as a starter for the McKinley Historical Society. First, on the RISE OF “PROTECTION.” The Walker tariff of 1846 and the “Free Trade” tariff of 1857 had given such general satisfaction that no party advocated, or would have advocated, higher duties bad not tbe necessities of a civil war turned the attention of Congress to this stealthy way of raising a big revenue. The high duties levied gave great protection to the. manufacturers of such goods as competed with those imported, and when, after the war, the country began to try to get relief from the exceedingly heavy burdens of taxation. tho«e home manufacturers were willing to have duties lowered on all non-competing, hut not at all on competing imports. They knew full weU that if they based their claims entirely upon selfish* motives the country would not allow them. Hence they set to work to invent terms and catch phrases to < onceal their selfishness and to appeal to the prejudices of the unthinking voters. Their success was unparalleled and must have astonished even themaelves. To be sure, they bad to modify and shift their terms between Presidential elections and to invent new phrases when they and their political allies were being hard pressed, but for twenty-five years they held sway and dictated the financial policy of “their” country, until fully half of the property had been taxed out ot the 65,000,000 inhabitants and into the safes and vaults of a few thou- , sand manufacturers and monopolists. The rapidly accumulating wealth of the manufacturers gave them increasing importance and powers, and made it easier for them to hoodwink the masses of povertyites into believing that black is white. From the hundreds of unsound and sophistical economic ideas promulgated by the manufacturers and their set we make the following selections: PROTECTIONISTS’ UNSOUND THEORIES. 1. Protective duties on imports will protect manufacturers by taxing ■ their raw materials, increasing home competition, lowering prices and profits, and by keeping wages high. 2. If a manufacturer is protected and can afford to pay higher wages he always does so; he thus turns over to his employes. nearly all that he gets from tariff duties. 3. Manufacturers organize th6mselves into trusts and combines so that they can raise wages and lower prices without opposition. 4. If free trade would compel the manufacturers to pay high wages they would favor free trade. 5. Protected manufacturers sell goods cheaper to foreign than to home consumers, so that they can have plenty of work for their employes at high wages. 6. Competition will work swifter and lower prices faster when restricted to one country than when spread out over the world. 7. Free trade between states will benefit all; but free trade between countries, even if no larger than states, will ruin aIL By annexation or division and a slight change of names these effects may be reversed. 8. Both parties are benefited by a trade if they live in the same country; otherwise at least one will get fleeced, and the trade should be prohibited by law. 9. Countries where wages are lowlike Germany, Spain, Italy, or China —need protection against countries where wages are high, like England and the United States. Some highwage countries also need protection against low-wage countries, as the United States against the pauper labor of Europe. 10. High duties on tin plate, pearl buttons, and manufactured products will lower prices in the interest of commerce; but high duties on wool, barley, eggs, and farm products will raise prices in tho interest of the producers. 11. A duty on sugar is a tax upon the consumer, but duties upon tin plates, clothing, and glassware are taxes upon foreigners. 12. “A cheap coat makes a cheap man ” Protection Is to avoid the curse of cheapness and to overcome the evils of machinery, railroads, and steamships in tending to make things cheaper. 13. -American Wages for American Workmen” is secured by high duties on the necessaries of life—what the workmen have to buy, and by free trade in labor—what the workmen have to sell, This Is obvious to all who never stop to think. 14. “American Markets for American People" are had by high duties on what they must take in exchange for their surplus agricultural products, which must be sold in foreign markets at free trade prices. 15 “Protection for American I Homes” is also to be had by taxing the house, furniture, utensils, clothing, and everything else needed by a newly married couple This is axiomatic and needs no demonstration 16. Free trade will ruin countries unless they tie a string to It and call It “reciprocity-" ■ 11. All of the prosperity, Including •*- J v

good crops, in a protection country, ' is due to high tariffs; and all of the 1 poverty and misery of free trado ! countries Is the direct result of low tariffs. This rule does not apply to ' any countries ot the world except i ’England nnd tho United States. Some other time 1 will record some ' more tips for the McKinley Society in regard to tho curious things actually accomplished by the McKinley bill. Only a few ot these can bi briefly mentioned now. M'KINLEY BILL TRICKS. Whllo pretending to lower the duty on borax, McKinley raised the duty on boraclc acid, tho thing acti ualiy imported, from 4 to 5 cents per 1 pound; and the Borax Trust raised prices accordingly. By McKinley construction genuine “American” tin plates are made from imported steel sheets, coated by imported tin with the use of imported olive oil and Imported machinery, all carried on fay imported workmen. Aided by tbe political shepherds, McKinley fixed his bill so that goat hair costing two or three cents per pound became wool, and was dutiable at twelve cents per pound. By changing “goods” to “fabrics” (a change not noticed by most Congressmen who voted for the bill), “knit goods" became “ready-made clothing,” and dutiable at much higher rates. By juggling with phrases McKinley took sago-flour, which competes with dextrine, out of tbe free list and put a duty of 2 cents per pound on it to the advantage of the Starch Trust, which soon advanced the price of dextrine. To benefit a few manufacturers who sew together ruffiings and other trimmings, the duty was increased 50 per cent, ou the hundred or more articles that compose tbe biggest schedule under cotton goods. According to McKinley, “felts not woven* are “ready-made clothing,” dutiable at nearly 100 per cent., Instead of 60 p?r cent, as formerly. By inserting a little clause five pages from the paragraphs it was intended to modify, the duty on fine wire was raised from 80 to 280 per cent., contrary to the expectations of, nearly every one responsible for the McKinley bill. Dozensof other apparently unimportant clauses raised the duties on flint and window glass, sanitary ware, linseed oil, lead ores, cutlery, etc. Somehow these hidden clauses always raised duties and somehow there was always a trust to take advantage of higher duties. The MeKinley bill has also done many other curious things, such as taxing the ends of cables between this country aud Canada, where they protrude out of the water; and calves dropped on foreign soil by stray American cows. But there is no end to tbe absurd and wicked features of tbe McKinley bill, and the historical society will have its bands full for several years.—Byron W. Holt. FuU of Trap Door*. The McKinley tariff bill is a niarvol of bad legislation. It contains many suggestions of McKinley’s impractical methods of doing business. It is as full of tricky clauses and tariff jobs as an egg is of meat. No schedule can stand honest criticism. Hundreds of jobs have already been exposed by the courts and by Treasury officials, and new ones are constantly brought to light—cases where the bill did not behave as was expected by McKinley, or at least by the most of his associates who framed and voted for it Here is one just exposed by the Dry Goods Economist, of Feb. 25, 1893; Section 373, schedule J, pf the Mo Kinley tariff specifies the duty on this class of cotton fabrics, which are the articles manufactured of cotton that are mpst largely imported into this country, and describes the goods as follows: “Laces, edgings, embroideries, insertings, neck ruffiings, ruchings, trimmings, tuckings, lace window curtains, and other similar tamboured articles, and articles embroidered by hand or machinery, embroidered and hem-stitched handkerchiefs, and articles made wholly or in part of lace, ruffiings, tuckings, or ruchings, all of the above named articles composed of flax, jute, cotton, or other vegetable fiber, or of which these substances, or either of them, or a mixture of any of them, is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, 60 per centum ad valorem." The duty on these fabrics according to the tariff of 1883 was from 30 to 40 per cent. Why was it increased by the McKinley tariff? Because certain American manufacturers of ructfings and ruffiings, who found themselves in competition with European makers of these trimmings, brought pressure to bear in the right quarter in order to have the duty increased on these particular articles, not desiring by any means to increase the duty on the other items classified in this section. By negligence, apparently, the duty was increased, however, on the whole section. Thus, for the sake of benefiting the whole manufacturers, who sew together into ruffiings, ruchings and other trimmings some of the fabrics classified in this section, a decided change was made in the trade on lace curtains, in particular, and the consumer of laces and embroideries was called upon to pay a tax of at least 20 per cent more than previously. Tbe increase In the djity on lace curtains has benefited not one single I domestic manufacturer of those goods. On the contrary, all such manufacturers would be glad to see the tariff put back to its old figure. Under a 20 Per Cent. Dnty. Sired with a burning zeal for combination,. the makers of sole leather have set about organizing a huge monopoly in the manufacture of that i necessary article. The tanners’ i plants are to be bought out with • stock of the proposed sole-leather i trust, and the former ownen are then to be hired as superintendents and i managers. It will require from $75,- - 000,000 to $100,000,00c to carry out - this ambitious scheme, yet no dlffi- ; culty is anticipated in raising the ■ money. The people of the United States, who spend in each year over j $200,000,000 for shoes, will note with I Interest this new project to bring their footwear under syndicate conI trol.—Philadelphia Record. ■<».' r •-

IIERE’S ALL THE NEWS TO BE FOUND IN THB STATE OF INDIANA. ■..'■' I . • Giving a Datallnrt Account of the Nmnorj ou> Crimea, Caaualtlaa. Fir**. Sulcldea. Doatht, Etc., ha*. .. . '■'» John Grnvoa In Luck. After being thought dead for over twenty ysars a man turned up at Huntington, to claim a fortune that had been awaiting Its owner, in 1872 John 8. Graves wont Wo*L From the time of his departure nothing was heard of him. After he had been gone some time his relatives made an effort to locate him, but did not succeed. After several years had elapsed without any tidings Graves was given up for dead. Four years aao his uncle Jesse Griffith, died a bachelor, leaving SOOO,OOO. Ono of tbe heirs was the missing John Graves. Attorneys started a new hunt for him, and newspapers the country over advertised for him. Over a hundred persons answered, claiming to be John Graves, but In each case the fraud was detected. Finally Graves was legally presumed to be dead, and an administrator appointed in charge of the estate. Tho property was all turned Into cash. The other day Graves appeared after an absonceof twenty-one years, not having heard of his uncle’s death. There was no tronble in proving his Identity. Ho has been all over North and South America, in business, and aa an Indian teacher. He is now located in Washington. Miner State News. Mrs. George Brisco waa fatally hurt in a runaway at Greencastle. Charles Krinkr, hunting ducks near Martinsville, lost an dye by his gun exploding. James Haggard of Morgantown, lost all the fingers on bls lefthand by sawing them off while at work on a fence. Thcmab Eldridge, an old soldier, living near Delphi, was crushed by a falling tree, and died from his Injuries. White River is still being dragged in the hope of recovering the bodyot Oliver Symons, who was drowned at; Noblesville. James Murthy, a brakeman on the Nickel Plate, was so badly crushed at Fort Wayne while coupling cars that ho cannot recover. Mb. and Mrs. G. W. Hester’s 10-months-old baby at Farmland, upset a pot of boiling tea, scalding Itself so that the flesh fell from its limbs. Arthur Shaw, an employe on the Monon Railway at Lafayette, was run over and ground to pieces. It is supposed ho fell between the cars. The attorneys of a Mr. Wills, who was tefused a license to run a saloon at Burlington, near Delphi, on the ground that the citizens of that place remonstrated, have appealed the case to the Circuit Court. Terre Haute and Richmond have applied to tho Adjutant-General of the 8 ate for the military encampment. The place and date for holding thoencampment will not be decided for several weeks. Work has been begun on the new courthouse at Tipton, and tbe old shade trees that were set out the day Fort Sumter was fired on have, with the exception of three or four, been cut down and hauled away. William Kyhktt. one of the old citizens of Delaware County, was found dead in his bed by members ot his family, at Lapel. He was 75 years old, and death is supposed to have been caused by a recent fall on the Ice. The Seymour manufacturing company has agreed to build at once structures to cost $21,000, providing the city will exempt It from taxes for ten years. The council has agreed to do this and work will be commenced at once. A wreck occurred a short distance east of South Bend, on the Grand Trunk. A broken truck under one of the cars of a freight train piled up eight cars and tore up about seventy-five feet of track. No one was seriously Injured. Mrs. Sarah Lagro, who recently brought suit against Daniel Hill, a wealthy resident of Elkhart, who Is over 80 years old, for $15,000 damages, for breach of promise, has been awarded SI,OOO. The case has several sensational features. Michael Gkchler attempted to board a moving train at Coal City, and was thrown beneath the wheels, receiving injuries from which he died. Gechler was a well-to-do merchant of Patricksburg, and was on his way tb Terre Haute to purchase goods when the accident occurred. The crops In this State have not yet been killed. If the weather continues good, the yield will be greater than last year's. Reports frim all parts of the State show wheat to be vigorous. The crop will be good, if tho weather does not-change, as it did last year. Fruit in Central Indiana shows a loss of at least one-half, but the Ohio Valley will yield Its usual Ijirge crops. Strawberries, though not abundant, are remarkable in size and general flavor. Blackberries aud the other small berries are not fir enough along to judge of their crop or quality, but growers prophesy that Indiana will have her share of them, and also of every kind of fruit. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Fortune L. Bailey, Freeport, assignor to Boston Cash-regis-ter Company, Northampton, Mass., cash register and indicator; August D. Cook, Lawrenceburg, plunger for pumps; Nixon Holloway, Lincolnville, chicken brooder; Edgar D. Johnson, Connersville, apparatus for moving coal; Loyal V. Lewis, Kendallville, feed and water purifier and heater; William 8. Nevins, Terre Haute, reflector and bracket for lamps; Charles W. Patton, Clarksville, churn power; Michael Posz, Shelbyville, sash fastener; Joseph N. Stein, Fort Wayne, car reparer; John Tipton, Hymera, post hole digger: George W. Vance, Anderson, cresting for roofs; James Wood and W. W. Haro, Noblesville, whiffltree hook. Last December E. J- Burley, Inspector of the Chicago pipe line, disappeared. The other day some boys discovered his body floating In Deep River. There is no explanation;'of hftw he came to hit death. 'Mbs. M. J. Rankin was found dead In her bed in an old and lonely house near tbe Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Millford Junction. Her little dog, sole companion of her solitude, was whining disconsolately. lying tn the bed with her. The unfortunate woman was addicted to drugs, and she either got an overdose or heart failure, brought on by excessive pse of stimulants, caused her death. Henry Enlow, a prominent farmer, has sworn out affidavits at Cannelton against thirteen persons living near that city for murder in the first degree. About five years ago Enlow’s son, accused of criminally assaulting a young woman, was hanged by White Caps. The father now claims that he knows the men who did the hanging. The executive committee of tho State Board of Agriculture has made final settlement with the last two contractors with whom tho board had an account, Messrs. Morse and Ayers. There is now no indebtedness, and the board is in full possession of, tho 214 acres, with the taxes, under tho Contract, chargeable to the Indianapolis Driving Club. I ' z -a. . ‘

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital, aso.ooa Burplui, *IO,OOO 4 Orlgantsad Ansuit U, 1883. Offioara--T. T. Dorwln, Pr**ld*nt; F. W. Smith, Vlo*-Pr*«ldeat; B. 8. I’*teraon Oaahiar; T. X. Dorwin, P. W. Smith, Haury Dark**, J. «, Holbrook, B. J. Tarvaar, J. D. Hal* and 11 < Pataraon, Dirootora. W* are prepared to make Txian* on good rity, receive Deposit*, lurnleh Domaetlo and Foreign Exchange, buy and eell Government, and Municipal Honda, and furnish Letter* od" Cr*dlt available In any ot the principal oltla* of Europe. Also Passage Ticket to and frost tbe Old World, including transportation to Decatur. Adams County Bank Capital, »75,a». Snrpltu, 75.0001 J Organised In 187 L 7 Officer*—D. Htudabaker. President: Bobt. & ' Allison, VWPresidaut; W. H. NibUok, Cashtac. Do a general banking buslnae*. Colleotioag made In all part* of the country. County. City and Townahin Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought Mtfl sold. Interest paid on time deposit*. • . Paul G. Hooper, jSLttoxTtxoy at Law BoeaOtr, - - rndtooa. kj. ec. x.eßH.rrjsa*. V atari n a ry S u rgeon, ftXoixx-00, Ind, Successfully treat* all disease* of Horse* and Cattle. Will respond to call* at any Unto Prices resonable. ■BVDt, B. S. MANK. «. M ERWIN MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claim* Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IRANCE h MEBBYMAIL 1. T. ntAMOg." J? J. T. MSBBYMAM Attorney* sat Lnw, DICATUII, INDIANA. Office No*. 1. 2 smd 8. over tho Adam* CountF Bank. CoUeotions a specialty. A.«. HOLLOWAY, Fhynlolaxi <•» Surgeon Office over Burn*’ harnee* shop, resldeno* one door north of M. E. church. AU oaUg promptly attended to In city or country night or day. M, Ia HOLLOWAY, ■. B. Office and residence on* door north of M. B church. Disease* of women and ohlldrea *p*> cialtie*. ' 9. V. Bay, BL B. ralolgaxxtete 9urg*m> I ■•aroe, ... Indiana. AB call* promptly attended todayaralgM. I Oaioe at realdeno*. I X B. 8080. B. T. 8088 I Master Oommis*ion«r. 8080 9 SON, j ATTORNEYS AT I.A.W. L Baal Bstato and Collection, Deoatnr, Ind. I O.P. M AXDKEWS, flxy milolmjdl «fl» Burgeon I MONROE.’ INDIANA. I Office and residence 2nd and 3rd door* WtotOf I M. B. church. M* I Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterlainl JWM Burgeon, Modus Operand!, Orchol Yr 2j- tomy. Overotomy, Castrating. RMg| sing. Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehonl Ing. and treating their diseases. Office over Jl H. Stone’* hardware store, Decatur Indiana. | — J. 8. Coverdale. M. D. P. B. Thomae, Mb| DOCTORS I Coverdale & Thomas! Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store. Decatur, Ind j H. F. COSTELLO, | Fhynioiau * SurgeonJ Office over Terveer's hardware store. ReM-B deuce on Third street, in the old Dorkeeß property. All calls promptly attended toB In city or country, day or night. 1 Leri Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor.l Decatur and Short streets. I JQ. NEPTUNE, . | > DXNI9T. 3 11IIIT V 1 I I Now located over Holthouse’s shoe store, MSdB 1* prepared to do all work pertaining to the d»n-|l tai profesßlon. Gold fllliuß a specialty, By theM use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extraotll teeth without pain. AH work warranted. || MONEY TO LOAM Ob Farm Property pa Long Him. I No Ooxkxxaxl»mslo»- i Low Bate of Internet. 1 SPMrf Itol I In aay amount* out be made at MT time aM I stop Interact Call on, or addreaa, | A. JK. GRUBB, or J’. F. MUrnl Ofleei Odd Fellows’ Building. Detmtaet I ALL KINDS OF I JOB PRINTING IUTIV FIEEIIID I AT THIS QFfffl ll