Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1893 — Page 2

g'hc democrat DECATL'R, IND. M. BLACKBURN, - - - PnnMunicn. 1893 MAY. 1393 Su Mo TujWe Th Fr Sa_ •123 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 ® ® ® • e ® ® ® ® ®_ HERE IS ALL THE NEWS BOILED DOWN FOR OUR INTELLIGENT READERS. Carlyle Harris Electrocuted at the Sing Sing Prison— Two Laluyctto Kloters Missing—Big Verdict lor a Foot—Poet Lau-reate—Ex-Prosldeut Yanxales of Mexico, Dead. HAKKIS IS DEAD. The Fatal .Electrical Current Docs Its Work. Sing Sing special: Carlyle W. Harris was electrocuted in the prison here, for the murder of his wife. Ho protested his innocence to the last At 8 o'clock Harris ate a lieht breakfast. Ho was cool and collected and appeared to be capable of going through the ordeal which awaited him. Mrs. Harris, who made her final farewell to him the night before, remained at the Ambler House shut in from all visitors. Her youngest son, Allan, was with her. She was calm and less nervous than usual and awaited with fearful silence the sign which would inform her that her son, Carlyle, had passed out from this world. The flag announcing the successful conclusion of the execution, which was raised from the roof of the Warden's house, could be seen from the windows of the room which Mrs. Harris occupied in the Ambler, and there she and her son, Allan, watched and waited with straining eyes and subdued grief for the fatal signal. Mrs. Harris arose at 4 o’clock ana her watch was a long and sorrowful one. She was apparently stronger and better able to bear her grief than she had been for days. At 10 o’clock there Was a long string of carriages in front of the prison and hundreds of people were scattered along the hillside. The death warrant was formally read at 8:30o’clock. He displayed indifference and its reading did not noticeably affect him. Warden Durston said Harris showed no signs of breaking down and appeared cheerful after the reading of the death warrant The Rev. John C. S. Wiels, the prison chaplain, went to see Harris at 9 o’clock, and remained for an hour. After he came out Dr. Irving went in and found Harris showing nervousness, but otherwise all right Harris was shaved and had his hair cut at 11:30. He then put on a new suit of clothes furnished by the State. State Electrician Davis, accompanied by the warden and the witnesses, who had arrived, proceeded to the death room when the tinal test of the apparatus was made at 11:40 o'clock. At 12:15 o’clock the prisoner was conducted to the chair and 12:37 the fatal current was turned on. Death was instantaneous. ' «vre *—■ wjxywwwr av»v» v. —— . „■ __

Lafayette (Ind.) special: Prosecutor Wood has filed an affidavit with J udgeLangdon of the Circuit Court, declaring that Peter J. Clark, convicted of assault with intent to murder George P. Rudolph, the ex-Catholic priest, and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, has fled the city and was beyond the jurisdiction of court, and that William Temple, under indictment for the same offense, has also left Both men were under bond. Bench warrants were at once issued, and Murphy, Carter, and Joice, other defendants, were brought into Court They denied any intention of | leaving the city. The officers are look- , ing for Clark and Temple. Ex-President Gonzales of Mexico, Dead. City of Mexico special: Gen. Manuel Gonzales. ex-President of this Republic and Governor of the State of Guanajauto, died recently. He was born near Mattamoras.ln Tamaulipas, in 1820. He was the possessor of great p'ersonal courage, which was largely instrumental in securing him a considerable following. His opportune appearance at Lotpas De Tee.cac was the principal feature in the campaign culminating in the battle of Tuxtepre, in the revolution which brought Gen. Diaz into power. He was 1884. His wife -and two sons survive him. He leaves an estate valued at 87,000,000. Big Verdict ior a Foot. A jury in Judge Groggin's Court at Chicago, returned a verdict of $25,000 in favor of Augustus Groshon, for the loss of a foot The West Chicago Street Railway Company was the defendant in the suit On May 31, 1891. Groshon j boarded a West Madison Street bar at 1 Spaulding Avenue, die was thrown off ! by a sudden jerk, and the wheels pa--.'-d ; over his foot He brought suit fur I.S. 000 damages. Three Men Killed. A special from Casey. 81., says while workmen were engaged tearing a temporary casing from beneath a newer , built crown tile kiln the roof collapsed, burying under the debris three woikmen, instantly killing Caleb Carr and William Heim. Elias Reed was terribly crushed and will probably die. Poet Laureate. Mr. Gladstone has offered the place of poet laureate, made vacant by the death of Lord Tennyson, to the distinguished art critic, John Ruskin. A Bank Fail*. ZThe Chemical National Bank of Chicago, which established a branch at Jackson Park, where World’s Fair concessionaries have been depositing their cash, has closed its doors. o A Humor. A special from Durango says it is reJiortod that Lieutenant—Plummer has been killed by the Navajos Indians. No confirmation. Will Have to Klako Honest Charges. Without notice and incognito, President Hlginbotham, Chairman, and Director Schwab, local member of the Council of Administration, made the rounds of the restaurants at the World’s Eair, .and partook of the viands iffered to the public.' In almost every Instance the officials were compelled to pay extortionate prices for the food, and they will at once bring the matter before the council and Insist that the concessionaries shall maintain the schedule of figures agreed upon when they were guaranteed their rights and privileges. The officials of the fair will enforce this agreement, even If iiiln- - volves the dismissal of every restaurant

kooper from the grounds, for they are ■ determined to protect the public and r the guests of the exposition from outrageous prices. The concessionaries claim that over-charges were entirely duo to the acts of dishonest employes . during the opening days at a time when such action was possible and that they were then unprepared to prevent them. STEAMBOAT EX PLOSION. Six I'erxons Killed and Sixteen Injured. Cairo (HI.) special: One of tho worst catastropes which has occurred in this region for years took nlace on tho Mississippi River at Wolf Island, twentyfour miles below this city the other morning. A rear end of one of the boilers of the steamer,Ohio, a Cincinnati and Memphis packet, blew out, filling tho deck cabin with steam and boiling water. Several of tho deck hands and passengers who wore eating breakfast at the time were literally cooked alive and a largo number received serious burns. The following is a list of the dead. William Hurtsman, colored, fireman, St Louis. Hampton Collins, colored, Memphis. Thomas Woods, colored, residence unknown. Cyrus Myers, white, second mate, of Cincinnati, jumped into the river and was drowned. Two colored men, unidentified. Following is a list of the injured, many of whom will die: r-1 T-x XT- - ’TV J

F. W. Crews, Danville, Va.: Fred Neal, Columbus, Misa; Charles Jackson, fireman, Cincinnati; James Howard, Roebloom, Mo.: Gilbert Childers, fireman. Nashville; Colder Tate, Memphis: William Jackson, Washington, Pa.; William Henry, Memphis: Albert Robinson, Cincinnati: George Washington, Memphis; John Ralph, Cincinnati: C. J. Patterson (white), cook, Memphis; William H. Dickey (white), dock passenger, Newport, Ky. TlTb wildest consternation reigned on board the boat, and tho screams of the passengers and the appeals of the victims made the scene a terrible one. The boat could proceed no further, and for several hours it lay at the bank while the unfortunate victims lay on the deck, writhing in agonv and calling aloud for aid. At last the tug JEgushove in sight She was hailed, and the sufferer?, twentytwo in number, were transferred to her deck, and she immediately steamed to this city. Word had been telegraphed ahead and every physician in town was on the wharf to meet her. The suffering of the victims was alleviated as much as possible, but before they could be removed from the boat four of them were dead. The remainder were transferred ,to the United States Marine Hospital. Another one died soon after reaching there, and the surgeon declares that ten of the sixteen now in the hospital will die. None of the cabin passengers were injured. The boat was badly injured by the accident. TEKKIFIC CYCLONE: An Ohio Town Badly Wrecked by a BIS' Wind and Rain Storm. Wilmington (0.) special: A cyclone if terrihe proportions struck this city the other day. The City Hall, lately remodeled, is badly- damaged, the roof is blown off and the interior soaked with water. Every church in town, except the Presbyterian, was badly wrecked. The heavy bell on the Christian Church was blown some distance into the street and the spire was blown off and crashed through the roof and ceiling. Jonathan Hartman and Cableb Hazard were seriously hurt by falling timbers, and i William Bloom and several others were slightly injured. The large book store of Hildebrant & Hilliard was crushed like an egg shell, and the contents drenched with water. The business houses of Camp-

J—U, 11 "• Co., J. W. Sharks, Benjamin Farquehar, "F. S. Taylor, E. F. Marble and many others were badly wrecked. The dwelling houses of*W W. Collins, L. McNamara, two belonging to C. W. Austin and several others were demolished, and numbers of others were unroofed and otherwise damaged. The wind blew so furiously that small sticks and straws were found imbedded in the weather boarding of bouses. The terrific rain that followed the wind storm did much more damage. AWFUL DESTRUCTION. I A Cyclone Carries Away Forty Hooses. Raleigh (N. C.) special: A cyclone swept over the town of Oxford, forty miles west of here. Rain and hail fell at the same time. The wind was terrific. Houses were blown down, trees torn up by the roots and hailstones covered the ground to a depth of four inches and broke almost all the window pains in the town. While the storm lasted the town was in total darkness. Forty-two frame bouses were blown down. A score, of people were injured, several of them seriously. One negro was killed. The damage to property is estimated at 8200,000. Henderson and Greytone, twelve and fifteen miles noribeast of Oxford, suffered in the same i way. At the former place ten people were seriously and four fatally injured. Three-fourths of the log houses in the town were razed to the ground. It is learned that th€fe was a second blow tut it knocked down the telegraph < wires and no further news can be had. There must have been another current of wind because at sundown in this city I the clouds had disappeared and the heavens appeared to be filled with ; leaves and it was remarked tnat there 1 had been a cyclone somewhere not verv i fir distant The wind blew a gale here. . but did no damage. CEUHNALS WARNED By the Lynching of Three MurdeizFs In New Mexico. Antonio Martinez. Antonio Jose Barias. and Victoriano Aragon, three murderers. were taken from jail at Las Lunas, New Mexico, by masked men and lynched. The first two murdered ; tn old woman, Mrs. Manuela Miereles, liter first assaulting her and horribly ■ mutilating hsr body. Aragon was a o if-confe-sed murderer of Mrs. Beatrice , Aragon, fab- cousin. The other night be- i tween midnight and 1 o’clock a large j body of men surrounded the jail. Three 5f them approached the jail and told the jailor they were constables with a prfs-; aner. The a.lor opened the door. when te was pounced upon, bound hand and foot and the jail keys tjtken from him. The- three murderers were -securely handcuffed and shackled and hanged to i tree outside the jail, where their bodies were found next morning. Half . .* Jozea murderers have been-committed near Las Lunas in the pastvtwo months ■ 1 and the eftizzms tpok this method of I warning the vicious element that crime 1 xnust cease THREE MEN KILLED i | ®Jt a Dynamite Explosion Near Brazil, JLnd. j sfbscia! from Brazil, Ind., says: fni . lelligenee of a most horrible accident i near Eel-fl;-, er’ blatiou. south of here ■ has res bed this city. Three men. one i named Maiw. and another Johnson, and I the other name unknown, have been > sinking a smad coal shaft. The - three men went Into their blacksmith [ shop at the mouth of the shaft to do aouae r blacksmilidna. • While hammering a 1 pieoj <>f r<4 b<rt iron, a piece of heated r metal broke 1 off and flew low a box near " hy contah. ng ft’’ slicks of dynamite, t. * n * t *® t H»ibere •*> *u explosion that

I shook houses on their foundations for ' several hundred yards about the scene, i The shop and shaft houses wore wrecked while tn the ruins lay tho mangled and torn remains of tlio three unfortunate men. Two of them were fairly blown to pieces, and wore gathered up In a basket. Maine lived about an hour, when ho too died. AroNO from Her Coffin. ■ A woman named Carson, residing near Lake Kushaugua, New York, having apparently died of heart disease, was laid out.ln a coffin, and while a wake was being held, those tn the death chamber wore horrified to see the supposed corpse slowly rise to an erect position. Nearly all of those present were women, and they ran out, screaming in terror. A daughter of Mrs. Carson foil outside tho house and expired. Tho mother, in a bewildered way, slowly emerged from the coffin and gazed about her upon tho candles and other evidences of death. She did not seem to mind the death of her daughter and Is now about as usual, though speaking and moving in a dazed way. Ex-President Harrison Honored. Cincinnati special: Ex-President Beniamin Harrison was elected by tho Ohio Commandery of the military order of tho Loyal Legion of tho United States as its Commander for tho ensuing year. Major E. C. Dawes was chosen senior Vico Commander, Major W. R.

. Warnock, jr., Vice Commander, and the • other officers were nearly all re-elected. - The annual banquet was enloyod by . nearly 200 companions. General Lew - Wallace was one of the speakers and i told of the defense of Cincinnati against • Kirby Smith’s forces. 1 Bandit** Foiled. The Star gang rode into Caney, Kan., ■ with the intention of making a raid ufibn tho bank. The report that they were i coming reached town before they did, i they having been recognized on the road, ■ and when they appeared they found the > bank and stores closed and guarded, and ■ made no attack. This is the same town i the outlaws made an attack upon a few months ago, getting away with several 1 thousand dollars belonging to the Caney Valley Bank. The Montgomery County Bankers’ Association has offered a large ■ reward for the arrest of any cf the i parties implicated. May Be Convened. .) It is said that the President is con1 ! sidering tho advisibilltv of calling an i extra session of Congress at once, in . view of the alarming condition of the financial affairs of the nation. In an interview on the Wall street situation Secretary Carlisle asks pointedly: “What have I to do with the situation i in Wall street? I can’t give the gentle- ' men in Wall street any money. Further ' than this I have nothing to say, as 1 consider it Improper and also impossible to discuss the financial situation every day through the newspapers.” He Hunted the Gas Leak with a Match. At Indianapolis, Conductor F. M. Snow, of tho Big Four, smelled escaping natural gas in his home and after sending his family out of doors he hunted for the leak with a lighted match. A terrible explosion followed, ruining the house and furniture and badly injuring Mr. Snow. His wife and 12-year-oid boy, who were watching his movements from the outside were badly burned. •s Kan Ashore. Port Huron (Mich.) special: The steamer Sitka, bound down loaded with i 86,000 bushels of corn, wont ashore on tho reef at Kettle Point, twenty miles above Fort Gratiot light, on the'Canadian side. When she struck she knocked her fore foot off and is leaking badly. She is out about two feet aft, having - v -A -.-J- niTQW 4kr» >■» .

with lighter and wrecking outfit, has gone to her assistance. The Sitka is owned by Captain Thomas Wilson of Cleveland. Minister Lincoln Preparing to Return. London special: Mr. Robert T. Lincoln, the retiring United States Minister, and Mr. White, the secretary of the United States Legation, dined recently With Lord Roseberry, the British foreign secretary. Mr. Lincoln will go to Windsor immediately to present his letters of recall. Chinese Ignoring the Law. Os over 50,000 Chinese in California only about 2.000 have registered in compliance with the Gearv law. Nearly ail the registrations are in the interior, scarcely any Chinese having registered in San Francisco. Monetary Conterence Postponed The international monetary conference which adjourned to reassemble in Brussels on the 30tb inst., will not reassemble on that date, it being postponed until some time next November. Five Tramps Killed. A rear-end collision between sections 1 and 2of a north-bound C., H. and D. freight, occurred near Tadmore, Ohio, resulting in the death of five tramps and the wreckage of a number of cars. Mrs. Depew Dead. Mrs. Elise liegeman Depew, wife of Chauncey M. Depew, died at her home. No. 43 West Fifty-fourth street, New York. Straight to Glory, Wade Haines, colored, was hanged in the jail yard at Columbia, S. C. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime... t 3.25 @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 8.50 @7-75 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 @6.25 Wheat-No. 2 Spring 71 & .32 Coen—No. 2 : 42 & .43 Oath— No.<2..l 29)4@ .30'4 P.YE—No. 2.. 52 @ .34 Butter—Choice Creamery 25!4@ .26)4 Eggs—Fresh .14 & .15 Potatoes—New, per bu..‘ .70 @ .so INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 6.75 Hoes—Choice Light 3.50 @7.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 6.50 WHEAT—No. 2 C 4 @ .65 Cobn—No. i White 41)j@ .42)4 Oath—No, 2 White 34 @ .35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 <3 6.25 IIOOB....; . 3.00 @7.60 I WHEAT—No. 2 Red (Mi @ .67 ICo ns--No. 2 : :ihv,@ .39’4 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .32 P.IE—No. 2 56 @ .67 ; CINCINNATL Cattle .... 3.00 @6.25 Hogs 8.00 @ 7.23 SHEEP ... 8.00 @5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 66 @ .67 Cobs—No. 2. 44 & .46 Oath—No. 2 Mixed 31)4@ .32)4 BYE—No. 2 60 @ .61 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @4.76 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.75 SHEBP.. 3.00.415.00. - Wkeat-wE 2 Red.; W4@.?0)4 , Corn—No. 2 Yellow [email protected])4 Oats—No. 2 White. 36)4® .37)4 TOLEDO. Wheat-No. 2. .. to @ .71 | COBS—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ .43 I Oath—No. 2 White 30)$@ .31)4 Kra 64 @ M BVFFkLO. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 6,60 Hogs—Beat Grades 4.00 @B.OO Wheat—No. 1 Hard ... 77 @ .78 I No. 2, Red 74 @ .74)4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No.2 Spring 66)4@ .67)4 (Cobb-No. 3 40 @ .41 i Oath-No. 2 White.:. 34)4@ .36)4 Eye-No. 1 66 @ .56 BabLEY—No. 2 64 @ .66 ! POBE-Mess 18.76 @19.26 NEW YORK. Cattle 8.60 @ 6.K Hoes..,'. 8,00 @B.OO •SHEEP 8,00 @ 7.25 l Wheat—No. 2 Red ... 78 @ .79 <>jmn-No. 2 51)4@ ,62)4 1 Gats- Mixed Western 37 @ .3* : Eutieb—Beet .28 @ .30 , POBE-OW Mess 18.75 030.25

PROTECTION IS A CURSE BITTER FRUIT REAPED BY HIGH TARIFF COUNTRIES, Takes a Large and Well Developed Conntry to Stand the Teat of “Protection” Without Leaving Illg Scar.—Big Whining Dooblea. * High Turtttj Countries* It takes a large and well-developed country to stand the test of "protection" without leaving big scars. Unless a country’s industries are well diversified and developed, and unless it has back of it a big population and boundless resources in fertile lands and raw materials, it cannot without great hardship attempt to build up its home industries by tariffs that cut off trade with the rest of the world. But twj) or three countries of the world can Indulge in high protection without great injury, and even these will suffer much if the experiment be too long continued. The United States, with all of its wealth of materials and resources, is staggering under its load of McKinleyism. Mortgaged farms and bankrupt farms; hundreds of thousands of idle workmen; trusts in control of production, prices, and wages; millionaires and

9 paupers. These are the heritage of • thirty years of protection. { Russia is, perhaps, the next great I country in population and resources. t Protection has made it one of the most miserable spots on the earth. A citizen not a land owner or protected miner or manufacturer is (prtunato 1 If Jie car) get together enough money M to pay his way out of Russia and off of the continent. Protection is in vogue all over continental Europe, , and as most of the countries are I small and dependent, for many foods i and supplies, upon other countries, the effect is marked and the people 1 are emigrating by tens of thousands. The pirlch of protection is too strong for these small countries. Canada Is a great and undeveloped new country. It began to experiment with protection but fourteen years ago, before its manufactories were firmly established and its population was great. It is already sick of the system and will soon repudiate it. Nearly 1,000,000 Canadians have emigrated to the United States to obtain greater freedom to buy and sell. The Canadian Government, according to the Mail and Express and other Republican authorities, now employs agents in the United States to give premiums to men who will emigrate to Manitoba and Ontario. When Canada sheds its protection coat and has free trade with the rest of the world its fertile lands and rich mines and forests will talk for it in languages that will be understood by the oppressed of all of the protected nations of Europe. Bub it is in Australia that we get the most perfect fruit of protection. The newest and least developed continent of the earth, it has a population of only one person to each square mile of territory, and the 4,000,000 inhabitants are the most intelligent and industrious people on the globe. Surely they ought to be prosperous, and they were until, in their admiration for the United States and all of its institutions, they began to adbpt protection in their different -tuiln.ruPfl JlifftW Si n<>Q N owr _

South Wares' adopted protection about two years ago, Australia has had the most perfect system of protection imaginable. Each cokmy is doubly barricaded with tariff walls from every other colony. Believing that what is worth doing at all Is worth doing well, they have taken great pains to prevent the passage of pauper goods across their borders. Their McKinley laws are so stringent that when a farmer was returning to Victoria from a visit to his married daughter, who lived a few miles across the border in New South Wales, with his mare and a foal, born during the visit, he was unable to proceed home until he had paid a heavy duty on the foal.. Australia’s infant industries were too young to stand artificial foods; their tender stomachs rebel at the stimulants. Hence we are told by W. H. Chadwick, in American Industries, that? “There fire millions of square miles of rich land in Australia awaiting the advent of the plow, yet the armies of unemployed In Melbourne, Sidney, Adelaide and Brisbane are to be numbered by their tens of thousands. In these cities there are as foul sweating dens as in any part of the world. In the country districts there are thousands of men systematically ‘cadging their tucker’—in other words, perambulating the country and begging a dally meal from farm houses or sheep stations. That such things should be in Australia is simply in consistency with the law that those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” 72 The April report of the Emigrants’ .Information Office, London, England, says: ~ “New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania continued to suffer from commercial depression, and great damage has been done in Queensland by the recent floods. In none of these colonies is there any demand for labor, except for female domestic servants, and in some country districts of New South Wales for farm hands. In South Australia there is an abundant supply of labor already on tlie spot.” As in all new countries, protection fosters a few manufacturing industries at the expense of agriculture and other important industries. Young men and women, driven off the farms, flock to the cities to work in factories and live in tenepaents; the protected manufacturers form trusts tb restrict production and raise prices; they close part of their factories and make tramps of the working men, who compete with those who have not lost their jobs, and thus reduce wages to the minimum. This is the present condition of tariff- ■ ridden Australia. Young, and nat-j urally healthy and vigorous, It lias ( taken to stimulants before it reached > a mature ago. It has already lost much of its vigor and independence. If it does not reform it will be a complete moral and financial wreck. — Byron W. Holt. BIK Whining Protection Boobte,. The United States has survived thirty years of high tariffs, with an Increasing amount of protection, because it had vast undeveloped resources, well-established industries of

' all kinds, and a population of over ‘ 30,000,000 of the world's brightest and most industrious citizens, when 1 tho experiment was begun. Yet, under these favorable conditions "protection” has been a dismal fall- • ure. ’ Instead of building up new indust tries and making more independent those already fairly prosperous, aftot an existence of from fifty to three hundred years, it has envervated and , made them industrial pensioners, . according to their own admissions. [ Since the publication of tho Reform i Club's proposed tariff bill, levying- ( duties averaging about 26 percent., , all of the big and little protection ■ infants have begun to howl In chorus , and to threaten to expire If we shall think of weaning them. i Groat, big boohoolng babies! We ! could spank them until they were willing to accept plain, hard food, if the most were not millionaire trusts, controlling production, wages and prices as well as boards of Aidermen, legislatures and Congress. These big pap-suckers have sucked the substance out of th» American farmer and left him a physical and financial wreck. Their colossal cheek, inhuman greed and Insatiable maws have combined to corrupt

morals and politics; to devastate our fields, forests and mines; to divide us into classes—plutocrats and paupers—lnconsistent with the stability of republican institutions. Tho American Economist, the kindergartner of these protection infants, is now publishing the whines and bawls of. dozens of the lustylunged boobies. It supplies amusing reading to those familiar with our protected industries and who know how insincere are their cries. It the Democratic party can succeed in weaning these infants and in making them worthy and self-supporting members of our industrial family, it will deserve and get tho support of all good and patiotic citizens, until the end of this century, at least. No More Star-Chamber Tariff*. The Hon. John DeWitt Warner, in an interview printed in American Industries of April 8. makes clear the excellent reasons for making public the Refcgm Club’s proposed tariff bill. The main objects are: To give time to acquaint the people with the general principles that must be followed to fulfill the party pledges; to force open discussion, that the people may learn the real friends and the real enemies of tariff reform; and to prevent, if possible, some of the lobbying that is done in Congress whenever the tariff is to be revised. Here is a part of what Congressman Warner says: “It will not be our fault if public opinion is not so definitely manifested in favor, not merely of tariff reform but of the most Important items of it, as to forestall the lobby. We propose either to force the discussion or to demonstrate to the American people that our critics dare not come into the open. Which horn of the dilemma the opponents of tariff reform take is perfectly immaterial to us. If they venture to discuss tariff details, then before Congress meets we shall have beaten them in detail as thoroughly as they have already been routed in general. If they content^themselves wlth snarling at our

neeis wune wesianu nr me open -offering to compare our work with their alternative propositions, there will come to the first session of the Fifty-third Congress no member who will not appreciate at its worth, and be fortified in advance by the definite will of his constituents, to resent the pestilent lobbying which will be promptly inaugurated. “We propose to have it thoroughly understood .that those who are going into sham hysterics at our ‘impertinence’ in openly proposing measures of tariff reform are mainly those, and the tools of those, Who are only waiting for Congress to assemble to -fill the Capitol and pester Congress with paid lobbyists to manipulate legislation in "favor of plans to tax the people to promote private interests. From now till Congress meets we propose that these gentlemen shall lie forced either to meet or dodge the perpetual challenge; ‘Tell the American people, if you dare, the sort of tariff reform that you prefer to that which we have proposed.’ “We can have no quarrel with those who are sincerely in favor of tariff reform, but who differ with us as to details. They will be as glad as ourselves to have thoroughly discussed the matters upon which we differ. The ones who will most object to this course are the gentlemen who prefer to work dark lantern plans for their individual benefit. And they are just the gentlemen whom we ask the country to help us thwart.” Charge This to Protection. One of the incidental losses chargeable against “protection” that is seldom thoueht of is the enormous expense incurred’ in producing long statistical reports to establish points in dispute between protectionists and free traders or tariff reformers. Reports containing thousands of pages are distributed every year, to show difference of wages, of cost of living, cost of production, or labor cost in certain products in different countries. The most of these statistics are misleading, inaccurate, and worthless; but it does not matter, for they are read only in part and by a very few persons. They are stored in libraries and archives at great expense and discomfort, to be an everlasting nuisance. Millions of dollars are wasted every year in the different departments of state, treasury, labor, agriculture, etc., that will be saved when protective tariffs are abolished and the people are allowed to take advantage of all actual and artificial conditions and to purchase goods where they are produced I cheapest. Tree competition will then : settle the labor cost of producing all l articles, and we will not have to wade I through 1,400 pages of small figures 1 to determine whether steel rails are I produced at less cost in England than in thjs country. We will not care. Steel rail producers and consumers wiH,scttle.that point beyond nil possibility of dispute. - °. Fashionable Physician—What you really need is change of climate. The Patient —Change of climatel Why. I’ve liever hail anything else! ' I’ve lived in New York all my life.— Life. »

TEN MEN WERE KILLED DISASTROUS WRECK ON THE 810 FOUR RAILROAD. Fa«t Ta«««ngyr Train Laavea tho Track and Craehea Into tba Depot-AU tho Trainmen Met Death at Unco—Other* Killed on tho Platform. Brakes Wouldn't Work. Ten men were killed and six were seriously injured by a disastrous wreok on the Big Four Railroad at Lafayette, Ind., at 1:30 o’clock Monday morning. The dead are: E. D. Moyaro, a mall olrtk of Cincinnati. A. 11. Chadwick, mall eleik, Cincinnati. Jeace H. Lone, mail clerk, Lebanon, Ind. Express Messenger McMahan, ot Cincinnati. C. A. Cahill, traveler, Indiana Otto Jeaeehon, Alhambra Hotel, Chicago, passenger going to train. Mike welsh, engineer, Indlannpolia. 8. Mclnnis. fireman, Urbana, Ohio. Charles Myore. bus driver, Lafayette. John Lennon, driver mall wagon, Lafayette. The injured are: Lottes Burganhole. Milwaukee, Wig. William Place, Frankfort, Ind. Jes! Reese, Kempten, Ind, Richard Jones, Pontiac. HL Lewis Leffler, Fowler, Ind. Richard Jones, Logansport, Ind. The accident occurred at tho depot on a sharp curve . and was caused, it is thought, by the failure of the air brakes to work while tho train was entering the city on a sharp downgrade. The engine ana three cars, including two mall

coaches, one express car, and a combination smoker and baggage oar, left the track while running at a terrific rate. The ladies’ coach and three through sleepers did not leave the track. AU the trainmen were killed. None of the fiassengers was injured. As the engine est the track it struck and instantly killed three men standing on the platform. They were Otto Jesselson, who had purchased a ticket and was waiting to board the train; Charles Myers, a bus driver; and John Lennon, who was in charge of the United States mail wagon at the depot The dead that lay under the immense pile of wreckage were not removed for three hours after the accident, a wrecking train being necessary to do the work. High bluffs rise on the west bank of the Wabash just opposite the city, and there is a long and steep grade at that point The ill-fated train must have been a mile up the grade from the river when tho engineer discovered that there was something wrong with the air, for the vigorous whistling of the engine for brakes could be heard when the train was still a mile west of the city. The engineer's desperate efforts to stop the train was shown by the large amount of sand thrown by him on the bridge thiough which the train camo just before the fatal crash. The speed by that time had increased so terrifically, however, that its control was beyond human agency. Wtth almost light-ning-like speed the monster engine dnshed around the curves and across the long bridge, although the man at the throttle had reversed the machinery, and immense streams of tire were being dashed from the driving wheels running in opposite direction to that of the swiftly flying cars that followed. Just after leaving the east end of the long bridge over the Wabash the tracks describe a semicircle, at the midway point of which the Union station is located. When the engine struck that sharp curve it left the track, followed by the cars in an awful swirl, and they piled upon each other 109 feet away, after crashing through train sheds and bringing down tons of structural iron to add to the teirors ot the situation. • . . ■ EXTRA SESSION SURE. Finance and Tariff Engage the Attention of Conjrew. The recent flurry In financial circles has revived the talk of an extra session, VIT — S — .—.A a*. AI -■ —. A— LS Aa. A

- • W»«i>tnfiiru> dlapateh. Befora leaving for the West a feW weeks ago Vice President Stevenson intimated tbat Congress would convene in September, and Mr. Cleveland has since stated to a couple of members of Congress that the extra session would be called between the Ist and l£th of that month. Tills In formation was repeated to Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, who called upon the President on Friday, and Mr. Outhwaite now entertains the opinion that the Fifty-third Congress will be In session continuously from Septemoer until the following June, barring the usual holiday recess in December. It is deemed probable that financial and tariff legislation alone will be sufficient to engage the attention of Congress until long after the December recess. The two questions will doubtless be considered as part of the same general problem, and to that end several of the administration leaders are already at work upon them. DON’T BOTHER THE PRESIDENT Mr. Cleveland Finds It Necessary to Establish a Few Bules. The following hss been issued by President Cleveland for publication: ‘ Executive Mansion. It has become apparent after two months’ experience that the rales heretofore promulgated regulating Interviews with the President have wholly failed in operation. The time which under those rules was set apart for the reception of Henators and Representatives has been almost entirely spent in listening to applications for office, which have been bewildering in volume, perplexing and exhausting in thelriteration.and impossible of remembrance. A due regard for public duty, which must be neglected if present conditions continue, and an observance of the limitations placed upon human endurance oblige me to decline, from and after this date, all personal interviews with those seeking appointments to office, except as I, on my own motion, may especially invite them. The same considerations make it Impossible for me to r.«elve those who merely desire to pay their respects, except on the days and during the hours especlidly designated for that purpose. I earnestly request Senators and Representatives to aid me in securing for them uninterrupted interviews by declining to introduce their constituents and friends when visiting the Executive Mansion during the hours designated fortheir reception. Applicants for office will only prejudice their prospects by repeated importunities and by remaining at Washington to await results. DEATH OF MRS. C. M. DEPEW. She Passes Suddenly Away at H>r Home Sunday A'ternoon. Mrs. Elise Hegeman Depew, wife of Chauncey M. Depew, died at her residence in New York City at 12:30Sunday afternoon. Although Mrs. was known to be seriously 111, thlsTsudden termination of her illness was not expected by her family and those who were most intimately connected with her. Her condition showed no material change Saturday, and early Sunday morning the turn for the worse came. During the last two years Mrs. Depew has been an invalid. She never entirely recovered from an attack of the grip that she had during the epidemic two years ago. During the recent festivities at Fort Monroe, attendant upon the visit of the foreign warships, Mrs. Depew made a trip to that place In the hope of Improving her health. This expectation was not realized, however. She became much wprse ands was brought home feebler than when she , left .Notes of Current Eventi. Mqunt .Etna shows signs of eruption, i Nicaraguan rebels have captured the , cities of Granada, Masaya and Bavaria. President Cleveland decides not to reassemble the Monetary Conference i until November. The Hocking Valley Road has arI ranged to enter Detroit over the Flint j and Pere Marquette. W. W. Tbacy, of Illinois. Is in the lead for the Presidency of the RepubHaan National League. ip-. 1 -

- — in, . .... - JUST GLANCE OVER THIS AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogna of the Week'a Important Ooourrenoea Throughout the Mate— Flinn, AooldenU, Crimen, Kuloldan, Kin Minor Kin to Nowi. The Muncie rubber works wero destroyed by lire. There are 3,280 children of school ago In Crawfordsville, a gain of 104 over last year. Mr. William Commons, Secretary of tho Union City Health Board, writes that “spotted” foyer is not prevalent in that vicinity, as reported. Lightning struck tho residence ot Thomas Vanhoy, in Shoals. It did considerable damage, but Mrs. Vanhoy, who was In the house, was uninjured. The southern Indiana coal miners are very likely to go out on a strike soon if they do not receive the increase of five cents on a ton that they are asking for. W. R. Snyder, Muncie’s school superintendent, has Just completed the school , enumeration of that city. It shows 5,407 school children, a gain 1,510 or more than 36 per cent. Vigo County Commissioners has refused tho petition for an increase of the

■ salaries of tho Judge of tho Circuit Court ) and the Judge ot tho 'Superior Court.under the new law. 1 Fort Wayne Is to have another Na--1 tional Bank In the early future, making 1 five at that city. The capital stock of ’ the new bank will not be less than 8200,000, and may be made 8250,000. The ashes of Simon R. Snell of Muncie, , were not thrown in tho Ohio River, as he ' requested. His son refused to do it , after seeing his father placed in the [ crematory furnace at Cincinnati. A pike was caught in tho Little Pine , Creek at English which measured 33 . inches. In the stomach of the fish was found a leather purse containing a well preserved letter and a lead pencil. ! North Manchester is to have a com- ! plete system of water works. The con- ; tract was awarded to Cone & Co. of 1 Chicago, for 827,000, and the work Is to ' be completed within one hundred days ' At the Montgomery County declamation contest, held at Crawfordsville, the first prizes were won by Emery Steele and Mamie Webb; second prizes by ' Howard Douglas and Josie Fennofeather. A few miles west of Mitchell, in Martin County, a sawmill boiler exploded, fatally wounding Francis Baker and seriously wounding three others, whose names are not known. The boiler was torn to atoms. The dead body of Thomas O’Brien, a printer, whose homo is in Chicago, was found by the side of the railroad track, just out ot Elkhart He had evidently fallen from a train. lie was a member of the Typographical Union of Chicago. G. H. Higdon of New Castle, has been granted patents and trade marks on a compound used to make lemon pies. He has already commenced the manufacture of the stuff and several tons of sugar and many thousand lemons are used daily. The Tucker well, just drilled In by the lowa Oil Company at Portland, Is flowing 3,000 barrels a day. Four twoinch lead pipes are required to conduct the oil to the tanka As most of the Indiana oil wells flow the waste of gas is enormous. During a recent storm lightning struck the 15-year-old daughter of Albert Mitchell, north of Liberty, killing her instantly. Charles Magee and wife, returning to their borne west of town, were also killed by the electric currents. Magee was Instantly killed, his wife

was luoiMiiuiy niiiuu, uia who lived two hours after the stroke. The City Council of North Manchester has awarded contracts for the construction of water works to the following firms: C. E. Coon & Co., of Upper Sandusky. and the Muskegon Boiler Works, of, Muskegon, Mich. The contracts amount to $28,000, and the work of construction will commence at once. The annual convention of Indiana literary clubs was held at Fort Wayne. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Mrs. C. R. Dryer of Fort Wayne; Secretary, Mrs. Elliott F. Perkins of Indianapolis; Program Committee, Mr. Evans Woolen of Indianapolis, Chairman; Mrs. Stanley Coulter of Lafayette; Mr. H. T. Eddy of Terre Haute; Mrs. G. E. Bursley of Fort Wayne, and Mr. J. E. Illiff of Richmond. The next convention will be held at Indianapolis. , The dedication of the M. E. Church of Noblesville, was an event that possessed some remarkable features, not the least of which was the wonderful success of these people in paying off their entire church Indebtedness. The church owed $12,630. The day set apart for the dedication had arrived, it was raining, the clouds hung low, the outlook was anything but cheerful, but: Dr. Payne said "the Methodists never fail.” and so he undertook the work of securing the varment of this debt, and by the close of the evening service more than $13,000 had been secured and the entire debt had been wiped out, a surplus of several hundred dollars being left. The Methodists of Noblesville are jtbilant, and commenced a series of revival meetings in their new church. The appointments of the Trustees for tbo Northern and Southern Hospitals have been announced by the Governor. Dennis Uhl, of the Northern Board, was reappointed, and the new mein her of thW board is John L. Forkner of Andersen. The appointees to the Southern Board are William L. Swormstodt of Evansville, an active young business man, connected with one of the banks, and Sellman Gimble of Vincennes. The latter is one of the most prominent Jews of the State. The position on the State Board of Charities, madevacantby the resigna-i tion of Mrs. Fairbanks, has been offered to Dr. Mary F. Spink, who is connected) with Dr. Fletcher’s sanitarium. She has the subject under advisement. This concludes the* appointive work of the Govenor, as far aa tbalaw Is concerned. Michael O’Reilly, an inmate of the Soldier's Home, at Marlon, was struck by a Panhandle train and killed. He was fifty-six years old, and came to the Home last Novcmter from -Chicago, where his wife now lives. He was a member of the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Hon. John F. Rodabaugh, representative in the Legislature from Allan County, has assumed charge as manager of the daily Fort Wayne Press. The paper has been managed by C. C, Philbrick, of Columbus, but Mr. Rodabaugh has had.an Interest in it, and will now own the plant. John Kirk of Vincennes, who killed his brother-in-law, Luther Smith, last January, and who has been out on bail, Was re-arrested the other day and placed in jail, the grand jury having returned an indictment against him with murder in the first degree. Rufus Haulk and George Cutstnger ’of Needham Station, have been lodged in jail at Shelbyville, charged with placing barrels of salt and crossties on the tracks of the Franklin and Martinsville branch of the Big Four, near Needham, on the night of April 2, for the purpose of wrecking a passenger. The place would have made a very serious wreck, as it was on a trestle. The voung men confessed and are held for trial.