Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1893 — Page 2

©he Jlcmoernt DECATUR, IND. ■. BLACKBURN, - - ■ TurLinnKa 1893 JULY. 1893 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa • •«•••! 2345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 #9 30 31 ® ® * ® OUR NEWS SUMMARY. A PENNSYLVANIA LADY BURIED ALIVE. A Locomotive Fireman’s Heroic and Thrilling Act-Sad Drowning at. Fort WayneSuffered for Another's Crime—Aged Couple Hurt. A Locomotive Fireman’s Heroic and Thrilling Act. Martin’s Ferry (Ohio) special: Fireman Simms, of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh freight train, is to be presented with a gold modal for the heroic rescue from a horrible death of the bright 8-year-old daughter of John Row, proprietor of the Tiltenville Pottery. The child got away from homo with her baby doll carriage, and, getting on the railroad track, was on a bridge,. when the train rounded a sharp curve. The child saw the train but was so frightened she could not move. The quick eye of Simms took in the state of affairs, and, springing to his feet, made his way over the engine, arriving just in time to grasp the child’s clothing and get her out of the road when the train dashed by. The child’s mother and a number of friends saw the impending danger, but were powerless to render aid, and when the noble rescuer handed the child to the almost frantic, but overjoyed mother, she fainted dead away. Public Debt Statement. The monthly public debt statement issued from the Treasury Department, shows a considerable reduction in the debt and a s'ligbt increase in the gold reserve during last month. There was an increase of $897,136 in the net cash balance or surplus, and a decrease of $321,112 in the non-interest bearing debt, while the interest bearing debt increased slightly —$1,990 —making a net decrease in the of $1,217,258. The gold reserve to-dSy is $95,485,413,0r $436,773 more than it was a month age, and the Treasury surplus to-day, including this gold- reserve, is $122,462,290. The total debt to-day, less the Treasury surplus, is $838,969,476 made up in round numbers of $560,000,000 four per cent, and $25,000,000 two per cent, bonds and $376,000,000 of non-interest-bearing debt. Treasury gold assets today aggregate $188,4a5,432, against which there are gold certificate demand liabilities outstanding amounting to about $93,000,000, leaving the gold balance, as before stated, about $95,500,000. 2. Suffered for Another Man's Crime. Recently a man giving his name as Louis Trowbridge walked into the office of Chief of Police Harrigan of St. Louis, and asked to be arrested. He is a self-confessed forger, and has been free for eight years, while another man has been suffering for his crime. Eight years ago Trowbridge, then a San Francisco lumber merchant, forged a note for SI,BOO, using the name of Warren Jones, banker, at Eureka, Cal. He got the money on the note from James Harmon. Harmon was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary., Stricken with remorse, he now gives himself up. Buried Alive. Charles Boyer of Morrisons, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, showed signs of dementia about nine months ago. His wife died, and he declared that she had been murdered. To satisfy him, the body was disinterred recently. The relatives were horrified to find every evidence that the woman had been buried alive. The body lay in the coffin face downward, the glass in the lid was broken and the hands had torn the shroud. The husband seemed pleased at his discovery, and he has been more rational than for a year. The body was reinterred. Sad News Awaits Her. At Fort Wayne, Alfred, the 19-year-old son of Prof. Zucher of Concordia College, was drowned while bathing with a number of young friends. It was several hours before the body was recovered. A sad feature of the fatality is that the boy's mother is on the Atlantic Ocean, en route to Singapore, India. T« Fight at Roby. James Corbett has signed an agreement to fight Charl’ey Mitchell at the Chicago Columbian Athletic Club rooms, at Roby, Ind., for a $45,000 purse. Three hours later Mitchell cabled his acceptance. The fight is to a finish between the Ist and 20th of December, 1893. Died During the Music. Miss M. E. Sweet, the oldest lady teacher in the Laporte, Ind., schools, died suddenly of apoplexy. She was attacked while attending a concert of the Indiana Music Teachers’ Association. * Aged Lady’s Fall. Mrs. McMahon, an aged lady of Anio, Ohio, fell down stairs and received injuries which are considered fatal. o ' , Aged Couple Hurt. At Gallipolis, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. JosiMih Schenk, two well-known and aged citizens, were caught by a freight train while crossing the Hocking Valley track and seriously injured. Killed in a Collision. In a rear end collision oh the Lake Shore road, at Hudson Lake, near Laporte, Ind., William Pull, brakeman, of Mishawaka, Ind., was instantly killed. Value of Our Silver Dollar. Secretary Carlisle received a cablegram stating that.the price of silvarin London was 68i cents per ounce, at which rate the silver dollar as bullion was worth 53 cents. Nevertheless the point is, of course, apparent that the purchasing power of the silver dollar with silver bullion at 681 cents per ounce is. as great today as it was when silver was worth $1.22 per ounce and the bullion Value of the silver dollar whs 93 cents. It should lie equally obvious that this is so because it is known that the credit of the United States is behind its silver money, as it is behind all of its other forms »f money and without which

none of them, except gold coin and gold Mrtificates, would do worth their par value in the money markets of the world. AN EXTRA SESSION. Oongro. Called to Auemble August 7. President Cleveland has left Washington for Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Before leaving he issued a call for Congress to assemble in extra session, August 7. The determination to call the extra session the first week in August instead of the first week in September, it is understood, was only definitely arrived at at a recent Cabinet session, after giving full weight to the numerous telegrams received from all parts of the country, urging this course. Another consideration which caused the President to change his mind wim forshadowed in the remark made by one of his cabinet officers a few days ago, that if the President received reasonable assurances that there was a likelihood of a prompt repeal of the so-called Sherman-silver purchase law he might to call Congress together earlier than he had announced. It is inferred from the fact that the President has dono so that ho considers ho has obtained the assurance he desired. Most of the cabinet officers have followed the President’s example and left the city or are leaving the city for brief vacations. Those who remain say the President’s proclamation speaks for itself and decline to discuss the situation further. FORCED AND UNNATURAL Ila the J’resent Financial Situation. Cincinnati special: The committee appointed by the Board of Trade and Transportation to inquire into the cause of the present financial crisis and report the same,, responed with a report as follows: 1. That the present financial stress is forced and unnatural. 2. It is caused by a distrust of silver currency. The committee urges the speedy convening of Congress and suggests as a remedy: 1. The repeal of the Sherman silver bill. 2. That national banks be permitted to issue bills to the full face of their bonded securities. 3. That the Government substitute for the present silver currency, silver coinage equal to its face value in gold. The committee recommends the general organization of a trade board to press this matter on Congress. KILLED BY TRAMPS. A Railroad Crew Attempt to Eject Tramps, and the Conductor Is Killed. Four tramps were put off a train on the Michigan Central Railroad near Dowagiac, Mich. A general fight ensued, and the conductor. Charles Foster, was shot by one of the tramps Apd fatally wounded. The tramps escaped, but everything possible will bo done to ; secure.their arrest. The men are de- ' scribed as follows: No. lis a negro.about ) five feet seven inches high, and wore a dark plaid coat and vest, light colored pants, tan colored shoes and left ear had been bitten at some time. No. 2is ! about six feet tall, slimly built, dark 1 suit of clothes and brown hat. No. 3 is dark complexioned and wore dark 1 clothes' and blue shirt, five feet seven 1 inches high, medium build, and had 1 four fingers of his left hand cut off. and 1 had sandy mustache. Foster has since 1 died. ' 1 Lost Treasures. There is considerable excitement in Knobnoster, John County, Missouri, , over the search that is being made there for the $1,500,000 in gold sup- 1 posed "to have been buried there i by Spaniards many years ago. ] Tradition says that, the Spaniards . were conveying the gold from ] Mexico to Boonville for- shipment j on the river to New York, when they were attacked by Indians, and while making a defence they buried their treasure. On the spot where debris of ] the wagons had been found, excava- - tions were commenced last week, and j the work has been prosecuted vigor- 1 ously ever since, but so far no trace of i the gold has been found. The searchers i are confident that they are on the right track. Western Kansas Farmers Sorely Afflicted. Topeka (Kas.) special: Governor Lewelling is in receipt of a large number of letters from Western Kansas re- i questing him to call an extra session of ; the Legislature to afford relief to the drought stricken farmers. He says that ■ until he is convinced that a majority of the people are in favor of a special session he will decline to make a call. He is of the opinion that it will be cheaper for the people to raise the money necessary by subscription, than to pay taxes* to defray the expenses of a thirty day session. The railroads will be asked to help. Refused One-Half Million* A Chicago special of June 30 says the owners of No-to-Bac, a proprietary medicine sold under an absolute guarantee to cure the tobacco habit in every form, have met with such wonderful success that a syndicate offer of one-half million has been refused. It is said that their sales are enormous, and that there is hardly a drug store in this country and Canada but what sells it. They differ from any other proprietary concerns in the fact that they promptly refund money when No-to-Bac fails to cure. Threatened With a Johnstown Flood. East Liverpool (Ohio) special: A feeling akin to consternation was created here when it became known that the lower reservoir situated on the hillside thirty-five feet above the eastern part of the city was in imminent danger of collapsing. The reservoir contains about 3,000,000 gallons of water, and should it burst would involve destruction to a number of manufacturing establishments. The situation is growing momentarily more critical, the water pouring from a rapidly growing fissure in the wall in .torrents. Silver Depressed. . The Mollie Gibson mine at Aspen, Col., tiie largest silver producer in the ‘ State, has closed down and will not resume operations until the outlook for silver is improved. All the big properties in that place have reduced their forces, nearly 500 men being dis- ‘ charged. A meeting of mine managers ’ will be held in Denver to consider the i situation and take some concerted acr tion. Smelters have ceased buying ore and will confine themselves to that on hand or contracted for. The German Electionc. 1 Berlin special: Reports received ‘ from Kissingen, Schwienfurt,and Lohr, 1 complete the returns from all 397 elec- ’ toral constituencies of the empire. Os ’ these 397 deputies, 199 are- counted for the army bill, and 185 against it. " Thirteen are classed as doubtful. The Nord Deutche Allemaine J Zeitung, calculates that at the opening 1 of the reichstag, 205 deputies will • favor the army bill and 191 will be ’ opposed to it. ■» A Young Couple Drowned. ’ A double drowning occurred at 1 Watertown, Ns Y., -on Black River.

-— At a popular resort known as Glen park, Walter Darling, aged 21 years, son of a widow who resides at Brookville, was in a boat with Miss Abl Wooley, his sweetheart, aged 16 years. They allowed tho boat to pass undm the bridge and near the falls. Sud donly the Ixmt capsized and they we"* thrown into the water. Both* were drowned. Cupturotl the Town. Valparaiso special: General Salegado surprised the garrison at Carpinterce and captured the town after routing the Third Infantry. General Sarava is marching toward San Berja. His troops had an unimportant skirmish with a small Castilhista force. It is said that the revolutionists are preparing for a final campaign, in which the movements of their troops are to be directed by two German army officers, whose services have been secured by the revolutionary committee in Montevideo. The Year’* Account". Treasury officials are closing up the vast money accounts of the Government for the fiscal year 1892-93. The figures which will be officially proclaimed soon, will show, in round numbers.that the total receipts of the year are $385,(X)0.000, while the Expenditures are $383.(XM),01X). leaving a surplus of $2,000,000. This was the estimate submitted by Secretary Foster to Congress as a probable surplus for the fiscal year, and the results prove it to be prophetically accurate. Ohio l*rotiibltlonists. The Ohio Prohibition State Convention nominated the following candidates: Governor, Rev. Gideon P. Macklin of Gqrmantown; Lieutenant Governor. S. H. Ellis of Warren County; Treasurer. Abraham Ludlow of Springfield; Attorney-General, S. E. Young of Portage; Supreme Court Judge, J. A. Gallagher of Bellaire; Dairy Food Commissioner. S. B. Todd of Wakeman: Member of Board of Public Works, E. H. Brosius of Stark County. A Case of Double Poisoning. A case of double poisoning, and one which has resulted in the death of one person and probably that of another, took place at Red Key, Ind. Joe Wagner and his wife quarrelled. Wagner procured a bottle of somethiag and after drinking from the bottle asked his wife to do the same. She did as her husband requested and soon afterwards died in convulsions. The young son of Wagner was afterward made to drink from the bottle and is very low. The Naval Militia. The Navy Department is doing everything within its power to stimulate the development of the naval militia, and especially in States along the lake border. Secretary Lamont has approved the allotment of arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster’s stores, and camp equipage to the militia of the States and Territories. The appropriation of the S4OOJXX) allotment was the same as last year. Terrible Act of Insane Convicts. A terrible tragedy was enacted in the State penitentiary at Puebla. Mex. Two convicts, named Cayetano Oliveres and Marcelino Garcia, made an attack upon a number of fellow prisoners in the corridor with shoe knives,killingthree of them and wounding seven others. It required the efforts of several guards to overpower the two convicts. They are said to be insane. A Cyclone In the South. Memphis special: A cyclone swept across the eastern portion of Arkansas, leaving destruction in its path. All telegraph wires west of Memphis are down and details are meagre, but it is known that the loss to property is enormous. The cyclone struck Little Rock, unroofing houses, wrecking building, and prostrating wires. Train Robber Caught. A passenger train was held up near Brackenridge, Texas. The fireman was killed by the robbers. But two passengers were bn the train, both heavily armed. One of the robbers took to the brush, the other,, a man named J. D. May, was captured by Conductor Steele. Drexel Dead. Philadelphia special: A private cablegram received at Drexel’s banking house states that A. J. Drexel died at Carlsbad, Germany. The message stated that he had a slight attack of pleurisy, but recovered and was then seized with apoplexy, from "Which he died. Cargo of Chinese Landed in Oregon. Secretary Carlisle has received a telegram from Portland, Ore., announcing the arrival there of the Haytien Republic, with 500 Chinese aboard; The vessel was seized by the United States treasury agents. Failure at Richmond, Ind. Haynes, Spencer & Co., of Richmond, Ind., manufacturers of school and church furniture, has made an assignment. The liabilities are $59,500 and the assets $60,000. Given the Prize. John Berry, the cowlxiy who was the first to arrive at the Wild West show in the great race from Chadron. Neb., was awarded the first prize of SI,OOO by the committee. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime 23 25 © 5 75 Hogs—Shipping Grade 5......... 3 00 @ 6 60 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4 03 & 500 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 64 © 65 Corn—No. 2 39 © 40 Oats—No. 2 29 © 30 Rye—No. 2 47 © 49 Butteb—Choice Creamery 19%© 20% Eggs—Fresh 12 © 13 Potatoes—New. per bfl 2 oo © 2 60 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle-Shipping 3 25 & 5 25 Hogs—Choice Light 3 50 a 6so Sheep—Common to Prime 3 oo © 4 26 Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62 Cobn—No. 2 White 40 @ 41 Oats-No. 2 White 34 <ts 35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 @ t> oo Hogs 300 © 6 jt Wheat—No. 2R&d............. SO & 61 COBN—No. 2 37 St 38 Oats—No. 2 .. 2s%© 29.% Rye—No. *2..... 0 49 0 W CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 oo ® 5 25 Hogs 3 oo © t so SHEEP 300 & s 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red ... 69 st 60 COBN—No. 2 40 0 41 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 33 © 34 DETRGII’. CATTLE 800 @ 500 Hogs 300 ©7 25 Sheep.? g oo © 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 @ 66 Cobb-No. 2 Y-1 ow 40 © 41 Oatß-N» 2WMte 3t%@ 86% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2. .., 64 © 66 COBN—No. 2 Y- How 41%© Oats—No. 2 While 30%© 81% Rye 52 © 54 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3 60 © e so Hogs—Best Gra es.. . 4 00 © 0 75 Wheat—No. 1 Wh.te 69 © 71 N 0.2 R-d 67 © 69 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 63 © 64 COBN—No. 3 37 © 39 Oats—No. 2 Whitd 34%© 35% Rye—No. 1 M © 60 Babley—No. 2 ; 57 © 69 POBK—Mess 19 00 ©l9 60 NEW YORK. 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■ . THE FEEEIB WHEEL. IT 18 THE LANDMARK AND NOVELTY OF THE FAIR. Visitor* Ask Their First QnMtlon When They Bee It from Afar—Bow It I* Made and What It Co*t — Arrangement* for Carrying Passenger*. Away Up in the Air. World!* Fair correspondence: “What on earth in that?" This is the astonished inquiry that •very passenger on the Illinois Central, the “L,”and the steamboat lines on the lake makes as soon as ho gets his first sight of the Ferris Wheel. And he asks it afar off, for tho wheel is the landmark of tho Fair. His inquiry should lie, “What in the air is that?” for if there is anything on or near tho Exposition grounds besides the captive balloon that is not on earth it is tho Ferris Wheel. At first it looks as tho great trusses of tho Manufactures Building used to look before the roof was on. But, as it towers higher and is seen to lie circular instead of semi-circular, the spectator can form no idea what it is until he is told. It is beyond all question the crowning novelty of tho Exposition as the Eiffel tower was of the Paris Exposition. To that it is superior in some respects, for it has the element of motion instead of being an inert mass, and presents engineering difficulties with which man never before grappled. When was made the first wheel similar to this in construction, in a general way, and for amusement purposes, no one knows. The idea is an old one. But the gigantic toy on the Midway Plaisaftee was born two years ago in the mind of George W. G. Ferris, a 36-year-old Pittsburg engineer. The wheel is composed of two wheels of the same size connected and held together with rods and struts, which, however, do not approach closer than twenty feet to the periphery. Each (Wheel has for its outline a curved, hollow, square iron beam 251x19 inches.

THE GREAT FERRIS WHEEL.

At a distance of forty feet within this circle is another of a lighter beam. These bbams are called crowns and are connected and held together by an elaborate trusswork. Within this smaller circle there arc no beams, and at a distance there appears to be nothing. But at the center of the great wheel is an immense iron axle 32 inches thick and 45 feet in length. Each of the twin wheels, where the axle passes through it, is provided with a large iron hub 16 feet in diameter. Between these hubs and the inner “crowns” there are no connections except spoke-rods 24 inches in diameter, arranged in pairs, 13 feet apart at the crown connection. At a distance they look like mere spider webs, and the wheel seems to be dangerously devoid of substantial support. The explanation of this is that the Ferris wheel—at least 'inside the smaller crowns —is constituted on the principle of a bicycle wheel. The lower half is suspended from the axle by the spoke-rods running downward, and the upper half of the wheel is supported by the lower half. The only difference is that the Ferris wheel hangs by its axle, while a bicycle wheel rests on the ground, and the weight is applied downward on the axel. How Pa**enger» Are Carried. The great wheel has thirty-six carriages for passengers hung on its periphery at equal intervals. Each car is - EGYPTIANS BOWISO BEEOBE THE TOMB OF THE SACKED OX twenty-seven feet long, thirteen feet wide, and nine feet high. It has a heavy frame of iron, but is covered externally with wood. It has a door, and five broad plate-glass windows on each side. It contains forty revolving chairs, made of wire and screwed to the floor It weighs thirteen tons, and with its forty passengers will weigh three tons more. It is suspended to the periphery of the wheel by an iron axle six and one-half inches in diameter, which runs through the roof. It is provided with a conductor to open the dooiw, preserve order, and give information. All the cars together will carry 1,400 people. To avoid accidents from panics, and' to prevent insane people from jumping out, the Windows will bd covered with an iron grating. It is prohr able that one car in six will be reserved for sreokers. The wheel, with its cars and passengers, weighs about 1,200 tons, and therefore needs something substantial to hold it up. Its axis is supported therefore on two skeleton iron towers, pyramidal in form, one at each end of it. They are 40x50 feet at the bottom, and 6 feet square at the top, and about 140 feet hign, the sides next ta the

■v wheel being 40 feet and perpendicular, and the other sides slanting. Each tower has four great feet, and each foot rests on an underground concrete foundation 20x20x20 feet. Cross-bars of steel are laid at the bottom of the concrete, and the feet of the tower are connected with and bolted to them with iron rods. The wheel Is never left to Itself, but , is always directly and constantly con- , trolled l>y a steam engine. The wheel points east and west, and the engine, which is a 1,000 horse-power reversible Blooming train engine, is located under the east half of it, and sunk four feet in tho ground. The machinery is very similar to that used In the power-houses / k i I' jwLßli ffrwyr* mH J /f tm n JAVANES* “MISSlOIT” OR CHURCH. of the cable car companies, and runs with tho same hoarse roar that they do. It operates a north-and-south iron shaft, twelve Inches in diameter, with groat cog wheels at each end, by moans of which tho power is applied at each, side of tho wheel. How to Get on Board. It is arranged to empty and refill six cars with passengers at a time, so that there will be six stops in every revolution. Accordingly six railed platforms of varying heights have been provided on the north side of the wheel and tdx more, corresponding with these, on the south side of it. When the wheel stops each of the six lowest cars has a platform at each of Its doors. The passengers step out cf the south doors and other passengers step in at the north doors. Then the next six cars are

served the same way, and the next and next all day. Preaching at the Fair. Rev. Dr. Thomas, facing an audience of 5,000 persons in Festival Hall,preached the first sermon within the gates of the Columbian Exposition. He called the attention of his hearers to the text, taken from the twenty-first verse of the seventeenth chapter of St. John: “That .all may be one; as Thou Father art in me and I in Thee; that they may be one in us; that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me." The service was made musical by the help of the Apollo Club, 500 strong. Dr. Thomas said in part: "Man stands alone in himself. He is selfconscious of his being; this being carried up to the point of self-con-sciousness is now dealing with all kinds of truths—the standards of truth as established bv different races as their intelligence dictated. Conscience is the same everywhere. Conscience tells us to do what we think is right, and what is not right. The prayer of Christ was that all those people be one and they eventually will. It is only by labor that the masses can be enlightened and we must have teachers and objects for all these to profit by, for they are needed to make the world.” Dr. Thomas then reviewed the constructive era of the Fair and told how the present beautiful city of white palaces had been erected in what was three years ago a marshy waste. It took all kinds of labor to reach this result, he said, and added: “We are all one person working toward one common end. Man is the helper of man. Notwithstanding the cjueer talk over religion considered in its multifarious beliefs, at the bottom of all great religions who have bibles and temples all believe one fundamental principle and that truth is somehow that man is so like God that it is possible for human and divine to come together. Men shall yet be one.” featVrus of the fair. Mlacellancu* Note* Picked Up at the World'* Greatest Show. In the Cape Colony exhibit are 40,000 rough diamonds. The crown laces of Italy contain some specimens 1,800 years old. The air brake is applied to 100 cars. Ten complete trains and a model depot are features of the Transportation Building. In the Woman’s Building a model kindergarten occupies a room 80 feet long by 60 feet wide. Thirteen enormous logs from Canada contain 1,500 feet Os lumber. In the French collection there is a cabinet of bronze and ebony, with enamel of Limoges and Grecian figures. It has a secret spring and a labyrinth of drawers. The valuation is $20,000. The valuation of 830,000 is given to two vases which the Spanish Commissioners keep under lock and kev. These vases are of iron, four feet high; one Etruscan, the other Grecian, ornamented with gold hammered into the iron so as to show vinos, cupids and figures of women in flowing drapery. A Spanish woman did this highly prized work. A few years ago she was a poor working girl.

paEdoned the beds. GOV. ALTGELD SETS THE AN. AROHISTS FREE. Soltwnb, Fleldan and N*eb« Ar* Liberated tram th* JoU*t Penitentiary After Nearly Bevea Year*' Service—The Governor Boorea the Court*. Prisoa Doon Flung Wide. The Chicago anarchists, Schwab. Fiolden and Noebe, have been pardoned out of the Joliet Penitentiary by Gov.

Altgeld. The news of the pardon caused tho most profound surprise at Joliet, according to a dispatch, but it Is said to have been _anticipated in Oh ioago by the friends of the imprisoned men. Schwab, according to the JoHet corre-

MICHAEL SOBWAB.

spondont, has been looked upon as one of the most dangerous men in the horrible conspiracy that led up to the Haymarket massacre; fiolden was always considered a misguided but honest man; and Neebe was looked upon as one of August Spies’ misguided tools. It would have caused no surprise to have pardoned Neebe. In extending executive clemency the Governor seems to have acted without conference with or advice from anybody of influence or authority. The act is his alone, apparently. The pardon message contains 17,000 words. The Governor takes the ground that these men did not have a a 2 I a /Az aov. ALTOKLD. fair trial and that the court was prejudiced. He scores Judge Gary and Chief of Police Bonfield severely. Schwab, Fielden and Neebe were sentenced to State's prison on the charge of complicity in the Haymarket massacre on the night of May 4,1886. Tho details of the trial are too well remembered to demand recounting. Spies, Fielden, Parsons, Fischer, Lingg,

Schwab and Engel were sentenced to death and Neebe, whom many thought innocent, to fifteen years in the penitentiary. The case was carried up and fought ’ with great desperation in the Supreme Court of Illinois by the prisoners' lawyers, but

the court finally adjudged- the verdict correct In law and the sentence of the court was carried out in respect to Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Neebe. Louis Lingg killed himself horribly with a fulminating cap in the jail on the day preceding that set for the hanging. A determined attempt to secure a commutation of sentence was made before the.execution. It was joined in by many, especially in behalf of Parsons, who was well known and popular, and it might have been granted if that wild fellow had consented to recant in his faith. But he refused to do so, and Gov. Oglesby was obdurate in refusing

to grant a commutation to any who did not weaken. Spies, worn as his friends say by long confinement, consented to admit his error, but > Oglesby, considering him the loader, would give him no mercy. Fielden and Schwab

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made terma and sentence was cut down to life imprisonment. Spies, Parsons, Fischor and Engel were hanged from the same gibbet in the north corridor of the jail in Chicago, on Nov. 11,1887. They were buried on Nov. 13 in Waldheim Cemetery, where a monument in their memory has just been unveiled. The others were quickly taken to Joliet Penitentiary. For the last three or four years strong efforts have been made to secure their pardon, and an amnesty association was formed in Chicago, which has worked unceasingly to this end. Many petitions were presented to Gov. Fifer during his term of office praying for executive clemency in the case of these men, but he refused to listen to the appeals. UnveUed Their Monument. Sunday afternoon, in Waldheim Cemetery, near Chicago, a stately monument to the memory of Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel, andLingg, the executed anarchists, was unveiled. It rested on the same spot which marked their several graves. President Schmidinger, of the society which erected the monument, delivered an address, reciting ANAtICHIBT MONUMENT. matters of interest in connection with the movement. Abput 3,000 persons witnessed the ceremony. The monument was draped in the red which the organization so fondly clings to as an emblem of its order, and the men, women, and children who were grouped around the monument wore red in profusion and talked of “martyrs to the cause of human, rights. ”

NEWS OF OUR STAT A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLII HOOSIERS. ■ What Our Neighbor* Arc Doing—M*tl of General and Local Intcre»t—Marr la •nd Death* — Accident* und Crlu*i Pointer" About Our Own People. Indiana Incident*. Columbus has u Ixmded indobt ness of $60,998.60. Columbus is to have a flouring n of largo capacity. "T Crothersville Is having a gos temperance revival. Laporte County paid out $657 woodchuck scalps last year. Shelbyville merchante are becc ing tired of the early closing plan. Marion and Gas City are to be q nocted by electric railway by Julyetti Washington Brunemeh, a farn near Franklin, was killed by lightnii Harrison Fields, Oakland City, cidentally shot himself in the stomai He will die. The small-pox scare at Elwood is ported to have died out, all thepatie: oelng on the road to recovery. William Cox has lived the life o hermit in Patoka River bottoms, 1 low Petersburg, for seven years. From Newbern comes the boss e story. David Huffer. a reliable farm' reports finding on his farm a nest c< tafning 75 fresh eggs. Thomas Hopewell, an employe tho Swezey & Johnson skeiner facto: at Marion, met with an accident tl deprived him of an eye. A 3-year-old son of Charles Bet of Greentown, playing with hisifathe shotgun, was instantly killed. T child’s head was blown off. The little daughter of Mr. Zipold farmer, three miles north of Wabai fell into a water tank near the fa: wind pump and was drowned. . Capt. John W. Coons and James Duvet have been engaged to exami the White County records from 1881 189.3 in the auditor’s and treasure office. Edward Gallard, plumber’s apprentice, while bathi in the St. Mary’s River, at Fort Wayi was attacked with cramps and drowr before he could be reached. The good people of Crothersvi have organized a temperance crusai The new league has 260 membe Rev. W. B. Grimes, of the Method Church there, is stirring up the peop Judge Custer of Marion, has < cided the injunction suit brought Gas City against the Marion Str< Railway Company, in favor of the < fendants, and the street railway w go ahead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carmof living near Shelbyville, qplebrated t World's Fair year by the addition triplets to their family last wei Twice before twins were born to the The triplets are named Grover, Adi and Gresham. Robert Hayes found on the farm D. R. Hostetter, near Claysville, t largest and oldest tortoise on recoi It nears the name of “G. Winslo Government Surveyor, 1803.” Tl animal is on exhibition at Claysvil by Marion Beasley. The gas wells in the vicinity Wilkinson hold a pressure of 330pounc A new hub, spoke, and headingfactoi employing sixty hands, will be rea to open Oct. 1. There are prospec also, of two glass factories and a pap mill locating at Wilkinson soon. A vicious dog attacked George N Kinley’s 2-year-old child, east of Bi zil, biting it under the left eye and the lower lip. The child s face badly swollen, and she is in a preca: ous condition. It is feared the d was suffering from rabies. James Scarlett and Mrs. Bel Gibbons-Scarlett-Taylor were marri near Orangeville, Orange County, t other day. They were married 1878, but divorced. They each mi ried »gain, were divorced from the husband and wife, recently began courtship and were remarried. George Wagner, an Evansville a Terre Haute yardman, ■while making coupling at Ebner's Ice Factory swite Vincennes, fell beneath the whee Several cars passed over him, and 1 died almost instantly. Wagner leav a large family. He was one of the ol est and most reliable men in the ei ploy of the company at that place. A fatal accident occurred at t American Tin Plate Factory, at I wood. Bert Stevens, aged 18, whi adjusting a belt, accidently got t leather apron caught in the line sht and was hurled over, and over by tl ponderous machinery fully twen times before tho apron gave way ai he was released. His right arm w broken in two places, his head and fa terribly beaten and bruised and he w also injured internally. He suffe great agony, and it is believed ho w: die. He is a son of the resident ma agor of the factory. This is the thi: accident that has occurred there with a month. Terre Haute submitted a ne proposition for the State Military E campment a few days ago, and, aft considering it, the Adjutant Gener forwarded it to Gov. Matthews, reccs mending that it bo accepted. Tl encampment will doubtless tie held that city. The exact time has not be< decided upon, but it will be about Ju 20-29. The Adjutant General has hi reports which show that 2,184 menwi be in attendance, out of 2.600 in tl militia. There are now forty-syc coi panies subject to the laws of the Stat while tho limit is forty eight. Over dozen applications for admission hai been recently filed, but only two ci be added to the list. There is a vacam in Indianapolis which will be silk soon. A Lake Shore news agent, namt Beyer, jumped from the train about mile out from Goshen and was instan ly killed. He said some one who ha gotten off at Goshen had robbed hii and he intended jupiping off and goin back to investigate. Henry Kinnaman, a farmer, residing near Anderson, i , stricken dead in the field. While id, ing hay he sank dow, supposedly ove: comb by the heat.’ Before frienc could reach his side life was extinc The deceased was known throughoi the State. Ho leaves a wife and thre children. The following patents have bee awarded in Indiana: Horace B. Boyi Cambridge City, assignor of one-half 1 L. A- Boyd. Indianapolis, pnoumatl tire; Wm. Hall, Fort Wdyne, shoi Thomas J. Hatfield, Dublin, fannini mill; John N. Kailor, assignor i Reeves & Co., Columbus, screen she for clover hullers; Richard W. Lundj South Bend, track for door hangeri Ewald Over, Indianapolis, soil pulvei Izer and teller; William T. P utnan Brightwood, oil burner; William I Hobbins, Mill Grove, lame-burner, a' tachment; Thomas 8. Wagoner, a signor of one-half to M. J. Cjirnahan, Co., Loogootee, post drive/; John 1 Worrell, Jeffersonville,' plumb level. ■

SAMUEL FIELDEN.