Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1894 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUR, INO. |L MTUCKBUBN. ... Pmrr.TVHltK HISTORY OF A WEEK. A CHEAP BOARDING HOUSE

BURNS AT BUFFALO. Many Hoarders Killed and Injured—A Horriblo Find at Independence. Kan.—Bank Boblwrs Foiled—Number of Postmasters la tho United Htirtrw. A nOBKIDLI FIND. * Family Lie Dead In Their Feds for Thtrt\-Sii Hour* Before They Are Dlaeorered. Indepondcn'-o (Krs.) special: At 9 o’clock the other morning the home of Georg o W. Rood, manager of tho Long 801 l Lumber Company, was broken into by Al brown, Mr. Rood's son-in-law, and neighbors, who had become suspicious that, all was not right in the house, no one having been soon stirring fora few days. Tho discovery made was horrifying. Tho body of Mr. Roed was found sitting in a chair before a hot slovo fed by natural gas. It was dotbed only in a night shirt and was in an advanced state of decomposition. The dead body of Edith Scott, a domestic was found lying on tho floor of her little room adjoining. Mrs. Reed and her 5-year-old son were found in bed, tho mother unconscious and tho boy in a dving condition. Mrs. Reed may possibly recover. The terrible discovery caused tho wildest alarm and specul tion. Asphyxiation and accidental poisoning aro the theories current, also foul play. The fact that two gas stoves in tho houso were burning at full force practically explodes tho theory of asphyxiation, and the fact that n ) bruises or marks were found on either of the dead renders the murder theory almost incredible. This leaves accidental poisoning os the only theory to accept. A Holocaust. Soon after 2 o’clock tho other morning fire was discovered in tho roar of a cheap restaurant and lodging houso on west side of Wasfcingt >n street, just north of Swan Street, Buffalo. In addition to tho proprietress a notorious character known as ‘‘Scotch Liz,” there were from twelve to eighteen lodgers. Six dead bodies have been taken out of tho ruins, and tho Chiei of tho Fire Department says that he expects to find oth r dead bodies in the cellar. The building was o'd and dry and proved a veritable tinder box. Several of the inmates jumped from the second story and received terrible injuries Among those injured and taken to tho hospital are: Fred Overman. Chas. R. Edwards. John Neil. George Matthews. George Anderson. The names of the dead cannot be learned at thig houl*. ffhe Arkiy of Postmasters. The total number of postoffices in operation in the United States on January 1, 1894, is 68,8J6. This Is shoWil in a statement prepared at tho Postoffice Department, showing tho number of postoffices in the co intry by classes in enest January 1. The number of offices of the three presidential classes were 2,424. There are./151 in the first class, where the receipts are more than 540.00 J; 674 in the second class, where receipts range from 88,000 to 840,000 and 2,589 in the third class, where the receipts range from $1,900 to $8,000; There are al.o 65,332 fourth class offices where appointments of Postmasters are not made by the Pres'dent and where the compensation of the Postmasters for each of tho last four quarters of the year amounted to S2SJ and the receipts 81,000 or less. Bold Robbers. At Roanoke, Ind., two mon were discovered at w rk boring bo'.es in the Exchange Bank ea£e. Tho building was surrounded by a posse of citizens and the burglars were ordered to surrender. Instead they made a break through the back do?.-. A running fight followed and many shots were fired. One robber was ch tsed to Huntington and eluded capture, while the other is in the woods five miles north Os town. Officers are still in pure-it. A Locomotive On Fire. The engine that lies over at Celina, Ohio, every night on the C., D &C. R. R., came near being des’ oved byfire the other night. Fire broke out in the engineer's cab from some unknown cause, and before it could be stopped had destroyed the cab and burned the wooden oeket off pf tho boiler, causing great damage. T. e engine will have to be overhauled.

Death of a Lafayette Editor. Ross Gordon, editor of the Lafayette, Ind., Leader, died at the home of his son in-law, .lofan Hart, in that city. Mr. Gordon died a few minutes after he had reached his seventy-second birthday. He had been owner o the JUeader or twelve years and was in ac ive management up to within a month of his death. , Stricken at Church. Dr. G. B. Ansutz, a prominent dentist of Greenfield, Ohio was stricken with paralysis while attending church. He was removed 1o his home, where he remains in a very critical condition. Fire at Boh ton. The Globe Theater, at Boston, was entirely destroyed by lire. The loss will rea h >sioo,boo. There wore many narrow escapee. Accidentally Shot by a Woman. At Gallipolis, Ohio, Mrs. Sarah Evans while'fooling with a loaded revolver. pointed it at Ira Wool and nulled the trigger. It went off and the bull entered Wood’s breast. Unknown Man Killed. Pittsburgh train No. 9, west bound, struck uni killed aman just west of <; Lima. Ohio.’ The person killed was * not identified by anyone on the train and the body was left at Lima. Fort. Wayne’s Miiyor v»onw. Col. Charles A. Zollinger, Mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., died at bis residence

that city, of neuralgia. 01. Zo I nger was 55 years old December s> last. He enlisted as a • private in Company E, Ninth Indiana Regiment oi vol nteers. April li, IW> , ho was mustered out at the expiration of the ser. i e. lie was comtniss oned Fust Lietenant o. Company D, September 15, nr| d I r 2" noted to Captain of Coni|>any B, l”9th regiment. Indiana .volunteers, January -5. IWI. He was promoted to Lieutenant Co.onel of the same regiment. March Zi, ISw- Ho was pro-, moled to Lo'.onol of the same regt-

mentin 1864, and hold that pos'tion when it was mustered out of service, August 2!), 1865, at Charlotte. N. O. At the time of his death he was serving bis seventh term as Mayor. He was appointed under President Cleveland as Pension Agent for the Stut-e of Indiana and served in that office from 1884 to 1888, and was slated for the same position. MELLU'? war. It In Waxed Against the Encroiicl «“ nts of Tyranny. Rio Janeiro special: A Untted Press representative has learned fryman unimpeachable authority that Admiral Saldanba Do Gama, who is in command of the insurgent I'oet in tho bay of Rio Janeiro during the absence of Adm ral Do Mello, when asked what constitutional grounds the insurrection hat been started on, rbpliod: ‘‘We are not fighting on constitutional grounds.” “Then on what grounds are you fighting?” he was asked. “We are fighting against a military tyranny. I will give you an instance of this tyranny that we are fighting to I overthrow. At tho election in tho I Amazon district, one Senator and three j members of the Chamber of Deputies; were to be elected. The Peixoto Gov- I eminent took an active hand in the | election, throwing all its influence in' favor of the four military candidates, with the result that the civilian candidates were badly defeated. A colonel was elected Senator, anl th rep army captains wore chosen to fill tho seats for the district in the Chamber of Deputies,” and as Admiral Da Gama made this statement he trembled with indignation. Continuing, the Admiral said that if tho movement he is fighting in support of is successful, the question of restoring the monarchy or | of continuing the Repub.ic will be | submitted to tho electors for final de- | cision. It may bo pointed out, however, that some of the sympathizers with the insurgent cause admit that a plebiscite will be a farcical proceeding, as the monarchists, supported by the military power of Admiral Da Gama, who is an open supporter of monarchical institutions, will carry the question by force of arms when another revolution would be certain to lollow. This is also the belief of the American naval officers here who will discuss the Question of the probable outcome of the present insurrection.

OUTRAGES Perpetrated Opun the Grew of an American Schooner. The steamship G. W. Clyde from Turks Island, which arrived at New York recently brings report of an outrage inflicted on the crew of the American schooner Henry Crosby which lost her bearings and put into ’port of OldAzua, Santo Domingo. The first officer and four seamen got into the boat and pulled for the shore. When about 300 yards out a file of soldiers in the uniform of the Dominican government came running down to’the beach and leveling their carbines at the men in the small boat fired. One of the rowers threw up h s hands and fell over into the bottom of the boat. The others paused in surprise and affright when suddenly another volley was sent among them by the soldiers on shore. This time the first officer was struck, The other three turned the boat ucout and desperately pulled for the ■ schooner. The men were taken on i board, when it was found that the first I officer had received a bullet in the ' shoulder-and the feeaman was stnu k by several A bad wound in’the back made it doubtful if the man would recover. A report ot the affair has bean made to the United States Government by the Consul General at San Domingo Cjty. tIiE BRAZILIAN WAB. English Merchantmen Charge That They Are Not Protected at the Forts. Rio Janeiro ' special: It is reported here that eighty British shipmasters, representing 2,C00 men and property valued at $1,500,000. have sent to Lord Rcseberry, the British Foreign Minister, a protest against the course pursued by Capt. Wm. M Land. commander of the British cruiser Sirius, and senior officer of the British squadron now here, and Mr. G. Wyndham, the British Minister to Brazil, neither of whom, they charge, will protect them in discharging their cargoes. Tnere b> no change whatever in the situation. It is reported that ernment of Uruguay has expelled ”cn. Martens, the foreign minister of tho DeMclio provisional government, Gen. Martens is the officer who some months ago led the movement in southern Brazil that had for Us object the restoration of the monarchy, He is an enthusiastic monarch'st. It is thought here that his expulsion from Lruguay, which is undoub cdly the result of action taken by the Brazilian Government to secure that end, will for a time put an end ,to his efforts to overthrow the FeLxoto Government.

A Jersey Horror. Mrs. Elizabeth J. Petty, aged 65 years, who lived in a frame house at Ao. ill Commerce Street, Newark, N. , , •J., was found inv.rderel in the house i the other morning. She had led a solitary lie for many years, and was considered insane. When found she had been dead for some time. Her head was crushed in. and there was half a! dozen stab wounds on her face. The I house, which is full of refuse and filth' us every k nd, was in great confusion I The murder is one of the foulest that I i as been co nmitted in the city for y< ars, and there is not the slightest doubt that robbery was the object of the crime. It was a well known fact that the woman had a largo sum of money hidden'about the house, and 1 she openly talked of this fA t. A reporter so nd several bundles of green-! backs hidden away in a large package j as lamp black. The money filled a small basket. A Fatal Misunderstanding. Hatt’e lone Nolan, an attractive 18year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jcsso B. Nolan of Elkhart, Ind., committed suicide by shooting herself th) ough the heart. She had just re:eived a package of love letters from her sweetheart, L. W. Smith of Goshen, together with a letter from him breaking their en.agement. [landing her mother Smith’s letter, she stepped into another room, took ire olver from her father’s coat and shot herself through the heart. She | lied exclaiming, “’Good bye, go d , bye.” The sad affair was the result of i misunderstanding brought about, it

is alleged, by another suitor. Smith ind Alias Nolan wore to have been married in November. Cheer* Greet a VerdictThe jury in the A nn’e Wagner murder trial at Indianapolis, a ter being iut for twelve Lours, brought in a verdict. of not guilty. The court room was ’rowded. and the announ ement of the verdict was recei.ed wi.h cheer after jhee.r. During a scene of wild confusion the prisoner fainted away. Annio Wagner was charged w.th the murder »f live members of a family named

Koesters, in May last, on account of love for Koesters. A strong chain ol circumstantial evidence was woven. Through tho trial she manifested the most stoical indifference, and it was not until the verdict o.' tho jury that her feelings obtained mastery over her. A Desperate Bandit nt. I.srge. Chris Evans, the notorious bandit, escaped from jail at Fresno, Cal,, and has not been recaptured. While Mrs. Evans was talking to her husband in his cell a man Appeared with Evans’ lunch. When tho turnkey brought it to the cell both Evans und his wife confronted him with drawn revolvers and forced him to give up tho keys. As Evans was leaving the jail he met the City Marshal, whom ho shot and seriously wounded. He then held up a newkhoy, took his hor.-e and cart and started northward. Posses were quickly organized and have been sent in all directions on horseback and on special engines.

Colorado Complimcntiu An infernal machine was picked np in an alley at Loveland, CJol.. by a(-year-old noy, who took it home. It was a wooden box about four inches square, neatly wrapped and addressed to “The President, executive mansion, Washington, D. C." On the lid was written: “Compliments of a Colorado miner.” The box contained some chemical compound mixed with gun powder, and a cap so arranged that when tho lid was removed it would explode. Brother and Son Killed. A disastrous boiler explosion occurred at Abe McDonald's- siw-mill four miles northof Peru, Ind., in which Bud McDonald and George McDonald, son and brother, respectively, of tho proprietor, were killed, their bo.iies being tearfully mutilate I. The son. who was 15 yeai-s old, was blown i(XI feet. The building was wrecked and the explosion heard for miles. The boiler was second-hand, but was thought to be safe.

Train Robbers Captured. Pine Bluff (Ark.) special: A telegram received by Sheriff A. G. Thompson states that Hans Hydrick and Claude Shepherd, who escaped from jail here August 15, were recaptured at Jackson, Miss., by Defective W. A. Clay of this city. After their escape, it is alleged, they robbed a St. Louis & San Francisco tram at Mound Valley, Kas., on Sept. 3, and killed Wells, Fargo & Col’s express messenger, C. A. Chapman.

Carnegie's Help. Andrew Carnegie has written a letter from New York to Robert Pit airn, of the Citizen's Relief Committee of Pittsburgh,offering to duplicate all contributions made by the citizens of Pittsburgh for the unemployed, to the amount of $5,000 each working day for two months. If the highest possible figure is realized, the donation will amount to over $250,000. Swept by Fire. The entire upper end of Narrowsburg, N. Y., has been swept by tire. The following buildings wore burned: Guthiel's Hotel, barns and outbuilding; Uch's Hotel; Green's dry goods store; Heinle Bros.’ store; Decker s mills; Crocker’s drug store; Kahn's dwellings. The loss is large and insurance slight. - - Red Iland-thlls. Naples special: Thousands of red hand-bills were scattered from the galleries of the various theaters the other night. These bills were inscribed, “Down with Taxes,” “Long Live Sicily,” “Long Live h ocialism,” Several arrests were made, but the throwers of the hand-bills escaped.

Fifteen Lives Lost. Melbourne special: Fifteen lives were lost through tne wreck of the Steamer Alert, from Port Albert to Melbourne, which went asi ore off Jubilee Point during the terrific gale which swept over Port Phillips. Only one person on board the wrecked steamer was saved. Myers Acquitted of Wife Murder. The jury in the Myers murder case, at Greensourg. Ind., returned a verdict of not guilty. Ho was charged with killing his wife by abuse and by striking her when she "was in a delicate condition. Wants to Shine. Berlin special: It is stated that Emperor Willi un is trying to purchase the New Capo diamond, said to be the largest in the world and more valuable than the Kobjnour, weighing vil carats. Prendergast Guilty. The jury has found Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison, guilty of murder in the first degree, and recommend that the prisoner Io na n g ed; AConsul SstVASe Death A cablegram has been received from Dundee, Scotland, announcing the death of George W. Sa a e, Un.ted States Consul at Dundee, Scot.and.

Five Months of Idleness. f Orders have been received to shut ( down the Aslfland blast furnace at i Ashland, Wis., from Jai. 4, to June >. ; This throws 385 men out of work. — ■ I THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. CATTLE —Common to Pi line.... $3 SJ 0 6 00 Hook - Sbippinr Grades t W 0 6 r.o Sheep—Fair to Choice '2 26 W 3 75 Wheat—No. . Bod (■« & <0 Corn—No. 2 st 0 36 Oats—No. 2. 27)40 2xs BYE-No. 2 47 0 Buri ER—Choice Creamery 27 0 27)4 Eggs -Fresh 22 0 23 Potatoes—Per bn 60 0 to INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping ......... 300 06 25 Hogs—Choice Light 3(0 0 6 5u sheep—i ommon to Prime 2(0 0 4 no Wheat—No 2 Red 16 0 t7 CORN—No. 2 White 36 0 B<>)4 ! Oats-No. 2 White 30 0 32 BT. LOUIS. CATTLB. 3 00 0 6 00 Hogs 3 00 0 s 10 Wheat-No. 2 Red M Corn—No. 2 32 <•« 3) Oats—No. 2 27 0 27)4 Pork —Mess... 1 13 23 @l4 co CINCINNATI. Cattle... 3 00 @6 00 Hogs Z...... 300 0 6 60 SHEEP 200 @4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 6B)40 69)4 Corn—No. 2 . ».>4@ 38 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 30 <a 30)4 Bye—No 2 ®3 0 KJ DETROIT. Cattle... 3 00 0 4 75 Hous » W <H 6 7J Shi ep 2O' & 3 15 Wheat-No. 2 Red 10 41 ,'l Corn-No. 2 Yellow .. @ 39 Oats—No. 2 White 31h@ 32J4 TOLEDO. I Wheat—No. 2 Red 00 O 50*4 I Corn—'o. 3 Yellow. 30 0 37 1 <’ath-No. 2 White 29 0 2iH Bye—No. 2........ .'. to & W. I BUFFALO. Beef Cattle—Good to Prime. 2 r>o 0 r. 75 Hogs—Mixed Packers 4 00 @ 6 75 WHEAT—No. 1 Hard IDk@ No. 2 Red :.... 63 0 b 3» MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2‘■pring 68 0 69 corn—No. 3. 34 0 34'4 Oats-No. 2 White Rye—No. 1 <* @ <’•• BaRL y—No. 2 <9 0 61 PORK— ..-.v;r.... l»2ft @l2 75 NEW YORK. I Cattle . 3 00 0 6 60 I Hogs. J 3 76 iff t <*> ’ 1 sheep 225 rt 3 23 Wheat—No. 2 Rod 6® ® 47 Corn—to 2 4i «» 4i Oa Wjlie w estern 0 0 40 • I BVT ER—Cl.eiO" 25 0 23 ' >■ i<K—New Mess U 75 @l4 ‘

BEING TRIPPED UP. HOW REPUBLICAN ORGANS CONDEMN THEMSELVES. The St. Loala fllohe-IlAnoeeat vs. Itself on tho Tariff Queatldn— High Tariffs Do Not Insure High Wagea-WlUun Bill tho First Step. Turning » Sharp Corner. We have read with some surprise tho comments of tho St. Louis GlobeDemocrat upon the Wilson bill, bo-cau.-e we have had in mind that intere.ting journal’s attitude toward tho McKinley tariff. In the winter of 1889-90 and during tho following spring, while McKin ey and the manufacturers who had contributed to the Harrison campaign fund were making their tariff bill, tho Globe-Democrat was continually warning them that the Republicans of tho West wanted a reduction cf. the existing duties and would tie satisfied witu n thing oho. "The West insists," said our contemporary, “that when duties are touched they shall be lowered.” And when.it was apparent that duties were to be increased, the Glolw-Democrat berated tho ccmmitteo daily, declaring that there was not “a shadow of an excuse for a single increase" that had been proposed and predicting that the party would have cau.-o to regret bitterly the action of its representatives in Congress. Immediately after tho election of 189 ii, which marked the great popular

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revolt against McKinleyism tho Globe pointed to its repeated warnings, and asserted that “the McKinley tariff alone was sufficient to account" for what had taken place. "In the record of customs-revision on the McKinley plan." it remarked, “the last chapter has been closed and the word finis has teen written. Hereafter tariff revision will mean a reduction and not an increase of rates. We hope that President Harrison, in hie forthcoming message to Cong ess, will not neglect to remind the jar ty in central that tho fchemo of tariff revision by marking duties upward instead of downward is Slajedoit in this country.” A few ays after the election it gave its party this adv.ee:

Ii a statesman held the Speakership at this momeut. was at the head ot the W.ya and Means Com-iittee, or was in any way In a position to dictate to tue Republican party in Congress. he would bring about a thorough revision of the McKinley .aw at the nomine short sees on. Every article advanced by tiat act would be reduced to the old rates or lower, the rates which were ent would be permitted to stand, and In some cases, which will readily suggest themselves, would be cut still further, and the free list would be enlarged. » • ♦ It would place the par y again in harmony with the seutinaent ot tue people, and would close to the Democracy the avenue now open to it to strengthen itself with the country. Something closely resembling the Wilson bill was needed, it seems, in the opini.n of the Globe-Democrat, and needed at ones. Similar advice wis given at that time by the Omaha Bee, the Chicago Journal and the Chicago Tribune, the last-named paper repeatedly and sharply warning the party that if it shoul t not undo its tariff w r.< it would su -ely meet di a ter in 18 >2. Bulats everyl oly knows, this advice f i m several of t .e leading Republican journals of th > Central West was ignored. After the elec, ion of 1892 tjie G’obe-Demucrat lelieved its mind as fellows: The Kepubliccn party was beaten because it had taken a wrung position on some of ihs leading question •ot naiioual concern. It was wroui o < the Fedi ral election matter; it was empnat oil y a-id fatally wrong on the tariff. The passage of the Me <imey law ot pwu was the gieatest bunder . ver to unfitted bynny p vrty si ce the Democratic cii ■ e or secession, it ov. rwiielnnnglv detested the party in the 1 mal ek-.tion of that vesr and it was i ne leading OaUSe in overthrow this yiar. This tl.inr ca led McKaileyism-thiß advancing of duties on aitic ee which have be* n on the dutiable list hr rn>*»i a third of aoenturv to a century—has h condemned finally a d eiemully by th« i>eople. It the Riioblicran p< ny is to win ; ny v ctoriea in the future it muot drop McKi .iey fl u immediately and peruiaxu tttly and send all the men who ding to it to ihfe rear.

Str ng language, but thoroughly iff accord w th t e utterance, of this inLuential Republican journal for the two years imm diateiy pre eding. We saould reisjuab.y expeit tiiat the Globe-Dem icral would not refrain from attack ng, if partisan interests did not porn.it <t to c mmend, the p nding tariff bill, whip 1 so nearly meets 110 Gorr.ands it ha Ixeen urgi.ig upon the leaders of it - own party ia vain for tho laot th o ■ \ea s. But the G.ol e-Democrat. to our surprise and lewil le.me .t, declaiei that ihe Wils* n bill is des.ructive and vicioui thr u nout ” It complains because the bill enla-gea the free list, a.thouga it has urged its own party to do this. Tho MoKin e.v tariff increased the duty on tin p ate a-, m 1 cent to . cents a pound and altb >ugh t. e Gio* c Democrat opposed all inc.-etk-os. unff afterward cal.ed upon the ucbub.icin party to repeal ih im, it now denounces t ie Wilson bill because in thi. instinct) there has been made a icduetl n which is not solargeasour contemporary in St. Louis was calling lor so loudly two years ago. for the Wil on bill sduty on tin plate 1 ( higher than the duty in the tariff which tho MdKinley act supers ided. We are

0 pecia ly st r irised by the GlobeDemocrat san ijtyabeut the reduction of tho MeKinliy tariffs largely increased duties on farmers' products: Not asiiiul'- Hchednle which has guarded a fariu ur ab< rd ha- < gjaped. Bveiything of important* that the fanner raises hich has n.a any impost upon ir. from the woo. on tnebsca of nia p to his wheat «nd corn in the n**“. Is savagely and vindictively assaulted by the bill. Wo are surpri-cd, as we have said, bccau. 0 the GlobO Democrat has repea eoly aLd so cioly shown that the duties g n a great majO.ity of the American farmer’s productsa:e shami. Here is wnat it said soon after tne beginning of the year IBc-O, for exam 10, when -McKinley was preparing the schedules in which an attempt to “so l the fai mor’’ was made by increasing) largely the duties on wheat, curn, oats, ! rye, p„rk, beef, laid, etc.: I it is a melancholy fact tlint tbs furrier is forced to si ll his corn and wheat at I unnnuneratße i ru es— not becauso oi iubuiilcli.ni prot c Ive duties, but in spite <ot amp.s favors of that aoi t. Tho explanation of nls misfortunes n net be sought elsewhere. it Is verv certain th it we sha 1 »0t as o *”**" th tt'ie source of t ie larmei's d.strass is a want W more tariff protection. It » ouvrouj ■

that hl* prodnot* oonld not be enhanced in value by iporeuitne the doth e Mtainat foreign competition, for euoh competition doee not exist M to *nv of the thin ■ upon which he chiefly depends for hie prohta. rhe relief which he «*k* and deaerves will accordingly have to come from some other quarter. Why, then, should the Globa-Denio* crat complain bocauso the Wilson bill scales down or removes the high and inoperative ani sham duties of the McKinley tariff on “wheat and corn,” oats, rye. bacon, beef, nork, lard, tallow, etc.? How can a duty boos service to the firmer upon uny agricultural product the exports of which are valued at $30,000,0.0, 15),000,000, or even $20J,000,000 per annum? Why have the oninions of our interesting contemporary in St. Louis undergone so curious an 1 so surprising a change? Is tho Wilson bill—a revision sub.tuntially upon the line) heretofore la d down by our contemporary for the guidance of its own party — objectionable to tho GloboIlemccrat, ' "odious” and “vicious throughout,” simply because it has been framed by a Dem :cratlo committee? Wo are unwilling to accept such an explanation. Is the bill odi >u) because tho chairman of tho commit'eo has ben an editorial contributor, in support of tariff reform, to the columns of our contemporary's Democratic rival in St. Louis? Thi) would bean explanation even le s plausible.—Mow York Times. Hollow I’ottory-Wu’-o Proteatv Some of there Romiblioan protests again t the Wilson b 11 are s> hoi ow that they collapse under the weight of a few facts. For exam le, the Trout in potters are sending ward toWa.h ngtJii that the Wilson rates on pottery

will have a “grievous effect” and “nooe sarily produce disaster,” Now. w at did the McKinley rata produce in Trenton? A sharp cut in wages and a prolonged an i unsucc-’s ful sti ike a r ain<t it- T.:e Wilton bill couldn tdowo so than that. Yet it was one of the members cf the “Tro ton Potteries Company," a trutt payin' dividend) of azt per cent., that wont before the McKinley committee and pathetically said: “It is for you to say, i entlemen, whe Iler this strugg. ing industry shall be destroyed for the benefit of foreign manufacturer).” He got his increased .protecti >n, and then went home to make a cut of 22 par cent in wages—to set off. we suppose, ag inst his 22 per •Gint. dividend.—New York Poet.

Wilson Rill Only a First Step. When the Wilson bill becomes a law our tai i.f will be hooded in the di ection of revenue. Therein is Che virtue of the qilL It is supported as a beginning, not as a settlement. In order that the manufa.turers may be encouraged to abandon the weakening uncertain tie) of tar ff tinkering, too Democratic party sho-’.W no de'ay to interfere with notice of its intent! nto n m’nato a Western man in 1»W. Manufacturers ani business men would see in that the end of tinkering. Wi en the Fifty fifth Congress meets and receives a ta iff message from a Western President the business of the count y will have aljusted it elf to the idea of a tariff for revenue only, and if Mr. Wilson is still Chairman of t >e Ways and Me n Committee,he should leab e to satisfy his concopti n of a tariff lor the people a d without being held buck by a Treasury deficiency or by tu liness cor.diti m. A Western m in in the White House and at the head of a Ways a id Means Committee, William L. Wilson, who ha; become half Western by his intercourse w ith readers of the Republic, will give us in 1597-S a tar.ff ior revenue cn.y— y<u bet.—St. Louis Republic. An Inadvertent Admission* T e Tribune Buys of Secretary Carlisle that “he think) th t a man who pleases to buy fancy foreign w o ens in toad of ep ally ue ul American piodu :ts s’v uld not bo taxed for his choice.” Waiving the fact that inp rtod wo dens are by i o maans all “fancy,” the inadvertent admi sion cf the high-tariff . rgan tha the d .ty i> a tax j aid by the consumer i. w> tu noti; g. As tie duties on woo ens lust year amounted to $31,O1)J,1(X) on 353?,OuO.OOo worth of goods—or nearly 100 per <ent of their value thi angle item o McKinley oxtorti n 1 eno.zh to demand a reduction. If American pr ducts were ‘equaly u efu ," is it li cly that our sorewd shopp rs would have ) aid this enormous tax for the sal eof getting foreign goods?—New York World.

Takes No Stock in It. The United States Tobacco Journal takes no i-tock in the contention tm.t high tariffs in uro high wage . It, tays that when tue enormoui duty of $2 a pound was impcsod upon Eumat a lets tebacca in the McKinley act. the first man to suffer fr m it wai the cigarmaker. The duty paid on wrap ers was taken out of the wages of employes. The Tobacos Journal insists that the SI duty proposed in the Wilson bill wou d > till be too high, and would have to be made up largely by the 150,0,0 workmen employed in cigar factories. A tax on raw material nearly always takes the ultimate so mos a tax on labor. —Philadelphia Record.

End ths Uncertainty. The sooner the public knows what it is to get the better.—Milwaukee News. It’S a pity there can t be a speed premium for the comploti-*n of tariff.— Philadelphia Record. Congress seems to be more prompt in revising the geography than the tariff—Boston Herald. Chairman Wilson is getting all sorts <f c ntradictory advice from a I sorts of poop e. But the best advice that can bo gi en Chirman Wilson is “Push things."—Boston Globo. Congress cannot pass a ta iff bill too ► peedily for the best into est< o. the o .untry, and it cannot bo made t > take e. ejt too soon.-Indianapolis Sentinel. TiERE is a universal demand ler spi edy action on the Wilson bill, iho peep.e need prompt r.l.ef tho buruensof Miteinl yi m and the ' u ii.oss w rid fr. m she uncertainty winch is alm st ar bad ar b d legislation.— St. Louis Post Dispatch.

NEWS OF OUR STATE. A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Our Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* of General and lx»cal Interest—Marrlagw and Death* — Aeeldent* and Orlnra*Folnter* About Our Own People. Minor State Item*. Louis Ellsbuhy of Greenfield, who was stabbed by Robert Gapen a few days ago, died of tho injury. The millinery store of Mrs. D. F. Britton, at Crawforilsvil e, was burned out. Loss, $2,000, with SI,OOO insurance. While men were rotublng a gas well at Knightstown, an immenro How of oil burst out. It is said to be of the purest grade. PETER Goss, fireman on tho 11. & O. S. W. Railroad, attempted to put a tramp off his train near Mitchell, and was fatally stabbed. Andy Dow, 17, was accidentally shot in tho face by a neighbor at Madison. He will recover, but will lose his eyesight. Morris Gore, a son of Haymond Goro, at Shelbyville, had his eyes burned out by a cannon firecracker that exploded in front of his face. A very quiet wedding occurred at Fort Wayne recently. The bride was Miss Leona Todd and the groom Charles Jackson. Not a word was spoken as Che couple were deaf and dumb. . Train No. 72, a north-bound freight on the Monon, collided with an extra freighi at Murray s sWit h. three and one-half miles south of Orleans. Both engines were wrecked, together with a half do<en cars loaded with merchandise consigned to Chicago. The tru n crews escaped without in ury. The town of Ladoga had a big fire the other night. '1 ho flouring mill and elevator of A. W. Dougherty & Bro., was burned. The loss is near $25,000, with insurance of nli',olX). ,’lho house of George De’sher Was also burned, and it took hard workup save the beading factory of W. F. 'Epperson. George W. Woodruff, the Rose Township. Clinton County farmer, who went sixty-five days last winter without sleep, is again afflicted with the strange malady. It is over four weeks since he has closed his eyes or even fell the least drowsy. Morphine and other drugs have been tried by his physician, but wi hout effect. He will go to a Boston specialist, who gave him relief last year. The mails of Mayor John H. Terhune of Anderson, who issued the famous ‘“rawhide ’ instructions to the police a few days since, are being loaded with threatening le.ters from various parts of tho country. The other morning a letter was received from a crank from Mark Center, Ohio, by tho name of Wil iam ifishbaugh, who threatened the Mayor lor the “inhuman and brutal order. ’ Just the same, the ci y has fewer tramps now than at any time within the past throe months.

Ed. Smith and Frank Bradv of Ladego, went hunting, and becoming tired they climbed a fence to rest. Tho two got to joking one another, and finally Brady pushed Smith off the fence. Smit h got up ani catching hold of the gun held by Brady, gave it a ierk, trying to pull him to tne ground. ’The gun was discharged and the entire load entered the abdomen of Smith. It made a fearful looking wound and Smith died almost instantly. Hr dy ran for assistance and the body of Smith was carried home. Smith was Hi years old, and Brady was a few yqars older. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Charles W. Delaney, assignor to J. W. Drsard, Hammor.d, coin controlled apparatus; Alphonzo Hayward, Warsaw, heater for stock troughs; Robert H. Kersey, Lebanon, a iparatus lor heating and circulating hot water; Peter A. Kirchner, Fort Wayne, water alarm for steam boilers; Robert E. Porch, Spicebind, was dins'Aiaahi tie: John L. Liter, Brownsville, ' wire lon 'e; James F. black, Sugar Branch whiffletreo hook; Charles I. and E. Williamson, Union Git /, land roller; James J. Wood, Fort Wayne, elect, io trans ormer. John Rudy, a dry good clerk at Yorktown, is a raving maniac as the result of a practical oke perpetrated on him at Cammack station, by some friends. A stranger to Rudy was, in ducod to impersonate a sheriff. The stranger approached the young man and read what purported to boa wa--rant charging him w.th larceny. Rudy at once lied and did not stop until be reached home, four miles distant, whete ho arrived exhausted and became unconscious before an explanation was made. His brain gave way, and it was necessary to call in several men to control him. He imagines that a tribe of Indians are after his scalp. There is much sympathy for the young man, and it is likely that several arrests will be made as a result.

The Crawford County seat war has been finally settled, the re imsite number of petitioners asking that the county seat be removed from Leavenworth to English having been secured. The Co nty Auditor has so certified to the Governor, and under a legislative enactment of idiu it is the d ty of the Governor to name three disinterested non-resident freeho’.dors to examine the court ho: se t property at Leavenworth and a sess the damage that will accrue to the town by the removal o the building. The Governor hue designated G. D. Ridley, New Alban/, Floyd County; .John L. Kutherfcrd, Campbells urg, Washington County, anl John G. Olfut, Crothersvil'e, Jackson County, to meet on Wednes ay, v an. 10, and assess the value of damages sustained by the removal of the Leavenworth court house. Sylvan Ballard, a 4-year-old grandson of contractor Elijah Ballard of Shelbyville, was severely scalded on the back by falling in a kettle of boiling water. DRIVEN to desperation by poverty and inability to got work to support his family, Charles F. Miller, a wellrespected young man of Kokonio, attempted to pass forged cl ecks for $-0, each on the Citi ens’ N.tio al and the Howard National banks of that place. He was arrested aud adm. s the crime. He said his family was starving and he committed forgery as a last resort. Miss Martha Humbert, who was taken to raise when only 2 years old by Barney Spitzenagle of Lafayette, has fal en heir to one-half of an estate of #150.000 left by an uncle in South D< W°lliaM Granger, 0, had his head playfully butted against a brick wall of a church at Logansport, by a number o Ms playmates. The con ussion burst a blood vessel and he Is in a critical condition. ,i „ Daniel Howell, an Evansville ana Richmond Railway employe, was struck bv a Monon freight engine, near the Belt Railway c.ossing, Bedford, causing instant death. Howell was married and leaves a large family.

CONDEMNED TO DHL ■ I THE SLAYER OF CARTER HARRISON MUST HANG. — FrandergMt I* found Guilty of Murder a* Charged-Jury Alter One Hour’* D*- 4 liberation Decldm Ha I* Banu—Make* th* Sign of tho Croa*. Death the Penalty. Tho Prendergast trial ended in Chicago on Friday, and death is tho tienalty decreed against the slayer of Car-, tor H. Handle n. Tho la 4 word ofl awful accurst on wai uttered by Attorney A. 8. Tcudo at noen; an hour later the Juigo charged the jury, and sixty-two minutes after Bren .ergast’s futo was ci mmitted to twelve of hie pteie a verdict was returned, whloh.| read: “We. the jury, find the defendant, Patrick Eugene Joseph Bred lergasto guilty of murder, in the mnnuer and. and 10.-tn as charged in tho Indictment, and fix his pun s.imcnt at death.” Tho assassin did not falter nt the announcement of his do tn; ho bent hie head slightly, and. touching his forehead with the tips of tho fingers of his; right hand, then bls breast, next his loft and lastly his right shoulder—i making the “tign of tho cross”—ho • mumbled the wor.'s, “In the name of' tho Father and of the Son and of the Ho'y Gh ft." The t dal’wai begun, Dea 6 and occupied just twenty court 1

ASKASSIS PRKXDKBOAST. days. Two months a;o and a day from tho time Fatiick Eugene Prendorga t committed his crime tl e death watch was set at his oell to remain with unremitting vigilance until he is led to tho eciffold. Tuere was an impressive silence in the c< urt-room when tho verdict was brought in. Few oi those who were in tho court-room when Judge Bieilano gave his instructions to tho jury hadi left, for there was a general feeling that tho jurors would net be long in arriving at a verdict. It took the' Ji dge twenty-five m.nut s to road’ his instruction-), the jurors stand-' ing while they were being given.; The instruction < concluded with forma' of verdicts to fit every possible conclusion at which the jury ceu d arrive. These, together with all the letters and papers which had been intioduoed; in evidence, were handed to Bdliff Buste, wholed the ju y to one of thei jury rcoms adjoining the court room.l At the same time ihe piiscner was t iken back to the ail to await the de-t liberations of the twelve men who held his fate n their hai ds. Judge Bren-; tano retired to hie chaml e-s, and the lawyers and visitors at the trial, among whom were a large number of ladies,' remained in their places or gathered in group) to dis uss tho outcome. • An hour after the ury reti ed Bailiff Bus e wai informed by the jury that' they were ready to appear in court. Le immediaioly nc tilled the ,'udge and parsed cut through the covered passageway leading to tho Jail to notify the officials there to bi ing the prisoner into court. Those in the court room knew when they saw the bailiff pass to the jail that a verdict had been reached. At cnco all convert ation cea-ed. The jurors with grave fa es filed in and to k their accustomed seats. The judge took his plaoe on the bench. Tie rri oner, pale and anxious was brought in by Juil Clerk Price. “Have you agreed uprn a verdict?” inquired ti e judge. Most of the jurors bowed assent; s mo of them answered a di-: bly. ‘ Hund your verdict to tho o erk to bo read.” and Juror Sutter, who had bon ch sen foreman, handed tho. folded document tc Clerk Fitzgerald. While the clerk in measured tones read the verdict overv ear wai attentive to catch its fateful wor s.

Scarcely was tho reading concluded wheu Clerk Price and 1 aiijff Bus e, who stood on eitln r side of the prison-, er, stirted with him tewaid tho ail. They had nearly reached the exit f om thecou t ro m when the Judge called them back that the prisoner might be pre.-ent when the ju>y was pci el. To cash juror the clerk put tho que tion: “Was this and is this now your verdict?” and each, as his name was called, rose and an ,we ed, “It was and is.” When the last an wer was given the prisor er, supported by the two officials,. was taken back to jail. “You, gentlemen of the jury, a e discharged from fu ther dut/,” said tho Judge. Mr. Wade made the usual mot on for a •new tr al, which tho Cut direitod to be entered, and the Prendergast trial was at an end. TJ FIGHT A THSTLE PLAGUE. A Bill In: reduced In Congress Appropriating »i.oo».oOn. j A r biU has been introduced in Congress for tho appr priation of SI,(MM),tOO to be ex; end d in the extirpation of the Russian thistle, which is descr bod as “ the most pe nicious member of tho vegetable kingdim.” The 1 ussian thhtewas carried to North Dakota by some Mrsoovile immigrants In the said of grain < and plants which they imported. It has spreid over both Dakotas, in Neb taka, lowa, Minn-'scti and Northern W sconein. Wl onever a btisk autumn wind blows from the northwest or west its seed is wafted across va t belts of territory on the dewny growt i which it produces. It scatters everywhere, and is a universal nui ance and pest The descriptions of the p’aut are almst eensatknal. From the main stalks new offshoots p o eot ii all directions. and from these off hoots, as they ripen, further stem# extend, like the'cactus gr wths, until a ilngls thisI tie is as biga<a sed cabin. It is a I more destructive pest of agriculture than all other plants and all insects oomb'nel. It covers the ground, > haling the young crops and absorbing, , with superior suctional force, the I mol ture and all the sources of nutriI tion in the soil. Men and animals are com"e'lcd to wear si eetlron bootlegs in pas.ing through the thi?tie field in order to protect themselveSTio n Us 1 pricks, which are not only | aiuful but as poisonous as the sting of awa p. In I Siberia the thistle has driven faim *ra 1 entirely away from many bu- drel : squve miei of fertile territ ry, i * eh ked up the i-rig. ting canas aud • has made the highways impassable tor 1 man or beast.