Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1895 — Page 8

B li NKTIMTIONS frill I »k Into a Bit of Queer Practice IWaling Io the Fee and Salary Law, PRIZEFIGHTING BILL PASSED tonnto Dliwurxo* the Superintendent Johnson Investigation and !****>• the Greenback Tnxiuton Bill-A Number of Bills Passed to Second and Third ReadingsGeneral State New*. Indianapolis, Feb. 19.—The house yesterday determined to investigate the bit of queer practice by which the fee and salary law of 1801 wrs made invalid. It also passed two bills, one to prevent prizefighting and one to require teaching the effects of alcohol aud tobacco in the public schools. The senate spent some time in discussing investigation of Superintendent Johnson, passed unanimously the Remy greenback tax bill, which now goes to the governor, ap'd sent to engrossment a bill changing the time of electing county superintendents after considerable argument. The house began yesterday morning •with reports from the committee on judiciary, all of which were accepted until they came to Mr. Stotsehberg’s bill to prevent the naming of preferred creditors by insolvent debtors. A ma-. jority report killing the bill was adopted. The joint resolution offered , by Mr. Robinson for a constitutional I amendment requiring that before a man of foreign birth can vote he must have been a resident of the United States five years, was adopted by a vote of 67 to 11. Mr. Cardwill’s joint resolution for a constitutional amendment providing that voting may be done by machinery was passed by a vote of 71 to 5. Mr. Van Arsdal introduced a resolution, which was adopted without opposition, providing for an investigation of the facts in regard to the fraudulent change made in the fee and salary act of 1891, by which the salaries relating to Shelby county were left out and the act there- , by invalidated. A special commmittee with Mr. Barber at its head was appointed to conduct the investigation. A'lvrnoou Sw»»iou. At the afrernooti session the house ' adopted My. Stakebake’s joint resolution for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the legislature from passing special laws reimbursing officers who have lost public money. The soldiers’ home bill, which has already passed the senile, came up on second reading. A number of amendments were offered, but action was postponed until today. Mr. Harris’ bill providing that the effects of alcohol, tobacco and other narcotics shall be taught in the public schools was taken up and passed without, opposition. Mr. Vonnegut’s bill to prevent the officers er employes of railroads from accepting donations of stock in enterpns- sThat may be located along the line rare up on third reading ami was defeated. ' Fiiz<Usht Defined. Mr. Dinwiddle's prizefight bill was taken up and passed wghout opposition. It delineka prizefight and requires the presence of 30 or more spectators to make it a fight. It provides from one to two years’ imprisonment for both principals and accessories before and after the fight. Senator Duncan’s bill to provide a direct tax for the educational institutions was considered briefly and consideration postponed Senator Ellison’s pure food bill was taken up on second rt ading and was finally engrossed with very little change. Message From the Governor. At the opening of the afternoon session the governor sent rhe. following message: Grave charges have been made reflecting upon the superintendent and the management of the School for. Feebleminded Youth, located at Fort Wayne. The charges have not come in the manner as such should—not supported by affidavit—and drawn from employes and subordinates of the institution, as I have been informed, under assurance from the chairman of the legislative committee visiting the school, that their statements should not be made public, a method of securing mformataiii that cannot lx- generally commended, affording, as it does, the means of dissatisfied employes to assail the character of superior officers without proper safeguards. , ■ • _ The public has a right to expect and demand a full, just aud impartial investigation. The superintendent whose reputation is at stake is surely entitled to one. Such an investigation cannot fdr obvious reasons be had ip a thorough and complete manner except at the- institution itself.’ Persons as witnesses necessary to secure this end cannot be brought from the school to this city without serious injury to the conduct of the school. Therefore I ask that the senate may order this investigation to be held at the institution and be conducted by 'a committee, who may be controlled by no other motive than to arrive at the facts in the Case, alike honorable and fair to the institution, its maffagement aud the public. If the senate committee cannot spare the time necessary there, I would insist that state board nf charities be authorized to make this-in-vestigation without delay and report the same to the general assembly. Firebrand Among Shaving*. This was like throwing a burning ~’ brand among shavings. Senator Ellison at once introduced a resolution asking that thq investigation be made by the board of charity. Senator Boyd moved to table the resolution, and he and Ellison engaged la- the warmest sort of a personal wrangle on the floor. The discussion became general for half an hour. It was finally voted down, aud Senator Parker offered ~ a resolution to have the . . investigation made by a subcommittee at Fort Wayne. This was also voted down and Senator Boyd announced that the investigation would begin next Thursday. Final Passage of the Greenback Tax Bill. Mr. Remy’s greenback tax billwfia taken up and passed the scnatewithoul opposition. The bill hasalready passed the house and now goes to the governor.

Three or four bills were sent to ougrossment, among them a measure changing the time of electing county , superintendents until after the new trustees take office. Meeting of Republican Canons. The Republican joint caucus last night resulted in an emphatic victory for those who believe the party should assume responsibility for the control of the state institutions. An effort was made to reconsider the action of last Wednesday night, but a motion to that effect was defeated by a vote of 42 to 18. The canciM decided upon a salary bill, cutting all fees from the state as well as county offices. It was decided to take the appointment of metropolitan police commissioners from the gov- | ernor and vest it in the mayors of the cities where such systems exist. BADLY FROZEN. <t)no Man Dead nnd Another In a Critl- ( cnl Condition. Huntington, Ind., Feb. 19.—Charles Richard is dead from the effects of exposure during the extreme cold weather. I Some 10 days ago Richard and Jacob Frienstein drove in a sleigh to the home of a friend a few miles from the city, j where they imbibed too freely, and did not succeed in getting home. They were found lying in the snow in an unconscious condition, with their limbs and faces frozen solid. Two days after the exposure both men were thought to be in a fairway of recovery. They had regained consciousness and talked freely. Last Friday Richard suddenly relaxed itito a comatose condition, and death ■ soon followed. He was a cigarmaker and a man of family. Freinstein is still I in a critical condition. The lingers of i . hands have been amputated close to the ; knuckle joints. The chances of his recovery are very poor. Throat Cutting Affray. Rockport, Ind., Feb. 19 —A fight between Jack Spradlin and Bob Daugh- I erty, both young men, at Oak Grove church, southwest of here, resulted in Daugherty’s throat being cut almost from ear to ear, and he will probably ; die. The quarrel began over an old j grudge during church services, going ' out to settle it. Pug Dog Cuu«ea Trouble. New Albany, Ind., Feb. 19. —Peter . Bowman assaulted his wife because she j ' would not allow him to kiss her, she I having previously accorded that priv- | ilege to her pug dog. The father was j then set upon by two sons with clubs, I who fractured his skull. The boys were arrested and placed in jail to await the , result of his injuries, winch are serious. Grieved to Death. i Shelbyville, Ind., Feb. 19.—Charles LaFollette, arrested here at the instance 1 of his grandfather, William Spencer, on a charge of stealing S3O from his grand- I parent, died in jail, having grieved him- I self to death. He was from Greenfield. ' where his body will be taken for inter- ; ment. Sentenced For Fourteen Years. 1 Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 19.—The Slau- ' terback brothers, who shot John Nib- : lack at Wheatland, have pleaded guilty ' to the change and have been sentenced ; to 14 years in the penitentiary. They were taken to prison immediately to avoid the possibility of lynching. HOOSIER PARAGRAPHS. ■r . — . ■ ’ lAporte has a case of smallpox, the vic- ' tim being a 4-year-old boy. . Samuel Brooks, colored, aged 51, dropped dead during church services at Indianapo- j lis. New Albany and Jeffeorsonville have ‘ started in on a stringent enforcement of | the liquor laws. John 'H. Lackey's combination horse sales will lie held at Cambridge City March 12. There are 450 entries. Eugene V. Debs, who is at Terre Haute, expresses the opinion that he will never again be brought to trial. Elder M. M. Van Clcve of Crawfordsville, aged 84. during his lifetime has olfi- | elated at nearly 900 weddings. George Gilbert, employed in a box factory at Decatur, accidentally fell into a vat. of boiling water and was scalded to j death. A deaf mute victimized a number of Valparaiso merchants by paying for goods with checks and getting the difference in > cash. About SIOO was secured. James M. Geer, aged 79, near Bourbon, ’ was attacked by an enraged bull and dan- ! gerously injured. During the encounter Mr. Geer gouged the bull’s eyes out with a pocket knife. The bull was shot. Winnie Smith of Indianapolis, convicted of manslaughter in the killing of W. B. Thomas of Anderson, has been denied a new trial and has been sentenced to 18 , years in the prison north and disfranchised j for a like period. He will be taken to I Michigan City in a day or two. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Prevailing Price* For Grain and Cattle , on Feb. 18. Indiauapolla. I Wheat— sl @52Xc. Corn — 0at5— 30(333 Cattle— Receipts light; shipments light. Market steady. ; Goodtochoiceshippingand export steers, [email protected]; medium to gqod shipping : steers. 83.756'4 50; common to fair steers, '•fe.7s@3.(Jo; choice feeding steers, 83/0(3 3.85;.’g00d to choice heifers. 83.25(33.75; i fair to medhinr heifers, 4’2. J 7’si®3.Q!>; coinI mon light he.ifers, $2.25(32.50; good to . choice cows. [email protected]; fair to medium ! cows, [email protected]. Hogs— Receipts 500 head; shipments fair. Market steady. Good tb choice medium and heavy. 84.10 @4 35: mixed and heavy packing, 83.95@ 4,20; good to choice, lightweights, $4.00&4_ ■ 4.05; • common lightweights, 83.85@4 00; ; pigs, $3;[email protected]; roughs, [email protected]. i SHEjpP—Receipts 100 head; shipments ■ light Market quiet and easier. L I Choice to extra lambs, 84.50@i00; com- ■ I mon to good lambs, $2.50(34.50; prime exl port sheep, $4.00(34.50; good to choice sheep, |8.25@8;76: fair to medium sheep, $2.50(3 3.00; common sheep, $1.50(32.25; bucks, per ■ head, $2.n0@5J50. . j Chicago Grain and Provisions. 3 Wheat— May opened 52kc;'closed 52%i July opened 53c, closed 53%c. i May opepea closed 44% c. * closed 44%-%c. . _ t 6 May opened 28%c, closed 29c. 27J<p, closed 27 %c. ' May opened $10.07, closed 810.30. > I J ®Kwl a y opened 86.50; closed 86 55. * opened 85.27, closed 85.35. t Cl« B-f cash markets: Wheat 50%-%c, 1 cornwSjp, oats 28c, pork 810.10, lard * 16.40.Wri5.17.

ML MIOSASTHI. Gas Explosion Which Will Result In the Death of 11 Mon. FIVE MET INSTANT DEATH. Others Are More or Less Burned But Will Probably Recover—Terrible Crime of Christopher Spearlln* — Cut* His Wife’s Throat With a Rssor After a Quarrel—Other Crimes and Casualties. Ashland, Pa., Feb. 18.—An explosion of gas, which will probably result in the death of at least 11 miners, occurred yesterday afternoon in the West Bear ridge mine at Mahony Plane. Five men have been taken out dead and six so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of. The dead are: Pktkr Kline, aged 40, of Ashland, leaves a wife and six children. Joseph Pitts, aged 20, of Girardville, Unmarried. Thomas DVRKIN, aged 35, of Girardville, leaving a widow. Bernard Reed, aged 40, Mahony Plane, widow and five children. Peter Geeenback, aged 40, St. Clair, widow and spur children. The seriously injured are: William Minnich and William Goff of .Aslil—At i" ’ ’ -■■■. i' 1 — * Anthony Myer and Edward Davis of Girardville. John Laney and William Davis of Mahony Plane. Besides these several other miners were badly burned, but it is hopfid that they will recover. A gang of men were engaged in driving an air course when they broke through into a breast containing a large volume of gas. This was immediately ignited by their lamps and an explosion followed. The timbers in the air course caught fire and all means of escape were cut off. Some of the dead men were burned almost beyond recognition. The mine is still on fire and an effort is being made to extinguish the flames by means of a hose | to a water main. MURDERED HIS WIFE. Awful Crl me of an Engineer—The Culmiuiatiou of Many Quarrel*. Hoboken. N. J., Feb. 19.—Christopher j Spearling, an engineer employed by Councilman Harry Snyder, murdered his wife at their home yesterday. The j tragedy was the outcome of a series of quarrels which had taken place between Spearling and his wife. After spending the most of the night drinking, Spearling returned to his residence early in the morning. After a protracted wrangle, the husband seized a razor and drew the keen blade across the woman’s throat, almost severing the head from the body. There was no cry from the murdered woman and Spearling walked from the house unmolested. Some time afterward Spearling’s aged mother discovered the body lying face downward on a rug in her bedchamber. The floor was saturated with blood and there were marks of bloody fingers on ■ the sheets where the murderer had cooly wiped his hands after committing the deed. The police at once took charge of the body and began a search for the . missing man. The excitement reached a thrilling point when Charles Stang, husband of the murdered woman’s sis- * ter, rushed, into the house branishing a heavy revolver and demanded to be shown Spear that he might kill him I He was disarmed and ulaced under arrest. The murderer was still at large at a late hour this morning. SHOT HIS FATHER. Philip DaWMon, In a Fit of Anger, Makes a Fatal Attack. Birmingham, Feb. 19.—Philip Daw- ! son, a young drayman, shot and fatally woufided his father, Alfred Dawson, i last night. The elder Dawson was reprimanding his daughter and was about to enforce the reprimand with a broomstick when the younger Dawson, who had been protesting all along, became so enraged at his father’s brutal intention, j ihat he drew a pistol and shot twice, j ; one shot taking effect in the atdomen [ and another in the head. The elder Dawson will die. The son fled. Shot at a Dance. Henderson, Ky.. Feb. 19.—A. negro ; frolic held near Dalton, Hopkins county, was attended by some 20 or 30 men'and i women. During the dance a rumpus was precipitated between to men regarding a dusky belle, which developed into a general melee, when the lights were extinguished and several pistol shots rang out. After a cessation of hostili- ■ ties it was found that Jake Rudd wils I shot fatally in the head and Lem Jones ! had his nose and one ear bitten off, while several of the women were more or less injured. A*va««inated by a Negro. Van Buren, Ark., Feb. 19. —R. L. Hawkins, a prominent citizen here, was assassinated at Mulberry, a small station on the Missouri Pacific road east of here, by a negro named Turner. Hawkins had ejected the negro from the | station for using boisterous language and,was threatened with revenge. Haw- [ kins was shot in the breast vyith a load I of small shot while he was on his way [ to church, and so close was the assassin that the shot was fatal. A lynching-iff i probable. *Motlier and Proven. Aberdeen, 8. D. f Feb. 19.—Reports have been received here of a severe blizzard in,the hills east of here. Mrs. Nehripg find four children living near Webster, attempted to go to a neighbor’s house during the storm, but became bewildered and when jfoutfd they were against a wire fenger'xhe mother and two children jwefe dead and the other two badly frozen. Caught In a Bolt. Gloster, Miss., Feb. 19■ —At M6EI- - mill, near this place, William Swearingen, white, and Walter Gardner, colored, shifting a belt, were caught and instantly killed. ■ ’*

TRICKS WITH CARDS. A REMARKABLE EXHIBITION 3Y A NONPROFESSIONAL. A Wealthy Cincinnati Bn*lne*« Man Entertained the Hamilton Whist Club of Philadelphia With Tricks Which Have Mystified Kellar and Herrmann. W hat was regarded by experts as the most marvelous exhibition of card magic ever seen at Philadelphia was given at the Hamilton Whist club by Thomas B Arnold of CineinnatU^A formal reception was given club to Mr. Arnold, wh<* in return for the hospitality tenderyo Dim, entertained his hosts with a,scries of most remarkable card tricks Tffr Arnold is a well known Cincinnati business man, being a member of the wholesale choo firm of Alter, Julian & Co. Ho is not a professional magician, but his tricks have mystified such men twined in magic as Kellar and HerrIjaanJn. He has refused fabulous sums which havo been offered him to go before Jhe public as a professional, preferring a quiet, domestic life td any notoriety he might gain as a magician. - Mr. Arnold opened the eyes of his witnesses by what he calls a very simple trick. Two new packs of cards belonging to the club wore produced. He had never seen them before. Shuffling one deck, he hold it out to one of the gentlemen present, saying: “Select a card from this pack and then return it, keeping the cayd in your mind. I will turn my back to you as you make your selection. Due ot the oilier gentlemen will take tho second pack and throw it on the floor. The only cajd that will fall face upward will be the card selected by you. 1 will nqt touch either one of tho decks. ” The card was selected, and the gentleman threw the second pack on the floor, the nine of diamonds being tho only card that fell face upward. “That, ” exclaimed Mr. Arnold, “is the card you selected.” A cheer greeted the announcement that that was correct. “Now, here is a good one, ” said the entertainer. Pointing to Charles Yarnall, ho continued: “Will you kindly select a card in your mind? Do not mention its name. ” When the selection was made, he picked up a pack, shuffled it carelessly, and walking over to the wall threw the cards at a picture. They fell in a shower to the floor. “Turn the back of the picture outward, ” said Mr. Arnold. When this was done, a card was seen sticking in a crack in the back of the frame. It was the jack of spades. » “That, sir, is .the card you had in mind. ” - Mr. Yarnall acknowledged that it was, and the crowd wfis convulsed. Again, a matter of the company was asked to tafib a card in his mind. Four others were asked to take cards at random from the pack and remember thc numerical value of the card. The spectator who drew the first hard was told to write the number on a sheet of paper. The second man-wrote the number ol his cajKt in a separate corner. The thirc man placed his number under the seo ond one and added the two together, as fixing the result to the first nuniber. Thf fourth man affixed the number of hii card to the other two numbers. The te suit was 874. “Now,” said Mr. Arnold, “will tw< gentlemen accompany me to the library, each of them holding one of my hnnda A third can come along to see fair play. ” They returned bringing a book. * ‘Tun to page 874, ” ordered the entertained The book was opened at the page indi •7-s- ’ . .

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cated, and a card was found. It was the leuce'of spades. “That is your card," said Mr. Arnold to the gentleman he bad asked to make a selection. The statement was correct. Tho most remarkable trick of all was the last. Captain Walton, president of the American Whist Players’ league, was asked to draw a card from the pack, replacing it and keeping the card in his mind. Mr. Arnold took an egg, selecting one at random from a half dozen, and broke it into a tumbler. He showed first that neither the shell nor the inner skin of the egg had been broken* No card was concealed up bis sleeve or anywhere about his person. When the egg was broken,' a card was seen in the tumbler, crumpled up and covered with tho yolk of tbo egg. Drawing it odt, Mr Arnold asked,-. “What card did you draw, Captain Walton?” “Tho‘ qutien of clubs.-’’ “There it is. ” The pack was searched and that particular card found missing. Although an expert on cards, Mr. Ar nold never played -a game tor a stake in his life. “1 could make a fortune as a gambler, ” said he, “for I can deal a man any hand I choose, but I wouldn’t dare to play out in our western country, for I would bo shot surras fate. 1 don’t know what it is that enables me to do these tricks. I studied them all out myself, but 1 can’t explain how or why 1 do them. ” —Philadelphia Times. Lincoln on Equality. In a speech at Chicago in 1858 Lincoln said: “My friend has said that 1 am a poor hand to quote Scripture. I will try it again, however. It is said in one of the admonitions of our Lord, ‘As your Father in heaven is perfect, bo ye also perfect.’ The Saviour, I suppose, did not expect affy human creature could bh perfect as the Father in heaven, but he raid, ‘As your Father in heaven is perfect, be yo also perfect. ’ He set that up as a standard, and he who did most in reaching that standard attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal let it be as bearly t /eached as we can. If wo cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. " —Stoddard’s Table Talk. LINCOLN’S GETTYSBURG SPEECH. Sublime and Immortal, Though Matthew Arnold Had JNever Heard, of It* I stood close by and heard that speech delivered. It came upon us after the ponderous and elaborate rhetoric of Edward Eyelett like a blaze of real fire i after a matchless picture of fire. It i sprang, like the strophes of old, out of a chastened heart almost broken with ■ the weight of conquest, but still dauntless in its Amqricfin faith, and the man ' who spoku the words was, for the mo- ' urnntrlransfigured for us, aud his furrowed face and gaunt form took on ’ the light that never was on land or sea, so that he became the archetype of 1 the people themselves, uttering better than he knew the great prayer of that ’ finer and better humanity that our fa 1 thers and we believed was to come with ' liberty and equality out of storm and ’ stress nnd an unshaken confidence in 5 man. * But I don’t think any of us then ’ knew how masterful is the speech of the human heart when it comes through ’ the furnace to these great occasions and ■ plants its sad sincerity by the side of ; mere scholar-,hip t&d the grooved thunder of rhetoric. ■ 1 We had to live on for a quater of a century and see that brief speech burn- * ins with unquenchable flame in our ■ ' . I l '

sciioolbooks and standing out with modest majesty on our page of recorded history to comprehend how God can touch with a living coal the lips of a rail splitter just as be touched the lips of a tentmaker of Tarsus and lifted the untutored heart of the shoemaker, Bunyan, into communion with the immortals. Turn it every way you can, the Gettysburg speech stands Unique as a brief literary and patriotic composition. It is the noblest condensation into the fittest words of ail the emotions, aspirations w and sentiments that millions of mute people wanted at thatjnoment to utter. So inwrought is that speech with the heart of the occasion, and so majestically does it sweep over into the timp to come, that I shouldthink all men everywhere would discern its intrinsic quality. BuMbftt is not the case. I remember talking with Matthew Arnold when bo was in this country about Abraham Lincoln—you will remember that ho said of Lincoln that be had no "distinction”—and I called his attention to the Gettysburg speech. I shall never forget the imperturbable < Saturday Review stare with which ho asked, "Ah, what is the Gettysburg speech?” He baa never nearn or it. 1 treneve when ho went back he asked Professor Bryce what it was about, and when it was hunted up in an American schoolbook and shown to him he read it hastily and put it away with commiserating . 4 reticence. Suppose you ask M. .Bourget, who is looking into the American heart by the way of the American bodice and on space rates, if ho has read the Gettysburg speech. 1 happen to know of my own knowledge that Robert Louis Stevenson had not heard of it when he was exploring our continent, and Sir Lepel Griffin and Rudyard Kipjing had •* an idea that it was a newspaper fake. z , - The current number of The Saturday Review lies open before me, and this is what my eye falls on: "The common American delusion that there have been a number of great American poets, that there is indeed such a thing as American literature, disports itself with unusual pomposity. ” It is impossible for these literary prigs of a special cult to understand that there may’ be stimulant conditions of national life that wake into tumultuous activity all the higher and better functions of the soul prior to the chartered formulation of them into an <<» art, and that it is in these periods of | awakening and ndt in the after repose of an elaborate sestheticism- the most precious heartbeats of .the race have made themselves heard and felt; sometimes in half articulate tones, but of toner in organ blasts which have set the u key of liberty and fixed the vocabulary of hope and victory. i Before eloquence or poetry was an art it was a burning soul and fetched its style from the agonies and mysteries of an Untutored nature. Let us by all means confer distinction on a deathless utterance by molding it in bronze. If we add metal enough < and surround it with the arabesque of i Oxford, future Matthew Arnolds may j join the pilgrims and throw the English * tribute of a well turned phrase upon the tablet, which, after all, is but a weak hieroglyph of the record in 70,000,000 hearts.—Andrew C. Wheeler in Now York Sun. Philadelphia Foreeieht. 4 The Philadelphia Record tells of a careful citizen who refuses to walk in the middle of the street when the side-i---walks are slippery, because if he should slip down and sustain an injury on ttju sidewalk he could recover damages from • the city, while he could not if he was walking in the middle of the street '*• ' '