Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1895 — Page 8

fIIEIIT MS MWD. Belief ihat a Conclusion Has Been Reached In the Income Tax Case. t * J* OPINIONS 4 WILL BE BRIEF. Jiuitieo Harlnn Will Prepare the Opinion for the Majority — Only Undecided Point* Are to Be Baled Upon—lmported Contract Cigarinakore Deported. Large Number of Emigrants Arriving. Washington, May 14.—1 t is learned definitely that a conclusion was reached in the income tax case at Saturday’s consultation of the supreme court, and that it is confidently expected to have the opinion in the case ready for announcement next Monday. No authoritative statement as to which way the decision will be can be secured of course, but all that can be learned goes to corroborate the report of Saturday that the indications favored the upholding of the law on the points that remain. a A member of the court is responsible for the statement that then' will probably be two opinions, anil while he did not go to the extent of indicating on which side the majority of opinion would be, he said that a member of the majority would write the opinion on that side which would be the opinion of the court, while some member of the minority would express .the opinion on the other side, and there would p.obably be no independent individual opinions as below. x ■Opinions Will Be Brieft The present intention is to make the opinions comparatively brief. They will cover only the questions left undecided in the first decision as to whether the void provisions cover the whole act, whether the act as aflects incomes from personal property as such are unconstitutional because it provides for direct taxation of them, and whether- the tax ’ is invalid on account of want of uniformity. The understanding now is, that Justice Harlan will prepare the majority opinion sustaining the law. The court at the same time will render opinions in a large number of other cases which have been argued. Adjournment for the summer will not be reached, however, until the following Monday, the 27th inst. Senator Voorhees expressed the opinion yesterday that the law as it stands ' without taxing rents and public bonds | would, when it is in complete operation, bring in a revenue of $20,000,000. Contract Cigrarmaker* Deported. Washington, May 14.—Information has reached the immigration bureau of f a decision by the Fifth circuit court of I appeals for the Southern district of Louisiana in th? cases of 46 cigarmakers i alleged to have been brought to Key ’ W est a bout a year and a half ago under i contract. Tile eour-t in 40 of the cases 1 has decided in favor of the government j and Commissioner General Stump has • ordered them dooorted. _• l Emigrants Swarming 111. Washington. May 14.— Commissioner General Stump of the immigration . bureau yesterday received a telegram from Dr. Senner, the commissioner at ' New York, stating that 4,000 emigrants arrived at New’ York Saturday; 2,000 ar- i rived yesterday -and 15.000 were ex- i pected to arrive during the remaining | days of this week. These heavy ar- ; rivals are almost unprecedented during the last several years. t Chief Clerk Thomas liesii*ns. Washington, May 14. —Frank H. i Thomas, chief filers: of the postoliice department' hds resigned. Two years ago he was appointed chief clerk by Post- , master ’General Bissel and his retirement is entirely, voluntarily and against the earnest protest of Postmaster Gen- . era! Wilson. PostotHce Curs on Trolley Lines. Washington, May 14.—Second As- : sistant Postmaster General Neilson left here last night for a short trip* to New Orleans to consider tlie advisability of putting postoffice cars On the New Orleans trolley lines. REIGN OF TERROR CREATED.J. . —— Jack Smith, Famous’Leader of the Bull Kill M juvrs,- Shot by a Marshal. Cripple Creek, Colo., May 14.—Jack Smith, the famous leader of the Bull Hill miners, was shot and killed by Mar- ' shal Jack Kelly of Altman yesterday I afternoon. The marshal also allot : George Popst, a miner who was with . Smith. The shooting created a reign of torfbr j Oin the great gold camp. -T1 aSJminers | threaten to avenge the death of then- i late war captain and ail saloons have i been closed in Victor and Altman. Mar- j tial law has practically been declared. j Acts of violence are expected at any j moment. Sunday night Jack Smith shot out 11 ■ of the lights in Dan Foley’s saloon in ! Vietor. . Yesterday morning he was ar- I rested and placed under bonds. As ' soon as he was released he went to Altman and proceeded to terrorize the inhabitants. Marshal Kelly ordered him out of town. Smith began tiring and Popst stoodMy him. The mhrshitl shot both men, Escaping injury himself.. During the Cripple Creek strike of last spring Smith was the leader of the warlike element among the miners. He ' was 'fc'.resmd at Grand Junction two ' months ago and was under bond. Smith’s friends swear that they will avenge his death. The wildest excitement prevails. Every to be found is being confiscated by tlie civil authorities. tfhrew a Bomb Into a Saloon. St. Louis, May 44.—The third at <4 tempt to destroy life and property ip connection with the strike at the Tudor iron works was made yesterday at Sixth street and Trenley avenue, East St. Louis, when miscreants hurled a dynamite bomb at the premises of Henry Viets, a German who conducts a saloon bjiardinchouse in w'uch are cmar*

tered 31 of the nonunion employes. Nobody was killed <»r injured, but the building was badly damaged. Tho strikers .deny any knowledge of the affair. likllaua Fire on Miner*, ' Denver, May 14.—A report was ro1 ceived at the United States military headquarters in this city yesterday that 12 Indians from Mexico had' fired on miners near Fort Bowie, A. T. Troops were ordered from Fort Bayard to run the Indians down and capture them. The report of the work of these renegades came from Fort Grant. It did not say whether any of the miners were killed. Killed With a Billiard Ball. Rome, Ga., May 14.—Frank Cathoy and George Daniels, negroes, became volved in a quarrel at Robinson’s bar last evening over a game of billiards. Daniels suddenly threw a billiard ball at Cathey, striking him over the heart and killing him instantly. REBELS ARE DEFEATED. Campaign In Cuba Going Against the Ins urgent. 4. I Havana, May 14.—The Spanish troops J have defeated the band of rebels in San Lorenzo,, led by Pedro Munez, and at Mosianes troops captured a number of horses, arms, ammunition, etc., belonging to the reliefs. There has been severe fighting with the band led by General Miro in Camaguan. At Holquin one officer was jvounded in an engage- ; ment with the rebels. There has been fighting between the : Spanish troops and the rebels near BarI acca, but no details of. the engagement have been received here. The troops at Palma de Soriano killed Pablo Buega, one of the rebel chiefs. Cuban Revolution About Over, Philadelphia, May 14.—The Spanish government has notified the Cramps, 1 shipbuilders, that the gunboat contracted i for to be used on the River Canto, in Cuba, will hot be needed, as the Cuban i rebellion is practically at an end. This ; is due to reports made by General Campos, comuiftnder-in-chief of tho Spanish forces in Cuba, that no further sk.pS or ; materials of war need be sent hiyi. In Favor of Insurgents. Tampa, Fla., Mayl4.— The latest re- I ports from Spanish papers relate to a fiery engagement at Arroyo Hondo, in the province of Santiago, on the 10th inst. Tho Spanish force was'3oo; Cubans 1,200. Several Spanish officers 1 were killed. Members of the best San- I tiago families are said to be joining the insurgents. SOUNDS A WARNING. Colorado Newspaper Opinion On the Sil- j I ver Question and Political Parties. Denver, May 14. —Following upon the ".lecture of ex-Congressman Bland in this city, the following editorial published in the Denver Times (Rep.) last night t attracted considerable attention: I Senator Henry M. Teller sounded the keynote for the next national campaign in < Colorado in his short speech at the Bland j J silver meeting last. Saturday-night: It is | not so much a special war cry to Repub1 licans, however, as a general warning to ‘ members of all parties to rally round the one flag.under which there is hope for the return of national prosperity. When Sen- ■ ator Teller announced that he had cast his ’ last vote for any presidential candidate . who was opposed to free si[ver, of lukewarm in its interests, lie did it with the knowledge that the Republican party of Colorado stood as one man at his back. It ' is free coinage or disruption for the national Republican party in 1898, Which will ' you choose? 2 “Coin” Will Meet a Gold Bug. j Chicago, May 14.—“ Coin,” otherwise ■ known as W. H. Harvey, is to have his wish. The Illinois club is arranging to ' bring him and a gold’standard man together within short arm distance. Pro- ’ ; fessor J. L. Laughlin of.Chicago univer- | sity, was the heavyweight among the I gold men- picked out to meet "Cpin” in ’ the currency ring and he gave his eonsent~yesti rday. The contest will take place in the rooms of the Illinois club. ; The time has not been definitely fixed I as yet, but will probably be next Monday evening. Laks? Schooner Wrecked. Milwaukee, May 14.—The schooner Quickstep, which left Milwaukee light for Manistee Monday afternoon, tried to make the harbor at Sheboygan yesterday afternoon but failed. An unsnei cessful effort was. made to anchor the i boat- r Tli&dife saving crew after making two unsuccessful attempts to reach the Quickstep, finally managed to save ! all of its crew. The Quickstep is believed to be a total wreck and is not covered by insurance. Select Woman to Preside. Columbus, 0., May 14.—Mrs. Henri- ; etta G. Moore has been selected as temi porary chairman of the Prohibition state ; convention which will be held at Spring-, j field June 11 to 13. Mrs. Moore is a Universalist preacher residing at Spring- ■ field and well known throughout Ohio I and adjoining states. She is the first I woman ever selected to preside at a , ! state political convention. ; This Was a Surprise. Wilmington, Del., May 14.—OnehunI dred men in the Delaware iron works i I were taken by surprise yesterday when ' ! they found 10 per cent increase in wages, J in their envelopes. They were informed that the improvement in the iron trade made the increase in wages possible. De fa til ting Bookkeeper Sentenced. New York, May 14.—Samuel F. Ay- I mar, the defaulting bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather bank, has : been sentenced to six years and six I months in state’s prison by Justice Benedict in the United States circuit court. Succumbed to A. P. A. Influence. Omaha, May 14.—Fire Chief Joha Chiley, who took charge of the fin department the first of the year, has resigned. The efforts of the A. P. A. to control was the. cause. He has made an excellent officer. Stand Out For Sixty .Cent*. _ Massillon, 0., May 14.—The miners’ district convention has decided to stay out until the 60-cent rate should be graced throughout the state and not make a district' settlement until the wwal rate was established.

: SUICIDE OK A MINIBTEH 'I ■ He Takes His Life In a Fit of De- { spondency. : HIS MIND WAS UNBALANCED Refusal of Ella Fiance to Accompany Him to Church Proved the Immediate Cause of the Rash Act — Fire From Children Playing: With Matches — General State News. 1 Taswell, Ind., May 14.—The remains of Rev. Ott Laswell, who committed suicide at Velpon, Dubois county, were brought hero for interment. Mr. Laswell was to bo married to a well known young lady of Dubois county next month. The suicide was committed during a tit of despondency, following a refusal of his fiance to accompany him to church. For several weeks Mr. Laswell had shown signs of mental disturbance. Within as many weeks he joined three different denominations. He shot himsSlf in the head in his bedroom. The dead minister was 24 years old and. a member of one of the most prominent families in Crawford county. X Blr Claim For Back Taxes. | Lafayette, Ind., May 14.—The auditor of Tippecanoe county, in compliance with tho notification of William K. Wood, has placed upon the tax duplicate of this county a large amount of property belonging to the estate of the ; late Job Nash, which, it is alleged, for ! 13 years had been omitted from taxation by u failure to have the same returned , to the assessor. The amount of the tax demanded by the county is something over $1)4,000. The estate will fight the claim. Coffin Cases Postponed. Indianapolis, May 14. —Judge,Baker I lias rescinded the order he recently ; made in the cases of Francis A. Coffin, I Percival B. Coffin and Schuyler Colfax J Haughey, fixing their trial at May 28, ■ and set the trial for Sept. 10. The post--1 ponement is on account of the fund for the payment of witnesses being exhausted and no funds being available until the new fiscal year. The expense • of the government witnesses in the other I Coffin trials was $2,153.10. Funeral of Ex-Governor Chase. Indianapolis, May 14.—The body of ex-Governor Chase will arrive in this city tomorrow night and the funeral i i to be held on Thursday. It is the purI pose to have the remains lie- in state at the Capitol building on Thursdaj’ until 1 o’loek when they> will lie removed to the Christian church where the funeral services will be held. PectillaT Dance Accident. Shelbyville, Ind., May 14.—At a i country dance at Farmer Meltzer’s ■ j house, east of here, while engaged in : dancing a quadrille Miss Elizabeth Worland bumped her head against the head of Miss Nelson and fell to .the ffixir unconscious. She was carried home and medical aid was summoned. All efforts to restore have proven futile, and no hope is entertained of her recovery. For an Ohl OflYnse. Logansport, Ind., May 14.—Walter ; Cox, son of a prominent family at New i Waverly, has just returned home from a three months’ stay in the west and i has been arrested on a charge of burgI lary. It is alleged that he robbed the I Wabash railroad depot at that place in ' February. Saved file Child. Morristown, Ind., May 14.—While 1 O. J. Higgins and Ot-e Jackson were , I driving they passed Joseph Watson’s - '■ house just as the family dog was about ; | to* devour an infant. A load of shot ! from Jackson’s gun killed the vicious animal and saved the child’s life. Snow Sonth Bend. South Bend, Ind., May 14.—South Bend was visited by a ‘heavy snow storm yesterday afternoon and the mercury was only four above freezing last night. There was a frost Saturday night but it is believed that crops and fruits are uninjured. ’’layed With. Matches. Logansport, Ind., May 14.—Children who were playing with matches about , the barn of George Calloway yesterday, I set fire to tho structure and it was totally destroyed together with all its contents. Loss, $2,500, with SBOO insurance - Damaged by Storm. Valparaiso, Indj May 14.' — The heavy storm yesterday did a great deal of damage in this county. Snow fell in the afternoon and it was below freezing last night. Early fruit will all be killed. Old Man’s Big Catch. English, Ind., May 13. — William Chandler, aged 75 and weighing 127 i pounds, caught a catfish in the Ohio river near Leavenworth which weighed 130 uounds. INDIANA ITEMS. — Unknown persons, supposed to be J tramps, sandbagged Jack Quigley at Cari ..bon. Twenty cases of smallpox are'reported at Tell City and many persons have been exposed. Cutworms have done great damage to corn in the vicinity of Morristown, Shelby county. The superior court of Madison county has ordered Receiver T. O. French to sell the Quick City glassworks at Frankton. Two tailors.at Frankfort hud a quarrel yesterday and John Green had a hole shot in his ear by a bulled fired by Pat Edmunds. Aquilla Robinson, aged 91. the oldest Methodist and a native Hoosier, is dying at Deputy, Jefferson coiinty. His wife, injured by a fall, is also dying. The congregation of the Presbyterian church at Middletown have dedicated a new church, said to be the handsomest church edifice in Crawford county. It is free of debt. The 8-year-old boy of Edward Conrad of Shelbyville broke his arm while playing in the schoolyard, and the father has brought cult against the sceool board claiming $2,50C damagoe.

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SYMPATHY. If wc sliouWsbe so quick of heat, * So keen ot sight. That we couitTfeel each shadow’s gloom. Each blossom's blight. The fairest o£ earth's blue-golden days Would turn- to night. If we should grow so swift to feel Eacj; human pain. That fi r each aching human heart OUrs ached again. Life were all Weariness, and joy Grown poor and vain; Some sounds were lost in silence, though We reverent hark: I Some sights are shut from anxious eye* By pitying dark. The lin it of the soul’s out-gift Has finite-mark. • —Harper’s Bazar. i\ COl N HIY GIRL. Lois Mott, with her dove eyes and shy ways, was going to the city to live with her mother’s brother ami his wife and be educated. Afterward sha was to stay with them, or come back ! and live on the farm with another I uncle, a brother cf her father's, just i as she might choose, for Lois was an orphan. Her city aunt had come down for her, bringing all sorts of finery with her, and promising a great deal finer when they got to town. I . Mrs. Warburton did not attempt to j conceal her contempt for her pretty i niece’s present surroundings, laughed : aloud at the little trunk which con- ! tained all Lois' available possessions, and confidentially informed her as soon a£ they were at a safe distance from the farm house that-the Warburtons were quite a different set from the. Motts. Lois stood not a little in awe of her grand and decidedly handsome city aunt: admiringly in awe. that is. She was .secretly in ecstasy at the prospect of the grandeur she was going to. but she was very fond of tJugle and Aunt Mott too. and her eyes' filled with tears as she remembered how sorrowful .they had felt at her going, and j how jjitifully her Mint Mott had said j to her Aunt Warburton: . “Yen’ll teach itor to feel above country folks. I. calculate, Salome?” Mrs. Warburton had laughed and responded with a courteous negative, but so indifferently spoken that if she had dared. Leris would have flung her arms about tier Aunt Mott’s neck in addition to exclaiming with suppressed indignation, “she never, never could feel above anybody she loved!” The city was like a fairy land to Lois. The education her.aunt had talked so much about' proved scarcely what is generally understood by the time ’ Lois had a teacher in music, and one in dancing. For the rest she had a hair-dresser and r.mntau maker, who did their best to disfigure that wildrose prettifies of hers and only par- ' tially succeeded. pimple Lois was romantic. Very soon upon her coming to the city she had met her hero' and duly shrined him in her waiting heart It was one day when she had been out shopping with her aunt. The hprses had started just as she was entering the carriage, and she would have fallen but for the swift and strong arm of a gentleman who was passing. She was conscious at the moment only of an overpowering confusion and a pair of beaming dark eyes. Her aunt thanked him for her, and she. scarcely daring to lift her eyes yet, became somehow aware that he was tall and -distinguished looking and had a beautiful smile. “It must be love at firci sight,” sighed Lois, as she dropped her head upon the pillow that night and fell avyay into happy dreams. After that she saw him from afar •ften, when she wr.s" out with her lunt In the daytime, and she knew by his glance in her direction that he remembered her. That was food enough for her romantic heart for a time. But she never met him at any of Uta festivities which she aau .her aunt

trequented night after night, till even Lois’ young fresh eyes showed signs of weariness and she began to think balls and parties were not the height of felicity after all. One day she had Jeff her aunt at Madame’s ordering a dress and gone, at her desire, and upon an indispensable errand to another street It was so near she had not taken the carriage, and returning in a sort of a trance at having met her hero squarely. and involuntarily given him a blushing little nod of recognition, she took a wrong direction, and before she knew it. walking as in a dream, she found herself involved in one of those street crowds which, in New York, swarm like magic at the slightest excuse. Then she suddenly discovered where she was. but before she had time to be frightened, scarcely to be bewildered by the loud talking and rough jostling about her a voice at her side said: ■ “Please to’take my arm. I think you must have lost your way.” ’ And there was her hero again. He smiled at her surprise and confusion. “I was not following you,” he said “though it looks like it... I am glad I came this way, however, for you might have got into trouble. .This is a bad locality.” He left her with a courteous bow as soon as he had put her fairly in the right way again, and silly Lois’ little feet were shod with clouds the rest of the day. ’ “It is just like a story,” she said to herself with sighs of rapture. “How nice it was to moot him so, and how handsome he is!’ He must think me an awkward simpleton, though, for I scarcely dared to look at him. I woner if he did?” Lois had not met her hero for some weeks, when in coming from Brooklyn with a party of friends, she saw him on the ferry boat. He lifted his hat and smiled, and Lois felt that her dimplqd cheeks had turned suddenly to full blown carnations. - “Where in the world did you-get acquainted with Corydon Rupert?” whispered one of her companions. “Dear me, why?” demanded Lois, not daring to look that way again. “Oh, you ash such a quiet little thing, and he never goes anywhere hardly. He’s so—so exclusive, too, you know.” The young lady who spoke was very fashionable and very plain. She could not deny Lois’ prettiness, but she could sneer at her country breeding, which would cling to her like the scent to a wild rose or bit of sweetbriar. “My dear,” said Lois’ aunt in her ear, “don’t look round. There are your Uncle and Aunt Nott. We won’t speak to them here. They’ve come to make a visit cf course, and it will be time to recognize them when we get home.” 1 “But. what will they think?” asked Lois, under cover of the rattling chat of the others, very much startled and longing to look toward them, yet not daring to so offend her Aunt Warburton. ' <p ” “They will think we haven’t seen them, of course. They are on, the right side, sitting just inside the lady’s saloon, and looking as though they saw us,” she exclaimed in painful perplexity. “They have, and are smiling at us frantically. Don’t you look, Lois.” “How can I help it? I must speak to them, aunt.” ’’Yes, and have Corydon Rupert see what a beautiful set yon belong to,” aueered Mrs. Warburton, slyly. She had seen Lois’ blushes and knew the gentleman, now his name was mentioned, very well by reputation as one of the finest matches In the city, and notoriously indifferent to female attractions. JLois sat hesitatingly, and distressed. As the boat touched the landing, Mrs. Warburton bade the driver of her carriage hurry oft. But he had to

wait his turn; there were several carriages before him. And meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. Mott had come out and were trying to get to them through the crowd. In the press Mrs. Mott stumbled and fell, and Lois, stealing a took that way, saw ner. With a lbw cry, she rose from her seat “Aunt Warburton, I want to get out,” she said, in spite of her aunt’s furiqus looks, she got down and hurried to her aunt. Somebody had helped her to her feet again, and she stood ready to fold Lois in an embrace l which tlta loving girl would not hurt her by shrinking from, hotly as her cheeks flushed under the amused ■glances she imagined leveled at her. “Dear heart, she han't get proud a bit, and she’s handsomer* than ever,” exclaimed Uncle ahd Aunt Mott, scar-, celv under their ifreath and then to complete matters, who • should drift view with the moving throng but Mr. Rupert. Lois felt her heart sink. She was only a foolish girl, after all, but she stood her ground, resolved she would not be ashamed of uncle and aunt for a hundred .heroes. To her he stopped and eagerly shook hands with Uncle and Aunt Mott, who poured out their delight at seeing him most volubly, and mingled explanations concerning him and explanations concerning Ldls, till they did not know themselves which they were talking about. However, he seemed nothing loath, and Lois rather liked it, tco. ' Corydon Rupert had boarded with’’ the Motts the whole of one summer, and had been nursed through a some- 1 what perilous illness by Aunt Mott. He constituted himself their escort at once; took a carriage at the landing and rode up with them to Mrs. Warburton’S mansion'. Mrs. Warburton, thinking better of it. exchanged greetings with them, first, however, and graciously assented to the transfer other niece from her own carriage to a seat beside Mr. Rupert; where she sat most'silently, while the others talked, but a blushing embodiment of happiness. Well, you can guess the end of Ith’ all, perhaps. Lois had promised to marry her hero before Uncle and Aunt Mott went home: and though she was married from Mrs. Warburton’s, she and her husband went early in the honeymoon to the old farm and spent some happy months in each year with Uncle and Aunt Mott. —New York News. . ■ U The I’t.ibtv <>;' Flattery. "Say,” began. Raggles, as he stopped. the man on the street, “you see before you ” “Oh. I know what you’re going to say,” interrupted the man. “Your wife Is sick, your children are starving,*, your house leaks, .and you yburself haven’t had anything to eat for thirtysix hours. You can't get work, and —” “You’re on to me, ain’t you?” returned Raggles. ■“Well, I should say I was.” “Been round a good deal, ain’t you?” “That’s What I have!” and he straightened up proudly. “It’s a pretty smart man that works you for a coin. 1 knowed that when I first seen you. I says to myself, that a man with scon an intelligent-dace as you has can’t be fooled. But I goes against my better jedgment and trtojj it. and novz see what a fool I’ve mane of myself. I humbly axes your bardon!” and Raggles made a humble obeisance. “Oh, you needn’t feel so bad about > it,” replied the man. “Here, take this,” and he deposited a quarter in Raggles’ uncadoused palm, and strode on with his head in the air. , “Flattery pays, and it don’t cost* much,” said Raggles to himself as he started to find his friend Dusty, and tell him ; to head off the soft and shining mark on the next block. —Indianapolis News.