Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. The Massachusetts Medical Society had a stormy time over the question of admit - iug women physicians to membership. The proposition was sat down upon by the decisive vote of 104 nays to 60 yeas. Counterfeit $lO treasury notes, of the series of 1876, are afloat in Boston. Went. Wheat harvesting is in progress in Southern Kawas, where the berry grew to .inch an unusual size as to protrtide from the hull. The yield on a tract of 1,000 acres near Parsons is estimated at thirty-two bushels per acre. There was a triple hanging in Law* rence, Kan., a few nights ago. Shortly after midnight a masked mob of 100 appeared at the jail, demanded the keys, and, when refused, burst in the door and took from the cell Peter Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson. Tliey took them to the bridge and hung them. AU three were colored, and their crime was the murder of Daniel Hausman, a farmer from Ohio.

Denver, Col., was visited by one of the heaviest rain-storms ever experienced in that region. Thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed, and five or six persons drowned. From nearly all points in the Northwest the reports as to wheat and other crops are in the highest degree favorable. The premature explosion of a blast in a mine at Virginia City, Nev., killed two men and fatally injured a third. A terrible murder and suicide occurred at Jackson, Mich. Franz Schumacher, a saloon keeper, got drunk and proceeded to whip his wife. He closed his saloon and in his fury seized a musket and, leveling it at his wife, fired. The ball struck her in the stomach, inflicting a death wound. Passers-by heard the firing and summoned the police. Three of them repaired to the place and broke in the door, where they found the wife weltering in blood. Schumacher picked up the musket and ran up stairs. Policeman Schweimer followed him, and when just at the head of the stairs Schumacher leveled the weapon, pulled the trigger, and a ball went crashing through the eye and brain of the officer, who fOll back mortally wounded. Schumacher then shot himself, dying m a few minutes. The tragedy produced wild excitement at Jackson.

A north-bound passenger train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad met with a serious accident near Bedford, Ind. They were late and running fast to make up time. Nearing the White River bridge the rear coach jumped the track and rolled down a steep embankment, pulling the other coach, engine and tender, mail and baggage with it. The engine also Hew the track, but lodging about half way down the embankment. There were thirty-five or forty passengers on the train, all more or less injured. John Carmony, the engineer, was terribly scalded, and died in a few hours. The injuries of several of the passengers were of a serious nature. The Brookfield bank robbers pleaded guilty, and received sentences <sf twenty five years each in the Missouri Penitentiary. Their household effects were disposed of at auction at Kuksville, Mo., and brought enormous prices. George McMillen, of Canton, Ohio, killed his wife with a revolver as she lay in bed, then fired a shot in his own shoulder and called the police, to whom he stated that a strange woman did the shooting. A prize-fight was contested on the Pennsylvania and Ohio State line between Maloney and Weeden. Forty-one rounds were fought in seventy minutes, Weeden having the best of it throughout, when he proposed to call it a draw, on account of the dangerous condition of Maloney and the riotous disposition of his friends. Weeden’s only bruise is on the right eye,, while' his opponent was terribly battered. One man was killed and four fatally injured by an explosion of fire-damp in a coalpit near Wilkesbarro, Pa. The largest oil well in the world has Just been struck in the new oil region in Warren county, Pa. The yield is 100 barrels per hour. John Nelson, a dry-goods merchant of Red Wing, Minn., took his wife and child and a lady guest fishing on the Mississippi. In returning home the boat caught on the ferry cable, and Mrs. Nelson and Miss Bradley were drowned. Father Houck, Private Secretary to Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, was ejected from the Leader editorial-rooms by E. Cowles in a manner so aggravating that the priest swore out a warrant for assault and battery. Ex-Gov. William Denison, known as the “War Governor of Ohio,” died at Columbus, aged 67. He was Governor of the State from 1860 to 1862, Postmaster General under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, Commissioner of the District of Columbia under President Grant, and prominent in other public positions. He had been sick for nearly a year.

South. \ Reports from Patrick county, Virginia, are to the effect that there are 5,000 persons in that county starving. The drought of the last year greatly curtailed the corn and other crops in that locality. In many portions of the county hundreds of people are crowding around the settlements imploring aid. Contributions have been taken up in different parts of the county, but they have not been sufficient to relieve the sufferings of the people. A dispatch from Winchester, Ky., says that ten negro men and one white man, employed on a railroad, and occupying a cabin in the bed of Two Mile creek, were drowned by the cabin being swept off by a swiftly-rising flood. A negro was hanged by a mob at Mount Sterling, Ky., for a criminal assault upon respectable white lady.

The State Convention of Greenbackers in -Tennessee assembled at Nashville and nominated J. R. Beasley for Governor. The platform of 1880, adopted at Chicago, was reaffirmed. The Maine Republicans in State Convention nominated the Hon. Frederick Robie for Governor and Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Dingley, Charles A. Boutelle and Seth D. Milliken for Congress. The Rhode Island .Legislature reelected Henry B. Anthony to the United States Senate. Gen. Rosecrans was interviewed, at Washington, in regard to the letters from Gen. Garfield to Secretary Chase, recently published. He stated that his information of the actual incidents connected with the conference between Stanton and Garfield at Louisville came from Gen. Anson Stager, who was present, who says that Garfield literally reversed fire facts of the interview. r The Greenbaokers o£ the Eleventh Indiana district held their Congressional Qon-

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-vention at Kokomo and nominated Evan Thompson, a fanner, of Huntington county, for Congress, by acclamation. The Republican State Convention of North Carolina indorsed the nominees of the Liberal movement, and passed a resolution requesting members of the Legislature to vote against prohibitory liquor laws. WASHINGTON NOTES. Hon. W. A. Wheeler declined to serve on the Tariff Commission on account of ill health. Secretary Folger states his belief that the bond plate submitted to him by Detective Felker is not a genuine one. By order of the Attorney General, < Charles Brockway, the counterfeiter, was released from custody. Present indications do not point to an early adjournment of Congress, and the nearest date now fixed, in view of the amount of legislation yet to be considered, is July IS. Mr. Blaine was again befoie the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, but contributed nothing new or interesting in regard to the Chili-Peru affair, under investigation. W. H. Trescott, the Chmmissioner sent down to South America along with Mr. Blaine’s son, was also examined by the committee. He said, in general terms, that the object of his mission was to attempt to bring the belligerent states of Chili, Peru and Bolivia together, and,, if possible, make peace. The witness knew nothing whatever of the correspondence of Shipherd; never saw him but once, and none of his papers ever came into his (witness’) hands. He had no knowledge that any Minister of the United States was corruptly influenced in connection with the Credit Industriel, or any other com-, pany; never saw or heard anything to indicate that the late Minister Hurlbut was in any way corruptly influenced. The Chilian Secretary of Foreign Affairs told the witness that the Chilian Government had no charge whatever to make against Minister Hurlbut.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A young negro named Johnson was lynched at Rock Hill, 8. C., for outraging a 16-year-old girl. A negro named Beckett, for attempting a similar crime upon a 7-year-old gpl in Monroe county, Miss., was pursued, wounded and captured, placed in jail, and later taken therefrom by a mob and hanged. A public meeting of colored citizens at Lawrence, Kan., denounced the summary punishment of the .three negro murderers at that place. Young Tibbetts, the Minnesota boy murderer, who was hanged by a mob, is said to ha ve been urged to a career of crime by his mother. Favorable crop reports have been received at Pittsburgh from the surrounding sections of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Wheat w'as never more promising, and, with good weather, corn will yield above the average. The flames broke out in Miller’s bookbinding establishment in Victoria square, Montreal, and quickly spread to the dry-goods stores of 8. Greenshields, Son & Co. and Mclntyre A French, and thence to Clendinning’s stove warehouse and the cabinethouse of Henry J. Shaw. The block was the flnest in the city, being a five-story stone. The loss is estimated at $1,450,000. The roundhouse of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City railway, with nine locomotives, was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Baer & Co.’s grain store at Galveston, valued at $40,000, and the wool-en-mills at Branchvflle, N. J., worth $75,000, were also swept away.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Irish Bishops have issued an address offering support to the people in peaceful agitation, and appealing to them to oppose secret societies as hostile to religion and to freedom. Evictions are pronounced permanently provocative of crime. Soldiers aud police to the number of SCO have been drafted in the district where Bourke, the Irish landlord, was murdered. For five hours on Sunday, June 11, there were bloody conflicts in the streets of Alexandria between Egyptians and Europeans. Twenty persons were killed and a number of houses destroyed. The police were slow to interfere. Some of the wounded foreigners were taken to the French consulate, where riotous demonstrations soon took place. The English Consul received a gunshot wound, and the engineer of the British man-of-war Supurb was killed. The military at last dispersed the rioters. The Greek Consul and Italian Vice Consul received serious injuries. A British vessel landed 200 men to protect the consulate. The mob sacked the shops of Europeans. In the British House of Lords, the second reading of the bill legalizing marriage with a dead wife’s sister was rejected—l 32 to 128. The number of suspects still imprisoned in Ireland is 263. Secretary Trevelyan stated in the House of Commons that John Gannon refused to accept release on condition that he go to the United States. In the riot at Alexandria no less than sixty-seven Europeans are reported to have been*killed. Pillage appears to have been the main object with the Levantines and Arabs. The European colonies have appealed to their respective governments for squadrons for protection. *

Crop reports from France, Holland and Germany are highly favorable. The Russian Emperor favors the founding of a bank to aid his peasants in acquiring land. Forty-four lives were lost during the recent flood at Versicz, in Hungary. The German Parliament, after a lively discussion, in which Bismarck spoke for over two hours, rejected the Tobacco Monopoly bill. Europeans are fleeing from Egypt like rats from a sinking ship, and European transportation companies are sending all available vessels to their aid. An exodus from Egypt has set in among the resident Europeans, amounting almost to a panic. Many persons are leaving valuable property behind, and all classes are begging for passage. The soldiery openly demand the deposition of the Khedive, and even declare, if it becomes necessary, they will oppose the Sultan himself. It is stated the French Consul General informed his countrymen that he could not guarantee them security. The number of Europeans killed in the riot at Alexandria is now believed to be 250. The Khedive says 430 ringleaders in the riot have been arrested, and will be kept on board a ship in the harbor, and he hopes that a force of 18,000 Turks will shortly start for Egypt Admiral Seymour seized the steamer Marengo to carry British fugitives from Alexandria. An incident occurred in Dublin, which, if correctly reported, places Earl Spencer, the new Irish Lord Lieutenant, in an unenviable light. As he was riding, he was approached by Miss Anna Parnell and questioned as to the truth of the report that the authorities had again stopped the erection in

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1882.

County Limerick of huts for the shelter of evicted tenants. Earl Spencer pretended not to hear the lady, and told her she must call at the Castle if she wished to speak with him. Miss Parnell was justified in the conclusion that the Lord Lieutenant did not want to hear her humane appeal, and that the subject was extremely embarrassing and distasteful to him

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A battle with Winchester rifles, in which fifty shots were fired, took place at Llano, Texas, between two squads of citizens. One man was killed, one mortally wounded and three others injured. The District Court made a riq'iisition on the Adjutant General for a comnany of State troops. Egyptian affairs are not attracting the sole attention of Europe. A cable dispatch states that the powers had moved for the immediate assembling of the conference, and had given Turkey forty-eight hours to consider whether she would participate or not. Dervisch Pasha advised the Sultan that the foreign fleets were a hindrance to the restoration of order, while England and France were making preparations to reinforce their war vessels. Foreigners are quitting the country as rapidly as possible. The whole American mission embarked on board the United States steamer Galena. Another railway horror occurred on the Clarksburg and Western railway, near Clarksburg, W. Va. A passenger car containing twenty persons fell through a trestle with disastrous results. Two of the occupants died of their injuries, and many others are fatally weunded. The license tax imposed by New Orleans on commercial travelers has been'declared unconstitutional. An accident occurred on the New York Central road, near Brockport. The engineer and fireman of the New York express were killed, and a number of the passengers were badly shaken up. > Gladstone declined to introduce a bill in the House of Commons for a temporary suspension of evictions in Ireland. Oppressive plans against the Irish secret societies are being perfected by the new criminal investigation department. Investigations pursued in America are made the basis of the projects.

The Director of the Mint reports the gold product for 1881 at $34,700,000, and that of silver at $43,000,000. Colorado leads the list, with California second, while Nevada shows jess than $9,000,000. John L. Hayes, of Massachusetts, will be Chairman of the Tariff Commission. The vacancies have been filled by the appointment William H. McMahon, of New York, and Alexander R. Boteler, of West Virginia. The Utah Commission, agreed upon by the Cabinet, is as follows : Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota ; ex-Senator Paddock, of Nebraska ; G. F. Godfrey, of lowa ; Ambrose B. Carleton, of Indiana, and James R. Pettigrew, of Arkansas. In politics the board stands three Republicans and two Democrats. The crop reports from Minnesota and Dakota continue to show a very promising outlook for spring wheat and other grains. In Kentucky the proipect is excellent for wheat, corn and tobacco. In the northern part of Illinois corn is “doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances,” and there are hopes of a fair yield. The reports of the operations of the army-worm in Ohio continue to show great devastation in ripening fields of wheat and barley. From Michigan the show ing as to wheat is cxtri mely favorable, and the great boom in Kansas crops is unabated. In Wisconsin timely rains have improved the prospects in localities previously suffering from drought. The Democracy of Arkansas have nominated for Governor James H. Berry, now a Circuit Judge, who lost a leg in the Confederate army. Dr. Jules Crevaux and a party of seventeen men, who were engaged in exploring the northern tributaries of the River Plata, were killed by the Obah Indians-in Bolivia. Trinidad Charley and Thomas Wall, two bad characters, had been murdering people promiscuously out West, were hanged by a mob at Rico, Col. The legal hangman swung off James Vaughn, at Pinckneyville, 111., for the murder of William Watts ; also, Milton Yarbery, at Albuquerque, N. M., for shooting Charles Campbell. Lieut. Flipper, the only negro officer in the army, has been dismissed from the service for misappropriation of funds. A distressing accident occurred in Linn county, Kan., resulting in the death of six persons. Mrs. John Seals and her two children, two children named Jankley, and one child named Jackett, attempted to ford a swollen stream in a wagon and were swept away by the swift current and speedily drowned.

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

The entire session of the House, on Saturday, the 10th inst., was devoted to the consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill. There was no session of the Senate. The Japanese Indemnity bill was up for consideration in the Senate on the 12th inst, the principal feature in the debate being a war of words between the two Kansas Senators, Ingalls and Plumb, on the one side, and Morgan, of Alabama, on the other. The bill went over as unfinished business. Bills were passed to divide lowa into two Judicial districts, and to Authorize the Sioux City and Pacific road to bridge the Missouri river. Mr. Pendleton presented a petition from 10,000 citizens of Cincinnati and Covington, asking the passage of the Civil-Service Reform bill. Mr. Brown offered a resolution authorizing each Senator to employ a clerk at $1,200 per annum, to be paid from the contingent fund. On motion of Mr. Lpgan, the Senate insisted upon its amendments to the Army Appropriation bill, and a conference committee was appointed. In the House Mr. Butterworth reported back the Army Appropriation bill with the Senate amendments, and recommended non-concurrence, in the clause . making retirement from the army compulsory at the age of 64 years, but the clause was agreed to by 101 to 75. Mr. Townsend reported a bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Inter-State Commerce. Mr. Humphrey reported a bill for a uniform system of bankruptcy. A long debate took place onsthe Senate meas? ure to increase the water supply of the District of Columbia. At the session of the Senate on the 13th inst., Mr. Grover made a favorable report on a right of way into San Francisco for the Ocean Shore railroad. The pending resolution, that each Senator be given a clerk at a salary of $1,200, was rejected. Mr. Allison reported, with amendments, the House bill for the extent-ion of the national-bank charters. The Japanese Indemnity bill was taken up and passed. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Samuel B. Axtell, of Onio, Chief Justice ofLilie Supreme Court of New Mexico ; Rollin M. Daggett, of Nevada, United States Minister to the Hawaiian islands ; Henry Esplisen, of Wisconsin, Receiver of Public Moneys at Aberdeen, Dakota. The H >use of Representatives passed a resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to place at Washington's headquarters at Newburgh, N. Y., a memorial column costing SIO,OOO, and also appropriating $15,000 toward the expense of a centennial celebration, next vest, of the declaration of peace- The bill to increase the water supply of the Pwtri9t Qt Oq-

“A Firm Adherence to Cdrrect Principles”

lumbia was passed, with the proviso that half the cost be advanced by the Government. The Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, discussed, amended and laid over. The House Bonded-Spirits bill came up to the Senate, on the 14th, as the regular order, and a substitute reported by the Finance Committee was read. Mr. Bayard urged the necessity of prolonging the bonded period from three to five years, and said the recent proposition in the House to reduce the tax to 50 cents per gallon had produced paralysis in the trade. Mr- Sherman expressed the opinion that a firm tax of 60 cents would yield more revenue than the present rate. No action was taken on the bilk Mr. Miller reported the bill for the construction of the Hlinois and Mississippi canaL The joint resolution appropriating $375,000 to pay mail contractors in the Southern States for services at the outbreak of the war was taken irn, and Mr. Conger derided any liability of the Government The President has nominated Daniel H. Pinney, of Illinois, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, Mr. Pinney was a Democratic member of the Illinois Legislature, from Joliet, in 1877, when David Davie was elected United States Senator, and was one of his chief supporters. The House went into committee of the whole on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. Mr. White moved to strike out the item of $1,975,000 for salaries in the Internal Revenue Bureau, and stated that Mr. Kelley had Organized a pool between the whisky and tariff people. Mr. Kelley retorted that the Statement was the raving of a lunatic or of a deliberate liar. Mr. White replied that Mr. Kelley might be scoundrel enoug h to make such a charge. The words jyere taken down, and a resolution of censure was prepared, but both members speedily made apologies. Several amendments to prohibit political assessments were ruled out Mr. Springer put through an amendment to fix the salary of the Reporter of the Supreme Court at $5,000, and that the reports be hereafter printed at the Government Office and sold at 10 per cent, advance on the cost. The committee then rose and the bill was passed by 125 to 45. A resolution was adopted to pay George Q, Cannon, of Utah, salary and mileage to April 19. Mr. O’Neil reported the Invalid Pension Appropriation bill, covering $100,000,000. Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, offered a resolution in the Senate, June 15, for a special committee to investigate the cause and remedy for labor strikes. The Bonded-Spirits bill was taken up. Mr. Windom said the House measure would encourage combinations dangerous to the revenues of the Government Mr. McMillan moved the indefinite postponement of the bill and its amendments, which was agreed to, by S 3 to 20. Mr. Maxey urged the passage of the joint resolution to reappropriate $375,000 to pay debts due Southern mail contractors at the outbreak of the war. Mr. Plumb secured the adoption of a resolution requesting the Preston the river and harbor appropriation. Mr. Page explained its provisions, and a long debate ensued, only two pages of the bill having been read when the adjournment took place, dent to furnish the correspondence regarding the conduct of the British Minister at Lima in connection with Minister Hurlbut’s negotiation for the bay of Chimbote. The House went into committee of the whole on the river and harbor appropriation. Mr. Page explained its provisions, and a long debate ensued, only two pages of the bill having been read when the adjournment took place.

Mr. Hoar introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 16th, to provide for the performance of the duties of the Presidency in cases of a vacancy in both the Presidency and Vice Presidency by vesting th a succession in the members of the Cabinet, beginning with the Secretary of State. Mr. Blair presented a bill for a. statue in Washington of Benjamin Franklin. An act was passed. to authoring the Oregon Pacific road to bridge the Willamette river. Some debate ensned on the bill to reappropriato $375,000 to pay Southern mail contractors, when it was laid over. The bill to enable national banks to extend their corporate ex'stence came up. A long discussion took place on the proviso to exempt national banks from attachments and injunctions by State courts, and it was expunged. Mr. Miller introduced a bill to authorize the Southern Pacific and other railroads to consolidate. Mr. Blair offered an act to permit freedmen to enter certain lands in Indian Territory. The House in committee of the whole had under consideration the River and Harbor bill, and considerable progress was made. All attempts to amend or alter the provisions of the bill as reported were vigorously and fully resisted. Mr. Blackburn reported baM the Military Academy Appropriation bilk resolution was passed setting aside $33,000 for Arctic explorations. An evening session was held, at which seventeen pension bills were passed, including one to give SSO per month to Mrs. Dandridge, a daughter of President Zachary Taylor.

Useful and Beautiful.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: “ Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ” And if we apply that rule strictly we shall in the first place show the builders and such like servants of the public what we really want; we shall create a demand for real art, as the phrase goes; and in the second place, we shall surely have more money to pay for decent houses. - Perhaps it will not try your patience too much if I lay before you my idea of the fittings necessary to the sitting-room of a healthy person—a room, I mean, which he would not have to cook in much or sleep in generally, or in which he would not have to do any very litter making manual work. First a book case, with a great many books in it; next a table that will keep steady when you write or work at it; then several chairs that you can move and a bench that you can sit or lie upon; next a cupboard, with drawers; next unless either the cupboard or book case be very beautiful with paintings or carving, you will want pictures or engravings, such as you can afford, only not stop gaps, but real works of art, on the wall; or else the wall itself must be ornamented with some beautiful and restful pattern; we shall also want a vase or two to put flowers in, which latter you must have sometimes, especially if you live in a town. Then there will be the fireplace, of course, which in our climate is bound to be the chief object in the room. This is all we shall want, especially if the floor be good; if it be not, as by the way, it is pretty certain not to be, I admit that a small carpet which can be bundled out of the room in two minutes will be useful, and we must also take care that it is beautiful, or it may annoy us terribly.

Watering Horses.

One thing in the treatment of working horses in hot weather we are disposed to deprecate, viz.: The custom of watering them three times a day, and no more. It is simply cruelty on the part of man toward his beast to compel the team to plow or mow from early morning until noon, or from noon until night, without allowing it the privilege of a refreshing draught. It is inconvenient, many times, to water the team during the forenoon or afternoon, and we are apt to think the time thus taken lost, but when t ie farm< rs millennium < o nes there will probably be water in every field, supplied from some elevated spring, or from a running, stream. In the meanwhile, time “ lost ” in doing good, even though it may be in behalf of the dumb animals, is well.“lost” —it may be regained. Could they speak, it might be to say that they would like to be treated in the matters of times for food and drink somewhat as we—their wise masters —are accustomed to treat ourselves. —lndiana Farmer. The most diffusive pleasure from

public speaking is that in which thO speech ceases, and the audience can turn to commenting, —Gwrge Eliot,

WOEFUL WIND.

The Town of Grinnell, lowa, Wrecked by a Cyclone—Appalling Lo»s of Life—Five Pentone Killed by the Storm at Leavenworth, Kansan. A frightful storm, or series of storms, swept over a large section of the Northwest on the 17th and 18th of June. Grinnell, lowa, seems to have been the greatest sufferer, a considerable portion of the town going down before the fierce wind. The loss of life is the saddest feature of the disastrous visitation. It is believed that upward of 150 people were either killed outright or fataliy wounded. At Grinnell alone the death-roll will reach nearly, if not quite, 100. Nearly twice that number were more or less seriously injured, while the property loss amounts to at least $700,000. A correspondent furnishes the following graphic account of the ravages of the hurricane at Grinnell and vicinity : During the day the weather had been unusually hot, and toward evening ominous-looking clouds hung in the northwest. About 9 o’clock a deep and sullen roar like the approach of several rapidly-moving freight trains was heard, but before the cause of the peculiar phenomena was surmised the storm had burst in all its fury. Striking the town upon the northwest quarter, it cut a sinuous path through the most beautiful residence part of the town, carrying death and destruction in its path. Every animate and inanimate object was picked up in its relentless grasp and hurled to death and destruction. Houses were annihilated, fences obliterated, trees broken off like straws, or in some cases the trunks were left standing, stripped of every vestige of foliage and peeled clean of the bark, leaving but a white monument of the fury of the storm. Sidewalks were picked up and .tossed about, each particular plank being converted into an engine of death in the circling grasp of the storm. In the light of the terrible damage. done it seems almost miraculous that there was no greater loss of life. There can be but one way to account for it. Many of the village people were down town doing the usual Saturday evening marketing. The business portion of the town escaped, and in this way greater loss of life was prevented. The scene in the track of the storm beggars description. It was about half-past 3 o’clock this morning when the special train from Des Moines, in charge of Supt. Royce, of the Rock Island road, and bearing a corps of physicians and relief force, arrived. At that time twenty-eight of the dead had been recovered from the debris in Grinnell alone. The hotels, school-houses and town hail were converted into hospitals. In the town hall alone were twenty dead bodies, ranging from the youth of 10 or 12 years to the man whose hair had been frosted by age. Ad around were grief-stricken friends and relatives, and the spectacle was one calculated to appall the stoutest heart. The wreck in the early gray of the morning was one of the most lamentable sights presented to human eyes. The path of destruction was through the town of Grinnell about 700 feet in width. On the outer edges of the path the damage was the lightest. For the space of 200 feet in the center scarcely a tree or shrub escaped complete destruction. .Houses were picked up and thrown to the outer circle, some to one side and some to the other, as the freaks of the wind prevailed. In somecases the houses were removed,' dashed to pieces, scattered in fragments and foundation walls leveled to the ground. Nothing was saved of the contents. Stoves, furniture, pianos and all the various articles of household paraphernalia were tossed about as though they were but children’s toys. Articles of bedding and upholstered furniture were found miles from their proper abiding-places. The handsome buildings of the lowa College were completely destroyed, one of brick and another of stone, entailing a loss upon that institution of fully SIOO,OOO. The damage to the town cannot fall short of $700,000 or SBOO,OOO. Passing out of town, the storm struck a freight train on the Central lowa railroad, lifted it clean from the tracks, and turned the cars promiscuously around. About a mile and a half below Grinnell it struck a west-bound freight on the Rock Island road and removed every one of the heavilyloaded cars, twenty-three in number from the track, leaving the engine standing. The conductor of this train was fatally injured and has since died. A brakeman on the Central train had his head completely perforated with a piece of pine board. Beyond the Rock Island train no serious damage was done until Malcom was reached, a small town twelve miles east of Grinnell. Here the work of destruction -was re-enacted in Si its hideousness. The path of the storm was Evidently much broader hero, reaching out. to the south for nearly the distance of a mile. The Presbyterian and Methodist churches were demolished. Several business houses were blown down and residences destroyed. There were eight lives lost at Malcom and the immediate vicinity, though the greatest devastation was done in the country. This Utile town was nestled nicely on a gentle KnolL To the south and southeast is a beautiful valley, beyond which is a stretch of undulating prairie. Along on this prairie were located many neat farmcottages. There is nothing left of them. Standing in the streets of Malcom, the write l was shown the spots where the day before were located twelve comfortable farm-houses. About half a mile west of the village Charley Wheeler was killed. Mrs. Akers and her boy Johnnj also lost their lives here. There is % sad incident connected with the death of Mrs. Akers. She had just closed her house in town for the purpose of making a visit with friends in Illinois. Last evening she and her boy went over to Mr. Wheeler’s to pass the night with his people, her husband being absent in the mountains. She left a little girl with a young friend in town. Mr. Wheeler’s house was destroyed, and Mrs. Akers’ body was found in a ditch about ten rods away witu a heavy beam of timber rasting upon her, and a horrible gash across the side of the head. When the reporter left Malcom the girl was yet ignorant of the fate of her mother, and was placing about the streets full of childish glee. About three miles southeast of the town lived the McClure family of ten peisons. But one of them had been found at noon, and it is feared that death has overtaken them. Fifteen miles south of Brooklyn a number of death. l are reported. Considering the. extent to which the path of the storm had spread when it reached Malcom, its fury is phenomenal. The debris of the farm-houses was scattered over the prairie for a mile or more in a southwesterly direction from the points at which they were located. The lumber was splintered and fragments driven into the ground with terrific force. Barbed wire but recently put on was blown from the fence posts and coiled and twisted into divers shapes. Telegraph poles were snapped asunder and spitefully stuck in the ground. The damage to property in and around Malcom is estimated at $109,000. The place where the storm first struck is not definitely known. Northwest of Grinnell great devastation is wrought and several lives are known to have been lost, four being reported killed in one At Kellogg, a station east of Grinnell, one house was blown down. At Sheldahl several houses are reported destroyed, and it was probably in that vicinity that the first force of the blast was felt. If there was ever a case that called for human sympathy it is the case of these people whom misfortune has so suddenly overtaken.

The Cyclone Elsewhere.

The storm inflicted a damage of $200,000 at Leavenworth, Kan. . St Mary’s Academy was blown down and five of the young lady pupils killed. „ At St. Louis, Mo., the damage was considerable. A number of steamers were blown from their moorings and sunk. Hundreds of houses were unroofed and thousands of trees prostrated At Kansas City, Mo., houses were unroofed, windows smashed, and a great deal of other damage done. The loss is estimated at $200,000. At Cairo, IIL, the tornado unroofed the Vincennes wharfboat and overturned twenty box-cars in the Ulinoiß Central yards. A colored man was killed at Beach Ridge. At Metropolis a coal-barge was sunk and the roofs of several buildings were taken off.

Dainty Jewel Work.

They used to do some very dainty work in olden times in the way of jewelry, if one can take the historian’s word for it. In Elizabethan times one Mark Scaliot constructed a lock of eleven pieces of iron, steel and brass, and a chain of forty-three golden links was attached to the same, and, this being placed round a flea’s neck, lock and chain and flea weighed only a grain.and a half of gold. Surely, such a miracle of skill was worth preserving for posterity. Oswald Nothingerus once turned 1,600 dishes of ivory which all went into* a peppercorn, if, indeed, we may Ijelieve contemporary writers, 7 hey were shown

to Pope Paul V., who counted and verified them himself, by the aid of a magnifying glass. Father Ferrarius,'a Jesuit, would not be outdone, and ne made twenty-five wooden cannon, which went into the same compass.

APPALLING CRIME.

A Mother Poisons Her Four Children ■ad Herself. Domestic difficulties in a poor Gormin famijly of Chicago culminated in a blood curdling tragedy, Mary Sycboldt, aged 35 years, wife of Caiper Seyboldt, a baker, and residing at 51 F.n-ieli street, murdered her four children and then committed suicide. The story of tne crime is one of the most remarkable in the police annals of Chicago, and ranks with any of the Borgia sensations. At 5 c’cloek in the morning, Casper Seybold arrive! home after working all night at a bakery, and was met at the door by his wife. She was dressed in a new chemise trimmed with lace and blue ribboa, purchased especially for the awful occasion. She acted strangely, and could scarcely stand. “Come in, Casper, come in,” she said, waving her hand, “and see our little children. They are all dead—all our four little children are dead, gone to heaven, Casper. See how preity they are. Every one got nice flowers for the angels ” For a moment the husband was stunned, and thought his wife crazy. He hurried to the bedroom, and there a strange sight met his horrified eyes. Laid out, as for burial, wore the four children—Matilda, aged 12; Anton, aged 7; Annie, aged 2 years and 6 months, and the baby, Agnes, aged less than 4 months. They were dressed in white, trimmed with blue ribbons, hair nicely smoothed and tied with blue ribbons and in’ theirjhands bouquets of fresh flowers. All were stone dead except Matilda, and she was just breathing. Mrs. Syeboldt followed her husband into the room so full of death, and said: “Yes, I sent them all to heaven, because God wanted them." Casper Syeboldt was stupefied.. His lips moved but no sound came. He at last recovered sufficiently to realize the awful deed, and then hastened across the street and summoned Mr. Martin, a grocer. That gentleman hastily procured- the services es a physician, but he could do nothing for the dying girl, Matilda. Attention was then turned.to Mrs. Syeboldt, who was in convulsions. She managed to toll the physician that she gave the poison to her children first, laid them out, and then prepared herself for death, taking the remnant of a large dose of strychnine. She died in great agony shortly after 7 o’clock, and waj laid out beside her children. The motives of the woman in this silent, bloodless destruction of her children and self may be partly gleaned from the following notes ana bits »t writing found among the effects ot the family. They are by the oldest daughter of 12. The resignation shown by the writer is remarkable: “I wish to all my playmates a better and a happier time than I had, so good-by to you all, for you all are welcome to the place where I have gone. Remember me.’’ Among the papers was one containing two verses of the hymn beginning • “ There is a happy land,” etc. Another note is addressed to a playmate: “ Mary Murphy: Please tell Lizzie Martin [probably the daughter of the landlord of the house, 51 Finnell], Minnie Otten and Lizzie Reymould that I have forgotten their dispute and forgive them. I guess tliey will feel sorry for it May they think of me as their friend. “Tilly Syeboldt.” Other notes.read as follows : “ Dear Papa: Forgive ma, we have to leave you. Mamma thought it lias the best we could do. lam now in tiie better land, where we all live in freedom. Your daughter, Matilda.” “ Dear Papa: Please bury us decent at Wunder’s cemetery, that we may all be buried togtjthor. That’s all I request of you. My knife and money is for your present, and is in the collar-box. Buy for Anton, ;Annie and self flowers from the money which I have saved. It is mine. The knife is yours.” “ For May Murphy : I will tell you theetory of our trouble. My mother was always sick, you know, and thought of dying often, and thought how if she was dead how we would be treated, and so thought best fpr all of us to die at once, and bought something to kill us. The baby first, Annie second, Tony third, and I after. We did not suffer much, and now wo are all out of trouble.” •• Posey Morris: Take the book that I’ve brought home from school. It is not mine. It is the History of the United States. Take it to room 5, to George Caproni. It is on the lower shelf of the closet.” “This is for Mary and Nell Muiphy, my two dear playmates. I wish you a happier ana better time than I had. Good-by. You are all welcome.” Two or three of the slips containing portions of the above were written in German characters, the remainder in English.

Dividing the Profits.

According to the report on iron and steel production in this country in 1880 it appears that the number of hands employed in the Bessemer and open-hearth steel works was 10,835 ; the total wages paid during the year amounted to $4,930,349 ; the amount of capital invested was $20,975,999 ; the total cost of materials used was $36,826,928; and the total value of the product was $55,805,210. Deducting the wages ana cost of materials from the value of the product, there is left $14,047,933, which represents the profits on the year’s business. This is nearly 67 per cent, on the capital invested, and .shows that steel making is a very profitable business in the United States. It will be seen that the total wages ($4,930,349) were not quite 9 per cent on the value of the total product ($55,805,210). In other words, the capitalists engaged in this protected and most prosperous industry allowed their workmen only 9 per cent, on the value of the product, while they took 67 per cent, on it for themselves—a significant commentary on the pretense that the design and effect of protective duties is to secure good wages to American workingmen. again : the report shows that, taking the iron and steel industries together, there was paid to labor 18.7 per cent, on the product, while capital received 21.5 per cent, upon the amount invested. The annual wages paid to employes was $397 each, being a weekly average of $7.57. or $1.26 a day. In the woolen industry the annual compensation paid to workingmen was $293, or $5. 65 a week, being 93 cents a day. In this department of manufacture labor received only 17.7 per cent, on the product, while capital received over 35 per cent. In the cotton industry the average annual wages paid to labor was only $242, or 78 cents a day. And so on, all through the list of protected industries; the working man gets for his share a very moderate allowance for a living, while the lion’s share goes into the pockets of the manufacturing capitalists. St. Louis Republican.

The Profits in Steel.

Under the great Republican policy of “ protection to American workingmen ” the duty on Bessemer steel is placed at S2B per ton, and Mr. “ Pig Iron ” Kelley strenuously opposes its reduction on the ground that it would tend to pauperize the laborers engaged in steel manufacture. Be failed to state, however, that the profits of the Pennsylvania Steel Company last year were $2,000,000 on a capital stock of the same amount 1 It would be interesting to know just how low the tariff could be placed, and still allow the producers a fair return on the capital invested. The figures given above would indicate that it might be safely done ftway with entirely.—OmaAa

$1,50 nei Annum.

NUMBER 21.

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE.

The Republican -and Creenbacker Coalition. [Washington Cor. New York Sun.] The corrupt coalition between the Republicans and Greenbackers of the House of Representatives stands upon the same footing as that made with Mr. Mahone. It is simply an exchange of votes for offices. By this bargain and sale the Republicanshave already turned out four Democrats, regularly elected and certified, and put in three Republi - cans and one Greenbacker, who were not elected. It was a repetition of the great fraud of 1876, on a smaller scale. This coalition was purchased primarily to get additional votes, whereby a quorum might be more securely commanded, but really in the hope of breaking the Southern column at the fall elections. The Republican leaders look forward despondently to the complexion of the next House of Representatives. They realize that the discords in New York, in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in Indiana, and in other States must endanger many Congressional districts heretofore regarded as certain. They have to confront a large loss in the German vote, caused by obnoxious sumptuary laws. This flank movement by a trade with the Greenbackers was intended to offset these losses partially, if possible. The managers intend to revive the old game of intimidation, .by organizing deputy marshals, internal revenue officials, Postmasters, Collectors and the like into a regular partisan force. The Attorney General set this ball in motion at the recent election trials in South Carolina. The day for this foul business has gone by. Outrages can no- longer be successfully manufactured for partisan effect And force is a two-edged sword, dangerous to handle in politics. • Whoever attempts to reopen the old wounds will suffer in the experiment. The country wants repose from sectional strife, and will have it at any cost. • The disgraceful coalition with Mahone and his freebooting followers has ended in the dishonor of those engaged in it, and in the profit of Mahone and Riddleberger, who gained seats in the Senate at the expense of the administration. The speculators in Virginia bonds who had control of the Legislature at Richmond filled their pockets, and the 90,000 Republicans who served as Mahone’s pawns on the chessboard, and who were duped into a eoalition with less than onethird of their number, came out penniThe best Republicans of Virginia, who have heretofore given character to their parts home and abroad, propose to hold an early convention, at which they propose to repudiate the repudiator. They refused to support his mixed ticket last fall, and the results they then predicted in case of its success have been verified. This movement, in* addition to the break up among the Readjusters, will rout the Mahoneites at the coming election. In fact, that shameless coalition had nothing to stand upon after the offices and the patronage were distributed. So far from helping a crusade in the South, the violent rulings of the Speaker prepared by his keepers before the points were made in the House, and read when they were only partially presented, will go far to solidify the votes of that outraged people. He was backed by a revolutionary majority composed of Republicans and Greenbackers, who strangled free speech and denied the minority rights that have never been disputed under Democratic ascendency. These extreme courses only show the desperation of the party and of what its leaders are capable in their efforts to retain power. The calm judgment of the country will not sustain this violence, which, if permitted to continue, would soon Mexicanize our institutions and leave the republic a prey to the bloodv strifes that are now desolating South America. The remedy for this and for similar evils is to be found at the ballot box. Justice may be delayed by folly or by blunders, but it will overtake the guilty sooner or later. The day of settlement is now near at hand.

Calling In the Party Assessments. The political managers have heretofore carried assessments upon officeholders to an extreme point. In 1880 they levied three separate and successive “voluntary contributions” on the clerks and messengers at Washington, including the poor women in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and in the Government Printing Office. The Hon. J. A. Hubbell, of Michigan, Garfield’s “My dear Hubbell,” being Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, sent his agents through all the departments on pay day to collect these levies. Refusal was followed by prompt dismissal. That was the law of the party, enforced by orders of members of the Cabinet under the late administration. This practice is now in active operation. All the officers of the House of Representatives have been taxed 2 per cent, on their salaries, and the pages, generally the children of impoverished widows, have been compelled to pay $lO each to aid in electing Republican members of Congress. The recent trial of Gen. Curtis in this city for this very offense is treated as a trifle unworthy of serious thought. Even in high quarters the law prohibiting assessments is regarded as an expression merely of sentimental politics. The lawmakers themselves look upon it with contemptuous indifference. Mr. Van Wyck, of Nebraska, has brought the subject before the Senate in a preamble and resolution which recite a recent circular of the Republican party, as follows: Under the circumstances in which the country finds itself placed, the committee believes that you will esteem it both a privilege and a pleasure to make to its fund a contribution which it is hoped may not be less than . The committee is authorized to state that such voluntary contributions from persons employed in the service of the United States will not be objected to in any official quarter. Please make prompt and favorable response to this letter, by bank check, or draft, or money order. This circular emanates from the ConSessional Committee, and My Dear übbell is the custodian of the fund thus extorted from officeholders of every degree. The administration is in full sympathy with this mode of collecting money for the coming campaign, and it accepts the formula of “voluntary contributions” invented by Carl Schurz and the civil-service reformers under Hayes to cover their forcible levies in aid of Garfield’s election. In this respect there is no practical difference between the professional reformers and the other wing of the party, <bo “spit upon the platform.” The former turn up the white of the eve in horror 1 at assessments, but they collect the samq

fflemocrafq gttttinei JOB PRINTINS OFFICE lias better (mOIUm than any ofltea tn Northweetaw Indiana for the execution of aQ branch* of miNTiNGc PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. .inythlnc, from a Dodger to a Nrtea-Uat. or from • ramphlet to a Footer, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

toll as the latter imposes, iu the form of “ voluntary contributions,” with a tax gatherer to call the roll, and to compel the payment of the 2 per cent.—-New lorA Sun.

Duties on Luxuries and Necessaries. Many people think our present tariff bears heaviest on articles of luxury. The following table will disabuse them on this point, and afford food for reflection in the present contest between capital and labor. With 99 per cent on steel rails, and with the rapid substitution of steel for iron rails on our railroads one would think that the workers in steel-rail mills should be paid enough to keep them from striking. Here is the table: DUTIU ON LUXURIXS. Per Cent. Lacea, cords, gimps, braids to Diamonds PJ Embroideries J" Fancy articles "*■ Richest kinds of cut glass Jewelry ’’ Musical instruments •«’ Champagne, in pints. Champagne, in quarts, $0 per dosen Still wines, in bottles «2!< DUTIKH ON NXOKSBITUCS. • < /Vr <vnf. Cleaned rice.' Epsom salts Chicory Spool thread "’M Window glass, commonSß'jifti.l Band and hoop iron 75 Boiler plates 6,1 Horseshoe nails Locomotive tiros. Steel rails HU Castor oil UH Croton oil l Paris white 240 Balmoral alpaca 01 Blankets, valued at bf>s.[ cents per pound.. 811'4 Woolen hosiery, valued at CO cents per pound 100J4 Bunting, valued at 23 cents per pound.... 121

Abolish the Internal Revenue System.

I favor, openly and boldly, the entire abolition of the cumbrous, corrupt and spying system of the internal revenue. It is not necessary to say that ifs officers are corrupt; it is the system. Its Officers pursue the voter into his cigar and tobacco shops and into stills, breweries and factories with th ream, and it has itsarmy of 5,000. Worse than the janizary or the ' mameluke, it undertakes by its occult machinery to intimidate and defraud. Away with it! Every speck of it on our body politic is a cancer. lam willing to meet this issue at the polls, and woe be to that member who upholds it to overfill our treasury, that the greedy may riot in the people’s hardearned means collected by its officials. Indeed, it seems a part of the • plan adopted by the dominant party to allow no reduction. The surplus is to bo piled up year after year, and this is the issue we are to meet.— Speech of the Hon. S. S. Cox on the Tariff

INDIANA ITEMS.

Fire destroyed Fisher & Son’s flour mill, at Spencer, causing a loss of $lO,000. Insured for $4,000. The farmers of Wabash county have, since February, invested about $5,000 in notes with lightning-rod and other swindlers. Probably the oldest Sunday-school in Indiana is the Methpdist Episcopal, of Corydon. It has been in operation for sixty-five years. A. gypsy band, several members of which are afflicted with small-pox, have been introducing the disease in the vicinity of Wabash. The debt of the city of Jeffersonville is figured down to $374,000 in round numbers. The debt of New Albany, with three times the resources, is $395,000. While Henry Kuntz and wife, of Frankfort, Clinton county, were at. church, two masked men broke open the house, bound and blindfolded a boy left at home, and took $165 in cash. Near La Gro, Wabash county, some •person, unknown, fired a revolver into a coach of a Wabash passenger train. The bullet grazed the head of a traveler aud imbedded itself in the woodwork. William Kirchbauh, a wood-chopper, was caught by a falling tree at Urbana, Wabash county, and instantly killed. Ee was felling the timber and it came down unexpectedly. His body was horribly crushed. The annual quarrel over the election of City School Trustees, at Greensburg, is on again, and will only terminate with a strongly-contested lawsuit. The mam question now seems to be as to which bank shall control the school funds.

Edward R. Hill, of Fort Wayne, who swindled several Chicago firms out of large consignments of produce, pleaded guilty to using the mails for fraudulent purposes, and was fined $5 and sentenced to six months in jail. Steve Meyer, of Lawrenceburg, un ~ dertook to get rid of some troublesome pigeons with his shot-gun. The shot scattered, and his daughter, coming in range just as he pulled the trigger, received a number in her side and breast. Her injuries are painful, but not mortal. Daniel Deeter, a deaf and dumb man, while walking on the track of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne road near Ridgeville, Adams county, was run over and instantly killed by an express train. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death by his own carelessness. While a gang of workmen were quarrying stone in the old Wabash and Erie canal "bed, east of La Gro, Wabash county, they came upon a number of partially-petrified fish. One specimen was about a foot long and six inches in diameter, and appeared to lie the head of some reptile. The curiosities were not wholly fossilized. Dr. Houghton, of Spencerville, De Kalb county, was beaten into inseinibility by Jacob Baltz. The doctor and Mrs. Baltz had been in the habit of jesting with each other ; but ®n this occasion the woman lost her temper, claimed she had been insulted, and in formed her husband. Hence the assault. The quickest time on record in a divorce suit was made the other day nt Fort Wayne. A wealthy farmer named J. V. Gilbert drove to town with his wife, and she handed in an application for freedom on the ground of cruelty. The couple then agreed that the wife should have si,ooo in cash, new false teeth every three years, half the furniture, fruit and milk, and two-thirds of the children. Both appeared in court, and the divorce was at once granted. Seventeen carrier pigeons, belonging to Cleveland, were turned loose at the depot in Winchester, in this State, at 7 o’clock in the morning. They circled around for twenty minutes before they took their departure, but at 10 o’clock they arrived in Cleveland, having made the distance, 208 miles, in three hours from the time the cages were opened, or from the time they took their final leave only two hours and forty minutes, which is at the rate bf seventy-eight miles per hour,