Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1886 — Page 7

®ljc BemocraticSentinri RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Publisher

The Hon. Wm. D. Keller, of Pennsylvania, thinks he was the first public man in America to make a speech for woman suffrage. It was forty-five years ago, and he has firmly believed in the cause ever since. Sabah Winnemucca, the Piute Princess, has built a school-house at Lovelock, Nevada, where twenty-five little Piutes are learning to read and write free of all expense. They are said to be very bright scholars. The North German Gazette , of Berlin, says: “The prosecution is imminent of numerous' Germans who style themselves doctors on the strength of diploma; purchased in America. There are 3,400 such doctors in Berlin alone.” Hair three-quarters the length of the women and of wonderful thickness is common in Mexico. It is often worn loose, but more frequently in two long plaits. Wig-makers find no employment there. The men wear long, heavy bangs.

A well-known lady of Macon lias a curious superstition. Upon entering a room for the first time .she stands in the center and bows to each corner. She declares that this exhibition of politene-s is intended to propitiate the spirits. Mrs. James Brown Potter, who recently electrified a Washington audience by reciting “ ’Ostler. Joe,” was a witness in a New York law case several days ago. She wore an English ulster, and attracted much attention as she gave her testimony in a clear and concise manner. Chief Mahf.dy, of the New York Fire Department, was killed recently while en route to a lire, his wagon being dashed to pieces by colliding with a fire engine. About a year ago the Chief of the Cincinnati Fire Department was killed in the same way, and shortly thereafter an Assistant Fire Marshal of Chicago lost his life under similar circumstances. Attention has been drawn to the alleged fact that all words beginnin g with “si” have in some degree a second-iate or bad quality about them. “Look through the dictionary,” one writer says, “and you will not find one that is quite first-rate, for ‘sleep,’ which is about the best of them, is, after all, half way to death, and the great majority of these words are more or less disgusting as well as degrading.”

Lieut. Gen. Phil Sheridan is a domestic man, fond of his children, three bright little girls, with whom lie may frequently be seen walking on pleasant aflernoons in Washington. “Little Phil’s” hair is quite gray and his mustache is almost white, but he wears a red necktie. He also wears a sack coat, a tall silk hat, carries his cane in his coat pocket with a jaunty air, and looks like the brave beausabreur he is. Prince Ivrapotkine, the “Citizen Prince,” as he is now affectionately called, is a studious-looking man of middle age, with a bald head and Shakspearean face, and wears a sealskin cap and spectacles. He speaks English with scholarly correctness, and French with vernacular fluency. His ideal of government is what he terms anarchical communism. He predicts that a great revolution will close the present century. A Wilmington (Del.) paper, in announcing the death at that place of Henry 13. Courtney, of the Diamond Match Company, assures a skeptical world that the secret of making parlor matches is now known to but one man, Mr. Courtney's son. Mr. Courtney’s son may think he has a monopoly, but nevertheless matches will continue to be made in every parlor in the land where an agreeable young woman can be found, and the Wilmington man •can’t help himself. Tije Times-Democrat , of New Orleans, draws this portrait of Mrs. Mary Livermore, upon her recent appearance in that city : “She is physically a superb specimen of the woman she teaches U 3 will have the power to mold and guide the higher conning race. * One sees in her fine, intellectual face, with its candid eyes, big, generous brow,- <tpd gentlewomanly mouth, *ll the force, strength, and sweetness wife or mother might

need. Her presence is commanding, gestures easy, her voice clear and full, each word enunciated with charming distinctness.” Aleck Culberson was on tri 1 at Lafayette, Ga., for assault with intent to murder. Wfien he got up to make his statement; to the jury he determined to use an argument that in these hard times would fall with telling effect. He said: “Gemmen, I don’t want to go to the chain-gang. I owe Mr. George Clements lots of money, and I want you to let me stay here so I can work and pay him what I owe him.” He got clear. The Japanese and palm fans are turned to all kinds of uses in the way of wall ornaments, work-bags, etc. The paper faushave satin bags over the lower part of the ribs, and two fastened together make a circle of color admirable for wall decoration. One, joined round, and the end sticks cut off, covers a flower pot well. The last use for a palm fan is to cover it with plush, bordered with gold braid, and iu the center to fasten a photograph edged with the gold braid. It should be laid on coinerwise. Gen. W. B. Franklin, of Hartford, Conn., has received a letter from a member of Gen. Hancock’s stafi' on Govornor’s Island, denying stories afloat as to numerous life-insurance policies and valuable real estate left Mrs. Hancock by the dead General. The writer says: “Gen. Hancock carried but one policy, value $'9,000, on his life, and, even including this, the balance of tbe General's estate is on the debt side. Mrs. Hancock owns a half interest in some St. Louis real estate which was once productive, but which has greatly depreciated in value, and which besides is heavily involved. No income has been derived from this source, for a number of years past, and, if sold under its present incumbrance, but little would be realized.” Geu. Franklin says that Mrs. Hancock would be virtually penniless except for the fund which is being raised for he He is confident that this will be swelled to a good round sum. The late Dr. Samuel Wolcott, the eminent Congregationalist minister, in liis later life wrote many hymns, and has left on record an account of liow he began to do so. He was fifty-six years old, and had never put two rhymes together, and had taken it for granted that he was as incompetent to write a hvmn, or even a stauza, as to work a miracle. “However,” lie says, “I resolved that I would try to write a hymn of five stanzas, and proceeded to plan it, precisely as I would plan a sermon. I said, the first stanza shall be a recognition of God the Father; the second a recognition of Christ the Bedeemei; the third a prayer to Christ the Redeemer; the fifth shall blend the two in one address. * * * A more perfect recipe wooden stanzas it would be difficult to frame.” The result was the hymn beginning“Fatlier, I own Tliy voice,” and the author was surprised to find ho had written what could actually be sung. Many of his hymns have become favorites throughout the country.

Senator Fair’s friends say—and the statement is equally true of tlie other two Jiving members of the old bonanza firm—that he is no longer an active participant in mining speculations, and' that he has salted away most of his money in Government bonds and California real estate. The editor of a New York mining* journal says that he does not believe that any of the bonanza kings ever had ss much money as the world generally has thought, even in their palmiest days, and that they had less now tliair ever. “I don’t think either Fair, Mackav or Flood has put any considerable money in mines in the last three years,” he continued, “and they only own a few stocks in which they see a big future, and others that they can not get out of without heavy loss. All three have turned their attention to legitimate business. Fair is here nowlooking into some railroad enterprises; Flood is the biggest holder of real estate in San Francisco, while Mackay, as is well known, has nearly of his fortune in telegraph and cable schemes and the Hoffman House here. Their connection with tbi Comstock lode is now a reminiscence.’!

Dk. C. C. Abbott, the uafiiralist, recently found upon his farm at Trenton, N. J., a box tortoise, upon the under she 1 of which was cut his grandfather’s nanle, J. Abbott, with the date 1821. The appearance of the tortoise denoted great, . age, .and there is reason to affubfftne fSct thdf the flame was really engraved upon it sixty-four years ago.

A DESPERATE DEED.

A Tou?h Citizen of Nebraska Murders m Cold Blood His Employer. The Murderer Takes Refuge in a Barn, and Is Hunted to Death by 300 Men. A terrible tragedy is reported from Burt County, Neb. H. A. Steadman, proprietor of a creamers' near the village of Lyons, paid off and discharged one of his employes, Edward Johnson, who thereupon became and after a few words, and without provocation, drew a revolver and shot Steadman in the stomach, the wounded man dying shortly afterward. Johnson mounted a horse aud lied, but was followed by a small party of men in charge of Constable Barker, who pursued him twelve miles south, and were rapidly gaining on him. During the chase the murderer turned in his saddle, and with a repeating rifle shot one of his pursuers, C. B. Johnson, in the head, killing him almost instantly. He then shot another man in the hip, inflicting a fatal wound. Constable Barker’s horse was shot from under him. The pursuing party, however, kept up the chase, and continued to gain on him, being re-enforced bv others along the way. Finally Johnson, seeing that capture was inevitable if he continued on horseback, jumped from his horse and ran into a barn, where he held the fort against the entire party. It was thought he was wounded before he sought retreat in the barn, as he had been tired at by his pursuers, who were armed only with revolvers. The bam was surrounded by the party, which by this time had increased to 100 men. A deadly fusillade was commenced. All day the great crowd surged aud circled around the barn, but kept out of range of the besieged man. A wagon load of provisions was forwarded to the camp of the besiegers. The murderer was aimed with a revolver and a Winchester ride, aud the cracks between the boards of the structure gave him an opportunity to shoot with an accurate aim. All efforts to dislodge him proved futile. The crowd surrounding his retreat hourly increased, until at least three hundred men were pouring missiles of death into the barn from as many Winchesters, revolvers, and shotguns. Failing to dislodge him by this method, it was decided to burn him out. During the darkness of the night some one in the crowd crept up to a shed adjoining the barn and set fire to it. The caged murderer, seeing that he was doomed, fired twenty shots into the crowd in rapid succession, but hitting no one. The crowd returned the fire from Winchester rifies from all sides of the barn, and the supposition is that the murderer was killed before lie could attempt to make his escape. After the fire had subsided his dead body was found in a pile of oats. Both arms and a part of both legs were burned off. Bart of his head had been shot away, and his body was completely riddled with bullets. The supposition is that he was wounded in the leg before he ran into the bam, and lienee he did not attempt to escape. The desperado's right name was Allen Wright,aged about 28 years. His remains were buried in a cornfield. His revolver had a Texas cow head engraved on it. He had also a Wincliester rifle. Eight mules, three horses, three cows, ami a large quantity of grain were destroyed with the barn. The total loss is $5,000, which the county will probably pay. Wright killed H. C. Stedmau and Charles B. Johnson, and fatally wounded Edgar Everett, whose death will make three killed. Several are slightly wounded; all doing well.

INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.

Commissioner Wright, of the Labor Bureau, Reports One Million Men Idle. [Washington telegram.] The first annual report of the Bureau of Labor is completed. It will cover five hundred pages. Under the head “The Industrial Depression in the United States,” Commissioner Wright says: Prom tho observations of the agents of the bureau, and from other sources from which it has been possible to form conclusions, it is undoubtedly true that out of tho total number of establishments—such as factories, mines, etc. — existing in the country, about 5 per cent, were absolutely idle during 1835, and that perhaps 5 per cent, more were idle a part of the time, or, for a just estimate, 71£ per cent, of the whole number of such establishments were idle, or equivalent to idle, during the past year. Applying tlie percentage arrived at (iy 2 per cent.;, wo obtain a total of 998,839 as constituting the best statement of the unemployed in the United States during 1885 —meaning by the unemployed those who, under prosperous times, would be employed, and who' in 1885 were seeking employment—that it has been possible for the bureau to make. It is probably true that this total, as representing thp unemployed at any one time in the United States, is fairly representative, even if the laborers thrown out of work through the Oi ssation of railroad building be included. A million of men out of employment means a loss to the consumptive power of tho country of at least 31,000,000 per day, or a crippling of the trade of.rthe country of over 3300,000,000 per year. Tho earnings of the people involved in the classes named above would not bo far from 3600 each per annum, representing total earnings of 37,990,716,000. The wage earnings of the million thwfc should he employed are crippled to the extent of over 3300,000,000 per annum, a sum sufficient to cause a reaction in business and a general curtailment of expenses, from which result apprehension and timidity among all classes. It is curious to observe, however, that while the sevority of the depression causes a crippling to the extent of several hundred millions of dollars per year of the consuming power of the people, tlie volume of business transacted is not crippled comparatively to any such extent. It is shown that just previous to the financial panics of 1857, 1873, and 1882 there was an immense increase in the mileage of railroads constructed iu the United States. The results of this in throwing men out of employment have great bearing in producing depressions through the stoppage of consumptive powers. Tho Commissioner says: Tables are given indicating two things, viz.: That while, as shown, the extent of the existing industrial depression involves a crippling of the wage receivers of the country and a consequent crippling of .the consuming power of tho people, tho volume of business lias been fairly well preserved—at least not cripplid to any such extent as indicated by the crippling of the consulting power—arid the prices have constantly fallen: ’ Alohg with these two features there has been a constant diminishing of pirofits until many have bom. conducted with little or xio margin to thews engaged and’a great lowering of wages in general.

AN ENTERPRISING CITY.

Metropolis of Western lowa. Its Surroundings and Prospects. Wonderful Increase in Population and j Ensines3. Sioux City, the metropolis of Western lowa, which, ou account of its rapid growth, is at present attracting widespread attention, is situated on the Missouri River, about 500 miies west of Chicago. Behind it ate the fertile rolling prairies, 50,000 square miles in extent. whose great cornfields are the wonder of the world, and whose rapidly growing population is as intelligent, energetic, and thrifty as any race of men the world ever produced. West and south. Nebraska stretches 400 miles away to the romantie valleys and foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Commencing within three miles of the city, tho great and luxuriant railing prairies of Dakota, stretching hundreds of miles toward the Bacific Slope, are rapidly developing into a great empire of wealth and population that exceeds the wildest dreams of human speculation. Here, what was once supposed t o be a great desert of sand, sage brush and bad lands is being made to “bloom and blossom as the rose,” tbe liche-t country that the sun shines on. Dakota’s 90,(>OO,OOO of acres are covered with luxuriant cornfields, inexhaustible pasturage, pine forests, ranges of rich mineral mountains, with a net-work of great rivers and railroads, immense wheat fields, great herds of cattle, and a population as wonderful iu enterprise, thrift and intelligence as it is in rapid growth. Then to the north, less than 100 miles distant, lies Minnesota, whose wheat fields have long been tbe preeminent wheat regions of the world. Besides being located on the Missouri River, where it first touches our western border, and is navigable for large-sized steamboats for a distanee of 1,900 miles above, it is located near the mouth of two of its large tributaries. Tbe Big Sioux, which forms about Seventy miles of tho' western boundary of lowa, empties into tho Missouri River about two miles above the city. It drains and waters 1,000 square miles of lowa territory, and its valleys are wonderfully rich and productive. Just below. and forming the eastern boundary of the city, the Floyd River empties into the Missouri. It is a small stream, but flows through a rich and beautiful valley. It is about 100 miles long and drains about 1,500 square miles of territory. There are many mills erected on its banks, and its waterpower is valuable. Berry Creek, which also drains a lovely territory, and whose valleys are filled with beautiful farms, flows through the city and empties into the Missouri. Less than a generation ago the land upon which Sioux City is located, and tho territory for hundreds of miles north, south, east and west, lay in its primeval beauty, with’no sign of civilization. The red man of tbe prairie was unmolested in his rich hunting grounds. The buffalo roamed at will over tbe beautiful natural lawns of vivid green, upon the rolling prairies, beautiful plateaus and lovely valleys. The rich carpet of nature made his home beautiful, and furnished him with an easy, luxuriant living. The solemn stillness was broken only by the war-whoop of the Indian, the lowing of the buffalo, and tho hungry cry of the wolf. The population of Sioux Citv in 187. G was G,000; in 1880,7,308; in 1883, 14,000; in June, 1885, 19,074; in January, 188 G, 23,382 —a gain of 4,308 from June, 1885, to January, 188 G. Brobably no city of its size in the country shows more activity in building operations than does this bright little Western metropolis at the present day. Buildings of all classes are being erected as fast as men and material can put them in shape, and the demand seems to exceed the supply. There are no vacant stores in the city, and owners of residence property have no difficulty in finding tenants as soon as houses are ready for occupancy, that are willing to pay good rents. Among the building improvements that are now under way are several large blocks of stores, a $200,000 hotel, several factories and scores of residences varying iu size aud style, from the quiet little cottage to the stately mansion. • The demand for carpenters, bricklayers, aud other mechanics is, much greater than the supply, and all find work at good wages as soon as they reach the city. It is reported that a number of contractors have been delayed upon tbeir work quite seriously on account of the scarcity of good help. One reason for this scarcity is the demand made by outside towns for assistance. When mechanics of any kind are needed in the small towns (of which there are many) lying in the vicinity of Sioux City they send there for them, and, as a consequence, every one that desires work can have it. A good mechanic has no reason to be idle there. Few cities of its size in this or any other country can boast of better improvements, better manufactories, larger wholesale houses, or more energetic people. The city has a perfect police, fire, water, and sewerage system, under the magagemeut of competent directors and superintendents, and before another winter sets in several miles of the best pavement that can be invented will cover some of its most prominent thoroughfares. Several of the most important railroads in the West center there, and'more will soon seek admission to its limits. It is expected that a large Union Basseuger Depot will be erected at this season for the accommodation of business of the Chicago and Northwestern, Sioux City and Bacific, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Illinois Central, and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroads, all of which run trains to aud from Sioux City daily at the present time. ‘ ~ . ”r An unrepealed law of New Jersey, passed while the State was a British colony, reads as follows: “That all women of whatever • ag", rank, profession or decree, whether, virgins, maids or >vidows 7 who shall' after ' this act impose upon; seduce afrit beHaV*into matrimony any of his Majesty's snUjeHs by virtue Us- scents, cosmetics, washes, paints, artificial teeth, false lmir hr highbei shoes,.shall imuM*lhe penalty oif* the law nowifl qgajwt iriUbejwJ't-u nrUike. misdemeanors.”

INDIANA MATTERS.

A Dccismi on tin 1 Term of a Township Tm-toc \f\v Swindling Scheme in Itoono County —A Decision on the l.usl ol' tile Tcii'|)i|..me Cases .Minor state Items. State Auditor Rice submitted to-Attor-ney Central Herd for ..n official opi .rou the question.“ Suppose a Township Trustee die- and the vacancy is. filled by appointment, and the appointee holds by virtue of such appointment for tlm period of five months. ,m l he i- elected Trustee at the succeeding April i lection and holds for the term of two year- hs he again eligible to tlie s ime officer” in amove! to the question the Attorney General says- -The statute provides 'hereafter no IHiso-.i shall be t lirible to the cilice c.f Township Trustee move than four y ears m any period of six years.' If the statute was susceptible of the construction that a Trustee cannot nndernuy circumstances hold the office tor move than four years in anv period of six years, and that tho time during which the officer held under appointment should ho estimated as a part cf such time, yet the fact of tin. officer holding the office for live months under appointment and two years by election would not render him eligible to a second election ns Trustee, hut his time ns such officer would terminate when tho lonr years of continuous office would expire. But this statutemust he construed in connection with tlie Constitution of Indiana, which ptovides, ‘ln nil oases in which it is provided that nn office shall not be filled by the same person more than a certain.'number of years continuously', an appointment pro tempore shall not bo reckoned a part of that term.’ The statute must bend to the Uonstitmion, and not the Constitution to tlm statute. It is my opinion that the time of five months hold-under an appointment is not to be recluned ns any' partof tho four. years during which a Trustin' may hold his office, but that lie is eligible to the office for two terms by election, and that he, can hold by virtue of such elections t'< r four years, and the time li Id under an nppt intmei .t pro tempore is not to be counted as any partof su di four years." —A well-dressed, smooth tongued swindler has been defrauding the unsuspecting farmers in Boone and adjoining counties. This time it is the paint trick. The First National Bank of Lebanon is in receipt of several notes on farmers, who claim that they were misled into signing the notes under the impression that they were receipts for paint, to be used by them in painting the roofs of their buildings. A couple of nice-appearing strangers, during the month of December last, went to the houses of farmers and represented that (hoy were agents for roof-paint, and proposed to give ten dollars' worth of the article to the honest tiller of the soil, and he was to recommend it to his neighbors. It looked very nice, and they took in the bait; some gave receipts, and others notes, which would never be collected, but were to show to others of the neighborhood, just for tho influence it would lmve. —The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided the last of the telephone cases. The decision was given by Chief Justice Niblack. It covers tbe constitutionality of the two laws passed by the last Legislature for the regulation of telephone affairs, the points involved in the law reducing rentals having previously been decided in the cases of Jloekett against tho State, and in this th 1 Court reaffirmed its former opinion by simply calling attention to it. Regarding tho non-discrimination act, the Court holds at length that the telephone company is a common carrier, and as such is subject to all the regulations which the law imposes upon common carriers. It cannot, therefore, refuse service to any person who demands it and fulfills the legal requirements. —Tbe children of Frank Klee, a farmer living in the vicinity of Huniingburg, went fishing, and on their return brought home several small fish, which they carelessly laid down. One of the smaller children, aged 2 years, picked up one of the fish and attempted to put it in its mouth. As the fish was still alive it flounced put of the child's hand and got fast iu its throat. The father, in attempting to pull the fish out, pulled the tail off, and the child was choked to death in a few minutes. ~ —Some time ago a New Albany photographer received a copy of a picture from the Sheriff of Orange County, being that of three toughs sittiug on the same seat in a spring wagon, one driving, one flourishing ii revolver, and the other holding a bottle of whisky. He was instructed to make 500 photographs of the mail sitting in the'middle, which was tlie notorious Anther. As soon as the Sheriff of Fountain 'County received a photograph he at once went and put his hand on the man. —An attempt was made to poison the family of. Henry Sanders, of Stone’s Crossing. A quantity of “Rough on Rats” was placed in the coffee the family had for breakfast. Four members of the family were made violently sick, but by prompt treatment are recovering. A son-in-law of Sanders named Champlin was arrested on suspicion and lodged in jail under $20,000 bond. He protests his innocence. —Some of the best corn lands in Indiana are the bottoms of ponds which have been drained, but in certain of these the working of the soil on warm days causes an intolerable itching, followed by burning pain in the skin for some days. The cause of this is found to be the minute spicules of sponges which once grew in the pond and remain iu enormous abundance in the dust. —A fe>v days since, two patent deeds Were recorded in the Recorder’s office, at Goshen, one, dated 183 G and signed by President Andrew Jackson, for forty acres in Jefferson . Township, to Ede Davison, and- the ,6thpx : .dated 1837, for IGO acres in same signed by Martin Van Buren, to Jofin.S. Wilson. A —lsrael .Neal, the oldest resident of Logauspoit, is dead. Mr. Noal came to Cass Couu y sixty-five years ago, when there were but a dozen log cabins in the county. —Christian Failor, aged 80 years,* at one