Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1887 — Page 3

BASE-BALL.

The Northwestern League Championship—The New Western League. A Talk with Captain Anson—Gossip of Clubs and Players from Different Cities. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] The patt week has been a busy one for •the management of the Chicago Ball Club. The task of tignirg such of the players of the past season as it was thought desirable to retain for another year and of securing new men by which to strengthen the team for coming struggles has not been an easy -one. President Spalding has had his hands full twelve hours out of the twentyfour, and when asked by your reporter last evening what men had been engaged thus far, he said: “Of course you know that the work of signing our men has not yet been completed, and may not be for some months to come. Up to date I have Anson, Burns, Van Haltren, Ryan, Daring, Sullivan, Baldwin, Pettit, Tebeau and .Sprague of the old team. The following new players have been signed: Brynan, of Duluth; Fielder Duffy, of the Lowell club, said to be the best general player in the New England League; Pitcher W. H. Clark, of Des Moines; Catcher Charles F. Hoover, generally considered the best catcher and general player in the Western League, making fourteen men that have been signed to date. In addition to the above we expect to sigh Pfeffer, Clarkson, Williamson, Sunday, Flint and Daly. We are also negotiating for two or three crack pitchers.” Last week delegates to the annual meeting of the Northwestern League assembled at the Tremont House. Manager Hart, of the Milwaukee team, was present to protest the game between the Milwaukee and Minneapolis teams in which Con Murphy had played against Milwaukee. Hart • cluimed that Murphy was under contract with the Oshkosh Club, and therefore had no light to play in a • championship game with the Minneapolis club, and that the game in question should, therefore, either be declared off or awarded to Milwaukee. The meeting, however, declined to recognize the protest, and Oshkosh, therefore, remains the champion, Northwestern League club of the present season. Had the claim been allowed, Oshkosh would have been relegated to second place, and Milwaukee would have taken the championship as well as first claim i upon the handsome SSOO cup offered by A. G. Spalding & Bros, to the team winning the championship three seasons. Following the meeting of the Northwestern League, a meeting of delegates for the formation of the much-talked-of new Western League was held and the ■ organization of the same was completed. The new association will consist of clubs from Chicago, St. Louis, Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas • City, and Milwaukee. The promoters of the new association are Samuel G. Morton, •of Chicago; T*J. Loftus, of St. Louis; E. G. Briggs, of Omaha; E. E. Menges, of Kansas City; James A. Hart, of Milwaukee; A. M. Thompson, of St. Paul; R. O. Foster, of Minneapolis; and C. M. Sherman, of Des Moines. Your correspondent met Capt. Anson the ■ other day and had a chat with him concerning the new players the club had signed and which are still to be signed for next year. “Does the accession of all this young blood mean the release of any of the older players?” asked your correspondent. “Not necessarily. We shall probably hold on to all of the old men we have got now, and sign anywhere from six to ten youngsters, retaining the best of them through the season.” “Will Clarkson and Pfeffer be with us next season?” “Such is my belief: yes.” “Are you on good terms personally with .both?” “Perfectly.” “How about that fine against Fritz?” “I have never reported any fine against ‘ Pfeffer to the club. But even if I had that - would not affect his contract for next year?” “Williamson, Burns and ‘Old Silver’ will be with us just the same next season?” “You can bet every dollar you have got that they will.” “And Darling, Daly, Van Haltren, and Sullivan?” “Every one of ’em.” “How about Mark Baldwin. Will you release him to Pittsburg?” “No, .sir. We will release him to nowhere. We will keep him right where he is. I’ll bet that you’ll say I was right when I declared some time ago that none •of them can beat Baldwin when Baldwin settles down to the work he is capable of -doing. Baldwin will be one of the best of the League pitchers yet, mark my words.” “How about Sprague?” “A good little man; but I am afraid he is mot heavy enough for work in the League.” “Will you keep him?” “I hardly think so.” “Were there any men you wanted this year but slipped up on?” “Yes. One League club captured three • of the men I had set my heart upon.” “Which was that?” “The club is New York. The men are Foster, Crane, and Slattery. I wanted ■ every one of those fellows, but we just did not happen to get around into their section ■ of territory at tue right time.” “What do you think of Foster?” “He is a ball-player, through and through, but I understand he is a bit unreliable in his habits.” “Has Indianapolis any just claim upon his services?” “Not a claim. New Y r ork has got Foster and will keep h : m. Indianapolis dare not press a claim, and will not.” “What do you think of the DetroitBrowns series?” “It turned out just as I expected. I must admit, however, that I did not expect to see the Browns laid out so flat.” Tommy Burns, the clever little third baseman of the Whites, came in at that and was asked what his plans were for the winter. “I am going to California,” was the reply. “Who else will go?" “Ned Williamson, Jimmy Ryan, Martin •Sullivan, and Pfeffer. ■ Maskrey, of Mil-

waukee; Carroll, of Pittsburgh; Mullane, of Cincinnati, and one or two others will make up the balance of the team. Tom Daly is’ down to Hot Springs just at present, and may join ns later on. We leave Saturday.” “By the way, Tom,” I asked, “what do you think of the world’s championship series?” “Just what I thought of it before it commenced. St. Louis cannot play with Detroit.” “What is their shortcoming?” "They can’t hit Detroit s pitchers, in the first place, and they can’t run bases on Bennett in the second.” NOTES AND COMMENT. Walter Spalding, the New York end of A. G. Spalding <fc Bros., returned from England last week, after a month's sojourn there on business. He secured the agency of the Lillywhite Cricket House while there’. Weidman has been signed by the New Y’ork Club as one of their pitchers for 1888. He will be a good man in the box with the New York field to back him. His percentage of victories while in the League was .564. Anson’s market value as manager, captain, first baseman, and batsman of a team has been run up to $25,000. Nimick, of Pittsburg, bid $15,000 for his release las't week, but Spalding said that Pittsburg would have to begin the bidding at $25,000. The fact is Chicago and Anson are inseparable. It is almost an assured thing that White, of Louisville, will play short stop tor the St. Louis Browns in 1888. Gleason will be one of the St. Louis nine in the Western League. Werriek, of Louisville, too, is mentioned as likely to take Latham’s place in the St. Louis team, and Latham to play in Louisville in 1888. Manager Mutrie has greatly strengthened the New York team for next season by the engagement of Crane and Slattery of the Toronto Club, Cleveland and Foster of the St. Pauls, and Hatfield of the Portlands, all young, prom sing players. Crane is the noted long-distance thrower, and distinguished himself last season in pitcher’s position. The Philadelphia Club led the National League in shutting out their opponents, they beating in this manner: Indianapolis three times, Boston twice, and New York and Pittsburgh once each. New York was second in this respect, and Chicago third. Every National League club was blanked in at least two games.

THE NORSE COLUMBUS.

The Sturdy Navigator Who Found His Way to the New World 500 Years Before Him of Genoa. There was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies, at Juneau Park, Milwaukee, a few days ago, a splendid statue of Lief Ericson, the bold Icelandic navigator who, it is pretty well established, discovered the American Continent nearly 500 years before Columbus sighted its shores. The statue is by Miss Whitney, of Boston, and is a replica of one which was unveiled in Commonwealth avenue, Boston, at the same time. It is said to be an excellent work of aft, and will establish an enviable reputation for Miss Whitney in a field in which

members of her sex have rarely excelled. It is of bronze and will weigh about 1,200 pounds. The granite base upon which it is to stand is eight feet square at the base and weighs fourteen tons. Leif was a son of Eric the Red, one of the Norse sea kings who flourished in the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century. Fired by the report brought by one of Eric’s followers that in seeking for Greenland a great land farther to the west had been seen, Leif set sail for the new continent in the year 1000, and landed somewhere in the neighborhood of the island subsequently known as Nantucket. A brother and a sister of the venturous Norseman followed him in independent voyages several years later, and with their retainers explored the coast of the mainland for several hundred miles, becoming familiar with parts of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Long Island, and New York. These voyages are now as well authenticated as those of Columbus, which they preceded by nearly five hundred years. The fact that they resulted in no permanent settlement at the time is the reason why they have failed to occupy a place in history as prominent as that secured by the later discoverers of America. Now, however, that the children of the old Norsemen are flocking to this conn try to establish themselves, and that the study of Norse literature is coming to be considered of account in the universities, the fame of Leif is likely to grow wider from year to year.

Silver was first coined by Phidan, King of Argos, about 860 B. C., the epoch of the building of Carthage, and 140 years after the building of Solomon’s Temple.

THEY DON'T WANT MERCY.

Fischer, Lingg, and Engel Write Letters to the Governor of Illinois. Cook County Jail, Chicago, Nov. 1, 1887. To Mr. R. J. Oglesby, Governor of the State of Illinois: Dear Sir—l am aware that petitions are being circulated and signed by the general public asking you to commute the sentence of death which was inflicted upon me by a Criminal Court of this State. Aueut this action of a sympathizing and well-meaning portion of the pconle I s-lemnly declare that it has not my sanction. As a man of honor, as a man of conscience, and as a man of principle I cannot accept mercy. lam not guilty of the charge in the inuictment—of murder. I urn no murderer. and cannot apologize lor an action of which I know lam innocent. And should 1 ask "mercv” on account of my principles, which I honestly belie e to be true and noble ? Ao/ I am no hypocrit, and Lave, therefore, no excuses to offer with regard to being an Anarchist, because the experiences of the last eighteen months have only strengthened my convictions. The question is, Ami responsible for the death of the nolicemen at the hnymarketf and I say no, unless you assert that every Abolitionist could have been held responsible for the deeds of john Brown. Therefore, I could not avk or accept "mercy” without lowering myself in nty self-estimation. If I cannot obtain justice from the authorities and be restored to my family then I prefer that the verdict should be carried out as it stands. Every informed person must, I should think, admit that this verdict is solely due to class hatred, prejudice, the inflaming of public opinion by the m ilicioos newspaper fraternity, and a desire on the part of the privileged classes to check the progressive labor movement. The interested parties, of course, deny this, but it is nevertheless true, and I am sure that coming ages will look-upon our trial; conviction, and execution us the people of the nineteenth century regard the barbarities of past generations —as the outcome of intolerance and prejudice against advanced ideas. History repeats itself. As the powers that be have at all times thought that they could stem the progressive tide by exterminating a few “kickers,” so do the ruling classes to-duy imngine that they can put a stop to the movement of labor emancipation by hanging a few of its advocates. Progress in its victorious march has had to overcome many obstacles which seemed invincible, and many of its apostles have died the death of martyrs. The obstacles which bar the road of progress to-day seem to be invincible, too; but they will be overcome, nevertheless. At all times when the condition of society had become such that a large portion of the people complained of the existing injustice, the ruling classes have denied the truth of these complaints, but have said that the discontent of the portion of the people in question was due only to the “pernicious influence” of “malicious agitators.” Today again some people assert that the “d—d agitators” are the cause of the immense dissatisfaction among the working people! O, you people who speak thus, can you not or will you not read the signs of the times? Do you not see that the clouds on the social firmament are thickening? Are you not, for instance, aware that the control of industry and of the means of transportation, etc., is constantly concentrating in fewer hands ; that the monopolists—i. e., the sharks among the capitalists—swallow the little ones among them; that "trusts,” “pools,” and other combinations are being formed in order to more thoroughly and systematically fleece the people ; thut under the present system the develojiment of technic and machinery is from year to year throwing more workingmen on the wayside ; that in some parts of this great and fertile land a majority of the farmers are obliged to mortgage their homes in order to satisfy the greed of monstrous cori>orations; that, in short, the lich are constantly growing richer and the poor poorer ? Yes ? And do you not comprehend that all these evils find their origin in the present institution of society which allows one portion of the human race to build fortunes upon the misfortunes of others; to enslave their fellowmen? Instead of trying to remedy these evils, and instead of ascertaining just wnat the cause of the widening dissatisfaction is, the ruling classes, through their mouthpieces, the press, pulpit, etc., defame and misrepresent the character, teachings, and motives of the advocates of social reconstruction, and use the rifle and club on them, and, if opportunity is favorable, send them to the gallows and prisons. Will this do any good? As an answer I may as well quote the following words with which Benjamin Franklin closed his satirical essay, “Huies for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small one,” which he dedicated to the English Government in 1776: “Suppose all their (the kickers’| complaints to be invented and promoted by a lew factious demagogues, whom if you could catch and hang all w ould be quiet. Catch and hang a few accordingly; and the blood of the martyrs shall work miracles in favor of your purpose—i. e., your own ruin.” So, I say, society may hang a number of disciples of progress who have disinterestedly served the cause of the sons of toll, which is the cause of humanity, but their blood will work miracles in bringing about the downfall of modern society and in hastening the birth of a new era of civilization. Magna est veritas, et prevalebit 1 Adolph Fischer. To Mr. R. J. Oglesby, Governor of the State of Illinois: Anent the fact that the progressive and liberty-loving portion of the American people are endeavoring to prevail upon vou to interpose your perogative in my case, I feel impelled to declare, with my friend and comrade, Parsons, that I demand e.ther liberty or death. If you are really a servant of the people according to the Constitution of the country, then you will, by virtue of your office, unconditionally release me. Referring to the general and inalienable rights of men, I have called upon the disinherited and oppressed masses to oppose the force of their oppressors—exercised by armed enforcement of infamous laws enacted in the interest of capital with force in order to attain a dignified and manly existence by securing the full returns of their labor This—and only this—is the “crime” which was proven against me, notwithstanding the employment of perjured testimony on the part of the State. And this crime is guaranteed not only as a right but as a duty by the American Constitution, the representatives of which you are supposed to be in the State of Illinois. But if you are not the representative of the Constitution, but, like the great majority of office-holders, a mere tool of the monopolists or a specific political clique, you will not encroach upon the thirst for blood displayed by the extortioners, because a mere mitigation of the verdict would be cowardice and a proof that the ruling classes which you represent are themselves abashed at the monstrosity of my condemnation, and, consequently, of their own violation of the most sacred rights of the people. Your decision in that event will not only judge me, but also yourself and those whom you revresent. Judge then ! Louis Lingo. Rear Sir: I, George Engel, citizen of the United States and of Chicago, and condemned to death, learn that thousands of citizens petition you, as the highest executive officer of the State of Illinois, to commute my sentence from death to imprisonment. I protest emphatically against this on the following grounds : I am not aware of having violated any laws of this country. In my firm belief in the Constitution which the founders of this Republic bequeathed to this people, and which remains unaltered, I have exercised the right of iree speech, free press, free thought, and free assemblage, as guaranteed by the Constitution, and have criticised the existing condition of society and succored my fellow-citizens with my advice, which I regard as the right of every honest citizen. The experience which I have had in this country, during the fifteen years that I have lived here, concerning the ballot and administration of our public functionaries who have become totally corrupt, has eradicated my belief in the existence of equal rights of poor and rich, and the action of the public officers, police and militia, have produced the firm belief in me that these conditions cannot last long. In accordance with this experience I have taught and advised. This I have done in good faith of the rights which we are guaranteed by the Constitution, and, not being conscious of my guilt, the “powers that be” may murder me,, but they cannot legally punish me. I protest against a commutation of my sentence, and demand either liberty or death. I renounce any kind of mercy. Respectfully, George Engel.

TOMMY ON AUTUMN.

Y ANNA CERES FRITSCH. DIS is Thee thurd see■pJriJ son of thea yeer. it f? lias2naims, fanl And i punkins And A IT' Winter squashes Is JI . Ripe in oughtum and is \ lluu redditu be hauld imam. pnnkins s fed 11 the w Cows moastli. but Squashes is kookd fur

thea famly tu Ete. bum of them Is giv awa tu thee nabers whats bin too lasy tu rase thare own. Thea quo >mber Bugg rases Hob with the squash vines, and it Goes fer mellens and things when it gets A chance, thare is Lots of kinds of buggs in natcherel histri. Thay is difrunt shaip and koller naimli: Thea potater g, thee Joon bug, Tiie chinch bugg, thea ] inch bug, the Litening Bugg. The • <1 ride

beefe bugg. Thare is a hull drove of Bugs besides, but i kant Think of thare naimes, just now.; In aughtiim squirrulls is Fat and maik good Pott Pi. mi Bruther joshoway shot 8 thea uther Da. mi Pa set Him to plowing and he sneaked off And

Wente hunting. Pa Felt riled Up and promist Him a thrashing, but Hee never Got it, caus mi Ma took joshes part and sed so Mutch, that pa Let Him go. Wimmin is poore Hands tu rase A family of Boys, in the aughtuin the’ skoole Dereckters Hire a man teecher fer our skool. in the summer we allwais have A ladi Teecher; cause its cheaper, but it Taiks a stout feller tu teech thea winter skule; caus aul the Big boys go then. A skiilemom cudnt Handel them. ,Skule Techers expeckt tu git Licked about twict A week. It taikes Lots of Edgukashun tu maik A Teecher. Th a Jcno awl About speling, Reeding, jografy, Grammer, rithmotick and Riteing. mi Pap ses, He donte See no yoose in a Boys studdying grammer; It aint No beniflt tu Him in Reel life. I like jografi Best, a oshun Is a boddi of Watur surrounded By Land, a eyland is A boddi of land surrounded By watur. Ships sale On thee oshun. when Fokes aint yoosed tu Riding in a bote, it moastli allwais maikes Them sick tu 'Thare stummicks. Seesickness is worse than Luvsicknes, i Hurd mi sister Tel her Intamist jung Ladi trend so. TOMMI.

Janies Beauregard Goode.

James Beauregard Goode, the humorous contemporary Southern poet and writer, is the son of M. W. Goode, Jong and favorably known in Mississippi before the war. He was born July 21, 1861, was educated in Upshur

County, Texas, and was married to Miss Lucinda J. Sanders Jan. 1, 1882. She died April 7, 1883, and he became a morose and silent man. In J anui ry, 1884, with little money and no aid, he set out to travel and wandered aimlessly through America and Europe. Upon his return he set to work to retrieve his fortune and good name. His poems as they appeared became universally popular. In 1886 he began the preparation of his great book of poems, “The Golden Gems of Thought,” which has since become a great favorite with the reading public.

She Swallowed the Diamond.

“Let me tell you of an incident that occurred to me once. I was a young man then and a clerk in Tiffany’s. One morning a richly attired lady got out of her handsome carriage and entered the store. She walked to the diamond department and asked to be shown some loose gems. She selected two valuable solitaires and paid for them. Thinking my attention was called in another direction, she slyly but rapidly took a stone and placed it in her mouth. I saw the theft, but hardly knew what to do. Calling for a messenger, I sent for our business manager, and told him ■what had happened. Without an instant’s delay he said: ‘Madame, you have made a mistake. You have one of our diamonds in your mouth. Will you return it without an exposure?’ The next moment she gave a gulp, and 1 knew the gem had gone. She had swallowed it. Of course we were in a dilemma. The lady became indignant, and threatened suit and violence at the hands of her husband.” “What did you do?” “Sent the bill with a written explanation to the husband. The next day he paid us a visit. He said that he believed there was a mistake, but that he could not afford an exposure.”— Jewelers’ Weekly.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—John Snyder, the man who walks because he can't stop, after an incessant tramp of almost three years, is at last nearing the end. His iron constitution is broken down under the fearful strain, and John Owen Snyder, the tireless pedestrain, will soon be numbered with those that have gone. He has a family consisting of a wife nnd lour or five children, who will be comfortably provided for in case of his death. Paradoxical as it may seem, his strange aflliclion, which no physicinn has yet been able to understand, has proved to be both a curse and a blessing to his family. Prior to it there was a constant struggle to keep the wolf from the door, but since, along with the train of his sorrows and woes, it has brought him fame and fortune, and he is now said to be well off in this world's goods. A passenger arriving by the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis train reports that as the Louisville accommocation, en route to Evansville, was crossing a point two miles east of Lincoln station, the engineer felt the engine strike something, but did not stop until he arrived at Lincoln, when the pilot of the locomotive was found to be bespattered with blood. Part of the trainmen were sent back, and they returned with the body of a man, which was recognized as that of Mr. Summers, an assessor of Carter Township, Spencer County. —Chris Click, who resides near Ladoga, left his house and went out to the woods to do some work. He had no family, and the people living with him were away from homo. Upon their return he was missed, and a search was instituted. Mr. Click was found in a pasture, dead, and it is supposed he had been dead two days. He could not have been murdered, from the fact that he had about $25 in his pockets and a gold watch. His dog was found guarding the body from the hogs that were in the pasture. A young girl of 15, residing nine miles north of Lagro, Wabash County, was the victim of an accident which will result in her death. She was sitting near the stove, when her dress caught tire, nnd, after making an ineffectual effort to extinguish the blaze, she ran out into the open air, where her clothing slowly burned from her, literally cooking her flesh to a crisp. Her screams attracted the attention of her relatives, but they did not reach her in season to be of service. She cannot survive. —One of the most shocking tragedies that ever happened in Delaware County occurred seven miles east of Muncie. Perry Shockley shot his father-in-law, James Cary, in the left side with a thirty-eight-caliber revolver. After shooting Cary, the murderer walked about fifteen feet away and placed the same pistol to his head and palled the trigger, sending a bullet through his brain. There is no cause assigned for his terrible murder and suicide. —John M. Winchester, a farmer residing two and a half miles southwest of Franklin, was engaged in removing bricks from an old well, twenty-three feet deep, and when a depth of fifteen feet had been reached, the dirt above caved in, covering him to the depth of six feet. Three hours afterward he was taken from the well, dead. He was about sixty years of age, and one of the well-to-do and most respected —The grand jury summoned at Delphi to investigate the lynching of Amer Green and the conduct of the Judge and Sheriff in not providing extra guards for the prisoner, reported to the court that they were unable to ascertain the names of any men who participated in the lynching. They also exonerated the Judge and Sheriff. The people are satisfied with the report. —An accident occurred at Nappannee which will result in the death of two men, and possibly of throe others. They were engaged in repairing the roof of a church, and were on a scaffolding twenty-five feet high, when it suddenly fell to the ground, injuring William Wygart and T. Maples fatally, and Owen Yariaa, Perry Miner, and John Ernest seriously. —A distressing accident is reported from Monitor, eight miles east of Lafayette. A wild colt trampled Floyd, the 3-year-old son of Wallace Robinson, to death while at play in the barn-yard. Fatal injuries were inflicted by the animal before the child’s peril was discovered. The victim only lived an ho,ar. —The preliminary arrangements have been completed for the location, at Anderson, of the bolt and nut-works of Fowler <fc Sons, of Buffalo, N. Y. This establishment is one of the largest manufacturers of bolts and nuts in the United States. They propose to commence building at once. —Samuel H. Bomewitz, aged 17 years, was found dead in a field near his father’s home, near Huntingburg. He had been drinking heavily the day previous, and had been left by his companions lying on the ground in the expectation he would become sober and return to his home. —Fred Calkins, as his home, who has been selling red-line wheat and Bohemian oats in Huntington County, has been arrested on the charge of obtaining notes for the Cereals without delivering the goods. He was placed under bonds for his appearance. —The Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church has paid over to the trustees, through its agents, the full amount of its subscription to the DePnuw University endowment—s2o,ooo. •—Charles Groves, living near Epsom, Daviess County, was instantly killed by a limb from a tree falling on him. —A fine vein of coal was struck near Jeffersonville bv workmen boring for gas.