Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1889 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

•ktents AXI) incidents that hate LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Snmmary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties aud General News Notes. Good Crops Promised. Despite the almost incessent rains the indications are that the corn crop thrc ghout Indiana will be a good one this season. J. B; Conner, editor of the Indiana Farmer, is daily in receipt of correspondence from every part of the State, and he says that if such reports are reliable, as he has no reason to doubt, the wet weather has had little or no bad effect. “The corn got a good start this season,” he remarked, “but it looked as if it would be flooded out almost, in the -beginning. The weather we have been having, however, has done infinitely more good than all the harm that was occasioned by the rains. There will be a good crop unless some unforseen obstacle prevents. I think it will reach about 90 or 95 per cent. We won’t have as much corn this season as we did last, for in 1888 there were about 135,000,000 bushels harvested, but it will reach a high figure. Wheat is not as good as it has been, but then it is not going to fall very low. In short, the farmers all over the State will have good crops if everything continues as it is at present.”

Whipped by the White Caps. The first repetition of White Capisin in Crawford County since July 1888, occurred near Leavenworth, the other night. Pete Cresgriff aud wife were taken out and whipped by a band of upward of sixty men. These same parties last fall or winter were put out of a shanty, their furniture removed and the shanty destroyed by fire. It appears that the latest offense is leading or rather driving their 4-year-old daughter to the same sin which the mother has always followed. The child was forced to accept the embraces of a patron, who showed preference for her. There are less comments publicly made of the affair than if a horse had been whipped, and there has been nothing but “they deserved more than they got.” They are of the lowest depths, and yet their habitation is visited largely by drummers from the cities and by many voung men. Murder ami Suicide In Carbon. A most shocking murder and suicide was committed at Carbon. Conrad Baumann, a stave-dealer at that plnce, and a . partner in a livery and saloon firm at Terre Haute, deliberately shot his wife in the back yard of their residence. just as she was putting her hands in a basin to wash herself. He then shot himself, using a thirty-two caliber revolver. He expired instantly, and she in a short time. Baumann was about forty years of age. His wife was but 18 years old. He married her two months ago, and she was his third wife. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the shooting. He had considerable property and means. Before committing the double murder he destroyed his private papers. He leaves two children by his first wife.

Cutting off Laporte. A report founded on the work of a high official of the road has it that the Lake Shore Company will construct a new line from Rolling Prairie, in the oast part of La Porte County to the Michigan Central, crossing west of La Porte, to avoid the high hill at Otis. This hill is the highest point of land in the State, and has been a terrible burden to the Lake Shore people. Last year they spent thousands of dollars and months of time in cutting it down, but were only partially £*iccessful,as they are still compelled to use a “pusher” engine to help freight over the grade. The new line will cut off La Porte, Otis and Chesterfield, and leave them on a local line, while all through business will go over the new road. Minor Statu Hums. —Bloomington failed to get gas at 870 feet, and will try another well. —Cartersburg has organized a live stock and agricultural association. —A sand mine near Valparaiso is said to yield the finest product in the West. —Butler’s Switch, in Jennings county, has had its name changed to Grayford. —Elkhart saloon-keepers have formed an organization to protect their interests. —William Kernoodle, of Crawfordsville, has been fined $5 for catching one fish with a dip-net. —Anna Cado, a 14-year-old girl, was struck and killed by a Panhandle train, near English Lake. William Snavely, an old and respected citizen of Veedersburg, dropped dead there from heart disease. —Parkville, in Parke county, is excited over supposed hydrophobia cases and will test the virtue of madstones. —Shelby County has added a hairless calf td its collection of curios, already ornamented by a two-legged colt. —Montgomery county viewers have appraised the gravel roads of that county at $33,189.50. There are about fifty-three miles of them. —Priilceton is excited over natural gas, a well there having been shot with dynamite and gas secured which burns in a forty-foot flame from a four- inch pipe.

—Charley Deibert, aged 12 years, the only son of William Deibert, of Peru, was drowned while in swimming. —Joseph T- Elbert, aged 23 years, was drowned while bathing in a pond in Boone township, Harrison county. —Mrs. Barbara Weitlehamer,, of New Albany, aged sixty years, committed suicide with strychnine to avoid becoming an object of charity. —Bartholomew County’s Board of of Equalization has raised the assessment of several corporations considerably above the assessor’s figures. —Broad Ripple has secured the abolition of Sunday excursion trains to that point, and hopes to secure the closing of saloons there on the Sabbath. —The Indiana conference of the Methodist Church will be held at' Rockport, beginning October 3, and Bishop Warren, of Denver, Col., will preside. —Arthur James, a 10-year-old lad living at Wellsboro, was instantly killed by the cars. He was horribly mangled, his head and one leg being severed. —The board of trustees of Hartford City has raised the saloon license from SIOO to $l5O, and required the saloonkeepers to give additional city notice. —Prof.|o. R Jenkins, of DePauw University, accompanied by S. C. Price and Oscar Voght\ has gone to the Sandwich Islands to study the fish of that vicinity. ' —Jos. Jones, aged 40 years, while returning from Youngstown to his home in Coalburg, was run down by a Lake Shore freight train and received fatal injuries. —Ozart Jennings, a little son of William Jennings, living near Kokomo, was drowned in Wildcat River, being the third child in the family to perish by accident. Seymour Burse,a Clark county farmhand, is reported to have been relieved from the constriction of a blacksnalce, recently, by his dog, which tore the snake in two.

—The contract for a steel-hull twin propeller United States revenue cutter has been finally closed with the Sweeny Brothers, of Jeffersonville, at $85,000, without equipments. —Seymour and its township contain 1,548 voters, of these 1,366 are within the city limits. The entire population of Seymour is 6,831 as recently enumerated, a gain of 2,580 over the census of 1880. —James Meehan, a familiar character about Fort Wayne, and known as “Jimmy the fiddler,” was run over by a locomotive, receiving fatal injuries. A year and a half ago one son was burned up in a railway caboose, and six months before that another son was killed w'hile coupling cars. —Richard Martz, of Vigo County, paroled from the State Prison South by Gov. Hovey had an SBO fine as a part of his sentence, but Warden Patten held that he had nothing to do with the payment of the fine, and that it was a matter to be looked after by the authorities of Vigo County, —A decision of the Supreme Court removes all doubt, if any existed, as to the character of a saloon license. It is not a contract, but a mere special tax or police regulation. It follows that the Legislature may change the tax at any time, and, within the limits fixed by the Legislature, so may a city or town. —R. P. Gray, a prominent farmer living near Connersville, and a cousin of Whitelaw Reid, it is has abandoned his farm in the belief that the world will end this summer. He will not till his fields or suffer them to be tilled, claiming it useless. He is a recent convert to the Second Adventists, but the neighbors think him crazy. —Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Alfred L. Bernardin, Evansville, toy; Eugene Bretney, Indianapolis, assignor to Cockle Separator Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, tWis., dust collector; William J. Jacobs, Bargersville, shock-loading machine; David M. Parry and T. H., Indianapolis, vehicle attachment. —As Mrs. Nancy Gorman, the wife of John Gorman, who resides near Yorktown, was at Daleville, she attempted to pass a railroad engine that was blowing off steam. Her horse became frightened and ran away, throwing the occupant of the vehicle against a hitching-post and so badly injuring her that she died thirty minutes later. She leaves a husband and six grown children. —Several Allen County insane patients have been recently sent away from the Logansport asylum, and it is said that Superintendent Rogers proposes to discharge all patients from that county. This puts Allen County in a bad predicament. The State is divided into four insane districts, Indianapolis, EvanSville, Logansport, and Richmond. Fort Wayne is in the Richmond district. but the asylum there is occupied at present as a feeble-minded school, —Carl Steckleman, the young African explorer of Columbus, has received a cablegram from the African trading house of R. M. Evans & Co., of Liverpool, saying that Mr. Evans, who was stationed at Mayumba, on the west coast of Africa, three degrees south of the equator, was dead, and requesting that he leave immediately to take his place. The news came very unexpectedly to Mr. Steckleman, who will arrange to leave at once. He will take back with him the young African prince, Neslu, and return him to his native tribe. The prince is delighted over the prospect of again meeting his family.

HOLDING THEM TO IT.

“A good many iron works are at the verge of suspension. New establishments, in a region where labor is cheap, and new competition at a time of diminished demand for rails and stome other iron products, have cut down profits or cut them oft entirely. In works so situated the only possible question is whether lower w ages shall be paid or no w ages. That this is the naked fact, without varnish or exaggeration, the Tribune knows with certainty, and so do many iron manufacturers and workers. Nobody has pretended that the protective system or any other can at all times secure equal prosperity to all industries, or to every establishment of auv industry, w hether favorably or unfavorably iocated.”— New York Tribune. What rank treason to the holy and immaculate creed of “protection,” and from one of the high priests of the synagogue, too! “Nobody has pretended,” etc. Well, well! Why, it has only been a few months ago that the Tribune and its colleagues were laboriu„, with all their might, in reckless defiance alike of common sense, history, and statistics, to make the credulous believe “protection” to be everywhere and at all times synonymous with national and individual prosperity; that the blessings of a high tariff, like heaven’s own dew, could not help descending continually upon the just and upon the unjust; that all industries and qll people must necessarily come in for a share of these blessings; that if the tariff were cut down and raw materials put on the free list the country would go to destruction, its inhabitants become impoverished, manufactories close, grass grow in the streets of the metropolis, crops fail, rivers cease to flow, and starvation and destruction stalk all over the land. And now w e are told that “new establishments in a region where labor is cheap, and new competition at a time of diminished demand for rails aud some other iron products” have forced upon proprietors of other iion works the alternate of cutting down wages or closing their mills. Is this in keeping with the ante-election promises made to deluded workingmen? Did the Tribune say: “Vote for Harrison and high tariff and lower Avages ?” And how comes labor to be “cheap” under a “protective” system? We doubt the assertion that wages are lower where the industries are new, hut, suppose they are, is uotAlabama “protected” by precisely the same tariff as Pennsylvania ? And have we not been told day in and day out, month after month, and year after year, that high tariffs make high xvages? Then, too, why tire “diminished demand ?” Wliat* is the matter Avith that best home market the Avorld ever saw which, has been built up under the glorious Republican policy of “protection to American industry?” Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening.

The Western Farmer.

Mr. Isaac 11. Strouse, editor of the Rockville (Indiana) Tribune, writes concerning the condition of farmers in his section. He says: “I think it safe to say that about 40 per cent, of the* farmers in this county are under mortgage. We have not the figures from the record, as it would be impossible to get them without great labor in going through the records page by page for a number of years, but careful inquiry among farmers themselves, and others whose opinions are worth noting, place it at this figure. “Our county (Parke) is one of the most fertile and most favored by nature in the State. It is peculiarly an agricultural county—there are no mills or factories in it. In 1860 the population of Parke Countv w'as 15,538. In 1870 it was 18,166; in 1880, 19,452, the per cent, of increase from ’6O to ’7O being about 20, from ’7O to ’BO about 6! If the next census be considered on a basis of increase or decrease of those who live by agriculture, I am confident it will show a decrease. The enumeration of school-children shows a gradual falling off each year. The decline in land values Lands appraised for school mortgages at half their value ten years ago do not bring the amount of the loan when sold by the Auditor. Take, for example, a tract of land in Jackson township. It was appraised at $1,200 when a loan of S6OO was made; it was twice advertised and finally bought for S4OO. There are so many things showing the decline of land values and profits in farming, that I hardly know where to begin giving them. There are indisputable figures in our county records to show a decrease of over $900,000 in taxables in a total of $10,000,000 since 1880; that it costs $12,000 a year to keep our poor now against $1,700 in IB6o—an increase of 800 per cent, in pauperism, while the population gained 33 per cent.! that taxation, State and county, has doubled during the same period, and to use a handy expression —“the Lord onlykncws” to hat the increase in national taxation has been. Had I the time I could give hundreds of instances wherein the fanner is despoiled by the indirect system of taxation that bears harder on him than on any other citizen. Not one farm in ten is paying 2 per cent, on its cost in this county, when one considers the money invested in machinery, horses, fences, etc. This is leaving no w f ages at all for the owner, his wife, and one boy—their “living,” of course, must be counted at something, but at best it is a hard pull to make that, and keep out of debt. “The decay of rural New England is being repeated in the Wabash Valley,

yet we find many who dispute this fact, just as they wll dispute the fact that our wheat crop is short this year, because it is “croaking,” as they say. I ha\-fi noticed that Protectionists, as a class, denounce anybody who {joints out these conditions, aud appear as apologists; and in the last campaign we had the anomaly of a pa‘ tv out of poAver defending existing conditions.”

Organized Democracy.

The unanimous selection of Calvin S. Price, of Ohio, to be Chairman of the Democratic National Committee gives to the organization the same head Avhich it had in the campaign of 1888, as the conduct of affairs fell to Mr. Brice njxm the failure of Senator BavnUrn’s health. The fact that Mr. Bi’ice maintains the full respect of so large a body of colleagues is a sufficient assurance of Mr. Brice’s eligibility. If the National Convention of 1892 shall hiiA’e other vieAvs there will he opportunity of making any needed change. Tariff reformers in this region are not pleased to see Senator Gormau as the principal sponsor and nominator of the chief committeeman who fought a losing battle in behalf of tariff reform, for Gorman is a war-tariff Democrat. Gorman, Cooper, Randall, McAdoo and the rest are Democrats avlio obey the enlightened mandate of their party Avith painful reluctance. Yet they aro Democrats. They share 41ie defeats of their party. They are against James G. Blaine. The Democratic party, which in triumph might deal harshly with its faint-hearted soldiers, must he more lenient in disaster. The Chairmanship asks of its incumbent a self-abnegation which reflects sadly on our entire political system. To accept the duties of this office is at once an advertisement of wealth and generosity. It is not easy to unite these conditions in a man Avho Avill take the place and can be elected. Huch a man Barnum Avas. Such a man Biice is. Barnum Avas a Avar-tariff Democrat. Brice cheerfully accepted the President’s message of December, 1887, and the Mill bill of July 21, 1888. He Avas faithful, if not successful. If he did not Avin, lie at least did not have the obloquy of buying defeat. If the balance of poAver in Indiana were for sale, Senator Quay, with Wanamaker’s fund and Dudley’s plan of campaign, might make the bargain and the record. The Democratic party will outlive such a mishap, and the Republican party will be a long time sick of such a victory. Under Chairman Brice the committee begins its Avork Avitliout division. Loyalty to the Democratic; party demands of tariff reformers, as well as of high taxers, that they shall submit their prriate vieAvs to party action. Certain it is that the spirit of "reform is noAv Avholly Avithin the Democratic party. The Republicans are sold to the tariff barons who bought the McKinley platform. The Democrats must retain the confidence of the Labor vote. BetAveen these tAvo facts Democratic interests are safe. The national convention Avill make a good platform because it has no hope of Avinning on a bad one. The A'ast mass of the Democratic party is for lower taxes at the custom-houses. Within a united party that policy must prevail. None but enemies of reform, therefore, should excite dissension previous to the meeting of the only hotly which can speak authentically for Democracy. Neither lias Grover Cleveland done aught but gain in moral strength. The party Avhich commands his service is not weak. The convention that may nominate his equals cannot fail to challenge the respect of the nation.—C'hicago Herald.

What Was His Motive?

r lhe First Auditor of the Treasury ought, other things being equal, to be an honest man, and known to be one. There could be, we should say, no more contemptuous insult to the people of the United States than to put in this place of delicate trust and responsibility a man of scandalous reputation, believed by those familiar with his career to be the comrade and friend of thieves and scoundrels. Exactly why Mr. Harrison has named to this office George P. Fisher, of Delaware, a man driven from the district attorneyship in Washington by the exposure of his connection with" frauds of the vilest sort, w r e do not pretend to know. Mr. Harrison would agree with us that it should require a very powerful motive indeed to induce an honest President to make such an appointment. He would not agree with us, probably, that no good motive can be imagined for it. ■ In this situation he would, perhaps, relieve himself of much suspicion if he would frankly tell the public what his motive was. On the other hand, lie might only confirm the belief that this act, like many others, was due to his desire to promote his own political ends, to start a “Harrison machine” in Delaware. —New York Times.

‘‘A White Man’s Party.”

The President’s appointment of Lewis E. Parsons to be United States District Attorney in Alabama is direct proof that Mr. Harrison looks with favor upon the movement to make the Republican party of the South a “white man’s party.” Mr. Parsons is one of the originators and leaders in that movement in Alabama, and his appointment lias raised a small cyclone among the colored preachers and politicians of that State. Those whom Mr. McKinley called “our black allies” ought to understand by this time that they are w-anted only as “hewers of wood and drawers of water” for the Republican politicians.— New York World.

DEATH OF CAMERON.

LAST HOURS OF THE VETERAN POLITICIAN. Poiiiixylviuiia's Aged Statesman Has Gone to His Long Home—A Brief Sketch of a Successful Political Career—His Life autl Character Reviewed. A Lancaster (Pa.) dispatch of June 28 says: Gen. Simon Cameron died at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening, after an illness of about a week. The General’s condition during the day was rather enc ouraging, and death came suddenly during a weak spell. Up to the last attack he was conscio is, and had no trouble to swallow the food given him and which he appeared to assimilate. Around the death-bed were ex-Attorney-General

GEN. SIMON CAMERON.

MacVeagh and wife, Mrs. Haldman, James Cameron, Simon B. Cameron and Avifo, and Mrs. David Watts, a granddaughter. The funeral will be held in Harrisburg. Simon Cameron was horn less than twenty-live miles from the spot where he died, in 1799, the son of a poor country tailor. Apprenticed to the printer’s trade he worked in Washington in 1821 on the Congr. ssional debates, and there became acquainted with President Monroe. He was a Democrat In politics, and in that year of 1821 he wrote a letter favoring the election of John C. Calhoun to the Presidency. Pr or to going to Washington he was editor of the Doyleston Democrat. In 1823 he was elected public printer of Pennsylvania. In 1828 he became adju-tant-general of his native State. In 1828 he had the contract to build a canal from Lake Ponchartrain to New Orleans, aud relinquished that work at the request of Gen. Jackson to return to Pennsylvania and aid in organizing the first national convention held in the republic. At that convention, held in Baltimore, he was offered and declined the chairmanship. Selling out his interest in the canal contract he became a banker at Middletown. He had placed James Buchanan in the Senate, and when the latter entered Polk's cabinet Mr. Cameron, in 1845, succeeded him in the Senate. Mr. Cameron was reelected to the Senate in 1350, as a Republican, and in the convention which nominated Lincoln was Pennsylvania’s candidate for the Presidency. M hen the final conflict came Mr. Cameron’s friends voted for Lincoln to defeat Seward, and Mr. Lincoln was nominate !. Mr. Lincoln named Mr. Cameron for Secretary of War, and he held that office until 1802, when he retired and accepted the St. Petersburg mission. The moving cause of his retirement from the war office was his recommendation that the negroes be armed, which was considered by Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Cameron’s fellow-secre-taries impolitic at the time. Mr. Cameron was granted by Mr. Lincoln the privilege of naming his successor, and upon his nomination Mr. Lincoln made Edwin M. Stanton his war secretary. When in 1864 the movement to defeat the renomination of Mr. Lincoln became pronounced the President recalled Mr. Cameron and placed his interests in his charge. The veteran politician immediately went to Harrisburg and induced the Legislature to petition Mr. Lincoln to accept a second term. This action was imitated by the legislative bodies of the other loyal States and Mr. Lincoln’s renomination was assured. Mr. Cameron re-entere l the Senate ‘in 1867 and served until 1877, when he resigned and was succeeded by his son Don Cameron. Mr. Cameron has never lost interest in politics, and even in bis advanced old age he has wielded an almost autocratic power in the politics of his own State. He was a born leader of men, aggressive in his opinions: strong in his determination; quick to apprehend and to act; a shrewd observer of his fellow-men.

STOLE HER OWN CHILD.

A 12-Year-Olri Girl Forcibly Abducted from a School Room, Chicago, June 27.—A room in the Hayes public school at Leavitt and Walnut street* was the seme of a sensational case of kidnaping. Hettie, the 12-year-old daughter of John and Celia Thatcher, was stolen by her own mother The Thatchers had been divorced ten years ago and the father was given the custody of the child. Yesterday Mrs. Thatcher called at the school room door for the child, who would not go out to meet her. Mrs. Thatcher then dashed into the room, seized the little girl around the waist and started for the do; r. Tne teacher made a determined resistance. Mrs. Thatcher was much larger and more powerful than the teacher and succeeded in getting the dcor partially open. The teacher called for. the pupils to ass st her and they came in a body. Just at this mon ent a young man wearing a very heavy mustache, supposed to be false, entered the room and throwing them to one side took the struggling child from its mother’s arms and rushed down the stairway, followed by the mother. The man choked the child so she could not scream. A cabman stood with .the door of the vehicle open and they entered hurriedly, Mrs. Thatcher applied a handkerchief to the little girl’s face and she lay perfectly quiet and the cabman turned anl drove rapidly away. Boon after the child had l>een stolen a toy rang the door-bell at Hettie’s grandmother’s home and left a note which read: “Hettie is in good hands. I have taken her to the country. Her Mother.”