Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1889 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. Aa Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings add Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News No tea A Permanent Hangman’s Scaffold. Capt. James B. P.atten, warden of the Indiana Prison South, has commenced the work of erecting a subtantial building to be used for the execution of William Benson, the murderer of Jacob Motweiler, and who almost fatally wounded his wife, Ellen Motweiler, near* Edwardsville, Floyd County, Dec. 9. The building or annex, will be located at the north end of the old cellhouse. It will be made of wood, and is to be large enough for the purpose to which it will be put. The platform upon which will stand the executioner, his assistants, and the condemned man’s spiritual adviser and relatives and friends, if they are requested to be in attendance at the execution, will be fifteen by twenty-five feet. The scaffold will be a permanent fixture. The mother of Benson is making strenuous efforts to save her son’s neck, which will be broken at midnight on Aug. 16. Her aim is to have the sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and it is understood that she is meeting with no little amount of encouragement. It is intimated that the prosecutor, together with the court and jury, except one or two of the latter, that tried Benson, have signed a petition to this end, which will soon be presented to the Governor for his consideration. Benson’s physical condition-is good. He is said to maintain that stoical indifference which characterized his conduct throughout his trial. Balance of the Loan Obtained. The $1,055,000 balance of the $3,905,- • 000 loan to refund the school bonds has been effected in the New York market, at the rate of $1.50 per thousand. This has been done in the face of the fact that the State of Maine has had similar bonds on the same market, to the amount of $3,000,000, for more than three months, and Massachusetts is offering $2,500,000 worth of bonds, for which there are no bidders. Auditor of State Garr is engaged in getting out the warrants for distributing the balance of the money thus obtained to the various counties in the State. Of the entire sum, 73 per cent, has already been paid, and the additional money to be sent out will place the distribution on a basis of $7.28 for each voter. Winslow, Lanier & Co., of New York, who assisted in negotiating the loan, have filed their bond as Indiana’s financial agent in that city. This bond is for SIO,OOO and they will receive SSOO per annum for their service.

Minor Slate Items. —Goshen is shipping -mud tattles to Eastern markets. —John Walters was killed by a falling tree near Scottsburg. —Tony Best, of Mooresville, was fatally hurt by a runaway team. —Logansport’s street-car company has been sold to a New York syndicate. —Dr. Timmons, of Otterbein, died, recently, of heart disease, at the age of 70. —The Pennington band-saw works are to be removed to Edinburg, and enlarged. —James Mcßride, residing south of Goshen, fell from a hay-mow and broke his neck. —Martin Meyer, jr., of Connersville, lost an arm recently while trying to couple cars. —George Fay. a well-known resident ■of Muncie, fell dead from heart disease in his office. —Edward Miller, a colored man, was killed by a train at Batesville, while trying to steal a ride. —James Camden, a young farmer residing south of Spencer, was thrown from a horse and killed. —Patrick Killion fell from a hand-car, near Richland, recently, and when picked up was found to be dying. —Benjamin Junkins, husband of Elizabeth Junkins, the Quaker evangelist, died at Wabash, at the age of 75. —The cow ordinance having come to stay at Greencastle, the fences around the university parks will be removed. —A 13-year-old son of Valentine Roehers was run over by a Lake Shore engine at LaPorte, and fatally injured. —Reunions will be held by the Ninth Indiana, at LaPorte, August 28, and by ■the Fortieth Indiana, at Crawfordsville, September 12. < —Ligonier has a new Presbyterian ■Church with forty-two members, and Rev. Edward Barr, of Elkhart, has been called as pastor, —Scottsburg vandals tore up the flowers and shrubbery in the court-house yard there, which were planted by the ladies of that town. —Work has been commenced on the Bimel Wheel Bending Works at Balbec. The buildings are of brick. The works will employ 100 men. —Alva Courts, 18 years of age, took a fit while fishing in 'White River near Rockford, and drowned before assistance could reach hitn. —The State Board of Health has or•dered the swamp near Lafayette drained. This swamp was caused by the repairs -on the Wabash and Erie canal.

—The Vincennes military company organized under Speaker Nibla«k’s captaincy will be known as Company A. First Regiment, Indiana Militia. —Brainerd Jordan, a young farmer of Lett’s Corner, was found dead in bed. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death from pulmonary apoplexy. —Billy Doyle, a young man 18 years old, while stripping timber in the handle factory at Montpelier, had all of the fingers on his left hand cut off. —Some persons at Crawfordsville put letters in the mail-boxes, and also money for the purchase of stamps to go on the letters. The mail-carriers then have to stamp the letters. —Jacob Garlitch, an old German who lived near Shelbyville, killed himself revolver. It is supposed that he was overbalanced by the death of a son, which occurred the same day. —M. Prudent, who had an eye blown out while blasting for Cabel & Co., near Washington, owes his disfigurement to some scoundrel who sprinkled heads of matches in the blasting powder. —Winchester has just completed two more good gas wells. The larger of the 'wo is by far the best well yet struck tqere, and has an estimated capacity of four to six million cubic feet per day. —John Hunter was thrown from his carriage and seriously, and probably fatally, injured while out riding with his family a few miles west of Peru. The others escaped with lesser injuries. Since the cow has been fastened up at Crawfordsville, the city has grown up with grass and weeds. To get the weeds cut the Council had to pass an ordinance to compel property owners to have it done. —A naked tramp, with a story of being robbed, starved, etc., was relieved at Ligonier, and now it appears that he is working the nude scheme regularly, a confederate following with clothing to be used when not at work. —Mrs. Boaz, wife of Simeon Boaz, a wealthy farmer living five miles north of Columbus, dropped dead while standing in the yard at her home, talking with her husband. Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause. —A mob of masked men stormed the house of Nance Vincent, a notorious character at Montpelier. They broke every window in the house, and the doors, sewing-machine and stove, and thefi gave her a coat of tar. —Farmers are being worked by a swindle which includes a signature to a plausible permit to repair lightning rods. The signature subsequently turns up on a promissory note, collectable in the hands of the parties who hold it. —Homer B. Dobell, of Remington, a law student at Logansport, and a recent graduate of the State University, is the winner this year of the $250 prize offered by the American Protective Tariff League for the best essay on free raw materials.

—Marat Strain, a well-to-do farmer, living near Thorntown, disappeared some days since, and Mrs. B. L. Shultz, the wife of one of Strain’s employes, disappeared about the same time. Mrs. Strain is arranging to take possession of the property left by her husband. —The barn of Anderson Hogston, at Marion, was fired by incendiaries and totally destroyed, involving a loss of $2,000; partially covered by insurance ol S6OO. Hogston and two of his hired hands were sleeping in the barn, and narrowly escaped with their lives. --William Meyers, a young farmer, living three miles east of Fort Wayne, while cutting wheat, was thrown from the reaper right in front of the knife, and both of his legs were cut off below the knee. He came near bleeding to death before medical aid could be summoned.

—A young man named George Beatz, living at Richmond, was struck by lightning, but although the bolt tore the shoes from his feet, the burning and breaking of the skin, and the shock he sustained, were the worst result. Only the toe of one shoe with the torn upper was left on one foot.

—While rafting logs at Stuteville’s barn, five miles below Rockport, George Howard, one of the loggers, was caught by a log, and three more, eighteen feet ■long and three feet thick, passed over his body, mashing him almost beyond recognition. Another man, name unknown, was also injured, but not seriously. —The factional division in the membership of the United Brethren Church at Lincolnville, which had created great interest in the eastern part of Wabash County, will probably become permanent. The radicals, or seepders, have rented the Methodist Church building, in which they hold quarterly meetings. They are sanguine of obtaining possession of the church property when the matter has been presented in court. The radicals claim to be the church.

—lt was agreed last January, at the meeting of the delegates representing the Western State Fairs, that Indiana should hold her State Fair on the same date as last year, and that the Illinois fair should be held one week later. The Illinois folks have since changed their mind, and fixed their fair for the same week as the Indiana State Fair. This state of things is highly-unsatisfactory to many exhibitors, who cannot attend both fairs if held simultaneously. It looks, however, as if the Illinois men would stand firm, notwithstanding Secretary Heron’s efforts to get them to change to one week later.

SAT DOWN ON TANNER.

PRESIDENT HARRISON GIVES A PENSION ORDER. No More Cases to Be Taken Out of Their Regular Order Except Under Unusual Circumstances —The New Rule Costing a Shark 8100,000. [Washington special.] The President has at last concluded it wise to sit down on Pension Commissioner Tanner. It long since became apparent that Tanner must be either bounced or repressed, and after a fortnight of deliberation the President has decided in favor of the more gentle policy of admonition and restraint. In pursuance of instructions from the White House, Secretary Noble sent a communication to the enterprising distributer of the surplus, calling his attention to the Interior Department regulation which forbids the taking of cases out of their regular order, except in cases wherein the causes therefor, stated in writing, would satisfy claimants whose claims have precedence. The communication adds: “It is hereby further ordered that this rule be extended so as to embrace cases only where the applicant is in very great destitution or at the point of death. This regulation will not only be strictly enforced, but attorneys, agents, or others persisting in applications contrary to its language and spirit will be disbarred from practice before the department. You will have this 'made public.” The purpose of this communication is to remove from the pension office the disgraceful scandal which had been growing up there. Pension Attorney Lemon, who always has a fat cheek ready for Republican campaign funds, had 10,000 cases for which preliminary orders of expedition had been issued by Tanner. The lifting of these 10,000 cases out of their regular order and into immediate consideration probably meant a cool SIOO,OOO in Lemon’s pocket, while thousands of claimants, who were not so fortunate as to have placed their business in Lemon’s hands, must await the slow movements of the office. Colonel Dudley also had a large number of cases in process of lifting out of regular order, and this action of the President is a sad blow to the pension practice of the “blocks of five" agent. Dudley and Lemon have up to this time had a pretty free swing with Tanner, and the issuance of this order is an official confession of the existence of the scandal. Tanner’s wide-open policy in the pension business is likely to lead him into other difficulties from which he will find it hard to extricate himself. Before leaving on his triumphant tour among the applauding veterans, Tanner confessed to one of his friends that he was, to use his language, “in a hole." Said he: “For years I have advocated, on the stump and at Grand Army camp-fires, the passage by Congress of a service-pension bill,’giving every soldier and sailor a pension. lam thoroughly committed to this policy, and I don't see how I can go back on it, though now that I have become Pension Commissioner and have looked the thing up, I find the service-pension till would bankrupt the treasury. I’d rather resign than face the old soldiers after going back on the service-pension bill, and if as Pension Commissioner I recommend that bill to Congress I’ll make myself ridiculous. How am I to get out of it?” Possibly Tanner will take some encouragement from the resolutions of the Ohio Republican Convention indorsing Kis wide-open tactics. The secret of that resolution is the desperation of the Buckeye Republicans. They are very much afraid that the State will go against them this year, as it has a way of going whenever a Senator is to be elected to succeed John Sherman's Senatorial colleague. As good an authority as William McKinley confessed during his recent visit to Washington that in all probability the Democrats would carry the State this year. The wide-open policy for pensions was proposed and adopted in the Columbus Convention in the hope that it would catch enough Democratic soldier votes to save the State.

War Tariff and Murder.

The affair of Dr. Cronin, with all its surprises, offers its most startling episode in the deliverance of the Governor of Nebraska, who declares with affected indignation that “American justice can be relied upon generally to be impartial, although Chicago’s Coroner and a Coroner's jury spent weeks in trying to fasten the murder of Dr. Cronin upon Alexander Sullivan, rather than in trying to ascertain who is guilty of the awful crime of his taking off." This is the first time since the civil war that an American executive has cast such an insult on a neighboring commonwealth. Why is it done? Why does the Governor of Nebraska proudly take his place as an apologist of the Clan-na-Gael and a servile instrument of its dark and bloody designs against the peace of Illinois? The answer is obvious. The truckling Governor, who thus hurls reproach on popular institutions, is a pander of the Jim*Blaine high tariff conspiracy. With the aid of the Irish vote in Nebraska, the farmers are held fast to the tax of sl7 on steel rails. With the aid of Patrick Egan, Thayer is Governor. With the aid of Thayer and Blaine, Patrick Egan is sent to some country as Minister—some country in which he may be safe from extradition to England, where he is held to be a criminal. The Ministry to Chili answers the purpose and offers the salary, which is what Patrick Egan must have. It is thus that high tariff is maintained, It is thus that the gyves are welded about the ankles of the American toiler. To criticise such manifest betrayals of public trust is to call all the dogs of protection out of their kennels. Affecting an indignation which he is certainly too hardened to feel, this oilroom politician of the Missouri, masquerading as a Governor, brands an association of British-Americans with his scorn, and to find a parallel for their criticism of Patrick Egan’s appointment pictures in spirited colors the Inquisition and other practices of the dark ages, neglecting only the mention of the high tariff which characterized those times. It only needed this’ gubernatorial demonstration to complete its indictment of Jim Blaine Republicanism. To fasten a spurious statesmanship on this nation, the agents of the war tariff have not hesitated to league themselves with an unpatriotic organization. To repay dema-

gogues for votes delivered, this scandalous appointment of Patrick Egan has been gazetted. And to fortify a name so closely beleagured with the suspicion of murder itself, an American Governor is now whipped into line to cast reproach on the procedure of justice in the State of Illinois. War tariff has long supported the character of rObbert-; murder is to become no more repugnant. How do the citizens of Chicago, the people of the State of Illinois, relish the gubernatorial reflections which a faithful defense of Patrick Egan and Jim Blaine now seem to require?— Chicago\Herald.

REPUBLICANS ARE VERY HUNGRY.

Which Fact Induces a Charitable Democratic Postmaster to Resign—A Letter that Must Have Made Mr. Harrison Smile. A Washington dispatch says: President Harrison recently received the resignation of the Postmaster at Mount Carmel, 111. It is as follows, and is worth reading: “To the Hon. B. Harrison, President, etc.: “Sib —By the grace of God and Grover Cleveland I am Postmaster at Mount Carmel. My official term will expire Jan. 20, 1890.’ In addition to handling the mails of the city I am also the editor of the Mount Carmel Register, a live, local Democratic newspaper, established in 1839, and published at $1.25 a year, cash in advance; a discount of 20 per cent, to ministers and Presidents. “While the office has agreed with me and I have in the main with the office, and while I might reasonably entertain the hope of holding on for eight months longer, yet I feel it my duty to tender my resignation. Being a Democrat I have preached that ‘to the victors belong the spoils.’ I feel disposed to practice that which I preach. “Your immediate predecessor hoped to build up his party by keeping the opposition in office. You are probably aware, if you are at all familiar with the vocabulary of true and trite sayings, that his name is now Dennis. “1 am moved further to tender you my resignation because of the anxiety of a barn yard full of patriots to succeed me. I believe that a tariff is a tax. They do not. Therefore they are of your own kith and kindred, and he who provides not for his own household is worse than an infidel. lam told that you are not built that way. “But to resume the thread of my discourse: The boys who are anxious to be my successor are very hungry; they have been feeding on shucks and icicles for four long, weary years; the official calf is fat, and they yearn to taste its tender joints. They fought (among themselves), they bled (at the nose), and are willing to die for the g. o. p. When I asserted that you were the Chinamen’s candidate and ate rat-tail soup with chop-sticks they swore by Dudley and Foster that it was a campaign canard and threatened to detail blocks of five to fry the fat out of me. Fortunately forme their threats were never carried into execution. “They carried torches, drank with the coons, and sang ‘Grandpa's hat will just fit Benny,’ and did divers and many foolish things, none of which would they have been guilty of doing had they not scented an aroma of postmaster on the crisp morning air. And the paeans of praise which they sounded when it became evident that you ‘had got there, Eli,’ will nev.er be a Sahara in my memory. “For these and other reasons unnecessary to mention I tender you my resignation, with the hope that my successor will be animated by a similar 'spirit in 1893. If he is, your Democratic successor will be spared the painful necessity of ‘turning the rascal out.’ I am respectfully yours, “Frank W. Havill, P. M. “N. B.— I would rather be right than be postmaster.”

Protection’s Works.

If the first half year of President Harrison’s reign has filled the two richest and most productive States in our country with want and starvation, what may we look for before protection runs its course? The stupidest observer of passing events can easily see that the processes leading to the present deplorable state of things are not to be-made for the better, but from bad to worse for some years to come. A light winter and limited consumption of coal is urged as a cause of the present trouble. Everything would be lovely and workingmen would all be happy if it had only Been a h of a cold winter. Five hundred thousand hungry, destitute men, ready to take the places and the crusts of those who have already been starved out, has nothing to do with it; of course not! Oh, no; It is all right if you will only protect them against pauper labor! Yes; Mr. Harrisen and his backeis will protect these hungry workmen egainst pauper labor, bnt the means employed to do so will not be better wages and better living, as were promised during the most villainous political campaign this country ever experienced. It will be shotgun ana Pinkerton protection, and the starving miners who were fooled or forced to vote for protective tariff and Republican rascality will find plenty of time to curse the day that they voted for protective starvation. Experience is a dear school—but, etc. — Cor. Chicago Herald.

The Poor Man’s Sugar Bowl.

The history of monopoly never recorded a more brazen and atrocious robbery of the people than that now being engineered by the sugar trust speculators. The jeweled hand that clutches the poor man’s sugar bowl is insatiate in its gree'd. The price of this necessity of the people has already been raised 40 per cent, by the trust managers and the height of their avarice is far from reached. The apparent apathy of the public serves as encouragement to the schemers. Is there no limit to the patience of the people?— New York World.

Another Bad Appointment.

Brother Harrison’s selection of the corrupt ward “hustler” Knowles for one of the most important consulates in Europe because his successful bribery had carried a Republican majority of one in the Delaware Legislature, with a popular majority in the State of 3,500 for Cleveland, sizes up exactly the moral shams of the. administration. Let us pray. Higgins in the United States Senate as the result of Knowles’ bribery gives the Republican party their majority in that body—otherwise the Senate would stand a tie.— Pittsburgh Post.

ROUGH ON A POSTMASTER

MILWAUKEE’S MAIL OFFICIAL SEVERELY SCORED. The Civil Service Makes Another Report on Their Findings in Connection with That Office—What the Evidence Shows. A Washington dispatch says: The civil service commission made public its second report in the Milwaukee postoffice case. The commissioners say that Postmaster Paul was given every opportunity to explain the charges against him. and that his declaration that he was condemned without a hearing and without being informed of the charges against him is a gross misstatement. The report then recites the examinations made by Secretary Doyle and Chief Examiner Webster, whose reports showed such gross violations of the law that the three commissioners deemed the accusations of such importance as to warrant an investigation by the full board. The report continues: “Ext ept in two important cases we did not try to get at any new facts; we simply examined Mr. Paul to see whether he could disprove the statements or give any satisfactory explanation of the charges made in the two preliminary reports. He entirely failed to do so. That there has been crooked work in the office is admitted by all. The only question is where the resposibilitv lies. We examined the secretary of the local examining board, Hamilton shidy, and the chairman, J. B. Johnson. Shidy is admitted by all to have done the work of the board, the other members doing little save assisting in marking the papers and attending occasional formal meetings. Shidy testifies that he was compelled by the postmaster to give the latter free access to the list of eligibles, although such access was at that time strictly forbidden; and he further testifies that the postmaster, knowing those who were eligible, as well as their standing, appointed whomsoever he chose, and then forced him (Shidy) to torture the lists and certification books so as to produce a certification which should bear the appointees’ names The report further cites the evidence of Shidy and Johnson to show that they were forced against their own judgment to remark the papers of an applicant, and also the statement of Mr. Paul that he had not, forced them to alter the mark, but that {key had been altered btpuq? be expressed' great dissatisfaction at the mAncing?*’ Shidy, in the presence of both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Paul, as well as of the three commissioners, stated that the reason for their changing the grade of the unfortunate applicant was to get him out of the way of another man whom the postmaster desired to appoint. Continuing the report says: “In short, the official records show beyond possibility of dispute that the lists of eligibles were twisted and garbled in almost every conceivable manner in order to produce swindling certifications whereby certain men could be rejected, although entitled to appointment, and other men' appointed, although having no rightful claim to the chance. For Mr. Paul to plead innocence is equivalent to his pleading imbecility, for no sane man could have made appointments from a succession of such certifications without perceiving their character, and it is quite incredible that he could by mere chance have picked out from each certification the very individual to favor whose choice it was designed. Mr. t Paul alone benefited by the crookedness of these certifications, for he alone had the appointing power; there could be no possible object in Shidy’s conduct unless it was fear of thwarting the wishes of his superior officer.”

DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS.

Interesting Papera Read Before the tional Educational Association. Nashville, Tenn., July 19. The question of denominational schools occasioned a brisk debate in to-day’s session of the National Educational association. Bishop John J. Keane opened the discussion by reading a paper prepared by Cardinal Gibbons upon the question: “Should! Americans Educate Their Children in Denominational Schools!** ’ Bishop Keane afterward read a paper of his own on the same subject, taking the position that Christianity was the basis of all true gov-1 eminent and should be inculcated during the period when children were attending! school. It the influence of the church was beneficial in the family it was also in the school. Mr. Edwin D. Mead of Boston followed* in a paper in which he said that the argu-* ments advanced by Cardinal Gibbons in the magazines in favor of the non-interference of the state with the family in the matter of education was only a device to damage the State’s authority in public opinion to the end that the Boman Catholic church especially should take charge when possible. He said the plea of the Romanist church was to compel all Catholics to withdraw their children from the public schools to parochial schools where they would be taught the doctrines of the church. Bishop Keane replied and. denied Mr. Mead’s assertion that the Pope or the Roman Catholic church was seeking temporal power and the control of the government. Both addresses were forcible and were heartily applauded.

OVER SMART CORRESPONDENTS.

Their Stories Regarding the Cronin Murder Were Pure Fabrications. Niagara Falls, N. ¥., July 19.—Careful investigation shows beyond any doubt that the stories concerning the letters recently picked up here and at Stamford, Ont., endeavoring to create a mystery in connection with the body found in the whirlpool rapids and to associate it with the Cronin murder in Chicago, were pure inventions of special correspondents. The story of the attempt to steal the body of an unknown man buried at Welland. Ont., was also absolutely false, as no such attempt ever occurred.

The International Labor Congress.

Paris, July 19. —The labor congress, which is in session here, to-day completed its organization, Alleman*) of France and Brown of America were elected joint presidents. Mr. Bowen, on behalf of the Knights of Labor of America, urged the necessity of severely punishing emigration agents guilty of dishonest .misrepresentations. The chief difficulty which the labor organizations of America encountered arose, he said, from the endless influx of immigrants. ’