Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVKNTB AM) INCIDENTS THAT HATH LATELY OCCURRED An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing* «f Our Neighbors—Wmlding* ami l>.-aih*—Crime, Casualties and General News Notea Vast Coat Interests of the State. The developments of the Indiana coal fields, beginning in Clay County, has gradually extended to other counties within the coal district, although no block coal has been discovered elsewhere that possesses the same qualities as the Brazil variety. Parke County has of late years come to the front with extensive bituminous mines at Hosedale, Coxville and other points on the Chicago and Indiana Coal road. Next to Park is Greene County. Indianapolis is particularly interested in the latter. The Island City Coal Company and Dugger, Neal & Co., at Linton, have mined many thousands of car-loads of a superior bituminous coal, most of which has found its way to Indianapolis on the Indianapolis and Vincennes road. This development, to a degree, extends up and down the Mackey roads, which, in connection with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois and Chicago and Indiana Coal roads, recently added to the system, run parallel from north to south through the entire coal area, a distance of 150 miles. At Linton a four-foot and nine-inch vein has recently been discovered, and a stock company with a capital of $30,000 has been formed for operating it. The stockholders include a Mr. Flechart and others of Welston, Ohio, and William MoCleod, cf Linton. The bituminous mines were not involved in the strike last summer and fall. With the block output reduced to 75 per cent, the bituminous output was yet sufficiently large to maintain tho State’s rank as fifth among the coalproducing States. Minor Stale Items. —Anderson is to have an ice factory. - M. H. Hays, an old citizen and prominent merchant of Gosport, is dead. —Samuel H. Beckner, aged 79, was fatally stricken with paralysis at Lafayette. --Frederick Benthine hanged himself at Benthine. He was a man of dissipated habits. —A street railway company, with a capital of $25,000, has been organized at Goshen. —Haly Cady, an aged deaf mute, was run down and killed by a train near Sheridan. Peyton Leisure, a Russiaville pioneer, aged SO, died suddenly while walking across a room. —Charles Seber, a brakeman, fell in front of a train at North Manchester, and was severely injured. —Charles Clark, a J., M. & I. brakeman, was run over and killed near Columbus whilecoupling cars. —Mrs. Mary Clafley, a widow, was found dead in bed on her farm near Bertrand, where she lived alone. - Mrs. S. Thomas, of Rushville, bled to death after a surgical operation performed to relieveabdominal trouble. —Several farms in the neighborhood a couple of miles south of Anderson are overrun with thousands of enormous rats. —The Board of Commissioners of Union County has accepted the new infirmary buildings, erected at a cost of $16,500. —The peach crop in Clark County will be an entire failure next season. The buds were all killed by the recent cold snap. —Near Linton a valuable vein of hard coal has been struck at a depth of 105 feet. Wellston, Ohio, capitalists will operate it. —Joseph Shuck, a prominent schoolteacher of Franklin County, was drowned while crossing Clear Fork. His body was recovered. —The Montgomery County fair directors have offered a premium of $lO for the best ten pounds of sugar made from beets raised in‘that county this year. —Andrew Alexander's saloon at Woodside, three miles east of Clay City, burned and Alexander perished in the flames. It is not known how the fire enrred—John Stroefcle was terribly used up by a premature explosion of dynamite at South Bend. Both eyes were blown out, a baud torn off and other injuries inflicted. —Samuel S. West, aged 70 years, who resides alone in a little hut five miles south of Muncie, was found dead on his wood-pile, where he had been lying for a couple of days. —Fourteen High-echool girls, at Crawfordsville, have been expelled because they ate apples during the time they were being kept in after school, their first offense being laughing during school hours. —An old and well-worn pocket-book was kicked about the floor of Buyalin’s drug store, at Logansport, for several hours, until it occurred to somebody to piek it up. It contained S3OU, belonging to Newton Donaldson. —The Decatrr County Agricultural Society has elected the following officers: President, John F. Childs; Vice President, Lewis Willey; Treasurer, J. B. Robinson; Secretary, Edward Kessing; ’Superintendent, A. S. Gilmou*.

- Sheriff J. G. Edwards, of Boone County, is defendant in a damage suit for $5,000, growing out of the fact that Edwards detailed his deputy to bring Elvin Wa’de before the grand jury. WAde attempted to escape and the officer shot him. —Thomas Hutsel was killed in the old McCoy grist mill near Warren recently. In putting the belt on the wheel which turns the bolter his coat was caught by the shaft and wound up until he was choked to death. He was dead when found a few minutes afterward. He formerly lived at Rochester, and was an old miller by trade. A wife and eight children are left. Turner Sims, of Shelbyville, made a slighting remark about the daughters of Mrs. Francis Diggs, who lives in the same bouse, and she attacked him. He secured a hatchet and cut her on the head, face, and shoulder. Her daughters came to her rescue, one of them armed with a club, with which Sims was knocked down. He was fined, and bound over to keep the peace. —James Ford, aged 75 years, was run over near the Jeffersonville State prison by a freight train backing over the bridge to Louisville, and was killed. His skull was crushed and one of his legs broken. About two years ago he attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself in front of a moving train, and the supposition is that he purposely walked in front of the train this afternoon. —Oscar, the 12-year-old son of the late Dr. O. T. Schultz, of Mount Vernon, met with an accident which will probably result in his death. He was playing with a can of gunpowder. He filled his pockets full of the explosive and then got too close to a fire, when the powder ignited. The explosion burned him terribly. The flesh on his chest, arms, and face peeled off, and he suffered excruciating pain. —John Carpenter, residing near Curtisville, five miles southeast of Windfall, was run over by an engine going north on the Panhandle road. One leg was cut off near the knee and he was otherwise badly bruised. He will probably die. He is about thirty-five years of age, resides on a farm and has a wife and four children. He was driving his teum, which became frightened and ran on to the track. The horses were killed. —At Washington as an east-bound O. &M. freight was leaving the city, a boot-black named Fred Orr, who is 16 years of age, boarded the caboose. When the train had gained considerable headway the boy was discovered by one of the trainmen and kicked off. He was thrown against a sharp projection on a switchpost and a gash four inches in length cut in his throat. The boy nearly bled to death before surgical aid reached him, but he will probably recover. —J. N. Davidson, President of the Montgomery County Farmers’ Council, has appointed the following persons as a committee who shall raise sugar beets this season and make sugar from them, their results to be reported to the council when the experiment is completed: H. M. Billingsby, J. J. Darter, H. H. Talbott, E. T. McCrea, J. M. Harshbarger, W. Q, O’Neall, J. N. Davidson, P. S. Kennedy, H. H. Swindler, E. M. Smalley, B. B. Rusk, and Ambrose Reinley. It is proposed to establish a sugarbeet industry in that county if the beets can be successfully raised. —When a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern passenger train was a mile from Elkhart, on its way to Chicago, and running very rapidly, a 3-year-old child, whose parents were asleep in a coach, escaped from them and walked off the platform. It was supposed that the child had been instantly killed, but when the train was backed the trainmen found the little one standing on the track, and, aside from a scratch on one ear, perfectly uninjured. The oldest railroad men say the child’s escape is the most marvelous one they have ever known. —Confined in the State Prison South is a convict who was at one time a prominent lawyer at Binghamton, N. Y., and who is a descendant of one of the most prominent families of the Empire State. He contracted the opium-eating habit, and his love for the drug has brought him down from wealth and position to a fellon’s cell. He went from bad to worse until his family refused to recognize or help him, and when be could no longer procure money to purchase opium he committed the crime of larceny, and now languishes behind prison bars. He was convicted under a fictitious name, and those who know his real name will not divulge it on account of their sympathy for the man. —The good people of Syracuse, a little place of about five hundred inhabitants, in Kosciusko County, have adopted a novel way of getting rid of two saloons in lha town. The saloonkeepers themselves seem content with the way matters are progressing. The women folks have commenced a temperance crusade, visiting the saloons and holding meetings in these places of iniquity, pleading with the proprietors and habitues of the places to desist from their evil ways. Strange to say, no ill-feeling whatever has been engendered, and every evening witnesses the strange novelty of holding religious | services in saloons. There have been a | number of conversions, and the work ! coco bravely on with unabated interest.

JACK LINCOLN IS DEAD.

THE YOUNG SON OF OCR MINISTER TO ENGLAND EXPIRES. A Long and Brave Struggle for LUe at an End—Blood Poisoning, Resulting from an Abscess, Saps Away the Strength of the Young Patient. London cable: Master Abraham Lincoln, son of Mr. Robert Lincoln, the United States Minister, who has been

“■jack” Lincoln, doctors stated definitely that his death was merely a question of a few hours. He suffered no pain. Mr. Lincoln and his family were at tho bedside of the dying boy fiom early in the morning until he died. He passed away quietly. Grief over their son’s death has prostrated Mr. Lincoln and his wife, who, worn out by their long vigils in the sickroom, had yet been sustained by some ray of hope that the disease would at last be conquered and their boy restored to health. Upon being informed of tho death of Master Lincoln, the Queen immediately sent a message of sympathy to Mr. Lincoln. The body will be embalmed and sent home for interment. Chicago dispatch: Young Lincoln was known among his Chicago playmates as “Jack” Lincoln. He was born here and first attended school in this city. After the boy’s father returned to Chicago from Washington “Jack” became a member of the University school on Dearborn avenue, remaining there until Mr. Lincoln went to Europe. The youth possessed traits of character that gave great promise of the future. Universally popular with his companions he was a leader in his set, a common expression among his churns being “Whatever ‘Jack’ says goes.” He was not only a favorite with the boys and girls of his set, but with their elders as well, the parents of the companions at whose home tho boy visited having genuine affection for the bright manly “Jack” Lincoln. Minister Lincoln’s business associates and the of the family speak in the highest terms of the’boy, In fact, all who knew him seem to have had a sincere regard for the lad. The reason that the boy was always called “Jack” was because there was a sort of feeling of reverence in the Lincoln family for the name of “Abraham” or “Abe.” William G. Beal, junior member of Minister Lincoln’s law firm, in speaking of the lad said tho young man was particularly fond of the history of the late war. “I h?ve seen him lie on the floor in his father’s library with war maps spread out before him, a history near, and study a map by the hour. “The boy was only 17, yet when I saw him last, lust before the family left for England, he was a large, strong fellow, with good muscles. He was f arther advanced in his studies, too, than most boys of his age. He was naturally studious, and his character was mature. He was the manliest boy, I think I may say without exception, I ever knew.”

MUST KEEP OUT.

The President’s Proclamation Against Violations of the Law. Washington dispatch: The President will in a few days issue a proclamation warning all persons against entering the waters of Behring sea within the dominion of the United States for the purpose of violating the provisions of section 1,956 of the revised statutes. This section is as follows: “No person shall kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur-seal or fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska territory or in the waters thereof, and every person guilty thereof shall for each offense, be fined not less than S2OO nor more than SI,OOO, or imprisonment uot more than six months, or both, and all vessels, their tackle, apparatus, furniture, and cargo found engaged in violation of this section shall be forfeited. but the secretary of the tresury shall have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, sable or other fur bearing animal, except furseals, under such regulations as he may prescribe, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to prevent the killing any fur seal and to provide for the execution of the provisions of this section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor shall he grant any special privileges under this section.”

LURED TO THEIR DEATH.

Wealthy Young Englishmen Enticed Across the Water and Murdered. Toronto (Ont.) dispatch: There have been some startling developments in connection with the murder of the young Englishman, Frederick C. Benwell, whose body was found in a swamp near Woodstock, Ont. J. Burchell, who was arrested the other day, was brought before a magistrate at Niagara Falls. Ont. The whole affair seems to point to an organized gang in London, of which Burchell was the chief actor, the object of which was to lure the sons of wealthy English people to Canada, presumably to take an interest In ah extensive horse raising farm at Niagara Falls. Peter Schwab, aged 27 years, a laborer at the Niles Tool works, Columbus, Ohio, was killed by the fall of an armor plate, weighing half a ton, from a crane. Jules Cebf has been appointed receiver for the wholesale tobacco firm of L. and E. Wertheimer & Co. of San Francisco

suffering for a long time from bloodpoisoning, arising from a malignant carbuncle on the left side below the arm pit, died at 11:07 o’clock in the morning. During the morning the lad was in a comatose condition. He was unable to retain nourishment, and the

REPORT ON THE TARIFF

THE COMMITTEE WILL SOON COMILh.TR ITS LABORS. The Agricultural Feature* of the Bill Will He In the Nature of a Surprise The Wool Schedule —The Sugar Question. Washington dispatch: The tariff bill will be reported to tho House from the ways and means committee about March 15. It is now so nearly complete that a correct general idea of its scope may be obtained. Ono of the surprises of the bill will be its agricultural features. There are to bo duties of 30 per cent, on barley and malt, 20 cents a pound on hops, 20 cents a bushel on apples, and larger proportional duties on other fruits, dried and fresh, and an impost of 10 cents a dozen on eggs, of which 14,000,000 dozen, valued at about $2,5'K),000, are annually imported from Canada and Scotland. The present duty on butter Is left as ifirfs. The wool schedule as at present constituted (and it will probably remain unchanged) providing that on first-class or clothing wools the duty shall be 11 cents a pound; on second-class, or combing, 12 cents a pound; on third-class, or carpet wools, 2)4 cents a Dound on wools worth at place of export 15 cents a pound and 8 cents on wools worth more than 15 cents. This is an increase on tho present rate, which provides for a duty of 2)4 cents on carpet wools worth 12 cents or loss at tho place of export and 5 cents on carpet wools worth more than 12 cents. Tho present rate on clothing wools Is 10 cents a pound when worth 30 cents or less and 12 cents when worth more than 30 cents. On woolen and worsted yarns the new bill imposes a duty per pound of three and a half times tho duty on a pound of unwashed wool of tho first class and In addition thoreto 40 per cent ad valorem. The sugar question has given the committee a great deal of trouble. The duty of from 2to 3 y t cents now imposed upon sugar will be reduced. If it were not for the fact that parties interested in the production o'’ sugar from sorghum or beets are confident of the rapid development of these industries in the .United States the committeee would make a much larger cut in sugar than they have, if not to place it on the free list. Mr. McKenna, the California member of the ways and means committee, says there are soveral beet-sugar factories on which construction has been suspended in his State, awaiting the action of tho committee on tho schedule. The subcommittee on sugar has decided to make sugar below No.’lfi, poiariscope test, dutiable at }4 cent per pound. This is a reduction of nearly 35 per cent, and, to make up for it, the committee proposes a bounty of 1 cent per pound on sugar produced hero. It is also understood that tho refiners are to have \i cent per pound on refined sugar in addition. That is to say, the duty will bo )4 cent per pound on the raw sugar up to and including No. 16. polariscope test, then cent per pound added on refined sugar.

WHAT UNCLE SAM OWES.

Synopsis of the Government Debt As It Stood on the Ist of March. Following is a synopsis of the statement of the government debt at the beginning of the month: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 454 per cent. $116,447,259 Bonds at 4 per cent 016,443.059 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent 108,323 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent 14,000,009 Pacific railroad bonds at 0 per. cent 04.623,513 Principal $813,653,033 Interest ~. 7,414,171 Total $821,087,203 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $1,833,885 Interest 150,485 Total $1,084,370 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal tender notes $346,737,458 Certificates of deposit 10,230,000 Gold certificates 180,G04,804 Silver certificates 284,176,262 Fractional currency, loss $8,375,034, estimated as lost or destroyed 6.013,744 Principal 778,602.268 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,504,140,186 Interest 7,563,656 Total $1,601,731,842 Less cash items available for reduction of debt $434,400,728 Less reserve held for redemption of U. S. notes 100,000,000 Total debt less available cash Items $1,067,304,114 Net cash in the treasury 32,756,584 Debt less cash In the treasury March 1,1800 $1,034,547,5.% Debt less cash in the treasury March L 1800 1,040,707,016 Decrease of debt during month....s 6,150,486 Decrease of debt since Jan. 30.1889 42,090.091 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold securities actually outstanding $ 130,604,894 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 284,170,262 United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 10,330.000 Cash held for matured debt and . interest unpaid 0,398,541 Fractional currency 120 Total available for reduction of the debt. $ 434,400,727 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of ['nlted States notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12.1882 $ 100,000,000 UNAVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE DEBT Fractional silver coin.s 22,758,520 Minor coin 2X2,560 T0ta1..... $ 22,071,089 -1 'Hficates held as ca5h32,756,684 Net cash balance on hand 32,750,584 Total cash In the treasury as shown by treasurer’s general account $ 622,673,613

LABOUCHERE BOUNCED.

THE EDITOR OF LONDON ••TRUTH" SUSPENDED FROM THE COMMONS. H» Questioned the Veracity of the Premier, Hence Hist Fate—Detail* of the Debate Which Led to the Sensational Episode. London cable: Mr. Labouchere spoke to his motion of inquiry into the Cleveland street scandal, which had been made part of the regular order lit the llouso of Commons. He alleged that the case presented an official attempt to defeat the course of justice, and therefore he had moved the reduction of the credits related to the administration of justice. 110 detailed tho facts of the scandal, and contended that tho sentence of nine months’ imprisonment for Veck was itself a scandal because of tho inadequacy of the punishment to tho offense commited. The Troasury officials, having full knowledge of tho whole affair, had refrained from prosecuting Newllve and Veck nntil Sir Stevenson Blackwood, Secretary to the Postoffice, had insisted upon taking action against his own subordinates, tho postal employes involved. Then finding themselves compelled to prosecute these two men, tho Treasury officials determined to prevent tho exposure from going any further, and tried to hush It all up. When Hainmond fled the police proposed to secure his extradition from Belgium, where they had him watched. Both tho Chief of Police and tho Secretary of the Postoffico urged the eovornment to obtain his extradition. There was no legal difficulty in the way. The extradition could have been readily obtained, but tho Marquis of Salisbury, through a Treasury official wrote, declaring that ho could not ask for tho extradition. Sir Richard Webster said Mr. Lubouehoro could adopt what course ho chose. He, himself, had direct authority to contradict tho allegation that tho Marquis of Salisbury had spoken to any one regarding tho issue of tho warrant. Mr. Labouchere said he did not believe tho Marquis of Salisbury, whose denials were obviously untrue. The chairman hero intervened and requested tho gentleman to withdraw the words calling Into question tho veracity of tho premier. Mr. Labouchere dccllnoJ to withdraw tho words and the Speaker named . him for suspension and called upon tfye House to adjudge upon the conduct of the member. Upon division tho suspension was carried by 177 to 96. . Mr. Labouchere, in leaving tne House, said ho regretted the fact, bpt his eonseionco would not allow him to say that he believed tho denial of tlio Marquis of Salisbury. [Cheers from the Parnell party.] Sir Richard Webster, tho AttorneyGeneral, said ho believed tho House would agree with him that there was not a shadow of foundation for the disgraceful chargos. It was absurb to suppose that tho Marqnls of Salisbury or the Treasury officials could have any interest to retard the prosecution In this case The procedure, in fact, took tho usual course. Tho Chairman then put Mr. Labouchero’s amendment proposing the reduction of the credit, and W. H. Smith moved the closure. This the Chairman declined to put. The discussion waa( continued, and finally, under the closure, proposed by another member, Mr. Labouchere’s amendment was rejected by 206 to 66. \

STATE OF TRADE.

No General Improvement Noted Daring the Past Week. New York dispatch: Bradstreet’a “State of Trade” says: Special telegrams do not report any material or widespread Improvement In the state of trade. The slight gain In wheat prices Is more than offset by dullness In iron, while unfavorable weather, heavy wagon roads and floods in the Ohio valley, all tend to further restrict the distribution of general' merchandise, already less than reported one year ago. Coal is dull and the output restricted. Reports of grain stocks east of the Rocky mountains continue to show a decrease in the total of December during January and February, promising to equal 9,500,000 bushels, against 8,000,000 bushels decrease last year, which will reduce wheat stocks March Ito about what they were a year ago. The average decrease during three weeks of February has been nearly 1,250,000 bushels per week, agaiDst 700,000 bushels during the like weeks of 1889. Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) from both coasts have increased again and are now noticeably full,particularly froth San Francisco. The week’s reported shipments equal 2,300,725 bushels, against 2,272,849 bushels last week and 1,384,594 bushels in the last week of February, 1889. The total foreign shipments from July lto date is 70,124,046 bushels, against 62,755,096 bushels in the like portion of 1888-89. Pig iron has not revived yet. Makers look for an active demand for shaped iron soon. The gross output of! iron and steel on old orders is heavy, but new business thus far has not met expectations. Dry goods jobbers at New York and Boston report trade fairly active. Cotton and woolen domestics and foreign dress goods are the most active. Agent* report leading styles of cotton well sold up and a fair business in spring specialties Prices are generally firm, with bleached cottons showing the greatest strength. Raw wool is dull with large stocks at Boston. Cat-pet wools are active and prices are weak,| but not quotably lower. Raw cotton is dull in all markets/ The crop movement continues light but firm. The business failures reported number 190 in the United States for the week, against 253 the previous week and 243 the corresponding year. The total number of failures in the United States since Jan. 1 is 2,54& against 2,727 in 1889