Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — Page 3

INDIAN A HAPPENINGS.

EVENT* AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELI OCCUKKED. All Intfrutisg Summary of tho More Important Doings of Our Neighbors— \V«mltSinga anti Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notea Itewar.lH ol Geiiiouv Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows: George Adams, assignor of one-half to J. H. Statzenberger, New Albany, steam engine; -Joshua Admire, assignor to W. Presser and L. Carroll, Smith’s Valley, cornplanter; Ludwig Gutmann, Fort Wayne, choking electro-magnets; Daniel Hershberger, Huntington, assignor of onehalf to J. Ulrich River, device for wiring fence pickets; Abraham Kimber, Indiananapolis, railway tie; Nathan A. Long, Muncie, rain-water filter; Samuel Maxfield, assignor of one-balf to C. Clinton, Angola, implement for recovering lost pipe from tubular wells; Geo. R. Morrison, assignor of one-half to J. C. Ertel, folding clothes-bracket; Oscar E. N. Ricbburg, Marion, farm gate; Frank Schefold, New Albany, assignor to W. C. DePauw Company, of Indiana, means for transferring molten glass; Wm. L. Smith, assignor of one-half to W. H. H. Ayres, Indianapolis, car-coup-ling; Frederick Ulrich, Peru, vehicle axle; Charles H. Van Epps, Scott, fence wrench; John G. Zeller, Richmond, elevator gate.

Minor Stale Items. James Reeder, a pioneer resident of Howard County, died at Kokomo, aged 85 years. He came to the county in 1810. —William Justice, aged 45, a farmer living near Yorktown, was instantly Killed by a falling tree. He leaves a wife and five children. —George M. Schultz, a prominent politician, while chopping kindling at Brazil, was struck in the eye by a flving splinter. The muscles of the eye were paralyzed, causing total loss of sight. —At Vincennes, Mrs. Ann Rise, an old lady about seventy years old, fell into an open fire-place, and before she was discovered her face, and neck, and breast were terribly burned. She cannot long survive her injuries. —Frederick Wesson's residence, in the outskirts of Fort Wayne, was destroyed by fire. A tall wind-mill stood beside the nouße, and Wesson, climbing upon it, was stifled with smoke and fell into the fire, sustaining fatal injuries. —Robert L. Matthews, unployed in the Jeffersonville car-works, slipped and fell into a kettle of boiling pitch at that institution, aud suffered serious injuries. His neck and left arm were burned almost to a crisp. —The Commissioners of Tippecanoe County have rescinded the right of way of the electrio street railway over the new bridge across the Wabash at Lafayette, and ordered the track removed from the levee. Litigation will result. —Alice, the 2 year old daughter of Edward Alexander, living eight miles north of Shelbyville, was fatully burned by her clothes catching fire from the stove. Mrs. Dorsey, a neighbor, had her hands and arms burned while trying to extinguish the flames. —Dr. Alfred S. liemey died at his residence six miles southeast of Groensburg, at the age of 70 years. He practiced medicine since early manhood, several years at RushviJle, and amassed quite a fortune. Last November be was stricken with paralysis, and has been helpless since. —The Ohio and Indiana Conference of the Evangelical church at Portland, adopted strong resolutions indorsing Bistiops Esher and Bowman, and expressing approval of their course in the existing trouble in the church. Similar resolutions have been passed by other conferences.

—While Samuel C. Driver was engaged in feeding a circular saw at Fort Wayne, the brace upon which the wood rests gave way and struck the saw. A crash followed and a piece of the saw, eight inches long, was imbedded in Driver’s breast and penetrated his lung. He cannot recover. —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. —A serious injury recently befell William R. Woodard, contractor on the Monon from Orleans to French Lick. He was at Orleans and was setting a brake, when, by accident, he fell to the irack of the moving train, injuring him Very seriously. He is a son of W. R. Woodard, formerly Superinteiwlent of the Monon, but now General Manager of the Lquisville Southern. —The farmers in the neighborhood of Wheeling have been victimized out of about S4OO by a walnut-stump shark. This robber represented that he was buying stumps to be used in veneering, and paid $1 each. For every stump he offered a twenty-dollar gold-piece, and received sl9 in good' money. From twenty to twenty-five purchases were made, and then the stump-buyer fled the country. The twenty-dollar gold-pieces which he worked off were all shown to be counterfeit.

—The Ministerial Association of the Crawfordsville district will meet at Waveland on April 28, 29, and 30. Twenty-two papers will be read. —A passenger on the Muncie Route road, ran into Mrs. Farrell, aged 45 at Sheldon, near Fort Wayne, horribly mangling the lady. She was walkingon the track and did not get off at the engineer’s alarm, which was heard by passengers on the train. She lived not one hundred feet from where she was killed and was crossing the track from hei son’s home. —Govenor Hovey has pardoned Melvin Tyler, who was recently convicted of bigamy in the Delaware Circuit Court. Tyler married an estimable young lady of Muncie, claiming that he had been divorced from his first wife in New York. It afterwards tianspired that no decree had been entered in the case, and he was indicted and convicted. The Governor believes that Tyler acted in good faith in the matter, and pledges have been made that he will remarry his Muncie wife as soon as he can legally do so. —Captain Henry Tower and his business partner, Chas. Cravens, were driving in a buggy on Main street at Madison, when their two horses, frightened at a passing street-car, ran away at breakneck speed. The lines broke and animals becoming uncontrollable both gentlemen jumped out. Cravens received slight injury, but Tower is dangerously hurt. The team ran upon the sidewalk, running over and possibly fatally injuring Miss Alta Gates, daughter of Geo. Gates, of North Madison, who had come to town for medicine for a sick sister. Striking an electric-light pole, one of the horses, value'd at SSOO, was instantly killed and the buggy demolished.

—To Miami County farmers belongs the honor of the establishment of the first farmers’ institute in the State, together with probably the largest average attendance and general good features. As a fitting climax to their successful second year meetings the closing session on April 4 and 5 was an immense affair, devoted to general business, but principally to the subject of butter. Prizes aggregatingmnny hundreds were offered, special rates secured upon railroads entering Peru, aud attendance was large from all over the State. The butter exhibit was held in the public hall of the city. There was also a grand exhibition upon the streets of the country’s fine dairy cows.

Holman Davis, a colored man, living six miles north of Now Castle, found a stake driven in the ground in his dooryard the other morning, on which was a White Cap notice, embellished with a death’s head and bundle of switches, warning him to leave the country within fifteen days on pain of receiving 100 lashes at the hands of the Regulators. Davis is an inoffensive and respected man, and no cause is known for the warning except that his black skin is offensive in the eyes of the Virginia Bourbons who populate that neighborhood. Davis has armed himself heavily, and will give the desperadoes an interesting reception if they undertake to execute their thieat. —The faculty of Wabash College held an important meeting at Crawfordsville to take action in regard to the oration of Perry J. Martin, who sesured the Baldwin prize of S4O by using the speech of another person. Martin had confessed his guilt and returned the money, and said that he never dreamed of securing the prize, and only wanted to make a credlta ble showing He asked to be permitted to graduate next June. It wa’s the unanimous decision of the faculty that Martin be dismissed from the college, and notice to this effect was sent to Martin. It was not decided who should get the Baldwin prize, but it is probable that the second best, Mr. Cain, of Danville 111., will receive it.

—Grant Sheirman, of Pulaski County, was lodged in the Cass County Jail at Logansport on the charge of horsestealing. For some lime a gang of horse-thieves have been operating in the counties of Cass, W'hite, Fulton, Miami and Pulaski without detection. Recently three horses stolen from Cass County were found in the possession of Sheirman. His mistress who had been terrified into silence, told the officers of his connection with the stealing and he was arrested in Wabash County. Sheirman threatens to implicate others of the gang, and it is possible that an extensive combination of two or three in each county will be brought into the toils. Over fifty horses are said to have been stolen by the gang. —Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows; Albert Abraham, Evansville, burglar alarm; Charles Anderson, assignor, to South Bend, ironworks, South Bend, reversible moldboard plow; Wallace H. Dodge, Mishawaka, pulley; Henry B. Doolittle, Doolittle Mills, stump-puller; John Goedel, Cambridge City, saw; Charles D. Jennack, Indianapolis, dynamo electric machine; George W. Keller, Goshen, car-pet-sweeper; Thos. A. Kennedy, Monticello, assignor of one-half to J. E. West, Fail*land, mail-pouch fastener; Oscar KitchetL Valparaiso, assignor of onehalf to Wl\H. Curtis, Chicago, shipping car; Joseph, S. Locke, Spartanburg, assignor to A. P. Glunt, Union City, wiretwister; David Meyers, North Manchester, automatic boiler-cleaner; Henry W. Taylor and C. W. Mellman, Sullivan, relief type; David D. Weiaell, Fort Wayne, foot powf, r .

ROUGH ON LITTLE BEN.

A CAUSTIC LETTER FROM GENERAL LONGSTREET. He Exposes the Administration's Secret Policy in tho South —Carpet-Baggers Get tiie Offices in Return Tor Promises of Harri-on Delegates in 1892 How the People s Interest and the Part}’ Are Sold Out for Ome Man —Plain Talk from a Republican. [Washington special.} General Longstreet. of Georgia, the most prominent of Republican ex-Con-federates, has written to a friend in this city a letter upon the Harrison administrat on that is full of dynamite. It gives also an inside view of the means whereby the RepubLcanorg'nizationin the South is used simply to muatsin a hold upon the spoils without regard to the public good or even to party interests. In replying to an inquiry as to whether he had not voted for Mr. Harrison he said: “It is true that I did not exerci-e the privilege of voting for President at the election in 1888, for the simple reason that in this State the majority of the other party is so great that it availed bat little to throw a drop against a current that was overwhelming, and there were many more Republicans who declined to vote for the same reason, and many colored men not only failed to vote for the Republican candidate, but voted for the other side. Now, this indifference is due to a great extent to the management of the so-called Republican organization controlled by Colonel Buck and his associates. They have driven all the leading men of the party in the State from active co-operation in politics—such as ex-Senator Joshua Hill aud Jonathan Norcross, who was the last Republican candidate to run for Governor. To the list may be added all prominent men of the State; for they can not beoome reconciled to be led or managod by the agent of the Washington government, with his contingent of carpet-baggers and negroes. By his management the party in Georgia has about dwindled down to those who hold the United States offices under Republican administrations, and they control these places by sending themselves as delegates to the nominating conventions.” The general, reviewing his relations with the President, said he hal written several letters to Mr. Harrison after the election and had received cordial responses. He visited the President-elect at Indianapolis and explained his views “in regard to the enrpet-baager anl combination.” These views, he says, were fully approved in quite a lengthy interview with the President-elect, and he went so far as to announce that he would not give support to that element. General Longstreet recites the circumstances of the very cool treatment given him by Mr. Harrison afterward, and i s ribes it to the misrepresent ition of Colonel Buck aud his friends. He then savs:

“In announcing my ideas in 1867, as just stated, my purpose was to save the South from the ruin that must suiely follow the putting of our States under the rule of adventurers and n groes. I emphasize this in order to say that my opposition to that dpeful supremacy is now ihq,t which actuate I mo in my first political adveature. This Colouel Buck well knows, and he also probably knows that by the recognition of the Republican administration we could have brought several States of the South into ment of the party nominees in 1892, and in that way he and his and their little coterie would have been lost sight of in all further conventions.” The General concludes his letter thus: “I should not fail to mention that the asoresaid Republican managers sell the party to the Democrats either by failing to put oat candidates or by making nominations who will fell out to the opposing nominee, thus making of their places sources of revenue. Of this we took conclusive evidence to Washington at the inauguration in the shape of one of the books kept by Democrats giving the names of leaders who received the benefit of Democratic election contributions and amounts paid them. If that book were carefully examined I make no doubt we would lind the names of some of the preachers and leaders who have been in the conventions passing resolutions of complaint that negroes are unjustly dealt with South, and that the Republican vote is suppressed by the Democrats. I have no doubt that the vote i 3 suppressed, but its blotting-out influence comes from’the Republican management in support of the Democratic party and for the purpose of holding the Republican party here in limited hands. If a reputable Republican should stand for election to any office here upon his own responsibility and his own claims he must stand against Democrats and Republicans—the latter more bitter than the former—one with fire in front, the other with knives in the rear. All points weighed seem to warrant the conclusion th it it was not the failure to cast a useless ballot at the polls in 1888 so much as the promised vote of the delegates to the nominating convention in 1892 that threw the federal offices of Georgia into the hands and under the supremacy of the carpet-bag-negro alliance. Some Southern men have been appointed, but none can pretend that their influence at home is greater than their leaders’. On the contrary, it must necessarily be less.”

Consolation for Farmers.

The McKiuley tariff bill has at last been reported to the full Committee on Ways and Means, and authentic copies of it have been given out for publication. A Republican member of the committee, commenting on the bill, says: “The Ways and Means Commi'tee was organized not to do the things which the people of the West wanted done,” and he told the truth. The bill is a studied insult to the Western farmer. Among the articles that interested the farmer were sugar, wool, cotton, lumber, twine and metals. But while there has been a considerable cut on sugar, and a slight reduction on lumber, there has been no reduction on twine, and a heavy increase on wool, cdtton and the metals. The tariff on several other articles was increased with a view of making sport of the Western farmer. As We export 46,000,000 bushels of wheat, and import only 1,946 bushels, the tariff on wheat was increased 25 per cent. As we export 69,000.000 bushels of corn, and import only 2,338 bushels, the tariff on com was increased 50 percent. As we export 624,000 bushels

of oats, and import only 22,324 bushels, the tariff on oa s was iucreased 50 per cent. As we import only 396 bushels of cornmeal, the tariff on cornmeal was doubled. As we export 400,000,000 pounds of bacon and hams, and import only 272,000 pounds, the tariff on b icon and hams was increase J from 2 to 5 cents per pound. As we export 85.000.0(H) pounds of cheese, and import only 8,0)0,000 pounds, the tariff on oheese was increased 50 per cent. If these changes do not delight the Western farmer what would delight him? This bill can never pass Congresß. Although not yet reported to the House, it has become a firebrand in the Republican party. It will cause a long and acrimonious debate, and then be dropped, leaving the Republican party in a divided and dismembered condition and the country ready for the return of the triumphant Democracy. —Chicago Herald.

Trusts and the Tariff.

In the Senate debate on trusts Senator Vest gave an interesting list of trusts, and showed the dependence of these monopolies in each oase he named upon tariff duties excluding competition from abroad. 1. The steel rail trust, buttressed by a tariff tax of sl7 per ton. 2. The nail trust, by a tariff tax of $1.25 per 100 pounds. 3. The iron nut aud washer trust, by a tax of $2 per 100 pounds. 4. The barbed fence wire trust, by a tax of 60 cents per 100 pounds. 5. The copper trust, by a tax of $2.50 per 100 pounds. 6. The lead true*, by a tax of $1.50 per 100 pounds. 7. The slate pencil trust, by a tax of 30 per cent. 8. The nickel trust, by a tax of sls per 100 pounds. 9. The zinc trust, by a tax of $2.50 per 100 pounds. 10. The sugar trust, by a tax of $2 per 100 pounds. 11. The oil cloth trust, by a tax of 40 per cent. 12. 'ihe jute bag trust, by a tax of 40 per cent. 13. The cordage trust, by a tax of 30 per cent.

14. The paper envelope trust, by a tax of 25 per cent. 15. Ihe gutta percha trust, by a tax of 35 per cent. 16. The castor oil trust, by a tax of 80 cents per gallon. 17. The linseed oil trast, by a tax of 25 cents per gallon. 18. The cottonseed oil trust, by a tax of 25 cents per gallon. 19. The borax trust, by a tax of $5 per 109 pounds. t 2J. The ultramarine trust, by a tax of $5 per 100 pounds. Senator Sherman added to this list the match trust, at the head of which is Gen. Alger, of Michigan, the Standard Oil trust, and various grain trusts. In the case of Gen. Alger’s match trust, retches being nowadays aB much a necessary of life as broad, Senator Sherman quoted from the decision of a Michigan court: “It appears from the testimony that the Diamond Match Company was organized for the purpose of controlling the manufacture and trade in matches in the United States and Canada. The object was to get all the manufacturers of matches in the United States to enter into a combination and agreement by which the manufacture and output of all match factories should be controlled by the Diamond Match Company. Those manufacturers who would not enter into the scheme were to be bought out, those who proposed to engage in the business were to be bought off, and a strict watch was to be exercised to discover any person who proposedfto engage in such business and he was to be prevented if possible. “All who eiitered into the combination and all who were bought off w ere required to onter into bonds to the Diamond Match Company that they would not directly or indirectly engage in the manufacture or sale of friction matches, nor aid nor assist nor encourage any one else in said business where by doingso it might conflict with the business interest or diminish the sales or lessen the profits of the Diamond Match Company. These restrictions varied in individual cases as to the time it was to continue, from ten to twenty years. Thirty-one manufacturers, being substantially all the factories where matches were made in the United States, either went into the combination or were purchased by the Diamond Match Company, and out of this number a’l were closed except about thirteen. “Gen. Alger was a witness in the case and was asked by his counsel the following question: ‘it appears that during the years 1881 and 1882 large sums of money were expended to keep njen out of the match business, remove Competition, buy machinery and patents, and in some instances purchase other matoh factories. I will ask you to state the reasons, if any there are, why those sums should not be treated as an expense of the business and charged off from this account.’ “ ‘To which he replied: 'Because the price of matches was kept up to correspond so as to pay these expenses and make large dividends above what could have been made had those factories been in the market to compete with the business.’ “It also appears from the testimony of Gen. Alger that the organization of the Diamond Match Compauy was in a measure due to his exertions. ” Monopolies and trusts strike always at the necessaries of life, and the articles required and used by the mass pf the people. Thus in the Republican tariff, common, coarse blankets and woolen goods always be »r a much higher duty than the fine goods used by the rich, and this discrimination runs through the whole of the Allison bill and its successor, the McKinley bill. Both these bills tax the poor much more heavily than the rich. —New York Herald.

The Farmers Will Learn By-and-By.

The protectionists continually ding it in our ears that the manufactures of the East must be protected or they will not prosperous. Let the farmer ask himself: “Why should I make the Ecstern manufacturer so prosperous that he is thereby enabled to hold a mortgage on my farm and exact more than I make in interest, finally taking the farm for the principal?” Why should prosperity be so unequal? and why should the manufacturer grow rich while the farmer, who sustains him, grows poor?— Democrat, Kingman, Kan. Lawyers often indulge in cross-ex-aminations to settle vexed questions.

FAILED IN HIS ATTEMPT

A BOLD ROBBERY PLANNED IN A CHICAGO HOTEL. A Guest Sends for m Jeweler to fend Him Diamonds for Examination and Then Attacks the Clerk in HU Room—The Robber Behind the Bars. Chicago dispatch: Tho other day Hyman, Rcrg & Co., jewelers and diamond dealers at 127 Stato street, received the following letter: ‘•Hyman, Rerg & Co.—Gentlemen: Please send, for my inspection, to room 649 in the Palmer house, several diamond rings and pins. Do not send very high priced stones, as I do not want to pay more than $125 for the ring and $65 for tho pin. I fell down and sprained my ankle last night, and so am unable to visit your store. lamin a hurry, as I will leave for Louisville to-night If I am able to ride in a cab. Very respectfully, Ralph Allen.” The firm telephoned to the Palmer house to find out what was known there of Mr. Allen. The reply caino back that nothing was known of hint except that such a person was occupying the room mentioned to which he had been assigned throe days beforo, without giving his residence. William A. Bigler, a salesman for tho firm, was sent to Allen’s room with a package of diamonds worth nearly 31,500 in his pocket. Ho also took with him to tho room Louis Perret, one of tho hotel porters, and stationed him just outside the door. Allen was in his room bathing in warm water tho foot lie said ho had Injured. * Negotiations for tho diamonds wore short. Allen picked out a ring worth $65 and a pin worth 8125. “Bundle the rest, of them up while I get tho money/’ said Allen, as ho drew tho bare foot out of the water and hobbled around back of Bigler and bent down to tako something from under the mattress on the bod. The salesman was about to look behind him, for he had been suspicious all tho while, when ho was half stunned by a terrific blow on tho head. Ho got upon his feet and faced his assailant In time to partly ward off the next blow. But tho heavy cane In Allen’s hand, after breaking on Bigler’s arm, descended with foreo enough to cut a wound two inches long in tho scalp. The woundod man screamed, and Allen, without stopping to grab the package of diamonds, rushed out of the room and down tho hall-way. Porret, the porter, followed, but lost the fleet-footed robber In a blind passage way. Cecil Gregg, the time-keeper, saw the thief go into a room on the fifth floor that happened to be unlocked, and, following him In, found him under tho bod. Ho was quickly pulled out and taken to tho armory. / Allen is about 5 feet 3 inches in height, thick-set, dark-complexioned, with a short, stubby black mustache and black hair, worn pompadour. From what papers were found in his satchel lie seeihs to have been lately In l’hHae delphlaand Washington. He would say\ nothing of his identity or his past. Of \ his present trouble he said: “Before God this Is my first offense against the laws. This Is tho first time I have over been guilty of a crime. lam willing to plead guilty and go to prison, but I am not willing to tell my true name and bring disgrace on my poor mother and father.”.

THE GREELEY HOME BURNED.

Destruction of a Famous Residence at Chappaqua. Cliappaqua (N. Y.) dispatch: The old Greeley homestead, which was formerly the homo of Horace Greeley, being built by him in 1851, has boon destroyed by fire. Since Mr. Greeley’s death the house had been owned by Miss Gabrlello Greeioy, his only surviving child. She was in Pleasantvillo attending church at the time of the fire, and left the liouso in charge of Miss Cleveland, her cousin. At about JO o’clock the latter detected the smell of smoke. Upon investigation the cellar was found to be ,ln flames. The fire made rapid proggress, and Miss Cleveland and the servants were compelled to leave, without being able to save much property. Some of the neighbors, however, managed to

THE GREELEY HOMESTEAD.

save most of the library, a marble bust of Horace Greeley, and the only existing picture of Mrs. Greeley. The property destroyed included much valuable furniture and two pianos. A secretary and other articles belonging to the great editor were saved. There was about $4,0»»0 worth of jewelry in the house. A portion of it, including a diamond bracelet and several gems, was found after the fire was extinguished. It Is believed that SIO,OOO \yill cover the loss. Miss Mary F. Latiihop of Denver, Col., national organizer for the NonPartisan National Woman's Christian Temperance union, will traverse ■ the Pacific coast in the interests of that society, commencing early Mi May. Party questions will have no place in Miss Lathrop’s addresses.