Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AKD riJciDENTS THAT HAT* LATELY OCOJRKEU 4a Intereattag Summary of the Mara Important Doing* of Our Neighbor!—Wnlami Ifeath*—Crime, Casualties and Gouerai News Notes. —Charles Allison was accidentally grounded in the leg by George Yard, at Kokomo. —Carl Tiederman, a merchant, of •Gpshen, was clubbed into insensibility by foot-pads. —George Grinnp, switchman, was struck by a train at Logansport and dangerously hurt, —Theodore Hull, Grand Trunk yardmaster at .South Bend, was fatally crushed between cars. —Prank Golding was terribly cut about the neck andback by the breaking ■of a heavy sheet of plate glass, at Kokomo. —Dennis Barrett waß kicked in the face by a horse at Terre Haute. His nose was broken and several teeth were dislodged. —Millard Kennedy of Union Township, Johnson County, required three days to recover consciousness after being kicked by a horse. —A 4-year-old daughter of Carl Buffer, residing near Muncie, was kicked in the head by a horse and danger- . ouslv injured. —Philip Vassen, a plumber, of Fort Wayne, upset a pot of moiten metal, which splashed into his face, blinding both his eyes. —A. Yeager was fatally hurt at Walcottville by a smash-up of machinery in the mill where he was employed. A chisel was driven into his head. —Mrs. Robert Parr, residing near Greencastle, was kicked by a mule, the animal’s heels laying bare the frontal bone of her forehead. Her injuries will result fatally. —A large fish poud, owned by J. M. Troutman, near Crawfordsville, was dynamited during the past week, and hundreds of fish killed. The affair is being investigated. —The drillers struck a fine flow of artesian mineral water at C. Fletcher's residence at Spencer. The water pours out, by actual measurement, one hundred and eighty barrels per hour. —The spring trotting meeting which was to have been held in Fort Wayne in June has been declared off, as satisfactory arrangements could not be made with the other cities of the proposed circuit.

—Benjamin Long, of Logansport, aged 17, has won the Youth's Companion prize of SIOO for the best essay on “The Patriotic Influence of the American Flag When Raised Oyer the Public Schools.” —The owner of a bus line at Crawfordsville is “Walkup,” and he is in a peck of trouble over what to place upon his vehicles, because his own name mightsuggest to travelers an invitation to “walk up” from the depots. Will Higgins got his hand caught in a machine ati Ball’s tin-stamp works at Muncie, and lost a finder. A few moments later Charles Valentine, another youth, went to work at the Ramo place, and lost the index finger to one of his hands and badly cut another. —The children’s disease which is reported from Muncie, and pronounced LaNona, has appeared in Greenfield. There', nre four little girls suffering with the trouble—vomiting and purging with no apparent cause. It is hoped that it may not become generally epidemic. —A terrific natural gas explosion occurred in B. W. Skelton’s cracker factory, Fort Wayne, which resulted in SSOO damage to the building. N. C. Foulks, a baker employed in the factory, waß badly bnrned. He had turned the fire in the oven too low, and the flame was extinguished while Foulks was at dinner. On his retun» explosion occurred.

—A huge live war eagl . T» months old, was captured iu Crawford County by one of the hill dweilerß of the county, who managed to escape the huge bird’s talons by throwing his overcoat over it. It measures seven feet six inches from tip to tip, add weighs fifty pounds. This kind of eagle, while found in abundance in the mountains of the Western Territories, is very rare in this part of the country. —Charley Phillips was accidentally shot by Everett Henley, at the farm residence of Nixon Henley, one mile east of Monrovia. Everett was examining an oldfashioned “pepper-box” revolver, when from some unknown cause the weapon began firing, one bail penetrating the face of Phillips near the right cheekbone, ranging downward through the parotid gland, making a serious and ugiy wound. • It is thought that he will recover. —One of the wealthiest farmers in Ohio Township, Bartholemew County, called at the Moore’s Vineyard postoffice recently to buy a quantity of postage stamps at a reduced price. He offered one and a half cents fdrtwo-cent stamps and one-half cenffor a one-cent stamp. The offer wap refused, and he became enraged and was restrained by friends from an assault on the postmaster. The stamps were not for the farmer’s use, but were sent for by a yonng lady stop*ping at his house. The farmer hoped to turn an hottest penny by making a per oent. on his investment.

—lsaac Lavender, a brlc’k- layer of Evansville, while on hii way to his work was run down by the cars, having his head cut completely off and his body badly mangled. He was about fifty years of age, and leaves a large family. —A large oak saw-log hauled in to Maley’s saw-mill, at Columbus, from the woods, which was cracked and somewhat windshaken in the heart, while being quartered up, fell apart, and blucksnnkes began running in every direction. Twenty-seven of the reptiles of all sizes were killed, besides several that got away, the largest of which measured six feet seven inches in length.

—The other day at Muncie, Melvin H. Tyler took out a license to wed Miss Emma Heffner. Tyler, whe is a prominent manufacturer, came to Muncie two years ago and wedded the same lady, with whom he lived nearly a year, when a former wife from Portland, Me., whom he had deserted, had him arrested, convicted and sentenced for bigamy. Tyler's popularity and failing health secured a pardon for him from jail, where he was serving the lowest possible sentence. During the trial wife No. 1 agreed to get a divorce and free him if SSOO alimony be allowed ber and her child, which was done, and Tyler has recieved the papers that made him free to wed Miss Heffner, which he will do.

•—Pension Agent Ensley has made out and forwarded to William Bobley, of Linton, Green County, a voucher of $13,630.80, the largest amount of pension money ever paid to any one man in the State of Indiana. Bohley was a private in Company F, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Gen. Crust’s regiment, and is now blind from a disease of the eyes contracted while in the army. He is a German, about fifty-two years old, and owns a little farm near Linton, which place is largely made up of Germans. Until Bobley’s claim of $13,037.80 was ordered paid, the largest pension granted in this State was that of Owen Flaherty, of Terre Haute, who, on Feb. 20 last, was given $L3,P79.07. Flaherty is insane from woundsrcacived in the service.

- A contract has jbeen close * Anderson by which tbe entire plant of the Covington Wire Nail Mill will be removed to that city at once, together with 150 operatives, with their families. The establishment, when completed, which will be cany in the summer, will cut eight hundred kegs of wire nails per day. This American wire-rod, wire and wire-nail-works in Anderson will furnish employment to about 500 skilled men. Tbe Novelty Wire and Fence Company have broke ground for their factory, and a large .force of men are at .work. The factory will employ thirty skilled men, a number of whom havo purchased lots and are building pretty .cottages in the vicinity of the factory. Negotiations are pending for a number of other valuable factories.

—The year 1890 promises more for Portland than any previous year. Eastern capital has become interested in the construction of the Chicago, Portland & Wabash Railroad, and articles of association havo been forwarded to Indianapolis to be filed. Elections will be ordered in Wayne Township and Penn Township at once, and if the aid is voted and the required amount raised the road will be constructed at once as far as Camden, and at that point the road reaches the largest gravel hills in Indiana or Ohio. Portland has secured four good factories in the last year, and is now raising money for a desk factory to be located there. Besides these, the enlargement of such factories as the Bimbel wheel-works and the Creamery Package Company, the largest of their kind in the State, is making it quite a manufacturing city..

—Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: William H. Bennett, Kokomo, saw-mill dog: William L. Durth, Frankfort, metallic buggy bed; Oscar R. Pecker, Rochester, watch-bow.fastener; John E. Donaldson, Montezuma, assignor to Clay Shingle Company, Indianapolis, roofing tile; Emil E. Herman, Terre Haute, trousers; Ira W. Eikenbarv, Warren, automatic sliding gate; Edmund H. Hanna, assignor .of one-half to A. T. Baker, Portland, plane; Willis C. Howe, Evansville, spindle for vehicles; Harry Huddleston, Liberty, wheel hub; Charles McNeal, assignor of one-half to E. Skillman, Goshen, split pulley; Henry Nichols, assignor of three-fourths to J. W. and E. E. Ruark, and A. J. Bird, Mount Meridan, car coupling; Lewis J. Rice, Indianapolis, hose coupling. —George Zimmer, a farmer Of Maysville, Allen County, discovered a radical, though somewhat expensive remedy to cure vermin-infected cattle. A neighbor told him to rub the animals thoroughly with kerosene and they longer be troubled with the vermin. Zimmer did so, saturating the hides of eight cows until they were dripping wet with the fluid. Along in the afternoon he took a red-hot iron and started to brand one of the cows, when in an instant, the animal was enveloped in flames. A stampede followed, and the burning cow mingled with the rest of the herd, until all eight of them were a m ass of flames. They rushed into a barn, setting fire to it. A hay-stack was next ignited and consumed, and pandemonium reigned. The barn was saved. When all was over, it wasfotfhd that the vermin were dead, and so were the cows.

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS.

WHY THET HOPE TO CABRT THE STATE THIS FALX. Republican Revolt Against the Tariff— Disintegration in the Ranks of the Party of Protection Thousands of Voting Farmers Organized Landslides. [From the Chicago Daily News. Ind. Rep.] Illino a Democrats are breathing an atmosphere of great confidence. Thev believe they can carry the State and elect a State Treasurer and a State Superintendent of Public Instruction. These hopes are based on what they consider tangible evidences of Democratic roinvigoration and Republican demoralization. To carry Illinois in an off year would not be extraordinary. Henry Raab, a Democrat, was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in 18s2, and Orendorff was defeated for Treasurer by only about S.UUO votes. REPUBLICANS ARE UNHAPPY. Republicans do not deny that their pirty is honeycombed with dissatisfaction that in many portions of the State amounts todis ntegration. This is due in some degree to dissatisfaction with President Harrison. His administration has not pleased the bread-winners—the men wbo produce the results at elections. They do not say he is a bad President. They 6imply complain that he is a poor party leader. There is no blood in the party, no enthus ; asm. In addition, there is a wide-spread discontent among the farmers. Farm products are below the cost of production. Agricultural prosperity is dwindling. The situation is much the same as it was in the pinching times of the early ’7os, when the grange and greenback movements were seized upon as a solution of hard times. Added to this is the growth of trusts, the compact organization of monopolies, the steadily rising and baleful domination of the manufacturing, commercial, and financial elements of the country. The farmers feel the pressure due to a want of prosperity, and iu their endeavors to free themselves are disposed to strike at the powers that be.

DEMANDS FOR TARIFF REFORM. During the last year over one hundred tariff-reform clubs have been organized in the State. These embrace both Republicans and Democrats. They are nonpartisan. A distinct and determined effort has been made by the organizers of these clubs to keep them out of politics and to keep politics out of them. This is so pronounced that but little information concerning them is obtainable for use in treating of the political situation.' It is reliably asserted that these clubs now embrace at least thirty thousand members. These inembers are all posted on tariff-reform matters They are aggressive and always re idy to point out how the existing depression of agricultural interests is due to the protective-tariff policy —the policy of the Republican party. These 80,000 tariff reformers are mainly agriculturists or men dependent upon agricultural prosperity for their livelihood. This element must have greet effect wherever the question of tariff reform becomes an issue in the campaign. THE FARMERS’ ALRIANOE. In addition to this the Farmers’ Alliance has taken a deep root in twenty or thirty of the northern and central counties of the State. Its membership amounts to somewhere near 20,000. These are all farmers. The alliance embraces. it is believed, more Republicans than Democrats. Its purpose is to discuss economic questions. This brings in the tariff, monopolistic and tiust questions—all of them leading-strings .awuy from the Republican fold. The Farmers’ Mutual BenefibAssociation has a strong hold in about forty counties in the southern or Democratic' fmrtion of the State. Th,is association is ess devoted to the discussion of economio questions than the alliance, but its membership is Composed of farmers who btudv the relation of the agriculturist to the remainder of the pro due ng world. It opposes national banks. It complains that the agriculturists with less than one-third of the taxable wealth of the State pay one-half the taxes of the State. To remedy this the association demafids the repeal ot, all class legislation which gives to some industries artificial aid at the expense ; of the other industries, The association demands more currency, and especially the free coinage of silver. It demands a wholesale reduction of tariff duties on all articles of necessity and a wholesale iacrease of duties on all luxuries. It demands a tax on great incomes. It demands of the Legislature a law making 6 per cent, the legal rate of interest; a law providing school-books at cost, and a law providing for the Australian system of voting. It denounces the State Bo <rd of Equalization as “a process of legal robbery” operated in f ivor of the corporations against the small tax-payers. A STRONG ORGANIZATION. This organization has an enormous strength, estimated at from 50,000 to 40,000 voters. It runs co-operative stores and is compact and united. All its doctrinal teaching leads away from the Republican party. In many Senatorial districts it will run candidates for the Legislature without regard to Republican or Democratic nominations. In the very nature of things, however, it will find itßelf more in alignment with Democratic than with Republican policy. In other words, it may agreeably fraternize with the Democrats. It is impossible to see how it can consistently fraternize with the Republicans. Taking these three orgnn'zatioas togethfei- they aggregate ne rly 100,000 voters. They indicate a revolt—a revolt against the existing order of things, especially the high protective tauff. This may not make them a Democratic organization, but.it does make them a a antiRepulibcau organization; and anything that impairs Republican unity imoerils Republican success. The Democratic State campaign managers watched the result of the spring elections with a great deal of interest. Since the election a careful analysis of the results has been made. This analysis, they claim, indicated extraordinary Democratic gains. Elections were held the Ist of April in all the counties under township organization. There are over eighty of those counties. More than half of them usually—in fact, regularly —elect Republican Boards of Supervisors. A DEMOCRATIC liAXDSJjID'E. This spring there was a Democratic landslide and sixty-five counties elected

•Democratic boards. Thie is something that has not occurred ainoe the war. To show tbe character of these victories individual counties «re instanced. Champaign County, it is said, never before this spring elected a Democratic board. Piatt has nearly always been Republican, bat this year it elected a Democratic board. De Witt County, almost always Republican, went Democratic. Every county in Congtessm»n Cannon's district, with but a single exception, elected Democratic bo irds. They have been regularly Republican heretofore. In Congressman Rowell’s district, strongly Republican, it was much the same way. Decatur, usually Republican by 800, elected a Democratic Lity Council. Livingston County, in Congressman Paysons district, heretofore overwhelmingly Republican, elected a Democratic board. Jo Daviess and Stephenson Counties went the same way. Several counties in Congressman Gest’s district reversed the political complexion of tbe county boards. Resides these facts the Demoorats claim there was a gain all along the line, especially in the agricultural districts. This, they assert, is indicative of a landslide in the same direction next November.

TRYING TO FOOL THE FARMERS.

A Republican Paper’s Arraignment of the McKinley Abortion. [From the Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.).] Of all the silly things Mr. McKinley has yet done iu connection with the tariff question his report to the House iu favor of the Ways and Means Committee bill is Ihe most grotesque. What possible sense is there in trying to fool the farmers of the United States by the statement that their industry is being prostrated on account of the crowding of American markets with foreign agricultural products? In order to hack up this utterly absurd declaration Mr. McKinley is driven to quote the importations of sugar, ten, coffee, fruits, tobacco, animals, and fibers—the latter including wool, hemp, jute, etp. Whit does the sugar industry in niue-tenths of the United States amount to? It is practically unknown in thirty-six of the forty-two Stites. How much tea and coffee are raised in this country? The importation of animals, as everybody knows, is chiefly confined to first-class breeding stock, brought in by fancy farmers. The car pet men have clearly shown that the class of wool most needed in this country is not and cannot be grown here profiiably. The fact of the matter is—and no m m knows the truth more cle rly thin Mr. McKinley himkelf—that when he puts our total agricultural imports at nearly $350,000,000 he is guilty of the most idiotio deception. This htatement is made for the purpose of carrying with it a false impiesaion. Until Mr. MoKinley’s report appeared the friends of the so-called '"Farmers’ Tariff” bill were quite content in speaking of agricultural imports coming into competition with Am<mcm productions in placing the amount iu the neighborhood of $75,000,000. This, too, is an outside figure, and is at least very largely the result of trade with Canada. When this argument was quickly met and demolished, in these columns and elsewhere, Air. McKinley and his iriends shifted their ground and made a bold advance that must make them ridiculous iu the sight of intelligent men everywhere. It being clearly shown that this $75,000,000, even if the farmers got the full benefit of it, would be more than swallowed up under this tariff bill in the incre >sed cost of clothing and the other necessaries of life, it became necessary to swell the figures and pull the wool, if possible, still further over the eyes of the doubting agriculturists. Mr. McKinley’s report in this uspect will prove a boomerang of the most destructive sort. It doesn’t pay to indulge in this kind of dece tion at any time. The bill is now before the House and before the country, nnl it must stand or fall upon its merits.

The Grand Old Party’s Last Hope.

Congressman Allen, of Mississippi, told some plain truths in the House of Representatives during a political debate started by Mr. Kelley, of Kansas, while the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill was under discustion. “There never his been a time in the history of the grund old party," said Mr. Allen, “wheu Southern outrages were more necessary lor the purposes of that pariy than they are to-day. It hat gone to the wall on the tariff; it has Lusted higher than a kite on the civil service; the elections are going against it, and if. it cannot carry the election on Southern outrages the chances of the grand old party are gone.” Mr. Allen confessed he was somewhat disappo nted in the bill. He quoted from a speech delivered by Mr. Cannon and used as a campaign document, declaring that the Republican party was devoted to the country’, and would, if it came ihto power, administer the Government with greater economy, and greatlv reduce expenditures. It was this promise which accounted for his disappointment. Ho failed to find that there was any reduction in this bill. Now and then he liked to meet his Republican friends on the street and chat with them, but after the 4th of March, 1889, it was- impossible for him to keep np with them in their wild rush to the departments to get offices and show their devotion to their country. He then quoted from the civil-service plank of the Republican party and from President Harrison’s letter of acceptance. But the Republican party had gone back on its promises and he wanted to c ill the attention oT the country to the civi'-servico pretensions of the administration. He had some respect for the man who acknowledged himself a spoilsman; bat a man who obtained office under a hypocritical guise would never get the respect of the people. He told a story of Senator Ingalls going to the White House to secure an office. On the way he met with a friend, who told him he would not get it, as Harrison had a friend in Kansas that he was going to appoint. The Senator scratched his head a moment and said: “That is right, if he is snre of it; but I am pretty well acquainted with that State, and if he has a friend there, I don’t know it.” [Laughter.| Another story Mr. Alleu recalled r'b showing the Republican opinion of the administration was to the effect that meeting a Republican and asking him whit be thought of it, he received the following reply: “W&nnv runs the Sunday-school; Lovi runs the bar ; Baby runs the White House, And dtuan It, here we are."

IN THE LABOR WORLD.

THE OUTLOOK 18 FOR MORE AND GREATER STRIKES. The Situation Admitted to Be One of the Most Serious that Have Ever Couiroated Wage-Workers and Employers—Government Aid Invoked by Non-Union Carpenter* at Chicago. New York dispatch: Bradstreet says: “The Industrial outlook has not Improved at all during the last week. In fact, signs of restlessness among the wage-workers have become moro conspicuous, the number of strikes reported being larger than during any previous week for nearly two years. By far the most serious outlook is that reported from Chicago. The strike of 5,000 carpenters at that city, swelled as it has been by the necessary Idleness of noarly 20,000 other workers In allied trades, has already been noted. The number of idle men has now been augmented by the strike of 2,000 brlckmakers and brickyard laborers for shorter hours and moro pay. Late advices would seem tc point to the uneasiness of labor In other lines in that city, and this is likely to culminate May 1 in ono of the greatest strikes on record. “Nearly 20,000 packing house employes at Chicago are said to contemplate a strike for the eight-hour day. Harness-makers, clothing workers, (women), stair-builders, and other artisans have either already announced their intention of going out or are said to contemplate such action. This action on the part of so many trades is alleged to be against the advice of leaders, who are on record as opposing strikes for the eight-hour day in any but the building trades.

“The effect of such a widespread strike upon Chicago industries can not fail to be hurtful. That the wholesale strike is against the advice of the American Federation of Labor is proved by the issuance this week of a circular to tho wage-workors by Samuel Gompors, president of that organization. In this circular he outlines tho action tod>e pursued by tho federation In Its light f6r an eight-hour day. ‘Early advices,’ Mr. Gompors says, ‘had led tho officers of this body to expoet that tho building trados’ employers would meet tho inon half way In their efforts to adjust the hours of labor, but recent developments at Chicago and Indianapolis provo their expectations to havo beon unfounded.’ He claims that tho ‘wealth, power and influonco of tho employing and corporate classes of tho country are to bo concentrated to defeat tho movement,’ and therefore rocommonds that action toward securing shorter hours in other trados bo deferred until tho building trades’ light is settled. Diffusing organized labor strength in various movements, he thinks, moans final defeat for all.

“Money Is said to bo urgently needed. While the situation in Chicago is sufficiently grave, that outside of that city Is only a littlo bettor, at least so far as tho building trades are concerned. Strikes of building or kindred trades for an eight-hour day aro reported from Sharon, Pa.; Portland, Ore.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Now York city, and Jollot, 111. Nearly 1,500 coal miners are out in fho Conncllsvlllo region, owing to wago difficulties. This ’ stoppage of production is said to threaten tho suspension of blast furnaces in Cleveland depondont upon this source for coko for fuel. Tho situation as regards a general strike on May 1 is not of tho best. Tho carpenters and other building trades at Boston, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Ala, and Lancaster, Pa., are on record as proposing to strike for shorter hours on that date. All in all, the situation in labor matters Is more strained than for several years, and the outcome of the pros6nt ceuccrted movement will be watched with interest. The total number of strlkns in April was 120, involving 28,853 employes, whereas lust year during the same month there were only 61 strikes, involving 12,193 employes Since Jan. 1 this year there havo boon 803 strikes, involving 66,143 men, while in the first four months of last year there were only 221 strikes, involving 45,924 porspns.” 'Chicago dispatch: A number of the non-union men who claim to have been roughly handled by striking carpenters have appealed to the United States government for protection. A secret meeting, at which a largo number of non-union carpenters were present, was hold on the South side. They had been told by a contractor that those who ' were from other States could appeal to the United States authorities for protection if they were not protected by Chicago or Illinois authorities. Some of the men elaimed that they had been driven from buildings by strikers and that they having recently come here from other States wore outrageously treated by the police. A committee was appointed to draft a suitable petition and forward it to Secretary of State Blaime immediately. Tho committee brought in the following, which was adopted unanimously and sent on te Washington: “To the Honorable the Secretary of State ot tho,United States, Washington, D. C.:We, your petitioners of the city of Chicago, being tradesmen and bona fide citizens of the United States, now bv intimidation, threats, and actual violence, being prevented from following pur avocations to tho great injury of ourselves an;! families, hupahly petition the government of tho United States for protection in the exercise of our constitutional rights, now denied by a mob of riotous outlaws, who defy tho authorities and who maintain a reign of terror over those who differ with them on questions of tradesunions. “We also state that the above state of affairs has already continued for several weeks and that we have no protection of city or State authorities here; hence we petition your honor that protection, sufficient be afforded us so that we may in peace and safety continue our lawful avoca'.ious.” ;