Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — Page 3

OHIO’S CHIEF AT HOME.

QOVERNCTt CAMPBELL’S LIFE AT COLUMBUS. The Gallant Democrat Who H s Sh'Wn His Itettlf in Many Campaigns and Is Confident in the Present One—His Cheerful Quarters. f The eyes of the nation are turned toward Ohio and her gallant Governor, James E. Campbell. The liuckeye State has been chosen, not for the first time,

GOVERNOR CAMPBELL.

Klnley, Jr, and an exciting and interesting contest is assured. There are odds in favor of McKinley and his ‘tin-plate” advocates, says the New York Herald. This State will be flooded with money by the manufacturers of the country, who draw immense profits from an “iniquitous system of taxation,” for with the defeat of Champion McKinley high protective tariff will meet an ignominious death. Despite all this Ohio’s gallant Governor, after having put to rout the malcontents of his own party, enters the fight with confidence and determination to win. Ho feels that tho eyes of the nation are upon him; that a great political trust is imposed, which, if he cannot ultimately carry out his offorts, must at least redound to his credit. Governor Campbell has the reputation of being a vigorous campaigner, and it is evident that he is thoroughly alive to the situation. He i 3 just now in the full strength of manhood. Forty-eight years have t nged his hair with gray, but ho possesses a wonderful amount of energy, which has carried him over many a rough place. He comes frcup good stock —good fighting stock, as his enemies in Ohio can bear witness. One of his ancestors was Capt John Parker, who commanded the colonial troops at the battle of Lexington, and another was with Montgomery at the assauit on Quebec. # Both his grandfathers were soldiers In the war of 1812. His father, Andrew Campbell, was a physician of prominence in Middleton, Butler County, Ohio, where, on July 7, 1843, the future Governor was ushered into the world. His uncle, too, Lewis D. Campbell, was a statesman of note. Ten years ago the “Butler County Mascot,” as he is familiarly known, was

GOVERNOR’S MANSION.

common “Jim” Campbell. He had “cut no great swath” in politics outside of his own county. But he had the stuff in him. He had received a fair educationand had taught school at eighteen. Before he had reached his majority he joined the navy and served on the Mississippi and its tributaries, taking part in naval engagements at Fort De Bussey, Tunica Bend, and other places. He was discharged for disability, much against his own wish, and sent homo. After he recovered he began the study of law, and at twenty-four ho hung out his shingle in the quiet little town of Hamilton. Young Campbell was successful in his law practice, and soon became popular and widely known by his agreeable social qualities. His first venture of note In politics was in 1877, when he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, serving until 188 a He was a candidate for the State Senate in 1879, and only lacked twelve votes of being elected. Mr. Campbell had demonstrated his popularity and his ability as a campaigner, however, and his friends successfully urged his nomination as candidate for member of Congress. Notwithstanding there was a largo Republican majority in his district, he came out of tho contest a good winner.

He was re elected in 1884, and again In 1886, his last victory being on the taeager plurality of two votes. Butler County Democrats had begun to look upon him now as a mascot, and great things were predicted for him in the future.

Mr. Campbell’s career in Congress was marked by close application to the interest of his constituents, and ho made a wide reputation by championing the cause of the ex-soldiers and by his interest in measures for the welfare of the wage earners. Mr. Campbell’s reputation as a mascot now brought him forward as a candidate for Governor, he being the unanimous choice of the Democratic State convention in 1889. His campaign was one brilliant series of aggressive movements that worried and finally dumfoundod his political opponents. He came out of the fight with flying colors, having received the largest vote ever cast in the State for any candidate for Governor, and 46,218 votes more than the Democratic candidate of the preceding gubernatorial electiou.

Gov. Campbell's record as chief executive of the State is too well known to require repetition. He has been uoted for an inflexible adherence to that which he believed to be right, which was most forcibly illustrated by his bold stroke at the political corruption in Hamilton County. Even his most sanguine friends doubted his ability to beat down the Btorm of wrath and indignation, but his generalship carried him through, and his renomination was a complete and signal Victory. Governor Campbell is a hard worker. Hj always reaches his office at the capitol in the morning before liis clerks, and by the time they arrive, shaking off their prolonged slumbers, he is busy opening his mail and making things lively all around. He is usually the last to leave the office, too, at meal hours and at night The Governor Is domestic in his habits, and an attendant upon the Presbyterian Church, besides being a member of the G. A. R., Elks, Masons and Knights of Pythias. 4A Rather Wight Exaggeration.’’ The New York Pre-s, the high tariff , organ, bad a beautiful picture in its ■tesueof July 29, declaring that hattera to France earn only £»\so per week.

as the ground for the preliminary skirmish of a national campaign. Governor Campbell, as the champion o f Democracy, has taken up the tariff gauntlet, tossed into the arena by that knight errant, William Me*

tom« of the Absurdl'i-s of the American Tariff Upon Lea t Ores. It was complained of one Roman Emperor that he caused the laws to be written in exceedingly small characters and hung high upon the pillars of publication, so that the short-legged and the short-sighted could learn the Emperor’s will only through tho courtesy of tall and far-sighted friends. Whother or not the Emperor had a grudge against little and weak eyed men this story does not say, but his evil design was to make it difficult for citizens to know the law, and betray them into crime in order that he might enjoy the spectacle of their punishment. Curiously enough, among modern nations, the free republic of the United States is one of several to emulate the practice of this Roman Emperor. It requires an export to know what are the tariff laws of this country, and private citizens are deterred from imporlipg foreign goods because St is so easy for tho importer to break tho law. The lead ore tariff is an admirable illustration of this very point. Ores of the precious metals are, and have always beeh admitted to the United States free of duty. But ores of lead pay a duty. Now, it happens that most of tho silver now produced is found in combination with lead. Mexico sends us a great deal of such ore. This being the case, it became necessary to determine what portion of the doubly laden ore should come in free and what portion • should pay duty on tho load contained. In 1880, says a Washianton correspondent, the Treasury Department decided, in a special case, that a silver-iron ore was entitled to free entry as silver ore, in which the value of the silver was “largely in excess of the value of the iron,” The principle involved in this decision was twice reaffirmed six years later in the case of ores containing silver and lead; the Senate Judiciary Committee also, in 1888, reported in favor of tho classification of such mixed ores according to the metal which predominated in value. Bearing in mind tho technical distinc-. tion between a silver ore and an ore of baser metal, even though the latter may have a modicum of silver in it, and that lead ores, and the lead contained in silver ores, pay a duty of one and one-half cents a pound, it is very important to find out, when a 16ad of ore containing both silver and lead comes into this country from Mexico, whether it is technically silver ore or lead ore; for, in the one case, duty must be paid on the whole bulk, while in the other it Is paid on a part only. Within a few days a Treasury circular came out announcing that “in determining the value of lead contained in Mexican ores, such values w r illbo computed at the latest known price of bar lead in the New York market, less 1% cents per pound.” This means that there has been a fresh onslaught by the owners of American smelting works to procure a change in the valuation established a year ago, namely, the New York price of bar lead loss 1 cent a pound. These men have been anxious to get the deduction from the New York price increased to 2 cents, while the few owners of American mines which produce silver-lead ore 3 that can be used in fluxing have worked hard to keep the old rate intact. The cent-and-a half basis is the result of a compromise between the two conflicting interests. One and one-half cents duty on a pound of lead ore means S3O a ton—a tax which operates as an absolute prohibition. Now, how is the question of classification settled? Specimens of the ore as it reaches the American port of entry are taken out of the cargo and assayed. The amount of silver in weight to the ton, is estimated from this assay, and also the amount of lead. The Collector then ascertains the New York price of silver, according to the latest available advices, and deducts 5 per cent from that —supposed t > be about equivalent to the cost of transportation across the United States, and thus to represent fairly the difference between the value of silver at the Mexican border and in . the metropolitan market. By multiylying this equalized price by the weight of silver to the ton of oro as shown by the assay, the silver valuation of the ore is determined. A like process is gone through with the lead in the ore, except that a specific sum per pound, instead of a percentage, is deducted from the New York price. If, on comparing the two results, it is found that the value of tho silver in a ton of the ore would be greater than the value of the lead in the same ton, the oro is treated as a silver ore t and admitted on payment of the duty of 1% cents per pound on tho lead which could be extracted from the ore. This Mexican ore business illustrates the charm of our protective tariff system as few other things can. Suppose a shrewd Mexican shipper to have discovered a loose joint here and thero in the method of handling ores preparatory to the assay, and to avail himself of this discovery by arranging his shipments so that only high-grade, samples shall fall into the hands of the assayer, while low-grade ores are really in the majority. It is not reasonable to expect that, with tens of thousands of tons of ore crossing the Mexican border every year, the utmost care can be exercised by the inferior enstoms force employed there. Moreover, the - Incen-

whereas <u the United States hatters earn S3O per week. Concerning this statement, a hatter of Danbury, C’onn., himself a believer in a high tariff, writes to the Press as follows: “I see in today’s Press in tho ‘Tariff Pictures’ a rather slight exaggeration in regard to the wages of hatters. There are a good man* batters in France who mako more, say from 50 to CO francs ($lO to sl2) a week. Of course they are first-class men, and get wages accordingly. Now, let us look at the American hatter. The average wages of a silk hatter in New l*ork or elsewke.e are sls a week. Some weeks, it is true, they make $25 1o S3O. But how often does that happen? Maybe ten to fifteen times a year, and then they have week after week when they have nothing to do at all. The samo with the felt hatter. The maker, or hat sizer, if he averages sl2 a weok, year in and year out, is doing well. Now, the next to him, the man who p osses, or does what is ca led “finishing,” in our trade parlance, if he averages sls a week, he also can say that he has dene well. Next is the curler, who, years ago, mado very largo wages. He, too, has come down to the same level as tho above named fellow-tradesmen ” A “iather slight exaggeration,” to be sure, but the Press doesn’t believe in telling big ones.

A COMPLICATED DUTY.

tives to corruption under the present regime are very great, and an unscrupulous mine-owner could well afford to smooth tho path of his low-grade ores into this country if he could find the right men on this side of the frontier to help him by picking their specimens knowingly. But, even supposing the matter to be honestly conducted, it has taken several days, let us say, for the-shipper to get his ore from the minss to the border. When it left tho mines, the price of silver was one dollar and two cents an ounce in New York, but, by the sudden unloading of speculators, it has dropped to ninety-five cents before the assayer gets a chance to pass upon tho specinuns: or load, which has boen three and a half cents a pound for some time, has mounted to five cents. Either of these things is liable to happen at any time; indeod, both might happen at once. Either accident would of itself be enough, in many cases, to change a sllv; r ore into a lead ore during the mere process of transporting a train-load of the stuff from mines to market.

OPPRESSING THE POOR.

.Some Facts About the Increased Doty on CorJuroy Cloth. Cheap corduroy is used for clothing by many thousands of workingmen, and a finer quality is used to some extent by the well to-da It was to have been expected that in making any change in the tariff on corduroy eventhe framers of the McKinley bill would have taken care that the Increase should be no greater on the cheap than on the more expensive article. The contrary, however, is the fact. The truth is that the increase on the finer goods is comparatively light while that on the poor is about 33% per cent Here are some eloquent figures furnished by a correspondent of the New York Evening Past: Cheap grade. Dearer grade. Cost per yard in England 170 600 Cost In the U. 8., duty free 21)$o 60a Cost in the U. 8., under old tariff (35 per cent. ad valorem).. Cost In the U. 8., under McKinley tariff (Ho ■■■■■ per sq. yd. plus v * ' 20 per ot. ad valorem) 360 820 Change in tariff Increases oost,10)gO or 41 per ot. 8o or 4 per ct. McKinley tariff adds to dutyfree cost e 6 perct 86 per ct. This, however, does not tell the whole story. When the duty was increased no corduroy was made in tho United States. The owners of the Crompton Mills at Providence, R. 1., however, wished to make corduroys, and after the duty had been increased in the original bill, It was still further increased in conference committee on the very night before the measure was passed. Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island is credited with having brought about this second increase of duty. Since the law went into effect the Crompton Mills Company has been experimenting with corduroy. The company professes to he able to supply all that is needed, but dealers deny this and importers affirm that tho importations of corduroy have fallen off enormously because the poor are no longer able to buy at the enhanced price. They must substitute some other and less satisfactory material, because the Government of tne United States has consented to discourage tho importation of cheap corduroys in the interost of a single company of manufacturers. Josiah H. Fithian & Co , of New York, are agents of tho Crompton Company, and when a reporter of the Eocnlng Post asked Mr. Fithian about corduroys here is what he said: “I havo always found that ‘the still pig gets the most swill.’ And it is ‘swill’ that I am after, not the dissemination of information. Therefore —to your question—no.” It would Lave been well for Mr. Fithian had he contended himself with this porcine reply, but for some curious reason he went on to say these things of the McKinley bill and protection: “I don’t know what wai tho aim of it. I don’t know that tho framers of the tariff had any aim. I sometimes think they hadn’t. What aim, for instance, could they have had In requiring that every imported article should be stamped with the country of its origin? I hea they acted cn the theory that Americans woie so patriotic that, on seeing a thing was foreign, they would buy something domestic. But would not sensible men know that Americans have sufficient human nature to buy what is the best va uo for their money, no matter where it comes from? For my part, whenever I go to buy things for my personal use and goods are shown mo, and I am told that they are of domestic manufacture, I nearly always pass them by, because experience has taught me that almost invariably the foreign-made article is more substaut al and tho better bargain. In fact, lam by nature a free-trader—one on the broad principle of Henry Ward Beecher, that all the world is one kindred, and that no kinsman has a right to set up barriers against the others. The Crompton Mills did not need so high a duty on corduroy; they would succeed better without it. ” “Do you mean if they had no higher tariff than the old?” “No: I mean without any tariff at all —with absolute free trade. True, wages would be reduced, but the purchasing power of money would so increase that the equalization would be perfect ”

The McKinley Tariff and Profits.

The Pres «, the junior organ of McKinleyisin of Now York, lets out the truth now and then. On July 21, in a short editorial on the French tariff, it declared: “No one will pretend that the industries of Franco are in their infancy. They are venerable, even at compared with British manufactures, and if ever established they are established now. But the French, who are among the shrewdest people on earth, recognize that protection is not a matter only of fostering industries to the point of vigorous existence, but that it is needed, also, to keep them profitable. ” To make profits big is, as the Press says, the keynote of high-tariffism. It uses the keynote of the McKinley tariff which raised the duties on imports to an average of 60 percent., or quite the prohibitive point. This enables the big trusts and combinations to water their capitalization, and make profits not only on the real capital but a’so on the water. Brilliant examples of this are the window-glass combination, the plataglass combine, the flint-glass monopoly, in which a profit of 40 per cent, is to be considered low. Laws enacted by the same men who made the McKinley tariff are construed by its beneficiaries to enable these combines to import contract laborers, as in the case of the glass workers, thus giving them free trade in labor. At the same time, protected by

high duties, they charge consumers her 4 all that the tariff allows, and sail ~:het« surplus abroad at low prices. The farm- 1 er and the laborer are thus made to oay the fiddler. The Ere :s could not have told the truth in a plainer way had It declared of the McKinley tariff that It was an “act to increase the profits of trusts and monopolies out of the wages and earnings of laborers and farmers."

Sherman’s Anti-Trout Laws.

Sherman's universal panacea for curing or killing trusts and combinations has put the McKinley organs, notably tho Oh cago Inter Ocean and the Cleveland Leader, In the hole. These high tariff journals declared after Its passage that it would effectually put an end to all trusts and combinations whatsoever, but not one has »o far succumbed to it, nor has a slnglo suit been brought by the Attorney General against them. And now thesi organs are wailing because the trusts have >yed the law nor heeded their warnings. In tho meantime the cartridge trust and the lead trust and others are getting onit of the tariff all there Is in it.

And in spite of the terror, which, according to these organs, ought to have been Inspired by the anti-trust law, thirteen of the largest flint glass companies have formed a trust under the name of the United Statos Glass Company, with a capitalization of $4,000,000. This now trust consists of the following concerns: King Glass Company, Ripley & Co., George Duncan & Sons, Adams & Co., O’Hara Glass Company (limited), and Bryce Bros., all of Pittsburg; Richards & Hartley Glass Company, Challinor, Taylor & Co. (limited), Tarontum; Gillindor & Sons, Groensburg; Hobbs Glass Company, Wheeling; Bellaire Goblet Company and the Columbia Glass Company, Findlay; and the Nickel-Plate Glass Company, Fostoria. The trust, by its control over the trade, will be able to raise the average of dividends to over 60 per cent., instead of from 40 to 50 per cent paid by these concerns during tho past ten years. Here are the dividends of one of these flint-glass companies: January, 1883, 20 percent.; August, 1883, 20 percent.; January, 1884, 40 per cent; July, 1884, 20 percent; January, 1885, 40 percent.; July, 1885, 30 per cent. Tho Nickel Plate Company, one of the members of the now trust, started three ycars ago. Since that time it doubled fits Capacity out of its earnings. The .stock of the Columbia Company, also iji the trust, lias Increased In value since 1885 over 200 per cent These are but characteristic instances. And now that the duty on the products of this trust has been increased by the McKinley tariff from 40 to 45 per cent, ad valorem to CO per cent., not counting duties on packing and other charges, the dividends will surely average over 60 per cont per year. Does this trust fear Sherman’s law? Not as long as a member of another glass trust occupies a place in tho Cabinet of the trust administration.

Bogus McKinley Prices.

The American Economist, which Is published in Now York by the Protective Tariff League for the purpose, mainly, of supplying high tariff arguments to protection organs all over the land, has just concocted such an “argument” from the price of cotton flannels. It finds that the prices of these goods are now from one-fourth to one-half a cont a yard lower than they were six months before the McKinley tariff went into effect, and It straightway proceeds to write an article on “McKinley Prices for Cotton Flannels. ” But the Economist omits to state one very essential fact. It does not toll its readers that the manufacturers have been g ttiug their cotton this spring and summer between three and four cents below the prices paid last year at the corresponding time. Taking tho twenty-five different grades of unbleached cotton flannels used by tho Economist for comparison, we find that tho aggregate reduction in prico has been just about 3 per cent The price of cotton, however, has ranged 25 or 30 per cent, lower than at like dates last year. With so great a reduction In tho raw material, surely It is not too much to expect a slight reduction on the manufactured goods. As things stand, the manufacturers ought to bo making a great deal more money now than a year ago, notwithstanding tho trifling reduction in tho prico of their goods. The above is a very fair sample of the way the" protectionists manufacture “arguments” and find “McKinley prices” where none exist. By omitting to mention the determining factor tfiey can prove anything or deny anything, just as an ostrich can hide its head behind a very small stone and dony that tho sun is beaming above the desert

Txie Temescal tin mine is running three shifts a day, with block-tin on the free list. The general manager is reported as saying that tho McKinley law does not help the mine at ail, but puts thousands of dollars into tho pockets of the iron men; that he wants no tariff to sell his tin, and that it is only a coincidence that the Temescal mine and the McKinley act wore started at about the same time. It is gratifying to see that somebody with business sense is connoted with the enterprise. Everybody of Intelligence knows that the tariff has nothing to do with tho development of tin mines, and the attempt in some quarters to make the Temescal works a tail to the McKinley kite has had a tendency to injure the standing of the company in the money market by making it appear a political instead of a business enterprise.

Willetts & Gbay, in discussing the price of sugar, say: “The average of daily quotations from Jan. 1 to April 1 was 5.645 cents per pound for 96 degrees centrifugals and 6.301 cents per pound for granulated. The average dally prices from April 1 to July 1 was 3.381 cents per pound net for 96 degrees centrifugals and 4.215 cents per pound net for granulated.” And the American Economist adds: “Here was a fall of 2.234 cents a pound on the first-men-tioned grade and of 2.086 cents on the other, both directly caused by the McKinley law. Consumers will no doubt appreciate these, the real McKinley prices. ” There is nothing like mailing a man hanker for more as to give him only a taste of a good thing. Toe State of New Jersey with the markets of two of the foremost cities of the country on her borders, and, therefore, ideally situated in accordance with the “home market” theory, has no less than 313 deserted and abandoned farms. Wili the high tariff jugglers please explain to the farmers how soon farming is to be made prosperous under the system which enables trusts and monopolies to pocket the farmers’ profits?

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Things Which Have Lately Happened Within Ita Borders—Some Pleasant and Some Sad Beading. —The melon crop about Vincennes is unprecedentedly large. —Charles and Clarence Beard, of Spicoland, have bought the Knigbtstown Sun. —Seymour is to havo the biggest canning factory in the country. Capital $30,000. —Tho Indiana Bankers’ Association will meet at West Baden Springs, August 23. —Wesley Powell, who shot a man last April at Frankfort, has just been raked in at Fowler. —Bicyclists aro not allowed to ride on the sidewalks in New Albany by order of tho chief of poll ce. —A man named Thompson, Clinton County Poor Farm, was badly horned by a bull, and will die. —An epidemic of hog cholera is said to be prevailing in Lynn Township, two miles north of Mount Vernon. —John Gains, working on a fifty-foot scaffold at Richmond, fell and broke his neck, living an hour boforo he died. —Tho frog farmers along the Kankakee ltlver have a big business this year. One man recently shipped 1,300 dozen in a day. —James Moore, of Jeffersonvlllo, wont to sleep on a cross-tie and was knocked off by a passing train. Ills condition is critical.

—A committee of Pendleton citizens are negotiating with Dr. Gattling to secure tho location of his gun factories at that plaeo. —Charles Kahlcr, a railway employe at Brazil, fell from his train-and ono leg was dismembered. His widowed mother resides in Greencastlo. —Harry Johnson, a freight conductor on tho Ohio and Mississippi Railway, had his right thigh badly crushed while making a coupling at West Shoals. —Benj. Wells was stabbed and killed by Amko Brurainger near LaPorte. They were scuffling and it ended in a fight Brumingor has been arrestod. —ln climbing cn a freight train in the Vandalia yards, at Greencastlo, Albert Bowman, aged 14 years, fell, and the wheels severed his hoad from his body. —William Rape, aged 74 years, dropped dead at his homo at Tipton, of heart failure. Ho was ono of the pioneers, having been a resident of that county forty years. —Mr. Hunter, a miner living at Kuightstown, was seriously injured by falling slate at tho Jumbo mino. The stono caught him on tho back. He is paralyzed in tho limbs. —The onion crop raisod by the farmers residing on tho river bottom west of Now Albany is said to bo very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels have already been shipped to Northern pointß.

—Chief of Police Cannon, of Now Albany, has Instructed the mombors of the police force to file complaints against tho trainmen of any of tbo railroads running through the city when they allow their trains to be run at a greater speed than live miles per hour. —Mrs. Harriot Dougherty, of Putnam County, ato a hearty breakfast tho other morning, and before leaving her chair at the table fell to the floor a corpse. Her age was 93 years. Also, Mrs. Gllwlck, mother of Special Pension Examiner Gllwlck, died, aged 88 years. —Margaret J. Briggs wants SIO,OOO from James McDonald, Logansport, for breach of promise. Mrs. Briggs had furnished a house and bought her wedding garments, and ho went back on her. A woman who would buy tho furniture and furnish the money for tho marriage licenso should be giyen tho damages asked.

—John Cline, of Adams, went to Greensburg, and bought some clothing, and filled up on “fire water.” When he left the train at Adams, he took with him a suit of clothes and a pair of Bboes belonging to a fellow passenger, who had gone into another car, and loft tho package in a seat. Thus Cline got a good supply of clothing, but he Is now in jail. —A fijio maple tree, through which passes the power-wire used for conducting the current that operates tho Highland Railway, at New Albany, has bocome thoroughly charged with electricity, on account of defective insulation, and has become a fairly powerful battery, capable of giving a plainly perceptible shock. Tho current has been sufficiently strong to kill the tree, which is about thirty-five feet high and ten inches in diameter.

—Mrs. Saivina Shipley and her son Isaac, who reside in Brown County, near Nashville, were scuffling for possession of a chair, when a little grandchild of Mrs. Shipley was accidently struck upon the head and knocked down. The little ODe was picked up by its mother in an unconscious condition, and has been in spasms since. Mrs. Shipley and son are almost crazed with grief on account of the accident. No hope is entertained for the recovery of tho child. —William Long, a Jeffersonville teamster, being attacked by two highwaymen, drew his knife and slashed them until they were glad to escape. —The Indiana Fire Insurance Company; of Fort Wayne, was organized, with a capital stock of $200,000. J. H. Jacobs, of Fort Wayne, is President; C. E. Dark, ot Indianapolis, Vipe President, and A. B. White, of Fort Wayne, Secretary. A number of Indianapolis men are among the heaviest stockholder*

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving a Detailed Account of the Numerous Crimea, Casualties, Fire*, Suicide* Deaths, Etc,, Etc. —Darlington is having a boom in building lots. j —William Kelly’s barn and four horses burned near Madison. Loss, $1,200. —William Hope, a prominent German citizen of Tipton, dropped dead on the street. —Yorktown will bo boomed by a 9yni dicate that has bought 2,000 acres of land near there. —Emmitt Kannel, prominent citizen of Rensselaer, is dead of hemorrhage of tho stomach. —Joseph Atchison and James Hickey, a pair of wheat thieves, havo beeu arrested at Anderson. —Tho house of James W. Patterson, near Now Ross, was burned. Tho loss Is $1,000; no insurance. —Southorn Indiana is a great fruit center, tho output so far this season being tho heaviest evor known. —Frightened horses ran away with Geo. Culp’s two boys at Valparaiso, and they wore badly bruised by being thrown out. —Mrs. Arle Ent wanted to die at Frankfort, She attempted to go henceward by whisky and chloridine, but was saved. —Simon Gundeck, 73, near Michigan City, fell under a mowor while cutting hay and was killed. A well-to-do farmer. —An old gentleman named John Schroyor, on a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Bessoman, at Richmond, died in his chair of heart disease. —A regular Kansas grasshopper was found at Crawfordsvlllo. It is three inches long, and is probably tho advanceguard of an army of invaders. —Frank Lubb, a Scott County horsethief, doing .a six years’ sentence at Joffersonvllle, had his head torn to pioces by a saw in the prison factory. —Doan’s peach orchard, of Jefferson County, contains 4,000 acres, on which nre 150,000 trees and from which 75,000 bushels of fruit will bo shipped this year. —Crazy-patch socials havo become alarmingly popular In Jeffersonville. No one can say exactly what tho now fad is, but everybody admits having, "Oh, tho loveliest time!” —Burglars forced open a shutter at Harmollng & Maetschko’s Now Albany clothing store and ransacked tho place. Five hundred dollars in jewelry and clothes were stolen. —Tho Pendleton HepiMLcan has changed hands, Josoph M. Taylor, of Lockland, 0., having bought out editor J. S. Whito, who Is superintendent of tho public schools at that place. —Harrison McDaniel, a plonoor settler of Montgomery county, died at his home near Darlington, at the age of 85 years. He entored 240 acres in 1832, and had lived on tho same farm ever since. —Tho boiler in tho chowlng gum factory of Myers & Smith, at Crawfordsville, exploded and knocked a large hole through tho roof of tho third story. No other daraago was done except to chewing gum, which was scattered in all directions.

—A boy named Eddie Smith, assistant streot-lamp lighter, of LaPorte, was fatally burned. He was filling a streetlamp, and spilled some of tho gasoline on his clothes. After lilting ho struck a match to see if tho lamp burned good, when his clothes caught fire, and ho was horribly burned. —At Terre Haute the paronts of little Tommy Hayes, aged 8, missed him about home, and thinking he had strayed away, they reported his disappearance to the police. A search was made and four hours later Tommy’s body wast" found In a big barrel of rainwater back of the house. lie had fallen In and was drowned.

—Joseph Abraus, a guest of the Valley House, Knlghtstown, arose the other night for a drink of water, and going to a door which led to a small platform about twenty feet above the sidewalk, but which he supposed led to tho stairs, opened it, and walked out upon it. He fell to the stone pavement below, striking on his side, breaking his elbow and wrist and severely fracturing a thigh. —Mrs. John Marquardt and her daughter Lizzie were fearfully bitten by a supposed mad dog near Monroeville, Allen County. A largo family dog kept on the Marquardt farm bad shown signs of being sick, and was kept locked up in a chicken-coop to await the outcome. It was feared that the dog was mad, but the farmer did not like to kill him beforo the nature of his disease had been established beyond a doubt. The other night the dog broke loose and fiercely ; attacked Miss Lizzie. Ho threw the lady to the ground and inflicted a targe number of ugly wounds with his teeth. The mother of the girl came to the ressuc and carried her unconscious into the house. The mother was also bitten. Both the patients were taken to Fort I Wayne and placed in a hospital under the care of a physician. The dog was shot —Brakeman Davis had his hand mashed at Tipton. Blood poison setin and he died. His widow, at Muacie, wants SIO,OOO fiom the company. —Flux is raging In XlayugffTahd Eu- ~ gene, seven miles north of Newport. Maud, tho 16-year-old daughter of Jeromo B. Thomas, died, and just before the funeral left the house for the cemetery the 6-year-old daughter died. There are not less than fifty cases In Eugene, and every household between there and j Perrvsvllle has one or,more.