Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — Page 3

HURT BY M'KINLEY.

WHY A MANUFACTURER HAS CHANGED HIS BUSINESS. • Knitting-Machine Maker Tarns Bicycle Maker—How McKinley Put In His Litt** BUI —An Export Trade Spoiled. It must not be supposed that the tariff is an unmixed good for the manufacturers. There are frequent cases where the manufacturers are not only hurt by the tariff but are actually driven out of business And it is to be noted that whenever such is the case they do not let their modesty keep them siicnt. The case has recently been reported of a manufacturer of knitting machines who has been hurt by the McKinley law. A representative of the Amir icon Wool Il:vortet\ a leading protectionist trade paper, has had an interv ew with this manufacturer. Here is a part of what was said: “So you are making bicycles. Is not that a novel line of goods for a knitting machine factory?” “Oh, jos,” replied the manager, “but our export trade is destroyed. Twentyfive ]er cent, of our force can produce enough goods for the home market, and we have as large a domestic demand for machines as any work* in the country, to state it mildly; so happily, circumstances being favorable, we are able to keep 75 per.cent. of our men at work in a totally different field, which for their sakes we are glad to do. ” “What is the cause of this great falling off from your export trade?" “The reason is very simple. When the tariff on German knit goods is so high as to exclude them from the American market, the Germans will not buy American knitting machines. You may say that, so far as the export trade is concerned, the manufacture of American knitting machines is paralyzed. We have been in business since 1867. manufacturing machines, both for making seamless hosiery and for making underwear; also topping machines, looping machines, and machines for making ‘union suits.’ Ours are distinctive y hand labor-saving tvachines. Our factory, in the aggregate, is 305 feet long, forty feet wide and three stories high. We have adejuate water power, nine months in the year; employing steam power for the remainder of that period; giving labor to 300 men. We have sold 100 machines a year to go to Germany. We se I none now in that direction. You may say: ‘The latest tariff legislation has destroyed that part of our business.’ * An ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory. A New England protectionist manufacturer gives the foregoing incontrovertible testimony to the ruinous effect of the McKinley tariff upon a legitimate American industry.

The Big Foreign Market.

It is pleasant to the American farmer to watch the growing demand in Europe for his grain. During July there were exported from this country breadstuffs valued at $16,379,291, as against $lO,733,669 in July, 1890. The exports of wheat were 9,418,775 bushels, compared with 4,366,554 bushels in July, 1890. The great and only McKinley tries to belittle the foreign market, and ksks, “Wnat sanctity hangs about it?” Our farmers care nothing about the “sanctity" of the foreign market, but they find it just now a mighty good place to dispose of a wheat crop about 200,000,000 bushels too large for the boasted home market. McKinley’s sneers about the foreign market will win small sympathy from them when they see how the big orders from Europe are causing wheat prices to mount upward. • But McKinley would never think of crying down the foreign market, if it were not that he has his high tariff law to defend. He knows that this law tends to contract our foreign market; hence his absurd attempt to show that it is no good. But the big foreign market is vindicating itself. It seems certain now that when the present fiscal y< ar ends on June 30, 1892, and bur farmers count up their year’s sales, they will find that the foreign market has taken a far larger quantity of our breadstuffs than ever before, and that it has compelled the home market to pay much higher than average prices. This will all be in spite of our McKinleyism, not because of it We should have a still larger and much steadier foreign demand for all foreign products if our tariff permitted us to buy more largely of European manufactured goods.

Protection Defeat ng Itself:

The greatest advantage which European manufacturers of woolen goods have over our manufacturers is to be found in their cheap raw materials. It Is a serious fact that, while our tariff on wool is intended to equalize things, it has just the contrary eflect, since it throws a large part of the world’s wool Into the European market, and enables the competing manufacturers of Europe to buy it at a much lower price than they would have to pay if our manufacturers were free to bid against them How this works may be seen from a report of the recent wool sales in London. in the following words: “The great bulk of the East India wools are sold at auction in the Liverpool market. We have bought on the average, at each of these sa'es, from 4,000 to 4,500 bales. When the question of applying the sorting clause to carpet woo s began to be agitated in the spring, Importers were afraid to buy these wcols at the May sales to any extent, becau e they are all sorted to a greater or less degree. Consequently but 900 ta es were taken for America. English buyers being thus relieved of one of their greatest competitors, at once refused to pay the old pr cos, and valu s declined. At the July sales we took even a smaller amount, only 2€o bales being bought Values have in consequence further declined; and English manufacturers are now securing these wools at a lower price than they have paid for yearh. India wools are peculiar, and the purposes for which they are used cannot be supplied, by any other grada "

The Ex-Czar on Reciprocity.

Tom Reed, the ex-Czar, has recently returned from a trip to Europe. On board ship he indulged in some very free-hand criticism of reciprocity. The editor of the Chicago Advance, who was his fellow-passenger, reports that the one-time Czar relieved himself in the following fashion on that subject: “As to reciprocity, that is an attempt to Carry on commerce by diplomacy. Two Secretaries strike a bargain with each o her for their respective stat s. But the commercial world can only do busin ss on great commercial priucip'ea not on correspondence between state departments Then again, if we

must have a tariff to protect our business in New York City, how can we compete with the same rivals after we have shipped our goods to some distant republic 1p South America? If we cannot compete on equal terms here, it is preposterous to suppose that we can there. And it is equally preposterous to suppose that our neighbors will keep up a discrimination against other nations in our behalf."

The Protection Principle In Court.

The judges of the Cook County Appellate Couit have recently rendered a decision at Chicago which is of very great importance in its bearing on the tariff question. The case involved the question of competition among stenographers. In its decision the court used this language: “Any agreement which in its object or necessary operation tends to diminish comnstition as to anything the public have for sale or it is necessary the publio should use is void. Public policy requires that the public shall obtain the things necessary for its use upon fair competition in a free and open market or under such rules and regulations as the public laws may prescribe.” The court said further: “Combinations looking to the destruction of competition have always been unfavorably regarded by the law, for It is manifest that without competition there can be no such thing as freedom of trade. ” This decision leads the Chicago Herald to make the following timely reflections: “The judges assume that freedom of trade is a good thing and that combinations are odious, not only when they destroy, but even when they tend to diminish competition. But a great political party which has for thirty years shaped the economic policy of this country assumes that it is not restriction of trade but freedom of trade that la odious. That party has formed an irresistible combination with classes engaged in the pursuit of certain industries to diminish competition and to compel people to pay more for certain things than they would have to pay under free competition. The Chicago judges agree with other able judges in condemning the policy of the party which has formed the greatest of all combinations for the suppression of competition, the destruction of freedom of trade and the practice of licensed extortion on the greatest scale possible. When the principles of justice are applied the trade policy of the Republicans will not bear the test one moment.”

Not a Fabric hion.

Early in the year lists of reductions of wages were printed in many papers. At the time no general denial of these reductions was attempted, since many of them had been printed in protection organs themselves. Recently, however, an obscure organ in Kansas has printed what purpoited to be a denial from many of the manufacturers concerned. Ona prominent Republican has evidently forgotten that such denials were being printed and circulated broadcast over the country by nearly all professional high-tariff organs. This is John L. Wheeler, of Red Bank, N. J., who has recently written a defense of the McKinley law. In this defense Mr. Wheeler has something to say about wage?, and among other things he says: “The potters of Trenton have accepted a reduction of 10 per cent ” Yet this case of the Trenton potters was one of those which were denounced by the protection organs as “free trade fabrications ” The continued jubilation of the protection organs over the low price of sugar leads the Boston Herald to remark: “If our high tariff friends continue in this state of enthusiasm over the fall in the price of sugar from the removal of the duties upon that article, isn’t there danger that they will implant a desire in the minds of the public to try this experiment of reduction upon some other articles? We really fall to see how there is any possible escape from this logic. Thus a broad avenue may be opened to that fearful free trade which has before not been mentioned without a shuddering apprehension. ” It is said that a fund is being raised among the manufacturers of Pennsylvania to aid in the election of McKinley as Governor of Ohio. In this renewal of fry-the-fat methods “the Republican magnates know where pro ection piles up fortunes and where it makes people poor. They turn naturally to the protected manufacturers for “soap;” but they cannot get up enough cheek to pass the hat around among the farmers. Should not the farmers be asked to pay something for McKinley’-s higher duties on wheat and corn? The high-tariff people need to be cautioned that the more they talk about the beneficence of free sugar, the greater the danger that there will be a popular demand for other things to be free which aie now made costly by tariff taxes. The average person is so densely ignorant that he cannot see why, ir it is a blessing for a poor man to have cheap sugar, it would not be q good thing for him to have cheap clothing, cheap provisions, and cheap everything else.— New York Times.

The consumption of wool in Great Britain and in the United States in 1885 and 1889 was as follows: 1885. 1889. , Great Britain. .366,000,009 469,000,000 Inc. 28 p.c. United 5tate5..409,001,000 885,009,009 Dec. 4 p.c. Why is it that our high protection does not help us to outgrow England in manufacturing woolen goods. Some silly protection organs have the “gall” to say that “free trade” is selfish, and to claim that it is protection only that takes a large and unselfish view of the common good. But only one person in twenty ;s interested in protection. How can the interest of that one be claimed as the “common good” of the nineteen? We produce more iron and copper in the United States than is produced in any other country. How much longer will the people in this country who consume iron and copper submit to a policy which keeps those metals dear for home purchasers and cheap for foreign pqrchasers?—Philadelphia Record. All of the 63,000,000 people in th„ United States are consumers, but not moie than one-twentieth of them are protected producers Legislation for the consumer is therefore legislation for all the people; legislation for the producer is legislation for one man In every twenty. Major McKinley is still harping on thAxpreservation of the home market, but hb falls to tell hi* hearers that the home market is preserved for a few millionaire manufacturers at the expense of the remainder of the people.—M JsOUi* PH-DispatCh.

FIERCE FIGHT IN CHILI.

THREE THOUSAND SOLDIERS DEAD. A Terrible Battle Lasting Th ee Days Takes Place Between Balmaceda’s Forces and Those of the Insurgents— Heavy Losses on Both Sides. In the Scale. Even while the battle was raging, news reached this country of a collision between the Congressional and Government forces of Chili. The dispatch was sent from Valparaiso, and reads: President Balmaceda and the Junta DeGobierno are c enchod in the final desperate struggle for the mastery of the Re pub ic of Chill. Tbs chosen battle grounds are in full view of the city of Valparaiso, and thousands of anxious eyes are watching from every point of vantage the battle which is to decide the fate of the country. The battle has been raging practically for three days. The first engagement was at the mouth of the Aconcagua and resulted in a reverse to the Government. The final test of strength is now being made at Vina del Mar Beach, directly across Valparaiso Bay and ess than five miles away. When the news reached here that an Quintro Bay, Balmaceda aid his generals were taken by surprise, but the utmost activity was used in getting troops to the front, so as, if possible, to prevent the invading army from crossing the Aconcagua River immediately south of the bay. The arrangement-were made hurriedly and only a little over half of the troops were available for this purpose. Six of the in-urgent war ships were anchored in Cosnon Bay, at the mouth of the river, and under the cover of their guns the army of the Junta undertook the task of forcing a passage of the river. A most de perate and bloody battleresulted, lasting nearly all day. A galling fire from the insurgent artillery, which was formed on the northern bank of the river, aided by the heavy batteries and machine guns from the ships, was too much for the government troops and they were forced to retire, which they did in good order. Both sides fought with the utmost valor and the desperate character of the battle maybe judged from the fact that, while less than 20,000 troops wore engaged, the list of casualties will foot up nearly 3,000 men killed and wounded. Balmaceda found, out that the insurgents are something more than “nitrate stealers.” The general in command of the government forces selected a strong position on the beach of Vina del Mar, the eastern shore of Valparaiso Bay, as his second line of defense, and leaving force enough in front of the enemy to check his progress somewhat, took his place there and went to work to Strengthen it as much as possible. All day long the insurgent forces pushed their way steadily forward, driving the comparatively small government force before them. It was a constant skirmish for fifteen miles over broken country. At every point of vantage the Balmacedans made a stand, and while they were constantly forced to give way before superior numbers they retarded the advance, and gave the main army at Vina del Mar a chan e to better prepare Itself fer the decisive light. It was not until late in the evening that the attacking army arrived in front of Balmaceda’s line of defense.

It was then too late to give battle. In the meantime President Balmaceda, with every available man in this department, himself in command, went to the front He had over 13,000 available fighting men, while the insurgent forces 7id been reduced to less than 7,000. At the back of the government line is Fort Callao, the heavy guns of which have done good work, both in raking the enemy by land ai d preventing the insurgent 1 eet which had entered the bay from doing anything more e ( ‘ive than long range firing. The Congressionallsts attacked in force and the battle has raged with the utmost fierceness, The war ships did all they could to aid their lan 1 forces, but they had a healthy regard for the heavy guns in the forts, and were compeiled to do their fighting at long range. They sent as n.any men as they could spare, with all their available machine and rapid fire guns, to aid as a naval auxiliary brigade the attack on Balmaceda's position. The mo t intense excitement prevails in this city. The roar of heavy attlllery and The sharp rattle of small arms resound through the streets and are echoed back from the high hills surrounding the city. Everybody who is left here has sought some place overlooking the battleground, and thousands of people are watching the desperate struggle which is being fought under their very ey<g The scene from Valparaiso is one of awful grandeur. A heavy pall of smoke hangs like a cloud over the < ontending armies. It is lit up a most continuously by sharp flashes orkghtfrom the cannon and rifles, and the thundeious roll of the artillery can be heard continuously.

FLOODED THE TOWN.

Fierce storm at Fottuvllle I'rives People to Their Garrets. A cloudburst broke over Pottsville, Pa., and the water poured down in torrents for an hour. The culverts were unable to carry all the water, and portions of the town were flooded. Fully 400 families were driven to the upper stories of their homes, and the cellars and kitchens were fil ed with water and mud. The bu inert portion of the town .-ufferred greatly, the cellars of stores being filled with water. Railroads and streets were turned into rivers three and four feet deep, and the raging torrents carried all sorts of goods and debris down to the Schuylkill. It was th: worst storm ever known in Pottsville. The damage is estimated Reports from Miuerville, St < lair, i’o:t Carbon, Schuylkill Haven, Girardville and Mahanoy Plane tell the : ame story of devastation and damage by the rain and food.

[?]is-ing Links.

A cattle range in Washington is oyer 300 miles long and 200 miles wide The Georgia mother who so d her twin babies for a dollar probably made a good bargain—for the twins. South Nobwalk, (onn., boasts of a dog which recently swallowed at one gulp a good sized life chicken. The Emperor of Japan has decreed that every man who provokes a duel or accepts a challenge shall pay a heavy fine and serve from six months to two year* in the galleys.

A CRISIS IMMINENT

IN DICTATOR BALMACEDA’S AFFAIRS. Th® Insurgents Prepared to Give Decisive Battle—Terrible Besults of the Hurricane in the West Indies—Over Sixty Live* and Twenty Vessels Lost. A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chill, says: The insurgent army ha® effected a landing at Quintero Bay, only twenty miles north cf this city. According to the lowest estimate it numbers 10,090 men. They were brought down from Caldera on eight transports, three tugs i and four warships. The point of land- I Ing is about fifty miles from Santiago, where Balmaceda’s forces to the number of 10,000 have been stationed. Quintero { Bay is the entr nee to a fettle va’ley and is in direct line with Santiago and Valparaiso The Balmacedlsts have for* some time anticipated a movement south on the part of their foes, but they believed that Coquimbo would be the fir.-t place attacked. It now appears that the hovering of I the insurgent fleet in the neighborhood J of Co ,uimbo Bay was only a scheme to deceive Balmaceda. By coming so far | south the insurgents leave the large , force of Balmacedlsts atCoquimbo many miles to the north of them and helpless to render any aid to the Government army in this neighborhood. Ihe landing at Quintero Bay was therefore a complete surprise to the President, but as soon as he learned the news he acted promptly. By his command a large force was sent north to meet the enemy. Admiral Brown, from his flagship, the San Francisco, saw the landing of the insurgents They are all well armed and enthusiastic. The United States warship Baltimore is in this harbor. The Esmeralda, commanded by Silva Faina, is just outside the harbor. It is expo tod that it will be joined at once by the other insurgent war vessels from Quintero Bay. It looks as if, in conjunction with the advance of the land forces upon this city, the fleet will open fire* upon the forts that defend this harbor. Valparaiso Bay is st ongly fortified. The forts mount thirty guns, among which are a ten-inch muzzle loader, eleven eightinch and nine-inch breech loaders, and five Krupp guns of 24 centimeters caliber. The remainder are 300-pounders. Most of these guns are masked, and offer a small target for thlps to fire at. The gunners are all skilled men, who have a great deal of practice They know the distances across the bay, as they have a range finder. The insurgent fleet has altogether some nineteen guns, including 10-inch, 8-inch, and 6-inch breech-loaders. Unless some of the government gunners turn traitors it does not seem likely that the fleet can silence the forts. So far it is quiet here, it looks as if the most important engagement so far in the history of the present war is about to be fought Until the present time it has been nearly altogether a battle of words. Now a fierce fight is imminent, On its result depends in all likelihood the .complete overthrow of Balmaceda or of his opponents. The rout of the President’s forces would undoubtedly be quickly followed by the capture of both Valparaiso and Santiago by the victorious army of the insurgents.

OVEB SIXTY LIVES I. OST. Terrible Results o the Hurricane tliat Visited Mer lnlque. The hurricane that swept over Martinique of the West India Islands, caused greater damage than at first supposed. So far as can be learned there were over sixty deaths as the result of the hurricane’s visitation, but it will be •otne time before the full extent of the disaster Is known. At Fort de France alone there wore twelve lives lost, and at both Fort de France and St. Pierre, to say nothing of the country districts, there have been large numbers of people injured. Five persons are known to have been killed in St. Pierre, but it is feared that this does not represent the entire loss of life in the capital. Communication with the different ports of the island was never an easy matter, and it is excessive y difficult to get detailed news at present. As the reports from the various sections reach St. Pierre it becomes evident that the extent of the devastation has not been much exaggerated. Destruction of property and less of life are re ported from all parts of the coast. The latest report received here from Lamentin shows that there are ten dead in that place alone in addition to a large number of injuied At Francois there were sixteen people killed and large numbers injured, and at Riviere Pilote there were two or more deatns, and so on from all parts of the island comes the tale of woe and desolation. La Trinite sends in the list of its dead at ten and numbers of more or less severely injured. The damage done to shipping and property may safely be classed as stupendous. About two-fifths of the island was under cultivation and the mountain slopes were covered with forests. All the cultivation and all the forests in the path of the hurricane appear to have been swept away. The numerous sugar, coffee, cotton, and cocao plantations which felt the force of the tornado seem to have been destroyed. The number of ships wrecked in the several harbors of the island is at least twenty.

Mid Class c canes.

Thebe are fears that the investigations of Mr. Depew in the remote and little frequented portions of Greece may result in his capture by the brigands infesting those localities. Well, if our Chauncey does get captured this country will cheerfully pay the ransom and send the bi 1 to the Government of Greece, perhaps, by Ben Butler, who will see that the formula, C. O. D., is observed. — Rome Sentinel. M. Depew is In Athens, Greece. Of course he will visit the Acropolis and seek out the tomb of Demosthenes. While at Rome he dropped a tear at the grave of Cicero (pronounce it kiekero, please).— Dayton Times. Mn. Depew is of the opinion that the brigands in Southern Europe have lost their cunning. They held up a train next to the one in which be and Mr. Vanderbilt were traveling, but never so much as looked at Mr. Depew’s train. The missed a golden opportunity.—Boston Herald. Chauncey Depew has recently visited the late Henry Demosthenes, of Greece, and is said to have remarked that he didn’t see how Mr. Demosthenes could have been much of a speaker when there was no such thing as Delmoiilco’s in his day.— Minneapolis Times,

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BOR' DERS OF INDIANA. Ab Intereitlng Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbors Crime*, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. —At Milton, Oliver John shot and killed Thomas Dodd in a saloon fight. , —George Bowen's store at Mattsvillc, near Carmel, was burned down by incendiaries. —Some person has poisoned the fish In the pond of Asher West, near Crawfordsville. —There are seventy-five cases of typhoid fever reported from the vicinity of Charleston. —Frank Morrison, of near Garfield, Montgomery County, had seventeen hogs killed by lightning. —Farmer Krithline, near LaPorte, while beating a farm-hand, was seriously stabbed near the heart by the latter. —Peter Morganthaler, a wealthy Fort Wane merchant, has been consigned to the Richmond Insane Asylum for treatment. —Bert Dermon, about 17 years old, lost his loft hand by coming In contact with a buzz-saw at the Greensburg handle factory. —Patrick O’Brien, an O. Jt M. brakeman, was run over and filled at Shields. He was sent to flag a train and went to sleep on the track. —Guy McPherson, an employe at the Structural Iron-works, at New Albany, had both eyes nearly burned out by a flash from the rolls. —4 bottle of ale exploded at the bottling works at New Albany and broke the bottle, one of the fragments cutting tho eyeball of James Finzor in two.

—Hottie Thawloy, housekeeper for IJ N. Hendricks, of Franklin, fell and crippled herself on a broken doorstep, and sues her employer for !?5,000 danir ages. —John Darr, returning home near Goshen, was stopped by highwaymen, two of which neld his horse and covered him with weapons while a third robbed him. —Mary Loveless, aged 73, of Lafayette, has sued her 53-yenr-old husband for separate maintence. She alleges ho has neglected her for her good-looking granddaughter. —Hiram Simpson, an employe of the Centroton brickyard, Morgan County, fell under a moving fly-wheel and was crushed between it and tho floor. He is perhaps fatally injured. —William Orr, an old and respected citizen of White County, was instantly killed near Gurnsey, by the east-bound vestibule train. He is partially deaf and failed to hear the whistle. —George Llttell, a Greensburg horseman, has secured a genuine freak. It Js a black filly, two years old, and perfectly formed in every respect, except that it is absolutely hairless, there being no tail, no mane and no hair on any part of the body. Ho secured it from a man near Batesville, in Ripley County. The dam was an Appaloosamaro and the sire an ordinary horse., —With a majority of one, Muncie’s City Council passed the saloon-screen ordinance, requiring all saloons to re move all screens and blinds from their places during legal closing hours. The ordinance has, for a long time, been hanging fire, and its passage is a great surprise, as It was thought to have been killed. Tho action is a result caused by the “wide-open” manner in which tho saloons have recently been doing business on Sunday.

—Hiram Connard, of Crawfordsville, has received a proposition from a man in New York, offering to sell him counterfeit gold “so perfectly made that the best government experts have beenunable to detect the fraud.” It stated that Connard could take in a partner, but this proposition was to be considered strictly confidential. If the proposition should bo accepted a telegram was to be sent to No. 135 East 110th street, New York. The fellow was very cautious in his proposition, and in offering to take 8250 for 83,000 ho omitted to say whether it was 83,000 or 3,000 something else. A newspaper clipping was inclosed, showing how perfectly made was the gold ho offered. He cautioned Connard not to write to him.

—At Richmond, Walter Guyer was assisting Andrew Phillips, lineman for the Central Union Telephone Company, in putting up a now wire along Main street, when it came in contact with a wire running from the tcolly wire of the electric street railway to a motor which propels the fans In a saloon. In an instant Guyer was fiat in the gutter, giving utterance to the most inhuman cries. People ran to his assistance, but so thoroughly was he charged by the electric fluid that was fast burning out his life that they could not hold him. He had to lay and take the current with a coil of wire on his left arm. Phillips, the lineman, hurried down one pole and tin another, cut the telephone wire, thus destroying the connection. When Guyer was taken to an undertaking establishment it was supposed that he was dead, but the ‘doctors brought him to in the course of two hours. There is grave doubt of his recovery. —John Aimer, a saloon-kecpoi, died at Vincennes, and owing to his great size a coffin could not be secured to hold his body which weighs 389 pounds. —The parents of Anna Harkes, who was killed bv falling 3<W feet from a balloon at Cincinnati, are [>oor but honest people at Brazil. The father is a miner. —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing ° n the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrt Is have already been shipped to Northern points.

THE POSITIVE TRUTH

THAT ALL THE HOOSIER NEWS IS HERE. What Our Neighbor* Ara Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Accident*. Crimes, Suicide, Etc. —Brotherhood of Telegraphers will hold a national meeting in Fort Wayne, Sept. 14. —Michigan City’s new soap factory turns out six tons of toilet and laundry soap daily. —Clark Davis, Noblesville, was run over by a heavy wagon, and received fatal Injuries. —Hiram Simpson, Morgan County, fell under a large fly-wheel and was fatally crushed. —Montgomery County boasts of a wild Mexican pony which roams about in its own independent manner. —The Corydon Bank’s stock has been Increased 85,400 on tho assessment sheets by the State Board of Equalization. —Many fine dogs have been poisoned of late at Salem, and tho owners are making a quiet hunt for the guilty parties. —Lewis Davis, of Lafayette, aged 18, accidentally killed himself by shooting himself with a load of shot in the abdomen.

—Lightning at Spiceland, struck a gas derrick and knocked down two workmen, rendering them unconscious for some time. j—There is an epidemic of tonsil!cis among fanners’ children In Jefferson Township, Morgan County, and several cases have proved fatal. —lsaac Lamb, aged 14, was killed at Elnora by llghtnlhg while taking shelter In a barn. A horse standing near tho boy was also instantly killed. —A gun breech-screw was removed from tho skull of George Stevens at Logansport. It had been Imbedded in the frontal bone by the bursting of a rifle. —A change in tho executive department of tho Now Albany Public Library will bo made, a woman having boon selected to succeed Librarian Ashabranner. —Dr. and Mrs. Thornton, returning from Brazil to Knightstown, had a runaway accident that luckily resulted in nothing worse than a few bruises to Mrs. Thornton. —Nathan Lighthail, a former resident of St. Joseph County, is dead, aged 70 years. He was tho inventor of tho hand-car now in use on nearly every railroad in tho country. —Axtell, tho famous $105,000 stallion at Terre Haute, was assessed only 8500 for taxes, and tho Farmers’ Alliance of Vigo County is preparing to raise a howl accordingly. The farmers demand at least a 875,000 valuation. —An aged woman at Mitchell, suddenly dropped dead. She had just entered into the caboose of a Monon local freight and finished eating a peach when she gasped for breath and expired. Her clothes were searched for identification and It was found her name was McQueen, and she was from Rinard, 111. She also had some pension papers among her letters. —Mary Harter, daughter of George Harter, of Franklin, committed suicide by swallowing about two ounces of carbolic acid. She lived for thirty minutes after swallowing the burning acid. She was about 23 years old. A letter to her brother assigned no reason for her taking her own life except that she would rather be dead than alive. She also stated in the letter that no one was to blarne for the act but herself.

—A young man went to Columbus, and shortly after arriving began to work the stores on the oldest kind of a trick. Ho first went to the boot and shoe house of P. C. Weddington and purchased two pairs of small shoes for his two little girls. It being after night, and the banks closed, ho presented a check on John Graves, a well-to-do farmer, for 812.35, and received 810.55 In change. Ho then went to the clothlhg establishment of L. Bosenbush, purchasing some wearing apparel amounting to 84, and, as payment, gave a check oh John Graves for 814 and left the city. Next day those checks were presented for payment and the banks pronounced them forgeries. The merchants pocketed the loss in each ease. —While Henry Rhorer, a farmer living a short distance south of Bloomington. was cleaning up underbrush in a field, one of the hands found a halfdollar lying on the ground. A further search was made and old coin to tbo amount of 8102 was unearthed, It was lying about on the ground, and there was no evidence that it was in a box of any kind. The peculiar part of the affair is that of all the coins none is dated later than 1837, and most of it is much older. There are 143 half-dollars of various dates, and the balance is made up of Spanish and Mexican dollars dating as far back as 1797. How the money came to bo there is a mystery. The general impression is that it Is a collection of rare coins that has been stolen, and the thief, to avoid detection, has secreted them in this way, and for some reason has never been able to return for his booty. They are very little discolored. —The house of Lewis Ambrose, at Crawfordsville, was struck by lightning, both he and his wife being Knocked from their chairs and badly stunnod. —Two carpenters, William and Robert Ingles, working on the floral ball at the Bedford fair grounds, fell from a scaffold and both were dangerously Injured. —At Marion. Smith Lambert, a 14-year-old lad, was shot in the shoulder by a playmate while the latter was fool • ing with a revolver. The injury is a serious one, and may prove fatal.