Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — Page 2

SljeJtmocraticSnttinel ■== J. W. MeEWF.N, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • : - INDIANA.

CURIOUS DIPLOMACY.

IRREGULAR PROCEEDING ON THE PART OF GREAT BRITAIN. A Dispatch Intended for the State Department at Waßhington la Published in the Newspapers Before Reaching Its Destination. Violated the Paris Awards. The publication by the British Government of the blue book on the fur seal conference has greatly annoyed the State Department at Washington because, while Mr. Chamberlain's dispatch iu answer to Mr. Sherman’s celebrated dispatch of May 10 is given publicity, the department Up to this time has not received a copy of this dispatch, and does not seem to know of its existence except through the newspapers. Inasmuch as the British press has so freely criticised what it has been pleased to call “shirtsleeve diplomacy,” and has read the State Department manj a homily on the necessity of observing diplomatic proprieties, the department thinks it curious, to say the least, that a dispatch should be made public before it has been received by the government to which it is addressed. But this is not the least curious thing about this diplomatic episode. In the first place, it is unusu-i), not to say irregular, that a dispatch addressed by the State Department to the foreign office (the only medium of communication between the two governments) should be answered by the colonial office. State Department officials understand why Lord Salisbury has not replied to Mr. Sherman's dispatch. Some time ago a New York paper gave what purported to be the text of that dispatch, but which were really merely the conclusions from a recital of the facts. These facts show conclusively that Groat Britain has persistently and willfully violated the spirit and intent of the Paris award, and constitute the strongest indictment ever drawn by one nation against another. This is the reason, a Washington correspondent says, why Lord Salisbury has never answered except "by anticipation” Mr. Sherman’s dispatch.

EXPLODED A BOMB. Meeting of Two Emporers Maa-red by Hostile Demonstration. Emperor William of Germany has arrived at Budapest and was welcomed by Emperor Fran :is Joseph, the cabinet ministers and the civil and military authorities. It is said as Emperor William and Emperor Francis Joseph were leaving the station a sharp detonation was heard, which was followed by a thick cloud of dust and smoke. The crowd took fright, broke through the military cordon and swarmed around the imperial carriages. Emperor Francis Joseph was greatly agitated and shouted to the police to keep the people back. Some arrests are reported, but owing to the silence maintained by the officers it is difficult to ascertain details of the affair. The Neue Wiener Journal was confiscated this evening foi publishing telegrams as to the occurrence. • tnndinc of the Club*. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore .. .87 35 Brooklyn ....57 68 Boston 88 37 Pittsburg ... .55 07 New Y0rk...78 45 Chicagoss (if) Cincinnati ..60 53 Philadelphia .53 72 Cleveland ...64 60 Louisville ...51 74 Washington .57 65 St. Louis 27 96 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis .98 37 Detroit 72 66 Columbus . ..89 47 Minneapolis ..44 96 St. Paulß6 51 Kansas City.4o 100 Milwaukee ..85 52 Gr’nd Rapids.3s 100 Ruled Out of Existence. United- States District Judge Foster of Topeka, Kan., made a sweeping decision when he declared the organization known as the Kansas City Live Stock Association illegal under the provisions of the antitrust law. The exchange is an organization of commission men, who control the sale of live stock in Kansas City. Judge Foster enjoins the commission from doing business. Bayonets Protect Them. The attempt to resume work at Pardee’s Lattimer, Pa., mines was riot successful, only 300 out of 1,300 men showing up for work. The Huns are again threatening trouble. At Eckley when strikers attempted to prevent the miners there from going to work, Companies C and Eof the Fourth Regiment gave the would-be workers protection. Crowd of Cripples. The first national convention of cripples will be held in St. Louis in the Exposition Building and it is expected that there will be fully 6,000 delegates in attendance when the meeting is called to order, every man of whom will be crippled in some manner or other. If he is not he will not be entitled to a seat in the hall. British in Het Battle. British troops suffered severe losses in a battle with the rebellious Mohmands. One hundred and forty in the Second brigade of General Sir Bindon Blood's division w-ere either killed or wounded. The Mohmand loss was also heavy, but it is impossible to state to what extent the rebellious natives suffered. Will Meet ia Minneapolis. Minneapolis was chosen as the place for holding the next annual convention of the National Association of Underwriters. Churches Lend Aid. All of the churches in Pueblo, Col., Sunday night took up collections for the suffering coal miners of the East. Held Up a Congressman. Congressman Butterworth of Ohio was held up for purposes of robbery at Atlantic City, N. J. Indeed, he was robbed of his watch and a sum of money, after making a stubborn-resistance to the highwaymen, before the arrival of the police put the ruffians to flight. Improved Fever Situation. The New Orleans fever situation is greatly improved by a materially lower temperature. If the present cool spell continues conditions promise steadily to grow better. Peaaants Are Ruined. The bad harvest affects seventeen Russian provinces and it is feared it will also be felt in* 1898, as the drought has prevented sowing winter wheat in a large area. The immense reserve stocks will prevent a famine, but the peasants are ruined for several years. •50,000 for Each Life. The Austrian consul at Philadelphia has written to his secretary in Hazleton Pa., Dr. Theodoroviteh. Legal proceedings, the communication says, will be Instituted against the United Stites in $50,000 damages for each life lost in the Lat-

WOMEN HOOT THE TROOPS, Swoop Down on Working Miners with Sticks and Clubs. Friday at Hazleton, Pa., opened with commotion at the headquarters of the Third Brigade and in the various camps. At an early hour a message reached General Gobin that there was more trouble at Audenreid. The attack made by the women Thursday, which resulted in driving the miners at those collieries out, was repeated when another attempt to start up the collieries was made Friday. Over one hundred men reported for work at the Monarch washery, when the band of amazons, armed with sticks and stones, swooped down upon them. Some of their number again stationed themselves on top of a culm bank, ready to pelt the men, but violence was avoided by the men promptly going out. At the Star washery about one hundred of the 135 men returned to work, but the women determined to drive them otit. No attempt was made to resume at the Carson washery. As soon as the reports of the disturbance reached General Gobin he sent a squad of the Governor's Troop to the scene. When the cavalry reached there all attempts of violence had ceased, but the women followed the troops about the stieet, hooting and cursing them. A storekeeper at Audenreid declared that his entire stock of revolvers had been sold during the last few days. Reports from Cranberry confirmed the news that the powder-house of Edward Tuenbach had been broken into by strikers, who had stolen a quantity of dynamite.

810 COMBINE OF BAK I RS. Three Large Concerns Enter the Strong Combintion. A gigantic bakery combination is said to be among the probabilities of the near future. The consolidation, if carried out on the lines reported, will include the three great companies, which now virtually control the situation in their respective territories—the American Biscuit Company, the New York Biscuit Company and the United States Biscuit corporation.- The capital stock will be, $30,000,006 and the bonded indebtedness $3,000,000. The corporations mentioned operate some 150 of the largest bakeries in the world, the American having its territory in the West, the New York in the Middle section, and in the East, and the United States in the Southern-Middle States. A few days ago it became apparent that something was up in Ihe world of biscuits and buns. Stock of the New York company made a sharp gam to $55, and Wednesday touched S6O, telling Thursday at $63 a share. There were large buying orders from the very best financial interests, and while there was no confirmation of the rumored consolidation, brokers bn the exchange gave it more than credence. The companies have all been losing money through the slashing of prices, and the stockholders in the great corporations have demanded a cessation of the war.

GREAT DISMAL SWA MP IS A FIR E. Four Hundred Square Milbs of Flame Caused by the Drought. The Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina, covering an area of perhaps 400 square miles, is afire from one end to the other, the result of an unprecedented drought and excessively hot weather. No one inhabits the swamp but wild animals, therefore no attempt was made to check the flames. Bear, wildcats, deer and reptiles fled before the flames, and their cries as they were cremated filled the hearts of railroad passengers with terror. The smoke is so dense that the crew and passengers on a train were nearly stifled. Columns of flame from thirty to fifty feet in height extend for miles. When (he great swamps got afire, which is about once in every seven years, the fire generally burns itself out. Forest fires are also raging in adjoining counties, and unless rain comes soon crops will be burned up, the loss and suffering great, and perhaps may result in the death of many rural inhabitants.

Were Idle Sixty-five Days, After nearly three months’ idleness between 15,000 mid 18,000 miners in the Pittsburg district returned to work Thursday in accordance with die action taken at Wednesday’s convention authorizing the men to resume work in all the mines complying with the provisions of the scale of 65 cents adopted at Columbuu. The remainder of the 23,000 miners of the district will be at work soon. It is estimated that the strike, which lasted sixty-five working days, cost the people of the Pittsburg district from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Of this amount the miners lost about $2,250,000 in wages. '1 he strike against the De Armits will continue indefinitely, arrangements having been made to assess the working miners 5 per cent, of their wages to defray the expenses of keeping up the fight until the 65-cent rate is made uniform throughout the district. Originating us it did in the petty disagreement between the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company mule drivers and their employers, and having spread until it now affects nearly 10,000 men .-.nd most of the principal operators of the middle coal fields, this strike has been one of the most peculiar ever inaugurated in the region. The miners have no organization. In many instances they do not know exactly for what they struck, except that they feel that they have been unfairly treated and that they want more pay. In 50 per cent of the idle collieries they are at a loss to say how much they want, and in such eases they have quit work without even asking for an increase.

Tough on the “Tick." After many months of effort and repeated experiments a cure for cattle fever has been found. Dr. V. A. Norgaard, of Denver, is the discoverer. The plan for dealing with the fever is primarily to exterminate the insect known as the "tick,” which abound on fever-stricken cattle. To do this the cattle are forced to swim through a soluton in a vat. Crude petroleum is used. If the new remedy proves to do all that is claimed it can do, the cattle market will experience somewhat of a revolution, and about 500,000 head of cattle will be shipped north each year during the now prohibited season, which extends from Feb. 15 to Nov. 15. A meeting of all States and Territories that handle cattle has been Called to meet in Fort Worth, when it is expected the new scheme of dipping cattle will be shown. Groom Kills Himself. Because his parents said they would not receive his wife into their home, Geo. J. Bunday, a Chicago lawyer, committed suicide at the Plankinton House, Milwaukee. His bride, who was Miss Blanche Warren, is in a dangerous condition, but physicians say she may recover. Bunday and his wife took morphine with the intention of dying together. Argentina Has Wheat. In spite of the locust plague the Argentine wheat crop with good luck will be so great that nearly 2,000,000 tons will be exported. The locusts are doing a little .harm in the provinces of Santa Fe and the southern part of Cordova. Christians Are Persecuted. Word has been received that the Catholic missionaries are again suffering severe oppression from the Chinese near Yao-Ping, in the district of KwangTung. Militia in Readiness. The Hazleton, Pa., strike situation may be summarized thus: Over 10,000 men ve still out, with no apparent prospect of 1.??.. 1 .. ■„ .. . *.

settlement; sporadic outbreaks of violence are occurring near the outlying colleries and the withdrawal of troops is not only without consideration, but the guard lines of several of the camps are being constantly strengthened, and the wisdom of bringing more cavalry is being discussed. It was said that if the soldiers are kept there much longer the Sheridan troop of Tyrone, attached to the Second brigade, will be ordered out. A captain of General Gobin's staff is authority for- the statement that an uneasy feeling prevails at headquarters in consequence of the little outbreaks of the past few days and the indication they hold of the underlying disturbance. The brigade commander admitted that the action of the raiding women was giving him much perplexity. He does not care to use force against them and has instructed the soldiers in case of necessity to use only the flats of their sabers -upon the amazons. The story reached the general that many men were iu the attacking crowds disguised as women. FORGETFULNESS KILLS FIVE. Wreck Said to Fe Due to an Engineer's Blunder. Five killed, three injured and one narrow escape is the result of a head-end collision on the Wisconsin Central Railway between two freight trains at Howard, Wis. The freights were Nos. 21, west bound, loaded with general merchandise, and 24, east bound, loaded chiefly with flour from Minneapolis. Ten cars of freight, together with both locomotives, were derailed and ditched and inore or less damaged. The track was soon cleared of debris and no through trains were delayed. The west-bound freight, No. 21, was delayed somewhat and passed Irvine considerably behind time. I-/ is supposed that the engineer, being behind, forgot that he was to pass No, 24 near that point and was consequently running through at the usual speed. No telegraph orders were involved, as both trains were regulars and trainmen had standing orders regarding the passing. Charles Horn, conductor of No. 21, claims that he still had one minute to make the switch before the scheduled time of No 24. Train No. 24 had the right of way and was in charge of Conductor Washington, of Minneapolis.

APPROVES OF POSTAL BANKS, Postmaster General Gary Studying the t übject Carefully. Postmaster General Gary is devoting considerable attention these days to an investigation of the wisdom of establishing postal savings banks. When in the last Congress a bill was sent to him providing for such institutions he declined to indorse it because, as he said, he had not had an opportunity to investigate the subject. He has since taken up the matter, reading all the literature bearing upon it he could procure and seeking opportunity to discuss its merits with those familiar with it. The result is that he has become convinced of both the wisdom and utility of postal savings institutions and has decided to have a bill prepared providing for their establishment and to recommend its passage by Congress.

BUYS 15,C00 ACRES OF COAL LAND. Illinois Central Makes n Big Purchase in Alabama. The Illinois Centra! Railroad, through its agents, has purchased 15,000 acres of coal lands in Marion and Walker Counties, Alabama, and will open mines upon them at once for the purpose of obtaining coal to supply the road with fuel. The lands are located on the line of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, about ninety-live miles from Holly Springs, Miss., where that road intercepts the Illinois Central, and on them is a vein of coal from three to four feet thick. 'The deal involves about SIOO,OOO. Green Stamps Coming. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, after a consultation with the President, have decided to change the color of the current 2-cent postage stamp from carmine to green of the shade now used on government notes. The 10-ceut postage stamp, which is now printed in green, will be changed to some other color, possibly carmine. It is thought that green is a more desirable color than carmine, besides saving the government about SIO,OOO in the difference in cost between the two inks.

Accident in a Coal Mine, The cage in which ten men were being lowered into shaft No. 2 of the Alden Coal Company at Nanticoke, Pa., suddenly dropped to the bottom of the shaft. Eight of the men wore severely injured, and the injuries of four may prove fatal. The mine is 580 feet deep. The cage had started down the shaft, and, the engineer losing control of the machinery, it dropped to the bottom at terrific speed. Lynchers Not Known. “The slayers of the men are unknown.” This is the concluding sentence of the verdict of the coroner’s jury which investigated the lynching of the five men at Versailles, Ind. The verdict pleases those who justify the hanging of the quintet. On the other hand, threats have been made—or currently reported to have been made —by friends of the victims to have blood for blood. Fence Flan Is Agreed To It is stated that the powers have accepted Russia’s proposal that the evacuation of Thessaly shall begin one month after the treaty of peace is signed.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 93c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2, ISc to 20c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to lsc; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; hew poptatoes, 45c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 94c; corn, No. 2 white, 31e to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22e. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat,, No. 2,96 cto 98c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to-32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 94c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30e to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c; clover seed, $3.55 to $3.60. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 3,29 cto 30e; pats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,49 cto 50e; barley, No. 2,40 cto 43c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 winter, 97c to 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; butter, creamery, 13c to 19c; eggs. Western, 16c to 17c. ■

POLITICS OF THE DAY

ONE FALSE ISSUE REMOVED. Many silver Republicans voted for McKinley because of the pledge In the platform in favor of international bimetallism. These voters now see that this pledge was simply a dodge to fool the people. None of the Republican leaders is desirous of establishing bimetallism, either through national or international action. All of these leaders knew that, so long as the settlement of international bimetallism rested in the hands of England, the policy of gold monometallism was safe, and for this reason they Inserted the plank referred to, believing that it would catch votes and thus In reality make the gold monetary system all the more secure. The Republican press realizes that the International bimetallism dodge has been played for the last time. It has served Its purpose for a quarter of a century and is now completely worn out and discredited. No longer will this bait be used to catch gudgeons, not because there is any change in the ethics of the gold clique, but because the leaders recognize that the trick has lost Its attraction. Now the fight is to be made squarely on the Issue of gold, and the people should hail this change of front as an omen of vfcUfrfy.' The sentiment in favor of bimetal llsm Is growing stronger every day in the United States. But for bribery, intimidation and false promises on the part of Republicans the people would have won in the last presidential campaign. Now that the issue has been made plain; that falsehoods have been exposed; that International bimetal llsm has been shown in Its true light, the people will flock to the support of that party which has their Interests at heart, and will, by their united votes in 1898 and 1900, establish national bimetallism and thus restore the prosperity that was destroyed by the demonetization of silver.

Concerning Pensions. Men who went forth to battle for the Union and who received wounds in the cause of liberty are deserving of recognition and compensation from this government. There Is none who desire to detract from the glory of the veteran, nor are there any who wish to deprive him of such governmental assistance as his deeds d< erve, but the matter of pensions has attained such dimensions that it demands investigation. On June 30 of the present year the number of pensioners was 9.83,528. Thus the United States is shown to have or/- of the largest of the standing armies of the world. The million mark will soon be reached. In order to learn how this item of expenditure has grown it is only necessary to glance at the following table: 1865 1868 :... $76,672,110 1869-1872 119,794.122 1873-1876 116.111,454 1877-1880 146,999,327 1881-18S4 234,846,276 1885-1888 274,824,”41 1889-1892 453,560,338 1893-1896 581,364,073 T0ta152,004,172,841 In 1872 James A. Garfield said in the House of Representatives: “I am the last man to say a word against voting pensions to all persons who deserve them. But I wish to say to the House that more frauds are being perpetrated on the government by claim agents in different parts of the country-than from almost any other single source.” The government has already expended In pensions nearly as much as the entire national debt. Five times as much money is paid out for this purpose to-day as was required in 1872. If James A. Garfield recognized the existence of fraud in the matter of pensions twenty-five years r o, when the cost for the period 1569 to 1872 to the United States was only $119,794,122, what must the condition of affairs be to-day, when the cost for the period 1893 to 1896 has mounted up to $581,364,073?—Chicago Dispatch.

A Debt-Creating Tariff. The first fruits of the new tariff law are decidedly discouraging, for the revenue collected under if during August fell behind the amount collected during the corresponding month last year by about 25 per cent. This, if continued, will force the country to face a deficit by the time congress meets in December of something like $30,000,000 for the four months, or at the rate of nearly $100,000,000 a year. Ostensibly this Dingley measure was framed to provide first of all more revenue for the government. It was to do much better in this respect than the Wilson tariff, and the result is that those who predicted that it would produce from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year less are going to be proven absolutely reliable prophets if this first month's experience is any criterion of what is to follow. Of course, the expenses of the government are going on as before, or are increasing. While the total receipts by the treasury last month were only a little over $19,000,000, the outlay was close on to $34,000,000, so that there Is an actual deficit of nearly $15,000,900 for this one month for the taxpayers to ponder over.—New York News.

Partial Relief for Farmers, It is nonsense to talk about this year’s crops relieving the farmers from all their debts. Much of the money obtained will have to be used in meeting current expenses and in repairing the outworn agricultural implements which are the result of the last few years of hard times. But no doubt a great many long-standing mortgages will be passed through the thrashing machines, as it were, this fall.—Boston Herald. Seeing a Disagreeable Truth. Republican papers are commencing to admit that the Dingley tariff will be inadequate as a revenue measure. It Is difficult .to escape this conclusion with the fact staring in the face that customs receipts were much smaller and the treaiwT deficiency much

larger for the first month of the Dingley tariff than for any month of the Wilson tariff or the Cleveland administration. Some of these Republican papers are already proposing that should the deficiency prove as large as indicated the Dingley tariff will be amended. So the probabilities are strong for another season of tariff tinkering.— Pittsburg Post. Slaves in the Coal Field*. According to the story of Mayor Altmiller of Hazelton, who is presumably a patriot and a friend to law and order, since he is an ex-union soldier, the savagery of the corporation-hired deputies at Lattimer was a fit complement to the greed of their employers. Heads of families among the striking miners have been receiving 70 cents a day for their labor when they were so fortunate as to get work. Steady employment then meant $4.20 a week. With this $4.20 the men must provide food, fuel, clothing, and shelter for wives, children, and other dependents. All purchases of supplies must be made at company stores. This is not mandatory, under the statutes of Pennsylvania, but it is an unwritten law of the companies that no miner dare disobey. It is a law that confirms the servitude of low wages. From the fact that meat sells at 4 cents a pound above the market price in the stores, the prices of other articles may lie judged. There are no cheap coats to make cheap men in that locality. No, the coats and everything else but the men are protected there. There is a new and high tariff on coal, on household goods, on everything that the miners buy, but there is no tariff on the miner, nor is he to have any benefit from the tariff on coal. With liis pitiable wage lie must go on getting into debt at the stores and sinking himself deeper in slavery. That is the moral of recent American legislation.

The Coniine Era of Thrift. It is true that the farmer seldom is a miser and that he spends freely when he has the money. Rut lie is not going to lie such'a free spender this year as he lias been in the past. Adversity lias taught him the valuable lesson of frugality. He is going to buy sparingly tills year. While this new spirit of economy and frugality on the part of the farmers may disappoint the more sanguine merchants for awhile, in the end the effect will be a betterment of all the business interests of the country. It will lead to an era of thrift and accumulation of which we have stood in sore need ever since the industrial changes wrought by the civil war rendered a readjustment of conditions and relations necessary.—St. Louis Republic. Putting Handcuffs on the Pulpit. A minister of the gospel has been enjoined by the mine-owners’ Federal court from in any way encouraging the strikers. Hi's offense consisted, it is said, in preaching sympathetic sermons. We are not far from despotism when religion is handcuffed for denouncing the robbery and starvation of free workingmen.—Kansas City Times. Enough Revenue, Too Much Expense. From 1884 to 1890 the average July disbursement, the heaviest monthly payments in the year, was $34,700,000; in 1891-2, $37,000,000; in 1893-5 it was $38,000,000; in 1896, $42,000,000; in 1897, $50,000,000. This shows the real basis of the deficit. It is the one which ought to receive the greatest-share of attention. Expense is the trouble, not revenue.—Milwaukee Journal. What Has Restored Confidence. Two of the cabinet officers who have returned to Washington agree that confidence is restored. No doubt, but it is not confidence in Dingleyism that lias undergone restoration, but confidence in the natural resources of the country. Famine abroad and fertility at home have opened the mills.—Philadelphia Record.

Brief Comment. If you are au employer, have you taken any steps to pass along the prosperity that is coming to you now? In other words, have you raised wages? And, if not, when will you go about it? —St. Louis Star. Oddly enough the man of unsavory reputation whom the President has appointed naval officer of the customs at New Orleans turns out to have been one of McKinley’s supporters in the St. Louis convention—Detroit Free Press. Our best foreign policy is to have no foreign policy. We want no colonies, can have no colonies without giving the lie to the doctrines of our declaration of 'independence. Inalienable rights inhere in others as well as in ourselves.—Terre Haute Gazette. Senator Thurston of Nebraska says that the Senate is no place for a poor man. The Senator must have been avoided during the formulation of the new tariff by the sugar trust. For some kind of Senators the Senate is a richer field than the Klondike.—lndianapolis Sentinel. The farmer is getting a good price for his wheat, but he is not getting what he would have got had it not been for the Dingley law, for the reason that the dollar which he is getting for his wheat now will not buy so much of what he is compelled to purchase as it would had we freer trade. —Peoria Herald. The Republican party is the party now organized which takes the paternalistic side of all questions. It is the party which favors the centralization of power in the national government. It is the party which in all ways would extend the power of Congress, recognizing no limit but its will. It legislates on everything going.—Milwaukee Journal. It is now asserted in Wall street that the sugar trust is known to have a surplus of $35,000,000 which will be distributed shortly. This is given as the cause of the recent investments of the Rockefellers in sugar stock. Possibly it may also help the Rockefellers to unload at advanced figures the sugar stock they have accumulated,—lndianapolis Sentinel.

INDIANA LYNCH LAW.

DETAILS OF THE RIPLEY COUNTY AFFAIR. Summary Punishment Visited Upon a Gang of Evil Characters—People Tire of an Extended Series of Criminal Acts—Gov. Monnt Indignant Deed r»f Infuriated Mob. The lynching of the five Osgood men at Versailles, the county seat of Ripley County, has. perhaps. no parallel in the history of Indiana. The prisoners were confined in the county jail on the charge of burglary. They all resided in the town of Osgood, and were supposed to belong to an organized band of thieves and highwaymen which has been robbing and terrorizing the citizens of Ripley County for a number of years. They were rwaiting trial for having attempted to break into the general store of Wooley Bros, at Correct Saturday night. Gordon and Andrews were captured at the time after a running fight, and after each had been severely wounded. The other prisoners were detained on the charge of having assisted in the attempted burglary, and whose guilt seemed evident. Public feeling had been aroused against the prisoners because they had so often escaped the penalties of the law. Sheriff Henry Bushing and wife were away from home. He had been badly wounded while trying to capture the men Saturday night, and the jail was in charge of his brother-in-law, W. T. Kennen, turnkey, and William Black. At 12:45 o’clock they were aroused by the ringing of the door bell. Kennen and Black went down and opened the door. Three masked men with a revolver in each hand confronted them. Tlie lender said: “Hold up your hands! We demand the keys of the jail.’’ Kennen looked into the muzzles of six revolvers, and after some, resistance was taken to the kitchen and found the keys. Kennen and Black were locked in a cell and three men with revolvers made their way through the grating and others went to find the prisoners, who had all retired. In the lower eellrooms were confined Levi, Shuler and Jenkins, and there the visitors proceeded first. Levi was first awakened, and, refusing to throw.up his hau ls at the command of the leader, two pistol shots were heard, and he fell to the floor pierced to the heart. Shuler, lying on his cot, refused to get up, but begged for his life. A stroke upon the head from a heavy stick silenced him, and he rolled to the floor. Jenkins’ fate was similar, and tlie three bodies were carried to the main corridor, and the lynchers made their way upstairs, where Gordon and Andrews were found. They, being wounded, submitted without much effort. Their hands were tied behind them, ropes were placed around their necks and they were dragged down the stairway where their companions lay. Ropes being placed around the necks of all the order was given, “Pull on the ropes, boys, and hurry up.” Hanged to an Elm Tree. Two squares north of the jail on the bluff near the famous “Gordon’s Leap” was found an old elm tree, and to its toughened limbs were hanged the maimed and bruised bodies of the five prisoners, naked and ghastly. The scene was appalling’, and the bodies were soon cut down and covered under the shade of the tree. Hundreds visited the scene the following day, and hardly a twig of the old elm remains, having been carried away by the curious throng. A man named Hostetter a couple of weeks ago had given a tip to the county officials, and through him the men were caught. He said they met and planned at Jenkins’ house, and lie (Jenkins) said he would help them out at any time, but how much, if any, they were implicated will never be known, as they were given no chance to deny or defend themselves. Osgood had grown notorious the last two years on account of the many highway robberies and hold-ups committed there. Last winter an aged couple—Mr. and Mrs. Rineking—living north of town were tortured and robbed while alone at their home. The night of April 1 Mr. and Mrs. Baulkman, living six miles from Osgood, were tortured by three masked men, who demanded their money. They made tlie old lady, who was quite infirm, walk over red-hot coals to tell where her money was. They got nothing but a gun and a few trifles. The latter part of the same month Mr. and Mrs. Kammon of Milan were treated in a similar manner by masked men. The two Dr. Josenhs of Osgood place were arrested, charged with the robbery, but proved an alibi and were acquitted without trouble. Men have been held up on the streets and houses without number broken into the last two years, but it seemed as though the guilty ones could never be caught. How much or how little these men were implicated in these robberies may never be known. Earnest Number Ever Lynched. The hanging is a blot on the name of Ripley County. It is tlie largest number ever hanged at a lynching in the State and only the second rope execution ever in the county. Twenty years ago Tim Boyd of Moore’s Hill, who was in jail for committing an assault, was visited by a mob and seventeen bullets shot into him, but nothing has ever aroused the people like this tragedy. People drove into Versailles from all over the county and groups stood around discussing it. Schools were dismissed and business is at a standstill. The families of the men are almost insane from the shock. The bodies were taken to Osgood and delivered to their several homes. The sheriff received a message from the Governor to use all means in his power to apprehend the men composing the mob. However, it seems that the sheriff is powerless, as no moans of identification of a single man has been obtained. The Governor, realizing this and also that the sympathies of the community seemed with the lynchers, sent Merrill Moores, deputy attorney general, to the scene of the lynching, with instructions to make a full investigation and spare no expense in bringing the lynchers to justice. The Governor condemned the lynching in the strongest terms. He further said in his dispatch to the sheriff: “Such lawlessness is intolerable, and all tlie power of the State will, if necessary, be vigorously employed for the arrest and punishment of all parties implicated.”

CURRENT COMMENT

The haste of the mob is a miserably poor method of remedying the delay of the law. —Atlanta Journal. To outsiders the injunction business seems to be somewhat overdone in the coal strike.—Toledo Commercial. There is a great deal of lawlessness ct Skaguay, hut what can you expect of a town with a name like that?-«-Chie igo Tribune. The Ameer of Afghanistan has undoubtedly been making a. study of the Abdul Hamid system of diplomacy .—New York Journal. The President of the French Republic should never issue a card of invitation without concluding “No bombs.”—Florida Times-Union.

TRIES TO KILL DIAZ.

President of Mexico !• Assaulted by an Anarchist. President Diaz was assaulted with deadly intent during the ceremonies in the City of Mexico attending the celebration of the declaration of independence. Ignacio Arroyo, a violent anarchist, broke through the line of soldiers that marked the line of the procession to the Alameda and attempted to brain the president with a heavy cane as he was walking to the national palace. The blow, which he aimed at the president's head, fell short and the would-be murderer was immediately seized and handed over to the police. Intense exeitemeht prevailed when it became known that an attempt had been made upon the life of President Diaz. President Diaz was the coolest man of all who witnessed the assault. He turned around as his assailant was seized, and looked at him somewhat curiously, and

PRESIDENT DIAZ.

then resumed his march, bowing right and left to the people. The effect upon the crowd that saw the affair was instantaneous and awakened the greatest excitement. The police started away with the prisoner by a side street, hoping to avoid any further disturbance. Hundreds of men ran after tlie police shouting for vengeance upon the.man. “Give him to us,” they cried, “and we will hang him.” But the gendarmes succeeded in keeping their prisoner, being re-enforced by cavalrymen, the great crowd shouting and running behind. The man was taken Io tlie palace and stripped, but no weapon was found on his person. He was taken away to tlie city hall, securely bound and placed in solitary confinement. At night a great mob of common people broke into the jail by forcing the doors with huge timbers handled by 100 men. They overpowered tlie guards and surrounded them, while a detail of men ran down the dragged out the trembling Arroyo and lynched him. The mob had apparently no organization, but it was directed in some mysterious way. About twenty of the lynchers were arrested.

WILD TIME IN PRISON.

Convict Assaults a Guard, Seizes His Revolver and Escapes. A sensational escape and a quick capture caused much excitement at tlie Ohio penitentiary Thursday night. Just before tlie hour when the prisoners wash for supper and the guards are shifted for the night turn, William Clark, a Cuyahoga County murderer doing a life sentence and employed in the broomshop, called Guard Duncan of Mount Gilead, ostensibly to show him a hole in the floor, Duncan leaned over and was struck a vicious blow in the back of the neck with a piece of gas pipe. Bert Spriggs, a Delaware County convict, started to assist the guard, when Clark, advancing with Duncan’s revolver, which had fallen from his pocket, threatened to shoot. Clark ran to the guardroom at the front gates and gave the guard’s signal with the iron handle. Capt. Saxbe, as usual, opened the gate. As soon as Clark passed the gate he opened fire on the crowd of guards and spectators. His aim was wild. In the guardroom he pulled the trigger again and shot Benjamin F. James, a Delaware County colored sub-guard, in the chin. Clark was closely followed in his attempt to escape by William Dempsey, jointly convicted with him of murder. Clark ran through the guardroom, fired at the guard in the reception room, and esea ped into the street. A federal prisoner named Sarter, employed as a “trusty” in the prison yard, seized a rifle which a guard had dropped in tlie excitement and ran past the guardhouse close on the heels of Clark. When the fugitive reached tlie bank of the Scioto River he paused a minute. Sarter quickly leveled the rifle and commanded C'ark to surrender on pain of death. The convict obeyed, his revolver being empty, and was recaptured by the guards, who had recovered their presence of mind by that time.

The New Disc se.

This man is not talking politics; he is tlie unfortunate with Klondicitis.

Four Killed, Many Injured.

A wreck on the Wabash at Keytesville, Mo., resulted in the death of fbur men. A passenger train crushed into freight train No. 58. The freight had received orders to take the siding at Keytesville, a flag station, and let the passenger pass. It was i minute late and was just entering the switch when the passenger train crashed into it.

BICYCLISTS OF INTEREST TO

Cycling has caused a decrease in the number of cabs in 1 Berlin. Madrid has a club composed entirely of children, none of Whom is over S years old. - • In Bremen drivers of vehicles and horsemen are prohibited to use the street cycle paths. A musical bicycle has beoh invented by a man in-Presburg, Austria. The motion of the wheel g'-’.u-.U out a tune like a baudcrgui).