Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 July 1888 — Page 2
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"I think our worklngmen will wake up to the fact that reduction In their wages, which every candid advocate or free trade or revenue reform admits must come with the adoption of his theories—a reduction variously estimated at from 10 to '25 per cent.-Is poorly compensated by the chap coat he Is promised. Tills bull-in-the-Chlna-shop sort of work that our Democratic friends want to make of the tariff will not do."
In an address made in Chicago in March of this year he said: l„ am one of those uninstructed 'political economists that have an Impression that some things may be too cheap that I can not find myself In mil sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seem to me necessary to Involve a cheaper man and woman under the coat. I believe It Is true today that we have many things in this country that are too cheap, because whenever it is proved that the man or woman who produces any article cannot get a decent living out of It, then It is too cheap."
The honest confession of Henry Watterson In the Forum is good lor Ills soul if not for his party: "I should be entitled to no respect or credit if 1 pretended that there Is either a fair vote or count of Hie vast overtlow of black voters In states where there Is a negro majority, or that, In the nature of tilings at present, there can be. There was not when the ballot-box was guarded by federal bayonets. There Is not now."
The only use that England has for an Irishman Is when he emigrates to the United States and votes lor free trade, which he Invariably does.—
London Times.
Fairbanks has shown that he is the power in this district, whatever may be the result of the convention. He is a bigger man than any of those who have been opposing him.
The Indianapolis Democrats tried themselves in getting up the Saturday night demonstration, and at the same time tried to make it appear that it was but a "local atl'air," a "spontaneous" display of enthusiasm. When will the "spontaneity" strike in on Terre Haute?
Fairbanks, who, in a quiet but costly way, has backed the Democratic candidates in this district for ollice, is now re•nouneod when he asks his reward. The mon who did nothing, att compared with his service in the past, repudiate him and threaten his defeat. If ever a man had occasion to feel the sting of ingratitude he is the man.
SECTIONAL FREE TRADE.
The injustice and sectional nature of alleged tnritV reform of the Democracy is bast shown in the rule of king caucus in putting wool on the free list. More than three-fourths of the wool product is consumed in this country. The revenue from the wool duty is about Sf»,000,000, but the country pays a duty, or tax if you will, of
i?(j0,000,000
on sugar for the benelit of a product that does not supply one-fifth of the home consumption. Sugar is not placed on the free list aud the great tribute is to be continued to the Southern planter.
The story of protection for Southern rice is similar. The following table represents the product prior to the war. The given year shows the average product per year for the decade preceding such:
Pounds.
1KI0 TI.IRKUXX) 1S40 KUHXUXX) lSTrft '.19,700.1)00 lrtkl 102,800,000
During the war, as the cultivation had been mainly confined to the Southern states along the Atlantic coast and which were more or less overrun by the armies of the Union, the oulture was almost entirely suspended and at the close of the war little remained of a prosperous culture other than over-grown swamp lands, broken dykes and impoverished and discouraged planters. What has been done since the war is most happily illustratad in the following data, which are the growths of the various years named, and given at intervals of live years, to show that the progress has been a steady and assured development:
Pounds.
lsio 6,000.000 1ST0 50,000.000 1*75 S5.000.000 lJvXll 121,000.000 1SS5 150,000,1100
By a comparison it will be seen that the product, which is now running at
the rate of 150,000,000 poundB per year, is fifty (50) per cent, larger than the highest reached before the war. If before the war the cultivators of rice under tariff about five-eighthB cent per pound found it profitable, they certainly will not be injured if the duty be reduced to some point which approximates thereto in some greater degree than is now proposed. If at five-eighth of a cent per pound the South was enabled, as it was, to produce more than they actually required for the wants of the United States (for some was exported), it certainly ought not to need nearly four times the amount of protection, which will be given if the proposed duty on cleaned rice be left at two (2) cents per pound.
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Nebraska Suite Journal. The Prohibitionists claim to be par excellence In favor of temperance. To get prohibition they think, or pretend to think, that absolute freedom of the sale of whisky is first necessary. A reign of unlimited saloonkeeping they are In favor of so that tlia people will get tired of the saloons. The Democratic party Is In favor of unrestrained trallic In whisky. Therefore they will work for the success of the Democratic party.
A (iOOU NAME NO UAH TO I'KKFEItMEN'T.
Minneapolis Journal. There Is little danger of the American people honoring a man solely for the great deeds of his ancestors they are not In the liablt of doing such tilings. But where is there any warrant for the assumption that a good name preserved through several generations is any discredit to a man who wears It worthily?
THE TREACHEROUS TWILIGHT I'KKSS.
Exchange. It will be noticed that the perlideous managing editor who ran off with Ills friend's wife from St. Louis, was connected with an afternoon journal. Beware ot the evening newspaper man.
KEEP THE WOMEN OUT.
Pittsburg Dispatch. The American nation has a better uee for its women than to drag them Into the dust and nonsense of a political campaign, or to make their names the catch words of political shouters.
PASTE THIS IN YOUR HAT.
Philadelphia Star. Don't.forget that your neighbor, though he differs from you politically, may be just as honest In his convictions as you that this Is a free country, where freedom of opinion lias ever been tolerated —In fact, toleration Is not the word, for freedom of opinion Is one of the biggest of the broad foundation stones of our Republican government, and there would be an end of that form of government without It.
HAS THE WORLD'S CONFIDENCE.
Chlciigo Mall. The O'Donnell-Times case In London has developed some strange things. What the real facts are It is hard to say—the case Is a long way off— but there has been no reason In the past to doubt Mr. Parneli's word, and when lie declares the letters Implicating him forgeries the world will be Inclined to believe him.
YET SHEDDING VERY J.1TTI.K LIGHT.
Newark News. In this campaign oily tongues will take the place of oily torches.
THAT IS, IN WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee Journal. It Is so easy for a man to magnify Ills own good points and lose sight of other people's when he has three or four drinks aboard.
POLITICAL COMMENT.
Iowa State Register: Since Martin Van Buren was beaten by William Henry Harrison, every Eastern candidate who ran against a Western man has been defeated.
Norwich Bulletin: A person might just as well put up a package of arsenic and label It "sugar" as to call President Cleveland's message by any other name than a free trade message. (ilobe-Democrat: Not much progress Is being made In the consideration of the Mills tariff bill these days. When Mr. Mills last winter predicted that It would be sent to the senate about the lirst of Marcli he must have been mistaken.
Brooklyn I'lilon: The Democratic liars who are exercising their Ingenuity to Invent stories that might hurt the Republican candidates are wasting their time. The great Issue on which the business of the country depends overshadows the personality of the candidates on botli sides.
Indianapolis Journal: The Sentinel loses no opportunity to sneer at state pride as a reason why Boosters should support General Harrison. State pride may not be the highest motive possible among American citizens, but It Is better than that time-honored Democratic dogma, state sovereignty.
Toledo Blade: General Harrison was never a Know Nothing. His father was elected to congress by the Know Nothings, and after the disruption of that party became a Democrat. Ben entered his majority as a Republican, and In the 1850 campaign supported Fremont, while Ills lather supported Millard Fillmore.
The l'arugrupher.
Boston Post: Certainly every agricultural journal should be printed on a Hoe press.
Vonkers Statesman: The grocer doesn't often show grit. He conceals it in the sugar.
Time: Some men are born great, but they have to leave Boston to make a decent living.
Home Journal: Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
New Orleans Picayune: Coffee is going up and down so much in the market it has good grounds for being riled.
Binghampton Republican: "Will the coming man perspire?" queries a scientist. He will if he comes on a run.
New Haven News: A woman can't keep a secret, of course yet when there is a secret history of any important transaction a woman is usually in it.
Fall River Advance: If there is anything that will make a gang of streetcorner bummers blush it is to be told by a good-natured policeman to "Move on there, gentlemen."
Murdered His Shipmate# at Sea.
NKW YOKK, July 10.—Captain Tyson, of the National Line steamer, Erin, from London, which arrived here to-day, reports that on July 9, at T::?0 a. m., Patrick Kelly, a seaman, aged 3(, murdered two of his shipmates, John Parry and John Chapman, while they were aleep in their bunks. He stabbed them both to the heart with a sheath knife, killing them instantly. The only cause assigned for the crime is that Kelley had a slight quarrel with one of the murdered men.
The Chinch Hug.
The chinch bug gave rise to amass meeting of farmers in Robinson, Crawford county, Illinois on Saturday, also at Parkersburg on Saturday. State Entomologist S. A. Forbes was present at Robinson. Farmers in other localities have got rid of them by united effort, and at this meeting they discussed the advisability of discontinuing the sowing of wheat and rye and substituting other crops.
Choked to Death.
Sunday at Ft. Wayne, while Henry Lehrmann, an employe in the Ft. Wayne gas works, was eating dinner, a piece of bread lodged in his windpipe, and before a physician could be summoned he expired, lie leaves a large family.
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THE TORRID SEASON.
July, O, month of torrid days, When men drink lots of beer, And maids wear inuslins and piques.
Again thou'rt here.
Thou brlngst luxuriance In thy train, The bees begin to hum. The clover blooms, and 'neatb thy reign
The dog days come.
The groves are resonant with song, The meads are gay with ilowers Thou brlngst the lightning tterce and strong,
And thunder showers.
Beneath the clear and starry skies Youth with youth ardent mates Love's tale Is told and heard with sighs
At garden gates.
Of fruit thou brlngst down the price, Thou makes the Iceman bland For thou createst for his Ice
A big demand.
The hottest month of all the year, Still let thy praise be sung. Thou brlngst vacation and thou'rt dear
To old and young.
—[Boston Courier.
Natural gas has been struck at Cleveland, O. Plant City, Fla., is depopulated on account of the appearance of yellow fever.
George Bancroft, the historian, was severely bruised by a fall at his home, Newport, R. I.
One thousand one hundred and sixtysix emigrants were landed at Castle Garden, Sunday.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, sailed for Europe on a Bix weeks' vacation.
John Ray, of the Indian territory, shot his sonambulist brother dead, mistaking him for an assassin.
The Rev. Dr. Fulton, the Boston sensationalist, is writing a new book, "Washington in the Lap of Rome."
The British budget shows .£57,000 for extra police for the coming year in consequence of the dynamite scare.
The Oxford English dictionary shows that there are 15,000 words in current use beginning with the letters A and B.
Joseph Ritas died recently, in the Pyrenees, at the age of 118 years. His father died at 111 and his brother at 114.
A very useful polishing powder for metals and glass is made of very finely powdered glass mixed with a small proportion of dried soda ash.
Anew theater curtain is made of canvas with a backing of spongy asbestos. It is kept wound on a roller in a trough of water beneath the stage.
The coins struck at the Berlin mint during the brief reign of the late Emperor Frederick are already reported to be scarce, and are consequently in great demand.
The season continues backward throughout the Northern states. It is a week late in New England and New York, and ten to fifteen days late in the Northwest.
In the trial of the jockey, Wood, Sir Charles Russell made the statement that only two jockeys on the English turf have unblemished reputations—Tom Cannon and John Osborne.
Caterpillars have so overrun the county of Kent, England, that the fruit farmers, whose products are all eaten up, are collecting them and selling them at S20 a sack as food for pheasants.
Boston is collecting the roster of the patriots who fell at Bunker Hill, June 17,1775. The names of the historic defenders will be stamped upon bronze and placed upon appropriate soil.
A Louisviller who had been flirting with aNew Albany railroad man's pretty wife, appeared at a drug store late at night, covered with blood, and it wasn't a locomotive than had run over him.
Since the udvent of Larry Donovan at Clifton (Eng.) the great suspension bridge has led to so many suicides that all sorts of schemes, such as hanging nets under it, have been broached.
Nine government officials at Seoul, in Corea, have been beheaded in the streets by the populace. Foreigners have taken refuge at the consulates. The outbreak is attributed to Chinese instigation.
A baby of some 18 months fell from an upstairs window in Bethlehem, Pa., and was picked up for dead, but really only breathless, and five minutes later crawled about as though nothing had happened.
It was said in the National Education council, in session at San Francisco, that girls should be taught industrial drawing, sewing, cooking, the use of tools and how to care for poor children and the sick.
The best yearling heifer in Maine is claimed by James Bickford, of Carmel. In one week in June, without any extra feeding, she gave 155 pounds of milk, from which was churned 7?4 pounds of butter.
The reports of the officers on the Afghan boundary say that the Indian soldiers are so much larger than the Russian Cossacks that it would take 100,000 of the latter to contend with 50,000 Indians.
An Iowa genius serves his fellow-men in the numerous capacities of United States signal observer, city clerk, township clerk, United States claim agent, township treasurer and adjutant of a G. A. R. post.
Cora Eldridge, an 18-year-old Poughkeepsee girl, has been sentenced to five years in the House of Refuge for the larceny of a canary bird worth 82. Justice, so called, plays some queer pranks in New York.
An experiment in tobacco growing is now in progress in Southern Florida. It is said the product will be enormous, and that three crops can be grown annually. It is a leading crop in some sections of the state.
Dowager Empress Victoria, widow of Frederick III., has an annual income of §200,000, S40,000 of which is derived from England. She will be obliged to make Germany her nominal residence, and to visit Berlin every year.
It is worth knowing that "dry rot" in timber is contagious, and can be carried by saws, and other tools which have been in contact with infected wood, and thus vitiate sound timber such tools afterward come in contact with.
They Struck the Successful Candidate.
"Who is this Mr. Tariff so much is said about in the paper, Job?" queried Mrs. Shuttle, as she looked in vain for the "fashion notes" in the newspaper. "Oh, well, he id a very important man, 1 guess. Everybody seems to be talking about him." "He must be very popular!" "Yes, and he will be elected, too."— [Hartford Post.
A Brutal Parent's Punishment.
ASHT.AND, Wis., July 1G.—Gust Johnson, an unnatural parent, chained his 10-year-old son to a chair at Worcester, Price county, and flogged him nearly to death. The boy escaped snd roamed around in the woods for three days, when he was found nearly starved by a Wisconsin Central railway crew. The railroaders and citizens yesterday waited upon Johnson and were going to lynch
THE TERKE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1888.
him, but upon his solemn promise that hie brutal acts should cease he was released, but was again taken in hand, and after being soundly flogged waa ducked in the railway water tank. The boy has been taken in charge by neighbors. The father is said to have kept the boy chained up like a dog for weeks, with nothing but a crust of bread and a little water to keep life in his frail body.
PRICES UNDER A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
A Comparison of Prices Showing That They Are Lower Now.
The attorneys for free trade, who seek to create prejudice against the policy of protection by charging that it enhances the cost to consumers, oan best be met by a comparison of prices of a few articles of common use.
In 1860 salt, then on the free list, sold to consumers at an average price of S3 per barrel. The tariff on salt in barrels is now 12 cents per 100 pounds, (or say 33}» cents per barrel), and the average price is not more than half that of 18G0. As salt has been made the subject of special attack, it may be well to ascertain just how much of the present selling price goes to tl\e manufacturer, against whom it is sought to create prejudice. In 1887, at the works in Michigan, salt sold for 60 cents per barrel— and of this sum 20 cents was paid to the cooper for making the barrel. All between this price and that paid by consumers went for transportation and profits of middlemen.
The manufacture of plate glass was established in I860, when the foreignmade articles sold for $2.50 per square foot. The tariff on a similar quality of glass is now 50 cents per foot, and the price has steadily lowered until it is now 75 cents per square foot.
Pig iron, in 1860, sold for S22.75 per ton. With a tariff of S6.72 per ton it now sells for 818.
Steel rails were first made here in 1867, when the price was $166 per ton. The tariff has been as high as $28 per ton, and is now $17. Steel rails are now quoted at $31, and have sometimes been lower.
A favorite plea of free traders is that with wool and woolens on the free list "the poor man's blankets" would be sold for one-half its present price—when the fact is prices for blankets of equal quality are about the same in the United States and England. Here is the proof: Last year the Secretary of War invited bids for supplying army blankets of four pounds weight, and allowed foreigners to compete on the same terms as American manufacturers, that is without paying the tariff. The lowest British bid was only 30 cents per blanket less than that of an American. The tariff, if it had been charged, would be about $1.50. Our free trade cabinet officer gave the contract to the foreigner who pays no taxes and buys nothing in this country, instead of favoring the American, who supplies work to hundreds of people and otherwise adds to the wealth of our country. The money from our national treasury went to a foreign country, and American soldiers are to sleep under British blankets because they can be made in England for 30 cents less than in this country.
And here is some testimony from the other side: Matthew Arnold, the eminent English scholar, statesman and free trade advocate, recently deceased, last year made a tour of this country, and afterwards gave his conclusions in the Nineteenth Century Magazine, (April, 1888.) In this paper the writer admits that conditions in the United States are favorable to "that immense class of people" whose incomes are less than $1,500 a year, while in England the advantage "is greatly in favor of those with incomes above that sum." Of wages he says: "The humbler kind of work is better paid in America than with us the higher kind worse. Luxuries are, as I have said, very dear—above all, European luxuries but a workingman's clothing is nearly as cheap as in England, and plain food is on the whole cheaper."
FIRED FOR FLIPPANCY.
Dismissal of a Clerk for llcing Disrespectful to the President.
OMAHA, Neb., July 16.—A young clerk in the county treasurer's office has just lost his position for trying to be facetious with President Cleveland. A week ago, in making out notices to interested property owners of an increase of the assessment, he came across the name of Frances Folsom. He wrote out the usual formal notice, addressing it to "Mr. Grover Cleveland, D. P. U. S. A. ,G. U. S A., G. A. R., etc., Washington, D. C.," and signed County Clerk Roche's name to it. Yesterday, to the surprise and chagrin of Mr. Roche, who is a Democrat and an ardent Cleveland man, he received a letter from the executive enclosing the postal card. The communication, which was in the president's own handwriting, stated that the property referred to probably belonged to his wife, but suggested that the notification had been sent out rather late, as it was mailed on the 7th and appearance was to be made on the 9th. The letter was written in a good-humored vein, and concluded: "I have noticed the additions to my address, and am at a loss to know what they mean. Can you explain them to me?" County Clerk Roche at once wrote back explaining the matter and apologizing for the flippant use of the president's name.
SOURCES OF REVENUE.
Some Statistics of Interest In Considering: the Cnmpaigu Insue.
The total revenue for 1S87 was $371,500,000 total expenditures, $268,000,000. Here is an apparent surplus of J$103,500,000. During the year 1887 there was paid $83,000,000 on the public debt. The surplus that existed at the close of 188G waB therefore increased by $20,500,000 during 1887. The exact amount of what is called "the surplus"—that is, the amount of money in the treasury not covered by appropriations nor .included in lawful reserves—varies from time to me, and can not be accurately given. It may be roundly estimated at $120,000,000. The removal of the tabacco tax would take off $30,000,000 a year. Sugar not produced in this country pays a revenue of $58,000,000 a year. The total revenue from spirits is over $67,000,000 a year, of which perhaps onefourth, or say $17,000,000, comes from spirits used in the arts and manufactures. It is not proposed to "remove the entire sugar tariff, but it is easy to see that such reductions may be made in these sources of revenue as would wipe out all the surplus that ought to be Bpared and render in unnecessary, at least for many years to come, to further disturb the internal 2revenue taxes. But the Journal is of opinion that the internal revenue bureau should be abolished, and the collection of all revenues be transferred to customs officers.
The Coming Eclipse.
There will be a total lunar eclipse next Sunday at 11 p. m. A total eclipse is a rare event partial eclipses being comparatively frequent.
POLITICAL DRIFTWOOD.
The Republicans of New York, like those of Indiana, propose organizing a campaign club in every school district in the state.
Ex-Congressman James D. Brady, of Virginia, who is in New York, says the prospects of Virginia going Republican are excellent.
The leading Republicans of Mattoon and other points on the Indianapolis & St. Louis railway expect to run an excursion to Indianapolis on the 21th, and call on Ben Harrison 1,000 strong.
Pittsburg Dispatch: If the Democracy could devise some higher principle of tariff revision than sectionalism it would at least increase their claim to a slight degree of the public respect.
Joe Marshall, of Darlington, Montgomery county, is very enthusiastic for Harrison. He has erected a log-cabin out of slabs from his saw-mill, and over the door is the legend: "Harrison and Morton."
Thurman, Carlisle, Cox, Dougherty and Henry George will speak for the Democracy in Indiana, while Blaine, Sherman, Allison, Hiscock, Ingalls, Hale, Evarts, Frye, McKinley, Butterworth and Reed will talk for the Republicans.
The Democratic candidates for state offices in Illinois say that, inasmuch as there is not a ghost of a show for them, they will not permit themselves to be used this year as attractions for agricultural fairs and other rural gatherings where admission fees are charged.
Philadelphia Press: Who iB the man that wrote that plank in the Democratic platform of 1864 which pronounced the war a failure and demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities? They say he is running for Vice-President this year on the Democratic ticket. Can this be so?
In 1884 six daily newspapers printed in Boston advocated the election of Mr. Cleveland and two supported Mr. Blaine. Mr. Cleveland now has the Bupport of three and Mr. Harrison of five of these journals, and the general drift of newspapers throughout the North is toward the Republican party.
Evansville Journal: Considering the refusal of Judge Parrett to resign J^is judgeship while a candidate for congress, the belief is that he and his party have no confidence in his election, else they would not be willing to see him commit the impropriety of continuing in a judicial position while running for a political ollice.
Chicago Herald (Dem.): Having declared that the president's tariff message was the true interpretation of the Democratic platform of 1884, the Democrats at St. Louis might easily have gone on and declared that "to the victors belong the spoils" was the true interpretation of the principle that "a public office is a public trust."
Jonathan Scoville is a manufacturer of car wheels, the possessor of plenty of money, a bachelor, and a Democrat. He was twice elected mayor of Buffalo by the Democrats, and once was a member of congress. He says he thinks the policy of free trade, to which the Democratic party is pledged, is blamed foolishness, and that be will vote as he thinks.
A paper to be called the National Deaf Mute Advocate will soon be started, and will support Harrison and Morton. It is estimated that there are 44,000 deaf mute voters in the United States, and it is on record that thirty-one deaf mutes voted for Blaine and Logan. Harrison and Morton will receive the full 44,000 if the Advocate accomplishes what it
Bets
out to do. Chicago Herald (Dem.) The Washington Post says: "Two ways of treating the tariff issue were open to the St. Louis convention—the brave way and the cowardly way. The convention did not adopt the former." The more one looks at it, the more the tariff plank seems to have been an attempt to please tariff reformers without offending protectionists.
The proposed establishment of a Harrison and Morton deaf mute paper brings out the fact that 31,000 of these afflicted but intelligent and level-headed citizens voted with the Republicans in 1884. This year it is hoped to secure the other 13,000 also. They can't make much noise in the campaign, but their votes count just the same.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has made a point in favor of Mr. Harrison, which, it seems to think, goes pretty far towards settling the business. It says: "The young ladies who call pn General Harrison to congratulate him upon his nomination, almost invariably kiss him." Then it triumphantly asks: "What woman would ever think of kissing Grover Cleveland, except under compulsion, or in a freak of emotional insanity?"
Evansville Journal: One of the most important political conversions that has been announced this year is that of_Hon. John B. Handy, of Boonville, late judge of the court for the second judicial circuit, composed of Warrick, Spencer and Perry counties. He served six years in that "position. Befere and
Bince
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and has been a prominent practicing lawyer in that circuit. Judge Handy is a man of fine intellect and education. He is connected with the noted families of Breckenridges and Grahams, the former well known in the history of Southern Indiana and Texas the latter represented by a vice-presidential candidate from North Carolina on the Whig ticket with General Winfield Scott in 1852. Judge Handy's influence will be felt all over this section of the country. His accession will be worth hundreds of votes to the Republican party.
I. O. O. F. Officers.
Vigo Encampment, No. 17,1. O. O. F., will install the following officers for the present term on Wednesday evening, .luly 18,1888: C. P., J. G. Anderson II, P., M. T. Beard wood S. W., S. M. Sturts scribe, A. W. Spain financial scribe, W. E. Young treasurer, J. T. H. Miller trustees, 11. Ilawtin, E. Froeb and B. Holmes.
Fort Harrison lodge, No. 157,1. O. O. F., has installed the following officers for the present term: N. G., W. H. Griner V. G., C. P. Bruce recording secretary, A. Bogard per. secretary, W. E. Young treasurer, A. W. Spain trustees, A. G. Balcb, II. H. Copeland and Jessie Robertson.
A Battery's Long March.
Battery A, Illinois militia, under command of Captain Edwin Winter, and consisting of four cannons, four caissons, two Gatling guns and seventy-eight men, Btarted overland yesterday from Danville for the state encampment at Springfield, a distance of 112 miles.
An Evansville Event.
Under the display head "Handsome Dolly Snyder" an Evansville newspaper introduces a column article as follows: "Dolly Snyder, the acknowledged queen of the demi-monde of this city, died very suddenly yesterday morning at 5:50 o'clock, the announcement of which
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caused quite a commotion in sporting circles. She had been up until 3 o'clock yesterday morning with several companions before retiring. She had drank considerable beer during the night, and just before retiring sent for a physician.
YOUTHFUL OUTLAWS.
Flash Literature Has- the Usual Efleet With Chicago Boys.
CHICAGO, July 16.—Powell Clyde, a 14-year-old boy of Lake View, who haa read much flash literature and given himself the romantic title of "Cloudy Clyde De King," has succeeded in creating a sensation. After playing the bandit prince for some months, "Cloudy Clyde" has fled to other scenes. Saturday, two men standing at the cornor of Addison and North Clark streets heard unearthly yells, coming, apparently, out of the ground. After quite a search the men discovered the entrance to an excavation under a lumber yard office, and on crawling in found two boys tied fast to a post. Their arms were tied behind them. One of the boys were gagged and the other had managed to rid himself of the gag and had given vent to the screams which attracted attention. The old boy told the men that the cave was the headquarters of "Cloudy Clyde's" gang. It was well supplied with plunder. There were empty pocketbooks, towels, spoons, pieces of crockery, a dinner pail or two, some yellow-covered novels and a knife. The two boys were taken to a police station and questioned. They proved to be the sons of William
DieBhman,
and had been from home for nearly a month. Willie iB 12 years old, and his brother Henry 10. Willie was seen to-day, and he told the story of his remarkable adventures as a member .of "Cloudy Clyde's" band. He said that he and his brother were on north Clark street one afternoon three weeks ago selling papers, when they met Powell Clyde and another boy with whom they were acquainted. They were invited to go over and inspect the cave, and did so. Clyde explained what a good business he was doing, and asked the boys to join. They refused and wanted to go home, but "Cloudy" said he would teach them how this sort of thing was worked in the far west, and tied them up to a post and gagged them. They were kept there for a week, being fed twice a day by "Cloudy," who made raids on the dinner pails of workmen in the lumber yard for that purpose. At the end of the week the boys were turned out and joined the gang. The next day they were sent down town in company with an older member of the gang under instructions to steal anything they could lay hands on. This was kept up until last Thursday when the boys proposed once more to go home. "Cloudy Clyde" De King had them again bound and gagged and tied to the post. William Dieschman managed to get the gag out of his mouth and set up a screaming which attracted the men. Mrs. Detechman was overjoyed at the return of her two boys, whom she supposed had been kidnapped. "Cloudy" has disappeared, but the police are confident of catching him and other members of the gang, and quite a quantity of stolen property was found in the cave.
A Plum for Indiana.
The passage by both houses of congress of the bill appropriating $200,000 for the building of a branch National Soldiers' home in Grant county is a matter for rejoicing to veterans and of gratification to all right-minded citizens of the state. No better location could be found for such an institution than in the vicinity of Marion. The credit of securing this appropriation is due almost entirely to Congressman Steele.— [Indianapolis Journal.
The Sixth Indiana Cavalry.
The surviving members of the Sixth Indiana cavalry (Seventy-first regiment) are requested to meet in .the ante-room of G. A. R. hall Wednesday night, July 18th. to organize the regiment for the reunion to be held in this city September 7th, 8th and 9th, in connection with the Thirty-first, Forty-third and Eighty-fifth regiments. It is hoped all members of the old command will be present to assist in the reorganization.
Premature Courtship in Chicago.
She (resident of Chicago)—You ought to be ashamed of yourself, sir, to talk to a married woman in that style.
He—Married? I thought you were divorced. "Well, I'm not. I don't expect to get any papers for a week."—[Omaho World.
A Dangerous Diet.
Higgins (meeting
hiB
TRACT
friend Wiggins
in a restaurant)—By Jove, Tom! I should think you'd be afraid to eat that dish. It's fatal!
Wiggins—What's the matter? It's only spare ribs and apple sauce. Higgins—Well, isn't that just what knocked out Adam?—[Judge.
The Latest Meteor Prevarication.
The latest meteor story is one that is alleged to have fallen near Kiew, Russia, and which, when broken open, is
Baid
to have been found full of small diamonds.
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