Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 6 September 1889 — Page 3
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DOMESTIC.
The trial of the Cronin suspects is proceeding. The G. A. R. Encampment adjourned
!7lnday.
The report of Texas fever in the Cherokee couiitr j% is denied. C. D. Graham claims to have gone over Niagara Fall in a barrel Sunday morning.
Mrs. Sullivau, mother of John L., died at Boston, Friday. John L. was on a drank. September 2d was Labor Day, and was generally observed throughout the country.
Nearly 200,000 strangers were attracted to Milwaukee by the G. A. R. Encampment.
The Cronin suspects are to be tried together—that is, they have been refused eparate trials.
In a match game of billiards at Chicago, _:day evening, Schaeffer made the rejinarkable run of SSI points.
William Thaw, the dead millionaire railroad king, of Pittsburg, willed about 000 to charitable institutions.
The great miners' strike in Illinois, except the mines of W. L. Scott, has been -.ettled. Both sides made concessions.
Wm. Terhune hanged himself at Newark, N. J., because another man had been adjudged abetter sheep-killer than he.
The wine product of California this year -ill be about 12,000,000 gallons, and the andy output will reach 1,000,000 gallons, •"he late Charlemagne Tower, of Phila"hia, the millionaire mine operator and mnselor, loft an estate valued at $21,000,i0. Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his ghtieth birthday, Thursday. He received undreds of congratulatory letters and .alegrams.
The announcement has been made at Washington that G. H. Bargar will be Chairman of'the Ohio Democratic Executive Committee.
Russell Harrison, son of the President arrived at New York, Thursday, from his European trip. He received much attention from royalty while in England.
Ex-Pi*esident Cleveland has formerly accepted his appointment as a member of the committee on permanent organization for the International Exposition in 1892.
Henry Shaw, the St. Louis philanthopist who died last week, willed his gardens and the bulk of his wealth to the City of St. Louis. Ho was worth nearly §5,000,000.
H. H. Warner, the head of the proprietary medicine establishment, has agreed to sell the business to a British syndicate for 11,000,000. The guarantee money has been put up.
Over sixty prisoners are in jail at Wichita, Kansas, awaiting trial,thirteen of hom are charged with murder, and many lers for horse and cattle stealing. Al^ther there are over 300 cases on the
JiiCt.
$• At Sopris, a smal) mining camp *in ColoIfado, an eight-year-old daughter of James fbanochy started to kindle afire with coal •fnl. The can exploded, burning the girl to ^|'ea|h and fatally burning the mother who .Attempted to save the child.
The business portion of Sackett Harbor, Y., was destroyed by fire, Thursday -orning, involving a loss of §40,000. The payers recently voted down a proposition to purchase afire engine. In 18S7 fire :aused a loss of $35,000 in the same village.
The town of Gardiner, on the edge of National Park was entirely destroyed by ire Saturday. Only one house was saved ut of about thirty in all. All the troops nd other Government employes in Yellow -ne National Park had been engaged all veek in fighting the fires in the park, nnnd Holzhey, the "Black Bart,"
Samuel C. Showalter, aged 69, of Dayton ., died Tuesday,the result of a dose of the lixir. Immediately after the injection as made his limbs began to swell, and his hole system was permeated with blood tison. Gangrene set in and, his body beputrid, the flesh chipped off in flakes as rge as a man's hand, and he became a rrible object beforo death relieved him. Mrs. J. B. Tevis, of Beverly, N. J., upon vakwdng Sunday morning, discovered a .vjhef
f1-
ifljjiiegro on the stairs of her dwelling,
Vhe act of making off with an armful of
under. She immediately grabbed the thief and held him until the appearance her husband, who grappled with and 'tally succeed in throwing him to the or. Then both Mr. and Mrs. Tevis sat .on him until a neighbor arrived, and ey took him to the lockup.
ANOTHER RACE WAR.
A Serious Riot at New Orleans—500 Shots Fired—Several Wounded.
A race war occurred at Gouldsboro Station, a suburb of New Orleans, early Sunday morning, in which five hundred shots were fired, a colored woman killed and six or eight colored people wounded. A summary of the affair is given below:
An excursion train had just returned from Baton Rouge freighted with about five hundred colored people, more than half of whom were women and children, and either just before or very shortly after the train had come to a stand-still, two or three shots were fired, which caused a tremendous panic among the excursionists, who threw themselves from the train pellmell and scampered away in two or three different directions under a decidedly brisk fusillade from Winchester rifles, shot-guns and revolvers. Those who witnessed the scene describe it as one of the wildest excitement. Shortly before the arrival of the train a small house had burned down just beside the levee, but the remains of the fire threw considerable light on the scene and enabled the panic stricken negroes to make their way to the street car track and down the railroad nearly or quite as rapidly as though it had been daylight, while those who were firing among them were enabled to determine at least as to the general direction in which the negroes were hurrying.
The story of the row and its origin differ very widely. The negroes say that before the arrival of the train there was a large force of armed white men awaiting its arrival, and that some ten minutes after the train had stopped, and after a portion of the excursionists had reached the street cars, and while others were still on board the train, these white men, without any sort of provocation, opened fire on the retreating crowd.
The white men's version of the affair, as given by eye-witnessed, differs very materially from that of the negroes'. They state that there were only some half dozen white men concerned in the affair, and that the shooting was commenced by the negroes before the train had stopped. Two shots were fired from the train at a white boy named Burmeister just as the train was coming into the station. Then William Miller was shot in the face by a negro, as the latter was getting off the train, and then it was that B. Miller, a police officer of Gouldsboro and brother of the wounded man, attempted to arrest the would-be murderer. At this the negroes opened fire and the latter returned the fire. The shooting then became general and the excursionists fled panic-stricken from the scene. The whites in and about Gouldsboro seem ed disinclined to talk, and with the exception of Officer B. Miller and a young man named TJstes, seemed to know next to nothing of the affair.
THE GRAND ARMY.
Annual Encampment at MilwaukeePoints of the Proceedings,
The Twenty-third National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was called to order at 10:15 o'clock Wednesday at Milwaukee by the commander in Chief. Soon after the Commander read his address he said: I am here to give an account of my stewardship. The growth of our organization has been steady and healthy. Strong as it is, it has never been, and I trust never will be, used for partisan purposes, or to gratify the personal ambitions of any man or set of men. The greatest gain during the year has been in the Department of Missouri. Eight Departments show again of membership in good standing of 15.824, distributed as follows:
isconsin, the stage robber, was cap- ,, tt„ Illinois, l,~fc5: Iowa, l,ol.3 ISebraska, 1,09: .-^d Saturday Mouquette county. He.
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a young man, a German. He coniesses
Pennsylvania, 1,7443: New York, l,99o:
Ohio 2,003: Wisconsin 2,023: Missouri,
3 all his dimes, which arc many. His _L_ 8,652. The net gain in membership during the year (in good standing), was 21,431.
itest undertaking, it will be rememborod, 'as the robbing of the Gogebic stage bout two weeks ago. El Rio Rey, the greatest two-year-old ice horse in the world, carried 120 pounds t. Westchester, Saturday, and defeated lelaost colts in the East, running the iree-quarters of a mile in the undreamedtime of 1:11, clipping a full second from le record. Brittanic also cut down the 3cord for five-eighths by a second, runing it in fifty-nine seconds.
The Committee on pensions have been unable to make any progress in securing consideration by Congress of the pension bills recommended by the Columbus Encampment. The reason for this failure will be given by the committee, and I know that its members are in no way to blame. The question of pension legislation will come before you again for discussion and recommendation.
He strongly advocated a service pension bill, and said "the service pension bill will come. The day is not far distant when an honorable discharge from the Union Army or Navy shall be all the evidence required to secure a pension to its holder. The measures recommended by the National Encampment should not be antagonized by conflicting measures urged by departments or posts. Unity of action will secure satisfactory results a divided council will con- ... tribute to defeat. Our demands should be
reasonable and cons
FOREIGN. Very unexpectedly the delegates profile great London strike continues with ceeded to the election of officers, Wednes3 situation unchanged. day evening. The sentiment seemed so Iflbrth China and Japan have been visited overwhelmingly in favor of Gen. Alger fa series of typhoons of unprecedented that the names of all of the candidates were '^ftty. At the lowest estimate five withdrawn and Gen. Russell A. Alger of .«lid persons have been drowned. Michigan was elected Commander-in-Chief aliteo, King of Samoa, who was de- by acclamation. Col. A. G. Weissert, of i.'ted by the German naval forces nearly Milwaukee, was elected Senior Vice Comjo years ago, returned from his exile mander, and John F. Lovett. of New Jerlg. 11. He was warmly received by the
sey»
nt for Cork, who last week was Place
Sanviction of having held a National*yig which had been proclaimed, ^lOnday taken to Gal way to serve out sentence. The streets in the vicinity i.he, prison were ci'owded with his supwho cheered him during the ifney to the railway station and were
1t enthusiastic in their demonstrations infection.
istent. Let the bond-
holders of the country remember
that the
men who rendered their securities valubale —the men who have ever insisted that they be paid to the uttermost farthing, principal and interest, of the money advanced by them to the State—let them remember that these men have claims upon the State at least equal to those of the bondholders."
Junior Vice Commander.
|jveg A resolution endorsing the administraek'iii advices are that a number of high tion of Commissioner of Pensions Tanner mese officials have petitioned Prince
was
unto have all Americans employed in sham fight between land and sea forces ina expelled from the empire. It is re- was witnessed by 250,000 people, and was a •ted that Prince Chun consented. sublime spectacle. Ir Wm. O'Brien, member of Parlia-
adopted unanimously. At night a
Boston was
duced to two months' imprisonment, fused at its session of Thursday, to recogJUviction of having held a National-
decided upon as the next
of
meeting. The encampment re
nizc the Sons of
Veterans as an auxiliary to
in! .i the G. A. R., because of a disturbing faction in the former organization. The Women's Relief Corps and similar organi-
zalions were not given formal endorsement, but were bidden God-speed in their work.
The Queen duy.
\?gued Parliament, Fri-
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
Vincennes has a five-foot vein of fire clay. Madison county schools require 165 teachers.
Randolph county claims 290 miles of free pikes. Shelbyville will probably erect a soldiers' monument.
Fifty cases of typhoid fever are reported atCorydon. Typhoid fever is ravaging Dundee,Blackford county.
The Farmers' Alliance is being organized in Madison county. Crawfordsville dedicated a new $18,000 Christian Church, Sunday.
A snow-white English sparrow is among the strange things of Muncie. Logansport saloon keepers are paying the increased license under protest.
The corner-stone of the new German Luthern Church has been lad at Seymour. Elkhart county claims more real estate transfers than any other county in the State.
Drought and grub worms have materially damaged the corn crop in the Wabash valley.
The Indianapolis base ball club sticks closely to its position near the bottom of the list.
It is proposed to change, the street railway in Evansville to the electric motor system.
Mrs. D. L. Bouslog, of Middletown, was killed by the kick of a cow she was milking, Friday.
The Stanton family held a reunion at Liberty, Thrusday, with a large number of Stantons in attendance.
Crawford county has a full grown countyseat war. It is proposed to remove the court-house from Leavenworth to English.
Edmund Pettiford (colored), aged one hundred and four, and doubtless the oldest man in Northern Indiana, died on Satur day.
Two men entered a Chinese laundry at Peru Saturday night, knocking down the proprietors and robbing the drawer of §67.
Henry Wildbacker and his team fell into a hidden cave while plowing, in Harrison county, and were rescued with difficulty.
A lamb killing snake, alleged to be sev enteen feet long and eleven inches in diameter is reported to have been killed near Muncie.
Goshen is rivaling Jeffersonville in its Gretna Green facilities. The eloping parties seeking marriage largely come from Michigan.
It is reported that the city jail at Jefferbonville is haunted by the spirit of Tim Sullivan who hanged himself while in prison in 1S85.
Winthrop E. Stone, of Knoxville, Tenn., has accepted a professorship in Purdue University made vacant by the resignation of Professor Neff.
State Statistician Peele is about to send out circulars for the purpose of getting statistics on the industrial and general condition of labor.
John McClellan, of Jeffersonville, was bitten on the hand by a mosquito. The band swelled to twice its natural size, and John came near dying.
Miss Anna Jones died at Jay Bridge, Maine, Thursday, aged 87 years. She bad been an invalid for seventy years, and confined to her bed for sixty years.
Ten thousand bales of straw, lying near the track at New Carlisle, awaiting shipment, were destroyed by fire the past week. The trouble originated from a flying spark.
As the result of a trivial quarrel between Milton Elliott and Henry Turner,of Landisville, Elliott was stabbed sixteen times with a pocket knife in the hands of Turner. He may recover.
The first train over the new Evansville & Richmond Railway was run into Bedford Sunday, amid general rejoicing. The same rain also crossed over the line into Jackson county.
At Lakeville Peter Hathaway returned lome drunk, and compelled his wife to get lp from her sick bed and cook supper for aimself and a boon companion. She did so md shortly afterward fell dead.
Isaac Skillman, aged eighteen, of Union 3ity, was in the habit of jumping on Bee bine freight trains and riding to and fro jetween his home and place of work. On Saturday he was struck by a switch target and killed.
Warden Patten, of the Prison South, has fust added 500 new books to the convicts' library. It now contains 2,500 volumes, onsisting of prose, fiction and historical ivorks, and is one of the finest libraries in southern Indiana.
The Board of Health of Connersvillo corrects the report which has been given out, ohat an epidemic of typhoid fever is prevailing. There have been less than twenty cases in the city and vicinity, with but jne death, and every patient has been ared for.
The late Mrs. Allen Hamilton, of Fort Wayne, bequeathed $1,000 in aid of woman suffi'age, the money to be held in trust by Mrs. Stowe and Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. Hamilton was never active in the propaganda of woman suffrage, and her bequest 3xcites surprise.
A. H. C. Beam, aged seventy-three, of Lambert's Station, while alighting from a •rain, fell and dislocated his shoulder. The shock rendered him unconscious, after which he revived and walked to his home, two miles distant, nnassisted. The dislocation was not reduced until the following day, the first attempt failing. 'Squire Huckeby, the noted justice, who fias been theobest friend of Kentucky eloping couples to be found in New Albany, has three distinct rituals he uses in marriages. When he has an intuition that he is to receive but $1 fee the ceremony is the very sssence of brevity. A $2 fee is slightly more ornate, while $5 brings out the 'Squire's powers to that degree that the newly married pair leave with the feeling that they are high up in the social scale.
Robert Hessler, of Connersvillo, fot several years has been studying the weeds of Fayette county, by which is meant useless plants, injurious to the farmer and growing wild in cultivated grounds and meadow. He has a record of thirt.v-t.wc new weeds which have appeared in that county in the past seven years, one-half ol
which are American and the remainder of foreign nativity, principally European. Fifteen of them were discovered along the railroads, showing that the trains furnish facilities for distribution of strange plants. He has made a record of all of them, giving time of first appearance in the county and other interesting data, and his work is proving of inestimable value to the farmer and small fruit grower.
L. L. Wilson, member of the Legislature from Shelby county and Jane Fox of the same county were arrested Monday,charged with violating the pension laws. The affidavit on which the arrest was made makes some serious charges against Wilson and the Fox woman, who, it is alleged, was a party to the transaction. According to the affidavit Jennie Fox was at one time the wife of a Union soldier, named Oliver Snyder. Soon after the war Snyder died, and the woman obtained a pension, which she drew uutil 1875, when she married Daniel Fox. After living with Fox a few years and having three children by him, he died, and then the woman, it is alleged set about to have her pension renewed. It is charged that in order to recover her pension, Wilson went before the Circuit Court and made affidavit that the woman was never the wife of Fox, and that the three children were illegitimate. Upon the facts set forth in the alleged false affidavit the pension was renewed by the department, and Mrs. Fox received $1,200 back pay. The Federal authorities claim that they have sixteen cases of a similar character against Wilson, all in Shelby county.
Michael Posse, Treasurer of Shelby county, is short $13,000 in his accounts. Mr. Posse stated Friday that he first discovered the shortage in April last that he had used the money to pay off debts standing against him before he went into office, and that the receipts of the office for the four years amounted to $10,600. He also said he had real and personal property to the value of from $10,000 to $12,000, which he was ready to turn over to his bondsmen and give his note for the balance. The debts, he says, he paid off with the mo*ey, had accumulated upon him for ten years prior to his taking the office, and were due to William Henry, deceased, John W. Robinson and others. Mr. Posse is a Democrat and a prominent Odd-fellow. He has been in poor health for several years. This summer he has been confined to his house a great deal of the time. The Commissioners will at once order an investigation of the books of the office. Mr. Posse was considered one of the most re sponsible man in Shelby county, and his shortage has greatly surprised the people His races for the office he held have cost him a great deal of money, while his living expenses have not been heavy.
TNAT SCHOOL BOOK LAW.
Ivison, Blakeman & Co., of Chicago, brought suit in the Federal court at Indi anapolis, Wednesday, to enjoin the Indiana School Board from introducing in the city schools the geographies to be furnished under the contract with the Indiana School Book Company. The complaint says that prior to April, 1888, Guyotts Geographies were in use in the Indianapolis schools, and that in March of that year the School Board displaced Guyott's series and substituted Swinton's, published by the plaintiffs in this suit. It is then alleged that after the new geographies had been adopted, Ivison, Blakeman & Co. entered into a written contract with the School Board to furnish the books for six years at a stipulated price.
This contract, the complaint says, is still in force, and will be for nearly five years yet, and can not be vitiated by any act of the Legislature, because the Constitution of the United States provides that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." Therefore, the complaint holds, any statute adopted after this contract was entered into is null and void. It is also maintained that the new law does not apply to the schools of Indianapolis, because they are not ^mentioned in the act.
The complaint seeks to give numerous other reasons why the new law is null and void. One is that it is in contravention of good government and safe public policy, because it seeks ana proposes to establish a monopoly by placing the manufacture and sale of school books in the hands of one man. A second reason is that it seeks to make the Township Trustees the State's agents, bailies and salesmen of the alleged monopoly, when the constitution of the State says that "no man's particular service shall be demanded without just compensation."
The complaint says further that the statutes have for many years provided hat school text-books should be selected by local School Boards. This new law, it is maintained, does not repeal the old act, and it is therefore claimed that local School Boards still have the legal right to say what text-books shall be used in the schools they control.
In conclusion, the complaint alleges that the new law has no claim whatever for validity. The people of Indiana, it is asserted, have never delegated to the Legislature the authority to say what books shall bo purchased, what price shall be paid, and who shall have charge of the education, training and conduct of their children. Many minor reasons are given why the law will not stand a test when measured by the provisions of the National and State constitutions, and the plaintiff alleges that if they are not permitted to carry out their contract with the Indianapolis School Board they will be damaged to the amount of several thousand dollax-s. They say that, believing they were to supply the city with geographies for six years, they have manufactured a large number of books specially for that city, and that the stock of such on hand is valued at $2,000.
An immediate hearing of the case was asked for, and by agreement of all parties concerned, the petition for a temporary restraining order will be heard Monday.
Superintendent of Public Instruction La Follette has issued a circular to County Superintendents advising pupils not to exchange their old books for the new at the prices offered, but to keep and utilize them as works of reference. Mr. LaFollotte's action has caused some surprise, though he has all along been opposed to the new law.
STATE CONVENTIONS.
Ohio Democrats Nominate Janei Campbell.
The Ohio Democratic State Convention met at Dayton Wednesday with an im» dense attendance of members of the party. After prayer by Rev. Dr. McFarlin, Dr. Norton,who called the convention to order, made a brief address, outlining the purposes of the convention. He made his speech the vehicle for a caustic criticism of the Republican party, and especially of Governor Foraker, the candidate of that party for re-eleetion. This was followed by a eulogy of the Democratic party and its principles. His allusion to Grovcr Cleveland as *Jic noblest and greatest of living Democrats, was marked by long continued applause. The Hon. M. D. Harter, of Richland county, was elected permanent President and Lewis G. Bernard, of Hamilton county, Secretary.
Hon. John A. McMahon made the repoi't of the Committee on Resolutions, prefacing it with the statement that it was not a compromise, but was unniamously adopted, and that the committee was fully agreed that there should be no backward step iu the matter of tariff reform. [Great Applause.]
The platform was as follows: 1. The Democracy of Ohio, in convention assembled, approve the declaration of principles made by the National Democracy in St. Louis in 1SSS, and especially that part of it demanding a reduction of tariff taxes. We will continue the battle l'or tariff reform until the cause of the people is triumphant. 2. We l'egard trusts, in whatever form organized, as the legitimate result of our present tariff system, and we demand the repeal of all tariff taxes that enable them to extort from the people exorbitant prices for the products they control. 3. We again acknowledge the great debt of gratitudd the nation owes to the heroes of the late war, and we declare in favor of just, liberal and equit»ble pension laws. 4. We denounce the Republio»n administration for its repeated violation of its pledges in behalf of the civil service reform. 5. We denounce the present State administration as the most partisan, demoralizing and extravagant in our history. We invite the careful investigation of all citizens in our financial affairs as shown by the official records. 6. We protest against the repeated enactment of laws, vesting the appointing power in the governor, enabling him to control the localboards of our leading cities While depriving them of seW government, it constructs a vast political machine that i«. at all times dangerous, and in the hands of a partisan chief executive has become a positive menace to the people of the State. 7. The nomination of the governor of Ohio for a the third term,in violation of all precedent, by the notorious and disgraceful use of patronage at his command is an outrage against the people and should be rebuked at the polls. 8. Wo heartily favor home rule in Ireland we demand it also for Ohio. While favoring all laws that sacredly protect the ballot-box and the honest voter,we demand the enactment of laws that will enable our cities to choose their own servants and control their own affairs. I James E. Campbell of Butler county Virgil P. mine of Cuyahoga county and Lawrence T. Neal of Richland county were placed in nomiuation for Governor. The first ballot result ed: Campbell, 372 Neal 252 Kline 149.
Several counties quickly changed to I Campbell and others to Neal and the vote then, stood Campbell 3S8, Neal 292, Kline 109. On the second ballot Campbell received 397}T, Neal 299, Kline 33. The nomi. uarion was received with wild enthusiasm. [Hon. James Edwin Campbell was born in Middletown, Butler county, Ohiq, July 7, 1S43, and is the son of Dr. Andrew Campbell.
He comes of Scotch extraction, hence his pugnacity and staying qualities. He served during the rebellion in the Union navy, became a master's-mate on the gunboats Elk and Naiad, serving on Mississippi and Red River flotillas, and taking part in many battles and engagements. He went into the service before he was twenty-one. H® was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1875, and re-elected in 1877, aad servod three terms in Congress is a Knights Templar, Mason, member of the Knights of Pythias, G. A. R. and Elks.]
Montana Democrats held a large and harmonious convention, Tuesday. H. K. Toole was nominated for Governor.
Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, Wednesday, nominated J. R. Johnson for State Treasurer. The platform endorses the platform of 1888, favors the Australian ballot system and universal suffrage, and declares that prohibition will settle the labor question by insuring hotter wages, steady work and larger profits.
The Tfnman Hair.
When the hair is pulled from tho human head it may be observed that tin end which was implanted in the scalp is larger than the hair itself. This ia the bulb or root from which the hair grows. A hair is, in fact, a delicate tube, round in straight-haired persona and flattened in the curly-haired. It is the flatness of the hair which makes It curl. Women have coarser hair than men. The average number of hairs on the head is about 120,000. This calculation is based upon the ascertained fact that a square inch of the head ol a person who has an average head of hair contains by actual count 1,000 hairs approximatey. In early days the Kings of France used to pluck a single hair from the head and bestow it uponl one of their attendants as a token of favor. The hair grows from eight tq ten inches a yeajr. It has been found that it grows faster in the day time than at night, and faster in summer tha* in winter. Light and sun evidently haya an influence the growth of tlie hair, as on tko vegetable produots.
The head-dress of theatre-going young* ladies reminds one of a caatle in the hair.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The public debt was increased $6,076.61*2 during August.
Congressman McKinley thinks there should be no extra session of Congress.
Hon. John G. Carlisle has returned from his trip to Mexico. He expresses the opinion that the Cherokee strip will be opened to settlement soon.
Tiiere are 1,211 cases on the United States Supreme Court docket. It will be five years before the last case on the docket can be reached.
There is said to be a mortgage of $120.000 h- ld on the White House by the State o: Virginia for money advanced to President Washington with which to build it.
It is announced that Mr. Ashburner has been appointed an expert to collect statistics about the consumption and production of coal for the next census. It would seem from the name of the gentleman that it is the most appropriate selection ihat Superintendent Porter has made.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle, in an interview, Friday, on the speakership of the next. House cf Representatives, expressed iiis belief that McKinley, of Ohio, would be chosen for the position. Reed, of Maine, and McKinley, he said, would be the leading candidates, but the fact that the Secretary of State was from Maine would convince most of the members that to confer additional honors on that State would be unfair.
Since Aug. 3, 1SS7. to and including Saturday, the Treasury Department- has purchased §77,304,350 four per cent, bonds and $118,185,850 four-and-a-half percent, bonds or a total of 8195,490,700. Their cost was §226,852,875, and they would have cost at maturity §209,724.322, so the government has saved $42,S71,44. In the last ten days the purchases amounted to $17,978,800, at a cost of $22,515,359. The largest purchase was Aug. 27, w.lwsn $0,329,G00 was paid out for $4,945,000 in bonds.
Representative-elect Evans, of Tennessee, and General Goff, ex-Congressman and recently candidate for Governor of West Virginia, held a consultation, Saturday, with tho representative of the Tob.'icco Growers' Association with reference to a raid on the next House of Representatives for the repeal of the tax on that product. They concluded to secure pledges from all the candidates for Speaker of the House that if they were elected they would appoint a committee on ways and means who will report a repeal bill favorably. Such candidates as refuse to make this pledge will be boycotted by the tobacco men.
Public Printer Palmer has had to introduce a forest of pillars into the Government Printing Office to prevent the floors of that ancient and rotten building from falling through. Notwithstanding the fact that the structure has been condemned by the building inspector and the fire depart' ment, the government continues to use it, and not only imperils several hundred thousand dollars' worth of property but twenty-two hundred lives. Congress hae been repeatedly appealed to for a new building, but Mr. Randall's ideas of economy have stood in the way. Mr. Palmer will make another appeal at the approach ing session, and will support it with a report from a commission of architects that the building is in a dangerous condition, not alone from fire but collapse.
The baking powder investigat ion. which has been conducted under direction of the chemists of the Department of Agriculture, has been completed and results compiled in a bulletin. The analysis of a large number of samples of various baking powders, and the conclusions derived therefrom, the report says, are not such as to create any general alarm lest the American people should suffer injury to health from the use of baking powders. Tho investigations show that even with the best of tartrate powders the residue remaining in one loaf of bread procured with it was of the same character of seidlitz powder, and in quantity exceeding that of an ordinary seidlitz powder by over 50 per cent. The report gives some interesting facts as to the baking powder industries, and says that the American people pay at least $25,000,000 a year for baking powder, while the cost of it to the manufacturers is less than a third of that amount.
THE MARKETS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4, 18S9. GRAJN.
Wheat. I Corn. Oats. Rye
Indianapolis.. 2 r'd 75 3 r'd Chicago... 2 r'd 77^-4
1 yr 31}4 2 W 21
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Cincinnati 2 r'd 76
St. Louis 2 r'd 76.j
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Toledo
Minneapolis
Liverpool
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18
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20
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Philadelphia.
50
13
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Clover Seed 4 „2
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1 wh 77
Detroit
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LIVE STOCK.
CATTLE—Export grades [email protected] Good to choice shippers 3.40($3.90 Common to medium shippers— 2.50(^3.15 Stockers, 500 to 850 lb 2.00(^2.75 Good to choice heifers 2.4(C«?2.S5 Common to medium heifers 1.50(«12.15 Goods to choice cows 1.7r(ri)2.70 Fair to medium cows 1.r5(o2.20 Hons—Heavy 4.10(«)4.20 Light 4.40(o!4.60 Mixed 4.24(a}4.3.i Heavy roughs 3.25(?i3.75 SHEEP—Good to choice 4.20(a)4,50 Fair to medium 3.()5(a)4.10 Common 3.25(«$.75 Lambs, good to choice 3.50t)5.25 Common to medium 3.50(£5.50 Bucks, per head 2.00(o)3.50
MISCELLANEOUS. Indianapolis Chicago 4 32 6 07 5 07
Pork Lard 6 75 Ribs I 0 00 __ WOOL—-Fine merino, washed.. unwashed medium very coarse
Cincinnati 5 10 6 12 f) is: 33(«35 2 0 a 2 5 17(«20
EGGS, BUTTEH, POULTKV.
Eggs 13c I Hens per lb ......8c Butter, creamery 20c Koosters 'Jc Fancy dairy .. ...J3c Turkeys 10c Choice country... 10c Feathers 35c