Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Hope, Bartholomew County, 12 May 1892 — Page 6

| nOPE REPUBLICAN. By Carter & Son. HOPE - - INDIANA INDIANA STATE NEWS. The wheat crop is short In Ohio. The Mississippi Is live miles wide at Woman loving woman has caused another murder in Tennessee. John Anderson, of Cleveland, has married twenty women for their money. Destructive cyclones swept over portions of Kansas and Oklahoma on the 2d. A number of persons were Injured in a cyclone at St. Joseph, Mo,, on tho 4th. Henry Volker, of St. Louis, died from erysipelas, produced by a cut from a knife. Twenty persons were poisoned by eating fruit cake at the North Texas Insane Asylum. Many of the Boston plumbers have obtained the advance for which they struck —54 a day. A Solomon is needed at Dallas, ns two women are claiming to be the mother of t,he same baby. The famous trotter Allerton will trot on the St. Joseph, Mo., tracks, September 15, for a purse of 810,000. Chicago has a smallpox scare and its peat house is now tenanted for the first lime in three years. Charles Emory Smith, United States minister to Russia, arrived at New York on the Teutonic Wednesday. Two men were frozen to death in the re cent Manitoba blizzard. A stage coach has not been heard from since last Friday A San Francisco stevedore committed suicide, Sunday, by plunging into the furnace of a steam tug and roasting himself to death. A Kansas syndicate has purchased onehalf the town site of Conductor, N. D., and will colonize it with farmers from theSunflower State. South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin reveled in snow storms Tuesday. At some places the beautiful fell to tho depth of twelve inches. Seventy-five of the leading employing bakers of Chicago have signed the scale submitted by the men, and work has been resumed in their bakeries. DThe Supreme Court of Michigan has declared that the franchise-tax law of 1891 doss not apply to corporations organized under the laws of other States. .A'atflek O’Sullivan, one of the assassins of Dr. Cronin, died in the Joliet penitentiary, Thursday, of consumption. He made no confession of his guilt. The committee in charge of the eighthour demonstration in New York refused to allow John Most, the Anarchist, to speak at tho meeting in Union square. Iowa has been having more than Its share of rain, and the farmers are com- i plaining on account of their inability to I put in crops, and the almost Impassable j condition of the roads. Tho constitutionality of the Baker bal- ' lot reform law, passed by the last Pennsylvania Legislature, which goes into operation at the next election, has been upheld by the Supreme Court. General Miles Wednesday received dispatches from Colonel Wade, in tha Indian Territory recently opened to settlement, saying that the Indians were complaining that they had been cheated in their allotment of land. Mrs. Joseph Oberdas, of Winona, Minn., who left Chicago for Winona April 26 had not been heard of since, was found yesterday at police headquarters in Minneapolis When found she was Insane and did not know her name or home. Charles H. Harris (Carl Pretzel), died at his home, Oakley avenue, Chicago, Thursday, of heart failure. He had been suffering greatly from rheumatism for a year or more, and for seven weeks prior to death, was confined to his bed. During a public meeting at Hartford City, Col. A. L. Conger, of Akron, O.. and others made addresses in which they dc« clar«J a purpose of making Hartford City the greatest windc j'.ass manufacturing town in the United States. The slaughtering establishment of Swartzchiid & Sulzberger, New York, was destroyed by fire on the 6th. The establishment covers a block, and was swept away completely. Tons of canned beef, bologna, and hoghshoads of stearine were consumed. The loss is 5750,000. The section hands employed by the Wabash railway company between Chicago and St. Louis are out on a strike. Tho men have been receiving 51.25 and now demand 51.50 a oay. Their demand was refused and they went out. The total force reaches two hundred men. Of the eight hundred boiler makers and Iron workers in Boston and immediate vicinity, six hundred have struck. The two hundred who did not strike are employed In the shops of the different steam railroads running ont of Boston, and are not affected by the union’s order. The seven-year-old son of Michael George, a prominent farmer of Clinton county, Illinois, was running behind a horse with the plow lines over his head, when he stumbled and fell. He was dragged by the neck a half mile and his head was almost torn from the body. At a joint debate between Gov. Hogg and Judge George Clark, gubernatorial candidates, at Cleburne, Tex., on the 5th, a portion of the grand stand gave way, precipitating hundreds of spectators. A number of women and children 1 were In-

THE NEWS_OETHE WEEK. Vincennes has sixty saloons. Sunman will bo Incorporated. Four persons were convicted at Jasper, as White Caps. Eendallville is beautifully and cheaply lighted by electricity. Tho old settlers of Noble county will meet at Albion, June 2. The Warsaw high school graduating class numbered twelve, all girls. Tho flood in the Wabash river carried away the long iron bridge at Lagro. Alfred Burton and wife, near Mitchell have celebrated their golden wedding. Armenltis Myers, of Tunnelton, is dead ef heart failure. He weighed 470 pounds. The journeymen tailors of Anderson are •n a strike for a 15 per cent, advance |n wages. A disastrous fire occurred at Eushvllle Wednesday night, which consumed 5U5,000 worth of property. The Elkhart river is higher than at any time since 1845, and considerable damage has resulted at Goshen. Incendiaries set fire to C. G. Kimball’s store house at Michigan City, destroying 84,000 in nets and other fishing appliances. The saloons at Greenfield have fo-med a combine. Hereafter there will be no sales on Sunday, nor no free lunches on any day. Wm. Henderson, a prominent Fnmocratlc citizen of Indianapolis, with a State wide reputation, died in that city, on tho 3d, of heart failure. A. W. Joiner haying threatened to open a saloon at Cowan, the citizens have warned him that dynamite or the torch will be used in getting rid of it. Mrs. Frederica Pheiacher, aged seventy two, of Huntington, prosecuted her husband, alleging he was paying undue attention to a girl aged twenty-five. Miss Jean Nelson, a junior in De Pauw University at Grcencastle, and a resident of that city, won the first prize in tho interstate oratorical contest, held at Minneapolis, on the 5th. William A. Carter, of Seymour, purchased a pair of bloodhounds at Birmingham, Ala., to be used in tracing the murderer of C. W. Doerr, at Brownstown, but the heavy rains destroyed the scent. A brutal and disgraceful prize fight occurred on the Randolph and Jay county division line, Sunday night, between A 1 Fogle of Muucle, and James Patton, o Philadelphia. The mill was witnessed by 500 toughs from surrounding towns and cities. Patton won. Miss Daisy McBride, of Elkhart, a daughter of Judge McBride of the Supreme bench, has gone to Salt Lake City to join her husband, Fred Starr, whom she married last March while visiting In Chicago. The wedding was kept a profound secret. Emmett White and William Minch,each aged about fifteen, while gigging fish at ’Lawrence Junction, sheltered themseves under a tree from the rain. During the 1 storm tho tree was struck by lightning and White was instantly killed. Minch j was not seriously injured. I Dr. W. A. Cole, of English, owns a Polled Angus cow, four years old and the mother of five calves. She dropped twin heifer calves eleven months ago, and Wednesday triplets were added. The first pair brought the owner $100, and the triplets will bring no less. Horse-thieving is prevalent in the northern part of Dearborn county. The stolen animals each time have been traced to the Ohio river where the trail is lost. A large number of farmers are sleeping in their barns. They are armed. It is probable that the next attempt of the thieves will be warmly met, Thomas Gray and wife, of Richmond, (were married thirteen years ago. There are three children. During her marital career Mrs. Gray eloped with five differsnt men, but each time her offense was condoned by Mr. Gray. Recently, howBver, she eloped with a colored man and the husband has now drawn the line. Miss Flora V. Staples, of Georgetown, aged 22, has been bed-ridden for many years, the result of a nervous shock received the first time she saw an elephant, at a time whon she was a more child. She has no control whatever of her limbs, but she has become very expert with her teeth and tongue. With these she forms beautiful letters out of an apple paring, spelling | cut any person’s name, and she also shapes birds and animals in the same manner. She is intelligent, enjoys good health, and ihe sings and converses, and seemingly anjoys life. She resides with hei mother. A new swindle is being worked in northam Indiana.- A well dressed stranger, ostensibly selling fruit trees, stops at a farm house where he conveniently falls sick. He claims to be out of medicine, and he Induces the farmer to write a prescription | which he dictates, and to sign his (farmer's) name thereto to avoid any delay in jetting It compounded. Then the stranger suddenly remembers that there Is medicine in his valise, and he relieves the farmer of the necessity of sending for the prescription, but he takes care to preserve the same, to which the farmer’s signature is attached. Afterward this signature turns up as a promissory note, which the farmer is obliged to pay, | Patents were granted the following Indiana inventors Tuesday: A.Baker.Soulh , Bend, letter file; J. Barrow, Windfall, oil I burner: C. M. Bennettl Logansport, hydraulic gas pump; C. M. Collins, South 1 Bond, toy cart; C. W. Cotton, tire setting machine; J. Grube, Auburn, straw stacker; J. N. KaiUir, Columbus, feed table for clover hulling machines; J. Kastner, Jr., Evansville, safety appliance for steam boilers; H. Krippe, Poland, scaffold; S. L.

Smalley and W. H. Bonwell, Jr. Brookvllle, wind wheel; J. J. Stedman, Laporte, artificial denture; J. J. Wood, Ft. Wayne, electric switch. Samuel Davis,editor of the Starkccounty Republican, is something of a genius. His children, two boys and two girls, arc typesetters, and they do his composition while ho edits and hustles for job work. Editor Davis also teaches vocal music. Onedaughter is a» accomplished pianist, the other a vocalist, and both the boys I sing and play. When business is slack the { editor and family give a concert, which is I always handsomely natronized. Mrs, Davis is also a type-setter, and edits with rare discrimination when Mr. Davis is called away. The boys are agents for the Chicago papers, and all have a bank account. One month ago David Wright sold his farm in Iowa, and brought his wife to Wingate to visit relatives until he should re-locate. lie left, and two weeks ago his wife was taken ill. No person could lind the whereabouts of Mr. Wright, as ho was constantly moving and telegrams failed to reach him. His wife died Tuesday,and the funeral was Friday. Just before the services commenced ho arrived in town, and wont up to the house, intending to surprise his wife. He walked in, and in a jolly manner asked where was his wife. When Informed of the circumstances he swooned away. At 13 o’clock Thursday night at Anderson, a largo force of men under Roadmaster Bickett, of the Pan Handle, wore set to work to put in a crossing of the Anderson Bplt railway over the Chicago & Southeastern road. Superintendent Moore was informed of what was going ou. He had an engine fired up and, with some men, started to the scene. One hundred yards before reaching the place the train was wrecked by a rail having been removed, and Charles Donevau, the fireman, was injured. Before the wreck could be removed the crossing was in. Superintendent Moore declares he will chain it to locomotives and tear it out. The police have peen appealed to. WHITE CAPS SENTENCED. A special of the 7th from Jasper to the Indianapolis Sentinel says: “Have you anything to say, gentlemen, why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced?” said the Hon. Oscar M. Wellborne, Judge of the Eleventh judicial district, to the four White Caps, Francis Hobbs, Thomas Smith, Daniel King and James Spraggins Friday evening, after overruling the motion for a new trial. Old Francis Hobbs, sixty-eight years old, with tears glistening in his eyes, proclaiming his innocence, said: “My poor dead wife, who only a few moments before her death said, ’Francis, thank God you can prove yourself innocent of this terrible charge, and may the good Lord always protect you.’ I say. Judge, I am as innocent as the running brook and will have to suffer for the crime that another has comm tied.” He sank to his chair almost helpless. The scene was indeed pitiful, and many eyes of brave men were wet with tears for the old man as ho stood bent with age imploring clemency. The other defendants said they were in no way guilty, and if they were compelled to go to the penitentiary they would go as Innocent men. Tom Smith and Daniel King did not seem to be affected, but James Spraggins, as Sheriff Trailer and his deputies were returning them to jail, broke down and wept bitterly, crying for his wife and children. This was the ending of one of the most noted cases ever tried in southern Indiana, and the impression of every one who heard the trial is that the defendants arc guilty and that the sentence of two years is very lenient. THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, May 9, 1831 AH quotations for Indianapolis when not Bpocillod. GRAIN. Wheat—No. 2 red, 81c; No. 3 red, 84c; wagon wheat, 86c. Goru—N o.l white,41>£c; No. 2 white, 41c; white mixed, 39c; No. 3 white, 39®!41c, No. 2 yellow, 39c; No. 3 yellow, 38>£c; No. 2 mixed, 38c; No. 3 mixed, ear, 38c. Oats—No. 2 white,32c; No. 3 while, 30c; No. 2 mixed, 29>$c; rejected, 37c. Hay— timothy, choice, *13; No. 1,811.25; No. 2, $9.30; No. 1 prairie, $7.00; No. 2, $6.50; mixed hay, $7.50; clover, $8.50. Bran, $12.00 per ton. Wheat. Corn- Oats. , Kyei Chicago 2 r’d 81 4114 29 Cincinnati.... 2 r’d 91 4314 31 SI St. Louis 2 r’d 86 3-t 31 80 New York.... 2 r'd 91 50 34*4 8114 Baltimore.... 101 5014 39 85 Philadelphia. 2 r’d91 4414 37 Clover Seed, Toledo 93 41 Si « 50 Detroit. I wh 91 4.H 31 Minneapolis.. 79 CATTLE. Export grades $4 10,o)4 5„ Good to choice shippers 3 80® i 05 Fair to medium shippers 3 6.1 Common shippers 2 75®3 20 Feeders, gooU to choice 3 40®3 65 Stockers, common to good..... 3 00®3 2.. Good to choice heifers 3 25®3 7o Fair to medium heifers 2 65®3 ou Common, thin heifers 2 00®2 40 Good to choice cows... 3 55 Fair to medium cows 2 50®2 8o Common old cows 1 25(5:2 00 Veals,common to good —.... 4 00®5 50 Bulls, common to medium 1 75@2 5u Bulls, good to choice 2 755*3 50 Milkers, good to choice 30 00®400« Milkers, common to medium.. 15 00®2300 HOGS. Heavy packing and shipping. $4 55@4 60 Lights 4 40, ivi 5 Mixed 4 5u®4 5, Heavy roughs 3 25®3 85 SHEEP. Good to choice $5 00@6 0.1 lair to medium.. .. 4 2.j®4 75 Commou to medium... 3 50®4 oj Lambs, good to choice 5 00® 8 0d C MISCELLANEOUS. Eggs, l.c; butter, good country, 12® 15c; leathers, 35c; beeswax, 35@40c; wool, 30®33c; unwashed, 22c; hens, iUc; turkeys 11c; clover seed, $6.75® .90.

POLITICAL. Idaho Republicans have declared for Blaine and free silver. North Dakota delegates were selected ku the 4th favorable to Harrison. Chauncey M. Depow announces that he is for the renomination of Gen. Harrison. Candidate making still goes on. I he latest on the Democratic side is Chief Justic Fuller. The Kentucky House of Representatives has fixed the license for retailing cigaiettes at 1300. Nebraska Republicans on the 27lh, elected a solid Harrison delegation to the National Convention. St. Paul, Minn., elected a Republican Mayor on the 4th by 1,5C# plurality, succeeding a Democratic Mayor. North Dakota Republican delegates aro not Instructed, but they aro said to bo for Harrison in the event that Blalno is not a candidate. In the municipal election at Spokane, Wash., the Democrats elected a mayor by 300 majority. The remainder of the ticket is Republican Again it is rumored that Hill will withdraw from the Presidential field, and this time, it is said, he will support Governor Flower for the nomination. Chairman Clarkson, of the Republican national •ommlttee, is at Hot Springs, so crippled by rheumatism that ho cau not write even to members of his family. His condition causes anxiety to his friends. The Harrison leaders claim that the President already has 302 delegates to the national convention definitely instructed tor him, and that of the delegates already selected, he will have 513 on the first ballot, or sixty-three more than ouough to nominate. The Republicans of the Sixth Ohio congressional district are in a dead lock. After one hundred ballots the standing of the five candidates are as follows: Young 13, Hullck 44, Doan 44, Johnson 48, Brown 43; necessary to a choice, 100. Connecticut Republicans on the 4th warmly endorsed President Harrison, protection to American industries, reciprocity and the McKinley bill, and disapproved the free coinage of silver. Sena tor Hawley presided. The delegates to Minneapolis were uninstructed. Wisconsin Democrats on the 4th declared for a tariff for revenue only, denounced the McKinley bill, and all sumptuary legislation. They also protest against the unlimited coinage of silver, and approved the administration of President Cleveland. Every reference to Cleveland was enthusiastically cheered. At Frankfort, Ky., Friday, the friends of Senator Carlisle from different sections j of the State gathered and passed resolu- j tions strongly advocating him as a candidate for the Presidency upon the Democratic ticket. The Democratic convention to select delegates to Chicago meets May 25, and it is probable that Carlisle’s name will be presented there and an Indorsement will be given him. The Raleigh, (S. C.,) Progressive Farmer, L. L. Polk’s paper, is out for the third j party. It says that the Alliance proposes j to capture the Democratic convention. It j attacks Governor Holt, who will probably | be renominated, and says it will not sup- ! port him. It denounces both the old par- 1 ties, and says it will never vote for Hill, 1 or Cleveland, Harrison or Blaine. Michigan’s Democratic Slate Conven- j lion assembied at Muskegon on the 4th. | The delegates were instructed to vote as a ! unit for Cleveland, The enthusiasm for j the ex-President was unbounded. Tariff I reform was pronounced the overshadow- j iug issue of the coming campaign, and a demand was made on tho government to give a clear waterway from the groat lakes to the ocean. The California Republican State convention was held on tho 4tb. The platform declares for protection, free coinage of silver, the prohibition of Chinese immigration, the eight hour law, an amendment to the Constitution providing for tho slection of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people. The platform closes with; “While we abate nothing of our words of praise regarding the chief magistrate of the Nation, we must express our profound conviction that in the whole foreign policy of the administration we see traces of a master hand, long and lovingly known by all our party. We recognize again and again the man who stands in the very foremost rank of living statesmen, whose fame is world-wide, whose name is a household word in every American home, and who is the “favorite son” of every representative in every Slats of the American Union—JamesG. Blalno.” The Tennessee Republican State convention held at Nashyille on the 4th, nominated George W. Winstead for Governor. The platform declares adherence to the Republican party; reaffirms adherence to the Republican platform of 1888; Indorses and commends the administration of President Harrison, who, with his brilliant and patriotic Secretary of State, the platform declares, has achieved success in devising and enforcing beneficiary laws; points to the MaKlnley bill and the magnificent diplomacy in the Chilian, Italian and Behring sea matters; deplores the incompetence of the Democratic majority in the Beuse of Representatives; indorses the silver legislation of the last Congress; denounces the incompetence of the present State government; denounces the 1 lease system and the working of convicts 1 in the streets of Nash vllle; denounces the 1 election laws; declares for free schools and favors revision of the criminal code. 1 The silver plank is as follows; We believe that every dollar of Ameri- [ can money should have the same intrinsic value as every other dollar, and believing

j that ’•pon an jig\ 'Oils of tho ' mcrclal nail 'l>rosper/tyT/f. V, • | promote tbel > °pporlunilv , tll «n;- w : no favorablJ -ss for tho 10111(1 ha . I mitted to pJ hie result- of L u »'“l The Southern president* executive committeemo’n finished 1 work Wednesday night afcd ndjournem the result a lengthy addreSg was fssuj i tho Alliance members yjtoaghouil country. President Polk is jk /, ot ( J party man, and It is evident jl to transform the conference lit, ,1 party meeting. Those who f&yL dorsing the third party did all t%i to carry their point. Finally th«4\ came to a vote, and the scheme faiiX a vote of sixteen for and tweni \ \ against It. The third party tactical’ V\ being defeated threatened to bolt, A \\ looked like a split would occur. A % promise was effected by inserting ia\ general address issued to the people! following paragraph: \\ Finally, brethren, remember that de4 tlon to our principles can only be onxpU\\ sized and our influence made etfoctiye voting for our demands at tho ballot bo* A great deadlock in the Twelfth (111.4. nois) Congressional convention hr*ken Thursday on the six hundAu aj/ thirty-eighth ballot by Adams and Greer: counties voting with Browne for the: candidate, John J. McDonald, which gav him forty-one votes and nominated bin Republicans held conventions on th 6th iu Minnesota, West Virginia, Virginln Wisconsin and Kansas. In each cai President Harrison and protection wa»/ endorsed, but in no case were the deM gates to Minneapolis instructed. In V» ginia a struggle took place over a propo# tion to instruct the delegates for Mr. Half rison. The opposition, with Mahone an Langston in the lead, won by 30:%» YtZ'A. The Illinois Republican State ciivention, hold at Springfield on tho 4n, passed a resolution warmly endorsA Harrison’s administration, and instrucjRj its delegation to vote as a unit for hisriL. nomination at tho Minneapolis convention. The platform, as reported, arraigns tl v0 Democratic party for its position on tl silver question; indorses the State adniia \ istratiou; eulogizes the record of SenaM Cullom and the Illinois Congressmen;.d clares against the truck store system, chi' labor and every form of convict labor; i vors the passage of a'law by tho Legisl tnro providing for tho investrherA 6l pu,-., lie funds, tho interest on which shall be 1 covered into the public treasury postal telegraph, stringent Immigration laws, commends pension legislation, del mands the protection of the colored TOtiL in the South, and favors the adoptlm * a uniform system of appraisement o r f ■ * soual property, thereby securing taxation. Gov. Fifer was renomlr the first ballot, receiving 941 as agunstssef for the field. WASHINGTON. The House committee on postofflees and post roads has authorized a favorable reporton tho bill to provide for the using ol postal fractional notes. These notes may be issurd by tho Rostmasler-General and furnished to tho postmasters throughout tho Unite! Stales and so'd at fair values, payable at any time within six months. Tho amounts will bo $1 and fractions thereof. The same committee also authorized n favorable report on tho bill appropriating $100,000 for experimental free delivery in the United Slates. The Senate Tuesday, with a scant quorum present, passed the amended Chinese exclusion bill, notwithstanding the protest ol Mr. Shorman, chairman of tin committee on foreign relations, that tiny new section requiring all Chinese in the United States to register within a year or be imprisoned, was a violation of treaty obligations with China. The vote stood 35 to 15. Two reports from tho judiciary committee on the joint resolution proposing an amendment to tho constitution to provide uniform laws on the subject of marriage and divorce were made to the House on tho Gth. The majority report, adverse to the resolution, was made by Representative Oates, and Representative Raj presented the minority report. Controller of tho Currency Lacey wli shortly resign to become manager of ; Chicago bank. Minister Porter, it is announced, will resign his post as Minister to Italy in September and return to Indiana. The President has approved the Chinese exclusion bill. A gang of whitecappers visited the residence of John McCutcheon, In Jennings township, Crawford county, with the intention of doing mischief to Mr. McCutcheons four sons, James, Pinkney :;d two smaller boys. James was a.cty fr home, and Pinkney managed to esc; while the whitecappers were batter down the door. The younger bCys w caught and switched, and were orderec clear themselves up. Instructions w left for James and Pinkney to leave country and for Pinkney to wash his f( The McCutcheons stand well with t community, the father and two e! brothers being preachers in the Christ church. For some time there has bi 111 feeling between James Froman and i McCutobeon family, and the outrage! attributed to the Froman iafiuanc*.