Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 5, Hope, Bartholomew County, 27 May 1892 — Page 6

HOPE REPUBLICAN. 1 Bv Carter & Son. HOPE - - INDIANA A “Woman’s Land Association,” of Chicago, offers a bait of 400 per cent, profit to all women who will put their money in its hands. Wary women with money to invest will remember that there was once a woman’s bank in Boston that offered a profit of like tempting dimensions; but it never paid the interest nor yet the principal. And that bank is not now known in Boston. The London correspondent of the New York Tribune, speaking of the proposition to pay salaries to members of Parliament, says that the area of English constituencies' choice is far larger than in America, “since residence within the election district is not here [in England] required.” The implication is that in this country members of Congress must reside within their several districts. This is custom, but not law. There is nothing in the Constitution or laws of any State requiring a Representative in Congress to live within the district he represents. Theoretically and legally a citizen of any part of Indiana might represent any district in Congress if the people chose to have him. Justice Smith, of the New York Supreme Court, says the Indianapolis Journal, has granted an injunction restraining the National Harrow Company from bringing suits against the Chilled Plow Company of Elmira for the infringement of patents in the manufacture of harrows. upon the ground that the former is a combination formed for the purpose of creating a monopoly, and consequently it is so obnoxious to the law that it has no standing, even for the enforcement of the patents it may control. The decision concedes thajfc the patents may be good in proper hands, but a combination formed for the purpose of violating public policy and nullifying the law in its very existence has no claim on the protection of the law for upholding it in a 'position by which it antagonizes public interests. If this decision is sustained, trusts based upon patents will be out in the cold. The Bluffton, Ind., Chronicle gives an interesting account of an experiment in fish raising which is being conducted near that place. The proprietors have made five large ponds, which are supplied with water from an artesian well. The first pend is stocked with salmon obtained from Maine. These are now two years old, and when mature will weigh two pounds each. They are a scaleless fish, spotted like brook trout, and a fine table fish. They are to be stripped next fall and the eggs hatched in a hatchery. Another pond is stocked with white fish from the government hatchery at Toledo. The fish in thL pond are of all sizes, from younglings an inch long to full grown ones weighing five pounds. A third pond is stocked with sturgeon, and another with lake trout and ciscoes. The fifth pond is for hatching purposes. The hatchery at this place is the only one in the State, and the proprietors have had remarkable success- Of the hatching process the local paper says: “The eggs are stripped into a vessel containing a small quantity of water. The male fish are stripped in the same manner. The fish, males and females, are stripped alternately into a vessel until it becomes filled up, when the eggs are transferred into a glass holding about one and a half .gallons and about eighteen inches deep. Each jar will hold about 500,000 eggs. They place these jars in the hatchery, where they have an arrangement by which water is continually forced to the bottom of the jar through a rubber tube, keeping the eggs in continual motion the water rising to the top of the jar and ! running off. The eggs being heavier | the water, will not rise to the top, I and will consequently remain iu the jjar. The capacity of their hatchery 6,000,000 eggs.

THE-NEWS OF THE WEEK. At Alton, 111., the river ts ten miles wide. A destructive cyclone passed over tit. bonis Wednesday. American pork is now admitted to all the countries of the world. Sixteen negroes were drowned at Ileusley Island, Ark., on the 19th. The international silver conference may bo held within the next sixty days. Fifty thousand dollars worth of properly has been destroyed at Beatrice, Neb., by recent floods. In a battle between horse thieves and deputy sheriffs in Oklahoma, two of tho former and a deputy were killed. Thieves care taking advantage of tho high water at various places, and are plying their nefarious business without interference. A cloud burst near Hartington, Neb. Tuesday night, did great damage. Three Inches of water fell In less than thirty minutes. A San Francisco stevedore committed suicide, Sunday, by plunging into the furnace of a steam tug and roasting himself to death. There was a perfect blizzard of snow throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa on the 21st. At one point sleighs were used. Rev. Dewitt Talmage will leave for England Juno 15, and will engage In a preaching tour through England, Scotland and Ireland. The Missouri river, at Kansas City, raised rapidly on the 30th, and caused the waves to break over Its banks into Armour's packing house. The city of Dos Moines, la., has decided to call in outstanding warrants and bonds amounting to $777,COI and refund them at a lower rate of interest. The high waters continue to surge in and around St. Louis, and conservative estimates place the loss, within a radius of twenty miles, at 510,000,000. A band of White Caps lu Sevier county, Tenn., undertook to whip a victim, but ho wouldn't bo whipped, and when the band dispersed two of them were dead. Hop Sing, thoChinese leper, whom the New York health board dragged from his laundry, last July, and shipped to the Pacific coast, is back in Now York again. In a well at Arcade, N. Y., was found the body of Timothy Guild, badly cut and battered and with a bullet hole in the neck. There Is no clew to the murderer. Edward Parker Deacon, the ox-banker of Boston,who recently slew the paramour of his wife in a hotel at Nice, Italy, was sentenced on the21st to one year in prison. Tuesday was celebrated by people of Norwenian birth generally throughout this country. It was tho anniversary of the adoption of Norway’s free constitution. A Salt Lake, Utah, citizen, has donated land near that city valued at $500,000. on which to locate a Presbyterian college. The Genera! Conference has accepted tho gift. Crop bulletins from tho various States in tho Mississippi yalley report a practical loss of most crops planted by reason of the excessive rains and the destructive floods. Director General Davis, of the World’s Fair, states that if tho Fair is opened on Sundays no machinery will bo run, but only the parks and art galleries thrown open. The letter reeently published purporting to have been written by Gen. Gi’ant, denouncing tho second terra for the Presidency, is declared by Gen Grant’s family to be a forgery. At Sioux City, on the 20th, much apprehension was felt ovet the report that a great flood was sweeping down the Sioux valley within two hours’ distance of that much damaged city. A terrible wreck occurred on tho Cotton Belt railway, near Galdman, Ark., Saturday. Nine persons were almost instantly killed and eighteen wounded. The wreck was caused by high water. Cambridgeport, Mass., is excited by the assaults of an unknown man, supposed to be a Frenchman and an escaped lunatic, who has stabbed three women and assaulted a half-dozen more in tho past week. It has been decided by the trustees of Taft’s College, Boston, to open ihe doors of the institution to women. It is not the plan to introduce co-education at Tuft’s, but tho movement is similar to that taken by Yale Mrs. John McIntosh, of Watson, Mich., caught a large rat, and after saturating tho animal with coal oil touched a match to it. The rat ran under the barn, which was burned, and a valuable residence narrowly escaped sharing tho same fate. The only man who ever contracted leprosy in this country has been before the Eclectic Medical society at Springfield. His name is John Moe, a Swedish cabinet maker, thirty-one years of ago, and he has been in America ten years. Ho contracted the disease shortly after became here. The eastern approach of tho big Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri at Omaha was washed out Tuesday night, and there are fears that the entire structure will go out. The river is raising rapidly, and all the low-r portions of the city are under water. It is believed that two American vessels, the Centennial and the Vesta, bound from St. Jacques, were lost in the recent storm, with all on board. Nothing has been board of the vessels, and wreckage coming ashore and passed by other vessels is thought be from tho Centennial and Vesta. One hundred and fifty o?e-trimmers of Escanaba, Mich., attack'd the non-union men who were working in their, places,and

bullets flew fast and thick for a time. Clark Williams was Ifatalty shot, and Charles Hamilton was badly hurt. The unionist were defeated. The United States gunboat Concord, now at Cairo, will visit St. Lonls, orders to that effect having been Issued by the Secretary of the Navy on the 17th. The Congregational representatives from that district insure the Government against loss or accident and promise to provide another vessel in case the Concord should got stuck in the mud. A singular accident is reported from the village of Clifton, Wls. Isaac Myers was building a wire fence, using a horse to stretch the wire. Tommy Burke, a boy about twelve, was a looker-on. The horse ran away breaking the wire, which flew around the boy with such force that it entirely severed his arms. One barb cut the jugular vein of the neck. The boy started home and walked about six rods .when he foil, and in ten minutes was dead. Two burglars, with stolen weapons,hold up the stage in Turner canyon,Cal., Tuesday. There were five passengers, and the robbers relieved them ot all their valuables They shook the Wells Fargo box, and believing that there was nothing in it worth taking, tossed it back to the driver. This is a route that has been exempt from highwaymen, and the hold-up is thought t° indicate the presence of desperate criminals from other parts of the State. Joseph L. Tice, the Rochester, N. Y., wife murderer, was electrocuted at 6:39 o'clock, Wednesday, at the Auburn penitentiary. The execution is considered a great success. The witnesses saw no burning, no exhalation of air from the lungs, and no struggles of the victim. The murderer met his fate calmly. The electric current was turned into the body four times, each contact being brief. The physician in charge believed that better results would be obtained in this way than with two long contacts. The time of each contact was fifty seconds. In July, 1888, the bunco artist, .lohn Price, now serving a nineteen year sentence at Dannemora, slipped up behind P. K. Hedrick just as ho left his carriage, in front of the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, at Albany N. Y., and extracted from the seat a package containing $35,000 in negotiable bonds. A few days ago the bonds were received by ex-District Attorney Hugh Reilly. The package was intact and the accumulated interest makes them worth about ‘ 41,000. There is no clue from whence they came, except that they were sent from New York city. The mystery lies in the fact that they were returned at all, as they were negotiable. An important experiment of carrying a message from Chicago to Now York by bicycle relays was completed Sunday morning at 1:03 o’clock. To demonstrate the practicability of the useof the bicycle for military purposes a message was carried from Gen. Miles in Chicago to Gen. C. O. Howard in New York, There were two bicyclists in each relay, and each relay covered from twenty-five to fifty miles. The route was carefully timed so that it would require four days to perform the feat, Instead of succeeding, however, the message reached New York thirteen hours late. This was entirely duo to bad roads. The mud was almost impassable, and in many instances the riders were compelled to walk, and in more than one case to abandont heir wheels. Had the roads been in good condition the last rider wonld have reached his destination ahead of time. The Columbus, O., Evening Dispatch is in possession of a letter written by Gen, Grant to Senator Conkling, a few days prior to the Republican convention in 1830. The letter is an argument not only against a third term, but a second as well, and shows that the General's silence on that question previous to that convention was against his belief and better judgment. In it, among other things,he says: "There have been exigencies that warranted a second term, but I do not believe that the best interests of the country’s good ever demand a third term, or ever will. I had my doubts, even, as to the advisability oi a second term, and you know that I have so expressed myself to you in our confidential talks. This is a big country, full of brainy and ambitious men, who can serve the country eminently well as its President, and 1 sincerely question the policy of thw artlng their noble ambition. I am still of the opinion that I should speak to the country, that I should break the silence in a letter declining emphatically to accept a nomination for a third term.” FOREIGN. More than 1,000 persons perished and many buildings were wrecked in the hurricane that passed over the island of Mauritius on the 19th. The Czar of Russia attended the ceremony of launching two gun-boats on the 23d, after which he witnessed the laying of the keels of four iron-clads. Emperor William of Germany is being severely criticised for his wasteful personal extravagance in the face of the prevailing distress among his subjects. The Madrid papers report an explosion at a dynamite factory at Galdames, neai Bilbao, by which eight persons were killed and ton injured and the factory destroyed. Warrants have been issued foi the arrest of some workmen who were recently dismissed, and who it Is supposed caused the explosion. The handsome residence property at Lafayette, of the late Godlove S. Orth,has been purchased by Dr. M. S. Hopper, foi $8,000 cash. The residence alouo cost $23,500, and it is located on one of the mosl beautiful lots in the city.

VICTIMS OF FLOOD. Eleven People Perish, and Great Loss of Stock. A Great Wave Overflows Sioux City and Immense Damage Results. A great flood disaster lias overtaken Sioux City. Wednesday morning a great wave came down the Floyd river, which flows through the center of the city, and which was already swollen bank full. The wave came a few minutes after 7 o’clock. Warning bad been given but a short time before to the Inhabitants of the lowlands, but only a few of them had to be notified. The first intimation was a body of water spreading over the banks to a depth of three feet and throwing a mist from it. In a few minutes the water had risen above the first floors and several thousand fled in terror to the higher ground. At least eleven people are drowned. The water rose four feet in one hour and a half, and continued to rise steadily but not so rapidly. Probably 1,000 inhabitants of the city live on the low ground which is overflowed. So rapid was the rise ot the tide that great numbers were unable to escape, and the work of rescue engaged the energy of the people. At 13 o’clock 11 persons were reported drowned, and later reports increase the number to at least thirty-five. The Missouri river is very high, and when the flood In tharlTloyd river struck it the water dammed up aud rushed over the adjacent low grounds. The stock yards aud packing houses were situated at the influence of the two rivers and they were instantly inundated. About 2,000 bead of live stock were drowned. Many numbers of dead stock have also been floating down the Floyd river. The whole railroad yards and switching district is under water, and there has been immense damage to the round houses end railroad property. The rcund houses of tho Chi cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha are damaged to tho extent of $40,000. That road, the Illinois Central and Sioux City & Northern enter the city by the Floyd valley and all are stopped, while not a train has left Sioux City. IN RIPPER’S ROLE. A Human Fiend Kills Four Women in One Night. Bloodhounds on the Trail and Hundreds of Armed Men Searching; for the Criminal, Tuesday night was one of horror in Denison, Texas. Between 11 p. m. and 1:30 a, ja. an assassin, unknown, brutally and premeditatedly shot and killed four women, two of them leaders of local society, and two inmates of disreputable houses. The first victim was Mrs. Haynes, the wife of Dr. Henry F. Haynes, one of Denison’s most respected citizens,prominent in ! business and social life. Mrs. Haynes, a ' young and very attractive woman, was assassinated while alone in her home, or else taken forcibly from it and put to death by her captor outside and near the house. The residence of Dr. Haynes is just outside the city limits on Woodlan boulevard. Five hours later In the very heart of tho uity a beautiful young lady. Miss Teen Hawley, was also shot and killed by some unknown person. Miss Hawley was killed almost without a word of warning in the privacy of her room in her mother's cottage. Between the hoars when those foul asassinations occurred in still another and far distant section of tho city, two women were laid low by an assassin’s ballets. The last two were inmates of bagnios. Tho assassin shot and killed Mrs. Haynes during the absence of her husband at an Elk lodge. When his victim was dead the murderer look her gold watch and chain, diamond ring and ear rings and proceeded to the Hawley residence, where he shot and killed Miss Teen Hawley, who was seated on a bed with her mother when the assassin’s bullet came through the screen. The murderer had previously entered the girl’s sleeping room, whence she had fled to her mother for protection. Tho murderer then directed his steps to the bagnio of Mme Rivers, where he fired from the front porch through a window, killing Maud Kramer. After this ho crossed to the next street, whore he mortally wounded Rose Stewart who was about to retire to her room at Mme. Williams’. This fatal shot was fired from the sidewalk, the ball entering beneath the right arm. These four foul murders have created intense excitement, which is increased by the fact that there Is no clue to the criminal. Hundreds of armed men are searching for the murderer, aiding the sheriff and county officers. Jiloodhounds have been brought into fervico, but so far without success. Several arrests on suspicion have been made but the guilty man is believed to be still large. HE CUTS HIS THROATWhile riding in a New York Central express train, south bound, Albert L. Stanton, an employeof Cross &Begulln, dealers In diamonds and jewelry, New York, Tuesday suddenly became insane. Just as the train.was passing cHydo Park he leaped from his seat in the parlor car, shouting "They are after me” in a loud voice. He drew a pocket-knife from his oocket. ulunsred It into his throat, and

to tho right and left, cutting his throat from oar to ear. At tho ghastly sight which followed there was great consternation. The blood was all over tho man and spattered on the side of tho car. Ladles ran from the car, screaming with horror, and the man sank down in his seat, with his head thrown back, showing a cut which half served it from the body. He was still alive when the train reached the city. He was carried into tho station baggage-room, and then there was a debate as to whether or not he should be taken to tho hospital. While tho discussion was in progress the man died. POLITICAL. The California Democrats instructed for Cleveland. Cleveland captured the Georgia Demo era tic convention. South Caro ina Democrats oppose Cleveland’s nomination. North Carolina Democratic delegates nearly all favor Cleveland. It is asserted that Hill will go to Chicago and set up headquarters In the Interest of his boom. Nebraska Republicans on the 27th, elected a solid Harrison delegation to tho National Convention. Tho Democrats of Delaware in convention assembled, denounce the McKinley bill, oppose free silver and endorse Cleveland. It has been definitely decided that Gov. McKinley will deliver the formal address at the dedication of tho big convention hall on the night before the opening of tho Republican national convention. Chauncey M. Depow or some other shining light will also deliver an address. The rest of the program will bo musical. The result of tho conventions in Georgia and Virginia have led Mr. Cleveland’s knowing friends to claim his' nomination on the second ballot. The conventions already held gives Cleveland 415 votes, and uninstructed or anti-Cleveland 185 votes. It is claimed that Cleveland will go into the convention lacking only 9 votes to insure his nomination on the first ballot. Sunday's Now York World, in double leads, gives special prominence to this announcement, which it declares is "‘official” and can be relied upon: “Tho leaders of the anti-Harrison movement have adopted a plan of action. Neither Mr. Platt nor v Mr. Clarkson succeeded in getting definite acquiescence or refusal from Mr. Blaine; he simply declined to discuss the subject. The leaders, therefore, have decided to press his nomination. They will not consider his recent letter or anything ho may say or write between now aud June as a positive refusal to accept the nomination. They will spare no effort to nominate him as soon as possible after the convention meets; then, if they succeed, they will ad--journthe convention for one day before naming a candidate fer Vice President They firmly believe that Mr. Blaine will deem it his duty to accept. If not, no harm will have been done. That, in a nutshell, is the plan agreed upon. The biggest and coldest member of the combination says it will be adhered to regardless of any thing Mr. Blaine or anybody else may say or do. This is official.” Tho Senate committee on commerce Wednesday, applied the knife to tho river and harbor appropriation bill. The committee has decided that tho total of the bill as reported to the Senate—581,346,975 is too largo, and realizing the endless trouble and dissatisfaction that would follow and effort to discriminate between the various contracts, and continue anpropriation i*oieets which should bear the brunt of the reduction, adopted the course of reducing many of the appropriation 25 per cent. The result was the reduction of the total appropriation made by the bill by $2,088,753, bringing tho total down to $20,381,368, nearly one million dollars lesss than the appropriation made by the bill as it came from the House. The projects which among others were scaled down were as follows: Savannah, Ga., from $450,000 to $318,750; Mobile, from $250,000 to $37,800; upper Mississippi from $1,500,000 to $1,250,000; low Mississipi, from $2,145,OOfi to $2,208,750; Great Kanawha, W. Va., from $360,000 to $225,000; Lower Missouri, from $750,000 to $532,500; Dalles of Columbia, from $250,000 to $187,500. WAR SHIP WRECKED. A dispatch from Motevideo says that the Brazilian turret ship Solimoes was wrecked off Cape Santa Maria, near the mouth of tho Rio do ta Plata, while eu route to Matto Grosse, and but five of the crew were saved, 120 being drowned. The Solimoes was one of the vessels sent by the Brlzilian government with reinforcements to suppress the rising in the State of Matto Grosse. Captain Castrot was drowned. Some Women are Mr. How awfully sly some women are ! 1 was standing in a notion store when a young woman of f ar countenance and modest front came up to the counter, and, after the usual performances, asked the salesman to show her soma corkscrews, adding : “I want a good strong one to open ink bottles- ’’ The salesman returned with a basket containing corkscrews of all sizes, and picking out a little one held it up, saying : “We have them like this—but here’s one.” and lie showed a corkscrew with a solid wooden handle, “you can get a good grip on.” The young woman never smiled as she said that she’d take the big corkscrew. The ink bottle was never made with a neck large enough to admit such a screw.—Pittsburg Dispatch.