Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 19, Hope, Bartholomew County, 1 September 1892 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Ihe strike at Buffalo is virtually ended All freight is being moved promptly. twenty four houses were burned at Geneva, III., on the 19th. Loss, *175,000. Mrs. William Lawrence and daughter, of Pomona. Kan., were killed on a railroad crossing. ( ari Axeison, of New York city, com milled suicide be.ca.u5e his wife boro him a girl instead of a boy. During August the Treasury Department has soul out between *6,000,000 and *1,000,000 to move the crops, t the Knights of Pythias are gathered at Kansas City iu groat numbers. The Supreme Lodge is in session there. Hughes & Patterson, of Philadelphia’ have beaten their amalgamated employes and arc running in full blast with scabs. Williams. Walsh, e.v-cdltor of Llppineott'a Magazine, was lined *35 at Cape Way, N. Y., for hugging a gir! on the street. President Pelllgrini, of the Argentine Republic, has resigned in consequence of a conllict between the executive and Congress Attorney General Hunt, of Illinois, has brought suit, for *000,000 against the Monon Eailrald Company fur back taxes and damages. Thomas Neil Cream, tiro'alleged American doctor, has been held to an English grand Jury on the charge of poisoning four girls of London, A California Judge decided that the day of execution having passed a condemned murderer Is dead in the eyes of the iaw, though pot hanged. Wcud.vlllc, near Jackson, Mich., is sinking into the earth. A number of abandoned mines are under the place, and they have probably co ved in. Edwaid Burns, the kidnapped son of John Burns, of New York, has been located in Seattle. Wash. Ho was taken in 1S75, wKsn only six years of age. Thomas Drew, aged twenty-five of Wichita, Kan., committed suicide in the presence of his mother by laying his head on a rail over which a fast train passed. Tho Buffalo switchmen’s strike has been declared off and all the men that can will return to work. It is believed about onehalf, of those who struck will bo taken back.

Among the deaths announced on the ~4th were those of Gen. Fonseca, the first President, of Brazil; ex-Gov. Myron H. Clarke, of New York, and ex-Gov. E. L. Lowe, of Maryland. I Robbers tried to wreck the fast Chicago and New York express on the Pennsylvania road, near Pittsburg, and a farmer who discovered the plot and frustrated the game was twice shot. The Texas National Guard is in danger of disruption, and several companies have surrendered their commissions. It is caused by political faYoritisin, which, it is claimed, has been shown. President Gompers, of the Federation of Labor, has adjusted the trouble between the Chicago unions and musicians. Asa result union horn blowers -will bo employed for the Labor Day parade. The biggest strike in the history of Jimtown, Colo., has just been made in the Shallow Creek district. It has a lead of quarts, rich in snlpburets, which essays •om 865 to 1,(X0 ounces in silver. At a meeting of the coal operators hold in Pittsburg on the 23d, it was decided to reduce the wages of their minors to three cents per bushel. It is expected the miners, who number 10,000, wiii strike. The London Standard calls President Harrison's action in the St. Mary’s canal matter “vexations and unfriendly," saying: “We suppose it is a. pretext to pose as tho exponent of a spirited foreign policy.” Homestead strikers deny that they are boycotting business men or persecuting the wives of non-unionists. Some of the new employes of the Carnegie mills may organize a militia company and apply for a charter. The Treasury Department has forbidden tlie employment of British Columbia Indians in the hop fields of Washington. Growers have been in tho habit of importing the rod men under contract at lower rates than home whites or Indians would work. Mrs. Sarah Steiner, a wealthy widow of Lima, O., answered a matrimonial advertisement, and as a result married M. F Munson, claiming to be a well-to-do business man of Sherwood. After three weeks Munson borrowed $1,000 of the bride and skipped. Since then she has learned that ho.lias live ether wives. A woman named Greenbaum, near Saginaw, Mich., is reported to have loft her child asleep in a wagon while she went berrying in the woods. When she returned she found that some animal, prob ably a lynx, had devoured her child al but one foot. She is distracted and may lose her reason. A cloudburst visited Roanoke. Va.. Tuesday night, and within half an hour over one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage had been done, and one life, if not more, was lost. The business portion of the city was Hie principal sufferer. Every store on Saiotu avenue and Jefferson street was flooded and their contents badly damaged. Dy the way, here is another Presidential ticket; For President, Simon Wing, of Boston: Vice President, Charles H. W’eslcott, of Brooklyn. Mr. Wing is a tailor and Mr. Wostcott is a carpenter. They j were nominated at New York Sunday by tho Socialists. Ropresontati’ os were pres | ent from New York, Massachusetts, Pena I sylvanla, New Jersey and Connecticut. 1 Fire at New York Saturday, burned tho Metropolitan Opera-house and a rnsna-

factoring building, with a loss of one, probably more, lives, and a money loss of nearly *1,001),000. At Augusta, Qa., tho Chronicle and other properties were destroyed with enormous loss. Petoskey. Miss., loss *300,000 worth of lumber. Armour’s packing house, at Kansas City, Mo,, was damaged by fire. Thomas Dunn’s mouth has been closed by law. He set up in his answer In the Circuit Court at Detroit, that ho was using the voice God gave him, and that so far he had been very well pleased with It, and he thought the neighbor’s ought not to object. But Mrs. Charlotte Whltely objected to its volume, declaring it a nuisance and a depredator of property. Judge Brevoort believed her, and an injunction restrains him from loud ’talking and swearing. The case will go to tho Supremo Court. Joseph J. McGrady. who is employed by the City Board of Education, was held up by a highwayman Tuesday, while driving near tho World’s Fair grounds Chicago. When first commanded to halt by tho rofcbor, McGrady put the whip to his horse and endeavored to get away. The highwayman fired at him, the bullet striking the horse and frightening it so that it broke away from tho buggy. McGrady attempted to escape, but tho bullets came so thickly about his head that lie stopped. Tho highwayman made him hold up his hands and submit to a search, but $150 that hehad with him was not discovered. The robbery took place on Stony Island avenue, a much traveled thoroughfare, and the shots were heard by workman on tho Fair grounds who j cams to McGrady’s assistance, but arrived too late to help him. Tho robber was arrested later by the police and fully identified. The annual report of W. E. Slmonds, Commissioner of Patents, to tho Secretary of tho Interior, shows that during tho fiscal year ended June 30, 1893, applications for patents and caveats were received as follows; Letters patent, 39,087: designs patent, 933; reissue patents, 114; registration of trademarks, 1,910; registration of labels, 544; caveats, 2,401; making a total of 45,945, There were during that period 23,636 patents granted, including reissues and designs; 1,56! trade marks registered, and six labels registered; 12,437 patents expired during tho year. The receipts from all sources during the year were *1,267,727; expenditures *1,114,134; leaving a surplus for the year of J154,5'.3. Since Us establishment the Patent. Office has turned into the treasury *4,102,411 above Us expenditures. The number of applications awaiting action on the part of the office on June 30, was 0,447. The Commissioner makes no recommendation as to needed legislation, increase of force, or the crowded and unsanitary condition of tho Patent Office Building. POLITICAL The Carroll county Democracy have instructed for the re-election of Senator Turple. It has been decided by a number of prominent Republicans of this city and other parts of this State, says the Indianapolis News, that a suit shall bo brought to test the constitutionality of the legislative apportionment act, of the Legisla turo of 1891. Tho movement is to be made independent of the Republican State com mitlee, one of the men interested in the suit says, and ail the expenses of carrying the case through the Supremo Court will be borne by a fund to be raised by subscription. It Is said that a considerable sum has already been pledged, and that the men behind the movement have assurance tha t there will be no trouble about raising the money with which to prosecute the case. The suit, it is understood > will be brought in Hendricks County Circuit Court. Some of the best attorneys in the State will be employed to look after tho litigation. Hon. S. N. Chambers, In speaking of the proposed proceedings said: There are several methods of procedure that can be followed. The question can be raised by bringing an injuotlon suit against any election officer. There can be a suit to enjoin the sheriff from posting a notice of ejection of members of the Legislature under the apportionment, or tho clerk of the county can be enjoined from'issuing the notice. In addition to tho injunction proceedings, there should be mandamus proceedings to compel tho issuance of the election notices under tho apportionment law of some other yearsay under the act of 1879. I understand that was a constitutional apportionment. The suits may be brought in any county in the Slate, because if the act is unconstitutional iu one county it is invalid In all,” WHAT A MOTHER FOUND. Three Children Killed by a Rattlesnake's Bfto and One Drowned. A farmer named Wilson, living in Madi. i son county, Ga„ left home and went to the mill, leaving his wife and four children at home. Two hours later he returned, to find his wife lying on the floor, insensible, with four dead children about her. Tho story the mother told when restored to consciousness was a remarkable one. She said she had taken the baby to tho spring, leaving the other children in the house. Hearing their cries, she pub the baby down and hurried back to the house, where she found two dead, the others dying. The living one said they had been poking their fingers through a crack in the floor and a hen had been picking at them. The mother went back to the spring after her baby and found it had fallen into tho spring and drowned. The third child had died when she got back to the house and tho mother swooned away. Investigation showed that the supposed hen was a rattlesnake.

INDIANAJ5TATE NEWS. Whitewater wants a high school. Greene county reports 176 teachers. Several cases of malignant diptheria are reported at Kokomo. Thieves continue to plunder freight cars under the shadow of the prison north. Thomas Baines, near Rockville, was found dead In his barn, having been kicked to death by a horse. I. N. Bark planted a single potato on his farm near Galena, and from the hill he dug thirty-four pounds of potatoes. There is said to bo but one surviving soldier of the warof 1813 In Indiana —John Dawson, of Terre Haute. There are 353 widows. The large dairy barn of Will Meeker, near Muncle, was burned Sunday. Loss 41,300. Believed to have been the work of a tramp. Thomas Johnston, an aged farmer of Fayette county, Is a marvel to hi friends, in that his hair, formerly grey, Is now turning a fiery red. The Jefferson county Democracy have resolved not to nominate a separate county ticket, but instead to support the Independent nominees. The Governor has issued a proclamation declaring Oct. 31, next, as a general holiday in honor of the discovery of America four hundred years ago. One hundred and twenty lots were sold Tuesday as a starter for the new town of Whlteley, across the river, from Muncio. The average price was $300. During a performance of Ringling’s cir cus at Garrett, Frank Kelly, boss prop erty man, was called out of the tent by an unknown party and shot dead. A wreck occurred on the E. & T. H. road at Farmersburg on the 36th. Hon. John Beasley, of Sullivan, a leader in the Legislature, was probably fatally injured, J. C. McLean, of Anderson, having trouble with his wife, escorted her to a train, handed her a check for $700, and their separation was complete. The lady returned to Paris, III. O. H. Doming, of Valparaiso, a contractor, has been fined 50 cents and costs for violating the 1889 legislative enactment providing that eight hours shall constitute a day's work. Mrs. Ellen Douglas Foster, wife of Rev. B, F. Foster, Grand Secretary of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, died very suddenly on the evening of the 26th at their homo in Indianapolis. The Diamond Plate Glass Company, of Kokomo, is erecting a large building for bending and beveling glass. This will bo a big Industry within itself, giving employment to several hundred men. The nailing department, blacksmith shop and machine shop of the Darnell nail mill at Muncle were destroyed by fire n the 26th. Loss, $60,000. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. Mrs. Jennie Morton, of Clay county, is dead of supposed hydrophobia. She was bitten by a little dog thirteen years ago> and each recurring year has had an attack, presumably the result of the bite. Moses McClure, near Darlington, is dead. He was aged ninety-seven. McClure was a Kentuckian by birth, and he settled near Rockport In 1835. He claimed to bo the oldest active Odd Fellow in Indiana. The 'squire who married a couple at Eckerty is a native of Newport, Ky., the groom a native of Neport, Ark., and the bride a native of Newport News, Va. All were born during the month of August, 1865. A number of thrashing machine proprietors in Montgomery county will go to the Dakota wheat fields to aid in thrashing the tremendous harvest of this season. The Northern Pacific offers free transportation from St, Paul, Minn. A frame building collapsed at Dunkirk, and George Moore was instantly killed, while William Anderson and James Smith were seriously injured. The building was in process of construction and the flat roof was insufficiently supported. 1 The K. of P. drill prizes awardedjat Kansas City were principally carried off by Kansas Knights, which t >ok the first three. New Albany Division No. 5 was given the fourth prize of $800. Terre Haute Division No. 3 the ninth prize of $300, and Many Division No. 18, of Indianapolis, the tenth and last prize of $100. James Gray, of Columbia City, while iy ing in bed, was shot by nn unknown assassin, the charge of the gun striking him in the leg. necessitating amputation. The shot was fired through an open window, and but for the fact that Gray had changed the position of his bed, so that his feet lay where his head formerly reposed,.the attempted murder would have been successful. Albert Tucker is under arrest as the guilty party. The following patents were issued on Tuesday to Indianians: I. T. Brown Columbus, napkin holder; D. Cady, Indianapolis, shoe horn; G. J. Cllno, Goshen, garment supporter; A. Garretson, Fall Creek, safety coupling for gas mains; F. L. Glibart,Indianapolis, grass receiver for lawn mower; J. Mitchell, Cayuga, memorial monumentj’Til. Powell, Kokomo, clothes drier; H. Thiels, Lawrenceburg i machine for beveling barrelheads; O. D. Thompson, Elkhart, lawn sweeper. In a recent collapse of a building at Hartford City it will bo recalled that five men were killed. Four of them were married. The contractor of the work, I. V. Smith, was away at the time, but he hurried back to Hartford City. Mr. Smith bore the expenses of the several burials, after which he hunted up the widows, making them and their children not only comfortable for the present, but giving to each widow $1,000 and placing their names on the pay-roll instead of their deceased

husbands. This was done after the coroner had returned a verdict of "an unfortunate and unavoidable accident.” The bitter fight at Falrmount to prevent the retailing of intoxicants by Luther Morris, has culminated, it Is said, in a compromise, by which Morris obligates to pay $1,200 into the village treasury annually for the privilege. Names of citizens heretofore prominent in opposing are said to be signed to this agreement, and it has increased the Indignation of those who are continuing the fight against Morris. On different occasions, when Morris undertook to sell Intoxicants, he was forcibly moved outside the corporation, and the opposition now threaten to resort to dynamite if all other agencies fail. The weather crop bulletin for the week ending Tuesday, Issued by the Indiana Weather Service says; The rainfall during the week was badly distributed and insufficient over most fields. Warm days, cool nights and average sunshine prevailed. The local rains on the 19th wore beneficial to suffering crops, and also softened the soil, making plowing for wheat, which Is at present pushed vigorously everywhere, more easy. Wheat thrashing Is also ended, with an average yield, but not sp good quality. Corn stands well after the rain; the fields are clean and the corn is maturing fast. Clover for seed I 9 being cut and ithrashed, yielding a fair crop’s pasturage, and live stock continues In good condition. Grasshoppers and potato bugs are injuring some fields. A mysterious woman, giving the name of Mrs. Emma Powell, claiming St. Louis as her homo,and boasting fabulous wealth, appeared in the eastern part of Howard county some three weeks ago and created a stir among land owners by offering to purchase at good round figures a large lot of land, claiming that she wanted to establish a stock farm She contracted with James Loop for 105 acres, and with others for smaller lots, In all amounting to about seven hundred acres. Two weeks ago she loft, ostensibly for St. Louis, agreeing to send her agent, back with the money to close up the trade. Neither the agent nor the money has yet put in an appearance. The woman has since turned up in Cass county, and again in Miami county,where she made thd same offer to farmers in different parts of those counties, and again disappeared. She does not ask for any money, or any written contract which might be transformed into promissory notes, as is usual in the “landskln game.” She pays her own bills,and her purpose in offering to purchase the land has not yet developed. The woman Is about sixty years of age, of Scotch extraction, and speaks with a pronounced dialect. She Is pleasing in manner, and displays excellent judgment of land values. In one place she claimed to he the Presideutof the National Woman's Relief Corps and has made many palpable misrepresentations.

THE MARKETS. INDIANAPOLIS. August *9, 1893 All quotations tor luiliaoupolij wkau aot BpaciHsi GRAIN. Wheat—No. 2 rod, 71c; No. 3 red, C5c; wagon wheat, 70c, Com—No.l white, 51c; No. 3 white, 51c; white mixed, 48c; No. 3 white, 48®50c, No. 3 yellow, 47>4c: No. 3 yellow, 47c; No’. 2 mixed, 48c; No. 3 mixed, 47c: ear, 48c. Oats—No. 2 while, Stic; No. 3 white, 35cNo. 2 mixed, 32><c; rejected, 32c. Ilay—Timothy, choice, *14.00; No. 1. *10.50; No. 2, *10.00; No. 1 prairie, *6.50; No 2, *0.50; mixed hay, *7.50; clover, *8.00. Bran *11.00 per ton. Wheat. ; Corn, i Outs. ' ItJu. Chicago 1 r’d 75H| oils 34 Cincinnati.... 2 r'd 73V1 51 j 35 tit St. Bonis 9 r’d 77 49 .’It 1 ', til New York..,. S r ’d 81 65 ] 40 64 Dultimore 7714 58 I 43 78 Philadelphia 3 v'd 77 60 39 Clover Seed. Toledo I 78‘4 5341 T3 j 5 70 Detroit t nh 81 i 63',,1 S»S4 Minneapolis.4 72!1 1 CATTLE. Export grades *4 25@4 75 Good to choice shippers 3 83@4 15 Fair to medium shippers 3 40,93 0.1 Common shippers 2 75(93 20 Stockers, common to good ,2 25(93 00 Good to choice heifers 3 20(93 50 Fair to medium heifers 2 tiSfajS 00 Common, thin heifers 1 75@2 25 Good to choice cows 2 05(9,3 00 Fair to medium cows 2 20(®2 ro Common old cows 1 00(92 0) Veals, good to choice! 4 3>Cir> co Bulls, common to medium— 1 50@2 00 Milkers, good to choice 25 00'5)3500 Milkers, common to medium.. I5oo@2.’oo HOGS. Heavy packing and shipping. *5 cn®5 go Bights 5 15,95 7j Mixed 5 .’ 0@5 10 Heavy roughs.,.,.,.,,,., 4 25(94 0 SHEEP. Good to choice *4 (o@4 7. hair to medium .. 3 ,-qq , ' , Common to medium 3 soi® t oLambs, good to choice 4 25@5 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Foul try--Hens, 0c it a lb; young chickens, He V fi>; turkeys, fat choice hens 10c it lb and 9c for fancy young toms-’ ducks, 7c y A; gce«e, *4.80 for choice ’ Eggs—Shippers paying 13c. Butler—Choice country butter, 12'icja-; common, 8@10c; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. Cheese—New York full cream, H@l2cskims, 5@7c V lb. (Jobbing prices.) ' ’ Feathers—Frime geese, 35c $ lb; mixed duck, 20c y lb. , Beeswax—Dark, 3uc; yellow, 40c (selling price); dealers pay 18(oi0c.. Wool—New clip line merino, Ific; coarse wool, 17@18c; medium, 20c; black, burry, cotls, choffly and broken, 15@17c. HIDES, TAI.BOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3! 4c; No. 2 green hides 2)4c; No, 1 G. 8. hides, i:4c; No. 2 G. 18. hides, 3%c No. 1 tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, Horse Uido9- T *[email protected]. Tallow—No. 1, 41pc; No, 2, 3%c. Grease—White, 2%c; yellow, 3c; brown, %c. FRUITS AND VEOETBBES. Cucumbers—,0c V dozen. Watermelons—*13@15 it 100. Peaches—Bushel crate, *2.50 and *3,03. Tomatoes, *1 '5(1 bushel crate; onions, 12J-5C it doz.; radishes, 13V4c it doz. Apples—Green, lb brl; oue-lhird bushel box, 35c. Cabbage—Home grown, *1 y brl. New Potatoes, 1.79 it brl. New sweet potatoes, *4(84.50 it brl. Egg plant, *1.50 it doz.

FLATTENED OUT. A Receiver Appointed for the Order of the Iron Hall. Misappropriation of Funds and Self-Con Tested lacouipetency and 1'alpable Dishonesty of the Suprems Odicers the Came To be Wound Up. In the Superior Court at Indianapolis Judge Taylor granted the petition for a Receiver for the Order of the Iron Hall, and appointed James F. Falley to the position. He took charge Wednesday morn Ing, having given bond for *1,000.000. Ait of the “SupremorB,” or Supreme officers, as they were cainni, are now out of a job, and most of them have left Indianapolis. Supremo Justice Somerby feared criminal prosecution, and it is more than probable that his fears are well founded, and that he will look out from behind bars before he is many weeks older. The management of the Order's funds was criminally negligent, and, in truth, the evidence clearly showed that these funds were misappropriated and devoted to private uses, more than 1800,000 of it being used to form and bolster up a Philadelphia bank,which probably did not have a dollar in actual capital aside from the funds furnished by the S-upremors, and who constituted the members of the banking company. The evidence clearly showed, also, that Immense sums of money were bandied about frv»u pillar to post without any record being kept of tho same. The Supremers seem to have been feathering their nests in the most approved modern fashion and if justice had Us due some penitentiary would have one or more new convicts added to its roster. Large amounts seem to have been used to corrupt Legislatures that proposed legislation derogatory to the interests of the order. The affairs of the order will be prompt ly wound up by the receiver. There are nearly $700,000 In Indianapolis banks that will be prorated back to the members. Aside from this there are no assets of consequence. Of the $700,000 In tho Philadelphia “bank” it is probable the receiver will not realize 5c on the dollar. Altogether the proceedings in the Indianapolis courts show that the order was under a bad management and that Its members have been saved many a dollar by the appointment of a receives oven at this date. Tho Order of the Iron Hall was one ol the “got rich quick” concerns. It was conducted on tho assessment plan, whereby each member was expected to pay In $300 iii seven years and at the expiration ofjtbat time draw out $1,000. This explanation ought to be sufficient to show its general character and is a sufficient apology for its untimely demise. It had more than 63,000 members throughout the country.

THE SMALLEST OF MIDGETS. A Baby That Can Sleep in the Palm o( One’s Hand. A wee rollicking, kicking babe,a midget |s attraotlag great attention near Peebles, 0., and people for miles around are calling upon the father and mother of this wonderful prodigy. The mother shows this tlney babe to the admiring curiosity veekers with a pleased and loying smile. When asked if she would place it on exhibition, she emphatically said; “No; it is my smallest, and shall have the greatest attention of all my children, and It will never cuter a museum with my consent.” Mrs. August Baldwin, who lives near Plum Hun station, is the lady who has given birth to the smallest child over born In that county. It weighs, only one pound and nine ounces, and is now ten days old and fairly heultbiy. The prospects are it will live and grow to maturity. The mother of the child is a strong, healthy woman, weighing 145 pounds, and the father is of the ordinary size. He is a muscular young fanner. The child wears small doll clothes and a finger ring will go on its arm to the shoulder with the greatest ease. It lies on the palm of a person’s hand without any trouble. It has a full bead of dark curly hair, and cries as lustily as its small size will permit. ANOTHER MINE HORROR. On. Hundred and Fifty Men Hopelessly Hurled. London, Aug. 20.—A fearful accident occurred this morning at the Park Slip coal pit, near Bridge End, a mining town n Glamorganshire, Wales. The day shift of miners had not been long in the mine before a most terrible explosion was heard. The day shift comprised 150 men. and their relatives and friends rushed to the pit to learn the extent of the disaster. The explosion had caused the earth and rock to fail, and the mouth of the pit was closed. Not a single man of the 150 in the mine had made his escape, and it is feared that there has been great loss of life. Hundreds of miners in the vicinity have volunteered their services, and the work of clearing the pit mouth is being pushed as rapidly as circumstances will allow. All around the pit are gathered women and children, hoping for the best yet expecting the worst. The mine officials hold out all the hope possible, but it can easily be seen that they fail to make the mothers and wives believe that there is much ground for it. The color of a shark’s eggs is black, of leathery texture, thin and tough, and in form similar to a handbarrow.