Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Hope, Bartholomew County, 9 February 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBIICaN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA Ip you arc not fond of gum, “lick” the en velope and it will “got there just the same." M. Eiffel is to bridge the Neva at St. Petersburg with a structure to cost $14,000,000.

The Pope, the Kaiser and Presi-dent-elect Cleveland lead the world os recipients of advice on the proper manner of conducting their affairs. A Rochester man claims to have invented a self-patching jacket and trousers for small boys, and wants to pose as a great public benefactor. Rev, Sam Small has retired from the ministry and re-entered journalism as an editor of the Atlanta Constitution, believing that he can find a larger audience and do more good in that field.

r ~ ' A scientist asserts that “it takes 5,232 bees to weigh a pound.” When a single well-organized bee feels well and comes with his sticker end he has convinced man}' a fellow that ho weighed over a pound. Fortv-fouii electoral colleges formally cast their ballots at the vari ous State capitals on the 9th of January, and Congress will complete the programme by counting them at Washington on the 9th of February. An actress attempted to slash the throat of a theatrical manager with a razor recently, but his life was saved by his fur overcoat collar. The reason for the theatrical fur collar' has always been a Aystory, but is now apparent. A Rochester, N. Y., hatter, who presented President Cleveland with his inauguration hat eight years ago, has secured a huge advertisement from the daily press without cost to himself by presenting the Presidentelect with a similar tile to be worn on the 4th of March. The enterprising hatter of Rochester can learn our advertising rates on application. Locai, option in Massachusetts is being carried to a greater degree of severity than has ever obtained in any other section of the country where that method bf regulating the liquor traffic has been tried. As the law now stands, each town votes whether it will have license or not, but Boston proposes that hereafter each ward in the- city shall decide for itself on the same point.

Lottie Fowler, a Boston medium, has had a seance in which she obtained a lengthy interview with Jay Gould. Many people will be glad to know that Jay has seen the error of his ways, and is now prepared to admit that ho pursued the Almighty dollar rather too vigorously for the good of his own soulund other people, but he is now bending the energies of his great intellect towards more benign objects and expresses a hope that all will yet be well with i him. Official figures recently issued show that during the calendar year 1892 the loss of property from fire in the United States and Canada aggregated $132,704,700. This is $5,000,000 less than during the year proceeding, but more than $25,000,000 in excess of the total loss in 1890. These figures would be startling, were it not that the people of this country, had, through unfortunate experience become used to contemplating large figures in this connection. It is an extent of loss that would be considered impossible in a ny European country outside of Russia, thoroughly equipped and efficient fire departments as constitute the oridc of many cities in the United States. 1 The most reliable rcporls from the ISan Juan country seem to indicate Vhat gold in considerable quantities 'Ras been found in that region, but not sufficient to justify the expectations of the horde of miners that have flocked to the fields. To the traveland student, however, it seems jjjat the country affords great in-

ducements for further exploration. It seems to have been a favorite resort for the cliff-dwellers, or other races of a pre-historic ago. A large stone fort has been already discovered, and hand-holes cut in the rocks to reach it are still visible. There is every evidence that .the desert waste was at one tinje a th’okly populated settlement, but no one has as yet offered a satisfactory solution of the problem as to how these people obtained sustenance surrounded as they were for long distances by nothing but sand and rocks.

Ballooning was invented more than one hundred years ago by Mont-, golfier, a Frenchman. There.were then great expectations of its development. Thirty-three years ago John Wise with three companions sailed from St. Louis, Mo., to Henderson, N. Y., a distance of 1,150 miles, in less than twenty hours. Several air ships were on the stocks last year, but none were launched. Now comes a St. Louis man seeking capital to build another. There does not seem to be much progress in the art of aerial naviganion. All the pir ships have thus far proven worthless, while the balloon has often proved of great value. It may be that the Frenchman who is now building a rigid baloon will arrive at better results than have yet been attained in this branch of science, from which so much has been looked for and so little of practical benefit obtained. The death of Rutherford B. Hayes leaves Grover Cleveland in sole possession of the uncertain honors attaching to the position of an ex-Presi-dent, and that distinguished individual will resign them to Benjamin Harrison on the 4th of March, when he will for the second time be inaurated as the Chief Magistrate of the Great Republic. It has been said that “Republics are ungrateful,” and this proverb is given additional emphasis by the fact that we now have, and in the near future are likely to have, but one living exPresident, for whom our laws make no provision by way of honor, rank or pecuniary reward. It is an open question whether the country is a gainer by this parsimony. True, tho government will survive, and those who from time to time may succeed to the offices will be amply able to administer its affairs, but the United States might, in many probable instances be largely the gainer by making some provision for the future of ex-Presidents, whereby we might profit by their experience and at the same time preserve and add to the dignity of the retired ruler of the greatest nation on the earth. The government of tho United States year after year, at great expense, stocks our streams and lakes from hatcheries, and yet in all tho States the most wanton vandalism and waste prevails, and any attempt to enforce tho statutes for the preservation of the finny denizens of our waters is met with - the most determined opposition on the part of large numbers of people, and public opinion in the localities where such laws are needed is such as to render them a dead letter in the majority of cases. An Indiana judge has recently decided in cases brought before him by the Indiana State Pish Commissioner. that the possession of a seine is no evidence' that the ppssessor intends to use it for unlawful purposes, and as a result of this technicality a large number of prosecutions have been dismissed, while, the “outraged” offenders have now combined to keep the hook and line anglers off their lands, and are backed by the approval of their communities. A fish cannpt swim a mile, in Lake Erie without running into some kind of a trap, and the hoggishness of the market fishermen in those waters can scarcely find an equal. Oregon is doing the same kind of porcine work on the Columbia and Willametto rivers. What ‘is needed is a stringent, sweeping law that would stop all net fishing for five years, and let the fish have a start. Added to this must como a more rational way of thinking on tho part of large numbers of people, who must be made to see tneir great wrong in seeking a trivial present gain, and a few hours sport, at the expense of .the uttei annihilation of so important a source of food supply.

IMAM STATE NEWS. Fairmont will have waterworks. Petersburg will have electric lights. Mrs. I. F. Smith killed herself by shooting at Kokomo. Frankfort held a Blaine memorial ’service Monday night. Lon Clarke was killed by a log falling upon him near Lebanon. Dr. C. D. McLahlan committed suicide by hanging at Harrodsburg. Tho manufacture of artifticial gas has been abandoned at Anderson. Wm. Ice, living near Sumraitville, has gone insane, duo to religious excitement. Chas. Fleming, of Anderson, was given a year north for passing a $50 confederate bill. Tho election contest case at' Valparaiso i was decided .iu .favor of Stoddard (Rep.) for sheriff. The residence of Hon. Geo. W. Steele was burned at Marion, Sunday. Loss $5,000; insurance $2,000. Edward Hill of Anderson was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for criminal assault upon a little girl. In the first city election at Alexandria, the Democracy triumphed in the election of John E. Sherman as mayor. Charles Crist, of Warsaw, was carried through the runway and dangerously injured while assisting in storing ice. Taylor McComiaha, of Centerville, a prominent horseman, is mysteriously missing. Ho is said to be financially embarrassed. Madison county claims to have more than 13,000 voter? and a population of 53,000. It wants a greater representation in the Legislature. Suicides are epidemic throughout the State, no loss than four cases being reported from Friday night to Sunday morning in various quarters. Joe McGraimahan, of Anderson, while coasting on his sled, struck Mrs. Thomas Barnett, knocking her fully twenty feet. The lady was dangerously hurt. The complaint is general against the extravagant waste of natural gas by oil men operating in Jay, Adams and Wells counties, and tho Legislature will be asked to prohibit it. Tho gas main supplying Peru burst in the middle of the Wabash river, Tuesday morning, throwing tho ice into the air and shutting off tho fuel from the city for several hours John Smith, of St. Louis, a roller, employed In tho Indiana iron-works at Monde, was caught in a coupling and his left arm was torn off. His helper, by great effort, prevented him from being torn to pieces. During revival services at Fowler, Geo. Wadsworth, a prominent man of that vicinity, started to walk out. Instantly the minister shouted, “Bless God, one soul scared.” Mr. Wadsworth is proposing a suit for damages. Joseph Humphrey and Sarah Barnes, of Decatur county, were married, and two hours later Mr. Humphrey found himself defendant in a breach of promise suit instituted by Mrs. Barbara A. Harvey, who claims $2,000 damages. Wm. Walters, of Muncie, is employed in the transmission of nitro-glycerine over the gas-belt in a wagon and in “shooting” gas wells. Occasionally his wife accompanies him on his perilous trips and recently she “shot” a well, preparing the “go-devil,” and doing tho work unassisted. While Sim Henderson, a colored pugilist of Rockport, was call 1 ng upon his betrothed ho saw “Judge” Jackson, colored, approaching. He looked upon Jackson as a rival, and. opened fire with a shot-gun. The side of Jackson’s face was sprinkled with shot and one eye was ruined. It is said that some of tho insurance companies have lost so heavily during the past year in the gas belt that they have ceased to issue policies in that section of the State, and have signified a willingness to withdraw from tho field. The causes arc attributed, first, to carelessness, and secondly, to incendiarism. Tho tenth annual anniversary of tho burning of the Conn band-instrument factory, at Elkhart, was commemorated,Monday night, by a concert, after which Con-gressman-elect Conn made his annual distribution of dividends on the profit-shar-ing basis which lie instituted two years ago. Altogether 814,000 awas distributed among 103 employes. Patents were Tuesday granted Indiana inventors as follows: G. J. Cline* Goshen, fence; O. G. Howell and J. M. Horn, Arba, pump; I. Key, assignor of ,jpno-half to G. Capron and S. II. Hahn, Winamac, churn; S. J Lamb, Now Albany, corn planter; W. 8. O’Brien, Lafayette, vehicle seat; G. M. D. Pomeroy and G. II. Webber, Lebanon, potato digger. A flow of natural gas was struck near Leisure, but the well began to fill with water, and tho cold weather set in before it could be properly packed. The gas kept oozing up, however, throwing the water out with it, and, as tho water kept freezing, the ice piled higher and higher, until it stood a. hollow column almost one hundred feet high. Further details of the murder of George Doano by Charles Bohannon, a jealous rival, show that Bohannon warned Miss Sallie Madden, with whom they wore both enamored, that, if she persisted in receiving calls from Doano lie would kill him. Miss Madden told Bohannon tit at she was betrothed to Doano and would marry him. Tho next time Doano called tho gir! walked down to the gate to moot him, and they were met by Bohannon, who killed Doano in her presence and while she vainly tried to stay his arm. Louis Bender, the convict at the Prison South who escaped two weeks ago and made his way to Kentucky over tho ice and by swimming, where he was recaptured, became insane from tho exposure. Sunday night he imagined lie was an Indian, and desiring a camp-fire to give reality to his delusion, he sot fire to his bedding and held a war-dance. As a result ho was horribly burned, and died In great

agony, Tuesday morning. He was sentenced from Monroe county for two years for bnrgiary. Four men and a dog went coon hunting near English, capturing three coons. In a quarrel over the division of the hides a judge was called in who laid aside two o( the skins as his fee, and cut up the third into four parts giving each man a piece, and awarded the tail to tho dog. A terrible fight resulted among the hunters, but tho dog was not injured or involved in any way. TAX LAW VALID. State Tax Board Sustained at All Points. Supremo Court Decision in the Marion County Test Case, C The Big Four railway, nearly a year ago, brought suit in tho Circuit Court of Marion county to enjoin County Treasurer Backus from collecting tho taxes assessed upon it by the State Board, before Judge Brown. The constitutionality of the law under which the tax board was operating was attacked. Tho State won, and tho case was carried through all the usual stages to tiie court of last resort, where oral argument was completed two weeks ago. Friday afternoon the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in the case affirming the decision of tho lower court. The right to collect taxes, State and local, on $100,000,000 of railroad property, is involved. That tax amounts to $1,500,000 each year. Tho railroad companies, which have been fighting the law, agreed to pay taxes,on $09,000,000 of valuation, as assessed under the lav/, butdeclinedtc pay on the $100,000,000 additional, levied by tho State Board of Tax Commissioners, created two years ago. Some of the railroads which have been resisting tho law have paid the tax under protest, but tho others have declined to pay. and many hundreds of thousands of dollars await this decision. Every railroad in every county in the State has been watching this case for six months with uncommon interest. Tho Big Four case, or tho one decided Friday, of course, will determine all tho other suits pending. Over it the battle was fought, aud the grandest array of legal talent that ever contended in an Indiana court has wrestled for the supremacy in this suit. ANOTHER HOMESTAED POISONER. Found Guilty-—Robert J. Beatty Held on Six Counts. The j ury in the case of Robert S. Beatty, charged with being an accomplice in the Homestead poisonings, at Pittsburg, brought in a verdict, Thursday, of guilty in six indictments, after being out but seven minutes. THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, Feb 6, 18SX Quotations for Indianapolis when not specified CHAIN. Wheat—No. 2 rod,57V£c;Ko. 3 red, 6?c; wagon wheat, 07c. Corn No. 1 white 40%c; No. 2 white, 4()c;white mixed,39>jc; No. 3 white,40Xc; No. 2 yellow. 49c; No. H yellow, 391-5c; No. 2 mixed, 49c; No. 3 mixed, 39t<c, ear, 40c, Oats—No, 2 white, 35c; No. 3 white, 35c; No. 2 mixed, 331-5c; rejected, 31c, Hay-Timothy, choice, $13.01); No. 1, $23.50; No. 2, $10.00; No. ) prairie, $7.75; No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay,$7.50. Bran $13.50 per ton. i Wheat- i Corn. , Oats. | Eye. Chicago 2r’d 73'4 42*4 30)41 Cincinnati..,. 2 r‘d 72 ; 43)4 A, i C3 St, Louis. ...'fif’d W : S8j.il 33ti! 6814 New York fir’d TOW M'i! 3SJ4 711 Baltimore—I 78 a 53)4 41 66 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 76!-j 54 • tVa Clover i 1 Seed. Toledo 73 45 ! 35 1 8 jo Detroit I wb )■'* 1 43)4 30 ! Minneapolis., i 67)4 CATTLE. Export grades $4 75® 5 50 Good to cholcoshlppors 4 25®4 (30 Fair to medium shippers 3 00®) 09 Common shippers 2 75@3 25 Stockers, common to good 2 25®3 35 Good to choice heifers 3 40®4 OJ Fair to medium heifers 2 75@3 20 Common, thin heifers 2 00®2 50 Good to choice cows 3 00®?. 55 Fair to medium cows 2 25®2 75 Common old cows 1 25@2 00 Veals, good to choice 3 50®6 00 Bulls, common to medium 1 50(513 00 Milkers, good to choice 3000®, 0;xj Milkers, common to. medium... I0o#@25o 0 HOGS, iteavv packing 7.70®T.tO. Mixed 7.iO®7,8.', Light 7.15®7.65 Heavy roughs (>[email protected] SHEEP. Good to choice sheep $4.25®,5.00 Fair to medium sheep 3.50®4.25 Common sheep 2.50®3.00 Good to choice lambs 4.75(o!5.50 Common to medium lambs 3,75(3)4.25 Bucks, per head [email protected] poultry and other produce. Poultry—Hens.8c it) lb; young chickens tie i lb; turkeys, lie lb, ducks,7c fibguesc, 15.40 lor choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 25c. Butler—Choice country but,tor, tS®20c; common, 8@10c; creamery, retailing from stare at 3£c Cheese-New York full cream,I2@i3Xc.; skims, 5®7c V *>. (Jobbingprices.) Feathers—Prime goose40c $ lb; mixed duck, 20c lb. Beeswax —Dark, 15c; yellow,30e (selling) Wool—Fine merino, iO'iJl.Hc; unwashed combing,21c; tub washed, SRajSJc. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3c; No. 2 green hides. 3V£e; No. I G. S. hides, 4'<fc; No. 3 G. S. hides, 3Xc: No. lj!tallow, 4c; No, 2 tallow, 3Xc. Horse Hides—$3@$3.35. Tallow —No. 1, 4c; No. 2, SJjfc. Grease—White, 4c; ycllw, 3%c; brown. 3c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Potatoes—51.00® i.lo ? bu. Lemons—Choice, $3.50 if) box: fancy. 53.75. Onions—$4 |i bri; Spanish. $1.50, per crate.

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