Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Hope, Bartholomew County, 9 February 1893 — Page 6

TIIE NE WS OF THE WEEK Suicide is epidemic at Louisville. A. family of three were frozen to death near Topeka, Friday. A great find of hematito has been made near Menominee, Mich. Boats are running once more between Cincinnati and Louisville. The will of the late; John Huntington bequeaths over $1,000,000 to charity. Mrs. Guthrie, of Effingham, 111.,dropped dead upon finding that notes she hold for 835,000 wore worthless. The pension payments this month are $14,000,000, a decrease, as compared with last month, of $1,000,000. Ten thousand dollar’s worth of diamonds were stolen ofrom a Sacramento Jeweler’s window, Tuesday evening. Judge VVm. Lindsay is the Democratic caucus nominee to succeed John G. Carlisle, resigned, as Senator from Kentucky. Desperado Kush Morgan was shot and killed near Hubbard Springs, Ky., Tuesday evening. Morgan had killed seventeen icon.

The police at Buffalo have arrested a gang of railroad car thieves. Over seven thousand dollars,’ worth of plunder was recovered. 1 Anna Dickenson has sued eight persons, Instrumental in having her committed to an insane asylum, for damages aggregating $185,000. At Paris, Tens., eleven Seventh Day Adventists were arraigned in the criminal courts charged with laboring on their farms on Sunday. I U. S. Fish Commissioner McDonald does not look for any legislation by the present Congress for the preservation of the salmon fisheries of Alaska. The Alabama house has passed a bill prohibiting the sale or giving away or otherwise disposing of cigarettes, cigarettoe tobacco and cigarette paper. Mrs. Flora Payne Whitney, wife of exSecretary Whitney, and daughter of Senator Payne, of Ohio, died suddenly at the home of her husband in New'York, Sunday morning, of heart disease. A band of Indian cattle thieves killed four cow boys near *Pine Ridge Agency, Friday. There is no discontent among the redskins, and further trouble is not feared. No troops will be sent to the agency. Thoroughgood Tazvvell, a negro, went to Deal Island, off the coast of Virginia, and asked a young colored girl, Leah Wallace by name, to marry him. When she refused he forced a revolver into her mouth and shot her dead. He has been arrested. Gov. Werts, of New Jersey, Monday, nominated Wm. Walter Phelps to be lay Judge of tho Court of Errors and Appeals. Gov. Werts is a Democrat and Mr. Phelps is at present American Minister to Berlin, and a Republican. The Governor and Mr. Phelps are old friends, and the appointment is meant as a personal compliment, IThe Hawaiian commissioners of the provisional government, arrived at Washington, Saturday. They demand immediate annexation. If the United States

J. M. DOLE. PKOVISIOKAL PRESIDENT OF HAWAII.

persists in the discussion of a protectorate they will return without an effort to arrange the matter. It is understood that President Harrison and his cabinet have changed front and will favor annexation as the only possible solution of the problem. FOREIGN. The King of Spain is ill with scarietina. Many are reported killed in a riot at Bogota. Great and destructive floods prevail in Australia. A German genera! says Europe Is on the, verge of a war. ! James Egan, the released Irish dynamiter, was entertained at a public dinner in Limerick. The mayor of Limerick presided. The Khedive was received with exceptional enthusiasm at Assieot, where he opened a new railway. The island of Zanto in the Grecian archipelago was shaken by an earthquake, Tuesday evening, and many people were killed and injured. THE ANTI-OPTION Bill. JUissagc of the Measure by the Senate After 'Liny Delays. ' The Senate got rid of the iegialativ* Incubus, under which it has labored since the first day of thosession. The, anti-option bill reached the point at which voting began at 3:15 p. ra,, Tuesday, and finally the bill was passed by a vote of 40 to 39. There were many members of the House of Representatives, at times almost as many of them as there were senators present, in the, .'donate chamber during the vote and the preliminary discussion of the bill, and the deepest, interest, was manifested in the proceedings on the floor and in the crowded galleries. DEATH OF GEN. THCS.W. BENNETT Gen. Thos. W. Bennett died at Richmond, Thursday. He had been seriously ill since last June as a result of sunstroke received in the army. Gen. Bennett was well known, having a distinguished war

record and being prominent in G. A. R. matters. At tho time of his death ho was a member of the soldiers’ monument commission. MESSAGE. President Harrison’s Recommendations Concerning- the Consular Seal Privilege, President Harrison, Thursday, sent to tho House a message dealing with the subject of importation of foreign goods under consular seal across tho Canadian border, and makes various recommendations among which are; That tho treaty of Washington imposed no obligations upon the United States to use concessions as to transit made by Canada; that the law authorizes sealing of cars in Canada containing foreign merchandise, from countries not contiguous; that tho statutes relating to transportation of merchandise between the United States and the British possessions should be revised. TO SUCCEED LAMAR. President Harrison Sends in the Name of Howell K. .Jackson. Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee, was nominated Thursday by the Pesident to be associate justice of the Supremo Court, vice L. Q. C. Lamar, deceased. Mr. Jack-

JUSTICE HOWEI.l. B. JAOKSOX.

son is a native of Tennessee; graduated from Western Tennessee college in 1848; was twice judge of State Supreme Court; member of Legislature; United States Senator 1881-86; appointed by Cleveland, Federal District Judge for Western district of Tennessee. He is a Democrat. TBEPANAMA scandal. CoZ. Dick Thompson Again Denies that Money Was Illegitimately Used in America. Col. Dick Thompson, in an authorized interview in the Indianapolis News, Wednesday, denies in sweeping terms that any money was used in the United States to secure legislation, or to prevent adverse action in the Panama canal business by the United States. He expresses implicit confidence in Do Lesseps. and in the ultimate success and practicability of the canal project. On Monday Col. Thompson sent a telegram to Congressman Brookshire, of his district, telling him to inform the chairman of the Panama committee, to bo appointed by the House, that he would go to Washington on a telegraphic summons. On Tuesday tho summons came, and he wiil at once proceed to the capital, aithougli in poor health. THEY CRY FOR BREAD. The Awful Poverty iu Pondon—Brutality of the Police. About 350 wretched-looking victims of poverty and privation gathered on Tower Hill, London, Tuesday, and resolved to make a display of their rags and misery before the lords and commoners of Parliment. One of them began to address the others, A stout, well-fed policemen rushed into tho crowd and seized the orator by the neck. Some of tho unemployed got angry at this interfence and tried to fight the police. A general melee ensued, several of tho rioters being apparently anxious to he arrested, with the result of getting something to eat. The police laid about with their batons, and injured a number of the rioters. A HUMAN BALLOON. The Penetrat ion of a Man’s Lung by a Bib Fills His Body with Air. A case of emphysema, or air swelling has developed at the City Hospital at Baltimore, and the patient has assumed the shape of a balloon. His skin is as tight as a drum-head, and it may burst at any moment. He is Frederick Otte, aged 48. He was employed as a driver by the Adams Express Company, and" while at work in the company’s warehouse was caught between a moving car and the wall and dragged about ten feet. He was crushed as though between rollers, and several of his ribs were broken. Tho sharp ends of the bones were driven into his lungs, and he was sent to the City Hospital. Soon after his arrival he began to swell up, and has been constantly increasing in size. The cause of the swelling is the escape of air from the punctured lungs which is pumped from the lungs to the tissues beneath the skin at every breath. Nothing can be done for him except to tap him, and the doctors think that he will die soon even if the skin does not burst. Otte’s features are badly distorted and he is helpless and incapable of motion. The cushion of air beneath his skin is like an air pillow.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Senate opened Tuesday at 10 a. m. without prayer. Motion that investigation of corporations loaning money in State be indefinitely postponed was adopted. Judiciary committee made numerous reports. Committee on roads recommended passage of bill to establish a soldier’s homo. Committee recommended passage of bill regulating jurisdiction of county commissioners. Insurance committee reported against bill to form mutual protection associations. Committee on cities and towns favorably reported six bills. A dozen or more bills on roll call were to engrossment. Petition from Pomona Grange of Boone county asking that no appropriations be made was received with usual formality. Great deal of time consumed in consideration of bills on second reading. Bill to amend election law was continued. Adjourned. House was opened with prayer by Rev. Bryan. Numerous petitions and memorials were presented—one against the Roby race track. Judiciary committee reported in favor of passage of five bills, among which were: Concerning donation of lands to cemeteries; amending law concerning change of venue; conoerning'payment of turnpike bonds. Senate concurrent resolution for popular election of United States Senators unanimously adopted. Bill providing that insurance companies shall pay full amount of policy in loss by fire, passed. Bill regulating liability of common carriers was engrossed. Bill prohibiting winter horse racing was favorably reported. Bill to abolish relief association of Podnsylvania railroad was postponed. Discussion ensued on bill to amend homestead act, providing that a man shall not have $600 exemt if anyone has a claim against him for labor performed, and bill referred. Bill making Memorial and Labor Days legal holidays, passed. Bill to prohipit adulteration of food and drugs was given two reports by committee, majority favoring its passage. Large number of new bills introduced. Adjourned. Senate was opened with prayer, Wednesday, by Rev. Bryant. Bill providing that county shall pay for bridges costing $500 and over, and impowering Commissioners to assess persons directly benefitted, passed. Bill prohibiting sale of cigarettes passed. Extended debate on drug clerk bill and it was made special order for next Wednesday. Bill allowing State Board of Agriculture to own more than eighty acres of land passed. Bill concerning compensation of witnesses passed. Bill concerning release of mortgages passed. Bill providing for the appointment of special judges was postponed. Bill authorizing Commissioners to cover into treasury all surplus revenue was unanimously passed. Bill defining powers of policemen passed to second reading. A general melee followed, in the midst of which a motion to adjourn was made and carried. House was prayed for by Rev. Butchell. Bills to amend school law and for transfer of insane convicts wore introduced. Large batch of committee reports. Numbers of bills were killed. Concurrent resolutions asking Indiana members of Congress to support Hatch bill passed. Bills for regulating weighing of wheat and for the appointment of township engineer were favorably reported. Bill allowing children in thinly settled townships to attend school in adjoining townships was unfavorably reported, but was ordered printed. Resolution favoring American supremacy in Hawaii was referred. Reports from committees favoring the passage of large number of bills received. Bill regulating the weighing of coal was favorably reported. McLean’s resolution concerning ship canal was referred. Biil for electing superintendents of county poor farms was killed. Bill to regulate indebtedness represented by checks and drafts was killed. Bill to enlarge powers of prosecuting attorneys was postponed. Extended discussion of bill to stop printing of sample ballots in newspapers was had and bill was ordered printed. Bill to regulate liability of common carriers was passed. Law amending the law for granting license to teachers passed. Bill to protect hotel keepers was introduced, Adjourned. Thursday’s session of the Senate opened without devotion, no parson having arrived. Senator Magee presided in absence of Lieutenant Governor. Bill relating to the violation of the fish law was unfavorably reported. Bill regulating payment of salaries of county officers was unfavorably reported, and ordered printed. Bills for location of position of Indiana soldiers at Chickamauga, and for the payment of short-hand reporters, in certain cases, were favorably reported. Bill to revise the statutes was indefinitely postponed. Bill to appropriate$60,500 to State Normal School was referred to finance committee from educational committee. Thirty-five petitions, asking for watchers on election boards, were presented. Large number of new bills introduced, among which were: For the enumeration of deaf mutes; for a monument to Gov. Jennings; granting women right to vote at city and township elections. Adjourned. House was opened with prayer by T. A. Hild;eth. Members were in sportive mood as a result of the ball, ’Wednesday night, and “guyed” the journal clerk for fifteen minutes, after which the regular order was resumed. Many new bills were introduced. Many unimportant bills were killed or indefinitely postponed. Bill to regulate depth of grave! on toll roads was discussed, but no action taken. Bill presented as a substitute, for one vetoed by the Governor, providing tor continuance of cases in court where attorneys are members of the Assembly, passed. Bill providing for taxation of receipts of telephone and other corporaeions was referred. S. B. No. 39, legalizing incorporation of the town of Markle, was passed. Bill changing time of holding township elections to November was recommended

passed. Number of bills ordered engrossed. Several were killed. Bill for the relief of Chumworth. treasurer of Wabash county, who suffered loss by burglars, was adopted. Adjourned. Senate was opened, Friday, by Bishop Knickerbackcr, according to the Episcopalian ritual. Lieutenant Governor Nye in the chair, after a day’s absence. Committee granted leave of absence to investigate Evansville hospital lor insane. Bill for forfeiture and repayment of money raised for railroad companies was favorably reported. Bill concerning attachments was unfavorably reported. Usual number of memorials favoring G. A. R. encampment appropriation were received. On roll call for new bills Senator Magee objected to introduction of any more new measures, but several were offered. Bill making pay of commissioners $5 instead of $3 a day was amended to $4 a day and adopted. Bills were advanced to third reading. Bill enlarging powers of justice was engrossed. Bill for formation of mutual protective associations was postponed. Motion to adjourn caused debate of an hour, and as a result the Senate adjourned till 11 o’clock Monday. Immediately following opening House a resolution against extra session was passed by viva voce vote. Bills wore introduced. Bill providing tor analysis of commercial fertilizers passed. Bill to abolish contract prison labor system read a third time, and made special order for Tuesday at 2 o’clock Bill to stop printing of sample ballot in newspapers was engrossed. Bill to prevent trustees from moving school buildings without consent of a majority of patrons passed. Bill providing that railroad companies shall not make extra charge whore passenger has not purchased a ticket was favorably recommended. Bill providing for removal of county scats was favorably recommended and made special order for next Thursday. Bill providingfor appointment of township engfneerwas engrossed. Adjourned till Saturday morning. legislative: notes. The House ways and means committee, in a majority report, Tuesday night, declared against the appropriation of $50,000 for G. A. R. encampment. A minority report will be made in its favor, and a hard fight will be made by the friends of the measure. Senator McLean has prepared a bill memoralizing Congress to authorize a preliminary survey of a canal from Lake Michigan at a point about thirty miles from Chicago to Delphi on the Wabash, about ninety-six miles. The estimated cost of the canal is $10,000,000. The Wabash and the proposed canal are to bo made navigable for large steamers —the river by means of dams and locks. Charles Ludlow, of Alexandria, was “held up” by thieves in the corridor of the State House Monday afternoon. He was on his way to tho Secretary of State’s office from the Legislature when a man halted him in a dark corner by asking a question. A second man approached from behind, attracting Ludlow's attention. Tho first man grabbed Ludlow’s watchchain. He knocked tho fellow down, and in tho excitement tho two thieves escaped. Thursday tho hospital committe secured leave of absence to go to Evansville to investigate charges made against the management of tho Southern Hospital. The trustees are accused of using their positions for their personal apprandizoment. Dr. Thomas is charged with various irregularities. Food at the institution is said to be bad and insufficient in quality. Gov. Matthews says there will be no extra session. b The bill abolishing teachers’ institutes has been killed. The legislative committee found nothing in the charges against tho management of the Evansville insane hospital. Senator Stewart’s bill introduced early in tho session, defining judicial districts, is one of tho most important measures before tho Assembly. It reduces the number of districts from fifty-four to forty-seven. The new circuits are as follows: First District—Vandorburg and Warrick counties. Second —Posey and Gibson. Third —Dubois, Spencer and Perry. Fourth—Orange, Crawford and Harrison. Fifth—Floyd. Sixth—Clark and Jefferson. Seventh—Lawrence, Washington and Scott. Eighth—Daviess and Martin. Ninth—Knox and Pike. Tenth—Clay and Sullivan. Eleventh—Greene, Monroe and Brown. Twelfth—Jackson and Jennings. Thirteenth—Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland. Fourteenth—Franklin and Ripley. Fifteenth —Putnam, Morgan and Owen. Sixteenth—Shelby and Decatur. Seventeenth—Johnson ami Bartholomew. Eighteenth—Vigo. Nineteenth — Parke, Vermillion and Fountain. Twentieth—Marion. Twenty-first—Hancock and Rush. Twenty-second--Montgomery. Twenty-third—Warren and Tippecanoe. Twenty-fourth—Boone and Hendricks. Twenty-fifth—Henry and Fayette. Twenty-seventh—Randolph, Twenty-eighth—Delaware. Twenty-ninth—Madison. Thirtieth—Hamilton. Th irty- first—Clinton. Thirty-second—Howard and Tipton. Thirty-third—Grant and Blackford. Thirty-fourth—Adams and Jay. Thiity-lifth—Huntingdon and Wells. Thirty-sixth—Cass. Thirty-seventh—Pulaski, White and Carroll. Thirty-eighth—Benton, Newton and Jasper. Thirty-ninth—Pulton and Miami. Fortieth—Kosciusko and Wabash. Forty-first—Allen. Forty-.second—Noble and Whitley. Forty-third—-Steuben and DeKalb. Forty-fourth—Elkhart and LaGrange. Forty-fifth—St. Joseph and Marshall. Forty-sixth—Starke, Porter and Laporto. Forty-seventh—Lake. / A thrifty farmer in Brunswick, Me., paid his tailor for a suit of clothes with. 3,000 coppers. They weighed 21 pounds, and he had bean saving them, for years.

' DEMONIACAL GRIMES. A Negro Bavisher Burned in the Presence of 10,000 People. Father of the Child Act. ns Exwutloncri Savages Ouidone.-l-ateKt rha.se of American Civilization. Henry Smith, a negro, who brutally assaulted and murdered Myrtle Vance, a four-year-old child, on the night of the 20th ult., at Paris, Tex., has expiated his awful crime by an awful death. The city was wild with joy over his arrest at Hope, Ark., on Tuesday, and hundreds of people poured into the city from the adjoining country, and the word passed from lip to lip that the punishmentofthe fiend should fit the crime—that death by fire was the penalty Smith should pay for the most atrocious murder anil terrible outrage in Texas history. The whisky simps wore closed, unruly mobs were dispersed, schools were dismissed by a proclamation from the Mayor, and everything was dono in a business-dike manner. Never before nor since the days of the Spanish Inquisition, when cruelty was law, has there been such terrible punishment meted out to any man, but so horrible? was the crime that the punishment, severe as it was, was deemed merited. On Thursday last Henry Smith, a big, burly negro, picked up little Myrtle Vance aged throe and a half years, near the home of her father, policeman Henry Vance, and, giving her candy to ailay her fears, carried her through the central portion of the city to gibbon’s pasture, just within the corporate limits Arriving at the pasture lie, with inhumanity too terrible to relate, first criminally assaulted the little one and then took a limb breach hand and literally tore her in twain. Then covering the body with leaves and brush he lay down and slept caunly throughout the night by the side of his victim. About 5 o’clock Friday morning Smith awakened, went to the house of his wife, and forced her to cook him some breakfast, She asked him what, had become of the white child. He replied: “I ain’t seen no white child ana don’t have noth: ing to do with no- —white folks.” After eating his breakfast he loft and was not seen again until his capture. After the capture in Arkansas where he , had been tracked by officers, ho confessed the crime. Tuesday ho was taken back to Paris. Eu route thousands of people gathered at different places, and at Texarkana trouble was feared Prominent citizens of Paris who had accompanied the officers, asiied that the punishment of the offender bo left to them. Ten thousand people greeted their arrival at Paris The negro was placed upon a carnival float in mockery of a king upon his throne, and was followed by the immense crowd, escorted t hrough the city so all might- see the inhuman monster. Smith was placed upon a scaffold six feet square and ten feet high, securely bound, within the view of all beholders. The victim was first tortured for fifty minutes by thrusting red-hot iron brands against his quivering body. Commencing at liis feet ’the brands were placed against him inch by inch, until they were thrust against the face. Then being apparently dead, kerosene was poured upon him, cot-ton-seed hulls placed beneath him and the mass set on fire. When the mob left all that remained to mark the place of the sacrifice wore a few pieces of charcoal. The cause of the crinie. was that Henry Vance, a deputy policeman, in the course of his duty was called to errest Henry Smith for being drunk and disorderly. The negro was unruly, and Vance was forced to use his club. The negro swore vengeance, and several times assaulted Vance. The father is prostrate with grief, and the mother now lies at death’s door, but she has lived to see the slayer of her innocent child suffer the mosthorrihle death that could bo conceived.

I.II.IUOKALANI. The Dethroned Queen of tho Hawaiian Islands.

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Secretary George Wilson, of the Now York Chamber of Commerce, has completed his compilation of tho statistics of the commerce of that port and of the United States for the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1893. The foreign commerce of tho port of New York amounted to $1,061,330,878, and of the country to $2,010,341,063. This total foreign commerce of this port was $61,328,243 in excess of that of 1880-91, and for the whole country $135,730,841. The excess of imports over exports for this port was $114,473,888, and the excess of imports over exports for tho wholu country was $178,761,434. 4 American vessels brought $81,453,261' worth of imports to that port; foreign vos» sels $491,053,654, and land vehicles $3,741.' 305. American vessels carry $46,103,094 o| the domestic exports, and foreign vessel! $415,569,137. For the whole country tlH trade by American vessels reached $149. 180,371; by foreign vessels, $1,670,385,8121 by land vehicles, $90,874 '