Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 14, Hope, Bartholomew County, 27 July 1893 — Page 3

EX-PRESIDEXT HARRISON. His Ideas On the Financial Situation. S»jrg the Sherman haw ia Not Entirely t he Cause of the Depression. The New York World, of Sunday, prints the following views on the financial situation as expressed by ox-Presidcnt Harrison in unauthorized interview: “The Sherman act is not alone responsible for the prevailing want of confidence that everybody now experiences. The distrust is not against silver only; it’s not against the government issue of money; people are not holding gold throughout the country. Relatively, gold is circulated as freely as silver; people are withdrawmg money—gold, silver and paper alike—from the circulating hanks or the savings institutions and are locking It in safety deposit vaults or hiding it away in old stockings. They do this not because they have not confidence in government money, hut because they are fearful of business calamities. The distrust is increasing, and the outlook is gloomy. The Sherman act is not the sole cause of bad times. That measure has served its purpose, it is true, but it is not responsible for the depression which overhangs commerce, trade and agriculture. “The political party in power came in on a statement of its principles formulated and promulgated at Chicago, where a gathering which represents a diversity of political beliefs and prejudices gave this statement to the country as the platform of the Democratic party. It was announced to the country that the existing system of tariff should he modified to the extent of a tariff for revenue only. On this basis the candidates of the parly now in power were elected. The enormous manufacturing interests were of course duly impressed, and business has been compelled to suit itself to the condition to which the Chicago platform most logically loads. It is impossible to bridge over suddenly the wide chasm intervening between comparative free trade and tlie protective system under which the Nation grew rich without prolonged convulsions in trade. Great economic changes do not adjust themselves with celerity, hence, fearing changes, factories stop, workshops •lose and prices shrink. , If the Chicago enunciation of principles is to be maintained business must prepare for a change. According to its principles, the government is pledged to reduce the tariff to the standard of the Chicago convention. Business cannot prosper under these circumtances. Distrust is widespread, every-thing languishes. “The heterogeneous political elements 'tijafTt.il! meet at Washington in August will represent free trade and many theo • ries contrary to business stability. The conservative people of the country stand aghast at the possibilities of legislation and are trimming their sails to suit the weather. The outlook is dark because it is difficult to see how relief is to come. The distrust might be dispelled, perhaps, but how? In one sense the situation is theatrical; excitement may be calmed by a stroke of inspiration. A panic is sometimes averted by a band striking up a popular air just as the frightened crowd is about to rush and trample over one another. “How can the present somewhat anaogous condition be changed by suddenly inspired confidence? The leaders of the party in power will scarcely acknowledge that Its principles are mistaken ones: that the Chicago platform was false and should be repudiated. 1 can see no Moses it present who will lead the business world out of its Egy ptian darkness.” DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. A shocking double murder occurred at Metropolis, 111., Friday. Richard Shoemaker killed Richard Lukens, Jr., and George Lukens, wounded their father, Richard Lukens, and then committed suicide by sending a bullet into his own body. The Lukens boys were aged twenty-eight and thirty years, both were married men with once child -ach. Richard Lukens was married to Shoemaker’s step-daugh-ter, and the trouble arose from differences about Mrs. Lukens’ property inherited from her father, which Shoemaker, her stepfather, as her guardian, had failed to account for, the matter having been carried to the courts for settlement. All the parties were of high social standing. THE CLAN-NA-GAEL. A roorbach circular has been promul gated in Irish Nationalist circles at New York, which claims that the loss of the battleship Victoria was the result of treachery on the part of Irish sailors on the vessel. The circular says: “Admiral i Tryon is not guilty. He is the victim of the sins of his country. It is sufficient to say that a noble deed lias been done. We have sworn brothers on every English war ship and in every English regiment. We are now in a position never attained before, to strike England in every quarter of the globe.” WE ARE ALL RIGHT. R. G. Dun & Co’s weekly trade review Friday, says; “This week the country has withstood surprisingly well an extraordinary strain. The failure of many banks and firms has come despite relaxation in eastern and some western and southern money markets. Denver banks were overthrown largely by the crazy unwisdom of the people, but in most cities statements show the banks in a healthy condition, and there has since been noticed more readiness to extend accommodation. Under all the conditions, it is astonishing that business has been so well maintained with so little evidence of unsoundness. ’ ’ TO ADVANCE BINDING TWINE John Good states that lie has agreed on behalf of the .lolin Good Cordage and Manufacturing Company, of Now York, with the National Cordage Company, on a basis of prices for binding twine, sisai and manilla rope, which are very much higher than those which are now ruling. Other independent interests have not yet agreed to the new prices. Mr. Good believes there will be no difficulty in obtaining their as sent. The new prices will not become operative until the cordage reorganization i. declared complete.

A GENUINE RATTLE On Hoosier Soil—A Brisk Engagement. Details of u Fight With Tramps In Lake County—One Man Killed, Two Fatally Hurt —Others Wounded, A Hammond, Ind., special to the Indianapolis Nows, on the 19th, says: Two men were mortally wounded and one instantly killed in a pitched battle between frumps and citizens, near Sheffield, night before last. The dead man Is Known as A1 Jennings, alias “Hutch,” of Toledo. O. Ho was shot through the heart. The mortally wounded arc Jack Gallagher, of Allentown, Pa., who was shot through the body at the base of the spine, and ’George Dorch, of Whiting, driver for the South Chicago Browing Company, who is shot through the abdomen and groin. The tramps, nine In number, led by Gallagher, a one-armed cx-convlct, attacked a cabin occhpicd by a fisherman named William Tims, who was sheltering a huntsman named William Purdy, with whom Gallagher had been fighting. In the cabin was Tims’ daughter, Mrs. Emil Stolly, who had given birth to an infant only an hour before. Her husband and George Dorch wore also within. The battle was a hot one while it lasted, hut the tramps ammunition was limited and when it was exhausted they were quickly routed. Purdy, after the melee, guarded GJlaghcr from neighbors bent on lynching. By the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the crowd of people that gathered later. Deputy Sheriff Scott, of Crown Point, was wounded in the calf of the leg; Martin Donald, a huntsman, .n the loft arm, and Frank Zchnitzky, a woodsman, in the left leg. The scene of the battle is an isolated place in the swampy region near the Indi-ana-Illlnois State line, at the head of Lake MIhclgan. LipFlXTIlEl'LAlSANCE. Savages ami Orie itil Tribes Acquire a Love For Strong Drink. There is likely to be considerable trouble among the savage and oriental tribes on the Midway Plalsanco before the close of the Fair as the result of their sudden and inordinate. love for liquor. Already it has been found necessary to send several of the savages back ft >mo because of their inclination to run amuck after loading themselves up with intoxicants. The savage Dahomey ans, who never knew the taste of hsor :ntii their arrival in Chicago, have developed a capacity for the amber fluid equal to that of the German workers in a brewery. Lately it has been found necessary to put two or three i cases of beer in sight of the platform bcI fore they begin their dances and other | performances, and as soon as the program is ended the semi-naked heathens make a rush for the supplies, and, dexterously forcing the corks, insert the neck of the bottle between their teeth and keep it there until the contents are entirely exhausted. A repetition of this program at frequent intervals during the ! day puts them into a hilarious mood by dusk, and strict precautions have been .’ound necessary to keep them from breaking away from the village and raising a row in the Plaisance. Many of the. Moors and others have also taken a fancy to whisky and oth> - strong drinks; the yiler the quality the more they like it and the greater the amount they can get away with. Fears are expressed that these, conditions will someday lead to a icneral emeute in the thoroughfare, the"prince of lunatics. George Francis Train May Go: to Chicago to Save the Fair. Several little girls and an elderly man who wore a suit of snow-white duck, all j skipping ropes, attracted the loungers of ; Madison Square, New York, Tuesday. At i length ho stopped, panting. His rope dangled from one hand and the other rested on one of the park benches. The man was George Francis Train. Mr. Train produced a telegram signed by Reed Campbell, which asked if he would go to the World’s Fair if invited. “I have telegraphed that I do not see how 1 can say ‘No’,” he said. “I may go to Chicago and save the Fair. They want me to go even now at the last minute. I don’t say surely that I will go, but if I go I shall save the Fair. “They have put about 535,000,00;) into it. They cannot get it back except by the use of psychic force. If this force were properly used it would bring millions of people to Chicago. Suppose the school children are induced to go. Count 13,000,00( school children im America and 350.00C teachers. Let the cities and towns of the country Issue scrip, arrange with the railroad companies to carry the school children for one-sixth fare, and let all attend the great schc ol in the White City for one week; This would put the Fair upon it? feet. I do not know that I will go. II the commissioners had been wise they would have called on me before.” WHAT WE LONGER. Cold Waves Made While Ton Walt—A Big Scheme. Some of the rainmakers and citizens o! Aberdeen, S. D., have formed what is tt be known as the. International Cold Wave Company, with a capital of $1,(03,000. Th< organization claims to have discovere> the secret of producing cold waves. Foi instance, when heat running at 90 to KK degrees drives in upon the Dakotas frou the plains of Kansas or Montana, th< company says it will set a counter-breezi blowing from the ice fields of the Nortl which will dissipate the hot wave am bring a temn"- ture of about 68 to 70 de grees Fahrenheit. The company refuse to make public any part of its secret, bu offers to guarantee what it proposes to do

FRANCE AND SIAM. The French Ultimatum and Its Effect in England. Anxiety at Itangkok Lord Dullerlu (ioei to Farts on a Special Mission. In the House of Commons, Thursday, the Siamese troubles came up for discussion. Sir Edward Gray, Secretary of the Foreign Office, spoke In behalf the Government. He rehearsed the events that have occurred in Siam since the relations between that country and France had become strained, and said the British government had neither such sufficient nor precise information as would enable it to form a conclusion as to the merits of the conflict. Sir Edward added that the only part of the French ultimatum to Siam which concerned Great Britain was that relating to territorial arrangements be-

MAP OF SIAM.

tween France and Siam. The government had determined to send Lord Dufferin, the British ambassador to France, back to Paris, with a view to securing an immediite exchange of views with the French government on this point. In response to questions, he said that the following ultimatum sent by France to Siam, contained in a telegram from Bangkok, tallied with that France had communicated to great Britain, but gave the terms in fuller detail. (1) A recognition of the rights of Annamaud Corabodia, on the left or eastern Bank of the Mekong river. (3) The evacuation of the forts held there by the Siamese within a month. (3) Full satisfaction for various aggressions again-t French ships and French sailors on the Menam river. (4) The punishment of tin culprits and provision for the pecuniary Indemnity of the victims. (5) An indemnity of 2,( 0 ),000 francs for various damages sustained by French subjects; and fi) the immediate deposit of 3.00 ),000 francs to guarantee the payment of the fourth and fifth claims of the assignment of the taxes on certain districts in lieu of the deposit of 3,0 .0,030 francs. The belligerent attitude of the French gunboats Comete, Incostante and Forfait, opposite the middle of the city of Bangkok is causing great anxiety among the people. All three gunboats have steam up and cleared for action. The men arc; constantly beat to quarters and they train their guns on any Siamese boat that happens to pass them up or down the river, day, or night, although in accordance with an agreement with M. Pavie, French minister resident, the Siamese government endeavors to allay suspicion by warning in advance the French commander of the passage of every Siamese man-of-war. Freedom of action in the negotiations is much restricted by the pressure exercised ostentatiously by the French war vessels. The Russian fleet in Chinese waters has been ordered to proceed to the Gulf of Siam and will support the French government in its demands and protect the French residents in Siam where possible. PLATE-GLASS TRUST SMASHER. The Organization Projorted Two Year.* Aga Has Fallen Through. The failure of the plate glass manufacturers of the country to perfect the organization of the National Plate Glass Association and the decision not to ask their employes to accept a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages smashes the §8,000,000 trust. The combine was projected two years ago, and meetings have been held once a month in Pittsburg to perfect the details of the organization. All the plate glass factories in the country, with a few exceptions, joined the trust. The plants not in the combine were: The Crystal City, of Crystal City, Mo.; Diamond, of Ehvood and Kokomo, Ind., and the Charleroi Plato Glass Company, of Charleroi, Pa. These are big concerns and the trust could not get along w-ithout them. Some difficulty arose about the Pennsylvania plant at Irwin station. This concern offered a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages to its men. The latter struck and the firm agreed to pay the old w’agcs. The plant was started up Tuesday. This was the first break in the trust. A special meeting of the directors was called at Pittsburg for Thursday night. After the meeting George W. Crouse, of Akron, who was to be the president of the combine, said they decided to postpone the organization of the trust. The capacity of the plate glass factories in the country is 33,003,(03 feet, but the consumption last year was about 13,000 0 0 feet. The last reports showed stock on hand of 3,500,000 feet in addition to what the jobbers have A RARA AVIS. George Snively, Columbus, has been granted a pension amounting to $030. He refuses to accept it, as he is able-bodied and says he can earn his own living. Convict Robert Beasley, sent up for two years from Bloomfie’1, escaped from the southern prison, Thu. jay.

MIDSUMMER DULLNESS. Stagnation Among the New England Cotton Factories. Tli« Problem Recoining Serious to Thousands of Kinployea—Silver Law Held Responsible. The New York Herald, Sunday, printed an extended review of tho’industrlal situation among the Now England cotton mills, from Its special correspondent. It says: “A review of the situation among the cotton factories of New England Is not assuring. Managers of the companies feel that they are in a perplexing situation. Ordinarily at this season It Is not strange for some of the factories to close down, but the shutting of the doors now has much significance. There is an uncertainty in the air which may swell into momentous proportions or dwindle into nothing, and a canvass of some of the leading cities indicates that silver has much to do with this situation. Some of tlie manufacturers go so far as to say that they await the decision of Congress on the question with fear and trepidation. “In Fall River cloth is not selling for the cost of production. That city has a population of about 65,0! 0. and one-tliird of that number is employed in the mills. It is the typical city of the country—in prints especially, and stagnation there will have a far reaching effect. “In Lowell a lack of orders is troubling mill men, and one concern has but half its looms running. The outlook is very depressing, and if the present condition continues there is every probability that several industries will have to shut down. All the mills arr running on old orders and when these give out there is no telling what may happen. If no new orders come in there must be a shut-down. At present there seems very little prospect of new orders, and to make matters worse a large number of orders have been cancelled. As things look now there is every Indication that unless the conditions change the machinery will be idle within thirty or sixty days. “Lawrence is feeling the effects of the depression, and there are diverging opinions whether the repeal of the Sherman law will be beneficial to the trade. It is certain that if the great amount of overproduction continues, which must bo the case with all hands employed, then a shutdown must follow in the half dozen mills. “In Now Bedford for six months business in the textile industries has been extremely dull—so much so, in fact, that in several instances the mills have not received an order for goods since the first of the year. This is due largely to the uncertainty as to what action will be taken by Congress regarding the currency problem. Just at present the action with relation to silver is giving the manufacturers more concern than the tariff, inasmuch as with a favorable money market the goods manufactured in New Bedford are of such quality that tlie mill men will be enabled to stand considerable tariff tinkering without fear as to the competition which a reduced tax on cotton goods will engender. “In New Hampshire tlie condition of affairs caused by tlie Amoskeag mills shutting down is shaky. In Biddeford, Me., the Pepperill and Laconia mills have ■ 5.0 X) hands and they view the outlook with by no means kindly eyes. The York mills, in Saco, have 1,250 employes and the idea is that they may be obliged to close up. In Lewiston, Auburn and Waterville. Me., the same uneasiness of feeling prevails. PREHISTORIC RUINS. Great Columns With Carved Friezes Laid Rare in the Sandy Desert Near Yuma. Ruins of a prehistoric city have been discovered by a partv of prospectors from Yuma, on the Colorado desert, in scarcli of the Pegleg mine. The wind had laid bare the walls and the remains of the stone buildings for a distance of 420 feet in length by 260 feet in width. Gigantic pillars, quaintly carved to represent dragons’ heads and rattlesnakes, still stood in the sand of the desert, supporting on their tops huge slabs of granite weighing many tons. The frieze ornamentation resembled Egyptian sculpture and exhibited a greater degree of skill than is possessed by the Indian artists of the present day. From tlie relics exhibited at San Diego, Cal., it is evident that an important archaeological discovery has been made. TAUMAGE~ON FINANCE. Rev. T. DcVVitt Talmage, at Chicago, Friday,speaking of the financial situation, said: “Greater crops will bo harvested this year than ever before, and this, more than anything else, will create a condition of placidity. Congress will meet and give the country a bread pill, just as a physician would administer a harmless pill to a patient suffering from imaginary disease. Next winter? will, I believe, be a season of great plcntifulness and commercial activity, for prosperity always accompanies such a reaction.” Precious Souvenirs. Dcr Bar. “I am in a dreadful fix. Do, please, Jend me ten marks.” “But you have. got a diamond ring; why don't you pawn it?” “I cannot find it in my heart to do so; the ring is a memento of my deceased aunt.” “Really? Well, then, my money is a memento of my deceased father. ” Mistake In Capacity. Puck. Mrs. Kindly—Now 1.11 give you a dime, poor man. But I hope you will not go and get drunk on it. The Poor Man (much hurt) —Lady, you do me a great wrong to suggest such a thing, j' Mrs. Kindly—I didn't mean to ac- ! e.use you— Tiie Poor Man —I’m glad of it, j lady. Do I look like a man who could j get drunk on a dime?

A MEXICAN COLONY. \ Chicago Syndicate Will Kmbark In the Knterprise. A dispatch from the City of Mexico, dated July 17, says: Under a colonization concession granted to Joseph P. Portlense, 100.000 acres of land have been taken upon the Isthmus of Tehauntepec by a syndicate of Chicago. Mr. Portlense has left for St. Louis, Chicago and New York to confer with his principals, and will return within two months to make arrangements for the reception of colonists. The land is now being surveyed off into plantations of from 200 to 2,000 acres. WASHINGTON. , A dispatch received in Washington from Romo states on good authority that there is no cholera In Naples. Controller Eckles, Thursday, sent a dispatch to Bank Examiner Adams, of Denver, assuring him that the Government would extend all possible aid to the banks of that city. The Treasury Department, Friday, purchased silver at 70 cents per ounce, the lowest price ever paid for the white metal. The highest price over paid under the Sherman law for silver bullion was *1.20 per ounce. Controller Eckels was in New York, Tuesday night, and was entertained at the Union League Club by his predecessor in office, Hon. A. B. Hepburn. A large number of bankers wore present. Mr, Eckels made a speech commending the course of the New York banks during the crisis, and talked most encouraginly of the outlook, reiterating his often expressed views that there was no real danger. An important change has been made by the Treasury Department in the classification of wool that will lower the duty on some grades of the article nearly 100 per cent. Hereafter the material known as 149 and 150 flamantine skin wool and 179 Kassapbatchia skin wool, second quality of the first class, will be known as 390 and 397 Servian wool and 389 Kassapbatchia skin wool, second qualify of the third class. The changes in duty cannot be made clear to the laymen through the language of the wool law, but the statement may be accepted as true that the duty is considerably lower, in some cases nearly 100 per cent. Wool growers and im v orters will be interested in the change as shown by the law. The chief of the burea of statistics reports that during the month of June there arrived In the ports of the United States from principal foreign countries, except the British North American possessions and Mexico, 67,726 immigrants, and in June, 1892, 73,130. During the twelve months ending June 30, 1893, the number of immigrants was 497,936, and during the corresponding period of the preceding year 019,-320. Of the number arrived during the twelve months ended June 30 last 96,313 came from Germany, a decrease of 24,309; from Italy, 73,403, an increase of 11,459; from Sweden and Norway, 53,872, a decrease of 3,281; from Russia, except Poland, 43,657, a decrease of 40,631, and from the United Kingdom. 108,716, a decrease of 8,352. AN IMPROBABLE REPORT. Advices from. Alaska state that the United States man-of-war Mohican was fired upon in Behring Sea and disabled, June 15, by the Hawaiian steamer Alexandria, The Mohican discovered the Alexandria in the act of raiding seal rookeries and tried to intercept her. firing two shots across her bow. The Alexandria returned the tire, striking the Mohican amidships, disabling her engines. The Mohican went to Ounalaska for repairs and the Alexandria escaped. A FESTIVE DRUMMER. A. M. Rodgers, a Chicago drummer, representing the shoo house of C. M. Henderson & Co., was taken out of the hotel at Colburn, Wise county, Va., Wednesday, and terribly, perhaps fatally beaten by an infuriated mob. Wise county is in that section of the State where people pay little attention to law, preferring to execute their own ideas of justice. The cause for Rodgers’ chastisement was an alleged insult to the daughter of the railroad agent at Colburn. M'KINLEY CLANS GATHERING. The McKinleys will attend the World’s Fair on the 13th of September. The clan will meet in the Kansas Building, and it will be the first reunion since the breaking of the clan in Scotland, nearly five hundred years ago. Governor McKinley, af Ohio, will deliver the welcoming address. Thousands will attend the reunion If a rumor from Chili is true the Behring sea! grounds will shortly find a southern competitor. It is said in Valparaiso that a Dundee whaling vessel has returned from the Antarctic ocean with 60.000 seal skins, and that the captain refuses to tell where he obtained them. J. W. Miller, of Oxford, Benton county, has indented a new heating substance that promises to take the place of natural gas or any other fuel. It is said to bn a combination of crude petroleum and water, and can lie furnished at, very much loss than gas. The appliances for the manufacture of the gas will cost for each house not more than $8 or $10. An order has already been placed for the manufacture of the gas.generators with a firm in Lafayette.

Disagreeable Innuendo, Indianapolis Journal. Mrs, Watts—Oh, we had such a time at home last night. Mr. Watts thought a burglar was in the house, and he got his revolver, and it went off and the ball went right through my hair. Mrs. Potts —Indeed! And were you anywhere in the vicinity when j it happened?