Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 23, Hope, Bartholomew County, 28 September 1893 — Page 3

TIIEIIWSOFTIIEWEER The Ferris Wheel will be permanently located at Now York at the close of the World’s Fair. A bloody race riot between Irish and Italian laborers took place In Brooklyn, ■Sunday afternoon. The Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. was in session at Milwaukee during the last week. The next annual meeting will be held at Chattanooga, Tenn. By the carelessness of the foreman In the Plymouth mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa„ Thursday,, an explosion of gas took place. Five men wore killed and six injured. No bad play goes at a Choctaw Indian game of base ball. At San Bais, in a light growing out of a game, a sheriff and his deputy were killed and a white man was wounded. Yellow fever, prevalent at Brunswick, <5a.. for some time. Is increasing. Four ■cases developed Tuesday. No deaths have been reported. Nineteen cases are now tinder treatment. W. S. Streeter, Vico President of the insolvent Guaranty Loan Company, was arrested at Minneapolis, charged with having declared a dividend when the company was insolvent. Every department of the plant ol tTio Otis Steel Company, of Cleveland, Is In ■operation again, except the plate mill. The Bessemer department, which has been idle for more than a month, has also been started.. • In the Senate, Wednesday, Mr. Turnle submitted resolutions from tKe Knights of Labor at Washington, Ind., against the repeal of the Sherman silver act. The resolution contends that repeal would "demonetize silver.” As the result of a feud between union and non-union men, at San Francisco, Saturday night, a boarding house was blown up with a dynamite bomb by the unionists. Two sailors were killed and five probably fatally wounded. The meeting of the A. P. A. at Kansas City, Friday night, terminated in a riot. Catholics assembled outside the hall and when the meeting dispersed stones and brickbats were thrown and several shots (ired. But for the prompt action of the police serious results would have ensued. Senator Irby, the Hopulist successor to Wade Hampton in the United States Senate, supplied the people of Columbia. S. C., with a short lived sensation, leaving however, an enduring entry on the police court records of that city in the shape of a "drunk and disorderly conduct, count No. 1;” “carrying concealed weapons, count No. 2.” The President, Tuesday, appointed Jos. W. Nichol. formerly of Indianapolis, now •of Washington, I>. C., who served as law clerk of the Postolfico Department under his first administration, to bo Deputy Second Controller of the Treasury. He also sent to the Senate the name of William Bracken, of Brookville, to be collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Indiana. Reports from the Cherokee Strip are not reassuring. The situation is frightful in many localities. The drought continues and the air is tilled with dust. People in many place* are so black with dirt as to bo unreoogni table. Bread has to bo pared off before it is. fit to eat. Two wells have, been sunk at Perry to a depth of ICO feet and only a little salty water has been obtained. The silver men in the Senate are feeling decidedly more encouraged as the prospect that the federal election bill may reach that body increases. Said one of their loaders: "We can hold off for three weeks certainly, if there is a prospect of .getting the election bill here in that time, and I am assured that we will get it in less time.” If the election bill reaches the Senate before the Sherman hill is repealed it will be the policy to substitute Senator Hill’s bill, which has already been reported, for it, as that bill Ison the calendar, ami there might be doubts of getting the House bill out of committee. The weather crop bulletin for the last week says: The temperature was excessively warm until Saturday, when it became cool both day and night. Abundant rains fell at the beginning of theweek nearly everywlgiro They came too lato to do good to corn, but pasturage, meadows and other vegetation were benefited and are improving- The soil, being wetted several inches deep, was in good condition, and Blowing and sowing wheat were vigorously prosecuted. Much corn is cut and in shock and that which is still standing can only be hurt by a very severe frost within a few days, most being beyond all danger. Grasshoppers and crickets are very numerous. During a theatrical performance at the opera house at Canton. HI., Tuesday night, fire started in the scenery from fireworks being used in the third act of "Michael Strogoff." In less than two minutes the company had to leave the stage The (lames spread rapidly. The audience bad a narrow escape. Those in ' the galleries became panic stricken and a struggling mass of humanity jammed up the stairway. Many were injured and live were badly burned. Thehuilding was destroyed together with two adjoining structures. Loss, ICO OX). FOREIGN. London bankers have been notified to look out for a sleek gang of American forgers that are. supposed to bo on the way to England, ad big 4 wreck Rio, Brazil, is in a state of panic as the result of the rebellion, the shells of the attacking squadron having done much damage. The editor of the Rio Heraldo, ■who favored the Rebels, was murdered. 3 Fragments of woodwork, coats and other wreckage have floated ashore In the gulf of Finland, showing that the Russian warship Pousalka, with ten officers and ISO seamen, have foundered and that all

hands are lost. The Pousalka, as exclusively cabled to the Associated Press.sailcd last,week from Revel, in the gulf of Finland, for Helllugsport, in the same gulf, and has not been heard from since. Gen. Campos, of the Spanish army, was badly wounded by a dynamite bomb, at Barcelona, Sunday. His horse was blown to atoms under him. The deed was the work of a well known anarchist who pushed his way through a crowd witnessing a review and followed the first bomb with another. One of the General’s aides was killed and many persons were wounded. There is believed to he a well developed plot throughout Spain and in other 1 parts of Eur< p i and arrests of known anI archists are being rapidly made. IT^El’IDEMIC. Customary Crime With a Variation in the Result. A Desperate Attempt at Train Robbery Falls-Bravery of the Trainmen, | Near Centralla, 111., Wednesday night, on the Illinois Central, a train was attacked bv outlaws. The train had stopped at a coal chute just south of the city when two of the robbers confronted the engineer and fireman with drawn revolvers. The engineer and his fireman made a spring at the intruders, but were both shot down. Engineer Young was seriously wounded, receiving two bullets. The fireman was also shot twice. Two robbers then proceeded to the express car, whore they demanded admittance, but were mot with a volley from the express messenger and conductor of the train, Odum, who had gone to the express car to sec the messenger. Volley after volley were fired by both the besieged and besiegers, until the door was shot full of holes. Finally the bandits secured a sledge-hammer and broke in the door, and then began another battle between the trainmen and the robbers. In the meantime one of tbo hrakemen had gone to the rear and aroused the passengers, and asked those who had fire-arms to come the assistance of the trainmen. Among the passengers was an old-time brakeman named Jake Sander, of Duquoin. Ho had boon hunting and had a shotgun with him. He immediately proceeded to the express car, and on arriving there commenced firing on the robbers in the car. One of Sanders’s shots took effect on one of the robbers and he sank to the floor of the car, bleeding profusely. While Sanders was doing yeoman service the third robber cafne out and commenced firing at Sanders from the shadows of thecpal chute. His aim was bad and Sanders escaped unhurt. When the wounded man fell to the floor the other two started on a run and disappeared In the darkness. The wounded robber narrowly escaped lynching while being taken to jail. His name is D. L. Jones. It is thought the robbers received information, as there were at least $50,000 in the ‘express companies’ safes. Jones has made a full confession. implicating a man named Martin, of Duquoin, and three others, named . O'Dwyer, llardingandNichols. O’Dwyer’s homo in Centralia was surrounded, but the officers were refused admission by his mother, and they kept guard until daylight, when he gave himself up and was placed in jail to keep Jones company. blows’ his own horn. Nominations by the President for Associate Justice and Minister to Italy. The President, Tuesday sent the following nominations to the Senate: William B. Hornbtower, of New York, to be Associate Justice of the Supremo

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Court of the United States, vice Samuel Blatchford, deceased. James U; Van Alen. of Rhode Island, to bo ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Italy. Judge Hornblowcr is a graduate of Printeton University and one of the foremost lawyers of New York city. He has never been active in politics, and has made his excellent reputation purely by his attainments and labors as a lawyer. He is a deccndant of Josiah Hornblowcr, a famous English engineer. ANOTHER BIG WRECK. A frightful wreck occurred on the new Wabash extension at Kingsbury, six miles south of Laporte, Friday morning. A freight train had been side-tracked to allow tlie Detroit express to pass. This train was running in two sections. The first section passed all right, when the hrakeman for some unaccountable reason throw the switch and the second section crashed into the freight, heads-on. Elev en persons were killed Instantly, and a large number more or loss dangerously Injured. The smoking car was crushed into splinters. Brakeman Thompson, through whose carelessness or stupidity the accident occurred. Immediately disappeared, and can not ho found.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Osgood Is to havo electric lights. Richmond’s now court-house cost over ♦400,0 0. Fort Wayne is overrun with strolliug mnsicians. Several Elwood factories resumed operrtions, Monday. Elkhart is very happy In the possession of a red, ossified man. Seymour Is flooded with counterfeit five dollar silver certificates. Strawberry vinos in Porter county havo been killed by the drought. Thirty-eight divorce suits are pending in the Madison Circuit Court. Orange county had no failures during the recent Hurry, and she is boasting! A number of spreading vipers have recently f>een killed near Seymour. Greenfield has induced the Western straw paper mills to locate there. The State Fair closed. Friday,at Indianapolis. It was a failure financially. Judge Stephenson basset the BrownWesner murder trial at Lebanon for Oct. 17. The Rochester city council has passed an ordinance ordering saloons to remove screens. Lake county bar and officers of the circuit court attended a circus at Crown Point in a body. Middlebury Is agitated over what appears to bn a systematic scheme of plunder and burglary. A Peru drug clerk is serving a ten days’ fail sentence for selling cigarettes to a youth under sixteen. James Little, of Newton county, reports that he reaped 7 GO) bushels of wheat off ICO acres of land this season. The Hobart Free Press claims that a young man from that town plays Turk at the World’s Fair at $10 a week. Daniel Gaddis, of Whitestown, died, Sunday, from wounds received from gvpsies in a quarrel over a horse trade a few days ago. Suit was entered at Columbus, Wednesday, against the persons who. it is alleged, failed to hand in the correct amount of their taxable property. Decatur has secured another factory. T. M. Talbot, of Peru, will locate his egg case and filler factory there. It will employ about seventy-five hands. John Thurman, a prosperous farmer near Jasper, has boon sentenced to hang for the murder of a tramp printer named Woo l, about two weeks ago. Luther Short, editor and pr >prietor of the FranKlin Democrat, has been appointed consul-general of the United States at Costantinople, Turkey. Two card sharpers, under pretense of wanting to buy a farm, attempted to swindle the venerable John Renbarger, of Huntington, but he was too wary. The Bartholomew county school trustees meet at Columbus, Sept. 30, to elect a successor to W. J. Griffin, who was dismissed because of alleged immoral conduct. The Bruce, gang, In jail at Terre Haute charged with safe blowing, say they will make It warm for “Kid” Gerald when they get their freedom. It is said that Gerald squealed. I Wm. Perron attempted to kill Mrs. Cogswell, at Benton, Wednesday. She throw a dish of hot soup in his face. Ho is seriously scalded and w ill lose one eye and possibly both. Now Albany is preparing to place *40,000 in fifteen-year 5 per cent, gold bonds, and it gives its assets as follows; Real value of taxable property, 130,000,000; assessed valuation *11,400,000; total bonded debt. *389,000.

Miss Viola Daniels, the girl outlaw who | led the gang of young desperadoes in the j wholesale footpadding at Kokomo, Sun- | day night, with her accomplices, Theodore | Rodman, (Jus Freeman and Charles Row- | man, was bound over to court. Coan Keller and Harry Frank, wh lie on ! the Western Ave. crossing of the Pan Handle at Marion, Sunday, in a buggy, were run down by a fast train. Roth died of their Injuries in a short time. They were lads, aged about sixteen. While a number of neighbors were talking of the Wrattcn tragedy in Reeves township, Daviess county, a gun carried by a friend was accidentally discharged. The contents of the barrel struck Joseph i Reeves in the face,making a terrible wound, j Muncle citizens held a mass meetinsr, Thursday night, and the fact was made known that the city treasury is empty, and that unless the Governor makes an appropriation the stVict quarantine regulations against smallpox cannot bo kept up. The teachers of the township institute meeting at Rrookvlllo tvero so well satislied with tlie treatment received at the hands of John C. Ellis, township trustee, that they clubbed together in a purse and sent Mr. Ellis on a visit to the World’s Fair. A regulation prize-light between Chas. Johnson and W. Evans took place near Rroad Ripple, Monday night. Only a “select” crowd of “sports" were permitted to find the place of meeting, and all the arrangements were conducted with the greatest secrecy. Johnson won in nine rounds. A string of horses, said to bo the property of Cal. Armstrong, the defaulting deputy treasurer of Tipton county, was captured at East St. Louis, Thursday Frank Hayes, a cousin of Armstrong, was arrested, charged with embezzling the property which was found in his charge, add New deal Anderson has ta'gon additional steps towards enforcing the quarantine against Muncic. Tuesday night thirty men were appointed to patrol the roads leading into the city and turn back those seeking shelter from the infected district. So far the disease has not appeared at Andersen. The prosecuting attorney of Dearborn county has tiled a complaint praying for the forfeiture of the O. <fc M. railroad char-

tor. This action Is the method agreed ( upon to punish the company for the aid it gave the brutal prize tight held the other evening in the Lawrencoburg fair buildings. The company fCfirnishod transportation for the Cincinnati sports. The twelve years-old son df Randolph Trlssell, of Monde, was taken with smallpox, Monday. As the officers forced the door open to take the boy to the pesthouse the father fired on them. The ball passed through the coat sleeve of one of the officers. The boy was secured, however, and taken to the hospital, while the father was put in the guard house. The special correspondent of the Indl' anapplis Journal at Delphi charges the Carroll county commissioners with having secretly sold *80,000 worth of county bridge bonds at a discounter *3,000, without the formality of advertising the same. The bonds bear 6 per cent, interest and run—-one-fourth ten years, one-fourth fifteen years, and one-half twenty years. Carroll county bonds havo always sold at a high premium. A correspondent of the Ft. Wayne Sentinel sent the following to that paper: “I am willing to stake my reputation os a public man if the worst cases of small-pox can not be cured in three days simply by cream of tartar. This is the sure and never-falling remedy: One ounce cream of tartar dissolved in a plntof boiling water. to bo drank when cold, at Intervals. It is known to have cured in 100,000 cases without a failnre. I haye myself restored hundreds by tills means. It never leaves a mark, never causes blindness and prevents tedious lingering. HOWE THE HERO. A Sure and Effective Cure Foi Burglary. Kathan Howe, of lUlcUlgau City, Achieves Fame and Realizes a Handsome Price For His Peaches. A bold attempt at robbery was made at Valparaiso, Saturday afternoon. Two masked men entered the office of the Northern Indiana Normal School and at the point of revolvers commanded one of the secretaries. Miss Jones, to keep quiet. She struck down 000,01 the revolvers and ran screaming into the street. One of the men fired at her. Seeing that they wore foiled the robbers left the office and started on a ran to escape. In a few minutes citizens and students wore in pursuit and overtook the men about a mile from town. An interchange of shots developed Into a regular battle. Nathan Howe, a farmer, | coming into town with a load of poaches, ; succeeded in borrowing a Winchester rifle and joined in the chase. His first shot killed one of the robbers and the second disabled the other, and he surrendered. I The dead man was a former student j named Frank Robinson. The other robber 1 is Claire Moody. Both were from Kala ! mazoo. Mich. Moody was placed in jail. Howe, who did tho shooting, is a son of the veteran detective Frank Howe, who retired from service and now lives in Michigan City. His peaches were brought to town and cx-Ropresentative, C. J. Kern sold them, at auction on tho public square. His eighteen baskets, containing about one-fifth of a bushel each, were sold at prices ranging from $1 to *10.) apiece, tho purchasers returning them to be resold. They netted him over *1,000, Professor Kinsey, of tho Normal, paid *KX) for one basket. Professor Kinsey said that from what they could learn Moody and Robinson came there for the express pur pose of robbing tho safe. As it was the beginning of a new year they supposed there would bo a large sum of money in the safe. OFFICIAL PLUMS. i Said to Only Two I.eft for Hoofllor IFemocr.it*. The appointment of William B'ackon, of Brookvillc, as Collector of Internal Revenue, for the Sixth Indiana district, disposes of the last important Federal appointment in Indiana except two. The collectorihlp in the Seventh district will not be settled before t he iatter part of (<ctober. Unless something unforeseen hap-

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pens, Joshua Jump, of Term Haute, will be appointed. The other important appointment is the pension agent. Up to this time no name has been agreed upon There is a probability that the State of Indiana will be divided into two bank examining districts. In that case another bank examiner will bo appointed (or Southern Indiana, apd E. I). Pugh, o! Rushvlllo will probably be tho man. In Greenwood Cemetery Texas Siftings Tommy—Pa, why do the rich people have such big, heavy tombstones. Pa —Because their heirs want to make sure the deceased will stay where they are.

THE FA IK SEX. FOR A SFMMER WAIST. An attractive.model for a summer waist is made of plain yellow with violets scattered over «■ | ne vest, an adjustable affair of pale dot-

ted Swiss crossed with bands of violet riObon, each decorated with a tiny rosette. A belt of violet ribbon encircles the waist and fastens with a large rosette. • One advantage of the waist is in the numerous vests with which it may be worn. FOR A VERY LITTLE OTRT-. The quaint little gown here shown is made of white crepe de chine and trimmed with inch-wide goldenbrown velvet ribbon. The skirt is p ain and full; the waist is very short and is finished around the neck with a plaiting of the material, which is

edged with the ribbon and forms a berthc and short sleeve. A large bow of the ribbon is arranged on each shoulder and forms a graceful finish to the dress. Madame Carnot is a blue-eyed, white skinned brunette, with hair as glossy as black satin. As a linguist she is particularly helpful to President Carnot in handling correspondence. The ordering and superintending of her toilets absorbs a good deal of her time, and is really one of her official duties, the dress of the wife of the ruler of State exercising a widespread influence over the commercial interests of France. Then she is interested in a number of charities, and drops in from time to time to sec how her proteges are progressing.

AN OUTING COSTUME.

Mrs. Le Beau, daughter of Mark ■Beaubien, the man who, in 1833 built the first frame house in Chicago, \vas a visitor at the World’s Fair the other day. The assertion recently made in an English periodical that Miss Braddon had realized 1590,000 from her novels was generally regarded as preposterous, but Henry Labouchore says in London Truth that he“ is inclined to think that they have brought in a good deal more than the sum stated. The continuous sale of Miss Braddon’s novels is alI most unprecedented in the records of British publishers.