Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 24, Hope, Bartholomew County, 5 October 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA It is said that ex-President Harrison will build a handsome residence at Elkins, W. Va., which he will use for a summer home. Stephen B. Elkins and other notable politicians have already built palatial homes at the little town, and it is supposed that Mr. Harrison’s temporary change of base is due to the influence of the ex-Secretary of War. The Chicago Record editorially states that the labor situation in that city is very much improved. Many factories that shut down two months tago have resumed operations. Others promise to follow soon. Building operations are beginning to go forward, the reduction in prices in many lines of necessary expense incident to the construction of houses making the opportunity especially favorable to those having money to invest in that way. An electric train safe for the protection of railway express messengers, and annihilation of train robbers, has been perfected. The structure is large and roomy, and is lined with rubber and provided with a perforated bottom for purposes of ventilation. The outfit is connected with a dynamo, and when a messenger is in danger he is to step inside and —locking the doors—turn on the current and the robbers do the resfj—and are “forever at rest.” “The man from Ohio” has a great and unconquerable desire to head the procession in any undertaking in which he may embark. As an office-seeker he has in the past been ubiquitous and phenomenally successful. His latest exhibition of enterprise came to light on “Ohio Day” at the World’s Fair. In the determination to go on record as having excelled the attendance on “Pennsylvania Day” many patriotic “Buckeyes” are said to have dropped four instead of one ticket into the box for each admission. Disciples of Isaak Walton will be interested in the information that six thousand salmon were taken in nets from the wharves at Port Angeles, Wash., by amateur and unprofessional fishermen recently. The run of salmon in the streams entering the lower part of Puget Sound has been unprecedented. The streams at times have been positively choked with the fish, and in some cases the residents along the banks have resorted to the use of dynamite and giant powder until the rapids became filled with dead salmon, The attention of the State Fish Commissioner w'as called to the outrage and it was promptly stopped. Ruth and Esther are the dears, or at least it so appears, who will furnish lots of news interspersed with statesmens’ views on the questions of the day. All will hope and some will pray, that the darlings will keep well so that reporters can not sell us with their gauzy fairy tales of their infant woes and wails. Let ’em cry and let ’em laugh—spare, O spare us useless “chaff.” It’s all right to tell how Grover brings procrastinators over, prods Dan Voorhees in his zeal for the cause of quick repeal, and we’ll pardon them for telling a big yarn about the swelling on the Presidential jaw, but the line we’ll surely draw at the measles and infantum—but of this,0 “desperandurn. ” A movement that might well be imitated in all the remaining wilds of the United States has been carried to the point of practical success in Alaska, being an attempt to stock the country with reindeer. Of 170 of the animals brought from Siberia but eleven died while eighty-eight fawns were born of which seventynine were living a few weeks ago. The purpose of the movement is to furnish a reliable supply of food for the natives and also provide animals for work purposes. While it may not be practical or advisable to introduce the reindeer into the remaining territory of the United States that is likely to remain uncultivated, there is no doubt that

| other wild animals could be success- 1 j fully and profitably propagated if j protected by game laws rigidly enforced. | The spirit of the Puritans still exists among men. Many reformers lack only the power and the opportunity to enact and enforce statutes that would equal the “blue laws” of the wooden nutmeg State in severity. Newberg, Ore., promises to rival Salem, Mass., in the days when people were hung for witchcraft. The city council of this “greatest moral city on earth” has recently passed an ordinance forbidding any person under the age of 18 to wander about the town after 7 p. m. between November and April, and after 8 p. m. during the rest of the year, unless they are provided with a written permit from parents or guardians, or are accompanied by them, the penalty provided being a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $20, or imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty days. Some people will regard this as making progress backwards, but its rigid enforcement in all our towns and cities would have a tendency to better the morals and growing characters of the rising genei’ation. Law is a queer science. Technicalities frequently defeat justice. Criminals, known to bo guilty often escape through the messes of the net woven about them by the prosecution. A peculiar case illustrating this unsatisfactory condition occurred at Indianapolis last week. Contractor Rains was engaged in putting down a cement walk on the property of a Mr. Stumpf. His men became involved in a quarrel with two expressmen passing by. Bricks and stones were thrown, and it was charged that the missiles hurled by the expressmen struck the fresh cement walk, doing considerable damage. The two men were arrested and charged with “destroying the property of Mr. Stumpf.” At the trial their counsel held that the sidewalk had not been accepted by Stumpf, and was therefore still the property of Contractor Rains. The court held the point well taken and, although there was no doubt of the guilt of the men, they were discharged because they were “not guilty as charged.” Fees of London Surgeons. Some testimony concerning surgeons’ fees in England was given in a suit which was tried in the London High Court a few days ago. Charles Keetley, the senior surgeon of the West London Hospital, sued Prof. Banister Fletcher for $2,000 for attendance upon the latter’s son, who w r as badly hurt in the terrible railroad disaster at Burgos some time ago. Prof. Fletcher paid $500 into court, declaring that to be an adequate payment for the services rendered. Dr. Keetley is reported by the New York Evening Post as testifying in his own behalf that he thought $150 a day was fair remuneration for his undivided attention and that he would charge no less for a day’s work in London. He received 175 a day whenever he attended court for an insurance company with which he was connected professionally. Alfred Cooper, F. R. C. S., consulting surgeon of the West London Hospital, said that in his opinion Dr. Keetley’s charges were moderate in the extreme. For himself he should charge 12,000 for a trip to Paris and $150 to $200 a day while he remained there. For going to Burgos he should charge $5,000. For bringing a patient home from Burgos and taking care of him doing a three days’ journey, he should charge $2,500. For devoting his whole time to a patient in London he should not consider $40 an hour excessive charge. Other surgeons gave similar testimony, and finally the jury decided that Mr. Keetley was entitled to $1,750, a verdict that gave him a substantial victory. A Misunderstanding. Texas Sittings. A hard citizen who had been sent to the Island a number of times was up again before Judge Duffy one day last week. After imposing another sentence the little Judge said: “This will be, I hope, the last time I’ll have to punish you.” “What! Is your Honor going to resign?” A Hen Story. Texas Siftings. Jones —I think the colored people of the South have been basely slandered. Smith —What makes you think so? Jones —Here is a Georgia paper that says that a man down there has a hen twenty years old.

THE EXTRA SESSION. In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Stewart held that no quorum was present and questioned the propriety of the Sehate proceeding. Senator Harris presided, and ordered a roll call. Hut thirty-five members responded. A stay of proceedings was necessary until a quorum arrived. Mr. Stewart then presented resolutions adopted by a Cleveland mass meeting demanding an Investigation as to whether Senators are interested in national banks, etc. Mr. Dubois, of Idaho, created a sensation by offering the following resolution, which went over until Wednesday. “Whereas, Several sovereign States are without full representation in the Senate to which they are entitled; therefore, be it Resolved, That the consideration of legislation relating to the Federal election laws, tariff and finance matters as materially affecting the partially unrepresented States bo postponed in the Sepato until Monday, Jan. 15, 181)4, to enable tho States of Washington, Montana and Wyoming to have tho votes, influence and protection in the Senate which are guaranteed each sovereign State by the constitution of the United States.” The resolution was laid on the tableyeas, 37; nays, 1!). The repeal bill was then at 12:10 o’clock taken up. Mr. Stewart, who was recognized, said he would yield to Mr. Dubois of Idaho, who had given notice of an intention to speak today. Mr. Dubois in turn yielded to Mr. Perkins rf California, who spoke against repeal. At the conclusion of Mr. Perkin’s speech Mr. Stewart resumed tho floor, and continued his attack, of Monday, on the President. A heated argument be tween Mr. Stewart and Mr. Palmer ensued. Mr. Stewart declined to make specific charges but insinuated that the President had used official patronage to change the attitude of Congressmen on tne silver question. Mr. Morgan rose to make a personal explanation. Mr. Voorhees defended the character ef the President from the reflections of Mr. Stewart and paid a glowing tribute to his stalwart characler and lofty integrity. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. In the Senate, Wednesday, thre was much excitement. The resolution of Mr Dubois postponing legislation on the federal election laws until Jan. 15, 1894, because of senatorial vacancies, was taken up. Mr. Dubois advocated its adoption. Mr. Wolcott said the States had yet time to bo repretonted before the vote came. Mr. Wolcott then spoke against cloture and repeal. Mr. Gorman obtained the floor and said taat he perfectly understood the object of the res- j olution and of its discussion to be the consuming of time and to delay the action of tho Senate on the repeal bill. He had not participated in the discussion and was. therefore, amazed that the Senator from Colorado, for whom he had great respect and fondness, should so far forget the great duty of an American Senator as to bring into the discussion matters that did not belong to it;that ho should indulge in the insinuation that Senators were controlled by improper motives. Mr. Wolcott said if the Senator from Maryland would read his remarks as uttered he would fail to find the slightest suggestion of impropriety of motive. “Of course I accept the disclaimer of the Senator,” said Mr. Gorman, “but I venture to say that no man who can read the English language and understand it would have drawn any other conclusion from his remarks.” An acrimonious debate ensued between Messrs. Wolcott and Gorman. Incidentally Mr. Gorman accused Mr. Wolcott of eavesdropping, or rather of acting on Information received from eavesdroppers. All tho vitality was drawn out of tho proceedings in the House Wednesday, by a weary three-hour filibuster inaugurated by Mr,, Morse of Massachusetts because the House refused to allow him to print in the Congressional Record some editorial comments attacking Commissioner of Pensions Lochren. Thursday in the Senate was calm. Mr. Peffer held the floor and spoke against repeal. Mr. Hoar interrupted in a tone inaudible on tho other side of the chamber. Mr, Harris observed that unless the interview being conducted between the two Senators was strictly private he would be glad to hear it. Mr. Hoar was much annoyed at tho laughter that ensued at his expense, and made the point that Senator Harris was out of order in speaking without rising from his seat. Mr. Dolpha asked Mr, Peffer a question and Mr, Stewart immediately said he would like to answer it. Much amusement resulted from the evident zeal of Mr. Stewart, and Mr. Peffer intimated that Mr. Stewart had not been a Populist long enough to be an authority. Mr, Peffer then continued his speech against repeal, and occupied the entire afternon. After a brief executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House, Thnrdsay, an acrimonious debate was conducted on the Federal elections hill. Mr. Morse charged Mr. Fithian with being responsible for the refusal of tho House to permit him to print in the Record gome newspaper extracts, reflecting on Pension Commissioner Lochren, Mr. Fithian responded by accusing Morse with making a corrupt proposition to him if he would withdraw his objections to printing the extracts in the Record. "That is absolutely false,” shouted Mr. Morse, striding in a warlike manner toward Mr, Fithian. “If tho gentleman denies my statement,” yelled Mr. Fithian, shaking his fist angrily at the Massachusetts Congressman, “ho is wilfully lying himself.” In a minute tho House was in an uproar. The Speaker quelled the impending riot by pounding his desk vigorously with his gavel and declaring both gentlemen out of order. The debate on the election bill was then resumed. Gen. Black spoke in.support of the bill, it being his maiden speech in the House. "I will vote,” declared Gen.

Black, emphatically, “for any amount of money and force, if necessary, to uphold tho dignity of the government and rights of its citizens, but thse laws do neither.” He then went into a detailed analysis of the cost of these laws. He read a letter from Comptroller Bolder, showing that from 1877 supervisors of elections had cost $3,851,000 and deputy marshals $1,137,000. Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, took the floor in opposition to the bill. “I want to stigmatize this bill as the climax of all that is audacious and vicious,” said he. “It unblusbingly assails all that is near and dear to the American heart. It is the unfortunate child of a wretched conspiracy; it is conceived in a spirit contrary to the principles of our government.” With vehemence the Indianian charged the Democratic party with being responsible for violation of the sanctity of the ballot-box, with corrupting tho conscience of the nation and defying the public will. They have set no limit to their excesses. Tho hour of retribution will come. It will take the party that has prostituted the power given it for great public purposes and hurl it into oblivion. [Great applause on the Republican side,] Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky replied to Mr. Johnson, and personalities were exchanged between tho gentlemen that were not relevant to the bill under discussion. At the conclusion of Mr. Breckinridge’s speech the House adjourned. DEATTiN A MINE.' Twenty-Eight Lives and a Large Property Loss. 6 A mine casualty without parallel in tho annals of the mining industry of this country, it not of the world, occurred at the Mansfield, the only producer of Bessemer ore in the Crystal Falls, Michigan, mining district, and located six miles from Crystal Falls, at 9 o’clock, Thursday night. The mine caved in from the top to the bottom,burying twenty-eight workmen and entailing a loss of *600,000. The accident is supposed to have been caused by the giving way of the timbers on the fifth level, allowing those above to follow, and at last the river to pour upon the fated men. After the cave the river bed below the mine was dry for an hour and forty minutes. Forty-eight men decended the shaft, Thursday night. Of this number twenty escaped an awful death and twenty-eight found watery graves. Their bodies will never be recovered. Most of tho survivors were at workon tho bottom level, which had not yet sloped out and consequently did not cave when the levels above fell. The Mansfield was developed about six years ago and has worked continuously since. It was a producer of high grade Bessermer ore and it is estimated to have contained 300.030 tons in sight when the ac- 1 cident occurred. To-day it is a worthless pile, only marked by a small bay sunk from the natural bed of the Michigammo by the cave. The death of twenty-eight men marked the end of tho Mansfield mine, for unless the river be forced to seek another channel the rich deposit of iron ore can never be worked again. Eight of the victims leave families of children fatherless and about half the remaining twenty were the support of parents. The news was slow in reaching the outside world. Tho nearest telegraph office is at Crystal Falls, six miles away. GLADSTONE ON THE STUMP. Premier Gladstone, in a speech at Edinburg, Wednesday, said that home rule was not a failure in the light of recent events. He arraigned the House of Lords for failuee to agree to the bill as passed by the Commons “Home rule for Ireland,” said Mr. Gladstone, his form seeming to grow taller and more powerful as ho touched upon his favorite subject, “might, by some„be regarded as a failure, but,” cried the statesman, raising his hand, and his eyes flashing with the fire of his intense feelings, “dpeend upon it that home rule is not a failure.” [Loud and prolonged cheers.] When Mr. Gladstone was again able to proceed, he continued, saying: "Weeks, months, and even years have been expended upon the details of the home rule bill and in counteracting the tactics of the opposition, and it is now recorded in history as a fact that the people’s House deliberately and advisedly passed this bill, which was in Itself a most important step,” [Applause.] The venerable premier was given a wonderful ovation. MADE A SIEVE OF HIM. The coroner’s jury at St. Joseph, Mo., which has been holding an Inquest upon the bodies of Frederick Kohler and Hugo Gloitz, the two train robbers, who were killed in their attempt to rob a Burlington train, Sunday night, has returned a verdict that the robbers came to their death at the hands of officers while attempting to rob a train. Tho evidence showed that Fredericks, Garver and H carat, as soon as they were made members of the train robbery gang, each informed the authorities of the contemplated raid and kept them fully advised as to tho progress of the robbers’ plans. Post mortem examination showed that Kohler’s body had been pierced with twenty-three bullets, and the body of Gleitz had thirteen bullets. WEATHER WISDOM; Weather prophet Hicks gives to the world his prognostications for October He says tho month will come in with cool days and frosty nights. From 3d to 6th warmer, with bluster and fall rains. About 9th and loth it will again grow warmer and severe autumnal storms. Snow north and west probable. Storm period 15th to 18th will take on more wintry aspects, and bo followed by cold wave and freezing to tho north. Secondary disturbances duo about 32d, to be followed by bright, cold days and nights up to storm period of 36th to 30th. This last period promises a smart dash of winter toward and following the close of its storms.

THE FAIR SEX. Oulda continues to draw large roy. alties from her twenty-seven novelM Mrs. Oliphant receives about £100® for a story, and she writes several every year in addition to her literary* work. — “Edna Lyall” is quite well again,! after a long period of ill-health. She is at Eastbourne, England, where her brother-in-law is a curate, engaged on a new novel of modern English life under the title of “To Right the Wrong.” Jenny Lind made many contributions to the Swedish EpiscopalChurch in Chicago, St. Ansgarius, which was founded in 1849. This is the oldest congregation of that nationality in this Country, and she took a great interest in it. The communion set of this church, one of her gifts, is very elaborate. IT HAS NO SLEEVES: If economy is not an object here is a stylish coat copied from a French model just suited to the prevailing huge sleeve. It is a threequarter jacket of black silk striped with black satin.

Below the waist line it flares its the same manner as the skirt. Around the shoulders is a collar of duchesse lace, which forms a yoke to the short cape of black vel vet. This is fluted over the shoulders and trimmed with jet fringe. Two jet pendants swing from the center of the yoke in the back. The front has wide revers of white moire silk screened with black guipure lace. The jacket has no sleeves, so the voluminously puffed affair belonging to the gown has things all its own way and so is not crushed. A HAT IN PALE GREEN AND BLACK. Colored hats are much in vogue this summer. One trimmed in a novel way with black feathers is pale green in color, trimmed with a large bow of black ribbon. One long black ostrich feather nestles between the under part of the flaring brim

and the hair. A black tip falls from the hair, up the back and another long, curly feather is fastened flat on the side of the hat where the brim turns down. This hat is worn with a French costume of pale-green light-weight broad-cloth. Lady Florence Dixie, who is credited with the intention of starting a new woman’s paper in England, is a sister of the Marquis of Queensberry, and one of the most versatile women of the day. While yet a girl she had excited the enthusiastic admiration of “the Shires,” where riding is carried to a fine art, by her straight and intrepid going, and ia the saddle she has journeyed over the the best part of Europe, has explored the wilds of Patagoriia, and went through the Boer campaign, early in the eighties, as “special” for the Morning Post, She has written a novel, is by way of a poetess, anc has appeared on the platform tr plead for the “rights” of her sex Furthermore, she has a devoted hu: band and a delightful home—Ti Fishery, at Windsor—and two ban some boys.