Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 26, Hope, Bartholomew County, 19 October 1893 — Page 6

Til K NEWS OF THE WEEK A Topeka man claims to have discovered a liquid which will turn negroes into white men. At Itrnnswlck. (la., twenty-two new eases of yellow fever were reported, Tuesday, and lifteon deaths. The Union Pacific Railway, owing to financial complications, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. John Woods, a farmer near Tipton, Nev.. was butted by a pet ram and received injuries from which he died. Ex-Speaker Reed Is participating in the Ohio campaign. He made his first speech in support of McKinley at Cincinnati Wednesday night. At Faribault, Minn., fire broke out in the Shattuck school buildings and before it. could bo extinguished property worth $50,000 was destroyed. Cassius Boldin, who came into sudden prominence by shooting into the Chicago Board of Trade pit and injuring three people, was adjudged insane. Gen. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, was elected coramander-ln-cbief of the • Loyal Legion, at Chicago, Wednesday, to succeed ex-Presldent Hayes, deceased. Miss Mary Nichols was Instantly killed at Oakland, III., by a runaway horse. She was crossing the street when the horse struck her. one shaft passing through her head. A man w ho says he is James Davis, of Dublin, attempted to hold up a train at Little Falls, Minn., Tuesday morning. He was shot by the depot policeman and will probably die. A big combination of street railways, which lias been in progress at San Francisco some time, is at last completed, with a capinal stock of a little over eighteen million dollars • Michael MeUonigie, at one time worth $100,000, and formerly a prominent coal operator and a Democratic legislative candidate in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, has been convicted of robbing a freight ear at Hollidaysburg. Ho belonged to a gang of tramps. On Monday the treasurer of the World’s Fair signed a check for $1,565,310, with the proceeds of which the last dollar of the outstanding indebtedness of the Fair was paid off. This includes the bonded and floating debt, and leaves the future earnings of the Fair above current expenses to go to the stockholders. Miss Clara Barton, president of fho National Red Cross Society, has issued a call for help for the 20,0)0 persons made destitute along the southeast Atlauticcoast by the recent hurricane. This does not include the victims of the great Gulf coast storm, still more recent and severe. Miss Barton says these people must be fed for a period of eight months'or they will starve. FOREIGN. The Earl of Elgin has been appointed Viceroy of India. A train on the Transcaucasian railroad in Russia, on which was being carried a large sum to pay the soldiers of the garrison at Batorn, was attacked at Nigoita, Tuesday night, by brigands, who succeeded In securing the money. There were several gendarmes in charge of the treasure, and when the robbers boarded the train and made known their errand a desperate encounter ensued. The robbers were successful, although thirty-four of the gang wore killed. Three of the gendarmes were killed. ‘•GONE THE SIX HUNDRED.’’ *lx Hundred -Street Car Horses Perish In a Chicago Fire. Frenzied with fright and driven into a stampede by a raging fire that broke out Thursday night in the Wallace street barns, of the Chicago City Railway company. nearly six hundred horses were burned to death. The barns were entirely destroyed and the total loss entailed by the company will reach a high figure. The building was a two-story brick affair, which extended 400 feet on Wallace street and ninety feet on Thirty-ninth street. All the horses were on the first floor and in ten minutes after the fire was discovered they wore helpless. They wore blinded by the flames and the smoke that rolled through the place In great volumes, and soon a stampede was in progress. The animals surged back and forth in groups of fifties and hundreds in their efforts to escape. Their loud neighing and an occasional cry of pain told the people on the street of the fearful scenes that were being enacted on the Inside. Vet little or nothing could at first be done to save any of the animals. The total loss Is estimated at *120,i 01. franrEs wTli a iuys mea lti i. Shf Will lie enable to Return to America For Some Time. The friends of Miss Frances Willard, at Chicago, are seriously alarmed over the advices from England to the effect that under the imperative orders of her physl- > cian she will be unable to return to this country until next summer. It has been expected that she, would be present at the coming convention of the World's and National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, but letters to her friends say that Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, her attending physician, has absolutely forbidden her either to cross the water or to appear upon the platform. She is now at Ricgate. in Surrey, a noted health resort. An unfortunate accident is reported from the hills back of MadisonJ John Kohl chased a squirrel into a wild grape cluster, and mistook his nephew, Ed Kohl, aged fourteen, who had climbed up after grapes, for the isquirrol. Neither Knew the other was in the woods. Ed was riddled with shot In the arms, breast and near his eyes. His recovery Is doubtful.

A REMARKABLE UONKliiULTiOiV Description of the Greet Wall Xow l;n closing the Prison South. Warden J. B. Fatten, of the Frison youth, has just finished one of the most remarkable pieces of masonry and bricklaying ever constructed in live United States. It Is a wall enclosing almost the entire prison, excepting a small piece in front, where the old structure remains. It surrounds the prison grounds. It is built on a foundation five feet wide and Mx fent ten Inches deep under the surface of the ground. Three feet of the lower pan Is composed of broken rock, gravoi iud cement, making a solid concrete three feet ten inches in hard brick laid In cement. Above ground the wall has an arched face, pilasters supporting it every .ten feet, and each of these being H feet high. The wall is 2,Vh inencs thick- between pilasters. and above the art-lies 37% inches. On top of the wall is a Gothic metal roof, tour feet high, with two feet of iron fence; the bight of the wall to the top of the masonry is 35'V foot, and built of hard brick laid in cement. From the foundation to the top of the iron is thirtyeight feet, four Inches. There have been used in the construction of the wall 4,713,660 brick. There are towers at every corner fourteen loot square and sixty feet high, each with two mui'ioned windows and two glass doors. There are four of those towers. Of the brick 2,874,101 wore purchased from the brick makers and the rest are from the old wall. It required 15,472 days of convict labor to construct the wall and almost all the work was done by convict labor. In fact the outside labor in its constr iction is so small that its cuts hardly any figure. In length the wait is nearly a haU mile long. It replaces the former board wall, whien could easily bo penetrated by an enterprising convict. Warden Patten began the construction of this wall nearly two years ago and has used hardly any money out of the State’s treasury tor" the purpose. He says in his ieport; "The appropriation used to Oct.' 31,18113,for construction of smver.purchase of land and construction of wall was*44,000, and the appropriations of $10,0 0 for the fiscal year beginning Nov. 1, 1803, has been anticipated, and material purchased covering that amount is yet to be paid for after the 1st of November next. This includes the cost of reconstructing the buildings destroyed by fire.” He then gives the following detailed statement; “Materials have been purchased and used, and bills received amounting to t53.668.4-j, the same being to cover the following improvements: Purchase of land, FI,864.10: construction of sower. $6,445.49; reconstruction of burned buildings, $6,158.10; the new wall, $39,100.88. Total, F54,668.48. The outside labor of the new wall, tinners and brickmasous, amounts only to 1224.51, and hauling $144.13. The wall was planned and engineered by Warden Fatten himself. He also trained the convicts employed in the work of brick-lay-ing. Men who are conversant with such work say that It is among the best walls that have over been built anywhere, and will stand as long as the hills of southern Indiana. A PLUCKY INDIANA GIRL. How She Went to tli© Cherokee Strip ami Defended Her Laud. During the rush of the army of boomers >t the recent opening of the Cherokee Strip, a young lady who formerly resided in Hamilton county was one of the heroines of the event. Her name is Miss Grace Bly, who is making her home near Coffoyville, Kan. It is a case where deserving maidens as well as men always acquire success by well directed efforts. Miss Bly is twentys.one years of age, and when the nows first reached her that the strip was going to be opened she determined to cast her fortune with the boomers, “just to see what a girl can do when she tries,” and she did. Her outfit consisted of a team of active mules attached to a light buggy. At the given signal she started in with the rest, and by the time they had made eight miles she was in the lead with but one or two exceptions. She kept her mules on a dead run and reached a splendid quarter-section, seventeen miles from the starting place, in a few minutes over an hour. Miss Bly was fortunate enough to secure a largo tract of land, and was molested by no one, iintii late in the evening a burly negro came along and attempted to run her away, but she soon gave him to understand that she was there to stay and the best thing be could do was to go. Ho did so. Mi-s illy is still owner of that section of territory. LONG CONTINUEII I’ONVRNTION, It Megan Two Months Ago, and 5,812 Ballots Wore Taken. After taking 5,313 ballots the First Judicial Democratic Convention at Baltimore, Tuesday, ended the deadlock by nominating as chief judge, Henry Page, of Somerset, and as associate. Henry Lloyd, of Dorchester. The convention started to work two months ago. It was made up of sixteen delegates, representing four counties. Each county had a candidate. The counties paired off, made combinations, and every vote stood 8 to 8. The convention began at Ocean City, a summer resort, and lasted until it became loo cold for bathing. Then the delegates moved to Salisbury, and thenco to Baltimore. The political leaders, headed by Senator Gorman, are credited with being instrumental in breaking the deadlock. The number of ballots taken breaks all records. To vaccinate or not Is tho question ot the hour at Yorktown. and until it is decided finally some parents who do not view with friendliness the idea if compulsory vaccination will withhold their children fnra school.

INDIANA STATE NEWS Libel suits aro all the rage in Anderson. Marriages are epidemic throughout Indiana. Wavnetown had a $30,000 fire, Wednesday night. Gas has been found in paying quantities at Welsborg. Rents in Anderson have been reduced nearly one-half. In Wells county there are now employed 133 teachers. Harley Drake was acquitted of a charge of criminal assault at Brazil. James Fear’s residence, near Marion, was destroyed by tire. Loss $3,000. Harney Steward, a Wakarusa lawyer, fell from a tree and received fatal injuries. There are 787 prisoners in the Michigan City penitentiary. More than the average. Two now bronze drinking fountains are to be built on the public, square at Bedford. Putnam county farmers are complaining of the ravages of pinkeye among their cattle. It Is rumored that spies aro engaged at the Soldiers’ Horae at Marion to hunt down pensioners. Brown county, which has no railroads and no largo town, has never had a convict in the prison south. During the past week weasels have killed over two hundred chickens in the New Albany neighborhood. A report from the Indiana State University at Bloomington shows the largest attendance tills year in the history of the college. Joslah Antrim, 71, and Mrs. Nancy Sharp, 70. were married at Marion, Tuesday. Case of love at first sight and brief courtsh i p. Laporto young ladies aro organizing under an instructor in the science of “sportsmanship,” the art of duck and quail shooting. Now that a Hoosler has discovered that papaws can be raised in your front yard if you know how the banana may well fear for its popularity. The mayor of Anderson has issued an order to the policemen to flog every tramp caught within the limits of the city and drive him out of town. There was one new case and one death from smadpox reported at Muncle, Thursday. It Is said that some cases have been concealed in certain families. Willard G. Nash, of Logansport, died suddenly, Thursday, at Addison. III., where he had spent the summer, lie had for many years been in the publishing business. John Swartz, jr., residing three miles north of Henryville, has an apple tree which is blooming the second time this season. It is completely covered with blossoms. The sorghum season is about over. It seems as though there was a goodly amount of this excellent commodity grown hereabouts this season and of excellent quality.—Mt. Vernon Democrat. John II. Denton, postmaster of Aurora, died Wednesday night. Mr. Denton was appointed by President Harrison and his term of office would have expired January 8. Ho was a model citizen and postmaster. Sixty men employed at the old Hoosier quarry, the principal quarry operated by the Bedford Stone Quarry Company, quit work, Tuesday afternoon. They say they have received no money since the middle of July. Two handsome brick buildings are being erected at Newport and six business houses were recently finished on the public square. Numerous dwellings have also been erected in the suburbs within the past year. There seems to be no doubt that a receiver will soon be appointed for the Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Company. It is said a preliminary agreement has been entered into between the directors and officers to this end. if The other day a Seymour cow broke into a kitchen and ate a half a barrel of apples, a large chocolate cake and other delicacies. The family have been closely watching the cow ever since, anxiously expecting her to give an abundant supply of neapolitan ice cream. 8The Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution in the cases of Parker and McAfee, colored, sentenced to hang Nov. 3, for the murder of Druggist Eystor, of Indianapolis, until Jan. 5, in order to consider the petition for a now trial, pressure of other business having rendered it impossible to reach the case in time. Onions are a good thing in their way. The culture of this fragrant fruit is encouraged In northern 'r.diana, as is learned from a Furnessvillo item in the Valparaiso Messenger. Miss Margaret Bayless has received a prize of $10 in gold for industrious cultivation of the onion. She lives in Pike township, Porter county, is only twelve years old, and she raised four and a half bushels and twenty good omons over on a rod square of ground. This is at the rate of 733 bushels to the acre. A horrible discovery was made, Friday might, on the Minor farm, Allen county. Mr. Minor was awakened by the noise of a horse, and found*his son, Daniel Minor, in the carriage hanging over the dashboard, with his brains battered out. Friday evening Daniel left Monroeville to drive home, a distance of four mUes. He was under the influence of liquor. It is not known whether he was foully dealt with or whether he dropped over tae dash board and the horse kicked him, He was an industrious farmer thirty years old and a widower. William Snyder, a well-known sporting man, claiming Philadelphia as his home, died at Vincennes, Monday night, of heart disease. He went there, Saturday, to attend the fair. He was known to the sporting men all over the country as “Big” Snyder. He weighed 480 pounds. His remains were buried there. A coffin had to be made to order for the body, and

a piano lifter had to bo used in handling it. The coffin could not be put into the hoarse, and had to bo hauled to the cemetery in an open wagon. .1, W. Paris, of Indianapolis, President of the collapsed Parls-Dwiggins bank, at Groontown, indicted along with ex-Gov-ernor Chase for embezzlement, filed an affidavit at Kokomo, Tuesday, for a change of venue, alleging he cannot get justice thereon account of the indignant state of the public mind produced by the failure. Mr. Chase put in an appearance and will Insist on immediate trial. He was accompanied there by ex-Distrlct Attorney Smiley N. Chambers, who, with the present District Attorney, F. B. Burke, will be his chief counsel. Bv agreement Mr. Chase’s trial is sot for Wednesday. Oct. 18. The weapon with which the Wrattan murders were committed has been found by the coroner of Daviess county. It is a corn knife. It was found -secreted in a crack of the Wrattan smoke-house. It had been made of an old scythe. On its blade were found unmistakable bloodstains and a number of human hairs. The hairs were of various lengths and colors, showing that the weapon had been used on several heads. A quilt, on which was foundsthc bloody outline of acorn knife, was brought out, and it was found that the knife fitted the imprint of blood. The officers have a clew to th* ownership of the knife, and they are now hopeful that convincing evidence will soon bo forthcoming. A rumor having been circulated in Westfield to the effect that a man from Broad Ripple was expected, Thursday, to set up a saloon in that place, the people on masse came to the depot to meet him. A large crowd of women and men assembled with the determined purpose of preventing the opening of a saloon. The citizens issued a pronunciamento to this effect; "We respectfully warn all whom it may concern to desist from any such attempt; for, if persisted in, the will of the people will be enforced. Come what may, the people will not tolerate a saloon in this place.” Grant county footpads have introduced a new wrinkle in “holding up” people after nightfall. A few nights ago Nathan McCoy, a prosperous farmer living near Fairmount, was accosted by two men while he was on his way to attend lodge at that place. The men drew a revolver upon him ami backed him into a corner. They then lied him securely to a rail fence and went .through his packets deliberately. McCoy was gagged so that he could make no noise. After the footpads had relieved him of his watch and money they went away and left him tied to the fence. He remained in that position for several hours, when he was released by some of his neighbors who happened to see him standing in the corner while on their way home. Harvey Shields, a young carpenter, was thrown out of work at the Jeffersonville car works, and for weeks was unable to secure another job. He and his family tasted the bitterness of poverty and hard times, little knowing that a fortune lay ready to their hands at Milwaukee. A few days ago his uncle, Owen Baldwin, of Lime Ridge, Wls., requested him to come there, but Shields had no money and wrote so. The uncle wont to Jeffersonville, and found him wheeling mud in the 1’ortland canal. Mr. Baldwin told his nephew that he was wanted at Milwaukee to settle up a largo estate in land, worth over $100.01)0, of which one-fourth was his share. Tuesday night the two men left for Wisconsin. The estate comes through his mother, and consists of 10 acres of suburban property. Shields has played in hard luck for years, though hard-working and sober. The now public library in New Harmony is nearly completed, and when done will be the finest building and best equipped library, free picture gallery and museum possessed by any town of the size of New Harmony in the United States. The building contains on the lower floor the library proper and an auditorium for lectures and meetings of the Workingmen’s Institute, and on the upper floor the museum upon one side and a beautiful picture gallery bn the other. The building is principally the gift of Dr. Edward Murphy. The Workingmen’s Institute realized by the sale of their old hnilding$4,0!X), and Dr. Murphy added $13,000 and donated the large lot on which it is built, worth $3.0,0 more. He also donated his collection of valuable paintings that had cost more than $13,000. The library contains about five thousand volumes, many of which are rare and very valuable. Deputy Sheriff Kidder, who sits on the battlements of the jail at Elkhart and guards the prisoners therein confined, did a funny thing the other day. Judge Vanfleet felt in the humor for conducting business, and summoned Mr. Kidder from his high wall to bring in a prisoner named Wishart. A young man supposed to be the desired defendant was produced, and, after a few preliminaries, the Judge, lectured him and sentenced him to the penitentiary for three years. “Your father was a good man," said tho kind-hearted Judge, and he told the prisoner that for old time’s sake sentence was suspended and he might depart. The prisoner hastened his oxit.and has not been seen since. It was then discovered that Wishart was still in jail, and that the fellow who had been turned loose was a barber, serving sentence for wife-beating. Deputy Sheriff Kidder now sits on the jai! parapet at night and consults the October stars. WORLD'S FAIR AWARDS. Indiana manufacturers wero awarded prizes, Thursday, as follows; W. W. Mombay & Sons, Columbus, harness leather machinery; Bryan, Anthony H., Evansville, automatic hot and cold water elevator and distributor; Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company, Kendallville, pumps; Reeves Pulley Company, Columbus. wood-split pulleys; South Bend Pulley Company, wood-spilt pulleys.

murder of innocents. Another Rear-End Collision on a World’s Fair Excursion. The Fatal Running l» Twe Sections the Cause—Seventeen Killed. The worst railroad wreck ever known In Michigan occurred at Jackson at 8 .k o’clock, Friday morning, right in the Michigan Central yards. Two sections of a Delaware, l.ackawana ,t Western Chicago excursion train came together. 1 lie first section was in the yard, Just east of the gate, some of the passengers being in the depot eating breakfast, when the second section came thundering down the track, and before any one realized what was going on the coaches were piled on top of each other in a confused mass, and the shouts and groans of the wounded and dyinglfillcd the air for blocks around. The air brake had failed to work. 1 he engineer saw the semaphore up when his train passed the junction,'and he tried to stop the train, but he could not control it. The crash was terrible. The two rear oars went clear through each other, and every passenger in the two telescoped coaches was either Killed or injured. Immediately the work of rescue was begun and as'quick as the unfortunates could be taken out, the dead were carried to temporary morgues and the injured to the most convenient she ter. Every conceivable kind of conveyance was pressed into service in convoying the dead and injured from the scene, and willing lianas did all within their power to aid in the work of rescue. The third coach in froiit of the telescoped cars was a special from Homer and Courtland, N. Y., with tliirtyeighl passengers on board. They were terribly shocked and thrown about, but no one was seriously Injured. Judge Eggleston, of Courtland. was one of the number, and had his clothes partly torn off, but he was uninjured. THE MARKETS. Oct, 111 ISM Indianapolis. OH AIN AM) HAY Wheat—No. - red, 5934c; No. :i red, 56; rejected. 40@50; wagon wheat. 61. Corn—No. 1 white, 4 134c; No. 3 white’ 4034c; No. 3 white,40cpeio. 4 white, 30@35; No. 3 white mixed, 39c;No. 3 white mixed,* 30>jC;No.4 while mxd,3U@35; No.3 yellow, 38.Sc; No. 3 yellow, 33c; No. 4 yellow, 30(a)35; No. - mixed, 38c; No. 3 mixed,3734c; No. 4 mixed, 30@35c; oar, corn 43@44c. Oats —No. 3 white, 31 c; No..3 white, 30c; No. 3 mixed. 30c; No. 3 mixed, 3734c; rejected, 33jt35c. Eye, 45c. Hay—Choice timothy, *L3.00; No. 1, $13.35; No. 3, *105;); No- 1 prairie, *6.75 mixed, *8; clover, #0. Bran, $13. r.IVE STOCK. Cattle —Export grades S 4.5!)@5.00 Good to choice shippers 4.00<84.40 Fair to medium shippers 3.40/43.80 Common shippers [email protected] (Stockers, 500 to 800 [email protected] Good to choice heifers 3.00/83.5!) Fair to medium heifers 3.35 ■83.75 Common to thin heifers [email protected] Good to choice cows 3.6,v§3.oo Fair to medium cows 3, K)@3.40 Common old cows [email protected] Veals, common to good 3.75083.75 Hulls, common to fair 1 [email protected] Hulls, good to choice 3 »[email protected] Milkers, good to choice 37.')[email protected]) Milkers, common to fair 15 0OSl33.lV.> Hoas—Heavy packlngandshipping *6.00@t;.05 Mixed 6.001 tt’6.70 Heavy [email protected] Figs 5.00(315.55 Heavy roughs 4..7X^5.90 Sheep—Good to choice 3.0!)@3.50 Fair to medium [email protected] Common thin sheep 3.00(253.35 Lambs ;.. [email protected]() Bucks, per head 3.0()@4.no POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. [Prices Paid by Dealers.] Poui.TRY-Hens, 7c It,; young chickens, 7c K)lb; turkeys, young toms, Gc /( lt>; hens, 8c $ lb; ducks, 6c $ tt,: geese, *1.20 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 18c. Butter—Grass butter, 15/«18c; Hcnby—18@20c. Feathers — Prime Geese, 40c y TV. mixed duck, 30e It,. BEESwax—30c for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool.— Fine merino, 10 a)l3c; medium unwashed, 16c; coarse or braid wool, 13@14c; tub-washed, 18@33c. Detroit. Wheat, 6334c. Corn. No. 3, lie. Oats, No. 2 white, 31c. Minneapolis. Wheat, 60Jt@R3c. New York Wheat, No. 3 rbd, 70c. Corn No 2 473y. Oats,32%@8334c. Lard, »lo.30. Butter,o 'Western dairy, I834c@33c: creamery 39(58 30c. Chicago, Wheat, 64c. Corn, 39 ($c. Oats 37 Vc Pork, *16.35. Lard *9.65.(Short-ribs,*8.5734! Cattlo —choice, #r>.5()(0’5.(i5; good, £5 00 - 5.50; medium, *[email protected]; common, S3.:[email protected]; corn fed Texans, *3.45(0)3,75; grasfed Texas steers, *[email protected]; grass-fed Texas cows. *[email protected]; Western steers [email protected]); Western cows, *[email protected] feedors, *[email protected]. Hogs — Heavy mixed and packers, *[email protected]; prime heavy *[email protected]; prime light, *6.80.6)6.90; other lights, »4.3l@(U(). Sheep—Natives #3 50 @4.35; lambs, #3.0>34.00. Cincinnati. Wheat, No. 3 red, 64c; Corn. No. 3 mixed, 43c; Oats, No. 3 white western 31@32c; Eye, No. 3, 51c;Mess Perk, *17.50-’ Lard, 9c.; Bulk Meats, *9.75;’Bacon *11.75. Butter, creamery fancy 39c- Eggs’ 13@16c. ’ ’ Cattle, «[email protected]. Hogs, *6.40@<65.0. Sheep, *1.50@*3.75. Lambs, *3,[email protected]. St. Louis. Wheat, No. 3 red, 6334c; Corn. No 3 mixed, 3834; Oats, No. 3,3634c; Butter, 33c. Badtolo. Cattle, $4.85@.).U0. Hogs, heavy, *[email protected]; mixed, V 00@ $i.15; light, *6.5098*7.00. ' Sheep, native, W.60@*5.00; Texas, *3.35@ *4.75. ■ Philadelphia. Wheat, No. 3 Red, 08@6834c. Corn No 2 Mixed, 47@4’%’c; Oats, 3734c; Butter creamery. 39c; eggs, 20@23c. Baltimore. Kut Liberty. Hogs, *[email protected].