Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 27, Hope, Bartholomew County, 26 October 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA Goodi.and, Ind., has a “street of nations" which it proudly proclaims is a “Midway Plaizance” of greater antiquity than the thoroughfare so famed and infamous, and the further claim is made that for its size it can give the Chicago fake points on dissipation and low down debauchery. It will be a surprise to many readers to be told that the survivors of the famous Mountain Meadow Massacre, that took place away back in theSO’s, have recently held a reunion. The suit against the Mormon church for $216,000 is still being prosecuted, and the plaintiffs still hope for a verdict in their favor. Ferdinand Ward, the amateur financier who has been in retirement for a number of years, as a result of the schemes which wrecked the firm of Grant & Ward and left General Grant penniless, having been released, announces that he is about, to publish a book in which he will tell all he knows about the matters leading to the collapse and his own imprisonment. The A. P. A. is spreading rapidly. There is no doubt about it. Down in Texas they have organized an “Alligator’s Protective Association ” The 'gator farms are regarded as a good investment but the business is regarded as an “infant industry” as yet. Protection of the young saurians is deemed desirable. Hence this last version of the latest political fad —the “A. P. A.” It is safe, to say that there is no politics in this organization.

The Midway Plaizance, previous to the inauguration of the movement that resulted in the selection of Jackson Park as the site for the World’s Columbian Exposition, was an unimproved driveway in the vast projected park system of Chicago. The name has now become a term for all that is cosmopolitan, amusing and bizarre, either in the business, political or theatrical world. The San Francisco Mid-Winter Fair will have a weak imitation of this noted thor-< oughfare. The new Governor-Genera! of Canada wears a full beard. This much may be stated with certainty. He is Lord Aberdeen and is , also known to be a Presbyterian, a philanthropist, a Gladstonian, and a Scotchman. His grandfather was Prime Minister of England forty years ago. The present Governcr ’ General has held many positions of honor, having been Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and is said to be a very able man, and far superior in every way to the average English nobleman. The accounts given in the Chicago papers of the events of “Chicago Day” at Jackson Park arouse mingled feelings of regret and consolation. Regret in the reader who was so unfortunate as not to be there; consolation in the mind of the reader who was so lucky as to stay at home. Wonderful as the spectacle of 750,000 people in one gathering must have been, sensible people will have cause to congratulate themselves that they escaped the discomforts, disadvantages and dangers inseparable from so overwhelming a multi-' tude. Such a concourse of people is a phenomenon that would probably be impossible in any other city or place on the globe. Great is Chicago, and her star still mounts toward the zenith in uudimmed splendor and undiminished glory. It is a matter of comparatively small importance and little interest to inland residents as to who wins in the annual Yacht races that are indulged in by the swells and snobs of our eastern seaboard and the heirs to titles and great estates from abroad. Nevertheless the average American will feel gratified at the outcome of the last contest in which American enterprise and energy got away with the slow-going represenr tatives of John Bull on the blue and rolling deep. “We” are generally on top in such contests, and “our” innate pluck and unswerving de termination to triumph has had but another opportunity to display itself

in the contests between the Vigilant and Valkyrie. In June “our” firemen took all the prizes at the London tournament, and now “our" sailors wont return the cup they long have held, but impolitely do their best at home as well as abroad. In the midst of the prevailing epidemics of train robbery, prize fighting, suicide and smallpox that have claimed so large a share of public'attention in the West, comes a thrilling tale of a “rakish, black, piratical sloop" that has been “hovering” off Long Island’s shores from which predatory excursions have been made upon portable property on land. People with vivid imaginations begin to talk about a “carnival of crime” and “red handed robbers,” and dream of stone walls, and portcullises, and battlements, and dark, unwholesome dungeons wherin to keep the “monsters of mysterious doeds” as soon as they shall be caught. But the country is fast regaining its normal condition. There has not been a train robbery for a week, the smallpox at Muncie is under -control, the prize ring at Roby is effectually shattered, and suicides even are of less frequent occurrence. The end draws near, Soon the opportunity will be gone. The World's Columbian Exposition will officially cease to exist October 31. It has been a wonderful recreation for the people and they have availed themselves of the privilege in a large hearted manner. Nevertheless, like all pleasures of a superior character, it has been an expensive experience, and the average Western business man will view with composure the withdrawal of an attraction that has in many cases played havoc with his trade, and in far too many cases prevented the collection of long standing claims that the pressure of the times made doubly important to him. No person who could honestly go will regret having made the expenditure, but the World’s Fair expenses have made a material and perceptible drain on the financial resources of many a little community that could illy endure the strain. They have “polities” in Old England, and the public speakers “over there” are evidently up in the amenities of a campaign to quite as great a degree of proficiency as the most energetic “hustlers” that aspire to distinction on our American platforms. Lord Randolph Churchill in a recent speech severely criticised Mr. Gladstone, calling him a “common quack,” and denounced the home rule bill as “hair-brained and insane.” Growing heated, he declared that if the House of Lords had not rejected the home rule bill, he would “himself have voted for the abolition of that body.” Again, across the channel, Mr. John Redmond, in a speech at Dublin, declared “that the independent Nationalists who consented to submit to the rejection of the home rule bill by the House of Lords were either fools or slaves.” From-these specimen quotations it will be seen that “politics” abroad is quite as practical as at home, and our ward heelers and school house hustlers would feel quite at ease if by some chance t 'ey should find themselves in the slums of London or the bogs of the Emerald Isle. Til IN US WORTH KNOWING. There ai - e only two lawyers in i Iceland. In the rock at Gibraltar there are seventy miles of tunnels. England imports about $3,000,000 worth of silk per month. Cider oil is a popular drink in the Pennsylvania backwoods. A Mexican says he owns a nina-huudred-aud- seventy - two-carat diamond. The State of Georgia will spend $1,063,631.81 for the public schools this year; more than ever before in its history. It is interesting and somewhat disquieting to note how much more identification it takes to cash a check than it does to get lynched. The little island of Malta has a language of its own derived from the Carthagenian and Arabic tongues. The nobility of the island speak Italian. The Arctic whale never migrates to the southward, as most species of w, ales do. because of its inability to live in t. ,> heated waters of the southern seas.

THE EXTRA SESSION. Tuesday's session of the Senate was quite lively. Senator Sherman made a speech that was listened to with marked attention. The debate was sharp at times and tinned with acrimony. At one time it looked as if there would bo a personal encounter between Senators Morgan and Washburn. The fiery Southerner indirectly challenged the Minnesotan. The storm serves as an index to the feeling of impatience and resistance which has been gradually accumulating. Mr. l)olph in the course of a lengthy speech said the Senate was in a ridiculous attitude before the country. It was time the Senate showed a little backbone. After a personal controversy which was engaged In by various Senators, Mr. Sherman resumed in a speech that was characterized by great earnestness. He laid the responsibility for the situation on the Democratic side of the chamber. The President, ho said, had expressed hlsopinlon, and while the Republicans did not believe in him or his jjolitios, and were under no obligations to him, yet they furnished two-thirds of the votes, nearly, to carry out his will, while the party that the President represented stood unable to formulate a policy or to say what they desired. If they did not agree with the President let them say so, or let them formulate something else. “We simply intend to suspend the coinage of silver, not to demonetize it,” Mr. Sherman said. 'In times past, when the Republicans were in the majority, wo never shrank from the responsibility which is now upon the Democratic party. We were Republicans because we believed in Republican principles. Republican men and Republican measures, and whenever a question came up in this chamber to be decided, we never pleaded the baby act.” Mr. Sherman argued in favor of strengthening the gold reserve, and said that he had seen a letter from tho Secretary of the Treasury to the effect that there would be a deficiency of at least $.10,000X03. In this exigency tho erection of public buildings and public improvements should be suspended. After an extended debate between Messrs. Sherman. Mills and Morgan, Mr. Voorhees moved that the Senate take a recess until 10 o’clock Wednesday, which was agreed to. Wednesday’s session of tho Senate met at 10 o'clock. A quarter of an hour was wasted in waiting for the forty-third Senator to make up a quorum. Prayer was dispensed with. A spirited discussion of tho quorum question on Mr, Dolph’s motion to amend tho journal was had. Air. Morgan reopened tho question. He held that the Supremo Court never had, and could not, pass upon any rule of the Senate. One of the most effective and amusing points made by Air. Alorgan was when, in speaking of the executive interrerence, he said: “Tho trumpet was sounded; the-forces were marshaled; the clock had struck at tho White House, and the cuckoos hero all put their heads out of tho boxes ami responded to Inform us of the time of day.” (Laughter on the floor and in tho galleries.) Mr. Alorgan, referring to the action of tho Secretary of the Treasury, said he did not believe Congress could confer discretion upon that officer to coin at his will. The Secretary, in that respect, had but partially executed a mandatory,law. Air. Morgan urged that the Sherman act should bo repealed out and out. Air. Platt inquired whether tho Senator from Alabama believed that tho law, as it now existed, gave the Secretary of the Treasury the right to coin tho seignorage. Mr. Morgan believed tho Secretary had the right to coin every bit of it. To-day there was a clear trampling out of the mandate jf the law. In the course of his speech Mr. Morgan referred to Air. Alills as the mouthpiece of another, which Mr. Mills quickly and excitedly denied. The Dolph motion was laid on the table. Mr. Teller then addressed the Senate. In tho course of his remarks he denounced Mr. Cleveland as a usurper and became sntangled in a controversy with Alossrs. AlcPherson, Alills and Hill. Mr. Frye took occasion to read a written opinion by James G. Blaine in regard to dilatory motions. Air. Alills concurred in tho opinions of Blaine and indorsed his rulings while Speaker. At 5; 15, on motion of Air. Voorhees, tha Senate took a recose until 10 o'clock Thursday. The Senate. Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, entered upon the third division of the legislative session of Tue|day|wlth less than a dozen members present. When a quorum had been secured, a report from the finance committee was presented and read containing the communication from the treasury department in response to a resolution calling for information as to tho probability of a deficiency in the revenues of the Government. The committee shows a deficit for tho first three months of the present fiscal year of over $31,003X03, at the rate of over $87,030,0 X) for the year. It shows the actual expenditures during the first three months to have been over $98,300.0: 0 or an average of about $33.03 i,C03 a month. At the same rate tho expenditure for the year would aggregate about $394,000(ICO, or about $31,0(0.103 more than Ihn estimate of expenses, and would show an increase of expenditures over supposed actual receipts of a little over $77,030,00». The Secretary says a definite forecast for the whole year was impossible, for it was apparent that should the present conditions continue, the deficit at tho end of the year would be about $50,003,000. Air. Stewart addressed the Senate on a motion to amend the journal, but soon drifted into a discussion of the silver question. A controversy between Alessrs. Dubois and Hill resulted in the declaration by Mr. Dubois that if his own expulsion from the Senate, would prevent the passage of the repeal bill ho was willing to make the sacrifice. Mr. Dubois said a majority favored a compromise. Mr. Hill asked how under the present rules of the Senate a vote could be reached if there was determined opposition. He held that a determined minority could Indefinitely defeat the will of the majority and the will of the people of the country as well. A very unpleasant ex-

change of personalltes ensued between t. number of Senators and much disorder resulted. When order was restored Air, Butler said; “I am perfectly well aware that under the rules of this body, which the Senator from New York and tho Senator from Texas are ready to trample upon, cast aside and discard and convert the Senate Into a town meeting, no applause shall be allowed in the galldries, and If I have been the means—nobody applauds mo —but if the friendsof the Senator from Now York are gathered hero (or tho •purpose of expressing their approval of his methods 1 should he very glad, Air. President, to Invite the Senator out on some street corner, where he and I can have it out for tho benefit of tho masses." A general debate on the proposition to amend tho rules ensued. Air. Stewart again secured the floor and said that Air. Hill was on tho fence on tho silver question. Mr. Butler interrupted with the remark that after a little further display of the eloquence of the Nevada Senator that Air. Hill would drop completely over on tho silver side. Tho balance of the day was consumed in such frivolous interchange of pleasantries until Mr. Puffer secured tho floor and resumed his speech began last Friday. At 5:05, upon motion of Air. Voorhees, the Senate again took a recess until 10 o’clock Friday. Tolstoi’s new book is expected to make a sensation, for it is said by one who has seen the manuscript that Zola never dared to go to the lengths of realism to which Tolstoi ventures. The book is a sermon on Tolstoi’s favorite text, “Resist Not Evil.” Book Agent (returning after having been fired down one flight, to irate broker) —But now, joking aside, won't you take one copy? THE MARKETS. Oot, 2) 1833 Indianapolis. CHAIN AND HAY. Wheat—No. 3 red, No. 3 rod, 50; rejected, 40050; wagon wheat. 61. Cork—No. 1 white, I )>jc; No. 2 white 40V£c; No. 3 white, 40c;1So. 4 while, 30035; No. 3 white mixed, 36c;No. 3 white mixed, 30Jf(c;No.4 white raxd,30035;No. 3 yellow, 38H'c; No. 3 yellow, 38c; No. 4 yellow, 30(a)35; No. 2 mixed, 38c; No. 3 mixed,37>£c; No. 4 mixed, 30035c; ear, corn 43044c. Oats—No. 2 white, 31c; No. 3 white, 30c; No. 3 mixed, 39c; No. 3 mixed, 27Mc; rejected, 23025c. Rye, 45c. Hay—Choice timothy, $13.00; No. 1. $12.25; No. 2, $1050; No. 1 prairie, $0.75 mixed, $8; clover, $9. Bhan, $12. X.IVE STOCK. Cattle—Export grades $ 4.50(5)5.00 Good to choice shippers 4.00^)4.40 Fair to medium shippers 3.4003.80 Common shippers 2.7503.20 Stockers, 500 to 800 2.0002.50 Good to choice heifers 3.0003.50 Fairly medium heifers 8.25(152.75 Common to thin heifers 1.50(5)2.00 Good to choice cows 2.63(5)3.00 Fair to medium cows 2.0002.40 Common old cows 1.0001.75 Veals, common to good 2.7503.75 Hulls, common to fair 1.5002.00 Bulls, good to choice 2.25(5)2.75 Milkers, good M choice [email protected] Alilkors, common to fair 15 007(133,01 Hogs—Heavy packing and shipping [email protected] Alixed 6.0(106.70 Heavy 6.2006.70 Pigs 5.00(0)5.55 Heavy roughs 4.5O05.UO Sheep—Good to choice 3.00(03.50 Fair to medium 2.75(03.00 Common thin sheep.. 2.0002.25 Lambs [email protected] Bucks, per head 2.0004.00 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Dealers.] Poui.TRY-llens, 7c lb; young chickens, 7c tylb; turkeys, young toms, 6c $ tt; hens, 8c lt>; ducks, 6c V lb| geese, $4.20 fur choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 18c. Butter—Grass butter, 15018c; Honey—18020c. Feathers — Prime Geese, 40c V B> 1 mixed duck, 20c V lb. Beeswux—20c for yellow; 15e for dark. Wool — Fine merino, 10313c; medium unwashed, 16c; coarse or braid wool, 13(0Uc; tub-washed, 18 033c. Detroit. Wheat, C3)'4C. Corn, No. 2,41c. Oats, No. 2 white, 31c. Minneapolis* Wheat, 60%@63e. New York Wheat, No. 2 red, 70c. Corn, No. 3, 47K. Oats, 32%033%c. Lard, $10.20. Butter, o Western dairy, 18>£c022c; creamery, 293430c. Chicago, Wheat, 01c. Corn, 39)£c. ’Oats, 27%c, Pork, $16.25. Lard $9.65. Short-ribs,$8.57>£. Cattle—choice, $5.5005,65; good, $5,0005.50; medium, $5.0005.25; common, $3.50(04.50; cornfed Texans, $3.45(03.75; grass-) fed Texas steers, $3.15(03.80; grass-fed Texas odws.- $1.5003.30; Western steers, v 2.7503.90; Western cows, [email protected]; feeders. [email protected], Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, $0.50(07.50; prime heavy, [email protected]; prime light, $6.8006.90; other lights, $4.31106.10. Sheep —Natives, $2.50 (04X5; lambs, $2.0)04x0. Cincinnati. Wheat, No. 2 red, 04c; Corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c; Outs, No. 2 white western, 31(032c; Rye, No. 2. 51c:Mess Pork, $17.50; Lard, 9c.; Bulk Meats, $.),75; Bacon, $11.75. Butter, creamery fancy, 2Jc; Eggs, 13(01: c. Cattle, $3.25@$3.75. Hogs, $6.4O0$65.O. Sheep, $1.50012.75. Lambs, $2.5004.75. St. Louis. Wheat, No, 2 red, Com, No. 3 mixed, 33jj; Oats, No. 2,36‘<(c; Butter, 22c. Buffalo. Cattle, $4.85(05.00. Hogs, heavy, $O.iK)07.1f>; mixed, $7.00@ $7.15;■.light, $6.50@$7. ,0. Sheep, native; $4.00@$5.00; Texas, $3,330 Philadelphia. Wheat, No. 2 Red, 68@68%e. Corn. No. 2 Alixed, 47@47%c; Oats, 37>£c; Butter, • creamery, 22c; eggs. 20023c. Baltimore. Wheat.No. 2 Red. 68@68Vc;Corn. mixed; 47c; Oats, No. 2, White Western. 34Kc;Rye,51t<e; Pork,$16.5j; Bntter.creamery; 85c; Eggs, 13c. I <Mt Liberty, Hogs, $6.6007.00.

MORE RAILROAD WRECKS. Twcaty-Fivo Killed at IlaltloCreek. Mich. Another Wreck on the Illinois Contrai Kear KuuIchKco — llurri»>l« Seen on. Ths worst railroad accident known for years occurred about 4 o’clock, Friday morning, in the yards of the Chicago A Grand Trunk road, close by the rounds house of Hattie Creek, Rlieh., by which at least twenty-five persons lost their lives and double as many more were badly injured. A Raymond & Whitcomb special train of passengers from New York aipt Boston, who wore returning from Chicago, was in charge of conductor Scott and engineer Wooloy, and took orders at Battle Creek station to meet at Nichols No. i), the Pacific express going west, duo at Battle Creek station at 1:33 o’clock, but which was nearly three hours late. The conductor or engineer,or both,of theP.ayniondspecial,disobeyed orders,passed Nichols station and their train collided with, the Pacific express coming the rate of about thirty miles an hour. The two engines were driven into each other and are a total wreck. The engineers and firemen, when they saw that a collision was inevitable, shut oil steam, reversed their engines, puton brakes and all jumped and escaped without serious injury. The engineer of the Pacific express was named Gil Granshaw and the conductor was named Burk. The latter was badly hurt hy'being caught in the cars. The passengers in the four coaches wore more or less injured, and from one of them (No. 13) called “the unlucky coach,’’ which has been in several accidents before, there were twenty-five dead bodies taken from the wreck in the morning by the firemen. They were pinioned under teats anil jammed up against the end of the coach by the next coach, which had telescoped it, and then burned to death. The accident happened a mile from the tiro station, and before water could bo turned on the cars were all destroyed and the bodies burned so as to be unrecognizable. Nearly all had their heads, arras or egs burned off and cannot bo identified ?et. As the second coach crashed through t swept the people in the north end of the third car to the vicinity of the stove, where most of the bodies were afterward found. The car immediaUly took fire and n an instant was ail ablaze. The night rardmen and neighbors in the vlncimty ■ushed to the rescue as soon as possible. Those who saved themselves smashed out die windows and climbed through. Three inly got out on the left side and about six rom the right of the coach; all the rest perished. The Now Orleans limited over the 1111lois Central road, with every coach full of if World’s Fair passengers, was wrecked by colliding with a coal train, three miles beyond Kankakee, at 11 o’clock Thursday bight. Eight persons were seriously inlured and many morosuffered from bruise dial did not require the attention of a surgeon. A head-on collision occurred on the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad aear Monroeville, O., Sunday morning, because of a dense fog. A bad wreck resulted. The engineer and fireman of one train wore badly injured. Two lives were lost. REV. PETTIT MAD. rii« Koted Convict Kxplrcs at tho crorcnern 1’risou Friday livening. A dispatch from Michigan City to the Indianapolis Sentinel, Friday, says: W. F, Pettit died at r>;30 this evening, lying In the director’s office at the prison. lie was discharged from the iffison roll this morning, lie Iqy quietly all day, speaking only in whispers. At one time he said': 1 have a good word, but it came too late.’ lie died without mentioning his case, and has never discussed it any time since ho ;ame here. He never discussed spiritual matters in prison and died silent on that subject. At 3 o’clock ho asked for milk, 3rank half a glass and said to the doctor, • 'Pack my trunk.’ He then laid back os the pillow and died. He would have gone to Crawfordsivlle to-morrow. Ho cairo here January 13.181)1, worked on a chair contract until last April, when consumption took him to the hospital. His only anxiety lias been the securing of a new trial. He expressed to the warden a desire to be buried beside his wife at Oswejo, N.Y. His ago was thirty-five. His body was embalmed and Is now awaiting orders from his friends. RONEY DU CHIMNEY. It Meats the Old .Stories «r Treasures In lle« Trc®§. A few days ago when Trainmaster Courtright, of the Michigan division of the Big Four road, built a firo in his residence in Wabash, he was astonished to discover a thick stream of a strange sticky liquid run down the stove pipe and over the floor. He cleaned It up, but it continued to flow over the floor and the railroad official made an investigation which revealed that a swarm of bees had lodged in the chimney during the hot weather, and made a large quantity o» honey, which, when the natural gas fire was lighted ran down the flue The chimney yeas cleaned of its saccharine contents and Mr. Coutright has had nc lurthcr trouble. The prestige of Chicago in onedirnctioa at 1< ast, has been lowered At Chattanooga Judge Moon passed on seventynine applications for divorce. T v. n'y were granted, twenty-three were dismissed. thirty-four were cout , u l uiid decision tea—> cd in two. — ’