Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1887 — Page 2

THE ESTDIAXAPOIilS JOURNAL, TUESDAY,-.: OCTOBES 11, 1SST.

LOUD TALK BY THE KNIGHTS

A Resolution -Favor-ins: the Chicago

Anarchists Causes a Warm Debate.

Powderly Earnestly Protests, and thn Resolution U Decisively Injected Movement favorinjj a Government Telegraph.

TIIE KNIOHTS' ASSEMBLY.

A Warm and Exciting Debate Over a Resolution Favoring the Anarchists. I pcial to the IndiauaDolis Journal. .Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 10. The Knights of Labor delegates arose early this morning, and spent the forenoon abont the hotel lobbies discussing various matters that are likeiy to coma up before the General Assembly this week. The several committees were in session during the day, cutting their work in abape for the convention. The liveliest session of the assembly was held this afternoon. James E. Quinn, of D. A. 49, of New York, the famous "kicker" and Uotne Club man, presented the following resolution under a suspension of the rules: Considering that the development of the human mind in the nineteenth century has reached a point expressed almost universally against capital punishment, or taking of human life by judicial process, as a rel e of barlarism; therefoie be it Resolved. That this conveution express sorrow that the men in Ch eitfo were doonei to death, and that it use every endeavor to secure the commutation of the sentence of death passed upon them. The resolution was no sooner read than every deleeate in the hall was on his feet. General Master Workman Powderly decided the resolution out of order. Joseph Evans, of Pittsburg, appealed f-om the decision. The appeal was lost by a vote of 151 to 52. Before the appeal was taken Mr. Powderly called General Worthy Foreman Griffiths, of Chicago, to the chair, and in a short but vehement speech called upon the convention to defeat the resolution. He said no true Knyrht could be an Anarchist lie appealed to the delegates in impassioned words not to pervert the purposes of the order by the passing of any such resolution. It was the hottest speech Powderly was ever known to make. Quinn, who offered the resolution, voted aye on the appeal in order to move a reconsideration. S. II. Lowry, of Pennsylvania, made a burning speech, and at 3:30 the ball was a perfect pottdemoninm, the shouts being beard for some distance from the building. The session closed at G o'clock, and ail the delegates are closemouthed, while the press committee state that, aside from the introduction and distribution of papers and speeches upon various subjects of interest, nothing else was done at to day's session. To morrow morning the committee appointed to formulate the ideas of the General Assembly upon the late telegraph "deal" will present the following resolution, which will be unanimously adopted: To tbe I'eople of the United States: Whereas. The Kniuhts of Labor, in General Assembly convened, recognize that in the absorption if tbe Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company a serious blowhas been, struck against the industrial, commercial and political wtlfare of all the people of this country, for in the ownership of the intelligence-conveying medium br an individual, news ot every character can be withheld or subjected to such manipulation as would render it worse than useless, making it possible to put artificial prices upon commodities and bring about panics, with their results, suffering and misery, upon ail classes of people; and, Whereas. In the consummation of Gould's monopolistic purposes in relation to the Baltimore JSc Ohio Telegraph Company it is patent that the position aken by the Knights of Labor in its opposition to monopoly is a just and necessary one. and that such a result of the monopolistic tendency of the age was foreseen bv the founders of the order; therefore. Resolved. That this General Assembly protest against this far-reaching, monopolistic deal, and denour.ee the insatiable and avaricious puiposeof those who, for individual gain, would imperil the welfare of tbe Nation; and be it further Resolved. That tbe organized power of the order be directed in demanding at the hand of Congress the passage of a measure for the purchase or construction of a teiegaoh system for the country, and that it is the duty of all citizens to assist in nominating and appointing such candidates as will pledge their support to such measures; and, further, that petitions and blanks be prepared and distiibuted throughout tbe country to receive signatures, favorable to the proposition and for presentation to Congress, and that special instructions be issued to the legislative eommitteo at Washington to agitate for such ownership and make governmental telegraphy one of the burning questions of the hour. The general executive board held a secret session in the West Hotel, which lasted all the forenoon. The general opinion among the delegates to-day is that no serious light will come up now before the convention closes its work.

A sham discussion is ljKely to occur over the law governing the national traie districts. It is said that the trade district delegates will ask that the law be changed materially mo as to give

them more power. This request will be opposed.

hdu very sironcy. iuo, oy ids ueincaies iepresenting the mixed districts, as tbe demands of tbe former would, in a measure, tend to utterly destroy the power of the latter. The fight that it was supposed would be made against Powderly and the other general officers is said to have been given no. A prominent Eastern deleeate said on this matter this morning: "The delegates who came here to fight Powderly and some of the other general officers have pnlled in their horns. The fact that they conld find nothing to base a fight on has greatly demoralized them. They will not now demand that the convention do as tbey ask on various legislative matters, bnt will, instead, request that tbey get what they ask without a fight" Opinions as to Political Movements. Minneapolis, Oct. 10. An expression of opinion on the advisability of the Labor party movement was obtained from a large number of Knights of Labor to-day. The result of thse interviews shows that the general officers and more conservative element in the order, as a rule, regard the time as not yet ripe for a separate party movement, while the rank and file and the more radical of the officers, like Thomas Barry, of Michigan, are eager for a labor party., the sooner the better. Powderly is the general choice for President, but only a few haye any tdea that he would accept a nomination. George is mentioned fewer times than most people wonld have expected. A reronrfcably large number of those interviewed are Repnblicans, or were Republicans before affiliating with tbe independent movement There re only three or four Democrats in the entire fist. The labor vote in the whole country, a rear hence, is put all the way from 500,000 to t, (KJO.000. Opinion is equally divided as to the jfYect on the old parties of a heavy labor vote, .he idea perhaps prevailing that the Democrats Srould suffer most by it. It is tbe almost unanlious sentiment that the George movement in ew York this fall will defeat the Democrats if U is not itself . successful. Mr. Powderly declined to talk, bnt from members of the executive board It is learned that be is opposed to a separate party movement for a good while yet. fie believes that the workingmeu are not ready for it

Mil. I'OH'DKRLY AT IIOJIE.

Friends Think Ho Will lte Rich Some

Day His Political Ambitions. Ecranton ( Pa. ) f fecial. . Many of General Master Workman Powderly's Ecranton acquaintances believe that Mr. Powderly is bound to get rich before long and they (peak with pride of the fact that he is in much better financial shape than he was a few years go. Up to the present time Mr. Powderly has drawn $15,500 as salary from the Knights of Labor. He was first elected in tbe fall of 1879 as general master workman, and he has held the office ever since. From 1879 until 18S6 his salary was $1,500 a 3 ear, but at the Richmond convention, last October, he got it raised to $5,000 a year. This is not all the money Mr. Powderly has reseived in salaries since he became general master workman of the order, however. ile was Mayor of Scranton when be was first chosen general master workman, the workingmen of Scranton having chosen him Mayor in February, 1878. He was re-elected in 1880, and again in 1882. lit held the office of Mayor from April, 1878. until April. 1884, and his salarv for the six years was $1,500 a year, or $9,000 in all. This, added to what the Knights of Labor paid bim, makes $:U,500. Mr. Powderly was not a candidate for the mayoralty in 1834, but he was in 188G. A few weeks before the convention was to be held he went around among the leaders in the Democratic wards to see what the outlook was for delegates. He found that Frank A. Beamish, who was Mayor at that time, bad been around ahead of bim, and that tbe alleged leaders had fledged themselves to support Beamish. Mr. 'owderly then abandoned tbe hunt. Soon after the Republicans nominated Ezra II. Ripple for Mavor. 11 was tbe most popular man in the Republican ranks, and, although a faction labia

party undertook to got a majority of the delegates for another man, Mr. Ripple's friends elected sixty-one of the eixty-two delegates. When thjs became known Beamish refused to run. Tbe convention then called Mr. Powderly in and offered tbe nomination to him. He told the delegates that he wanted the nomination a while before, but that be did not care for it then. ' It is the belief of many here that Mr. Powderly means to run for Coneress against exCongressman Joseph A. Scranton next year. These two men bad a little newspaper controversy not long ago over the immigration question, in which Mr. Powderly said something that has led some of his acquaintances to suppose that he would like to be put up for Congress about the time his term as general master workman will expire, one year hence. The recent apportionment made Lackawanna county a congressional district by itself,; and Mr. Powderly donbtlets feels that he could carry it easily. He has built himself a big house on a knoll on the west side of the Lackawanna river, a little more than a mile from the business center of Scranton. There is no house within several rods of it, and from the windows Approaching interviewers can be seen for quite a distance. If the anxious interviewer happens to be one that Mr. Powderly does not care to see, it is useless for the interviewer to try to get a sight of him. Mr. Powderly has a notion that be can interview himself a good deal better than anybody can interview him, and ever since the Cleveland convention, one year ago last summer, he has not been so friendly to newspaper men as he seemed to be before that time. "Powderly is a foxy fellow," said a man who has known Mr. Powderly from bis boyhood; "and just as soon as anything goes wrong in the order he threatens to resien. This is all done for effect, but tbe great body does not know it as well as 1 do. At Richmond, last October, his voice trembled as he told the hundreds of delegates that he would probably never address them aeain. That was done for effect, too, and it worked tip-top, but he has never intended to resign. He will remain at the head of the Knights until his present term is out, and when that time comes I don't believe he will consent to run again. He likes power, but be wants to get into another channel, and he hopes that the workingmen will have a majority in Uongrees before many years; and be would like to be at tbe head of such a delegation in tbe balls of national legislation. If that is not what he hopes for, I am much mistaken in the man."

GEX. PARSONS REPLIES TO POWDEBLY.

A Reporter Who Is Said to Have Known Who Threw the Bomb. Norfolk (Va.) Special. General Parsons, brother of the Chicago Anarchist, was asked to-day if he had any statement to make relative to the allusion made by Mr. Powderly in his report at Minneapolis to the Anarchists. The General replied: ".I am tbe only brother of A. R. Parsons living east of San Francisco. lama well-known . Knight ot Labor and somewhat prominent in public life, but I do not know Mr. Powderly, have never met bim, nor have I ever had any communication, written or oral, with him. My brother, A. R. Parsons is, or was a member in good standing of Assembly 1307, of Chicago. He was a member of the first assembly. No. 400, organized in Chicago in 1876, and ud to the time of bis voluntary surrender in open court he was an active organizer and speaker of the order throughout the Northwest "When Mr. Powderderly issued an order forbiding assemblies from contributing towards the defense of my brother he violated a fundamental principle of the order which has for its motto, 'An injury to one is the concern of all.' If Mr. Powderly said, as is alleged, that he had from the brother of A. R. Parsons sufficient evidence to convict the Chicago men of m order he uttered a wicked and malicious falsehood, but as the meeting in Denver, at wbich Powderly is said to have made these assertions, was bound to secrecy, Mr. Powderly may not have thought I would learn of bis falsehood. While in Chicago I learned the nature of Powderly's statements, and when I informed my brother and others they were aghast, as I assured them that I had never held communications with Powderly in my life on any subject. As the case of tbe Anarchists was then before the Supreme Court it was decided to await its decision before taking action to refute the untruthful statement Now, however, 1 stigmatize the ftlleged assertion of Powderly as a malicious and criminal libel, affecting not only my honor, but the existence of seven innocent men. "I will disclose a fact for some time in the possession of Louis F. Post, a leader in the United Labor movement, and also known to John Hays, a member of the executive committee, Knights of Labor, now in Minneapolis, the confidential friend and adviser of Powderly. In November, 1886, while in Chicago, I received a letter from Mr. Hays requesting me to go to room No. 15 at No. 79 Broadway, New York, for information affecting my brother's case. Being busy in Chicago, I requested Louis F. Post to attend to the matter, which he did. Then it was that Mr. Post learned from one of the first lawyers of New Jersey that a Chicago reporter, to the lawyer well known, and at one time on a New York paper, had. while in his cups at Delmonico's, boasted that he was paid by some Chicago journals to take a vacation from that city for the present and until the Anarchists' cases were settled, as he knew who threw the bomb, and the organs of monopoly did not want him around." THE NEW rORK PRINTERS.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

Proprietors Concede the Wages bat Refuse Other Demands A Big Strike Probable. New York, Oct 10. Seven of the book and job printing bosses to whom the new scale of wages was presented to-day, consented to the scale with the exception of the clause relating to strict card offices. Theie are T. J. Devinne, Trow"s Directory, Putnam & Son, the Churchman, Middledich's, Tyrrells & Smith, and McDougalls. The men employed in their offices struck this afternoon, and 500 men left work. Tbe Master Printers' Association met this afternoon, representatives of fifty of the largest houses in the city being present It was resolved that a demand to make tbe houses strictly union offices could not be granted. This decision involves the throwing of 2.500 compositors out of employment About 1.000 pressmen employed in these establishments, are involved in sympathy with the compositors, and will go out too. The newspaper offices all acceded to the demands of tbe compositors except the Catholic News and the Churchman.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A Mechanicsburg. O., dispatch says that John Potts stabbed and killed Ora Neer in a saloon. Saturday night, upon slight provocation, after a quarrel. An air-compressor at the Calumet and Hecla mine, at Calumet. Mich., burst on Saturday, causing a loss of $25,000. Work in the mine will not be interfered with. Jesse James, of Armourdale, Mo., a cousin of Frank James, the outlaw, has gone to Dallas, Tex., where Frank is said to be dying. Frank James went to Dallas about six months ago. Nearly two hundred Catholic temperance societies of tbe Scranton diocese celebrated the anniversary of the- birth of Father Mathew, at Wilkeebarre, yesterday, by a monster parade and picnic. Nine thousand men were in line. At Jeffersonville, Sullivan county, New York, on Saturday. Mrs. Ulrich. a widow, aged sixty years, was found dead in her house, She had been murdered and robbed. A. J. Allen has been arrested on suspicion of having done the deed. The New York Police Commissioners have directed the superintendent to make a thorough investigation into tbe circumstances connected with the clubbing of people at the meeting of the Progressive Labor party at Union square on Saturday evening. A svndicate of Springfield. O., and Eastern capitalists has purchased 68,000 acres of coal land in Breathitt county, Kentucky, and will at once proceed to open the mines. and build railroads through the country. The company has organized with $3,000,000 capital. Mrs. Ella Robinson, the wife of Charles Robinson, a wholesale hardware merchant, of Louisville, jumped from a third-story front window at No. 106 Madison avenue. New York, Sunday afternoon, and received injuries from which she died a few hours later. Cause, temporary aberration. Special Agent Howard is now investigating the trouble at tbe Crow Indian agency, and says that the arrests will be attempted next Saturday unleus tbe government agent now coming on from Washington objects. Sword-bearers followers are increasing daily, and a fight seems inevitable. The second national convention of the Youths' National Home and Employment Association of the United States and Canada, will convene in Chicago at 9 a. m., Oct. 14, continuing in session the 15th and 17th. The meetings will take plaee in tbe hall of the M. II Church block, corner of Clark and Washington streets.

The Head of the Mormon Chnrch. Salt Lake Cjty, Utah, Oct 10. The Mormon confernce adjourned last night, without rhoosiug a president of the church. Wilford Woodruff remains president by virtue of his office as head of the Twelve Apostles.

The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of

Various Kinds in the Two States.

The Wabash Association of Detective Companies Church Sensation at Colfax Heavy Fines for Illegal Liquor Selling.

INDIANA. Meeting of the Wabash General Association jot Detective Companies. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Franklin, Oct 10. The Wabash General Association of Detective Companies will meet in twenty-seventy annual session at this place to-morrow, Oct 11, and continue in session three days. About five hundred delegates are expected to be present, the association including Indiana, eastern Illinois and western Ohio. A public reception was held this evening at the court house, under the auspices of the local association, welcoming the visiting delegates, a large number of whom are already preseut Mayor H. II. Lnyster made the address of welcome on the part of the city.and Prof. GEL Hall of the college, made a happy address on the part of tbe local association, welcoming the visiting delegates to their hospitality. Tbe grand president of the General Association, John S. Gray, of Waynetown, responded in hearty words. A large number of citizens were present and a general good time was . had by the terrors to horse-thieves. Don't Want a Long-Range Pastor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Colfax, Oct 10 Quite a sensation is afloat here in the Methodist church circles over the newly appointed pastor. At the meeting of conference at Greencastle Rev. Bowers, of Goodland, was appointed to this charge. The reverend gentleman owns property in Tborntown, and gained the consent of conference to reside there and look after his flock from afar off. But tbe trustees of the church here were not agreeable to such arrangements and decline to pay a cent of Rev. Bowers's salary unless he moves into the parsonage. This he declines to do and the matter still remains in a state of chaos. Rrakeman Crushed to Death. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Oct 10. Charles Rutherford, a brakeman on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railway, was rnn over and horribly cut up, about midnight, near Chalmers, White county. One arm and leg were crushed, and the other arm ground off. He was brought here, but died soon after, never rallyine from the shock. His home was at Burnettsville. Rutherford wa3 attempting to uncouple the forward engine, (there being two on tbe train.) when be fell from the cow-catcher and was run over. Serious Illness of Rev. J. t". McLain. Special to the Indianaooiis Journal. Franklin. Oct 10. The friends of Rev. J. F. McLain will be pained to hear that be is in very poor health, at the residence of his son-in-law. Mr. O. I. Jones, of this city. For months past he has suffered from a diseased knee-joint and to-day his physician. Dr. P. W. Payne, decided that amputation is the only remedy. Rev. McLain is a member of the Southeast Indiana Conference, and has preached at various points in Indiana during the past twenty years, and is well known throughout southern Indiana.

Knox County Fair. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Vincennes, Oct 10 The Knox county fair opened to-day with magnificent prospects, j The various departments are crowded with exhibits, the number of entries this year exceeding last year by several hundred. Tbe stock Bhow will be unusually large, and notwithstanding the great drought agricultural hall will be more attractive than ever. . Death from Heart Disease. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marion, Oct 10. While accompanying her husband to the house of a neighbor, last evening to visit a sick woman. Mrs. Evan Massey-fell down in the road and instantly expired of heart

disease. Minor Notes. Thomas Wilkerson, the richest man in Jennings county, died on Saturday, of apoplexy, aged eightv-eight He was worth about $1,000,000. - ' Robert Braden, nearly eighty years old, died yesterday at his home near Greensburg. He was a man of many sterling qualities, and was much beloved by all who Knew him. About 12 o'clock Sunday night the large barn of John K. Smith, one-half mile north of Brookfield, was set on fire and totally, destroyed with contents. Loss, $2,000; insurance unknown. The "White Cars" have undertaken to reform, the saloon business by giving notice to saloonkeepers at Mott's Station to Quit selling or they will be visited and given one hundred lashes. - Phillis Q. Curran, a prominent merchant of Peru, died on Saturday very suddenly of congestion of the brain. He was a prominent Knight Temnlar and Odd-fellow, and was well known throughout the State. In August, Frank Fagan, marshal of Marion, was attacked by a savage bull-dog belonging to Samuel Clannin, and seriously bitten. He sued Clannin for $1,000. The case was tried yesterday, and the jurv brought in a verdict for the plaintiff for $500. The champion bicycle team of Chicago is in Crawfordsville, where they are to be trained by T. W. Eck, of Minneapolis. There are six in the team viz.: Wflbur Knapp, of Denver; S. G. Whittsker, of Boston; L. W. Murga, of Detroit; and Frank E. Dingley, of Indianapolis. The most powerful gas welt in the State is believed to be that at Greentown, Howard county. Owing to the noise made by the escaping gas it was fcrend necessary to close the public schools, and no services conld be held I n the churches. Tbe big well is generally voted a nuisance in its present condition. Tbe roar of the well can be heard eight miles away.

ILLINOIS. Proceedings Which Are Calculated to Stop Illegal Selling of Intoxicants. Special to the Indianapolis JournalDanville, Oct. 10. Under the new law, today, Joseph Cooper was fined $1,000 on twenty counts at $50 each, for selling liquor in less quantity than five gallons, outside of Hoopeston corporation. His brother David was fined $600 last week, and Thomas Hoggerty $500 for the same offense. At this rate the enforcement of the new law governing the sale of liquor without license outside city and villaee corporations will break up this illegitimate business in Vermillion county. " Ilrief Mention. Governor Oglesby has been invited to preside at the waterways convention to be held at Peoria this week. The Rev. F. M. naynes, of Onargo, a Methodist minister for thirteen years, who has preached in' Mason, DeWitt, McLean, Adams and Iroquois counties, and who has stood high in the Methodist denomination, on Sunday preached at the Christian or Camptellitchurch in Peoria, made a confession of faith, and was immersed. In the evening he briefly gave his reasons iat his change of faith. The village of Atwood, a few miles southwest of Tolono, is in the throes of a political deadlock. The president of the Council Tesigned a few days ago. leaving the board stand three for license and two against The three license trustees refuse to vote for either of the anti-license men, and cannot elect one of their own number unless he votes for himself, and thus becomes a subject of public ridicule. The ballots are already running into the hundreds, and the public business is at a standstill for want of a presiding officer to sign warrants and other documents.

Losses by Fire. Amesburt, Mass., Oct. 10. The largest fire that has occurred here for several years broke out at 1:30 this morning, destroying tbe large carriage manufactory of Locke & Jewell, as well as several surrounding buildings. The loss will reach fully $125,000. of which Locke fc Jewell lose $70,000; iusured for $45,000. a F. Pettingill, machinist, loses $25,000; insured for $12,000. Charlevoix, Mich., Oct 10. On Saturday mgbt the court-bouse of this county, situated at Boyne City, together with all titles, records, etc., was destroyed by fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin. The location of the countyseat was tbe occasion of a hot fight between East Jordan and Boyne City, and threats of violence were freely indulged in.

A Hint for Citizen Train. Chicago. Oct 10. Wro. Devine, whose name has been frequently mentioned of late in connection with George Francis Train and bis lectures, called at tbe Mayor's office by special in

vitation to day and was informed by Mr.

Roche that Train was generally known as a

man of unsound mind, but that tbe ignorant and

vicious vrno heard mm speak accepted his crazy

utterances as aospel truths. The Mayor said that the statutes applied to just such cases, and if citizen Train could not be kept within the bounds of reason it would be necessary to stop

the speecaes altogether.

, OBITUARY. Maurice Strakosch, the Widely-Known Operatle Manager. . New York, Oct 10. The World's Paris special announces the death of Maurice Strakosch. Be was known , indeed, quite as well in England and the United States as in Paris, and wherever be was known he was liked. His long experience of life in every quarter of the globe had given him a rare fund of anecdote, and bis conversation was set off by an originality of expression which gave it a peculiar zest Moravian by birth, he had a remarkable facnlty for acquiring languages, but, with the exception of Italian, which he learned with care, he spoke them all with a strong accent Maurice Strakosch had an eventful career. He was first destined for the operatic stage, and he studied for some time under the direction of Pasta, who bad already retired from public life. Seeing, however, but little chance of distinction as a singer he turned his attention to the piano and became a virtuoso of mark, playing with success in the chief capitals of the world. WThen in America he married Amelia Patti, who possessed one of the finest contralto voices of the day. Adelina has often declared that her sister Amelia had the most splendid contralto she bad ever heard." and even if some allowance were made for sisterly partiality Mme. Nicolini is not far wrong, in such noble style does Mme. Strakosch still sing. It was under Maurice Stra&osch's auspices that Adelina Patti. after having made a marked success in the United States, first appeared in Europe at the Covent Garden Theater, and she went through the Continent with him until her marriage with the Marquis de Canx. M. Strakosch passed away quietly at midnight last night. He had been suffering from asthma of late, and bad a somewhat sharp attack at tbe beginning Of June, but he rallied quickly on that occasion, and his sudden end was so little expected that he actually gave three lessons to pupils yesterday. When he fell back last night his wife thought that he had fainted, and could not at first believe that life was extinct The funeral is to take place to-morrow at Pere la Chaise. Maurice Strakosch was born at Lembere, in Poland, in 1825. His father was a wealthy man and a colonel in the Polish army. Maurice displayed a great aptitude for music at an early age, and he had every opportunity of studying music thoroughly, as bis father emigrated to Germany in 1828. When he became proficient in his art he went to Denmark, and gave many concerts there. Thence he went to St Petersburg, where be received much honor from the Emperor, and was engaged to instruct the Princess Olga, famed for her beauty. Shortly after he visited Paris, where he was highly praised; and thence he went to Lyons, Marseilles, and then made a three-years' tour through Spain and Italy. Everywhere his efforts were crowned with marked success, and since 1848 be had been chiefly in this country. In New York, Boston, Chicago and ail the principal cities he gave concerts and was well received. Besides many compositions for the piano be composed a German opera, "Sardanapalus," and an Italian opera, "Giovanna di Napoli," which was brought out in New York.

Rev. Royal G. Wilder. New York, Oct 10. Rev. Royal G. Wilder,

for thirty years missionary to India, died to-day, in this city, aged seventy-two years.

DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

Indications. Washington, Oct 11. 1a. m. For Indiana and llliuois Warmer, fair weath

er; light to fresh northwesterly winds.

For Ohio Colder, followed by warmer weath

er; light rains, followed by fair weather; light to fresh northerly winds, brisk on the lakes.

ior Michigan and Wisconsin Warmer, fair

weather; light to fresh westerly winds.

Local Weather Record. Indianapolis, Oct 10, 1887.

Time. Bar. Thcr. Hum.Wind.Veather Rain. 6 a. M... 30.01 CO 94 Nwest.Threat'g 0.03 2 P. M... 30.08 58 81 XorthjCloudy. O.ll 9 p. M... 30.17 52 72 NorthCloudy. 0.02

Maximum temperature, 9; minimum tempera

ture. 50.

Following is a comparative statement of the condi

tion of temperature and rain-fall for Oct. lO, 1887:

Normal ............... ..... ......... Mean........... Departure from normal.........

Total excess or deficiency since Oct 1. Total excess or deficiency since Jan. 1,

Jt'lus.

Tem. 57 57 8 11 128

Rain. O.ll 0.16 0.05 0.70 11.09

General Observations. Washington, Oct. 10, 9 p. m.

Stations.

New York city...... 29 Philadelphia, Pa... 29 Washineton Citv... 29

Charleston. S. C... 29.

San Antonia, Tex.. 30.

Jacksonville. Jbla...U:v.

Atlanta. Ga 29.

ensacola. Fla 29.

Titusville. Fla 29.

Montsromerv, Ala...

Vicksburc, Miss.... 30.

New Orleans La... 29. Shreveport, La..... 30. Fort Smith, Ark.... 30 Little Rock. Ark... 30. Galveston, Tex 29. Palestine. Tex 30.

Brownsville. Tex.. 29. Memphis, Tenn.... 30. Nashville, Tena 29. Louisville, Ky 30. Indiananolis. Ind. .. 30. Cincinnati, O...... SO. Springfield. Mo..... 30. Pittsbur. Pa 30. Boise Citv, I. T 30. Oswego, N. Y. 29. Calgary. N.W.T.... 30. Toledo. 0 30. Minnedosa, Mont... 30. Escanabfi. Mich 30. Prince Edward's L'g 30. Chicago, 111 30. Milwaukee. Wis--..30. Duluth, Minn j30. St. Paul. Minn 30. La Crosse. Wis 30. Davenport. Ia 130. Des Moines. Ia. - . 130.

Concordia. Kan Keokuk. Ia 30.

O.iri-. Ill

Springfield, 111 St. Louis. Mo....... Lamar, Mo. ........ Leavenworth, Kan. . Omaha. Neb. Valentine, Neb..... Yankton. D. T Moorhead, Minn Bismarck. D. T Deadwood. D. T.... Fort Custer Cheyenne, Wy. T.. North Platte, Neb.. Denver, Col.... W.Las Animas, Col. Dodge City, Kan... Fort Elliot. Tex Fort Sill, 1. T Ft. Davis. Tex El Paso, Tex Salt Lake City Santa Fe, N. M Montrose, Col ......

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Two Lives Lost In a Burning: Building. Chicago, Oct 10. Fire to-night damaged the fourth story of the building No. 5104 State street to the extent of $2,000. Richard Moore, aged sixty, agent for a drug house, was found dead in one of the rooms, having evidently died from suffocation. His wife was literally roasted, and died on the way to the hospital. Several people were saved by being taken from windows by the firemen. The fire was caused by the overturning of a kerosene lamp. Minister Manning Dying. New York, Oct 10. Thomas C. Manning, the minister to Mexico, lies in a dying condition at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. He was taken worse this afternoon, and at a late hour to-night was delirious. His death is probably a matter of but a few hours. He came to this city a week ago to-day to attend the meeting of the Peabody fund trustees, of wbich he is one. He has requested tbat his family, in Louisiana, be not notified of his illness. Business Embarrassments. Omaha, Oct. 10. Alex. Polack, a clothing merchant, has failed. Liabilities, $125,000; assets, about $75,000. -The failure causes much surprise, as be was quoted high. Green Bay. Wia, Oct 10. The Merchants' and Miners' Bank, of Iron Mountain, Mich., closed on Saturday. It is understood that the cashier has skipped to Canada with $15,000. Denver, Col., Oct 10. The banking house of Morton E. Post & Co., us:ended to-day owing to inability to realize on loans. They say they expect to pav dollar for dollar when the loans are settled up. They claim $007,550 assets,

against $494,300 liabilities. Tbe failure was expected, and causes little excitement but a great many poor people who were depositors will suffer. The figures given by. the bank are thought to be too favarable. A branch bank at West Cliff, Col., is also closed.

Steamship News. QtJEENSTOWN, Oct 10. Arrived: England, from York. Southampton, Oct 10. Arrived: Elbe, from New York for Bremen. Philadelphia, Oct 10. Arrived: British Princess, from Liverpool. London, Oct 10. Arrived: France, Egyptian Monarch, from New York. New York, Oct 10. Arrived: Eider, from Bremen; Arabic, from Liverpool.

The Tariffi To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The construction of a well-adjusted tariff is mosvstrictl7 a practical business proceeding. It does not depend upon poetry, fiction, sentiment or theory, but it gets right down to the

bed-rock of minute details of everyday life in the home manufactory. There are three principal items to be considered in estimating the cost of producing a manufactured article. They are price of labor, cost of the raw materia!, kind of machinery used. When the cost of production is determined, which, of course, should include interest on the capital invested in the plant; then add to the total cost of production 10 per cent net profit; and in many cases where the wear and tear of machinery is great 20 or 25 per cent net profit would not be unreasonable, because of the contingencies of risk incurred by the breakage or wearing out of expensive machinery. This would constitute a standard, or criterion, by which to regulate the tariff so as to insure the home manufacturers a living profit, and to justify them in continuing in business. The cost of home production, together with the 10. 20, 25, or other net profit per cent added, would furnish the maximum rate or high-water line, to wbich the tariff should be adjusted. In order to do this properly the cost of foreign manufacturers should be carefully investigated and ascertained as far as practicable; and if by reason of the cheap labor which foreign manufacturers have the advantage of, the eost of production is much less than ours, let a tariff rate sufficiently high be imposed upon their goods, to equal the rate of protection- demanded by the home product; if it be 40. 50, 75, or even 100 per cent, on the cost of the foreign articles, let it be levied. - To render this idea more plain: Let the initial letter H represent tbe total cost of the home-made article, then H plus 10, 20, 25. or any other per cent, will represent what the home manufacturer should have for bis goods, in order to make a success of his business. Let F represent the total cost of the foreign-made article, then F plus 40, 50, 75, or 100 per cent will represent wbat the foreign importer should be allowed to sell his goods at in this country, so as not to injuriously affect the home manufacturer by his competition. Thus it will be seen that the process of formulating a tariff may be represented by arithmetical equations as follows: H plus 10 per cent, equals F plus 40 per cent.; H plus 20 per cent equals F plus 50 per cent; H plus 30 per cent equals F plus 75 per cent; H plus 40 per cent equals F plus 100 percent, and so on. The rates on different articles must be different, varying with the commercial demand for such articles. This can only be regulated by adjusting it according to supply and demand,' and not by any arbitrary or uniform rate on all. As a general proposition, a tariff should be levied on all raw materials that can be grown or made here, and on all articles that can be manufactured here, and that tariff should be sufficient to prevent injurious foreign competition. Tbe rate

should not be so high as to amount to prohibi

tion of foreign imports, and thereby exclude the foreign trade; but it should be high enough to amply protect home manufacturers, and to ex

cite a healthy and spirited home competition; because there are millions of capital waiting and

watching for profitable investment in this coun

try, and much of it will go into home manufacturing plants whenever capitalists are assured of

anything like permanent profits. We must pro

vide for our own manufacturers, first and fore

most, and not for the welfare of foreign manufacturers that is too big an undertaking for any

country. f

It is argued by the advocates of absolute free

trade, as well as the advocates of a low tariff, that tariff is a tax levied indirectly upon the consumer or last purchaser amongst our people; and that its only effect is to benefit the home

manufacturer, at the expense of ourown people.

But is such argument warranted by the facial

We thick not, for whenever any branch or line

of American manufactures becomes profitable by reason of the intervention of a tariff, some other capitalist will invest his means in such

manufactures, and thus direct home competition

is inaugurated at once. So tbat the fear of monopoly is not well founded, as there is no tariff against home capitalists engaging in the manufacture and sale of anything they deem profitable; and instead of a protective tariff

essemcg competition, it has a direct tendency

to increase and multiply competition right here at borne. Hence the tariff is in many instances a direct blessing to consumers, because it encourages more people to engage in manufactur

ing than otherwise would; and when manufact

urers in any line of business become numerous, then active competition in the sale of goods must inevitably reduce the price of such roods.

A well-adjusted tariff would require revision occasionally; perhaps about once in ten years, in order to meet the changes and variations in

commerce, caused by the rapid stride of inven

tion, and the ever-recurring mutations of

fashion, habit, taste, etc. Sometimes a change

of tariff rates would be required on some certain articles or line of goods between tbe periods of

revision, but this could be accomplished, when

ever the exigency arose, because Congress is in session annually. Hence no monopoly of extortionate profits on any tariff matter could be long

maintained. If the present tariff should be

carefully adjusted and revised by the next census year, 181)0, the great probability is tbat it

would need no revision of any consequence before

1900. This should be done by Congress, and a

quietus put on tariff tinkering until something

arises tbat really demands remodeling, and that

could actually be bettered by some modification or change. Wm. R. Noebis.

Shelbyville, Ind., Oat. 5, 1887.

Cleveland and Reform.

Philadelphia Press.

The Indiana Civil-service Reform Association

has its opinion of President Cleveland also, it

seems, it charges tnat ne nas leit the adminis

tration of the reform law in that State in the hands of its declared enemies. This is not pe

culiar to Indiana. The same thing has been

done nearly everywhere else, and we have had

our share of it in Philadelphia. After awhile the agonizing suspicion will get abroad that Mr. Cleveland really isn't so much better than

his party.

Hope for Utah.

Salt Lake Tribune.

Within five years we expect that all the people

here will be petitioning for statehood; and more, the petition will deserve a favorable answer. We expect to see the Mormon creed retired to the real sphere in which other creeds are content to labor: we expect to see both polyga

my and church rule abandoned, and then there will snch a glory come to Utah that the dullest

soul will feel the thrill of its effulgence, and wonder that the inevitable was fought here so long.

Personal Liberty.

Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Personal Liberty party's ideas of personal

liberty is that every man has a right to make

himself a nuisance to society and an expense to

the State, provided be first pays tolls to the

liquor sellers.

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WILL BE WITH US AGAIN. Dr. Barker, the oculist and aurist from Cincinnati, announces his second annual visit to Indianapolis. The scenes of gathering crowds at his office on Mai k-at street during his sojourn here last winter, is still fresh in the minds of many. Although menaced by jealous competitors and their friends, his work was of such high order as to challenge the admiration of all fair-minded people who appreciate excellence, and the almost miraculous cures performed on patients where others had failed speak volumes in his praise. At first derogatory criticisms could be heard, for no special reason only that he advertised. But, as his prac

tice developed, his dexterity as au operator, the mildness and virtue of bis medical treatment, together with the rapidity of cures performed, excited much interest and favorable comment, until he enjoyed a practice of which he had reasoa to be proud. Too much . cannot be said about his methods of adjusting J5PECTACLES and ARTIFICIAL EYES, as his examinations are the most thorough, besides, he does all the intricate mechanical work himself, giving entire satisfaction, at a price less tban the usual cost of an examination and prescription aloce. His stock of Artificial Eyes surpasses anything of the kind in the United, . States, carrying as many thousands as others do hundreds, of every variety and very beautiful.

RETURN VISIT.

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A. B. BARKER, M. D., Oculist and Aurist, from Cinclnaiti, 0., : OFFICE ROOMS, 15, 17 AND iaa MARTINDALE BLOCK. (Entrance on' Pennsylvania street north of P. O.) INDIANAPOLIS, OCT. 13 to ISTOWIT, Where he can be co nsulted free by those having

EYE, EAR, NOSE THROAT Needing Spectacles or MiSeial Eyes.

Represents Cross Eyes as cured in one minus by Dr.

.Darker, xneoaore i;euz s cnua, .cast 5uington street

REMEMBER !

That he is NOT A STRANGER, as he has hun

dreds of patients here. He COURTS INVESTIGATION and COMPARISON.

Thst in EYE AFFLICTIONS his treatment is new.

mild and soothing, using no blue- stone, caustio o-

sugar of lead.

That his suceess in the treatment of CATARACT

is almost phenomenal.

That he can positively cure every case of RUN

NING EARS.

That he treats DEAFNESS with gasses, or vapors.

impregnated with such medicinal agents as the cure may require.

That in the treatment of the NOSE and THROAT

he has made a marked stride in advance of others.

That in SPECTACLES and ARTIFICIAL EYES

he leads any one in the United States. The latter he imports by the thousands. . In the former he guarantees entire satisfaction; makes changes on old materia if desired.

That the TIME REQUIRED TO CURE and FEES

for the same are only about one-half of that of others

flcr Will Positively Visit No Other Point, in the State. BOYUTOil FURNACE CO., Sole Manufacturers of

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With All MODERN Improvements. 47 and 49. Dearborn St, J. H. MANNY, Manager. CHICAGO. FOR SALE BY "WINI. H. HENNETT Ac SON. Indianapolis, Ind.

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