Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1889.

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NZvJ YCRK GUiey House and Windsor RSteU PnrLADELPniA-A. P. Kemblo. avenue. 3735 LancastT w CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Ilawley & Co 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. D erring, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOTJIS Union News Company, Unlou Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, House. D. C. Rlggt House and bbltt It is a feeble fight the Democratic candidates are making. The trouble is their lack of ammunition. As a "mixer' the highly respectable Judge Sullivan" docs not prove to be a - - conspicuous success The evening organ of the free-whisky gang has been driven into a hole. It couldn't faco its own record. The Democratic managers in the city campaign deal in vague and unsupported charges; the Republicans meet them with facts and figures. The distinctive characteristic of the Evening News is that of "knowing things that aint so." Just at present it is feeling the ill effects of this unfortunate habit. The intensely respectable Judge Sullivan was put on tho Democratic ticket in order to aid in tho "vindication" of Sim Coy. He does not shine in the role of assistant to the ex-convict. . TnE News says a good many Democrats in Coy's ward want him defeated. The Journal hopes so, for their own and for Shufelton's sake; but Mr. Coy did not nominate himself. "A good many Democrats" took a hand in that transaction. The rows down in Oklahoma indicate that the residents are getting tired of governing themselves without local laws. For the sake of peaco and the reputation of the people, the Territory should bo organized without delay when Congress . meets. An English trust of cotton-brokers has cornered the market for raw material, and over 100,000 spindles have already stopped in consequence. And yet free traders expect us to believe the silly assertion that trusts and business com bines depend upon the tariff for their cxistesce! TnE News is in hard lines in its attempt to oppose General Coburn. Yesterday it said in one sentence that "he would make an excellent Mayor, even if that office had greater duties attached to it than it has,' and in the very next sentence of tho same article says "his election would bo to the detriment of the public interests." Just how the election of an excellent Mayor could be to the detriment of the public interests, it does not attempt to explain. rrt ... iHE cm cargo on interstate commerce attempted by several State Legislatures last winter, in the passage of certain meat inspection laws, has been completely removed by the decision of Judge Nelson, of the United States District Court of' Minnesota. Ho holds that such laws are in violation of tho clause of tho Constitution which provides that tho citizens of each State shall be entitled to . the privileges and immunities of tho citi zens of tho several States. An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court, but it is not likely the case will bo reached for several years, and quite improvable that the opinions of both Judge Blodgett and Judge .Nelson would be overruled by tho justices. It is generally conceded thatBoulaugism suffered a crushing defeat in tho French elections of Sunday. In 'tho Montmartre district, where the doughty General was extremely popular, ho failed to receive a majority of'the votes, a re-ballot being necessary. $ Only twen ty-one Boulangists wero elected to tho Deputies in tho whole country, whereas the monarchical conspirators confidently claimed a majority of the members. It is believed their full strength, after tho re-Dauoting is conciuueu, win not ex ceed thirty-six. Tho total number of Republicans in the Chamber of Deputies will not be less than ISO, while . that of the combined opposition will bo less than 223. Boulangism.may not be dead, but tho power of tho conspirators' to harm tho republic has gone, and with it the attempt to re-establish Ca'sarisai and monarchy. It seems the Democracy are going to make a determined and systematic pffort to convert tho people of this Stato to free trade. Mr. Edgar A. Brown, of this city, president of the "Indiana Tariff Reform League," publishes a let ter in which he informs tho public that the league is established to organize this State, "and we propose to keep at it till every precinct has an organization through which tho head ofiico at Indianapolis can work and reach tho people." He adds that fifty-two counties have been organized, and tho rest will be as Boon as possible. Through this organization it is proposed to circulate litera ture, hold meetings, and 6et other influences at work to disseminate the doc trines of tree trade, if the Democracy

can succeed in making the people of Indiana, or a majority of them, believe that the State has not prospered under a protective tariff and would be better off with free trade, they have a right to do it; but they will not Bucceed, except by misrepresentation and falsehood. All ' that is necessary to convince the people of the wisdom and practical benefits of protection is that they should know the facts, and they have a way of getting at these which is likely to prove mighty

discouraging to the propagandists of free trade. Meanwhile, this movement, which seems to be gaining considerable proportions, should remind Republicans that the Democracy are not asleep, and should suggest the propriety of meeting organization with organization. MORE OF THE BTCOKD. The Sentinel says the Republican city government "has got away with every dollar it could lay its hands on, and more than that could not be expected, even from the most accomplished and experienced gang." The Coy organ is wrong again. Its own party did a great deal more the last time it had control of the city government, for it not only, spent every dollar it could lay its hands on, but increased the city debt nearly $400,000 in two years. By raising the tax levy from $1.10 to $1.30 they obtained a largo increase of revenue, and they not only got away with that, but piled up an enormous debt besides t Some features of this period of Democratic misrule were astounding by their audacity. They increased the police force to ninety-two men, and its annual cost to $1)0,000. This was thirteen years ago, when the city was not nearly as ex tensive or populous as it is now, yet tho presept force, all told, embraces only eighty-four men, and costs only $C0,000. The Democrats ran the police as a political machine, and it was by far tho most expensive and most worthless force tho city ever had. Tho following extract from an editorial in the News, of Feb. 28, 1870, tells the truth about it. It said: We shall pay this year for tho services of ninety-two policemen, of whom it would be base llatterv to call more than a score worth the buttons on their uniforms, a little over $90,000. estimating the stationhouso expenses with those of the force, as the Council does. This is $18,Qpo more than the estimate, and $41,000 moro than tho expense in 1873-4. To say that it is a monstrons extortion for the benefit of party dependcuts, mat it is a irauu in xue interest oi tuo dominant party, is to say no more than everybody knows. The police department is a sort of Democratic pension office, with no very pressing duty but that of distributing pay. That is tho kind of a police force the city had during the last period of Democratic reform, and it was by such means as this that they not only "got away with every dollar they could lay their hands on," as the Sentinel says, but added nearly $400,000 to the city debt. Other expenses were increased in the same ratio, and the city government was run in a reckless "let-her-go-Gallagher" stale that was absolutely alarmiug to tax-payers. Conservative business men felt that the prospects of the city would be materially injured by tho increase of debt and taxes. On the 29th of April, 1870, the News said editorially: We hear of several manufacturers who talk of leaving in consequence of the op-1 pression of taxes reasonably apprehended ' under the continued rule .of the men who have already mado ofvra.xation the most serious obstruction of property.. Business cannot staiO it. and we see al ready that it is not going to try. Several establishments have gone, and. building permits run lower than at any time for years. 1 he weight of taxation is not the worst of the evils of partisan corruption and misrule. The taxes are wasted . in idle or aggravated expenses. The revenue of ihe year is gone already, and an enormous debt with a big waste of interest is inevitable. The enormous debt, with a big waste of interestdid prove to bo inevitable, and has been a burden on the city ever since!' During these two years of Democratic misrule city bonds were issued to the amount of $515,000, bearing 7.3 per cent, interest. As the city election of May, 1876, approached all good citizens felt that it was a matter of the utmost importance to rescue the city from "tho gang" that was plundering it. The News said if tho election should result in a continuance of tho Democratic policy it would prove tho most serious calamity that ever befell the city. "Two years," it said, "have ndde'tl largely to our dbt, nearly 50 per cent, to our taxes, more than 100 per cent, to some of our expenses, and tho present1 year, nearly closed, has mortgaged and consumed tho whole revenue for the next year, paying a floating .debt in warrants equal to the year's expenses, and making a waste of interest at the rate of $50,000 a year." This was the city's last experience of Democratic reform, and now it is invited to try another dose of tho same medicine. DEM0CBATS AND THE SALOON TAX. Tho course of the Democracy regarding the saloon tax ought to lose them thousands of votes. It is amazing that any person not engaged in or directly interested in tho saloon business should oppose a tax so manifestly just and so plainly in tho interest of public morals, good government and increased revenue. Aside from financial considerations tho tax could bo defended on moral grounds and as a restrictive measure, for it will materially reduce the number of saloons and tho evils of the liquor traffic. But it is even more defensible as a financial measure. The $230 tax will yield a revenue of at least $73,000 a year nearly three times as much as the amount which the city is now able to spend for street repairs. The Democracy are opposed, to this tax, and in the event of their obtaining control of tho city government will repeal or reduce it. Every Democrat in the Council voted against it, and six of those who so voted are candidates for re-electiou. The Republican convention declared strongly in favor of retaining the tax. Tho Democracy were dumb as oysters on the subject, passing over in cowardly silence the most important issue in tho campaign. They are assessing the saloons for campaign funds with' the assurance that if they are successful tho ordinance shall bo repealed. Tho ten Democrats in tho Council who voted against the ordinance arc: Messrs. Burns, Coy, Gaul, Hicklin, Johnston, Kelley, Markey, O'Connor, Parkinson and Stuckmeyer. Burns, Coy, Hicklin, and Markey af e candidates for re-election o$ arc Aldermen Clark and

Reinecke, who also voted against it. If anybody thinks these men will not vote to repeal the ordinance he is badly mistaken. s

THE DEAD KOVELIST. There are few readers but will feel regret over the announcement of Wilkie Collins's death. Among the critics opinions differ as to his rank as a writer of fiction. Admirers of the modern metaphysical novel do not rate him among the best literary artists, but the popularity of his books attests his ability to entertain the public, and the fact that they were read by a class of people who countenance only the best specimens of literature is proof of their high quality. It iscustomary to speak of his stories as notable merely for the ingenuity of tho plots, but the literary quality is of a character -correspondingly superior to that of t the plots. They are stories of marvelous happenings told with an art that makes them real. There is no visible psychological dissection by the writer. He makes his characters act, and by their actions their motives are laid bare to the readers. For skill in narration and for the evolution of plots no novelist excels him. For affording" absorbing entertainment his books still stand at the head. Whether he is to bo classed with Thackeray and Dickens is not a matter that discrimi nating readers consider. His style is unliko theirs. Ho worked a different literary vein and worked it in a way no ono else has rivaled, sthough he has many jniitators. People who remember their sensations in reading "The Woman in", White," "Armadale," "The Moonstone," and "Poor Miss Finch," do not look for tales of like interest from newer writers. Ie was one of the great novelists and did a good part in adding to the literature which makes tho world forget its cares and burdens. The city tax rate in Indianapolis is 90 cents on the $io0, and tho bonded city debt' is $1,403,500. According to "Ilicks's Statistics of Leading Cities in the United States," only one other city has so low a tax rate. Our city debt is less per capita, or according to population, than that of any other city of the same grade. Pittsburg has a debt of $53.03 per capita,- Baltimore, $00.34; Boston, $60.24; Philadelphia, $33.14; Cincinnati, $81.56; Cleveland, $23.60; Toledo, $38.67; Rochester, N. Y., $41.68, Minneapolis, $22.80; St. , Paul,- $20.01; St. Louis, $48.04; Indianapolis, $12. Tho present city debt was all created prior to 1877, and $515,000 of it during the two years of Democratic misrule, from 1874 to 1876. It has not been increased aT dollar since 1877. Since that-time the city revenue has been very small, but tho city has lived within its revenue! and made many valuable improvements, as Tomlinsonj Hall, the new markethouse, City Hospital, etc., air paid forout of the regular tax levy and without creating any debt. There is not another city in the United States that can make as good a showing. , Ex-Goverxok Gray delivered a speech on the tariff question at ScottsburgV the other day, intheconrso of which he taid: said to have commenced when the Constitution went into force, or when the first President was inaugurated, April S0,170," and from that date to the enactment of the present war tariff was soyenty-five years three-quarters of a century. During alt that time there were not twenty indvidnals in the country worth over a million of dollars each, tho wealth of the country being, diffused among the people. During ' tho past twenty-tive years one-fourth of a century under the present war tariff, there have been created millionaires by the thou-, sands. . -' It is doubtless true that there are a good many more millionaires in the United States now than there were thirty years ago, but there are also a great many more thousandaires and ten. and twenty thonsandaires. The wealth of the country has increased enormously under the protective-tariff system, and it is no more unequally distributed now than it was before, or than the wealth of any other country is. Governor Gray makes a radical mistake in supposing that wealth was more generally or equally diffused under free-trade or tariff for revenue only. It was poverty that was diffused. Free trade is a great diftuser of poverty. " . ' " Prof.4 Jonx L. Sullivan, of Boston, says the letter in the New York Sun announcing his candidacy for a congressional nomination is a "fake," and that his first business on reaching New York will be to call on tho Sun and demand a retraction. The Sun may be a base deceiver, and bo willing to cast discredit upon a distinguished member of tho Democratic party, but the Journal is not that sort of a paper. Wo hasten to assure Professor Sullivan that the Journal's recent nomination of him as a Democratic candidate for President was made in good faith, and still stands. It was made in recognition of the fact that a large portion of his party regards him as a bigger man than "old Cleveland." Steak ing of the destructive storms that haye been sweeping over Mexico, for a month an Eastern paper says: "The difficulty would bo to find one part of the world which has been free during the summer from these unwelcome visitants.7 The great trouble with your down-Easterner is his provincialism. Just because storni3 have raged on tho Atlantic coast and the rains have descended with almost daily, regularity since last May, he assumes that all tho world is afflicted in like manner. It he had spent the summer in Indiana or any where in the fairly largo territory between tho Allegheny mountains and the Pacific ocean ho would have found what was for tho most part very delightful weather. To be sure, it was a little damp in the early season, but this only enhanced tho charms of the later months. It has been on tho whole a pleasant season in ihe West. . m There can be no doubt that the present method of hiring ball-players and holding them to their contracts contains some odious features, but it is doubtful if the remedy suggested in the proposed co-operative scheme would, be efficacious. People will haye less faith in the integrity of the clubs when they pass into th hands of a lot of schemers and speculators, than if owned by responsible citizen of the communities in which they play. . , Can it be possible that the national capital is becoming jealons of Indiana's Gretna Green?. For years past Jefiersonvilh has held undisputed sway over tho

minds of Southern cooples whoso hearts longed to beat as one, but Vhose parents threw barriers in their way. Now comes "Washington with a bid to marry eloping couples at $1 a knot, and no questions asked, and. if our correspondent is correct, the bids are being accepted at a rate that promises to make plenty of work for the divorce courts a few years hence. The Falls cities should see to it that Indiana interests in this line are fully protected, even if the justices are compelled to cut rates to their rival's level.

The tension between Boston and New York on the base-ball question is becoming positively painful. The newspapers of both cities teem with double-leaded ediMortals admonishing their respective nines to do their best, and a Boston paper has gone so far as to promise 1,000 to be distributed among the players of that club if they.bring home the pennant. Washington is furbishing itself up for the Knights Templars, and promises a gorgeous display of decorations. It doesn't seem to reflect that members of the Masonic order are plain, retiring persons, not given to spectacular eCects. An item in an evening paper reports a Union Station gate-keeper as saying that ho had no "indiscretion." It is the opinion of the traveling public that these functionaries have a great deal of this quality. The Johns Hopkins University is to have a chair of poetry. This would seem to mark the decadence of the theory that "poets are born, not made." Of course the Democracy stands no show in the new States. They are too much alive out there to waste any time with backnumber politics Apparently Boulanger did not win in the French elecrions, but he showed surprising spry ness for an alleged political corpse. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. An Ohio man has written Jay Gould a begging letter every day for the last 450 days. I Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson is expected at Sydney in October. He is described as being "in radiant health." Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Episcopal Bishop of western New "York, will have been in the episcopate twenty-five years on Jan. 4, 1890. Advertisements in London journals indicate that the purchase oi cast-off court suits, artificial teeth, etc., "for export," is Quite a considerable business. It is officially announced from Madagas car that the Queen of that country has taken her annual bath. Her loyal subjects are wondering how she survived the ordeal. Hknry Watteeson is totally blind in one eye and is able to see only dimly with the ottier. When he writes he bends his head so low that his nose almost touches the paper. M. Eiffel, , builder of the tall tower of Paris, is expected . in Quebec shortly to build a $3,000,000-bridge across the St Lawrence, which would make a continuous roadway from ocean to ocean on Canadian soil. In the great Prnssian field marshal's own immediate branch of the Moltke family there havo been eight Ministers of state, four generals and one admiral, all in the Danish service. Minister Reid has met with great social success in Paris. He has so many invitations that he is ablo to accept but few of them. He and Consul-general Cathbone havo become great chums, and Mr. .Keid will greatly regret the Californian's departure from France. .While strolling through the Paris exhi bition, the other morning, Mr. Edison accidentally hit upon a tool that he calculates will save him something li ke $6,000 a year. It is a chisel worked by hydraulic pressure, and will enable him to reduce his labor by eighteen hands, There is a secret "organization in Balti- - more, MdM the object of which is to protect its members from unfortunate marriages. When one of the club f eeis that he is i'all- - ing in lovo he confesses to his fellow-mem hers and they appoint a committee to invrsuKaio uie uiauer anu auvise mm xnercin. . . . Joseph Boyle, a New York oyster-dealer, speaking of the late coast gale, say's: "Tho waves churned up the mud, and Fin afraid it has settled over our beds and smothered the oysters. We had an oyster which ran 1,800 to " tho barrel, and it was tho fattest oyster I ever saw. It made a great hit in New York, but I don't know how it is coming out." Leprosy is now attracting tho attention of the doctors all over the world. Dr. Berger some months ago reported from Key West that there were at least one hundred cases of the disease on that island. Dr. Morrow says that the spread of the disease m the United States is a' possibility. It is far from being restricted to a few uncivil ized localities. It now prevails over more than one-fourth of the habitable globe. : ' Thirty-five thousand Spaniards . last year emigrated to South America, and ten thousand to Algeria. Tho Basque provinces. tho Asturias and Galicia are furnishing thousands of sober and able-bodied work ers for the Argentine Republic. The Spanish government tries in vain to dissuade the people from leaving their homes. Thev prefer free land and high wages in the new world rather than low wages and crushing taxation in tne oiu. Miss Wanamaker, who is now visiting the Harrisons at Deer Park, is a tall, lithev young woman, who iooks as though she could fence, row or wield a racquet. She is rather handsome, and her face indicates perfect health. She is clever and witty, and is a great reader. "Mrs. Harrison takes a great fancy to her and is anxious to have her with her as much as possible. Miss Wanamaker is not fond of general society, but likes to meet people of intellect, and can hold her own in conversation with the cleverest men und women in Washington society. There is a man living in Hartford, Conn., who deserves the prize for absentmindedness. A few days ago he was having his boots blacked by an Italian 6treet boot-black. Just as the job was finished and the- gentleman had picked out a nickel from his purse, an acquaintance stopped up and began talking. The first gentleman absent-mindedlj" put the nickel in his Socket and gave the purse to tho boot lack, who seized it and disappeared. The Furse contained $&15. Since that time the talian has been asked to give it up, but refused. So the gentleman has had him arrested, and he will be charged with theft in court. English noblemen are beginning to invest largely in real estate in Australia. The Duke of Manchester, who has paid many visits to the antipodes, first set tho example, which has been promptly followed by Lord Itosebery and Lord Brassey. Lord Carnarvon, too, owns city property in Melbourne aud has an estate in western Australia. But long ago Lord Sherbrocke, then Mr. Robert Lowe, barristcr-at-law at Sydney, had purchased landed property in New South Wales, some of which ho still holds. hen the gold fever broke out. however, his agent, thinking it presaged tho ruin of. the colony, put the larger por tion ou tne mar ret, wnen it was sola at a sacrifice. Had Lord ttherbrooko retained It, he would now be numbered among the Australian millionaires. Olive Scureinkr, since the phenomenal success of her "Story of au African Farm.' has devcloped.it is said, "from a plain, shy, retiring girUinto a brilliant, self-poised woman, with many pretentions to beauty." She has large, brown, oriental e.ves, anil a manner of great fascination, particularly to men. She could be a lion in Loudon society if she would, but she goes nowhere, is absolutely unreliable, and can rarely bo -eeen in hex own houso. At ths woman's

dinner recently given in London, she accepted the iuvitatiou to preside, but never turned up, in spite of frantic teleeraphing right and left. Mona Caird presided in her stead. She is an ardent Socialist, and upon the rare occasions when she invites a friend to dinner directs her to bring her own beefsteak. James Gordon Bennett is nine and forty years of age, and has been tho sol proprietor of the Herald during nineteen of them. He is a citizen of the world and has an income, of something like $750,000. He spends tho greater part of tho year in Europe, where he is almost better known than in America. He speaks French like a native, and is a champion polo player. He is also much given to hunting, and his yachts hAvo on more than one occasion been the scenes of most exuberant festivity. He is unmarried, albeit once engaged. COMMENT AND OPINION. In suppressing polygamy and building up an efficient common-school system, Utah is stamping out its big Democratic majority vigorously and preparing the way for its admission to statehood. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Public hostility to such trusts as havo used their power to plunder tho people does not justify the prevalent impression that there is something wicked in the very nature of the organization. Its power comes from the same virtue which lays the foundation of all property, and, therefore, of all civilization, namely, from sclf-deniah New York Tribune. . , No Republican politician will be found to agree with the Democratic and mugwump Sapers which are commiserating President arrison for having overworked himself making removals. Philadelphia, Boston, and scores of other cities, offer eloquent proof that Prescient Harrison has niado haste far more slowly than President Cleveland. Philadelphia'Press. The best physical cdlture is that which comes through work. There is no better gymnasium than the smithy or the plowandles. Where this is impossible, the physical training is best that fits any ono lor the work he ought to do. Physical exertion for no other purpose than .the acquirement of superior strength is wasted at best. At it3 worst it is demoralizing. St. Louis Republic.

Neither wealth nor poverty is a crime. The standard of good citizenship should be measured by duty well and faithfully done. Tho employe who is honest, industrious. who meets all the requirements of true manhood, who fulfills his duty to himself. nis iamiiy anu nis neignoors, is entmeu to all the honor that attaches to his wealtDy cmnlover who nossesses .like oualities. Wasiiington Post The government has fully discharged or is discharging its indebtedness to the true soldier: to tho soldier who was recreant it owes nothing. Let the true soldier in turn discharge his debt to the government. If he saved it from open and armed treason let him preserve it from tbe, howling mercenaries who in his name are shouting that patriotism, past, present, and prospective was, is, ana always win oo a 60-mucn-a-month sentiment Chicago Times (Dem.) No man is bigger than a party, and m this case there has been no injustice done to Mr, Tanner. His management of the Pen8ion'Oihce was not satisfactory to the ad ministration. Was the administration to resign, or was Tanner to resign! Those gentlemen who are reported in .Democratic organs as disgruntled because Tanner re signed may be called upon to defend that gentleman's administration of the Pension Office. Are they ready to do it! New York Press. England is pursuing the right course for us in her devotion to tree trade, and it will not bo many years, if she adheres to it, before we shall take possession of her market and supply her steel rails as well as other things. Should, she, in order to prevent this, whip around and adopt a protective .system, then 'that would become her naT 1 1 1 . .1 mm - Jl 1 . iionax acKnowieuCTiient oi me Boununess of our policy and of tho true statesmanship of the Republican party. New York Mail and Express. , PUBLISUING-HpUSE FAILURE. Bclford, Clarke, & Co., of Chicago, Forced to the Wall, with Liabilities of $400,000. Chicago, Sept. 23. The mammoth pub lishing house of Belford, Clarke & Co., wh'ch has a large establishment here and branches in New York and San Francisco, went to the wall to-day. This afternoon judgments were entered against them in the Qircuit Court for $29,8S5 in favor of the First National Bank, aud for 13,000 in favor of S. A. Maxwell & Co. Attackments were issued, but shortly after the place was closed by the sheriff, and a receiver was appointed by Judge Shenftrd. The failure of the house, while a surprise to the general public, had been expected for sbme'timo by those who were familiar with the firm's standing. Belford, Clarke &. Co., started in business here about ten years ago, and was perhaps the largest publishing house west of New York. They were extensively engaged in publishing standard m works, and in this respect they -were one of tho largest houses in the-United States. Law yer Newman, attorney for several creditors and also for tho receiver, said that three things were responsible for tho failure. In 18SC their entire plant was destroyed by fire, causing a net loss to them of over $150,000. Tho firm promptly resumed business. but during the last two years they havo suffered very heavily by tho failures of customers. 'Tho collapse of ono firm in San Francisco lost them about $70,000. In ad dition to this, tho competition between Eastern and Western publishers, particularly on standard works, has been so brisk that the market has Deen wholly destroyed 60 mucn 6o max dooks wnicn two years ago sold for from$l to $1.50 now brine from 25 to 50 cents. Mr. Newman said that in his opinion the assets of tho company, accounts, plates, cuts. dies, copyrights, etc., would amount to about 5400.000 and tho liabilities to about $350,000 or 400,000. The principal creditors are tho Crowe Printing Company, over 150.000; JJonohUH cc lienneberry, 75,000; the First National Bank of Chicago, $30,000, and S. A. Maxwell, 510,000. liesides these. there aro three heavy creditors in New York and San Francisco. Mr. Newman said the receiver would continue to issue Belford's Monthly, a magazine which the firm lias been publishing for some time, which has a subscription list of over 25.000. Another lawyer, discussing the causes of the failure, said that Andrew McNally, of Band, McNally & Co., who is Mr. Belfords father-in-law. had- been backing the firm for some time, and that his refusal to indorse the firm's paper prompted the First National Bank to enter up judgment. Tho attorney thought that if Mr. McNally had not discontinued his support the firm might have pulled through. Thomas C. Hammond, a member of tho firm of Walker, Oakley fc Co., leather merchants, is the receiver. His bond is for $100,000. Prior to tho appointment of tho receiver. Uonohue cc llenneoerry, who are amoMg tho largest creditors, filed a bill, in which it is stated that the .broken corporation's capital was $500,000, of which only 200.000 had been paid in. The nominal as sets, according to this bill, amount to less than S200.000. while tho indebtedness will exceed $400,000. Attached at New York aud lirookljn. New York, Sept, 23. The sheriff to-day took possession of 'Belford, Clarke & Co.'s place of business in this city on an attach ment for $25,000 obtained by C. F. Shepard as assignee of the claim of tho First Na-. tional Bank of Chicago. The Brooklyn branch has also been seized. Bradstreet say tho business was started in 1879. Tho limisrt had trouble in 1SS0 andl8Sl. but came out all right both times, andjvas extending its business largely until a hTe in lssosoineuh.it crippled it, aud it has since been re ducing its expenses. It did business large ly on borroweu capital. No Shortage in Natural Gat. New York, Sept 23. Calvin S. Brice said to-day that the reported shortage of natural ens in Pittabnrgand elsewhere is on artificial oue. The natural supply is in creasing, but in order to obtain better prices from enstomers the companies aro partially or wholly sauturvr oil the gas.

A MOB'S nOBWBLE CRUELTY

Innocent Wife r.nd Husband Strung to Trees and Nearly . vtrcugied to Death. Compelled Under If :or to Confess the Killing of a Child, Wiii. h A fcnrard Mysteriously Tnr.v'Op Alive iul WelL Eldorado, lfe 23. Tho details of the mob trial v.t.tu- ; iioh law of Alonzo Edwards aud In it-; Maiy, at Bosalia, Kan., are of tip l:i.'fit r.i7o;t;i;s character, and reveal a si'ry inhuman treatment seldom met witti ;-cui.i tho administration of border ju u:i. Mr. and Mrs. EdWards and Henry Bloumer and wife wero engaged as farm ban Is on the farm of Georgo Dndley, xen miles from Rosalia. Last Tuesday Mm. . Edtrards was left in charge of tho honso while the rest of tho farm hands were jent to the fields to,work. To her was intrusted the care of the thrce-ycar-old child o'l Mr. and Mrs. Bloomer. When tho party returned to tho house for supper in the evening tho child was missing. Search was instituted, and no trace of tho child could bo found. Tho nearest neighbors were summoned to join in tho search, and all night long they tramped over tho fields. Mrs. Bloomer was active in tho search, and when the morniug came and no trace of tho child had been found, she fell exhausted in the field, and had to be carried to tho house. Nt until to-day did she recover sufficiently to ri.so from her bed, and only then when the good news was brought to her that her child had been found alivo and well. All day Wednesday and Thursday tho search was kept up, and still no trace of the child was found. By this time tho whole county had been aroused, and fully one thousand -men, women and children, had joined tho party. Thursday night tho crowd was organized in a definito manner and placed four feet apart and thewholo country was then tramped over for fully two miles in every direction. During all this time Mrs. and Mr. Edwards displayed an indifference to tho child's fate that aroused suspicion, aLd they wero questioned closely. Their answers seemed to bo indefinite to the excited people, and they wero taken in charge by tho mob and arrested under lynch law. Tho mob divided itself into two parties, ono took charge of Mr. Edwards and the other was given the wife. Mri. Edwards is a largo woman, of emotional character, and when commanded to confess tho crime under penalty of beinir hanged if she did not, she tinally said she had killed the missing child. She nad thrown a stick of firewood. 6h said, at a rat in tho kitchen and had hit tho child by mistake, killing it instantly, and had thrown the body in tho creek. She was told to lead the party to tho placo whero the body had been thrown, fcho went to a placo about half a mile from the hoiue. and indicated it as tho riarht mace. Tho creek was dragged, but Mrs. Edwards's statement could not bo verified. ho was taken to the nearest tree and a ropo placed around her neck: Sho was told tho fato that awaited her if she did not tell whero the body of tho dead child was to be found. Sho repeated her former statement. Then she' was given an opportunity io oner prayer, ana was men drawn up from the ground. She was allowed to re main suspended in the air for a minute. until her face became black lrom impending strangulation. Sho was then lowered to the ground in an unconscious condition. When she revived sulliciently to snak. sho was asked if sho was ready to tell tho truth. "If you are not." tho leader saiiL "you Will bo hanged tho next time' until you are dead, and your husband w ill bo burned at tho staKe." The poor woman was actually too badly frightened to speak, and- assuming her Bilenco to bo voluntarj, tho mob agaiiv fastened tho -rope about her neck and sho was again suspended in tho air. This time sho was permitted to remain longer, and when cut down sho was more dead than alive. Tho mob was about to hang her a third time, when Bloomer, tho father of the missing child. Interfered and persuaded tin moo to uesist. only, however, because, i Mrs. Edwardss life -should bo taken, th) body of tho child could not be found. Mrs . V.tl WATtla vnA !irn tnL- tn thn Iwtucn o,ii placed in charge of a guard. In the meantime that part of tho mo'b which, had Edwards in charge had attemp ted to extort a confession from hnn. Ho protested his innocence, lie. too. was hamred from tho limb of a trco ' and cut down. Still he maintained that ho was innocent. Again he . was strung up and again cut down. He could not be mado to confess. Friday. night tho prisoners wero placed in tho jail here. From that time until this morning a mob varying in numbers from 500 to 1.500 -has continually surrounded tho jail, clamorimr 'for the lives of the accused. Tho sheritt barricaded the doors, and, arming himself and jailors, Kept tho mob at bay. ; , Early this morning the missing child was found alive and well, sitting on tho door-step of farmer near Rosalia. Where it had been all tho time I is a mystery. It is too young to speak plainly, and can Rive no account of itself. It is. supposed that it was kidnaped ami returned when it was found what excitement its disappearance was causing. Y hen tho news of the finding of the child was brought to this city tho mob could not bo made to believe its truth until tho child itself was produced and was recog nized by its mother as her own. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards w ero then released. They aro still suffering from the eilects of their harsh treatment, Tho marks of the ropo f .'i 1 J A A A 1 wnero it naa cut into ineir necKs are plainly visible and indicate their suffering must havo been great. An attempt will be made to prosecute the leaders of tbo mob. RACE QUESTION AND RELIGION. It Is Giving Some Trouble to the Protestant Episcopal Church of Maryland. Baltimore, Sept. 23. The Tace question is beginning to give some trouble in the Protestant Episcopal Church of this S fateMany of tho clergyman aro 4 opposed to a declaration on the subject and .believe in .1 negative policy. A Etand tho other way is taken in an interview published to-day with Bov. Walter C. Clanp, assistaut at Mt Calvary, the faslnouable high church, and rector of St. Mary's, the colored church of this city. Ho says: "It is certain that something must bo done with the race question. If not. tho work among the colored people will certainly be seriously injured, and cannot be earned on successfully. I think the church 6honld, in somo emphatic way, declare itself, so that people can understand its position in regard to the colored population. Tho church should make it plain that on tho raco question it is at least as large-hearted as the Nation. That would be the true spirit of catholicity. The only ground of. distinction, if there mnst be any, should be on the lino of intelligence and actual ability, so that a colored man intellectually equal to a white priest, proven to be so by his theological and collegiate graduations, should be so recognized 13' the churc h. Tho colored people full recognize this, and ask nothing more than a recognition of ability and worth among them. I have even beard colored persons favor an educational limit to tho right of suffrage under tho law of the State. All they a.k is that there ball not be a color line drawn a such. I am decidedly of the imprevdon that if the church would speak her mind a large majority would take the s ime. ground that 1 do. If tho church is going to do any thing' for tho colored people sho should at once lay aside her temporizing policy and express, by emphatic resolutions, her catholicity oa this issue.' Their Uodles "Were Hoboed. Cleveland, O., Sept. 23. Fritmlsof tlm nino men who wero drowned last Monday night by the explosion of the yacht Leo say that the bodies of six or seven of them were robbed. It is known that the nu n bad about $1,500 among them when they left Lorain for Cleveland Sunday afternoon, bept. 14. When their dead bodies were recovered rnomj wai found ou only those which were picked up in tho lake. Those which had washed ashoro had Wen stripped of valuables. It i thought that tramps couinittcd tho robbery,