Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1890 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1890.

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Unanswerable Speech on the Tariff by Secretary Blaine at South Bend, Ind. How Protection Has Decreased Prices of Necessaries and Luxuries and Stimulated Business During Twentj-Nine Years. AYhatFann ere WillGainWhenNew Markets Are Opened by theReciprocityAct. Tribute to the President and ippeal to Roomers Addresses bj Speaker Reed in Wisconsoa Speech at Milwaukee at Night. BLAISE AT SOUTH BEND. Unanswerable Argument in Favor of Protection and Reciprocity Appeal to lloosiera. South Bent, Ind., Oct. 9. The ground was covered with enow and a drizzling rain -was falling -when the train bearing the Hon. James G. Blaine arrived here, so that there were only a few -who -ventured out to meet the distinguished visitor. Mr. Blaine was immediately conveyed to the home of Mr. James Oliver for luncheon. At 2 o'clock the Secretary vai taken to the skating rink, where 3,000 people were packed in like sardines. The chairs had all been, taken out, and women and men stood together so compactly that not another could have been admitted. Many found places upon the rafters in their anxiety to see the distinguished speaker. Tho early tram from Goahen brought in over four hundred men, with a brass band. Hundreds of farmers who had come miles in the snow and rain to hear the speaking were disappointed, and had to stand outside in the inclement weather. When . Mr. Blaino was ushered into the room, a shout went ' up that shook the old building to its foundation. The countrymen yelled: "What's the matter with Blaino? He's all right Who's all right? 3im Blaine." Mr. Blaine was introduced by Mr. A. L. Brick. The Secretary smiled pleasantly in response to the hearty reception. He said: "There is no subject so continually presented to the people of the United States as the taritt. There is no subject so con tinuously misrepresented at present in the United States 'as the t a rill'. As far as the Democratic party can call public attention to anything there is no subject which is so universally discussed as the action of the Republicans in passing the MoKinley bill. I shall discuss no particular line or section of any bill. I wish to call your attention to a lew general facts which I think are more important than any stated bill can bo- that embodies these facts, and these general facts, to begin with, are that tho people of this country today owe their prosperity in a larger degree tv the system of protection than to any other law that was ever passed by Congress. Yon hear a great deal about advance in prices and oppression of the poor man. I undertake to call your attention to the fact that under the last free-trade tariff, which ended in the beginning of IStil. you. were paying more for everything that entered into your living, your household expenses, what you had on your table and what you had upon your back, than yon are paying to-day. Yet the whole country is resounding with appeals of the Democratic party to vote against the-Ke-pablican party because of the high prices they are puttiug on you. "We have had protection now for twentynine years. Go back, if you please, and 3'ou older ones will remember it and com- ' pare its results with those of the present tariff. Compare them, article by article, and you will find that in almost every case they are vastly cheaper now than then. The Democratic party allege that protective duties increase Drices. Thatistheirstrongest Joint. I do not stand here to argue theories, invite your attention to tho fact that during the period of twenty-nine years of protection the tendency of prices for luxuries and the necessities of this life has been steadily downward. So much for that aspect of the tariif. Every man "who .has a household has to consider that much, and if you do not find you are paying less for every single item than you were under the free-trade law enacted in 1846 1 will come back here and retract what I have said. PROTECTION BRINGS PROSPERITY. "If protection does so much for the individual you have a far grander subject to contemplate when you look at the aggregate progress of the country under the system of protection. I mean these United States, this march of the American people, the greatest republic of the world. There isno country on the globe whose progress can compare with ours. We have more railroads than all the continents and islands in the world: nearly five-sixths of these reads have been built since the Kepublicans have been in power. Five-sixths of the railway mileage of this country has' been built since the Republican party came in fower under Abraham Lincoln in 1SC1. use this as simply au illustration, because it is the largest single interest we have. How are our manufactories? What of our farming interests! What have we done for the population of this country? We have considerably more than doubled the population during the twenty-nine years of protection. iow we are a people of nearly 05,000,000. Before we were only 21.000,000. You will tiud this to be true if you will go through the statistics. ... "I would like to ask any gentleman. Democrat or Republican, what part of the people of the United States, what portion of the government of the United States, has been injured in that period? We had, to be sure, a very great struggle and a bloody war for the maintenance of the government; but we have acquired wealth espite the strain on the people of paying the expense of that war the payment of a sum almost incalculable. When. a man says to you that you are injured and pinched in your daily living in consequence of this tariff, ask hira if you did not pay more for things under free trade than you do now. I think a good question to put to every Democrat what did you pay for calico? what did you pay for clothing in laO, 1S57, 1858 and 1859? How does it compare with what you have paid in 1887, 1888. lbS9 and 1800? "Congress has taken another step, and has vindicated the reputation of the Republican party, which is always ready to take a step forward, and at the time the step should be taken. I do not desire to epeak of any person or party, but I call you to witness that all the great movements of any advancement that have been made ail great steps taken in this country have been taken by the Republicans, the Democrats shouting. You can't do it,' (Cheers. We needed further protection, and we have got it. We have lived side by side with several republics in South America for over sixty years. We have acted toward them like an indulgent father. We have been taktng their coffee, sugar and other things, and have never asked them to let ua in. We have let in nearly free $33,000,000 a year in cotlee, etc.. and we say to them, that is a great favor to you. We have let you put sugar in this country free, the same as a farmer in .South Bend can carry his products to Chicago. Now let us play fair. If we let your sugar in free, you must let our Hour into your country free. This seems like a very sensible proceeding. 1 wonder that we did not think of it before. When the time seemed right to take the step, the Republican party took it. DEMOCRATIC IN SINCERITY ON RECIPROCITY. "For a time the Republican party was divided. That showed they were a set of reasoning men. After a while, in due time, the Republicans all became solid for it. V hen the Republicans were divided on tho tariff the Democrats were unanimous for 4t, but just as soon as tho Republicans became unanimous you could not get a Democrat to vote for it at all. Laughter.l At iirst the Democratic Senators eaid: 'Go on; that's a splendid thing.' We were about six cifievsa weeks bringing the Republicans to

vote for it. and when tho roll was finally called there was not a Democrat to vote for it after they had said it was a good idea. If the Democrats had a good idea the Re" publicans would stand by them, but the Democrats won't stand by us unless the Republican party is divided, 1 do not call that wise financiering or patriotic conduct. Wo should not divide when the prosperity of this country is involved. An American is a great deal bigger man than either a Democrat or a Republican. Cheers. I think any Democrat or any Republican makes himself smaller if he will stand in the way of American progress because it may harm his party. Applause. No great results can come from that. We have unified the Republican party, and there has never been a time 6inc the election of Lincoln when the Republican party united could not carry any thing. Voices 'right; right yon are, Mr. Blaine. "We want the Republicans of Indiana united to stand together now as they did on the field of battle during tho time of war. There is a great deal of interest displayed nil over the country about the State- of Indiana. Indiana is one of the fighting states. You aro trained ia political fighting; you have never had an easygoing election since I cau remember, and this time, fellow-Republicans, stand toe to toe and carry it to the bitter end. You want to watch this issue, for if you stand up, the other States will be stronger. Indiana has given strength to this country in its President, aud she should not go back in a single degree on the President who sits in the presidential chair. "Of the United -States a Democratic newspaper this morning says: 'Reciprocity is placed where we do not need it. and tariff" instead where we do need it.' They want it in England. It would bo admirable tbero, wouldn't it? There would be no good wages in this country then. We have got aloni by ourselves for one hundred years, and I think to-day we are really better able to help ourselves than ever before. Applause. The republic should be brought closer ana closer together, and when we can help them and they can help us it is the first business to do so. Reciprocity .is bringing these nations closer together, and I believe that in the next two years we can open to the farmers of the United States a market of S5,000,000 people ia addition to what we now have. It is a greater step of progress than the Democratic party has taken in the last fifty years. These are simple facts and not theory. If we bring tugar from Cuba and coffee from Brazil they must take our farm products. "I crame to speak only for a few minutes and I have spoken that length of time, and in addition 1 have ouly to say that it is in your power more than any other State to promote these principles and to stand by this policy and strengthen it. (Voices, Hurrah for Blaino ' At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Blaino went to Plymouth, where he met his wife and daughter in their private car en route

for Washington. ' REED IN WISCONSIN. Speeches at Numerous Places During the Day and an ETeninAdtlregK at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Oct. 9. Speaker Reed received an ovation in Wisconsin to-day. He left St. Paul last night, accompanied by Horace Rublee and Chairman Payne, aud to-day made brief speeches at Eau Claire, Black River Falls, Reedsburg, Baraboo, Madison and Waukesha, reaching Milwaukee at 6 o'clock. Senator Spooner and Secretary Rusk joined the Speaker at Camp Douglass and accompanied him to Madison, where Mr. Reed addressed a large audience in the Stato CapitoL At the other points he only spoke brieily from the platform of his car, but wherever the train stopped large crowds had gathered. To-night he spoke at the Schlitz Park Theater before an audience of 4,000 people, hundreds being turned away. His speech was largely devoted to the tariff. Among other things he said: 'The West is just now receiving the full benefit of the protective tariff. Years ago, when, under the exigency of the war, it was started in this country, tho Western States were mostly engaged in agriculture. They were almost all farmers. These Western men and their interests lav in finding a market for their produce. They had the good sense and wisdom to believe that the est market tor their produce was the market which was nearest to them; that they saved freights: that tney saved all manner of expense, and that they sold their goods to men who were better able to pay thau if they had transported them across the Atlantic ocean. The farmers of America have always been a long-sighted class. They always saw that the course of protection was a wise course for them. They had the advantage of feeding those who did the work, which work was set in motion bv the protective tariff. To-day the attitude of the West is far different; to-day the West is peopled by manufacturers and producers of the necessaries of life, as well as farmers, and the result has been precisely what our forefathers if you can call forefathers men who existed oniv thirty j'eara ago the result is, ' that the prediction which the earlier members of the Kepublican party gave forth to the world have been fulfilled, and to-day, instead of the great site of the manufacturing empire being on the shores of the Atlantic, it seems to be in rapid transit across this entire country." Applause. Archbishop Feehan's Anniversary. Chicago, Oct. 29. The opening ceremonies in connection with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Archbishop Feehan's "elevation to the episcopacy were held this morning in the Cathedral. About four hundred priests and many church dignitaries were present, and many persons were unable to gain admission to the edifice on account of the throng. Pontifical high mass was celebrated, with the archbishop as celebrant, and the sermon was preached by Bishop Hogan, of Kansas City. At the close of the services the priests and prelates went in carriages to the Auditorium Hotel, where a 'banquet was served. Among the dignitaries in attendance was Right Rev. Francis Silas Chatard, bishop of Vincennes. The following cablegram from his Holiness, the Pope, was received this morning: Congratulations to the archbishop. Apostollo benediction to clergy aud nock. Leo XIII. The crowning glory of the celebration was a torchlight procession to-night, which, in point of magnitude and brilliancy. ban probably never been tturpaesed in the West. Over 25,000 men were in line bearing transparencies, ilambeaux and colored lights, while over the entire line of march the streets seemed arched in fire by the continuous stream of rockets. Suicide of a Girl Stenographer. St. Louis, Oct. 20. Miss Cora G. Sickles, a stenographer in the employ of Buchanan & Gowan, lumber-dealers, whose offices are located in the Bank of Commerce building, committed suicide, shortly before noon to-day, by taking "Rough on Rats." She left a noto stating she could not help it, and asking forgiveness. She was found, in an unconscious condition, on the lloor of one of the offices, and removed to the hospital, where she died this afternoon. Miss Sickles came here from Cincinnati, two years ago, and has since been in the employ of the firm. Democracy's Murderous Spirit Exemplified. SaSt Francisco, Oct. 20. Lawrence Roach. Republican, was shot and instantly killed by James J. Allen, Democrat, last night, on Fourth street, near Tehama. The killing was the result of politics. Allen caused a number of voters to be cited to appear before the electiou commissioners, and when Roach met him last night he was accused by Roach of being an informer. Allen says that Roach attacked him with a knife, and he (Allen) then drew a pistol and fired two shots, one entering the brain and the other the breast. The only weapon found on Roach was a small pocket-knife. To the Supreme Court at Once. Cincinnati, Oct. 29. The parties to the injunction suit against Mayor Mosby, to prevent him from appointing the members of the newly-created Board of City Affairs, have agreed to take the case at ouce to the Supreme Court for final settlement. The petition was theirfore dismissed by the Superior Court, and it will be heard by the Supreme Court as soon as possible. Meantime it is understood the Mayor's appointees, who have been selected, will not present their bonds for approval nor attempt to execute their functions as officers. Deterring of Confidence. There Is no article which so richly deserves the entire confidence of the community as Browu'a IJronehlal Troches. Those sutlerlng froin a-thujatio and bronchial diseases, coughs and colds should try them. Price 25 cents.

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Russian Peasants Up in Arms Against the Brutality of Their Rulers. Gladstone Bewails the Passage of Onr Tariff Law, and, Like All Free-Traders, Predicts Dire Consequences The Birchall Case. TOE RUSSIAN OUTBREAK. Uprising of Peasantry Dae to Unusual Cruelty of Those In Tower. London, Oct. 29. A dispatch from Vienna says that the Russian authorities at St. Petersburg and Odessa are making every effort to suppress the circumstances connected with the outbreak of the peasantry in southern Russia. The revolt is said to have originated in the stringent enforcement of the conscription, from which the rich land-holders find ways to escape, and the cruelties fall upon the peasants. The elders of villages, men held in veneration by their neighbors, have been brutally Hogged for small alleged offenses, and the knout has been used on the slightest pretense. The ' outbreak originated near Zmiev, about fifty miles from Kharkov, being prompted by some act of judicial cruelty not fully known. The peasants, not having firearms, seized any weapons At command, drove the magistrates from the place and began a campaign of murder and arson against the officials and the aristocracy. The first detachment of troops sent against them was defeated and forced to retire, and General Dragomiroff' ordered sis regiments of infantry and two of cavalry to the scene. At last accounts they bad not yet encountered the peasants, said to be swollen to vast numbers aud very resolute, though badly armed. The Russian government has redoubled the strength of the guards on the Prussian frontier in a determined effort to prevent Polish emigrants from leaving the country. The refugees who succeeded in eluding the guards tell stories of cruelty on the part of the guards difficult to credit, though many of them bear the marks of the knout and bludgeon, and plainly suffer from the effect of the fatigue and exposure. FREE-TRADER GLADSTONE. Like Other Foreigners He Sees Nothing Good In the McKinley Law. London, Oot. 20. Mr. Gladstone arrived at Dundee to-day and was presented with the freedom of the city. In accepting the honor, Mr. Gladstone made an address, in which he referred to the commerce of the city, which, it was said, was threatened by the adoption of the new tariff' bill by tho American Congress, -lie would not, however, he said, bring a railing accusation against the people of the United States. Proteotion, although it might inflict incidental collateral blows on other countries did far greater mischief to the people of the country which adopted such a policy. 'Mr. Gladstone then ' proceeded to contrast the decrease in the tariff" in England with the increase of the tariff in the United States, and said be found comfort for England in the fact that it was not true that any tariff adopted by any country on earth could interfere seriously with the prosperity of Great Britain. The first effect of the McKinley bill would be to raise the standard of prices in the United States. This meant a diminished power of exportation. , This again meant that while we were damnified in one of our twenty markets wo derived benefit in the other nineteen from the diminished power of the merchauts of the United States to compete with British merchants in any one of them, this being due to the augmentation of prices in the United States and the increased restraints under which the merchants of the latter country have to work. He advised tho manufacturers to allow America to find out for herself the evil effects that will follow the adoption of tho high tariif. .;, ; GENERAL. FOREIGN - NEWS. The Mysterious "Colonel with Whom Murderer Birchall Was Intimate. ' London, Oct. 20. Inquiries were made atMorely's hotel in Trafalgar square to-, day to ascertain what truth there is in the story from Montreal that Reginald Birchall,' now under sentence of death at Woodstock, Canada, for the murder of F. C. Ben-, well; Mrs. Birchall and the Colonel,' the alleged author of the letter received by Birchall in which the writer acknowledges that he shot and killed Benwell, were at the hotel last January. The books of the hotel show that an American styling himself "Colonel Lewis" arrived there on Jan. 1 and remained until Jan. 24. Birchall arrived on Jan. 14 and was a guest until, Jan. 18. Mr. Stevens, of Montreal, the gentleman who told of seeing Birchall,. Ben-; well and the ''Colonel'" at the hotel, regis-, tered at the hotel on Jan. 15 and left on Jan. 20. "Colonel Lewis"' was well known by the servants of the hotel, and they retain a vivid recollection of him. Birchall and the "Colonel" seemed to bo very intimate. The latter, however, was in England when the murder was committed. A dispatch from Woodstock, Ont.. says:. Anion i: tho communications recently received by Mrs. Birchall is one from an enterprising fellow who declares his willingness to tako Birchall's place at the hanging for the sum of 01,000. Minister Lincoln Starts for nome. London, Oct. 20. Mr. Robert Lincoln, the United States minister, left London today for Liverpool, where he will embark for New York, he having been granted a leave of absence by his government. He will return to England in January and resume the duties of his office. A large number of friends of Mr. Lincoln gathered at the Euston station to bid him farewell. Among them were Hon. Jno. C. New, the American consul-general at London; Lieutenant W. C. Emory, naval attache of the American legation; Mr. S. Dana Hortou, and Col. Thomas Ochiltree. The body of Minister Lincoln's son, inclosed in a packing-case, has been placed aboard the Inman line steamer City of New York at Liverpool. i Incapable of Governing. TnE Hague, Oct. 20. At to-days session of the Dutch Parliament, the question regarding the fitness of the King to govern, in view of the condition of his Majesty's health, was put to vote, in accordance with the section of the constitution providing for a declaration by Parliament in the event of the King becoming incapacitated. By a vote of 100 to 5, Parliament declared that his Majesty was incapable of governing. Mynher Pyanppel protested that the vote was not justified by the condition of the King's health. The members of the ministry confuted the statement ol Mynher Pyanppel. The Council of State has been temporarily invested with regal powers. Work for Ireland's Destitute. Dublin, Oct. 2). Mr. Balfour has pushed forward the arrangements for the construction of railways in the distressed districts in the west of Ireland. The work of building the roads will furnish employment for a host of laborers besides those liviug in the districts through which the roads will be built. Men coming from a distance can, if they desire, have a part of thuir wages remitted free of charge to their families. Sent to Jail for Contempt. TirTERAKY, Oct. 20. Among the witnesses called to-day to give evidence for the prosecution in the conspiracy case were Simon Gleeson and Alice Sadler. When questioned by the counsel for the crown, each of the witnesses refused to answer. Tho court directed them to answer the questions, but they still persisted in thrdr refusal. The magistrates thereupon committed them to jail until Friday. Cable Notes. The steamer Alaska, from New York, for Liverpool, has arrived at Queenstown. Mr. and Mrs, Henry M. Stanley sailed on the Teutonic from Liverpool yesterday for New York. The Official Gazette of Spain announces the appointment of Senor Miguel Suarez G&nes, now Spanish consul-general at New

York, to be Spanish minister to the United States in place of Senor Muruaga, who recently resigned. A band of "moon lighters' in County Clare, Ireland, have mnrdered a girl named Flanagan and her mother.' Thirty Armenians have been arrested in Constantinople on a charge of conspiring against the government. Vitu has been captnred by the British, and the natives punished for their recent massacre of Germans. Many African villages were burned. Sir Charles Russell has been retained to defend Sla7in and McAuhffe on their trial .for having committed a breach of the peace in engaging in a prize-fight. Hobbs, the Loudon porter, whose wife was murdered at the home of his paramour, Mrs. Piercy, has confessed the crime to the police, throwing the blame on the woman for striking the fatal blow. CRIME WITHOUT PARALLEL

Last Act in a Georgia Tragedy That Shocked the Country a Few Years Ago. Thomas Woolfolk Hand at Perry for Braining with an Ax Nine Members of His Father's Household The Murderer's Motive. Perry, Ga., Oct. 20. Thomas Woolfolk was hanged here at 1:30 o'clock- this afternoon. His crime was probably unparalleled in this country. Just before dawn on the morning of Aug. 6, 1S87, in Hazard's district,' Bibb county, some twelve miles from Macon, nine people were brutally murdered by a single assassin. The victims of the awful butchery were: Capt Richard P. Woolfolk, sr., his wife, Mrs. Mattie Woolfolk; their children, Richard P.. jr., aged twenty; Susan Pearl, aged seventeen; Annie, aged ten; Rosebud, aged seven: Charlie, aged five; Mattie, aged eighteen months, and Mrs. Temple West, aged eighty-four. The scene of the crime was the Woolfolk homestead, an ordinary Southern country farm-house of frame, one story high and with four rooms, two on either side of a central corridor. The dwelling stood facing to the east, on a slight eminence, set back a little way from the public road in a clump of oak trees. The surroundings betokened the home of a well-to-do Southern planter of tho better class. It was in this homo that Captain Woolfolk and his family were living at the time of the tragedy. On the Saturday night preceding the fatal Sunday morning there were ten members of the household present, including Mrs. West, who was a visitor in the house. Thomas, G. Woolfolk, the eldest son; Richard and Charlie were sleeping in the first room on the left of the single front door. - In the next apartment Captain and Mrs. Woolfolk and their infant child occupied the one bed in the room. The other three children, Miss Pearl, Annie and Rosebud, and old Mrs. West occupied the room on the opposite side of the hallway from the parents' room. the apartment at the front on that side of the house being utilized as a parlor. The first alarm of the tragedy came from Thomas Woolfolk, the only survivor of the massacre. Thomas went to the house of a negro tenant named Green Sockett, not far from the Woolfolk house, about (laybreak, and called to him that some one had killed his father. The news that a terrible crime had been committed at tho Woolfolk house spread with phenomenal rapidity, and soon a great crowd was gathered about the place. Hurried investigations revealed that the crime had not been exaggerated. Nine dead bodies were lying in horrid confusion in the house, every one of them brained with an ordinary woodfix that had ovideutly been secured from the yard. There was nothing unusual found in the first room on the left as one entered the house, but in the room occupied by the parents, communicating directly with the front apartment, were six bloody corpses. The bodies of Capt Woolfolk, his wife, their infant and Miss Pearl Woolfolk lay on the bed in the corner, the father and mother and babe having been struck on the head with the murderous ax apparently before they wakened, while the eldest daughter's body bad been cast upon the bed after death. On the floor were the lifeless bodies of Richard Woolfolk and bis younger brother, Charles, welteringin poolsof blood. Death had been inflicted in each case by blows with the butt of an ax; save In the case of the little boy, whoso head had been cloven with the ax blade. Not a blow had been struck except on the head of the victims, and they lay in their night garments, where they had been struck down and tho blood and brains from their crushed skulls had run out until the room was a sea of gore. Three other bodies lay stiff in death in the girls' room on the other side of the corridor. The corpse of Mrs. West and of Rosebud, the seven-year-old daughter, reposed where they had slept side by side in one of the two beds in the room. The body of ten-year-old Anuie Woolfolk lay near the window, as if she had been warned of the approach of the murderer and had sought to escapo by jumping out of the window. Here, as with tbose in the first room, the assassin had dispatched his victims with blows on the head with his ax. Nothing in the bouse had been disturbed, and a small amount of money in the pockets of Richard Woolfolk, jr., had not been touched. There were no indications whatever that robbery had been the motive for the deed. THE MURDERER AND HIS MOTIVE. The story told by Thomas Woolfolk was that he had been awakened by hearing his father cry out a little before daybreak. Just then Richard had jumped out of bed and run into his father's room. He heard Richard knocked down and then, fearing for his own life, be had fled, jumping out of a window in his room aud running to Green Sockett's cabin to raise the alarm and secure help. Woolfolk'a account of the crime was unsatisfactory nnd few believed it. Suspicion quickly fell on him as the murderer, and ho was taken in custody. Investigation showed that the ouly tracks about the house traced in blood from the blood-bestreamed floor, were those of Woolfolk. Headmitted they were his, but said he made them when he went into the bloody room alone after the murder. He was searched, and on one leg about the knee was fouud the imprint of a bloody hand. Ho had on a shirt much too large for him when searched, and afterward his own shirt was found in the well, blood-stained and clotted with human brains. The motive for the crime was found in Thotms Woolfolk's enmity for his stepmother and his desire to have undisputed possession of his father's property. Capt. Woolfolk was twice married, having by his first wife two daughters and one sonThomas. On account of certain business complications ho settled the bulk of his property on his second wife, first, however, giving his elder children their share. Thomas was not satisfied with his, and hated his step-mother and her children m consequence. At the time of the murder he had returned to his father's house after having spent all the money bis father had given him, first in farming and then in running a store in Macon. He was working on the farm until he could get something better to do. At that time Woolfolk was twenty-seven years of age. He was about an average height, compactly built but not stout, with dark hair and eyes and a black mustache. His expression was rather boyish than otherwise. He had always heed of a sullen disposition and made few friends. His dislike for his step-mother and her children was known, and be had been heard to say that he ought to have the old mau's property, and he intended to have it some day. Woolfolk was charged with the murder of the nine members of his father's household by the coroner's jury, and in December, 1SS7. he was brought to trial in Macon before Judge Gustin, of the Bibb county Superior Court. The theory of the defense was that a crazy negro of the neighborhood had committed the crime, but the theory failed, and was practically abandoned betore the trial euded. The jury found Woolfolk guilty, after beiug out but a few minutes, and he was sentenced to death. The Supremo Court granted a now trial, however, and in March, l&tt). he was tried at Perry. Houston couuI ty, change of yenue having been granted

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because a jury could not be secured in Bibb. Again Woolfolk was convicted. Another appeal was taken, but the Supreme Court sustained the court below and he was finally sentenced to be hanged at Ferrj', Oct. 20. Woolfolk maintained his innocence through his three years' imprisonment, and up to the time of the execution he never betrayed emotion of any kind, and preserved a uniform sullen air of indifference. When he spoke of tho crime he denied that he did it. but seldom oxpressed regret for the death of his relatives. CENTRAL ILLINOIS MIXERS. Patrick McBrlde Says They Will Strike Unless an Advance Is Granted. Springfield, 111., Oct. 20. Patrick McBride, senior member of the executive board of National Mine-workers of the United States, who is here representing President Rae, of that association, was waited on yesterday by a committee representing the mine-workers of Sangamon county, and besought to use his influence to maintain the agreement entered into by miners and operators here last May. whereby the price paid for mining coal was to be 6 cents above that paid in the southern fields. Mr. McBride said that he could do nothing for them, and that unless the demand of the miners here for tix cents a ton for mining was complied with every miner in Sangamon county wonld strike on Nov. 1. He said further that in northern Illinois the operators were paying more than the men demanded, and that they were granting the advance in southern districts also, and that if they did not grant the advance asked here they would shut up every mine in the district. He said that there was a great demand for miners in other fields now, and that if the operators in this county were not careful they would be left without any miners at alL Despite this fact it is believed that the operators hero will all oppose the advance and let the men strike. . Disbanded Their "Lodge. St. Louis, Oct. 20. The trouble which has existed here for the past few days between the Western Union telegraph operators, who are, or were, members of the newly organized Brotherhood of TelegraEhers, and the Western Union company, as been amicably settled. The members of the St. Louis lodge held a meeting today, and it is officially announced that preliminary steps were taken to dissolve the local lodge. As a result, the telegraph officials have reinstated not only the operators who voluntarily left their instruments and walked out of the office, but those who were discharged. The telegraph strike at St. Paul ended to-night in an easy victory for tho Western Union company. Of the twenty-four operators who went out on Monday all but four were to-day re-engaged by the company. Two of the four have secured other employment, and the remaining two were offered work by the company in another city. The men re-en gaged signed the old agreement of 1883, pledging themselves to quit the brotherhood and to become members of no secret organization. Will De No General Federation. Pittsburg. Oct 29. There will be no general federation of locomotive engineers with brakemen, firemen, conductors and other railroad employes. As stated last week, a majority report favoring f ederation, presented at the Brotherhood convention in this city, was defeated. Since that vote was taken the convention has spent considerable time discussing the question, and has finally decided not to federate with any other organization. The matter has been left with each of the forty-five divisions to act as they may deem proper. They can, if they think it necessary, join hands with other trainmen when diff erences arise between railroad companies and their employes. This has long been the rule adhered to by the Brotherhood, and it is seldom the members take part in strikes inaugurated by other organizations composed of railway employes. The Brotherhood believes in maintaining an independent posi tion, and hence its refusal to adopt a reso- J lution providing for a general federation. This morning J. M. Collins, of Atlanta, was unanimously elected third grand assistant engineer. 'Railroad Clerks Organize. Cleveland, O., Oct. 20. Delegates representing the railroad clerks of Boston,Buffalo, Cairo, Detroit, Kansas City, Syracuse, Chicago and other important railroad centers met in this city to day to form a national organization. J. H. Hanna. of Detroit, was made chairman, and W. S. Wilcombe, of Boston, secretary. The constitution discussed provided that the organization should be known as the "American Association of Railroad Clerks," to promote fraternal and beneficial relations among its members. The visiting clerks were banqueted in the evening. The session will continue for two days. Reached a Satisfactory Agreement. Chicago, Oct. 20. The committee of the Rock Island railroad employes that has been in conference with General Manager St. John, for some time past, succeeded today in reachiug a satisfactory agreement with him. Tho company defines and restricts tho power of foremen and grants tho employes an increase in wages. Sorrowful Affliction Brought on by a Cat. DoDC.EVii.LK, Wis., Oct. 2D. The family of Robert Paul, at Middleton, has been afflicted by diphtheria, which was brought into the house in a singularmanuer. About four weeks ago a stray cat came to their home and one of the children handled and played with it. Although it was noticed at the time that it discharged at the nose and mouth, nothing was thought of it until soon after, when tho little boy was taken down with black diphtheria of the most nialiguaut kind, that the doctor said he had caught from the cat. The boy died, then a second son took the disease and died. The father, mother and daughter were also stricken down, but recovered. Allen, the only remaining son and support of his parents, cared for them all through their terrible sickness, holding one of the boys when dying and preparing them for theirlast resting-place with his own hands. When tho others were recovering he was taken down and died. Suit Against Republicans Dismissed. New York, Oct. 29. Referee Louis G. Raegener has filed in the New York Superior Court his report in the case of Talmadge& Martin, printers and stationers, against Phineas C. Lounsbury, as treasurer of the National Republican League, in which he recommends that the action against the league be dismissed with costs. This suit has been pending for over a year. The plaintiff' firm claimed that during the presidential campaign of 18S8 they furnished to the Republican Leacno of the United States campaign literature to the value of $25,000. All but $11,434 of this sum was paid, and it was for the recovery of the balance that the suit was brought, County Treasury llobbed. Olivet, S. D., Oct. 29. Last night a robbery was eff ected in the Hutchinson county treasury at this place. The burglars made a hole through the brick wall of the vault and secured entrance. The outer doors of the safe which were in the vault had been left open and the inner doors were opened by blowing the lock to pieces with powder. In a small wooden drawer was &i27 in cash aud S2.S00 in warrants, which were taken. In another eafe, which the burglars failed to open, was $0,000. Peculiar and Fatal Railway Accident Providence, R. I., Oct 'J9. An accident occurred to-tiht, on the Worcester division of the "Sew York, Providence fc Boston road, near the Branch-avenue bridge, in which two men wero almost instantly

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RAILWAY TISiC-rAIH-ES. Prom IniiinipoUi Untoa XUUan. ennsylvania Lines) U Last -West- South Aorta. Train run ty Central Standard Titn. Leave tor Pittsburg. Baltimore (d5:15 a a. Washington, PhUadiJphia and 2ov d 3:00 p to. York. ('"3:30 pm, Arrive from the Eait, d 11:40 am., d 12:30 pin, audd 10:OOpm. . Leave for Columbus, 9:00 am.: arrive frota Columbus, 3:45 pm.; leave for Richmond. 4:00 pnu arrive from Ulohmond. 10:00 am. Leare lor Chicago, d 11:05 am., d 11:30 pnu arrive from Oitoak-c. d 3:30 pin.; d 3:40 am. Leave for Louisville, d am.. S:15 aou d 3:55 pru. Aniv from Loiucyllla, d 11:00 sou, 6:25 pm-, d 10:50 pm. t Leave for Columbus, 6:30 pm. ArriTS froca Columbus, 10:05 am. . Leave fur Vtnoonnft and Cairo, 7:20 am 3:30 pm.; arrive from. Vlnoeunes and Cairo; 11:10 am-, 3: 10 pm. d. daffy; other trains except Sunday. ANDALIA LINE-8nOHTEST ROUTE TO ut.. Louis avd thk wet. Trains irrtre and leare ImlianaDolU a follows: Leave tor St. Louis, 7:30 sun, ll.iO am, ltOO p m, 11:09 pm. Qren cattle and Terrellaate Aooora'datlon, 4.00 pro, Arrive from lcuis, 3U5 am. 4:15 am. J:50 pm. &2t pm, 7:4 & pm. Terra Han te and Green castle Accom'ds tlon, 1 0:00 am. Sleeping and Parlor Cars are run on through train. For ratal and Loformstion anplrto ticket agent of the company, or IX. li. DUUliiU. AAtuiaat General Passenger A en t (ftiMjfilinTj THE VESTIBULED Lt"aU' PULLMAN CAR LINE, XXA.VX ixdukapous. No. 38 ton on acc. ex. Samlay 5:15 pxa 2io. 32 Ohloago IAiru Pullman VesUbuled coaches, parlor and dining oar, dally 11:20 aa Arrive in Chicago 5:10 pin. No. 34 Chicago Night Ex., luUman Veatl. baled coaches and sleMers, dally.. ........12:40 am Arrive In cnicago 7:35 am. AklilVE AT LXDLA.XAPOL18. No. SI Vestibule, dally 3.00 ra No. 33 Vestibule, dally 3:45 am Ha. S'J Monon Acc, ex. Sunday. 10:40 am No. 48 Local freight leaves Alabama-st. yard at 7:05 am. Pnllman Vectlbuled Sleepers for Chicago itanA tt vest end of Union U La tlon. aud can be Lax en at 8S p. m.. dally. Ticket umoet No. 28 Boata Illinois street audit Union Station. WrongM-Iroa Pipe roa ' Gas, Steam & Water Boiler Tubes. Cat and Malleable Iron Fittings (black and K'alvnnlzed). Valves, Stop Cocks, Kmrine Trimmings. Steam Gauges, Pipe Ton &S. ripe Cutters, Vises, fccrew riatcs and Dies, Wrenches, Steam Traps, Pumrs, Kitchen Mnks, nose, Belting, IJatlilt Metal. Folder, White and Colored Wiping Waste. and all other supplies U9cd In connection -a ith Gas, fcteam and Water. Natural Gas Supplies a specialty. Btcam-heating Apparatus for Public HuildinK. Storerooms, Mills, bhopi, Factories, Laundries, Lumber Dry-houses, etc Cut and Thread to order any size Wroucht-iron Pipe from Inch to 12 Inches diameter. KNIOHT & JILLSON, 75 & 77 S. Pennsylvania st. killed and another probably fatally injured. A freight train was switching upon the mam tracks, when two cars came together with unusual force. One-of these cars was loaded with steel bridjte-frirders, and two of them were displaced and awiveled around just as a Lonsdale train, bound north, came along on the next track. One girder first struck the side of tho smoker, killing Daniel McDermott, of Pawtuckett. and wounding Fred Bennett, baggagemaster. The big beam rebounded and struck the next car, a day coach, where N. O. Peabody, residence unknown, was killed. The train was stopped, with ono girder sticking through the car roof and another lying across it. Business Embarrassments. Special to the Indiana poUs Journal. Kansas City, Mo., Oct 0. The lumber business of Charles P. Deatberage, at No. 896 Santa Fo street, was to-dayieeded over to Odus J. G. Young, trustee, by virtue of a chattel mortgage to secure the Merchants National Bank, the National Bank of Kansas City and M. B. A bell. This is one of the largest lumber firms in the Southwest. Vincennes, Ind., Oct. 29. Curry Bros., general merchants, of Decker Station, ia this county, assigned to-day to 1L K. Hoot, of this city. Their assets are about five thousand dollars, and their liabilities will Eerhaps exceed this amount by $2,000. .ome of the merchants of this city are tho heaviest creditors. Mangled In Pullman Cars. Atlanta, Ga., Oct CO. The Richmond it Danville train, which left here this morning, was wrecked near Seneca, H, C. The breaking of a llange on one of the cars precipitated the two Pa 11 in an cars from the track. They rolled down the embankiLent, and w ere . wrecked. Among tho severely injnred are J. M. Jones, of New York, cut on head and badly hurt: J. H. Croft, Westerly, H. I., bruised in head and shoulder; Mrs. Geo. C. Hawarsh, of New York, cut about head and left eye; Siegfried Arnold, Philadelphia, cut in head; Jos. Xlenschen. New York, leg broken; J. W. Burrell, the porter, of Washington, will die. Losses by Fire. Walla Walla, Wash.. Oct 9. This morning the Northern Pacific wheat elevator at Eureka Junction, twenty miles from here, was destroyed by fire, together with sixty thousand bushels of wheat. Tho total loss is $100,000; fully insured. It is thought the fire was set by tramps. Belleville, Kan., Oct. . Last night fire destroyed the First National Bank building and the Phillips Block. Loss, 000; partly insured. s His Shortage Growing. St. Louis, Oct. 29. Further examination of the books of Fred C. Mehl, tho embezzling book-keeper of Mueller Brothers, develops the fact that his shortage has increased from 6000 to over 40.000, with a probability of his defalcation reaching even more formidable figures. The defalcation extends over a period of six or teven years. So one has yet offered to f uruish the requisite bond, and Mehl is still in jail, where he was placed some three weeks since. Mot Dead IV hen Hurled. New Philadelphia, O., Oct. 20. Fred IL Leider, who took an overdose of morphine Oct. 20, and was supposed to have died, was buried Oct. 27. His brother, who could not get to tho funeral, came to-day and wanted to see his body. When the coilin was opened it was found that the supposed dead man had been in a stupor and had come to life in the casket His face was scratched and the glass in the cotlin broken. Tho Mafia at Work in Louisville, Louisville. Ky., Oct. 29. Yesterday the body of an Italian was found on the river front with several gashes in his head and a knife thrust over the heart. The cause of the death was a mystery until this morniug when the police obtained a clew showing that it was the work of the Malia. Tho victim, it is believed, was followed bere from New Orleans. Fits, spaama. hi. Vitus dance, hysteria, beaduche, nnuraliga nnd nervous prostration cured by Dr. Miles' Nervine. Freo samples at druggists; by mail 10 cents. Mills Med. o., hlkhart Ind.

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