Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1894.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1804. washisctch orriCE-i4io PEflxSYLVAKIA AVENUE Telephone Call. r.nnlBfM Office. Editorial Rooms 212 TERMS OK SIIISCRIPTIO.Y. DULY BT MAIL. rnflj 1t. one month ...J .70 J)ai y only, three mouth 2.00 Jiuily otilj. one j ear ............... tt.Q't I'atfy, niclmiins Similar, oie year...... .....lo.OJ fcuuuay only, one year I'.UJ ViHt.3 Kt U-MSHtO Bl AGCXTt. Pally, rer e-k. Lj carrlftr.... ....l.r eta foui:aj. unfrle eoj.y 6 eta Lull j ana bundaj, ir irk, by carrier ...20 cti H EIKLT. Per Tear $1.00 Reduced Rate- to Clubs. atnTib with any of our numeroa agent or send luLscrlptloDs to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY. INDIANAPOLIS. ISO. rfTMnn RfcdlBptto Journal thronjrhthe malls In tie United Mate h a.'iouM not on an el?iit-uar paper one-et postage ptaiup; tn a twelve uralueenttij.erajn aTwo-f zxt poatage alainy. ifortigu poali 1 usually double these rate. r" All communication intended for publication la ILl rrTmut, in onler to re celre attention, bo aoconipanlfd by the nanir anl ad'lixm of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS .lOtRXAL. Can 1 e Jounrt at tlie follow in k place a: TA HIS American KxcUaoge In Parla, SS Boulevard Cavuclnes. JJfcw YoltK-Gllaey Home and Windsor IIotcL HIILADELPHIA A. P. Kembla, 8733 Lancaster MTftiue. CIll CAU O Palmer Iloue. Auditorium Hotel CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley A Co.. 164 Vlneatreet LOCISVILLF. C. T. Deerlng; nortliweat corner of lblid amt JtCt riou atreet. ST. LOUIS Union Newa Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C-Rlgga House andEbbltt Houxe. Even the Democratic managers write his name William Dennis Bynum. There are individual Democrats who have principles, but the party has none. Marlon county should have a coroner who will not crowd ninety days into a month.

It is a Republican year. All that the Republicans have to do is to go forth und gather the harvest. Now is the time for Republicans to be aggressive in act and word. Force the fighting all along the line. .- The Republican who wastes his time in repeating Democratic boasts and canards should enlist in the marines. Do not fail to so to hear Hon. John II. Butler to-night, and thus learn something of the Marion county Tammany. r No Wonder Mr. Bynum is angry vhen his party managers confess his weakness by taking his name from the head of the ticket. The people are tired of the destructive antics of the Democratic party, and are demanding that it be bound over ' to keep the peace. Wastefulness, favoritism and corruption permeate the mismanagement of Marlon county. Now is the time to put an end to taxeating. The Democrat members of the Marlon county election board are doing their best to prove that Simeon Coy was no worse than his party. Let it be understood that in all the land there cannot be found a more unscrupulous gang than the Marlon county Democratic courthouse ring. It is In accordance with the fitness of things that the party which tried to destroy the national government should try to destroy national Industries. Lt Republican committees In Democratic counties see at once if 'the Tagl r.rt trickery has not been extended to other counties. Let them see to it at once. Local Democratic politicians were boasting on the streets yesterday that the removal of Bynum from the head of the ticket was worth two hundred votes to the party In this county. : Leading Democrats admit that ByXium is defeated, and they have hidden his name in the midst of the county ticket so that his weakness will not affect the other candidates. . ' Tammany's coroner in Marion county traveled 3,646 miles last year, for which he collected mileage, and his services cost the people $5,826.10. The coioner's office cost the taxpayers $12,967.25 last year. What has Bynum done for the Seventh district? The 'Democratic managers answered "Nothing" when they put his name after those of the wretched candidates for Judges on the Democratic 'ticket. While Judge Cox Is making his canvass as a Democratic candidate for the Marion county bench the taxpayers are paying his substitute at the rate of $3 a day. This is the style of Marion county's Tammany. All reports from the State at large are of the most cheering character. If Republicans work as they have Indiana will be a Republican State when the ballots shall have been counted two weeks from now. It must lacerate the fine Instincts of John R. Wilson to be put in the public pillory with the person who, a few years ago, contracted to do the law business of the County Commissioners for $2,500 a year and drew out $4,000 or more. Mr. Bynum has been literally "turned down" by his own party managers. Ills recognized unpopularity has caused him to be turned from the top to the middle of the ticket in the hope that'hls offensive name will not drive away vote3. The expenr.es of this county were higher than they should have been in 1S93, and should have been materially - reduced in 1S94. Instead of that they have been Increased $110,000, and. the taxeaters are now asking for a vote of confidence. "Where shall I go In?" asked n Union colonel of General Kearney in one of the Virginia battles. "Go In anywhere; there is beautiful flshtlng all along the line." The order applies to the Republicans in Indiana. There never was such elegant fighting for Republicans as the year of grace 1S3I. . The last year has been one of hard times. All branches of business have suffered and everybody has felt it. There has been a general shrinkage of Incomes and curtailment of expenses. Everybody has economized. Wise men have taken In sail and honest ma have

cut down expenditures. But while private citizens have been economizing and curtailing expenses the Democratic

commissioners of Marlon county in creased their expenditures from $220,532 In 1833 to $330,316 in 1S34. It is time for a change. THE IXFA3IY COXSl'MMATED. Whatever hope may have been In dulged by those who have listened to the oft-repeated professions of County Clerk Wilson of being better than, the average Marlon county Democratic workers was dissipated yesterday when he confirmed the change in the order of the names on the ballot. For years Mr. Wilson has been privately declaring to Republicans whose society he seeks that he is heartily disgusted with the methods of Marlon county Democratic man agers, but now he falls down end obse quiously does their bidding. It matters not that he takes refuge behind the shameless breach of faith of Chairman Taggart. Mr. Wilson himself has caused the ballots in two elections to be print ed in the order to which Taggart as solemnly agreed as if he had sworn to the compact. It was entirely within his power to have followed the precedent, and ho would have followed it if he were not the still expectant creature of the Democratic courthouse ring. No longer can "Mr. Wilson pose as the man who is above the perpetration of Democratic trickery and fraud. He has been posing for some years as a better man than his party, and In that guise has received not a few Republican votes. His action in this matter disposes of that claim and of him as a friend of honest politics. If anything could add to the disreputable record he has made it would be his puerile defense that the board had repudiated the agreement because Chairman Taggart had ordered it to. Mr. Wilson is a lawyer, and he knows that when an agreement Is once signed It cannot be repudiated 'by one of the signers. He knows, also, that ttfe chairman of the Democratic State committee has no more authority over county boards in this matter than he has over the Supreme Court. As for the part of Chairman Taggart in this infamous business, it is simply shameless. He agreed to the order of names on the county ballots. He, in conjunction with Chairman Gowdy, caused to be printed and sent out to all the county chairmen this order of ballot, with his name attached as agreeing to it. It was a compact. As such no honorable man agreeing to it would permit it to be broken. As a maker of political compacts Mr. Taggart is a trickster and a pledge-breaker. All fair-minded men will regard the act as the Infamy of the coterie of candidates and taxeaters about the courthouse, who are desperate because defeat stares them in the face. It shows that there is no rascality to which they will not resort, even to the crime for which some of their friends have been sent to the penitentiary. But It will avail nothing. Already it has inspired Republicans with the zeal of indignation and has caused them to double the picket. Hereafter, the courthouse ring, which has plundered the people of hundreds of thousands of dollars, will be watched day and night. The disreputable taxeaters who are responsible for this infamous transaction will be watched at the polls and in the counting as they have never before been watched. In conclusion, the men who are responsible for this Infamy to cheat the voter will never be forgotten by Republicans. Their names have been added to the list of those who were convicted or defiled with the ballot-box crimes of 1886. A DISGRACEFUL, TRANSACTION. For political perfidy, dishonor and ingratitude nothing has occurred in local politics for many years equal to the action of the Democratic election commissioners relative to the county ticket. The Indictment and conviction of certain Democratic leaders for the tallysheet forgeries of 1SS6, and their enforced retirement from politics, was supposed to have marked the beginning of a better order of things, but the reform seems to have been only temporary. There are acts which, though not penal offenses under the law, are no less indicative of a lack of personal honor and of regard for the obligations which obtain among gentlemen than if the statute made them penitentiary offenses. The election law of 1SS9, commonly known as the Australian ballot law, de fines certain duties which require the Joint action of the chairmen of the dif ferent party committees. This action has heretofore been secured by written agreements, which have been consld ered as binding as the law Itself, and the result has been conducive to fair political methods and honest elections. One of the provisions of the law is that "In each county in the State the clerk of the Circuit Court and two persons by him appointed, one from each of the two political parties that cast the larg est number of votes in the State at the last general election, shall constitute a county board of election commissioners. This makes the clerk of each county ex ofllclo a member of the board of election commissioners, so that in Democratic counties the board would consist of two Democrats and one Republican, while in Republican counties there would be two Republicans and one Democrat. In this county Mr. John R. Wilson, clerk, appointed W. W. Spencer, Democrat, &nd W. A. Van Buren, Republican, as the other members of the board. The accidental majority which the law thus placed in the hands of the Democrats in this county seens to have suggested the present trick. By a written agreement entered into between three representatives of both parties, and approved by the respective chairmen of the State central committees, it was agreed that in the arrangement and printing of the county ballots the candidate for Congress should head the list, and be followed by the candidates for county offices. This has been the custom from time immemorial. The agreement in regard to the order of candidates was printed and sent to every county'in the State. It was binding in every county and on every county board. It will be carried Into effect In every county except Marion. It will not be carried into effect in this county because the Democratic members of the county board have, in the hope of obtaining a political advantage, nullified the agreement and violated the pledge given by their party representatives and their own honor. At the last moment, after the printing of the ballots had been ordered, and without consulting

the Republican member of the board, the two Democratic members ordered a

material change In the arrangement of the ticket, placing the name of the candidate for county clerk at the head and that of the candidate for Congress In the body of the ticket. The State board of election commissioners might with equal propriety order the name of the candidate for Governor to be placed after all the State officers. The arbitrary', illegal and dishonorable action of the Democratic members of the board was taken because it was found that the conspicuous place which the agree ment gave to Mr. Bynum was, on ac count of his growing unpopularity, like ly to cost the county ticket a good many votes. In other words, to save a few votes for the county ticket they not only violated what every man of honor must admit was a binding agreement, but they offered a gratuitous insult to their candidate for Congress, to whom, from a party point of view. they owe at least fair treatment. The baseness of their action is only equaled by Its Ingratitude. They might have found some other way of admitting the luevitable defeat of Mr. Bynum without spitting in his face. HOW TO VOTE. Although the Australian ballot law has been in force in the State nearly five years, there are still many persons who are not acquainted with its provisions in regard to the manner of voting. At every general election that has been held under the law a large number of ballots have been rejected because they were improperly prepared, and it is a matter of local knowledge that not a few of these rejected ballots were de posited by persons who, from their gen eral intelligence, would be supposed to know all about the manner of voting.' Again, there is at every election a con siderable numher of first voters, young men who have not read the law and who are somewhat timid about asking for information. Republican managers in every precinct throughout the State should make a point of seeing that sample ballots are well distributed, and that no Republican voter, old or young, is left in Ignorance as to the proper manner of voting. The points to be emphasiied are as follows: There will be three ballots to vote at the coming election, the State ticket being printed on red paper, the county ticket on white paper and the township ticket on yellow paper. Each voter, on entering the voting room, will receive from a polling clerk one of each of these ballots. On going Into the booth the voter will stamp and fold each ballot separately, taking care not to blot them. and folding each one so that the Ini tials of the polling clerk on its back will be on the outside. Being thus folded they will be handed to the inspector to be deposited in their several boxes. In order to vote a straight Republican ticket the voter should stamp within the square surrounding the eagle at the head of the ticket, and nowhere else. Do not make the mistake of stamping in front of individual names unless you want to vote a mixed ticket, and do not stamp within the eagle square more than once. A single stamp within that. square, no matter .how faint or dim lt! is, carries the whole ticket, and an ad. ditional stamp will be regarded as a "distinguishing mark" and cause the ballot to be rejected. Fit OH 9220,502 TO $330,510. The record of the taxeaters, which the courthouse ring has placed upon the official records. Is attracting a great deal of attention, as well It may. Tax payers are amazed that the county ex penditures have Increased from $220,502.13 In 1SD3 to $330,516.33 In 1S31. If the figures were given in gros3 they would not believe it, but when the amounts are given by items, as was done in yesterday's Journal and as repeated below today, none can doubt. The following is the compaiison of expenses for the years 1893 and 1S94: Expense Expense Items. 1833. 1834. Poor $13,337.97 J53.lfl.75 County asylum 22,35.30 Criminal 13.6??.W 17,n07.74 Workhouse 12.CT.8.94 14,915.32 Criminal Court 10.137.63 12,703.97 Bridges 3,738.11 65,108.41 Public bulldlnes 21.032.51 23.4Dl.10 County offices 17.7S3.42 22.99.73 Coroner's inquests 8.80S.30 12,907.25 Insane 6.&87.17 30.sw.J2 Superior Court 18.C42.76 22,854.57 Circuit Court 6.973.34 9,340.86 Commissioners' Court.... 6,0T1.C0 5.S90.00 Assessing 25.0T.O.S1 25.0M.2 Miscellaneous 5,574.91 12,333.93 Totals $220,552.13 $330,516.33 Increase in 1834 $109,924.26 An increase of $109,924.26 is an increase of nearly 51 per cent, in one year. This leaves any other tiger in the Tammany menagerie out of sight. For years past the affairs of Marion county have been controlled by Democratic commissioners on the close corporation plan. Their audacity and extravagance have grown bolder with each successive Democratic victory, until finalfy they seem to have lost all sense of responsibility to the people. One result of this ring rule is an Increase of county expenditures from $220,592, in 1833, to $330,516, in 1834. An increase of $110,000 in the expenses of Marion county in one year is an alarming exhibit. The Increase is neither legitimate nor honest. It is a result of Democratic, ring rule, and while taxpayers stand appalled the Democratic County Commissioners ask "What are you going to do about it?" Dl'IlDLCS IX THE AIR. The Rule Worli- Ilftu Wnyn. Hungry HIgglns Tell you whar, no man never loses nothing by keepln his mouth shut. Weary Watklns How about when somebody offers him a beer? Proof. "You aver," said the black-brow 1 ban dit, "that you are the celebrated cantatrlee, Mme. Squallkina. Prove It and you are free. Never shall It be said that a Cuttaweezanla would offer indignity to an opera soprano. It Is against ail the tenets of the profession." "How shall I prove my Identity?" asked the captive. "By singing, of course." "What? S ng In this cava? No bouquets? No steam heat? And not a cent In the box o31ce? Never!" "Gentlemen." sail the bandit. "It Is evi dent that the lady is what she claims to be. Eicort her to the nearest village and set her free." Wind and Vi?nker. "It Is funny the way so old a man at Balrd should always be hanging around prize fighters." MYes, and the habit has only grown on him sHace he raised that ridiculously long beard. Z am Inclined, to thiaX that there

really Is some mutual attraction between wind and whiskers."

Ills Oplrilon of the Case. Mrs. Wlckwire Did you read about that man who haj.been married for the third time to the woman he .has been divorced from twice already? Mrl Wickwlre Yes. Seems to me that a man of that sort ought to take some sort of treatment for the habit. The dropping out of the Sentinel's Anderson perjurers, one by one, reminds one of a string of doggerel which ran: Ten little Injuns standing in a line. One fell out and then there were nine; Nine little Injuns swinging on a gate. One fell off and then there were eight; Eight little Injuns never heard of heaven. One kicked the bucket and then there were seven. Two of the Sentinel's four affidavit makers have tumbled down, one of whom has sworn that the Sentinel's reporter fixed his story afUr he, the maker, had signed it. At this rate, by the end of next week the Sentinel will stand alone as the godfather of the four perjuries It concocted to damage Mr. Henry. Old Subscriber: In the Republican national convention of l&SS General Harrison was nominated on the eighth ballot, receiving 544 votes. Shernan received US; Alger, 100; Gresham, 69; Blaine, 5; McKlnley, 4; total, 830. SHREDS AXD PATCHES. The Democratlo coffin will be nailed up with Income tax. Philadelphia North American. There Is one cheerful feature of the Russian situation. The Cza re witch will marry a smart Allx. New York World. What an anomaly we perpetrate when we speak of the "waist of time" since time never stays. Tammany Times. Jilson says he has found the junk dealer to be about the only steadfast and enthusiastic buy-metallist Buffalo Courier. The modern prize-fight would not seem complete without a few preliminary remarks from the Governor of Florida. -Washington Star. Remember that If the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunity for goi deeds is renewed for you day by day. Farrar. When a man says, "Of course It's no business of mine," It is a sure sign that he Is going to do the best he can to make it his business. Puck. China has a war god who has been worshiped for centuries and who has 3.000 names. Dennis ought to be one of them. Philadelphia Inquirer. Some folks would never havo any gold if they had to dig for it, and never any sunShine if they had to crawl out of the shade to find 1L Atlanta Constitution. , Soph Say, Fresh, did you ever see a four-dollar bill? Fresh Well, I guess yes. Had one presented to me that time you invited me to lunch. University Courier. Russia's autocrat used to work from 5 in the morning until late at night. The Czar business Is a very exacting means of obtaining a livelihood. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "Has old Tough quit smoking?" inquired one man of another. "I don't know whether he has or not, but he died the other day," was the evasive reply. Philadelphia Record. We take this opportunity to announce for the benefit of posterity that no one in this generation suspects that Dacon wrote "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." Springfield Union. MURDEROUS CRANK ARKESTED. Says He Wanted an Opportunity to Kill : a ilember of the Vanderbilt Family. - NEW YORK, Oct. 23. A man named Reilly, who says he is a marble cutter and that he had been living with his sister, Mrs. George McKnight. In Newark, has been arm ''!-- l. . Y, . 9 resieu. iie waa seen wnu viunu striking cloak-makers who went from Newark to attack the house cf a man named Gellard, where work is being done, for his New York factory. He was seen later sitting on the side of the gully road in the northern part of the city handling a revolver and sme cartridges. He had taken the weapon apart when Captain MoManus and a squad of police accidentally come upon him and took him to the Second precinct station. In his pockets were letters addressed to Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Chauncey M. Depew, George Gould and Superintendent Byrnes. He intended to mall them to-day. He said the one to Byrnes was simply a query as to whether he had received a letter trom Reilly about a rectnt mysterious murder, in which a description of the murderer was given. The others were of a rambling nature, half begging and half threatening. He told the police that he would do anything to help the strikers and down capitalists and that the last few aays he had patrolled the avenues near Vanderbllt's home watching for an opportunity to kill some of the family. He went to Newark with the striking cloakmakers and says that he intended to go from there to Warren. Pa., where his father is in a lunatic asylum. The latter is a great mind reader and has a wonderful power over him he says, and for that reason he wants to kill him. Reilly will be detained by the Newark police until an investigation can be made. He says that he has written several letters to President Cleveland. SUICIDE OF A PREACHER. Story with a Moral for Old Men Who Marry Pretty Young: Wives. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 23.-At Falkvllle to-day the body of Dr. William Turney, who had been missing for several days, was found In a small cottage in which he dwelt alone. The doors were locked securely and a half empty, morphine bottle on the bed told the method of death, though the corpse was too badly decomposed to admit of an autopsy. Dr. Turney, who was a Methodist minister, seventy-two years of. age, married a beautiful young woman, his third wife. Four years ago he became insanely Jealous of her and one day saw her talking to another man on the street. When she came home he seized her and choked her to death without warning. He was arrested, but declared insane and sent to the State lunatic asylum at Tuscaloosa. Sjx months ago the asylum physicians pronounced him cured, and he was released from custody. When he returned he learned that the prosecution against him for wife murder was about to be renewed, and circumstances Indicate that he deliberately planned suicide. He was at one time prominent In church affairs. DOG TAKEN HY AN EAGLE. It First Picked Up a Child, but the Little One's Clothes Gave Way. HUNTINGTON, Pa., Oct. 23. A huge eagle swooped down to-day into the yard of Thomas Richardson, a colored man living In the suburba, and tried to carry away the tatter's infant child. The bird fixed Its talons in the Infant's clothes and was rising slowly when the garments tore and the little one fell to the ground, a distance of about ten feet, escaping injury. Mrs. Richardson frightened the bird away, but It soon returned and, seizing a dog belonging to a neighbor, flew away with it to its eyrie in the mountain top. Toledo 3Inyor May lie Impeached. TOLEDO, Oct. 23. A sensation was created at a meeting of the City Council last evening by the presentation and unanimous adoption by the lower board of the city government of a resolution arraigning Mayer Guy G. Majors for alleged violation of authority In connection with the system of bookkeeping put Into the municipal departments some time ago by the Safeguard Accountant Company, of Chicago. The alleged violation of authority consists In the action of the Mayor in appointing to the office of city accountant James V. Caldwell, Perry Crlppen and W. O. Curtisi. successively, all of whom ere alleged to have been incompetent, and in the approval by the Mayor of a claim of $3,177 of the Safeguard Company, which claim the Council rejects as boMly illecai and extortionate " The Mayor is charged with further dereliction of duty In failing to have presented monthly statements from the several city departments, as provided by law. Many member of the Council consider the affair as the first step toward i-Qj caching the Slayer.

CALL FQR SOLDIERS

SECRETARY HOKE 831 IT II WANTS LAWLESSXESS SUPPRESSED. lie Asks the War Department for Aid In Hnntinjr Down the Outlaws That Infest Indian Territory WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Secretary. Hoke Smith has requested the Secretary of War to send troops to the Indian Territory to suppress the lawless bands which have been operating there and In the adjacent country. Accompanying the request was the communication Secretary Smith yesterday received from the Indian Territory, detailing the deplorable condition of affairs there. Secretary Smith, in his letter to the War Department, says that in view of the obligations of the government, as set forth in the treaties with the Indians of Indian Territory, to protect the five civilized tribes against domestic strife and hostile invasion, and to guarantee those people the peaceable enjoyment of their country, he recommends that troops be sent as requested. Commissioner Browning, in a letter accompanying the Secretary's, suggests that a troop of cavalry be sent Into the Indian Territory to assist Agent Wisdom in preserving the peace. It is expected that the troops would then be used to hunt down and drive out the marauders who are harrasslng the people. Agent Wisdom today wired the Indian Office asking authority to incur the necessary traveling expenses of the Indian police in assisting United States marshals who were hunting down the thieves and making arrests. Such authority was granted. These communications reached Acting Secretary Doe at the War Department this afternoon and, after reading them carefully, he ref erred them to General Schofleld, commanding the army. General Schofleld looked Into the matter and then returned the papers to the Acting Secretary, with a suggestion that the request for the aid of troop3 h maturely considered with a view to ascertpinins the legality of the proposed action, T-iis Indorsement from so high an authority upon the complex relations between the military and the civil branches of the rovernment undoubtedly will cause the Wfi.r - Department to move with great canton in acting on this request for troers, and u th end may result in a refutal. The Irdlar. Territory differs from other territories, from an administrative point of view, ir the fact that the national government lt bound by treaties with the Indians to project them frcji domestic violence. But. ir. the absence of express stipulation and Kw, it has been held that this protection mu?t be extended exactly as it ii to the Inhabitants of other territories, namely, through the Judiciary. The posse comltatus law prohibits the employment of troops as posses, except as provided by organic law, and that law provides, first for the exercise of the Judicial power in quelling lawlessness, and then for the employment of troops upon application of the Judicial officers based on their inability to enforce the processes of law. So far as the War Department 13 advised, the Judiciary of the Indian Territory has not apEealed for the assistance. of troops, and, as i the case of the disturbances of last summer, the government will not move until such application Is made and after the Judicial officers have shown a proper disposition to restore order in the Indian Territory. The War Department, it Is stated, has taken notice of the efforts of the express companies to secure governmental protection for their service, and the officers are by no means well disposed toward the project. Army officers in charge of affairs feel that the express companies have not gone as far as they should In the direction of guarding the property confided to them, and hold that by placing one or two determined and fearless guards in the express cars they could soon check the attacks of train robbers which endanger the lives of passengers. Mr. "B11P Cook'i fin nor nt Work. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 23.-Last night's programme in the great carnival of .crime which Is now holding the boards In the Indian Territory consisted of the wholesale robbery of several small towns in genuine desperado style by Mr. "Bill" Cook, supported by a strong and desperate company of eight or ten followers. Four men rode Into the town of Watova early In the evening, making their approach known by a discharge of fire-arms. The bandits terrorized the Inhabitants, and most of them sought safety in their homes behind barricaded doors. The outlaws visited every store In the village and ran the merchants away with Winchesters and revolvers. They took from the stores all the money they could find and everything else they wanted. The Watova postoffiee was robbed of about $60 In cash and $55 in stamps. The gang then rode on to Tala, ten miles away, where they repeated their depredations. They rode Into the town and Iroceeded at once to rob stores right and eft. Every' store In the place was visited and the proprietors compelled at the muzzles of revolvers and Winchesters to turn over their cash. The postoffice was also robbed of stamps and a small amount of money. The bandits entered the town boldly and made no effort to conceal their identity, none being masked. THE STRIKE COMMISSION. Its Report Almont Ready for the President. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The national strike commission appointed by the President to investigate the great strike at Chicago reconvened to-day in the office of Commhsioner of Labor Wright. After the last meeting the members of the commission went to their homes to prepare subdivisions of the report to be presented. This has been largely completed, and the commission Is now engaged in giving final shape to the report to the President. The sessions are secret, and no intimation is given as to the nature of the report. It Is understood, however, that it will deal with the strike in iuch a way as to make the report one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of social problems made In recent years. It Is said, also, that the important rulings recently made by Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, in the Jenkins injunction case, are In line with the conclusions drawn from the Chicago outbreak, as to the rights and limitations of strikers. The report will be submlttei to President Cleveland soon after he returns, and it will remain for him to determine as to its publicity. Dad State of Affairs. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 23. Bankers and business men living in the towns in the Indian Territory, as well as those living outside the Territory but doing business with firms in the Territory, are greatly worked up over the condition of affairs which has made it necessary for the Pacific Express Company to refuse money shipments either into or out of the Territory. So far as the express company is concerned, however, they take a philosophical view of the situation, and no complaint has been registered. "The situation In the Indian Territory today," said Superintendent Case, of the Pacific Express Company, "is worse than it ever was. T.iere is absolutely no protection for life or property except as we furnish ourselves. This continual carriage of such an armed force makes the business too expensive to be profitable. We have lost more by the expense than we ever did by the actual robbenes. Now, take this Saturday robbery; by it we lost Just $117. This consisted of return C. O. D.'s. which we art still handling, and our own and the rallros.d remittances. But you can see, even to protect a small amount, what it would cost when such a gang as that attacked the train. The other companies are still carrying money, but I am Informed by Mr. Simpson, of the Wells-Fargo express, that h. ha3 asked the general tuperintendent to i3sue an order similar to ours. "To give you a little ilea of what we have paid out, I will speak of the Ollphant robbtry. Our loss there was about $J00, but It cost us about $3,L0) to capture the robbers. At the present rates for carrying money we would have to take into the Territory $8,500,000 to get that back. For some time before the Dalton gang was wiped out the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway and the Pacific Express Company had a standing reward of $5.aX each on the elffht men comprising the Rang. This had only been shortly before withdrawn. Why, unless there U a reward or we pay th expenses of the deputies th United State marshal does not seem to think that it Is his duty to attempt to capture these robbers. "There is but one way to stop this lawlessnessthat Is, to make a State of tht Ter.!vory. Of course, if the federal government would send & f w troops, even a regi

ment of soldiers down there, instead of keeping them in the barracka and in th Eastern military statloi, it might do something. A war of extermination such as Governor Crittenden waged against the James pant? In Missouri is what is needed. This can only properly be done by admitting the Territory to statehood." Patents Granted Indiana Inventors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Oct. 23. The following ratents have been grantcJ residents of Indiana: Nelson P. Bowsher, South Bend, feed mill; Allan C. Brantlngham, Toledo, O.. assignor to the Nordyke & Marmon Co., Indianapolis, five patents on a dustcollector and one on a combined return air selve, purifier and dust collector; Thomas Bukenafer and E. 1L Weiss, Terre Haute, portable coal box; Charles S. Hlsey, Aurora, ' assignor to E. S. Rice. Chicago, patents on shell carrier block, shell carrier actuating mechanism for cartridge loading machines, shell-feeding mechanism for cartridge loading machines, shell placer for cartriiga loading machines, powder or shot feeding mechanism, revolving crimper for cartridge loading machines, wad feeding machine, shell carrier for cartridge loading machine; Charles IL James. Wabash. spraying pump; Caswell Leonard, assignor of onehalf to J. Furr, Veedertburg, over checlc rein holder; Caswell I Leonird and A. Bever. Veedersburg, churn; Zebulon Wirt, Monticello, umbrella. War II amor Dented. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-Mlnlster Arrlaga, the Guatemalan minister, does not credit the dispatches from Oaxaca, Mexico, that war is impending between Mexico and Guatemala, and that the latter country has sent a large force of troops to meet several thousand Mexican troops at Acapralco and Tehauntepec Senor Arriaga says he would be quickly advised by his government if any. such warlike stpp had been taken, and he has received nothing to show that such a move had been made cr was contemplated. Tne loundary question, which is being negotiated between Mexico and Guatemala, Is no more, says the minister, than the boundary between Mexico and the United States, and it has not at any time reached a serloua phase which would warrant the reports of a., war. How the Wllaon Law Aid- Mexico. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-In a report to the Department of State. United States Consul Gilman at Matamoras, says the effect of the new American tariff is being felt in Increased trade with northern Mexico. Ldrge exportatlons of dressed hides, mules, horses, etc.. have been added to the usual exports heretofore made and the prospects for a large spring business is most cheering. Under the operation of the McKlnley act all live stock ceased to be exported, the tariff on horses and mules biting $30 each, from two to three times the""

selling value or tne animals in aiexico. This amounted to a total prohibition, and, until Sept. 1. not a live animal of any description had been exported. Larxe exportatlons of dressed hides and leather show another new feature that shares the benefit of the Wilson schedule. m -- Portngnl the FIrat to Accept. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Portugal ha accepted the Invitation of the United States end has signified her adherence to the agreement arranged by the Paris arbitration for the protection of the seals on the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. About two months ago the State Department sent out a note to all the maritime powers, save Great Britain, which was already . included. Inviting them to Join in this agreement. These were duly acknowledged by all of the recipients, and the first Nation to accept was Portugal, which thereby binds herself to forbid her subjects to enter the closed zones in pursuit of seals. This is the only response so far received. WEATHER FORECAST. Pair and Slightly Cooler In Southern Indiana. WASHINGTON. Oct. 23. For Indiana an! Illinois Fair weather; slightly cooler In southern portions; north winds, becoming' variable. ' For Ohio Fair except on lakes; local showers; variable winds; slight changes in temperature. ' cal Observations. India KAi-oLt?, lnd., Oct. 23.

Time. Bar. Ther. K. It. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a.m. 30.24 62 64 Calm. Clear. O.OO 7p.m. 30.0S 75 30 8'weat Ptclondy Q.oO

Maximum temperature. 82; minimum temper ature, 47. The following la a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation. Oct. 23, 1694: Tern. Pre, Normal : 51 O.IO Mean r4 0..'0 Departure from normal 13 O.IO Kxt eas or deficiency alnce Oct. 1. 31 O.tO Erreaaordeticiencr feiuco Jan. 1 -7fN 10 07 Plus. C. k K. WA P PEN HANS. Local Forecast OlMclaL - November .Wenther Review. The following data, complied from the weather bureau records at Indianapolis, cover a period of twenty-three years for the month of November, and should prove of value and interest in anticipating the more important meteorological elements, and the range within which such variations may be expected to keep for the coming month: Temperature Mean or normal temperature, 41 degrees; warmest month was that of 1879, with an average of 4 degrees; coldest, that of 1SS0, with average of 31 degrees. The highest temperature was 76 degrees, on the 1st. In 1SSS; lowest, 5 degrees, on the 22d, In 1SS0. Average date on which first 'killing" frost occurred in autumn. Oct. 22. Precipitation (rain and melted snow) Average for the month, 3.87 Inches; average number of days with .01 of an Inch or more, 1; greatest monthly precipitation, 9.35 inches, in ISM; least. .80 inches, in 1S72. Th greatest amount of precipitation recorded In any twenty-four consecutive hours, i.Z0 Inches, on the 17th and l&th. 1SS1; greatest amount of snowfall in any twenty-four consecutive hours (record extending to winter of 1884-5 only), 4.4 Inches, on the 6th, 1SSG. Clouds and Weather Average number of clear days, 8; partly cloudy, 9; cloudy, 13. Wind The prevailing winds have been from vthe northwest. The highest velocity o He wind was thirty-six miles, from the n west, on the 23d, 1374. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official, MISS WIIXARD'S MISTAKD. Should Confine Heraelf to Temper ( nnce and Let Politic Alone. Chicago Journal. Illinois women who are rejoicing over their new privilege of voting at least voting a little bit at the coming election will read, with rather perturbed minds, of Mis Willard's latest plan for advancing th cause of woman suffrage In the United States. A Philadelphia dispatch gives a resume of the Evanston reformer's fpeech delivered yesterday before Ihe convention of tha Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in session in the City of Brotherly lve. and states that "Miss Willard concluded by making an appeal for funds with which to send women to the South for the purtos9 of organlring the colored women." This Is a record-breaker. The great temperance reformer has never been troubled with conservatism, but this out-Wlllards Willard. It is the reductlo and absurdum of woman suffrage. Miss Willard said. In the course of her speech, that women should hive the richt of sufi'rage, not because they were better than men, but because they were different. Very well said. But this extreme haste to form ncrro women's voting clubs leids one to ask. How different? For there Is a iectJ?d dilterence In atfference, and the difference M.ss Wiliard means and the difference the rest of us mean is apparently :iot the same difference at all. Anybody who sends expeditions into the black l-lt In quest of uplifting Influences upon which to elevate the ballot box Is too Innocent to be trusted with the ballot. Miss Willard is a good woman, but it Is to be feared she is a bad politician. The worst enemy of the cause she aivocatej could not have dealt It a more deadly blow. If there 'Ik nny one thing tnat will ma Wo woman suffrage undesirable for many J'ears to come it is the unavoidable daubing of the Ignorant colored vote that would follow such an innovation. A skillful politician would steer clear of that weak point as long as possible. Hut Mls Widard. if we are to believe this -dispatch, has ' sprung It at the very moment when it will do the most harm. A few more such bad plays on the part of the leadsn in the cause will lan.l the suffrage reform In the same Umbo Into which th Prohibition party has apparently lapeed. Ml&s Willard could accomplish much more good if she would confine hc-r efforts to th one noble aim of temperance r-form and let Susan B. Anthony run the suffrage campaign. Susan knows the game better than to try to take the enemy' trick with her weakest card.