Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1880 — Page 1
i .7: : INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1880. YOL. XXYIII. NO. 44. WHOüB NO. 15 53.
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THE CHINESE LETTER.
The New York Herald Rakes the Shuffling Candidate Fore and Aft. Mr. Garfield Given Every Opportunity to Make a Denial Nearly a Week Ago The New York Herald says editorially, after reprinting Garfield's letter to Morey: Oa Wednesday evening Mr. A. S. Hewitt, a gentleman of character, a personal friend of General Garfield, with whom he had served in Congress, said in a speech in this city concerning this letter: "Some people may incline to pronounce it a forgery. I have seen it. I am familiar with General Garfield's signature. I have compared it with his letters in my possession and I have no doubt it is genuine. If it be a forgery, it is the work of consummate artist; but if I thought, after examination, there was the slightest doubt of its authenticity, I should not refer to it." Mr. Hewitt is a Democrat; he is a strong partisan; but he is a gentleman, and while of course his opinion is not final on a question of handwriting, what he said has a certain weight. On receiving a report of Mr. Hewitt's speech the Herald on Wednesday evening telegraphed General Garfield at Mentor, stating what Mr. Hewitt had so positively asserted: adding that be (General Garfield would probably think it advisable to deny over his own name the authorship of the letter, offering, if he had not seen the letter, to telegraph it to him at once, and opening the Herald's columns to him for a denial. To this dispatch we have up to this present writing received no reply. There has appeared in the Associated Press dispatches a very brief report, unauthenticated in any way, that General Garfield had declared the letter a "stupid forgery." From Republican sources in Boston came yesterday the further assertion that no such man as "H. L. Morey" has lived in Lynn since 1873. to which the Democrats reply that he lived outside of Lynn, which may be; and that they are ready to prove his existence if General Garfield denies writing the letter. We have waited some days to see if General Garfield would make such a denial of the authorship of this letter as we are convinced he ought to make if he did not write it. It is a mistake in General Garfield to hctitate about a frank and explicit denial in his own name if he did not write the letter. Some of the sentiments in it are atrocious and indefensible. If he entertained them last January, or at, any time, he is not fit to be President, or Senator, or to hold any public office whatever. If he did not entertain them and did not write the letter, he ought to say so, not at second or third hand, but over his own name. The letter considers the importation, not the migration, of Chinese: it regards not the people of the United States, but only of a small part, the employers of labor; it does not consider the rights of workingmen, be they Americans or Chinese, but encourages the greed of those who seek to make money out of their labor. This is simply a defense of the Coolie system, or of a new slave system. The "great manufacturing interests" are. according to this statement, to have the special privilege of "conservlug" themselves by importing Chinese, and to introduce here a new form of servile labor, under the guise of immigration. We repeat that General Garfield, accused by such men as Mr. A. S. Hewitt, and later, Speaker Randall, of haviug written this, wrongs himself if he does not hasten to deny the charge in the most positive and explicit manner, and over his own name. He has delayed too long already. The Republican organs are evidently dismayed at his silence. After waiting for some days, several of them have reprinted a passage from his letter of acceptance, in which he speaks fairly enough on the Chinese labor question. Unfortunately for their candidate this is in his case not conclusive, for he has been in several other cases so glaringly guilty of the vice of tergiversation, that what he made public after he was nominated has no necessary relation to his real thoughts and beliefs. Before he was nominated he denounced in Congress those who sought to keep alive sectional and anti-Southern agitation; but after he was nominated he turned about and unblushingly hoisted the "bloody shirt." Before he was nominated he asserted positively and circumstantially that reform in the civil service was an urgent necessity and that to effect it all interference of members of Congress in the appointments must absolutely cease; but in his letter of acceptance, to the amazement of the public, he turned squarely about and declared that the Executive must seek the advice and recommendation of Congressmen. These and other instances, so familiar to the public and to his own supporters that we need not cite them, make any perfunctory or secondhand denials in his case of no force; it is useless for his organs to tell us what he said after he was nominated. What the public has a right to know is whether he ever wrote such a letter as that of which he is accused, and on that it needs his personal assurance. If he did write such a letter he is not fit to be President: he ought to resign from the Senate: his support by any party would rightly be fatal to it. The American people do not want a man in the Presidency who has even in a private letter countenanced a new form of servile labor. More Republican Trickery Brought to Light. New York, Oct. 21. The National Democratic Committee issue the following to-night: To the Public: When this campaign opened, the National Democratic Committee contracted with the American Union and Western Union Telegraph Companies for special rates for their business, and arranged with said Companies that all telegrams sent or received by the Committee should be returned at the end of each week to the Cashier of the Committee as vouchers for the bills rendered. The telegram so sent or received by our Committee has been returned, nuder this arrangement, weekly and paid for according to contract. On Wednesday morning, October 20, the Western Union Telegraph Company returned to the Committee vouchers, as usual, for the second week in October. Upon their being examined by our cashier to verify the amount, the following telegrams were found in the package so sent us as vouchers, evidently being a mistake on the part of the official having the same in charge at the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The telegrams are written upon Western Union blanks, and are as follows: [Rush.] October 12, 18S0. To Hon. Charles J. Noyes, Care H. Jenkins, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.: I telegraphed yesterday. I will provide as requested 200 each for Callender and yourself as compensation. MARSHALL JEWELL [Rush.] October 12, 1880. To F. W. Wicker Collector, Key West, Fla.: "City of Dallas" took 150, "City of Texas" 1 00, "Colorado" 100 for Key West. The meu on he dock are instructed to say nothing about it. 26 paid. MARSHALL JEWELL. The numerals "150," "100" and "100" in this last telegram mean so many men. These telegrams, or rather the one addressed to F. W. Wilke. United States Collector at the port of Key West, Fla., tells its own story. The sun had not gone down in the State of Indiana, where one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on a free Government and - a free ballot were about to be consummated when the Chairman of the National Republican Committee and an official of the United States Government were preparing to repeat in the State of Florida the infamy then about to be consummated in the State of Indiana, The Committee were advised previous to the receipt of these telegrams that the State of Florida was about to be overrun by the repeaters of our large cities The telegrams of Mr. Jewell only confirm what the Committee well know to be the fact. The above telegrams are in the possession of the Committee; they are written in copying ink, have been copied in a letter-press book, and bear the telegraph receiver's checks and marks, and this Committee defies any one to assert that they are not genuine. The telegrams are now bcing lithographed, and will be given to the public in a day or two. Wm H. BARNUM, Chairman Nat'l Dem. Com. New York, October 21, 1880. Five Women Burned to Death. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 20.—A shocking calamity in connection with a fire occurred shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. A fire broke out in the shoddy manufactory of Benj. Hey, Second and Broadway, in such a way as to cut off escape from the third story, where a number of women were at work. The firemen made heroic but ineffectual attempts to rescue the women. After extinguishing the fire they succeeded in extricating the dead bodice of five women, as follows: Mrs. Rachel Daggett, 51 East Third street, fiftyfive years old, body burned to a crisp; she was a widow with four children. Miss Margaret Welsh, sixty years old, Seventh
GARFIELD'S DEATH WARRANT.
HIS LETTER ADVOCATING AN EXTENDED CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
HE DECLARES HIMSELF ADVERSE TO THE LABORING MAN'S INTERESTS AND IN FAVOR OF THE EMPLOYERS' UNION,
AND ADVISES THEM TO EMPLOY THE CHEAPEST LABOR AVAILABLE
Vf-f J r and North streets: no relations known; the upper portion of her body was burned to a crisp. Mrs. Mary Byron, forty-niue yeara old, 43 Yeatman street; had five children and a husband who is an invalid; the upper portion of the body, except the face, was burned. - Mrs. Catharine Jackson, Front and Broadway, fifty-five years old, was a widow, supporting a blind daughter. Ml-tsor Mrs. Kenrin, forty years old, 170 Lock street; only at work one day and nothing ia known about her family, or whether married or When the fire broke out there were twentyeight women and girls in the third story, with the forewoman. Tweuty girls were iu one room with the foreman, and eight women were in an adjoiuliig room. Tile forewoman gave the alarm to the girls in her room, and they all parsed out and down the stairway saf el y. She then went to the room where the eight women were aad gave them the alarm also. Two of them followed her down stairs; the other six delayed, it Is supposed, to change their clothing, until the fire cut off their escape by the stairway. One of them. Mrs. Barrett, Jumped out of the window and broke her legs. The other five remained and were burned to death. The name of the one not . at first identified is Miss Welsh. The loss by the fire is estimated at 125,000; Insurance, fl2,000. There is no question that the loss of life is due wholly to the carelessness or the fright of the victims themselves. There waa ample time, if they aad not stopped for their cloUünf or beooae
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ä - AiA contused, to escape. Mrs. FJIza Barrett, who was persuaded to jump from Ca third -story window, escaped with a broken ankle. Mrs. äyron was at the window at the time and was apparently about to follow Mrs. Barrett, but waen she saw men carrying Mrs. Barrett away she turned and ran back 'into the flume". The building was not burned down. The floor, where the women perished, was not much injured. The flames were confined mainly to rags and other combustible stock. Hey's Insurance is Si, MO each in the Firemen' Fund, of California, and the Farmers', of New York; tl.a'SO each in the Rochester, People's and Home; 1,000 each in the New York City and the Northern, of New York,iand $7S0 each In the German, of Pittsburgh, and the National, of Baltimore. The Trouble in the Gunnison Country. Washington, Oct. 10. The following dispatch has been received at the Interior Department: - Denver. October 18. Hon. C. Schurz, Secretary of the I nterior : his As there is no telegraphic line to Gunnison City I ant unable to ret accurate and reliable reports from there. I nave no advices of two companies of the State Militia having started for the Reservation, and I disbelieve the rumor. The Information which has reached me is that the Sheriff arrested Berry over a week ago at the Agency; that Berry persuaded the Sheriff to accompany him to Contonment, about four miles distant, where he escaped from the Sheriff. Two dispatches have beea received here W-day oouoem-
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Personal and Confidential. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, : ' Washington, D. C, Jan. 23, 18S0. Dear Sir: . .'. . Yours In relatl on to the Chinese problem came duly to band. . . i I take it that the question of employees is only a question of private and corporate economy, and individuals or companies have the right to buy labor where they can get It cheapest . ,; , . , We hare a treaty with the Chinese Government which should be religiously kept until Its provisions are abrogated by the action of the General Government, and I am not prepared to say that It should be abrogated an til oar great manufacturing interests are conserved ia the matter of labor. ' Very truly yours, . 3. A. GARFIELD. H. L. MorET,' , ' Employers' Union, Lynn, Mass. The original letter, of which the foregoing Is a copy, is In Truth's possession. It was mailed at Washington by the Republican candidate for President, to Henry L. Morey, of the Employers' Union, Lynn, Massachusetts. At his death, which recently occurred, it was found among his effects. The envelope inclosing it, the original of which is also in Troth's possession, is marked 'personal," aa carefully as the letter itself is marked "personal and confidential." ,
r-Hr ing him; cne stating that he is secreted by the Indians, the other that he is protected by the Commander at the Post. I respectfully request that you require the Commander of the Post to deliver him to the 8heriff of Gunman County at Gunnkon City. This will avoid the necessity of the Sheriff taking a State force with him to make the arrest. Although his efforts to escape have strengthened the conviction as to his guilt, I have no apprehensions as to his personal safety when once in the cut-tody of the fcheriff at Gunnison. Captain Cline has been in jail for about a week without being molested. The Sheriff telegraphed me to-day that Berry and others are safe from a mob in Gunnison. If you desire to have the Military Commander deliver him to the Sheriff I shall like to be Informed of the decision, that I may notify the Sheriff at once that further preparations for making the arrest will be unnecessary. Fred W. IItkin. Denver, Col., Oct. 19. The Governor this evening received advices from the Interior Department that a telegram had been sent Agent Berry that. If criminal process of Bute is served upon him by lawful officers and his arrest . made, the United SUtea troops can not interfere. In case the militia are with officers and without process, United States troops may be called upon to eject them, but no collision shall be provoked, and if discretion be used none need occur; that United States Attorney has started for the Agency, and will give all necessary advice. The preservation of peace at the present time ia all important, aad Ute Ltopaxuacat wiU oo-vptuate Ut UuU eud.
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CRIMES AND CRIMINALS. ' TWO ROAD AGENTS KILLED. , . Santa Fe, N. M., Oct 23. Two road agents were killed by Mexicans, northeast of here, a few days since. dovlx placed under heavy bonds. Chicago. Oct 23. James B. Doyle, the counterfeiter lately arrested here, was brought before United States Commissioner Hoyne to-day and his case continued to Thursday under ball of $25,000. MURDER AT CINCINNATI. Cincinnati, Oct 21. The body of an unknown and unconscious colored man was found at a late hour Jost night in an alley back of Robinson's Operi House with a pistol shot wound in his head! He died this morning, and to-day it is ascertained that his name is Alexander Woodson. Two butchers, named Alexander, and a man named Wohn, were arrested. They admit that they saw Woodson crawling into their wagon on Central aveuue last night to steal meat. They threw him out and struck him. knocking him down. He ran into the alley, where they heard a srot, but they deny being near him when the shot w& fixed. ARRESTED TOR PERJTTRT. New York, Oct. 24. Sylvester W. Ellsworth, a farmer of Herkimer County. New York, was arMMted in Wall street Yesterday on the charge of perjury, on complaint of John F. MofTctt, of Wsr ,
tertown. Jefferson County. NewTork. The com plalnant alleges that David" . Ho'kiwy recovered two judgments of f-W.Jvw ant &ri.0:t4 against Thomas und Robert I.. Kounker and Reuben Elwood, and that on the former supplemental proceedings were ordered. On eacto proceeding It is alleged that Ellsworth., to wbns llounker and FJwood made an assiemment for the benefit of their creditors, swore fnlsely in rejtard to having received certain checks, varying in amount from &äto $7."i0. Resides thee the eoTrsxilainant alleges that Ellsworth received other checks and moneys aggregating K2,tei. and one check from Anderson k Co. ior irM0. The aceusad makes a positive denial of the charges. A FIXE LOT OF ('OrTTF.B FITTER.1? JtlKESTED.
- - - "-- . . ... . , oay, the secret erviee officer arrester! K W. Ppeneer, alias Bill Brockwav. Charlea II. tnilh and James P. Owens, charged with being concerned ia the counterfeiting of $M0 National Rnk notes; also counterfeiting United state tl.QO coupon uuinKi,unucinueoi xmi. pmiui coniewea thit he Clieraved . the nlat from n h ir-li h am printed the counterfeit " bonds in the pos-m-ksioii oi JJoyie, in i nic&go. lie also states that he engraved the plates fr several counterfeit tlOO notes which recently erneared. The last engraved was on the liitsburg National Batik of Commerce. Owens was the printer of there notes and bonds, fmkl elalms. In addition, that he engraved tle plate of the counterfeit "-: bond which wore put upon the market in 1W7, about $.000of which had been taken by Jay Cooke fc Co., before their character was discovered. The examination of the arrested parties is set down for Tuesday next. A number of the bonds taken from Doyle in Chicago will be forwarded to Brooklyn, to be used as evidence. A N0TOF.iGL.J BCROLAR FATALLY 8 HOT. New ok. Oct. 21 About 3 this morning Thomas MeCormick. who was brutally beaten by a gang of ruffians in a Sixth avenue dive known as the "Star and Garter", a month ago, and who, until a day or two since, was laid up with his injuries in the New York Hospital, in company with Edward Lyons.one of the most skillful burglars in the country, entered the "Star and Garter" and engaged in an altercation with Hamilton Buck, the proprietor. Lyons placed a pktol to Buck's stomach and pulled the trigger, but the weapon missed fire, when Buck retreated to the bafenient and the men. left. At ft o'clocky'ath returned, and, pretending they were friend, J Buck's from Boston, gained access. Lyons, revolver in hand, told the men- congregated about the bar to stand back that be intended to kill Buck. He fired, the Knot missing its mark, and Buck stooped in time to escape a second hall, which went craf hing over his head, through the gla.setton the bar. Buck then drew his revolver and tired three shots in rapid succession at Lyons, two of which took effect, one ball piercing the right lung and the other entering the left jaw. Lyons was pitted into the street by his friends. Three policemen carae up and receiving no respon.se to their knocks for admission, broke open the door and arrested Buck, who was concealed on the top floor. Lyons was taken to the Hospital, where the surgeons said he could not survive. Justice Smith held Buck in $1,000 bail. At the Hospital the wounded man gave the name of George i Lenning. He is the husband of the notorious shoplifter, Sophia Lyons, who, not long since, endeavored to releax a number of prisoners from Sing Sing lYison bv fabse keys. Six years ago Lyons and wile fled to Koance and lived two years on the proceeds of crimes committed here. Returning. Lyons was captuied and sent to Sing Sing for three years and six months. He completed his term about two monthj aa. ' The Fate of the Alpenn Settled. Chicago, Oct. 19. The excitement and suspense which has been hourly increasing for three days respecting the fate of the Alpena has changed to profound sorrow and anguish on the j nrt of those whose friends were known or believed t be on board, when the news of to-day not onlv failed to bring woid of her safety, but announced the certainty . of her .'destruction. The offices c f the ' Goodrich Company have been filled with mournful and inquiring facts, bnt no cheering word could be given out, and as the last hope faded there was a look of dospair and the deepest despondency pictured on each countenance. ' It is not deemed posriblc that any person could have been saved from the wreek. If a raft had been made it could hardly have held together five minutes amid the fierce beating of the sea, and it is probable nobody will ever tell the story of the wreck of the Alpena. Vessel men believe she struck a rock somewhere off the eut shore and went to pieces a considerable dLtanee from the beach. There is much complai n at the laxness of the Company in having no list of the passengers. The crew was twenty-five to thirty strong. It is stated that when the vessel left Mtnskeeon she had seventy passengers, and ho-took five at Grand Haven, mostly women. Mr. Goodrich thinks, however, the passengers did not exceed twentyfive, or perhaps twenty in number. The Ladies' Deposit Dank. BofsTON, Oct 19. The bill in equity filed against Sarah B. Howe, Manager of the Ladies' Deposit, and others came up in the Equity Sesn-ion of the Supreme Court to-day. Counsel appeared for the complainants and respondents, while a number of those who lost money by depositing in the broken bank were represented by counsel, who, however, took no active part- in to-day's proceedings. The appointment of a Receiver was urgently advocated by coanscl for complainants, and considerable argument was beard. The Court took the papers in the cose and reserved its decision aa to whether or not a Receiver should be appointed. Miss Susan A. CrandalL Cashier of the institution, testified that Mrs. Howe told her twelve rcnxwisible men backed the institution, but she (Miss Crandall) did not know anything about it. Men were generally excluded Irom the business transActioni of the bank. Newspaper articles caused them to pay out $40,000 the day nefore suspending. The Bnrean of Statistics An Opinion From th Jmig Advocate General. Washington, D. CL; Oct. 20. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the toUl values of exports of domestic breadstuff's from the United States during September last were f23,KKl.93, and during the previou September, fr5ft.82S.W8; for the nine months ending September 30, im), 5-208,-679,542; for the same period in 1879, $176,390.910. Judge Advocate General Dunn, to whom the question was referred, has given his opinion that the same rule must govern in the appointment of sons of army oflicert which is prescribed in other cases; that fa, the appointee iuu-t be the sou of a resident of the District from which the appointment is mado. ' - 4 r r w i . i . A Serioua Hatter for Pennsylvania Hall. J road Employe.' "' PrrrsBCHO. Oct 19. This morning the County authorities took action in regard to the position ol traiu men ftnmd guilty . by the Coroner's Jury of criminal negligence in canst ng the accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad at the Twenty -eighth street crossing on Saturday. October 9. Proceedings are against John Routh, conductor, and William Penman, flagman, of the fin-t . train, and Engineer Hugby, of the second train, and is for misdemeanor under, an aet of the Assembly. Routh surrendered himself and is out on $10.000 bail. The others will give themselvos up to-day. The Commonwealth will likely bring charges of murder. , . , A New Route to California. Chicago, Oct- 19 The AtcbJHon, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company issues a circular to shipper of California freight, announcing that that road and the Southern Pacific will be completed and connected about Jaauary 1, IHM. thua opepiog up a new through route between the Kiixt and Han Francisco, Sacrtvmento, San Jose. Los Angeles, Marvsville and all ether points la California and Arizona. It sets forth that the new line will effer nnequaled facilities for doing business, such aa will warrant shippers in delaying any arrangements for the furore until the new route is opened for business, of which due notice will be given. Those forged Itonds. Washington. D. C, Oct. 25 Chief Brooks, of the Secret Service Bnreau. to-day received from bis aj?ent tn Chicago the numtiers of forged bond found in Doyle's posse!! when arrested. They are from 37.M0 to 37,170, from 3S.615 to SM.W9. from 430 to 41.37a, from 97,J15fto 7,743. and from 103.301 to lULi'jy. a number oi me Donau win arrive In Washington in a day or two. when they will be thoroughly examined by the officers of the TreasurY. Several of the bonds have also been sent direct to Brooklyn to be nsed in evidence at . the examination there to-morrow.-., .. ' Th Snow Storm ia Iowa. Eiorjx City. Ia, Oct 11 A storm and sleet set in on Friday, and became a severe snow storm on Saturday, continuing in a modified form through Sunday and yesterday. All the railroads leading to this cfty. except the Sioux City and Pacific, have been blockaded, but the Central is open to day, and the other toads are fast get' lng out of the oxiita. ) S) American Export. Washington, Oct. 20. During the last fiscal year prices realized in American exports were about 10 per cent, higher than for the previous year. This increase was on manufactured articles, as well si agricultural products.