Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1889 — Page 4

4 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1889. , . . .

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Entered at tte Postoffice at Indianapolis aa secondclass matter. TERMS PER YEAR: Fing! eery Vit ask democrats to bear in mind and select their n state paper when they come to take subscriptions and make up clubs. Agents making up clubs send for any information desired. Addess INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, inL WEDNESDAY. APRIL 3. A Question of Right or "Wrong. The proceedings in the U. S. court daring the last few days have been ecandalous and disgraceful to a degree that cannot be adequately characterized in any language at our command. The spectacle presented by Judge Woodsbs he Bits upon the bench, deliberately, wantonly and wickedly prostituting the functions of his court to the service of villainy and crime is one which no honest and patriotic man can witness without feelings of profound mortification and profound indignation. But the spectacle, shocking as it is, would be lees humiliating, less ominous of grave disaster to this commonwealth and this republic, and far less eerious in all its public aspects, if "William A. "Woods were the only, or the chief offender. Corrupt judges have disgraced the bench before, and will disgrace it again. But it is only when their corruption has had its sources in the seat of power, and passed without stern rebuke from the people, that it has evidenced the existence of diseased social conditions and a debauched public conscience. The really alarming thing about the outrages perpetrated by Judge Woods is that they are known to be inspired by men the highest in authority in this republic; that they are participated in by other men with commissions fresh from under the hand and seal of the president of the United States, and the echo of whose solemn oaths to obey and enforce the law has scarcely died away; and that they are viewed with indifference, if not with actual favor, by so numerous an element in our population. In the ranks of a great political party, numbering nearly one-half the citizens of this nation, not a single voice has been raised, not a single protest has been heard, not one whisper has been uttered, to our knowledge, against these most flagrant, wanton and wicked transgressions of the laws of Gon and man. This proves a deadened public conscience; a blunted and stunted moral sense in the community; an all-pervading demoralization which has confounded the distinctions between right and wrong in the popular mind, and rendered it indifferent to the integrity of the judiciary, heedless of the obligations of an official oath, and blind to the fatal consequences which are as certain to follow the pollution of the altars of justice as the night is to follow the day, or death to follow life. What is this thing that Jndge "Woods has done and is doine, by and with the advice and consent of men high in authority, who. in times gone by, have vaunted themselves of their piety, their probity, their purity, and who have exploited themselves, and been exploited by their friends and followers, in the character of mor.l examplara for the rest of mankind? A few simple words will tell the story. A federal grand jury, composed of men of all political parties, and acting under the obligation? of a sacred oath, has returned many scores of indictments for violations of the election laws of the state of Indiana and the United States. These laws were framed for the purpose of protecting the people in the right of self-government; of insuring, so far as possible, that their will should be honestly registered by the ballotbox, and carried into effect by the persons chosen through that instrumentality. They are the most important of all the laws upon our statute books, because they lie at the foundation of all other laws, and upon their faithful enforcement depends the perpetuation of our frame of covernment and the preservation to the people of all the benefits and blessings it was designed to confer upon them. Offenses against these laws strike at the very roots of our institutions ; and, if they are allowed to go unpunished, menac e the whole fabric of government, and threaten a'l social order and public security. Two or three hundred persons more or less were indicted by this grand jury, after a patient and laborious investigation, involving a large expense to the people. This investigation was conducted under the auspices of able lawyers, upon whose personal integrity no reflection can be truthfully made. The indictments follow, as is the universal custom, the language of the statute, and were drawn in the precise forms that have been observed in this very court for years, and upon which men have been sent to prison by this very judge. The attorneys for the defense moved the court to quash or dismiss these indictments because of alleged technical delects contained therein. The man charged with protecting the rights of the government in this business under a solemn oath to do thi3 to the very best of his ability sat by, as dumb as an oyster, while William A. Woods on the bench quashed these indictments, not by ones and twos, but by blocks of five, nullifying in a breath the results of weeks of arduous and expensive labor by the grand jury, and throwing the shield of his protection indiscriminately about the perions charged'with these grievous offenses. In doing this thing Judge Woods, as on a former occasion, reversed his own decision given in similar cases in previous years. Jle ignored the rule, universally oljserved by courts of standing, to resolve all doubts in preliminary proceedings of this character in favor of the state, and not of the accused. He pursued a course directly opposed to that which he followed in certain memorable trials for similar offenses over which he presided during the Last two years, lie disregarded law, propriety, precedent, consistency, decency and dignity and all the traditions that hedge about the bench and have given it so large a share of the popular confidence and respect. It may be urged, however, that there are nice questions of law involved in these matters ; that Judge Woods, aa a trained lawyer and jurist, must be supposed to understand them ; that no layman can be expected to comprehend distinctions which, to the legal mind, are clear as

day, and that it 'is the duty of everybody to assume the "legal correctness of a judge's rulings, and to respectfully acquiesce therein. ' This i3 rank nonsense, and dangerous nonsense. The law is not such a mysterious science as many would like to make it appear. Enlightened common sense and simple honesty of purpose are the best guides ia; its interpretation. The facilities of a person of average intelligence may be safely trusted to conduct him to a correct conclusion upon such questions as Judge "Woods has been deciding during the past few days. And it does not require even average intelligence to measure Judge Woods' actions in these election cases by the standards himself supplied in the Coy-Bern-' hamer trials, with the result of placing him lower in the moral scale than the worst of the men whom ho is using his judicial power to protect against the just punishment of their crimes. "We are preparing, and will print at an early day, a complete transcript of Judge Woods' record in the tally-sheet cases. This record will reveal him as a jurist consumed with zeal for the punishment of election frauds; urging with all the vigor at his command the indictment of persons accused of such frauds; denouncing a grand jury in unmeasured terms for failing to return such indictments; renewing his efforts to obtain indictments from successive grand juries ; helping with his own hand to draw the indictments upon whose sufficiency he was to pass as judge; assisting to secure evidence against the accused ; brushing away with a simple wave of his hand all the technical objections raised by the counsel for the defendants to the form of the indictments ; browbeating witnesses for the defense; intimidating petit juries; taking witnesses out of the hands of counsel and conducting their examinations himself in the sole interest of the prosecution; re-convening a grand jury to perfect indictments when flaws had developed which might have led to a reversal in the courts above ; charging juries in the most violent and extreme terms against the defendants, and affecting, at every stage in the proceedings, a zeal for the purity of elections and the punishment of offenders against , the ballot-box, entirely too effusive to. be becoming in a judge charged with the trial .of persons accused of such offenses. .f , .'- Measured by the standards set up by himself in these trials, what kind of a figure does Judge Woods present to-day? Let honest men, of whatever party, answer, as they would answer to their own consciences for an individual transgression. If what he has done in behalf of Dcdley and the other persons charged with these crimes is not wrong, then nothing is wrong. Falsehood is not wrong, nor slander, nor theft, nor perjury, nor arson. There are no moral distinctions. The terms right and wrong are variable, and conscience is a mere barren ideality. Jlovey a "Wretchel Failure. Alvin P. Hovey has already proved the greatest failure that ever sat in the executive chair of Indiana, lie is either utterly incompetent to perform the duties of governor, or he is grossly negligent of his duties. Probably he is both incompetent and negligent. When Alvix P. Hovey entered upon his office he gave the public to understand that he proposed to be a governor as was a governor. He proposed to be a governor who governed, lie proposed to govern people. He proposed to show Indiana what it was to have a man in the gubernatorial chair who was cast in heroic mold. He would not be found traveling in the beaten path pursued by such commonplace persons as Mortox, Hexdkicks, Pokteb and Gray. He was inspired by the spirit of the great Natoi-eos, and prepared to do such deeds as would fasten the gaze of the world upon Hovey and send his name thundering down the ages. Hovey had hardly got his seat warm before he discovered that his official opportunities for startling the world were limited. There was nothing heroic, or picturesque or dramatic in signing commissions, remitting fines or pardoning felons. And this was about all there was for Hovey to do, except to run-a-muck at the legislature. Alvix I, therefore made an onslaught upon that body. His weapon was the pen. He used it to veto things. He vetoed "right and left." His vetoes, of course, didn't veto, but they kept Hovey in the public eye, and that seems to have been their chief object. But even Hovey couldn't veto everything and so he signed a number of bills. There is no reason to believe that he read them. In fact there is no reason to believe that he read anything except the title of any . of the acts submitted for his examination. He evidently didn't take time to read the natural gas act, for he vetoed it ou the ground that it contained a certain provision which is not to be found in it. lie vetoed another act which had not been attested by the lieutenant-governor and speaker, as required by the constitution, but his veto was not put on these grounds. He signed an important labor bill, from which the enacting clause had been omitted, which, of course, invalidates it. He signed the license act, which attempts to amend a law by referring to a section of the revised statutes, instead of to the act by title, as required by the constitution. How many other imperfect or fatally defective measures Gov. Hovey signed, heaven only knows! This man, who failed to observe such palpable defects, sets himself up as a great constitutional lawyer and a stickler for technicalities. Most of the constitutional objections set forth in his veto messages have been brushed aside by republican judges aa unworthy of serious consideration. And now this zealous guardian of the people's liberties this watch-dog of the constitution-thiä vigilant sentinel of executive power against legislative encroachments proves to have been sleeping at hiposCijd,.alIowing pleasures to go on the'statytMoTtsebHtarning defects go palpabfe'tbitthe AveVige"' office boy could scarcely have failed to detect them. When G Borau Clivklasd was governor of New York he sent back to the assembly, in a single session, seventeen bills for correction. One of them was an im portant labor bill, and if Mr. Clevelaxd had followed the Hovey plan and approved it without reading, it would have leen a nullity. The difference between Gov. Cleveland and Gov. Hovey isthat the former worked while the latter only

poses. He is, as we said, the greatest failure that ever occupied the executive chair of Indiana. "Where Is the Committee of One Hundred? The original indictment in the Coy case was defective. As soon as the flaw was discovered, Judge Woods ordered the grand jury which returned this indictment to be reconvened. The grand jury, without hearing any further evidence, returned a new indictment, under which Coy was tried, convicted and sent to the penitentiary. Is there a man in this community who can explain why this course i3 not pursued in the pending election cases? Granting, for the sake of the argument, that the indictments quashed by Judgo Woods' were defective, why does ho not do as ho did in the Coy case call the grand jury together so that perfect indictments may be returned ? The testimony is fresh in the minds of the grand jurors. It would not be necessary for them to hear any witnesses. The expense involved would be trifling. What reason din be given for the failure of Judge Woods to take the same action in these cases that he took in similar cases, under precisely the same circumstances, less than two years ago? Judge Woods is quoted as saying that "it will now rest with Mr. Chambers as to the future disposition of theso cases. If Mr. Chambers desires it, each individual will be continued under bond, and at the next meeting of the grand jury the parties may be reindicted properly." It does not rest with Mr. Chambers as to the future disposition of these cases. It rests entirely with Judge Woods. He has the power to have the grand jury brought back here at once. The present grand jury will be in existence for another month. The new grand jury ill be impaneled May 1. If it investigates the election cases it will have to go over the entire ground again. The witnesses will have to be summoned anew, and all the testimony heard once more. This would involve an enormous and wholly unnecessary expense. But no such thing is intended. It is obviously intended by Judge Woods and by Chambers that these election prosecutions shall end now. The man Chambers does not even make a pretense of desiring to convict any of the persons accused of these crimes. He expresses his doubts of their guilt to all who will listen. He exhibits an utter disregard of his oath of office, and a shocking indifference to the proprieties ot his position. Where is the committee of one hundred ? Where are the clergymen who ostentatiously 6at on the bench with Judge Woods when the Coy cases were on trial, and gave vent at public meetings to their indignation over the tally-sheet forgeries? Where is Brother McLeod? Where is Brother IIcntek? Why are they silent now when a miserable technicality is made a pretext for a wholesale jail delivery of men charged with gross offenses against the ballot-box ? Where is Alexander B. CoxnriTT? Where is William Pixk Fisiir.ACK? Where is Jonx II. Holmday? Where is William Henderson? Where is Charles K. Coffin? Where is Uli F. Bitter? Where is William II. Hobrs? Where is William H. Griffith? What are these once vigilant guardians of the purity of elections about ? Why don't they stand up and be counted for right and justice when both are being trampled under foot by the knavish instruments of a corrupt political machine? Recent Nominations. Mr. Robert Lincoln gets the English mission ; Mr. Mi rat Halntead the mission to Germany; Mr. Allen Tiiorxdyke Bk e, proprietor of the Xorth American J!rriew, the mission to St. Petersburg, and Mr. Patrick Euan the mission to Chili. Mr. Lincoln is appointed, of course, because he, like Fred Gkant, is "the son of his father," and for no other reason. But, unlike Fred Grant, Mr. Lincoln is a reputable gentleman, and while he cannot be expected to distinguish himself in the conspicuous post which has been filled by many of the greatest men in our history, there is no reason to apprehend that he will do anything to bring discredit upon himself or his country. He is a gentleman of very moderate abilities, whose only experience in public affairs was as the incumbent of the least important seat in the cabinets of Garfield and Arth cr. His appointment is not so objectionable as most of those which have been made by President Harrison. As an appeal to the powerful sentiment which clusters around the name of Lincoln, it may even pass for shrewd politics. But the principle upon which it is made is utterly un-American, and we cannot believe that the masses of the people will approve of it. In a republic, men should not be given official preferment on the strength of their "daddies." Their own merits should be the only passport to 6uch distinction. And no one will claim for one moment that if "Hon" Lincoln bore another name ho would be even thought of for any important office. Out of "journalistic courtesy," Mr. Mr rat Halstead will be pleasantly spoken of by many newspapers. Nevertheless, Mr. Halstead is a bad man. He publishes one of the most venal and scurrilous newspapers in the United States. He long ago abandoned all pretense of having any convictions, and openly avowed his purpose of making his paper pay, regardless of ethical considerations. His heart has been for years set upon a foreign mission, and the amount of dirty work he has done to attain his soul's desire is simply appalling. The disgust which is awakened by the honor that has been paid this most unworthy man is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it takes out of the country for four years one whose absence will be a distinct gain to decent journalism. Mr. Allen Thorndyke Rice is a young man of large wealth and fine education, who divides his time between editing the Xorth American Ivriew, playing polo and leading the german. His appointment is presumably made in "recognition" of a series of unspeakably brutal and infamous attacks upon the personal and official character of President Cleveland, which Mr. Rice wrote and printed in his Review some months ago under the signature of "Arthur Richmond." Mr. Patrick Euan is a man of ability, who has been prominently identified with the home-rule movement in Ireland, and is favorably known to this country. He is afflicted with the delusion that tho way to

injure England is to pile up high taxes upon the workingmen of the United States, and this delusion led him to support the republican ticket in the last campaign. Although he is out of political sympathy with the vast majority of his countrymen in the United States, they regard him very favorably because of his services as a home-rule leader, and will doubtless be pleased with the honor that has been paid him. "We doubt, however, if it will convince many of them that high taxes are a blessing. "Why Kgan Doesn't Fit. Mr. William E. Ci ktis, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Xetcs, is recognized aa the best authority in this country on South American affairs. He was secretary of the commission appointed by President Arthur to visit South America in the interest of commercial relations between it and the United States, and in that capacity spent some time on that continent, visiting every South American country. lie has written a book on South America which is the standard authority on its subject. In a telegram to the Chicago Xews ho Bays : The assignment of Mr. Euan to the Chilian mission is very remarkable, for ho is not a diplomatist or a lawyer. The relations between the United States and Chili are very much strained, and only the most delicate diplomacy can prevent further complications without resort to arms. The Chilian government has positively refused to pay the claims of citizens of the United States for losses growing out of the war with Peru, although it has settled in full the claims of citizens of all other nationalities. It has refused to pay citizens of the United states on the ground that this country gave aid and comfort to IVru durin? the struggle, and will persist in a refusal until forced to pay. It will require the highest degree of diplomacy to sustain the dignity ot this government and avoid a war. As the only issue in Chili, as in Mexico, is the catholic church, Mr. Kuan's appointment is inappropriate. But he is not at present in good standing with the church. While he has not been formally excommunicated, he has been for two or three years ia a bitter controversy with Bishop O'Connor of Nebraska, who holds that the land league and all kindred organizations are in violation of the tenets of the church. Another reason why Mr. Euan should not be sent to Chili is because that country is nothing more than an Knglish colony. The relations between Chili and England are very close; most of the capital engaged in commerce, manufacturing and mining is English, and nearly all the prominent merchants at Valparaiso are from the same country. Mr. Egan's relations to the British government are well known, and he may expect a cool reception in Chili on that account It looks very much, after all,as if Mr. Egan were a misfit. It is said to be a question whether he is really a citizen of the United States. He got his first papers only fifteen months ago and has never got his second papers. Nebraska papers say that, while he has been an active republican, he has never voted, either in Nebraska or anywhere else. John Bright was a great and a noble man who had rendered invaluable services to his country and the world at largo. He was, next to Richard Corden, the leading spirit in the movement for the repeal of the corn laws which resulted in emancipating the industry of the United Kingdom irorn the burdens of tho protective system, and in bestowing upon the British people the great boon of commercial liberty, which has brought them such marvellous prosperity. , Mr. Briuiit's friendship to the United States, during the great crisis in our national history, will cause his memory to be cherished in this republic for generations to come. His opposition to the Irish home-rule movement in the closing j-ears of his life was out of harmony with the rest of his career. It alienated thousands of his old friends and admirers on both sides of the Atlantic, but it may be charitably attributed rather to an impairment of his faculties, through age and sickness, than to deliberate recreancy to the great cause of popular liberty to which he had devoted his best years. Murat Halstead's nomination ought to have been rejected, but not for the reason that he had denounced the senate as a body, or had impugned the motives of individual senators. If to hold and express a poor opinion of the U. S. senate, or to question the patriotism, intelligence and integrity of individual members thereof is to disqualify an American citizen for admission to the diplomatic service, or for any office in the appointment to which the senate participates, then a great majority, not only of respectable journalists, but of men of brains and conscience in all vocations, must be considered ineligible to such preferments. In passing upon presidential nominations, senators are supposed to act as judges, and when they allow personal resentments to govern their action in such matters, or abuse the opportunity thus afforded to punish public writers for exercising the right of free comment upon public men and measures, they advertise themselves as enemies of a free press and exhibit a spirit which is utterly un-American, and cannot bo too strongly condemned. Commenting upon the recent negotiation of tho ßhort time-threo per cent, bonds of Indiana at a premium the beet sale of her securities ever made the Washington Post pays : Indiana is a great state and in no immediate danger of being wrecked by the partisanship that now and then scandalizes her history. With her grosser offenders against the ballot she has in notable instances dealt severely, and by her recent adoption of the Australian system, she has erected a new barrier to electoral frauds that there is every reason to believe will firove etlective in the suppression of abuses. Jesides that, Indiana has become the mother of a president, of whom great expectations are entertained. We hope it will not be considered offensive partisanship if we call attention to the fact that the credit of Indiana has been steadily improving during all the years that the democratic party has predominated in her government, and while it was being accused by the opposition of wrecking her finances. No state in the country stands better in the money markets of the world than Indiana, and Indiana has been chiefly governed by the democrats for the last fifteen years. A one-horse lawyer over at Richmond has managed to obtain some free advertising out of the alleged discovery of certain important defect in the Barrett ten-year-improvement act. His discovery is of about as much importance as Hovey' discovery that the legislature had no right to fill offices created by statute, or Secy. Griffin's discovery that an act passed over the governor's veto was invalid unless attested a second time by the presiding officers of the two houses. It will be remembered that the Journal was greatly

impressed by these discoveries, as it is now by the mare's nest unearthed by the Richmond fellow. The latter's criticisms upon the Barrett improvement law are silly and puerile in the extreme. The Barrett bill was scrutinized by the judiciary committees of both houses, and was passed with little or no opposition. Among its strongest supporters were the leading republican senators and representatives. And as there is nothing in the act to which republican politicians take exceptions, we have no doubt the courts will sustain it if its validity is ever attacked. Mn. Allen Tiiorxdyke Rice, who has just been tendered the Russian 'mission, composed and published in his Xorth American Review, a few months ago, an article in which the president of the United States, Mr. Cleveland, was described as a man "who häd never uttered a word for his country, nor lifted his hand in her defense higher than a hangman's rope a man of brutal manners, of stolid instincts, of vulgar associations, a stranger to polite society, a man who, in the language of another, is but a wooden image of dull self-sufficiency and cold stolidity ; as incapable of receiving impressions as of returning warmth." It looks very much as if Mr. Rice's appointment was intended as a direct personal affront to ex-President Cleveland. Surely some person could have been found to represent the United States in Russia who had not so far transgressed tne bounds of dignity, decorum and decency in assailing the president of the United States. We don't think the defect in the license law invalidates that measure. Our supreme court has held that the constitutional requirement is complied with when the act or section sought to be amended is set forth in full as it will read when amended. Of course the title of the act and the date of its approval should have been set forth in the body of the amendatory act. Perhaps Judge Gullen or Senator Johnson can explain why this was not done ; and perhaps not. But it is believed that, notwithstanding the faiure to do this, the act is valid under the decision referred to. Dist.-Atty. Chambers says he "doesn't feel called upon to do anything further with the grand jury in the election caees." If the committee oi one hundred hadn't forgotten what it was organized for Chambers would feel himself called upon very loudly to do something further in these cases. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. C, French Lick The squirrel law forbids any person from killing or pursuing a squirrel with the inteution of killing it from Dec. 20 to June 1, and also makes any person violating the act liable to a fine of 2 for each squirrel so killed or destroyed, and $1 for pursuing any squirrel. The act, however, has no emergency clause and in consequence will be of little effect this year. D. W. N., Clifty, Ind.: The total number of pensions granted during the Cleveland administration was 192,070, the aggregate amount ?aid to pensioners being $2S4,730,61O.3f). The argest number of pensions granted during any previous four years wa9 under the GarneldArthur administrations 1-7,412. Under these administrations the disbursements to pensioners aggregated $::22,t32,328.64.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The News of the Week Told In Brief Paragraphs. Bill Nye has recovered. Lord Frazer, a Scotch ju rist, is dead. The duke of Buckingham is dead. The Germans have burned a Zanzibar town. The French cabinet will stake its life on the budget. The condition of the empress of Austria is serious. April 4 coal dealers will meet at Pittsbur j to fix prices. Sir John MacDonald Cameron has sailed for New York. Fx-Congressman Mahoney of New York died Wednesday. John Bright is dead. His end was painless and peaceful. The French chambers doubled the import duties on rye. The Rhode Islaud legislature passed the ballot reform bill. The continued illness of Gen. Boulanger is causing gossip. Dr. John Swinburne, the eminent surgeon, died at New York. A railway collision in China Wednesday caused many deaths. A two-year-old child was burned to death near Catlin, 111., Thursday. An unknown burglar was fatally shot by a Naperville (111.) policeman. O.N.Cloud, a railroad agent at Advance, Ind., is charged with perjury. The skeletons of two murdered men have been unearthed at Ottawa, 111. Col. W. W. Dudley is in Chattanooga, Tenn., on professional business. The flint glass trouble at Pittsburg will probably be settled early next week. Richard Iliscock, father of the senator, died at Preble, N. Y., aged ninety-one. Lord Mandeville has been declared bankrupt and will be prosecuted for perjury. Cuban cattle men will establish markets in Florida for the sale of their surplus. Mrs. Virginia Taylor has been convicted in Virginia of poisoning her husband. A large deposit of tin ore has been found in the mountains north of Langley, Tex. Admiral Sohufeldt and family have arrived in New York from Yokohama, Japan. The bill for reciprocity in wrecking was defeated in tbe Canadian senate 34 to 2o. A nationalist club similar to the Boston society has been organized in New York. L. S. Brown was captured while making counterfeit silver dollars at Minneapolis. A three-year-old chiM was accidentally burned to death near Circleville, O., last Monday. Elvin and Melvin Light were arrested at Sheldon, Ind., last week for illegal voting. Mrs. David Mc Arther committed suicide with a shotgun near White Fern, Tean., Monday. Tuesday the Holland parliament will formally act on King Willem's capacity to rule. Michael Lenkhardt and James Ryan have mysteriously disappeared from Columbus, O. Near Plummervillc, Ark., Dan Anderson (white) shot and killed Joseph Smith (colored.) The Northern Pacific people will lease the Wisconsin Central, thus retting into Chicago. John Snyder was struck by a freight train at Indianapolis and instantly killed last Thursday Alonzo Stewart was struck with a club and killed by Charles Culver, at Dunkirk, Ind., Friday. A ten-year-old boy was killed by a colored man named Smith at Morristown, Tenn., Friday. In the Gilmnre-Needham fight at Minneapolis, Minn., Needham won in the twentieth round. Ida Green, aged fourteen, perished in her grandfather's burning dwelling at Springfield, Mass. Salisbury, in the house of lords, paid a warm tribute to John Bright. Gladstone did the same. Col. Ilolliday, an expert, reporti the finding of valuable tin ore in the Pecos river country in Texas. Charles T. Blair, a lumber man of Denver, formerly of Columbus, O., suicided with morphine. Dogs are being killed by the dozen in Orange county, Ind., to prevent the spread of hydrophobia. Constable Montague of Elmore, Col., was killed while attempting to arrest some riotous cowboys. Gus Peterson, age J sixteen, was fatally shot

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by Willie Woods, aged fifteen, at Minneapolis. Accident. I William and Andrew Maurer, who reside ' near Canton, O., are charged tvith abducting their niece. George R. Spaulding, a railroad clerk at Chicago, killed himself because he was jealous of a fast woman. Margaretta, daughter of Don Cameron, and William Clark of New ark were married a Harrisburg. Gen. A. W. Jones of Youngstown, O., will . be a candidate for the republican gubernatorial nomination. John Steel, a professional horse-thief, was captured at Wabash, Ind., Friday, after an exciting chase. The dead body of Frank Fowell, badly mutilated, was found in the woods near Fair Oaks, Ya., Friday. Switzerland will fortify St. Gotbard to guard against German invasion in case of a FrancoGerman war. Thomas Keacan, who carried a pike in the Irish rebellion of 1708, died at Hollidaysburg, Fa., aged 10. An orphan asylum capable of accommodating 150 children was dedicated by southern Hebrews at Atlanta. Charles and Belle JameF, brother and sister, were arrested near Lebanon, Ind., Thursday, on a charge of incest. John Maider, a wealthy butcher of Allegheny City, suicided by cutting his throat and jumping into the canal. John Lee West, the New Orleans defaulter, was held to await the arrival of New Orleans officers in Toronto. During a Sunday quarrel in the Chelsea flats. New York, Keuben Sands stabbed and killed his brother, George. At Leavenworth, Kas., last week, Charles Gordon, a grocer, was assassinated by an unknown colored man. Charles T. Blair, a former resident of Columbus, O., suicided with morphine at Denver, Col., Thursday. Christ Cannon, coroner of Ohio county, Kentucky, was kicked by a vicious horse Friday and instantly killed. Two men were killed and two injured in a wreck on the Wabash Western railway Friday, near Queen City, Mo. Theodore Nau, a Baltimore sailor, found a cockroach in his soup and shot the colored cook, Loudon Johnson. An old man named Bennett, who tried to kill his wife last Friday, attemp'.ed to commit suicide at Rushville, Ind. At Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday, a counterfeiter named Brown was caught in the act of casting a number of coins. Mack Francis and James Turney were hanged at Lebanon, Tenn., March 27, for the murder of Len Martin in August last. A Buder county (O.) farmer named Johnson committed suicide last week, by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. Henry Gottlier, a Chicago lawyer, who is charged with forgery and perjury, was arrested at Windsor, Ont., last week. A prisoner named Patterson, who escaped from the officers at Lebanon, Ind., about a year ago, has been rearrested. William Snyder was sentenced Friday at London, ., to eighteen months' imprisonment in the penitentiary for bigamy. Richard Dowell, who committed a double murder in "West Virginia thirteen years ago, has just been captured i:i Dakota. Manager Whitman of the Northwestern road asks the western trunk lines to unite with him in a policy of general retrenchment. Fdward and Charles Stuart, brothers, were killed Thursday by the bursting of a jointer, in a shingle mill, at Hungerford, Mich. It is 6aid obstructions were found on the railway track upon the occasion of a journey of the czar acd czarina to Gatschina, A deputy U. S. marshal was waylaid and killed by "moonshiners" in Knott county, Kentucky, Friday. Three prisoners escaped. Asa Kellogg, commercial agent for the "Sunset Route," with headquarters at Cincinnati, suicided at the Southern hotel, St. Louis. The roads leading into Milwaukee have come down and will make a rate of one fare for the round trip to the G. A. R. encampment While hunting near Carlisle, Ark., recently, Alderman Samuel Weiler of Little Rock was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun. The French senate has voted itself a high, court for state trials, and the cabinet has unanimously resolved to place Boulanger on trial. John Fleming, w ho murdered the sheriff of Grant county, Ind., has been taken to Kokomo for trial. There is 6trong feeling against him. Ferdinand Vandertaelen, "the John Bright of Belgium," suicided because of enormous failures in companies in which he was interested. Two masked men entered the residence of William Huntington, near Anderson, Ind., last Thursday and took $100 in money and a silver watch. Melvin Garlitz, who killed his wife at Cumberland, Md., by ßbooting her down in the public street, has been arrested. He confessed the crime. Gen. McNnlta of the Wabash asks an early decision by the interstate commission on the legality of paying passenger ticket commissions. The five-story building at 767 W. Thirty-sixth-st., New York, owned by the New York piano-key company, burned isunday. Loss $35,000. Tom Hoffman was arrested at Vincennes, Ind., Thursday, on suspicion of burglarizing a store. The stolen property was found on his premises. i . A Chicago boy, who ia heir to a fortune of $50,000, has disappeared. It is thought that he has been abducted for the purpose of extorting a ransom. Count Iloyos, the friend of the late Crow Prince Rudolph, is reported to have killed Count lkiltizzi, the uncle of Baroness Vetzera, in a dueL The body of John Maider, a wealthy retired butcher of Allegheny City, Pa., w as found in the Allegheny river with bis throat cut from ear to ear. Miss Margueretta Brau Cameron, daughter of Senator Cameron, was married at liarrods-

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The British cabinet has decided to introduce an Irish land purchase scheme at the next session, on Chamberlain's lines, and a local government measure in 1S91. The explosion of bombs being manufactured by students at Zurich are said to have developed a gigantic plot throughout Russia to renew the attempt on the czar's life. Mrs. Mary Short, the Norwegian wife of a negro waiter of Chicago, who had just fallen heir to considerable property, was found murdered, and her husband is suspected. Nearly all the Fall River weavers were given their old looms yesterday, but about one hundred were told their places had been rilled, and these cases may cause a new strike. Heavy failures have occurred at Antwerp. Ferdinand Vandertaelen, a merchant prince, in consequence killed himself, while a banker of Geneva did the same for similar reasons. John McKeown of Washington, Pa., who, several years ago arrived at Castle Garden almost penniless, now ha9 an income of nearly 55,000 a month from his oil wells alone. At Avondale, Ala., lat week an ei?ht-year old boy found a Email dynamite cartridge. He struck it with a hammer and the explosion killed him and disfigured his sister for life. The body of the man who registered at a St. Louis hotel as S. M. Waite oi Florida, anil took poison to climax a spree, has been identified as that of a prominent churchman of St, Louis. The president has nominated Robert T. Lincoln to be minister to England, Murat Halstead to be minister to Gertrany and Thorndyke Rice to the same position at St. Petersburg. Jed Tritchett, colored, was hanged at Danville, Va., Friday, for outraging the person of a little white girl. He fought desperately, and the services ot four deputies were required to execute him. A dispatch from Auckland states that three American and three German men-of-wnr were wrecked on a reef during a storm at Samoa, and over a hundred men of the crews and a score of officers drowned. Senator Pryor Carter and Mrs. Cordelia Jordan were married in the Tennessee senate chamber March 27 in the presence of both houses of the general assembly. The ceremony was performed by Gov. Taylor. Maggie Isette, a fourteen-year-old school girl of Fort Wayne, recently married her cousin, aged forty. She says that he promsed to get her some pretty dresses and take good care of her if she would marry him. A man entered a bank at Denver Colo., Friday about noon, armed with a revolver, and compelled the president to make out a check for $21,0!0, go to the cashier and get it cashed and hand the money to him. He got the money and escaped. Over 1,000.000 bottles of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup are sold every season, and thousands of persons are saved from an untimely grave. The price is 25 cents. When Baby wa sick, w gave er CaMoria When ahe was a Child, she cried for Casioria, Wha abe became Kiaa, ab etang to Caototia Tfha ab had duUrea, she gave them Catoria The Stomach Distils Acids. These, if existent in a natnrml quantity, ini anTitiated by bile, play their part in the functions ot digestion and assimilation. But the artificial acid resulting from the inability of the stomach to convert food received by it into sustenance, is the producer of flatulence and heartburn, which are the most harassing symptoms of dyspepsia. The best carminative is llostetter's Stomach Bitters. Fir more effective is it than carbonate of soda, magnesia or other alkaline salts. These invariably weaken the stomach without producing iermanent benefit. No man or woman chronically dyspeptic, and consequently nervous, can be in possession of the full measure of vigor allowed by nature. Therefore, invigorate and regulate the ystem, and by so doing ptotect it from malaria, rheumatism and other serious maladies. An Estey buy, An' bye and bye, "By Estey" thou abide. 'tß d true Att; i faith, it cutteth only those who oppose it. The Estey Organs are builded for j the longtime future. Tis " not that thou art paying for thy music by the year ! 'Zounds, man, thouYt discharging at once the score of thine entertainment for a dozen years. An thou buy from Brattleboro, Vt., an Estey Organ, 'tis a question of wear; an' thou buy other ware elsewhere beware..

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