Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY; MAY 8, 1889

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL LEntared at the Fot office at Indianapolis at eecon JclaM matter. .

TERMS FEU YEABt F!ag1 py 81 00 We a.-k democrats to bear in mini nd select their cg state paper "hen they corns to take subscriptions and make up clubs. Agents making np clubs send for any Information deaired. Addesa INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY. MAY 8. Cleveland and IH'.)'2. The Xew York World, which haa not been friendly to Mr. Cleveland for some time, says that he has, "under certain conditions, a fair prospect of being the democratic nominee for president in 1892." It adds : Even more completely than before, Mr. Cleveland's opportunity lies in the lack of conspicuous democratic leaders of national reputation. His strength comes from the graveyard of democratic statesmen. TlLDEN", Seymour, Hendricks, McClellan and Hancock are pone. TiirRMAX is too old. No democratic member of the last congress lifted himself into sufficient prominence to fill the public eye. The only democratic cabinet in twenty-five years was a Might unon budding statesmen. Gov. Hill is by far the strongest man in this pivotal state, but his popularity iu other sections remain to be tested. If Mr. Cleveland can and will make himaelf the exponent and champion of the real ideas and trne principles of reform reform in politics, reform in administration, reform in ezislation, reform in justice his nomination nid be piite possible, and he would bare a vigorous supporter in the World. And ajrain: If Mr. Cleveland should attack with all his vigor the overshadowing evil f purchased flections, the control of politics and government by the money power if he should lead the battle against trusts grasping corporations and greedy millionaires as he led the fatally delayed fight for tariiF reform he might recover his lost chance. The democratic party needs a champion of hsllot reform, strong enough to bring it int; line with the popular demand for free and honest elections. It need a leader who will condemn and do hi best to top the corrupt use of money by both parties. The democratic party is an anti-plutocrat, anti-privileged-class, anti-overtaxation, anti-bribery party. It wants a vigorous leadership in the line of i principles. And it supremely needs it. If Grover Cleveland can meet this demand his opportunity i before him. The World concludes its article with the significant words: "Mr. Cleveland undoubtedly anain a possibility." The New York Times, in a well considered leader, says: The personality of Mr. Cleveland in the politics of this country seems likely to become more and more magnified to the view as the events in which he was the central figure recede into the past lie embodied for the time the reform tendency not only of his party but of the politics of the country. It seems to be a question, now that he ha retired from the stage et official and political activity, whether there is to he a reaction that will put an end for an indefinite, time to the forward movement of political and administrative reform. Tbe Thug further declares that It was never truer than at present that the real opportunity of the democratic party lies in the policy cf reform. It has the advantage of an impregnable position on the leading economic questions in our public life. The fact that the repnblieans are a;:ain in power, and are reverting unreservedly to the typten of po!!s which is sure to .breed dissatisfactiou with the public service and dissension in the party, give the democratic party a new opportunity to win support by taking up with renewed vigor the cauce of political and administrative prcgress. Both the World and the Tiuus are era rha'Vally right in their assertion that the opportunity of the democratic party lies in a policy of reform and progress. And with euch a policy the name of Gkovek Cleveland is thoroushly identified. Hut we are of the opinion that a discussion of the personality of the democratic ticket of 192 is premature at this time. A preatdeal may occur between now and then. Men of whom the country knows little now may come to 6!1 a large place in the public eye durinjr the next two or three years. J.et the democratic and independent press devote its ability and energies to the dissemination of sound principle of government for the next three years and defer the discussion of the merits or availability of individuals until such discussion becomes pertinent and profitable. Protection ami the Thread-Makers. We have already called attention to the recent reduction of wajres by the Clark thread company of Newark, N. J. We learn from the New York Tinut that about two weeks before the presidential election the company professed to be greatly alarmed at the prospect of a democratic victory, and on Oct. posted in its factories a notice that until further orders the mills would be closed all day on Saturdays and at 4 o'clock on all other working days. The officers explained that this action was caused by the Mills bill which could not become a law eo lone as the republicans control the senate. Similar action was taken at this time by the other thread manufacturers who were in the combination or trust with the Clark people. The manufacturersof spool cotton thread tr? protected by a tariff duty of 14 cents per dozen spools of 'JOO yards each, which Tvas equivalent in the last fiscal year to an ad valorem duty of 57 per cent. The Mills bill cut this duty to 40 per cent. The senate bili left it unchanged. It is naid that pome of the employes of the Clark company were threatened with a reduction of wages if they voted for Cleveland. But Cleveland was not elected, the tariff was not reduced, and will not be for years to come, and yet their wages were reduced allee sameo!" We wonder what thef-e thread-makers really think about the beauties of a high tariff in the light of their recent experiences. The Galled Jade AVinces. In Bishop Potter's centennial address at St. Paul's church in New York were eorae passages which have given great offen to President Harrisov and some of bis ofiicial associates. The eool biehop contrasted the tone of public life to-day with what it was a hundred years ago ; upoke impressively of the potency of money in our politics, and warned his auditors that when public offices were bestowed in consideration of the wealth cf the recipients and their expenditures for party purposes the situation was alarming. Among those who heard the bishop's address were President Harrison, Vice-President Morton, P. M.-Gen. "Wanamaker, Secy. Proctor and other products of boodle politics. It goes without saying that they were not pleased. Ir. McArthur, a republican parson of Jfew York, expresses the administration Tiew: It is surpnsirz that on such an occasion lanpuage should have been used which must be interpreted as reflecting upon President Harrison and his administration. When bespoke of what he called "practical politics," and compared the existing methods with those which the- first president would have employed, it la

difficult to see what ha meant if not an emphatic condemnation of the supposed practices of the present administration. It is the galled jado that wincca. Bishop Potter made no application of his remarks. They were purely impersonal. Why did Harrison, Morton, Wanamaker et al. apply them eo promptly? Is not their displeasure at Bishop Potter's eminently sound reflections tantamount to a plea of guilty to all that has been charged as to the origin and practices of the administration of many prayers ? Sonic Interesting Figures. The New York Commercial Bulletin makes Borne interesting comparisons between the material conditions of the country to-day and those of a hundred years ago. The population of Now York is more than half that of the entire nation in 1780. The monthly commerce of the metropolis exceeds the aggregate annual commerce of the w hole country then. For the first year of constitutional povernment the foreign commerce of the United States showed imports of f-.'.OO),-OX) and exports SiUO-WKO. For the past year the imports of the United States havo been $7X5..Vm.OOO, and the exports f 713,50O,U0O. In 17M flour led the list of exports, tobacco, rice, w heat and corn followin? in the order named. These were the only items exceeding 1,000,000. The export of cotton amounted to only $"$, 40. The tonnage entering our seaports in 17f0 was 7. 1,700 tons; in 1SS0 it was 13, 500mO. Of the aggregate for 17S0 102,000 tons were American and but 2Jt,000 British. Last year 7,10,000 tons were British and but 2,70,000 tons American. A comparison of the merchant marine of the United States on Dec. 31, 17St, and on June : 1SS7, in tons, divided according to employment, is as follows: Foreign. Coastwis-i. Fisheries. Total. 9KUi 2.K-J.217 10',. 4,10.41 The shipbuilding of 1780 was estimated at 1000 tons, of 1703 at :2,Mk tons, and of 1S3 at 218,000 tons. During the first year of constitutional government the population was considerably less than 4,CiX.00O, compared to alout 03,000,000 at the expiration of the century. The federal revenues for the first year were less than 51,0(ii), on, and for the last year more than SL';v.0Co,oiK). The public debt at the close of the Revolutionary war approximated ?75.O00.00O, representing several times the amount of specie in the country. The debt is now more than $l,U00,flW,000, equaled by the immense stock of gold and silver in circulation and in treasury vault. In 1780 our banking interests were in embryo. Some years later the entire investment in banking enterprises was but $10,000.000. Our national banks alone now have a capital of $300,0tX,000, and our savings banks have resources of double that amount. All of which, perhaps, affords occasion for congratulation. But there is cause for perious concern in the fact that our wealth, though multiplied many fold, is less equitably distributed now than it was then. Of what benefit is it to the people that there should be enormous accumulation of capital, if they are concentrated in few hands, instead of being generally diffused? Cleveland And Hill. T.'ie Brooklyn Kinjlr, an able and very conservative democratic journal, discussing the democratic presidential possibilities of 1S'2, reaches the conclusion that the nominee will bo either Clkvf.land or Hill. It recognizes the fact that there is already a very pronounced Cleveland sentiment generally diffused throughout the country, and believes it is likely to grow as the delinquencies of President Harrison's administration intensify popular appreciation of tho excellent administration from 18$5 to 10. The ';.'? very wisely says: The democratic nominee, whether Cleveland or Hill, will have to be a tariff" reformer, lie will have to le an opponent of trusts. He will have to be an enemy of political deals. He will have to be a real friend of civil service reform, lie will have to be the exemplar of fruf tl, industrious, bard-working administration, fe will have to be a man who will appeal to questions larger than these defined by the bounds of a community or a state. He will have to; be a man who will r.ot be offensive to the rising public demand for honest voting, for the extirpation of the boodle from politics and of the boodlers from ofüce and management. He will have to be a man, in the independence, vigor and essential morality of whose intellect the party will have confidence, even more than in nis shrewdness, adroitness and political skill. He will have to be a man who will personify many of the things w hich the nation wants earnestly to have done, and who will be, as far as possible, divorced in the general mind from time serving and finesse a man to put the national democracy on the winning tide of right questions and to make it the instrument of good government among men. Gov. Hill's friends insist that he can, when properly construed and understood, satisfy and measure up to these requirements. That Mr. Cleveland already measures np to many of them is not to be disputed. HGov. Hill measures up to this standard, we fear that he is not "properly construed and understood" in this part of the country. Perhaps if we knew Gov. Hill better we should rate him higher. There will doubtless, however, be many opportunities to get better acquainted with him during the next three years. Meantime, Mr. Cleveland will not be lost sight of.

The South Bend Timet says : If Baxdall's critics would stndy his speeches and his announced views on the tariff they would find that they difiered but little, if any, with the old democratic leaders. He ha expressed himself in favor of basing the amount of tariff levied at the difference in cost of articles manufactured in this country and Europe, or rather on the diderence in wages. li a nd all's tariff speeches are very good. It is his tariff votes that arc wrong. Ho talks tarifr reform and votes against it every time he gets a chance. He professes to be in favor of a tariff only sufficient to compensate for the difference ietveen the cost of articles) manufactured in this country and in Europe, but he votes against a reduction of the tariff which leave the manufacturers of our most important commodities protected to an amount greater than the entire Mtor cot of tlow artivlet cither htrt or ahroad. Kandall talks democratic on the tariUquestion, but he always votes republican, and .not only votes republican but co-operates actively with the republicans on all lariff matters. For that reason Mr. Randall has forfeited the confidence of the great masses of the democratic party. The reports from Oklahoma are not reassuring. Of those who have gone thither in expectation of making a fortune, only a very few are likely to realize their Iiodcb, and they are of the class who will "make money anywhere." Ninety-nine out of every hundred will be cruelly disappointed. Even of those who had only the modest ambition to obtain a piece of land

that would yield them a e.upport,comparatively few will succeed in their object According to the best evidence,tnore than half cf the land is of very poor quality utterly unfit, in short, for anything but grazing. The opportunities for making much money in Oklahoma, for the presvsent, are certainly very few. Upon the whole, Oklahoma appears to be a good place to stay away from. President Harrison is said tobe disgruntled because Mr. Cleveland received more applause in New York City on centennial day than he did. We do not quite understand why Mr. Harrison t hould have expected a very hearty popular reception in New York, He has done absolutely nothing since he became president to commend himself to popular favor. He has devoted his whole time to peddling out the patronage, and a sorry mess he has made of it. He has squarely repudiated every pledge touching the public service made by his party and himself during the last campaign, and has done everything in bis power to degrade the standard of efficiency and morality in every department of the government. The people of New York respect the olfice Mr. Hai:ion fills, and showed that respect in all proper ways on centennial day. But in Mr. H arrison personally they see little to admire or respect, while Grover Cleveland typifies to them all that is best in American manhood, and in the political thought and tendencies of the time. Gkovkk Cleveland in private life is a much more commanding figure than Benjamin IlARKrsox in the white house; and it is not strange that the latter should be cast down by discovering the public appreciation of this fact. The rural republican press, taking the cue from the Journal, is devoting much space to rejoicings over Boodler Carpenter's "triumphant vindication" in Judge Woods' alleged court. These mendacious orpans are telling their readers that there was no evidence whatever against Caktenter. his innocence being so clearly established that the jury acquitted him without leaving the box. Perhaps the benighted partisan editors of these sheets are not so much at fault, in view of the statements made by the Journal and the Comwsreiol GazetL'', to which latter sheet that picturesque liar, "W. H. S.," telegraphed that The Sentinel conceded Carpenter's innocence. Yet their deliverances seem very absurd in view of the fact that the proof of Carpenter's moral guilt was absolutely overwhelming; that Carpenter confessed to the practice of bribery in tho late campaign, and that he was acquitted on the sole ground that although he had bought votes for himself, he had bought none for a congressional candidate, and was therefore not amenable to the federal law. These are the facts, and they are enough to damn S. J. Carpenter and the newspapers which defend him in the estimation of every honest man of whatever party. John I Griffiths delivered the centennial oration at Kokomo. It was of course an eloquent effort, for Mr. Griffiths is a professional orator. But we are surprised to learn, from our brilliant contemporary, the Kokomo llpotch, that Mr. Griffiths, in enumerating the great men of the con-etitution-makinir epoch, failed to mention either James Mapisox or Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Mapisox was, in a larger senso than any other person, the father of tho constitution. The impress of his mind is on nearly every line in that instrument. To Thomas Jekflt.son we are indebted for the fact that tho United States it a republic and not a monarchy. He was not a member of the constitutional convention, but his influence was paramount iu that body. Madison, its leading spirit, was his pupil in the science of government, and it was under the inspiration of Jefferson's teachings that he wrought. And yet Mr. Griffiths, in an oration upon the centennial of constitutional government in the United States, tells his hearers about Jamem Oris and Fisher Ames and says nothing of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison! It seems almost incredible that partisanism should go 60 far.

The western farmers who voted for Harrison, protection and a home-market will be interested to know that a bill is pending in the Massachusetts letrislaturo to prohibit safe deposit, loan and trust companies from investing their funds in western farm mortgages. Evidently the smart Massachusetts Yankees do not consider agriculture in the West to be as prosperous as it was represented by the republican orators in the recent campaign. The western farms are carrying about all the mortgages they can stand, and the Massachusetts money-lenders know iL In a few years, the way matters are drifting now, there will be a general foreclo sure, and the majority of our western farms will pass into the bands of the Yankees, while their former owners or their descendants will till them as tenants. That's what "protection to American industry" is bringing us to. Sect. Johnson, of the state board of charities, has been investigating the condition of the northern prison, and finds it as satisfactory as could be expected under the present ej stem. This system, as The Sentinel has repeatedly said, is about fifty years behind tho times, but Warden Mirdock and Lis assistant are not responsible for that. Their management of the prison is humane and efficient, and the results obtained are all that can be hoped for until our penal system is thoroughly reformed. This will be one of the principal duties of the next legislature. . Missouri has adopted the Australian system of elections, her new law being modeled upon the Andrews law, passed in this state last spring. Democratic legislatures all over the country are passing stringent election laws. Republican legislatures, on the contrary, are refusing to take a single step in the direction of ballot reform. This strikingly illustrates the difference in the spirit and tendencies of the two great parties. President Harrison's appointment of his brother to a fat office in Tennessee is eminently characteristic. The Grant idea that the patronage is a personal perquisite of the president has full possession of this administration. Very few of the county boards of education appear to have fallen into the traps set for them by the school book trust. At most of tho meetings held last Wednesday (so far as they have been reported) the new law was indorsed and a very cold

shoulder turned to the Cincinnati pirates. They would better yield to the inevitable without further ado. They have had their day in Indiana. The school book monopoly will soon be a thing of - the past in this state. TnE removal of competent and faithful old soldiers from places in the federal buildinjr to make room for republican ward-hustlers of unsavory reputation is a specimen of civil service reform as she is practiced under the administration of many prayers. Under the administration of "Reformer" Wallace, the Indianapolis postoflico is being made an asylum for the worst political bummers, heelers and dead-beats in the community. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Teacher, Morristown, Ind: The new law provides that any person who has taught for six consecutive years in the common schools and now holds a two years' license, or who, having previously taught for six consecutive years in such schools, shall hereafter obtain a two years' license, shall be forever afterward exempt from examination, so long as he or she shall teach in the common schools of the county in which this license was obtained. If such person albws a year to pas by without teaching one full sehool year in the county, the exemption ceases; and if such person, during such exemption, seeks employment to teach other branches than those included in the examination upon which tha license was issued, he or she shall undergo examination in such additional branches. . W. P. S., Siberia, Ind.: Township trustees now in office hold only for the tiTin for which they were elected. A trustee will be elected in every township in the state next April, who will hold his olfice for four years, and be ineligible for re-election until n full term of four years has intervened. At the election next spring trustees who have served but two years will be eligible for re-election; those who have held the office for two ennsecutive terms will not be eligible. Patron, city : (l.'i The net surplus in the U. S. treasury April 1 was ?34,00.sr"?.Sl. (2.) The status of the denf and dumb and blind asylum boards it uncertain. Suit has been begun to compel the governor to issue commissions to the leaf and dumb asylum tnmces. A Constant Reaper: The decision in the t-lcphone caes was by the I. S. circuit court, in Illinois, and not by the lT. S. supreme court and sustained the Hell patents as against the claims of the companies manufacturing and operating the Cushman telephone. WILLIAM Filtz. Crothersi!le, Ind: The new squirrel law will not be in force until the governor's proclamation is issued announcing that the laws of the last session havetaken efiect Edward Barrett, PlainfieM, Ind.: Lawrence Barrett, the actor, was originally Lawrence Brannigan, hut he abandoned the latter name on the threshold of his stage career. Enqciker, city: The total cash in the treasury (including bullion) March 1, just before the new administration was inducted into power, was $1'7,01S,51 $.?. Regelar Reaper, city: The Hon. W. H. Enelish monument ia Crown hill is fifty feet high. THE SCHOOL-BOOK LAW. Its Faithful Execution Demanded Tty the People. IFeople's Friend. The school-book trnst is evidently going to hold on to the monoply as long as there Is the faintest hope of selling a book. They are sending out circulars to all the dealers throuchout the state, telling them there is no probability tliat the hw will be enforce. 1 for a year; also that the bill was not signed by the governor, leaving the inference that tho lnxr was illegal. It is true that the governor did not sign the bill, but it is a law, all the same, and will be enforced, if those intrusted with its execution do their duty. Let the Mite board do this duty at once, that rvr children may have the benefit of the cheap books of the coming year. , H Columbus Heralil.) W. A. Pell, of the S-hoof Jonrnnf, comes to the nid of Van Antwerp. Itragg fe Co., the school-book monopolists, by an argument intended to discredit the school-book law. As in the outset of LN criticism he makes a misstatement as to the law, it may be presumed tliRt he, like liov. Ilovfy in other caics, hn failed to read the law. He show a good deal more zeal in his criticism lhau knowledze of the law. Hence his opinion as to its workings and eflVcts wiil have little weight. It i a questionable judgment that has prompted him to take up the ended in favor of the schoolbook monopoly. A jrreat many people will charge more weighty reasons f-r his act than a questionable judgment. Lajmri Aren. The odious school book trust dies very hard, and its hired attorneys and paid newspaper organs are doing some vigorous lying about the new law. These organs are making a record that will return to plague them before they get through with this matter. The trut-t owns a few officials and one or two leading newspapers which it hus bought and paid for. and relies upon many others to follow these lile leaders Many of them are doing it, but the people have been robbed too many year3 by the old combination not to be willing to give a fair trial to any law designed to break up that steal and furnish books ut reasonable Yates. . Transport Thiros. Tf tho fcchool-book law proves a success it will rise over opposition that seems well nigh insurmountable. The hired servants of Schoolbook trusts are many, are well paid, ami some of them are serving two masters. Nearly everybody connected with the schools of the state is in some way or another under obligations to Van Antwerp, lragg& Co. This firm has various ways of bribing school officials. It finds this the cheapest way to strengthen the serpentine coils of the giant trust, and the easiest and surest way of preying upon the helpk-M purchaser of school supplier. Delphi limes. The school-book trust, that has co.t the people of this state millions of dollars, hates to let go of its grip on the purse-strings f the people and is trying in every way, through its purchased newspapers, to convince the people that the new law is a failure, but its etlorts are useless and will not avail, for the people have lcen bled too often and too long by this monopoly on education, and the new law will get a fair trial in spite of this paid opposition. Peru Sentinel It is just a little singular why the school book law, passed by the last general assembly, by which the people of this state were saved more than two million dollars, finds its only oppobltion in a few republican papers of the state. There certainly can be nothing political in it, and it would be very gratifying to the general public to know w hy they take a position in opposition to the people and in favor of the school book monopoly. Marion Chrouicle.f Every scheme known to the hired servants of Van Antwerp, Rnigg fc Co., and other ring publishers will be resorted to to prevent the school-book law from going into etiect. Every book submitted as a substitute will be ridiculed and lied about. The school-book trust is not yet burst. It will miike one more united effort, and, if successful, the people will be "downed" instead of the trust. Mimcie Herald. J Editor W. A. Reil of the Srhool Journal at Indianapolis has given an opinion as to the possibilities, probabilities and uncertainties of the new school book law. The article lipon its face is rotten to the core and is an insult to the people of Indiana. Mr. liell is evidently a friend of the school book monopolists, and hid arguments in their favor are not only mean, but really silly. . Angda HeraM. The school book law will demonstrate fo the people of Indiana what a curse a book monopoly iias been to them. A book that formerly cost $1 can be had for . cents under the new law. This demonstrates the fact that the peofle have been paying twice as much as the ooks were worth and this extra money went directly into the pockets of the book monopolyKokomo Dispatch. I The people will not submit to be trampled upon by the school book monopoly any longer. Public sentiment in enormously opposed to the octopus, ami it will b nn evil day for him who attempts to defeat the execution of the aati-trust law.

"MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Newa of the Week Told In Brief Para, graphs. Missouri has adopted the Australian system of voting. Four persons were poisoned by canned corn at Pittsburg. Mrs. Nat Goodwin, wife of the comedian, is ill iu Chicago. James Gordon, whipped by White Caps at Anna, 111., is dead. The high license bill has failed to pass the Missouri legislature. Heavy frot have killed the fruit in portions of northern Indiana. The Washington Sunday Gatctle will be sold at auction Thursday. J. Pardee Chapman, aged sixty-six, committed suicide at New. York. A saloon at Kewtonville, Ind., was blown up with powder last week. Mrs. Nat Hood win, wife of the comedian, ia seriously ill in Chicago. Three miners were killed by a fall of coal at fscranton, Fa., last week. The Kentucky fteble-mindei institute at Frankfort buried Friday. Four children were burned to death at Abbiugton, Md., last Friday. Melvin C. Garlitz, was convicted of wifemurder at Cumberland, Md. Irving Latimer is on trial at JackBon, Mich., for the murder of his mother. CinciLnati capitalists will erect a large ccttou factory as Huntsville, Ala. Three business blocks in Foreston, 111., burned Friday. Loss, FJ-VW-There are five banks and six newspapers in operation in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Lucien Beall tell from a train at Wheeling, . Va., Saturday, and was killed. The Dutch parliament has unaniuioasly resolved to restore the king's powers. Two men were fatally jniured bv a fulling building at. Lowell. Mass., Thursday. The ceremonies of opening the French exposition occurred Sunday and "Monday. Y hite caps demolished a saloon at Raws-on, Hancock county, Ohio, last Thursday. About eight hundred railroad coal miners in the vicinity of Pittsburg are on a btrike. The Missouri anti-trust bill is in the hands of Gov. Francis, who will probably sign it. A subterranean waterway has been discovered iu a quarry near Harttord City, Ind. The miners of the Pittsburg district have demanded a yearly rate of 7-1 cents per ton. The miners in the Brazil (Ind.) district rejected the operators' ofier for a mining scale. A high liecDi. bill, fixing the fee at $2,. "00, has hct n defeated by the Missouri legislature. All Sunday trains will be taken oil the Dakota division of the Chicago ct Northwestern. A mail stage was robbed by masked highwny men near Eureka Springs:, Ark., Iii6t Saturday A deaf mute named Kneibert of Ludlow, Ky:, was robbed of jM on a railroad train Saturday. Verg Dohson shot and killed his son-in-law. Lucien Floyd, near Nashville, Tenn., Saturdas, Lott.i, the actress, was suddenly taken ill Saturday while acting m "Musette" at Laston, Pa. Paul A. Metcalf, a native of Sandusky, O., committed suicide at Somerrille, Mass., Thursday. Vesuvius has broken ont with great violence. Streams of lava are flowing down the Pompeii side. Joseph norsefelder. a commercial traveler, suicided at Memphis, Teon., Friday, with morphine. The liberation of Malietoa by Germany is considered to signify his reinstatement as king of Samoa. At Maror.ette. Mich., Andrew Gregour shot anil killed his wife and attempted to commit 6uieide. Hush Cunningham was shot and killed at Greenville, Miss., Saturday, by a negro named Weston. The release of William 0Trien and Timothy Harrington has. betu oniered. The grounds are not staled. Fire damaged the soap and candle factory of SehaelTer Bros, k Powell at St. Louis Saturday. Loss, j7ö,0u. The Sr. Faul street car strike bjvs been declared otithe strikers returning to work at reduced wages. About seven hundred quarrymen in the various quarries near Joilet, ill., have truek for higher wages. The California Athletic club ba arranged a match between Leblanc and Mike Lucie of Boston for May 2S. A colored policeman named Collier was killed by a barkeeper named Kelly Saturday at Greenville, Miss. Five thousand miner are on a strike in the Frazil (Ind.) district on account of a disagreement over the scale. It is stated that the French election will be postponed until next year, to avoid a eontest ith the Houlangists. John Gullen shot his wife and then himself nt Albany, X. Y., Thursday. Both will die. Jealousy was the cause. At Morrilton, Ark., an attempt was made by O. B. Bently, a politician, to assassinate exSherill Harry Coblentz. Michael UizilLiro, one of the murderers of McChire, the raymnster, near Wilkcsbarre, Pa., wiil be hanged June -.3. Advices by steamer recount the building of railways in Japan, and the establishment of electric aud other plants. Samuel Coflman, a wealthy farmer of Fayette county, Ohio, was swindled out of $yi-0 by bunko men last week. A man, susposed from papers on bis person to be John Kiehl, was killed by cars near Columbus, O., last Thursday. A party of eastern capitalists will expend jrö.iM) exploring for natural yjas in Starke and Marshall counties, Indiana, At Lykens, Pa., an Englishman named Ware shot and killed two persons named John and Miller over a game of card. The Indians are taking lanl in severalty in the Sioux reservation and w ill sign the treaty when the commission arrives. Capt. Murrell, of the steamship Missouri, has been presented with a gold medal by the grand lodge of masons of Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Leonard of Brooklyn pave a dinner to Mrs. Harrison last Friday. Covers were laid for twenty-two. Prof. H. F. Matchett of Galena was assas einated by George W. Skeene, whom he had forbidden to visit Miss Matchett. About three thousand letters and one- thousand newspapers are delivered daily from the postofiice at Guthrie, Oklahoma. At Cohoes, N. Y., Mrs. Dunn was murdered by her husband. Dunn was arrested, The motive for the crime is unknown. An Iowa farmer named Barker was swindled out of J-.OOO Saturday by three confidence men who purported to be land buyers. A number of men, charged with robbing cars belonging to the I'nion Pacific railroad, were arrested recently in Montana. There is a general strike of the building trades in Pittsburg for an average advance of 25 cents per day aud union workmen. A committee of the l S. senate, appointed to investigate this country's relations with Canaiia, is en route to San Francisco. Briscoe B. Bouldin, a deputy collector of internal revenue in Virginia, was shot and fatally wounded by a "moonshiner" Saturday. Consul-General Waller was given a farewell banquet last week in London, marked by the distinguished character of those present. Elmer Sharkey, who murdered his aged mother near Eaton. ()., last January, was found guilty of mur ler ia the first degree. While the Tether was at work and the mother at market a house at Ashtabula, O., caught lire and three children were fatally burned. A two-horse eoach was struck by a train at a crossing, near Philadelphia. Two of the occupants were killed and seven others injured. Four fine residences in Springfield, Mo., burned Friday. An infant child of J. M. KinBey was burned to death in one of the houses. The king of Holland has notified the duke of Nassau, lately made regent of Luxemburg, that be will resume the government of the duchy. The body of Charles Rice, who committed suicide in the Ohio penitentiary, lias been turned over to a medical society for dissection. ThcKentucky institute for feeble-minded children, located at Frankfort, was totally destroyed by fire on the 3d inst. No lives w ere lost. In the Hawes murder trial at Birmingham, Ala., tlie jury found the defendant guilty of mnrderia the first degree, and recommended hanging. At Huron, Dak., E. M. Thomas, an honorbly discharged I'nion soldier, has caused proceedings in mandamus to be instituted against tne board of county commissioners to show cause w by he Bhould not be appointed auditor

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For ITou-e. Barn. and all out-buildings. Anybody can put it on. PRICE LOW. v,.'."SKn';w't write for .Sample and book. ..v.u.- . . , ,.i u fj. vmnitv!vfTii, now to save rehfncMtic, stop lesfcs effect .:!! anl itrulars free if you mention this paper. INIdAXA F of the county under the law which requires preference to be given Fnioa soldiers in appointments to oliice. A telegraph operator was killed by lightning during a storm in Walker county. Alabama, while he w as at his instrument sending a n;sage. Mrs. Josie Gurley was sentenced, at Chicago last Thursday, to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary for kidnaping a girl named lledmond. A tramp camped out in a field near Xenia, O., and built a fire to sleep by. The wind blew the fire into his clothing, and he was badly burned. Receipts of cotton al Memphis, Tenn., since Sept. 1 to date a'.'irregate Tti'.-'Ol bales, exceeding by G6,l'i'3 bales the entire receipts tor the previous year. The new military post near Atlanta, Ga., will be known as "Ft. McFherson," in honor of Gen. James B. McPherson, who was killed near the site iu 1S31. The postmaster at Nash. Minn., has been arrested on a charge of selling stamps at a discount and reporting them to the department as canceled by him. Secy. Proctor and suite arc ia Chicago on a tour of inspection of western military posts. This is Adjt.-Gen. Drum's last tour, as he w ill shortly be retired. A rejii-,uion has been issued by the governor of Ohio upon the tryvernor of Missouri for the extradition of Webster Jackson, who is wanted iu Ohio for horse-stealing. A vendetta cxii-ts at Vernon, La., growing out of the kiliinrr by regulators of A. D. Lylcs, a desperado. The papers and people have aken sides, and trouble is feared. At Blair, Ia., a man named Melwick shot his wife and two children last Friday, set lire to his residence and burned the bodies of his vi tims with it and then shot himself. Two female bicyclists w ere seriously injured at Wheeling, W. Va., last Friday. The electrio lights went out while thy were riding a close and exciting heat in a sixty-hour race. Arrangements have been made whereby a series of seventy-five concerts will be giveu in the leading cit.es of America by Gounod, the great composer, who has agreed to lead an orchestra of eighty persons. Explosives have been discoverel at Cronstartt, which, it is declared, were intended for attempts upon tnc czar's life, and the Siberian railway scheme has been approved by the committee to which it was referred. The progress f matters before the Samoan conference is pleasing to the English and American members. It is stated that England favors the I'nited Mates instead ot' Germany, as it was expected i-he would do. Four men took Jake Zenholt from his room at Crookfton, Minn., last Thursday, and. having bound and gagged him, beat him unmercifully. Then lie was taken to the outskirts of the town and tarred and feathered, a rope was placed around his neck and he was dragced a mile and left for dead. He recovered, informed the police, and his assailants were arrested. Near Chattanooga, Tenn., last Thursday, Richard Southard, aged sixty-five, asked Minnie Harper, agel eighteen, to marry him. She refused, and he leveled a revolver at her bend and compelled her to follow him to the woo Is, where be kept her until night, when she was rescued by relatives. The girl says that at the time of her rescue they were ou their way to the city to be married. A Twil gltt Lullaby, Htish a-ly ray pretty baf'j-. Von were busy all the jy, Kis-inr;, tooinj, smiling, sinin g Tired, tire.1 out with play, fee the birdies anil tb flowers WoiidVr why you are not glad; Thr' the tend, r twilight hours They are sorry when you're sad. Silvery stars are shyly shining. Mirrored in the dews that fall, Ami the honeysuckles twining. AVrcatbe with love the crumbling wall. 'Round the lilies softly gleaming, 1'ainH the rippling waters bright, And the perfumed zephyrs streaming, (dad theory of the niht. ron the purple bills of heaTcn Augel r yes their vigils k'-ep. Radinnt guardian spirit given To watch o'er you in your oleep. Slumber, then, my darling t aby, Sweetly on your mother's biva? t. Love will thifM from harrj my baby. Seraphs guard your infant rest. In the morning when the sun shitis Hirds acd flowers will wake to joy Once a;:ain to siDg und blossom For Eugene, usy baby boy. Chicago. f Alice Mat Quinx. Cleveland and Harrison. H. Louis Republic In its reverent tone and solemn regard for the obligations of public otficc, Mr. Cleveland's speech at the centennial banquet at New York bore a striking resemblance to the inaugural address of President Washington delivered in the same city jut 100 years previously. On the other hand, President Harrison's address at the same banquet was pitifully unequal to the demands of the occasion, being thin, fiat and commonplace, and with that touch of selfconscious egotism which has come to be recognized as the mark of Harrisonian authorship. The excuse that be did not know before seating himself at the table the sentiment be was expected to respond to is probably an evasion. If it was not notified to him by the banquet committee, he could easily have learned it by inquiry, and he certainly knew his presence at the banquet meant a speech of some kind. If, under these circumstances, he went to the banquet entirely unprepared, as be pretends, it was an afiront to his hosts and fellow guests and the people of the United States whom he represents. If he went prepared, it illustrates his foltv in allow ingeven a prepared speech to go forth to the public, as delivered, without Kiving ?cey. llaltord the opportunity of editing it. Mr. Miller Is Not Popular. Washiutoti S-jiocial. Among the most unsatisfactory of all the cabinet appointments made by President Harrison is Law Partner Miller. He is indiiTerent to all visitors to the department, not merely to the idly curiottt, but to public men who are entitled to and accustomed to receive attention. This has become very marked of late and the reason is said to be that the attorney general has had intimations that lead him to expect the appointment of associate justice of the supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Stanley Matthews. The appointment will not be made until congress meet next fall, bat Mr. Miller expects it to come to him, and he doesn't propose to waste any sweetness on a job w hich is of such little importance by comparison with his prospective position. Atty.-Gen. Miller's coldness is particularly noticeable, because under Mr. liarland the department of justice was the most hospitable institution in Washington. Words of Good Cheer. Mr. W. II. Ashton of Bloomington, 111., writes Tiik Sentinel: "The democrats of these United States are under obligations to the democrats of the state of Indiana for the noble work they are doing in exposing the corrupt practices of the grand old republican party, and in the noble eüort they have made to reform the methods of conducting our elections. I w ish you God-speed, and to the democrats of the United States I say: 'Go ye and do likewhe.' "

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rbfupir In roofs of all klnle. or la new roofs. Pai - - ....... r - . i . . J AIM AD i;OUriJ KA'., inaiaf.iaj.ou, du. IT WAS ONE GRAND DKÜSK. THE NEW YORK CENTENNIAL BALL. Scenes In the Supper ltoom Were Such m Csnnoi be Iecrlbd In I wpaper The French Kail Oat rivaled A ll'g Executive Failure. New Yor.K, May 2. The Won't says: Now that the ceiitenniil ball is over, people who paid from 10 to cpiece to participate in it, and whose fun was represented by the fgnre "L," are taking out the balance in criticism. The tongues of the ball-goers were b!l tered. with fault-finding yesterday. On all sides it was conceded that the centennial bail was tb biggest executive failure of the century. People who were most competent to sneak were loudest in declaring thi ball a monument of incapacity and vulgarity. The scenes in the s upper-roora cannot be described sut'ely in a newspaper. Whu it is sai l that the waiters, policemen bnd messenger boyi drank most of the free chtmpagne, the s'tuation at mi lniht msy be imagined. Jcaticea of the supreme court, governor-, stafl' officers, club men. lawyers, poers, Uiiilionnir.-s with beautiful and refined women, crowded blankly along the supper counter and demanded in, vain the attention they were accustomed to receive. The functionaries around the place showed undisguised contempt for the "free lunch fiends." Waiters who did not hnve to account for unlimited wine, took occasion to neglect guests and treat themselves. The excellent eupper was largely wasted. There was no responsibility for anything to anybody. By 12:30 a. m. th 6tipper-rooni had been given over to people whose ideas of enjoyment had been learned in free and easy resorts. Drunken men invaded the ball-room, Nourishing bubbling bottles of champagne. In the corridors free fights were of constant occurrence. Gamblers, bookmakers and women dred or made merry on th staircases. Never once did an accreditei officer of the eveniiig interfere, to anybody'! . knowledge. The policemen wh were sober wer helpless. They could not tell the droscoafd waiters irom the guests. By 1 o'clock must of the respectable element were making frantic and supperless etlorts to get awa;. Even this privilWe was denied them. Aline extending from the coat rooms lor ChVi yard anil made up of some of the leading citizecs of this town, surged for hours against the leeb'.-s and inadequate partitions of the coat room. Gentlemen gtew angry and desperate at tli utter inadequacy of the arrangements. With torn coats and wrinkled shirt fronts, men, whoe names are known all over the Union, fought their way toward their coats under tha frequent clubs of the police, the jeers of the mob outside and the pernicious activity of the pickpockets. It was ö o'clock in the morning (eforc the lad battered and ragged guest joined his family at the doors and reached his hack. "In its exeetitive aspect the centennial baT wn the wcrst of i: sort ever known in th history of the city," said a well known man shout town yesterday. "The possibility of letting the attendants et at fill the wine they wanted was enough to ruin any plans hich might have beeu- made. I left at 3 a. m. without hat or cr.at. Two of the checkers insid the cloak room were dr;:nk. I got myowa umbrella by paying f for one exehanped for it in my sight by the feilow who demanded the dollar. Of the ladies I met, one's dress was ruined by a plate of snlad thrown over it by a drunken brute, and the shoulder of anoiurr was cut from a bottle which a stranger hud broken upon it. I saw more respectable women insulted in the supper room than I ever saw even accosted at the French ball. I knocked down a man who tried to kiss the daughter of a h ading lawyer here." The ticket-takers had no check placed upon them and there is no question they made lota of money letting in people who never should have been there. "The policemen lt their temper completely and cleared people out at the end of their clubs. Hundreds of ittles of wine were passed out of doors and sold by waiters and others. One men was drunk, fell down stairs and was so badly hurt he bad to carried orl' in an ambulance. Many fing ad potted plants were stolen and some of the boxes were shockingly soiled after their first occupants had leftl The supper room waselearJ by clubs shortly after 1 o'clock. The lights were turned out in the ball-room long before the crowd had left the building. Learning Had Talk. (Fuck. J Benny "Here, old man. give me 5 cents t buy some candy with, or I'll blow yonr gaste I machine so high your grandfather can catch. 6ome of the pieces." The President "S-s-s-h! Young gentleman, I gness I'll have you kept in the nursery when the next Indiana delegation of office-seekers comes to visit me." Vor Sick Headache. TSE HOSFOKP's ACID PHOSPrtATE. Dr. M. W. Gray, Cave Spring, Ga., says: "I have used it with perfect succcti in habitual sick headache." Vba Paby w stek. w artve tief fabi9 Whn abe waa & Child, she erid far Crtoci, Wbri she berwn-ie Kias, she elutvg to C&etoriv WbJi ah had CfcAlreo, -i J"ve tfcona Caor Asony la Courted Fy persous who, attacked by a mild form of rbu matism, neglect tjf ci prompt relief. Suls?qne nt torture ia prevented br an Immediate rcsoit V Hosteller's Stomach Fitt r. Slight erposnre, an occasional draught, will beset this painful malady, where there Is a predisposition to it In the bl.od. It is not irticult to nrrrst the trouble at the outset, but well nitjh Impossible to eradicate it when matured. ?o fvWoioe in relation to Ihi ooert blood depurent is more positive than that which establishes iu efficacy as a preventive and remedy for rheumaiiaiu. Not only i it thorough, but safe, which the vegetable and mineral poisons, ofu-a taken as curatives of the disease, are not. IVsidcs cipelling the rheumatic tlrus from the yMeni, it overcomes fererand aiue, biliousnesa, constipation and dyspepsia. C7."; TOPSO A MONTH CAN BV MADE WOEK. a Ins; for us. A rents preferred w ho enn furnt-. a horse and r've their whole time to the business. tSl-are moments may be profitably employed a'i. A few vacancies in towns and cittea. B. F. Jonoa & Co., 1009 Main-st., Richmond, Va. K. B. Lwo- employes! also. Never mind ahout sending stamp for reply. Come quick. Yours lor hii, B. F. J. & Co. PPLICATION FOR LICENCE TITE VOT..TU J of Center township are hereby notified that the subscriber will, in accordance with "the license law of the slate of Indiana, apply to the board of commissioners of Marion county, Iriiiana, at the Jane Vrrm, 1SS9. for a license to sell intoxtoatnt, vinous, malt mv.Ä spirituous liquors in le quantities than a quart at a C.tue. with the privilege of allorrins the same tobe drink on the premises T his place of business, and the premiin win-reon Haid liqaorsare to be aoid and drank a-e located at hin. 178 8. llliuis-t In Fixtet nta ward. of the city of Indianapolis, Marion coontv. In. diaua. J AM KS 6 Jill It.