Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1889.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL iEntsred at the Postoffice at Indianapolis m second cIxm matter.

TERMS PEK TKARi fic?le cor? (Invariably in AiTar.). 81 OO We at democrat to hear In roind and wleet their n state payer when they come to take subscriptions and make up clubs. A ruts making up clubs send for bt information Retired. Addesi THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. M AY 22, Otting Their Kyes Open. f fart that the very disasters which 1! k tariff shriekers predicted as certain to i .;'!..w Cleveland's re-election are coming thick and fast, although IIarrisov i3 in tbe white house, ia opening the eyes of t:;ou.and8 of people to the fact that the present protective tarifF is, for the most part, a humbug and a swindle. Wade's I'ihtr and Fabric, an able trade journal, which supported IIahkison vigorously on the tariff issue, no doubt voices the curiosity of a great multitude of deluded victims of monopoly sophistry, when it w.ints to know "where aro the good times'' that Halkisox's election was to brinz. It fays: "We were led to believe that if the party of hirh protection secured control of the government, we would then, very ßoon, have good times. We are a firm believer in protecting American industries if it could be done under the guidance of honest stateamen, but in the haiids of quack politician.? terrible work is made of protection."' It ia indignant at the folly of the manufacturers and growers of wool in combining to continue the tariiTon wool, "Then pny one can see, if he will, that free word would be a great mrn-p toward hont protection." This was the kind of protection that the Mills till proposed to give the woolen industries of the country by giving them untaxed T3w materials, hone pt, scientific, legitimate protection. The Xafi.wl Tsilr Trihvnf of Pittsburg, which preached II sRrcrvv and a high tariff to the workinzmen in the la-t campaign, has also discovered that protection dos not protect anybody but capitalists. It calls the attention of its readers to the fact that at the present price of Fteel rails ip London, with freight from London to rittsburg added, the cost laid down in Pittsburg would bt 27.21 a ton. without the tariff of ?17. The Allegheny Bessemer company of Pittsburg has juft Liken a contract for raiN at ?2 a ton, or less than the English price without including duty. The yn('unnl La.r Trihii.i wants to know why the Allegheny f?einer company cut eo Touch under American prices and therefore compelled a reduction of wages inf teftd of maintaining rates and giving part of the flT a ton protection in wages to American workmen. It very naturally conclude? that the ?17 duty i "a howling t-arcasin and an outrageous fraud.' . All over the country trade and labor journals are talking in the same f-train as HW-? F'dsr and Fabric and the Xathnal Jsihor Tribun. The logic of events is opening their, eyes and we hope the eyes of the readers to the folly and wickedness of our Chinese system of taxation. The lies and sophistries of the protectionist demagogues will not "go down" in 1S02 with tens of thousands of voters who eagerlv swallowed them lat year. Napoleon Prleated. The supreme court, or a majority of its members, is to be congratulated upon hav- J ing risen above partisanship and decided the Riiey case upon its merits. .Nothing but mulish obf-tinacr or an adherence to "Napoleonic tactics" couid have inspired Gov. lIovEY to the course which he pursued in refusing commissions to the trustees of the minor benevolent institutions. Previous to the decision of the supreme court in the insane hospital case the governor might possibly have been credited with an honest doubt as to the election by the legislature a doubt of the constitutionality of that body's course in the selection of ofucers for the public institutions. It didn't reflect much credit upon the governor's ability as a constitutional lawyer, on which he prides himself, but nevertheless, up to the banding down of that opinion, there wa- an opportunity for the belief that he acted conscientiously in refusing to issue the commissions. After that decision, however, the governor's further refusal to recognize the ti ustees chosen by the general assembly became merely a manifestation of inexcusable obstinacy and an endeavor to carry out his partisan purposes regardless of the law or the proprieties. The court, in its decision, administers a ..',- dig to the Napoleonic governor by saying: ''We cannot believe that the general FKScrnl'ly may rightfully appoint the trustees of the hospital for the insane, and yet fca-ve do authority to appoint those of the institution for the education of the blind." Whether the. gentleman who rattles m ound in the chair once filled by Morton and HENPnicKS is capable of appreciating this notification that his further resistance to the law is untimely and useless remains to be seen, but the notification is certainly explicit enough for any man who does not set himself up as a dictator. The hoprerne court has done it3 duty. "Will Gov. Hovky longer kick against the pricks? Ir. Ham urn's Successor. The New Haven (Ct.) Kräuter, one of the ablest and most influential democratic journals in the East, Fays: The fight in the last campaign was made npoD the tariff' issue. . The man who made it was renominated by acclamation in the national convention. A democratic house of representatives had pawed a bill ubitantially enibodyicz his idea. A national platform was constructed in harmony with thee ideas. From the opening to the close of the campaign the tariff was the od issue debated in the press and ou the stump. The party could not commit itself more thoroughly to the principle of a low tariff than it did last year, and thou arh it came out of the straggle defeated, do evidence has been produced to show that the people were not with the democracy in the f ght. The tsriifdid not defeat the party. It increased J; vote wherever it was aggressively champ;oBd, except where local dissensions prevailed, in spit of every argument. It would be suicidal tor the party to take one step, however short, to the rear. The selection of a fcigh-tariff democrat for chairman of the national committee would b construed, and yropcrlj to. as a backward step. The worst possible "politics" for the democratic party would be a change of front on the tariff question. On grounds of ezpexliency alone such a move stands condemned in the mind of every democrat uliOoe tLiakiaz aaratus ii ia work

ing order. It would mean, not defeat alone," but overwhelming - disaster disaster which would not admit even of the consolatory reflection that "all was lost eave honor." Several million of voters have been educated on the tariff question during the last two or three years. They believe that the present tariff system is vicious and hurtful ; that it is building up a mall class of citizens at the expense of the masses of the people, and that its complete reform is demanded by every consideration of patriotism and public justice. Unless the democratic party stands for such reform as lxldly and firmly in 1S92 as it did in 1SSS, this great army of voters will raise their own standard, choose their own leaders and make an open, manly tight for principle. What such action would import to the democratic party, it needs no special acumen to discover. We have no fears that the democratic party will retreat a single step from the position it lias assumed on this tariff question. Nordowe believe that Mr. IIa knim' successor as chairman of the national committee will be any but an outspoken tariff reformer. The democratic party has its face to the future.

The SchooI-ItMk. IiAv. Vax Antwerp, Pka.g A: Co. are spending a great deal of money in Indiana these days. They are occupying some of the highest-priced space in the Jvornal and Sev with cunniugly-wordeJ articles, intended to prejudice tho public mind against the new law and arouse sympathy for themselves as the victims of unjust legislation. They are loading down the mails w ith documents of all kinds, designed to create fatae impressions as to the new law and to put the trnst in a favorable light. These documents are sent to everybody connected in any capacity w ith our public schools, as well as to clergymen, editors, lawyers, physicians and others who are supposed to have influence in their respective communities. The state is filled with the acrentrt of this firm, w ho are working night and day to further its interests. All of this work costs a vast amount of monev. PH't anybody suppose that these gentlemen would make such lavish expenditures and such desperate efforts to nullity the new law if the profits of their present monopoly in Indiana were not enormous? They have spent several large fortunes in Indiana since Jan. 1 trying to save this monopoly; they are evidently prepared to spend several more. And yet they ask the people of thioi state to believe that they are selling their publications very close ; that there is onlv a narrow margin of profit in their business as it i now conducted, and that nobody can furnish firstclass school books any cheaper than they have leen charging! We warn the people now that there is great danger that the machinations of the school-book ring will succeed. Some of the men charged with the execution of the new law are acting in bad faith. Every effort is making to prevent bidding. Every possible obstacle is being thrown in the way of would-be competitors for tho contract. The whole state house is fighting the law. Supt. LaEollettk is reported as predicting that no bids will bö received on May 2S. This prediction may he verified, but, if so, it will be the fault of the state board of education. We do not believe all the members of that body aro acting in bad faith, but we are very sure some of them are, and we inist that tho others shall call a halt, and demand upon the law having a fair show. Tin: Slntivel projwsos to see that it has a fair show, or let the people of Indiana know the reason w h y. The Myra Clainest Case. More than half a century ago the Gaines case began in the courts. The controversy, with occasional intermissions, has been ever since almost constantly before the public. As was recently published in The Sextixel, the supreme court of the United States probably finally decided the case. It has involved New Orleans property valued before the war at $.000,000. The story is a long and romantic one,. and as briefly rehearsed in a recent issue of the New York 11 raid runs as follows: In the latter part of the last century Pamel Clakk emigrated from Ireland to this country and settled in NewfOrleans. lie wa a man of pride, ambition, intelligence and enterprise, lie became prominent in publio and commercial affairs. He died in 113 at the aze of fortyeieht, ost? naively a bachelor. Iy a w ill, dated in l'ilt, all his property was left to his mother. At that date Myka Davis was a girl of f ix, living with her supposed parents in Philadelphia. The intimate friends of the family of ol. Dwrs looked upon her as an adopted daughter. The girl believed that the was a lawful child until ehe was about twenty-five. She theu learned that Daniel Clakk was her father. Whereupon set set out to prove her parentage and assert her letal rights of inheritance. In these efforts she was joined by her husband, W. W. Whitney, to whom she was married iu 1832. It appeared that diirine his life Cl.AUK had Leon on terms of intimacy with Zl'LIMK Pes tiKAXi.Es, a youn French woman, not-d lor her beauty. She was known as the wie of Jep.o.mi: Pes Oranoes. Hut he had left her Rni returned to Trance. ZtLiMK Des Graxoes proved to be the mother of Myka Pavis, and Paxill t'LAr.K proved to be her father. It was then ascertained that Clakk had made a will, just before his death, in 1S13, by which he recognized MYKA as his daughter and left her all his property. Hut of this will there wrs no trace. That it had been made in, however, proved by living witnee. This fact hnviuif ben established, with the fact admitted in the will that C'f.ARK was tho father of My RA. the question mnained whether she was a legitimate child. . This was proved by showins; a eeret marriage between Clakk and ZrI.IME before the birth of MY RA, and by further showing that the previous marriaue f Zl'LLME to Pes (iKVXCF.s was not valid, for the reason that DES Granu s had at the time another witehvinsr. Thc points were aflirmcd by the supreme court of Iouisiana in 1.V. The claimant, who had in the ineaulime lost her first husband and married Gen. Gaise, had thns succeeded in asserting her rights. Tho property had, however, been disposed of by the executors of the will of 111 as directed by that will. It is the various phases of the proceedings to recover it that have t.i nee occupied the courts. Mrs. Gaixls did not live to see the end, havir.? died four years ajjo at the ae of tichtv. The controversy has since been waged by her heirs. David 15. Hill evidently does not want to b president of the United States. His veto of the Sexton ballot reform bill recently puts bim as completely out of the list of presidential possibilities as Ben Butler or Jeff Davis is, and he mus have known that it would. The next president will be a statesman, aad Gov. Hill's veto of the Sexton bill shows that he is not a statesman at all, but only a very cheap politician. The next president will be a reformer, and Gov. Hill's opposition to the Australian system shows that ho is anything but a .'eformcr. The Sexton bill is almost identical witü tho Andrew bill which woa paiäd

by the Indiana democratic legislature last Febrnarj'. Similar measures have been

! enacted by half a dozen democratic legis latures. The democratic party throughout the country is in favor of election reform. Gov. Hill may reflect tho wishes of a few corrupt politicians in New York iu his opposition to this reform, but ho does not represent the democratic mapses of the T'nited States, and his veto will only increase the distrust with w hieb, he has been quite generally regarded since the presidential election. The Itelf;n of the Saint. Under President Cleveland, the two leading parties were represented in the boards of pension examiners throughout the country. The boards usually consisted oi two democrats and one republican. Thus fair treatment to all applicants for pensions was assured, and the boards were raised above the level of mere partisan machines, which they had been under former administrations. The president of many prayers has changed all this. He refuses to appoint anybody but republicans on these boards. Every new board consists of three "red-hot" republicans. The object is of course, to make these boards active adjuncts to the local republican machines. Applicants for pensions w hose votes can be controlled will have no difficulty in obtaining favorable reports from these examining boards. I e:nocratic soldiers, as a rule, will, no doubt, have to choose between sacrificing their principles or sacridcing their pensions. The whole pension bureau, as at present organized, is nothing but a va-t party muchine. Taxner, tho head of the bureau, is a Fcnrvy blackguard without the least fitness for the place. His chief assistants are survivals of the infamous Dudley regime. Dudley himself is the controlling spirit in the bureau. This great department of the government, which was so ably, efficiently and honestly conducted under Cleveland, has already become, under Harkisox, an engine of political corruption. It is conducted solely in the interest of the pension rings and the republican organization, and without regard to the interests of the people, or the protection of those for whose benefit it is supposed to exist. The pension bureau is no exception to the other bureaus and departments of the government. Pemoralization already prevails everywhere. The general ton of the public service has fallen 50 per cent, since March 4. The "good old days" of Grantism have come again. Public office is no longer a public trust, but a private snap. A new era of jobbery and corruption has been ushered in. "The old flag and an appropriation" is the watchword at Washington. "Christian statesmen" of the credit mobil ier type are swarming in the public places at the capital. The atmosphere is charged with cant and chicaner-. Prayers and plunder are the order of the hour. The saints are in possession, and it will be "every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost," for the next four years. . ' Some Marriage and Divorce Statistics. The marriage and divorce statistics of Minnesota, recently published, show a steady increase in the number of marriages annually during the last seven years, except iu lss, when 500 fewer marriages were coutratcd than in Statistics have been held, by Pi ckle and other authorities, as establishing an intimate relation between the marriage rate and the price of wheat. Wheat was not exceptionally high in 1SS5, however, and the matrimonial depression in Minnesota in that yer must be attributed to some other cause. The divorce statistics show considerable fluctuations. The proportion of divorces to marriages during each of the last seven years was as follows, fractions omitted : 18S2, 1:23; ISA?,, i:30; 1884, 1:15; 18.5, 1:20; 1S6, 1:20; 187, 1:21; 1S88, 1:10. The average for the w hole period is 1 :21. It would be interesting and profitable if the causes cd these variations could be discovered, but the statistics do not go sufficiently into detail to permit an intelligent analysis. Statistical information, carefully colletcted, affords the best and indeed the only basis for intelligent consideration of the marriage and divorce problem, and as the Minneapolis Journal remarks: "Minnesota, with her heterogeneous population, representing various nationalities and different social customs and religious creeds, is a most excellent field for its profitable study." That state should make a Epecial effort to collect statistics on a scientific plan touching these most important subjects. A Relic of Barbarism. The annual report of the superintendent of public schools in Boston shows that there were 18.GiG flogeings in these institutions during the last school year. In 1SS2 the number was only 7,341; in lsS; it bad increased to 11,530; but last year all previous records in this line were beaten. WeMiave no hesitation in saying that this showing is in the last degree disgraceful to the "modern Athen." Supt. Sea xek himself, while not going to the extent of advising the immediate and total abolition of the ueeot the rod in pedagogy, declares that he "deems the present use of it excessive, unreasonable and injurious, amounting, in fact, to a gross abuse." He might properly have characterized it as a relic of Puritanical barbarism, for the Puritan fathers of Now England, with all their splendid virtues, had a well defined strain of barbarism. The flogging of children in our public schools is a gross anachronism. Wherever it has been prohibited, good results have followed. It is not permitted in the public Bchooli of New York. Philadelphia or Chicago, or in the schools of New Jersey. There is no disposition in these cities or in that state to return to the old system. Scholars and schools thrive, better tinder the humane system than they did under the barbarous one. Boston ought to reform this gross abuse "altogether ;" and so, we may add, should Indianapolis. Eor it is still practiced in our public sc hools, more's the shamo! The fruit-killer was somewhat behind band this year, at least in southern and central Indiana, although he arrived on schedule time along the valley of the tipper Wabash and other portions of northern Indiana. In these latter the cold tnap of ten days ago apparently killed everythia:; in ßi'btj and the con

tinuous drought threatened the southern sections of the state until recently relieved by copious draughts. Notwithstanding the annual appearance of the fruit and grain-killing terror, Indiana seems to have always enough, and to spare. Praise tho Lord, and may it eyer be so. The Tarifl'aml the Twine Trust. Senator Allison, in a recent interview on the twine trust, said : We have inserted a clause in our tariff bill permitting the raw material to be imported into this country free of duty. This will reduce the cost to the manufacturers $15 per ton. There is no sense in charging duty on tisal, and when it has beeu'placed on the free list there should be a corresponding redaction in price to the consumers. The same bill will put a duty of cents per pound on the manufactured twine, and will give, I think, suitable protection to our home industries. The domestic industry to which Senator Allison's bill affords "suitable protection" is the twine trust. Putting sisal on the free list merely gives the trust its raw material free, without in any way benefiting the consumers. The duty on the twine enables the trust to retain its monopoly of the American market. The passage of hi iniquitous bill would simply strengthen the grip of the twine truat on the farmers of the countr'. The only way to relieve them is to put twine on the free list, but as that would break up the trust, it M ill never be done so long as Senator Allison's party can prevent it.

Tue Illinois legislature is at present wrestling with an anti-food adulteration bill. The following section w ill give our readers an idea of the scope of the measure : That it shall be unlawful for any person, corJpany or corporation, or any manager, aeent or employe of any person, company, or corporation in "this state, to manufacture or cause to be manufactured, or to sell or offer for sale any food products, iuch as butter, cheese, flour, sujrar, spices, or other articles calculated or intended to be used as food, which shall be adulterated or mixed with any foreiin or deleterious substance not necessary in the manufacture of auch article or rendering the same in. a,iy d'yrte impure or UHicko'fsoine. One would think that this was a step in the right direction, but an esteemed Chicago contemporary detects "sheer absurdity" or "reckless mischief" in the framers of the bill which manifests itself more clearly in the next section, that declares that "it shall be unlawful to mix, compound, or sell any food product already manufactured which shall not be absolutely free from all impurities or adulterations." This, it is argued, is aimed at oleomargarine as a butter admixture, at chicory in coffee and other flavoring and cheapening substances, and tbe conclusion is that Felling cheap food products is a good thing to those who cannot a fiord the be&t grades of Jersey butter, Mocha coffee and pure olive oil, and that the public is sufficiently protected when adulterated articles are eo branded or labeled that anyone purchasing may know just what the article is. Gov. Fitzhcgh Lek of Virginia, in a recent interview in New York, denied that protection was gaining ground in the South. He said: I have been elected the president of a new iron company nud will encase fully in the business at the close of my present term of office next January. We can make irou for 10.25, and when Mayor Hewitt visited us dome few months ago he figured that we could produce it as low as 10. They think they are doing very well in Pennsylvania, where they make iron for $1.1 o, you sec, we can compete with the country, and we do not want prorection. In point of fnct, 1 do not know that there is any benefit in a hirh tariti". We will be able to manufacture iron so cheaply that I am not sure that our new furnaces would be more surely profitable if the duty on pig iron were entirely removed. Thy fact is that protection is a detriment to the South, because it retards the development of her iron and coal interests. Men of sagacity, like Gov. Lee, understand this. The South can produce pig iron more cheaply than Pennsylvania, and if the latter was not bolstered up by protection the iron industry would very soon be concentrated in tbe South, where it reallv belongs. The Lafayette Journal thinks that President Harrison deserves credit for appointing, in most instances, residents of territories to territorial positions, and that President Cleveland, in appointing nonresidents to these positions, "did wrong." Kesults will show. President Cleveland appointed non-residents in order to get men who were not identified with the territorial rings, and, by bo doing, accomplished a great deal of good. If he had gone to the territories for his judges, land agents, surveyors, etc., the rings would doubtless have had full swing during tbe last four years, as they had had for many years before. Most of President Harrison's territorial appointees are notorious jobbers. They are up to their eyes in land-grabbing and other corrupt schemes, and the territories will probably be prolific in official scandals during the next four years. Tun New York Commercial Kidbtin, a non-partisan commercial and financial journal, Fays: Treasury operations thus far under the new administration have rhown no important departure from the methods previously followed in the treatment of the surplue, the depositaries or in bond buying. How is this? Did not Harrison, Bi. ine and the rest fiercely denounce the financial policy of the Cleveland administration? Did not they condemn it for depositing surplus moneys in national banks and for refusing to buy bonds at any prices the holders might ask ? Why does Mr. Harrison pursue the same policy which he eo fiercely denounced Mr. Cleveland for carrying out? The "inspined organ" ought to explain. -f Ik the democratic committee does not come to Indiana for its chairman, it can probably do no better than to take Mr. Brk e provided, always, that Mr. Brk e will accept. He is a wide-awake, intelligent, active man, entirely sound on the tariff, and in complete accord with the democratic party on all public questions. He is a good representative of the progressive spirit which is now in control of the party, and baa all the qualifications of a successful organizer. Mr. Price's management of the campaign last year was sagacious and efficient, and Mr. Cleveland's defeat was in no wise attributable to a lack of zeal ' or intelligence on his part. At Springfield, Mass., at the end of four years of democratic rule, there were fifteen republican railway mail clerks. After six weeks of Harrison there were but four democratic clerks left. Which moves the KepubUcan of that city to remark that "tbe 'new administration is making a record of mora shameless greed than ever the wicked democrats dis-playea.

THE WEEK'S NEWS-

The Events of Recent Occurrence Reproduced in Rrief Fargraphs. Strikes are spreading in Germany. Tin bas been discovered in Kansas. The Dr. Cronin mystery is still unsolved. The report of the illness of the pope is untrue. Minister Lincoln sailed for England last Thursday. Arthur L. Thomas qualified governor of Utah yesterday. Froctor Knott (horse) is seriously ill with lung fever. It is said that Cincinnati will get three consular oftices. A deposit of tin has been discovered near Topeka, Kas. A ten-year-old boy is accused of mail robbery at Beloit, Wis. A man just from Oklahoma is in Chicago with smallpox. A severe hail storm passed over northern Iowa Thursday. ' Americans are receiving scant courtesy at the Paris exposition. The Patternmakers' league bas begun its meeting at Pittsburg. Consul-Gen. New and Minister Grant have assumed their duties. The gas manufacturers are holding a convention in Cincinnati. Miss Nellie liolloway of Youngstown, O., is mysteriously niUsing. Henri Bochefort attempted to shoot another Frenchman in London. Southern farmers are organizing against high prices for jute basine. The National editorial association will meet in Detroit Aug. 27 to 30. The C. fc O. docks and warehouse at Norfolk, Va., burned ; loss $75,000. Eire damaced the mineral springs mills, Stamford, Conn.; $50,000. At Washington Mrs. A. E. Horton was killed by a runaway hansom cab. It is reported that Pr. Cronin was seen ia Sherwood, Canada, May 13. Three men were killed in a street fight at Eorrest City, Ark., Saturday. The Ohio republican convention will be held at Columbus June "25 and 26. Three unknown roles were drowned by the breaking of a Milwaukee dam. Storms in Austria have caused crreat devastation and the loss of many lives. A heavy wind storm at Burlington, Ia., Wednesday, unroofed many houses. 1'ive of Detroit's breweries have been purchased by an English syndicate. The Ohio republican state convention will be held in Columbus Juue 2.3 and 26. An Ohio man, named West, was murdered by a negro at Beatrice, Neb., Saturday. The National burial case association is holding its quarterly meeting in Chicago. The Trenton (N. J.) oilcloth works were partially burned Thursday. lxss, $30,000. J. T. Stewart' big packine-house in Council Blufi's, Ia., burned Friday. Loss 100,000. Patrick Conroy was severely injured at a railroad crossing at Aurora, Ind., Saturday. Mrs. Catherine Ntory, aged eighty, was burned to death at Lynn, Mass., Thursday. A steam barge collided with a schooner off Tresque Isle, Friday. Four lives were lost. John Jones, a deaf and dumb bov, was killed by the cars, near Yincennes, Ind., Saturday. The strike of the Pittsburg and Allegheny stonemasons has been settled by arbitration. "Cyclone Bill," one of the robbers of Paymaster Wham, has been arrested in Arizona. From two to four inches of snow fell in northern Wisconsin and Michigan Wednesday. The steamship Alaskan has been wrecked off Cape Blanco. Five of the crew were drowned. Jefferson Davis' niece. Mrs. Maybrich, is charged, at Liverpool, with poisoning her husband. An English syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) brewtries. The American delegates to the Samoan conference are said to have carried every point at issue. Heavy rains caused washouts on the railroads throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. George Mowery was arrested, near Morristovn, Ind., on a charge of passing counterfeit money. Willlara Savers, a stock-raiser of Shelbyville, Ind., claims to have been robbed of 130 at Cincinnati. It is said that the Sioux Indians want to sell part of the land in their reservation to the government. The southern general assembly of the presbyterian church met in Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday. Tatrick F.gan, the new minister to Chill, was banqueted by the Chicago Irish-American club last night. John W. Douglass and L. G. Hine have been appointed commissioners of the District of Columbia. A peculiar disease, resembling malarial fever, is prevalent among horses in the vicinity of Indianapolis. The Illinois legislature has approved the bill of expenditure of Gov. Oglesby for the executive mansion. Adolph Haas, a letter-carrier at Cleveland, O., has been arrested for robbing the mails. He confessed. A terrific explosion, doin? damage to the amount of 20,000, 'occurred at Park City, Utah, May 15. If. J. Cook has been arrested in London, Ont., for robbing the Portersville (Pa.) eavines bank of $2,000. The plot against the czar ame-ng officers is widespread. Arrests continue to Be made at different points. The explosion of a lamp burned to death Mrs. Louise Palmer of llockdale, Tex., and ber two children. Seventeen-year locusts have made their appearance in Highland county, Ohio, also in Middle Tennessee. Two trainmen were badly injured in a collision between two freight trains near New Castle, Fa., Friday. , The funeral services of the late Allen Thorndyke Bice, minister to Russia, were held at New York Saturday. Near Bohan, Ky., Saturday, a ten-year-old boy named P.aney Teeter hanged himself ia a baru with a plow-line. In a quarrel over 5 cents at Louisville. Ky., Saturday, Louis Jackson shot and fatally wounded John Bailey. The celebration of the seYcnty-fifth anniversary of the American baptist Missionary union becan at Boston Thursday. An English syndicate is negotiatinsr for the purchase of seven breweries at Grand llapids, Mich., and one at Muskegon. In a drunken quarrel, Farrell J. McCarty, a Cleveland saloon-keeper, pounded Ira C. Benton, a traveling man, to death, "Cyclone Bill" and W. PI Cunningham have b-en arrested for the robbery of Paymaster Wham, at Rocky Gorge, A. T. Chicago's Norwegians held a big celebration of the seventy-fifth annive-sary of the separation of Norway from Penmark. Thomas It. Knafrgs, who assassinated Samuel Waldrup of Litchfield, 111., over a year ago, has been captured in St. Louis. The Worcester (Mass.) theater burned Thursday morning with Lewis Morrisrn's "Faust" scenery and costumes. Henry O'Brien, treasurer of tbe Catholic knishts of America, is said to be missing 5,ith $2i!U of the association's money. Father Fean testified before the Tarnell c mission Thursday of the good done by t,e league in suppressing outrages. The postmaster at Coshocton, N. Y., has been arrested for withholding oflicial communications from his successor in office. Three laborers were seriously injured in a wreck on the Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston railroad near Pittsburg, Thursday. The supreme court of Indiana has decided that the legislature has the power to appoint officers for the benevolent institutions. Four Austrian miners were terribly injured bv an explosion of dynamite in a miner near Ishpeming, Mich., last Thursday. At Payton, O., a nine-year-old boy named Walter Heller was drowned in a vat of vinegar at the vinegar factory of Kiefaber Bros. William McLaughlin, a soldier stationed at FL Randall, Neb., shot and instantly killed hit sweetheart, Saturday. He wu jealous. The one hundred and first annual session of tbe general assembly of the presbyterian churches began in Philadelphia Thursday. Eighty-one horses were old at Fasig's annual auction at CleveUad. They fetched from $tö to ?.i25 each. Starlight, 2:40 ch. m., seven yeara old, by UavterLjde.doio bj Migaa Chart,

For House. Barn. and all out-buildings. Anybody can put it on. PRICE LOW. INDIANA PAINT A. FJOCtNG CO. How to save rehin;ling, stop leaks effect nutlv so'l itculars free if you mention this paper. IN HI ANA I For said by PEARSON fc sold to J. Punham of Mu.skeron, Mich., for There are renewed rumors that Queen Victoria intends to visit Ireland. The abolition of the viceroyship of Ireland is being agitated. Gen. Supt J. T. Johnston of the Pittsburg A Western bas resigned and will be superintendent of the Pittsburg division of the B. k ). A vigilance committee has been organized to suppress "moonsiiiriing" in Alibama. Prominent citizens are at the head of the movement. Widows and dependent relatives of officers and men who lost thir livs iu the recent national disaster at Samoa are applying for pensions. Gov. Fifer denies the report that he has been usinx his influence against the Chieapo drainage bill now pending before the Illinois legislature. Solomon Hirsch of Oregon ha been appointed minister to Turkey, and l'lark E. Carr of Illinois minister-resident and consul-general to Penmark. At Nashville, Tenn., Friday. .Tames F. Turner 6hot and mortally wounded T. A. llolton, a merchant, who had obtained an execution against him. G. P. Porey, a nostal clerk on the Greenwood fc Jackon (Mich.) railway pogtoffice line, has been arrested for rifling a test registered letter of $10. After three years' imprisonment, William Adams has bren pardoned in Indiana, the prosecuting witness confessing that he was wrongully convicted. Francis D. Damn was found dead in bed at Brooklyn, N. Y., Friday. He is supposed to have committed uicide because he loit 000 on the Brooklyn handicap. Near Loveland, O., Friday, a young farmer named Pay shot his divorced wife, fatally wounded his aged father, and sot fire to the woman's residence and barn. Emperor William has notified the mine owners that he desires them to make concessions to their men, intimating that it will be the worse for them if they do not. Amanda Hardin and Ann Cunenee, both colored, quarreled over the division of some soft soap at Rueselville, Ky., Saturday, and tbe former was killed by the latter. At Caseyville. Ky., E. G. Thomas, editor of the Iftrrtdd, shot and killf .1 Georce Elmer, a prominent merchant. Elmer objected to a publication in Thomas' paper. Boyd M. Miller, who sued the New York, Lake Erie fc Western railroad com puny for injuries sustained while employed by the company, has obtained a verdict in his favor for $30,000. Samuel Coffman, whom Carter, the bunkoist, robbed of $o,000, failed to appear before the special grand jury at Washington C. iL, C. It is hinted that the bunko man's friends have "axed things." The sub-committee of the Samoa conference decided that Apia should he governed by a council of six, three natives, and one representative each of England, Germany and the United States. The English do not like it. No new features developed in business matters last week. The volume of trade was again moderate in produce lines, and an easy tone rather than otherwise prevailed, and the movement in merchandise branches was slow, with narrow fluctuations in prices. Tha money market remained ijuit. Government bonds easier. TheNew"ork banki gained largely in reserve. The supreme lodge K. of H. has been in session at Indianapolis for sevfra! clays. Beyond the selection of oSicers nothing of much importance has bf-en done up to the time of c" inar to press. Judje Savace of Maine was elected supreme dictntor without opposition. For the office of supreme vice-dictator occurred the only contest, the two candidates being Maj. JSamuel Flotz of Newark, N. J., the retiring supreme assistant dictator, and Mr. John Mulliian of New York. Mr. Flou was successful by a vote of ."rfJ to 2. Mr. Marsdcn Bellamy of Fayettville, N. C, was elected supreme assistant dictator, and Messrs. B. F. Nelson and J. W. Branch of St. Louis were re-elected as supreme reporter and supreme treasurer respectively. Mr. F. A. Pennington of Pennsylvania, Judge O'Key Johnson of West Virginia and Mr. Edward Bacon of South Carolina were elected trustees, which completed the list of supreme officers. Measures were taken which will compel subordinate lodges to rid themselves of habitual drunkards and all other members addicted to immoral habits which endanger their lives. Protection wasthrowu around the w idows' anil orphans' benefit fund ouch as will prevent any encroachment upon it in the future in the way of payments for other purposes. The supreme lodge will meet in Petroit, Mich., next yer. Cot. Hovry's Absurd Quibbles. E?ausville Courier. When the constitution was adopted there was but one insane asylum in the htate and the board of trustees of this asylum, the supreme court having decided that they were legally and constitutionally chosen, have been supplied with their commissions. But there are three new insane asylums in the state, one of them in this county, yet Gov. llovey refuses to issue commissions to the three several boards of trustees that were appointed for their management at the same time and under the same conditions that the members of the board of trustees for the Indianapolis asylum were appointed, on the miserable technicality tliiit these otiices did not exist at the time of the adoption of the constitution: According to this logic, if a f-tate grows in population o as to require four insane asylums instead of one, and in wealth o as to be able to supply them, the trustees of the asylnm that was in ojration when the constitution was adopted is the only one that has any constitutional rithts t'j exist, or, at least, the only one that the constitution recotrnie-. All others are in the natuie of interloping asylums whose boards of trustees can not be appointed by the legislature, ns the board of the Indianapolis aylura is, but must be appointed by the governor himself. Was there ever anything more ridiculous than such distinctions as these? Who can wonder at the widespread contempt for law and courts that is being expressed everywhere, when the governor of a state calmly resorts to tuck quibbling a this for the sake of the power to distribute a few paltry offices? A Shameful Keconi. St. Louis rjM-Ii."patoh. Never before has the spoils system been mere openly recognized or more ruthlessly carried out. Never before bas tbe campaign boodle raiser been so shamelessly draeged from obscurity to be honored as a public benefactor and be reimbursed with high office and rich places of pa'ronage. Never before has a party's plat. rm or a president's letter of acceptance bjen violated from the very beginning with cooler contempt for everything that is sacred in a public pledge. He Crowing? Every Day. lltluflTton Katiner. President Cleveland's service to his country as its chief magistrate for the past four years up to March 4. 1SS0, is just beginning to be appreciated by the people, lie is growing in the hearts of the people as his pure, unselfish and patriotic d rotion to them is being contrasted with the scfush shortcomings and delinquencies of Harrison as they are being enfolded. They Can Defy the I .aw. Creen County Olarion.J Republican rascals and boodlers can defy the law in their practices of bribery, false swearing nd illegal voting so long as Judge Woods disgraces hit picscat potitioa.

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chcsplv in rnof ofl or Isy vnw rof. FarAl f AN I KOOKG CO., Ind'tuspoliN Ind. WETZKI Indiajpolis, Ind. PERSOIAL PARAGRAPHS. The duke of lev,nshire is in good health at eighty-two. I" Paris thej csl InveDtor Edison 'The1 Kincr of Lizht" Col. Or.cOTT, tie head of the American theosophists, prerhed a sermon on Buddhism iu Japan ou the uy the n?w Japanese con etitution was forml:y ratified. William Popc; of Boston kas 500,000 shifting cerauiums and.'00,(KX) alternantheia which arc to surround t'j equestrian statue of Washington in the Bosti public garden. Word coinesothe death at Freusburg, of Bishop Hyacinth lonay, one of Kossuth's closest friends and i st faithful followers. H was the Austrai: cmpms' teacher of Hungarian. IIrTOKi.X Fro de is much annoyed over the criticisms wril n on his novel "The Two Chiefs of Dimhoy. His first e;Tbrt in fiction, if hi historical w k does not come under that head, will not emuratre him to continue in the new line he hf essayed. John Alles ari Prof. E. IL Piatt will start on horstback frei Harlem to ban Francivx to-day. Love of .dventure and a desire to improve their health prompts them to make th trip that way, a d not any wish to spite th railroads or the oeniakers. Barox Eklamkr, the Paris banker, ho bas been looking .t our railroad syst in, say: ''When my boys reh manhood I Khali probably organize our biincs here in the shape of a branch house. lam charmed with America, and shall certainlyreturn to it." Tun Hon. John p. New is perfectly familiar with all the intricacies of the garre of poker. Before his depamre for his post he met a friend who greetd bixn cordially and announced that he tad a friend in En eland to whom he was very desirous of giving Sir. New an introduction. '! that so?" said the consul to London, drearaiV And then he mnrmnri half unconsciously," What's his limn?" Pit.' b'irg DivpaUh. Lewis WrxDEK, the mperintendent of tbe inquiry division of the Philadelphia postoftice, haß just completed his fortieth year of service as a postal oflicial. He wns appointed a stamp clerk in 1S4, during the administration of President Taylor. He has served under twth of twenty postmtsters that Philadelphia ha had, and during his lonjr term of service has not been suspeaded. Mr. Wunder is 6ixty-four yer.rs of age. and is hale, hearty and good for another quarter of a century of active work. While the queen regent of Spain was entertaining Queen Victoria at San Sebastian, by an odd coincidence tbe duchess of Madrid was extending a similar courtesy to Frincess LouUeof Bavaria at Yiarejrgio. The duchess is wife of Don Carlos, and, in legiumist eyes, rightful queen of Spain, and the princess is a direct defendant of Charles I, and would probably be queen of England to-day were it not for the act of settlement. j Says a Washington correspondent: Mrs. Harrison 6!ghs for her cbina painting. Sine the has been here the multiplicity of dntie, social and domestic, suddenly imposed upou her ha a given her very little time for her favorite diversion. By and by tha hopes to resume her "-ork. -vhe may hav? a kiln constructed in the basement of the white house like the on which she had in the cellar of her home in In !ianapoli3, where she 'fired' all her own china. No one else in Wathinzton, I believe, ever attempted to put finishing touches to such work. The Indian I.anrit. ftilote lem'-crat. M'e may as well face the issue promptly and squarely. The logic of the situation points to the necesssry absorption of all the lands in the Indian territory which are now withheld from settlement on any accouut. The time has com for a practical adjustment of the Indian problem. It is evident that the Indians will never cultivate the lands included in their vast reservations; and popular fentimont is opposed to the theory of denying homes to white men in order to prolong this condition of protitless'occupancy. The Indians have certain risrhts in the case which oueht to be respected and enforced; but white citizens also have rights and the government cannot afford to disrecard them. Let the Indians be paid a fair price for their title, whatever it may amount to. Nobody objects to that. But the lands in question are required for the uses of civilization and in the interest of national prosperity and proirress; and it is useless to deny or resist such a demand. Why Not Say Whnt You Mean, Judge? Kountsir. Pemocrst -Why Judge Woods should use so much spac and consume time to say 90 little is puzrlicfr to ail sensible men, even republicans who are uncompromising partisans. The judge could say what he means in f wer words and be just as well understood. His recent charge to the jury means simoly: "Gentlemen of the jury, there are no United States laws prescribins punishment for election fraud that shall be respected when a republican is on trial, charged with a violation ot these laws; they are rot intended to be applied against republicans. But, jrentlemen of the jury, if a democrat uhall be put on tntu, cnar?ea wiui a creacn 01 tues" ! laws, then spare no pains or costs to obtain all the evidence you want. The democrat is a mat to punish with as severe a penalty as possitle; he has no business to be a democrat; do ad you can to convict him." Thealionl Clinirmanshlp. WaMi. t or. N. Y. Time.! If anybody from Indiana'is named in V.r. Barnum's plae the probability would be that Mr. S. P. Sheerin of Indianapolis would be the man. He i the secretary of the committee, a vigorous man in the prime of life, ayery thor-ou.-h democrat, and a politician of po mei skill. To bis e:!orts pnurirslly were the democrats indebted for the organization efleeted in the last election in Indiana, and if his party had not been confronted with CoL Pudley's "blocks-of-five" puzzle.Mr. Mieerin would rrobL1 Ua aninrinc o nnnrl n n J t i P at the whltl 1 nut Lv tu;";."!, - ii . , house that his pu.zler seems to have lorleite'l I lor beating him. i Made Hnrrlfton Teel 5m all. We suspect that the sting of Bishop Totter'a words lay in the involuntary contrast whicti every one who heard them was forced to drv between the man w ho sat there as the president of the republic and the man whose memory was that day honored as the founder of the republic. That was a comparison which was nnvthing but flatterine to Mr. Harrison. He ha! doubtless expected the good bishop t stoop to flattery. When he heard him tell thn plain, unvarnished truth it probably trade him feel mndl, and it certainly made him feel angry. The Frroer" 'Cot Tttnes, Hartford City Tekgrsm. Has the farmer realized the good times promised him in case Harrison was elected? Wheat is 20 centa lower per bushel, wool is cent les per pound, while salt, suear and, in fact, nearly everything the farmer consumes ha advanced in price. Mill a Their Old Game. IUaffton Fencer Yan Antwerp, Brarg A Co. are stiU st their old Karae of sending out circulars. The latent contains a price list shewing how low tney ar wiling to sell their school becks now.