Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. 18S9.

'BOUXCED WITHOUT CAUSE.

PECULIAR CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. actons John Wanamaker Dtimlnei m Postoffice Employ and ex-Union Soldier Simply Beraose II Did Kot Vote the Bapabliran Ticket. "Washixgtojt, May 22. SpeciaL Last Farnrday was a field day for civil service reform in the poetoffice department. Seven men were dismissed, the most notable rasa being that of John A. Brown. John A. Brown was a Union soldier, a member of the Fifth Maryland infantry; is a member of the O. A. IL, and also of the U. V. C He was a watchman in the postoffice department nntil Saturday, May 15, when he was summarily dismissed, along with six others, three Vesides himself having worn the army blue. John has only one arm. He lost the other in front of Petersburg, June 30, 1S64. He was prisoner of war four months. It may be as well to add that he had four brothers in the T'nioa army. He was a faithful watchman; ' careful, attentive, courteous, and a gentleman. He could well perform the duties of watchman, but the loss of his left arm leaves him unfitted for manual labor. No one ever thought of disturbing John. Such a quiet man, and having such a record. If, however, he could abor, his age fifty-seven years precludes fcard work. But he needed the wages he received, no; only to support himself, but to upport his ad mother, now eighty-six years old. The present administration, governed a it is r piety, made a sorry exhibition of itself by dismissing John A. Brown, on hort notice and without leave of absence. Pious John Wanarnakcr di ! the deed on S-'aturday; then hurried ft to Philadelphia and attended Sunday-school the following day. He doubtless prayed over John's case before he went. Maybe had a prayer-meeting over it nt the white house. At nil events John A. Brown is no loncer an officer of the postoffice department. He now has his pn.sion to support himself and his aged mother. When John A. Brown was a Union sojdier and sufi'ering imprisonment, pious John Wanamaker was pious John Wanamaker in Philadelphia. On the .oth day of June. lSrH, when John A. Brown left his left arm on the battlefield in front of Petersburg, pious John Wai;arnaker was selling cheap clothing and laying the foundation of that colossal fortune, which enabled hira to buy a cabinet otnee later on, and turn such men as Drown (who helped to preserve the government) out of a small place where he was earning his bread. Great is the piety of John Wanamaker, and treat is civil service reform a- practiced by the present adminitrdtion It may be aked why John A. Brown was decapitated? Answer: He did not vote with the party that believed in high taxation. APPOINTMENTS. A Number or Offices t illed By the President Yesterday. WasHlJfGToy, May 21. The president made the following appointments to-day: John Meldrum of Laramie, W. T., to be secjets ry of Wyoming. Orrin W. Bair of Dakota, tobe receiver of joitlie moneys at Huron, Dak. Jsmes H. Cisney of Warsaw, Ind., to be an Indian inpector. James C. Lackey of Oretron, to be agent for the Indians of the Warm Springs agency in Oregon. Malachi Krebs of Petersburg, Ind., to be a special agent to make allotments of lands in severalty to Indians under the provisions of an rt of congress approved Feb. 8, 17. WAnrUTOV. May 24. The president made be following appointments to-day: William R. Day of Ohio, to be V. S. district judge for the northern district of Ohio. Charles Zane of Utah, to be chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of I'tab. Edwara S. Gunby of Florida, to be collector f customs at Tamps, Fla. B. F. Gilkerson of Pennsylvania, to be second comptroller of the treasury. i. B. llolliday of Pennsylvania, to be commissioner of customs, treasury department. David Martin of Pennsylvania, tobe collector f internal revenue for the Philadelphia district. To be attorney of the United States Abie! Lathrop of South Carolina, for the district ; ?Huth Carolina; Joseph .". Stripling of Florid i, for the northern district of Florida; Harry ll. .Ietfordof Arizona, for the territory of Arizona; John W. Herron of Ohio, for the southern di-frict of Ohio. To be lT. S. marshals John IL Miell a" Florida, for the northern district of Florida: Cbarle P. Hitch of Illinois, for the southern district of Illinois. A 311. take Some Place. Washington', May 21. Among the odd requests contained in the mail of Mr. Robert P. Porter, the new superintendent of the -enus. was ne to-day that eclipses anything yet rc reived. It simply asked Mr. Porter to share eonally the salary of his office with the writer, who said that the president had evidently iutfi;dtd to appoint him to the place, his name being the same as that of the new superintendent. In support of his view of the cav, the writer volunteered the information that he comes from Indiana: hat be served in the Sixty-ninth Indiana regiment and that, therefore, there can be no mistake as to his leing the Robert II. Porter, designated as superintendent of censu by the president He is willing to waive th. honor of the oßice, however, if given half itr emolument. upt. Porter replied to his corvec pondentin aerio-comic v;in. A well-known expert, he wrote, had stated that the superintendent would be compelled to 1. ten thonand-dollars' worth of work for ?V0O salary. His Indiana namesake would, therefore, see how great a acrifice the division of the salary would he, Ten with one who bears the same name. Not Fnongh Money. Washington, May 23. The pension appropriation act for the current fiscal year appropriated 10,400,000 for the payment of pension. nd is,000,"0 was also appropriated forth ine. purpose to meet a threatened deficiency, aking the total appropriations ., fji,lssi. Tai whole amount will be necessary to meet the demands of pensioners, and it may be that here will be a deficiency. Resisting Krletton. Pi BLI, May 21. The work of evicting tencts was continued on the Olphert estate today. Tue evictors met with a desperate resistance. The tenants had erected barricade eroind their homes, and behind these defenses ihey hurled stones and other missiles at the attacking party. Boiling water was al-o thrown upon the evictors, and a number of policemen and bailiff's were badly scalded. The police arrested tourteen persons. .hot From Ambush. Loilsvn.l.E, Ky., May 25. Near Farmers, Rowan county, this morning John Davidson, a respectable farmer, was found unconscious in the road. He had been shot from ambush with a shotgun while riding along the road late last right He earned survive. He had a qnarnl pome time aaro with his brother-in-law, George Green, and they then exchanged shots with yi.tois. Fx. Congressman Kyan'a Successor. TOPEKA, Kas., May 22. A special election was held yesterday in the Fourth congressional district to elect a successor to the Hon. Thomas Kyan, who was recently appointed minister to Mexico. Gen. Harrison Kelly, the republican nominee, who is a farmer, was elected without opposition, there bein no other candidates. Mcrder and Suicide. PlTTSTOX, Pa, May 23. At 2 o'clock this moriing Frank C'oropton cut his wife's throat with a butcher-knife, killing her. Ha then cut his own throat, but not deep enough to cause instSnt death. The wall and floor of the room where the murder occurred were covered with blood. He scrawled in the blood, "Jealousy." Cross' Slayer Held. At Maysville, Ky., Henrietta MeDaoiel, who killed Ed Cross, bas been held in f l.f0O bond for trial. She claims that she pointed the pistol at Crow to frhbten him, that h grabbed it acd it was accidentally diaeLarged.

FIGHTING OVER THE OFFICES.

The Indiana Republicans at Washington Disjrnsted With Harrison. Washiugton Cor. N. V. Times. A storm is brewing among Indiana politicians in Washington that is apt to break soon, to the astonishment of President Harrison. Ever since March 4 complications over Indiana appointments have been accumulating. A widespread discontent has been created, which has never come to the knowledge of the president in its full force because of the disinclination of all those bidding for patronage to involve themselves in the unpleasantness by being the ones to make it unknown. When President Harrison reached the white house the general belief among the 3C0 members of the Indiana republican association here was that while the civil service law would he enforced a "liberal" construction of it would be made when the interests of the republicans could be served; that those who had been dis-' missed from the government service for political reasons would be reinstated without regard to civil service rules, and that liberal provision would be made by which ex-soldiers could more readily secure government positions. President Harrison has bseu too conservative to please his Indiana followers. It has been plainly shown by a motion made in the republican association from that state at its last meeting, when the question of discontinuing the association as a political body and reorganizing on a social basis was discussed. The president of the association, who is Capt. T. J I. McKee, was forcible in advocating this course, and said he could see no reason for a political organization in Washington if the civil service law was to be enforced. When put to a vote the motion was defeated. lut this discontent has been brewing, and Indianans, at a loss to know what President Harrison' policy really is, have stifled their denunciation of it and the president hoping for a chanye which has not come. A short time ago Congressman Chcadle of Indiana called ou Secy. Noble to secure appointments for the Hoosiers at his hand. "1 am sorry," answered the secretary, "but President Harrison has told me he wished no appointments whatever made in the interior department of Indiana applicants except with his approval." Mr. Cheadle thereupon went to the white house, and upon repeating to the president the secretary's worein wu: astonished at the reply. "1 did not tell Mr. Xoble that," said Mr. Harrison. Mr. Cheadle went away without any satisfactory explanation of what the president did intend regarding the members of the party in his state. It is known that Treasurer Huston made a reply similar to that of Secy. Noble some time ago, and when its purport was made known to Secy. Ilaltord it waa denied. 1 liese accidents have resulted in a rather muddled conception of the presidential intentions regarding Indiana among I'oosiers. but it has, together with the official acts of the president, created a unanimous feeling that no Hooker can hope for political patronage who does not personally know Mr. Harrison, and that the appointments issuing from the white house of voters of that state are made on personal rather than political grounds. A prominent Indiana republican said to-night: ''President Harrison is sacrificing hi? party by allowing his personality to have free play. He is not now recoerniine those party leaders who carried him through the campaijm successfully. One-half of the appointments he has made in Indiana have been of men from Indianapolis, while the northern part of the state has been ignored by him and has received not one appointment. He is making a mistake and leaders of the party know it and want to tell him o, but hesitate to broach the subject. It is not so much the fault of Harrison as it is of bis adviers. Those whose counsels have most weight with hira know nothing of practical politics. In this number Private Secy. Ilalford teures very prominently." President Harrison's slowness in recognizing Indiana claims has resulted in a number of tlie members of the colony of oftiee-seekers from his state giving up hope, and a numbe r of them are packing up and will leave here for home within a day or two. Among these is M. S. Ra'sdale of Worthington, who two veara ago contested the Second district, which liad previously gone 4,1. n 0 democratic, succeeding in reducing his majority to l.luo. Ragsdale did this with no hope of carrying the district, but simply to benetit the party of the state, and looked for his reward at Mr. Harrison's hands. Ragsdale had involved himself financially by the expenses of the canipaien, so that he could lose no time in securing a salary to extricate himself from his dilliculties. He came to Washington to the inauguration and has been h ever since, but will probably start for h.tme to-inorrow. He wanted to be Indian commissioner, but Harrison told hira that could :iLt ..' to Indiana. He applied for the position of superintendent of Indian schools. That np'inmicnt went to Massachusetts, and now he Aiints anytiiin? lie can get, but is disheartened, v. uh no hope for even a clerkship. A COMPROMISE REACHED. Ilie Celebrated ITathfn Will Case Settled and Litigation Ltidcd. .iLFFEnsoxvittE, M.ty 21. Special. The 'iiiiious Wathen will case has been settled by a compromise. Mrs. Elizabeth Wathen died at her home in JetTersonville July 17, 18., leaving an estate valued at , XX , and no nearer heirs than two sisters, Mrs. Julia Ann Hart and Mrs. Mary Parke r -f New Albany. There were a number of oilier relatives residing at different points, who were descendants of brothers and sisters of Mrs. Wathen. A few liiyB after Mrs. Wathen's leath a will was found that was made in New Albany, .tine 7, l?"t. Py this instrument the .property was bequeathed, with the exception of .II.'miO to Mrs. Hart and Mrs. I'arker. The other niueteen persons who claimed to be heirs entered proceedings to prevent the probatins of the will and a suit to contest it was al.o tiled. At the trial the jury iisnL'reed and preparations bean for n second trial. The compromise reached to-day jrives Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Parker one-half and th.? other heirs one-half. The heirs are Lizzie Watkir, Mrs. Relle Itoirdman of New Albany; Milton Bowman, Eddyville, Ky.; Mrs. Joenhine Shepard, Iouisville, Ky.; Mrs. Matilda Wiley of Indianapolis, ltfayette Tomlin of California, Iavid Tomlin, Seth Tomlin, Newton Tomlin, Milo Ilowruan, James Bowman, William Rowman, A.J. I'owman, A. J. Hollman, Isaac Hollman, Athanatius Hollman, Campbell Hollman, Mrs. Samuel Lewmau and Mrs. P!oyd Fry of Jeflersonville and Clark county, Ind. The litigation and attendant expenses have been enormously expensive, reaching probably a grand total of .10 i,OM. Klght Lives Lost. Montkkal, May 22. The steamships Cynthia and Polynesian collided this morning near Longue Pont, a few miles east of this city. Eight lives were lost The collision occurred in the channel opposite Longue Pont. The Cynthia, Capt. Donaldson, was a freiehter, and was inward bound from (ilasgow. The Polynesian was outward hound, with freight ami psgscntrers for Liverpool. Immediately after the collision the Cynthia sank in twelve fathoms of water. The survivors from the Cynthia swam ashore, and the Polynesian proceeded to Quebec in a daruased condition. Arrested For Illegal Votlns;. In accordance with indictments found by the present federal grand jury, tho following arrests have been made in the last few days for alleged illegal voting: Harry Hampton, Thomas Hampton, Peter Cook and Joseph Hedges of Newburir: and Ed T. Conway, Henderson, Ky. Also for swearinj? in alleged illegal voters, the following arrests have been made: William C. Ihrpole. Roonville; Homer Camj'b 11. Oakland City, and Alvin P. Ixirsdon, Newburir. The defendants have given bail in the sum of .v"i00 each. Importaut to Teachers. School teachers of Indiana should know that for each teachers' institute held after March 2, 1X), they are entitled full pay a regular day's wages provided they attended euch institute during the entire time it was in session and did the work assigned them by the township principal. The new act was approved March 2, and contained an emer;ency clause. Mr. ( Jeeting, the deputy state superintendent, says there can be no doubt but that such teachers are entitled to their pay and should have it Will Not Mlgn the Treaty. STANDING Rock, D.T., May 22. The Indians here held a big council Sunday and all as reed not to sign the treaty unless paid i II.-- : -r their land. They feel hurt at the way tue ernment is treating them in ign'r l t -treatiea of 17 and 18"'. Five I'ersons Drowned. Memphis, Tenn., May 2V- A skiff containing three men and two ladies was caught in a wind nd rain storm this afternoon while crossing the river just south of this city and capsized. All tii a occupant were dron&eJ.

"A WAITED SErULCIIER."

COOK COUNTY'S INSANE ASYLUM. A Startling Statement Made Tr a Former Member or the Medical Staff The Attendants Are All Disreputable Ward Politicians. Chicago, May 22. In the inquiry aa to the state of affairs at the Cook county insane asylum to-day, Dr. Clevenger, formerly a member of the medical staiT there, testified that it was impossible for a reputable practitioner to stay there. The most disreputable ones were the ones to stay, because they devoted more time to intrigue. Tho disreputable ones practiced a system of elimination of the better element by either physical violence or other means. "In IS;," (.aid he, "the physicians who secured bodies at the asylum for dissection told me that the bodies were so covered with vermin that they had to be scorched before being put on the dissecting table." "One, in 1", I heard screams, and, running from my office, I found two attendants standing over a patient named Ilertzberg, who was bleeding profusely. I knew there was no use making any complaint as the attendants were supported by John Cummings' influence on the county board. Soon after they rebelled and refused to obey my orders. They secreted bodies on which I desired to hold post-mortem examinations, and I could not get them for two or three days after they were buried. "I published a statement, and the following night one o! the attendants called me a vile name, and, a few minutes later, a shot was fired down stairs, a bullet crashed through the iloor and lodged in my book case." Soon after this the doctor resigned. "What is the matter with the institution now?" was ashed. "It is Tinder the influence of boodleism. It is in a bad place, on unsalubrious ground. There should be new buildings for male as well as female patients. No building should have more than five hundred patients, because it is impossible for one man to oversee more. Then the county board should be knocked out, and the asylum put into the hands of a state commission. '"There bas been repeated testimony that lice abounded in the wards, and Ir. Koller, an assistant physician, found maggots in the wounds of neglected patients, in 154. Redbuirs would torture patints under their strait-iackets and rats would mutilate the bodies of those who had died unattended during the night. The attendants were usually appointed by the commissioners for their tiluincr abilities at the polls, in fraudnlertly carrying elections, and seemed to want to keen in practice at the expense of the insane. They often openly defied the superintendent, and vhen threatened with dimis?sl, reminded the ofn ial that he had not sufficient political influence. The majority of the attendants beintr of this low character, the efforts of those who were well disposed were discourased. "Brawls, drunkenness, oaths, slamming of doors, incessant alarms, blackmailing, bluster, pistol shootinz, intrignrs. immorality, stealing, neglect of duty on part of subordinates exerted a very depressing influence upon the decent officials there, end caused them to waste much of their energies in keeping out of rows. "There were stealings in the clothing in various ways, and even the rags and bones were sold for the benefit of the ones who had control of such oft'al. The county board's financial reports were falsified and confused in a variety of ways: often the expression 'general expenses' would cover a thousand dollars or more of unaccounted-for bills and at one time some 50,000 was included in a lump in some such item, to the perfect satisfaction of the commissioners. "Toaddtothe turmoil, while the perfectly new boilers were being destroyed in the engineroom to enable more stealings, and the patients were suffering for want ot toeat, the commissioners would interfere with the classification of the insane by ordering violent cases, iu which they happened to have an interest, to be plat-eel upon the wards assigned to quiet and convalescing patients, and otherwise interfere with the proper treatment of the insane. Everything was done to make an apparent showing of external cleanliness, but th.2 whitewahin?and the Mowers and the well-kept iawij constituted the place but a whited sepuleher.' MRS. CARTER WAS GUILTY. Chionjro's Sensational lMvorce Case Knrted The Pecree f;lven t!ie Husband. Chicago, May 22. The notable divorce case of Carter vs. Carter, which has been on trial for several weeks in the circuit court before Judge Jamicson, was finished this morning at y :.' o'clock, when the jury came in with its verdict The suit was brought by Mre. Leslie Carter, who charged her husband with unnamable offenses.. Mr. Carter filed a cross bill charging his wife with adultery. The prominence of the parties, the unusual beauty of Mrs. Cartel and other matters unusual in such hearings made it a celebrated case and the court-room has been crowded since the trial heran. Puring its progress the testimony took the listeners in imagination over a good part of Europe; gave them glimpses of the royal prodigality with which Mrs. Carter lavished money on personal adornments and equipages, though her husband was by no means a rich mnn; traced the payment to her of several large checks drawn by a prominent merchant of New York ; made evident her friendship for handsome Kyrle Bellew, the netor: touched upon her relations with her physician, and in short developed a scries of sensations to satisfy the expectations of the most pruriently inclined. The arguments were completed yesterday afternoon and the case was uiven to the jury. At the opening of conrt this morning it was announced that an agreement had been reached. The verdict, when announced, wa to the effect that Mrs. Carter was guilty of adultery, as charged in the cross bill, and that Mr. Carter was not guilty of the charges perferred against him in his wife's bill. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Carter was present when the verdict was announced. THE SCHWINGE CASE. A Sample of Justice ns Administered In .Tudxe Woods Court. Last fall Ilcnsley Thomas, a half-demented negro, was brought to this city on a charge of selling liquor without a government license, he having sold lemonade with a stick in it at Knightstown without having paid license on the gtiek. Thomas pleaded jrui'ty Rnj went to jail. Early this spring Henry Schwinge, a grocer doing biisines in the building adjoining the federal building, was arrested by n revenue officer, charged with selling liquor without a license. Schwinge was very indignant at the arrest, anil assaulted the officer with great en-) erjy and much success, knocking out the representative of Uncle Jani. Pour indictments were found ngaiiiat Schwinge, and he made practical confession by going to the revenue office and paying his back license for three years, during which time he hail donea thriving business in supplying the family trade on the r.ritocratic north-end thoroughfares. Then the indictments for selling liquor without a license were nollied. But ScTiw inge was still charged with assaulting a revenue ofheer. To this he pleaded cuilty, and was essed JVh, the minimum fine. 1 hen Judge Woods staved the fine and Schwinge expects President Harrison to rem't it entirely. Schwinge was solid for Harrison last fall! Corporal Tanner's Snccessor. Kansas City, May 21. Past Commander-in-Chief Lucius Fairchild of Milwaukee was today appointed on the national (. A. K. pension committee to succeed Corporal James Tanner, the commissioner of pensions, who last week sent in his resignation. Col. Nelson Cole of St. Louis has been made a member of the John A. I,ogan monument committee, vice ien. John M. Palmer. Commander-in-Chief Mai. Warner and Adjt Weigel leave to-night for Milwaukee to arrange final details for the nrttional encampment of the U. A. IL, the laft week in August Kentucky Iteptibliean Convention. Locicvillf, Ky., May 22. The republican state convention to nominate a candidate for treasurer, to be elected next August, convened here to-day, and John Z. Barrett of Louisville was nominated almost without opposition. Mr. U&rreti U a prominent young lawyer.

HARRISON'S CIVIL SERVICE TRAVESTY.

Removing the Old Postal Clerks In blocks to Make Room For the Heeler. Peru, May 23. Special. This week the last of the nine men who were removed from the Toledo A St Louis railroad postoCice finished his run under this administration of civil service reform. . Lat Friday nine mail clerks on the Wabash, between Toledo and St. Louis, received notices that their services were no longer required. That was the 17th day of May. These notices were dated at Washington April 21, before the civil service rules took efiect, but the official envelope bore no postmark or date. It seems that hundreds of these letters were sent out blank in packages to the several division superintendents, who filled in the names of the clerks to be removed. As the changes could not be made all at once, "blocks" of clerks were removed at a time in order that the service would not be completely demoralized. To show how much President Harrison and his administration have adhered to the civil service law, it is only necessary to furnish this line as an example. The total number of clerks on the line from Toledo to St Louis, called the Toledo fc St Louis R. P. O., arid the Toledo fc Lafayette IL P. O., the former the night line and the latter the day line, is thirty-six, of which, at the close of Cleveland's administration, nine were republicans and twenty-ecven were democrats. Now, after two mouths of llarrison's administration, eight democrats alone remain, and these will be removed as soon as the line can revive from the recent changes and the old ami new men get accustomed to the work. On the Pan-Handle division, from Pittsburg to St Lonis, every democrat has been removed. Also, on the Big Four, from Chicago to Cincinnati. It was thought thr.t the suspension of the civil service rules was for the purpose of reinstating old men who had ben removed without sufficient cause, but that this is not true is proven from the appointment within the last two weeks of new men and reinstatement of old men who were removed even under Arthur's administration for inefficiency. One man was taken from the insane asylum at Toledo, O., to till an etticieut democrat's place. This may be a reform for the republican party, but to the people it must appear as a very dull and transparent travesty. THE PRESIDENT IN A BAD LIGHT. A Soldier's Widow Keruoved From a Tostofflce and n Republican Substituted. Caxxei.tox, May 21. Special. The prolonged struggle for the postotrice here has ended, John Zimmerman, ex-chairman of the republican county committee, being the victor. It was a severe contest, the applicants being Mrs. Isabella De La Hunt, former postmistress, and John Zinimeruiati. Mrs. De La Hunt is the widow of the late Capt Thomas J. De La Hunt, ex-county auditor and a gallant soldier during the late war and a democrat in politics. The fight was carried to the white house, but through the inconsistency of the president, Wanamaker, Heiltnan, Posey, etc., came out victorious. President Harrison made a national aud state issue of her removal under Cleveland in lvi, and the following is clipped from a speech made by Harrison in the l S. senate, March 2". lSSo", in which he severely arraigued Cleveland's administration because of her removal from office. He said: "If there was in all this country one person, who by reason of her sex, who by reason of her widowhood, who by reason tf the sacrifice she made in giving the arm on which she leaned to her country's service: was entitled to be kept in office; was entitled to have her reputatiou guarded jealously and by all men who represented the government, it was Mrs. Isabella De La Hunt." And yet when a personal appeal was made to President Harrison directly, reminding hitu of her dire need of the office, and the position he took in her behalf in the I". S. senate and the reference made to "her case" in the many speeches throughout Indiana, during the state campaign of ls, and she furthermore presented a petition more numerously signed than that of any other applicant and representing an overwhelming majority of the patrons of the office here, but, notwithstanding all these facts, her appointment whs refused. This case most clearly demonstrates to the mind of any fair man, irrespective of political atiiliations, that Harrison i either an insincere man, or that the party "booilcrs. office-suckers, ward thugs anil bruisers" have lull and complete control of the present administration and its patronage. They Want the Carth. To the Editor .V'V: I have received a copy of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.'s deceptive circular, giving quotations for prices of school books. The circular argues that it will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to displace the books in use. Can this be true if the average expense has been but 10 cents per pupil, as repeatedly stated in former arguments and circulars of the school book trust? Is it impossible for them to tell the truth? I'nder "Heading" in the price list, McGuffcy's alternate readers are given prominence by being placed first on the list Mctjtiffey's revised readers the scries in use are placed in a more obteure po-itiou. I append alist of the books in use in this (Miami) county at the proposed retail prices, 20 per cent, added to the net price. It seems that the trtifct only wants a trifle ove r 'o per cent advance over the state price. How modest! Tim ES fOMPAKKD. McGtifTey's revised readers and spellers and White's new arithmetics; J '(, V ."i'j'i- n.', First Reader 1 PI hrvnnd Header 2 1 Third Reader Fourth Header U :'.' Fifth Reader U Speller.-- l-" 1" I lemcDtar j Aril hinet ic... 42 -i Complete Arithmetic ." C Total ...Si: N.l. Twenty pr ceut sJded ... 3. 1 2. l-s I'ifTwrence in cest 1.31, or 6 per cnt. more. Hunker Hill, I nd.. May 20. Dkmocrat. The (school Hoard Octopus. II.cier Democrat. Van Antwerp, Pragg & Co. have sent their impudent circular all over the state for the purpose of prejudicing the minds of the people again6t the new school book law. They make so many false statements that one can hardly tell where to make an attack. Cut the sole purpose of the circular is to break down the school book law, which was passed in the interest of the people of onr state. They claim, among other things, that their profits arc not half bo largu as has been represented. If they have not received largo profits why would they still wih to furnish text-hooks for our schools, and why propose to furnish them at greatly reduced rates? It is costing them no small sum of money to distribute their circular broadcast over the state. Aud why would they try to bribe every trustee, superintendent aud newspaper in the country if they did not realize large profits from the books? Does anybody for a moment suppose they care for any but their own interests iu this mnttcr, and any one that will aid them in their effort to break down the new law is an enemy of the people and should be branded as such. Ihe School-Hook Linrs. Hancock Jefl'cr.sonian. The circular of Van Antwerp, Rra'ig & Co. of Cincinnati, ou the school-book question, declares that for every dollar paid by the people of Indiana for school books, J2.V) is paid for intoxicants and Sil for tobacco. This statement beats I'.aron Munchausen, Eli Perkins, Tom Pepper and all the liars in fheol combined by ltrj per cent, and a little over. How careful these sharks are of the rights of the dear parents of Indiana. The Cincinnati Octopus. RooUtlie r.s1e. The Cincinnati octopus still continues the fight and will, of course, as Jong as there is the least prospect that the law tan be injured. Farmers, probably, suffer more from the extortion of the book trust than they do from the twine trust, and it will be well to keep an eye on the administrators of the law to see that no damaee is doue the public and no backward tep taken. High 1'rlee 1'atd For Marsh Lands. LatORTK, May 21. Special. It is currently reported that the Huncheon brothers of Dewce township have sold their 8,000 acre hay and stock farm for $20,000. This is by far the highest price ever known to have been paid for Kankakee marsh land in this locality, and it is believed to be solely attributable to the proposed removal of the Moincnco dam.

NOT A PASSENGER ESCAPED

FIVE CARS DOWN AN EMBANKMENT A Serious Wreck on the St Louis an Franelaco Railroad Kear Sullivan, Mo. Forty-Five Persona Badly Injured, But No One Killed. St. Loris, May 24. The west-bound train on the St. Louis & ian Fraucisce railroad, which left St. Louis last night at 8:15, was wrecked at a point three miles west of Sullivan, Mo., which place is sixty-eight miles west of St Louis. Jsot a passenger escaped unhurt, and forty-five are known to have been seriously injured, though no deaths are yet reported. The train was running at a high rate of speed, when suddenly, and without warning, the track gave way and the locomotive, baggage-car and five coaches went over the embankment. The train men and the only slightly injured at once set to work to prevent the additional horror of fire, in which they succeeded, and then turned their attention to the more unfortunately injured, and in a very short time forty-fira passengers, all badly hurt, had been releae J from the deDris. A temporary hospital was improvised at Sullivan and the most seriously injured were taken there, while others were brought to St. Louis on the relief train which was hurried to the scene of the disaster. The wounded are under the care of Dr. Mclntyre, chief surgeon of the road. It was 11:25 p. m., when the accident occurred. The train was traveling at a high rate of speed, and most of the passengers had already gone to sleep, while the few remaining awake were about to do so. There is a curve in the road about three miles west of Sullivan, and when this point was reached a sudden jolt and jar was felt all over the train. Everybody felt it, and the people in the rear cars could hear the forward coaches rattling and rumbling over the ties and the crashing noise of cars being demolished. A creek is crossed by the road at that point, and there is a steep embankment, thirty feet hizh. Most of the passengers thought the train was going through the bridge, and a feeling of horror chilled their blood. Iu an instant all the coaches, except the two sleeping cars had been throwu from the rails. People were thrown about in the cars in all directions, and some of them were thrown from the coaches and down the embankment One man, Walter Davidson, who travels for the Westinghouse air brake, was thrown right out of a window on the opposite side of the coach from which he was sittine, and sent rolling down the embankment to the edge of the creek. His feet were in the water. Another passenger on the same coach was thrown from the rear end of the coach to the forward end, and in fact men, women and children were thrown about promiscuously. The train was made up of a mail car and express car, a baggage car, a smoker, a ladies' coach, a reclining chair car and two Pullman sleepers. Back of these sleepers were hitched five empt" coaches of the San Antonio fe Arkansas Pass road, which had been picked up at some way station. The front truck of the first sleeper jumped the track, but the rest of the car remained on and the rear sleeper aud empty coaches behind it never left the trnck. Fortunately there were no fires in any of the cars, and the jolt extinguished the lights immediately. Otherwise a conflagration would have been caused, and there is no telling how many lives might have been lost As it was, most of the forward cars were smashed into smithereens and the debris thrown on both sides of the track. It was the worst wreck that has occurred in this section for a lone time. The explanation given of it by the train-men to the passengers was that the 6pikes end fishplates had been removed from the rail at the curve, thus leaving the rail loose on the ties. The forward por'.ion of the locomotive passed the place all right, but the tender jumped the track, and was thrown part of the way down the embankment It would probably have gone the entire distance had not the forward end held it np. Whoever moved the spikes and plates is not known, but the supposition is the work was done by train robbers who wanted to hold up the train. Siill, no robbers put in an appearance, and if the accident was caused by them they must have either weakened in their purpose or thrown the wrong train, and were not prepared to do their work at that time. The road officials claim it is a clear case of train-wrecking. On the train was a larce body of physicians returning from Springneid, where the state medical convention is being held, and they rendered valuable assistance in caring for the injured. Among the latter was Dr. Kuscll, mentioned in the official report, who received very serious hurts. He had both ears taken off and was otherwise injured, so badly that he could not be brought home and is now at Sullivan. The following is a list of the injured: D. S. Weikekt, Wenzville, Mo., both legs broken four inches above the ankle; may lose one of them. (iF-ORhe S. SlMi'sox, Hancock county, Illinois, badly cut on left side of face. Pat O Day, aired seven years, fracture of skull; will probably die. Mrs. Kate O'Day, bruised about head, neck and side and injured internally. Martin O'Day, cut and bruised on the face, also cut in the right foot and bruised about the chest. WlLUAM Dohf.rty, hand cut and bruised. Mus. Mary Griffith, Faircreek, III., injured on forehead and rifht elbow broken. ,ltHN Oati.F.Y, Holla, yo., right shoulder injured and thumb dislocated. John E. Hoi.loway, Cuba, Mo., lower portion right side bruised and cut in forehead. Mrs. Mary Hash, P.loomineton, Ind., bruised on left side and severely shocked. C.W. Phillips Sprindale, Ark., fracture of arm and cut on shoulder. DR. Ed S. Rfsseli, Tur-carawas, O., severe flesh wound, ear torn off and cut in head, severe shock, but rallying nicely. Mb. Dr. F S. KrssELL, also cut in the head. It. II. Newm an, Cuba, Mo., cut in the mouth. I). K.VILEY, New York, arm and leg broken. I). W. Graves, Marshfield, Mo., arm, leg and back bruised. John Kf.ndkick, Ft Smith, Ark., slightly bruised on forehead. Joe E. Harlin, Cuba, Mo., cut on head, bruised on chest, cut on arm and shoulder bruised. . Walter Davidson, St Louis, Mo., cat on head and slichtly cut on fincer, hip bruised. J. B. Sally, llolla. Mo, bruised on right leg and arm. Ii. R. McIntosu, St Louis, bruised on shoulder and side. J. O. MoRRlt-ON, Richland, Mo., cut on head, slichtly. Km ma Patterson, Decatur, Til., face bruised. Mr. W. J. WßKiHT, Decatur, 111., cheek bruised. M. Lip, St Lonis, bruised on shonlder, knee and back. Mary O'Day, wrist cut slightly. E. J. Shaw, Durango, Col., brnijed in shoulder and slight cut on forehead. Anton Marx, St. Louis, slight cut and bruised on side. J. J. P.RiNTON,' Sparta, Mo., cut on head, riplit hand and left lee. L'. C. IIovf.LR, Litchfield, 111., ent and bruised on head, bruised on shoulder and "hip. Croel Cresler, Galveston, Ind., bruised on foot and arm. T. L. Conk, Rrest, Mo., cut on head and bruised in back and shoulder. IIattie Shank, St Louis, Mo., light cut on head. C. J. Wright, baggogeninn, bruised on knee and rieht ßide, cut on face. Paul Horn, Mt Pulavi, 111., cut on head, bruised on shoulder. Mrs. W. J. Wayne, Decatur, I1L, slightly bruised. Never Heart Nrtppr. Kansas City, May 25. Levi Clowdis, an old aud wealthy farmer of Livingston county, Missouri, was induced to draw $1,500 from bank several days ago by two strangers, who pretended to be looking for a purchase of farm land. On the way home he was persuaded to take a drink, which was drugged, and the swindlers secured the money. 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WOULD REBEL IF HE COULD O'BRIEN BEFORE THE COMMISSION. The Fenrlena I'.ditor of "United Ireland" Concludes His Testimony Ffe Admits the Writing of Severn! Letters Gladstone Freseut. London, May 23. Mr. Gladstone was present at the session of the Parnell commission to-day. The cross-examination of Mr. William O'Brien was continued by Atty. Gen. Webster. Mr. O'Brien declared that United Inland (his paper) worked according to constitutional methods and advocated nothing but peaceful means to attain the end sought by the Irish parliamentary party. He admitted writing an article, which had been printed in I'tiilrd Irtland, in which it was Ftatcd that Queen Victoria was only known iu Ireland by her scarcely decently-disguised hntred of Ireland and by her inordinate salary. lie also nLnitted having written another article declaring thst Farl Spencer would be the last strong Englishman who would attempt to rule Ireland by barbarism, paid perjury, butchery and the use of the sacred rope. He admitted the authoriip. also, of an article declaring that the chairman of the committee selected to receive the prince of Wales on the occasion of his visit to Ireland would be hunted from public life. Continuing, Mr. O'Brien f-aid he personally had never spoken disrespectfully or olTensivc! y about the prince of Wales. No people, he declared, ever tuffered more for loyally than Irishmen, and none profited more by thtir protestations of loyalty than the people who pressed them. If it was clear that Lngland would not satisfy the aspirations of Ireland, and if there was any rational chance of success, an attempt should be raaJe to rebel. lie declared that the London papers were more responsible for the notions of the dynamite party tfian was either Finerty or Ford. But for the views those papers had expressed 1,0(K) would not have been collected in America for the dynamiters. Referring to articles concerning the oueen and the prince of Wales, previously mentioned in his testimony, Mr. O'Brien said they were justified at the time they were written, but were not justified iu the present stnte of the relations between England and Ireland. The articles were not intended to calm the people's objections to British rule as then administered. He thought British rule hateful then and he thought it hateful now. The Barnellites. when the visit of the prince of Wales was under discussion by the authorities, ps-scd a resolution advising the people that the visit wns not intended for party purposes, and fhould not be made the occasion for trouble. This action, of the Parnellites resulted in creatine a feeling of calrmie:3 in public opinion. The prince of Wales was allowed to pass throughout Ireland tintroubled until the 7nie published articles declaring that his visit had crushed the power of Mr. Parnell. It was then thought desperately neees-ury to fdiow Englishmen that this was a mistake, and that th prince's visit was being used to strike down the Irish caue. Mr. O'Brien explained that when he made the speech in which be used the words: "We are in a state of civil war tempered by a ecarcity of fire-arms," lie was exasperated by his expulsion from the house of common? and 6poke under intense feelintr, caused by the fearful hatred displayed by the majority of the house of commons against the Irish members of that body. He declared that if any people ever had the right to rebel the Irish people then had the ribt, if there wns any chance of success, Atty.-Gen. Webster interrupted the witness at this point, saying: "You only objected to rebellion because it was hopeless?" Mr. O'Brien "In the circumstances of tho time, unquestionably. Violent language could have further inManied the people's mind against England. Their minds have become like a lightning conductor when the air is charged with electricity." MK O'Brien justified certain articles written by him and printed in l ulled Jrrlanl to illustrate the brutal argument that because the English people numbered üV n Vh H) and the Irish people 4,000,00 , the English were entitled to do &i they liked. Atty.-Gen. Webster quoted from an article in Untied Jrfianl bended "Allen, lrkin end O'Brien Honored by Their Chicago Kindred," and asked the witness whether it referred to the Manchester murderers. Mr. O'Brien replied: ".Not murderers, but men engaged in open warfare who shot a policeman by accident." The Attorney-General "The shooting at the police in a van at Manchester was legitimate warfare ?'' Mr. O'Brien "It was not criminal. Men who openly take risks to release their comrades are no more murderers than anybody here. They acted from the highest and noblest motives." Atty.-üen. Webster holding up a paper "Do you see the heading, 'Allen. Lark in & O'Brien honored by their Chicago kindred?" Mr. O'Brien "Yes; and the article was written by me." The proceedings were here interrupted by cries of "har!" hear!" Atty. (Jen. Webster "Why those 'hears?' " Iresiding Justice Haneu threatened that if order was not maintained he would have the court-room cleared. He said he nnderstood that Mr. O'Brien did not consider the shooting

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