Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1893 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 26. 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

UNDER THE WAVES,

Milwaukee's Crib Wrecked by the Breakers And Fourteen Men Meet a Watery Grave. SWEPT BY A TERRIFIC GALE Lake Michigan Is Lashed Into a Foaming Sea And the House Crushed as if It Were a ShelL One liOao Survivor Ilescaed at the Last Moment by the Heroic Work of a Life-Savlnß Crew Boats Driven Ashore by the Wind Tho Storni In the AVest and Northwest A Heavy Snowfall. Milwaukee, April 20. Fourteen laborers employed in the lake tunnel found a grave in the icy waters of Lake Michigan early this morning. The dreadful atorm raging throughout the night had lashed the lake into a teething maas of foam. Immense waves were rolled toward the shore by a iurious east wind and carried away the housa built on top of the crib at the mouth of the tunnel, about three-quarters of a mile from the pumping works at the foot of Xorth-st, The house on the crib contained two stationary engines and the tools used by the men. It was built of heavy timbers fastened with iron bands. It was wept into the roaring water?, however, like an eggshell, and its parts were wished ashore. For a mile or two the ehore of the lake is strewn with timbers, boards, tools and articles of clothing worn by the men in the ill-fated crib. The catastrophe ia supposed to have occurred about 5 o'clock this morning. Ac that hour the men at tho pumping station noticed that the house on the crib had disappeared. They telephoned the news at once to the police department, which notified Capt. Pet ersen of the life saving station. On account of the frightful sea, the tug Welcome took a lifo-boat with a crew of six in tow and headed for the tunnel. The battle of the Welcome against the angry waves was watched by thousands of people on tue Bhoru, whom the report of the accident had drawn thither. When Capt, Petersen, after almost euperhuman el Torts, eucceeded in reaching the crib by means of a rope and with a life preserver around his body he was met by a horrible sight. tl.-iiite Miller's Story. One man, James .Miller, was still alive and e inging to a pofet. About him were the corpses of two or three of his comrades. Milier was rescued and conveyed to the Emergency hospital, where he gave the following account of the accident tonight: "It was 5 o'clock in the morning when we found that water was fbiing the airtight compartment of the shaft where we had taken refuge for the night. We took a vote to decide whether we wou'd risk leaving the shaft. It was deINKHAM! aH YECETAElEigMPOUM) Is a positive cure for all those painful Ailments of Women. It viU entirely euro the worst forma of Female Complaints, all Ovarian troubles, lnHammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, of tho Womb, and consequent Spinal Weakness, ana is peculiarly adapted to the Change cLije. Every time it will cure Backache. It has cured more ca-ses of Lencorrhra than any remedy tho world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It tlissohes and expels Tumors from the Uterus in an early Stage of development, and check any tendency to cancerous humors. That Bearing-down Feeling causing pain, weight, and backache, is instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circumstances it acts in harmony with the laws that govern the female vstem, and is as harmless as water. It removes Irregularity, S nppressed or Painful Menstruations, Weakness of the .stomach. Indigestion, Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility. Aiso Dizziness. Faintness, Extreme Lavdtuue, "don't care "and "want to be left alone" feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, fcleeplessnesH. flatulency, melancholy, or the "blues," and backache. These are sare indications of Female Weakness, some derangement of the Uterus, or Womb Troubles. The whole story, however, is told in an illustrated lxic entitled "Guide to Health," by Mrs. l'inkham. It contain over tiO pases of most important information, which every woman, married or single, should know about herself. Send 2 two-cent stamps for it. Tor Kidney Complaints I and Backache of either sex the TegsI table Compound ia unequaled. Jill arUjrfTlST. KiJ the Vegetable Compound, or sent by mail, in form of IMIs er Loengc, on receipt of $ l.OO. Correspondent freely antwered. Yon can address in strictest confidence, LTOIl E. PIJEHAX XED. CO., Lraa, lui. IIIIIIIIIIIIUM uineaMSiissae1

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ressi Restores hair which has become thin, faded, or gray. Dr. J. C. Äyer & Co. Lowell. Mass. cided to leave. Only five of us succeeded in reaching the outside. The nine men who ware not strong enough to get out were drowned by tho water coming into the shaft, and four of the five who eot out were mangled or drowned by the tremendous floods which were lashed over the crib. At what hour the housa was washed away I don't know. It had disappeared when we got out of the shaft." The Ilug-e Wave. The sea was the most awful one anybody in the vicinity had ever seen. The waves were fully fifteen feet high and dashed over the crib with terrific force. All that was left on the crib was a couple of posts that had eupported the house and one of the pumps. The two large boiler, the engine, one of the two pump, the air compressor plant and the 20,000 brick that were on the crib had been washed off. Shortly after 9 o'clock one of the spectators who hnd been looking at the crib exclaimed. "I can eee a man," and the others strained their even and pure enough they could see the figure of a man moving cautiously about the crib. It was only by clinging to the few remaining timbers that he was saved from beir.g washed otT by the waves. At times he would be hid Jen from view for several seconds by a big wave. Some of ihose on shore doubted that a man had been seen and the powerul glasses in the engine house were directed at tho crib. A couple of men ran alone tho shore to a little headland and waved their handkerchiefs, to let the man know that ho had been seen. Those looking through the glasses could see that the man on the crib answered the liana'! by waving one of his hands, while with the other he clung to the pump for his life. What Mrs. Stebbins Saw. From her station in tho lighthouse at North Point, Mrs. G. S. Stebbine witness d the destruction of tho Lotie which occupied a position on the top of the crib. S!ie says it was washed away about 5:.'X o'clock and that it disaopeared in some huge waves which 6eemeil to swallow it. For some timo before the wares could be et en dashing to tho top of the house and for several seconds at a time not a vestige of the crib or buildine could be seen. Tlte waves came with great frequency aud awful force as was apparent by the manner in which they could be seen dsshing against the breakwater and crib, tdriking which thev ouid apparently explode with terrific force, and the spray would leap hih in the air. Just before the house disappeared, Mrs. Stebbins sa'.v several boards fro n the side of the bui dinjr torn loo-e and shoot upward with the waves. The opening thus made seemed to give the angrv wind the opportunity it sought in its work of destruction, aud as though it was one mighty ell ort, the entire house was lifted into the air, an 1 a second later a mighty waveengulied the entire building and it disappeared us if swept away by an a.alanche. When the wave hadepent its force Mrs. Stebbins saw the machinery aud other heavy articles alone remaining upon the spot where the house had stood. The waves would frequently cover and hide these from her eight, and ten minutes after the bouse was wiped out of existence the entire machinery and whatever elso was left was lilted bodily into the air with the force of the waves and wind and wad hurled into the raging sea. The destruction of the houst) and machinery wag the work of but a lew minutes Mrs. .Stubbing was able to discover no evidence of life or activity aoout the place, before or after the houge was taken, and she was inclined to think the men had long before that gone below to escape the frightful waves and awful wind. .She declares that the wives rose much higher and came with more apparent force than has been noted bv her in her twelve years' observation. -She wua on duty nearly all night and thinks that it was the most awful night on the lake possible to imagine. The roaring was something beyond description. .Nothinz could be heard in or about tho lighthouse except the da-hing of waves and the loan, awful moan of the wind us it swept along at an eighty ini e an hour rate. n Hoy at Ilor.ir. One of the most pitiful incidents in connection with tho disaster was the spectacle of the aged father cd Engineer Dwyer pacing to and fro on the beach vainly trying to see through the mist and catch a glimpse of the ''poor boys c'ingiug to the cnU" "Johnnia is home sick, tood for him, hut Mikey's out there aud I wish he wag home sick, too." The wind blew him around and the rain pelted him in the face, but tho old man stood his ground and would not leave. Tears tided his eves and he Ehook with cold and excitement, but he braced up manfully, thankful that both his boys were not on the lake. Mrs. Dwyer, wife of the imprisoned engineer, soon found the old geutle.i.an. lie wanted to send her home, but she would not go. When the men were discovered on the crib she took heart and began to pacify the crying women (fathered aroun1 her. "They are not dead," she eaid, "and while they're alive there's hope. The life boat is coming, and if they can hold out a little while longer perhaps they will be saved." But some of the women were not so hopeful. On the shore from the water works to the government pier was strewn the wreck ot tue house. Among, the timber and boards were the articles of furniture used by the men. Wash tubs, pillows, pails, cans, bod clothing and hundreds of other things lav washing about in the eurf. Heenes at the Itt-ach. F.srly in tho morning a small party patrolled the beach, searching for possible bodies, but none were found. As the news reached the families of the unfortunate, men and women rushed to the scene. It was pitiful to bee them running about vainly seeking information about their relatives. They stood crying in the wind and rain, eathered in little groups, the picture of woe. Now and then attention would be directed to something in the water or on the crib and the crowd would rash back and forth to see what was to be seen. When nothing special was going on they sought the shelter of the sheds and buildings and discussed in Quiet tones the tragedy of which

they were the helpless spectators. The wares lashed the beach and shore breakwaters at this point were the heaviest since the great storm of Jan. 1, 1801. It was seemingly impossible for any vessel to make its way through the cauldron. The north harbor pier was washed throughout its entire langth and the end of the south pier submerged during the higbt of the 6trm. Tbe huge wavea beat against and over the government break-water mercilessly and literally demolished about fifty feat of the superstructure of the north end of the outer arm of the structure. The scow Laurina. laden with hard-wood lumber for Racine, began to drag her anchors at daybreak and went ashore along the shore breakwater, a ahort distance north of Juneau-ave. The crew had no difficulty in stepping ashore from her. The Laurina is full of water. Tbe shore line from Wisconsinst. north to the Flushing tunnel pumping work works were strewn with wreckage causing an impression that some lumber carrying craft had been lost outside with ail hands. The following wero known to have been in the wrecked crib: ueorge (Jregg. lockman Eben Allen, cook; Michael Dyer, engineer ; John McBride, engineer; James Miller miner ; Wiliiam Priestly miner; Joseph McCarthy, u.iner; (leorga W. Holly, minor; William Prssner, minor; (Just Lacomitz, miner; James Miller, miner; Fred Spanner, miner. James Mider is the man who was rescued. The doctors say he wid recover. TORNADO IN THE SOUTH.

Jatper and Clarke Count!, MUsUsippI, Devastated Xegroe. Killed. Meridian, Miss., April 20. The passengers on a train which reached here at one o'clock this morning gave particulars of a frightful tornado that crossed Jasper and Clarke counties yesterday afternoon. The cycione originated in Jasper county, thirty-five miles south ot herd, and traveled in a northeasterly direction. A settlement of ngro cabins was destroyed and many of the unfortunate inmates perished. CoL Berry's magnificent plantation was swept clean, but fortunately none of his family were injured. Several negroes were badly hurt. From tbia point to Darnett, thirty miles south of here, the siortn was especially severe. Dr. T. J. K rouse, one of the largest plantation owners in the South, was a heavy loser. Every stick of timber on his place was carried away and evf ry house demolished. Dr. Krouse was badly injured. His son had his skull crushed and his wife and daughter were slightly hurt. A negro on Dr. Kroune'a plantation named Henry German, with his wife and child, were imprisoned under the ruins cf his cabin, and fire onjr nalin from the kitchen stove slowly roasted them, who piteously begged that death might corao and release the:n from their suilerings. Other negroes in cabins on the p ace wer shaken and bruised, but no other serious casualties are reported. Three mi'es east of liarnelt the win. I struck a neighborhood of farms. Tom Lot's dweiling was swept away, his legs broken and other members of the family slightly bruised. John Smith's house was leveled and he received feriou injuries. Frank McCormack's turpentine stdl was ruined. K F. Leggett's store was destroyed and his stock of merchandise is now haoging in shreds upon the branches of the forest trees. Leggett's wife and children were buried in the ruins, which caught fire and would have perished but for the timely an ival of neighbor. A little further on three ngro cabins were struck. Two negroes wero killed and several badly wounded. Twenty miles east of Harnett the ttorm crossed the Memphis & Ohio railroad track tearing down three miles of telegraph wires and ohtructm; the track. Tho telegraph poles and wires for a distance of live mii -a along the track of the New Orleans it Northeastern road are down. Crossing the Memphis & Ohio's tracks north oi Shuberta a storm created havoc among the negro cabins on tlte different plantations. I'eporls of the damage are coming in slowly, but such rh are received indicate an awful loss of life and property. All along the thirty miles of the cyclone's path is strewn the dead carcasses of horses, cattle and all descriptions of live stock, while crops are ruined. The loss will reach into the hundred; of thousands of dollars. Qi'iTMAN, Miss., April 20. A fearful cyclone passed two miles weEt of here yesterday at 7 p. m., traveling in a northeasterly direction and leaving death aud destruction in its path. The track o! the cyclone is fully three miles wide and reports indicate it extends more than ten miles in the interior. The situation beggars description. Chickasaw swamp, covered with a large and dense growth of white oak, poplar and gum was literally torn into splinters and not a tree remains with branches The public rof.d leading to Pcchuta is impassable for miles Tree, many feet in diameter, are lapped aud locked together in interminable confusion. More than fifty families are left in a destitute condition without food, shelter or clothing. The following aro seriously injured: William Alked. Mr. alkti). HoitiihT Alked. W.J. Pa kt is, wife and far chilJrsa. Wn.i.i am JirEs and w;fe. Maui; .Scuimtsiiik,-: u J iwq children. C C. Ct'LPKITKIt. Kr. Jonx Plkmi.no, ai wife and three children. Manv others whose names could not bo learned were also injured. Mrs. Aired and Lena Scrimpshire are dying. Kikksville, Mo., April 20. A severe storm of suowand wind has prevailed all dav at this Dlace. Tonight it ia freezing. The fruit crop wid auder. THE BLIZZARD RAGED. Reports Show a He-ivy Snowfall in the Northwest. Keoki'k, la., April 20. A violent snowstorm raged all day. The wind blew a gale. The Mississippi river is risir g rapidly tonight and is almost twelve feet above the water mark. Observer Gosewisch says that it will reach the danger line, fourteen feet, by Monday. Fears are entertained of a repetition of last spring's disastrous Hoods. Dwellers on the lowlands are uneasy and are preparing for tbe worst. DrnrQi'E. Ia , April 20. Light snow today was accompanied by a blizzard. Reports indicate that th storm was general throughout northern Iowa. Columbia, Mo., April 20 There was a blinding snow storm here today. It is feared the fruit crop will be greatly damaged. Mothers' Friend" bukes child birth easy. Colvln, La, Dec. 2, 1888. Mj wife used htOTIIEE'3 FRIEND beforo her third confinement, and says sho would not bo Without it for hundreds of dollars. DOCK MILLS. Sent by express on receipt of price, 11.30 per bottle. ÜObk " To Mothers " mailed free. BRADFIELD REQULATOR CO., al9 irueuiMTi. AT LAUT A, 3A

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i Miners Attempt to Free Tennessee Convicts, And a Bloody Night Battle Results at Tracy. VOLLEYS AT SHORT RANGE Between the Guards and the Attacking Party. Ono or tho Miners Killed by Deputy Shriver, Who Ticked Ont Ills Man and Laid Him Low Miner Joo Grantham's Conversation at the G to AVhilo Holding a Dynamite Itotnb lit Hie Hand His Capture and How He Shortly After Played Traitor. Nashville, Tenn., April 20. After the destruction of the stockade last summer and the liberation of the convicts the miners at Tracy were in high spirits. For a tim they labored under the impression that they had forever driven the convicts from tho mountains of Urundy county, and that they would no loDger be forced to contend with the obnoxious and cheap class of labor. However, it was but a fchort time until the zebras again bobbed up at tbe mines in increased numbers. The stockade had been rebuilt and strengthened, and an additional guard force ha been employed. There were Borne bitter comments because of the return of the convicts, but the Tennessee coal, iron and railroad officials acted so cleverly toward the alleged leaders of the miners and the men who had been in insurrection that after awhile amicable relations were apparently resumed and things went along in a harmonious manuer. After Itvenie. Bat the spirit of revenge still lingsred in tbe breasts of many of the younger and more head-strong element. Tl.ey tahed over their alleged wrongs while at work in the mines, discussed them in groups, and at last began to hold secret meetings in the wooded fftetncHeci At these meetings the older heads were conspicuous by their absence. They hud come to the contusion that it was useless to further object to the labor of their competitors. Many cf them hnd been giveu work again after the trouble of la&t summer, the lessees agreeing to let by-gones be by-gone. The few leaders in the previous tragedy advixed peaco and a sticking to all agreement. The rougher, however, determined to go ahead, openly boasting that they could muster enough men to accomplish their object. One Sunday, about a month ago, a meeting was held by these malcontents. and at its conclusion a couple of dynair.ite cartridges were exploded as a signal that the attack would soon be ramie. Some two weeks ago another tret ting, at which there were about eighty miners, was held and the planlof attack agreed upon, which was attempted to be carried out Wednesday night. Ku m or ft of the Attack. Warden Burton was in Nashville on Wednesday, Deputy Warden W. Shiver being in charge. Kurly in tho day the Tracy City agents of tbe Tennessee coal, iron and railroad company received wbat they deemed reliable information that the stockade would be attacked that night. Their information was at once conveyed to the official at the stockada and to President N. liaxter in this city. That gf-ntleman at onc notified AdjutsntGen. Fite, aa has already been stated, and the troops were ordered to be in readiness to move at a moment's notice. A telegram was sent to Warden Burton andhelert at once for the front, arriving there about 1 p. m. Deputy Warden Shriver had not been idlo. and when his chief reached the stockade he found forty men on guard amply supplied with ammunition. I'ickeis had been posted outside the ttockade and spies had been detailed to ascertain the time and method of attack. It had been brought to the attention of the deputy warden that the attack would be made at 1 a. in. yesterday. Shortly after dark great black clouds banked up against tho sky, aud as the night wore on the thunder began to roll and the lightning to Hash. It was an ominous scene, and just such a night as would suit tbe dark purposes of the malcontents. The lights in the stockade were burning brightly, but there was a death-like stillness over all. The convicts were rtstleus and the guards moved to and fro and seemed to realize that possibly the long-looked-for opportunity to gain their liberty was about to come. They had heard of the threatened attack", aud as they lay in their cots discussed it in whispers. A Knock nt the Door. A few minutes before 11 o'clock last night Deputy Warden Shriver, Sheriff Sanders and ex-Sheriff Dejarnette heard a loud knock at the stockagu gate. Instantly tho ponderous" pate swung back on its hinges and there in the gloom stood three men heavily armed. "Upon what terms wi 1 you release the convicts?" asked the tal'er of the men, a etrapmg voting fellow about twenty-five. "They will not be released at all," replied the bravo deputy. "Well, we have theui," said the leader, at the same time sayiDg that he and his companions represented 700 miners, and that they had the dynamite and the arms to do it with. Then he held up in his hand a dynamite cartridge, such as is used in blasting away shite in the mines, and was on the eve of making a threatening movement, when the deputy warden and the deputy sheritf seized him, and dragging him inside the gate, closed it. As soon as their companion was seized, and before the guards could get their hands on them the other two walked rapidlv away, brandishing their arms as they went. Sheriil Sanders ordered the guards to fire upou them, bat for some reason this was not done. Tho Matt I 1 On. Tho captured miner bad hardly been gotten inside the little room near the sate before the guards heard the patter of tbe leadsn bail from a score of weapons. By a preconcerted signal tho shots came from every aide of the etocksde, and the Karrieon was for a moment carried completely o.T their feet. The miners had closed in on the stockade and were actually poking the muzzles of their guns through the port holes. In an instant the guards were at their posts, and then the salute from the

outsi le was answered by a volley from the inside. The miuers, however, had the advantage, as the iipbts on the inside enabled them to see every movement of the beleagured guards. The latter, however, took to the upper port holes, and then the battle raged furiously for a few minutes. Fully five hundred shots were fired, and every man on the inside expected every moment to be his last. leputy Shriver'a Good Aim. Deputy Shriver had climbed into the second story of the stockade where ho could look down on the besiegers. He had hardly gotten into the room before a miner saw him in the lamplight and drew a bead on him. Shriver, however, saw his game and both fired almost fimultaneouely. Shriver was shot twice in the right side ot the face, while hia adversary fell dead in his tracks, a bullet plowing a hole through him from breast to hip. In the meantime the captured leader, who proved to be a young miner named Joe Grantham, had been released by Sheriff Sanders and the guards upon a promise that he would go out and stop the firing. He played the traitor, however, for after his release Guard S. A. Waiden received a full charge of seven shots in his chest, stomach and bowels, the ehot coming from a gun stuck through one of the port holes. Tho leaden hail from the stockade began to grow too hot, and when Bob Irvine had fallen a victim to Sh river's unerring aim, end several others had been seriously wounded, the besieging party broke for a near-by hill overlooking the stockade, where for an hour or so they fired down on the guards. About 12:'?0 a. m. rain began to fall and the firing, though continued at intervals, had no effect. By daylight the miners hnd disappeared, and the silliness around the stockade was only broken by the crowing of the cocks in the valley below. KILLED IN A CYCLONE.

Seven Victims in Arkansas and Four in Kansas. Osage Citv, Kan.. April IS. About 4 o'clock this afternoon the worst wind storm fcccornpanicd by rain and hail ever experienced in this country passed over Osage City, In the space of three miuutes destroyed about forty buildings of an average value of $-500 each. Many others were more or less injured. Nearly all the buildings in the business part of town suffered in romn way. Cniy two persons as yet have died from injuries received, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Waggoner (colored), but many others are badly hurt. Among the injured may be mentioned: JoE Bacon, colored, ribs broken. Two children of Ell Connor, head and arm serenely injured. B. L. Williams, back hurt. Mr. J. II. IIicxaro, hip hurt Mrs. IIiCKAun, arm broken. Miss II ice a ni), head hurt iln. Minnie Maiiey, arm broken, Mrs. A. UAltONK'., bruised. Child of JN'KLS NELSOX, hurt. Child of N. IL L.v UNO x, badly scald 4. Evan Mokoax, Nels Nelson, E.MILE Geosgm, Mrs, Simo.v, a child of John Ktreaaon rceivad scalp wouoda. Cid'd of John Jühnion hart in hea l. Little Kock, Ark., April IS. News wa received hero today of a fearful cyclone in Fourcho Valla?, Scott county. The town of Boles was almost entirely destroyed. Seven persona were killed and a large number injured- The path of the storm was a half mile in width and every thing was swept before it. The bodies of a ntin.ber of the killed were carried over half a mile by the storm. It is impossible to get full particulars, but it is known that at least seven persons were killed, and the number may be much larger. Kansas City, April 18. A dispatch from Oenge City, Kas., says that a cyclone pasted over that city this evening. It is reported that the storm worked destruction to lifo and property at Lyndon and at two towns near the latter point. Four people were killed at Osage City. THE GAS COMBINE. Speculation HWo as to Its Intents and Purposes. Speculation is rife as to the intentions of the Indiana natural and illuminating gs company, recently incorporated with a capitalization of $1,000,000. The incorporators, who represent the syndicate that purchased the Indianapolis gas company's plant four years a'0, have unlimited resources, and it 1883 id upon good authority that the stock will be increased to $d,000,tKJO or moro before the linal consolidation is completed. This would indicate that the new company either intends to do a large amount of business in tho natural gas field or that it is merely getting f)oas-Hslon cf gas plants and gas business, or what it sees to be an immense advantage in the future. It is said that President Dieterich has invented a succeaaful process for making a fuel gas that has the heat and power of natural gas, which will be largely used by the new company, and and in case of the natural gas supply being exhaused, will bo substituted for it. Having possion of tho system the company can utilize it by the erection of immense gas works in what is now the natural gas holds Hnd continue to supply thoir old subscribers. Vsiued IriElorseiiiefit of Scott's Emulsion is contained in let ters from the medical profes sion speaking of its gratifying results in their practice. Riinsion of cod-liver oil with Hvpophosphites can be administered when plain oil is out of the question. It is almost as palatable as milk-easier to digest than milk. rrrr! ht Seott t Cowne, IT. V. All drop. elsta

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FOR LEGISLATIVE ILLS. PROPORTIONAL, REPRESENTATION AS A PRINCIPLE OF REFORM. It Su1ntttntn an Klection at Lnrgn for an Klection ly Iitr;oU-It Tonlit TVnd to the Klection of Abler ami More Kepresctitative Mm, the Load er of Thought and rolitics Tne Kn-llsh System Giving the People Greater 1'owers of Selection Eniaucipatiou from the Party Machine. To the EniTOR Sir: With your permission I wdl answer brielly your fair and courteous criticism of my proposal to introduce proportional representation as a principle of legislative reform. J am far from holding that there is anywhere a single panacea or nostrum for legislative ills. Other reforms which seem to me to be necessary are the election of U. S. senators by popu!ar vote, and civil ßervice reform, and tenure of office for ail appointive offices. These reforms would take national politics out of tiate politics and leave the people free to divide squarely on state questions. There should be a legal regulation of primaries and party Convention, the reference of moat local and private b.l!s to a semi-judicial tribunal, as is done by the Koglish parliament, and the appointment of legislative committees not by the speaker and the lieutenantgovernor, but by the votes ot the legislators themselves. But I believe the proportional scheme is fundamental and ivoul-t result in such an able and responsible body of legislators that these other reforms would speedily follow. The essential idea of proportional representation is not that it defeats the gerrymander aad pive equality among parties, though that ir enough highly to recommend it, but that it substitutes' an election at larpJ for an election by districts and wou'd thereby tend to the election of übler aud more representative men, the leaders of politics and political thought throughout the tuate, and would irivo them liio-lornr trvic instead of cutting them oil at the end of one term. Your appeal to history to show that representative government under cur system does not mean the representation of individuals, or parlies, or interests, ig undoubtedly nlid and ha1 its p'are. But the problems d government today are very düierent from those which the device of representation was originally contrived to meet. The original t-roblem wos one of federation how to unite into a single stable government distantly seprated localities and communities. The counties in England were independent principalities. T!i-y hail no highways, no commerce, no intercommunication ai;d were unaccustomed to political co-operatiou. Ilcnce. when they were united into one kingdom the monarch wou.d have had them at his mercy, list as Kome robbed her provinces, had not the people in thesn localities joined together to aend their local representatives for common appeal, petition, resistance and fiually dominion. Moreover, the interests of all localities wer practically identical, being altogether rural and agricultural com:uunitiea, und a representative from one could well stand for the others. Thesa conditions have held fairly true in our own country until the time of the civl war. But today federation, union, nationaiization. Is completed. Kepressntation solved that matter. Too evils which government must remedy now are very ditl'erent from those which our lorefathers attacked when they protested that "taxation without representation is tyranny." There are especially two new conditions which have antiquated the old idea of representation, namely: the rise of national political parties with powerful machinery and thegrowthof national tnd world-wide private corporations with fabulous resources. These two factors in our country aro ies than fifty years o'.d, and only since the late war have they really become significant. They furnish tuilicent ctu-o for the degradation of legislatures and the supremacy of iho lobby. The old p an of district representation is crumbling beneath them. It is too arbitrary, restricted and cumbersome. Parties are not divided on county questions, but on etuto and national questions. Corporations select thoir lobby from the state at lares and the peoplu need to edict their representatives from the state at large. Representation is becoming representation of iniureats and classes, such as farmers, laborers, manufacturers, merchants and corporations, and these are not divided on c:un:y lines, but are scattered throughout (he state. I'roportional representation enables them to combine, no matter bow far apart they live, and send &s many of their uble6i spokesmen to the legislature as their numbers entitle thm to. You ask, "if it be safe to trust t ha people in the whole state why not trust them in th couiilbs?" It is not a question of trusting the people. They can be trusted. But it is n question of g.vit yr them greater powers of stdectiou According to their needs and wishes. It is a question of selecting men who will not subordinate state and general questions to local and private questions. The lobby gains im, mensa power through the present excessive log-rolling by playing localities and local representatives against each other. It is a universal principle of our system of olections that the wider the area of choice the abler the candidates on fill sides. And instead of "tightening the control of party on the representative by making; his highest obligation to the power that nominates and eiects him," it emancipates both candidates and voters from the tvranny of the party machiue. Under the present eyetem tli votor has practically only two candidates to choose between. If he does not vote for ore whom his party nominates h- must voto for the oppotition or else throw hi vote away. Most men will stand by their party nominee. But under the proportional scheme each votr votes for the entire number of representatives to be e'ected for the whole state. And as there would probably be three or four full tickets nominated he would have three or four times 8 many candidates to choose from as could be elected. This feature of the scheme can perhaps only be fully understood by taking an actual example. Presidential electors are elected on a general ticket, and the application of the proportional device to their election will illustrate the plan.

I eive herewith the vote at the election oi 1M in the order in w hich the names stood on each ticket, omitting the prohibitionists: votk oa raKirrxTiAt elkotobs is noi.

J 2. J74f 2.Vi. .!.-. 22. It J.'i.i.-.'.i III 2''",.fi 2".1T 21,8 IV. . .MV 21,871 V 2.;u.. S:t.;: 2i.s71 VI 2'i ,.' t:.3,v 7 21..-7 VII C'-i.-'i', 2"i.i.7y:t 21, V1Ü 2'..l..-.i7 sr.'.,- 8 21.M15 l i' l,..;.". 2';.W 2t,T: X 2'Vi.r.ni a.-.8.7:2 21.C74 XI ü'.(l..r'.'l 2M.777 2!,7l MI is , 2r.i,:c7 :i,n.; XIII 'it?i,.W 2"S.7i.7 21.KÜ XIV 2 .,.V-.S -.:,77J 21.N XV JV"'3 2"i.77.l 21,801 Total S,'.iI0,S3'i :i,S;i779 ZZ,V)2

The total number of votes cast for all candidates, including the prohibitionists, was S,540..;). Thero being lifteen candidates to elect, the quota for determining the share of each party ia found by dividing this number by fifteen, giving 500,702. Dividing now the total vole of each party by this quota, we lind the democrats have eix electors and a remainder of 520,61 S; the republicans six electors and a remainder of -11 iv"5S. There are still three candidates to be chosen end they are allotted to the parties having the largest re mainders. This gives a linal result ot seven democrat?, mven republicans, and one populist. The particular individuals elected are now discovered by taking those who stand highest on their reppective prtjr tickets. I have indicated by an asterick () who they are. It will be seen that they do not at all follow tho order in which the party conventions made their nominations, and this feature would be Ktillmore striking were there any motive for choice among candidate, as there is not in the case of presidential electors. The individual voter has been able to select from sixty candidates in order to vote for fifteen, and the provision of the Johnson bill, that he may cumulate his votes oa any one candidate, enables him both to cast fifteen votes for his party and to have them all count for that candidate of his party whobes-t represents him. It seems iroia this example that we should not have what you call party responsibility to the people icr legislationis not that an intangible and indiscriminate sort of responsibility? but. we should have the personal reeponsibility cf every Ifgislator to the entire people. Kach candidate would be independent of bis Darty machine, but dependent upon the rank and hie of the voters. There would not be an exaggerated and unfair party majority which you eeem to think necea-f-ary in order to insure responsibility. In deed, such a majority is necessary only ia the election of a U. S. senator and in "the capture of spoils. The serious questions of state politics, as you Know, tre not settled on party lines at all. They are the result of compromise between all the in terests which happen to be represented. And this is why individual representatives, rather than parties, fehould be responsible to tbe people who elect them. Your suggestion that "positively the very best form of a legislature is one that gave local interests and state interests each special representation," is to the point. At present no one can tell just what our state senates do represent. Only nine out oi Ofty-two Indiana senators in lHW.i represented eincle counties, and two of them were from Marion. May not the senate be given a destinctive place and character, elected on the broad basis of the state, representing the whole people, and thereby attracting to its halls the recognized leaders of thought and action throughout the commonwealth? J. It. Commons. Blooraington, Ind., April 11. VIEWED THE ECLIPSE. Report of ProC Schaeberle's Obecrva tion in Chili. Fan Francisco, April IS. Prof. Edward Holden, director of tho Lick observatory at Mt. Hamilton, todav telegraphed the Associated Press as tollows: Cipher telegram juit received from Prof. Scbaeber.'e ia Chili, inforrei us that tbe Lick observatory eirehtioa tt observ the total solar eciipsa b&t beeu aaccesaful in erery respect, lte mtchaaical theory of te solar corona proposed by f-chacbtrle has been verified. The drawing of the corona of April 13 last was published by him ia January laat,as prediction of what th;s corona was to be like, and I understand bis telegram to mean that tbe picture made by hiia months ago wai a true representation ot the actual corona visible at the eclipse. This ia au important veritication of a very far-reaching theory. Tbe expansion of the solar corona was photos-raped at the California eciipf of January, 15V', and fully described, and fully described ir. the Lick observatory report of that eclipse. Its existeni.3 was doubled by ths various Luro peso astronomers and cloudy weather did not allow it to be plainly photographed at lbs ecl:pe of December, lJ. Now, however. Prof. Schaeberle telegraphed that it has been ak-ain successfully photographed at his station up in the mountains. Fiity photograpLa have been secured by l'rof. .chaeberle and his aa sistants, using three dif erect telescopes. Ons of these Instruments gives ths image of the sun, fonr inc hes iu diameter, and eorooa covers the plate IS by -2 inehes. The whole program was intisfactorily carried out ft is cniy proper to add that the expense of the L:ek observatory expedition was geuerouKly provided for by the gilt from Mn. Senator Hearst of California, te whom science thus owes a new debt. CARTER IS ARRESTED, The Eighth Man Implicated fa the Oliver-Delaney Tragedy. Morqanfield. Ky April 18. Albert Carter the eighth man implicated in the Oliver-Delaney tragedy by Lewis Land's confession, whom many persona had regarded as a myth, has been found and ia in custody. He was arrested yesterday at Princeton by Detective Henry Spencer of De Koven, and was kept under guard at Pe Koven last night. He was brought to tbe Morganfield jail this morning by Spencer and tonight was taken to Henderson for safety. Carter made a full confession this morning. He eays that the first ehot was fired from the surrey, and that the blaze from tbe pistol from which this was bred was croeiways of the aurrev toward whero Abbie Delaney sat on tbe back seat. II is satisfied that Henry Delaney had a pistol in the surre v, as he saw one in his hand immediately after he had gotten out of the surrey and before anybody ia the crowd had a chance to band him one.