Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MOHNING, NOVEMBER '8, 1893-TTVELTE: TAGES.

INDIANA SrATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, BEN A. EATON, President, Vie rMident, b. McCarthy. Secretary snd TreMurer.

(Bnterrd at Ihr Iotomce m t Indianapolis an irrond class inn tier.) TERMS I'KR YKAR I Single ropy (In Advance) fl O We ask. democrat to lienr In mind und select their airn state paper when they come to take snbscrlp lions aud make ap clubs. Agents making up clubs send for any In format loa desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis. Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER K. 1SIX That prize gubernatorial ass, Penncyer of Oregon, has been heard from again. He is still braying. Mr. Stone has some reputation as a murderer, but it 13 rapidly becoming obscured by his reputation a3 a liar. Republican papers are using mathematics to prove that the republican party is entitled to the honor of repealing the Sherman law. They do not need any proof as to the honor of enacting it. Indiana has just received $30,000 as franchise fee from the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railway company, which has filed articles of incorporation in this state. This is one of the benefits of the democratic financial reforms of 1S91. Bud Stone has made another trip to Washington. He appeared before the court and in his testimony stood by his confession known as No. 2, which exonerated all but himself. He was found guilty and sentenced to be executed in February. If justice were always as prompt In Indiana we would have fewer lynchings and fewer manifestations of white cap deviltry. The decision of the supreme court upholding the McCabe bribery law will prove a valuable aid In securing honest elections In Indiana. This law Is aimed at the "prominent citizen" usually a republicanwho is honest in his private business, but considers it no sin to purchase votes for the "grand old party of high moral ideas." This decision is a final warning that vote-buying must cease in Indiana. A number of our contemporaries assert that Mayor Harrison was "slain by the spoils system." Bosh. The assassin wrote threatening letters to senators concerning the passage of the repeal law. There was no office connected with that question. Mayor Harrison was slain by the crank system. So was President Garfield. It is the system in which a minority insists on controlling government, even if the minority consists of but one person. We have a communication from Mr. John M. Berry stating that "2.192,404 people in Indiana have two senators, while 1,)4.725 in ten states combined have twenty senators," and asking us to "help right this Injustice." There is no injustice In It. John no more than In the fact that Chili with 2,800,000 people has one president, and the United States with 63,000.000 ha only one. Indiana has the greatest abundance ot senators. What she wants Is more democratic postmasters. There are indications that the same banking interests which endeavored to force an Issue of United States bonds are now trying to defeat the proposition to coin the silver bullion in the treasury representing seigniorage. Already certain New York papers are opposing it. There will be little support to their demand throughout the country. The government owns the bullion. It needs the money, it ougnt to coin n. r orcunateiy there is no reason to believe that the president and Scretary Carlisle have changed their minds as to the impropriety .of issuing more bonds. The arrest of Hallowe'en celebrators for the wanton destruction of property ought to serve as a wholesome lesson to young men and boys who indulge in s'sh lawlessness. Amusement Is a very excellent thing, but amusement that Involves the destruction of property belonging to other people should be sternly rebuked. If young rnen cannot repress their longings for entertainment of a destructive nature they should gratify It by destroying their own property. No fine would object to this, arid the pleasure-seekers would probably secure much more creditable ideas of wit and humor. That was a very disgraceful affair which recently dHturlwd the good order of the town of Wlnatnae. Two young blood entered a church and made disorder. The pastor properly reprimanded them for their uncouth ttehavlor, and the next day, meeting the minister on the strew, the young men beat him with what are described as long blacksnake whips, such as drovers and teamsters tis". The reverend gentleman promptly took to his heels, ran a way from them and afterward had thern arrested. There will be, perhaps, a difference of opinion as to the minister', action. Home would doubtle take the ground that he should have stood his ground and made the best defense within hi !wer other that he was rlKht In running away from the two bullies. Men do not faney any display of cowardice. He might have met the extreme Christian theory by standing up und courageously allowing the men to beat hlrn. It take a bit of heroism to oo that. Ht. Paul' advice I p get along us peacefully a you can with all men. Thl allows a man to strike back when pressed to the wall, or even before that extremity I reached, and no on would have found any fault with thj

Winamac divine had he given back blow for blow. If he had been worsted In the encounter, he would have received abundant sympathy. Old Peter Cartwrtght, the famous nuethodist divine, well known in the early campmeeting periods of Indiana and Illinois, would never have run away under such, circumstances. On one occasion when a gang of rowdies disturbed one of his camp-meeting services, he left his pulpit and nearly beat the life out of the ringleader of the disturbance, and we doubt not that if St. Paul when in his prime had been similarly treated he would have borne himself in such a manner that the oppressors would thereafter have given him a very wide berth. , TAXATION OF GREENBACKS. The bill Introduced by Mr. Cooper for the taxation of greenbacks is one that ought to be passed by congress. The exemption of this one class of money from taxation has long existed without any justification, and has been a source of evil everywhere. It was not originally provided for by law, but the supreme court held that they were not taxable on the theory that the greenbacks were "securities" of the United States, and that the government would be injured by the taxation of its evidences of debt, because the taxation would tend to put them at a discount. It is doubtful if this principle ought ever to have been applied to evidences of debt that were legal tender and were constantly. In circulation, but whether it did or not it is certain that it had no application after 1ST, when the government resumed specie payments. Since that time the greenbacks have been kept at par by the maintenance of specie payments on demand and the exemption from taxation has had no effect whatever in sustaining their exchange value. On the other hand, it has tended to drive them out of circulation. Worse than this, it has given an opportunity to persons of easy conscience to evade taxation by claiming that their money was in greenbacks, when in fact it was not. There is no question but that the amount annually claimed as exempt on this account is largely In excess of the total of greenbacks in existence. The movement to tax greenbacks Is essentially a democratic movement, and it is also peculiarly an Indiana movement. When the provision for the resumption of specie payments was made Senator McDonald of this state introduced a bill to subject greenbacks to local taxation. It was killed in committee and another bill, introduced by him at the next session, met the same fate. Since then there have been several attempts of the same kind. The last was a bill introduced by Senator George of Mississippi, which was reported back adversely by Senator Morrill of the finanace committee in the spring ofiS92. It was afterward taken up and placed on the calendar, but no further action was taken on it. When tax reform was under consideration in this state general attention was called to the iniqufties resulting from greenback exemption, and to the imiossibility of securing equal taxation so long as it continued. The democratic, party put a plank in its platform in 1892 demanding this reform and calling on our senators and representatives to urge It In congress. P.oth our senators supported Senator George's bill, and we have no doubt that Mr. Cooper's bill will receive the support of the Indiana delegation. It will be an honor to the state to take the lead in securing this much needed reform.

I'll ANtiE THE COIGK RATIO. Now that the fallacious sytem of purchasing silver at Its market value, In order to increase its market value, has been abandoned by this country, and we stand in a position to exercise some Influence In secilring international bimetallism, it behooves the American people to look over their past action on the silver question and endeavor to profit by their mistakes. One of the worst of these has been our stupid adherence to. a coinage ratio different from that of any other nation on earth when a very slight change would have brought us Into harmony with the important silver using countries of the world. In 1S78 this could have been made with very little trouble, because we were using paper money, and the great mass of the silver coin in this country has been minted since that year. Hut a childish clamor for the "dollar of the fathers" drowned the call for International money, and we entered on a silver policy that took us farther away from the rest of the world every day. The latest report from the mint (Aug. Iß, 1S93.) shows the stock of full legal tender silver, in the countries maintaining that kind of coin, and the coinage ratio of such countries, to be as follows: Country- Ratio. Silver Coin. Km nee 1 to I.V.V) JCO.OfXt.toO Belgium 1 to I.YM JH.t'NurKi Italy 1 to 1Y50 ifi.MM.iKx) Switzerland 1 to 1.YT.0 11. (MUM) Greece 1 to l.vr.o l.SIKl.tXiO Siiln 1 to IY.V 20.im).oii) Holland 1 to ir..r.O t.l'.mio Russia. 1 to l.vr.i 2. out Central America.. .1 to IVfiO Cxi.iito South America ....1 to I'. r-o Vi i.ui t Cuba. Haytl. etc.l to 15 r,0 1,200.0) MeXlCO 1 to Hi.'iU Jn.an 1 to H.1H f.n.'io.o t 'lilted State 1 to IV r;iH.i.'M IndU I to 15.0) lxw,l,j() While all Kuropetm silver countries, with all of Central und South America, have come to the coinage ratio of 1 to 15'4, these four last named countries, that are so much Interested In the future of silver, have kept awuy from It, and of the four tho United States 1 the only one that actually maintain a gold standard. Mexico and Japan have long since come to the silver standard, and India has abandoned her coinage riftlo, repudiated her Implied contract to keep her coin In u parity, and I now making a futile effort to establish an exchange ratio of about 1 to 21. In other word, It 1 endeavoring to put on a gold basin of 1 "hilling 4 pence the llvcr rupee which was originally coined a the equivalent of two "hillings. Hence the United State stands absolutely aluuo

In Its coinage ratio, and this Is a serlous Impediment to Its efforts to secure international bimetallism. It is not to be expected that all these other countries will abandon their ratio and recoin their silver to accommodate us. Neither would they Join with us if we proposed to maintain a ratio different from theirs. The effect of the existing difference, if bimetallism were restored, would be to put silver at a premium of 3 per cent. In this country, and in consequence it Would go to the other countries while their gold would come to us. It is- therefore certain that If international bimetallism is secured we must adopt the ratio of 1 to 15'. The present time Is the most favorable that will be found for making this change as to silver, and when it is made we should also bring our sliver dollar to a five-finc standard ($.965) as the franc is now the most-common unit of value in the silver using countries. To make our silver dollar the equivalent of the five-franc piece, at the coinage ratio of 1 to V, it is necessary only to reduce its weight from 412 to 3S6 grains. Our minor silver coins are now on the same standard as the French. minor coins, with reference to the present dollar, and would be slightly lower than the ratio with a dollar of 386 grains, but this Is of no material difference, as they are only token money, and would be so In any event. We say this is a favorable time to make the change because our silver Is now all token money; 1. e., it is floated on a gold basis, and sustained by the credit of the government. The market value of our dollar is about fifty-five cents. The proposed change would reduce it to about fifty-two cents, but it is as easy to float a fifty-two-cent dollar as a fifty-five-cent dollar, and the one would crseulate as well as the other. Further than this the great mass of our silver is now In the treasury. In August of the present year there were 357,677,820 silver dollars in the treasury and only 61,054,6.10 in circulation. No more should be put in circulation. The seigniorage in the form of bullion in the treasury will probably be coined. It should be issued in dollars of 3S6 grains and put into circulation. There is enough of it to keep the mints busy for a long time. If it should be coined at our present ratio it would add just so much to the existing impediment to International bimetallism and be so much more to recoin In case we secure international bimetallism. If that Is not secured the change of ratio will do no harm, for silver would still remain token money, and tne ratio would not be of material Importance, except that it would facilitate silver exchanges with foreign countries if -our coins were similar to theirs.

THE Fl'TI'ltE OF SILVER. Our contemporary", the New York Post, has disposed of the silver question. It has' arranged for the futr.re on these linet, beginning with the repeal of the Sherman law: Unfortunately this Is not the last of silver in American politics, but the future controversies over It will be with reference to the disposition of the stock on hand. There will be no more contests over free coinage or over new purchases. Silver will be no longer a persecuted sister, but an inconvenient ghost. From time to time we shall look at our enormous store of the white metal and wonder how we ever became so bereft of reason as to buy it. The people have learned at List that It Is confidence which makes money plenty and lack of It .which makes it scarce. They hae learned, too, that gold and confidence go hand In hand the world over. Why it is so it is needless to inquire. If gold is universally acceptable and silver not, that fact is sufficient unto itself. To argue against It, to fight against It, is as Idle as to combat the public preference for straight noses over crooked ones. The next problem In national finance will be to devise a banking system which shall gradually supersede all the government paper afloat and give us a currency responsive to the wants of trade. Whn silver takes Its final exit this task will not be difficult. All classes will be alike Interested In It. Prejudices against banks will disappear. These prejudices were an outgrowth of the inflation craze By the side of these predictions The Sentinel places the prediction that the real struggle for the restoration of silver as a standard money has now fairly opened. The repeal of the purchase clause of the Sherman law at last puts the United States In a position to use Its Influence effectively for International bimetallism, which Is the only possible solution of the silver question. It may be delayed for a short time by the great power of Mr. Gladstone In Encj gland, as It will be by the fallacious arguments of gold monometalllsts In America and the prejudice that has been created against silver by the stupidity of the obstructionists In the senate, but It is certain to come. England has stood for gold monometallism on the theory that It was a creditor nation and therefore wa benefited by the appreciation of gold. It Is learning rapidly that creditors are benefited by the prosperity of their debtors. Tho bankruptcy of Portugal, Greece, Argentine Republic and Australia did not Injure those countries alone. English capital suffered heavily In each rase. Already there Is a marked change In English sentiment. Bimetallism Is gaining friend rapidly. English monometallism now assert that they do not advocate the gold standard for the entire world, but only for civilized countries. The world ha not forgotten Rothchlld endeavor to persuade the United State to continue Its absurd purchase policy, or hi polemn warning to the recent Brussels conference: I need hardly remind you that the Ktoi k of silver In the world I estimated at some thousand of million, nml If thl congress were to break up without arriving at any definite result there would be a depredation In the value of that commodity which It would lv fright ful to contemplate und out of which a monetary panic would ensue, the farspreading effect of which It would be mt"iMHlblt to tell. (Proceeding of ltruxliel conference, p. 72.) . The conference failed to agree. The panic came. Australia and the United State have passed through It. Europ Is Uli uffulng from it and England

most of all, because England has India on her hands. England knows that the rupee cannot be maintained at the exchange value of Is 4d gold unless India can maintain a gold reserve sufficient to exchange at that rate continually. The Indian government has been unable to do that and in consequence India is now on the verge of a money panic. The Springfield Republican of Oct. 25 speaks of the situation thus: Failure of the India eOttncll In London to sell its drafts at the. arbitrary price fixed for the rupee when (the Indian mints were closed to silver has resulted in the accumulation of large amounts of silver money in the vaults of the Indian government. So heavy has the drain been on the monley supply of India that a financial squeexe and panic are now threatened. It is being urged that an import duty be levied on silver entering Indianas a means of enhancing the value of the rupee, but the efficacy of this move is much questioned. At any rate the Indian government is far from being rid of the difficulties attending the closing of the mints to silver, and the worst of them have not yet been passed. There can be no question of the correctness of this statement. On Oct. 17 the Indian government urgently asked by telegraph an Import duty on silver which would equalize the fixed value of the rupee with the price of silver. The dispatches of Oct. 23 to the London Times say that money is dally becoming scarcer and that unless a gold loan is made a panic Is levitable. Whence will the loan come? The Bank of England has been able to maintain its gold reserve during the past few weeks only by an unusually heavy discount rate. India Is now so heavily Indebted that her annual interest payment to England amounts to $93,750,000 In gold. It will require an enormous reserve to keep India's immense load of silver at the low . par of Is 4d, or an exchange ratio of about 1 to 21, while the market ratio of silver Is about 1 to 28. Ar the United States steps out of the market as a consumer the load will be enormously increased. England has now to face an Indian panic with default of interest on English loans and heavy loss of English capital. It will be a great help in learning the lesson that too much greed and selfishness will certainly react on the oppressive creditor.

REFORM THE SENATE RILES. There is something refreshing in the style that was shown in passing the repeal bill through the house, after the long siege In the senate. In less than three hours all speech-making. a dilatory motions, all filibustering was overcome and the house had concurred in the senate amendment by a vote of 191 to 94. It is worth while to have a code of parliamentary rul-s by which such a result can .be attained without any suspicion of unfairness on the part of the presiding officer, and with no complaint of 111 treatment from the minority. The house rules seem to have solved the. problem of securing action on important measures without any real interference with the rights of the minority. They secure government such as was contemplated by the founders of our government. TLy give the majority the power to rule within the limitations cf the constitution. It is right that the majority should have that power, and should be responsible to the people for the exercise of it. We would suggest to the senate that, instead of adjourning while the house is getting the tariff bill In share, it devote its attention to a revision of its rules, and get Into shape for effective action when the tariff bill and other important measures shall come before it. It has been demonstrated that under Its present system the senate Is powerless to act against the wishes of a determined minority. Thie difficulty was avoided In the case of the repeal bill by the bat king down of the minority, but there Is no reason to anticipate such action when the senate is divided on party lines. We need not expect a reputr lean minority to give up the tight against a tariff bill or the repeal of the federal election laws. There is no united press and united people to bring the weight of public, sentiment to bear on them In party questions. The only way to secure majority rule Is by an amendment of the senate rules, and they ought to be amended quickly. The whole country has condemned the existing system as unwise, unconstitutional and un-American. SOME POINTERS. Business Is Improving. There Is nn easier tone to money and manufacturing enterprises are starting tip all over the country. There are Indications of a general revival soon of the enterprises which have been most seriously affected by the disastrous pnnlc. There Is a more hopeful feeling pervading the entire business world, 'If pnss dispatches and Interviews with prominent business men ami financiers are to !e believed, and there seems no reason to doubt the statements made. Then I. however, still a dliosltlnn to keep money close In thl city, a disposition, too, which I causing much Inconvenience, not alone to men doing a large buslnes. but th'se who want a few dollar now and then to help them out of a temivorary difficulty. Thl I due more to the natural caution of men with money than to any lack of fund adequate for such demand. Men who have money ought by thl time to begin to let It circulate. Hoarding money with which to visit the fair Is no longer necesnary, ' and the right thing to d I to let tine' money out. There are hundred of Instance where a few dollar will l of vast len-nt. Often a man doing a small buslnts can 1h tided over u difficulty and placed on hi feet by a Judicious and frlemlly ltn. We know of numlcilea case svhere such loan have l-en denied, and denied by men amply competent to give a helping hand of thl kind. lt. I lack of confidence and a feeling that It 1 the right thing t do because one' neighbor doe it that caue thl stringency. It Isn't stringency at all; It 1 fashion, or a form of tho dculre to

do ks other people do. That is all. Now If some prominent leader will invent the fashion of loaning, of putting money In circulation by the different processes known to business men, there will no longer be any difficulty. With the silver question settled and money going down the excuses offered by some are very lame. They will hardly hold much longer. If business seems a trifle dull take hold and wake it up. Put a little life into your own business. From your action your neighbor will catch the inspiration and institute a revival. This in turn will spread to the next and so on until business here is as lively as it ever was. Confidence combined with a good deal of personal effort will work more wonders than anything else that can be done.

THE VINDICATIO OF VOOR1IEES. The republican and independent press of the country may now honorably apologize to Senator Voorhees for the abuse that It has heaped upon him during the fight for the repeal of the purchase clause of the Sherman law. Never did the leader of an assault have more hostility shown him from those who professed to be with him in purpose. He has not only been charged with lack of ability as a leader, but his sincerity has been questioned, and some have even gone so far as to charge him with an intent to betray the interests confided to him into the hands of the enemy. He has been derided and scoffed at by the paragraph makers with a persistence and bitterness that is seldom seen. And as an end to all this he has won. He has brought his forces through successfully. He has accomplished what he undertook to accomplish. In the face of the most resolute opposition that has ever been given by a minority in the senate his bill has been passed. We submit to our contemporaries that In common decency they should apologize to the gentleman whom they have so unjustly treated. While the whole country is indebted to Senator Voorhees for the -successful conclusion of his work, the democratic party is especially indebted to him for gaining his end with so little bad effect on the party organization. The democratic party has a majority in the senate which must be relied upon to pass important measures that will shortly come before it. When we leave the repeal bill we leave republican support. It has been of the highest importance that the party In the senate should not become bitter in its division' over this measure, lest the factional feeling so created should prevent harmonious action hereafter. That end has evidently been attained. There is no indication of any rupture that will be of 'importance. More than that, the struggle has come to a conclusion with a majority of the democratic senators voting for repeal, although it has been claimed repeatedly that if the democrats settled the question In caucus repeal would be lost. We do not desire to underestimate the Influence of the president oro decry the effect of public sentiment. We do maintain that Senator Voorhees has played his part with credit to himself and with the best results that could have been expected for his party and for the country. The Chicago Record recalls the speech of Carter Harrison at Joliet in 1S76, which did so much good for the democratic party in that campaign. He reached the climax in these words: I tell you men. you idle men of Joliet, that you can find the cause of your idleness told in your bible. Do you remember the story Matthew tells of the talents? It has been in my heart and mind since my school days In my dear old Kentucky home. Then he quoted as only he could: "For uirto every one that hath shall le given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall bo taken away even that which he hath." The audience did not catch the full meaning of the quotation as applied to Its condition and there was no response. Mr. Harrison made it plain. There you have It. The republican party Is the rich man's party. It wants to make the rich man richer, the poor man poorer the little you have left It wants to rake from you. Now do you understand It? The writer states that on a subsequent occasion, discussing the speech, Mr. Harrison said to him: "Was I bitter that night? Well. It may be that I was. You see I was poor then, land-poor, if you know what that means, and many a forlorn fellow In the audience carried a lighter heart than Carter Harrison." There is a truth In that speech that is well worth remembering by every poor man In 'he country. Massachusetts papers are having a little diversion over the celebrated statement of John Sherman that "it is therefore simply an absurdity to talk now about a free trade tariff; and to talk about a protective tariff Is unnecessary, because the wit of man could not possibly frame a tariff that would produce $140,000,000 In gold without amply protecting our domestic Industry." (iovcrnor Russell quoted this, and the Boston Journal denounced hi statement a a lie, claiming that Sherman never used the won!. The Journal ha been obliged to admit that he did. Thl I another Instance of the langer of denying any quotation from the great republican "financier'' There are few public question. anl none concerning finance, that he ha not been on all side of nt various time. He can furnish more contradictory statement fin tariff, silver, greenback and bond than any living man, und n) om lacking supernatural power can predict what Sherman will advocate next. Hud Stone ha made another confession. It I difficult to keep tab on Hud' confession, but we believe thl I the fourth. He made It to hi wife, who Journeyed t Jeffeinonvlll from her home near Washington that she might Induce him, once for all, to tell the truth. Thl last confession apparently make null and void the first and third, which Implicated several other parties. One point he stick firmly to, and that I that lie killed all of the Ill-fated Wrattcns

himself, although In two of his confessions he said others aided in various ways. He now stands by what may be classified as confession No. 2. In this he declared that he had no aid, but that he committed the crimes single handed and alone. Stone is a bud in name and a full-blown flower of very fungus growth In fact. He and Prendergast might bloom luxuriantly together under favorable conditions.

TIIAMySGIYINC PROCLAMATION'. President Tie vein ml Appoints Thursday, Nov. 30, to Be Observed. WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. The president today issued the following Thanksgiving proclamation: "By the President of the United States of America: "A PROCLAMATION. "While the American people should every day remember with praise and thanksgiving . the divine goodness and mercy which have followed them since their beginning as a nation, it is fitting that one day in each year should be esfecially devoted to the contemplation of the blessings we have received from the hand of God. and to the grateful acknowledgment of His loving kindness. "Therefore, I, G rover Cleveland, president of the United States, do herebv designate and set apart Thursday, he thirtieth day of the present month of November, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to be kept and ooserved by all the people of our land. On that day let us forego our.ordlnary work and employments and assemble- in our usual places of worship where we may recall all that God has done for us, and where from grateful hearts our united tribute of praise and song may reach the throne of grace. Let the reunion of kindred and the social meeting of friends lend cheer and enjoyment to the duty and let generous gifts or charity for the relief of the poor and needy prove the sincerity of our thanksgiving. "G ROVER CLEVELAND. "By the president. "WALTER Q. GRESHAM, "Secretary of State." NEWSBOYS AT THE FAIR. The Delegation front Detroit Gnest of tJen. Alacr. WORLD'S FAIR GROUNDS. Nov. 3. For a minute today it seemed as if the old days of the exposition had returned. The workmen suddenly heard shouts of laughter and all kinds of merry noises proceeding from the terminal station. The place was full of boys. A band began to play and a procession of youngsters started across the plaza. Six hundred newsboys arrived from Detroit. They came in a special train of twelve coaches over the Michigan Central as tho guests of Oen. Rlissell A. Alger of Detroit. The boys furnished the fewspectators with a sight of the first parade given on the grounds since the close of the fair. It brought back visions of children's week at the fair. A happier crowd has seldom been seen within the Jackson park inclosure. The entrances to Midway were thrown- open and the urchins trooped through the half dismantled mimic orient. A truce was declared for the day in the Ferris wheel fight and all the small visitors were given a ride In the big machine. When it came to the eating the menu was not so elaborate as many that have been prepared in the white city, but few have been better appreciated. Sandwiches and milk was the fare. The boys will go home tonight. WRATH OF A JUMiE. Fined i Prominent Man for Indorslns; n Lynching. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 31. The trial of Sheriff McLarendon. charged with failure to perform his duty in preventing the lynching of a negro rapist, who was taken from the county jail by a mob a few weeks ago, came to an abrupt termination today. Out of T.00 talesmen who were examined only one juror was secured. Finding it Impossible to secure a jury the state's attorney entered a nolle pros. Tho state of public feeling was well Illustrated by the examination of the first juror called, Mr. M. H. Mitchell, a prominent citizen of Collierville. In answer to the usual question Mr. Mitchell replied: "I have formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or inno-ence of the defendant." He was ordered aside, and when leaving the stand said audibly and dramatically: "I would give Sheriff McLarendon a gold medal for his conduct." Judge S ruggs ordered Mitchell's arrest and assessed a $10 fine ani ten days Imprisonment In the county jail. Other talesmen, while Indorsing Mr. Mitchell's sentiments, were more cautious. The as-s against several of the leaders of the mob were also withdrawn and the prisoners released. MRS. BROWN'S WILL. She Leaves ..'toO.OOO o Charity Small Gifts to Relatives. QUINCY, 111.. Oct. 31. The will of Mrs. Charles Brown was probated today. She leaves $300,000 to public charities and two-thirds of It goes to hx-al and state societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Her nearest relatives are only remembered by four legaciesof $1.000 each. She leaves $.".5,000 and her residence and furniture to inaugurate and maintain a home for the aged por of Quincy. There Is a bequest of $5.000 to the Woodlawn home for orphans In Quincy and $5.000 to the Inilustrlal home for girls at Evanston. 111. Other bequests: $75,000 to the Illinls humane society. $45.0O to the Connecticut humane society, $15,000 to the Iuisiana state sx-ety for the prevention of crjelty to animals. $15.000 Vo the Massachusetts society fir the prevention of cruelty to animals, $15,0o0 to the Quincy humane society. S E NSATION L V All. I It E. C. V. Snvery of Des Mlties Mnkm nn AsmIkii ment. DES. MOINKS. Ia.. Nov. 1. A sensation was created In business circles this morning by the assignment of C. C. Savery, owner of the Savery house, th biggest hotel In the state, president of the American emigrant society, Brooklyn, and a heavy sttskholder In several mines in Montana. Ass ts nearly $1,ooo.ooo. Assignee Wlltner this evening Informed the Associated Pn-ss reHrter that he did not believe Savery' liabilities would exceed fion.ooo, nearly all of which he owned In hi cnnetlon with the American emigration company of Brooklyn. V timer say he think the creditor will get dollar for dollar. i

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REMARKABLE CASE OF CRIELTT TOWARD A WIFE. Mrs. finnnins; Recites In Court Hoir Her Husband at the Mnzcle of a Kr wlvrr Compcllnl Her to Man tnif Her Property Lost In the Andes. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. The papers of Mrs. Christine Lathrop Gunning, niece of the late Senator Leland Stanford of California, and corroborative affidavits, together with the statement of her counsel, in supreme court chambers today develop-d one of the most remarkable cases of cruelty on "record. Mrs. Gunning recites numerous acts on the part of her husband, now dead, that make him appear in a nio;?t memorable light. Gunning ran away from his wife and his creditors in November, l5. with $15,000 of her money, after squandering her fortune of $250,0jo. He was lost in a snow storm in the Andes mountains on May, 19. A judgment on one of the notes for $5.000 obtained from her by her husband led to yesterday's proceedings before j Judge Barrett. Lawyer Joseph B. Earmoved that the judgment secured In Connecticut by the Lincoln national bank of this city Jan. 2, lsr. and also at Saratoga on Feb. 6, 1S91, oe set aside. Mr. Barcus argued that the judgment could not be collected as aM of Mrs. Gunning's money was gone. Supplementary proceedings in the suit wer subsequently brought to recover on the note and Walter P. Butler was appointed receiver of Mrs. Gunning's property. It was to prevent the receiver from getting at the legacy of $10Xfo0 left by Leland Stanford, her uncle, that Lawyer Barcus moved that the Judgments be set aside in order to let his client to come in and defend the suit. Her defense is that the note was obtained while she was under duress and that the bank had been notified Ixfore the note in question was given that notes were being obtained from her by force. Mrs. Gunning's moving affidavit stated that after her marriage with Gunning they went to Mt. Vernon to live and fuur weeks afterward he began threatening her and dsnoiling her of her property. He made her an innia.te of an Insano asylum for six weeks in Hartford, Conn., beginning in May, S9. Since she was removed from the asylum fhe has lived with her mother and two children in Saratoga. Mrs. Gunning relates that 011 one occasion when he wanted her to i-lgn, a note her huslvind presented a levolver at her head. At another time he choked her until she fainted and once he knocked her down with his fist anil injured her spine. To save her life she signed notes in those instances. On a cold night In the winter of 1SS7 Gunning wajited her to sign another note and b cause she refused he dragged her out of bed and forced hr to sign. On still another occasion when she protested against signing any more notes Gunning knocked her down and grabbing her hands tent her fingers back until the flesh was torn. Scars are now visible on her hands as the result of the injury thus inflicted. Mrs. Gunning says he made her sign another note on Sept. 25, ISsR, when sh was about to become a mother. He drove everybody from her room and told her that she must sign a note for more money. She protested and fetching pen and ink to the bedside he graoed her hand and held it so that he caused her to trace her name on the note. In October. 1SS7, Mrs. Gunning say that her husband leased a farm of hi brother rear Norwalk. Conn., and stocked It with thorughbred horses and called It a "scientific stock farm." 11 added "0 acres to it and sunk $20rt.ol of her money in it. On Oct. 19, lwi, h9 Induced her to come to this city. When on the train he told her to sign more notes and when she refused he threatened to put her in an Insano asylum. He took her to the Chemical nathnal bank and she there signed several notes, including the one that ligun-d in the suit against her. Mrs. Gunning says that she notified William T. Cornell, cashier of the Lincoln ratioml bank, of the duress she was under, and that she would not be responsible for the notes thus extorted. Mr?. Gunning secured a separation from her husband in Connet ticut in February. lSt. Ex-Judge Noah Davis snd lawyer Daniel Gerber. In opposing the motion, submitted an affidavit of William T. Cornell, in which he denied that Mrs. Gunning notified him that she had signed the note or any notes while under c.uress. It was shown that the hank had discounted many notes of the couple previous to the on involved in the suit. Officers of the Lincoln national bank denied that they had any knowledge of the quarrels of the Gunnings. Ml HI) Kit WITH A MORAL. Western Farmer Got Tired of n Wlfa Obtained Tlironah Ad erl lalnjc. SPOKANE. Wash.. Oct. 31. A shocking munbr Is reported near Waterville. Wash. The crime was discovered yesterday. John Dough'rty, a farmer aged sixty, hacked his wifi to death with a butcher knife. 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