Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

CALLING A HALT TO M’KINLEY. If President McKinley, and the men who control him can read the signs of the times aright there surely will be a change tn the administration’s Philippine policy. The returns from the special election held In the Eighth Congressional District of Missouri ought alone to insure that. The Eighth was represented for years by Richard P. Bland, whose name Is associated with the sliver dollar, and who was-the chief rival of William J. Bryan for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1896. The vote has Been close there for quite a long t’me, the Republicans electing their candidate In 1894, and being beaten last fall by only 2,800 in a total of over 40,000. When Bland died the Republicans thought they would surely elect his successor, calculating largely on the popularity of their own candidate, the dissensions among the Democrats, and, above all, the aid the administration at Washington was extending to them. The contest was a most exciting one, with the result that last fall’s Democratic majority is Increased in an unusually heavy vote for a by-election. What did it? The answer is simple. Imperial expansion led to Republican defeat. The fight was made on this. The silver question was relegated to the rear. The necessity of slaughtering the Filipinos for the purpose of upholding the flag was brought to the front and fought honestly and bravely by the Democrats, who naturally feared that the brute instinct would prove stronger than reason. This Missouri district Is not the most promising field for a campaign against Imperialism. »The glamour that surrounds expansion Is as bright there as it ta anywhere else in the West, where national vainglory is a very strong factor. That the Republicans calculated on winning through this is abundantly proven by the efforts made by the administration and by the big St Louis newspapers. Their defeat Is emphatic, and shows that the American public still stands by the Constitution.—New Yorlc News. Vnr uni It usay well startle the advocates of an Imperialistic policy to learn from the annual report of the Pension Commissioner that there are now on the pension list no less than 991,515 names. If nearly forty years after the beginning of the great war between the States nearly 1,000,000 men are drawing annually over $140,000,000 from the treasury, what must be the final burden to the American taxpayer If President McKinley’s plan of conquest is carried out to Its logical conclusion? Truly. Imperialism is an expensive preposition. Can the people look with equanimity on a plan which carries with it the possibilities of an enormous increase of this burden of taxation to meet the tremendous expense entailed by pensions? From statistics furnished by the pension bureau, it Is learned that since 1860, when the pension list began to assume considerable proportions, $2,370.600,000 has-been expended in paying pensions. This is an amount not far from equal to the expenditures of the general government from Its organization down to 1860. The pension outlay from 1866 almost equals the highest notch that the public debt attained after the close of the civil war. The debt reached Its maximum Aug. 1, 1865, at $2,756,000,000. The pension expenditures since 1805 have been $2,370,000,000. The human mind is Incapable of realizing the magnitude of these money values. The pension outlay was double the gross earnings of all the 182,000 miles of railway in the United States during the fiscal year 1898. Truly, In calculating the cost of imperialism the minor expense of the present is not the only item worthy of consideration.—Chicago Democrat. I'rosoe’4 y With the'.r usual disregard of truth the Republican politicians are claimlug that the business prosperity of the United States is owing to the election of McKinley. Doubtless the business prosperity of the European nations is 1 also owing to the election of McKinley. When wheat went up to a dollar or . more a bushel the Republican shouters claimed that “McKinley did it.’’ But men of sense know that the famine in India and the short crop in Argentina did it. No\r wnat.was the direct result of McKinley's election? Let William J. (fvyan tell you. He says: “More banks ' \aileil the first B,x months after the ' ' election than ever in the history of the country. If I had been elected it would have been laid at my door. More business houses failed the first six mouths after the election than ever in the same period of time before. If I had been elected all this would haTe been my fault. Times got so bad that some people thought that I bad been elected, and one man from Texas wrote and congratulated me. But I have not been drawing a salary nor have I been appointing new cabinet officers to fill the places of those who have resigned. Times got better and the goldbug came out and said: ‘See; didn’t I tell you wbat would happen If the gold ticket " was elected? Didn’t I tell yon that gold would be discovered In British Columbia?* and did not every man who dlahml K»an mUtakan V irkA nrnnlw oe uau misinaen i lut people

who said In 1896 that we had enough gold were the ones to do the most rejoicing whe nthat was discovered.’’ How plainly a frank statement of facts exposes the hypocrisy of these falsifiers who claim credit for acts of providence and seek to fool the people by preposterous assertions. If there la prosperity, the people should give thanks to world-wide conditions which make it possible, and not to McKinley. Money and the Masses. When the Ohio State Democratic convention adopted a resolution reaffirming the Chicago platform with full emphasis It served notice on the Republican party that gold legislation In Congross would precipitate the money fight of 1896 in more than its original bitterness. There can be no doubt that the masses la the United States believe in bimetallism. The fact that 6,500,000 votes were cast for William J. Bryan and free silver In 1896 shows how the people stand, and but for the false promises and coercion of the money power that Vote would have been largely increased. Should the Republican Congress, urged on by the money trust, pass laws making the gold standard the measure of values there will be a revolt on the part of the people which will overthrow the Republican party and make the money issue paramount. It is not likely, however, that any radical legislation concerning the currency will be passed by the next Congress. McKinley has too clear a knowledge of the fact that there Is a large silver sentiment in his own party to allow such gold legislation on the eve of a campaign for re-election. It has been made apparent that William J. Bryan will be the Democratic candidate for President, and however much (he Republican leaders may boast of their loyalty to gold they will think twice before they precipitate a fierce struggle on that specific question. Know Whit Imperialism MeannIt phould be borne in mind that there are two large and Influential elements in the voting population in all the States which may be counted upon to oppose imperialism regardless of party. Both the Germans and the Irish will none of it. The Germans have had experience of the burdens of militarism. They have come to this country to escape compulsory military service and taxation which amounts almost to confiscation—both being the natural and inevitable result of imperialism either in Europe or in America. As for the Irish, the history of their own country Is a guaranty that they will have no hand in the enslavement of other races struggling for independence and the right to govern themselves.—Chicago Chronicle. n Kndlcsa Tax ITnrdcn. The tremendous cost of the Philiopine war is just beginning to dawn upon the American people. The appropriation for the War Department is $80,000,000 for the current year, but the expenditure for military purposes during the month of July has been At this rate the expenditures for the year will amount to $220,000,000, leaving a deficit of $140,000,000. The regular appropriation will be exhausted by the time Congress convenes, and must be asked to make good the appalling deficiency that will be found to exist. Then, indeed, win the country get a realization of the frightful cost of the iniquitous war being waged against the Filipinos.—Chattanooga News. Commission or Omission, It is hard to tell whether the American people will base tbeir high respect for Dewey the more upon what he has done or upon what he has refrained from doing. His refusal, for example, to accept an invitation to dine with the millionaires of New York commends him mightily to the good will of a great majority of the people of this country. One Belshazzar feast of the kind partaken of by President McKinley at such hands is enough for a decade at least. If Admiral Dewey shall still further refuse to be trotted about the country for the purpose of popularizing the administration's Philippine policy he will be accounted thrice great.—Los Angeles Herald. McKinley the Agtrressor. Spain could not convey to us any rights which she did not possess and Mr. McKinley cannot justly claim any right not expressly conferred upon him by the constitution or laws of his country. “Our rights In the Philippines” would therefore seem to be limited to the right of self-defense—to repel ‘attacks upon our forces—and to the right of maintaining order and security in the city of Manila which we conquered from Spain, if Mr. McKinley had not claimed and sought to enforce rights far exceeding these there would have been no war there.—New York World. Test of Mltltarjr' Rale. Government revenues last mouth rose to nearly sso,ooo,ooo—exhibiting the continued great productiveness of the war taxes. Expenditures were also very heavy, and leave a deficit of about $8,000,000. The army and navy expenses were about $10,000,000 larger than In the same month of 1897, when matters were on a peace footing. This difference represents to a considerable extent the cost of holding our dependencies under military rule.—Springfield Renubllean.

SEVEN NEGROES SHOT

MINERS MEET IN A DEADLY BATTLE. Blocks Flee for Tbeir Lives, bat Are Brought Down by Ballets of Whits Parsaers—Troops Sent to Prevent Farther Bloodshed. In a pitched battle between negro and white miners, fought in the main street of Carterville, 111., Sunday, seven of the colored men were killed and two others wounded. It was only Monday of the previous week that the State militia, which had been on duty there for several months, was withdrawn, it being considered that all danger of trouble was past. After the departure of the troops, however, it appears that the bitter feeling between the races took new life, Sunday’s outbreak proving the culmination. Both sides insist that the other was responsible for the deadly combat. Thirteen non-union colored miners left tbeir homes at Brush’s mines, north of the town, shortly before noon and came down to the Illinois Central station intending to take the Paducah express for Marion. It has been the custom of Brush’s non-union negro miners for several weeks, or a squad of twelve of fifteen of them, to go to Marion every Sunday, remain for the night services at the colored church and return home on the 11:10 p. m. train. These negroes had been at the Carterville station only a few minutes when twenty-five or thirty union miners, most of them armed with rifles, appeared on the scene. When they came up they found several of the negroes inside the waiting room, the remainder on the platform. The black men were immediately ordered by the white miners to leave there and to leave at once. The order was soon repeated to them, with another order to leave the town and that quickly. According to unprejudiced witnesses, the negroes commenced to obey the orders, going northwest on the railroad tracks. When they had proceeded about 100 yards to where the main street of the town crosses the railroad traeks one of the negroes turned, drew his revolver and fired back at the crowd, which was then advancing toward them. This was a signal for a general onslaught by the white miners. They opened a deadly fire on the negroes, who scattered like scared sheep. The white miners fired over 100 shots at the fleeing negroes, and it is said that many shots were tired at them from the windows of houses aftd from barns and outhouses. Every few minutes one of the fleeing men would stagger, throw up his hands and topple to the earth. The pursuers did not stop, but kept up their rain of lead until the few survivors had gotten beyond range. These dead negroes fell along the railroad track not more than 200 yards from the station. , The infuriated miners followed up their bloody work and those of the unfortunate negroes who were not killed when they first fell were afterward riddled with bullets at short range or clubbed to death with the butts of guns. Two of the wounded managed to get away from the scene of slaughter and walked to within a short distance of the mines, where their dead bodies were found later in the day. This clash is the outcome of differences between the operators and union continuing over several years. The strike has been more for a recognition of the union fhan because of wages. Rioting, beginiiug in .Tune last, resulted iu the calling jut of State troops, which were withdrawn from the town only a week before. Gov. Tanner, on receipt of the news of the riot, immediately ordered Lieut. Lowden of Company C of Carbondale to proceed with his command at once to Carterville, procuring a special train if necessary. Two companies of the Fourth regiment, under command of Col. Bennett, were also ordered to the scene of the trouble.

KANSAS’ GREAT CORN CROP.

This Year’s Yield Is the Largest in History. The 1599 Kansas corn crop is ready for harvesting and the number of bushels yielded is far in excess of that ever produced by any other State of the Union in any one year or by any equal area of the world. The acreage of the State was 9,132,000 acres. The last report of the United States Agricultural Department gave the condition at 106, putting the State far in the lead of all other States. The condition was vastly improved since that estimate was made. Kansas has raised 400,000,000 bushels of corn. The human mind fails to grasp the meaning of the expression. To move the crop would require 22,500 trains of cars, giving forty ears to the train. Were each ear forty feet long, each train would equal 1,600 feet in length without locomotive and caboose, then multiplying the 22,500 trains by 1,600 feet, the length of each train, we have 360,000,000 feet. Dividing that number by the number of feet per mile, to wit, 5,280, it makes 6,818 miles, twice the distance from New York to London.

BERMUDA SWEPT BY STORM.

Great Da in ano to Property, bat No Loss of Life. The Island of Bermuda was swept by a hurricane Wednesday night, which, though resulting in no loss of life, caused damages to property that will run well into the thousands. The storm raged all night and many buildings were wrecked, including the Government house. It was the worst blow since the hurricane of 1880. There was considerable damage done at the military camp, where the city hall, public gurdens and hotels were wrecked, and at the dock yards alone the loss is estimated at £IOO,OOO. It is a curious coincidence that the great gale of 1839 occurred on Sept. 11 and 12, and this one was on Sept. 12 and 13. Notes of Current Events. Severe drouth in northern Texas has been broken. Glass tableware trust formed at Fittsburg, Pa. Capital $4,000,000. A line of electric omnibuses has just been started in Berlin, Germany. Silk mill belonging to Julius Bra rules, Paterson, N. J., burned. Loss $20,000. Georgia has furnished more men for the Philippines than any other State. Terrace House and eleven cottages, Terrace Park, N. Y., bnrned. Loss $20,-

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

thyloc li Blind The money lender says to himself that if he can make money scarce there will be a scramble for It, and interest rates will be high. This was one of the impelling causes of the gold standard. But we see exactly the opposite result taking place. The rate of interest has fallen along with the prices of commodities. There has been no exception to the rule; and Shyloek Is now glad to get 4 and 5 per cent, for only a fractional part of his money, when In former times he could readily lend It all at 8,10 and 12. In the frenzy of his greed he killed the goose that laid the golden , egg, and now he seeß bis yellow hoards j stacked up and Idle In his vaults because the contraction of the currency has so impoverished imfustry that men can no longer afford to pay interest on money to do business with. There is no profit in a declining market, and consequently men stand idle and Shyloek grinds his teeth with rage because he cannot lend his money, says the Mississippi Valley Democrat and Journal of Agriculture. But another, and the principal, reason for the establishment of the gold standard, was tho certain knowledge that a contracted currency would create poverty In the prices of property, and Shyloek hoped to carry this principle to the extent of possessing himself of all the property of his neighbors. Here again his greed has, in a measure, defeated bis purpose, for in many instances property has depreciated to such an extent that Shylock cannot afford to pay the taxes and keep up the necessary improvements, and consequently we see fields rank with weeds, ramshackle and unpainted barns and houses, and fences that no longer possess any terrors for wandering stock. Abundant money not only increases prices of property and produce, but it stimulates enterprise, creates an active demand for cash, brings the whole stock of money into use and raises the rates of interest. It Is strange that money lenders cannot and will not see this natural order of things, especially when the facts are spread out under their very nose 3. Silver Tb ftl 1 a World Money. Some very prejudiced and unfair newspapers would have their readers believe that with the closing of the mints of Europe, the United States and India to the free coinage of silver, the white metal ceased to be money. The fact remains that there is the same amount of silver in use to-day as money as of gold, approximately $4,000,000,000 of each. Only a tenth part of the immense amount of silver money in the world is not full legal tender. The chief commercial nations of the world are to day holding of the precious metals as follows: Full legalGold. tender silver. United States ... $6-’5 000,000 $549,700,000 France 8J5.000.000 434,300,000 United Kingdom. 550.tK;0,000 Germany ffi!5,000,009 105,000,000 Belgium 55,000,000 48,000,000 Norway, Sweden 13,800,(00 Denmark 14,200,01,0 Austria 130,000,000 81,000,000 Totals $2,838,000,000 $1,218,000,000 Thus it will be seen that silver is an Important part of the stock of mohey in the Western World, while In the Orient It is the regnant money metal! It has been predicted by careful observers and students of the currency that. If gold goes on being extracted at the present rate, the tendency of silver and gold will be to readjust their relations on quite the old basis without aid from legislation. We must never forgot that, in the mid-half of the present century, gold itiself began to be discredited on account of over-production and th.at Us demonetization was loudly called for by eminent French economists! The gold men have very short memories.—The Mexican Financier. K.icts About the Silver Dollar. The silver dollar, or “unit,” was authorized by act of April 2, 1892. • In the first dollars there were 1,485 parts of fine silver to 179 parts of alloy. 11 was to contain 371 grains and foursixteenths parts of a grain of pure silver. During 1794 and 1795 only $204,791 were coined under the act of April 2, 1792. Each was to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar, “as the same Is now current.” In the second series the dollars contained 44"*i grains of copper, making the dollar 892.4 fine. The ratio of 15 to 1 for United States coins was made legal by section 11 of the coinage act of 1537. The act of 1837 changed, the alloy In the dollar to 41% grains of copper, making the standard nine-tenths fine. The Liberty bea<l on the first United States dollars, those of 1794, faced to the right, and had loose, flowing hair. According to that section “a dollar of gold must contain 24.75 grains of pure metal, and silver dollar 371.25 gralna.” Besides the head, they contained the date and the word “Liberty” on the same side, and fifteen stars, seven at the face and eight at the back of the head. - The obverse of the coin was also slightly different. Liberty having unkempt bangs, and her hair tied behind with a ribbon. The stars on the same side bad also been reduced to thirteen. There were two series of dollars coined in 1799. In the first. Liberty only had five of the thirteen stars at her face, and In the second six. In instances the remaining stars were at the back.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. i . Aeronaut’! Parachute Refugee to Open —Farmer Shot by a Widow—New Railway from Ulwood to Lapel— Disastrous Fire at Mllltown. Prof. Dennis, an aeronaut, attempted a parachute drop at the Crawfordsviile fair. When the time came for Dennis’ balloon ascension fully 30,000 people were present at the fair. He ascended successfully until about 200 feet front the {round, when the balloon burst. The paricbute failed to open until within a few feet of the earth, against which the aerotuut was dashed with scarcely diminished velocity. It is feared his injuries will prove fatal. WldoW ‘ hoots Aged Farmer. In Scott township, Mrs. Davella Swartz, a widow, shot Wesley Green, an iged farmer, with an old-fashioned muz-zle-loading shotgun loaded with slugs. The load took effect in the man’s leg, shattering the limb, and it is said that he jartnot recover. The shooting occurred it Mrs. Swartz’s home and resulted from frequent annoyances on the part of Green. New Railway Projected. Thomas Newkirk, a wealthy capitalist of Richmond, has secured the right of way for a railroad from Elwood through Anderson to Lapel, where it will be united with the Chicago and Southeastern, owned by Harry Crawford of Chicago. The promoters behind the enterprise state It is to tap the Indiana coal fields for the gas belt cities and factories when coal becomes necessary. Big Atari lied Discovered. State Geologist W. S. Biachley and Assistant George H. Ashley, who have been prospecting in La Porte County for marl beds, discovered the largest bed in Iniiana. It is located at Fish Lake, covers 100 acres and is from ten to twelve feet thick. Swift & Co., the Chicago packers, own the property. Milltown Badly Burned. At Milltown, T. E. Hancock’s general store, the Odd Fellows’ Hall, J. F. Rawlings’ undertaking establishment, the Royer Hotel, two cottages belonging to T. E. Hancock, C. W. Rawlings’ twpstory residence were burned. The loss will reach at least $20,000. There was ao fire protection but a bucket brigade. Within Our Border*. Case of smallpox in Porter County. Noblesville is kicking on gas rates. John Aldridge, near Muncie, was killed in a runaway. Thieves have been stealing gold from Marion dentists. Peter Brown, Lawrenceburg, has started a turtle farm. A. H. Braden. 60, retired capitalist, Frankfort, is dead. Cholera is making hogs turn up their toes in Grant County. Bert Snyder, residing near Lakeville, was killed by a Wabash train. Miners in southern Indiana are leaving to go to the new mines in Michigan. Union steel mills, employing I,GOO men, Anderson, has gone into the trust. Northwest Indiana M. E. conference will be held at Lafayette next year. Barney Orotman, 68, near Fort Wayne, fell from a haymow and was fatally hurt. Ohio and Indiana Gas Company has leased 8,000 acres of land in Jay County. Jay County jail has been condemned twenty-six times, and the prisoners want another boarding house. Parke County glass sand plant, Coxville, is in ashes. Loss $40,000, with little insurance. Origin a mystery. | At Washington, Mrs. Johnson, colored, gave her little daughter morphine, thinktng it was quinine. The child died. One-year-old child of Schuyler Love, Washington, fell into a bucket containing five inches of water and was drowned. Representatives of the Indiana Southern Railroad have completed deals whereby they secure valuable right of way through the center of Terre Haute to the union station. Abe Richardson, 25, Mitchell, was overcome with the damps in a well while attempting to rescue his friend. He leaves a family. j Carlisle ha 3 been placed under quarani tine restrictions because of the epidemic of malignant diphtheria. Sunday school and public schools have been closed. Fires have been lighted in 285 independent pots and all the other independent and co-operative plants will start this month. There is such a limited supply of window glass and such a groat demand, that no decline in prices is edA big sawmill and lumber yard near the Nickel Plate freight depot at Fort Wayne burned. The loss is estimated at $3,000. The mill was owned by David Tcgtmeyer, and its destruction is due to incendiarism. The place had been saturated with oil and tired. The school trustees of Princeton are having considerable trouble about a Cuban boy, whom an army officer brought home with him from Cuba. The Cuban started to school with the white children, when the patrons announced the withdrawal of their children if the foreigner was permitted to attend the school, i Carl Seigert, son of Prof. Julius Sei--1 gert, a teacher in the Lutheran school in La Porte, left home and joined Wallace’s show. The family learns that the son’s body is buried in the potter's field at Washington, D. C. Young Seigert slept over night over a cage occupied by a tiger. During the night Seigert in his sleep threw his leg over the side of the cage. The tiger bit him severely. Blood poisoning developed and the boy died in a Washington hospital. Oil pumping station of the Indiana Oil and Gas Company, near Hartford City, bnrned. Loss $5,000. Receiver has been asked for the Fairmount smelting works, on account of unpaid salaries. John Sidener, Crawfordsviile, seriously shot Clenn Ralston in the stomach with a revolver that be didn’t know was loaded. James Doolittle, 15, and George Cox, 14, two walking arsenals that started from Danville, 111., to become bandits, were arrested at Lafayette. They had baeß reading dime novel*.

STATE CAPITAL CHAT.

Indianapolis boasts of the finest ciimatitjj! in the United States in respect to political salubrity. A few years in Its atmosphere will convert a fanner boy into a President or Vice-President, while Its ■ output of ambassadors, consuls general, and the like is merely regarded as an incident to the more important work in hand of turning out national presiding officers. At present Indianapolitans hold many important European consular posts, v One is minister to Austria. Just now the postmasters at Havana, Ponce and San Juan, the three important cities of our new acquisitions, are all from Indianapolis. Bat the city has a more unique record than this. It has had represeatation on national tickets for the longest unbroken period of any city in the country. In a period of twenty years, beginning with 1872, there was not a national election when the city was without representation on one of the tickets. If Schuyler Colfax, whose home was at South Bend, but who spent much of his time in Indianapolis, is considered an Indianapoliton, this period is extended another four years; ami on top of this, an Indianapolitan was a national candidate for VicePresident in the days before the war. Th# unbroken stretch of twenty years, when bona fide residents of the city were on national tickets, is as follows: In 1872 five electoral votes were cast for George W. Julian for Vice-President and fortytwo votes for Thomas A. Hendricks for President: 1876, Hendricks was the Democratic nominee for Vice-President; 1880, William H. English was the Democratic nominee for Vice-President; 1884, Hendricks was the successful candidate for Vice-President; 1888, Benjamin Harrison was the successful nominee for President; 1892, Harrison was the defeated Republican nominee for President. In 1868 Colfax was elected Vice-President. In 1852 Julian was the nominee for VicePresident on the Free Soil Democratic ticket. - The commission in charge of the traveling library system, established by the last Legislature, has its machinery novr in complete working order, and shipped its first three libraries the other day. Many inquiries as to’the workings of the library and applications for books have been received. To every applicant is sent a pamphlet containing the library law in full and the rules governing the issue of books. These rules include the furnishing of a bond by the organization taking the books, with two free-bold sureties, for the proper use and care of the property. The regulations are very simple and only such as are necessary in successfully operating an institution of this kind. The club or association having furnished bond and notified the commission in care of the State Library of the list of books selected, it will be shipped to the librarian or other person designated in such club, who shall control and circulate the books among the members. Any traveling library must be returned within three months from the date of its loan unless special permission is secured for its longer retention. When returned another will be sent in its place, and these exchanges may continue as long as the rules of the public library commission are observed. At present there are thirty-four of these libraries, but more will be added as the demand increases and new books are purchased. Owing to the number of miscellaneous volumes on hand and tnrned over to the commission by the State Library the first twenty libraries are arranged for all classes of readers. They consist of forty volumes each and contain ten works of fiction, ten juveniles, six historical works, three biographies, two books on economics and civil government, two on science and nature, one book of humor, one agricultural work, one moral and religious work, two volumes of essays, two of poetry and drama.

Notice of the locations selected for Indiana’s statues in Statuary Hall, in the Capitol at Washington has been received by Senator Fairbanks from the custodian of the Capitol. The former House of Representatives is now used as Statuary Hall, and the allotments made to Indiana are on either side of the door leading to the document room, or the third and ~ fourth fourth places on the right, entering the hall from the rotunda. The locations are prominent and among the most desirable. The statue of Morton is ready to be placed in position, and it is probable that the other statue will be that of a Democrat, as it is the policy of the Government to have one representative from each party. J Indiana and Texas will soon be the principals i* an event showing what progress the friendly feeling between the North and South has made. This event is the return to Terry’s Texas Ranger* of the battle flag which was taken from them during the civil war. At the last session of the Indiana Legislature the request for the return of the flag was made by Texas, and it was complied with. The day of the return of the flag, which will be Friday, Oct. 0, is to be celebrated in Texas. Pictures of the flag have been sent there, and badges are now being made in large numbers. It has been decided to present two large silken banners to the Governors of Texas and Indians Quartermaster General Richardson has received a telegram from the chief of ordnance notifying him of the shipment of the four 3-inch rifles allotted to Indiana from the Watervliet arsenal, New York. These are the guns which will be used by the batteries of the National Guard and two of them are the guns used by Battery Ain Porto Rioo. It has not yet been decided hew to divide the guns among the batteries organized, as there are three batteries and four guns. Gov. Mount has completed his recoin-mendations-to the Secretary of War. The last-two urged for commissions are John 8. Johnson of South Bend, who was second lieutenant of Company F, and William E. Parsons of Angola. Both were with the 157th regiment. The Indiana State fair will include twe concert programs by Sousa'a bond for . Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Sept; 20 and 21. In addition, a children’s chorus of 500 voices will each evening