Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — FATAL ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

FATAL ACCIDENT.

Of Beechers church there are twelve member* who have offered him SIO,OOO to prosecute libel suits against the news--407 convicts are in the State Prison South at present, which is said to be the largest number of convicts ever incarcerated there since the Northern Prison was established. Grangers in ‘Wisconsin have on hand $250,000 toward a State Agricultural Implement Society. There is a movement on foot in Tennessee to establish a similar enterprise. It is announced that on the first day of December the railway companies will advance their freight rates and reduce the wages of employee. If such a thing is done we may expect a huge strike. It is proposed by the Grangers in the counties bordering the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, between St. Louis and Jefferson City, to organise a joint stock association, to run a line of steamers between the two cities. The Logansport Journal aays there were ninety-four Democratic votes in the last congress, and of these, fifty-two were obliged to take the modified rebel oath before they could take their seats. This is the material which will control a Democratic congress should the country ever be afflicted with such a body. In an article entitled “The Grange the Farmers’.University,” a late number of the Northern Granger gives the following sensible and good example and suggestive remarks: “The perfection of the Grange will be reached only when those who been reared under its influences are as intellectual, as refined and as polished as the best class of the inhabitants of our larger towns and cities, without their follies, immoralities and vices. By joint efforts, through’the medium of the Grange, libraries can easily be procured, lectures delivered, and various means of instruction and entertainment provided at a trifling expense to the individual, but of the greatest value to all. Each of one hundred members bv contributing the small sum of one dollar towards the purchase of a Grange library, would thereby place it in the power of each member to enjoy the advantages of a hundred dollar library, all for .the inconsiderable sum of one dollar. Such is the value of co-operation.— Thus, through the instrumentality of the Grange, do we place in our homes hundreds of good books and scores of conveniences and pleasures which are practicably unattainable by the individual. It will have been noticed by all who are observant that those fanners who are best informed, are the most prosperous and most contented. This is true of other occupations as well as that of farming, but it is of the occupation of agriculture only that we speak at this time. Farmers generally, and especially farmers’ wives, are overworked. They work too many hours in a day, too many days in a week, and too many weeks in a year. — Nothing is thus gained in the end by thus slaving the life away. Though most farmers regard it a neeessity, yet it is thro' the Grange that we are to learn better; and the sooner we set about it the soonei shall we see that we might have done sc before. Let us get together in the Grange, and by thinking a little, devise some plan of dividing our hard work with the sleek and well-fed middle-man, and of sharing a portion of his elegant leisure. Of course he will object to this show oi generosity on our part, but we must press our courtesy upon him until there shall be something like a fair distribution oi the good things of this world betwee n us We do not demand extraordinary privileges ;we demand justice. We do col labor to pull others down ; we labor t< build ourselves up. Six thousand yean of single-handed effort has failed to accomplish any satisfactory results iu that direction, and it is but the part of common wisdom to try other means to lighter our labors and enhance our profits. The Grange is the salvation of th< farmer, and neeeds only to be maintained by energetic, intelligent, and, above all harmonious action, to accomplish all th< desirable results within the scope of anj human institution. Stand by the Grange, then! .Sustain it by zealous labor, and the persistence which of itself insure* success. With it you are sovereign* with your soepters in your hands; without it you are on the high road to vassal age.

Mach has been said in efforts to account for the Republican reverses in the late elections, and to make them seem no }>ermanent defeat or disapproval by the jxjople. We have thought it might be partly owing to Republicans, in power so long, and confident of their majority, not duly heeding the unprecedented former’s movement during two years .past, so as to

ascertain, and satisfy, so far as possible and right, their claims. The agriculturists procure the sustenance we all depend on; and are hence the most important class of people, worthy of the most consideration. When they clamor for some right against some wrong we may presume the wrong exists, however it may be misunderstood. The matter should receive attention and investigation, and the right! of labor guarded and secured. If the late Republican defeat shall cause the party to consider duly every interest of labor and exchange in due regard to its importance, and thereby enlist the laboring and all industrial classes generally in their cause, and in political co-operation, giving farmers interests due prominence, not as against but in connection with all others, their fall will turn to good. — Valparaiso Mdette.

Two Mob Killed and Five Injured by the Fall of a Wall. The following telegram we found in the Inter-Ocean of Monday last: » [Special Telegram to the Inter- Ocean. J South Bxnd, Ind., Nov. 22.—About 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, while some la* borers were engaged in digging a trench for the purpose of laying sewer-pipes alongside atwo-stery sixteen inch wall, forty-five feet long, of Studebaker Brothers’ new wagon works, it fell with a terrible crash, killing two men and seriously injuring four others, one, it is feared, fatally. The ditchers had been warned not to dig deeper than the foundation, as the building was not completed and the mortar still green. They disobeyed orders, undermined the wall, and the catastrophe followed. The two victims were Daniel Donovan and Godfrey Goerst. Three others had been with them in the ditob, but were ordered elsewhere a few minutes previous to the accident. Donovan had a bruise on his left temple, and his right leg was broken. Goerst’s right ankle was crushed. Neither of them had received bodily injuries sufficient to cause death.— They had evidently been suffocated. The four men who escaped with their lives were Wilson Overacker, Marshal Urquhart, John W. Harbon, and Lorenz Jackowaick. These men were carpenters, who, at the time of the accident, were at work on a beam in the second story, one end of which rested on the walL Overacker’s recovery is doubtful, but the injuries of the others are not so severe. , Less than an hour after the fall of the wall, while a crowd of laborers were engaged ia clearing away the debris, a portion of the overhanging roof and flooring gave way, breaking the leg of Paul Gyzilski. This afternoon a meeting of mechanics was held at the Opera House, when resolutions of condolence were adopted and steps taken for holding another meeting to-mor-, row night to. provide for raising a fund to defray the funeral expenses and give aid to the sufferers, who will not be able to work for some time. The damage to the building is estimated at $1,600.