Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 27, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 April 1885 — Page 2

A "FIRE TRAP" BURNED, Tfc IcI-imk ChUwf TwUlly ltre?r4 My Wre vnl Live J.ml gw ts-Tk lt an4 MhMtng. Chioaoo, III., March S.--The Laag ham Hetel, formerly the Rnrdlsk llou, leoated at the corner of Wabash avenue aad Jwksoa streets, was entirely destroyed by re last cveBlag, notwltaUadlag the persistent efforts of sieves ire steamers, whose many stream t water aeettied but to make the name, walofc extended from cellar to garret, bum lercer aad brighter. The ire originated ia oae ol the lower rooms from a keroaeae lamp, which was aecldeatally overtaraed. At the time the restaurant of the house contained 100 guests at supper, aad as luaay iore were la their rooaw. The people la the restaurant had bo trouble iu setting out, bat several persons ia the upper rooms had a very narrow escape. Mrs. Helkuap, aa elderly lady, was killed jumping from the fourth ttery Into the alley. Subsequently the cry ws8 raised that the walls were falling, and that Bulwlukie'a fire Insurance patrolmen were Inside the building. A por

tion of the south wall was seen to to tter jind then It came down with a crash. Two members of the fire Insurance patrol barely escaped the tumbling bricks land Umbers. Two others were planed fast, but after long erlorts were Anally extricated. The legs of both were severely bruised. Patrolmen A. Jones and John Walsh are believed to have beca suffocated beneath the wall. The firemen never ceased their efforts to secure the two missing patrolman and about four hours afterward they wero found In the basement of the building next to the hotel, buried under broken flooring and fragments of the falling; wall. They were taken out auve, anu win proo ablv survive their Injuries. The escape of Mrs. J. A. Murray and child was marvelous. The lady occupied a room on the filth floor, and w& un aware of danger till It was too late to attempt to descend the stairways. She reached the Are -escape, but at each floor fouad the hole In the grating too small to admit the passage of herself and In faat, ar-d she was therefore compelled four times, with the names bursting around her, to seat the child upon the platform, lower herself over the edge and reaca up lor tnc utile one. Mrs. .Hurray readied the ground without assistance, and a quarter of an hour afterward had wholly recovered from the effects of her terrible experience. Policeman Marks saw two domestics at one of the second-story windows after it was supposed all the Inmates had been Teecued. He rushed up the burning staircase, and a few moments later apipearcd. dragging out both women, who bad been rendered unconscious by smoke. The hotel, which is a total loss, was erected immediately alter the great Are While substantial looking outside, it was called a fire-trap. It was formerly known as the Hurdlck House, then as the Craw ford, aad, recently, as the Langbam. Cammlugs & Howard, owners. Shaw & Son leased the establishment. The lat ter'sloss Is $50,000; Insurance, $12,000. The building was valued at 9150,000 aad insured for half. Kletz & boa, picture framers, and Hardon's hand-grenade agency suffer total loss; insurance uu known. Chicago, III.. March 22. Another Tlctlm Is added to the list of fatalities connected with the burning of the Lung ham House last night. The body of John Hennessey, an employe of Faxon & Co., -was recovered from the ruins this after .noon, lie was among the party buried beneath the falling wall, and was fouud crushed beneath a heavy piano. The dead are: John Hennessey ; single, twenty-eight; Wlnthrop Place. William Bean; married, seventy-two; Vau Huron street. Mrs. Belknap. lire Insurance Patrolmen Johu Walsh and Kdward Jones ; both single. Mrs. Belknap might have been saved, but became wild with fright and leaped from a fifth story window to the street while a ladder was being raised for her rescue. Nothing is known of her identity further than that she came from Alabama, and had only been at the hotel a few days. Her neck was broken by the fall. A blind man named Thompson, an cm ploye ol tke notel, ia missing. Also a traveling salesman from New York, name unknown. The traveling man's baggage was saved from the hotel ollice, bears the initials D. K. B." which is all that la known of hlrn. lie was seen to enter the building when the alarm sounded, and has net yet appeared to claim the bag' xage. , Mr. and Mrs. Hooly, of Cincinnati had a miraculous eaeape. Both are cripples, and unable to walk. Mr. Hooly is a member of the firm of Snyder & Hooly, of this city. When the fire broke out Mr. Martludale, caehler ol the firm, was on a baslnoas visit to their room on the fourth floor. He caught the invalids, one under each arm, and, carrying them to the elcViator, started downward. They rushed into the very heart of the fire, however, and the car became as hot as an oven. Jieverslug the motion, they tried the third Moor, but found the door locked. Martlndale threw himself against It, broke It open and dragged the couple down three flights of stairs and Into the street. Mr. and Mrs. Sears, of Salt Lake City, 'were hemmed in by the flames ami thought death certain. They were about to administer laudanum, when the firemen reached their window wltti ladder. Mrs. Murray, wife of J. A. Murray, Traveling Passenger Agent of the West Shore Uallroad, climbed down the entire length of the lire escape unassisted, with tier little son clinging to her neck. The pecuniary loss aggregates $850,00. The heaviest loser aro Howard & CummlBgs on building; 0. M. Hhaw & Bom, hotel proprietors, and the Harden Ilaad Qreaade Company.

IMPORTANT DECISION

In the IfKttttl HtU-s 8irrMe Cmrt AWmlK CrtH Ttxtt C rwln Date m lhttMHHtk ltlyiftM)r Law. Washixutox, 1). C, March 21. I the Supreme Court yesterday Justice Matthews delivered an Important decision respecting live Mormon eases. During the recent elections lu Utah Territory the Mormon Church selected five of It members to bring about tests of the Ed munds act. Three of them refused to make statements under oath that tttey had not plural wives, wlt'.lo two of them did so. The omceta oi me aicghuu Board, believing the two who quaunoa were bigamists, teliisvit to permit mem to vote The five men tomcii anu urougiu suits for damages. In render n his decision, Justice Mat. thews observed that the rules and regu lations and oaths prescribed by Commis sioners being without autnoruy in- law, were wHuout force, aud no effect can be given 'to them. The administration olfleets were not oouiw nor amaunscu w obey them. The powers clalmeu by mo Commissioners are not ministerial, aud cau not be made the ground of action for damages. If the registration omcera ueprlved cltlxtis of their right of franchise ia violation of law, they are responsible insult for damages. He alone is cicpnveu of his vote who, when he offers to register, Is then In the state aud condition ot a bigamist or polygamlst, or Is then actually cohabiting with more than one wom an. "Disfranchisement," the decision con tinues, "is not prescribed as a penalty for being guilty of the crime aud offense of bigamy and polygamy, for as has been said, that offense consists in me iai ui unlawful marriage, anu a prosecution against the offenders Is barreu or me lapse of years by section 1044 of the revised statutes. Continuing to live in that state afterward is not an offense, al though cohabitation with more than one woman is, but as one may be living lu a bigamous or polygamous state w thout couatutallon witn more mau 1.1 1 A. one weman, lie is a oigannst or polygamlst, and yet guilty of no crim inal offense. Bo, mat in respect to mose disqualifications of a voter under the act of March 22, 1882, the objection Is not well taken that represents the luqulry Into the fact by the otllcers of registra tions as an unlawful mode of prosecution for crime. The power of Congress to prescribe the qualification of voters iu the Territories has passed beyond the stage of controversy Into final judgment. The conclusion caunot be avoided that the act of Consress here In question is clearly within the justification of law." This decision of Justice Matthews favors the application for damages of that class of residents who made oath that they did not have plural wives and negatives the application for damages of those who refused to testify that they had more than one wife. HOWGATE COME FORTHI The OovenHetit Hopeful of Shortly Laying Hand Oh the FuxUlre Captain Ilewgattt Ah Intimation A to Why Ho ha Xot Hrm Captari'd Uefbre. Washington, D. C, March 28. One of the victories expected to be achieved by the administration within a few days will be the capture of Captalu Howgate, the fugitive from justice. Captain Howgate's defalcation amounted to over $800,000, as ascertained, besides an indefinite amount not yet known, aud it is strange that he has not been recaptured. The district authorities. It Is said, were alone rcsDonslble for his escape, and the War Department ciatmea me soie rigni o aci In recovering him. It Is asserted that a eood nerccntaae of his stealings went to certain merchants In this city, who helped him to make fraudulent vouchers. It was ensv to do this. A merchant with an ac count of sav 8900 might be Induced to Risn a voucher in blank wnicn couici ue filled in to represent 89,000 or 819,000, for that matter. This Howeate matter would, it is al lcaed. sbow the necessity of an absolute and swtenina change in everything re latins to the prosecution of crime in this district. Hows-ate's companions and Intlmate friends were connected with the business of prosecuting crime. General Mver. the former Chief of the SIgual Of fice, turned the enure ousmcss over 10 Howzatc. and uever thereafter paid the slightest attention to Its accounts. Myer wis an honest man, but unsuspicious. He was a different man from Howgate. Shortlv alter he was retired Howgate resigned, kuowing that an overhauling of his accounts would lead to uctection. According to popular gossip, he got his stolen money lu a lg, threw a few greenbacks around to certain officials, and then quietly walked aWay with his mistress on tils arm. Mycr's experience was different. He had every reason to anticipate a long and happy old age. His wile nan an euorm ous fortune, and a few years before the General's death had purchased a very handsome house on I street, which was so Ions occupied by the British Legation. John Chamberlain bought the house for 8200,000, and tried to make ol it a high toned gambling establishment. The at tempt was a failure. Mrs. Myer bought the house from him under a iorccd sale. General Myer had settled down in this beautiful home, expecting to devote the last years of his Hfc to writing. He died October 21, 1880, and Howgate's frauds were not discovered until about six months after. Arre,trd for Murder. Canton, O., March 24. Mrs. Barnhardlne Wlntges and Joseph Fisher of Osnaourg wero arrosted and brought to jail here yesterday morning, charged with administering poison to Henry Wlntges, whose dead body was found on a farm near Osnaburg. Fisher, who boards with Wlntges' family, had about completed preparations to elope with Mrs. Wlntges aud desert the hitter's chil dren. The nost-morteta on me ueau man showed strong symptoms of strlchnlne poisoning in the stomach, which is under going an analysis. Mrs. Wlntges ami Fisher both p rotes their laaofce,

THE GRAND VICTORY.

I'roof that tlntmlUtw ratrlutUiH U Mure than Rente thr lVttpl" wf the tlMlteil KtMtea. The restoration of the DomocraHo party to power is proof that patriotism is more than sectionalism with tho people of the United States. The fact that, with tho approbation of tho cHhcns of our commonwealth, President Cleveland has appointed throe Southern statesmen in his Cabinet, demonstrates a condition of National aunty which Is under the circumstances remarkable. Twenty years ago closed the greatest civil war m history. IV day the chieftains and statesmen of oocli of tho then hostile suctions divide tho powers of h common government with the consent, by tho votes ami with tho warm approval of a united people. Tho ease with which Americans got over their quarrels is unprecedented in the annuls of other races. Tne Knglish civil wars left scars which showed for centuries. To this day there aro traces of the divisions they caused. Tho more mercurial trench mako internal struggles an occasion for rivers of fraternal blood, and for a riot of retribution and revenge. There is not a people of Europe or of Asia which has not been di vided and torn for decades on decades, by tho animosities surviving domestic broils. Their civil wars, for extent, for destruction, for the number of men arrayed, for the blood and treasure spent and for the valor and genius shown, wero as nothing to ours. And their ability to forgive and bo recon ciled was as nothing to ours. Here not a hostile was executed. Here no conliscation occurred. Here no lasting disfranchisement prevailed. Hero those who did or who now do preach that victory should liavo been sated in ven feance are looked on as mental mani ins or as moral monsters. ao artificial or Mtrfaee cause of con flict exp'atns this. J. he cause was as tremendous as the conflict Mon were as sincere and brave on one side as on the other. Tho question of the mean ing of tho Constitution relative to tho dissolubility or tho indissolubility of the Union was an issue. Jt was a vital question. It was one the fathers had never contemplated or had remsed to Contemplate. Around it great schools of variant political belief had grown un. It reached n point at winch a people submitted to tho wager of battle the umcrenco neither reason nor inter est nor compromise could adjust. There was a tacit agreement to abide the decision of arms. That decision was conclusive. It was accepted as complete and final by the conquered, It was held to be stimcient by the conquerors. Tho two have fraternized cvor sinco. Their disposition to do has been unquenchable. Their ability to do so was impaired only by such politicians as perverted party action and government powers to puqoses of plunder. lhat complete reconciliation and brotherly understanding should depend on and be signified by Democratic success is a proof of the pre-eminently Nanuimi uiiaramer ui uiai luui-suuuiiuio and admirable party. For long years sciolists and liars charged, and many sincere and deluded men believed, that the Democrats of the South did not ac cept the results of the war and that the uemocrais oi inu orin nau sympathized with disunion and did sympa thize with the alleged Southern inten tion further to iujure tho war settle ments bv only aflecting to recognize them. The falsehood of all this was total. No conquered people ever more truly gave up their resistance, or their spirit of it, than those of the South. No body of men acted more earnestly lor the Union, or did more to make the arms of the North victorious, than the Northern Democrats. Tho gospel of distrust of the South, since the war, and of defamation of the Northern Democracy, at any time, has been tho gospel of Ties and of the pit. False and foul as that preachment was, it was naturally effective, for a long time. It gave the party whose advent to Government control coincided with tho war an excuse for employing all the powers of Government and for appealing to all the hates and fears of men, to keep power after the peace. It furnished with success conspirators who twice wrested election from the people. And what Is tho situation to-dav? The National party rules the Nation by tho .Nation's will. With no weapon but reason, it has won against patronage defamation, distrust, fanaticism ami the powers of its own government turned upon it. That the Democracy survived was wonderful. That t is victorious is extraordinary. Through a political act, its success perfects and vitalizes the re conciliation which was in the hearts of those who fought, tho moment the conflict was over. That success admibj to tho conduct of the Government again all those whom American humanity in sistcd should not bo barred from tho clemenev of Government, when arms wero grounded. The expulsion of re venue from tho policy of the ucpuuiie, in rcsponso to tho demand of all tho people, was an act of sublimity. A po litical victory freighted with blessings to the land, and gained by tho union of the best eiiizens of both North and South is, so soon after a wasting strife ono of the moral marvels of this most marvelous country. Indeed equal credit of earlier date than now belongs to this people. In 187G and 1G80 actual though uneflectuatcd victory was decreed to tho Democracy bv tho people. But in 1881 tho sentiment for reform of methods and for fraternity of feel tier swept over all tho refuroa and defenses of corruption. Tho nation now realizes that its party of power, of coherence, of patriotism and of reform ia the one whose strength U

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Union anil around whosa council board sit the statesmen of every utiarter uf the republic. Tim gain to imtriotUun, brotherhood, civilisation ami peace is incalculable. Tho true men who fought the good light of reason, of conciliation and of Jen'ersonlau principles, in the days when the Democracy had not enough members lu Congress to sustain a demand tor the yeas aud nays, see that they are now as victorious with tho people as they wero then victorious iu the argument. Time, the revealer and vindicator, has justified thorn, llesults have shown they were right anil that tho people admit it to-day. History is certain to crown them witli immortal honor, l'assion has yielded to patriotism. Iteason lias won over violence. Faith has vanquished doubt, and perfect love has cast out fear. A union iu which' North and South are terms of location and not of antagonism has passed into a new orn of fraternity and reform, and its most devoted friend's aro now not merely those who fought for it, but also those who fought against it. Tho moral grandeur of the Democratic victory rises iu the view of thoughtful men to a height which demonstrate It be one of tho wonderful, as it is ouo of the beneficent, acts of a people which most most have creat shown themselves to be entirely and capable of remaining outlrely free. llrooklyn Eagle. REPUBLICAN DISMAY. Tho Appointment uf thr w Secretary of th Treantiry Nat Ilallod With Hatlnfactlou by th CIrk In Hit Department. There is reason to believe that tho appointment of Mr. Daniel Manning as Secretary of the Treasury is not hailed with satisfaction by those who entertain sublimated views on Civil-Service reform. Uo is represented to bo a man of extremely practical ideas, from whom any nonsense in the management of a department such as would suit tho notions of the civil-service extremists, is not to be expected. Tho employes in tho Treasury Department were beginning to feel easy about retaining their positions when the rumor of the appointment of Mr. Manning cast a gloom over their prospects. Those who but recently were quito hopeful of being retained aro despondent sinco it has become certain tiiat tho department is headed by a man who will not allow new theories to delude him in regard to tho kiud of reform needed in the Treasury. Being a thorough business man who understands that the Treasury Depart ment is one that above all others is required to be conducted on business principles and with uoncst mcmous, ne will stand no foolishness in the selection of his assistants. Those will be selected, regardless of new civil service theories as in his opinion will be in respect to honesty and efficiency the most suitablo for the" dcnarmcntHl business. He will maae snort worK oi wiu incompetency, , i . . t .i... ... favoritism, dishonesty and sinecurism which have been accumulating in the department for vcar.s. The civil-service reform that would stand in the way of the removal of such rubbish will get no recognition from a practical and earnest man like air. Manninfr. who can see no otlter way of managing public affairs than on busi ness principles and. who. as a uusmess man. having a regard lor tne success oi . . .. .. his administration can find no use for such employes as have been favored with places In the department. J his is urettv well known in Washington, and has occasioned dismay in the Treasury Building. JJarrisburtj (Pa.) Patriot. HOLD UP YOUR HANDS. Ah Illustrated View of the OHlce.HeeklMB Question. Tho bright little IJctlford (Mas?.) llccord had a little item as follows: SCHOOLMASTBIt CI.KVKt.VNI ANU THK HOYS. All who want post-oflices will please hold tip their hands. iiiiiiiiiiiilliift After lauirhinsr heartily at this unimiu illustration of tlie situation the Olobe oneluded that it was incomplete, and would add: Now, all the Republican post-ollicc fellows who dona want to go out, hold up your hands. Now, all the Republicans who would like office, aad can't come in, hold up your hand," i Hi mm . uosion uiooc. A gentleman in Hamilton purchased of a prominent druccist a halfdozen quinine pills. They wero admin istered to a member of tho family, and ono of thorn was accidentally bitten onon. Tho alleged pill proved to be nothing but a small soup bean, neatly

covered with the preparation aim per- Eiei fectly representing the regular quinine J&BMWSii pill as put tip in capsules. CiMctMjaft JfiBl!lirmiiW5t

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prevaleuM of dieorttera of Mia ki4ayi; and of various diseases oaused by the im perfect operation ot the kidneys una liver. According to Huberts, Thematon, and other reooralaed authorities. kkUiev dis orders are very common, but the obseurity or tneirpoftiuve symptoms m so marawi Hi at many people, ill and out of torte generally, are really victims of kidney complaint, and they and their physicians do nuc realise it, iinetituaiio pains, irregular appetite, frequent headache, chills and fever, "blues," hot aud dry skin, suer toiuaun. dysiteiHita, irregular action or the bowels, nervous irritability, musoular orenefs, uraiupa, languor, UHpalrm 3ul ot niemorv. Iom of virility, are anionic the preliminary evidences of coming kid. ney aim liver uerangeuieaie. as win unease develops, then follow lame baeic. swelling ankles, pale faee, scalding s( illations, the water sometime being very light and abundant, at others scrrot, dark-colored aud frothy, and alKHmding ia sediment and, under the adcrosoope, in albumen ami tube casts. If the deranged kidneys are not romptly attended t. thera is uauger oi iee wrriwe origniM Disease hitherto considered incurable. v hich Is a consumption ur destruction of the kidneys tho near approach of which alarming disorder snouut awaaen uia liveliest coueeru, for it soon hurries onu into the grave unless promptly cneckeii. Disordered ktuneys nave tun uuiortunato effect also of wenkeniiiK tun ugor of the liver, as indicated if one has, besides thu Hlxve symptoms, yellow Knotted skin, fatcovered uye-balls, frontai headache after eatin?, burning aud itching skin, cold extremities, hot head, bad circulation ot blood, sick-headache, iiausn, liv;ht-eolortKi evacuations, constipation, piles, variaUlo appetite and feelings, dizziness, blurrec eyesight, liver-cough, ague, chills, fevers, waaeiumess at mgnt, urowsmese oy uay, etc. These are some of the commoner symp toms ns 'aid down by leading medical au thorities, and with tbem in vlow one ought not to have much trouble in ascertaining If. he is suffeiing from disorders of thes great o.'gans. Miiesn oi'servnuons nsye men cmies forth by a double-column article which appears .n another place in this paper. Skeptical o! some of tho statements made there in, and ai other times by the same persous. we havo boon led to make a little study of the ma ter ourselves, with the above re sult. These diseases prevail amongst young aud old everywhere, resulting in terribl and untimely deaths; they takeoff moro l eople man epidemics: physicians report uiaih as occuring from such dis eases as apoplexy, parniyi, iuavuiiuun, heart disease, pneumonia, fevers, etc., when in roal It these diseases are oiten secondary to firlght's disease and would seldom occur were the kidneys in healthy working condition. Hence, irom personal knowleJee. or from the trustworthy expe rience of other competent judges, we be lieve here is no preparation equal to tne renie( .y that is so prominently mentioned elsew here in this issue, for preventing and curing the dangerous disorders oi wmca we have written. It has had an extraordinary sale, Is everywhere commended, the i word of its work seems indisputable, its manufacturers are reputed to be men of the highest standing. We hold, therefore, that not to use it if needed, would be a iriuie acainst one's Stipremest interests, especially at th s tune when, threatened ly a leanui epidemic, it in ui io iruiimtwirtAnre. according to Ur. Koch, the celebrated German cholera specialist that we kop the kidneys, liver ana uigesuve ursaus in healthy action, if the scours; would be escaped. Fashions for tho canmo world change with the seasons. A fashionable New l'ork cirl. who is immensely fond of dogs, says that the latest lashinn fur this noodle, who. bv the way, usually has the long locks over his neck 11UU up Willi n iiircu " to have u plain gold bracclot with his name engraved on it to wear on one of his fore paws. Fashion also decrees that the spaniel shall have a bracelet of some origin meiai whu a tumsinun, that woolly dosrs shall wear a bracelet upon each ankle, and arc to be sheared t tlif.l.mildcri. lnnviniralion-like mane and head; and that bull-dogs are, thk season, to ehangu their celluloid collars to those made of handsomely eugraved nickel. iV. J. Tribune. Within the last nine yearri ten men have been murdered in Macon County, and no man has been hanged in fact, overv one of the slayers is at largenot even one of them in tho Penitentiary. Some of these parties escaped. Others pleaded successfully tho insane dodge, while others wero cleared by sympathetic juries. X Plata (Mo.) Home Pram. ELY'S CREAM BALM when Applied Into the botrllt, will be abtorbed, effectually ctesnrisjr the head of catarrhs! virus, canting tieaUtir secretions. It allays Inflammation, protect the membrane from frcth coW, eetnplctclrlteal the sores sad restores the seates ot taste and imell. NOTaLIQUIBerSXriT. 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