Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 27, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 May 1885 — Page 2

A TENEMENT HORROR.

Tne Outcome of a Ffc In a Fir Story BulldJa. Milm rmtUM HmH4 Ih hf SmokeMi lit Uvea I.et aad lr ' tor lHjrv4 by SHffaetlm ahU Xji HrU t Ken. Xkw York, May J. At one o'cloe tiiki BMraig tine bieke out la a roes t the mr ot John Uuiaphrey's lienor store, 673 First aveaae. The buildla l v storkw hlh, the upper floors being eccaptal as a teneawnt-hoate. The reoaw spoken of was illedwlth trash el aa lafiaaiHiaWe natart, which burned up quickly ailing the bouse with smoke. The tenauts became paukj-strlckea. Some justped to the street lroio the windows aad others rashed dowa stairs, falling over each other, aad sufering Injuria ai um) or Imk serious Mature. All the aatbulaacea la the city were called to the spot. Whea the alarm was sent out the engine ol the district were puttlas out a entail Are, aad it delayed the nremea somewhat la gettiag to First avenue. Wheathey did arrive they found the hoe surrounded by a Rreat crowd, aad dead, dylns aad wounded were lylaje oa the sidewalk aad la the balls and bed. rooms. The cries ot agony were nearireadlas. A general alarm was seat out, aad ambulances, doctors and pollcetsn came to the scene la goodly numbers. The wounded were selected as rapidly as possible from the dead aad conveyed to Belle vue Hospital. In hall an hour the loarteea wounded were lying on cots in the hosplttlaad as many doctors worked aear them trylBg to restore life or alleviate paia. Half of the patients seeHied to be dying. The names of none but joaagKoertier could be learaed. Fireman Dalrymple, of Hook and Ladder Compaay No. 4, got ap to the fourth ioor by mean of a scaling ladder aad banded down several persoas from the Iront window to firemen oa the ladder below. Among the rescaed pcrsoBs were said to be members of the Stiner family oa the third floor. Mr. Stiner, bis wife aad four chUdrea were at the wiudow, bat it was afterward said that some of them perished. One woman oa the top floor of the house threw her baby out of the front window. Policeman Flaherty caught the child and saved its life. He carried It, somewhat Injured, to a aeighborias; house, where It was cared for. Ita mother weat back through the window and was not seen agala. It is supposed he was suffocated. Meanwhile some firemen had tamed streams of water upon the flames and it w&g soon possible for them to go through the house aad search the rooms. They carried oat a dozen persons who appeared to be alive, though insensible, aad tried to restore them. The bodies of Ave dead persoas were carried Into a coal office adioiaisg and laid on the floor One or two were partly aressea. iney iu ueutjau too Ion? la the rooms before making an effort to escape. The appearance all the bodies gave proof of a terrible struggle lor life. None were much burned. Before the flames reached the doomed people, smoke had placed them beyond the reach of paia. There were sixteen families in the baildiog. The flames went up rapidly to the top of the hoase by way of the stairs w hich were la the middle of the structure. The hallways being oa Are there was no opportunity to escape by the stairways -when the inmates became aware of their t danger. LATER FARTICUL.IX9. Wkw York, May 4. The terrible Are and loss of life which occurred la the tenement hoase on First avenue early yesterday morning, caased the greatest excitement among the residents oa the East side of the city, aad all day long the scene of the disaster was visited by thousands of people. The building la which the Are occurred Is a five-story double tenement, and had only recently been built There were ten families In the building at the time of the outbreak, and, unfortunately, there were ao Are escapes la the front of the building, the only escape being In the rear, aad the inmates residing in front were, oa account of tlie names aad smoke, aaaWe to reach them. The following is a list of trie dead aad lajared: THE DEAD. Mrs. Miaate KretchBer, asrethlrty-foar; Xfcjhard Kretchaer, age elevea; William Hurley, twenty; Elizabeth Hurley twea-tv-three; Christina Kerne r, forty-eight; Joseph Humphrey, thlrty-sevea; Henry Humphrey, four months, aad a servant girl samed Mary. THE INJURED. Mrs4 Kate Lambarger, aged twentyeight, sad her daughter Kate, aged nix years; Mrs. Ida Ehrlch, forty; George I larky, forty-alne; Elizabeth Hurley, flfty-ive; Albert Kerner, fourteen; Christina Keraer, twenty-three; Kate Kerner, twentv: William Flannagan, sixteen; Kate Lamphal, seven, aad Sophie Kerner, Coroner Martin Ms taken charge of the oasc and will commence an investigation early in the week, Mr.Koehfch, who, with his wile and three children, occupied the top floor, was the only tenant who escaped without loss. Immediately after the Are was discovered, be closed his doors and windows to keep out the smoke. He then took his wile and children to the front window aad paeeed them one by one down the l44er erected by the firemen. Mr. Roehteh said to-night: "The Are cat off all egtese by the stairs aad Are escapes. The wood floorings of the tatter, and the boxes and wash-tubs atered thereon burnt like tinder, and ta4e the Iron work of the Are escapes so hot that It was impossible to get down. If the people had only (that their doors aad row to the top of the building none weald have beea killed. I saw Mrs. Humphreys this morning, and she sal at Uaatphrey set the pUre are,"

THE PUBLIO DE1T. Muthlr HtatrwoHt at the rabUe lltTtl KeeelpU f Ike ;vmwit tr Ta MeMtk The Aetual Ammal UeM Ma mrtr It the TwMitrr Vault. Washington, I). C, May S.-The public debt statement for April was prepared at the Treasury Department yesterday, In both the old aad new forms. Approved copies with all details will not, however, be ready for distribution until to-day . According to the old form of statement, the reduction la the puWle debt during the month of April amounted to fS,4l,SHU8, while la the new form the amount of reduction l placed at 4,8S;,333.7U This discrepancy amounting to 27,256.67, is due to the fact that In the new form two Items, accrued and unpaid April Interest on Pacine Railroad bonds amounting to 39S,037.&, and the amount of increase during the month In fractional and minor coins, amounting to $329,219.11 are treated the Arst as liabilities, aad the latter as assets, unavailable for debt reduction. In the old form, the available cash in the Treasury is shown to be 153,810,043, aad in the new form the net cash balance In hand is placed at $23,957,4-.'l. The difference here Is accounted for by adding to the net cash balance, reported in the new form 100,000,000 reserve held for the redemption of United States notes, regarded in the new ferta as a liability, and about $S-',000,O0O fractional silver and minor coin, treated la the new form as assets unavailable for the reduction of the debt. The Treasurv now holds $163,000,000 In gold and'about 110,000,000 in sliver for rold and silver certificates outstanding.

agalust $ 1 1 6,000,000 gold and $1 13,000,000 silver a month ago. Customs receipts for April were !, r.in or.1. About half a million less than a vir .i"r : Internal revenue receipts, Jt9 Kn.337. nearlY a million less than In April, 1634. The total receipts of the Government from all sources for the ten months ot the current flscal vear amount In ronad numbers to $'.'6,300,000, against $25,600.000 for the corresponding ten months of the preceding flscal year; while the expenditures for all purposes tor me xen mouths of the year foot tip $2,xrnonrt. aMlast 82.180.000 for the ten months of the nreccdlag year. Com pared with the corresponding ten months of the ii receding A seal year, there has been a falllns off la customs revenue this year amounting to about $14,000,000, and in internal revenue receipts of nearly $7,000,000. DANGEROUSLY INSAN E. V1cliu Attack of a Maryland Woman t'pon H-r IInb.HU Iiarinc Violent Fit of 1bsanity. Baltimore, Md., May 2. Barney Call, his wife and Ave children, have lived in Canton for the past three years, earning a livelihood by keeping a fancy goods and grocery store. Kecently, Mrs. Call has shown unmistakable signs of Insanity, but It was not until Thursday nlsht that she was considered as a At subject for a lunatic asylum. The family retired about eleven o'clock. At mldslghc Mrs. Call arose and her husband, aotklag that she stared vacantly about the room, asked her what the matter was. For an fiwer she made a sudden and savage at tack upon him. Being a very large worn an and much stronger than her husband, sho soon had hire at her mercy. She threw hlra urxn the floor and seized his left ear with her teeth aod tore It in a dreadful manner. She then fastened her teeth la his breast and badly lacerated the flesh Mr. Call's face was scratched out of all recosnltlon. and when the neighbors, at traded by his screams, rushed In, the blood was streaming from his wounds. The frantic woman was overpowered, and when she gazed confusedly at her husband, ths sight seemed to recall her tottering reason, and she suffered herself to be led into an adjoining room. Early this morning she bad another spell. She imasined that her children had been stolen away; and armed with a heavy billet of wood, she attacked three police officers, who were nr the house. They Anally succeeded in handcuffing her. She was removed to Sprlag Grove Insane Asylum last evening. THE MISSOURI EDITORS. InterentlHg Programme far the Annual Meeting of the Mlonnrt l're AmocIa tloH A Trip Up the lJtke Trehable. Mexico, Mo., May 1. The following programme Is announced for the meeting of the Missouri Press Association, to be held at Columbia on the 2d aad 3d of Jaae: . Annual address, J. Liaa Ladd, of the Ralls County QuhU. Poem, Colonel Jake Child, of the Richmond CoHnermtor. Essay, Mrs. Susie McK. Fisher of the Farmlnston Tim&s. Address, J. H. Turner, of the Carrollton ItcortL Select Beading, 5Iiw Mlanle L. KasTreatlse on Printing Machinery, Colonel U. P. Yorkston. Practical Printing, Major J. A. Hudson of the Macon Times. Advices from Columbia are to the ef feet that the people there are making every preparation for a gala time for the newsuaner men. and as It will aho be commencement week at the State Uni versity, It Is expected tttat Mesers. Bay ard. illalne and Elklns, who are to ad dress the graduates and sevenl societies of the College, wUI also take part In the exercises of the Press Association. President B. M. White, of the Lttytr of this city, Ih dally receiving applications for membership. The route lor the excursion has sot as yet beea fully agreed upoa, but it Is quite likely the party will go ap among the Itartaera lftk.

MAKING ON PAPER. The lTnrrmlttle TeHtney mt rpapn tw Kvolvet New VuHtleol CwtwIltliHM. Tk busing of party making or paper w never wnouy aiaieai m in United State. In some journal, sometrherw IxHween the Kk Grande aad 'ortlaHd, there is always an article o The Future of Parties"; or oa "The New Democracy"; or one entitled "After Republicanism What?" lite unremitting tendency of newsjMijters to dtetu this subject has sprung from an iiiericHH fondness for intellectual peculation and from the HVatla'ulity of the matter as a tonic when news scarce. Of late a new reason has arUen for reort to such discussion. There Is number of detached thinkers who tavo paiwrs wit who nnu themselves men without a partr. Thev are inclined to make a aew party to suit themselves or to make over one of the existing rtHs fn their likeness. The Green back party is not to their taMe for they are sane on tinance. The Labor party does not please them, for it has so many tueu of enthusiasm and uninformed carnestuess in it. The Pro hibition party is umatifactory to them for the same'reason, and lecaue these new creators or these persistent re-creators know rood wine and delight to treat themsclve to generous living, as an offset to acrid thinking. These gentleinenjliave tried to new make tlie Republican party, but failing to do so, doubt less out ol the highest motives, they left it. The Republican party was afterward defeated. Wliether it was- defeated because theV left it or whether their leaving it was oalv r. coincidence, disputed. Probably the former i the case. Anyway, they do not leel kindiy toward the Republican party. It does not feel kindly toward them. litis h tin; n the situation: A new party or the articulation of these men with" the Democracy. They are lirst discussing that which we have named as the second alternative. The aviditv of the Amcricau mind for speculation. the frequent dearth of news and the partyless condition of the.se active and suggestive gentlemen combine to ren der their propositions for making the Democratic party agreeable or tolerable to them interesting. We have beea impressed with the peculiarly personal character of their reflections. Their decreasing objection to the Democratic jMtrty U owing to the fact that a certain kind of men are in it. Their Increasing favor toward the Democratic party is avowedly based on their belief that fewer nen of the kind intimated are in it. ami that thev are, as these detached thinkers hope, inclined to leave it. It is remarkable that this estimate of parties by groups of individuals should occur. It was hardly ever indulged in before by men who have really made parties. Party makers in fact never regarded the jrs)HHel of voters in the United States but once. The native American party described itself by its name. Its name of itself showed what uae of itself showed what led aad antagonized. It iate in one national elec - men it exchu oarried ooe Stat tion. Its adherents have ever since been magnifying the resources of perjury to establish the idea that they never belonged to it All other "iarty makers or party renovators have heretofore been very fond of all kinds of voters, the more the letter. They have tried for votes with principles, Lsms or reforms, preferring such as they thought would be likely to attract the largest number of voter.4. The practice of determining adheSioa or opKsition to party, by the fact of whether a certain kind" of men sunnort it or doert it. is almost novel. It is a modification of the old Know Nothing idea, as will be seen. (Hit it is a unifinc moaiiieaiioH. One of the orgac'J of this movement has et up a theological and sot-ial test for admission into the new party, snouiu one be founded. If not. the estwjll lw converted into a condition on whicli lhe detached thinkers mav consent to join the Democracy. The organ uses many words, but what it means is thisi "The new partj or the renewed Democracy -t.V.t. .1-- . I. :it . 1... wniciiever ixs utw rcMm-nm murwu the membership of Irish Catholic citizens as ditKcult and few as possible: it will try to drive them over into Reimb-IH'-aillSIU. 1(111 UUIll', lllivim it, emits will flock in and take their daces. ' The excuse fortius is the lwief of tfc organ that when the de tached thinkers "sidled up" toward the Deuiocracv a number of the voters to whom it objects, left it, 1 he super-sen sitiveness which resents the fact now is due to a misconception of the cause. It was the nomination of limine which cost the Dcmocra -y some adherents not the opposition of these detached thinkers to him. If they decline to fellowship with the Democrats who may returner with their more thoughtful compatriots who dkl not go on, they are very frank to say so, and they should be verv frankly answered. Tlie Democratic irty is not swapping, expelling or soliciting voters. It leaves the citizens free to settle his own Icwoal relation to parties. It is a party Of ,leS'eronian principles, patriotic Klicy and reform practice. Such citizens as are satisfied with it on thse accounts will vote with it. Such citizens as favor these excellent qualities, but who think they can in the long run be attained by a party other than the Democratic nartv. make a mistake. Such citizens as are against the prin ciples, policy and results of Democracy nttht to vote airaiurt it. until they get 1it.t mrtra mnralill ttltil thl'ir fllVM v i IL -' 1 ... . i - ' - - politics, lhe uemocranc jmny wwm not regard the secession from Cleveland referreti to as represenmuveiy wmi i Cthnlie or aa Irish tlefecUon. it was princljmlly, not fHkly, conflnl to the menibcrshin of some ecret societies, which have no amtagonis so Marked as

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and ho (HpsmeuU mora iKTOHOuaeed than ratMHal ami well informed Irishmen in ewry html. The great MUM Ot Catholics course by operating The great worshiping, not uomlnal. de4entUHe.l their Klitlcal eoMsUlarations hist HketUoe with non-Catholic voti-rs. mass of Irish Inirn or Irish descended citiateU) of tlui United States, having become Democrats on principle, remained true to the principle and to its candidates. Of the number who went on" the proportion is very small commrinl with those who remaineil true. It jseems large, however, when the fact w lxrne in mind of how small a defection was necessary to hold a balance of power in lleyond question, of thoMj wIhi dil go ofl not a small fraction did so under regretted cx-citeuient and misapprehension, lite rest were moved by the bill which Maine's nomination made- to the irreligioii, communism, turlMilence, violence and venality of the land, of which a well nigh political solid wa-s created by the candidacy of the prince of jobber.-. Bohemians ami confidence men for President of the United States. Whether these latter return or remain away or, as is likely, sag back in erpial proportion into bath uartiu,-. their political etliciencv is gone forever in this Republic The Democracy "Will do or refrain from doing nothing" to recover them. The Republican party would Ikj glad to escape responsibility for them, for they stimulated it to a canvass which was as much of a disgrace to it as was the candidate by and for whom that canvass was conducted. They attempted murder and committed suicide. The Democratic party is entrusted with the administration ot the Government. Its officials are fulltlling the trust well. Roth by honor ami the fact of success the party is committed to carrying out tlie pledges, on the faith of the people in which they gamed power. The effect of the Administration on the minds of voters will lead them to determine their personal relatioas to the Democracy. U will determine, perhaps insensibly to themselves, the verv relations of tbo?e detached thinkers to that party. They will do well to let no such personal standard or religious dt-tinction or race theory as thev gingerly discuss now have place in their minds. From .such erroneous methods thev were delivered, or should have been, when they left Republicanism. And tlie inquiry of wliether the latter partv is not bound to suffer the disintegration which has followed the defeat of every other emergency party in the United States bv the Democracy is a great ileal more pertinent and exi gent than any intellectual speculation to which these detached thinkers can address themselves at this time. -Brooklyn Eagle. THE COLORED PEOPLE. The Attlttltlf of the frealilent Toward the CelortMl KlrmrHt. During the past week or ten days the President has been watted on by several J . , , . Pf.rUc ?f J?1 d 1 phmcntinx him and e.v desiroit-s of com pressing their confidence in him. Most of them have explained that they were not olliceseekers, and had no one to recommend, and dkl not particularly care whether there were any colored men in olTiee or not; they desired simply to express their confidence in a Democratic President, and convev back to their people the assurance that they could safely trust him as a President ot the whole people without regard to race or color. In his replies to the.-e formal addreses Mr. Cleveland spoke at length and laid down the policy of his administration in dealing with the negroes. He took ocea? on to advise one of the le!egations, which was led by a negrrt editor of Washington, not to pay any attention to t ie very nuueai ami incendiary rem.irks of the colored journalists, am! warned them of the. danger of apjM'aling to race prejudices and endeavoring to foment troubles between themselves and the whites. To the other colored delegations, who camo in a Wttcr spirit, he expressed himself more cordiallr. His conception of Democratic principles, lie declared, was that they meant equal rights and privileges to all citizens, without regard to colorwhich principles ho would always undertake to enforce. At tnc ame time he called upon them to perform their duties as citlcns, and predicted that if thev dkl not allow themselves to be blindly led or cunningly deceived the time would soon come, wncn something better than race or color Would decide the political action of citizens of the United Mate. When wc remember the attitude that the Republican party has always occu iiliul nn the neifro utiestion. and the predictions it uas irceiy inane m r:u: iniw to inmr treatment uiiuui umu cratic rule, these late interviews and exchanges of sentiments seem strange . , i- ........ Illlll(. r.VUII TIIUI1 UiU irtw i-om-paign wh.s over, and defeat had titem, uie i iem. the Ronuhlican soiij some little revenge bv circulating the story that slavery Would follow Democracy. For a few weeks there wat or less excitement among th more ig norant negroe in out-oMlie-way corners of the country, hut that excitement and that feeling are altogetlr gone, as fl.i.co fn-niiciit iiitorvhnvs between the Presklent and deleirnlions of colore' miH kIiow. Tlie South, containing, as it does, the creatcr portion ol the coiorcu po una tion of the Union, I to Ihj congratu lt!.il on the iwxkI fcclitiL' thus created Its nftVnL wiIIImj lienefieial. ot only in a political point of view in winning tho negroes awav from the Republican tmrtv, lMit in raedoting contulence, rais 5nv.Vnli-hteninr and improving them The prosperity of the eflored rac has

increased wonderfully under Democratic rule. Thero h no raoe prejudice, or unfriendly feeling, nodhitiirbanoet, hut. instead, more work, better schools and great industrial growth and development. New Industrie have lwn o)cned to the negro, and he finds himself improving, rising, growing better off every day. Four years of Demoeratic rule will dbwipate foi ever in his mind the assertion which the Repute Hcans have ever been making to hint that he thrives best under their rule. ltickmoHd ( SUiU.

THE LABORER'S FRIEND. A UUl f rurtli-Hlnrs WBtel te Show WhwrelB thm KtHblleH I'urty Hut Kver Hern HhcU "FrleHd." The Cincinnati Commercial publishes under long and flaring headlines a supremely silly article upon "Democracy's deceit in its attitude as the 'friend' of the wominginan," in the course of which we are told that tho Republican party is always the party of the workers as opposed to the 'friends' of the workinginan. Tho difference is so plain that one may run and read it. The friends' of the workingincn hold h'ni in bondage and thus protect him until the party of the laborers break the bonds, make the serf a citizen ami pro vide him with a homestead." If the condition of the workiugmnn 1ms improved in the twouty-fivo years during which the Republican party has had the political charge of his "iutercUs, it would Ik5 interesting and instructive to be furnished with a bill of particulars. The workingman has not found it out The general public has not found it out. On the coutrary the troubles and tilscontent of the working claws or, rather, tho laboring classes, for tlie great mass of Americans are workers have grown into formidable proportions only as the Re-' publican party has been in power, During that time we have had before lis the strange and significant spectacle of foreign labor that supposed it was settled for life in this land of golden opportunities pulling up stakes and t'olng back to Kurojie to better its condition. We have had free trade in labor, but in nothing else. We have seen a whole empire that should have been reserved for .settlers given aw ay to corporations, and the free laborers, whose bonds the Republican party claims to have broken have been driven to the polls like sheep and made to vote the Republican ticket or forfeit their Situations. This and much more to the came effect has been the record of the Republican party, under whose fostering care a great dutocrev has beeu established, having for its corner-stone American labor. Rut the writer, who propounds the absurd repositions to which we have made reference, attempts, in a very inconintent fashion, to establish them. He aws; "Now that the party which is the avowed friend of the laboring man in lower, we hear altottt 'family and blool' and coats-of-anns and family create ami heaven save the mars: tMidisrrecs.' Hitherto m this free ana glorious country pedigree talk has been mostly confined to horses, bulls and ns. Xow we sret plenty of it in con nection with Cabinet and other officials Secretary Eudicott's jiedigrcc takes about half a column in the Democratic newspapers, putting beyond the possibility of a doubt the anient character of his "friendship for tho workinpman.'' We tlo not see why a coat-of-arms need impair a man's usefulness or hi- Democracy any more than the pos'ession of a piece of old family plate, or au ancestral sword, or his grandmother . spinning-wheel. Wc presume tin genlenian whom the new Minister to Kngland succeed-., ims a toat-ol-arnjs. and that every repnwniauvi? u icourt of St. James appointed by epubliean administrations, has oeen equally favored. If we shown remove lrom the History oi nmn levelopment and progress the pan taken bv men who had iMiSsessed of anus and been justly proud of them. we doubt whether there would he am American Republic to-dsy to bo repre sented. If a man makes a fool ol him self on account of this family distim; tion. as Mr. Edwards Pierrepont tint u employing the time that should tempting to trace out through the spirits a blood relationship with British nonillave boon given to ins rououj ty, it is time to say mat me Hisiness is licing carried too far. but on fiinnrn for having had even a great grandiatiier. his numaniiy aim wuhwv more llkelv to be of a kind to ih- iru-u than are tfiose of the men or party wh have made gohl their god and look upon lalKjring men and women as so mucli raw material to be ground up and sifted out for their enrichment ami vulgar argrandizement OffOH Post. The California orange-growors have discovered a new process tor r -moving all sub-tances that injure tlie appearance of their fruit 'll.cy.pu . r ... ...... I. .jf tit ik a hall IMlsnei or so ot nry nMu barrel and then jMir in two or three lKxes of oranges, antl turn Slow i p a crank. The fruit comes put as cleati ami bright as h gold dollar. Ono man can clean about eighty Iwxos a d. while washing ten lioxes 3 a good d.n s work. Sun Francisco (Jhromeic, A celebrated character of Chrf?" S. C. a colored man named l?k ton. Insiiif. has hist died, lie was a I oionu, of cntirao, and a lawyer also. U u r lated f him that on mm fXH'Hsic n t was askeil by a brother limb of tho w to explain what the terra do help de jure meant. His reply thJ meant that coutsel tuiwt ospliuii tiiP facU of a case to the .satlsfpctioli Ot jurr." Chka9 ISmct.