Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 December 1894 — Page 3

A KD WHY MORE BONDS

LET SOMEBODY ANSWER THIS PRESSING QUESTION. VTas It To Fay Current Expenses There's So Law for That In Fact There's No Law for Any of .It It's L'usurpatlon. Gentle Shrpperd, Tell Ts Why. Another issue of gold bonds ought to cause sober, serious consideration by every patriotic citizen. Let all party bias and prejudice be laid aside and as a citizen, looking solely to the welfare of our country alone, let every man come to an honest, conscientious conclusion on the subject. There are three reasons given for the issue of bonds. 1. To increase the gold reserve. 2. To strengthen the public credit. 3. To provide money for the current expenses of the Government. That it w ill not increase the gold reserve is proven by the former issue of bonds. That it wholly failed to do so, was pointed out by the New York Herald. The Herald says : "Last February when the treasury reserve ran low it was replenished by the sale of fifty millions of new government 5 per cent, bonds for gold, the proceeds amounting to upwards of lifty-eight millions, as the bonus commanded a high premium. That was very well so far as it went, but the people who had paid in gold saw a hole through which they could surreptitiously pull it out again. This was the obligation of the treasury and its brauche to deliver gold in redemption of legal tenders when presented in sums of $50 or more. Through this hole all the gold received for the bonds was soon drawn out of the treasury agaiu, and its present owners stand ready to repeat tho trick by paying it over tho counter onee more for government bonds. Given a continuance of existing conditions and this same sixty millions of gold could be used as often as Davy Crockett's (peltry, and after the Government hail issued a thousand million of bonds the treasury would have nothing but the same old gold reserve with which it started." That tho gold reserve cannot bo strengthened in this way is evident to everyone. It must follow, therefore, that this is not tho reason why bonds are issued. Both Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle very well know that it will not strengthen tho gold reserve. Let us then consider the second reason assigned, viz: "to strengthen tho public credit." Is the credit of tho United States under suspicion? Does any ono in any part of tho world doubt the ability of this Government to pay every cent it owes? If there was any such suspicion would the way to remove that doubt be to go further in debt ? Is it not more reasonable, if we wish to strengthen the credit of the United States, to j ay off some of its debts than to contract new ones? Is not tho course adopted by Mr. Cleveland tho very reverso of all business principles aud even of every day common sense? If the credit of the United States was in the least degree to be suspected, who would be the first to find it out? "Would it not bo the liothschilds banking firm, which owns so many millions of the obligations of the United States? Yet we find this firm, a3 Boon as the aiiLOuncement that londs are to be issued is made, cabling their American branch to take tho bonds, Baron liothschilds seems to think that the credit of the United States is the best in the world. It cannot be "strengthened." It therefore follows that tho claim that tho issue of bonds is to strengthen tho public credit is a sham and a fraud. In regard to the third reason assign ed for tho issue of bonds, viz: to i ay the current expenses of tho Government," it is well for every man who loves liberty and desires to maintain free government to recur, as Jefferson wisely advised, to first principles. Such a thing has not have been attempted in an English speaking nation since the time of Charles I. It has been supposed that tho representatives of the people in Congress or Parliament assembled, alone had tho exclusive right to provide for the support of the army and navy and the judicial and and executive branches of the Government. 'When the kings of England tried to do what Mr. Cleveland lias done, they were dethroned and oae of them lost his head. To establish the principle that tho representatives of the people had the exclusive right to say what the expenses of the Government should bo and providing for them has cost the shedding of more blcod than any other of the underlying principles of free government. " Yet Mr. Cleveland, instead of applying to Congress, which is soon to convene, for appropriations to pay the expenses of the Government, registers a mortgage on all the property of the citizens of the United States for 50,U00,000. If any potentate in Europe, with perhaps tho exception of the Czar of llussia, should do such a thing, he would have a revolution on his hands within twentyfour hours. Neither Mr. Cleveland nor Mr. Carlisle has ever claimed that there was any law authorizing them to issue bonds to pay the current expenses of the Government, but they took the money obtained by the former issue and so expended it. Tho only color of authority for the issue of bonds is the statute passed many years ago, and long since considered u dead letter, to provide a redemption fund for greenbacks so as to enable tho Government to resume specio payments. After specie payments wero resumed, and greenbacks became par with gold, it was considered as a dead letter until Mr. Cleveland discovered that it might be so twisted aa be used to buy cold to hoard in the treasury, but that it gave authority to issue bonds to procure mouey to pay current expenses was not even claimed by John Sherman in his speech on that subject. Even the plea of necessary cannot bo

made in defense of the issue. The official treasury reports show that there is a surplus in the vaults of the Government, which added to the daily receipts, is sufficient to pay all obligations until long after Congress shall meet in its regular session. It is an act of usurpation of power which has not been attempted in any English , speaking nation for the last four hundred years. If bonds were not issued j to increase tho gold reserve or to strengthen tho public credit, and if no ; law exists authorizing the issue and ' tneie is no necessity for issuing them ! to pay current expenses, then, why j wero thev issued? Thev wero issued!

because the bankers had millions of money lying idle which they were unable todoan and will bo unable to loan as long as prices continue to fall. They therefore demand a lond issue, and tho Government of the United States being entirely under their control, bonds were issued. If there is a sophistry or misstatement of fact in this article the writer invites an American citizen to point it out and it will be cheerfully corrected. T. II. Tibbies in Nonconformist. A Safe Her. Itis a safe bet to make; you can risk a new hat; Whoa yon hear a mau say, "I'm an ol J Democrat." If yo. i ask him what this? this reply will be his: "A Democrat 13 a Democrat, that's what a Democrat is." lie can't tell what It is, nor neither can you. Uecau.se a mass of contradiction is predated t j view. A hotch-potch of ideas, which changes each hour To aid the place hunters who seek office and power. One ays, "I want tariff," one, to free trade is joined. One cries for "free silver," another "gold only re coined ;" Some want silver and gold and National Hanks, All hitched to one wagon, a strange mixture of cranks. Tho rnited Mates :t Dependency. "When Americans awaken to the fact that this country is simply a British depeudencv that annually contributes to John Rull 3,000 million dollars' worth of gold, silver and farm products, it is just possible they will drop politics long enough to legislate in favor of themselves. It is possible Americans will conclude to adopt a monetary and industrial system of their own regardless of what New or Old England thinks about it. Americans are moro hopelessly at tho mercy of Great Britain than is Ireland. "Wo all smile at tho heroic efforts of Irishmen to obtain home rule, little suspecting that our own America is a long ways from being able to exercise homo rule. Not in thirty years has an American Congress convened without a gang of English bankers at its doors demanding and getting legislation unfavorable to Americans and favorable to England. So thoroughly have our traitorous cuckoo statesmen sold us out that to-day Americans lind that after sustaining government and feeding themselves that they do not produce enough extra to pay tho demands made upon them by English interest gatherers. This unlucky condition is tho outgrowth of a thirty years' policy of constantly contracting the volume of currency until prices are so low that the people find that their labor practically brings a bare existence and hardly that. Bonded debts liavo not been scaled down to conform to low prices aud the interest account (thanks to England and that prince of traitors John Sherman) remains as high as it did in the tlush days of plenty of greenbacks, silver and gold. Every year Americans have been driven to tho polls in "blocks of live" with a vote in one hand a two-dollar bill in the other until tho ballot has become a farce. Laws that no other nation on earth would tolerate, have been forced upon our statuo books through tho use of plenty of boodle. Men have gone to Congress year after year and cheerfully assisted in cutting Uncle Sam's throat. Courts are owned by English monopolists of the Carnegie order and justice has sustained a very black eye. England owns all our railroads, most of our great mills and factories and when strikes are on, John Bull can push tho button and make every court in tho land dance to Iiis music. From President of the United States down to the man who sweeps out the Smithsonian Institute everybody stands ready to jump when England cracks tho whip. American's stand around on one leg and wonder what new slap in the face they are going to get. They see millions of their fellow men living on soup and sleeping in out houses and still they meekly bear tho insult for fear they may "drive capital out of tho country" Denver Boad. Which Iic You Want? Not a few but all tho people should own tho railroads. Not a few but all the people should own the telegraph. Not a few but all tho people should own the telephone. . Not a few but all the people should own the express. Not a few but all tho i)eule should own the coal fields. Not a few but all tho people shculd own tho oil fields. Not a few but all tho people should own tho-sugar refineries. Not a few but all tho peoplo should owu the earth. If a few can monopolize them, they will do it, and rob tho balance. If the law says they shall bo privato property and shall not be used as tho means of enriching tho few at tho expense of the many, then it will not bo done. These changes can be made peacefully, constitutionally and quickly by the ballot by tho peoplo voting for men who want theso changes made, instead of for men who want theso things to be as they are to-day to enrich tho few and impoverish the many. What do you want? C'silt Conference. The recent election demonstrated tho helplessness of tho people in tho hands of the old parties. First flying for refuge from ono to tho other, and then back again, and back again, like a wounded pigeon between hawk and hunter, they find no placo of safety

from the hurtling corporations and trusts, including the money trust, that are so mercilessly preying upon them. This flying back aud forth in such tMal waves, cannot long continue without disastrous results. The party leaders will become more reckless than they are, and their brief tenure of office will be made a simple game of grab it is little else now. Under these conditions tho responsibility of the Peoples party is largely increased; it must stand as a bulwark between the people and these contending factions. Its two million voters who have defied tho ridicule, tho threats, the cajolery, the oflicial bribes and boodle of tho "party bosses, must become tho conservative leaven to hold in check the mad rush of party fanaticism, and constitute a refuge for the people from hurtful partisian extremes. But millions of American voters do not know tho Peoples party only as they have caught distorted views of it from the corrupt corporation dailies, or as these views have been rellected from tho smaller mirrors that have copied them. The present work of the Peoples party, therefore, is a work of education. Our power and principles must be made known, and it must bo done in such a way as to reach those who have heretofore been shut out from our light by tho thick screen of

party prejudice. To best inaugurate this important work, we urge that a conference be held not later than the holidays, aud we suggest that it be held at St. Louis as the most central and accessible point. This conference should bo called by the chairman of the national committee, and it should iuclndo a meeting of said committee, with an invitation to the chairmen of all the State committees, and a general invitation to all Populists, and all others friendly to the remonetizatiou of silver at the legal ratio of lb" to 1, and opposed to bank issues. Let this meeting bo like its purpose, a conference of all who oppose old party methods, who seothe dangers to which wearehasicning, the rocks upon which our ship ol State mav bo wrecked, and who are willing to; align themselves with the new party in a last great effort to save our country from tho threatened dangers. From such a conference governed by reason and patriotism, an influence may go out that will insure another tidal wave in 1890, a tidal wave that will bear upon it's crest the forces of reform to victory. Progressive Farmer. The Columbian Dollar. Congress provided bylaw for the issue of live and a hull million Columbian dollars to bo used by the "World's Fair Commission. These dollars w ere composed of silver, and were executed in a very beautiful design. They were sold aul paid out by the World's Fair board and circulated to some extent, but Mr, Carlislo says they are all coming in to bo redeemed. This shows the evil working of the gold redemption fallacy plainer than any event in history. Theso Columbian dollars were as good as tho standard silver dollar, but they were made redeemable in gold, aud as a matter of course they will, in timo, appear at tho treasury asking to be redeemed, Theso Columbian dollars were retained for a lime as keepsakes of the fair, and they circulated to some extent, but the gold gamblers and bankers soon gobbled them tip, and are now exchanging them at Mr. Carlisle's bargain counter for gold dollars. What a lot of blasted fools tho people of this country are? And the grief is, we appear to bo vaccinated against catching any sense. Here wo go, plundering, acting the blasted idiot, playing into the hands of the money lords, creating debt, buying gold, impoverishing tho people, pauperizing tho nation, all for the benefit of a few money gamblers, who cry out "honest money!'' We get "scared" of this honest money bugaboo and issue more bonds, create moro debt and cause more poverty! Fool killers shoul bo in demand. The drain VI rite t. The San Francisco Call, and with it most old party advocates, is worried over the grain market. It mistakenly accounts for tho fall in other prices by an incroase in production, but it runs ashore on tho grain crop. It says: Tho breadstufls problem occupies different (round. There- is no great increase in the cereal crop anywhere. It fluctuates, but it ha not varied widely on thw average for many years. Hut the price of wheat and flour at the distributing markets is lower than it has ever been within the memory of man. A good reason for this anomnly seems to be much wanted. Nothing seem to help tho wheat market. When a partial failure of tho corn rrop was announced it was con ldently hoped by farmers that wheat would respond by an advance, but it did not. It sags lower week by week. It is some consolation that consumers are going to benefit by the decline. Tho price of bread has been reduced in New York, and bakers throughout the country will have to loilow tho example. Must go lower! Yes, until tho people take thought enough to understand that tho policy the' havo supported in voting either of the old party tickets has destroyed tho homo market by destroying homo consumption. Wo must havo a money that peoplo can afford to invest in labor and products before we can expect better prices. Thero is not an overproduction of any product of labor in this country, but thero is an underconsumption caused by tho hoarding of money because money is constantly increasing in value as compared with other things. The Tost-oniee Department. Tho Cleveland administration is doing bad business with tho Post-Ollico Department, as well as with almost everything else. Tho year ending June o0, 181)1, shows a falling oil' in revenue and an increased! expendi tu re. Tho total expenditures for 1804 is S81,2:Jl,;il3: tho total receipts $75,080, 479. The deficiency for 181KJ was a little over live millions; for 181) 1 it is nine and a quarter millions, an increa3 ed deficiency of moro than four millions during the year. During 181)1 tho decrease in receipts was $810,451, while tho increase in expenditures was $3,250,309. The Cleveland party will be known in history as the party of great expenditures, small receipts, and disappearing majorities.

TREASON IS CHARGED.

LI HUNG CHANG ACCUSED OF BETRAYING CHINA. Said to Have Favored Japan and to Have Sold Her War Secrets and Ammunition-Organized Attack on tho Great Viceroy. Plotted AncJnst the Empire. His majesty the Emperor of China hns .been memorialized by over one hundred of the highest officials in his empire for the impediment of General Li Hung Chang. Advices from Shanghai say the important memorial has caused a profound sensation. The drsgrnced prime minister is charged with corruption, peculation and deception. The memorial also declares that Li Hung Chang has openly rejoiced at thv? successive Important victories by land and sea of the country's enemies, the Japanese, and that by bis deliberate action he virtually prevented tho Chinese from achieving success. The prime minister is said by the memorial to have represented that China was fully equipped and well prepared for war when Le was well nware of the fact that the country was illy able to contend against the forces of Japan. It is further charged that he has been implicated rith Prince Kung, the uncle of tho Chinese Emperor and President of the Tsung Li Yamen and of the Admiralty, who was recently appointed to the po- & 1 I tV i ; mi mm mm LI JIUXG CHANG. (China's disgraced Prime Minister.) 6ition of dictator, and with the Taotai Wu and the commander of ths forces at Port Arthur. Gen. Li Hung Cliang, who is declared to be the prime mover in the alleged conspiracy against his own country, was born in the Anu-IIuel province of China on Feb. 10, 1S23. In 18 !0 lie co-operated with General (then Colonel) Gordon in suppressing the Tapping rebellion, being then Governor of the Thiang-Sin province. The other Thiang province beinjj added to his rule, he was created Viceroy of the unhted countries in May, 1SG5. The following year he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, nnd in 1NG7 Viceroy of IIong-Kuang, and a grand chancellor in 1SGS. After the Tien-Tsin massacre in 1S70, he was despoiled of his titles nnd otherwise punished on the charge of not assisting the general in command, but in 16711 the then Emperor restored Lim to favor and offered him the office of Grand Chancellor. lie was the mediator for fixing the indemnity for the murder of Mr. Margary, who was killed, in 1S70, while endeavoring to explore southwestern China. Then he was appointed Viceroy of the metropolitan provinces of re-Chlh-Ll, and as euch has been tho administrator of the Chineso empire. He has been regarded ns a man of liberal views, and has permitted coal-mining and coast steamer traffic to be carried on by English companies, aud it has been thought that he would be favorable even to the building of railways. MINT DIRECTOR'S REPORT. Shows the Volume of Gold and Silver Purchased and Coined, R. E. Preston, the diiector of the Mint, has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his report of the Mint and Assay Ofliccs for the fiscal year 1S91. The value of tho gold deposited is stated as $140,912,545; $.".S.09S.0."1 was of domestic production, $S,(.M.0,rJ.j foreign bullion and coin, $3,118.421 old material, $2,093,C15 worn nnd uncurrent United States gold coin deposited for rccoinage. The deposits and purchases of silver during the yenr were 22,74t,tHl fine ounces, the coining value of the same in silver dollars being $29,409,820. Nineteen million seven hundred and seventyseven thousand and seven hundred dollars was of domestic production, $1,832,890 foreiga bullion and coin, $0,481,404 worn and uncurrent United States coin, and the remainder, $S03.03(, old material. The amount of silver bullion purchased ender the act of July 14, 1S9Ö, was ll,017,tw0 fine ounces, at a cost of $8,715,521; the average cost per line ounce being $0.7313. The total m..uni of silver purchased under the act of July 14, 1S90, from Aug. 13, 1S90, the date the law went Into effect, to Nov. 1, 1S93, tho prate of the repeal of tho purchasing clause of that act, was 108,C74,0S2 fine ounces, costing $155,931,002; the average price per fine ounce being $0.9244. The total coinage of silver dollars under the act of July 14, 1S90, to July 1, 1S94, was 3C.0S7.013, consuming 27,911,708 fine ounces, which cost $29,110,017. The seignolrage of silver coined under act of July 14, 1890, to July 1, 1S94, was $0,077,290. From July 1, 1894, to Nov. 1, 1S01, 2,413,200 dollars were coined, the seigniorage of the same was $780,70-1.27, making tho total amount of silver dollars coined under the act of July 14, 1S90, 38,531,143, r.nd tho total seigniorage $7,701,000. The total coinage during the year was: Gold, $99,474,912.50; silver dollars, 758; subsidiary silver, $0,024,140.30; minor coins, $719,919.20; total, $100,210.730.00. The gold coinage for the year was tho largest ever executed at the mints of the United States in any one year. The highest price of silver during tho year was $0.7045, and the lowest $0.591S, showing a fluctuation of $0.1725 per fine ounce. Tho net gold exports for the fiscal year wero $4,172,r,(r ns against $S0,S97,275 for the prior fiscal year. The net exports of silver for the fiscal year wero $31,041,359 as against $7,053,S13 for the fiscal year 15D3. The director estimates tho value of tho gold used in the industrial arts in the United States during the calendar year 1893 at $12,523,523, and silver at $9,534,277; of the gold $8,354,482 and of the silver $0,570,737 was new bullion.

WEITE FOE FARMERS

THE ANNUAL REPORT OF SECRETARY MORTON Says Wheat Should Not Be Depended Oa as the Staple I'xport-More Demand for Barley aud Corn Objec tions to Our Beef and Pork. Doesn't IJke Silver. The annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture is particularly interesting because of its references to current troubles with foreign governments over the importation of American products. The Secretary reviews die subject of foreign markets and gives figures of our agricultural exports, especially those to Great Britain That country paid during the rear 1S93 for American brendstuffs, provisions, cotton and tobacco over $324,000,000. Including about $10,000,000 worth of mineral oils with agricultural exports, the United Kingdom took 54.3 per cent, of nil exports of brendstuffs, provisions, mineral oils, cotton and tobacco. Of dressed beef Great Britain took from us during the first six months of the year 1S91 $10,000,000 worth. Australia is our chief competitor for the trade. Mr. Morton deems it probable that the American farmer will find more advantage from the shipment of dressed beef than from the exportation of live cattle. Referring to the frequent allegations on the part of the European governments that live animals from the United States are diseased, the Secretary expresses the opinion that these allegations are sometimes based on fear of infection, but are nt other times made for economic reasons, lie argues that if all American beef going abroad were shipped in the carcass, bearing the government certificate as to wholesomeness, it certainly could not be shut out on account of alleged diseases. He suggests that if certain European nations continue to insist on microscopical inspection of American pork and veterinary inspection of beef, with governmental certification to each, the government of the United States might well insist upon such inspection and certification by such foreign governments of all importations therefrom, whether edible or beverages intended for human consumption. He reports a very large increase in the exports of beef and hog products over tho year previous, with, on the other hand, a marked decline in the exports of wheat. Better liaise Barley and Corn. The review of the foreign market leads him to certain conclusions as to the future of our export trade in agricultural products as follows: "Competition of llussia, Argentina, Australia and other countries favored by conditions which enable them to grow wheat at a low cot, and especially by tho proximity of their wheat-growing regions to water communication, warns American farmers to no longer depend upon wheat ns a staple export crop. On the other hand, a good market, at fair prices, is to be found in the United Kingdom for barley and corn, which, owing to the great variety of uses to which they may be applied, promise to be in constant and increasing demand." The work of the Bureau of Animal Industry during the year has been greatly increased, notwithstanding the reduction in the appropriation. The Secretary concludes a review of the inspection of export and interstato meat with the recommendation that the law providing for tho same may be so amended as to compel the owners of the meat Inspected to pay the cost of inspection. If, he argues, the inspection widens tho markets, thus enhancing the price of their property, they, ss the direct pecuniary beneficiaries, should agree to pay for it. Tne inspection of animals received in the United States has been continued in Great Britain, and it was hoped that, having demonstrated that there is no danger of - introducing contagious diseases, the result would be the revocation of the British restrictions upon our cattle trade. fo Plenro-Pneumonia for Two Years. More than two years have passed without tho development of any pleuro-pneu-monia or other disease in this country which might be dangerous to British stock interests. The hoped-for revocation, nevertheless, remains unrealized. The scientific investigations of the Bureau have progressed steadily. Special mention is made in the appropriation bill for the current year of tuberculosis and sheep scab as diseases the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to guard against in view of the danger to human life from tuberculosis. The sterilization of milk has been thoroughly explained in a leaflet which has had a wide circulation. It appears that sterilization of milk may be a perfect safeguard wherever milk is used. The Russian thistle is made the text for a suggestion that seeds of new grasses and other plants from abroad must be hereafter very carefully inspected. The report concludes with a statement showing that of the total exports of this country for 1S94 (fiscal year) farm products aggregated $028,000,000, or 72.58 per cent, of the whole. The markets of tho world, says the Secretary, demand from the American farmer the very best quality of breadstuff s and materials. The farmer exchanges his products, the result of his labors, which have specific purchasing power, for money having a general purchasing power. Under the heading, "For Prime Pork Give Us Prime Currency," the Secretary asks : "Would the $000,000,000 worth of farm products from the United States sold last year to foreign nations have been as remunerative to the American farmer if tlyy had been paid for in silver as they have been paid for in gold or its equivalent? "If those buyers demand 'prime beef and 'prime' pork, why should not the farmer demand 'prime currency, the best measure of value, the most fair and facile medium of exchange, in the most unfluctuating money which the world of commerce has ever evolved V" Seymour Brothers, shoe men of Columbus, Ohio, failed. Assets about $30,000, and liabilities in excess of that sum. They operated two retail stores in Columbus nnd one each in Mount Vernon nnd Mansfield. During the day judgments were taken against the firm for $10,092.28 nnd a chattel mortgage given for $3,000. James Brown, a i ederal convict at Stillwater (Minn.) prison from Alabama, having only five months yet to serve fot a mail robbery, and who was a "trutjr.' escaped.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing of Our Neighlor Weddings and Death Crimes, Casualties auJ General News Notes of the State. lloosler Hippenins Oxk of the three chools t Alexan dria has been dosoi on a: count of diphtheria. The r-year-ohl son o! Mrs. Cora Biker of Richmond, drank carbolic a -id while at play in the yard, an 1 will die. The i'-year-old son of Mrs. Samuel Ratdorf of Noblesville, fell from a horse and received injuries resulting in death. Hon. William II. Coombs, aged ST. old law partner of V. II. Ii. Miller, late Attorney-deneral of the I nited .States, died at Foit Wayne. Mrs. Wm. Shipmax and her sister, while crossing the Ohio River in a skiff, were run down by a ferry 1 oat near.JefTereonville. Mrs. Shipman was drowned. Whilk chopping a tree in the vrooi s, near De atur, Frank Sullivan, a wealthy farmer, was in-.t.tly killed by a dead limb falling and striking him on the head. School TKi'STEEfs. Attorney General Ketcham holds, must report annually to the County Commissioners as to finances. A city council can compel city school trustees to show their financial records. Ax explosion occurred at Prospect Tlill coal mines near incennes, which resulted in the serious injury of William Rem-im. er and' William aurel. Neither will die. Tlie explosion was due to pocket gas. . The State Sanitary Commission.with the State veterinarian, found four lurses in a stable in Torre Haute sk-k with glanders anl ordered thorn killed. Tiie commis-io i is making ajtour of the towns near Torre Haute. The 3-year-old ton of William Cossett of Fairmont, while playing m tho yard, caught lire from a pile of burning paper and was so !adly burnerl that it will probably die. The mother received severe burns about the hands while trying to save her child. Mks. Jksm: Richards. Miami Indian squaw, daughter of Wa-ea-t o-nah, one of the most conspicuous members ol the tribe, died in a miserable hovel on the Indian Reservation. Wabash County. h;st week. She was the last surviving member of the Wa- a-co-nab family. Wallace Hall, pent to the Northern Prison fo two years for the crime of assault and battery, has been pardoned by (low Matthews. Hall was sent to the penitentiiry from Park Co nty four years ago. lie was reported dyin j and the (lovernor placed the pardon in the hands of the prisoner's aged father. Mrs Charles Leeds of Indianapolis, discovered the curtains in her parlor aflame, and, in trying to put out. the fire, the hair was burned Ott' her head, and she was terribly in ured. Mrs. T. C. Purdy. who was very ill, was dangerously prostrated 1)3- the shock, but she was carried out by the firemen in time to save her life. At Anderson, Minnie Forber, aired T, was playing with her doll, when its clothing caught tiro from a ,et. Tho Haines also caught the child's clothes, ai d in a sc. end she w. s enveloped in ii 10- She alle,? for help and her aunt ran for aid. While she was cone the little girl ran out into the yard, and when fo nd she was burned to a crisp. Jonx Tohan. a mold er, emploved at the Whiteley Malleable Iron Works, Muneie, aged 24. was instantly killed by an east-bound Lako Erie and Western passenger train. He was going to the Maring, Hart & Co. Window-glass Works to see the men blow glass, and was on the long bridge that spans White River near the fa tory when the passenger train rounded a CUtv and stru. k him. The following patents hare Veen granted to residents of Indiana: William Lash, assignor of one-half to D. Duehmig, A villa, tombined awning and lire and burglar- 100" shutter: .lohn P. LiLey, Lima, scraper: Irvin (J. Poston, Veedersbiirg. javin block: William S. Ralya and P. Cuyle, Indianar olis, metal straightening machine; Christian A. Sal. man, assignor of two-thirds to K. P. Kcmud. Hamilton, (.. and J. A. Kobbins, Indianapolis. combinatioE too!; William P. Stevens, Muucic, combined label and p'uc card. Gov. M ATI hews has issued a pardon .lames F. Reed, aged 1! years, who was sent to the Penitentiary for two years from Klkhart County on a plea of guilty to burglary. It was his hrst otfense. He has made an exemplary prisoner and would Ikj freo in a few months by expiration of sentence. The (lovernor was influereed, ho says, 13 a desire to give the young man a chance to re-enter life with a feeling that he may yet regain his good name and be an honorable citizen. The parents of the prisoner are quite old. The (Hobe Tin-Plate Company, with a capital stock of $l.jO,Hiv recently organized at New Cast'e, located the site of a mammoth plant on the north side of that city. The mill will l e equal in s'ze to t':e largest now in operation in Ameri a and will give emp oyment to more than 40. Tho most of the stock is taken by lo.al business men, including F. F. Phillip-;, cashier of tho First National Rank; L. A. Jennings, Treasurer of tho Retail Furniture Poalers A-.-ceiation of Amo.ica; S. P. Jennings, J.S. Hedges, L. L. Rurr, ex-Auditor Johua I. Mortis, R. M. Watkins ami Hon. C. S. Ilcrnly, County Clerk. Tho lemainder of the sto.-k is taken 1 y practical tinp'ate manufacturers fiora Wales. The drilling of two immense gas wells within three miles of this city has added a decided impetus to the enterprise. Clauds McIXvnwld, aged !?. was run tiown by some freight ars which had been thrown on a side track on the P., C, C. .V St. L. Railroad at Seymour. Ho was taken to tho o t!co of Dr. M. F. (Jerrish, and his leg amputated. It is not believed that he can recover and should ho dio it will make tho third boy of tho McDonald family wi ohasmot with accidental death. About ten years ag a son of Hon. W. N. McDonald was run down and killed by the cars at almost the samo place. Two years ago a ton of Marsh McDonald fell from a load of hay on a pitchfork and was billed.