Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 March 1895 — Page 3

SOLD US TO SHYLOCK.

SEVENTY MILLION SLAVES PURCHASED BY MONEY LORDS. The Ifecent liond Issue Develops a Scandal of Mammoth Proport ions Grovcr Said to Have Share! a KakcOff Oeneral lieform Notes. High-Handed Hobbery. Tin; recent bond issue, aside from its atrocious features in other respects, has developed a se: imhil of mammoth proportions, which will li.guiv in American polities for many :l tl:iy ami iliixnu to eternal perdition everybody eonneet0(1 With it. Tin New York World, t he loading Democratic paper of the nation, flatly charges fraud and eollusion in this sale of the country's credit to the foreign bankers and their Aineriean gobetWCClls. Tho World devoted a sixcolumn article to an exposure of tho deal in all its dishonest features and insists that the government was bunkoed out of millions of dollars by the 11. oney chancers, it says: "Kvery day brings out in sharp outline the verdancy of the government otiieials who went into secret sessions with money-changing experts of the highest grade and eame out of the conference millions of dollars behind." Tho World further says, editorially: 'Until the government dickered in the dark with a syndicate of bankers for this last loan, its credit was very high. Its 1 per cents with only twelve years to run, were worth llo or more in tin? market. Its 4 per cents with thirty years to run were, therefore, worth about 111). Hut in this dicker the government discredited itself in a most extraordinary way. It sold tnirty-year 4 per cents for about 10 1. Thus it assented to the theory of the bankers, that our national credit i smaller than that of the negro colony of Jamaica, whoso t per cents are worth 111; smaller than that of Itritish (Jtiiana. whose 4's are worth 107; and not much better lhan that of the Fiji Mauds, wuo.-.e 4U"s are worth "Now let us make some comparisons nearer home. At a time when the treasury itself fixes upon 104 or HMC. as the proper priey of government 4's, and sells them at that rate, the 4's of Athol, Mass. idid you ever hear of Athol?), are selling in the market at lOTViI Iostotl water Is at 111 to H". according to term; the 4's of P.rocktoii. Mass., at 107; those of Cambridge, Mass.. at ins and 100; those of Detroit, at 107; those of Haverhill, at loS and lsr.; those of Hudson County, New Jersey, at 108TJ; those of Lawrence. Mass.. at loV; and so on through a list that might be extended to a great length. Of course the credit of the government is not by any means so bad as this extraordinary treasury operation would suggest. It 1 so good, indeed, that even such a blow has not been able to depress the price (110) of the old 4's. and the new londs presently to be issued to the syndicate at 104 are already eagerly bid for at 111 ami above. No explanation or defense that has been offered excuses this wanton degradation of the credit of the United States. The refusal of Congress to authorize a popular loan did not warrant a secret sale of bonds by the President to foreign bankers on their own terms and such terms! The bottom of this scandal has not yet been reached." The Masses Are Learning. A farmer was informed by a neighbor that a striped beetle had begun to work on his potato patch and that they were dangerously destructive. The farmer noticed the bugs, but they didn't seem to be doing anything, so he paid no further attention. Later his neighbor again admonished him that they had destroyed part of his crop. lie went out and gave a superficial look r.t a small patch that was destroyed, but said he had enough more than he had last year. Again and again the farmer refused to apply any new method f attention and in the fall had a famine for his usually exponded labor. Nut he said that the bugs didn't do it that it was an unfavorable year, etc. Now if you will substitute the gold bug for the beetle and the national money for the potato patch you will have the exact status of the political situation for the last thirty years. When the voters were warned by the reformers that a conspiracy to contract and control the money of the. nation was beginning to get in its direful work, they were laughed at for their pains. When times began to Tighten they said it was on account of the tariff, or reliel brigadiers, or lack of confidence, and went on their way voting without reasoning. To-day they have the famine they refused to avert. To day the land Is strewn with bankruptcies, failures and increasing crime without end. A few have got the benefit of the potato patch, ami they who have planted and worked, but failed to attend, are without any result for their pains. Only by pain, hunger and misery will the masses learn. Conspiracy to Destroy Uh, There is a conspiracy goinj; on in Europe to destroy us as a nation and take possession of our country, and in order to make the job easier they are first looting the country of its gold in order to weaken us. There are pome men in Washington "in" with tho scheme. One hope of the conspirators Is to destroy a great portion of our people by a famine, followed by anarchy, and thus render an easy prey. They want U. Bee an empire on this continent. In which all the people will be interest-paying slaves, and they think the people are already prepared to accept the new yoke. No people ever had a more splendid heritage than the Americans, but no people could ever have more outiageously abused it, and when we see such men as Wolcott, Thurston, Elkins, and

'PEOPLES. REPUBLICAN DEMOCRAT

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FKiCh'FS NKYLIl LIF.. The people's while both Democrats and Uen.iblicans lost Sherman elected to office we are almost forced to the conclusion that people are not lit for self-government. Converted to Free Silver. 'I used to believe in the single gold standard, but I've become a convert to the free coinage of silver, and believe the goldbug doctrine is a humbug." said M. A. Hurley, of California, owner and operator of the Lone Star, the Ueed fc Hillary, and other gold mines in Calevaras County, made famous in song and story by Diet Harte. "Yes. sir, 1 used to think that a moii.mietal basis, ,1 jrohl basis, was an essential to the stability of our currency and the prosperity of our people. iut I've learned a thing or two, and more than that I've come to understand that a good many other people 'iave learned the same thing. There are some things in this world that don't admit of argument. Some men will argue, of course, that the proposition that two and two make four is a doubtful one, and tho same class of men are still trying to convince the people that silv-'r is not to be considered as noney. P.ut the people have seen the steady down, down, tendency of all produ;ts as silver has fallen, since its demonetization, and now with hard times upon us and poverty and distress everywhere, with Industry stilled and agriculture paralyzed well, they have got through arguing about it. They are simply going to have silver restored to its place in the currency of the country, and they are going to have nothing short of free coinage. "I do not think free coinage is going to settle all the ditliculties. What we need in this country are, first, a settled foreign policy, dignified and commanding; second, a tariff policy that will not be subject to any change whatever except, those modifications which the exigencies of business may demand; and, third, a currency system calculated to meet the requirements of present demands and the future development of the country. (Jive us these and the country will take care of all the rest, and there will be no doubt but we will be aide to do all the business needful Jit. At .- wuu oiner countries. "1 have been about a good deal of late and I lind the sentiment of tke people rapidly crystallizing on these points, and that legislation of the character needed to bring about these results will be demanded is not to be doubted. This is a government by the people yet, and whatever they will to do must be done, and I believe will be done." Profit of a Monopoly. The Diamond Match Company has just divided a million of money among Its stockholders, and two millions of water added to Its stock, while its employes are slowly rotting by the fumes of phosphorus on starvation wages. The poorest paid people in the land are the poor match workers, and It is said few survive years, as the phosphorus rots teeth ami jaw bones out. How we kings do live in splendor off the labor of hirelings who are so disorganized and Ignorant that wo can bamboozle them at elections every time. And starvation and despair cast their mantles over the poor, and silks rustle and diamonds sparkle in the palaces of the employers made of the same mortal clay as the totting employes. Vote the old tickets still longer, will you?-Comlng Nation. Give Us Another Trust. P.eneath the withering blight, of the contraction of the currency that Is necessary to reducing the country to a gold basis the small millers Hud themselves almost pushed to the wall already, yet they are compelled to face srch statements as the following from the Northern Miller, which argues effectively if not patriotically. The only consolation that the small miller has Is the fact that such a move will assist in bringing the country to a IkisIs of "honest" money: "Laws may bo made against trusts. In a vain effort to keep alive the eld and dying giant of competition, which Is erroneously regarded aa the friend

party more than doubled its vote over ls. heavily. Deiner Iload. . - r of the consumer, but they are mora ropes of sand, for in the end must come consolidation. If not before ruin, at least after it. If before, then so inueh the better for those in business. Then; is no use in blinding ourselves to what is true because we do not like it. It is far better to realize the truth as early as possible, and act aeeordingly. Temporary expedients may be resorted to, to stand off the inevitable; temporary improvement in the markets may postpone it; but, all the time at least, so it appears to us the hues draw closer around those who light against the enemy, and. whether or not they be willing, the end will come in practical consolidation and peaee." Anion; Our Lx changes., j Keep close to the peop'e; they are al- ! ways light, and never dec-.Mve. A. Liu- j eel 11. I Cet men to using their brains instead of their lungs and they become Populists. Populist Col. 1. Silver is an issue; silver is a great issue; but silver is not the sob? Issue. Kitzville t Wash.) Mail. We fought for black freedom - -wo tower before our great industrial mustersPeople's Advocate. It's time the business men of the country were studying their financial primer. Farmer's Advocate. Detter be called a crank in this generation than have your children become slaves in the next. Warren (la.) ltecord. The new bonds are called, "yaukees" in England, ind for once the "yankees'' are very popular in that country. Lvansvillc Courier. If the good Lord has a vacancy, up in the blue, he will oblige the people by giving ti rover the appointment. Alliance Signal (Kan.). Any damphool who thinks a body of railroad attorneys can or will legislate for the masses, has no governor on his wheels. I.eadville tColo.) News. The most serious question confronting the people of tho United States is how to restore the government to the people. Ottawa (Kan.) Journal. How do you intend to vide in 1M;? If you are in doubt, better commence reading up now, and be able to east an Intelligent ballot. -Clay Comity Advocate. A system that insidiously pilfers the earnings of the masses to create millionaires and plutocrats is none the less damnable because it is called protection. Iowa Referendum. The eternal and infernal assertions of greed do more to urge on reform than the agitations of the social regenerators. Vice is elementally weak, virtue has the guarantees of the universe. Progressive Age. The national labor bureau has just issued a bulletin in which it declares that the American people eat too much. This may be true, but Congress has been doing its best to remedy the evil. -Kye. When the banks have control of alt money issued and our mortgages have all been foreclosed, what a land of uubappy, homeless wre'tches this will be. Wake up, ye who toil, before it is too late. Ilea soner. Will Americans sit quietly by for years and years and put men in power who will sell mortgages to foreigners until there are but two alternatives -bondage or revolution? As for us it will be revolution. Auburn (Ind.) Times. Over seven hundred million bonds were subscribed for under the new loan. That looks like our credit needs strengthening, doesn't it? Yet the people believe such nonsense when it comes from the pluloeratic press. Progressive Farmer. Are you not proud that you are a Populist.? Populists are thinkers. They are the advance guard of a higher civ: Ulzatiou. Oct into our band wagon. Hurrah for ISM. We are spoiling for the next campaign light. Vancouver (WasüJ Register.

MOB SHOOTS TO KILL.

SIX DEAD THE RESULT OF NEW ORLEANS RIOTS. City Terrorized by If und redo of Armed Men Who Attack Neuro Wharf Laborers, Firing Kccklcssly Into the Crowds Police Were Cowardly. Authorities Defied. Not since the day of the memorable Attack on the Parish prison and the lynching of the Italians four years ago has New Orleans been wrought up as it was Tuesday by a bloody labor riot on the river front, resulting in the killing of six men aud the wounding of at least a dozen others. The riot was fur more serious than the loss of life indicated, for it showed the mob to be in complete control and able to ilofy and override the police and hold the commerce of the city completely at its mercy. It marched along the entire city front, some eight or ten miles, in two armies equipped with rifles, shotguns and pistols, dispersing all companies of negroes at work there and shooting all who opposed it without the slightest cheek or hindrance or the least Mtenipt at refiistance on the part of the laborers or police. The mob was completely master of the situation, tiring right and left at nil who got in the way and at many points even the vessels lying at the wharf received showers of bullets. The riot produced the greatest excitement, arousing the commercial classes and rendering probable a suppression of the rioting which has continued more or less since October, culminating in Tuesday's tiii: i'Kkm ii mai:ki:t. affair. Appeals have been made to the polie, to the Mayor, to the Governor, to the I'nitcd States and finally to the Nritish ambassador at Washington, the Nrittsh ship agents appealing through him to the home Government for protection, as a liriiish vessel at the wharf was tired on by the mob and the purser of the steamer Engineer of the Harrison lino fatally wounded. The captain barely escaped with his life. Caiic of Oie Tronlde. The while screwincn engaged in loading vessels with cotton at that port have been attempting for four months past to drive negro labor from the levees. Several serious riots have already occurred from this cause, but these not succeeding in getting rid of the negroes, the white laborers determined upon a display that would show their strength, overawe the authorities, overwhelm the police and cause panic among the negroes. There is no reason to doubt the charge of the police that Tuesday's rioting was prearranged in every detail in order to strike terror to those who opposed the demands of the white laborers. It was well understood that there would be a serious disturbance. The Mayor and authorities were warned, but no provision was made to meet the mob. which had the field to itself, killed the negroes or ran them off the levee, overawed the police and hold complete control. The white screwmen made no attempt at concealment. They marched la three companies of from 12o0 to 500 each along the entire city front, attacking the negroes at three points and tiring indiscriminately at all persons whom they saw at work on the ships or the levee. The first of these mobs, which consisted of two parties, each ÖU0 strong, appeared VI KW OF Tili: LEVEE. at about 7 o'clock in the morning at the French market, near which the British steamer Engineer of the Harrison line was loading. The men were mainly armed with Winchester ritles, shotguns and pistols, but some carried the long pikes famous in the French revolution. They marched in semi-military order, fpiietly and with few words, and the morning being very foggy, they were not eecn until they tiled into the French market. Here some of them stationed themselves behind the massive pillars of the market, while others scattered among the freight with which the levee was covered. Fired Upon the NcjjroeH. Just as the negro overseer called upon his men to go to work some one in tho mob shouted: "Fire." There was a single shot, followed by u general fusillade. A panic prevailed iu the market, whero hundreds of women were marketing, and the crowd scattered iu every direction, rushing for places of safety. Tho negroes aboard the steamer, at whom tho principal fire was directed, scattered, some of them jumping overboard in their fright, but most of them seeking refuge in the cabin. The mob began tiring not only at the negroes at work en the Engineer, but at any they could see passing and, becoming frenzied, tired at all, white and black alike. On board the Engineer the purser, John Paur, was shot three times In the face and arm and fa filly wounded. Three or four of the laborer. were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. The crowd on the wharf fared worse, however. The negroes and others who happened to be there fled in every direction when the firing began and every one of those killed or wounded was shot while In flight. The Secretary of the Interior has refused to reopen the case questioning the title of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Company to 08,000 acres of land valued at from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.

FIRES ON THE FLAG.

Spanish Man-of -War Attacks American Steamer on the High Seas. The American mail ship Allianca, while proceeding from Colon to New York, sighted a barkentine-rigged steamer under the land off Cape May, the eastern edge of Cuba, which headed directly toward her. When about two and one-half miles distant she hoisted the Spanish flag, which was saluted by hoisting the American ensign and dipping it, which act of courtesy was answered by the Spaniard. Shortly after she fired a blank cartridge to leeward, which was soon followed by another. The American ensign was again hoisted and dipped, but the course and the speed of the ship was not changed, as no hostile demonstrations were anticipated, tho Allianca being more than six miles off the land at the time. The Spanish man-of-war was not satisfied, however, with even the double salute to her Hag, but proceeded to chase the American at full speed, judging from the smoke that caino out of her funnel and, seeing th;it the Allianca was drawing away, she yawed to, bringing her guns to bear, and tired a solid shot, which struck the water less than an eighth of a mi!e from the ship and directly in line. This was followed ly two nioro shots, which fortunately did not reach their mark, though they struck the water ia plain sight of the ship. This outrage has been reported to the Secretary of State by ('apt. Crossman, and no doubt a prompt demand will be made on the Spanish Government for an explanation for the insult and a reason required for the attempt made to stop an American mail steamer on the high seas iu time of peace. BIG FLURRY IN WHEAT, Government Report Cause a Stir on the Chicago Hoard of Trade. The bulls had a great time on the Chicago lioard of Trade Tuesday. May wheat jumped up nearly .. cents from tho opening price, and dissatisfaction and uncertainty marked the operations in the wheat pit throughout the day. The bulls seemed to have the best of it most of the time, but the bears would not respond to the challenges and the market closed J at ', a tall ot 1 cent lrom the highest notch reached during the day. The Hurry was caused ly the Government report which reached the Hoard of Trade after closing hour Monday afternoon. The report was to the effect that the entire quantify of wheat in the farmers' hands amounted to only J.",km),(mk) bushels. It had teen supposed by the brokers that the quantity on the farms reached at least 1::s,H).mmh l.ushels. When it was learned that the estimate was far aboe the actual quantity of wheat in the farmers' hands, the faces f tho bears beeam gloomy and the bulls bellowed with joy. On the New York Hoard the excitement was intense. Yery few traders had been expecting less than ll!.".00O,tJ() bushel farmers reserves and the statement I therefore came like a thunderbolt. Transactions up to noon were over 0,000,K)0 bushels, a larger total than is reached in many entire days. May advanced nearly lie a bushel, selling at ti'Jc soon after the opening, and the improvement was sustained throughout the forenoon, with very little trouble, t'orn also had an active opening and a sharp advance on the Government's statement that there were only 47Ö.OO ,(m x) bushels of farm reserves, against öol,(M),X0 bushels a year ago. TAYLOR ARRESTED IN MEXICO. Man Who Kobbed South Dakota rf Haifa Million Said to He Caught. Advices announce the arrest of YV. YV Taylor, the ex-State Treasurer of South Dakota, who absconded with thousands of dollars. Details of the arrest are meager. Detectives employed by the State of South Dakota have been pursuing Taylor, their last trace of him being gained at Memphis, where, for some reason not yet explained, the chief of police, after having Taylor in custody, released him before otlicers could arrive with extradition papers. His capture was effected last Sunday in Mexico by Pinkerton agents. Taylor, under the name of Mason, and a companion, calling himself Phelps, went to Havana several weeks ago, and the chief of police of that city was paid SU.t'MJ to locate Taylor, which he did on a steamer bound for Yera Cruz, Mexico. This information was wired to the detectives and they arranged to intercept the boat when it reached Mexican soil. All the necessary arrangements were made meanwhile, and when Taylor stepped ashore he wai promptly placed under arrest. Walter Y. Taylor was State Treasurer of South Dakota and resided at Pierre. Jan. 8, 1S91, he disappeared, and it was discovered that his accounts were 5?:JoO,000 short. He was traced to Chicago, where it was learned that ho bad dealings with his attorney, D. K. Tenney. Jan. 10 tho Senate and House of South Dakota passed an appropriation of ?U,000 to be offered as a reward for the arrest of j tho absconder. This sum was increased by the bondsmen of Taylor, who niad good his losses to the State. FIVE MEN LYNCHED. Italians Who Killed a Colorado Deputy Sheriff Kiddtcd with Ilullctt. A few days ago Deputy Sheriff Hixon was brutally murdered at Walsenburg, Colo., by several Italian coal miners. After pounding the deputy's head into a pulp the body was hidden and was not found until Tuesday morning, when n general alarm was given and bloodhounds put upon the murderers' trail. In a short time the well-trained dogs succeeded in running down four men, who acknowledged having committed the crime, and each endeavored to lay it on the other. Late in the afternoon an Inquest was held, at which the guilt of the four Italians was plainly proved. Hixon being a very popular man, the feeling among other miners and citizens in general grew to fever heat, and at tho close of the coroner's inquest, as the prisoners wero being marched to jail, a mob made a rush for them, and before the sheriff and his deputies could raise a hand to protect them the bodies of the four Italians and another man were riddled with bullets. At this juncture a general riot started. One hundred or more Italians, seeing their countrymen lying around dead, became frenzied, swearing they would have vengeance before morning. loth factions began arming themselves and at last accounts were expected to come together at any moment. The telegraph operator at Walsenburg abandoned his post leaving no way to secure further information except as it is brought into surrounding towns by people who are fleeing from the scene of trouble.

NEWS OP OUR STATU

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOS1ERS. tVhat Onr Nelght or Are Poin j-M.ttr of General and I .oval Interest MarriAt; and DeAth Accidents am! Crime Pointer About Our Own IVoplo. The I.pgitjtnre. The Nicholson t'-iuperane bill ; Special order of the enite Tiruv-day. th committee haiiuj il i:i eh n u'e reporting several amendment- whieh ere de-ln to make the bii! I-v--.-! riiig 'ut i:i it- provii:is. The nuiGi lm-'iiN v.cre adopted wit;: the eeejt:o!i of the one to .-trike o'lt t!.; .section p;o id;t'.4 t!i;iT Jj-.-en-- -hall Hot ' issued when tlie majority of ilic ot"r- of a ward or i ii t r -noii-ir ttod ag;i:n-t it. This i- It'al h' i ;i- one of tlie m -t naj-or-taid -eetious oi 'the bill and v. a-e,j o;:;y after a hard tight. Vh;Il the Hon- resolution to ajqro4.:-i-ato .flo.oM for -r.itiie- of i!li:u,i lie:iry liarri-oii und tee.. Morion t 1 phu-e.i h; Matuary ihliat Wa-hinumn wa- reponed the I etnociat tri. 1 to .-ub-titipe t:i" !i;i!n-' of Viee President lle;chh-k for lh:i of lairi-o:t. The iüoüoü t -eh, name of Ilendriek.- v a-d.d'eate 1 b i'idty ote. The HoU-e j -OWe' etc, fcj-.TiC ' C - mittee o:i the f,-e a-. l -alary bill h 41 :t meet ing and. to t he -iirpi i-e of bot 1. Im d:e. came to a:i aur "'l!; i;t wiünn an hoar an 1 reported to thetwo hoti-e-a;-l the r-'jMtr!-were agree I to. tl.u- passing the bill. The Senate ivced.'d from all it-amendment.- -eept tho-e itierea-;t: g the salaries of -a-prcm.' judge- to t..") and the -liarle- of appelhii ' jllde- in :'..7 4 The fate of the ;-i:o!-:u b.'.i v. iii hn tliv rest v, 1 1 1 1 1 he t io ernor. The Senate pa-.-'-1 the bill l-'ridax. v.;t!i several amendment-. The bill its .unen-i 'd went ,. the Jloi'.-c. which concurred in :ol the nm-'iiduie:!:.-. except one rela'iui: to the s:i!"o! lienor by drug .-tore.-. A conference coninti'te vv iappointed. The Seictte conmiitt ' appoitib-d to i:-e-t igate t he onne- t ;i n of Senator herewith tile ih-it ;' th- anti-w inter r;e. iTi4 hill made its report exonerat ing v. itor Seller front any criminal conneetio:; w.th the disappe;;r:m'e of the m v. ;;re. Saturday tie l.eg:-!:t'!"e p:-iet!c'!;y ti::-i.-hd its Volk. The N ;e!io;.-o.t b:!l ; ready for (he Govt rnor's -iuhn'me. rh ! ! ' v i n g r.'i i ' ( ! o:i the new :-ei t -.a puni-h Sell iip' r. A !!i!U.i ng diMi chum: on'v : made in t ! .- ---et :-:!, ;.nd t !: coi'iniil'e- j ;- port went throvgh v. i:h wh.oojt. Four Hi"-, w-.'i'c pa--'d o; r the Governor's ito. 'f! t arc: tire or.i.- teall;. ab.i-i-huigthe oi'nc 'ol ( o ihty A r: on-j giving the in.'!iiii:.4 Ih'i'ubiiein tr.i-b'.M the election of County Sm.'tintendent -; the creation of a superior d urt hr I.:-.'? County, and t! e Jaeksou Coanly .-o. d removal. No attempt ill be wade to r -erred the me!ropo!it;il police bill. 15itii branches f the l.egi.-lat ere wer. ill session NIo!ida . As the (iovcrnor would receive no bill- there was no attempt to pass f.ty, and the day va- spent in receivim; ivports of committcs an 1 j a---ing resolution-. The Legislature adjourned sine die. Minor State New. A 11 i: i lioi oii;vv Co n i farmer ha sold $'.i.:Vi wort!. of butter to tn-t tirm in thirty ears. Damo Lvki :-. aged 'Si. of I e'.av at County, accidentally :hot h:m-e!f with ji ritle. and will die. Tin; inmates in Prison North number S:it, an increase of I '." o er last year and the largest numWrcvcr contined in the institution. A Tii ii;k ha- been making the found- of Carroll Countj. He lides in a spnug w 'a i:on and puts hi- stolen goois in ab" labeled -Snakes." 1 VNK robbers at Now Carlisle h'ew osk:. tho outside door of the vault in serviceHank, but were frightened away before obtaining any booty. Mi:-. Fi:ak Crt.vi.i: of Frankfort. b:n invented a patent petticoat which is said to be capable of lK'ing, adju-ted to the eer incoming new fashions. Mi ( ii. jail pri-oners went on a strikt and refu-cd to work at the .-tone pile. They say that the sheriff ha- not hvn feeding them as workingmen should le fed. Cli i M I V Joi, e-County Commissioner, met w ith ;t terrihh death at his house, near liatt ieground. lie had gnout to feed the cow - and w a gored to death by a vicious anii '.::l. llev.a- d-ad whe'i found. IlewstR;.". ears oid and would have celebrated his golden wedding in May. lie was a prominent mem I er of the Methodist Church and an ofheer of the l'.attlegiownd Camp Meeting A--ei:ition. C. V. 11ml. State Oil In-pector. ha made the follow ing appointments of deputies: J. 11. Ho'!. Winchester: VY, F. Daily. lVru: . It. l rsev. New Alb.inv; Walter Herr, South I'.end; W. II. Mci'ee, Lafayette: .1. M. Johnson. Logan-port: W. C. Carr. Craw lordsv ille: W. C. Dotsev. Torre Haute: It. F. shirk. Mtincic: M.J. r.owman. Madi-on: J. M. Fell-, Knshviile; L. I'. Mill-. New M;n.-illc: J. 11. Cornell, Cosheii: Walter Yiele. F.ah-ille: W. D. N-bring;, Cortland: Tho.tdore Thorward. Fort Wayne: J.C. Da, idsoti. W hiting: IL F. Wivnis. Yinconne-: M. A. Schutt. Michigan City. William McCloud of Linton. Creen County, was appointed Assistant Mitie InsjH'ctor b LoVrt Fisher. Win i.r. play ing on the falls at Jeffer-on-ville a number of boy s found what appeared to le an upturned l!atloat. but on investigation they .-aw it was a lv heavily coated with tar. The lw was seven feet long, two and one-half feet wide and two and one-half foot dvp. They tore on" tho top and discovered the skeleton of a man. The skull was indented as if struck by a biuut instrument. The boys rati awav and notified the officers. From the apie.iranoe of the skeleton it lurd leen in the 1h) for sotne tim . The coating of the tar en the box b id a ru.-ty apin arance. The spot where the box w as found was in a clump of trees know n as the "w illows," and it was partially hidden iu the shore mud. From all appearances there is litth doubt it is a case of murder. It is the skeleton of a very large man. The police are investigating the case. C.ss Ft: i i:i:so, formerly a conductor on the Lake F.rie and Western, in attempting to board a wc-t-t und freight on that road, was thrown down and lost a band under the w hooK Peterson's home was at Peru. Miss Lj v.ik Lit., K years oil, daughter of William Lee, was terribiy burned at Jeffersonville. she was replenishing the lire in the stove, when a coal fell out and lodged against tier dress and she was soon enveloped in llamas. Her screams attracted attention, and her father succeeded iu extinguishing the llames, !eing himself badly burred. Miss Lee's injuries ara very serious, but he will recover.