Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 May 1892 — Page 1

Pike County f FANNIE E. MOUNT, Ihkfcliaket. "Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles oi Itight. atesga*g’ '** OFnOE, oter 1. B. YOUNG 4 00/8 Store. Mailt Stmt. VOLUME XXII. PETERSBURG* INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, isWL NUMBER AO.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAI ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY. TERMS OE SUBSCRIPTION: Foroaej-ear..«.|) e For aU months. 31 For thrco months ... g INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ADVKKrISINU IUTUi Ono square <* lines), one Insertion..*1 X Each additional Insertion ... m A liberal reduction made on adrertlseuen J maniac throe, sis'and l weir* months. t**nl and Transient adrartisement* mast Is fata tor m advises.

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PROFESSIONAL CAROS. J. T, KIMK, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. . WOfflce in Bank building, first floor. WIU be found M office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to all Bnsines i, WOflios over Barrett & Son's store Francis B. poset. Hbwiii Q. Ciumi:. POSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in nil the courts. Sneclal attention giTen to all business. A Motor p Public constantly in the office. aa-Officu-On first floor Bank Building. E. A. Elt. S. G. DAVENPORT. . ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYER, \ Petersburg, Ind. WOltft over J. R. Adams A Son's dru| etorc. l*rompt attention given to all business. K. P. KicfjmtnsoN. A. H. Tatlob RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petkrsbuito, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In tho office. Officii in Carpenter llulliling, Eighth anil Main. DENTISTRY* Wi H. STONECIPHER,

t Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms f> and 7 In ing. Operations flrst-cl ranted. Anaesthetics usi traction ot teeth. * i t-Emld* rk warTil ess cxI. II. LaMar, Physicjlh and Surgeon yl^TEiiSBURO, Ini. II practice In Pike ami adjoining connOffice in Montgomery Building. Office Will] ties. _ hours daw and night. •9'DjMtses of Women and Children asporialm^Kronic and difficult cases solicit*].

IN STONE, 0. V. S., PETERSBURG, 1N D. ong practice and the possession of a and case of instruments, Mr. is well prepared to treat all gs of Hoj^es and Cattle TJOCKSSyUI^I^Y. on hand a stock of Condition Pow and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Onr J. B. Yoang & Co.'s Store. MOW. 00 • yr*r is being mad# by John R. G©odwiu,Yfuy.NX,i*t w«*k for us. Header, you m«*v nut' make m% much. but wo con teach you quickly how to coin iVum fb to git) • dav ot the start, and uioia as you go n. Hoth sexes, oil ages, lit any part of ,m«rica. you earn comment# at bom#, glvall your ihue,*»r spar# moments only to tbs work- All is new. lineal |*y M HK for every worker. "> atari you. furnishing everything. KA8II.Y, SI‘KK1>1LY learned nKricULAMS FUSE. Address at one#, 8TIXS02V A tO., IDMTEANl), RdlSS. [his PAPER 18 ON FILE IN 10 AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF KELL066 NEWSPAPER CO. IBS1 NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. E la hereby given that 1 will attend he duties of the office of trustee ol nshfp at Union on EVERY SATURDAY, raons who have business with the. 11 take notice that I will attend to on no other day. M. M. GOWEN. Trustee. IE la hereby given to all partioa In. tted that I will attend at my office a1’ EVERY STAURDAY, tact business connected with the trustee of Lockhart township. All having buslnest with said office will ike notice. ___ J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. I Is hereby given to nil parties eon I that I wfil be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY. I to business connected with tlid rustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. E la hereby given that 1 will be at *H,KVERY THURSDAY d to business connected with t)i > Trustee of Logan township, ttlvely no business transacted exoffice KIRK, Trustee. E la hereby given to all parties con - d that 1 will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY isct business connected with ths Trustee ot Madison township. Itlvcly no business transacted ex* RUMBLE. Trustee. M hereby given to all persons in.will attend In my office i s I that I wl EVERY FRIDAY, t business.connected with the nstee ot Marion township. A 1‘ iTlng business with aald offlci take notlee.___ W. F. BROCK, Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LARGE, Summary of th» Daily News. WASHINGTON NOTES. A ft mi having' considered the question of the constitutionality for a long Mine the house judiciary committee has decided to report a resolution directing an investigation to be mode Into the l’inknrton system. Dr til no the investigation of Pension Commissioner Itaum, recently, a seene occurred in which that gentleman and Representative Enloe figured. Tress has been posted In the press gallery of the house a request to the standing committee of the press correspondents asking them to inquire into the circumstances and causes for the dismissal of James R. Young, late chief executive clerk of the senate. It is considered not unlikely that the new cruiser No. 13, commonly called the Pirate, will be christened the Washington. She will be launched from Cramp's shipyard about July 1 and the secretary of the navy will have until then to decide on the name of the ship for the national capital or for New Orleans, Brooklyn or Pittsburgh. No matter what the ship is named, she will always be unofficially referred to ns the Pirate. That title has stuck to her eVef since an engineer officer Used i'5 one day ih conversation with A party df newspaper correspondents. JlR. 111.a ni> has introduced a resolution in the house instructing the committee on ways and means to report a bill imposing an income tax sufficient to meet all the expenditures for pensions; and also a bill to repeal all taxes imposed upon currency issued by authority of the states. A biij. has been reported to the house appropriating ¥35.000 for the erection of a monument to William Henry Harrison, the grandfather, of Pi'esident liarrison, at North Bend, 0. It has been arranagd that the ratifications of the Behrin$pfea treaty of arbition between the Uni toil Satcts and (■rent Britain shall be exchanged at London instead of at Washington as originally contemplated. The change is made in order toejipediate the final act of the negotiations. The Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, United States minister to England, has been empowered to act on behalf- of the United States and Lord Salisbury will act for her majesty's government. The house committee on railways and canals has authorized a favorable report on Representative Dalzell’s bill appropriating ¥4^,000 to pay the expenses of a survey of a route for a ship canal to connect the waters of Lake Erie from a point at or near Erie, l}ib, With the Ohio river at or hear IHttsburgh-. T. .1 kefersoN Coo) .look. of Massachusetts, has been nominated to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to France. Congressman Aukk, of the house Indian committee, declares that the Cherokee strip cannot be opened before next spring, but that it will be done then. The following is a list of senators who have been appointed to serve on the executive committee of the national democratic campaign committee: M. C. Butler, of South Carolina: A. H. Colquitt, of Georgia: J. S. C. Blackburn, of Kentucky; J. K. Jones, of Arkansas; W. B. Bate, of Tennessee; C. .1. Faulkner, of Virginia; David Turpie, of Indiana; Rufus Blodgett, of New Jersey; J. S. Barbour, of Virginia, and R. Q. Mills, of Texas. Secretary Foster has « sent to the house estimates for deficiency appropriations aggregating ¥101.053 on account of the postal service submitted by the sixth auditor February 14, 1801, and not heretofore transmitted to congress. ■_

THE EAST. C. O. Whitman, professor of zoology in Clark university, Worcester, Mass., has accepted a call to the head professorship in the department of biology in the university of Chicago. Cou Richard It. Erwin, of the New York Tribune, is dead, lie was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.. And was a great-grand-son of lienjainin Franklin. He served with credit during the war and was subsequently secretary of the Pacific Mail Steamship line. George Graham, engineer of the double screw ferry boat Cincinnati, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., at Jersey City, N. J., met a terrible death the other day. The engineer lost control of the machinery and the boa t passed into the slip with frightful force. Many of the passengers were thrown violently from their seats, but no one was seriously hurt. The boat was landed, however, and the engine was making a horrible grinding sound. An investigation showed that the engineer had been thrown into the driving shaft and had been ground to pieces. It took thirty minutes to remove his remains from the machinery. THK'annual banquet of the Amerieus Republican club, of Pittsburgh, in commemoration of Gen. Grant’s birthday, was held at the Monongahela house, and was one of the most successful cvci given by that organization. Covers were laid for 400 and every seat was occupied. Among the prominent quests were Gov. McKinley, of Ohio; Gen. Alger, of Michigan; Judge Thurston, oi Nebraska; Tlon. John Dal z ell and Hem; William A Stone. This Central theater at Philadelphia burned the other day and fifty-two people were injured. The Times building w’as^also destroyed. Col. A. K. MeClure lost his valuable library. The loss approximates one million dollars. By the burning of the Philadelphia Times building Col. A. K. McClure lost his valuable political library, whieh he has been collecting during the past fifty years, and which can never be replaced. Kkroinand C. Ewer, a clerk of the Corbin Banking Co., of flew York, is missing with $13,000. By a naptha explosion in a New York fiat two women Rust their lives. Ib-. Patrick Briggs and Mrs. Catherlut Moore; aged 73, were badly burned. President Harrison laid the cornel stone of the Grant monument in New York. Chauncey M. Depew delivered the oration. Hon. Whiteeaw Reid presided ore* the New York state republican .convention, which indorsed son’s administration. Thomas C. Platt, Chat and Warner Miller were gates to the Minneapolis By the burning of the at Philadelphia six lives. Wiix H. Smith, the to cgiH rroi. dent liarri- ■ Hiscoek, M. Depew, elected Mention, atral theater lost their twelve 1

F!brW*XXB Ward has been released RHiffi Sin? Sing pi?son, after having served over sis years for complicity in ihe defalcation in the Marine hank, of New York. As soon as Ward left prison he went to Connecticut to see his eight1 ^ear-old soft , life. Wije died about three rear's hgp: 'lie will have to begin life »'>f again, **s he declares he is penniless. Ward does not think that he will be arrested again on the indictments pending against him. He had served his term and thinks the law should be satisfied. He says that he would rather remain in Sing Sing than to have to Bee to Canada to escape afresh hukivksT. Tilfe democrats of the Thirteenth Illinois district unanimously re-nominated William M. Springer for congress. A party of cattlemen from Wyoming* hunting cattle thieves in Johnson hole, Idaho* the alleged rendezvous for all horse and cattle thieves for hundreds of ihiles, came upon the habitation of two parties known as Burnett and Spencer and in their efforts to arrest them, both Burnett and Spencer were killed and it was found that they had in their possession over fifty stolen horses. Thk state convention df liie t'olonidd silver lCit yde have Adopted resolutions that in the event df the democratic and republican national conventions failing to nominate for president and vice-pres-ident men with pronounced silver views it will.be the duty of the voters to support any party that may promise the speedy reinstatement of silver, and "this silver convention, representing, as it does, the people of Colorado, irrespective of party, pledge our faithful and unequivocal support in favor of the political party that will faithfully carry out the purpose of the free coinage of silver. ” Inmans from lower California who arrived at Yuma, A* T., report that volcanoes near Lake Siilluiec* close to the tlulf Of California, are in active operation. They say that recently an earths quake shock was felt, and almost immediately the volcanoes became quite active. Thk Illinois democratic convention made the following nominations: John P. Altgeld, for governor: N. Ramsey, state treasurer. A. E. Stevenson, A. W. tlreen, C. E. Crafts, B. T. Cable, N. E. Worthington, Walter I. Watson, John A. King and S. P. Chase were eleeted delegates at large. Thk Colorado republican convention instructed its delegates to the national convention at Minneapolis to oppose by every honorable means the nomination of any man for the ofliee of president or viee-president of the United States who is not known to be heartily in favor of the enactmen t of a law providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. I)kkr are so numerous in all parts of Michigan that the farmers are protecting their wheat fields with guns. Seven hundred feet of the world’s lair manufacturer’s building at Chicago was blown down, involving a loss of time in the raising of the structure of several days. The wind at the time of the occurrence was blowing at the rate of forty miles an hour. Forty families were rendered homeless in the village of Hudson, O., by lire, recently. Thk follow inir state tieket was nomi

nated by the Ohio republicans: For secretary of state, K. M. Taylor; for supreme court judges, William T. Spear and .1.' F. Burkett; for supreme court elerk, Josiali B. Allen; for member of board of publie works, E. F. Lybarger: national convention delegates are William McKinley, J, B. Foraker, A. W. Bushnell and Mr. Kahn. Indians at the Crow Creek ageney refuse government money because they distrust their agent. Maj. William Warnkr, of Kansas City, has lt>e«ir» nominated by the republicans of Missouri as their candidate for governor. j| Brkndon and Bnrlington, la., nave been excited over several mysterious disappearances. Adjutant Gh»erai. Kennedy, of Colorado, has been eleeted department commander of the Colorado and Wyoming Brand Army of the Republic. Platinum lias been discovered in the hills at a ]x»int about twenty-five miles west of Rapid City, S. D. Among some specimens of ore recently brought to the city Dr. Whitney found a piece of white quartz carrying what appeared to be horn silver. He at once pronounced it platinum and ‘confirmed his opinion by the usual acid tests. S. S. Loewknrkrg and his wife were found lying dead in a 'Win at St Paul, Minn., having evidently been suffocated by gas. Investigation of the premises showed that the key in the gas jet did not work properly and that in turning off the gas it was very easy to turn it on again. ( The national convention of Brewers’ employes has petitioned Gov. Fifer, of Illinois, to pardon the anarchists. The people of Johnson county, Wyoming, have passed resolutions condemning Gov. Barber for hTs action during the recent troubles. THE SOUTH. The Kinney distilling company of Nashville, Tenn., has filed an assignment. The trouble was precipitated by a suit brought by the executor of Charles Nelson, holding notes for $8i>,805. The company assigns all its stock and fixtures, distillery in Robertson county, three warehouses, 080 barrels of whisky and accounts amounting to $118,778.50. The liabilities amount to $158,884.10. The decoration of the graves of the Confedera te soldiers and orations incident thereto, for many years observed in Mississippi, was not observed throughout the state, this year, so far as heard from. ■ Shephard Busey was hanged at Fori Smith, Ark., the other day, for murder. Rufus, Jenkins, a deposed pastor aged 70, was taken from his house near Knoxville, Tenn., by fifty Whiteeaps and cowhided iso brutally that he is expected to die of his injuries. Jenkins had deserted his wife for another woman. When summoned to leave his home he fired upon his assailants, who in turn fired upon him, set lire to his dwelling and then treated him as described. The Scotch Irish society of America met in Atlanta, Ua...the other day. W. T. Shajrman, the only witness in an important murder case ut Denison, Tex., was shot to death by an unknown assassin tvhile iu bed. The ease in whieh he was a witness grew out of an old feud and; he is the twentieth victim. He had recei ved a number of warnings that his life was in danger. A mob attempted to take from the jail at Nashville. Tenn., four men charged with assaulting two young ladies, the After a determined stand as dispersed. on of food to the Rie

OOEBAL. Ravachol, the Parisian anarchist, admitted haring caused dynamite explosions and was sentenced by the judgo to penal servitude foT lift. JinoK Gresham, it is reported, will be ssked to aecept the people's party nomination for president. The Belgian government is drafting measures to suppress anarchy. Stringent taws regulating the use of dynamite are being adopted. Tins Panama canal enterprise is threatened with total collapse; 1'Mte police of Merliii made a pother i-aid upon the lddgiligs occupied bv anarchists. They succeeded in capturing twenty persons and in seizing a quantity of the usual literature. . A panic occurred in a CathWfc church in Josephstadt, Austria, recently! and In the wild rush to escape from the building a number of persons were injured. While high mass was being celebrated the veil worn by a recently confirmed girl came in contact with a lighted taper and in an instant it was in a blaze. Some one cried fire, and a panic ensued. Women and children rushed from the doors shrieking at the top of their voices.. The jani was fearful and luauy , of the Worden . add childreri fainted. Hthers had their clothing torn from them and many were trampled upon. In tire mean time one of the priests sprang over the altar rail and grasping the burning veil tore it from the girl before she had suffered much injury. The annual report of the Union Pacific railway Co., submitted to the stockholders at the annual meeting shows for the year 1891: Gross earnings, $19,087,788, as against 820,488,208 in 189&. The surplus earnings were $7,846,451, against $7,374,759 the previous year. Proceeds from other sources make the total income $10,442,531. tieducting total charges, :t balance of $1,910,890 is shown, which is an increase of $38;093 bvefr ldst yeaft The project of M. ISririet, manager of Vignaux’s academy at Paris, for an international contest between Schaefer; Ives and Slosson and the most prominent French professional billiardists has fallen through. William Astor, the multi-mil Bonaire, of New York, died in Paris the other day of pleurisy and heart disease superinduced by the scandal in which his daughter, Mrs. J. Coleman Gray ton, figured. There has been great excitement in Paris over the verdict in the ease of ' Ravachol, the anarchist. Mr. Lyle, counsel for the murderer, Peening, has made another application for a further postponement of the trial. The Ottawa house of commons refused to put binding twine on the five list. , The verdict of the jury in the Ravachol case at Paris has occasioned much surprise, but it is the general consensus of opinion that the “extenuating circumstances” part of the verdict was due entirely to the fear of the jurors that if the prisoner was condemned to death they would fall victims to anarchist vengeanee. hlfvlilv omjcilvi'C

the 1‘aris jury for the verdict in the Kavachol ease. The Melbourne, Australia, Standard says that Deening has confessed to his lawyer and the doctors who examined hini that he committed the majority of “.lack the Kipper” crimes in the Whitechapel district of London. X'Mmk. Nordica, the singer, has been badly hnrt by being thrown from a carriage in London. There was a strong suspicion among the officers of the Herman army stationed at Halle that men were being approached by socialists with a view to weakening their allegiance to the government and an unexpected search was madeof the barracks. The result verified the suspicions, for in the men's quarters there were discovered a number of socialistic manuscripts setting forth the wrongs under which the soldier labors and calling upon them to join the socialists in effecting a reformation of the body politie. In the house of commons Mr. Clark's motion in favor of local government for Great Britain and Ireland was rejected by a vote of 74 to 54. A recent fire at Tokio, Japan, destroyed 5,000 houses. , Hit LATEST. The senate was not in session on the 30th.In the house, in committee of the whole, the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was further considered. occupying the entire session. A quorum of demoeratsappeared, and the pending amendment, to restore the mission to Denmark (which the,committee struck out), was passed after some discussion. Considerable feeling was engendered ov.er the amendment of Mr. Chipnmn, making it impossible to use any portion of the emergency fund in the payment of any claims submitted by foreign nations against the United States, and the amendment was passed over informally. Labor day. whieh this year occurred on Sunday and was looked forward to with dread and apprehension by all the governments of the old world,- and with no little uneasiness by people in America, passed, on the 1st, in a remarkably peaeeable and1 quiet manner. The preparations made to meet the emergency and to hold the more dangerous and turbulent elements in eheck were generally adequate and successful. Ferdinand \Yard. after serving six years and six months for defalcation from the Marine bank of New York, while a member of the defunet firm of Orant & Ward, was released from Sing Sing prison on the 80th. During his incarceration Mr. Ward’s time was occupied as a printer,"and his exemplary behavior led to the curtailment of his original sentence o# ten years. The Krnz Zeitung of Berlin, criticises the action of the Austrian reiehsrath in refusing adequate appropriations for the Austrian army. This paper, whieh is an organ of the military party. declares that the Italian army is also crippled, and it holds that Germany should insist upon her alljes keeping the spirit and letter of the Dreibund agreement. Harry Harden, the book-keeper for Mrs. Sarah G. Potter, manufacturer of straw hats, at Newark, N. J., was knocked down in the hallway leading to his office, on the morning of the :;oth, and robbed o# between $<100 and $700 which he had just drawn from the bank with whieh to pay the employes. Ilis skull was fractured. The great safe-manufacturing houses of Herring, Hall and Marvin, of New York, have combined with a capital of $3,300,000. The earnings of the three in 1801 aggregated $819,790. of virulent influenza is in the southern part

CONGRESS. 1h Kn k's Proceedings Condensed for C ntiTpnleuee of tbe Header. HI the «, n«te on IhCfcd Mr. Teller offered * resolution requesting the president to inform ■ the senate what steps, if any, have been taken toward securing an international conference on free coinage of silTer. The resolution was adopted, c nd the Chinese bill taken up and Mr. Teller addressed the senate in support of it. Pending f irther debate the senate adjourned. ....In the house a conference was ordered on the Dtstri t of Columbia bill and a motion to expunge f otn the Record certain unpariiamentary rental fci of Nr. Walkef (Mass 1 developed Bo buorun and thfe house adjourned. THE sen ate on thc Soth rc^itfned consideration of the Chinese exclusion bill and the debate continued until i o’clock, when a vote was taken on thp substitute to the house bill reported by the forcif n relations committee and ft was adopted ty a vpte of 4S to 14 and the bill as amended passed and a conference asked. The bill continues tSri yeafs all lads prohibiting Chinese c<>mtng (0 this country. All Chinese or descendar ts of Chinese illegally found in this country > « to be returned to China or to the countries of which they are citizens—When the house met the resolution (pending at adjorumeut Saturday) expunging certain remarks of Mr. Walker (Mass.) from the record was taker up, the pending question being the motion of Mr. Reed (Me.) to table the resolution. No quorum appeared, as the republicans refrained from Voting. The motion to tabte ^as finally rejected and in attempting to pass tHe resolution the quorum again disappeared by members declining to vote and the house adjourned. After routine business in the senate on the 2#th Mr. Coke spoke in favor of free coinage. Mr. Morgan's resolution being before the senate. Mr. Daniel also spoke in favor of free silver. The army appropriation bill was then discussed. No action was reached. A communication was received from the president in response to Mr. Teller's resolution as to an international silver conference. The president stated-that it would be incompatible with the 'public in erest to furnish the information at present. It was ordered printed and laid on the table for debate..... After the passage of several private bills the bouse took up the regular order. the expunging from the Record of remarks not uttered but printed by Mr. Walker (Mass.), but the house went into comm! ttcc on the consular and diplomatic bill. After consideration Some time the committee rose, a conference was appointed on the Chinese bill and the house a&purned. . The ariSy appropriation bill was further considered in the senate on,the S.'tb. and after a long speech by Senator Morgan the house proviso which prohits payment for the transportation of troop* over any of the unbonded lines owned or controlled by tbe Union Pacific railway was stricken out. The bill was then passed. Adjourned ...When the house met the Walker expunging resolution still had the right of way. but by unanimous consent the house went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic bill, but the absence of a quorum soon became apparent and tbe house adjourned. In the senate on the SSth the resolution to pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians their interest on the lands in the Indian territory (the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation) was taken up and Mr. Allison spoke against it. He wanted the whole matter recommitted. After considerable debate the matter went over and the senate adjourned until Monday.... The house, after doing nothing for awhile, went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic bill, but upon he tlrst vote no quorum appeared and the house soon adjourned. The senate was not in session on the 29th and when the house met members who had been sent for, who were absent without leave, were excused. The house then went into committee of the whole on the private calendar. The Sibley tent bill, which has been clogging the privai e calendar for two months, was laid aside after being favorably recommended, but without iinai action. Tbe house then took a recess until evening for the consideration of private pension bills.

HICCOUGHS THIRTY A MINUTE. Remarkable Sufferings of a Colored Man hi Bellevue Hospital. New York. New York, April SO.—James Brandon, a colored waiter, is hiccoughing himself to death at Bellevue hospital. For twenty-eight consecutive days, morning, noon and night, he has done nothing but hiccough, hiccough, hiccough. He was taken to the hospital from home, where he had been without medical attendance. He has not been able to sleep, nor eati he retain food on his stomach, owing to the unceasing hiccoughing ilts. He was a pitiful sight as he lay in the hospital to-day. Mis hiccoughs are at the rate of thirty a minute, or one every two seconds, lie lay twitching convulsively and piteously appealing to the doctors to do something for him. The physicians of Bellevue express themselves as being unable to suggest a positive course of treatment. Kleetricity was applied to Brandon's body in the hope that it would relieve him. but for the time being the physicians were unable to even mitigate the violence of his attacks. As he is unable to eat, and the malady lnm been allowed to take its course for so long, it is believed he will die of exhaustion. The "case in every respect is a remarkable one and will excite the liveliest interest among medical men when its existence becomes generally known. Brandon has fallen off in weight from 145pounds to 120 pounds in the twenty-eight days of his suffering. HANGED AND YET ALIVE. A Remarkable Report. Which Comes From Harrlston, Miss. New Orleans, April 29.—The Picayune's Harrison, Miss., special says: Coleman Blackburn stands to-day without a rival for the strength of his neck. On the 20th inst. he was hanged for wife murder at Fayette and is reported now able to walk around his room and converse with friends. After hanging for thirty-six minutes and being prononneed dead by Three of the local physieians, his supposed remains were turned over to relatives for interment, who reside in Franklin county. a distance of thirty-five miles overland. While en route to the family burying ground, a scratching on the inside of the eofiin was heard. The top of the eofflin was removed and the supposed eorpse was found to be breathing. A local physician was at once summoned, and after treatment, the patient was pronounced out of danger. He was hanged by the new system and was jerked up fully six feet vith a three foot drop. * Cut Her Hair Off With a Razor. Charlotte, N. C., April 30.—Miss Inez Sykes, a young lady, was caught by a ruffian on *ne street, last night, who smothered her cries and ent off her hair. She wore her hair in a long plait and ho ent it off with a razor. Her assailant, after cutting off her hair, struck her in the breast, threw the hair away and escaped. i Secretary Foster has sent the house estimates for deficiency appropriations aggregating *101,052 on account of the postal service submitted by the sixth auditor February 14, 1891, and not heretofore transmitted to congress ON MANY SUBJECTS. Oxford has won twenty-five andCambridge twenty-two boat races. Tns origin of the pony express in Utah is credited to Brigham Young. The last survivor of the Parry expedition to the North Pole in 1820 has recently died. Stockton, CaL, has an Indian justice of the peace. He is a lawyer and a popular speaker. The same hone power will draw on a gravel road 139 per cent, and on a ma-i-(!aa load 313 pei\j:euV £T *»*" load It Will draw qb a i

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Miss Mattie Dixox, of Noblesville. is supposed tt> have been killed from eating wild parsnip leaves cookefl for “greens.” Thk name of the post office at Kerelieval, Spencer county, has been changed to Lincoln City, in honor of the burial place of the mother of Abraham Lincoln. ThbovuH the efforts of the Winchester Commercial club, work will sood begin ofi a large brgati factory in that city, the plant to be moved fro hi Sidrix City, laThe clothing clerks at Crawfordsvillc have petitioned the employers to close their stores at 6 o'clock every evening, except Saturdays, during the summer. ’Tti.ME CLarK. a lT-yearr-old Anderson girl, has sued her husband of the same age, for divorce for beating her. R. O. GrTiLE, of Pendleton, claims to have discovered the lost Egyptian art of making glass tubes suitable for Water and sewer gas pipes. . A Tipton dry goods clerk dropped a lighted cigar itlto a box bf celluloid collars. There was an explosion arid the' clerk was badly burned. William Black, of Pern, who broke jail, was arrested at his mother's funeral ht Richmond. John Lark, a Brazil miner, was crushed by falling slate. The Indian mounds at Andersoi) arc to be beautifully improved. Brazil miners have signed the scale of wages for this year, and there will be no strike. Frankfort is to have a factory for the manufacture of clay-making machinery. Miss Moi.UK Tyner, of Kokomo, eloped with John Young, a telegraph Operator. „ The driving tod of si Big Four engirie broke at Seymour, and smashed the cab; but Engineer llayden dodged thepieees and shut off the steam, averting a wreck. v Ex-AfoiTor. Lavklle, of Washington, was convicted of arson for burning the courthouse and records. His sensenee is eight years. Moi.uk ZiKOLEti, of Southport, thought she was married to Will fashion, of Indianapolis, but she now discovers that it was a mock marriage. At Seymour, for the theft of two chiekcns, John 1L Durham was fined $5, disfranchised and sent to the penitentiary for one year. R. H. Johnson, prosecuting attorney of the Second judicial district, died at Rockport* the other day, after a short illness; The Dunkirk (fas Co. has fixed the price for lighting and heatjpg each dwelling at $12 per year. Joseph Bentley, a wealthy farmer near Valparaiso, was swindled out of SI.TOO the other day by sharpers. The commissioners of Randolph county recently completed the purchase of tlfec miles of toll-pike lying d^th of Ad leading into Winchester. This makes every mile of pike in the county free, and the total mileage of free pikes nearly 250.

Coi~ W. T. Dennis, state tit>h commissioner for Indiana- has notified the officers of the Southern Indiana Kish Protective association, at New Albany, that he Wilt make an effort to provide for stocking the streams of the southern part of the state with fish indigenous to that section, lie urges on the officers of the association the necessity of protecting tire tish during the spawning season, and suggests that they take measures to compel the supervisors of the various road districts to attend more elosely to prosecuting persons violating the law by seining or dynamiting the streams. lltNTON Miller, the defaulting treasurer of Perry county, visiter! relatives at Birdseye disguised as a woman: bnt he got away before the officers could nab him. This demoeratsof the Seventh Indiana congressional district renominated Congressman Bynum by acclamation. The major portion of the fruit crop in Indiana is all right. The ax factory at Hammond will resume operations soon. The Wabash river overflow earned away a flock sheep. .Unix Ex os, a Kokomo barber, is defendant in his fourth suit for divorce. Franklin people eomplain of crap shooters gambling on the streets. The corner-stone of the Fiske Memorial chapel, at Richmond, has been laid. Mary Burns, a Logan,sport eandymaker, lost her ring. Miss Hodson found it in a piece of candy. Now Michigan City has the mad dog scare. ■ Milo Pearson, of Wabash, was badly injured by being kicked by a colt, Charles Alexander claims to have been healed of fits at a revival just closed at Trafalgar, near Franklin. Joseph Bertrand, a half-breed Indian, died at South Bend the other afternoon, aged 110 years. He was without doubt the oldest man in Indiana. Columbus merchants protest against excursions to Indianapolis, because people go there to buy goods. M. M. Scott, dry goods merchant of New Albany, has disappeared. His family suspect foul play. Others are of the opinion that he committed suieide on account of financial troubles. The business men of Lebanon organized a branch of the Merchants’ Mercantile agency, of Chicago, the other day. the object being protection from Mid debts. Prop. Sheridan Cox has been refieeted superintendent of the Kokomo public school, his twentieth continuous real in that position. Bl rgi.a-rs entered the store of Ronsh t A! ineliart, at Briant, the other night »nd succeeded in getting away with ■onsiderable jewelry and a number of fiber articles. They also attempted to> aioiv open the safe, but gave it np after trilling through the outer doors. Huntington is being flooded with preen goods circulars. 1 n the p»st few iays hundreds of them have passed through the post office there, some being from New York and others from 11 Orion's Ferry, la. The old brick building at Corydon, (Bonn as the “Governor's Mansion,” is tming razed to the ground. 11 was oe-,-npied- by Gov. Jennings, the first gov?rnor of Indiana, in 18U>, Mrs. Mary Johson, a widow living ilone on her farm, near LaClair, was found dead in her born-yard a day or

PROTECTION IN ENGLAND. L'fce Arlstoorary Grew VfcVnlthy While the People Were Forced Into Abject Poverty. A very common but utterly erroneous idea prevails in thfo country that Great Britain only gave np tile System technically called protection when tfy IBeartS :>f this system she had attained conditions of great prosperity and a substantial commanding petition in manufactures and eommem". The very reverse is true. The protective system Was given up by Great Britain under the pressure of pauperism Slid ttufkfrtfJtey in which it culminated in the years unafediately preceding 18+2. tvhen Sir Robert Peel presented and tarried his first great measure for the reform! of the British tariff. . The origin ot custonte ini England was in the time of Edward I. Theneefi»ward duties were added and multiplied. eUcti rate being devoted to a specific purpose until in 1784 as many aa fifteen separate duties were levied upon the same »rticle. In +787 William Pitt carried through an act of consolidation, without reducing the number pf articles taxed; this measure left 1,200 articles subject to duty', arid in order to bring the act into force ",099 resolutions were required in the house of coni nons. In 1797, however, the laws relating to eris’ toms filled six large folio volumes unprovided with art index. The great subsequent wars rendered nugatory all Pitt's efforts to' relieve eoalui'irei1. Be* tween 1797 and Isis OOfi additional dels were passed and in fifty-three "years erf the reign of George III. the total number of acts relating to duties on imports was 1,309. At length taxes became so numerous that nothing was loft untaxed; evyp premiums offered for the suggestion of fresh subjeets.for taxation failed to stimulate invention. (ii 1824, Under the lead of Hnskisson, several of the crude nlatcHdis necessary to British industry had beeil {hit into the free list, of which the most important was wool. This change had worked great benefit to both wool grower and manufacturer; the priee of domestic wool advanced, while the manufacturer was eriabled to reduce the cost of goods through the opportunity given him by freedom from taxation ott ^imported wool to buy, sort and mix his wool in the most effective manner. • The first decisive step in tariff reform was brought about by the appointment of a parliamentary committee at the instance of Mr. Joseph Hume. The condition of the country was then desperate, The most concise aecount of the ease is given in Noble's “Fiscal Legislation of Great Britain," but ail authorities—liberal arid tory alike—are substantially ;it »ii agree uUilit Upon this point. It Is Written that “bvefy interest in the cdnntrv Was alike depressed. In the manufacturing district mills and workshops were closed and property daily depreciated in value; in the seaports shipping was laid np useless in harbor; agricultural laborers were eking out a miserable existence npon starvation wages and parochial relief; the revenue was insufficient to meet the national expenditure. The country was brought to the verge of national and universal bankruptcy. The protective system,’which was supported with a view to rendering the country independent of tlio foreign sources of supply, and thus it was hoped fostering the growth of a home trade, had most effectually destroyed that trade by reducing the entire population to beggary destitution arid want. The masses of the population were unable to procure food and had consequently nothing to spend upon British lUatntfaet-^ nres. Part of the burden of taxation rested either upon necessary artieics of food or else upon articles which were necessary component materials in British indnstvy.

At tnat very tune wnen uteproteeuve system culminated in. the desperate conditions of Great Britain in 1840 it will be observed that it was the end of a period of. profound peace which had lasted over twenty-live years in which the personal wealth of the upper classes in Great Britain"had become immense. When presenting’ his first measure of the tariff reform. Sir Robert Peel remarked. after stating the deficit-and the financial difficulties, to bemet, ‘‘you will bear in mind that this is no casual and occasional difficulty. You will bear in mind that there are indications among all the upper classes Of society of increased comfort and enjoyment, of increased prosperity and wealth, and that concurrently with these indications, there exists a mighty evil which has been growing up for the last seven years and which yon are now called upon to meet.” This evil was the increasing poverty and destitution of the great mass of the working people. The remedy was sought in a re-destribution of the burden of taxation. The tariff then covered 1,300 separate subjects of taxation of which 17 yielded 94 per cent, of the revenue— the rest were petty obstructions to commerce imposed for the purpose of protection with ineidential revenue. That purpose was not, however, avowed in these exact terms at that time, as it has lately in this country by the advocates of MeKinleyism. In the first measure Sir Robert Peel wholly abated or reduced the duty upon a consistent plan on 750 articles and also caused an income tax of 7d on the pound to he put upon classified incomes which is a fraetiou less than 3 per cent, —all incomes below £!.% being exempt. From this income tax he anticipated a revenue of 453,770,000 in the first year. It yielded £5,100,000, conclusively proving that under the previous system ' while the poor had been rapidly reduced to pauperism the rich had become richer. Like causes produce like effects. Under the pretext of protection to the miners of this country,and especially of Pennsylvania, a duty had long been maintained upon the import of foreign iron ores. It is now 75 cents a ton, which precisely equal to the labor cost of iuoing a ton of iron ore in Pennsylaccording to the sworn statemen&of the iron masters of Peansylvania&by whom its iron mines are worker^ The result of this system in the last census year,» year of the greatest activity known, was that 4,416 iron miners and workmen secured an income of $350 each, amounting in all to *t,i4i,339. There are iron masters in the state of Pennsylvania Whose single incomes in a singte year have exceeded the whole sum earned by iron miners. The effect i*»vf,vrm in

diet tor Feel’s "4taqad great tarirf reform of 18t > by which 43 lies, consisting of the crude and 1 manufactured matefiols which ej _ into the processes of domestic ;udusLrv, were put 21* the freelist; tiiedu.ies on the lessening number of dutiable imports being at the snide time redUfed and adjusted to those new conditions. In i#W the Irish famine forced MW abatement of all taxes cm food by or* ders in council, subsequently followed bv the repeal of the com laws. in 1847 Sir Hubert Peel loft offlae, hat the immense benefits to every branch Of British industry rendered it a comparatively easy mutter to bring the tariff substantially to its present condition in 17,)3, coupled with the repeat of the navigation laws qpder the lead of Mr. Gladstone. Since that date the people of the United States have been forbidden by their own acts ter compare with Great Britain in the construction and use of ocean steamships, while the commercial flag of Great Britain dominates every £ea under the beneficent influence of freedom from all restrictions and by virtue of the protection which is given by the exemption from taxation. on all the materials used in construction and in the subsistence of the vessels. Edward AfSixsox. “THE GAME IS UP.” 4 Case off Clair, Koblwr.v -What the IU*I» Tariff "ManUMctarer" Thinks "f the Extortions Practiced By the Tariff Protected Sugar Trust. The Philadelphia Manufacturer, tha ?fgttn of the High Tariff Manufacturers dub, of Philadelphia, has the following ^ m the exactions practiced by the sugar rust under the protection given it by he McKinley tariff: "Congr'cs haS provided that many mllions of revenue heretofore obtained rom sugar duties shall be diverted from ,he public treasury and be given to the leople. The trust, under the shelter riven to It by congress for a wise and air purpose, proposes in turn to divert portion of this money from the pockets of the people to the pockets of the nembers of the trust, ‘■Brethren, we say to you that if the >roteetive‘ system is to be employed for inch purposes as this, the game is up. go champion of that system can suctcad, even if he were willing' to try, in itninicnding to the people, at one and the same time, the protective system uid the sugar trust. It is quite imposiible to expect the nation to regard ^ ivith enthusiasm, because it proposedto reduce the price of sugar, a law which enables the sugar trust to defeat that intention. IVhat the purpose of th«> iief is, consumers do not so much care. The thing that appeals most strongly to them is the actual fact that sugar prices have actually fallen: now, if sugar prices shall again advance under the manipulation (5f a protected conspiracy igairist the people, it will be useless to jomtriend consumers to the purpose :,{ Mr. McKinley. They will conclude, and rightly conclude, that if the Airhole benefit of the lower duties is not to come to them, it should go once again into the treasury of the United States. The opponents of the protective system will have placed in their hands, at the most critical moment in-the history of American protection, a potent Aveapon with which to assail the protective theory; and we venture to say that there is small reason to doubt that the result will be overwhelming defeat j for the protective-system. Openly, in view of cveyy man in the nation, there will be unanswerable demonstration that the free traders do not lack justification for their oft-repeated allegation that the protective tariff is used by manufacturers for -the purpose of enriching themselves at the eost. of V their fellow citizens. The formation of the trust is. Indeed, a challenge issued to the people. The latter, through their representative* in eongaess, have doereed that sugar shall be cheapened. The trust, on the contrary, declares that it shall not be cheapened. There can be no doubt of the conclusion of this conflict of interests., if the people shall be thoroughly roused; but there is some reason for fearing that the consequences may involve other than the offending parties. The sugar trust places the entire manufacturing interest of the country in jeopardy by its action, and in behalf of that inter* we enter protest against the course

“Protesting, however, is likely to be of small service in averting the peril in which protected industry has been pla*«d by this combination. There can be no safety but in action, and it may be conjectured that there would be few expressions of grief from protectionists if a republican senate should join with a democratic house in sending to a republican president, just as soon as the sugar trust has made its monopoly completes bill placing all grades of refined sugar upon the free list. The protectionist* who defend protection upon grounds of public interest have no concern to apologize for It, when it is perverted to thr interest of a few private individuals. In trnth, such abuse of tiro system ought to encounter prompt resistance from the sincere friends of home industry, for the man who misuses the tariff in such a manner is a more dangerous enemy of the system than the most active of the apostles o f free trade. The Question for consideration would appear to be, shall the sugar trust be permitted to use protection for the overthrow of protection?” '__ —Protected by the tariff on refine a sugar the sugar trust is now making profits at the rate of 73.08 per cent, on the actual value of its properties The work required of the men employed the sugar house is the hardest kind work possible and a considerable no her of the*, uen are forced to work in tense, beak'- The $1.30 per day of trust is willing to American workman sugar houses—-even work on the streets, pick fruit. The greater part ployed are Poles and Hn have been brought over n This is a true picture of teeted industry. Where of wages