Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 August 1892 — Page 1

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r*0) »H0m CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. W Office In Bank building, Best floor. Will •x> lOuiui at office Cay or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention QItou to all Bnsirors 49-Office over Barrett A Son's store. Fuakcis b. Ioset. Dewitt Q. Chappell POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will prai'tloa in nil the courts. Special attention giveri to all business. A Rotary Public constantly In the office. 49"Oflloe— Ou first floor Bank Building. E. A. Elt. 8. G. Davenport. ELY A DAVENPORT, * LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. 49-Office over J. R. Adams A Son's drug •tore. Prompt attention given to all business. E. 1*. Richardson. A. H. Tatlor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Kotary Public constantly In the office. Oflleo In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms* and 7 In Carpenter BuildIns. Operations 11 rat-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetic* used lor painless ex- ~~ '-c traction, of teeth. i: h. Lamar, 3 Physician and Surgeon Pkteksburg, Ind. Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Office In Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. garDiseasr a of Wonjen and Children aspscialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. S„ PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instrument*, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all — Diseases of Horses and Cattle SXTCCKSSFTJUL.Y. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. ryf Office Over J. B. Young & Go.’s Store.

__06 a year is Wlnf made by John It. ^ Goodwh»,Troy.N.Y.,nt work for u*. Header, A you may u»t make as much, but we can teach you quickly how to earn from $& to BVflU a day at the start, and more as you go yU on. Both seies, ail ages. In any j»art of Kami erica, you can commence at home, givffaing all your rtnt.or spar* moments oulv to ■Tthe work. AH is new. tired! pay M ill for X evenr worker. We start you, furnishing " nmUil. HASll.Y. Ki etllll.Y Inninl •rnrllihur. tASll.Y, 81'tUlll.Y I l‘A t[ t'hjt'LA Its UltE. Address at one*. 1 laniivbiaaw * srs.u. suiuiwa, ^hUAiSO.N * €0., IOliTLAXD, maiml

THIS PAPEB IS ON FILE IN CHICAGO AMD HEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF I. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TRUSTEES' NOTICES OF ICE DAT. ■VfOTICE Is hereby given that I will attend J.s to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at home on EVEBY MONDAY. All persons who hare business with the office will take notlco that I.will attend to business on no other day. - M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties Interested that I will attend at my office In Stendal, EVERY STAUBDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having busiuesi with said office will please take notice. J. 8. BARRETT, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties con ■ cerned that I will be et my residence. EVEBY TUESDAY, — To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. J^OTICE Is hereby given that I will be at I my residence m EVEBY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. j-JPositlvely no business transacted e»Cept on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given t< earned that I will attend EVERY MOXD i to all parties eon_nd at my residence EVERY MO-VDAY To transact business connected with the —offiee of Trustee of Madison township. ' ' cted 4#-i'o»ltlvely no business transact' cept office dayajAMEg OTICB t» hereby given to all persons Interested that I will attend In my office In ■ tS£/%»£5 with the 1 given to all persons Hi ftetiJRu at my offloe with the TrutfvM.

What is Castoria Is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is n harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays fteverlshncss. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates tlio food, regulates the stomaeh and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is tho Children’s Panacea—the Soother’s Friend.

Castoria. “ Castoria is on excellent medlclno for children. Mothers have repeatedly told mo o£ its good effect ugpsftheir children.” Da. G. C. Osoood, Lowell, Mass. ■ castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope tho day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real Interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the variousquack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful (gents down thelr'throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” J. F. Edicbclox, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. ■' Castoria is so well adapted to children Oat i I recommend It os superior toanypreacripticr known to me.” IT. A. Aiichkr, M. IX, lit So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, H. T. “Our physicians in the children's department hare spoken highly of their experience in their outside practice with Castoria, and although wo only hare among cur _ medical supplies what Is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look Witt favor upon It." United Hospital and Disfehsabt, Allan a Surra, Proa,

The Centaur Company, TT Murray Street, Rem York City* , '• »XJ = JOHN HAMMOND. - - OIF1 E3*VE3I3"ST SII3S3CID To which lie direots Attention. His DRY COODS are arst-eluss, and the stock Is yery ten Hats, Gaps, Boots, Shoes, Notions. Give him a call, and you will be convinced tost ho Is giving BARGAINS on his entire «V»tl \ SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. ' C. A. BURGER & BHO., THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS Petersburg, Indiana, Haie a Large Stack of Late Styles of Piece Goods Consisting of the very best Suiting and Piece Goods Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

O. Sz ILdl. OHIO&MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY. THE PAST XiXKTE EAST & WEST. , 4 Solid, Daily Trains to CUrlnaattl, 4 Solid Dally Trains to St, Louis, , 9 Solid Dally Trains to Loalsrlllc. Cokucctlng In Union Depots, with trar.is, of all llnesfor the East, West, North and South. Through Vestibule nay Coaches, Cullman Parlor Cars and SI aepers on all Trains. DOUBLE DAILY LINE. Ptftliunn Vestibule Buffet Sleepers fro* St. Louis and Stations on Blalu Line * Washington,Baltimore,Philadelpba and Hew York, without change,

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F. A. SHANDY. Hitonum FAMILY GROUP AND RESIDENCES A SPECIALTY. All kinds of out-door work, por? traits, copying and enlargingf rom old] pictures &c. Birthday and surprise party groups a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. iGrive mo a call, or address F. A. SHANDY, Petersburg Indiana. M. J. BEADY, Photographer, Petersburg, Indiana, Will nake yon Photos In any number ut most reasonable rates.

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NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Facts and figures should always be made to’ jibe by the newspapervepoirter, be he i.evot So enthusiastic over his work. The dispatches from Denver told about 85,000 Knights Templar being in line in the great parade, and a little further on the same dispatch says it took two hours and thirty minutes for the parade to pass the reviewing stand. While the time occupied is deub tless correct, the number in line is palpably exaggerated, for with many of the commanderies mounted, and two hundred bands (according to the report) it wonld have been a physical impossibility to move so many men through the streets of a city in the time named. Fred Langhoff, who has been a ranchman in Wyoming for ten years, and who is a man of means, was landed in the county jail at Cheyenne, on the 0th, on the charge of horse-stealing. It is claimed that he has been changing brands and shipping to points in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan. * The execution of the eight-hour law as applied to the construction of public buildings, has proved so embarrassing to the officials of the treasury department that the attorney-general has been asked for a legal construction of the provisions of the act. Six of the houses of the most prominent citizens of Maytown, Pa., were entered by tramps, on the night of the Bth, and considerable property was stolen. Samuel Hate, a hitherto respectable farmer of Catawba, O., has been arrested for sheep-stealing, and has caused a sensation by confessing to carrying on a scheme of systematic stealing for the past twelve years. The discovery was made, on the 9th, that Eev. J. G. Tate, of Nebraska, candidate for lieutenant-governor on the republican ticket, is not a citizen, his second naturalization papers not having been taken out. He was considered one of the strongest on the ticket His name will be taken off.

X lit. UCiUll otUbvuvC VUl. XX, viov King, condemned to die at Memphis, Tenn., for the mnrder of David H. Poston, was commuted, on the 9th, by Gov. Buchanan to imprisonment for life. The boys’ parade was the event of the second day of the Knights Templar conclave at Denver, Col., on the 10th, and attracted almost as large a crowd as did the event of the 9th. The procession was over a mile long, and several of the divisions were uniformed in exact imitation of the full regalia of a knight. The August report of the statistician of the department of agriculture shows a reduction in the condition of cotton during July from 86.9 to 82.8. This is the lowest average since August, 1886, when the general condition was one point lower. fell at Topeka, Kas., on the night of the 9th, accompanied by high winds, almost developing a tornado. Trees, awnings, etc., were blown down, plate-glass windows were broken, and wagons and carriages overturned. No one was hurt During a thunder storm at Nyack, N. Y., on the night of the 9th, Mrs. Mathew Rose was struck by lightning and seriously injured while asleep in bed. She was still in an unconscious condition on the morning of the 10th. The war department has decided to retain four companies of troops at Wallace, Idaho, until the safety of the lives of the citizens and public property are assured. Forty-two prisoners were released on bond on the 10th. Eighteen Indians of the Balia Coolla and Wakeeneb tribes of British Columbia were lost while engaged in a sea lion hunt near Queen Charlotte islands. In the dense mist their canoe struck a rock, and the Indians were precipitated into the water and all drowned. At Talladega, Ala, On the 9th, R. L. Rasberry, a bartender employed by N. Simmons, was discharged. Pulling out a pistol he fired at Simmons and killed him. He then placed the pistol against his own heart and fired. Before he died he fired two more shots at the body of Simmons, lying near by on the ground. The Iowa state institute for the deaf and dumb, located three miles southeast of Council Bluffs, was destroyed by fire on the '11th. There were but few pupils in the school at the time, and all escaped without harm. The loss was estimated at (15,000. A new form of epidemic prevails at Helmeta, near New Brunswick, N. J., which, up to the 10th, had already claimed twenty victims. More than fifty people had been stricken. Bender Bbo.’s planing mill at Hamilton, O., was burned, on the morning of the 11th, throwing 700 men out of work. The loss is nearly (100,000. Incendiarism is suspected.

oeven soldiers were arowneo nt Neisse, Prussian Silesia, on the 11th, while practicing in the military swimming school. H. Clay King, the Memphis murderer, was safely lodged in the Tennessee penitentiary at Nashville on the 11th, the threatened lynching party not having been encountered. King had been drinking so heavily for some time that he was in danger of an attack of delirium tremens. Cruiser No. 11 was christened the “Marblehead”*and launched at South Boston on the 11th. Mrs. Eliza Roberts, from Battle Creek, Mich., one of those who sustained injuries in the Santa Fe wreck near Denver, Col., on the -9th, died at St. Joseph’s hospital in that city on the 11th. The husband accompanied the remains home. «, The Danish minister at Washington has notified the state department that he has been informed by his government of the confession of Consul Ryder. The department has notified Minister Carr at his'home in Illinois to proceed to Denmark. The commissioner of internal revenue decided that the various bichloride of gold institutes in this country must take out government retail liquor licenses, involving an annual tax of #25, and they have all submitted' to the rulthe leading one at arrested at the evening of the * having murwho were horribly tot, hav

Hugh Kiddle, chairman of the executive committee ot theChicago, Buck Island & Pacific Bailway Co., and expresident of the "Corporation, died at his residence in Chicago, on the night of the 10th, of heart disease. He was exmjtly -70 years of age. having been txfh Avgust 11, 1822, at Bedford, N. Y. At its business meeting in Helena, Mont., on jhe 12th, the national encampment Sons of Veterans elected the following officers to serve the ensuing year: Commander-in-chief, Marvin P. Hill, Michigan; senior vice-com-mander, George W. Politt, New Jersey; junior vice-eommander, John W. Miller, Montana. ' Edward Parker Deacon has been offered a pardon from prison if he will leave France and not prosecute his wife for divorce, and has declined the offer. In Vienna, on the 12th, Johann Singer, a cierk who had been out of work for some time, killed the woman with whom he had been - living, their three children and himself; by starting a charcoal fire in the room where they slept. The figures on South Dakota’s prospective yield, given out by competent men, are simply astounding, ranging from 50,000,000 to $00,000,000 bushels of wheat, besides immense quantities of other grains. , -Herb Wolff, tho defaulting Berlin banker, was sentenced, on the 12th, to ten years’ imprisonment at hard labor. Dittmar, also a defaulting banker, received the same sentence. The Horton company of Chicago has offered the World’s fair directors $7,500,000 for the $2,500,090 worth of souvenir half dollars to be donated by the government. • Earl Price and Arthur Kurt®, of 'North Lansing,Mich.,were smothered in an unused ice chest with a self-locking lid which they entered in play on the 11th. . V The Knights Templar festivities at Denver, Col., closed with a grand banquet to the eminent grand encampment by the Denver knights. The project for a Berlin international exhibition has been finally abandoned. The kaiser refused to sanction

A falustg wall near Ogdensburgh, N. J., on the li.th, crashed twelve workmen who were around the building, fatally injuring 'two of them, Patrick McConnel and an Italian. Some Of the ■ others are seriously hurt. The Federation of Irabor officials at Homestead, Pa., decided, on the 13th, not to impose a boycott on Carnegie j materials for the present. The Central Elevator Co.’s system of i j elevators, consisting of about fifty ele- ! vators along the Minneapolis & St. 1 Louis railroad, has been purchased by j Peavy, the well-known, Minneapolis j (Minn.) elevator man. The deal is the largest sale of elevators that has oc- ■ curred in that section for years,- the cash consideration being $160,000. The entire town of Red Mountain, a lively mining camp a short distance from Silverton, Col., was destroyed by fire on the 13th. Sixty buildings were destroyed, including stamp mills, ore and shaft houses of a number of mines, all the business houses and many residences. Loss, estimated at $313,000, with but little insurance. The Canadian steamship Empress of Japan, Capt. Lee, which sailed from Yokohama, on the 8th, for Vancouver, had to put back to discharge her cargo before a fire, which was discovered in her cargo, could bo extinguished. The damage was not extensive. The elegant residence of John Eismenger at the Indian mounds near St. Past, ilinn., valued, with its furniture, at $43,000, was burned early on the morning of the .4th; insurance $17,033. The latest report of Senator Hoar’s resignation on account of ill-health is discredited by intimate friends in receipt of letters from Europe announcing improvement in his condition. Mbs. Mabgabet Van Fradexburg, of Red Hook, Duchess county, N. Y., celebrated her 104th birthday on the 14th. Judge Gresham emphatically denies that he will take the stump for the people’s party in Indiana during the campaign. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The conflict between the free and convict miners of Tennessee has broken out again; The former have overpowered the guards at Tracy City and Inman, returned the convicts to Nashville by trains captured for the punpose, and celebrated their victories in each instance by a wholesale destruction of the company’s property. Gov. Buchanan threatens to ca)l ont the militia. The Russian authorities claim that they have checked the cholera in St. Petersburg, as shown by the fact that only twelve deaths were reported on the 14th. The official report shows that throughout the cholera-infected districts of Russia the daily average was 8,601 new eases and 4,36s deaths from the disease, or about 50 per cent, of fatal cases.

Rev. Father Humphrey, Known as the “Patriot Priest,” and others accused of riot at'Tipperary during the recent elections in Ireland, failed to appear, on the 10th, before the magistrates to answer to the summons served upon them, and warrants wore issued for their ari^st. Aix of the United States flint-glass factories (table-ware), as well as all of the chimney glass houses in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) district, have resumed operations, giving employment to thousands of men and bays. The window-glasshouses will start about the 1st. rtAvggg Stew and his two sons were sailing, on the 15th, in a yacht near Kopernick, an island formed by the Spree and Dahme, about eight miles from Berlin, when a thunder storm came up and a bolt of lightning struck the yacht, killing the fatherland both The annual report of the British customs receipts show that the revenue has been the biggest on record. ■■ chief increase is in the use of the dry western tobacco from America. MiMMr.i ..m Ges W ever since

INDIANA SJATE NEWS, Abe Little stabbed his brother Kiel to death at Sardinia because the latter would not pay Abe's wile for doing some washing. „ ■ ' While workmen were engaged in placing a six-inch gas line for the Salamonie Co., four miles south of Montjielier the other afternoon, the line burst, killing Olson instantly and fatally injuring Adam Hawk. Chas. Powers was thrown a long distance and had both feet badly hurt Olson’s friends live at Chicago. At Muncie, Willie, the O-year-old son of Mark W’alling, accidentally got hold of a bottle of belladonna hnd swallowed the contents. The physicians have no hope of his recovery. Is drilling a gas well at Anderson for Dr. Preston the drill went through a vein of iron at 257 feet, tin at 425 feet and lead at 500 feet It is being sunk deeper and the doctor is watching it for minerals. The line of street cars connecting Vernon and North Vernon is in operation. A child of Ozro Sanders, two years old, died at Portland, the othey day, from the effects of drinking water poisoned with fly paper. Wm. Atkinson, a burly negro, and Sallie Wilson, a pretty white girl, eloped from Lebanon, .Ky., to Jeffery sonville to be married, but a license was refused. Mart Langel, of Jeffersonville, whose body was found in the falls of t he Ohio river, is now believed to have been murdered with an oyster-can filled with rocks. A. J. Yon of Port Wayne was nominated for Congress by the republicans of the Twelfth Indiana district. Two big producers of oil have been struck at Portland. Four men have been arrested near Fort Wayne, on suspicion of having murdered Henry Hicks. At Anderson John Chapman scalped John Blazier with a spade. Wm. Smith, a farmer near Valparaiso, and his team of horses were killed by lisrhtnin?.

Alfred Williams was instantly killed by the bursting of a grind-stone near Drewsburg. Mattie Bender, aged 16, of Mexico, near Peru, gave birth to a babe and let it die on the floor-of an outhouse. TuSmas Devine has been arrested on the charge of poisoning fish, at Jeffersonville. His arrest was made at the instance of th^ Game and Fish Club. An investigation showed that fish berries had been thrown into the river in large quantities at a point near Salt river, and the fish had been taken from the stream by the wagon load. Devine will be tried on three counts. Moses Bradford, a Marion millionaire, was to have married Ida Dante, a Muncie domestic, promising to give her (60,000, brt when Ida saw her prospective “pap^’ she weakened. Charles Cornwall, the roadmaster ;of the Monon, was murderously asault--ed at C^awfordsville, the other afternoon, by;John Sullivan, a striking section boss whom he had orders to discharge. Sullivan, used a coupling pin with terrible effect, and fractured the official’s skulL The surgeon pronounced his injuries probably fatal. Will H. Thomas, aged 19, and Frankie Pearce, aged 15, eloped from Kokomo. She wore her mother’s wrapper, and was barefooted. While O. D. Riggs, of Keystone, near Montpelier, was edging some lumber the plank caught in the saw, throwing it forward, striking him in the stomach and injuring him so that there is no chance for his recovery. The police made a raid at an early hour, the other morning, on Bassett’s gambling house, Washington. They broke down the doors and captured nine persons, among whom were the mayor of the city, an ex-cqunty clerk, a prominent Methodist and several other notables. All the players gave bond for their appearance. Bt the will of Joaehim Fernandez, a wealthy Spaniard who died recently at Huntington, the Catholic orphans’ home of Fort Wayne will receive one-half of the estate. Simon Lee was fatally shot by his own revolver while trying to kill Officer Smith, at an Evansville picnic. Thomas Googin fell under a Lake Erie and Western freight train at Muncie, a few days ago, and received fatal injuries. The wife of Mayor Dungan, of Huntington, was stricken with paralysis, a few days since, and her life is despaired ol She can ndt speak. Frank Melton,'a nine-year-old boy, was killed in a runaway of a livery team belonging to S. Burton, at Rosedale. A child of Jno. Chun, of York township, near Goshen, died the other evening from the effects of a hornet sting, inflicted two days previously. Prof. John A. Couch, of Cincinnati, was elected professor of the law department of the Indiana university at Bloomington.

JACK MILLIGAN ana uuieu uiwra, ui Sugar Grove, quarreled over the proceeds of the sale of a fishing outfit. Groves shot and killed Milligan . Archibald Thacker, of Martinsville, died 101 years old. Henry Rihkb and Fred Slocon, of Michigan City, were drowned on the lake. . . Eight . Indiana counties bear the names of heroes of the battle of Tippecanoe. . Raj.igh Darnell, of Bryantsville, one of the oldest citizens of Lawrence county, died the other day, having suffered from cancer for over a year. Enoch Ledrqw’s son, near Shoals, heaped a pile of giant powder on a stump apd touched it off as an experiment The boy is now dying, and the farmer’s barn was burned to the ground with all of this year’s harvested hay and wheat The threatening rooky bluffs at the north end of the railroad bridge, at Wabash, which alL who have ever ridden over the oldC., W. &M. will remember, are to be blasted out It is said three years will be required to do the work. Da. Wm. Gray Smith, for many years a prominent physician of Winchester, died the other night after a brief illness, of dropsy of the heart Joseph Pierson, aged about seventyfive, an inmate of the Floyd county infirmary, jumped from a second-story window of that institution, the other night, and broke his neck. It was suicide.' ' The old cemetery near Chesterton, Porter county, is haunted by the old, familiar woman in white. Frank Brown was riding past "the place the other night, and the ghostly apparition tried to abduct him.

ELECTiQN OF U, S. SENATORS. Atgumt* la Favor af a Direct Vote by the People. The following extracts are from a speech delivered in the national house of representatives b.r Hon. Owen Scott, of Illinois, daring the recent session of congress; It is wen known that those persons called upon to act to « representative capacity are most likely to perform well the duties assigned when held to a rigid accountability. This principle prevails ic business. A close scrutiny, and constant, rigid responsibility win secure faithful and industrious discharge of duty. If the bank sbstlPrelax its demand that accounts should balance every day, inaccuracy and dishonesty would supplant perfect system and almost unbroken success. The railroad is inexorable in its requirements of account? btilty. Life and property are at stake. The supervision by those holding the right to discipline lor careless or willful neg,lect of duty secures the most miraculous system of safety and rapidity of movement known in tho affairs of the world. Millions of lives are daily to security from disaster because every one, from president to trackman, is held to the most direct, rigid and constant responsibility. Senators are but men, and not all are even great men. The fprtunes of politics under the present system of their election sometimes bring So the surface persons scarcely of the mold or manner to be designed as more than “grave and reverend seniors.” Hoary looks, arched brows, and an air of wisdom are quite frequently mistaken tor senatorial greatness. The want of direct and constant dependence upon the people tends to make men deaf %> the appeals of the oppressed for relief from grievous wrongs and galling burdens. Beelcctios does not come from the people. A skillful movement oa tbe political Chessboard of the state secures the nomination of men for the legislature, who, influenced by motives selfish, often mercenary, will be willing to: vote to return the senator who has neglected and ignored the just demands of the people. The constant shifting of the membership of state legislatures removes any possibility of accountability to the body which elects. A senator having completed his six years' service goes for reelectton to a body made up almost wholly of new mon. In view of these considerations there to very little vital and forceful responsibility felt by members of the “American heuse of lords" for the opinions and wishes of the people of the state they represent. Take the power to elect from members of state legislatures and give It to the individual voters of cash commonwealth, and a care for the interests of the masses will be awakened in the senate that has never existed. Instead of being a retiring ground for wealthy and influential men to enjoy the ease and luxury that come from rank and station, men ot brains and ol sterling worth will more often be ohosen by the people to fight their battled for right and justice. The rapid growth of sentiment in favor of popular election of senators has come largely from an evident tendency of the upper branch to ignore the demands of the people.

responsibility Is not the only reason for the change proposed in this amendment to the federal constitution. Respect for and confidence In the senate has been largely discounted In the last few decades by frequent charges of corruption in senatorial elections. In many eases the impression exists that bribery, by the payment of money or promise of federal appointment, has been omnipotent in senatorial contests. Whether the charges are true or false does not in the least change the faot of loss ot confidence by 'the people. No such condition could exist if by direct vote they were, chosen. Oftentimes the change of a single voteta a legislature will determine the contest It will he easily seen that with miscrupulous or even weak men this presents a terrible temptation. Even when the balance of power is lodged with a dozen men a millionaire aspirant for the senatorship need not fear the pool-house, even though he put financial inducements in the way ofJhese legislators.-' Toe growing tendency io elect Tastly rich men to, the senate has gi ven much color to popular suspicions of legislative corruption. Our government cannot afford to preserve a system of election which gives the country a tainted or suspected senate. TO poison the spring Is to impregnate the stream below. When the upper branch of the supreme legislative body of the land Is believed to contain those who, but for corruption aad. bribery, could not have been elected, the stream ot political ambition is poisoned and the public conscience Is blunted. When this condition exists our nation has taken the first essentially dangerous step toward its dowaSali. A man may buy tbe votes of a few, but it is impossible to corrupt the many. Ills believed therefore to be of vital importance that our system of government be changed and perfected that we may escape even the appearance of this evil In publio affairs. In sessions ot legislatures which elect senators the businest of the state is demoralized. For months the work for which legislators are primarily chosen remains undone in the excitement attending a senatorial contest At great expense the state maintains the session, and for days, weeks and months almost nothing Is done. That which is accomplished is so colored and influenced by the pending struggle that it were perhaps better left undone. In Illinois, In the memorable contest when Senator Logan was elected for the last time, the result'only came after many mouths waiting, the death of a member and a sharp political trick, which gave a district a representative which in no sense reflected the real sentiment of his people. Had this corneas been by direct vote, the same result would have been accomplished. Gen. Logan would have been elected in November. Five mouths of useless legislative struggle would have been saved. Large expense to the people would have been avoided. Public business relating to tbe growth and prosperity of our magnificent empire state would have had careful and thoughtful attention. On the whole if seems that not one advantage can bo claimed for denying to the people of the state the right to elect their senators as they elect thoiwmyornors, members of congress and other cWers. Every consideration seems to favor the change except the custom of doing otherwise, vthiali has so long prevailed. I was so impressed with the Importance of this measure that early in the session I prepared and introduced she Joint resolution, which is reported by the committee in the fort substantially, as I introduced it. Mr. Speaker, this change does not involve any fundamental principle. That each state shall choose two senators is not to be disturbed. It Is simply proposed that tbe people in their sovereign right shall vote directly for their eervants in the federal senate, and not intrust this to the intermediate agency of state legislaSo long, then, as there is simply s change from a cumbrous and unsatisfactory method of doing this to one which more fully recognizes the fundamental principle of this republic that before the law ‘-all men are created equal," It is to be hoped that this House and senate will speedily adopt this Joint resolution, sending the constitutional amendment to the states for rati

When it .b»Jl become operative semuora to. be representatives of the peopU. Tbeyinu no longer st«nl ior kaleidoscopic legislative eon"'cbMgesoi Improper influence niUbe beard no more. The senate will be restmredto ol4* aragBSegasss. Sg 'SssrassftSsSSSS* directly and constant!* ra*oomub.e to them [Applause.] _ CLEVER HUMOR. It makes no difference how ambitious a man may be to excel; at this season he can endure being “thrown into the shade."—Boston Courier. “WKLb, if that ain’t mean,” exclaimed the prisoner; “every durned one o’ the stories in this here paper they’ve gimme to read it continued. An’ me to be hung nest week.”—Indianapolis Journal. "How HAST hoars a day do you work?” asked one of the relatives of a government appointee. “Houahsi" the young man euhoed in dismay. '‘Sweat heavens, man. da you think I dwive a

THE LABOR WAR. I'm r*. Convict Labor In tkt .Tennomoo Mines—The Town or Inman Captured and the Convicts Employed In the Mines. There Hustled Off on a Train for Nashville—The Stockade Destroyed. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. »>.—The cast Tennessee miners are again seeking vengeance. About 8 a. m. 800 of them, heavily armed, marched into Inman, a little mining town in Sequatchie valley. Their object was well known, and the citizens packed up and fled. The mob of vengeance seekers went to the mines and captured the seventeen guards, marched them to tBe stockades and pnt them under guard. The 879 convicts who were at work were then taken to Victoria, a little village near by, packed in box cars and started to Nashville. Gov. Buchanan on hearing of the affair telegraphed the sheriff of Marion county to summon a posse and proven t the burning of the stockade. If further trouble ensues the governor says he will order out the militia. Trouble is expected at other mines, and the whole of east Tennessee is in a high state of excitement. There were enough guards to have kept them at a distance for a reasonable time, but the mcrtrctf 300 which, it ia said, included forty negroes and some ex-convicts, had no trouble in taking possession of the building. There was talk of burning the stockade, hut Mr. Anderson, the superintendent of the road, asked them not to do this, as the flames would communicate to the railroad bridge near by. The miners heeded the request, hut declared that they would tear the property down. They had the convicts form a line and under guard they were marched, from the mines to Victoria, six miles away. Arriving there the convicts were placed in coke cars confiscated for that purpose and the conductor of the train was ordered to proceed to Bridgeport The fdet that sixteen armed guards at Inman offered little if any resistance upon the approach of the mob has caused much comment However, the guards at the other stockades visited by the miners during the past year made no real resistance, and the men at Inman seem to have merely followed the example set

Mr. Baxter, vice president of the lennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., said: “The company is willing to surrender its lease contract and leave the state free to make such disposition of the convicts as the state authorities may. deem best. The company offered this to the last extra session of the general assembly, but no action was taken upon it The offer has stood open to the state authorities since that date and is jiow open to them. The company only want to be protected in the executio -v of’ the contract or that it b e canceled.” It is said that the Tracy City miners by some means learned that the convicts had become an. elephant on the hands of the lessees, and that tSey were >*S&-6BXi5ffrL' jret rid of them as the miners themseHU The convicts sent to Nashville from arrived tonight and are at the staL ”rison^Aa there are over 1,000 convicts andf'lfl accommodations for 700, they^H packed away like sardines in a bo^H LATER. A mob of miners returned to^H stockade at Inman and with axes <^| stroyed one side of the barricade and all the buildings. When they left a sheriff’s posse took charge and will probably prevent further damage. WILL CONTINUE THE REBATE, But In the Interest of Peace Makes Pair Promises for the Fhtare. Montreal, Can., Aug. 16-—1The Gazette, the Dominion government organ, in an officially inspired editorial says: “The government has decided not to rescind the order in council granting a rebate on grain passing through the St. Lawrence canal this season. Next year, however, it is intimated different arrangements will be made.” A statement to this effect will be sent to the Washington authorities who will also be informed of the reasons for the government’s course. This is well understood. The rebate in the .flftt instance was granted for the season, and, reckoning upon it, contracts have been made in which residents of the United States as well as Canadians are interested. Very serious inconvenience and actual lost would follow a sudden withdrawal of the rebate at this period. This the government is anxious to avoid while at the same time it does not desire to give occasion for acts of reprisal, such as the recent legislation of oongress provided for. The line of policy taken should satisfy all, except perhaps the Ogdensburgh elevator firms and their associations, who, it is supposed, have been behind the government in the movement for retaliation. While it is not known what the United States government will do, it is reasonable to expect that the statement of this country’s intention will be accepted as outlining a fair solution of the dispute, and this the more so because there are strong United States interests concerned in the maintenance of the St Lawrence route as an active competitor tor the export grain trade/’_

Philadelphia, Aug. 17.—In the first race at Gloucester, yesterday, seven of the eleven starters in a four-and-a-h&Tf furlongs race fell hya heap while nearing the home stretch. Jockeys Morrisey, Horton, Cleary and McGlone were badly hurt. An Over Zealous Servant’s : Rome, Aug. 18.—A dispatch from Castro, Scilly, says that brigands captured a wealthy wine merchant nhmed Billotte and a servant Billotte sent the servant with a letter to his bankers requesting that the ransom demanded by the brigands, 50,000 francs, be forwarded. The servant informed^the police and a posse of twenty gendarmes ‘ out to attack the brigands. The by their scouts and escaped to the mountains after I putting Billotte to death. Thei found Billotte’s body in the * a pile of burning wood. Aug. 16.I who was released Saturday, in a conversation United Press reporter with r .. the case against him, said that ! almost positive that hevieted,not because« * ' attempted ass for avowing himself a declared that, the , believe in the i " th&t