People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Page 6

THE TARIFF BILL.

Merit* of the Measure Discussed by the Senators. On the 18th Senator Morrill (rep., Vt J expressed his regret that the financial and industrial crisis had to be continued by a vainglorious and clumsy attempt to carry out the democratic platform. He made some rather biting references to the trouble in which the democrats found themselves over the bill, and pointed out some of the items in which he thought they had compromised with their principles and provided for a protective tariff on such articles as would win votes for the bill “Concerning the rates of duties reported in the tariff bill,” he said, “it is no violation of the confidential relations of the senate commit tee on finance to state how they were all fixed and determined without the votes of the republican members and against even the votes of any hesitating or divergent minority of the democratic members. Thus many of the most important questions may have been determined by the small fraction of three or four of a committee of eleven. But while the process of evolution was a great novelty it will not be controverted that all the rates of duty are of the purest democratic origin Tariffs ‘for revenue only’ prove to be only political tariffs, valid only after the next election. ” He pointed out in detail what he considered the special evils of the bill, the first being the obsolete ad valorem system The purpose of the bill, he thought, was especially destructive toward the production of the farmer. Reciprocity arrangements which benefit the farmer are to be abrogated. The income tax he called an unusual blunder for even a democratic ad ministration to make. Senator Turpie (dem., Ind.) spoke in support of the tariff bill. He discussed the effect of a high tariff bill on the agricultural interests, introducing the topic by the assertion that agriculture was America's natural monopoly from the cheapness of the laud, and it was from those engaged in agriculture that the demand for the repeal of the existing law was loudest "The opponents of the pending bill opposed the putting of wool on the free list on the pleat that it would check the development of high grades of sheep, but prefer that the people of the country should have cheap blankets and cheap clothing than that they should have fine Southdown mutton to eat It is not to be forgotten that the bill now before the senate is the official act and deed of the democratic party, and as such is entitled to the support of every member of the party. Justice may be delayed, baffled, even betrayed and wounded by the way, but it will arrive at last" Senator Cameron (rep, Pa.) took the floor In opposition to the bill. Following Senator Cameron, his colleague, Senator Quay, delivered a second installment of his speech, discussing the production of iron. On the 19tb Senator Perkins (rep., Cal.) made a speech against the pending tariff bill, mainly devoted to a discussion of the articles which directly affected California wool, fruits, quicksilver. beet sugar, etc., although he considered other features in the bill in which his state was not interested, but which were opposed to re publican principles and which he accordingly arraigned. On the 20th Senator Galllnger (rep., N. IL) said the anomaly is presented to the senate of a bill that it is asked to enact into law which nobody thus far has ventured to unqualifiedly indorse or approve with the exception of the senator from Mississippi (Mr. McLaurin) and the junior senator from Indiana (Mr. Turpie). Even Its distinguished author in the other house ®dr. Wilson) felt called upon to enter an apology for the measure. He pointed out the likelihood of a future invasion of American markets by foreign cotton. The proposed legislation, he said, threatened the transfer of the lumber trade to Canada; it would drive farmers from the soil of the state of New Hampshire; It would close up the woolen mills. He pointed out the importation of hosiery factories into Rhode Island as a result of the McKinley law, and asserted that the industry was doomed if the Wilson bill is passed. Senator Galllnger took up In turn cotton manufactures, cutlery, granite, and other New England industries, and pointed out the harm that would come to them if the bill passes. Tne increased tax on spirits would benefit the whisky trust alone. Free wool, he said, would ruin sheep husbandry in this country, and the income tax proposition he denounced as sectional, inequitable and unjust The laboring masses of the industrial north have set their seal of condemnation upon the Wilson bill. Factories are idle, homes comfortless. and wives and children suffering for the necessaries of life. Senator Gallinger was followed by Senator McMillan (rep, Mich.), who said: "A comparison between the Wilson bill as it comes from the house and the new Canadian tariff shows how close an understanding must have existed between the framers of the two measures. No American can doubt that the ultimate destination of Canada is to become a part of the United States That day will be a welcome one to the people of Michigan, who are now hemmed in on the east by a territory with which there are fair exchanges. To the people of the dominion also a union with the United States would be advantageous in the highest degree. To the tories in their ■extremity the Wilson bill comes—as it comes to every foreign nation —bringing joy in the of larger markets and greater pioflts; while to our own people its portion is smaller wages and restricted activities.”

Senator Dolph (rep, Ore.) followed in a speech against the bill. Mr. Dolph went over the history of progress under protection for the last thirty years. The free list of the Wilson bill was the object of sarcastic remarks by the senator. He argued at length also to show' the superiority of specific over ad valorem duties. Various provisions of the bill he oeclared would be disastrous to the Pacific coast, among others hops, prunes, lead, lumber and coal. Mr. Dolph quoted from President Cleveland’s tariff message of 1887 estimating the loss to the wool grower on a flock of fifty sheep to be only 530 a year and on 100 sheep 172, and said that the president, living in a mansion provided by the government, surrounded by servants and by all that wealth could purchase for his comfort and enjoyment and drawing a salary of 150,000 a year, forgot that 136 or 872 a year might represent all that many families could afford to expend for cloth ing. Mr. Dolph pointed to the rejoicing in England over President Cleveland’s free-trade message. the Mills bill and the Wilson bill. He said the question to be determined by this congress is whether it shall legislate in the interest of the people of England, Europe and Asia, or for those of this country.

On the 21st Senator Dolph (rep.. Ore.) took up the question of paper making and wood pulp making in the state of Oregon, and appealed to the senate not to destroy this industry of his state. Senator Gray (dem.. Del) asked whether he wanted to levy tribute on the state of Delaware in order that Oregon might have a monopoly of the paper business? “I did not say I wanted a monopoly of any industry for my state,” replied Mr. Dolph. He went on to say that Oregon used a great quantity of goods from Delaware, and he paid a high tribute to the industry of that state Senator Gray thanked him for his complimentary words about Delaware The present depressed condition of affairs in Delaware and other states, he said, was due to the cultivation of thirty years of high protection. We were living under the highest protective laws the coun try had ever known. There had not been a single Industry of Delaware benefited by the McKinley bill, and be predicted that upon the passage of the pending bill prospects all over the country would brighten. The senator from Delaware might preach that doctrine, said Mr. Dolph, but there were thousands of workingmen out of employment in his state who would convince him of the fal lacy of that doctrine. Senator Gray closed the incident by declaring that they were out of employment because the McKinley law was in force, and Senator Dolph resumed his speech In considering the income tax question a difference of opinion was discovered among the republicans Mr. Dolph had given his ex peri- nee in the collecting of the income tax in Oregon when it was in force, when not more th m one-tenth of the tax was collected. Mr. Teller (rep., Col) said that his experience had been very different from that of Mr. Dolph. He did not think it was evaded anymore than the personal property tax. In Colorado, where an income tax was in force, there was not as

much difficulty in collecting it as there was in collecting the personal property tax. He did not think it was a go id argument against a bill to say that the people were too dishonest to have the tax collected. In his opinion it was the most just and equitable tax that coujd be collected. It might be unprofitable, however. •‘Mr. President,” he continued, earnestly, “I want to say to the senator from New Hampshire” (Mr. Chandler, who had just expressed the same views as Mr. Dolph) "and to the senator from Oregon, and to any other senator who makes the claim that an income tax cannot be collected because the people are dishonest that it is slanderous to the American people It is an assumption that the American people for a mere pittance will commit perjury. ' On the 23d Senator Washburn (rep., Mine) discussed briefly the various tariff acts since 1848. The present bill, he declared, would be disastrous to the manufacturing interests of the east Speaking for his own state he said the people ot Minn esota were only to a limited extentdfrect beneficiaries of the protective system, although they had learned that the well paid laborers of the east were better consumers qf their products than the poorly paid laborers of Europe. . "But," said Mr. Washburn, "there is another provision in this bill which will affect the farmers of the northwest more disastrously than even the reduction of duties to which I have referred, and that is the repeal of the reciprocity provisions in the law of 1890. There is probably no section of the country where the effect of reciprocity treaties with foreign nations consummated by the wisdom and persistent efforts of Mr. Blaine under the late administration have been so marked and favorable as the states of the northwest. “You can, therefore, Mr. President, well imagine that the people of Minnesota, as well as the other northwestern states, look with more alarm upon the repeal of this reciprocity legislation than any other of its provisions. 1 am not only opposed to termination of the reciprocity arrangements already existing between the United States and other countries but I am in favor of applying the same principle is all our foreign trade." Senator Dolph then followed with a second installment of his speech.

BATTLE WITH RIOTERS.

Desperate Mob of Hungarians Come Into Collision with Austrian Troops. Buda Pesth, April 24.—Sunday 808 workmen marched to the town hall of Hold-Mezo with the intention of recovering a number of pamphlets, belonging to socialist leaders, which had been seized by the police. The spokesmen of the mob asked for the return of the pamphlets, claiming that they had been illegally seized. The authorities ordered the workmen to disperse. The mob refused and the gend’armes were ordered to charge. The police were met by a shower of stones and driven back. The municipal authorities called for a detachment of troops, and upon the arrival of the soldiers the gend’armes made another attempt to disperse the mob, but were again repulsed. Then the mob began stoning the military. The soldiers fired blank cartridges at the rioters. The latter, seeing that nobody was killed or wounded, continued stonfng the troops, and a second volley, this time in real earnest, was fired into the mob, wounding six of them severely and slightly wounding a number of others. A detachment of huzzars then charged the mob with drawn swords, driving them away from the town hall. The huzzars also rounded in sixty prisoners, who were lodged in jail, the prison being strongly guarded by troops. The streets are still patrolled by huzzars and gend’armes.

AGREED TO DIE TOGETHER.

An Aged Couple of Maryland Cut Each Other's vl rists. Baltimore, Md., April 20. John Benkert and wife, an aged couple residing at Rosedale, Baltimore county, agreed to die together. With a keenedged razor he severed the arteries of her wrists, and she then took the weapon and performed a like deed for him. The wife is dead and the husband’s life hangs by a thread. The couple had had trouble with some neighbors,and a warrant was out for their arrest When a policeman went to the house to serve the warrant he found Benkert lying on the bed apparently dead, while his wife, wearing only one garment, crouched by the bedside with her head in the covers, one knee on the floor and one arm resting on a chair. She was dead. He said: “I cut my wife’s wrist so that she died. She cut mine first. I would rather be dead than be called a thief, and when my wife found I was going to kill myself she wanted to die, too. We arranged that she should kill me and I should kill her.”

TRAGEDY IN IOWA.

George Croft Shoots His Wife and Himself in Court at Oskaloosa. Oskaloosa, la., April 19.—This city was thrown into great excitement Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock by a murder and suicide It occurred just at the entrance of the courthouse, and the suicide escaped a worse death by ending his own existence. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. George Croft Trouble had been brooding some time in the Croft household, and Wednesday afternoon papers had been drawn up and a divorce granted. A few minutes after the decree had been granted Croft asked his wife to step outside the courthouse with him. No sooner had she done this than he drew a revolver and shot her through the left breast. She fell on the stone wa'k. Croft then shot himself through the temple, and, staggering into the sheriff’s office, fell on the floor dead. Mrs. Croft is living, but her injuries are doubtless fatal. Croft was 35 years old and kept a billiard halL

FREE GOLD BECOMING SCARCE.

The Supply of the Yellow Metal Is Decreasing Week by Week. Washington, April 21. —The net gold in the treasury at the close of business Thursday was $103,673,528, and the cash balance $131,348,741. Information received at the treasury indicates that there will be another heavy payment of gold Saturday, which possibly may reach last week’s shipment of $4,200,000. It is expected, however, that not more than half .of the amount will be taken from the subtreasuries, the banks furnishing the rest Nevertheless the gold supply in the treasury is decreasing week by week until it has reached a point where the $100,000,000 reserve is liable any day to be again encroached upon. I

BOLD WORK.

Montana Commonwealers Travel Eastward on a Stolen Train. They Capture an Engine and Some 6ara, and Start for Washington Over the Northern Pacific—United States Marshal to Stop Them. TROOPS MAY BE CALLED OUT. St. Paul, Minn., April 26. —Shortly after midnight Monday night about 500 men at Butte, composing the Butte contingent of the Coxey army, entered the engine house of the Northern Pacific railroad, appropriated and prepared for service an engine and proceeded to make up a train, composed of five coal cars and one box car. This action occurred after a struggle of four days between the local authorities and the mob, which on Monday assumed such proportions as to overawe the officials of the law, and the departure from Butte was made without any opposition upon their part. The train was manned by members of the mob. It, crossed the main range of the Rocky mountains early in the morning and reached the main line at Logan, 75 miles from Butte, at about 4 o’clock. After a short discussion as to the method of procedure they left Logan bound eastward. Before leaving they were told by the operator that they must expect to meet west-bound trains, to which they replied that if the road officials did not clear the track they would do it for them. The train was run at a speed of 40 to 45 miles an hour. At Bozeman they stopped and prepared breakfast The train was stopped suddenly at Timberline, 14 miles west of Livingston, Mont, by a cave-in in the Timberline tunnel. The accident to the tunnel occurred at 8 o’clock Monday night, and it was learned at 6 o’clock that the damage had been repaired and the army was on its way again. Superintendent J. D. Finn and Chief Train Dispatcher C. A. McCune, of Livingston, were notified at 1:30 a. m. that the Coxeyites had succeeded in stealing a train at Butte* and were rushing over the road toward Livingston. A warning was wired to the leader of the band to look out for other trains, and the reply came back that the regular trains would not be hurt if they were kept out of the way. Such trifles as running orders were not to deter the Coxey brigade, and from the time they left Butte until they reached Bozeman the officials were kept in a fever of anxiety lest a collision should occur.

Livingston, Mont, April 26.—Sheriff Conrow received a dispatch Tuesday from Cullen & Toole, of Helena, attorneys for the Northern Pacific, instructing him to arrest Gen. Hogan on the charge of the larceny of a Northern Pacific train, and a warrant was sworn out by the company’s local attorney to be served when Hogan arrived. Superintendent Finn left at 1:45 p. m. in his private car going east The Coxeyites dug themselves out at Timberline at 5 o’clock, passed Livingston Tuesday evening, and are going eastward at the rate of 40 miles an hour. All regular trains have been ordered to clear the track to prevent a collision and enormous loss of life. The train came over the mountain from Butte at the rate of 55 miles an hour and is evidently in the hands of experienced men. St. Paul, Minn, April 26.—Late Tuesday night United States Marshal Bede received sensational orders from Attorney General Olney and Judge Caldwell, of the United States circuit court, directing him to recapture the train stolen at Butte by 500 Coxeyites. The Third regiment at Fort Snelling has been notified of the grave situation, and if the Montana train stealers do not surrender meekly there will be bloodshed. This is the telegram Mr. Bede received from Attorney General Olney: “Execute an injunction or other process placed in your hands by a United States court for the protection of persons and property against lawless violence by employing such number of deputies as may be necessary. If execution Is resisted by force which cannot be overcome, let the judge issuing the process wire the facts to the president with request for military assistance.” Marshal Bede received the following from Judge Caldwell: ‘‘Little Rook, Ark., Anril 25.-To the United States Marshal, District of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.: If the persons who forcibly and illegally seized a train of cars on the Northern Pacific in Montana belonging to the receivers of said road should bring the same into your district it will be your duty to seize the same and restore the possession thereof to the receivers appointed by the United States circuit court for your district. It will be your duty to summon a posse sufficient for this purpose. The attorney general of the United States has been requested to procure a direction to the general commanding the department to render you any assistance necessary to execute this order.”

THE BLYTHE MILLIONS.

California Supreme Court Decider a Famous Case. San Francisco, April 26.—The state supreme court has handed down ten decisions in the Blythe case, all of which are in favor of Florence Blythe. Five decisions are upon appeals from denials for new trials. The other five decisions bear on eleven other appeals in the case. This settles the celebrated case and gives the Blythe millions to Florence Blythe Bickley, the daughter of Thomas Blythe. The estate is valued at fully $4,000,000 and was awarded by the probate court to Florence, the illegitimate daughter of Thomas H. Blythe. There were nearly 100 other claimants and many of them appealed from the decision of the lower court

BROKE ALL RECORDS

Wheat Dropped to 57 1-4 Cents on the Chicago Board of Trade. Chicago, April 26. —May wheat broke all records and sold on the board of trade at 57 X cents, the lowest price ever recorded. It was the climax of the depression that has forced the market lower and lower during' the last three weeks, and the whole bull fraternity is squirming. The situation seems hopeless for them. Where the descent will stop there is no telling. There are many who say that wheat will reach fifty cents a bushel or maybe less.

NEARING THE CAPITAL.

Coxey Marches Into Frederick, Guarded by a Mounted Force. Frederick, I Md., April 26.—When Coxey’s band of peace marched out of Boonsboro at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning the air was full of rumors of impending trouble. Word had been received from Frederick that an armed force of men was on its waj’ to meet the army and prevent its passage across the line of W ashington county. As the crowd worried slowly up the steep sides of South mountain crowds of persons trooped along behind. At the top of the mountain the column swung past the gray stone residence and chapel built by the widow of Admiral Dahlgren. Just as it turned the corner of a tall hedge the top of the hill opposite burst into view. There, standing in solid array, was a troop of horsemen. The morning sunlight glistened on their saddle and bridle trappings. Browne rode up and the identity of the troopers was revealed. Sheriff Tim Merman, of Frederick county, came forward and explained that he had been ordered to appoint a poase to attend the army as long as it was in his territory. “I have summoned my deputies,” he said, “to allay the fears of the people along the road.” The troop was under the command of CapL Eli Frost Each horseman was armed with two long six-shooters, some of them suggestively displayed in the saddle holsters. The first of the collateral branches of the commonweal came into the army Tuesday night A man named Humphreys had gathered a company of forty commonweal sympathizers near here, and for the past week had been instructing and drill-, ing them. They were taken in as commune F, with Humphreys as their marshal. Nearly all of them have the appearance of being genuine laboring men.

Gen. Coxey returned from New York Tuesday afternoon. He is enthusiastic) over his reception there and says he has made arrangements to return next Saturday and deliver an address in the Grand opera house. "Everything is working nicely,” he said, “and our march into Washington will be triumphal. Our camping place in the capital city will be at Woodley park.” Atlantic, la., April 26.—Kelly’s army is divided into two camps. The Sacramento division and the San Francisco contingent are not on speaking terms, and a wide patch of green grass grows between the two factions in the fair grounds east of Atlantic. The trouble which showed its head in Neola Monday reached a climax Tuesday morning while the army was at lunch at Walnut, and between Walnut and Atlantic the Sacramento men seceded from the Kelly army by electing Col. Speed “general” and voting to go ahead of Kelly to Washington. In the short space of two hours Col. Speed was reduced to the ranks and then transformed into a genral, and will decide whether he will be able to lead the Sacramento division as an independent organization or be compelled by circumstances, of which the commissary is the dominant feature, to remain with Kelly. The Sacramento men accuse Kelly of arrogance, swell-head, favoritism and covetous fingers for the commonweal treasury. They say that $6,000 has been subscribed between here and San Francisco and declare that Kelly has placed it where none but he can find it Washington, April 26.—-Several hundred stands of small arms and repeating rifles have been delivered from the war department to the treasury department. The small arms w r ere turned over to Capt. Putnam, of the treasury watch, and the repeating rifles were placed at convenient points about the treasurer's end of the building.

TIRED OF LIFE.

Five Ktisidents of Michigan Kill Themselves In One Day. Detroit, Mich., April 26.—A suicide wave has struck Michigan, four deaths by suicide having been reported on Tuesday, the cause in each ease being given as despondency. At Saginaw, Sherman Tenney, aged 60 years, hanged himself in his room at the Scanlan house; at Muskegon Cornelius Danengar, aged 55 years, a thrifty Hol lander, cut his throat with a razor; at Morenci, Lyman Aldrich, aged 75 years, a well-to-do farmer, took a fatal dose of morphine and chloroform, and at Battle Creek Frank Stevens, a young unmarried man, killed himself with a dose of poison. Mrs. Edward Hos acker, a bride of a day, committed suicide at Kalamazoo with poison obtained before marriage.

TWO KILLED BY GASOLINE.

Three Others Fatally Injured Near Carondelet, Mo. St. Louis, April 26.—A five-gallon can of gasoline exploded Tuesday afternoon in the house of Casimir Nigg, a farmer living on the old military road south of Carondelet, completely destroying the building. Two children were killed, two adults fatally injured and one seriously burned. The gasoline can broke while being carried through a summer kitchen, and, becoming ignited, the vapor caused an explosion that shook the houses for some distance around. Nigg’s house was burned and his two Children perished in the flames before they could be saved. Casimir Nigg and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Vogel, were fatally injured while trying to rescue the little ones.

CREMATED HIS BROTHER.

Children Play wltli Fire and One f» Burned to Death. Kansas City, Mo., April 26.—Ernest Newton, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newton, has died from the results of injuries v received at the hands of his older brother. The children were playing in the yard, and the older brother set fire to the younger brother’s clothes. This was done several times and the flames were extinguished without injury to the child, but the last time the flames got beyond the brother’s control and caused injuries which proved fatal.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lightning struck a house on the farm of E. M. Spencer, weet of Mt Vernon, instantly killing James Jennifer and severely shocking George Kirk. The house and contents were destroyed by the flames. Congressman J. B. Bbown, who has been suffering for some months from a cancerous growth on the lower lip, is greatly prostrated at Seymour, and his condition is regarded as exceedingly serious. An A. P. A. lodge has been organized at Laporte. A crane was killed near Bloomington, the other day. The wing measured eight feet from tip to tip. Crawfordsville is to have another brass band. Frank Crump will build an amusement park at Columbus Fish are plentiful in the streams near Crawfordsville. Huntington council has I”*; contracts for street improvements and sewers to give the unemployed work. Rev. John L. Aten, for ten years pastor of the United Presbyterian church, of Madison, has resigned. Marshal Sargeant, of Valparaiso, arrested for being drunk and disorderly Prof. Patrick O’Connor. He was formerly a temperance lecturer. James Rhoda, a farmer, while crossing railway tracks at Chesterton, was struck by a train and killed. At Valparaiso a warrant was issued for John Sowards on the charge of attempting a criminal assault on his crippled daughter, aged 17. He escaped. The Preble Oil Co., drilling a number of wells on a farm nine miles southwest of Decatur, struck oil early the other morning at a depth of 1,100 feet The output of the well is over six hundred barrels per day. W. H. Copeland, who the other day shot Lawyer Harris and Litigant Bruning, in the law office of Harrison, Miller & Elam, Indianapolis, was arraigned in the police court next morning, charged with shooting with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. Judge Stubbs fined Copeland $250 on the latter charge. Upon protest by Copeland’s attorney this fine was stayed. Copeland was released on a $5,000 bond on each charge, which was furnished by two friends. The coroner has decided that Charles Moody, the Alexandria barber, was murdered and his body placed on the railroad track to destroy evidence of the crime. Edward Rudesal, locomotive engineer, was acquitted at Lafayette of murdering Michael Horen, on December 8, 1893. Rudesal is a prominent A. P. A. man.

Some few weeks ago Dr. Hindsman, of Indianapolis, opened up dental parlors at Sheridan. The other day he was vulcanizing a set of teeth and was using an old vulcanizer without a steam register. While out of the laboratory the machine let loose and blew a hole in the ceiling and iron roof large enough to throw a good sized dog through. The report was equal to that of a small sawmilL The damage was considerable in the laboratory. The following fourth-class postmasters were commissioned a few days since: Louis Holloway, Belda, Wabash county, vice Joshua Culver, resigned; C. W. Amos, Carrollton, Hancock county, vice J. P. Armstrong, removed; J. J. Bryant, Clarksville, Hamilton county, vice L. M. Haogland, resigned; S. S. Hopkins, Mechanicsburg, Henry county, vice T. A. Goodwin, resigned; F. L. Taylor, Stallwell, Laporte county, vice Frank Learn, removed; W. A. Baldwin, Waco, Daviess county, vice Levie Reeves, resigned. Mineral water has been struck at Greenwood. The coal output of Indiana last year was 3,681,751 tons. A big boiler factory will be erected at Columbus. The slot machines at Anderson rake in about SSO each daily. The citizens of Grand View are kicking for a new tire engine. While burglarizing a store a short time ago at Cambridge City B. F. Miller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was seriously wounded by an officer. He was removed to the hospital at Richmond, where he died. A Goshen undertaker claims to have buried 3,700 people since 1847. Greenfield will have a military company soon. Mrs. Gorman, a farmer's wife, was probably fatally burned while making soft soap near Leavenworth. South Whitley has voted to incorporate. Harry Bishop, Owen Miller and Archie Gilbert were a few days ago arrested for conducting a series of most daring burglaries among Crawfordsville business houses. For months these robberies have been continued, and large amounts of goods have been stolen. The other night the boys were found in their cave in the midst of bales of stolen goods. The astonishing part of the affair is that none of the lads are over fourteen years old. They confessed their guilt and will be sent to the reform school. The boys were inspired by dime novels. The Muncie council the other night awarded asphalt paving contracts to the Warren-Scharf Co., of New York. The contract price was SBO,OOO. Parts of Walnut, Main, Jackson, Mulberry, Washington and High streets will be paved. Work will begin inside of five weeks. The Indiana board of health issued an order to the Indianapolis board commanding it to issue an order requiring all persons within its jurisdiction who can not show satisfactory evidence of vaccination within the past seven years to be vaccinated at once. Sylvestr Weir, colored, stabbed and probably fatally wounded Henry Heneson, at Michigan City, a few days since. Heneson’s wife interfered and was seriously cut. Weir is confined in the county jail pending the result of the victims’ injuries. There is a grocer in Knightstown who.it is said, has never been on a train of cars

JAILED FOR CONTEMPT.

An Om*h* Editor Get* Into Trouble for Critieiainc * Judge. Omaha, Neb., April 26. —Edward Rosewater, editor of the Bee, was sentenced to imprisonment for thirty days and to pay a fine of SSOO for contempt of court. Without being given an opportunity to appeal Mr. Rosewater was ordered taken to jail at once, and for six hours he was behind the bars of the Douglas county jaiL At 6 o’clock the state supreme court granted a supersedeas and Mr. Rosewater was released until the case can be reviewed by the higher court The alleged offense committed by Mr. Rosewater was in allowing to be printed in the Bee a local article in which it was announced that there was evidently some partiality shown to certain criminals in the district court, as of two men caught robbing a railroad depot the poor man was sentenced to prison and the son of wealthy parents was given his liberty without the case coming to trial. The facts in the ease were not denied, but Judge C. R. Scott, who had dismissed the case in question, felt aggrieved at the word “pull” used in the article and had the reporter who wrote the matter brought before him for contempt After a disgraceful scene in court the reporter was sent to jail for thirty days and then Judge Scott concluded to arraign the editor of the paper on the same charge. The case was called forbearing Tuesday, and nearly the whole bar of Douglas county and hundreds of citizens were present in court to listen to the pleas. Evidence was introduced to show that Mr. Rosewater knew nothing of the article complained of, that he was not in the office on the date of its publication, that he had not directed the preparation of the matter and, in fact, was entirely ignorant that an article of any such nature was about to appear. In spite of the evidence Judge Scott declared the defendant guilty, after giving him a severe lecture that provoked some demonstration from the audience. The judge then started to impose sentence without giving Mr. Rosewater an opportunity to be heard. Mr. Rosewater interrupted the court to say that he would- rather rot in forty jails and prisons than to surrender the liberty of the press to criticise public servants. “If there is anything that I am guilty of,” he declared, “if I have been guilty of any contempt at all, it was the contempt of my fellow citizens for helping this late Col. Scott to become judge of this court”

STRIKERS GAINING.

Leaders of the Miners Wee in Encouraged with the Situation. Columbus, 0., April 26.—The fourth day of the great coal strike brought encouraging news to the national officers of the United Mine Workers, and they are confident that the general suspension will be a success. They expect a complete shut-down on May 1. when the contracts of a large number of miners who are now at work will expire. Telegrams have poured into tlie national headquarters all day from operators asking permission to work mines at the prices demanded under certain conditions. In every instance these requests have been denied, President McBride declaring that the order for suspension adopted by the miners specifically provided that no coal should be loaded. Only repair work about the mines is allowed under any circumstances. There are many operators who are anxious for a conference and who would gladly pay the prices demanded by the miners if such a thing could be arranged. The national officers of the miners, however, are determined not to yield at any point until the operators and miners in every district can be brought together and agree upon a scale of prices so that the miners in all sections of the country can resume work on equal conditions. Illinois miners in convention at Springfield indorsed the strike ordered by the national bodj r and adopted a political platform. W. A. Crawford, of Bryant, was elected president of the Illinois branch of the United Mine Workers of America.

FRANK HATTON STRICKEN.

Washington Editor Attacked with Total Paralysis at His Desk. Washington, April 26.—Frank Hatton had a stroke of paralysis while sitting at his desk in the Washington Post building on Tuesday. The stroke was severe. It rendered him unconscious and a/fected his entire right side. Physicians were summoned. Shortly after their arrival he recovered consciousness and was taken to his home, where he now is. He was unable to speak upon recovering his senses. Mr. Hatton went to his office as usual, and was apparently in his customary good health, when with the, abruptness of a thunderbolt paralysis struck him and he fell forward upon his desk without a cry. He was found a moment later by his assistant. The news spread throughout the capital with amazing rapidity and all other subjects were dropped to discuss it. Mr. Hatton remained unconscious all the afternoon and until abont 6 o’clock, when he revived and recognized his wife, but was not able to speak to her. Since then his symptoms have grown encouraging. He has maintained consciousness, has seemed to realize his condition and to understand what is going on about him, but his situation is very critical.

CYCLONE AND WATERSPOUT.

Only Ono House Deft Standing at Gilchrist, Tex—One Fatality Reported. Burkesville, Tex., April 26.—A waterspout and cyclone played havoc about 12 miles west of here. Every house at Gilchrist was blown down but one. Flying timbers struck a Winchester in Ralph Gilchrist’s house, causing it to discharge. The bullet struck Miss Rosie Gilchrist, inflicting a fatal wound. Houses were blown down on the farms of A. C. Hancock, Jack Joyce, J. F. O’Donoghue and R. McQuinn. Several bridges weru washed away.