People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Page 6

Proportional Reprebentation.

STATE OF INDIANA.

Hews nuggets gathered in HILLS AND DALESL. Week’* Car*fally Coadatwed far Our Headara —Social, Personal, PoI.tlcal, Religious and MtseoUanooM Intellixende l'p to Date. Mrs. Frank Messraerc nearly beat the life out of Clementine Heeter, a young man of gcod family, in front of the postoffice at North Manchester. A rumor concerning the conduct of Heeter and Mrs. Messmere reached the ears of Mr. Messmere, and he confronted Heeter, who boasted of the favors he had received from Mrs. Messmere for over a year. This so enraged the husband that he would have taken Heder's life on the spot but for the interference of friends. Mrs, Messmere then armed herself with a rawhide and started out in search of her slanderer. She met Heeter, who is a cripple, us he was entering the postotuev building and gave him a sever® thrashing with the whip. She grabbed one of his crutches and dealt him a fearful blow, felling him to the sidewalk, then pounded him unmercifully for some minutes. An officer arrived and look the enraged woman in custody. Heeter was taken to his home, aud is in n critical condition.

The farmers of Adams county are working a successful boycott on the merchants of Deeatur. They have been holding meetings in various small towns in the county and now havo, as they claim, the names of over seven hundred farmers who will refuse to do any trading in Decatur. They have already established two general stores at Preble aud Mon mon th and expect to put in several more at other placea soon. They are working together something like the “grangers" did several years ago. As a result of thia boycott but very few people were in Decatur last Saturday and the merchants did a very light business. Usually there are from three to five hundred farmers doing business here on Saturdays. The fanners give as .heir reason for boycotting the town that the city will not furnish them a yard in which to place their teams w'liaie doing their snooping and that they are not allowed to luiul heavy loads over the brick streets. The merchants have already felt the effects of the boycott are somewhat alarmed. Information has been received at Logansport by Rev. E. S. Scott, «uperiutlindent and secretary of the Presbyterian Assembly and Summer school which is to be established at Bass lake, Indiana, that the Big Four and Baltimore & Ohio railroads and the people of Kosciusko county are combining to make a more favoraqle offer to that association to locate the assembly at Turkey lake, Kosciusko county. Bass 1 ke, Starke county, was selected as the site of the assembly at a meeting of the stocks holders at Indianapolis, early this month, provided certain conditions were fulfilled. The advocates of Turkey lake, however, still i ave hopes of securing the school, which will be similar to the Chautauqua of New York state and In charge of President .1. M. Coulter of Lake Forest university. B. &. 0. passenger train No. 7, due nt Seymour Pi o’clock a. m.. failed to arrive until m. one day last week, on account of the wreck at Cold Springs Sunday night. The wrecking car returned to that place to finish clearing up the track. Of the fourteen cars piled up many were broken to pieces and burned. The ears were loaded with cotton, freah meats and live poultry.

Two convicts named Connor and Blake were brought down from the Michigan City prison to testify against Charles Shirk, on trial in the Kosciusko Circuit court for grand larceny. The men were placed in cells in the Warsaw jail, and during the night Shirk got at t hem, saturated their bunks with gasoline and touched it off. Fortunately there was but little of the fluid, and the men were aroused and extinguished the blaze before they were singed. Daniel Baugh, Sr., residing near .Jeffersonville, ,who on April 1 next will lie 100 years old, is reported confined to his r<x>m by a severe cold, or a slight form of the grip. The venerable gentleman is a staunch republican and says that not only will he le well in a few days, but live to vote for and see another republican President. His son, Daniel Baugh, Jr., is 65 years old, and residing together on the farm are four generations of the Baugh family. About a year ago William Augerbright, who resided near Lincoln, Neb.,murdered his father-in-law, William SmeLser, a well-known farmer near Anderson, who was making a visit at his daughter’s residence, Ahgerbright took offense at a remark of his guest and brutally murdered him. A telegram was received here last week stating that Augerbright had been convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. The trial lasted nineteen days. William Decker & Sons, one of the best known gas well drillers in the Indiana belt, have made a successful trial of a patent which they invented for separating gas and water. Jacob Erther, a wealthy farmer and owner of over 500 acres of rich land near Yorktown, Delaware county, and also owner of one of the largest dry goods stores in Farmland, was forced to make an assignment last week. Th« assets are sufficient to more than meet all liabilities. His downfall was caused by being security on several large notes given last summer. Daniel Moyer, one of the old tim* settlers of Elwood, died last wee! after a long and painful illness with dropsy. He was identified with th< citv's growth and was well known al’ «rc. the county. *

CRIME.

The body of Barrett Scott, the defaulting treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska, was found in the Niobrara river, a rope around the neck and the hands tied. “Parson” Shaw and five other moonshiners were captured in a raid by federal officers in Pike county, Arkansas. J. P. Campbell was fatally shot near Danville by Frank Richardson, for whom he had been lying in wait. W. M. Scharf, one of the captured Momence bank robbers, has made a detailed confession to the officers Samuel Hotelling, a young farmer of Rolling Green. Minn., killed his wife and her parents and was slain by pursuers. Mrs. Coates, a widow of Mifflin, Ind., confessed just before death to the murder of Jacob Wintermyer twelve years ago. Mrs. Ferdinand Wiegand, wife of a butcher at Jacksonville, 111., tiring of his abuse, fatally shot him in self defense. Dominic Paflinsk, who wrecked a train near Heafford J unciion, Wis., killing the engineer, was sentenced to twenty five years. G. W. Wallace, charged with alienating the affections of Mrs. W. H. Classen, was fatally shot by her husband on a train at Edmond. O. T. During a family quarrel at Cowden, 111., Jesse Severe shot and killed his father-in-law, Joseph Nantz. Wejeech Waleczewski was arrested at Green Bay, Wis., charged with having murdered his wife and burned the body at Eaton. M. Morrison, city marshal of Crawford, Neb., killed three men and is being pursued by a mob which may lynch him. One man was killed and three others injured, two fatally, in a saloon row at Mitchell, 111. Charles Beckwith of Elkhart, Ind., tried to persuade his wife not to go to church, and, failing, fatally shot her and killed himself.

FOREIGN.

M. Poincarre has consented to accept the portfolio of finance in a French cabinet headed by M. Bourgeoise. The modus vivendi with the United States was finally adopted by the chamber of deputies of Spain. Kuchan, Persia, which had but recently been rebuilt, was again destroyed by an earthquake. Maay persons were killed. Germany has struck another blow at America by forbidding the importation of her cuttie through Great Britain. Election of M. Faure, as president of France, is well received. He is the first protestant ruler tLe country has had. Revolutionists in Hawaii started a battle in which several men were killed. The rebels are now under complete control. Advices from tire Fiji islands reports a terrible hurricane which destroyer! much shipping and killed a number of people. The Japanese array under Gen. Nogi captured Kai Ping after four hours’ fighting. Two hundred Chinese were killed. Dispatches from Pekin state that Gen. Wei has been beheaded for cowardice in recent battles. Dispatches from Greece deny the reports of a rebellion and state that trouble were confined to protest against taxes. M. Felix Faure, minister of marine in the Dupuy cabinet, was elected president of France to succeed CasimirPerier. Emperor of China has issued a manifesto in which he says he prefers death to the disgrace of defeat. Duke of Orleans, pretender to the throne of France, has issued a manifesto asking the people to return to a monarchy. Wearying of the abuse of enemies and the lukewarmness of friends, Casi-mir-Per ier has resigned the presidency of France. It is now believed the British losses through J. F. M. Pierce's bond swindling operations will aggregate $8,000,000,

CASUALTIES.

The steamer State of Missouri struck a rock in the Ohio river and sank. Forty persons were drowned. Myrtle Townsend, Elsie Hughes and George Crossby were drowned while skating near Fort Mad son, lowa. August Beerman of Thorpe, Wis., was beheaded by a train he was endeavoring to board at East Toledo, Ohio. Property worth more than 8500.000 was destroyed by a fire in Macon, Ga. Four firms were burned out. By the explosion of a saw mill boiler near Alto, Texas, four men were killed and several others injured. Two boys, 14 years of age, who ran away from St. Vincent’s Industrial school of Utica, N. Y., were found frozen to death.

SPORTING NOTES.

Bates of Ontario ahd Elliott of Kansas City were tied in the international shoot at Hamilton and divided first money. Fight between Dempsey and Ryan before the Seaside Athletic club of New York, was stopped in the third round. W. K. Vanderbilt, E. D. Morgan and C. Iselin will form the syndicate to build the America’s cup defender. In the international curling contest at Milwaukee the American rinks defeated the Canadians by one stone. Charlie Mitchell has challenged Peter Jaekson to fight for $5,000 a side, the battle to take place in May or June.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAEfi, IND.. WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR

Chicago members believe the hous« will act favorably on the bill for a new postoffice. Senator Lodge is planning to become secretary of state if the republicans are successful in electing the next PreaidenL Treasury department regulations for the government of sealing vessels have been signed by the President In a statement to the public President Cleveland says the sending of a warship to Hawaii does not indicate a change in the policy of the administration. Majority report finds Judge Ricks guilty of fraud, but agrees to reopen the case for further hearing. Senators from the Pacific coast have manifested hostility toward the new Japanese treaty and it may be amended. Senate has passed the army appropriation bill, carrying $23,000,000, and the bill advancing Gen. Schofield. Statements prepared by treasury offieials show that the new tariff law is causing a material increase in the receipts. William Randall Cremer, member of the British house of commons, presented an arbitration petition to President Cleveland. Attorney General Olney has devised a labor arbitration bill, which has been introduced by Chairman McGann. The house ways and means committee decided to favorably report the bill to repeal the differential duty on sugar. The senate passed the defic : ency appropriation bill after adopting an amendment limiting the interrogatories of officers seeking to collect the income tax. Mr. Hill's proposition to refer the legality of the income tax to the courts was defeated in the senate. Arguments on the application for writs of error and of habeas corpus in the Debs case were heard by the Supreme court. The printing bill, which has been passed by both houses and signed by the President, is found to revive the franking privilege. Duritig the debate on the Indian appropriation bill in the house Wednesday Messrs. Walker, Warner and Reed engaged in a discussion of the currency question. Arguments in the case to test the constitutionality of the income tax were concluded in the District Equity court. Debate on the income tax item in the deficiency appropriation bill was continued in the senate. By a vote of 7 to 6 the house judiciary committee decided to report a resolution for the impeachment of Judge Ricks.

Michigan’s solons started on their tour of investigation to the •ipper peninsula at the expense! of the state. Hounded to desperation by office seekers. Sheriff Williams, elected by populists at Prague, Wash., res igned the office. Senator Cullom, recently re-eli*cted to succeed himself from Illinois, says his fight was won by Chairman Tanner. Indiana legislators are endeavoring to frame and pass a law that will piohibit prize fighting in the state. Senate of Nebraska has been notifies that it must reduce the number of employes to comply with the law. Shelby M. Cullom of Springfield was elected to succeed himself as United States senator from Illinois on the first ballot. Montana legislators who voted for Carter, Catholic, for United States senator have been threatened by the A. P. A. Indiana republicans have prepared a reapportionment bill, the success of which will permit them to elect a senator. Senator Thurston outlined his position on the tariff and silver in an address to the Nebraska legislature Wednesday. Ohio wool growers convention at Columbus declared the tariff law to be a “colossal political crime,”

Remains of Mary G. Stevenson, daughter of the Vice-President,reached Bloomington, where the funeral was held Monday. Henry Trumbull, son of ex-Judge Lyman Trumbull, died at the home of his father in Chicago, aged 33 years. Major Joseph W. Paddock, government director of the Union Pacific road, died in Omaha from pneumonia. Augustus C. Merriam, professor of Greek archaeology and epigraphy in Columbia college, died in AXhens from pneumonia. Gen. James S. Hackney, formerly adjutant general of Missouri, was found dead at his home in Jefferson City. Miss Mary Stevenson, eldest daughter of the Vice-President, died of pneumonia at Asheville, N. C., after protracted illness. Marcellus Strong, the oldest editor and printer in Wisconsin, died at Oshkosh after a brief illness, aged 79 years Gen. Israel N. Stiles, a former brill iant attorney of Chicago and widely known, died of general debility, aged 62. Senator Tasse, Canadian minister to the World's Fair and ex-meonber of parliament, died at Montreal after a long illness. Mrs. Caroline Dorwin, sister of the wife of Senator Shelby M. Cullom, died suddenly at her home in Springfield, 111. Rev. Samuel Graves,, a prominent preacher and theological professor, died at Grand Rapids, Mich.,- aged 75 years.

WASHINGTON.

POLITICAL.

OBITUARY.

A CHRISTMAS LETTER.

GOV. PENNOYER OF OREGON REMEMBERED GROVER. “Al way* Remember the Unemployed Multitude* All Over Our Hroud Land —I Fray That God May Give You Light and Strength to Do Right.” Portland, Ore., Dec. 27.—Gov. Pennoyer remembered President Cleveland by sending him the following letter: “Christmas has again visited our stricken land, with its prostrated industries and its idle throngs, willing but unable to work and unwillingly forced to beg or suffer. Y’our panacea, a change in the Sherman law and the tariff, has been administered, but there is no change in the sad condition of the unfortunate country. After two years of ruinous delay and mismanagement you have, thank heaven, at last discovered the real trouble, although you have not proposed the proper remedy. As you now concede, the country needs more money, but it does not want the worthless stuff you proffer. It needs gold and silver money with which to pay debts and it does not want bank rags with which it can not pay debts. Sixty years ago the democratic party had a President who defied the banks In the interest of the people. Has it now a President who defies the people in the interest of the banks? All the traditions of the party which elected you are for gold and silver money and against bank currency. Do you aspire to furnish an example of treason to the cause intrusted to your care which will be without any parallel, except one, in the annals of American history? Your party in both houses favors the restoration of silver as standard money, the people actually suffering from the existing prostration of business favor it, and will you not ttand with them in overturning the monometallic policy of the British oligarchy which is fast degrading our fair country to the condition of a subjugated province and our hitherto free people to a condition of financial serfdom? Always remember the unemployed multitudes all over our broad land. I pray that God may give you light aud strength to do right.”

ALONG THE LINE.

Thk man who begs for work is as much a beggar as the one who begs for a crust to eat. And the able bodied man who works for a dollar a day is as much a slave as was the negro who worked for his board and clothes. The New-York bankers have asked President Cleveland to remove Secretary Carlisle from the cabinet. He is getting bull headed and won't tell them in advance what the administration proposes to do. It’s amusing to read in democratic papers about the ’Populistic setback in the recent election, when the democrats throughout the nation met a defeat that means annihilation, while Populists added over a million votes to their vote of two years ago—New Charter. What is the matter with getting right down to bottom principles and demonetize both gold and silver and have a paper money controlled by the government and have done with the whole robbing crew of usurers at one fell swoop? Oklahoma State.

We have seen men who have not a change of raiment, sneer with malignant rancor at those who are earnestly laboring to better their condition. Such intellectual dwarfs are on a par with the cur that bites the hand that befriends him, and by reason of the low state of existence to which they have fallen have no place either in heaven or hell. —Friend Herald, lola, Kan. The plutocratic press is trying to create the impression that American money is going to Europe for investment. But the fact of the matter is that plutocracy is frightened at its own rashness, and some of the millionaires are depositing their gold in Europe, so that if they get run out of this country, they will have something to start into business on the other side. Chattel slavery, cruel and wicked as it necessarily must be, still possesses elements of mercy. There are other forms of slavery that are merciless Yet men have analyzed the subject so little that some of the most wicked and oppressive systems are utterly ignored. Even the enlightened British people, while moving the heavens and the earth, so to speak, in order to abolish chattel slavery and the Aftican slave trade, have actually nurtured and still nurture in their own Islands the joint systems of wage and tenant slavery, which have paved the bed of the Atlantic ocean from Cork, Liverpool and Belfast to New York with the skeletons of human slaves escaping from their chains. And America—our boasted free and liberty loving America —whose people have poured out blood and treasure like water for the abolition of chattel slavery, is. as fast as time can move, suffering and aiding monopolies to grasp the means of life, through which to establish and compel the merciless slave systems of the old world.—John Davis, M. C.

THE TWO METHODS. Highway Kobbory and OMtlenuntv Bank Robbery. 1 “A blackguard, with his face hid by a mask meets you at a dark corner and at the muzzle of a pistol relieve- you of a watch and a few d illars—all he can get. A thief or robber, with his face hid by a smile meets you, he standing behind a bronze railing in a bank, and wins your confidence, gets all your money, closes up the bauk, keeps your money, meets you on the street with a smile and a pleasant word, and keeps your money. The authorities offer a reward for the arrest of one of these robbers and if he is caught he will be sent to the pen, as he ought to ba, but the other has done his job legitimately and will not be punished."—Hutchinson Inter-ior-Herald, (Rep.)

How to Agitate.

It takes some time for a man or woman to get a thing straight in their mind. To illustrate: If a man were to desire to learn mathematics, the reading of the books would not make him a mathematician. If he could read them all in a week he would still not accomplish anything. Th® mind would not have the time to absorb, digest ami arrange the ideas He would require months, or years, t train the mind to think knowingly. And until he did this, his calculations would not be reliable. The same is applicable to political economy, only it is not necessary to have such severe training to understand its fundamental principles. Rut as a man may not become a mathematician in a month, neither may he become a Populist in a month. It takes time. It is not an appeal to the emotions as are the flap doodle tariff arguments of the monopolistic press, but an appeal to the reason. Therefore, all work done a few weeks before an election will do but little if any good, as the mind is not in that pacific state necessary to discern and compare statements, and has not the time for such digestion and understanding even if it were willing. In other words Populists are not made in a month. It takes many months often. The mind must be kept on the problems until it can analyze them—know and feel the reasons for accepting the new philosophy. Therefore, if you intend to do anything toward the propaganda of a new civilization, do it now. Men whom you get interested now will before the next campaign have had time to study, and will then themselves become workers and helpers. Don’t wait. If the money spent for books and papers two months before the election had been spent six or eight months before, it would have influenced tqunderstanding half a million more minds. I have always advised for work a long time before election, but our own people are slow to see the reasons. I hope I have made it plain. Work now. We will win in 1896 if you do your duty in the agitation. A dollar for literature now will do as much good as 310 eighteen months hence in its influence on the results of 1896. Niqe voters out of ten, if a reform paper visits them the next year, will vote with us. Go out in the highways and solicit subscribers to some good reform papers. Get a move on yourself.—The One Hoss Editor.

Democratic in Thought and Action.

Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, the millionaire street cur magnate and free trader, is a red-hot disciple of Henry George, the great single taxer. Some time ago the eratic Johnson thought of locating a steel mill at Youngstown. Ohio. The board of trade was in ecstaeioa and appointed a special committee composed of the most representative business men to receive the Cleveland congressman. They were all present when the train rolled in. Johnson was warmly welcomed, and a carriage was ready to carry him off to the banquet hall, when he asked: “Where is ‘Billy’ Radcliffe?” The committee was horrified. ‘Billy’ Radcliffe keeps a small restaurant on a side street, and is known wide as the best street fakir But in conjune tion with his fakir business Radcliffe has a little blackboard upon which, between funny stories, he works out single tax problems. Thus he became a friend of Tom Johnson, and the free trader set Youngstown by the ears when he turned his back on the merchants’ committee, and made a bee line for “Billy” Radcliffe's hash house to talk single tax,—Boston Traveler.

Belated Justice.

Whatever other faults ex-Gov. Davis H. Waite may have exhibited during his term of office, it must be said that no taint of dishonesty or corruption ever attached itself to his record as governor. Undoubtedly he committed many serious blunders, but he could neither be bought nor bulldozed, and we have no doubt that he always endeavoredto do what was best for the people of Colorado. It must be re membered, too, that his term occurred in ape iod of extraordinary disturbance and depression, which would have rendered it difficult, if not impossible for the most level headed man in the world to have made a very satisfactory record as governor of Colorado under the circumstance*. Let us endeavor to do justice to his good qualities while deploring his errors or unwise utterance* and ill advised action.—Denver Republican.

Legislation by Direct

FACTS ABOUT THE SEA.

Dr. Young estimates the mea* depth of the Atlantic at about I(J,OX> feet The saline matter held in solution in sea water comprises one thirtieth of its weight The water of the Mediterranean contains a greater portion of salt that of the ocean. The sea-cypress a kind of coral, sometimes has 6,000 to 10,000 animals on a single branch. Nearly three fourths of the world's drainage, directly ob indirectly, pours into the Atlantic ocean. It is estimated that the water of the whole ocean contains in solution over 2,000,000 tons of pure siler. It is estimated that two years are required for the gulf water to travel ♦rotn Florida to the coast of Norway. r . The banks of Newfoundland are formed by the sand, earth and stones brought from the North by the icG* bergs. If the surface of the earth were perfectly level, the waters of the ocean would cover it to a depth of 600 feet. The ocean hydrae have no heart, no lungs, no liver, no brains, no nervous system, no organs save mouth and skin. The bed of the North Atlantic consists of two valleys, separatsd by a mountain range that runs from tho Azores to Iceland. The whole bottom of the ocean*ih covered with a layer of calcareous ooze, mingled with the skeletons and other animal remains of it* inhabitants. If it were not for the salts of the ocean the whole sea would soon become a mass of corruption, owing to the decay of the organic matter it contains. The sea has no herbivorous inhabitant. Its population lives on each other, and the whole of this immense expanse of water is one great slaughter house, where the strong forever prey upon the weak.

AFFAIRS ABROAD.

The new Siberian railway traverses regions where game is so abundant that the project of establishing canneries is being considered. At the last meeting of the commission in charge of the Siberian rail-1 roads, contracts for rollingstock werJ awarded amounting to 310 000 000. I Brazil began railroad building in 1851, and has 5.580 miles. One of its lines, the Pedro Segundo, is 520 miles long, through a very difficult coun-l try. On this line there are fourteen] long tunnels. It cost 360,000,000. ] Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is said to have] a most overweening bump of egotismJ She is especially interested in wWitl the newspapers say about her, an<l there is a press-clippings bureau ir| this country that sends to her address in Honolulu everything that is printed in the press of the United Stites coni eerning herself and her lost cause. I From the stamp duties paid by patl ent medicine makers it has been cstil mated that at least 4,000,000 pills ar] taken by the inhabitants of the unitel kingdom every week. In France th] quantity is about half. Only aboul 1,000,000 pills are taken weekly by th] people of Russia. The largest pill takers in the world are the Austral lians. I An old man of <8 was sent to for three days by the Marylcbom] England, police magistrate recentlj as he was unable to pay a fine <] sixty cents for not seeing that his'ffl year-old grandchild went to school He was a perfectly respectable woril ing man, his wife was bed ridden, tlfl child's parents were dead, and isl could not go after the truant himsell Women in the Glasgow shops, afl cording to a recent report, receiifl from 31 or 31.25 to $3 a week; hail dressers, milliners and tobacconisl may get 33.75. Overseers begin will S 3 a week, and many rise to Itaoflß year. One young woman in sofl charge of a shop received 32 a weefl her hours were 12\' on four the week, 7% on one, and 14,1 j <fl one; her meals were brought to hefl

CONCISELY STATED.

Dresden taxes cats. A Paris store has 4,000 employes. Diamonds have been discovered Tasmania. A North Carolina judge recent granted a divorce to a couple, a two weeks thereafter married t divorced wife, who had consideral property. In Eastport, M 6,, there is a 1* eighty-two years of age, who is a c» firmed quiltmaker, hopelessly i dieted to the habit. She has qo pie tod nine in the past eights months, and is at work on the tent This is in addition to doing her hou work, visiting the sick and being good neighbor, ' In Panaria, one of the smaller i| ands of th: Lipari or Aeolian group] islands in th? MoJit-rraneun, all t| officers of the community inh ibiti| the island are united in one pers] Padre Michelangelo, who is priej mayor, harbor master, postmastl master of the marine telegraph as official general, He fills the whole] them to the entire satisfaction of t community'. A taxidermist is badly needed | Francis L- t\'alker, at Merrick, L Several weeks ago a noble bald cal swooped down upon Mr, Walker q submitted to captivity. The ll philosophically consented to be petl and pampered. Th -n the fam butcher sent in larger bills. The d lant bird proccodc I to almost eat I benefactor out of house an I ho] Mr. Walker released the bird, bus won’t fly away, and his meat bill* J •till running up enormously. a