People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — Page 5
Graduated iLcome r Fai.
A MYRIAD OF ABUSES.
Review of political facts AND CONDITIONS. The “Turtle-Bach Papers” Takes Up the Living Issues and Discusses Live: Questions of the liar in a Fearless Manner. As the time approaches to put in operation the new income tax law, it is heartrending to notice the concern, manifested by those who are liable to come within the bounds of its provisions, and the efforts being already made to have it declared unconstitutional by the courts. To a student of the times as they ■exist at present, these murmurings' are entirely unnecessary; there will be few, very few whose income is large ■enough to make them amenable to thelaw. How the philanthropist’s heart must bleed when he sees the great number of poor men this country sup-, ports, when the assessor appears; and with what surprising alacrity do they' recover their fortunes once the danger is past. Can a man be honest who evades the' law? If he can, then the natural order of things is reversed, and all who cannot count at least a half million when making an inventory of their possession, must be classified as dishonest. There is one consolation the laborer has when voting for public officials,, that is, the purse makes the man, who gets elected. How cheering! With what commiseration and pity for tho sad lot of his ancestors, does he turn back the pages of our history. To think that they were compelled to elect men to these same offices who had nothing to recommend them but a firstclass reputation, honesty and ability, quails the stoutest heart, and causes him to marvel how the country survived the honor. How the voter’s cheeks must have tingled with shame, when, after electing a congressman, to think he would be debarred fromgiving more than two SIO,OOO dinners out of a salary of half that amount, and be able to retire at the end of his term with a fortune. Those indeed were times that tried men’s souls, how to steal and not get caught at it. They, have since learned.
How sad must the people have felt, when, rfter getting a petition signed with hundreds of names to send to their representatives for the purpose of having a needed legislation enacted, had they paused to consider that the individual would have to attend to it in person. No stenographer; no franking privileges; no free passes nor private car for himself and family and all his relatives down to the thirtythird cousin. Let us bo thankful that the people of to-day do not have to bear this humiliation, nor leave to posterity such n heritage. It seems to be a crowning stroke of progress and of advancement in civilization, that congress must first ascertain, when agitating the money question, what effect it will have on Wall street and the national banks. It is through these mediums that the producer is kept under control. To lose that grip, the a.verage politician of the present would lose his occupation. Why must the government depend upon these sharks for its existence? It seems entirely foreign to the question to answer that national banks and : scheming brokers must be fostered un- . der the protection of the government, .as a medium of exchange. We are acquainted with hundreds of men who will not patronize local banks, even when they know the proprietors are worth many times the amount of business that can possibly fall in their hands; but deposit their hard earned savings in a national bank under the delusive idea that the government stands behind it and will make good all losses. The failure of many -•' these institutions within the past years with liabilities running in the millions, assets practically nothing, leaving the depositor a dividend of 300 per cent in experience, i. dually disabusing the public mind'of some of the fallacies of our present political machinery. The government is supposed to be of the people, for the people and by the people. Should this sentiment become lukewarm, political tricksters devote many days stumping the country —for which the people pay them a princely salary—to impress the maxim with renewed vigor into the minds of a doubting constituency, and awaken
the dear people to a greater conception of how the party in power is working for their especial benefit and a flag of liberty to live under. Granting this to be true, why may not the student of political economy arise and ask the question: “If tr 3 people are the government is not i.s promise to pay good, as iong as there is enough responsible people left to form a government?” If it is good* then why must it ask for the indo semen t of its acts of Wall street and the national banks before enforcingthem? If it is not good, then may we ask, what is a bank note worth, if thebank issuing it becomes insolvent? “True,” replies Shylock, “but thepeople do not study these great questions as we must; nor properly investigate them.” This is a fact. If the people resolved upon having a general cleaning up, such a stench would arise from misappropriated funds and disreputable legislation, disinfectants would double in price -within a week. Occasionally it happens that an unsophisticated farmer v.lO has spent the best years of his life in tilling the soil and attending to his own business, has the audacity to ask why it is that nearly all men in public life are lawyers and capitalists. His neighbor, who has perhaps devoted more time to the study o i those questions aCecting public welfare, and has arrived at that point wherein he does not know as
’THE PEOPLE'S PILOT, RENSSELAER. INI)., March, 2, 1895, WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
much hbotii it as when he began, answers: “Si that enacted laws may be legally constructed.” This seems plausible, though after turning the answer over to see the under side, our illiterj ate farted scratches his head several j times to get his mind in proper work- . iag order, concluding it queer that £ only those of his class come under the | ban, while the rascals all escape the [ meshes of it. 1 According to history, it has always l; been a disadvantage to be poor, and >! time does not seem to uavj improved the prospects. Added to that, it ”n----pears notv to be dishonorable to be in that delightful condition. When a man’s position is fixed, his ability i gauged, and his fitness for places of trust scheduled by tho amount of money he can command, as events seem to prove is the edict proclaimed in our present way of doing things, surely the | milienium approaches nigh. Take for instance the election of -■>. j United State senator. The first u 3 sideration by chose having the s.J j tion, is the size of the candidate's uu - ! rel, and the exact diameter of tho bung. | This satisfactory, the one making the 1 best exhibit is awarded the prize. To S tbe novice this prerminarv examiha- | tion would suggest corruption. Far | Irom it. This mode of procedure deter- - mines a degree of forethought in our legislators, worthy of a better cause, S and in perfect keeping with the ad- ] vanced age in which we exist. In short, ■ settles beforehand many porplexit iea ] which, under any other plan, complicaj lions would inevitably follow. It relieves the recipient of legislative f honor of great concern. He is not iia- < ble to become an inmate cf the poor- | house just when his services arc needed v to save his bleeding country. 2 His family will be able to entertain | in a manner becoming to thei • station; j while, if one of his daughte c should > marry a duke the latter will ~o certain jj of a living. { He can attend poker parties with impunity, feeling secure that if die other fellow held too many aces, c&- ring him | to go broke, the hall of legislation is . fall lobbyists who desire gratae ion [ to their pet measures and : re willing l : to buy reserved scats. | He is in a position where, the slock S markets can be looked after and wh ere, | if he secs an opportunity of in resting | a few thousands, drawinf out double j or treble the amount, car. do so; thus removing the temptation to speculate among his constituency. He is enabled to st'jr'r the tariff question in all its bea lr js. md assist in shaping legislation, • j an to be acceptable to himself and caUacigues, thus relieving tire r ;nds ' L the laboring class from fur ner y\ jrry on that j score. | While he' is a,' neW speaker, his con- ; ccptien of the Mat;' I j owes his country induces him. + > go nothing that, would obstruct tier .fwarj legislation* so instead cf spe iding three or four days at a time to (deliver* a scathing rabuke to , the people for 'trampling on plutoI cracy’s corns, hn has it prLntod in the ! Oongreßional Ihocord. It’s ea3ier to do ! t-’at, and aside, from the savirg of physical exertion, while it is being scattered broadcast, he can go homo, repair his fences sc i ■ another term, getting back to Wash ington in ample time to draw his srda -v. There is r« lother point in his favor. His exalted position renders it absolutely impossible to notice any of the common pea pie; those who by their franchise ma de it possible to attain the position he i ow holds. This imits the circle of his acquaintance; <installs his corresponds ice. so that a jrivato secretary, and. a stenographer paid from the public treasury, is sEfiViient, saving tho cm ntry many dollars that would havt .• been expeidut annually for extra cl orks, if he comdsscenced to notice>anyoi ne beneath hfcn. It is no wonder that high officials •”e not s« acted from the common ranks. Tin strain cause juent of evading the Ini r, and dodging interviews from a loi g-suffering pteeple, is too v ah to an y but those wbo have made k a busines s. It require? tact to make lx profitabl i.—A. O. Huffman, iar F&icago Expm ss.
D [?] Mean What, He [?] id
When J* ujge Gay aor issued writ of mundamuf. to compel the > "coklyn 1 trolley ct >. ipp.nies to operate their ! lines, we rejoiced because on a just : man wna found cn the bench whom the cmrpc -rations had not :*irciased. , But \w. t* r ere a little previous? a. -d re- < joiceriC toi ■ soon. Judge Gay ror . poke j the. wrath when he said “that a railroad. eerp oration is not a. private indi- ' vidiralk that its duties t*- the T»:blic tracscem any obligation it may ' ave to its st )cl hold-.ms. and that it nay non lav.t ul!y cense to i>e* for n f iose duties ft r a single hour,” .nit when it crane tc enforcing- that 1 ctcra ice, Judge •Ga?/nor’s btekbone was not wjhel to* flue occar.ioi and hr -weakened, i. per».:i» >t« ry order i: vhf be should have iss kx, and wthat ’.he public ex- 1 pocaed, '.at instead o' t a. he issued 1 an aiton: a i e writ, which .;ave the compaaj * • maty tcivs In v»i- cii to make aa sf) :r. Of ct urse, the hope is, that by ;ta : time the strike Wall h ive been a thin; of the past, aind his honor will be in a posits«n to dismiss the 1 case. Justice for lat or! Where can it be found? Oaf in hit irg'he tribunal, the ?TI of ti; p(fcple. which irur t be < xi :< sseri tfcr jut a the initiative and ref .meatto m.—Twantieth Century. Is it fit-in g thrt a *tescendant of the men who crur.iflod CTiiaist s fcoultT hold a mortgage on our children?* Workingmen-, wi n -vote for either 0? I the old per the: .•vote for less wages and a bigger star, ling army. ”’':e ' T nits d i cates mortgaged to IT- I.orM’d «tho whaie nati< c to be 1 sc .1! ou„ cc : horn Q . The lawyers and bav Iters must be driven out or; the temple.
STATE OF MICHIGAN.
NEWS NUGCETS FROM ALL PARTS OF WOLVERIN EDOM. Political, Religious, Legislative and Every Sort of Happenings t'p to Day of Goins to Press —Seven Daya’ History. Kalamazoo.—-The Ancient Order of United Workmen grand lodge of Michigan held Its nineteenth annual session In this city last week. Detroit was chosen as the place of meeting next year. The total number of benefits in force Is 22,652. During the year 1,859 certificates wore issued and 1,495 were canceled from death and annulment. The expense rate on each SIOO disbursed was $4.24. Menominee.—John Martin, a teamster, was found dead by the roadside. It Is " ''able that he fell off the top of the " ' and under the horses. ~~yinaw.—Mrs. Edgar, wife of a Flint St Marquette conductor, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head. She left a note to her father, G. J. Walker of Grand Rr-giids, saying that her husband was so jealous that life was miserable. The Michigan grand lodge, Ancle”! Order of United Workmen, elected officers as follows: Past grand master Workman, Louis H. Peek, Detroit: grand master workman, Theodore E. Bissell, West Bay City; grand foreman, Charles Colling, Alpena; grand overseer, J. M. Hartnett, Escanfiba; grand recorder, W. Warne Wilson, Detroit; grand receiver, 'John C. Ellsworth, Fowlerville: grand guide, James A. Lombard. Grand Rapids; grand watchman, William Cochran, St. Johns; grand medical examiner, Robert E. Jamieson, Detroit. J. F. C. Pollings of Detroit is reappointed deputy grand master workman. Menominee. —An Issue of 5 per cent twenty year city bonds t-o the amount of $47,500 was sold to N. W. Harris & Co., of Chicago at $2,700 premium. Harrison.—For more than a year Clare county has been flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. George Fitzgibbons, David Ireland and Frank Thorpe, living in a log hut twelve miles from here, have been arrested. They claimed to be loggers, but In the hut were found molds in which bogus dollars had been on«t. Union City.—Edward IT. Crosics, who was attacked by Policeman James Dav.is while walking with He latter’s | sister, shot Davis, probably f itslly. I The defense in the MPcnn.r murder trial at Coldwater began Introducing evidence. Miss Mabel Hall, of Chicago, addressed the Berrien County Sunday School Association at Buchanan. The G. A. R., of Kalamazoo, opened a fine art and industrial exposition. Battle Creek. —The seven t'-day adventists’ conference listened to a st”Mstical report by the secret a rv, showing the membership to he 42,773 and t'*e number of ministers 515. Tfiey are supnorted by tithes, the aroou”t. collected the last year being over S3OO 000. Signs of the Times, printed at Oakland, Cal., was made the general missionary paper. Detroit.—Mrs. Horace Rope and Wi’liam Brosseau, her accomplice, have been both held for the murd - of Dr. Pope, the husband of the former. Three young lads, Fred and Will F’dridge and Fred Connel, each about 17 years of age, were arrested at lonia on a charge of assault and battery. The complainant is a teacher named George H. Barr, of the Prairie Creek school in lonia Township, a; 1 ho capo into court with a pair of eyes that were worse than a total eclipse. He bad had trouble since bis appointment last fall. Last week be was threatened with being thrown through the window by Fred Eldridge, and the next morning the trouble came to a climax when I. teacher told the scholars that if he went through the window it would be is a corpse. “Dead it is, then,” was the reply of a pupil, and a free fig' t I followed. Sticks of wood, the stove j poker, and a chair played a prominent part. Barr got the worst of the deal and had the three boys arrested. It seems there has been trouble brewing for some time. It is alleged that one | of the trustees of the school has been : retting the boys on with promises of treats and seeing them through if Boy got into trouble. The State convention of the Prohibi-
tion party was held at Lansing last week. Myron H. Walker of Grand Rapids was nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court and Noah W. Cheever, of Ypsilanti, and Deleva n B. Reed, Fillsdale, for regents of the University. The principal object of the convention, however, was for a reorganization of t'e State committee. It was complained that Charles P. Russell, of Detroit, who has been chairman of the committee for the last eight years, was not sufficiently vigorous, and had not made prominent other rpforms sought by the party besides prohibition. It was claimed that if free silver and other planks of the platform had been made more prominent the necessity for the Populist party would not have existed, and it would never have been born. Michael J. Fanning, of Jackson, was chosen to succeed Mr. Russell, and an entire new committee was selected. Overtures from the Populists for a -pooling of issues were rejected by the radical wing, and all the reforms de•sanded by *he party will be made prominent from the platform and the party literature. John Martin, a teamster engaged in hauling cedar posts near Faithorn Junction, was found dead by the road side last week with his head cut in several places. His team and load were found near by and it Is probable that he fell off the load and und :■ the horses and sleigh. lie was 40 years old and unmarried. Gov. Rich, upon recommendation ol the pardon bearpi, issued a pardon for Harold O. Henderson, convicted of burglary and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Henderson is a civil engineer, a graduate of Yale, and nas wealthy parents in California who have not heard of the son's disgrace. Henderson, while calling upon a married woman, was attacked by her husband and, In his attempt to escape, jumped through a window. He had in his possession the woman's watch and the hus--1 end had him arrested for burglary. 1 or fear of blasting the wife’s reputal'v 1, Henderson would not explain his pr- sence in the house and was r..nvicted. He has served two yeais 01 term.
WANT TO DO LIKEWISE.
Statue of William Feon Revive* Interest lu One of Itojer W illiams. The placing- of a colossal figure of William Penn oa the Philadelphia city hall has inspired a proposal to perpetuate the memory of Roger Williams, in the same way on tho dome of Rhode island's new statehouse. It is now recalled that the Roper Williams monument association, started a fund thirty-four years ago to erect a memorial column 230 feet high on Prospect hill. Zachariah Allen in his diary of that time says with, amusing ignorance of the problem presented by the convexity of tho earth. ‘‘A statue on the top of this column would stand nearly 450 feet above tidewater. It would be conspicuous from Newport and Block Island, and I think from the statehouse in Boston.” Thus, it was suggested would the capital of the colony which disgraced its intelligence by the banishment of Williams, be forever doomed to find his figure still within sight. The association failed to raise money enough to put lip the column, but the sum was deposited in bank and has now increased to a considerable sum. There seems to be an impi-ession that the top of the statehouse would be an appropriate place for Roger Williams and the association is advised to transfer its fund to the state If the government will agree to thus honor him and will also bind itself to erect a statue elsewhere to another great Rhode Islander, who has been neglected, General Greene of revolutionary fame.
A MODERN SAPPHO.
She .Jumped From a Tall Cliff to End Her . ifo’s Woes. Some few days ago, writes an O iessa correspondent a young and pretty and elegantly attired girl of about 17 years of age, named Anna Popova, engaged a boatman at tho Gralfslti landing stage at Sebastopol to take her to the monastery at ln..ermann. On alighting at tho rocky stairway leading up to the monastery the girl gave the boatman a pourboire'of 10 copecks, promising to send out oy a servant the 80 cop 'cks for her fare. The boatman waited from 11 o’clock until noon, and was going ashore to inquire for his passenger, when she suddenly appear at upon the suinm't of tho towering rock above the monastery, making signs to the boatman below. O.i approaching n arer to the base of the cliff be was desir d to deliver a letter which tin* girl Hung down to him. At once divining h*r sale la I int ntion, the boatman ran into the monastery and raised an alarm. A number of monies immediately came out an l entra >d the girl lo di.se md from li r perilous position, wtnle one of their nu n >sr ascended the tortuous acclivity an 1 the unhappy girl sorang ft* »m the di/.zv height of over a hun ire Ife :t and was kil!e l instantly. It s state 1 that th i poor chiid was driv n io the dre id ul act t'v constant itl-trealenent ut. home, ller father was a c plain in the reserves.
PLAN OF VENTILATION.
Thar of !\la*«acft SciiooU Sure to ll*» Kx r H«*n ’. The pian of vnlilat nf school houses in Massachusetts po >sesses, it is asserted, pos dbi.iti >s of insuring-first-cla s results, even when, froia certa'n unavoi lade obsticies, onlyone inlet is provi t *d, the -.a n • being located ab >ut eight feet ab >ve the floor, and as nearly as practicable in the center of th - warm or'inner side of tiic room. Of equal importance with tin; inlets is the si/,? of the outlets, or foul air ducts as well as their location, an I it is found that for a fift/-foot schoolrooom the outlet duet should have an area of n >t les-. than live square feet net. this to he placed at the bottom or inner side, in case the air is to be taken from the first story down t > the bottom of the foula r shaft in the basement. The rule is tli t in a r o:n with two cojd or exo ed sides the outb-t sh mi 1 be as near the pin *r <r warm itn-c!" of the r 'om as possible and. in a r ion with three - xpose I sides the outl et h mid be as near tiie inner or war n -l ie as practicable, this applying equa ly well whether th ■ warm air i-, pr night m through it her one or tw • inlets It is desirable that the ouoi > v of a r f oin the r. om through the cutlet, should be a little in es -e. of the amount brought in at t ic war a-air inlet, th* deference be ng male up by air dr wn into the ro n t.irmgn cracks and various small openings.
A Centenari n[?] Donkev.
Herbivorous animals ar • generally thought to outlive earn vorotis ones, and of the former e ass thos > dedicated to labor aopear to furni-.h tho largest number of instances o' longevity. A few years ago a d<-rikey died at Cromartv which was known to b-at l ast li)i ye irs oi I. it co dd be traced back to the year 177't. vhen, atari unknown age. it came nto ihe hands of thi then Ross of Cromarty, and it lived in th • same family ••hale and heartv,” until a kick Imm a horse ended its career. No horse is know i to have attained to anything litre such an age as this, b-.t a few have lived to ages varying from 40 to 50 years.
She old Him the Reason hy.
“Why is it that you girls seem to think so much more of the men who come in here than you do of tire women?” asked the man with an in .errogation point in his mind. “Is il be--1 cause the men are more agreeable?” j “Oh, no,” replied the saleslady, with a ; toss of her head. “It is because the i men are such ninnies that they don’t j know what things ere worth. It they do it !r>e n’t matter. if you oi.ly appear to think they re awfully bright awfully good looking.”
WASHINGTON.
John W. Showalter of Chicago was named by the President for judge of the seventh judicial district. A number of amendments to the tariff law designed to remove ambiguity have been suggested by Secretary Carlisle. President Cleveland is annoyed because congress has not authorized him •to seek a way out of the Samoan entanglement. Ambassador Eustis has been instructed to make a vigorous protest against .the exclusion by France of American cattle. The deficiency appropriation bill was | passed by the house. An amendment to pay Great Britain $425,000 in settlement of the Bering Sea award was defeated. Four appropriation bills are still to be considered in the senate. Night sessions whll probably be held. Capt. Henry W. Howgate was acquitted of the charge of forgery and ■embezzlement. The jury was out seven-ty-two hour*. Minister Willis lias been instructed to insist on postponement of the execution of American citizens In Hawaii until the charges and evidence can be looked into. There are 331 public.bills and 500 private hills on the house calendar, and an exciting struggle tor prec 'deuce is expected. oeuator Blackburn has introduced a Mil providing for the payment of the fuT sugar bounty for the crop iff l'-'O.:. i House considered the proposition to appropriate money to pay marshals so: •services during the Chicago railroad tfxrike.
RELIGIOUS.
Prof. C. W. Woodworth and W. C 'Maxwell, a student at California Uni- \ 'erslty, have been expelled from the 1 taptjst church for heretical views. Dr. F. G. Hirscli preached at Sinai Ttemple on “Liberal Judaism and its Helatien to Non-Jewish Liberalism.” Rev. Arthur C. Kempton stirred society circles of Kau Claire, Wis., by a vigorous sermon against dancing. A meeting at Columbus, Ohio, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., was addressed by the Roman Catholic Bishop Watterson. Ibsen's latest drama, "Little Kyolf,” "was used as a text for a sermon on sorrow by Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones. In his sermon at Central Church Rev. IN. D. lillliß said moral training was a necessity if the nation was to be preserved.
POLITICAL.
Resolutions opposing a constitutional convention were adopted by the Champaign County (Illinois) Farmers’ Institute. Representative Kent introduced in tiie Illinois legislature a bill to prevent gambling in grain and provisions. A bill Imposing a tax on all beer brought into the state and sold will be introduced in the Illinois legislature. Senators Mills and Lease, of the Colorado legislature, came to blows during the session over a trivial matter. Populist editors in e.onve Bon at Kan«as City unanimously i fused to indorse sugestions made by Chairman Taubeneck.
SPORTING NOTES.
I Rules committee of the National ' Baseball league has decided to recommend numerous changes. During 1894 the racing, board of the L. A. W. put 250 men In class J 5 and declared ninety lo be professionals. In the skating championship contests at Christiana. Norway, Eden of Holland won the 10.000. 5,000 and 1,500 metre races. At Davenport, lowa, Dr. Carver won the third of a series of championship shoots with Cl arles Hudd. The score was 89 to 77" Clem Ellison defeated Frank Ittce In the decisive game fur the amateur championship billiard tournament of Illinois. Cllead won the Thornton stakes for for four miles at Kan 1 ranHsco. La Gascon, the favorite, was beaten by a quarter of a mile.
OBITUARY.
Lord Aberdare, who had been a member of several British oa. inets, Is dead. He was 80 years of age. David A. Brown, a veteran of the Mexican war and formerly prominent In politics, died at Kpringfield, aged 71 years. J. C. Wheaton, Rf., died In the Illinois town to which he had given his name, where he had lived since 1807. Funeral services, atte- ed i,y many distinguished persons, were held over the remains of Frederick Dougk.ss at Washington. John D. Henderson, one of the earliest settlers in Will co> it\ Til., and who had been prominent in politics, died at Wilmington, ag' d 8( vears. Frederick Dough ; s, u.<_ negro orator and author, dropp< il dead at Ids home near Washington. He was 78 years old.
FOREIGN.
Seventeen thousand Chinese, supported by twenty guns, attacked the .Japanese position at Hal Cheng,' but were repulsed. Tolstoi, the Russian novelist and reformer, is said to have written the manifesto censuring the czar for his assertion of absolutism. Natives attacked the British expedition on the Brass River, Africa, and were defeated and several of their towns burned. Five hundred men have been imprisoned in a mine at Normaniown, England, through an accident to the cages. Emperor Menelek killed 7,000 Gallas and captured 14,000 slaves in a battle at Vallamo. He lost 7,000 men. Alexander Bed ward, who claims to be a propiiet, has been arrested in Jamaica, charged with inciting his followers to rebellion. Twenty-uve of the leaders of the recent black fiags riots in Formosa have been beheaded by order of the emperor. Rebels entered and looted the City of Morocco, many persons being killed and hundreds wounded in the fighting. A Japanese force Is being mobilized at Hiroshima for the purpose.it is believed, of descending on Formosa. Insurgent Bedouins captured the greater part of the City of Muscat. Six hundred trench troops were sur prised by ret els in Af’-ica. Three hun died wore killed an < the survivors surrounded. ' Dispatches from Odessa state that . thousands of lives were lost in the 1 earthquake which destroyed the town of £v<*aa. - --
Graduated Inheritance Tax.
CRIME.
Two of the three men who robbed a bank at Griswold, lowa were captured by Council Bluffs officers after a fight, in which one on each side was wounded. Simon Rosenbaum, who admitted he had started five fires, gave damaging evidence against Adjuster Grauer at New York. Two men looted a Toronto, Ont., tobacco store in broad daylight after binding and gagging the girl in charge. Hary Hayward pictured his brother Adry as a fiend in his testimony in the murder trial at Minneapolis. Heilzberg & Co.’s packing house at St. Louis was entered,the watchman l>ound and the safe rifled of upward of SI,OOO. Three men who robbed the savings bank at Thomaston, Conn., are intrenched in the mountains and defy capture. Walker G. Hamper, for twenty years teller of the First National bank of Lynchburg, Va., is charged with embezzling $23,000. While temporarily Insane A. G. Walker, a business man of Terra Haute, Ind., shot at his wife and then killed himself. Officers of San Francisco have captured a gang of pirates which has been operating on a large scale for months!. W. J. Perry, a gambler of Houston, Texas, attempted to stab Joseph H. Stahl, a building contractor, and was fatally shot. William Walsh, an aged man of St. Joseph, Mo., was terribly tortured by robbers who thought he was hoarding money. Westbound 'Frisco train was held up hy three robbers near Aurora, Mo., who failed to open the safe in the express car. -Three unknown men blew the vaults of the savings bank at Thomason. with dynamite and secu.ed a small air dint. .1 Lendl ns body of Benjamin Fadender, recLMHlj stolen from a Hebrew cemetery In Tn• *i• >• i polls, was left at an undertaker g door. Mrs. Minerva C. Taylor, a seamstress, of Guthrie, o. T., shot and -lied William Henry Harrison, who had annoyed r.er, Harry Hayward testified in h , ‘» >wr> bel alf in the murder trial at Minneapolis, and mad» ;« had irnnresslon. In the Hayward murder trial at Minneapolis die father and mother of the defendant testified In his behalf.
CASUALTIES.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked a resideroe at Sharon, Pa., and injured ita six inmates, one fatally. Ella and Fred Brooks were run down I*y a Baltimore & Ohio train near Mansfield, Oldo, and 1:!’| d. A Nickel Plato train ran into a carriage at Linden, Ohio, killing two of the occupants and injuring two others. Two convicts w re suffocated by a fire In a mine near Birmingham, Aha, vvh)ch was set by incendiaries. An explosion of natural gas wrecked the new addition of the American tip plate factory at Li wood, Ind. Six persons wore burned to death ip a fire which destroys ’ several cottages at Hot Springs, Ark. Four persons were seriously burned In an omnibus, which caught fire after being overturned near Rt. Cloud, Minn. Two stool: breeders were found frozen to death In tl»e mountains of Kentucky. Four hunters froze to death in Louisiana. David Goetz was killed and two other men injured by the fnl’ing of a heam during a barn raising near DaJevjlJe, Ind.
MISCELLANEOUS. ! Eastern lines joined 1n a scramble for 'provision tonnage and the 30 cent rate was scaled down to 23. Milwaukee has two health commissioners, Dr. Kempster, on the advice of his attorneys, refusing to vacate the ' office. j A receiver has been appointed for the | Merchants' bank of Lake City, Minn., ! whose president had borrowed $40,000 of Its funds. Bradstreet's revised record shows tl.e failures for 1894 aggregated 12,724, with assets of $83,215,000 and liabilities of , $151,548,000. | Judge Pugh of Columbus, Ohio, has decided the vaMous express companies to be corporations arid amenable to the excise tax. Malvern has raised the quarantine against Hot Springs, reports that smallpox was epidemic having been disproved. An earthquake shock was felt at St. ; Louis and In other towns In the vicinity. It lasted about fifteen seconds. ! Projectors of the canal boat line be , tween Cleveland and New York will at | once make application for a charter, j Equal pay for equal work war. advocated In addresses before the National Council of Women at Washington. Mrs. Eliza J. Spaulding of Janesville, Wis., will bring suit to recover much of the land on which Monroe is situated. In the T.nylor investigation at Pierre. S. D., testimony was given showing Senator Petligrew knew of the treasurer’s shortage. In a talk to the students of Notre Dame university Ireland urged them to be true Americans.
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