People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Page 6

Goverßment Ownership of Railroad!

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IMPENDING SLAVERY.

WE ARE DRIFTING INTO SUCH A CONDITION. The Progress Whirh Has Been and the Progress Which Still Must Be, Bring Us Pace to Face With a New Peril to Liberty. The New York Voice came out last week w ith editorials that have in'them ihe true Populistic ring. Lord! how this Brooklyn strike has stirred up the eastern editors against corporate greed. They are punching around to discover the “cat under the meal.” and oft times hit close to bruise the hide. If the editors will keep at the good work success will crown their efforts. The editor of the Voice came near hitting the right spot when he said last week:

In ail the progressive nations of the world, civilization is to-day rocking amid the throes of industrial revolution. Wliat is the matter? In merica, in England, in Germany, m France, and in other countries the story is the same—a persistent, unceasing, tumultuous grapple between labor and capital. The nineteenth century, which was ushered in amid the tumult and storm of political revolution, seems iikfly to go out as it came in, except that it is social and industrial rather than political revolution that the world has now to confront. The Anglo Saxon race is one that has achieved its world-wide dominance by fear! ssly looking issues in the face, and r. v by shutting its eyes and speaking ' - .y and pretending that the issu- - o not exist or are not serious or wil; soon pass away.

Lore •; the stern and solemn truth at conf.-or.ts the world to-day. We a. ' arc t a.illy and swiftly into a con hdon c: industrial slavery. • • " ?tr.t the • •in a few words. ~h a •. at of steam and eleetrithe lest If century has revolut . :.;:-! nearly every form of industry. T - bay. th ? f ast requisite of success in n; : ranch cf industrial activity is a costly outfit of machinery. It takes crp.tal to buy it. In Massachusetts » alone machinery is doing the work of 1'.0.u00/.'OO men. It is fast ‘becoming impossible for men without extensive capital to remain their own masters. The little tradesman becomes swallowed up in the mammoth store, and exchanges his independence for the position of an employe. The artison of skill and intelligence who miglv. have hoped in former years by the aeon nition of a few tools to become his own “boss,” now must confront himself with being a factory “hand” or a mill “hand,” with the prospect of never attaining any other relation to his work. The concentration of capital goes on in a geometric ratio, capitalists unite 5n corporations, corporations unite in trusts, and anything like close

personal relations between employer l a.id employe becomes impossible. The employer class becomes more and n ore contracted; the employe class be- | comes more a d more extensive. The ; hope of independence becomes a vain : hope for a larger and larger proportion 1 of people, and the inspiration that goes 1 with that hope is lost. The sense of individual responsibility is lost also \ in large measure both by the capitalist ! employer and the wage-earning rna- ! chine that calls itself an employe. Now. what does all this moan? It ■ means just this: Tin t swiftly and surely we are coming to the pass that ail the avenues through which men can earn a living and beep body and soul together hero upon earth are to be controlled by capital. Those who cwu the capital can alone purchase the machinery; and those who own the machinery control the labor which is applied to it. Herein lies the secret of the struggle going on ail over the world—a struggle on the part o; labor against the absolute control by capital of all the opportunities of earning a livelihood. What is labor contending for? For better food, for better clothing and better shelter? No! the fight is not primarily for these things. The laborer of to-day is better housed, better fed and better clothed on the average than ever before, and it is where he is the best fed and tlie best clothed that this struggle is the fiercest. Why, then, this intense, deepening feeling of resentment? The answer brings us to the very core and center of the whole struggle. The fight is not one for higher wages or shorter hours or better material conditions, but it is for liberty, industrial liberty— emancipation from the absolute dominion of aggregated capital. The negroes of the south were, we dare say, betted fed, better clothed, and better housed on an average in the dayb of slavery than they are to-day.tA But their craving for themselves was deeper and diviner than the desire for these things; it was a It is so of the wage earners of to-day. Raising their wages and shortening their hours will not alone cure or even diminish their restlessness or discontent. . The craving which is rocking civilization is deeper than is sometimes 'expected even by th? workingmen themselves. It is an instinct planted by God in man’s very heart of hearts, the love of liberty. Men and women of America, we must face the situation that we have been brought into by the progress of civilization. We must look beyond the turmoil and confusion of the immediate conflict, beyond the strikes and the lockouts, beyond the vexations, the blunders and even the wickedness of the combatants on both sides, and realize the ultimate purpose of labor’3 conflict and the spirit that siptains it. That ultimate purpose is emancipation from the impending despotism of capi-

tnl. That spirit is the same spirit of liberty that has in times hurled political despotism from all the thrones of Europe and has planted republics and constitutional monarchies in their place. The despotism of kings i 3 no more to be feared than the despotism of capital. What, then, is the best way to avert this impending despotism? What is the solution? What is the remedy? The first thing to be done is to secure a popular understanding of the nature of the conflict and of the real issues involved, and to that end the Voice proposes to address itself in the future more assiduously than it has ever done in the past. The rights of opportunity must be made as sacred as the rights of property. We cannot then back the hands upon the dial of time. We cannot arrest the progress of science and invention, and begin a backward march toward barbarism. But we can recognize the fact that the progress which has been, and the progress which still must be, bring us face to face with a new peril to liberty.

The Right of Revolution Remains.

The railway employes of Kansas who ' helped “redeem” that state last fall, will be fully repaid for their patriotism. A bill for their benefit has been i itroduced in the state legislature and recommended for passage. Behold: Section 1 of the bill reads: “If any j locomotive engineer, conductor, fire- j man or brakeman, or any other people employed in the running of any train, j shall willfully and maliciously abandon his locomotive or train upon any railroad at any other point than the regular schedule destination of such ; locomotive or train, lie shall be fra' 1 net less Than nor more than SIOO i and confined not less than twenty days I nor more than ninety days in the conn- I ty jail.” The next section provides j that "any person or persons who shr.ll willfully obstruct the regular one’-: - .- j tion of the business of any railroad company or other corporation, or o; ■ the regular running of any freight or passenger train, or the labor and busi- j ness of any corporation, firm or indi- ; vidual, shall, on conviction thereof, be j punished the same as provided in coe- i tion 1.” There you are, boys. Just what you voted for. There is no longer any doubt that Kansas is “redeemed.” And the follows who redeemed it for the ; railroads and money loaners, are going to fix railroad employes so they will be quiet hereafter. Say, boys, tell the ’ truth —don’t you feel just a little fool- ! Ish about helping “redeem” Kansas? j Tt is the same way all over this glcri- j ous land of liberty. The great landslide hack to the republican end of pin- : tocracy has given the most experienced j pirates one more chance. And they j will use it in every case to pass such stringent laws against the wage workers as to bind us down completely. But let them twist the screws—-the j right of revolution remains, even ! though plutocracy should take away j cur vote. . ,

More Strikers Than Pullmans.

That there are men even now among j capitalists who believe that the strug- ; gle between labor and capital will have ! a different ending from what it has heretofore, is shown by the remarkable letter which lately appeared in the Tribune, written by a man who is himself a large employer of labor, b.a.v- j ing thousands in his service. He con-i eludes his letter with the following paragraph: “To-day it may bo possible for .men : like the Brooklyn presidents and I/livj Pullman to calmly suppress all appeals and arguments by denying that there , is anything to arbitrate.- There are, i however, only two' presidents to 6,000 trolley men, and one Pullman to 10,000 ! employes. Does there never cross the j minds of the presidents and Pullmans the faintest shade of suspicion that; the day will come when the thousands ! will be their masters, and that these thousands will, in even fewer words, decline to arbitrate, but subject their former masters to a harsher treatment Gal 13. —Populist than they are themselves to-day receiving?”

Notes.

The President recommends 50-year bonds, payable in gold, to enslave the next generation. What is this country coming to, when a tool of Wall street dictates legislation? And now it is a predicament. We asked an old soldier what he thought of the President’s special message, and he answered: “The most coldblooded piece of villany ever proposed on American soil.’” Grover is serving the bankers faithfully—and great has been his reward. The government don’t need a dollar of gold to pay anybody but traitors, who deserve hanging. The gold reserve must be abolished before it wrecks the government. Ttey are discussing the money question, eh? Wouldn’t pay any attention to the Populists a couple of years ago when we proclaimed that the paramount question. The gamblers are selling options on gold in New York. Whatever is done or left undone, by the next congress, more bonds wiP be issued and the greenbacks destroyed. There is a surplus of money in the treasury for the payment of current expenses—yet the President wants more bonds. Though Ramsey, the defaulting cashier of Illinois, is dead, he has charged up against him on the othel- side of the river $500,000 — and worse than that, he was a grand old party whooper, one of the kind who denounce Populism.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENS3ELAE % IND., March 9, 1895, WEEKLY. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

Officials of eastern lines have apparently given up all attempt to stem the freight rate demoralization. Whipple Post, G. A. R., will put an American flag on every school house in Kankakee county. Illinois, on Memorial day. Anna Gould was married to Count Boniface de C&stellane in New York, less than 100 intimate friends being present. Roth civil and religious ceremonies were performed. Bernhard Meuser. a business man of Beardstown, 111., disappeared Feb. 27, and it is feared he has met with foul play. Editor Weamer of Bristol, Ind., has brought suit for damages against three wealthy residents, alleging libel and slander. Five thousand people fought for an opportunity to witness the ceremonies attending the burial of a murdered Chinaman at Los Angeles. Mrs. Alfred H. Hines rushed into the pulpit of a Rochester church and said she had been commanded in a vision to preach. Animated by Lawrence Gronlund’s preaching, Californians have formed an organization similar to the famous Fabian society of London. River and railroad miners of’ the Pittsburg district decided to refuse to-w-orb for less than 69 cents a ton. Detroit's nexv health board secured possession of the .department quarters by strategy and forcibly removed Commissioner McLeod. Creditors and officers of the Ballou. I Banking company of Sioux City, lowa, j have agreed on a receivership to wind, j up its affairs. | Michigan homeopathists will fight | the plan to amalgamate the departments of medicine at the university. ice gorged in the Susquehanna at Port Deposit and the residents were forced to flee to the hills. Hugh T. Galen, a millionaire mine owner and politician of Helena, Mont., was secretly married to a Seattle school teacher.

A. M. Jelleff, a business man of Franklin, Ind., turned on the gas in a theater box and lay down to die. Engagement is announced of Mary Lei ter, daughter of the Chicago miiiionair, to O. Curzon, M. P., son of Lord Scarsdale. It has practically been decided to hold an international mining exposition in Denver in 1X96. Extra guards have been placed about the glass works at Martin’s Ferry. Ohio, to guard against a possible attack by union men. The steamship Aurania reached New York from Liverpool with a million and three quarters in gold on board. Telegraph operators of New York have formed a union which is intended to be national in its scope. Lulu Harrington, a belle of Lincoln, Neb., ha-s brought suit for breach of promise against Philip Manger of Boonville, Mo. Gen. John A. McClernand is rapidly growing weaker and the aged warrior lias given up hope of recovery. The store of the Northwestern Chandelier company at Toledo, Ohio, was entered by a miscreant, who destroyed everything of a fragile nature. Reckless squandering of agricultural college funds has been discovered by the legislature of Oklahoma. Relatives of Grace Vaughn, the actiess, who sought to obtain her release from an Ohio insane asylum, found she has escaped. Dun's trade review states that there is very little activity- to be discovered in. fitly line of business. David B. James, a pioneer merchant of San Francisco, is endeavoring to incite the western states to secede from the union. Matthew Roland of Mont Clair, N. J., has fallen heir to an estate left in Australia by an uncle, valued at $3,000,000. Bank clearings of the principal cities in the United States show a total decrease for the week of 7.3 per cent. Missionaries on the coast of Labrador state that there is great suffering and starvation among the Nascapee Indians. . Eastern passenger officials failed to induce western agents to alter their plan for handling immigrant business. Stock company has been formed to build an electric freight line connecting Valparaiso, Ind., with Chicago. Railroad officials, who met at Omaha to agree upon coal rates in Kansas, adjourned abruptly without a settlement. Officers were elected and prizes distributed by the National Butter and Cheese Men’s association at Rockford, 111-. Thursday. J. Hamburger & Co. of New York, importers of leaf tobacco, have made an assignment. Liabilities are nearly $300,000. Cattle shipments from Texas will show a heavy falling off this year, but will be continuous instead of bunched within a few- months. Refreshing sleep has come to David Jones of El wood, Ind., after 152 days i an d nights of wakefulness.

MISCELLANEOUS.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

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FOREIGN.

The new Irish land bill was presented in the British house of commons by Secretary Morley. A battalion of Spanish regulars was rotated by Cuban rebels r ear Manzanillo. The defeat and dear, i of Gen. La Chambre are confirmed. 'Pri-mier Ribot favors participation by B ranee in the interna/ ional monetary conference proposed "by Germany. Fifty rebels captured by government troopß in Colombia were shot. An attack on canal property is feared. Mgr. Khrimirian, the Arm enian patriarch. says 11,000 of his countrymen were butchered in the Sassoun district. The seventeenth anniversary of the coronation of Pope Leo wa»s celebrated at the Vatican with much ceremony. ' M. Percher, one of the editors of the Journal des Debats of Paris, was killed in a duel with M. Le Cheato lier. Government troops have captured the whole insurgent band in Cuba. The prisoners have been taken to Matanzas for trial. Count Oyama, of the Japanese army, reports two engagements with Chinese troops, 200 of whom were killed in one battle. Guatemala will retain lobbyists in Washington to secure the interference of the United States in case Mexico declares war. Except in Manchester, where the bimetallic feeling is very strong, Great Britain is opposed to the monetary conference. An excursion train jumped the track on a mountain side near the City of Mexico, forty-two persons l>eing killed and thirty or more seriously injured. Insurrectionists in Colombia have renewed their activity, and an engagement is said to be imminent near Cucuta. One soldier and one policeman were killed by Cuban insurgents in an engagement at Buenavidos. Hercules Robinson, formerly governor of Hong Kong and other places, has been appointed governor of Cape Colony.

OBITUARY.

W. C. Coup, of circus fame, dhtl of pneumonia in a hospital at Jacksonville, Fla. He was 62 years old. Elisha E. Lloyd, ex-captain of police, died at his home in Chicago after an illness of several months. Joseph Hopkins Martin, one of Chicago’s early settlers, died at his home from tHe effects of a stroke of paralysis. John A. Dadd, a pioneer of Milwaukee and a well known pharmacist, died of congestion of the brain. Sir Geoffrey T. P. Hornby, admiral of the fleet and first a’d-de-eamp to Queen Victoria, is dead. Richard O’German, the Irish nationalist. -scholar and orator, died at liis home in New York city, aged 75 years. Mary Marshall, aged 103 years, dropped dead a- her liome in Port Fulton, Ind. She was born in Virginia in 1757. Adjutant General Charles L. Eaton of Michigan fell dead with apoplexy of the heart while attending a Detroit funeral. George D. Hoyden, a commission merchant and an active member of the Chicago board of trade, died at the Union League club. Gen. Mason Brayman, ex-governor of Idaho, one of the oldest masons in the United States, died at Kansas City,, aged Si. Roger Ryan, a pioneer of Christian county, dx»d from a stroke of apoplexy while sitting in his carriage at Pana, 111. Mrs. Lydia Ann Sinclair, nee Hicks, widow of James Sinclair, one of Chicago’s pioneers, died at Ravenswood, aged $9.

POLITICAL.

Municipal elections were held in lov/a cities and towns, party lines being drawn in but few eases. Utah's seventh constitutional convention met at Salt Lake City. The republicans have u majority of the delegates. A combination has been effected in the Idaho legislature which ensures the re- ' lection of Senator Shoup. Gov. Matthews of Indiana returned the legislative apportionment bill to the house with his veto. The enrolled anti-winter racing bill was stolen at Indianapolis, but a new one was prepared and signed by the governor. A bill looking to the lincensing of bicycle manufacturers and repairers has been introduced in the Illinois house. In the Illinois legislature a bill has been Introduced calculated to suppress vile and sensational publications. In the South Dakota legislature the divorce bill, a most important measure, was defeated by one vote. Resolutions have been introduced in the Minnesota legislature asking for an investigation of Public Bank Examiner Kenyon. Illinois legislators are considering a proposition to investigate official corruption in the Chicago city council. Wisconsin legislators have agreed to appoint a committee to investigate all of the institutions under state control. Bdth branches of the Michigan legislature passed a bill providing for registration in the City of Detroit. A conference of prohibitionists of Illinois was begun at Springfield, Samuel Dickie of Albion, Mich., delivered an address. George W. Prince of Galesburg was nominated for congress by the republicans of the tenth Ilinois district on the 1,476 th ballot.

SPORTING NOTES.

In the regatta at Cannes the American yacht Dacotah won the Ogden goblet and James Gordon Bennett challenge cup No. 2. Griffo secured the verdict over Leeds in a twelve round go at Coney Island. Solly Smith and Denning fought a ten round dra w. The Interstate league was formally organized at Bloomington, the cities represented being Joliet, Aurora, Bloomington. Terre Haute, Fort Wayne and Lafayette. Representatives of Chicago and New York water polo teams have arranged for three games for the United States championship,to be played in New York in April. Billy Smith and Joe Walcott fought a fifteen round draw? before an audience of 4,000 at the National Sporting club of Boston. Indiana senate has passed the bill forbidding winter racing in the state. The measure is to suppress the Roby races. The National Leagu.e of Baseball clubs adopted a playing schedule and voted to reinstate Fred Pfeifer.

CASUALTIES.

| Property valued at upward of J200.1X-0 was destroyed by Saturday’s fire at Sallna, Kan. | A million dollars’ damage was caused i by the fire which originated in Simpj Sun ’ s dry goods store in Toronto. Fire partly destroyed the Hotel Boyer at Pittsburg. Twenty of*the employes i a narrow escape from cremation. Two men were killed and two injured y the explosion of a tank of sulphuric acid at McKeesport, Pa. The British steamer Venetian, which I struck on a ledge in Boston Harbor, is i a w reck. Two of her crew were badly scalded by escaping steam. John Williams of Franklin. Vfash., i while engaged in a friendly wrestling i , u * f received injuries ' causing his death. hive persons were badly injured in a i collision between Sixth avenue elevated tiajns in New York, due to carelessj ness. Two buildings in New York city fell, , causing the death of four men. Twenty- : one other employes were seriously inI jured. , Investigation of the wreck on the in- ! teroceanic railroad, near the City of i Mexico, shows that 104 persons were i killed. | Homer Hinshaw, aged 14, was killed I a gun while playing with Robert j Holaday. a boy friend, at Wilmington, i Ohio. i Thomas Meadows and his wife ■ ot Glennville, Ala., were attending a dance their four children were burned j to death.

CRIME.

.¶ A. Moses of Chippewa Falls, Wis.,was shot by two would-be robbers, to whom he had just sold a revolver, .¶ Mary Wagner, a school teacher of Rockport, Ind., is in jail, charged with forgery and securing money by false pretenses. .¶ John Schronbrick and wife of Ai, Ohio, were tortured by masked robbers until they revealed the whereabouts of $6,200. .¶ Tom Graves, a mountain desperado, was fatally shot by officers in a running fight in the streets of Richmond, Ky. .¶ Levi Bruster and Abraham Turpin, colored waiters in a Terre Haute, Inch, hotel, exchanged shots and the latter was fatally wounded. .¶ At Becker, Ind., the home of C. A. Bennett, a constable, was wrecked by dynamite. The occupants escaped unhurt. .¶ Omaha’s police board has suspended the chief, and will investigate charges of corruption against the force, .¶ Two masked men held up a train near Antelope, Cal., but were beaten off by the engineer and fireman, .¶ Daniel Hairston and wife, of Alton, I. T., were fatally injured by white robbers disguised as negroes, .¶ The wife of Rev. Isaac Aldrich, pastor of the Congregational Church of Wayne, Mich., has been arrested, charged with immorality. .¶ At Franklin, Ind., James Truelock, Thomas Kirk and Lee Martin were sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for grave robbery. .¶ "Bill" Dolan and his band are surrounded by a posse of marshals in a cave in the flatiron country, Oklahoma. .¶ A 13-year-old girl is under arrest at Terre Haute, Ind., for setting fire to her adopted mother’s barn. .¶ David Miller, of Osnaburg, Ohio., was fatally shot by two negro highwaymen, whom the villagers threaten to lynch when caught. .¶ It has been discovered that hundreds of forged naturalization papers were used at the election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. .¶ Joe Dean was hanged at Fairburn, Ky., for murder. George Magee was executcd at Frankfort for a similar crime.

WASHINGTON.

Both houses of congress adjourned Moruia;-. Little business was transited in the final hours. Ex-Speaker Reed and two of his * ri< u-.s refused to vote for a resolution thanking Speaker Crisp for his fairness. Appropriations made by the congress just adjourned aggregate $5:>3,22.>,2*J, übont $67,000,000 less than those of the itved congress. Messrs. Crisp, Culberson and- Kitt will be the house delegates to the international monetary conference. Giuted States supreme court decided •American patents expired with those in foreign countries. Telephone, telegraph and el; ctric light inventions are involved. B inds for $300,000 issued by Perry county, ill., to aid in railroad building nave been held valid by the supreme court. A now trial of the Coffins, convicted of v recking the Indianapolis National Lank, was ordered by the federal supreme court. A review of the session of congress shows few of the important measures debated were enacted into law. The naval appropriation bill was passed by the senate after it had been amended to provide for the building of but two battleships. The appropriation for Chicago's new postofflee building was cut down to $300,000 by the conference committee. A resolution designating Speaker Crisp as one of the delegates to a bimetallic conference was unanimously adopted by the house. An agreement was reached by both houses (. n the sundry civil and Indian appropriation bills.

A bill granting a pension to Gen. John C. McClernand was passed by the house through the efforts of Gen. Sickles. Both liouses have adopted a resolution looking to the participation of congress in tne dedicatory ceremonies at Chickamagua. The senate receded from the Hawaiian cable amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. National council of women denounced the money power in politics and physical force as a basis of government. Senator Morgan's strong opposition prevented an appropriation to defray expenses of the Behring sea arbitrators. Monthly statement of the public debt shows a decrease of $34,033,325, due to the receipt of gold for the recent bond issue. Senator Hill of New York bitterly scored Senator Chandler of New Hampshire for his merciless attack upon Senator Roach. Bills to protect or kill seals; to pay West Virginia its share of refunded tax and the senate anti-lottery bill were passed by the house. Inspector-general of the army has reported to congress that national soldiers’ homes are overcrowded to a dangerous degree.

Sta.tr- Ownership of Coal Mines.

SIBLEY THE NEW LEADER.

so He Nominated for President by the 10 to 1 Coinage Men. Washington, March s.—The Bimetallic league will soon issue an address to the American people asking their support for a new party having for the principal planks of its pla tforra unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and demand that the money of .the country shall be Issued by the government itself. The address will call upon the people themselves to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President by petition, feeling delegates to conventions do not always represent popular views. The address will also put in nomination Joseph C. Sibley of Franklin, Pa., whose term as representative expired yesterday-. Mr. Sibley declined to run for re-election last fall, preferring to retire to private life, and it was only at the urgent and persist- | ent solicitation of the members o? the conference that hefinally consented to head the movement for a new silver party.

M’COY HEARING.

Evidence to Show Taylor Was Seeking to Make a Compromise. Pierre, S. D„ March s.—At the McCoy hearing yesterday Representative Lucas of the investigating committee testified that McCoy said he was here with funds of W. W. Taylor to make a settlement with the state, providing Taylor was exempt from criminal prosecution. Several ether witnesses testified to the same thing. Bank Examiner Diamond testified to a conversation that occurred in Chicago between himself, Crawford, and McChesney. Attor-ney-General Crawford, the complaining witness, testified that McChesney and Tenney made overtures for settlement to him Jan. 28. Craw-ford said McChesney told him McCoy w-as in MeChesney’s employ and also in Taylor's to make asettlement with South Dakota and keep Taylor out of the penitentiary. George A. Pettigrew testified that Senator Pettigrew paid McCoy 5:5,500 Jan. 7 last.

ROBBED OF SAVINGS.

Farmer and Jlls Wife Held Over Flames In Ohio to Win Their Secret. Toledo, Ohio, March s.—Jacob Sbonbriek Is a wealthy old German farmer, who lives near the Michigan line, some forty miles northwest of Toledo. Late Saturday night four masked men forced an entrance to the house, bound and gagged his wife, his two daughters, and a young son, and then ordered him at the point of a revolver to disclose the hiding place of his money, which was known to be in the house. He refused and the robbers tortured both him and his wife until they fainted. The wife finally disclosed the hiding place of the money and the robbers secured over $6,000. The old man will not talk, and the rumor is that the leader of the g.tng was aman who is acquainted with the details of a crime in Shoribrick’s history, and that the latter fears to make any efforts toward apprehending the criminals for fear of his own safety.

WILL RESUME WITH A RUSH.

lliirtl Week's Work Before tlio Illinois I.< gislntur^. Springfield, 111., March 6.—While the attendance of membei-3 was unusually goodfor a Monday night's session little of interest transpired in .cither the house or senate. This morning, however, business begins with a rush. Mr. Weston yesterday introduced a bill "to amend the powers of the city councils in cities and the board of trustees in villages.” It is drawn in the interest of wheelmen. The house adjourned to 10 o'clock this morning. The senate was in session a very short time in the afternoon and adjourned without transacting any business.

Capital Purishment Law Remains.

i'l. i/aul, March —Yesterday the bouse indefinitely postponed filers’ lull to abolish capital punishment for murder in the first degree. In ail probability the house vvili settle the capital matter to-day by passing the bill making a portion of the appropriation for a new building in this city available so work can begin immediately. One of u.e most sweeping measures thus far Was introduced by Mr. Wright yesterday, u. is a stringent anti-blacklist law, there being i.-> existing lav, on tiiis sti in tlic stcite.

Anti-Roby Race Bill Is Stolen.

Indianapolis, Ind., March s.—There was great excitement in the tro,tmg horsemen's lobby in the legislature -yesterday when it was discovered mat the anti-Roby bill had been stolen. The governor discovered thata duphuite enrolled bill could be made to take tne place of the stolen bill and has ordered t.nis. done, and will sign it. There is no penalty for stealing bills and when the news of the- theft reached the house the rules were suspended and an act passed making it a felony.

Ready for the President's Trip.

Sioux City, lowa, March s.—Tim Linux house tender \ iolet, in which the i resident -.and party will take their ducking trip in the sounds of North Carolina, reached here yesterday and was made last at a private wharf at the foot of Seventh street. It is believed the ir-e.si-dent, Dr. O Rielly, his physician! and two or three friends will begin their trip to-day. It is thought the j arty will be absent at least ten days or two weens

Will Allow Women to Vote.

St. Louis, Mo., March s.—Busmens City school board at its meeting " last night decided to allow women to vote at the school electiort next Monday. As women, according to the lowa law, are not allowed to vote except on questions of taxation, this will probably invalidate the election. The board arrived at Us decision after hearing tne opinion of prominent local lawyers.

After the State Capital.

Huntington, Ind., March s.—The town 1 men are taking an interest in the capital removal fight. A committee spent ‘ yesterday looking up a favorable site within the limits of St. Louis and will urge removal to the metropolis of the state.

Business Houses Burn.

New York, March 6.—At noon yesexandria yesterday morning destroyed six business houses. Loss $30,00Q,