People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Page 3

CALAMITY HOWLERS.

ARE BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS EVERY DAY. Even th* Supreme Court of the United States Has * Qnartette of Them — Income Tax Decision a Gross Iniquity. If Populists had given utterance to the expressions that fell from the lips of the four dissenting justices of the supreme court in the income tax case, they would have been hooted at from Dan to Beersheba as “calamity howlers.” Listen to them. Justice Harlan says: “The practical, if not direct effect, of the decision today is to give certain kinds of property a position of favoritism and advantage that is inconsistent with the fundamental principles of our social organization, and to invest them with power and influence that is perilous to that portion of the people upon whom rests the larger part of the burdens of government, and who ought not to be subjected to the domination of aggregated wealth any more than the property of the country should be at the mercy of the lawless.” Justice Jackson is reported as follows: The decision, in his opinion, practically destroyed the power of the government to reach incomes. It takes from congress its rightful power to fix the rate of taxation ,and substitutes therefore a rule incapable of application without Imposing the most monstrous inequality on the citizens of the common country. The decision reverses the common rule of taxation by exempting those who were best able to pay and forcing the burden upon the shoulders of |he least able to pay. In conclusion, Justice Jackson said, in his opinion, the decision was the most disastrous blow ever struck at the constitutional power of congress. It struck down an important, vital and essential power of the government. It left the government, in case of necessity, without power to reach by taxation in any form the vast Incomes derived from the real and personal property of the country. Justice Brown, in conclusion, said: “The decision involves nothing less than the surrender of the taxing power to the moneyed class. While I have no doubt that congress will find some means of surmounting the present crisis, my fear is that in some moment of national peril this decision will rise up to frustrate Its will and paralyze its arm. I hope it may not be the first step towards the submergence of the liberties of the people in a sordid despotism of wealth.” Justice White, in concluding, said: “The injustice of the conclusion points to the error of adopting it. It takes the invested wealth and reads it into the constitution as a favored and protected class of property, while it leaves the occu- ( pation of the minister, the doctor, the professor, the lawyer, the inventor, the author, the merchant and all the various forms of human activity upon which the prosperity of the people must depend, subject to taxation without apportionment. The absolute inequality and injustice of taxation by reference to population and without regard to the amount of wealth taxed, are so manifest that to admit the power to tax and limit it to this mode, substantially denies the power to tax and limit it to this mode .substantially denies the power itself, since it imposes a restriction which renders its exercise impossible.” A few •extemporaneous remarks were made by Justice White after the reading of his written opinion. He spoke of the decision as a blow at the American people and said that the power of levying an income tax now left could only be exercised with such injustice that no legislative body would dare attempt to exercise it, for such an attempt would bring forward a bloody revolution. — Coming Nation.

You Deserve It.

A thing is right or wrong, no matter what you believe about it. All the people in the world ’believing a wrong would not make it right. All the people once believed the earth flat, but it was a globe just the same. All of you may believe, in the “intrinsic” idea of money, but it is a fallacy just the same and as easily disproven as the physical fact of the world’s shape, if you will but investigate. You are always more positive in a statement you have never studied, can give no valid reason for. than about things you have some knowledge. If a man disputed your; method of spelling a word you’d go to some authority to prove your position, and you would be foolish if he brought you equally good authority and more of them, if you should refuse to even look at them. But you do this very thing about political questions that involve your very existence. You, therefore, deserve' ‘ your present conditions, you deserve poor pay, di* charge from employment, poverty and misery. These pressing you hard enough, will cause you to use your reason or die, and if you remain willfully blind, and by It injure not only yourself, but thousands about you, your life is not a blessing but a bane. Read up.—Coming Nation. It the free-silver Democrats have halt as much backbone as the gold gang, they will leave the party, unless the National Convention will adopt a free silver platform, 'and nominate a free silver candidate. But most of them will knuckle down and follow the dictation of their Eastern masters, who control things with their money. , The Omaha platform cc”“f« the ma . terial economic questions of the day, and no party In this country can succeed much longer without adopting them. Let the People’s party stand firm on that platform.

MANAGERS WERE BLIND.

Well Known Men Allowed Their Name* to Be Used. That a list of strong names in the managing board does not always guarantee the stability of the enterprise was proved in the case of the Paris Savings Bank, the other day. Nearly every one of the directors .had been a well-known member of the Chamber of Deputies, or had held some important place in the service of the state. The real brains of the concern, however, were two men, named Brugerolles and David, each of whom, it is now learned, had been “chevroned with five years in prison.” The directors are now trying to explain to the court and the enraged depositors how they could have been blind to the gigantic swindle going on under their noses. When the bank was started by the skillful use of promise and ink, depositors came from all parts of the republic. All that was necessary was to put money in the bank and receive big dividends each month. Within a fortnight the bank announced the establishment of six tributary enterprises, the principal of which was the “Agricultural Distillery,” which had for its especial object the culture and refining of Jerusalem artichokes. It is almost needless to say that every one of these pretended industrial societies was born but to die after it had issued a large sum in bonds, which Brugerolles and David unloaded on their guileless clients. The whole thing went to smash last week. Brugerolles fled across the Channel, and his accomplice killed himself. The boffrd of directors have been arrested, and they find It difficult to explain why they should have lent their names to such a fraud as the Banque d’Epargne proved to be without looking into tts financial soundness beforehand.

Misnomers.

It has ever been the case that when the money power are preparing the way for a big steal they seek to deceive the people with the cry of “honest money” or “sound currency.” The fact that Instead of calling it “honest money” now they are using the “sound currency” is evidence that they realize that the forme? phrase has been ridiculed out of its usefulness. It can be truthfully stated that no banker in this country ever favored an “honest dollar” or “sound currency.” It was their influence in 1862 that affixed the exception clause on the greenback, which demonetized it so far as Interest on the bonds and payment of revenues were concerned, the very two things which were calculated to make it honest and sound. They Insisted that it might be good enough to pdy the men who were fighting for the life of the nation, but not for the men who were staying home and speculating off of the government’s necessities. In 1869 they secured the passage of an act making their bonds payable in a dollar twice as valuable as the one they gave for the bonds. In 1873, they secured the demonetization of silver, and now they want the power to issue their own notes for money to loan at a big rate of interest while they also draw interest on bonds on which this so-called money is said to be based. The kind of “sound currency” they are advocating is a fraud.

Prof. Herron Predicts Revolution.

Prof. George D. Herron of the Chair of Applied Christianity, lowa college, whom Rev. C. O. Brown calls an anarchist, has returned from southern California, where he h'as been for some time. “I believe that the people, that is, the people as a whole, between the very rich and the very poor,” said Dr. Herron, “are conscious that there must be a change in tire social order. They are ready for it, If a plan can be put before them. The Christian conscience is awakening. I look for some radical changes to be begun in the next five or ten years. There will in that time, I believe, be a great political revolution looking toward the government ownership of all monopolies, including the great transportation lines, and the blotting out of the various forms of oppression now existing by the power of the rich. This, in my judgment, is coming as certainly as came the abolition of slavery.”

He Was Intensely Practical.

The late Richard Vaux of Philadelphia was a believer in progress and had little reverence for antiques as such —his hat to the contrary notwithstanding. A relative told recently how Mr. Vaux received a well preserved section of one of the pillars of the Pantheon at Rome. It was sent to him by a friend who had some trouble in securing it, and considered it an interesting relic. He expected, on his return to America, to find the broken column standing upon the lawn of the • Vaux residence, perhaps covered with ivy, and looking down the ages rather scornfully at the degenerated civilization of the 19th century. He was horrified to hear, however, that Mr. Vaux, not being In need of a broken pillar just then, had turned it into a lawn roller. It did duty In that capacity for a long time, and is still in possession of the family.

In 1892 we had Democratic success, Cleveland, a Democratic Congress and a general rejoicing and jollification all over the Jand. Now, we have the gold standard, bond issues, tramps, low prices, hard times and wailing' and gnashing of teeth. Whoop it up for the grand old party, boys! The abolitionists wanted to abolish chattel slavery. They were ridiculed and socially ostracised. , The Populists now want to abolish Sebt slavery? and they ara meeting with similar treatment.

THE PEOPLE S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, JULY 4. 1895.

WHAT DO POPULISTS WANT?

Th«y H»r« Foreseen Every Social F.vU | and Prescribe Only Safe Remedies. 1. We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1. 2. We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than SSO per capita. 3. We demand a graduated income tax. 4. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all state and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expense of the government. 5. We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit of all the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. Transportation being a means of exchange and public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien ownership of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.

A Favored Money Is Always a Robber.

There has never been a time in the world’s history when governments have issued, or permitted to be Issued, different kinds of money, and have in any manner given preference for any one kind above another, that the money so favored has not become a mere commodity, an article of speculation and an instrument of plunder. We had one of the best illustrations of this fact in the case of gold in the United States during the war period. Everyone knows that it ceased to circulate as money and became a mere instrument for the robbery of people. It was sold by gold brokers at a large premium in government currency to importers for the payment of duties, and this premium was added to the cost of tea, coffee, sugar and other commodities and charged up to the people. The national currency thus obtained by the gold gamblers was in turn invested in in-terest-bearing bonds at par. The interest upon these bonds was payable in coin, and all secretaries of the treasury htfve interpreted coin to mean gold. The gold sold to the importer, and paid by him to the government for duties was, by the government, paid back to the brokers as interest, and again sold to Importers at another premium which was again paid for duties and again added to the cost of goods and charged up to the consumers. In this manner the people were plundered in added cost of goods upon one hand, and in discount upon bonds and interest upon them on the other. Now, what is the sense of so many different kinds of money Will someone tell? Is not money that is good enough for the commpn people of this country likewise good enough for these Wall street pirates?—Topeka Advocate.

Overproduction of Wheat.

The best answer to the theory that overproduction of wheat is the cause of its low price is found in the “CornTrade Year Book,” England, probably the most reliable authority published. According to that authority the world’s wheat crop for 1891 was 2,456,000,000, and the average price was $1:11 per bushel. In 1892 the crop was 2,440,000 bushels, but the price had fallen to 90 cents. In 1893 the crop was the same as 1891. but the price had fallen to a fraction less than 80 cents. In 1894 both crop and price were smaller than any of the foregoing figures, the price the lowest on record. The same authority also shows that in the period 1875-84 the population of the chief wheat producing countries was 397,000,000,. and the production of rye and wheat in those countries per head of population was 7.08 bushels. In the next period of ten years, 1885-94, with population increased to 434,000,000, the production of both these crops per head of population was only 6.84 bushels. —Farm, Stock and Home.

Prices Would Go Up.

I Professor Laughlin is evidently proving too much and will have to be called ! down or he will give the gold bugs 1 away. In his article of May 9th, he is appealing to tjie wage earners to oppose free coinage as detrimental to , their interests thus: “And Just here ' is the reason the laborer does not care ; to' see free coinage of .♦iver, because i by free coinage the prices of the laborer's goods would go up double what ■they are now.” This frank admission ' from the gold s standard champion should settle the question so far as the farmer vote is concerned. If you want double prices. Professor Laughlin says that free coinage of silver will guarantee them. But the professor like ail. the ' gfrid standard advocates is very versatile. When he writes an appeal to the farmers, he will warn them against*’free coinage, because free coinage of silverwill drive gold opt of the country, thus contracting the volume of. money onehalf and as a result reduce prices onehalf.—Dakota Rural Ist. ~ The fight we are making now is against the combined money power of the world, yet some men seem to be taking things easy.

NEWS OF INDIANA.

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS OF THE EVENTS OF SEVEN DAYS. Political, Religious. Social and Criminal Record of the Past Week*/ Occurrences—Minor Happenings Carefully Coad eased for Our Readers. Avilla—A stranger, giving his name as W. W. Cole, was arrested here for passing counterfeit money. Winamac—lra Kelly, aged 22, and unmarried, was drowned while bathing in the Tippecanoe river near this city. Colonel J. N. Wallingford, of Greensburg, has been appointed receiver for the Wild West show that stranded there last week. Two tramps who took part- in a general fight at Greensburg ar? in jail there. One has a slash across the face, from a razor, that will mark him for life. Kokomo.—Charles, the fourteen-year-old son of Dr. Rush Fee. a well known resident of this city, was driwned in the Driving Park lake this afte.nion. Anderson—A trust deed of $500,0M from the Indianapolis, Anderson & Marion Electric Railway company to the Farmer’s Loan and Trust company was filed here for record. Jeffersonville. John McKinley, sr., one of the most prominent residents of Clark County, was suddenly stricken dumb with paralysis last week at his home. His condition is serious, as he is perfectly helpless. At a special session of the Brazil council, William Bubbs, Councilman from the First Ward, was chosen as Mayor, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of A. T. Herb, to accept the position of warden in Prison South. Jeffersonville. Aloysius Gerber wronged and deserted Miss Stengal, a niece of Frank Gebblns, a wealthy contractor. Mr. Gebbins hunted up Gerber and at the point of a revolver conducted him to Justice of the Peace House, who performed a marriage ceremony.

Crown Point.—Henry Kirkland, of Chicago, a colored stable attendant at Roby, quarreled with a fellow-workman and stabbed him almost to death the other morning with a pitchfork, putting' out an eye, and forcing four tines of the fork into his lungs, also breaking four ribs and cutting his body badly. The man will die. Kirkland was arrested and placed under SSOO bonds for manslaughter. Henry Palmster was also arrested for holding up an old man and taking S2OO in cash. He was placed under bonds of S3OO. Wabash.—A thlrteen-year-old boy, named Gottlieb Free, living on Manchester avenue, this city, together with three of his brothers and three or four other boys, went to the woods on the dairy farm, a mile north of this city. Young Free discovered an owl's nest containing four young ones near the top of a large beech tree. He climbed up after them and when about fifty feet from the ground the limb on which he was standing broke and he was precipitated to the ground. He landed on the top of his head and his skull was crush-" ed. He died instantly. Marion.—A Good Citizens’ League was organized here last week by the election of George A. Osborn, president; C. C. Gordon, vice-president; C. E. Coffin, secretary; Joseph Small, treasurer, and W. L. Lenfestey, O. H. Keller, H. M. Elliott, John Ratliff and G. D. Dean, executive committee. Speeches were made by the Rev.‘J. H Thomas, the Rev. J. C. Cain, C. C. Gordon. G. D. Dean, J. H. Snodgrass, D. E. Wilson, James E. Covey, and others. The attendance was not large, but there are Indications that the organization will grow and become effective for good in the enforcement of the laws. Jeffersonville. Charles Wilson, a veteran of the late war, residing in this city, is dying by inches. During the war he contracted rheumatism, for which he now draws a pension. Some time ago he purchased from a patent medicine vendor a bottle of liniment, which he was assured would permamently cure him. He applied the ointment several times, and it was so powerful that it produced a sore, which was not properly attended, and gangrene set in. Since then, in tyi attempt to save him, all of the toes, successively, on his right foot have been removed, and a day or two ago his foot was removed. Knightstown.—Matt Barnes, a local tough, while burglarizing the home of John D. Maple, received a gunshot wound in the left shoulder, after which he was easily captured. Mars James and a number of citizens scFrqunded the premises, and although it is not known who did the shooting the marshal's gun is supposed to have done the work. When searched a pocketbook containing a number of valuable papers were found on the burglar, which proved to be the property of Mr. Maple. Barnes' wound was dressed, after which he was given a preliminary examination before 'Squire Forbes and bound over to court. Wabash.—James H. Emmet Post, No. 6, G. A. R., last week celebrated the twelfth anniversary of its organization at a public' meeting held courthouse. The exercises opened: with priryer by Chaplain Wilkerson. Alvah Taylor read a sketch of the post’s history and called the roll of Charter members.' B. F. Williams Spoke of the history of the post. an<j Daniel Ferguson, a well-known colored citizen, presented to the Junior Zouaves a handsome silk flag. Capt. Atkinson spoke'on the subject of the Chase memorial fund, and was followed by\ Mrs. Minnie Brown on a paper on the .W- R. C. as an auxiliary ■of the Grand Army. Department Commander Shively delivered an address on “The G. A. ; R. oPthe Present,” and Rev. A. W. Lamport read an original poem. The exercises closed with an address by Capt. G. W. Swadley. Evansville.—The Knights of St. John elected supreme Officers as fcs'.ows: Supreme president/ Capt. Henry Werst, Wapakoneta, O.; first vice president, William Hernbusch; second vice president, G. M. Geiger, Covington, Ky.; eu- , preme secretary, M. J. Kane, Buffalo, ’ bi. Y.; supreme treasurer, Louis M. Wemer, Sandusky, O. Dayton, O„ was chosen as the uext place of meeting. Jeffersonville —The Republican board of prison directors met and assumed charge of that Institution. A. T. Holt of Brazil was elected warden and John A. Tate of Bloomfield clerk. Capt. Patten, the ex-warden, and ex-Cierk Fergus- n will remain at the Institution Unt* 1 * neiief

FOREIGN.

Tha New York, Columbia, and Marblehead have left Kiel. The San Francisco remains. The London Times denies the reported appointment of Sir Graham Bower as Governor of Newfoundland. The Mexican government has determined to end the Indian troubles in Yucatan and is sending troops against ehem. La Patria, a Mexican newspaper, is trying to prove Mexico should possess Cuba and is showing the right of that Island to be free from Spain's tyranny. The great powers of Europe are said to be determined that the Sultan of Turkey shall institute in Armenia the reformes demanded. In a conflict between students and police in the Latin Quarter of Paris two of the former were injured and five arrested. The American ship Arabia, from New York for San Francisco, was totally wrecked off Cape Hope. Alli on board were saved and landed at Montevideo. King Humbert will shortly issue a decree exonerating Premier Crlspi from the charges of having been connected with Dr. Herz, the Panama Canal lobbyist. Sven persons were killled and several wounded by the explosion of a boiler of a steam launch belonging to the Gorman warship Freidrich Wilhelm at Holtenau. In order to insure the adoption of the remaining political ecclesiastical bills. Emperor Francis Joseph has sanctioned the proposal of Baron Banffy. the Hungarian premier, for the immediate creation of several Liberal peers.

CRIME.

Charles Newhouse was arrested at Leadville, Col., on a charge of forgery and burglary in Newton, la. Theodore Taylor was stabbed in a quarrel at Marysville, Ind. He will probably die. No arrests have been made. The jury in the case of Dr. D. J. Seaman, charged at Detroit, Mich., with the death of Emily Hall, failed to agree, after being out twenty-four hours. Sam Taylor escaped from officers on a train near St. Joseph, Mo., and jumped to the ground. He had disappeared when the train had stopped and the officers looked for him. John Taylor, who is accused of murdering Charles T. Langholz, a merchant of San Antonio, Tex., has been captured. At Greenville, S. D., J. D. Lewis, a railway conductor, killed his brother-in-law, Henry Rutledge. The trouble was caused by Lewis leaving his wife, a sister of Rutledge. Attorney Aaron E. Miller was arrested at Hammond, Ind, He is wanted In Wabash county on a charge of forgery. James Dorsey, of Arlington, 111., was sand-bagged by highwaymen and robbed of SSO. The injuries he sustained may prove fatal. Willie Little was sentenced at Pittsburg to twelve years in the Western penitentiary. Two weeks ago Little murdered Hugh McClure. Dora Weigart, a Freeport, 111., servant girl, was arrested, charged with setting a number of iricendlary fires at the residence of Dr. G. P. Kingsley. George Coward, the negro wanted at Quincy, 111., for the murder of was captured at his home, where he had gone for food and clothing. Augustus Grieves, a traveling man employed by McCoy & Herdman, wholesale grocers of Columbus, O„ has been arrested charged with embezzling 11,000 of the firm's money. Mike De Marco was stabbed and killed, his brother Nicolo fatally wounded and Pasquela Paretta, who killed De Marco, was stabbed seriously In an Italian fight at Peckville, Pa. David Dailey, nephew of the late Dllllard Rickets, formerly president of the old Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, was arrested at Charlestown. Ind., by a United States deputy marshal and taken to Indianapolis for trial. Dailey is charged with conducting a saloon in another persons name. While Miss Gallagjier, a stenographer In a Hamilton, Ont., law office, was on her way to bank, a passbook containing checks and cash to the amount of $350 was snatched from her hand. Angus D. Gilbert was found guilty at Boston of the murder of 8-year-old Alice Sterling. George S. S. Moore, assistant postmaster of Mobile, was sentenced to two years’ Imprisonment for embezzlement of public funds. Extradition papers have been granted in the ease of A. J. Hosier, wanted in Boston for embezzlement and under arrest In Mexico.

CASUALTIES.

The saw and grist mills of Representative Q. W. Perry of Pierpont, Mich,, twenty miles north of Manistee, were consumed by fire. Loss, >IO,OOO. No insurance. Frank Koch was killed instantly in a runaway at Burlington. la. Thomas Spellman, 65, a painter, was fatally injured at Arcola, 111., by a fall froin a scaffold.' . ' ■ ( Charles Meyer, 15. swimming near Akron. 0., dove in shallow water, his head struck a rock, and he was killed. Dennis O'Connor, 21 years of age, married, was Instantly killed at Pueblo, ( Col., by lightning while putting up a pole for electric light wires. A fishing smack on J the way to the grounds went down near Placentia, N. F., with all on board. The names of the lost are: William Bolt, William Bolt, Jr., William Bolt, his nephew, and John Korby. Six firemen were killed and others seriously Injured, and a property loss of over >IOO,OOO. Incurred by a tire at Minneapolis, Minn. At Sheldon, lowa, Frajnk Kilkenny was struck by lightning and killed. His two sisters were injured. Fire at San Francisco destroyed property worth >2.000,000. The blaie at one time threatened to spread to the entire city and was only checked by the most determined work of the San Francisco firemen, aided by brigades from other cities. Louis Blanchard, 16 years; Albert Birkel, 12, and William Birkel, 11 years, were drowned at Seattle, Wash. A freight train was derailed near Aiken, S. C.. and Brakeman Hugh Weatherford, Fireman Cherry, and Albert Brown, a negro, were killed. William Gra unwell, a contractor, fell, from the roof of a building at Gover, Hl., and was instantly killed.

POLITICAL.

John P. Young, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has written a tenpage article favoring the coinage of silver. “Coin" Harvey will make a number of speeches in Missouri, beginning at St. Louis, after the debate with Roswell G. Horr. Kentucky Democrats ,in convention at Louisville, nominated Gen. Hardin; a free silver man, for governor, and indorsed the financial policy of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle. Thomas Taggart, chairman of tha Indiana Democratic committee, refuses to call a convention to consider the sliver question. Senators Turple and Voorhees consulted at Terre Haute over a suit to test the constitutionality of the recent state apportionment act. C. C. Mofflt, chairman of the Democratic state central committee of Missouri, has notified all county chairmen that he will call the state committee again to consider a state silver convention if the counties so desire. Henry and Pettis county committees have responded with this demand. The silverlte conference at Topeka, Kas., appointed a committee to take steps towards calling a State convention. Congressman C. A. Towne says he is considering the calling of a silver convention In Minnesota and says it will be a call for a Republican convention of sliver men If he decides to Issue it.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Yale defeated Harvard in the annual boat race by ten lengths. The Harvard crew was outclassed and Yale won as it pleased. Dun’s Review of Trade gives the business of the country as in a fairly prosperous condition, but says the uncertainty regarding the crops is a drawback. A Civic Federation has been organized in Kansas City. The condition of Representative Hitt is reported to be encouraging,. Prof. Hussey of the Stanford University may succeed Prof. Barnard at Lick Observatory. W. B. Chamberlain of Chicago was elected president of the National Association of Elocutionists at the convention In Boston. The syllabus in the decision of the Ohio Supreme Court declaring the inheritance tax unconstitutional says the law was not uniform In its application. The Northern Trust Company of Chicago has increased Its deposit of securities with the Auditor of Public Accounts at Springfield, 111., from $200,000 to $500,000. The Vicksburg and Delta Transfer property was turned over to the Mississippi Railroad Transfer Company Monday at Vicksburg, Miss. Price, $150,000. The fourth annua) convention of the Christian Endeavor society of the Methodist Episcopal church began at Pittsburg, Pa. Senators Voorhees and Turple and John 8. Williams have prepared papers to file in court to test the last Indiana Legislative apportionment on the ground that it was not made immediately subsequent to an enumeration. Ex-Representative Axllne, Colonel’ Wilson, W. W. Davis, and David 8. Roberts, visited Columbus, 0., to consult with H. D. Turner and the officers of the Ohio Western company with a view to the opening of mining work in the Shawnee valley. They say no work has been done there since last September and the miners are In a starving condition. ' ’ The Baptist Young People’s Union wil hold a convention In Baltimore, beginning July 18. The Big Four railway company took , advantage of Sunday to lay tracks on disputed ground in Louisville, Ky. Maj. William H. Hastings is flooding Philadelphia with copies of a letter viciously attacking Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania, his brother. The supreme lodge of Good Templars, in session at Boston, elected Dr. D. H. , Mann of New -York right worthy grand I templar and selected Zurick, SwitzerI land, as the place for the next meeting. I The Northwestern Masonic Aid As ' soclatlon and the Bankers* Life Association of Des Mofnes have b?en bayred from Kansas. . i The story sent out from Beattie, Wash., describing the departure q| an expedltioii to attempt the overthrow of i the Hawaiian government is declared to be a fabrication. I Cardinal Gibbons has, departed from ■ Rome. Deacon H. D. Ewan, aiderman of the : Seventh ward, in Lincoln, Neb., will *be 1 asked to resign. He explains It by saying he was showing his friend the town. | For the better suppression of iawless- ( ness in Indian Territory thirty-three additional Deputy Marshals have been . appointed. Under this arrangement the machinery of the courts will be kept In motion.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to prim>.3l.7s @6.00 Hogs 3.00 @4.00 Sheep—Good to choice 1.25 @4.40 Wheat—No. 2 71ft@ ,74ft Corn-No. 2...... '.49ft@ ,55ft Oats ... ,28ft @ .28ft Rye 61ft@ .62 Eggs 10%@ .lift Potatoes—Per bu .30 @ .40 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 2 red 77ft@ .81st Corn—No. 2-yellow 53 @ .53ft Oats—No. 2 white ’,... .34ft@ .35 PEORIA. Rye—No. 2 61 @ .62 Corn—No. 3 white 50 @ .50ft Oats—No. 2 white . .30ft@ .30ft ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2.40 @4.75 Hogs 4.40 @4.75 Sheep.. ..... .. 2.Q0 @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 red 75 @ .75ft Corn—No. 2 46 @ .46ft Oats-No. 2 28. @ .29 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 spring...... .74 @ .74ft Corn-No. 3 .... .50 @ .50ft Oats—No. 2 white 32 @ .32ft Barley—No. 2... ' 50 @ ,50ft Rye-No. 1 82 @ .62ft KANSAS CITY. Cattle. 1.90 @5.65 Hogs '.... 8.80 @4.65 Sheep 3.60 @5.75 NEW YORK. Wheat—No. 2 ted [email protected] Corn—No. 2 55ft< .55ft Oats-No. 2.. 31 ft .31st butter 11 @ .18 TOLEDO. Wheat-No. 2.. 75 @ .75ft Corn—No. 2 mixed..... 50 Q 50ft Oats-No 2 mixed./ .. .38 0 30ft

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