Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — The First Indiana Lynching. [ARTICLE]

The First Indiana Lynching.

Roosevelt certainly got what he went alter. Still, the correspondents, who went along, will look after the mountain lyin.

Can’t Mr. Bryan get Grover to take the post of circulation swearer? The latter’s experience in fishing and duck ■ hunting should be valuable training for the post.

The Chinese are willing enough to sign anything if it will get the allies out of their country. Then they will take cfiances on carrying out what they have signed.

In Prance statistics show that the horse kills more people in accidents than all other transportation motors combined. This inplu es bicycles, automobiles, railways, cable cars, etc.

We hope that the New York newspapers will now give the country a most deserved rest from the details of the Vanderbuilt marriage, at least until the advent of the Vanderbilt baby

Britain will send more men to South Africa—if she can raise them. Tne homeward stream of sick men and corpses now exceeds the out-goiing stream of live men. and has done so for a long time.

The latest idea in the way of fraud and corruption cornea from Illinois, in the suggestion that senators there Shall be chosen by sacred ballot. Evi dently, the legislators in that state have an eye to the main chance.

A London tailor has explained the superiority in fit given by his American rivals, by asserting that clothes never “fit” but should “hang well”. This may explain but does not excuse the British monstrosities in the way of clothes. ..

The country rioesn’t seem disposed to erithuse Very much over the suggestion of Mr. “Hill for Democratic nominee in 1904. Texas, it. is true, has. invited him to speak there, but then Texas would vote for a yellow dog oil the Democratic ticket.

Every attempt to secure action on the Nicaraguan canal bill always meets with opposition on one ground or another. The latest to object being Senator Daniels, of Virginia, Who says, “the subject is not yet thoroughly understood.” When, in Heaven’s name, will it be? Senator Hanna is determined that the country shall not be deceived by the cloud of falsehood and misrepresentation stirred up in regard to the subsidy bill by its enemies. He has accordingly inaugurated a campaign of education that will go far to set this measure rigntly before the voters of this country.

The present opposition to the army bill, is largely disingenuous. The bill does not give the president any power to increase the army. It fixes its size at 100,000 and then empowers him to decrease it if he thinks it advisable. Yet -the bpponents of the bill pretend to oppose it, not because it fixes the army at the larger number; but because it gives the president power to increase it.

‘The townofNewburg, Ind., where a race war is threatened, was the scene of the first authenticated case of lynching that ever took place in Indiana,. It occurred on July 19th, 1862. At that time the government was maintaining a small hospital there, which contained 80 or 90 sick and wounded soldiers. At noon, on the 19th of July, one Adam Johnson, the leader of a small band of Kentucky guerillas, crossed the river, seized the hospital and pretended to parole the patients. He also seized the arms of two companies ot the state militia, stored in the hospital, together with a considerable quantity of ammuni Cion.. After the seizure his men scattered over the town plundering and robbing stores and residences. The next day the citizens became convinced that the raid was incited by two of the residents of the place, and they seized upon H. H Carney and Elliott Metford, tried them and then shot them to death.

Tnere is a-pretty custom in vogue inDenmark. During the summer holidays an arrangement is made by which little Danes from town and eountry are exchanged. The parents-of town children send their little folks off to country and receive in excharge country children. The result is that the town children are strengthened and gladdened with country air and sights, while the little rustics enjoy the pleasures of town life and’ the festivals which are for their benefit. This exchange system results in 10,000 children from Copenhagen getting a country holiday and another 10,000 were brightened up by a visit to the Danish capital.

The country merchant has about as to hoe as any man on earth, says an exchange, and he has got to look pleasant and hang onto tne hoe handle no matter what happens. If a pastor’s salary is a little short the business man must fix it. If John Jones loses a horse Mr. Business Man must help get another. If a celebration is going on hp must dig up some more* If a beggar comes along he is t-he first man to tackle. And some who sit around the edge will-»tell you the “dear merchant” is getting rich. Where is one who is in need of a plaqe to hide any surplus?

The Rensselaer G. A. R. post has endorsed the candidacy of Ex Lieut. Governor Hanna, of this, state, for commissioner of pensions. * A petition endorsing him is now at the Commercial State Bank for signatures of old soldiers.