Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — Page 6

Republican. Gm. E. Mamull, Publisher. BENS6BLAER. INDIANA

It 13 amusing for a Western reader to study the census articles in New England papers. For example, the Boston Transcript congratulates the town of Calais, N. H.. on having made a gain of 925 inhabitants in ten years,' showing a total population of 7,100. If a Minnesota man living in such a town were told that it had no greater growth than this in a decade he would sell his property at auction and move Out. Thebe are 609 independent railroad corporations in the United States, and 142 of them operate all but about 17 percent, of the total railway mileaga of the country. The constant tendency is toward consolidation, and good judges predict that within the next ten years the whole business will be pr ctically controlled by ten or twelve of the present companies, This would undoubtedly be advantageous to the owners of such property. •'Let us give the silver law a fair chance 1” said Charles R. Parsons, of St. Louis, in his address to the American Banters’ Association of which he is President. This is sound and needed advice. The law is not yet a month old, but some of the men who think it goes too far in its favors to silver, and others who think it does not go far' enough, ask for its repeal. About a year from this time the country will be able to form an intelligent estimate of the character and influence of this law, but not earlier. Mr. Vice President Webb's declaration that $2,000,000 was in the New York Central's treasury with which. Is necessary, to fight the strikers, sug gests to some people that the Vanderbilt fortune was the one chosen by the London Saturday Review some time since as an illustration of the danger to the public which accumulated mils lions threatened in this country. In that article the Review declared that "the governing financial fact about the Vanderbilt railways is that they are managed to yield and do yield a steady 10 per cent.” Jt ought hot to be difib. Cult, one would suppose, to set apart from this 10 per cent, income of clear profit enough to "down” the Knights of Labor and still leave a fair profit, say 4or 5 per cent. Half of the profits from the Central or Vanderbilt system would amount to many more than $2,000,000 1

Some more rascality has been unearthed by the taking of a census of the. Sioux Indians of the Rosebud mgemiytn South Pdkbta. The ehum eration just completed shows only 5,186 Indians, men, women and children, while for several years past the officials of the agency have claimed there were 7,500 and made requisitions for that number of rations daily, or an excess of 2,334. There was a very neat yearly profit made, no doubti” from the sale of the" surplus supplies thus accumulated. The plea set up by the agent that the ranks of the Indians had been largely reduced by some mysterious epidemic will not wash. There has been robbery of the government pure and simple. It would not be a bad idea, by the way, to try the. Eame experiment at each of the other agencies. Indian agents are not slow to adopt improved methods for feathering their own nests. * There has been the usual amount o false sentiment concerning the recent uprising of the desperate men confined in a Massachusetts prison, against the application of the Bertillon system of identification. There are people in this world who are far less moved at the murder or the spoliation of an innocent person, fhan they are at the adoption of any policy which may possibly hurt the feelings of the murderer or the thief. They would have a prison something between a club and a unis versify, and would sacrifice the punitive idea entirely to the trying of philanthropic experimeats. The fact that these convicts so strenuously oppose the application of the system is the best evidence that it is valuable to society. It must be borne in mind that by far the greater number of person., confined in any of our great penal institutions are professional criminals, who contemplate the resumption of their nefarious calling upon discharge, as coolly as does the lawyer going back to his desk after a vacation* To men * of this class a general and unfailing system of identification would be ruin ous, while to the one who returns to an honest life it would mean nothing. It is only when the subject is rearrested and denies his identity, that it could have any effect upon his reputa« Uor.

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK.

t The Egyptian crop Is of superior quality. Gold is claimed to have been discovered, near Madison. The population of Louisville, Ky., by the official count is 161,0(5. Mr. Blaine will attend the opening of the Sioux City, la., Corn Palale. Two men and thirteen horsfes lost their lives in a New York fire on the 18th. A tornado killed two persons and destroyed much property at Manning, lowa, on the 18th. Dion Boncicault, the well-known dramatist, author of many plays, died at New York on the 18th. Gedrge F. Dudley, son of W. W. Dudley, was ordained as an Episcopal minister at Washington on the 21st. A railway engine exploded near Chattanooga, Tenn., oil the 21st. The engineer and fireman were blown to atoms. - An explosion of natural gas similar to the one which recently occurred in Shelby county, Ind., is reported op the ,19th from West Virginia. - The New York Central lias issued instructions to the effect that in no case are any of. the late strikers to be employed by the agents of the company. Twenty-five brick masons, brought from : Pittsburg to work upon the furnaces of | the Hartford City Glass Furnaces, struck jMonday because tl.ey . were not paid-t4or■ j lost time, due to wet weather last, and” j seventeen of them left for Pittsburg. The remainder will return to work. Two German lovers, who were kept from marriage by the mother of the lass, committed suicide simultaneously in New York on the 18th. The lover. When both were ready, gave the command, and two pistol shots ended their lives; The lever could not gain access to the woman, but called to her from beneath her window. A frightful accident occurred.on the Illinois Central, in Chicago, on the -21st. A Burlington express plunged into the rear end of an excursion train on the Illinois Central, killing five persons, fatally injuring another and seriously injuring five others. The accident was due to the carelessness of the trainmen of the Illinois Central. The engineer and fireman were placed under arrest. FOREIGN. The Austrian war-ship Taurus, with a crew of sixty-nine men and four officers, has foundered in the Black sea. Germany, Austria and France are discussing retaliatory measures in view of the passage es the McKinley bill, They want Eurcpe* to combine against America, but are meeting with poor success in their endeavors. Travelers from the coast confirm the re port of the issue of a decree by the Ger mans at Bagamayo authorizing traffic in slaves. The decree was signed by the German commandant and was posted at Bagamayo and Daressalaam. Slave dealers expelled from Zanzibar have established themselves at Baggmayo and are doing a thriving business. It is reported that the Sultan has telegraphed to Europe for assistance. Emin Pasha has reached Unan yetnbo. He found that the Arabs had deserted the district,.

CENTRAL TRAIN WRECKERS.

Confessions That Implicate Master Workman bee and Other Knights of Labor. The full confessions of three of the five men who are implicated in the recent attempts at wholesale murder by trainwrecking oh the New York Central, were obtained on the 21st for publication. The crimes, which the narratives of these three wretches lay bare, are of ,the sort which impel a resort to the summary processes of Judge Lynch’s court, even in the most law abiding communities. With-no Motive save hate because of the failure of the strike; tbe series of erhnes- were eenwaitted with the full intention to sacrifice many Innocent livesTn" wa n ton n <ss' The most startline- revelation will be found in the evidence, direct and positive, implicating the official leader of the Knights of Labor in the New York Central strike as. at least, an accomplice after the fact. Certain of the conspirators say that Edward J. Lee personally furnished them with money with which to leave the coun>. try immediately after they wrecked the Montreal express, on September 4. They detail Lee’s conversation with them when the money was paid, and they describe the Master Workman’s long conference with the two men, who, they say, were leaders itt the execution of the plot. Robert Pinkerton, the detective, who with his men bad conducted the investigation, de elates his convictions _that Lee, had guilty knowledge of the crimes before the time specified in the confessions detailed below, but he is not yet able to prove his . suspicions. Enough, however, is shown to place the organization which ordered the strike in a position of detestation and horror which no explaining can do away with, and which will cause a revulsion of feeling in the public mind which nothing can counteract.

THEY KICKED.

Democratic Congressman Force tho Doors’ to Secure Egress. There was a scene of excitement in the House on the 18th. The Virginia election case was the unfinished business, but the House itself was engaged in the technical proceeding of trying to approve Wednesday's journal. The Democratic members were endeavoring in every way to prevent the consideration of the election case, and in pursuance of this policy almost all of them left the hall to break a quorum on the question of approving the journal. A call was ordered, which brought in a number of Democrats, and a yea and tfcj- vbte was being taken on a motion to further proceedings under the call when the Democratic members again began to decamp. Mr. Burrows called the attention of the Speaker to the fact and asked if the members present could not be obliged I to remain. The Speaker replied tlfatthe rules were intended to secure th’is end. He ad<|ed that he did not see why they were not

observed. Accordingly the assistant doorkeejWr, Mr. Houk, directed all of the doors leading into the ball to be locked. Hardly had this been done before Representative Kilgore (TexT) presented himself at the Speaker’s left hand and sought'to go out into the lobby. He found that the door was locked and the doorkeeper in charge, Mr. Hayes, refused to unlock it. - “Unlock that door!” demanded the stalwart Texan. ’ The doorkeeper moved not, whereupon Mn Kilgore-gave a suuaen and vigorous kick and the frail baize structure flew open anjd Mr; Kilgore strode out. He was followed in about the same fashion by Representatives Crain (Tex.), Cummings (N. Y.), and Coleman (La.), who in turn forced the loca open without opposition from the doorkeepers. At the moment Mr. Kilgore drove the door flying wide open Representative Dingley (Me.) was approaching from the other side. The door struck him full force in the face, bruising his nose badly. For a time it was feared, and so generally re- : ported, that the bone had been broken: but this was found not to be the case upon examination.

OUTRAGE ON THE IRISH.

O’Brien, Di lon and Others Arrested on Truuip«d-l-P Charges. o London politicians were startled on Thursday by the announcement’ from Dublin that John Dillon and William XTBrienwere under arrest...onthe-eharge-of conspiracy and inciting tenants to refjise payment .of rent to landlords, and that warrants were out for other members of the Land League.. There was much speculation as to the motive which has -inspired the government to : enterAipon ; this new crusade against nationalism. From .well informed sources, however, it is learned that.the. movement which has., caused such surprise to the public is the result of pressure brought to bear upon the government by the Irish Tories, who learned that Mr. O’Brien was arranging a campaign against several large estates similar to the one so successfully carried out on the Smith-Barry lands ,at Tipperary. Barry’s great wealth enables him to survive the depopulation of his domains, but there are many cases in which such an exodus would mean ruin to the landlordsMr. O’Brien was also credited with the intention of utilizing the distress caused by the potato blight as a joaans-bf-stirring up feeling against the landlord system, which would" be charged with the responsibility of keeping the people too poor to accumulate even the few pounds required to help them through an occasional bad season. The suggestion to nip these schemes in the bud by a wholesale jailing of Mr. O’Brien and his friends on general charges of technical violations of the laW, came originally from the Dublin Castle authorities, but was readily acquiesced in by Secretary Balfour. Doubt less a desire to prevent the proposed American tour of O’Brien, Dillon aqd others had its weight in leading to the arrests, but this is not believed to have been the j rincipal incentive. Mr. O’Brien’s last trip through America and Canada did not have sufficient effect in evoking ill feeling against England, nor in swelling the contributions to the Irish campaign funds, to justify any great apprehensions as to the result of the expected tour; and the same statement may be made in reference to the former American journeys of Messrs. Dillon and Redmond. The Nationalists are not at all dismayed by the new turn which events have taken; iu fact, they are already claiming that their cause-will be all the stronger on accoun of a renewal of England’s proverbial tactics of persecution. They confidently predict that American liberality will be greatly stimulated by what has occurred.

WASHINGTON.

The President has signed the anti-lottery and river and harbor bills. The recent publication of rulings by the Secretary of the Interior Department upon pension cases contains a remarkable tale told in the application for a pension by a claimant residing in Illinois. He made oath that at the battle of Shiloh; April-6, 1862, being on -the skirmish line, a~ cannon ball cu t off the limb of a tree, which fell upon his back, crushing him to the ground. While lying there a confederate soldier rushed upon .him and bayoneted him in the neck. He was sent home, and there remained for ten months. Herejoined his regiment in March, 1868. Before Jackson, Miss., he was again on theskirmsh line, whc« a shell cut eff the limb of a tree, which fell upon him, bearing him to the ground, and once again a confederate soldier appeared, plunged a bayonet into his neck and retired. Before a special examiner, sentout to investigate this strange "Sttsrj', theciaimantstolidly adhered to his declaration. The . Assistant Secretary naively indorsed this as “an extraordinary and - w tax—uironTrunran credulity especially as wot an officer or comrade had even heard of his being wounded.”

POLITICAL.

The Republican plurality in Maine for Governor is 18,940. The Farmers’ Alliance of Boone county has put a ticket in the field. Colorado Republicans on the 18th endorsed the administration and declared for free silver coinage. The Twelfth District Republicans met at Lagrange the 16th and nominated a fafmer named Orlando Kimmell for Cons gress. John Rankin, of Decatur county, has been nominated for Congress by the farmers of the Fourth district. This is Holman's district. Republicans of Connecticut, Massachu. setts and New Hampshire met ou the 17th and nominated State tickets. The administration was endorsed in each ease. Seventh District Republicans on the 18th nominated!. J. WrDiOThgsleyTeditor of the Farm and Drainage Journal, to contest the election to with Mr. Bynum. Republicans on the nomihatfd II D. Wilson, Of Goshen, in the Thirteenth • District, and Col.. J. S.-Wright in the First-District, for Congretjs. Mr.-Wrigh 4 had already been nominated by the Alli ance. ,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Supreme Court resumed its sessions on the 16th. John Ink, es Fairmount, was kicked by a horse and killed. The O. & M. ticket office at Seymour was robbed of S2B on the 16th. J. S. Todd, cf Knox county, planted planted thirty acres in Russian sunflowers this year and realized $63 per acre on the crop. R. T. McDonald and other capitalists, of Ft. Wayne, propose to erect a large artificial ice plant in that city, the new company putting in John Swanson, of Jackson county, was crushfid to death 'By a bull which he had dehorned, and his wife, coming to his assistance, was badly injured. McClelland Jacobs a prominent young school teacher of Tipton county; was killed while cutting a bee tree. The falling tree struck him, completely burying him. The people's ticket, of Henry county, formed by a coalition of the Farmers’ Alliance, Labor Unions and other elements, includes John C. Hudleson for Representative, and T. B. Hunt for Joint Representative. There is. but one saloon in Bringhurst, and on the night of the 18th a raid Was made on it by a crowd, and the barrels and kegs rolled out and liquors spilled on the ground. Bottles decanters; jugs and -glasses were broken into atoms amttbrbwn into the street, and the place completely broken up. Benjamin Edgington, of Marshtown, threatened to kill a young lady who had jilted him, and then attempted suicide with” apeu knife,Which was a lamentable failure. Then he tried to throw himself under a moving train, but was hauled out. The sheriff now has him in charge, and thinks it is a case of poor whisky. The American Starch Works, of Columbus, which originally cost 1290,000, and which has lain idle fbr the past two years, began operations again Monday, giving employment to nearly two hundred men and women. It is one of the largest starch plants in the country and the only one not in the great starch combine. Patents were issued to Indianians Tuesday as follows: W. H. Bonwell, Brookville, wheel cultivator: O. T. Conger, Indianapolis, water heater; C. G. Conn, Elkhart, musical wind instrument; I. Hogeland, Indianapolis, churn; W. J. Kerb, Ft. Wayne, temporary binder; D. E. Reagan, Terre Haute, nut lock; N. Smith, Logansport, lift pump.

The Midland depot at Noblesville was built upon leased ground, and last Saturday the lease expired and the building became the property of the owner of the ground, who was about to rent it for. a store room, when early last Sunday mornj ing the railroad compauy, with a gang of men appropriated it and removed it to -their own ground. •*A bloody fight occurred between two families in Knox county on the 18th. The vendettas was composed of four of the Blevins and four of the Meners. The Meners objected to the Blevins going through their wheat field. On the date above named all the parties engaged in a pitched battle. Rufus Blevins was killed and four others of the combatants wer injured. Populations of the following cities and towns are given: Aurora, 3,928, an increase of 507; Columbus, 6,705, an increase of 1,892; Greensburg, 3,581. an increase of 443; Jeffersonville, 11,274, an increase of 1,917; Lawrenceburg, 4,280, an increase of 338; Madison, 8,923, an increase of 22; New Albany, 21,000, an increase of 4,577; Seymour, 5,337, an increase of 1,087. There is trouble in the Colnmbus schools with the colored children. The trustees provided a teacher as usual, also a separate rooarsuch as the trustees have provided for several years, but the colored children werqordered home by some of their own people, and refused to accept the school privileges offered them. The teacher, Miss Rosa Slater, a high-school graduate;was ready to instruct the children, but they came not. The trustees were notified some time ago that the colored people wanted a separate building and a colored teacher, but the request was not complied with, and the colored children remain out of school. At Muneie; on the 16th. the jury re turned a verdict of guilty in the case where MrsTFannie Wiley, of Indianapolis, and Doane Nichols and Ret Shetterly, of Muncie, were charged with abducting Miss Media Waters from Muncie to the W T iley woman’s house in Indianapolis for nefarious purposes: fixing the punishment of the first named at four and a half years imprisonment in the State: penal institu** tion, and sentencing the last mentioned, whp turned State’s evidence, to thirty days inThe verdict meets with general approval. Morton Shoecraft, colored, one of the witnesses for the.defense, by whom they tried to show the bad character of the Waters girl. fled this morning, as there were threats of lynching. The Wavers ■ girl committed suicide after she had been brought from Indianapolis by her father. She was aged sixteen.

The judge of the Montgomery Circuit Court this week appointed Henry D. Van., cleave guardian for Si. P. Hallett, who is now in the Insane Asylum, This was done in order 'to secure his release from the asylum. He resides hear Bluff Mills, Montgomery county. A few months ago .he felt somewhat melangholy. and was persuaded to ask to be sent to the asylum for treatment. He had a commission examine him, and the result was that he was admitted to the asylum. Three months ago he was granted a furlough of sixty days, and came home, where he worked upon his farm. About the time for him to return, one night, his father-in law, John Newkirk nd his two sons and a man named Etter, came to the Aome of Hallet and forcibly placed him in a wagon took him to a train and back to Indianapolis, where he was placed again, fn the asy him. He did not like this manner of returning, arid’ .he wrote to his wife asking her to come to Indianapolis and helpsecure his release. He was doing the work of an attendant, and was not insane. His wife wrote and said that she would not help secure his release. He was indignant at her answer and wrote back that if bqr,actions were influenced by the men who forcibly’ brought him back, he “would make the

country too hot for there to live in.” This letter was taken to Superintendent W’-’sht, and he was warned not to release H diet because he was a dangerous man. riallet i applied for a release, which was refused upon the grounds that he had made threats. Habeas corpus proceedings are to be begun at once, and many interesting factA are to be brought to light. ;

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 16th passed several unimportant bills. The Hoy.se anti-lottery bill was taken up and passed without a dL vision. It forbids the carrying in the mails or delivery at, or through any party, or by any mail carrier, of any letter, postal card or circular concerning anytottery, or any listof drawings of the same, or any lottery tickctotpart thereof, or any check, draft, bill, money, postal note or money order for the purchase of any ticket. Itforbidscarrying any newspaper, circular, pamphlet or publication of any kind containing any advertisement of any lottery, or containing any list of prizes of any such lottery. It forbids any person from depositing, or causing to be deposited, or knowingly sending or causing to be sent, any such matter by mail. It provides that proceedingsforviolation of the law may be instituted either in the district at which the mailing was done, or at the place to which it is carried by mail for delivery, or at any 'place where it is deli veredto the person addressed. Itprovides for preventing the delivery of mail containing registered funds or mohey orders addressed to lottery companies or their agents. The bill torepeal timber culture laws was passed. Also a bill,to grant right of way through public lands for irrigating purposes. The House debated with some* warmth the resolution to censure Kennedy for his speech of last week against the Senate. The resolution was referred. The Senate on the 18th passed several bills, among which were: To provide for inspection of live cattle, hogs, etc.; to re vive the grade of Lieutenant General, for ths relief of women enrolled as army nurses. The House fillibustered. The Senate on the 19th passed the bill to discontinue coinage of $3 and $1 gold pieces and 3-cent nickel pieces, and a few others. The House filibustered.

DOWN AN EMBANKMENT

Terrible Aecldentto a Passenger Train the Reading Railway. A wreck occurred on the Reading railroad, seventeen miles above Reading, Pa., about 6:45 Friday night. If everything is borne out by subsequent developments, it is the worst wreck that has ever occurred in that section, in the history of the Reading Railroad Coffipany. The train which met with the disaster left Reading at 6:05 o’clock, ten minutes late. It is known as the Pottsville express, and was running at the rate of at least thirty-eight or forty miles an hour. It had on board possibly 125 to 150 passengers, and it consisted of the engine, tender, mail and express cars, and three passenger coaches. Above Shoemakersville there is a curve where the railroad is about eighteen to twenty feet higher than the Schuylkill river. Here, shortly before 6 o'clock, a freight train ran into a coal train, throwing several cars of the -latter on the opposite track, and before the train hands had time to get back to warn an approaching train of the danger the Pottsville express came around the curve and ran into the wrecked coal cars on its track. The engine went down the embankment followed by the entire train with its human freight. The scene vas one of great horror. The cries of the imprisoned passengers were heartrending. It was ascene never to be forgotten by those who participated and survived. Some of the passengers managed to crawl out of their prison and arouse the neighborhood. Word was telegraphed to Reading and help summoned. Physicians and surgeons and a force of three hundred workmen were taken to the spot by the company, and with the aid of a traveling electric-light ■plantrSe wort b? 1 "clearing away the” wreck was at once proceeded with. Work was slow, and the dead and dying were taken out with great difficulty At 2 o’clock a. m., Saturday, the situation wan as follows : Three hundred men were still at work, but they were makingslow progress. Fifteen bodies had been taken out. None of the bodies have been takenfioniJthe scene of, disaster. John McDonough, John Noll and William John son. Shenandoah, badly hurt, and John Strausse, Schuylkill Haven, are among the latest injured reported. It is still be lieved that twenty or more are underneath the wreck. The number of killed will reach forty it is believed. Twenty-one persons were killed and fifty injured in Friday night’s accident on the Reading railway. - -

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, September 31, 1890, CHAIN. | Wheat Corn. Oats. | Rye> Indianapolis,.Fd 98% 1 w4B Chicago 2 F <1103% 49 37% Cincinnati 2 r'd 100 51 39% Bt.Louis 2 r’d 100 47 36% New York 2 r’d 10j 18 44 Baltimore — 56% 44 _j__ Philadelphia. 2 r’d 100 60 43% Clo Toledo 101% 4§%_39 4 3 e 5 Detroit. Iwh 98% 51 40 .—!.... Minneapolis : 103 Louisville, LIVB STOCK. Catt Eb— Export grades |4. ,[email protected] Good to choice shippers Common to medium shippers.... &-s(ffi3.t>a Stockers, 500 to 850 1b.'.... [email protected]'J Good to choice heifers 2.<0(u3. io Common to medium heifers..... 2.1j(Uju.50 Good to choice c0w52.50p). , .. Fair to medium cows 1 iwji 2.30 Hogs—Heavy.. 4.50(®i.w Light *••••• 4.3 ,(<£4.50 Mixed <2 <avo Heavy roughs.. 3.30@ .5 Sheep—Good to choice 4.2 (<t4. 5 jfa r to medium... 3/5@LlO MISCELLANEOUS. ‘ Eggs 17c. Butter, Creamery i'. @23; Dairy lb. Good Country 9c. Feathers, 35c. Beeswax, 18@20; Wool 30@35, V n washed 2 ; Poultry, Hens Bn. Turkeys 10c roosters lover seed 3.25(13.50.

DEPEW TALKS TO FARMERS.

What Railroads Have Dona to Develop the Country—Cause of Agricultural Depression, -’ , ! -• —. .— —-—■ . Tuesday was the big day of the Stata fair at Syracuse, N. Y. The attendance' by special trains and from tthe vicinity was large, notwithstanding the badcondition of the grounds from Monday, night’s rains. Chauncey M. Depew ad J dressed the large audience. He began by calling attention to the phenomenal material growth of the country during the half century of the society’s existence.' He then said: “The. railroad first bevels oped the agricultural resources of our country, they threatened their paralysis,' and now under wiser administration on the one hand and a more liberal understanding on the other, the farm and the railroad are seen to be inseparately united as allies and partners. The blight of the one is the , bankruptcy of the other. It was after 1840 that capital began to be attracted in* large amounts to railway enterprises.: Then came an era of over-building. Rail-' roads were extended through the wilderness and across the prairie for thousands of miles where there was neither a ton of freight nor a car load of passengers. Every effort was made to stimulate immigration into the new -eduntry from the' East and from European countries. The result has been the absorption of nearly the whole of our public domain and the production of an enormous surplus of agricultural products. As a consequence' we have become uot only the largest agricultural nation in the world, but we dominate the prices of the products of the farm in all the markets of civilization.” In addition to the largely increased production, Mr .Depew found further cause for the recent agricultural depression in the attempts made by American speculators to I corner the market. These attempts resultI ed in stimulating the agriculture of all other competitors for the world’s markets. In view of the depression brought about by these causes it becomes the highest duty of the American statesmen and American farmer to look about for remedies. The first act of the farmers of the United States should be to intelligently organize,' In the present condition of the world or» ganization is the necessity of existence. Capital organizes in corporations, labor organizes in trades unions, manufacturers organize for protection. Farmers alone have failed to unite in any efficient and l practical way. In conclusion, Mr. Depew said: “In my judgement we are near the bottom of -the grave of agricultural depression, and will soon begin to climb up the other side.”

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS,

The Name of Cleveland Received With Or eat Enthusisin. Democrats ot Connecticut nominated a State ticket at Hartford on the 16th. The mention of the name Cleveland was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The platform says: The Democratic party of Connecticut reaffirms its adherence to the platform adopted by the National Democratic convention of 1888, and condemns the Republican party for its attitude upon the great questions affecting the welfare of the people as a revival of the most odious doctrines of that federalism which has ever sougthto establish in this country a i aristocracy of| wealth and a despotism of legislation. Wei declare for such a revision of the tariff as shall admit crude materials of manufao ■; ture free and lighten the burdensup the necessaries of life. This is true protection’ for the manufacturer, the laborer and' farmer. We charge the decline of over one-half 1 in farm values in Connecticut to the prevailing Republican tariff policy. We denounce the radically unjust and panicl brooding McKinley bill which will! increase the cost of living and reduce the cost of luxuries. It is the most outrageous measure of taxation ever prepared in American Cons! gress. We accept James G. Blaine's! ’interpreSHcSTol It as Infamous. Wei policy of Speaker Reed and the majority of the House which deprives the House of its deliberative character, arrogantly disregarding the rights of the minority and establishing a system of centrifugal power. We favor a llberal pension policy toward all soldiers and sailors who wore disabled in service, and to their windows and de-, pendent children; at the same time insisting that the treasury should not ba depleted for the benefit of bounty-jumpers, deserters and impostors. We denounce the federal elections, or force bill, now pending in Congress, as the most dangerous and revolutionary measure ever de vised to thwart the will of the people and subvert our popular form of government, as a measure begotten in partisan desperation to perpetuate the power of the republican party. It is un-American in that it doubts the capacity of our people for tolfgovernment. We regard the secret ballot law, enacted by the last General Assembly in response to repeated demands of the Democratic narty, as a step in the right direction, and we favor such amendments thereto as will render the compulsory secrecy absolute for the suppression of bribery and intimidation, and will prevent such attempted evasions of the same as were practiced by high authority at the last election in the city of Hartford.

FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.

A Turkish Fr ga'e Founders off JapanOsman Pasha Among the Drowned. Advices from Hiogo state that the Turkish man-of-war Ertzogroul has foundered at sea, and tftat flye hundred of her crew were drowned. The Erztogroul whs a Wooden,frigate built cruiser of 2.344 tons displacement. She mounted- forty-one guns of small calibre, and was built in 1863. Osman Pasha and Ali Pasha, en voys of the Sultan to the Emperor of Japan,were passengers, and weredrowned. Osman Pasha, whose victcry ove.' the Russians at Plevna gave him a high rank as a fighting general, had been on an official visit to Japan, having beon entrusted with a special mission from the Sultan to the Mikado. „ •„ - - ur. The late strikers on the New York Con* tral.are making a scramble to get thjir places back, the strike having been declared off. Only’ a small .portion -oftheir number are succeeding in ge .ting their -dd positions.