Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — Page 2

Tht jßtpuhlican. ’ ' Gbo. E. Marshall, Publisher. - ■■ RENSSELAER. • INDI AN J

It appears from an interesting tabk of statistics just issued by the InterState Commerce Commission that the railroads of this cQuntry now-, give employment t 0704,743 work men. which implies support for at least VOOO,OOO persons... The magnitude of •fee railway-interest, and its important relation to the general welfare, are Bins forcibly indicated. If the natural increase of the French •* In France was anywhere near as great as that of the French in Canada. France might be able to keep up with Its bld foe, Germany, in growth of population. -Under existing circumstances, however, the lead which Ger many will have in twenty-five or thirty years will give that country an- immense advantage over its Gallic foe. ■Thebe will he no regular State canvass in New York this year, as the Republicans have nominated Judge Earl, a Democratic member of the Court of Appeals, to succeed himself. This is the only State office to be filled. One branch, however, of a Legislature which is to elect a United States Senator is to be chosen, and this will keep party lines pretty rigidly drawn.

There have of late been so many eases of train wrecking that the legislatures of the various States will doubtless be aroused to the necessity of providing some adequate penalty for this most fiendish of offenses, and the only adequate penalty is death. In those States which are squeamish about the infliction of this extreme punishment, the most we can expect is a provision by which the train wrecker shall be made to suffer the extreme rigor of the law. The person who kills one man with deliberation is certainly no worse than the one who commits a crime which naturally involves the killing of a score and does this with *ll deliberation and calmness. , The Prison Reform movement which is at present attracting go much attention in Canada advoeate (1) that the county gaols should be maintained for persons charged with crime, and not for those who have already been convicted; (2) that the gaols should be conducted on the separate or cellular system; (3). that prisoners should be dealt with and given occupation accordto their natural proclivities; (4) industrial schools for reformation and reclaiming of the better class of criminals, who are to be retained until reformation is accomplished, (5) classification of prisoners; (6) that tramps •hould be sent where they would find employment, and retained until reclaimed; (7) that should be sentenced for life. Now there will be rage in Chicago, for Boston quietly claims that it is really the second city in the United States. It admits that the census of the people actually within the corporate limits gives it only the sixth place, but calls attention to the fact that its enumerated population is included in a space of 37 square miles, while Philadelphia comprises an area of more than 120 and Chicago 174 square miles. It is further asserted that it would be necessary to include all the land within thirty-five miles of the Boston City Hall it order to secure an area equal to that of Chicago, and that there is easily a population of 1,000.00 persons within fifteen miles, leav ing the other twenty miles to make up the difference.

Th 3 report of the interstate Commerce Commission shows that of 704,743, railway employes in the country 1,972 were killed and 20,000 were injured in the year 1889. The greatest dontli rate was of course among the trainmen. Out of 138.223 men s o employed 1,176 were kiHed and 11JJ01 were injured, ft is certainly a dangerous employment in which one man is k’lled for every 357 employes and one injured for every 35. But taking the figures of the trainmen the death rate is one for every 117, and one man injured for every 12 employed. This should teach the railroad managers that they can hot afford to trust un- - skilled or unfaithful .men as. employes. And the employes should be even more interested in this than the managers, because'it is upon them that the loss falls heaviest in making it probable that one man from.every 12 will be injured and one out of every 137 killed. The members of the choir of thq Methodist Church iirFort Dodge, la., were taken ill suddenly during the services on Sunday last, having been poisoned by the odor of the flowers with which the ohurch was lavishly decorated. •

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Five hundred women voted at the school election in Blnghampton, N. Y. llliyoia miners are preparing to demand an advance of wages to begin Nov. 1. A ctever two-doHar silver certificate counterfeit has been discovered in circulation. A Cleveland, 0., syndicate has purchased the Evansville street railway for 4242,000. .-TiT"., • - The first bank failure has occurred in Oklahoma, the Capital City suspending payment. ' • Christopher Coonrad, living hear Manchester. lowa, celebrated his liOth birthday on the 23d; The races of the National Association of Trot.t'ng Horse Breeders will bo held at Cleveland Sept. 30, Oct. .1. 2 and 3. It is believed that ex-Governor Foster ■will' accept the Republican nominatton for Congress in the Eighth Ohio District. Miss Nettie D. Willoughby, an authoress .of .sotrie. local note, was arrested at Lu verne, Minn.-, charged vriUi setting fire to a barn. The Cincinnati Board of Education decided by a vote of 17 to 11 against ousting married lady teachers from the public schools. E. J. Pennington, es Mt. Carmel, 111., has in vented an aer; almachine or aii'-sh ip, for which he claims a speed of three, buns dred miles an hour. .Nelson, a stallion owned by C. H. Nelson, of Waterville, Me., trotted a mile at Kankakee. 111., Wednesday, in 2:12, equaling Axtell’s record.' Sophie France has brought suit aerainst Solomon Oviatt, of Akron, 0., for $2,090. damages for forcibly kissing her. Both parties are oyer 60 years oid. : The entire corn crop this season promises to be about 1,565,000,000 bushels, a reduction of 548,000,030 bushels, ornearly 26 per cent., compared with last year. The 4,000 miners in Ishpeming, Mich, have decided to ask for a five-day week for the night shift. The mines ace making money and no trouble is expected. The Supreme Council of the Irish National League of America, in session in Cincinnati, has adopted scathing resolutions condemning the arrest of Dillon and O’Brien by the British government. The towns of Boston ana Springfield. Colorado, are at war over the location of the county seat. Two men are said to have been killed iff a battle on the 25th. The opposition to the natural gas monopoly at Shelbyville has taken definite forrni a new company being formed, w<th SIOO,000 capital, headed by Samuel Hamilton, to the Citizen’s Company. A peculiar distemper has broken out among the horses in Manchester, N. JJ-, which has baffled the veterinarians. The disease begins in slight lameness and culminates in swollen limbs and running sores. The President of the Mormon Church publishes a manifesto, flatly denying the statements contained in report of the Utah Commission that -plural marriages are still in vogue among the Latter-. day Saints. B. F. Fiench, loader of the Perry county, Ky., faction, was released from jail at Winchester on the 25th upon a bond of SIO,OOO. John Eversole and Job Bowling, two leaders of the other faction, were released on bail last week by'Judge Lisle. The test of armdr plate at Annapolis Navy Yard yesterday demenstrated the superiority Of French nickel steel over the English Cammel compound steel. The thirteen-pound shot shattered the English armor Into fragments, but only indented the French plate. Trouble is brewing between the Chicago West Side Street Car Company and its conductors and drivers. The main body of the employes claim that the company is fostering an opposition union in an effort to break down the regular union, and the men freely threaten to tie up all of the West Side lines. John H. Middleton, a prominent farmer was buried at Tiffin, O. Twenty years ago he froze one of his big tees. It gave him but little trouble for eighteen years, but after that he suffered intensely. Three months ago he had the memberamputated. Blood poisoning followed and his death resulted. He was seventy seven years old. A street car ran into the river at Chicago on the 23d. The accident was due to defective brakes. The passengers all escaped, some of them, however, by a very narrow margin. The horses were drowned. The bridge had been opened to -allow a boat to pass through. The street railway is down grade for some distance <o the river, and when the driver applied he brakes they refused to work, but he 1 showed great coolness and nerve, and a| calamity was averted. Mr. P. H. Lannon, editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, the auti-Mormon organ and Columbian Commissioner from Utah, said ■ in an interview on the 25th,“that in a few years, by increase of population and a rigid enforcement of the anti-polygamy laws, wewillbe able to completely throttle the Mormon monster. It is a great mistake on the part of newspapers and Congressmen to advocate Statehood for Utah or toads vocate its annexation to Nevada. The most effective way to suppress polygamy is to deprive polygamists of the elective franchise and political power. The antipolygamy laws are now bearing fruit. We will soon settle the Mormon question?'*

FOREIGN. The peace treaty between Salvador and Guatemala has been ratified by the Salva-1 dorian Congress. An attempt was made on the 25th, during the celebration of Independence Day, in Mexico, to shoot President Diaz. Another attempt was made on the life of the Czar on the 28th iust. This time it was planned to wreck the train on which he was being conveyed. The Catholics of Limerick are very generally refusingto contribute to Peterpence on account of their hostility to Bishop O’Dwyer, through whose hands the would pass. The Bishop is unpopular because of his attack upon Mr. Dillon and the ‘pkrti of campaign.” In an interview with ah English Catholic nobleman, the Pope said he fervently hoped for a renewal of permanent diplomatie relations with England. Under the

| beneficent raid of Victoria, he continued the church had enjoyed, throughout the British Empire, substantial liberties* lieports received at the Vatican from bishops and vicars apostolic, showing that justice ana protection were accorded to the church everywhere in the empire, caused him thejiyeliest satisfaction. He had the deepest personal regard for the Queen, whose thoughtful care-for the poor and suffering had won golden opinions throughout the world.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

In the Senate on the 23d Mr. Hall introduced a resolution for the erection of a war museum in memory of Gen. Grant. Several unimportant bills were passed. The House found a quorum several of the absent Republican members turning up. Proceeding promptly to business, the House agreed to the resolution declaring Venable not entitled to his seat and Lang* •ton was sworn in as a member of the House. Having thus got a good start, the House further ■ '.ng Elliott as a RepresentativeT¥om the Seventh South Carolina district. Next the House agreed to a resolution declaring Miller the duly elected Representative from the Seventh District of South Carolina. There was no debate. Miller was present. . . - ... * - • • - - In the House, Senate bills granting a pension of $2,000 a year to the Widows of Generals Fremont, McClellan and Crook were passed. The Senate passed a bill on the 25th ,'in recognition of the services of’Chief Engineer George W. Mel> Hie- and other -officers and men of the Jeannette Arctic?expedition. Melville is to be advanced a grade, and medals are to be presented to the survivors of the expedition. The House adopted the conference report on the land forfeiture bill. The conferernce report granting the widow- of General Hartranft a pension of SIOO per month was agreed to; also the conference report for the relief of settlers on indemnity lands. A bill appropriating $1,000,000 for naval uses’Was passed. ‘ In the Senate on the 25th the House bill to provide for the establishment of a port of delivery at Peoria, 111., Was passed. Mr. Plumb reported a Senate joint resolution authorizing the extention for one year of the time of payment for laud on pre-emption or homestead claims whenever, by reason of failure of crops, the settler is unable to make payment within the time prescribed by law, and it was passed. The following bills, among others, were passed: To authorize the acquisition of lands for coke-ovens and other improvements, and for right of way for wagon roads, railroads and tramways in connection with coal mines; requiring the United States to defend the title of homesteaders under the laws of the United States in all suits where the land is claimed to be mineral because of phosphate de posits. The convict labor bill and the one to prohibit importation of foreign laborers were discussed, but no action was taken. The conference reports an the tariff bill was adopted by the House on the 27th by a Vote of 152 ayes to 81 nays.

NOVEL MOVE IN POLITICS.

Straight Democratic State Ticket Nominated by South Carolina RepabllcanSs Thb Tillman ticket nominated by the Democratic State convention of South Carolina on'Sept. 10 bsa by no means been elected as yet. A bom be exploded yesterday by tha Republican State .executive committee which threatens co put an entirely different phase on the matter. The committee wae authorized by the State Republican convention to put out a State ticket if they deemed it advisable, and the committee have agreed upon a ticket. All the nominees are stxdnght-out Democrats who opposed tne Tillman movement, and most of them opposed it on the stump. Republicans assert that the ticket can be elected even Without the white voters. Colored voters in the State num”seFls7JJoo7agiCifia(about 80,000 whites. Of the colored voters they say ever 110,000 aro registered and qualified to vote for State officers, and they can poll 100,000 of these for this straight-out Democratic ticket. Besides this they assert that 20,000 Democratic voters will join them in voting for this as against the Tillman ticket.

POLITICAL.

The Putnam county Prohibitionists have placed a ticket in the-field. Hon. Roger Q. Mills opened the Democratic campaign in Wisconsin last night with a sneech at Racine. Fourth District Republicans have indorsed the nomination of JohnT. Rankin, Farmers’ Alliance nominee. Seventh <District Republicans on the 24th nominated \Vm. N. Darnell, a farmer for Congress. Tne administration was endorsed. The speech of Mr. Kennedy, excoriating the Senate was expunged from the record by the House on the 24th, by a vote of 150 ayes to 36-nays. Mr. Kennedy heroically defended himself. Col. D. W. C. Louden is nominated by acclamation for Congress by the Republicans of the Eleventh Ohio district. Ninety ballots were taken by the Repub licans of the Tenth district without a choice.

PACKING HOUSE BURNED.

Fowler Bros, packing house at the Chicago Stock Yards was damaged by fire, Sunday morning, to the amount of $690,000. It required hard work to suppress the flames. The grease and meat fed the flames to such an extent that the pouring of water had but little effect, and the fumes of the chemicals made it almost impossible for the firemen to reach the burning buildings.

EIGHT MEN CRUSHED.

Two B. & €). railroad trains crashed together near Pleasant Valley. Ohio, on the 28th, and eight men were horribly crushed and killed. The 'accident was caused by the mistake's! an operator. Several of those who were killed were beating their way.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are no toll roads in Vanderburg county. An epidemic bf diphtheria is t reported along the line of the Nickel Plate Railway, east of Fort Wayne. The survivors of the war Legislature held a social reunion at Indianapolis on the 25th and renewed old memories. The old warehouse of Snyder’s Richwood distillery at Milton, Ky., opposite Madison, burned on the afternoon of the 2bth, with its contents, 1,700 barrels of tax-paid whisky. Rhinesmith & Simonson’s planing mill carpenters, numbering thirty meh, went out on a strike at. Ft. Wayne Wednesday, caused by refusal to discharge a non-union man. ' . ~— James Kelley, of Berne, has been arrested by the federal authorities charged with impersonating a man of similar name, in the l'ifty-first Oh io r egi men t,and mak-. ing anapplicatiofl *for a pension. Mr. Kelley is a farmer in comfortable circum stances. * , < • A police detachment raided a gambling den at Richmond, Tuesday night, and George Williams the proprietor, and nine players were captured. Wednesday morn-, ing they paid fines aggregating $144. The majority of the defendants are prominent yotmg men. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhapt, pre sen ted the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made one of public import* ance, the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and 3,000 school children joining, in a parade of the streets and other exercises. -X——— ; There was a county meeting of the Farmers’ Alliance in Anderson on the 26th to select stores with which ,the Alliance people will trade. Merchants of Anderson,. Elwood, Alexandria, Pendleton, Markleville and Ovid were asked to submit propositions, but the majotity of them refused to de so. = —»—— Reed Meurer, who killed Rufus Blevins during the bloody Meurer-Blevins family battle near Sanborn, has been released on bond. Other principals in this affair have not been arrested, due to the serious nature Of their injuries. The feeling continues exceedingly bitter, and a renewal of the battle is anticipated. Rev. Ernest V. Claypool, pastor of the West Lafay,ette Methodist Church, substituted his uncle, Rev. J. J. Claypool, in the pulpit, and after close of services present-, ed himself before the altar with Miss Nellie Matley leaning upon his arm, and they were united in marriage. The wedding was a total surprise to the congregation. Telegraph operators and freight clerks on the Evansville & Terre Haute, and embracing the entire Mackey system of railroads went out on a strike on the 25th. They recently formed an association, and now claim the company is trying to hire new men to supplant them. After the men had been out three hours their demands were conceded and business on the road was resumed. Ching Lung, a Chinaman of Anderson Wednesday applied for naturalization papers, and was refused by the Clerk, who claimed that he could not issue under the federal statutes to one of his nationality. Ching Lung will refer the matter to the Attorney-General. He is desirous of returning to China for a bride, and fears that if he goes unnaturalized he will not be permitted to return. There was a general cessation of business at Evansville on the 23d, incident to the burial of the late Hon. William Heilman. Funeral services were held at St. John’s Church, with sermons by Rev. Julius Blass in German, and Rev.“ A. B. Meldrum, of Grace Presbyterian Church. A special train was provided by the Evansville, Suburban & Newburg Line for Conveyance to the cemetery. Ai Seymour, Wednesday, the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association of Jackson county met at Brownstown yesterday and nominated the following ticket: Representative, John Horstman; Auditor, Ben F. Scott; Clerk, Rev. David D. Griffith; Treasurer, August Wienckeßecorder, W. B. Miller; Sheriff, Wm. Lambring; Surveyor, Wm. Carr; Commissioners, Frank Fassold and David Colburn.

Emma, the seven-year-old child of Wen dall Beil, died at Peru, Wednesday morning, after a horrible illness of two days of hydrophobia. She was bitten ten . days ago by a dog supposed to be mad, which was killed at the time, and Monday afternoon, while at school, sno was taken sick, and was sent home. The disease rapidly developed into convulsions,culminating in death after great suffering. The population of the following towns are officially announced: TOWNS. POPULATION. INCREASE. Kokomo 8,224 4,182 LaPorte 7,123.2. 927 Logansportl3,69B 2,€00 Michigan City.... 10,704 3,338 Mishawaka 3,369 729 Pera 6,731 1,451 Plymouth 2,723 153 South 8end21,786 8,506 Valparaiso 5,083 622 At Muncie, on the 16th. the jury re turned a verdict of guilty in the case where Mrs. Fannie Wiley, of Indianapolis, and Doane Nichols and Ret Shetterly, of Muncie, were charged with abducting Miss Media Waters from Muncie to the Wiley 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 institution, and sentencing the last mentioned, who turned Slate’s evidence, to thirty days in jail. The verdict meetsv.with geheral approve!. Morton Shoecraft, colored, one of tne 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 Waters girlcommitted suicide after she had been brought 1 from Indianapolis by her father. She was aged sixteen. ■ ■ * There are now, in round numbers, 52,000 pensioners in Indiana, and the list grows by the addition of scores every day. The amount of money required to make the' quarterly payment at the Indianapolis agency this month was $2,250,010, In four days;beginning September 4, $1,850,000

J was paid out The Ohio agency is the largestin the country and the Indiana agency next largest. The necessity of pay tag a large number of pensioners over the counter on the pay-days retards the work of the agency. For instance, on September 4, about ‘2,000 pensioners received their money across the conn terin the office of tae agent. Had there been none of this to do, and instead hacl the office force been able to do all the work by mail, checks could have been sett to 6,000 pensioners. The State Live Stock Commission met at the Capitol on Thursday to consider what they had done during the year. The secretary reported in detail the investigations made by the board in regard to diseased animals in various parts of the State and the number destroyed under the law to check contagion. Expenses, including amounts paid for condemned horses and hogs, salaries of offiers and their traveling outlay, together ' with that of the other commissioners, reached nearly six thousand doll ars .Payments to bwners ofanimal killed were made principally on account of horses. However, the greater number of these horses were worthless,, many w’ere of small value, and only a few called for considerable amounts. Glanders was the cause of the trouble with the horses, and the disease appeared principally in counties on the Illinois boundary. Sullivan county had forty killed, and heads the list with condemned animals. In Illinois it is assorted that on account of very rigid live stock laws, if a horse is affected with glanders it is shipped if possible into Indiana, which accounts for part of the disease in this State. No cattle were ~ condemned. State Veterinariaif Knowles reported- that the cattle in this State are exceptionally healthy, and that the existence of glanders is due mostly to Texas ponies that have been brought here.

THE TARIFF BILL.

The Conference Committee Agrees and the Bill Is Reported. The Conference Committee came to an agreement bn the 26th, and the bill was at once reported to the House by Mr. McKinThe new law is to go into effect Oct. 6, 1890. The Senate reciprocity feature is preservedin the bill, but the date for it to go into effect has been changed from July 1, 1891, to January 1, 1892. The duty on binding twine of all kinds is put at 7-10 cent per pound, and the provision for this article is made to apply to binding twine made in part from istle or Tampico fiber, manilla, sisal or sunn. The sugar schedule provides that all sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard, all tank bottom, all sugar drainings and sugar sweepings, syrups of cane juice, melada, concentrated meladaand concentrated molasses and molasses shall be placed on the free list. This is the House provision, subject, however,to the restrictions of the reciprocity feature, which empowers the President to suspend the free ad mission of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, under certain conditions. In the internal revenue features of the bill nearly all the House provisions of the bill are restored. The provision removing all restrictions on farmers and growers of tobacco in regard to the sale of leaf-tobac co are restored and a proviso added that the farmer shall furnish, on demand of any internal revenue officer, a statement of his sales, etc. A fine of SSOO is provided for violation of this provision. The conference committee struck out the Senate amendments providing for a tariff commission. . . —— The tax on smoking and manufactured tobacco and on snuff is placed, at 6 cents per pound. Opium mamifacturers are taxed $lO per pound upon opium manufactured in the United States for smoking purposes, and only persons who are citizens of the United States are permitted to engage in its manufacture.

In the free list a numb'”' of changes, most of them of no materia in erest, were made. Raw and unmanufactured bristles were stricken from the free list in conference. The House provision placing on the free list American-caught fish except salmon caught by American vessels, etc., is reinsert ed. The Senate provision concerning pure mineral waters is allowed to remain. The paragraph covering ores of gold, silver and nickel and nickel matter is retained, with a proviso that the duty on the copper contained in them shall be one-hali cent per pound. Among the other Senate amendments that were agreed to by the conference committee are those covering plaster of Paris and sulphate of lime, unground potashes, seeds and sulphuric acids not over 1.380 specific gravity. The conference amended a number ol the free list provisions, inserting in the bill paragraphs providing for the free ad mission of feathers and downs for beds, peltries and other usual goods of Indians passing the boundary line of the United States, tin ore cassitite and tin in bars, blocks, pigs or granulated, until July 1, 1893. and thereafter, as otherwise provid edfor; works of art by American artists residing temporarily abroad. • The sugar schedule is amended so as to grant a bounty of 1% cent per pound on sugar testing between 80 and 90 degrees polariscope test, and 2 cents on sugar test ing not less than 90 degrees, from July 1, 1891, to July 1,1905. The bill, as passed by the House and Senate, granted a bounty of 2 cents a pound to sugar testing 80 degrees and over. The conterrees agreed to the Senate amendments extending the bounty tc maple sugar and providing that no bounty be paid on less than five hundred pounds. Sugar above No. 16 Dutch standard is tc pay five-tenths of a cent a pound, and onetenth of a cent additional'if the country exporting or producing it charges export duty. Machinery for the manufacture ol beetsugar istobe admitted free until July 1,1892, and any duty collected on chinery imported since January 1, 18£Q, ’shall be refunded. Glucose is retained at the House rate —three-fourths of a cent pet pound. " ’ The sugar schedule is made to take effect on April 1,1891, wit|i a proviso that the month of March sugars may be refined in bond*without the paymeht'of duty, and 1 transported in bond and sold’ in bonded warehouses under the prov>'cns of exist ing laws. .

THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.

They Meet at Indianapolis and Nominate aStae t keL Representatives from the. Greenback, Union Labor, Farmers* Alliance, and: probably other parties, met at lis on the 23d and formulated the platform* of a new party, to be called the People’s; party. The attendance was very good every Congressional District having representatives, in all possibly numbering2oo or 300. J. Y. Demaree. of Johnson, called the convention to order, Rev. John Harryman,'' of Morgan, offered prayerJohn G. Maughermet, Jof St. Joseph, was made Chairman, and J. Y. Demaree, Secretary. A full list of commi.ttecS was appointed, with a Vice President -from each . district. Thename, -‘The People’s Party,” was adopted with great enthusiasm. The plow and hammer was adopted as the, party’s symbols to be placed upon the ballots under the new election law. The report of the Committee on Te olutions, was presented by M. C Hauk in, of Terre Haute. 'The tepori >eeotu tn ended as tse party’s platform the declaration of principles set forth by the Farmers’ Alliance Convention held in St. Louis last l>ecember.. The original plats-rm presentedls as follows- ■ , ■ r* “That we view with alarm the fact that, not-, wlthsiandinn the heavy burdens of the taxpayers, the debt of the State is steadily iucreas* ini; from year t-year. That we demand more economy in the administration of the State, government, and the reduction of f es and, salarie- to a point commeusurate with the earn-j lugs of industrial labor. “We aie in favor of a per diem service pension* law. •* We are in favor of the passage of the Union! tx-prisonersol war ) ension b-1 j “We are in favor of the repeal of the act lim-j Hiner the payment of arrears of pension, ands declare that pensions to the veterans of the lata, war should be paid from the date of their disability, and not from the date of their appliestion. “We favor the i'suing of a full legal tender paper-m nevtomedtthe disbursements under these bills, thereby enabling the governmentto* maintain its honor and pay i-s debts, and at the Baine time aid the people giving them a sufficient volume of money to meet the demand of the legitimate trade interest of the country.. Our government paid the soldiers in paper money during the war, and the veterans will now gladly accept It in payment of their ju«t demands. “We favor a Mine Inspector who shall be a practical miner. “We demand a just and equitable redistricting of the State so as to secure to the people a fair representation in the legislative hails of both Staie and Nation, and thus correct the flagrant infringement on the expressed will of the people in previous State elections. ‘‘We indorse the F .rmers’ Convention which met at the State Capitol on June 13,1891. “We favor the repeal of the law now In forca in this State allowing counties, townships an® cities to vote taxes on the people for bulldlna railroads for corporations. ■ < "Vi e aro opposed to the competition of the present contract lab> r law as now practiced. •‘We are in favor of placing toe charitable and penal institutions of the State In the hands of men competent to manage them, and not in the hands of mere partisans; and that the management should not be changed when a change of pat ty occurs. “We believe some check should be placed on, the power of the county commissioners and, township trustees to heap debt upon the corporations under their control.

“We are in favor of the State furnishing school books at cost to the .townships to be given frea to all pupils, “We are opposed to child labor first, last and jail the time. * We are in favor of changing the law exempt-, ing property from levy ana sale upon execution; so that when the judgment is for unpaid wage# no propwy shah be exempt." Leroy Templeton, Benton; B. F. Street,; Gibson, and A. J. Hostetler. Lawrence, were named for Secretary of State.pt was announced to the convention that each of the candidates was a farmer. At the sug> gestion each of the candidates was brought before the convention and compelled to make a five minutes’ speech in order that the convention might “size them up.’* Before the vote was taken Mr. Hostetler’s name was withdrawn. A standing vote was taken, and Mr. Templeton was nominated. \ James M. Johnson, of Daviess, was nominated for Auditor. Isaiah N. Miller, of Grant, J. N. Smith, of Hamilton and D; H- Yeoman sought the Treasurer of State nomination. Mr. Miller was nominated. 1 Wm. Patterson, of Marion, was nominated 1 for Attorney-General; B. F. Stewart, of Gibson, for Clerk Supreme Court; Wm.' Whitney, of Delaware for School Superintendent; E. S. Pope, of Marion for Geo* legist and John W. Shockly, of Henry for Chief Bureau of-Statistics.

They’ve Got the Wrong Woman.

BetvsTEdcßwooTEasTSeen elected • member of the' Peace Congress in Paris. Peace! Why, good land, it hasn’t been how long since she was running for President. Well, it’s all right, maybe. Nothing makes a fe! low so peaceable as a “tarnal good lickin’.” Except the Prohibitionists; it makes them worse.—Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. An ordinance has been passed by the Long Branch commissioners prohibiting minors .from driving conveyances of any kind on the crowded Jmroughfares during the summer mont-a.

THE MARKETS.

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