Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Geons E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

“A man void of understanding striketh bands and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.” Statistics show that one-half of the young men of Switzerland are incapacitated for military service because of physical infirmities induced by the excessive use of alcoholic liquors. A. young man in Mishawaka is said to have been arrested and '‘’fined ten dollars for disturbing the peace by smging the song “After the Ball” on the streets. That y. m. is very anxious to interview the author of the song, who is said to be receiving 11,200 a day royalty from his (in) famous production. In no one particular has modern progress attained such universally successful results as in the elimination of the patch from the wearing apparel and footgear of the human race. Patches are seldom seen, even on the garments of working people, it being cheaper to buy new than to try to repair the old. Shoddy and machinery are responsible for the change; as a rule.

A New York dude has opened a shop in Fifth avenue for the sale of flowers of his own cultivation. It is the first instance on record where one of the species has been known to do anything useful or ornamental. He needs money, and having a taste for flowers, thinks he can make a handsome profit, as he can, no doubt, if he attends to business. Special qualifications for any business will succeed in the majority of cases. Progress is the watchword all along the line. Veterinary surgeons do not lag behind. Horses with glass eyes and cows with wooden legs are becoming a common result of every day practice. Trephining a horse’s broken skull often saves a valuable animal. Nervous horses are treated with cold water douches or hypodermic injections of cocaine. Dogs with impaired hearing are successfully treated for their infirmity. A St. Louis man was the possessor of two hearts until a few days ago. He decided to have the one in his leg “cut out.” It was situated •on the inside of the right leg, four inches above the knee, and was caused by a severe blow on the limb by a piece of machinery directly over the artery. Technically the growth was termed “aneurism,” but it exhibited all the peculiarities of a heart, beating and throbbing in unison with the original organ. The man was in danger of death from hemorrhage at any time and the Operation was deemed necessary to save his life 2L 1

, “Marion Harland, 1 ’ whose every day name is Mrs. Mary Virginia fferhune, who is a literary character of considerable note, sailed from New York Oct. 11, for a pilgrimage through the desert of Syria to the Bedouins and lepers. She will penetrate the mysteries of a harem at Damascus, visit the Druses of Carmel, the Sea of Tiberias, stop at the tomb of Abraham at Hebron, and visit the Grand Rabb’ of Jerusalem, whose blessing she confidently expects. Mrs. Terhune will be accompanied by her son, and will adopt Oriental customs and costume, and endeavor to penetrate to the inner circles of every place of note she visits as no Caucausian has y?t been permitted to do, and hopes to return to New York in March with ample material for her literary projects. Indianapolis is felicitating itself over the recent occupation of its new public library building. It is of white stone, the architecture being of classical beauty and simplicity and is surmounted by a noble group in lasting bronze. Competent critics who have seen both pronounce it equal to the Parthenon at Athens in point of beauty, and it is said to resemble that famous structure very much. The site of this gem of architecture is on Meridian street one-half square north of the Soldiers' Monument That immediate locality in the Hoosier capital is rapidly be Ing transformed into an art center of great interest and remarkable excellence —one that will favorably compare with anything of the kind in the United States at least. Indiana within the memory of men yet young has vaulted from a position of obscurity, and from being a type of Western life and manners but one degree removed from the customs that prevailed on the Western frontier, into an assured standing and indisputable recognition among the cultured commonwealths of the

East whose present refinement has been the accumulation of hundreds of years of enlightened civilization rather than the result of the inherent enterprise and irresistible energy which is the one great characteristic of all Western progress. Hence the artistic treasures which are year by year being gat h; >red at our capital will be viewed by every Hoosier as common property, and as a heritage to coming generations which shall tell the eloquent story of a wilderness transformed to blooming gardens and fertile fields, and the wild beasts’ lair to teeming cities of grandeur —into homes of love and palatial institutions whose enduring walls shall shelter and instruct the Hoosier millions yet to be.

Comparatively few people who visited Jackson Park, and stood awe struck and overpowered amid the realistic exhibitions of immortal genius that hovered everywhere around, are able to recall the inscriptions on the western facade of the grand arch of the Peristyle. Read amidst the glamour of the wondrous Court of Honor they were impressive to the last degree, and for the benefit of the scrap books of our readers we herewith reproduce a part only of them, believing that many will cherish them as a valuable souvenir of many happy days; ‘YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE." ‘‘TO THE PIONEERS OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.” “But bolder they who first offcast Their moorings from the habitable past, And ventured chartless on the sea Of stiirm-eiig ndering liberty.” The California Mid-Winter Fair, having a conspicuous object lesson fresh in the minds' of the projectors, is marching on ward toward the opening day with strides that give assurance of a great success. Golden Gate Park is being transformed into a populous city. It is expected that the five main buildings will be in the hands of the decorators by the end of November. The “sinews of war” are promptly forthcoming as they are needed and the work will not falter for lack of means or enterprise. A majority of the attractions of the Chicago Midway Plaisance will be removed to San Francisco; some being already on the way. Railroad rates are promised that will be a revelation in transportation circles, and everything indicates a repetition of the triumph that attended the World’s Columbian Exposition.

-A valuable flute was stolen, two months ago, from a show-case in the Manufacturer's Building at Jackson Park. It was the property of Prof. Giorgi, of the Royal Academy of Music of Florence, Italy. The flute had cost the Professor years of '»bor and thousands of dollars in cash, ancT was highly prized. Recently the musical Italian has begun to receive humorous epistles from an unknown correspondent signing himself “The Modern Robin Hood,” stating that he had stolen the flute on a bet that the Professor would stand on the Ferris wheel platform in a swallowtail suit with a sunflower on bis lapel and cry the sale of a waltz he had written in order to secure the return of his beloved instrument. Other propositions of similar absurdity were received, but the thief managed to conceal his identity and the Professor fails to see any humor in the proposed jokes, and refuses to comply with the terms laid down. The loss has lost Mr. Giorgi a number of valuable engagements, and the thief continues to make him miserable.

PEOPLE.

The Rev. T. W. Cu”tiv, arrested for preaching or. Boston Common without a license has besn fined one cent. Lord Dur.ravcn, of fachting fame, derives a goodly portion of his income from the proceeds of his farming operations in America. Ex-Breiuier Crispi of Italy says that men who want war are fools. Generals Grant and Sherman took the same view. Cramp, the great ship builder, says that he does not go abroad more frequently because a:i ocean voyage prostarte* him with sickness. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is a self-made man. He went to school but one year. His lack of eduAt'.on, however, did not prevent him from studying law at an early age and becoming a successful practitioner. His literary acquirements, for which he has a reputation, were gained by reading in later years. Mr. Agnew, the London art dealer, has given to the print room at the British Museum some two score etchings and engravings after pictures by Burne-Jones, Rosetti, Landseer, Lawrence, Gainsborough and other British artists, living and dead. Although the museum receives copies of all illustrated books in England, it depends for etchings i and engravings on the gifts of the generous.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

THANKSGIVING. It is a time for prayers and pumpkin pies, for t«rkey and for tears — that flow from too much chow-chow when the pepper’s hot; a time for vain regret that the world is full of good things to eat and_ that the bn- j man stomach holds only a quart; i alas, and a’as, the insurmountable barrier—the utter hopelessless of the task of demolition of the bounteous supplies of earth and air and sea; a time for remorse —remorse that we have made a vain attempt to swallow ■ barrels with the limited capacity of | a tin bucket —or “growler,” so to ■ speak—remorse that the tempting ' viands that did tempt our frosty ■ appetite have with the shortening days grown loathsome and abhor_ent, and that' we no more hone for unlimited supplies of country produce; a time for colds and colic and Columbian souvenirs and cranberries and chrysanthemums galore; a time to heed the sign to “shut the door;” a time to subscribe and quit borrowing your neighbor’s paper; a time for thankfulness and thoughts of charity, and indeed for actual acts of true benevolence, “for be- | hold the poor ye have always with i you;” a time for church festivals and progressive euchre parties, for oyster so p and theatrical “supes,” and gorgeous bill boards that lie and lie and “stick” to it day after day with a persistency worthy of a Silver Senator; a time for joy and rest and hope, and calm contemplation of the ever coming future and tearful retrospection of the fast receding past; a time to gather round the hearthstone all remaining earthly treasures; a time for clasping hands with friends both true, and tried and gathering into fellowship all the new found and congenial spirits that the year has brought; a time to bury animosities, to forgive injuries, to confer favors, to invoke benedictions; a time for good-will and a fuller realization of the paramount fact that “all men are brothers,” heir to a common fate, a common destiny and a common hope of ■ greater joys beyond; yea, it is a time i for thanksgiving for all blessings > yet received; for thanksgiving that ■ we can still hope for human joys; for , thanksgiving that we are indeed the 1 favored children of the Great Father of all, still basking in the light of His benignant f-m”e.

THE VANISHING CITY. The one great absorbing and vitally interesting topic of newspaper discussion and private conversation throughout the great Northwest, and in a less degree throughout the United States, during 1893, has been the World’s Columbian Exposition ' which officially ceased to exist on the evening of Oct. 30. So absorbed j have our people become in all that . pertains to Jackson Park and all its ] architectural and material wonders, j so dear are the memories connected ' therewith to all the fortunate mortals who have passed its common- ■ place portals into that ethereal and ' enchanted realm that lay beyond, ' where mind and soul and art and song held carnival for half a year — where all the higher attributes of man sprang full-fledged and strong as never before on earth, that it seemed a paradise indeed that, for the time, almost disenthralled the human mind from earthly cares — that all are loth to give it up, and are prone to follow the fortunes of the great exhibition to the last. Knowing this, we shall print all such news, either editorially or as regular news, as shall, from time to time, develop. Already disintegration, disorder, change and demolition have commenced their ungrateful task, but the prospects are that the most striking architectural features will be preserved for an indefinite period—a consummation to be devoutly wished for. The Columbian Museum will doubtless be the legatee of the great Exposition, and Chicago enterprise will no doubt prove a worthy guardian and executor. The various State buildings will, of.course, be removed at an early date. Indiana’s building has not been disposed of, a: d it would seem that patriotic Hoosiers are rather backward in taking proper measures for its preservation. The California Building has been dismantled, and will doubtless soon be removed. The Midway was promptly closed, but the Ferris wheel continued to revolve to a small audience, the principal object in continuing business being to pile up imaginary damages against the management as a basis for a lawsuit which will shortly be forthcoming. The New Hampshire Building will be taken back to its native hills. The West Virginia Building is to be removed to Charleston, W. Va., where it will be re-erected as a State Museum with its contents intact. The Nsw Jersey Building has been presented to the State militia of that

State and will be moved to Seagirt. | Toe Connecticut Building was sold for $3,000 to a Mr. Richards, of Hyde Park; who will rebuild it on the lake shore, just below the Fair grounds. The New York Building has been placed in the hands of trus- . tees for a woman’s museum. The j Chicago Naval Academy fell heir to i the Pennsylvania Building, but it is said to be a “white elephant.” Germany’s building will probably be removed to Lincoln Park, or to a private site in that neighborhood. A project is on foot to move the great ■ Manufacturers’ Building to a site on j the lake front, north of the Art In- ■ stitute, and make it as solid as any ; building in Chicago, to be used as a ! People’s Palace and Labor Exchange, similar to institutions now in operation in London and Paris. This will hardly be done while it can be made presentable on its present site. THE CRANK. There are numerous kinds of cranks. There is the crank of our boyhood -that was always fast to the axle of a grindstone, or persisted in coming off, and thereby increasing the obnoxious labor. There is the I pedal crank of the bicycle upon i which a youth will expend a hundred times the energy that he would on necessary labor with delight and satisfaction and without any object save his own amusement. The crank of the locomotive and steamship move the world, and mechanical cranks of all descriptions are an important factor of civilization. There are, however, a vast number of human “cranks” whose presence could be dispensed with. Many of them are harmless if useless, but many are quite otherwise and are prone to revolve in a given circle laid down for them by some ambitious fellowcrank, to the great detriment of the peace and g o 1 order of the commonwealth. Of late the development of this species of crank has produced murderers whose example has led to a well-founded alarm in official circles. Public men have been greatly annoyed since the murder of Mayor Harrison by the Prendergast crank, and ambitious cranks in all parts of the country seem determined to rush into notoriety by means of the press or the hangman’s noose, if need be. They have grown

from a nuisance to a menace to society. The crank must be abolished. Science and civilization can not yet afford to be imperilled by the ravings of these unfortunates whose shallow brains are lashed to fury by fancied wrongs like a duck-pond by a thunder storm. Great trouble and possibly many lives might be saved by the prompt locking up of all such characters on the first exhibition of a tendency to violence in any degree. Some high authorities want to leave this problem for the twentieth century to solve, but if ever a “condition and not a theory confronted us” it is the crank problem of the hour that is crying for solution at our hands and will not brook delay. The cold water treatment has been suggested, and it would no doubt prove efficacious in & majority of cases. Anything that will change the course of thought for the embryo lunatic will answer, but in this, as in most cases, delays are dangerous.

MORE ABOUT SILVER. The manufacturers of silverware were unanimously in favor of the repeal of the Sherman law, thinking that it would result in a decline of the market value of that metal. That such has not been the case is regarded as phenomenal in financial and trade centers. Silver has alwajs>bc<n considered a precious metal, but its abundance and comparative cheapness has of late years led to its use in many departments of manufacture that formerly employed the baser metals. Sterling silverware has replaced the plated ware of former times to a great degree. Silver has followed the example of steel. Low prices have marvelously increased consumption. Even should silver lose its rank as a money metal, the future of our Western silver mines is by no means ruined. Cheaper processes and increased demand will probably keep the price at the present standard unless some unforeseen production from foreign countries shall change the situation. Even with an increased foreign output our mines must continue to bold the ascendency in the markets of the world because of our mechanical resources and superior transportation facilities. J. L. Hamilton, Jr., of Hoopeston, 111., won the first prize in rhe guessing contest as to tne number of paid admissions to the World’s Fair on Chicago Day. The number was 716,881, and Mr. Hamilton guessed 716,845. The second best guess was that of Miss Clara McDonald, of Independence, lowa, 716,821. The highest.guess was 1,265,000, and the majority ranged between 300,000 and 400,000.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A temperance revival has been agitating Crothersville. Gold diggers are flocking into Brown county in droves. Columbus is to have a new soap factory, Large numbers of fine fishiare being caught near Vincennes. Noblesville is excited about numerous ithefts in Hamilton county. Greenwood has let a contract to dig 2,200 feet for mineral water. The towns of Matthews, near Gas City, has secured a glass factory. Huntington has a minstrel troupe made up exclusively of local talent. Daniel Wolverton, of Goshen, is under arrest for passing counterfeit coin. Peter Carson, Recorder of Marion county, died at Indianapolis, Thursday, i Connersville people are happy over the pjospect of a bountiful supply of gas. Merchants and manufacturers of South Bend report material brightening in business. ■ ■ ■■ ——Lz - - W. H. Ott, near Eckerty, killed an eagle measuring six feet five inches from tip to tip. Louis Mar to, near Monticello, has been arrested, charged with dealing in “green goods.” Arrangements have been made to put 50,000 pike in the lakes of Noble and LaGrange counties. Isaac H. Thomas, formerly editor of the Bedford Independent,, who went to Texas eight years ago, has returned to Bedford. A lad at Evansville threw a ball of burning excelsior into the air, and it struck Minnie Proctor, twelve years old, in its descent, setting her clothing on fire. She was burned to death. Miss Viola Dittrich, Augustus Freeman and Theodore Rodman, Kokomo’s highway robbers, were sentenced to prison, Tuesday. The girl was given one year and the men two years each. H. President Tor twenty years of the First National Bank, Martinsville, resigned from the office, Thursday. He was a victim of Haughey’s Indianapolis National Bank deal. Conductor Hempstead, who was stabbed by a gang of Italians, who endeavored to take possession of his train, is lying at his home at Huntington in a critical condition. He is threatened with tetanus.

While driving a well near Columbus the drill passed through a three-foot log at a depth of eighty feet, and struck gas at 200 feet. The fluid continues to burn, while the force is said to be increasing. Mr. J, Morgan, living near Jasper, the other day, shot a squirrel that had but one car, and instead of teeth had four tusks, two from the upper jaw and two from the lower. The tusks were about two inches long. Albert T. Pa well, a journeyman carpenter of Kokomo, received notice this week that he had fallen heir to $10,003 by the death of his grandfather. The notification came through his uncle, A. T. Pawell. of Toronto. Canada. - News from the seat of war at Monticello, Friday, brought intelligence of a sensational horsewhipping by a maid of that town, who thus avenged an insulting story, alleged to. have been circulated by the lunckless young man.- »- Woodsoil Bryant, of Plainfield ex-sher-iff of Hendricks county, made application for a pension ten years ago. Nothing was heard of the application until Tuesday, when he received notice that he had been granted J? per month, dating back to the time of tho original filing. On Wednesday a strange woman received permission to leave a small sachel at a carpenter shop at Elkhart. As she did not call again for the sachel it was turned over to an officer, who opened it and found it contained a bloody shirt The woman has not been identified, and the affair is a mystery. The Teegarden. the oldest and largest hotel at Laporte, has permanently closed its doors. The furniture has been sold to arlChes B. Andrew, who is uncertain what disposition to make of his purchase. The Teutonic, which arrived at New York from Liverpool, Wednesday,brought 11,0X3 pounds in gold bars to Lazard Frcres. The United States sub-treasury shipped $100,003 to New Orleans in notes of small denominations.

An epidemic of hog stealing is reported in Boone county, and there have been several arrests. Among them was Curtis M. Pritchard, sixty-two years old, of Lebanon, who was looked upon as an honest, upright, man. He stole two hogs from Levi. P. Shoemaker, of Union township, and when charged with tho theft confessed it. Tho stories of actual starvation in Indianapolis seem to have been exaggerated. A benevolent landlord advertised that ho would feed gratis all poor children who would come to his hotel, giving to each a bow] of soup, glass of milk, and all the bread and butter they could eat, but the response was surprisingly small. Only an occasional child called to recoive his bounty. During a dance at Highland Place, near Terre Haute, there was trouble between John Crausley and William Lanahan, in which Lanahan used his revolver. One bullet struck Crausley over the heart and ranged around the body, passing out at tho side, and another made a flesh wound in his thigh, near tho groin. Crausley’s clothes were badly burned by tho powder, so close was the weapon held to his body. Clarence Johnson, of Indianapolis, serving a sentence for horse stealing at Michigan City, has confessed to Warden French that he killed John Young at Indianapolis, in April last. Tho confession clears up a mystery the detectives failed to sol ye, and relieves several parties from unjust suspicion. Quite a number of arrests have from time to time been made in connection with the tragedy. Patents wore granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: D. A. Byers, King, wire ropeway grip; T. H. Haberkon, Ft. Wayne, valve mechanism for air brakes; G. J. Her ch and G, Boneberger, Evansville, mine trapdoor; W. H. Hornberger, Elkhart, current transformer; A. J. Johnson, Anderson, baby jumper; W. H. Robbins, assignor of one half to H. E. Robbins, Mill Grove, switch; O. E. Seanoy, Ft. Wayne, former for burial robes. Druggist Frank Keller, of Fort Wayne, who sleeps over bls store, while carrying a lighted candle in his hand stumbled over a can of gasoline. The gasoline ignited and there was an explosion, which enveloped Mr. Keller in flame. However, he seized the fragments of the can and

threw them outside; meanwhile hta younger brother grabbed a blanket and wrapped him from head to foot, smothering the flames. Mr. Keller was badly burned, but he will recover. Judge Edward Gough, of Cannelton upon the assembling of the grand jury, reprimanded that body for not indicting the management of the Indiana cotton mills, which is accused of working children under fourteen years old eleven hours daily. Thirty-eight indictments had been found, and had been prepared by the prosecutor, but the foreman of the grand jury refused to sign them on the plea, made by a number of prominent citizens; that the factory had to run eleven hours dally to compete with Southern mills, and that if prosecution was insisted upon it would call for the dismissal of the children and subject their parents to actual distress. Six years ago John Chrlsler.of Bartholomew county, at that time worth *IO,OOO, sold his possessions and removed to Allen \ county, Kansas, where he purchased a farm, represented to be free of incumbrance, but which proved to be heavily mortgaged to an Eastern company. Twelve months later he had a difficulty with Columbus Carter over a corn planter, and was successful in the litigation. Carter was rendered desperate by defeat, and he attacked Chrisler with a pitch-fork, beating him until he was unconscious and then gouging his eyes out with the tines of the fork. The friends of Chrisler pursued Carter and lynched him. Recently Chrisler returned to Bartholomew county without a penny, and he is now being led about the streets of Columbus, where he peddles pencils for a livelihood.

A “HEAVENLY” PROFESSOR.

Some People Think He Is Headed the Other Way. The school trustees at Terre Haute, Friday night, unanimously removed Prof. - A. Marlowe, professor of Latin atTEo’ high school. He is the educated author of a work known as “Heavenward,” who, about a week ago, sent his young wife of fourteen months, who is soon to become a mother and whom he has known since childhood, back to her home in Sullivan county to her parents, with the simple statement that he found he no longer loved her. This peculiar conduct on- the part of Prof. Marlowe caused an immense sensation and led some of his friends to think that the laborious work on his book had temporarily unbalanced his mind, but another conclusion was fopnd when ho appeared before the board and argued that his course was right as he had discovered his liking for his wife had ceased, and he declared that he would sue the board for his salary if he was removed. He had no charges at all to make against his young wife, lie also argued that if the board would stand by him the uproar caused by the affair would soon die out. The action of the trustees is commended by the community, as the public demanded his removal as an educator under the circumstances. .

INDIANA BUILDING SOLD.

Twelve Hundred Dollars. Highest Price Received for a State Building. The Indiana Building at the World’s Fair was sold to a wrecking company at Chicago, Thursday, for *1,200. It was the largest price paid for any State building on the Fair grounds. The exexutive committee oi the mission met and closed up about all of the business connected with the Indiana exhibit. Not all the money appropriated by the Legislature has b<c:i spent, and it will be returned to the State treasury. The exact amount is not known. Most of the decorations and furniture was reserved by the contributors and manufacturers, and will be returned to them. That remaining will go to the State benevolent institutions.

AN ITALIAN’S AWFUL CRIME.

He Murd red Three People and Then Committed Suicide. g One of'the most horrible crimes ever known in the Black Hills, occurred, Tuesday, in Saw Pitch gulch, two miles west of Deadwood, S. D. Joseph Tha, an Italian, and Josio Tamatta were married about a year ago. A few months later his wife loft him and has made her homo at her cousin’s. Tha, after her repeated refusals to return to him and his failure to have refunded to him money ho sent her to come from Italy, made several efforts to blow up Tamatta's house. Thursday he went to Tamatta’s house, while under tho influence of liquor, and soon after shots were hoard by the neighbors. Nothing was. thought of it, however, until several hours l:t>.', when a peddler rapped at the door, and getting no reply, but hearing groans from within, entered. Lying around the room, amid broken and scattered furniture, lay Mrs. Tha, shot through the mouth, Tamatta with a bullet in his breast and Mrs. Tamatta with a frightful gash in her forehead, inflicted with an ax—all still in death. In the woodshed Tha lav gasping for breath witli a bullet through his head. Ho lived but a few minutes.

TO PROSECUTE THE A. P. A.

Charges of Conspiracy Mada Against Members of the Order in Botthlo. Seventy-five citizens of Buffalo are under charges of conspiracy, which will be presented to the next grand jury when it meets on the 2)th Inst Allot them are alleged to bo members of the American Protectlev Association—the antl-Catholle secret society which lately has taken root In Buffalo. The society has established several branches there, and already bas a newspaper organ. The case will ho in the nature of a test to obtain an opinion from the court whether this society comes within the scope of criminal conspiracy and its literature under the ban of the law, as a matter tending to incite riot.

NEW POINT IN LAW.

Clifford Clarke, bartender of the Fort Wayne Club. Fort Wayne. has Iwn nrrested for selling liquor without license. The defense is that the club doosnot h»v» to secure a license, no more than would n citizen who served wino nt his dinnei table. .Several days ago Mayor Zolllngi i ordered the closing of saloons at H : p. in and on Sunday, and the sab on men a*t urging the prosecution of the club, o which the Mayor is a member.