Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1894 — Page 6

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

Strikes are an-expensive recreation to all concerned. A few days results in an aggregate loss to the strikers in the way of decreased earnings that will take months of industry to reimburse, even if they gain their ends. The loss to employers is also great, although in a majority of cases these privileged mortals arc in much better shape to sustain-ifc Again, when disorder results from the differences between the contending interests,; great loss ensues to the unfortunate tax payers who can have no personal interest in the controversy. The coal strike has cost Indiana something like $2,000 a da.y since the first company of militia was ordered out. The aggregate expense can not be accurately estimated, but will necessarily be large. This expense will be paid out of the general fund of the State. Strikes are very expensive luxuries and their frequent occurrence is decidedly uncomplimentary to the intelligence and business capacity of our people. There should be some better and less wasteful way of settling differences between the greed of grasping employers and the rights or probably reckless demands of employes. When the tariff bill is settled and the Congressmen come home, when bank wreckers are all corralled and no more in freedom roam, when the strikers are all happy and the mines "" and mills go round and all the commonwealers are lost and can't be found, when the watermelon’s gathered from vine and dusty field, and this horrid heat’s abated and the cider-press does yield tanks of juice—contents not stated—when the wasps in dizzy glory soar and sip the nectared brim and the small boy cloyed and gory vainly tries to fillip him, when the corn is plowed the last time and the seeding is all done — when these desideratums and more we can’t recall shall come to pass along some time this fall —then let up on work and worry and cease from weary care and in happiness and pleasure hie to the county fair, where amid .the snakes and sideshows we can bless our happy lot and perhaps can bet some dollars on a “agricultooral hoss trot” as we smoke.ami sip .within the.confines of the grand stand’s stately shade a supply of awful “two-fors” and the acid lemonade.

People who contemplate suicide should use caution in making their arrangements. Recently a most determined self-murderer at South Bend laid out quite a program for the last act in this “strange eventful history.” Ordinary methods did not impress him as fraught with sufficient dramatic possibilities. He was dead set on being a corpse, andin addition desired to be a “demd moist unpleasant body.” Even this did not satisfy his ambition to get even with his unfortunate corporosity, and he concluded that besides taking poison he would cut his throat previous to throwing himself in the river. The program having been settled upon he swallowed enough arsenic to give him surcease from future woes and hastened to the river to carry out the details arranged. Unfortunately, or fprtunately“as the case may be, he forgot his pocketknife, and had to return home, Before he could make the rounds the drug got in its work and the curtain was rung down on his little drama. He regretted the fit of absent-mindedness that made him forget his knife to the last moment of his existence. Instead of the great sensation he had hoped for. he was compelled to pass into the beyond without complicating the coroner’s returns as he had deliberately planned. Persons who feel called 'upon to “shuffle off” before their time and turn should take warning and look carefully to all the details before by their own act they pass beyond the scenes of time to that bourne where throats are never cut and pocketknives are unknown.

MtTecl of Blinkers. An English writer says that# the effect of the blinker is both physically and mentally injurious to the hdrse. In the first place, especi lly when large and brought near the eyes, it has the effect of heating them and hindering the free passage of air over them. In the next place, it causes the eyes to be always directed forward, and thus produce a most injurious strain on the delicate muscles. We know how painful a sensation is felt when we arc obliged to strain our eyes cither backward or upward for any length or time, and the horse suffers no less incon venionfe when , it is ■forcejt-to keep its eves contimv>Hv wtruinnd forward. Mamma—"Ana now dia my darting like being at church?” Maud (who had been at church for the first time, and put u penny in the collection plate)- “Very much, mamma, and it I wasn’t dear!”

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

incorporate. The Richmond desk company has assigned, ■ South Bend will have a small sized Ferris wheel. Richmond is figuring on the. erection of a crematory. Pert# high school graduated a 14-year-old boy this year. York’s a product of Peru, is ■ strandixi at Anderson. ‘Evansvillecitizens are not satisfied with ; their new city charter. . Four houses and a woman were struck by lightning in Brazil. J. W. Cole, near Frankfort, realized SSOO from his strawberry cron. A dynamite bomb was thrown in George Hitz's yard in VincennegSE— Portland will build a new high-school building: contract price, $10,587. Wheat harvest began in the neighborhood of Seymour, Wednesday. Clinton county has $17,000 in the treas- : ury, and its debt is but $15,000. A number of Washington saloons have closed on account of high 1 icense - The United Brethren people have dedi-caU‘d-a new church at Laketon. . Burglars plundered the Dunkirk post- ' office, getting but sixty pennies. | Richmond has secured the Scott-Cream-er carriage works of Mi 1 ton, I nd.. “Jim-jams,” a'pcctiliar cattle disease, is said to be raging in Fayette county. Fred Corbett was fatally stung by a swarm of bees at Huntington, Wednesday. Terre Haute has 1.000 bicycles, but only sixty-eight have been returned for taxation. Gen. Park’s-comJnoriweal army passed > through Elkhart, Friday night, on a hog train. 5 William Dibble, proprietor of the Jjorig Lake summer resort, near Elkhart, is dead. The eighty-third forged note credited to Frank Miller, Columbus, has been found. Mrs. Susan G. Patterson has been elected superintendent .of the Union City Schools.- —' ■- < j:——i - —James E. Graham, of Ft. Wayne, is the Prohibition candidate for Congress in that district. A gospel wagon has made its appearance at Terre Haute, managed by the Y. M. C. A. Chicago capitalists have got a bonus froth Anderson and will build another plate factory there.. A plant is being constructed at Martinsville for the manufacture of gas for fuel and heating purposes. A. M. Benson, of Huntington, has been nominated for Congress by the Populists of the Eleventh district. 8. W. Forest, South Bend, has been nominated for Congrc s by the Populists of the Thirteenth district. Edward Cook and Lizzie Adams, both prisoners, were married in the jail at Huntington. Tuesday night. Shelbyville Odd Fellows celebrated their decoration day v Sunday. , Rev„£.. C. Edwards delivered the address. A Columbus citizen recently caught a five-aud-a-haif-pound black bass in a small stream near that town. The trial of John W. Paris, charged with wreckjpg the Greentown bank, was begun at Frankfort. Monday. - Alonzo Allison, Nashville, was struck by lightning, Monday, and lay unconscious for four hours. Will recover. Hon. Lem. W. Royse, the Republican candidate for Congress, has opened his campaign in the Thirteenth district. 4Taylor Crampton, of Napanee, was arrested for drunkenness. He felt the disgrace so keenly he committed suicide. Two of Valpariso’s society’ dudes fought a three-round mill, Sunday, over- a girl with whom they were both infatuated.

The Hammond News says that Sikawaski was ona drunk, the other day. A man with such a natae has a right to get drunk. John Carter, of Plainfield, recovered his hearing by removing a wad of cotton which he had stuffed in his ear sixteen years ago. Edward J. Workman was found guilty of attempted wife murder at Lebanon’ Wednesday, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. White river, near Anderson, is polluted with dying'fish, the cause of which is attributed to the poisonous refuse from the strawboards-works at Muncie. A dynamite bomb was thrown into the yard attached to the residence of George lleits, of Vincennes, exploding with great force, but failing to injure property, Kelley’s army of commonwealers left Evansville, Sunday, by boat for New Albany. Vanderburg county paid S7OO for their transportation in order to get rid of them. 4 Hartford City has been chosen as the site of the Sneath glass factory, owned and operated by Tiffin (O.) parties. It will make a specialty of lantern and electric light globes. James Heenan, of Dublin, is one of the original seven persons, of whom Alexander was one, that were baptized in 1812, and in 1827 joined in founding the Disciples of Christ. Twenty men employed in the Diamond plate-glass works at Elwood walked out because they were only paid $1.15 a day and were demanding $1.40. Their places ’ were speedily filled. Judge Johnson, of Valparaiso, warring with Editor Landis, of Delphi, over the Republican nomination for Congress, has called for another convention tq meet at Hammond July 9. Will R. Davis, a medical student, rooming in the residence of C. N. Pratt at Frankfort, was shot by <v burglar, Tuesday night, and probably fatally wounded. The burglar escaped. Charles 11. Landis, of Delphi, will accept the Republican nomination for Congress in the Tenth district, notwithstanding. the threats of the bolters from the Hammond convention which nominated him. AH efforts to raise the sunken steamer City of Madison have proved unavailing, and the order was given, Wednesday evening, to wreck and dismantle her where she licson the dyke near Madison. The amount duo Crawford-county from the Louisville. Evansville & St. Louis Railway Company by reason of the late decision of the Supreme Court is $11,626.35. The county debt is supposed to be about $25.C00. Geo. H. Thomas Post G. A. R. of Indianapolis, has passed resolution warmly commending the action of Gov. Matthews

in calling out the mflitia to preserve the peace in the mining regions during the late strike. Mrs, Glp. Piercefield, of Bartholomew county, has gone violently insane over the hallucination that her husband’s first wife, who met With an accidental death some years ago. is haunting her with the determination of robbing her other husband and child. h Hon,- W. S. Holman has indorsed Congressman Conn for President and says he is the most available man in the United States forthe Democratic nomination in .1896 because of his natural ability, and because of his undoubted popularity with the laboring classes. A Cincinnati excursion to the springs near Brookville, on the 10th inst., developed a deadly fight, in which a knife played a star engagement. George Benner is reported to ha ve d ied of his in juries. while a man and a woman, names not known, arc lying in a dangerous state. In a wreck on the Chicago & Great Western road at Stillman Vafiey, four stable boys were badly hurt, nine horses killed outright and seven injured. The horses belonged to W. H, Roller, an eastern horseman,and were particularly valuabfe.- ■■- A gray-haired man, fifty years old and upward, a stranger at Anderson, is excittng muchThterest by his delusions. He believes'his name is Miller, because he once operated a saw-mill, and he is insane with the idea that he iS a hving phonograph, and that Edison is trying to locate him. Mr. T. E. Huston, of Cannelton, has written to the Indianapolis Commercial Club, advocating a new north and south railroad between the capital and Cannelton. The proposed road would open up much territory to the Indianapolis jobbing trade that is now solely tributary to Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago. Ernest Dakes, of Boone county, accepted an agency for the American Piano Company of Chicago, as ho supposed, by which he was to receive $l3O on each piano until he had placed four, after which the piano left in his own house was to become his individual property. Soon after he found notes which he had signed calling for-$l3O and $303, awaiting pay,mont in a Frankfort Bank. ~ Mrs. Ida Martin, whose maiden name was Ida. Pritchard, of Hoopsville. Ind., was arrested at Chicago, Monday, for defrauding Marshall Field & Co. JAie obtained a great deal of finery from variou dry goods stores by misrepresentations. Mrs. Martin graduated) from Purdue three years ago. Squire Leonard, carrying the mail between Bird’s Eye and Ellsworth, has been placed under bond by the Federal authorities, accused of robbing the mails. One of the sacks had a hole in it through which Leonard is said to have pulled out letters, after opening which he tossed aside. The rifled letters were afterward found on the highway. Several members of the militia company of Jeffersonville have lost their positions because they went with the company when it was ordered out. One young man employed in a Louisville wholesale drug house-was saved from doslug his .position by several retail druggists, wlio said that they would boycott the wholesaler should he discharge the militiaman. John Hanson Craig, of' Danville, who is thought to be the heaviest man in the catHitry, Was taken ill of dropsy, ami when his show reached New Castle he was compelled to retire to his room. His condition is reported as alarming, Craig has been a museum attraction for years. In normal condition he is claimed to weigh nearly (ICO pounds, but j.t is now said that he is 200 pounds heavier, owing to his dropsical trouble. ... During the passing of a Catholic procession at Evansville an electric car pushed its way through the column at a street crossing, enraged the marching column and stones were thrown, breaking a window and severely frightening several ady. passengers, The Electric Railwaj’ Company of Evansville objects to the stoppage of traffic, except for funeral processions, and to give right of way to fire apparatus.

The Republican central committee of White county’ has addressed a letter to the Republican congressional committee, urging that the difficulty attending the nomination of Mr. Landis by the Hammond convention be adjusted, otherwise both the congressional. State and county ticket is endangered. The White county delegation in the Hammond convention stood fifteen for Landis and three for Johnson. At 2 o’clock, Tuesday morning, the police boat Pavonia, from New Albany, met Kelley and his wealers at West Point, Ky.. en route up the river. He was informed that the New Albany and Jeffersonville authorities were determined that he should not land at those cities. After much angry argument Kelley ordered his boat to turn back to Evans’s Landing, where he disembarked. He will try to enter Louisville and will demand enough money to take his men to Cincinnati. During the absence of the sheriff of Crawford county two men and two women called at the jail and asked permission to see four prisoners confined for robbery and other offenses, and they were admitted to the interior. The sheriff’s wife was in charge and when she was called to let out the visitors she found all of them armed with revolvers and she was compelled to remain quiet. The entire gang escaped, but the country people aided in the pursuit all were recaptured on the following day. During the term of service of H. J. Favors and William Daniels in the prison South they effected their escape, but were rearrested in Illinois. They refused to return without requisition, and the prison authorities were put to considerable trouble to recover tLCm. In retaliation, the authorities caused an indictment for •‘breaking prison” to be returned by the Clark county grand jury, and when Favors and Daniels were released on Saturday last, on expiration of tiieir regular sentence, they Xvere rearrested. ' A plug blew out of a drum in the Ph Zorn brewery at Michigan City in the ear y morning hours and about SSOO worth of ammonia escaped. There was scarcely any wind to scatter the fumes, which filled tile atmosphere to a stilling point, and several residences in the neighborhood where the families were sleeping with open windows were filled almost to point of suffocation. The brewery employes were quick to arouse the sleepers, else there might have been loss of life. The Delaware building at the World’s Fair grounds has been moved to W)lf Lake, Indiana, where It will be used as a

club house. It was purchased some tfmi ago by the Wolf Lake Hunting and Fishing Club. It was placed on rollers and ■moved down to thejake shore at Jackson Pirk, where two large scows wen. l anchored to receive it. By means of hugu skids made of heavy planks the big building was rolled.downim the scows. It was then firmly lashed in place. Two tugs steamed up, fastened on to the former World’s Fair pride of Delaware with big hawsers and towed it twelve miles. Monday it was rolled one mile inland and is now doing business as a club-house. Judge Baker, Thursday, at Indianappl is, passed sentence upon the eight counterfeiters who made, and passed so much of the bogus money during the Grand Army encampment at Lafayette. Joseph Bennett, the leader, received two years; John S. Wehr, father, thirteen months; Williaan Wehr, son, ninety days in workhouse; Alfred M. Collins, one year and one day; George Clawson, seventy days in the workhouse: John Marks, fifteen days, and William Hitt and George Siston were each released on suspended sentence. They tried to pass the money while drunk. Indictments were found by the grand juryat Braz.il for murder in the second

degxee against eigh tufthefifteen suspects under bond in the Vandalia Engineer Barr case. They are William Carr, William Wilson, William Worlin, Ernest Poor, William Gardner, James Boothe, Robert Rankin and Charles Slack, all young men of the town of Harmony, and all of whom were placed behind the bar: of she county jail to answer at the October term of the Clay Circuit Court. David FoAter, ThomasJlarris, Burt Britton. Robert Worlin, David Morris, John Davis, Ed Monk, John Quigley and Perry Thompson are held under bond, charged with conspiracy. Auditor of State Henderson has filed suit against the United States Express -CompanyMor $225,0C0 taxes and penalties due the State under the law of 1600. This requires that the company shall report its receipts over SIOO,OO ). The plaintiff asks forthe appointment of a receiver The Supreme Court, in a decision under the same iaw, in the ease of the Evansville & Terre Haute road against the Treasuer of Gibson county, gave an interpretation of the penalty due ‘ for delinquency. It was held that non-payment in April carries with it a delinquency of the whole tax with 10 per cent, added. If delinquent past the November installment 6 per cent additional penalty must be 5 paid. If the April installment is paid and Jhc November shall run delinquent only 0 per cent penalty can be collected.

THE WAR IS OVER.

Tire Militia Ordered Home From Sullivan. Adj. Gen. Robbins, Thursday, by order of Gov. Matthews, ordered all troops in the field to report at Indianapolis. Early in the morning the Governor received an official dispatch from Judge Briggs, stating that there was no further need of the troops. The same information was conveyed to him several days ago by Sheriff Mills, but that official's influence with the gubernational department has been oif the wane since his recent spat with the Governor, and it was decided to await Judge Brigg's decision. The troops arrived at Indianapolis, Thursday evening, at 7 o’clock. Friday evening a public reception was given to the sun-burned veterans at the State House. Speeches of congratulations were made by Goy, Matthews, Hon. John L. Griffith's, Mayor Denny and others. promenade concert followed and the “war” was declared to be a thing of the past.

CHAMPION HAIL STORM.

A dispatch from English, June 22, says: Reports of the storm are gradually coming in. In the vicinity of ex-Sheriff Cummins's farm, three miles northwest of town, hundreds of acres of wheat, rye. oats and corn were badly damaged. The barn of Minton Brown wa? razed to the ground. George Temple, who was fixing a reaper, declares that ho was blown across eighty acres of wheat. Benton Cummins, Elias McDonald and William Cummins barely escaped death from wind and hail. Hail fell to the depth of fifteen ir L cll _ es - Much of it was one inch in diameter. Hail fell on the farm of the Rev. Fred Marthig as large as pullet while on the farm of James Hobbs, twelve, miles south, hail rolled down th 7 hillside until it accumulated to the depth of four feet against buildiiigs and fences. George Morris, in (trying to cross Little Blue river to save his wife, narrowly escaped drowning. No less than 1,000 acres of wheat which was ready for the harvest is now lying in the mud.

MRS. ELIZABETH HALLIDAY,

Recently convicted of murder at Monticello, N. Y. Iler defense was insanity and it seems probable that she will bo placed in an asylum. Mrs. Halliday has been confined in asylums several times. Shortly after her last discharge she killed or helped to kill three persons in a drunken row. Mrs. Halliday is a benighted creature of the sort called crackers in Florida and dippers in the Carolinas. She is about four inches more than five feet tall and weighs 130'poun is. Her strange, almost pig-like nose lies close to her face, until at the enffit stands straight out at right angles in a thick, flat-topped, porky deformity. Like a pig's snout it move.about. If has muscles that seem to work independently, SO that when she is otherwise in repose this strange, repulsive member is lowered and raised, and -moved sidewise as we see the antennae of insects feeling about in the air. Such Is the effect of Mrs. Halliday's face that there were men in the court-room who said they would not touch her or let her touch them for (1,000.

THE CAMPAIGN.

The Farcical Sugar Trust Inves- —_ - ——- How Not to Investigate. Indianapolis g c urnal. The guarded w:iy in which Chairman Gray gives out the testimony before the Sugar Trust investigating committee might be likened to the efforts of the captain of a ship to confine a fire to the hold—by battening down thtr hatches and keeping the air out. Senator Gray has not had much experience as a censor of the press, but his legal training and Democratic instincts serve in good stead to tell him what to give out and. what to suppress, and how to pat the information furnished in the form least likely to hurt anybody or to impinge upon the courtesy of the Senate. In the report of the proceedings yesterday it was stated that “Senator McPherson reiterated the statements he made recently on the floor of ttre it became apparent that sugar was to be made the subject of legislation he had instructed his brokers to cease all dealings in sugar stock in his name." Not another word about Senator McPherson’s testimony. He is one of the Senators who is charged with having made a large sum of money speculating in sugar stocks. He admits that he had speculated in stocks, but says he stopped when he heard that sugar was to made the subject of legislation. Now, he knew, and everybody knew, as soon as Mr. Cleveland was elected President that sugar was to be made the subject of legislation in one form or another. The Wilson bill, as originally introduced in the House, imposed a duty on sugar. This was more than six tnonths ago, and sugar has been on the tagis ever since. Now. when did Senator McPherson first learn that sugar was to be made a subject of legislation, during what period did he speculate in sugar stocks, and when did he stop speculating in it? This is what the country would like to know, and it would like to know i F he was questioned on these points. Dates are the essence of the case; was he asked togive any, or was he dismissed on his simple statement that he stopped speculating in sugar stock when it became apparent that sugar was to be made the subject of legislation? Perhaps it was apparent to everybody else before it was to Senator McPherson. If he was making money by speculating in sugar stock, as. has been charged, it may have taken him a long time to discover that it was really going to become a subject of legislatioir. Press censor Gray does not vouchsafe any information on these points. The report goes on to say, ‘'the committee also examined Senators Harris and Mills.” Senator Harris did ndt-ddhow an W Mills testified that Secretary Carlisle had given Mr. Haveiiiyer, head of the sugar trust, a letter of introduction to him, but that he bad declined to receive the letter. This is i surprising piece of information. Why should the Secretary of the Treasury, whose duty it is to look out for the interests and revenues of the United States, give a letter to the head of the sugar trust, whose interests are opposed to those of the go ver n meh hi m t<r a Senator known to be unfriendly to the sugar trust? Was Mr. Carlisle trying to help Mr. Havemyer placate hostile Senator’s? Senator Caffery to stifled a few days ago that he was told, that Mr. Havemyer wanted to see him, but he was-not asked Who told him so. -Was it-Mr. Carlisle? Mr. Mil 1 s showed nerm in dec! ining to receive a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury introducing the head of the sugar trust, and his action does him credit, but the public would like very much to know what was in the letter, whether Mr. Havemyer presented it in person, and what passed between them on the subject. The committee does not seem to have made any effort to obtain these facts. Following is the report of Secretary Carlisle's testimony:

An -exchange is authority for toe statement that Mr. Cleveland is dis satisfied with the White House aud says he would not live in it anothq term if he were choset| to do so. —St. Paul Dispatch.

“Secretary Carlisle denied explicitly all the charges made in Mr. Ed- ( wards's letter, except one. This one ’ was the assertion that while_ConferrmgWiLli the committee, hb (CatTMp) on one occasion, at the suggestion oL the members Of the committee and using thejr figures, put a sugar "schedule in t o shape, as he did other f paragraphs in their bilk This, the Secretary said, he had done. He declared that he had not made such a visit as that he was represented as making to the committee to demand that the sugar interest be cared for in the tariff bill because of the Democratic party’s obligation to the sugar trust,” This carefully guarded statement shows that Mr. Carlisle, who is shown to have given Haveinyer a letter of - did ule into shape” for the committee. f Was it the one in the finance committee's bill or the one in the Have-myer-Gonnan bill? It'is something f for Mr. Carlisle to have been forced ; tp admit that he formulated a “sugar schedule,” but it would be much more interesting to know what schedule it was. In the absence of further information the public will conclude I that it was the schedule which largely increased the profits of the sugar ; trust, whose head Mr. Carlisle was : favoring with letters of introduction to Senators. Thus, although the hatches are battened down, smoke continues to pour through the crevices, indicating fire in the hold. The driblets of, information which the chairman of the committee gives out indicate that more is suppressed, and that a much greater amount exists which the committee is careful not to elicit.

A Northwest Blow. —New York Commercial Advertiser.

A Cali to the Presidency. Courier-Journal. AIT the Courier-Journal's dark forebodings with respect to tariff legislation have come to pass. The situation could not be worse, the outlook darker, the act with whos? passage we are threatened more disreputable. Action of some soft i? urgent. Has the President the supremo courage to retire the Administration from all responsibility-and concern as to the measure before the Senate, by sending' a message to Congress denouncing the whole proceeding, calling the Demdcratio masses to his side, and having the effect to stampede and adjourn the entire rotten Rump concern? .Nothing could be lost by such a proceeding. As matters are going, and in any event, Democratic hopes arc baffled,Democratic pledges stultified, Democratic prospects blighted. Better another two years of the McKinley tariff, pure and simple, and another appeal to the people upon the old line fair and square, with everybody forced to toe the mark, or to go over to the enemy, or to take to the woods. If we lose we should at least go down with our 11a g fly ing, our honor Ln tact; whereas victory, under present conditions, can only be purchased by the degradation of all things great and nobl« in our National life. Besides, it is not victory, but. defeat, that stares us in the face.

Decidedly Unpopuiar.

“I wonder what makes Higby so unpopular? “I give iFup, but it is a" fact. Why that man is so disliked that h« can't even get a bite when he goes fishing.”

SOUR GRAPES.