Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Oil went up to 52 as Pittsburg, Monday. There are thirty-nine cases of smallpox . •t Shdwneetow-n, 111. Senator Elkins, of West Va., has defoHreesitrerr Depver is preparing to hold an international mining and industrial exposition. Oil at Pittsbnrg, A[jr 1110,closeiat $1.45. Brokers.predicted S 3 oil in a few days. There 1° a coal war at Cleveland and “prices are being slashed by the Massillon j dealers. - It is announced that Secretary Carlisle j will be a candidate for United States, Sen- I tor from Kentucky. Sing Wan. a Chicago Chinaman, has ' Peen Sentenced to the penitentiary lor two years on a charge of perjury. Repres mtatiyes of 15i).0 iO shoemakers of the Now England States are in session at Boston to form a great union. The propertieaof the Whisky Trust are to be sold to the highest bidder The Trust ■o longer has a legal existence. H L. Wheeler, a Chicago chemist, is said to have discovered a new compound that is sweeter that saccharine. Patrick Benson, an Oakland Cal . attorney, has received information that he has fallen heir to an estate of 8875,000 in Scotland James W, Scott, chief owner and editor •f the Chicago Times-Herald, died at the Holland House,""New York, April 14 from apoplexy The Michigan Senate has passed a bill to repeal the law under' which Roman Catholic bishops can hold church property in trust. The Texas Supreme Court holds that the owners of abutting property cannot -be assessed for the cost-of street-improve-ment and sidewalks, Secretary Morton thinks a combine may have something to do with the high prices of beef in New York and the East, and has started an investigation. William Shoe, a boy of fifteen, living at Weaver Station, 0., was furnished with liquor by William Arlington, a ruffian, and the effect caused his death. President Cleveland signed himself “Grover Cleveland, citizen-at-large,” to his income tax return. Officials are in doubt as to Mr. Cleveland’s legal place of residence. The body of W. J. Aull, of Dayton. 6., who, with ..hiswife, was drowned at the time of the wreck of the New Orleans Steamer Longfellow, at Cincinnati, March 8, was found, Thursday, below Ludlow*, Ky. . ■ ' < The largest personal wine deal ever made in California was consummated, last Week, when F. Chealler & Co., of San Francisco, bought from Dowdell & Co., of St. Helena, 41)0,000 gallons of dry wine, which is now stored there. I A jury in Chicago gave George W, Con- ; trey judgment for f 50,000 against Jacob Echweinfurth, the Rockford "Messiah,'’ for alienating the affections of Mrs. Condrey by inducing her to enter his “heaven. ’ A large force of men has been cleaning away the jungle along the projected route nf the Nicaragua canal and making other ; preparations for the visit of the commissioners reported as likely to start soon from Washington. Senator Palmer announces that he will fight the free silver Democrats of Dlinois to a finish. Ho says the recent call fora State convention at Springfield was issued as a moans of entrapping the Democratic party into the silver movement. The annual report of the American Tobacco Company shows a surplus of $4013,227, after deducting the income tax and dividend on the preferred stock. After deducting the dividend on the common stock the surplus is $1,835,227. The total surplus on Dec. 31,1894, was $7,198,290.

Tho Woman’s Literary Club or Balti more decided unanimously to withdraw from membership in the National Federation of Woman’s Clubs. The Federation decided to admit clubs of colored women, and it is understood that the club s withdrawal is intended to show disapproval of this action. Col. Bass, of Carrollton, Ga., owns a farm near that place. Friday last his man plowed up a lot of old Mexican and Spanish coins. One of tho Spanish pieces bears the date of 1746. Tho value of tho find was considerable, and the proceeds will be given to the old man who plowed them up. Mrs. M. C. Bright, widow of tho late Hon. M. C. Bright, and mother of Col. R. J. Bright. Sorgoapt-at-Armsof the United States Senate, died at Washington City, April 13, aged Mrs. Bright was a resident of Madison for forty years, and of Indianapolis for fifteen years. The burial took place at Crown Hill cemetery at Indianapolis. American cracked oats have l found a groat market in Germany. The agrarians are organizing an opposition to their use on account of tho extent to which this product has supplanted tho German article which is ground into fine Hour. Tho agrarians, are ...deterrn i nod not to al low any American agricultural product to enter into competition with their own, and if they can not fsxclnde It on hygienic grounds they will demand from their government a prohibitive tariff. Miss Francis Willard, now in London In an interview, April It, defended Lady Henry Somerset from tho charges made by Mr. Hicks at New York, recently. She states that to her own knowledge Lady Somerset’s record is perfectly clear and consistent, and that she not only does not rent property for improper purposes, but Is even now engaged In a lawsuit with her trustees because of her refusal to renew the license of the Whitehall hotel at Rlegate, near London, which is her property. The trustees state that Lady Somerset's action has depreciated tho value of her own and other property. E. R.Hunter, a commission man at the Chicago Stock Yards, was mysteriously killed with a brick while sitting at his desk in his office, Friday evening. Saturday at thetmeetlng In tho Live Stock Exchange more than ono thousand persons were present, and W. C. Brown, a prominent dealer, shouted, In tho course of his •peceh, “If we can find the coward whoso brtually murdered our comrade last night I am In favor of disposing of him without waiting for tho law.'* For an Instant there was a dead silence In tho groat hall •f tho Stock Exchange, then from a thousand throats came cheer after cheer, unNbthe building fairly shook. There Is no to tho assassin. •»; A eeolutlon has been Introduced in the

ing for a separate government for Cool cotihty. The resolution recites that th. rapid and unprecedented growth of Chi cago renders it necessary for special law( to be enacted by every legislature. Thinterests of Chicago are in many instance; -directlyopposed to thoso.ot thw State aprovides - that”of and after January 1, 1898. Cook ebuntj shall be governed by a general assembly composedTof seventeen senators and fiftyone representatives. Provision is math ffor tho division of Cook conn ty In to d isj tricts, and the general election laws of tin State shall govern, the election of such senators and representatives. Theresa lution was referred. Prof. James E. Keeler, of the Allegheny Observatory, has m atfe a wonderful astronomical positive demonstration of fact that th< ring of Saturn is made up of many small bodies, and that the satellites onlhe innej edge of the ring move more; rapidly that those of the outer edge. From photographs taken at the observatory, it haL been found that the inner edge of the rinj moves faster than the outer edge. Th» action of the different parts of the ring, in miles persecond, can only be given aftei the photographs have been accurately measured under a microscope.— In the United States Court at Chicago, April 15, Judge Showalter enjoined Siegel. Cooper & Co., from making any return to the internal revenue collector under the provisions of the income tax law. The restraining order was granted on a bill filed by Gerson Siegel, one of the New York stockholders in the defendant corporation. The bill attacks the law and, under the order, the Government will bo compelled to take part in the proceedings to defend the operation of the law. Thij contentions of the New York stockholders’bill are that the law is unconstitutional because it is class legislation. n<;| uniform in its application to all citizens, and imposes a tax on incomes from certain sources where the principal from which the income is derived is exempt from taxation. Zion’s Herald, of Boston, the organ o| New England Methodism, editorially cen sures Rev. Dy. Lansing for making the charge of drunkimness against President Cleveland, and states that, the testimony brought out by the scandal has demonstratea that Mr. Cleveland did not even taste intoxicating liquor on the occasion on which Mr. Lansing charged that he was drunk. In conclusion the Herald said: "While we have no doubt that Mr, Lansing fully accredited the information as reliable on which he based his assertion, there seems now to be for him no other manly and Christian course than to humbly confess his indiscretion and to ask President Cleveland and an indignant i public to condone his wrong. Of course. I- the ministers of the New England Con- ' ference and the membership of the Methodist Church as a whole utterly disclaim all responsibility for this rash charge.”

FOREIGN.

Cholera prevails in southern Japan. A pauper in County Limerick, who was a Protestant until he reached the age of ! 105, has just turned Catholic. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has been given ' permission to roam around the ton acre I lot surrounding the goverment building at Honolulu, providing she strolls after I T. m. She Knot In good health and needs 2 It has been decided by the Swiss Federal Assembly to mako the manufacture of matches a Government monopoly, | Kenneth Mackay, known in Australia as “the bush poet,” has been sent to the New South Wales Parliament by his admirers. J The Department of Trade and Commerce at Ottawa has received from Mr. F. Sonton, commercial agent of the Dominion of Canada at Christiana, Norway, an account of tho new enterprise of shipping frozen milk to England. Mr. Sonton says a company has been formed that will deliver fifty tons a week of frozen milk to Manchester. Birmingham, Newcastle, Leeds, Hull and London. It isalsp proposed to establish freezers in Ireland. The. process, as described by Mr. Sonton, consists of scalding the fresh milk, then freezing it by a chemical process. About 500 pounds of the frozen milk are placed in a barrel made of white pine and 500 pounds more of unfrozen milk are added. The barrel is filled very full, so that there may be no churning in transit, and the milk, it is said, will keep sweet and good for a month. juou Cuio amwi wiu minima - was buraed last Saturday, nearly f * of baled hay. It belonged to Brady ranch of that vicinity. f 10,000 yards best calicoes, 2 < Fn per yard, sale day, Saturday, > the 1, 27th. in tho Emanuel Baptist Church, horribly mutilated, A further search discovered the nude body of Miss Lamont, similarly mutilated, in tho tower of the same building. Both young ladles wore about twenty-one years of age. They were members of tho Emanuel Church. W. 11. T. Durant, a medical student; who was tho librarian of tho church, has been arrested on suspicion. The po T lice are certain they have tho right man. Durant asserts his Innocence, and his pastor, Rev. Dr. Gibson, also asserts his belief in Durant's Innocence. The butchery of tho young women was tho most horrible crime that has ever been committed in this country, and has not been equaled in atrocity since the “Jack the Ripper" killings in London a few years ago.

THE SENATE REORGANIZATION.

A Washington special, April 10. says: Speaking of reorganization of the Senate, which is likely to occur owing to tho changes caused by the late election, Senator Voorhees said: “I have no doubt tho Republicans will organize the finance committee. I for ono shall make no opposition and I do not believe that any other Democrat will. The Republicans, while not possessing a majority over all other parties in the Senate, will have a plurality, and It is right that they should take tho lead In shaping legislation. I expect to surrender tho chairmanship of this 'committeeto Senator Morrill at tho opening of the next session." < Clarence Thorp, of Eaton, killed an otter, which he found swimming in thq Misslsslnewa river. It is the first otter seen Id that section for years.

STATE NEWS.

Gas City has voted to incorporate. Richmond is moving to secure the fall tncampmentof the Uniform Rank, K. )f P Gus Cornel), twelve years old, of Greensburg, was accidentally and fatally shot by a playmate. George Edwards, of Jefferson township, Dubois county, has gone insane through religious excitement. Superintendent Charlton, of the Piainield Reform School, has been re-elected ■or a term of four years. As a result of the bread war at Elwood, '.he rival bakers have agreed upon a* iniform price of 2 cents per loaf. By a vote of 7 to 3 the Jeffersonville City Council refused to pass an ordinance preventing cattle, hogs and geese from running at large. Isaac Horn, of Rossville, recently had in eye removed, the sight of which was lestroyed by a gunshot wound during the y a 111 eo f All a n ta.——-- . . '—C-.—--William Walls, a Monroe county farmer, was hauling logs when the wagon iurned over and he was caught under the og. being crushed to death. Jacob Ott, of Laporte, who F'ahrenhehn, his drunken son-in-law with i blow of his fist, has been placed under 1500 bonds pending grand jury action. Addison Albertson, near Selma, fell bnd*r a wap.pn loaded with tile, and one if the wheels mashed his skull to a pulp His dead body was found some hours 'a ter. While Lafayette Winstead,-a wealthy farmer, near Kimmell, was comfortably leated at home, his family having gone Io church, a masked robber robbed him >HBO.— ——- The Spades-Patton seduction case, at mdianapolis, was given to the jury. Saturday. Monday, the jury reported that they were unable to agree and were distharged. t The young son of Samuel T. Baker, of Franklin, touched a “live” wire and was tilled. The father is now suing the Franklin Light and Power Company for 12,000 damages. Whiting will be made a lake port. The Standard Oil Company has decided to load Is barges there for the Lake Superior Irade. The announcement has -Created treat surprise at Chicago. The alleged discovery of “mineral wax” tear Wabash, proves to be a “fake.” An (Xpert who was summoned states that the deposits are merely the softened bones of an unknown species of animal. Mr. D. A. Coulter, cashier of the Farmers’ Bank of Frankfort, has contracted with an Indianapolis firm for a ten thouland dollar maiisoleuifi, to be erected on bis lot at Greenlawn cemetery. Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, has framed the Roman Catholic churches of his diocese against the doctrines of Col. Ingersoll, although he does not name the treat infidel in his lette r of advice. Basil Zegenfus and wife, of Ossian, are bnder arrest, charged with stripping ilotheslines of sheets, with which they proposed to furnish a hotel at Marion. Thirty sheets were found at their home. One of the prisoners at the court house it Bedford was discovered to have the neasles, A panic ensued and the building has been quarantined. People who have never had the disease have been framed to stay away. The first Presbyterian church at Elfrood has -adopted the “Edna Brown plan” of raising funds with which to build 1 new church. W JI, Banfield, secretary >f the society, has been placed in charge if the undertaking. Wreckage from the loststoamer Chicora Yas been coming ashpra along the northern line of Porter county. Furniture, ioxes, bottles, jewelry and many other articles have so far been recovered. A conitant watch is now maintained for bodies. The decision of the Attorney-General on >he Holler fish law, which did not pass he House, but was signed by the clerk, Speaker and Governor by mistake, and vhich he says is therefore a law, we fear vill lead some to believe that we have an Ittorney-General thatdoes not AttomeySeneral.

A mortgage forger was arrested at' Frankfort, April 13, under the name of' Marion P. Thompson. Investigations re- ' foaled the fact that his true name was A. Morgan, an ex-real estate dealer, of Ko<omo, with an excellent reputation at that place, April 15, on the advice of bis attorney, Morgan plead guilty and re--J-y-d a four year sentence. full i J- Vanhook, near Crawfordsville, the | llbar ' <e(i in the business of dog and lising.lising. He will cultivate the critters loir hides, and it is given out that he iscovered a process by which the anients ca n be skinned alive and made to tprilhce another hide within a year, is not vouched for, however. Vi alter Campbell, aged fifteen, of LibSrty, is missing from Chicago, where ho had gone in company of Rufus Campbell, tn uncle. The boy's grandfather is said to be very wealthy, and it is feared that the uncle has dealt foully with the lad in tho hope of increasing his own share in the Inheritance expected from the senior Campbell. Rev. J. 11. Weston, a Methodist clergyman, has filed suit against tho saloonkeepers at Chesterton, Porter county. Members of tho pastor's congregation have fallen victims to tho drink habit, ind Weston will now retaliate by bringing suit against the liquor dealers for iamagc. The Supremo Court, Thursday, handed Jown a decision which ends all litigation is to the fee and salary law of 1891. The •ourt refuses to grant Attorney General Ketcham a rehearing growing out of tho tttempt to correct the errors In the law tnd holds) that the enrolled act must Hand. It has been established, the doslslon says, that there can not be a resort Io the engrossed bill. tcWhen Anthony Beck, a wealthy farmer Iving five miles west of Lebanon, stepped rut of his door, Monday morning, he found a bundle of switches and a white rap notice, which informed him ho would receive a visit unless he treated his family better and mended his ways generally. Ho immediately secured the bloodhounds used In tracking the desperado, Jeff. Powsll, recently, but tho attempt to trail his kould-be Ihtlmldators proved fruitless. Mr. Beck is very wealthy, and says he will Ipend every dollar ho has In trying to find the offenders. Benton Chandler, of Kokomo, had a barrow escape from death by belladonna bolsonlng. Mr Chandler bad been in the I

habit of using a tonic of his own eca»pounding, he calling at a drug store and namingoff the ingredients. Druggist Mecfc compounded <one of bis prescriptions, tilling the same as Mr. Chandler, and. as he recalls it. the mixture was composed of one pint of whisky, two ounces of wild ounees fluid extract of dande-i llun and one ounce, if not two ounces, of fluid extract of belladonna Mr. Chandiet was dangerously prostrated after taking one dose of this alleged tonic. Dr. Thomas B. Redding, of New Castle, fell into tlur cistern in his conservatory, April 11, and was drowned before being found. It is supposed that he fainted, as he was known to be afflicted with heart trouble. Dr. Redding was one of the most prominent citizens of Henry county. He Was a member of many scientific, societies throughout the world and was a thorough naturalist. Within the past fifteen years he has discovered more than fifty forms of animal life in eastern Indiana which has hitherto been unknown to the scientific world. For many years he had been a member of the board of trustees o f De Pa u w un i vef si ty. The village of Arcona, twelve miles from Marion, is enjoying a sensation caused by a strong flow of natural gas which comes from a depth of only sixtythree feet. It was struck by David Taylor, who was drilling for water. The drill struck quicksand, and a strong flow of gas resulted, and the pressure is constantly increasing. The phenomenon is not yet explained, but it is suspe -tod that the gas comes from a leak in the casing of an adjacent gas well which reaches Trenton rock at a depth of a thousand feet. When the sixty-three foot well is “on fire” the blaze is twenty feet high. Sargent’s, celebrities, a farcc-comedy combination, gave a street parade, Thursday, at Bloomington, with one of their number, an actor named-Moss, dressed as a convict. Inorder to attract attention MoSs started on a run, with the company pursuing and yelling to stop him. A bystander named “Biz” Saders, not realizing that it was an advertising scheme, waylaid Moss with a stone, which struck him a glancing blow on the head and inflicted very severe injury. The claim is now made by Spiritualists in Madison county that the first clew to the celebrated Foust murder mystery al Elwood was (detained through Mrsl Johnson Stover, a medium well known throughout Eastern Indiana. She lived dost to the scene where the dead body was found, and having a presentiment that ii was within her power to solve the mystery, she went “under control,” and soot identified the boly, described the plact where the murder was committed, which was at the Bolton residence, and then gave such a description of the supposed murderers that the arrest of George Hirei and his companions followed. Scott Sti vers, of Liberty, recently underwent treatment for the drink habitat a Richmond Gold-cure Institute, and returned to his home. It was soon apparent that, he was mentally impaired. Las| week his diseased mind c mcelved the idet that God had commanded him to torture himself, after which he was to kill his family atra'himself. Last Saturday he removed-his clothing, and, using a rusty knife, he began cutting himself in the abdomen and on the lower limbs. He managed to inflict over one hundred cuts, some of them very serious, before- he war overpowered and disarmed. Stivers will be removed to the Insane Hospital. Ht continually raves that it is his duty U kill his family.

THE FOUST MURDER.

Another Sensation In the Madison Count) Murder Mystery. An Anderson special, April 12,says: Thi arrest of Dan Kelly at Ligonier las) night for the murder of William Fbust a‘ Elwood last July was a surprise to everybody this morning when it was read. Thi officers have been after him for a year and a half and have trailed him over Indians and Ohio with much success. He final 1 j dropped in this secluded spot and has not been seen or heard of until his arrest las) night. Deputy Sheriff Zack Dean arrived there this morning at 9 o’clock, and when he told him Mrs. Bolton had confi sved h< broke down and. although fifty years oiu cried like a child. It lies with him t< clear up the mystery that has attended the killing since the eighth night of lasi July, when it occurred. He was the lasi man seen with Foust, and the revolvei with which Mrs, Bolton says the deed was committed was found on his person The defense will make a motion for a new trial for George Hires, who was sentenced to thirteen years in the prison north lasi Saturday for the deed. Kelly will bi brought to Anderson today and be placed behind the bars.

THE MARKETS.

AprftlG, 1895. Tndlanfinollt. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—ssc: corn, 46c: oats, 33Xc; rye, 45c; buy, choice timothy, S9.(X). I.IVK STOCK; Cattle — Shippers. $3.00 <85.25: Stockers. $3.00(<83.50; heifers. $2.25 <05.00; cows, $ 1.50«t)4.00;bu115, 52.25(ij4.00; milkers,sl6.o, (u4O. (X). lrJloflS- 14.00d85.15. Sue EI $2.00(<«4.50. POULTRY AND OTHER PRODVCX. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) POULTRY Hens, 7c per lb; chickens, 7c; cocks, 3c; turkeys, toms, 4c; hens, per lb; ducks. 6c per lb; geese, s4.B<k<ess.4O per dor., for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 10c. Butter—Choice, loqyilc. Honey—lßc Feathers—Prime geese, 30@32c per lb; mixed duck, 20c per lb. Beeswax —20c for yeilow; 15c for dark. Wool —Medium unwashed. 12e; Cottswold and coarse combing. l<k<Bl2e; tubwashed. 16(</>18c; burry and mitqerchunlable. 5c less. Hides —No. IG. S. hides, 6c; No. 2 G S. hides, 5> 4 c. i Chicago. I Wheat—s4Jsc; corn. oats, 29%c: pork. $12.475; lard, $7.05. Mow Xur <. Wheat—oojj'c; corn. oats, Wheat—6l)<c; corn, 50> 4 'c; oats, 33:. st. Uih. Wheat—s4t*c; corn, oats, 30’*-. fnlla ialp m*. Wheat— corn, 50c; naU, 3G. T 4& Mluueapolta. Wheat— No. 1 hard. 60a Dntralt. Wheat—sßc ■ corn, 45Xe; osts,»3Xc.

GROVER’S KEYNOTE.

President Cleveland Declines an Invitation, Bat Embraces the Opportunity to Stats His Views on the Money Question ■ ~ r—"M Length. In response to an invitation to addresi a meeting at Chicago in the interest of sound money, tendered several days ag< by a committee of business.-menjlreai-. dent Cleveland, Saturday, sent the following letter: Executive Mansion, I Washington, D. Ci, April 13. j To Messrs. William T. Baker, George W. Smith, John A. Koehe. T. W. Harvej, Davi4 - Keffy and Henry s. Kobbins: _ — Gentlemen —I am much gratified by the exceedingly kind and complimentary invitation you have tendered me, on behalf of many citizens of Chicago, to b< their guest at a gathering In the interest of sound money aud wholesome financial doctrine. My attachment to this cause is so great, a nd—l—kno w sow el I- theh osp itali ty ano kindness of tlie people of Chicago that my personal inclination is strongly in favor of accepting your flattering invitation, but my judgment and. my estimau of the proprieties of my official plac, obliges me to forego the enjoyment of participating in the occasion you contemplate. Tim situation confronting us demands that those who appreciate the importance o> mis subject and those who ought to be the first to see the impending dangei should no longer remain indifferent oj over-confident. If the sound money sentiment abroad In the land is to save us from mischief and and disaster it must be crystallzed and combined and made immediately active. It is dangerous to overlook the fact that! vast number of our people, with scant opportunity thus far to examine the question in all its aspects, haye nevertheless been ingeniously impressed with specloui suggestions which, in this time of misfortune and depression, find willing listeners, prepared to give credence to any scheme which is plausibly presented as a remedy for their unfortunate condition. What is now needed more than anything else is a plain and simple presentation of the argument in favor of sound money. In other words, it is time for tha American people to reason together as m mbcrs .of a great nation which can promise them a continuance of protection and safety only so long as its solvency is unsuspected, its honor unsullied and ths Soundness of its money unquestioned. These things are ill exchanged for the Illusions of a debased currency and groundless hope of advantages to be gained by a disregard of our financial credit and commercial standing among the nations of the world.

If our people were isolated from all others, and if the question of our currency be treated without regard to our relations to other countries, its charactei would be a matter of comparatively little Importance. If the American people wen only concerned in the maintenance ol their physical life among themselves they might return to the old days of barter, and in this primitive manner acquirs from each other the materials to supply the wants of their existence. But II American civilization were satisfied with this it would abjectly fail in its high and noble mission. In these restless days the farmer li tempted by the assurance that though our currency may be debased, redundant and unc <rtain, such a situation will improve the price of his products. Let ut remind him that he must buy as well ai sell; that his dreams of plenty are shaded by the certainty that if the price of thi things he has to 8 11 is nominally enhanced. the cost of the things he musi buy will not remain stationary ; that thy tuutor prices which cheap money proclaims are unsubstantial and delushq and that even if they were real and palpable, he must necessarily be left far behind in the race for their enjoyment. It ought not to be difficult to convince the wage earner that if there were benefits arising from a degenerated currency they would reach him least of all and lasi of all. In an unhealthy stimulation oi prices an increased cost of all the needs of nis home must long"be his portion, whily he is at the same time vexed with vanishing visions of increased wages and an easier lot. The pages of history and experience are full of this lesson. I believe that capital and wealth through combination and other means, sometimes gain an undue advantage; and it must be conceded that the maintenance of a sound currency may. in a sense, ba invested with a greater or lest importance to individuals according to their condition and circumstances. It is, however, only a difference in degree, sines it is utterly Im possible tha tany one In our broad land, rich or poor, whatevei may be his occupation and whether dwelling in a center of finance an I commerce, or in a remote corner of domain, can by really benefited by a financial schema not alike beneficial to all our people, or that any one should be excluded from a common and universal interest In tl < safe character and stable value of thy currency of the country. In our relation to this question we ary all in business, for we all buy and sell; sy we all have to do with financial operations. for we all earn money to spend IL We cannot escape our interdependence Merchants and dealers areiu every neighborhood apd each has its shops an 1 manuJictories. Wherever the wants of mas exist, business and finance in some degrey are found, related in one direction to thosy whose wants they supply and in another to the more extensive business and finance to which they are tributary. A fluctuation in prices at the seaboard ii known the same day or hour in the re: motost hamlet. The discredit or depreciation in the financial centers of anj form of money in the hands of the peoply is a signal of immediate loss everywhere If reckless discontent and wild experiment Should sweep our currency from it »afe support the most defeos-dess of al who suffer in that time of distress ant national discredit will be tho poor, asthej reckon the loss in their scanty support snd laborer or workingman as he seei the money he has received for his tof Ihrink and shrivel in his hand when hi tenders it for the necessaries to supply hit bumble home. Disguise it as we may, the line of batth is drawn between the forces of safe currency and those of silver monometallism I will not believe that if our people an afforded an intelligent opportunity foi sober second thought they will sanction ichemes that, however cloaked, mean disaster and confusion, nor that they wll eonsent by undermining the foundatloi of a safe currency to endanger the beneficent character and purposes of their Government. Yours very truly.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EPWORTH LEAGUE CONFERENCE

The International Conference of thi Epworth League at Chattanooga. Tenn.. June 27-30, promises to be an event of unusual interest to the Methodists. An elaborate programme of exercises has beeq prepared, some of the most distinguished Bivines being expected to be present among whom will be Sir McKenzie Bowtil, of Canada. Bishop Vincent, of the M. E. Church, and Bishop Hendrick, of tho M E. Church, South. The closing day wil beeventful with sunrise prayer-meetingi Bn Lookout Mountain, sermons ans platform meetings In the churches and i watch night meeting as a grand finale Tim Queen and Crescent Route will plact half rate tickets on sale at all connectisi points June 25, good fifteen days.

THE OTHER SIDE.

An Open Letter to President Cleveland. Reply of Chairman Harvey, of the Blw>e. —^>M«riaq^'tß--TOveTaAd t a Chi cago Letter. -—A- ——: —»— ~ Chairman W.-H. Harvey, of the Bimetallic League, whoso headquarters are ir. Chicago, Monday, gave to i-he- press a reply to President Cleveland’s letter to th» committee of Chicago business men. at follows: Chicago, April 15. To His E x cellency, Q rover- x: Icvehmd, dent, Washington, D?C,: Dear Sir—ln reply to your-letter addressed to a committee of business men this city, we wish to say that, the commit, tee that waited on you represented that, class that owns money arid securities payable incomes. We respectfully submit that your lettei does not present the true merits of thit controversy. You call the attention ot farmers and wage-earners to tlie fact that raising prices, while enabling them to sei their products and labor at a higher price will also cause them to pay equally mon for what they may purchase, but you neglect to say that your statement is not applicable to debts. With prices comini down, regularly arid steadily since the demonetization of silver, our manufacturers and. the people general If have been doing business on a falllnj market, so that the time intervening b# tween the purchase of their merchandise or raw material and placing it months as ter on the market has removed the margii they would have otherwise made. Tub shrinkage in values has led to an ever increasing volume of debt—to a moneylending period, until it has increased al told to about 840,(XX),000,000, or about twothirds of the total value of all the property in the United States. Money and those debts payable ii money, have been steadily increasing ii exchangeable value with the property o. the people:' A debt for SI,UUO that 1,001 bushels of wheat would have paid tec years ago now requires the farmer to giv« up 2,000 bushels of wheat in exchange foi ’these dollars with which to pay the samt debt. The debts now in. existence an principally Old debts, or renewed or refunded debts, or new debts contracted tc pay old debts, or debts the people havi been forced to contract by reason of tin ' continued decline in prices.

I We have constantly pointed out to tin I peopMthe ever Increasing Interchangeable value of the creditor’s dollar, aud t« the reason why it was increasing, but th< influence of these creditors have dominated your administration, and you in- | sist on such a currency as they have established as a sound currency. It meant I the confiscation of the property of tht ! people by the sale of property undei mortgages, judgments and executions. >So that when you call the attention of tb« farmer and the wage-earner to the facl that rising prices will make him pay mon for what he buys you should at the same I time call his attention to the fact thal it would enable him to pay his debts, free him from a bondage in which he has been unjustly placed and again make him the ■ owner of a home and a free and independent citizen Our forefathers fled from Europe and established a government here that they might be free from the class legislation of those nations where the masses are hew- ■ ers of wood and drawers of water for thr i rich and few who control the law making i power, countries that we justly term plu- ; tocracies; and yet it is now being seriously ■ Insisted upon tnat we must«adont and continue the most pernicious class legislation that the monarchies of Europe havt ever fastened upon their helpless people. We submit that this policy should b« abandoned and our mints again throwt ppeti to silver (as they are now to gold* and our stock of primary money increased thereby. We agree with yon that it is time for the people to reason together and to that end we respectfully ask that you make It possible for them to get printed copies of the act of 1792, on which our forefathers i based our financial system, and all subse- ! juentacts, together with the act of 1873, that reversed th 3 former policy and aett subsequent thereto, as well as all statistical and other information of an equal nature that Washington bears thereon. We but express your own opinion as President of tlie people when we say that all the people should have the opportunity to ivestigate and intelligently pass upon this question. ,

AN INSURGENT DEFEAT.

file tubm Rebel! Roatrd *nd Cot U P e ei. Official telegrams from the Captain Genaral of Cuba, received at Washington, April 15, state that the Spanish troops have cut to pieces the insurgent band led by Gen. Maceo and Gen. Crombet Eleven

GEN. ANTONIO MACEO.

were killed, wounded or taken prisoners. Crombet was among the killed. Gen. Maceo was among the remnant of thi band who escaped, bit the report sayi they a're closely pursued in the woods, will) the expectation that they will b» overtaken.

A TERRIBLE DEATH.

Charley Schinstinu, the ball player, met with an awful death at Philipsburg. Pa Saturday afternoon, at the Warren foundry. where he was employed as a molder. A ton of molten Iron poured over him. almost burning his hands and feet from his ' body, while his hair and clothing wort burned away and his sight destroyed, yel he crawled out of this seething mass and lived for two hours, suffering untold ngonles. He was assisting in pouring a ton of molten iron into upright molds, when the chain holding the ladle broke, causing Schlnstino to fall into the pit, ths contents of the ladle dashing down at ths >am« time. The pit was twenty-five feel deep, but he managed to wade to the aids Kd crawl out. It was a most terrlbls [ht for the employes, and some of them wero so unnerved that, strong men v they are, they were forced to quit workt