Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — COOL AND INSOLENT. [ARTICLE]

COOL AND INSOLENT.

ALLEGED CONDUCT OF A CARELESS DRIVER. Secretary Carlisle Favors the President’s Financial Plawr-Wp ; uld Retire Treasury Notes - Fredicta Suri>luf /Next Year—Faure Is Disgusted. 1. How He Killed J. B. Harvey. Says the Chicago Post: Jaunty nn< l flippant is Capt. Michael J. White, of the Seventh Regiment, I. N. G., and driver for John Sexton & (.’o., although iriffirisonment in tLe Chicago avenue station on the charge of murder might be conducive of gravity if not of fear. While driving off the north end of State street ■bridge- _ Friday evening White ran into and killed 2 John B. Harvey, a.derk for Truax, Green & Co. White did not stop to see how badly hurt his victim was, btft. whipped up his horses, as the police claim. Later, when the police heard that it was one of John Sexton & Co.’s wagons which ran over Harvey, and went to that firm’s barns, White cheerfully volunteered information as to the identity of all the other drivers, allowing one of them, O'Neil, tt> be locked up Saturday night and held by the coroner's jury without bail. Not until he was directly charged with the crime did he admit it. Carlisle's Report. The long-looked-fsr report of Secretary Carlisle was sent to Congress Monday afternoon. The report as a whole is one of the most elaborate and thorough expositions of the business of the financial branch of the Government that have been made to the public in many years, and it is especially valuable for the extended Observations under the headiue ‘'The Condition of the Treasury and the Currency.” As forecasted in press dispatches, Secretary Carlisle holds that the. situation does not require legislation for raising additional revenue by Taxation at present. He estimates a deficit of $17,000,000 the current fiscal year, ending July 1, 1895, and a surplus of $7,000,000 at the end of Ihe year next following “upon the assumption that the progress now being made toward the restoration of our usual state of prosperity will continue without interruption.” Faure May Resign. The Paris correspondent of the London Pnll Mall Gazette telegraphs Monday afternoon that he is in a position to state that M. Faure, president of the French republic, will resign before March next. He adds that a fresh family scandal has been unearthed in connection with the President's family. The correspondent also says: "Daily hundreds of newspapers express disgust at the campaign of slander; but there is not an article among them which does not instill the venom of calumny.” The Pall-Mall Gaaette intimates that the secret fund of 200,000 francs which the Elysee palace expended upon the press was not wisely Murder by Mail. Two pieces of lead pipe packed with gunpowder were mailed to George M. Pullman and Philip I>. Armour Monday morning at- Chicago. Two .;liyga..-JEene-saved by the action of the postal authorities and the warning of the man suspected of sending the infernal machines. The vnere sliding of the lid of either of the boxes containing the lead pipe would have been sufficient, to cause an explosion and the selected victims would have been blown to pieces. S. A. Owen is the man who gave warning, and the postal authorities believe he also planned the mailing of the bombs.