Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — Page 9

HONOR TO JEFFERSON

DEMOCRATIC LEADERS MEET AT HIS TOMB. .Natal Day of the Dead Statesman la Fittingly Celebrated Life and Work* of the DemocrVtio Party’s « Founder Portrayed by Orators. Democrats at Monticello. The 153 d anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth was fittingly observed at Monticello, Va., where he lived and died, by a gathering of a large number of prominent Democrats from all sections of the country. Ths distinguished guests included Vice-President Stevenson, Secretary Herbert, Postmaster General Wilson, Attorney General Harmon, ex-Gov. Russell of Massachusetts, Chauncey F. Black and Xiawrence Gardner, president and secretary, respectively, of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, and nearly two scope erf Senators and Representatives, besides a number of national committeemen. The party left Washington in a special train, arriving in Charlottesville about noon and proceeded at once "to Monticello, about two miles distant from the town, where they were welcomed by Mr. Jefferson M. Levy, the present -Owner of the estate. The exercises commenced shortly after 2 o’clock, and upon the broad lawns were ■assembled several hundred people, who 'had come from the surrounding towns and farms. Three addresses were delivered—the first by Chauncey F. ‘Black, the secInd by ex-Gov. Russell and the third by Senator Daniel of Virginia. The greatest interest attached to the speeches of the two latter, Mr. Russell 'Standing on a “sound money” platform and Senator Daniel combating his position with a free

THOMAS JEFFERSON.

(silver argument. The party returned to Washington at night Ex-Gov. Russell concluded an eloquent address upon the career of Jefferson with the following reference to the money question: “We are in the midst of earnest agitation over our monetary standard. The agitation crosses party lines and tends to geographical 'division. It involves the welfare of our country and demands explicit and courageous treatment. To Jefferson it could never be an issue between Colorado and Wall street, or between a

debtor and a creditor class. His broad democracy abhorred geographical and class division. With tnlbpatriotism he would ask where lie the honor and credit of our common country, where rest the Interests of our whole people? For one I believe that our country’s honor demands scrupulous fidelity to her plighted word, honest payment of her obligations and that the people’s interest is best served by •strictly upholding here the monetary standard of civilized world. The secret of Jefferson’s power and leadership was his steadfastness to principle. With €rm belief in popular government, he trusted the intelligence of the people to correct passing errors and to establish safe and sound policies. Well has it been •said of him that he never in any stress ■deserted or even temporarily disavowed his principles. He never lost faith or courage. He did not trim his sails to every flaw on the political ocean, but waited through the longest unpromising days, with a noble patience, the powerful and ■steady gale which he was convinced would in time carry the nation upon her true course.” t

FILLED WITH LIES.

Police Characterization of H. H. Holmea’ Confession. Murderer H. H. Holmes' complete, •copyrighted confession of twenty-seven murders which he thinks he committed, and stories of six Intended victims who got away, has put thorns in the easy chairs that the Chicago police have been holding down so comfortably since the •arch fiend's conviction of the horrible Pitzel murder in Philadelphia. In Holmes’ confession the murderer of the Pitzel family lays claim to the glory -of being a wholesale murderer. He says that he has killed twenty-seven people in all, while he tried to kill six more, but they got away from him. He gives the names of nineteen and describes two more, though he claims to have forgotten their names. The remaining half dozen of the twenty-seven he claims to have killed he makes no further mention of, except to Include them in the totals of his list. The list Includes nine young women, eight men and four children. Holmes describes most of his murders ▼ery briefly and incompletely. Only in the murders of the Williams girls and the Pitzel family does he go into details. That HVhnes did not tell the truth, the vhok truth, and nothing but the truth in

his confession is generally believed by the police officials and Hie newspaper men of Chicago, who spent a month last summer Investigating Holmes’ career during his few years’ residence in the city. It seems to be the generally accepted idea that Holmes has'exaggerated.the number of his crimes in his almost insane craving for notoriety, and his morbid", desire'to be talked about and looked upon for the few

more brief weeks that remain to him on earth assa fiend incarnate. The police point out that several of Holmes' self-claimed “victims” are still alive. Robert Latimer, the ex-janitor of the “castle,” Is doing business with a red flag and lantern at an Englewood railroad crossing daily. Warner, another of his alleged victims, is reported to be .alive.— ——; ■■■;■ —; —■■ ■ ■ ■'; -

MASSACRE IN MEXICO.

Zimatlan Indiana Slaughter All Officials In Juqnela. A telegram from Oaxaca City, Mexico, says that the rebel Indians at the town of Juquela killed allthe town councilors, school teachers, local priest, chief of police and the telegraph operator—in fact, everyone holding a Government place. The people are in terror and troops have been sent for the relief of the town. The Indians began their plotting in Holy week, instigated by Indian lawyers, who informed them that thd new State taxes were unconstitutional, but the authorities paid no attention to the excitement among them, considering they were engaged in their usual drunken celebration of the season. But, procuring arms and matches, they made a rush for the town hall, and the prefect hastily closed the doors, they soaked,with petroleum and burned, thus effecting an entrance. They sacked the place, and, penetrating the private apartments of the prefect, grossly maltreated the women of hi* family, and then, turning attention to the officials armed servants, killed and wounded sacral. The Indians were possessed with fury, and it was absolutely impossible for a respectable inhabitant to control them, as all were drunk and maddened. The mob, after sacking the town hall, went to the Federal stamp office and assailed it, burning down the outside door with petroleum, which also communicated fire to the entire house, placing Collector Graciada, who was on the roof with his clerks, in a, condition of the utmost peril. They managed to escape by the rear, jumping for their lives. ’ Many shops were burned after being sacked, and the In*

JEFFERSON’S HOME.

dians decorated themselves with stolen finery. They all fled on the approach of the sdidlers, and are now in the hills.

CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT

Congressman Turner Mentioned for Second Flacevm Democratic Ticket. Congressman Heiyy G. Turner, who has been mentioned as Democratic candidate for Vice-President in case Mr. Cleveland is placed at the, head pf ths ticket, has long been a representative, and has come forward of late in the House as the friend of the administration, and it is known that he is a great favorite with the President He represents the Eleventh district of Georgia. His home when In that State Is in Quitman. %, He was not born in Georgia. He is a native

of Franklin County, North Carolina, and is 57 years old. Mr. Turner’s education was received ajt the University of Virginia, but he is not a graduate of that schooL In 1857 he was compelled to leave college owing to the death of hi* father. One year later he removed to Georgia and adopted the profession of a teacher. When the war came he joined issues with the Confederacy and fought as officer and pri vate,. . 1n.1865 he was admitted to the bar and soon became active in politics. He was presidential elector in 1872 and was three times elected to the Legislature of Georgia. He run for the Forty-seventh Congress and was elected. He has been ejected to every Congress since he first took his seat In the last election he had 3,000 more votes than his opponent

H. H. HOLMES.

HENRY G. TURNER..

RALLY ROUND PROTECTION.

Yes, we’ll rally to the rescue, we’ll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry, “Protection!” We will rally from the hillside, we’ll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle cry, “Protection!” Chorus: Protection forever, Hurrah, boys, Hurrah! Down with starvation; back to the law That protects our native land, boys; Then rally once again, shouting the battle cry, “Protection!’' We are joining in the work our fathers did who've gone before, Shouting the battle cry, “Protection!" And we’ll fill the party ranks with n million voters more, Shouting the battle ery, “Protection!” We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, wise and brave, Shouting the battle cry, “Protection!” And no longer shall our nation to bondholders be enslaved, Shouting the battle cry, “Protection!” So we’re waiting for election from East clear to the West, Shouting the battle cry, “Protection!” To bring a better era to the land we love the best Shouting the battle cry, “Protection!” Chairman Dingley’e Ideas. Chariman Dlngley of the Committee on Ways and Means said that “while it had been quite apparent for several weeks that the Dlngley measure could not pass, it was very gratifying to observe the vigorous and intelligent ef= forts that were made by the friends of protection to press the matter upon the attention of the Senate. It is a pleasure to me always to speak In terms of praise of the progressive and earnest work of the editor of the American Economist in thus pressing upon the attention of the Senate the deplorable situation of our industries, and the only means of relief at hand, or that seems available. It seems to me, however, that as the matter now stands It would he unwise to make further attempts to pass the bill when that result appears to be so hopeless.”

Strong Sentiment Everywhere. There has not been a moment of timfe since tlie> election of Mr. Cleveland, in the fall of 1892, that the farmers of this country could find any consolation in the situation. CThe boasted “wider foreign markets, which were to be given the producers of this country in exchange for opening up our own markets to foreign competition, have failed to appear. The American farmer, who thought he was not having a fair chance under the protective tariff of 1892, knows better now. The protection sentiment is quite as strong in the rural districts to-day as it is in the bigIgest manufacturing district in the land. What High Wages Mean. The only way to utilize all the powers of body and mind in a nation Is to have something which suits all. By this means the great army of the unem-i ployed can be diminished. A nation which keeps Its people employed Is lq the end sure to show the largest gains

even of wealth. Diversified industries educate the people and giye them a broader education than books can give, and so helps them on the road to greater civilization. We have already seen that greater civilization levels to higher wages, to greater production. In a country <flf-high wages there are greater inducements for inventors, for they can save more by their inventions, which are therefore more readily adopted.—Hon. Thomas B. Reed. ■ “"Feeling Their Way. Since the Britishers have secured a foothold in the "United States by a “touch” of their free-trade policy, they are more anxious than ever to give us a “touch” of their other policies. If one “touch” has proved satisfactory to them then another “touch” will be more so. In any assistance given to shifting the issue of the Persldential campaign away from protection, Americans will only be giving a boost to British predominance in the administration of American affairs. A Topic to Disease. How many American mills would have been kept busy, how many American workingmen would have been employed at good wages during 1895, if foreign-made goods had been kept out of this country, and our home people had been given an opportunity to make those goods? Think this over and discuss it with your free-trade neighbor. With Renewed Interest. The tariff became a tiresome subject a Tew years ago, but the blighting effects of the Wilson law have freshened the country’s interest in it. The people have learned through sore experience that protection and prosperity are indissolubly connected.—Journal, Kansas City,- Mo. Oriental Cotton Manufactures. Japan’s cotton manufacturing is progressive, that country having taken 5,537 bales of eotton from the United States last month, as compared -with only 1,600 bales in February, 1895. Another Costly Capture* Provision markets of the world were captured, in February, to the extent of $12,190,732. This was quite a trade, but, unfortunately, it was $1,315,000 less than in February, 1895.

Sale of Tobacco. J'he law regulating the manufacture and sale of tobacco is exceedingly rigid, regarding as manufacturers all persons whose business it is to sell leaf tobacco in quantities less than a hogshead, case or bale, or who sell directly to consumers or persons other than registered dealers or manufacturers. But by an especial provision farmers and growers of leaf tobacco are not regarded as manufacturers, and may sell leaf tobacco of their own growing. But the farmer or tobacco grower must not twist or otherwise manipulate his product. He may tie it up in hands or bundles and sell it in any quantity to whomsoever he pleases, but he may not delegate the business to another. He can not, for Instance, take his tobacco to a grocery or storekeeper and get the latter to sell It for him, for the sale must be his own personal act. His hired man may deliver the tobacco when sold, but the farmer must do the selling.

Bonds.

Few persons appreciate how mighty a guarantee of our national existence is afforded by the millions of United States bonds owned by the people. Every bondholder is directly interested, not only in the continuance of the government, but In its credit also, for If the government of the United States should cease to exist, Its bonds would be worth no more than those Issued by the Confederate States, which are no better than waste paper. While the dissolution of the Federal Government would not necessarily affect other obligations, such as municipal bonds and real estate mortgages, still there Is no doubt these would be greatly depredated in value by such a political earthquake. it.); Appendicitis, according to Prof. Dleulafoy of Taris, is gehcrally due to the progressive formation of a calculus analogous to t!he stones formed In the liver and kidneys. He thinks his theory Is confirmed by some recent experiments In which appendicitis was produced by surgical means In rabbits.

BRITAIN’S BIG SURPLUS.

Enormous Revenue Receipts Condition of Working Classen. In the British House “of Commons Thursday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, made the budget statement. He said that the surplus for 1895 and 1896 was £4,210,000, and lfe estimated the expenditure for the current year at £100,047,000. He said that this had been a Wonderful year, and one of unexampled revenue in spite of the fact that the expenditures hjtd been the largest since the great war. The surplus was the largest ever known, and a darger sum was devoted to the reduction of the national debt than ever known* The condition of the Working classes, he continued, jfldging from the consumption of tea, tobacco and sugar, had materially improved, and it was a remarkable fact that while the decrease in the exports and imports for tfie first six months amounted to £7,531,060 the increase for the second half of the year amounted to £28,228,00Q. Tea, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach further remarks, was driving coffee out of .the market and’British and Irish spirits were entirely displacing foreign spirits. The increase in the import of tea was 10,000,000 pounds from India and Ceylon and replacing so much Chinese tea. The increase in the import of tobacco was 108,000 pounds. The increase in the import of. tojjACco was £IOB,OOO over the estimate, chiefly for cigarettes. The customs authorities lje added, that £1,000,000 yearly was thrown in the gutter, in the shape of the ends of cigarettes and cigars. The imports of wines had increased £1,256,000; light wines were preferred. Beer had increased £617,000, the death duties were £2,881,000 and stamps £1,629,000. Referring to the estimates for the current year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the expenditures were placed at £100,047,000, and the revenue calculated upon was £101,755,000.

MADE BLIND TO BEG!

Young Children in Chicago Who Are Cruelly Tortured. The police of Chicago have unearthed a system 6f child torture which is almost without parallel in the world’s history. One morning recently a police officer saw a woman of distressing appearance sitting on the sidewalk. With her were three children, two of them being blind. The eye 3 of the little ones were inflamed and red. The woman by signs was begging the people who passed to drop pennies in a little box which was in front of her. The women and children were taken to a police station. During the course of the day a stalwart ltalian walked in and asked for them. He was Achille Masselli,'the husband of the woman and the father of the children. He was at once placed under arrest, for physicians had declared that the eyes of the little ones had been made blind with something like pepper or gunpowder. Both the man and the woman denied that anything had been done to the eyes of the little ones, but declared that they were born blind. From the investigation which has followed this startling discovery has developed the fact, so the police say, that the practice of blinding the eyes of young children so that they will be more “useful” ini begging is regularly carried on in Chicago. The blindness thus caused is pot always permanent, but in the case of the two children of Masselli, at least, it is very doubtful if their eyesight will ever be recovered.

CROWDS ATTEND BALL GAMES.

Total Attendance on Opening Dag Larger than Last Tear. Nearly 80,000 persons saw the six opening games in the National Baseball League Thursday This is somewhat larger than the total attendance last year, and is not far from the greatest number ever recorded on an opening day. The figures: 1895. * 1896. New York.. .18,000 Philadelphia 23,000 Baltimore .. .12,000 Baltimore ...11,200 Cincinnati .. .ll,oooCincinnati ...14,400 Louisville ..: 9,000 Louisvilje .. .10,000 St. Louis... .12,0005 t. Louis ....11,000 Boston ......15,000Washington . 9,256 Total 77,000 Total 73,856 Thip will serve to show that gwt enthusiasm is being shown everywhere over the national game, and seems to testify the predictions of the magnates that 1898 will be a phenomenally good year for baseball. .. Chicago, defeated. Louisville 4 to 2; Brooklyn worsted Baltimore, 6 to 5; St Louis scored 5 to Cleveland’s -2; Washington won from New York, 6 to 3; Boston scored 7, Philadelphia 3: and Pittsburg almost shut out Cincinnati, 9 to 1.

OPPOSES HIGH HATS.

Philip Fosdick, the Legislator Who Fathered the Anti-High Hat Bill. This is a portrait of the man who has made pleasure seeking in Ohio a process attended by difficulties. He is Philip Case

PHILIP CASE FOSDICK.

Fosdick, of Cincinnati, who has achieved fame by introducing into the Ohio Legislature the anti-high hat bill and by hav? ing it passed. Mulh, the United States consul at Magdeburg, the center of the German beet sugar industry, says the reidhatag will pass a sugar bill which will cheapen sugar in America, but will kill the infant beet sugar industry of Nebraska and California. ' -i— United States Consul Hanger at Bermuda reports to the State Department that the work of improving the ship channel there has been completed and vessels drawing twenty feet of water may come in at low tide directly to the wharves at Hamilton.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE' PAST WEEfc. Mine Operator Arrested for Issuing Metal Checks in Lien of Money— Successful Meeting of Southern Indiana Teachers, “Straw Money” Men Arrested. United States Marshal Hawkins, of Indianapolis, went down into the block coal mining district the other day and confiscated SBO,OOO of “straw money.” Seven mine operators and mine merchants-were arrested for selling these token coins as money. The men under arrest are Nathan Y, Dixon of the Summit Goal Company, Finney Strong of the Linton Supply Company, Frank Martin of the Linton Coal Company, John W. Wolford, a clothing merchant at Linton, and Wolford’s three sons. For some time it has been the custom of mine operators to issue to miners before pay day metal checks, which were made to represent money value. Merchants also issued the checks and they passed into general circulation in the mining district as money or its equivalent. The checks were known In the district as “straw money.” They circulated at a 10 per. cent discount usually, but always brought their full face value when presented to the company that issued them. The coins range in denomination from 5 cents to sl. When times were “hard” in the mining district it was the custom to do business almost exclusively with these cheeks. No effort was ever made to pass them outside tho mining district. So scarce is money in £he district that John W. Wolford, one of the men arrested, had to borrow money to pay ear fare. There were several thousand dollars of checks in his office. The men have been placed under bond of SSOO each. The Government recently sent an inspector into the district who reported Jto Washington the facts on which the prosecutions were ordered. Indiana Teachers Adjourn. The Southern Indiana Teachers’ Association, which closed its session at Waajfee ington Friday night, was generally credited with being the most interesting and best managed ever held. There was an enrollment of nearly 700. An interesting program was carried out. Resolutions were adopted favoring the building of an “.Abraham Lincoln Art Institute” and a committee was appointed to draft and send a memorial to Congress urging the maiter forward. Officers as follows were elected: President, W. H. Senour, Brookville; vice-president, Mrs. A. R. Hornbrook, Evansville; Mrs. Hattie Head, Washington; secretary, Jennie Deming, Shelbyviile; treasurer, J. A. Carnagay, Columbus; executive committee, Superintendent FeathergllL Profs. R. A. Ogg, T. A. Mott, W. H. Hershman and F. D. Churehell. Franklin was selected as the next meeting place, —rr Mias Garbison Is Arrested, At South Bend, Miss Harriet Garbison was arrested, charged with the theft of a horse and buggy from a man named Garwood, living near Laporte. The young woman is 18 years old and came from Starke County, Ind. She had been wording on the Garwood farm for eleven,weeks when she made up her mind to leave, takmg with her a horse and buggy and Mrs. Garwood’s gold watch. Two girls went with her, but the trio got into a fight and Miss Garbison left the others. They had driven in all over 100 miles, driving by night. Tiriag of the trip, Miss Garbison sold the buggy to a farmer for $35, and as she could not find sale for the horse, gave it away. Miss Garbison is said to have made a confession to Chief Cassidy.

All Over the State. At Mancie, William C. Pyle is dead of cancer, resulting from a strain received while lifting a heavy burden some two months ago. "He belonged in Bcllnire, 0., and was betrothed in marriage to Miss Ella Hutchings, of Muncie. Noah Arnold, a married man, about 40 years of age. a member of one of the most prominent Dunkard families of Indiana, attempted suicide by cutting his throat at Rensselaer. He will probably die. He recently lost his sight, which probably affected his mind. ' 1 About twelve years ago Miss Ella Abbott went to Lebanon and entered the millinery business. Two years later she disappeared. Thursday John O’Brien, of Lexington, Ivy., arrived in search of her. He claims she has a legacy amounting to several thousand dollars awaiting her. aSSjaisafow to her has been found. Hallie Shafer was released from jail at Muncie by Judge Ivoons, after being kept for three months on the charge of being illegally married. In January Miss Shafer, who is white and quite pretty, was married to James Walker, a negro. Each was placed in jail and have since been held. In his finding Judge Koons says the white or black woman who marries the opposite sex is not guilty of crime according to Indiana statutes, but that it is a felonious act on the part of the man, and Walker will likely get a term in State prison. The Shafer girl has pnrents near Newcastle, who are highly regarded. *' * . An appalling accident occurred on the Belt Railway Monday morning at Bedford, when an engine and one car loaded with stone went through a sixty-five-foot trestle, killing five men instantly and badly injuring two others, one of whom has since died. The dead: Bevins, Sherman Carpenter, Charles Davis, Warren Leonard, Masterson, Charles Ogden, The injured: Henry De Vaull, Menzer. Henry De Vaull, the brakeman, was standing on the rear end of the car and jumped whon he felt the trestle giving way, catching on the timbers and thus saving his life. The injuries of Engineer George Menzer, aside from being scalded, nrnount only to a small cut In the bead and one in the breast.. After much difficulty Sheriff Strahn made a clever capture of two strangers at Winchester. They were selling pocketknives and revolvers on the street When searched ninety-six knives and revolvers were found on them. They gave fictitious names. v ■->£:' Mrs. Mary Suhr, of Kokomo, has sn&d Charles Kirkhoff for $30,000 damages for breach of promise to marry. Mary alleges that Charles jilted her, yes Suhr, and married a sweet creature named Sophie Syrup. If this candied statement can be substantiated we hope Charles will be stuck for a good round -