Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE Fast week. Big Story from GmnUbnrg About a Mountain of Biackanakea Regiment Receives Warm Welcome Home—Prisoner Goes to Work. Abram Robeson, near Grantsburg, while hunting for a stray horse, which had been missing for two days, noticed a large black snake, which retreated toward a •cave formed by an overhanging ledge of rocks in one of the high bluffs surrounding bis pasture lands. His horse was found lying in this cavern, but covered by what looked to him like a mountain of snakes, so numerous were the reptiles. Robeson died to his home and secured his shotgun, with which he returned and opened fire ■until his cartridges were exhausted. After ■the battle he counted the bodies of 413 enakes lying around and over the body of bis horse, which was dead. Indiana Soldiers Return. The 160th Indiana volunteer infantry, After just one year of service, has return--ed to Indiana, having been mustered out At Savannah. The regiment was one of •the first ordered to Cuba after the evacuation. It was stationed at Matanzas. The twelve companies scattered to their respective towns at once. Every town that furnishes an organization extended a public reception. The colonel of the regiment, •George W. Gunder, lives at Marion, and most of the staff officers are from that •city. Ex-Prisoner Turns Ont Well. ' Henry Berner, twenty years a prisoner at Jeffersonville, and for the last year a guard, has accepted a position at Dayton. Berner was an expert machinist, having bad charge of the machinery at the institution, and a genius. He once made a clock frame inlaid with 2,500 different ©ieces of wood, which he sold for SIOO. He was sentenced to life for killing a man At Vincennes, and daring the twenty years be was confined his wife sought continuously for a pardon.

Within Our Borders. Greensboro will reincorporate. Wayne County druggists have organMany Indiana towns report house famines. Tenant mines, Waterman, closed indefinitely. Pieces of mastodon were dug up near Liberty. Brazil has 202 more school children than last year. Brookstown high school has been commissioned. James Howard, Brazil, found paralyzed tin a buggy. Incendiaries are getting in their work at Fort Wayne. Policeman Stratton, Anderson, died of epinal meningitis. Gold said to have been discovered in Blackford County. Work begun on the $500,000 Catholic church at Elwood. Henry Morris, wealthy bachelor, Henry ■County, tobk arsenic. Nine girls and two boys graduated from the Milroy high school. Vincennes militia company mustered in with fifty-five members. Michigan Central Railroad will build a mew dock at Michigan City. Thomas Baldwin and wife, Fairmount, have been married 66 years. Unknown man found hanging to a tree in the woods near Brookville. Wilbur Peters, New Albany, died of lockjaw. Stepped on a rusty nail. John Garrison, hermit, found unconscious in the road near Marshfield. The skeletons of a man and child were •dug up in a gravel pit near Auburn. A citizen of Avon pays his wife 25 cents a week to get up and build the fires. The task of vaccinating the 825 convicts at Michigan City has been completed. Elkhlrt has a new concern, the National Tablet Company, with $15,000 capittH. Isaac Deal, 61, old fisherman, killed on the Vandalla Railroad near Knightsville. Judge R. R. Stephens, Noblesville, bequeathed his entire estate, $25,000, to his widow. Residence of L. A. Williams, New Castle, wrecked by gas explosion. No one at home. J. C. Mendenhall, Evansville, wholesale •druggist, gone to the wall, with SIO,OOO liabilities. Indiana owners of high bred dogs will conduct field trials at Terre Haute this summer. 4 A trustee in St. Joseph County turned ■over all his property to meet a shortage in his accounts. A man worked the gas inspector game on a Fort Wayne preacher and took $8 ■and other valuables. Nicholas Kaschmarak, 66, Fumessville, died while being treated in a doctor’s office at Michigan City. The name of Oral L. Hall, Muncie, taken from the tax duplicate and drawn for a juror, was found to belong to a woman. Some unknown persons went to the barn of Rev. Marshall Pritchett, in Harrison township, and hung one of his work mules to a rafter. Miss Katy Parker, farmer’s daughter, near Franklin, married her father's hired hand while the old folks were visiting in Shelbyville. Frank Rylowicz, Kingsbury, found out all about a dynamite cartridge, and will only have a doctor bill to pay for obtaining the information. So many people have been calling to see the gate that fell on the little daughter of Peter Sutton and killed her, near Franklin, that he has been compelled to destroy it. Seven hundred or more miners in the southern Indiana coal fields have gone on a strike. The men demand that they be paid on the same basis as the miners in central Indiana—that is, 66 cents a ton for screened and 40 cents for unscreened coal. The body of Jesse Kinley was discovered in the bottoms below Evansville. He was a laborer on Diamond Island. ▲ few •days ago he was taken with the measles

PUNISH THE TRAITORS. There were tortes in the dark days of the revolutionary war, “copperheads” during the trying moments of the civil war; and there are traitors to the Government engaged in putting down the rebellion in the Philippines. While the peace treaty was before the Senate, Senators and Representatives openly conferred with the agents of Aguinaldo and gave comfort and encouragement to that treacherous enemy of all civilization. Since the ratification of the treaty “State officers and men of political prominence” have been urging volunteers in the Philippines to refuse to give further service to their country. Gen. Otis has informed the President that he has in his possession intercepted messages “clearly seditious and treasonable” addressed to officers and men in the volunteer regiments; and has been Instructed by the President to forward to Washington certified copies of the same. As with the tories of 1776 and the “copperheads” of 1860, punishment of these traitors should be swift and sure. There is not a loyal citizen who would stay the hand of the Government falling as heavily as ltmay upon them. When anti-expansion becomes treason, then it should be given a quietus.—Williamsport (Pa.) Grit. Atkinson a Vallandigham. In 1863, G. L. Vallandlgham, of Ohio, was going up and down the country denouncing the war for the Union as unholy, as a useless sacrifice of life, and urging the people to resist the draft By order of Abraham Lincoln he was sent beyond the Union lines. Some of his friends appealed to the President setting forth that the act was in violation of the constitutional rights of the citizen. In response Abraham Lincoln said: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father or a brother or a friend into a public meeting and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the boy that he is fighting for a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible Government. The Atklnsons and others who have attempted to send anti-war literature to our soldiers in Manila were Inspired by the same motive as the man whom Abraham Lincoln banished. It is probable that the man who banished Vallandigham would, if alive and in power, order Atkinson’s tracts Intended for soldiers to be thrown out of the mails. And he would now be denounced as he was then, and for the same reason.— Indianapolis Journal.

Needs Fu mi go tins:. There must be something radically rotten In a university with twenty-five professors who meet in public to hiss the President and talk treasonable stuff to the world. The University of Ohlcago needs an earthquake of righteons indignation. Its superfluous millions are breeding a peculiarly noxious kind of vermin. If there is no way to get rid of the creeping things the institution will be judged accordingly. It has an Instructor for every fifteen pupils. One individual gave it over $7,000,006. It appeals this year for $9,000,000. Its fumigation would cost about SIOO, and this will be a large enough gift under the circumstances.— St Louis Globe-Democrat

rovers the Case. The criminal code of the Nation contains the following paragraph: “Every person who incites, Bets on foot, assists or engages in any . rebellion against the authority of the United States, or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be punished by imprisonment not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than SIO,OOO, or both of such punishments; and shall, moreover, be incapable of holding any office under the United States."

The Chicago FUipiuoa.

The men denouncing the actions of the Government are not loyal citizens, and, as the opponents of Lincoln were traitors in 1863, so are the opponents of McKinley traitors in 1899.—Galesburg (IL) Mail. Edward Atkinson Is the C. L. Vallandigham of to-day, and every man who co-operates with him, whether that man lives in Boston or Chicago, is following in the footsteps of the Golden Circle conspirators—Chicago Inter Ocean. Not long ago the Illinois Legislature passed a bill against the exhibition of freaks. The law was violated by a public meeting held in Chicago by Von Holst and a few others for the purpose of protesting “against the Philippine policy of the present national, administration.” —New York Sun. The copperheads, those of 1864 and those of 1899, are of the same breed. But the Government will go right ahead in the face of their puerile assault, just as it carried our armies to victory and our country back to a united nation in spite of the copperhead rantings in ’64.—Macomb (Ill.) JouraaL The Impotence of such men as Winslow, Atkinson, Edwin Burritt Smith, Henry Wade Rogers and J. Laurence Laughlln to stir up mutiny among our troops in Luzon does not lessen in the least the criminality of their work, although it does reflect the highest credit upon the American soldien In the field.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The speeches delivered at the Central Music Hall, and even cheered by a majority of the crowd, are a shame to every American with the red Mood of two centuries of heroes in his veins.— Detroit Tribune. Prof. Laughlln knows 'as well as he knows that the flag Is In the Philippines that It Is there not as the emblem of tyranny and butchery; that it does “protect those over whom Ift floats,” and that it will continue to do to.—Minneapolis Journal.