Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 51, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 October 1889 — Page 2

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THE TARIFF DENOUNCED.

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GRAY'S MASTERLY ARRAIGNMENT.

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

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New York Democrats met at Syracuse on the 1st. Jones of Binghamton was

-mnAt tamnorarv Chairman and made a

speech eulogistic of President Cleveland's administration. The platform says : The Democratic party of the State o-

New York, in convention assembled, renews the pledges of its fidelity to Demo:

mtic faith and reaffirms of the national

platform of 1S8S, adopted at St. Louis

We have not advocated and do not advocate

free trade, hut we steadfastly advocate

the principles of tariff reform, believing

that adherence to the right alone carries

in itself the certainty of triumph. We

heartilv indorse the honest and fearless

administration of the National Govern

ment by Grover CHeveland.

Second We charge that the Republican

party at the last federal election obtained power in the nation by corruption and

false pretenses, by intimidation and coercion of .voters; by promises unperform

ed; and by shameless trafficking of Cabine t

and otheroffices in its gift to the highest

bidders; and though its candidates by these unscrupulous means received more than half the votes of the Electoral College, its doctrines and principles were repudiated

by a majority of the voters of the country.

We arraiem the chief Executive of the

United States for a disgraceful violation

of the pledge contained in his letter of acceptance," to-wit: In appointments to every grade and department fitness and not party service should be the essential and discriminating test, and fidelity and

efficiency the only sure tenure of office ;T

in that not in exceptional instances, -but

"with sweeping hand he has removed hund

"reds of honest and capable officers hefore

the expiration of the terms for which they

Were appointed.

Third Maintaining as heretofore, that

improper combinations of capital which

nmit production, nx tue price ox com

modities regardless of the cost of production, reduce the wages of labor and crush

out the smaller independent dealers, and

thus strangle legimate competition, are

conspiracies. -"

, The Republican party in this State is

next arraigned for having, last year, made

- the heaviest tax rate since . 1S75, being an

increase of from 19,000,000 to $12,500,000

Governor Hill is, on the other hand.lauded

for having saved to the people, by his

vetoes, about $3,000,000. The plank dealing

with the excise question, in part, thus: We do not favor the unrestricted sale o

intoxicating liquors on the one hand, nor prohibition on the other hand. We believe - that the liquor, traffic should be restrained and regulated by just and equitable excise laws, rigidly enforced, which laws,in their operation, should be substantially uniform throughout the State. We believe all excise revenues, whether called license fees or taxes, should belong to the local treasuries of the localities under whose authority licenses are issued, to be applied in -reducing the burden of local taxation. We oppose the passage of. the prohibition amendment, upon which the next Legislature is required to act, and we denounce hypocrisy of the Republican party of this State, and of the States of Massachusetts Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, in sub , mitting, or proposing to submit, prohibi-"

non amendments only to defeat them at

the polls: We arraign the Republican

party for ils dishonest treatment of the temperance question. Frank Rice was nominated for Secretary of State.

Thte Iniquitous Spoliation Syatem Han. died Without. Gloves A, large and Entbnsiastic Meeting.

A tariff reform meeting was hold at Scottsburg, IncL, Saturday, Sopt, 21. The attendance was very large and

the enthusiasm great. Speeches were

made by Ex-Governor G ray, Senator Voorhees and others.

Gov. Gray spoke as follows: Fellow Citizens:- The assembling

of such a large concourse of; citizens

here on this occasion, at a time when no political campaign is being waged,

at a time when no election is pending,

at a time when I know that the people of Indiana prefer political quietude, is

an evidence that you, my countrymen, do not regard the present as a time,

though it be an off- year, that justifies

inattention to public questions which

deeply concern your welfare. It is no

wonder' that the people are aroused

when it is apparent that extravagance

is again to. mark. the administration of national affairs. It is no wonder that the oeoole are aroused when it is evident

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THE FURNACE GAVE WAY. A Frightful Furnace Accident in Car. f negie5 Steel Works at Bnuldoek, Pa. A frightful accident happened at Carnegie's Edgar Thompson steel works at Braddock to-mght Capt W. R. Jones, ' general manager of the immense steel works, and a number of workmen were horribly, and perhaps fatally, -burned., Physicians attending Capt. Jones cannot state Thursday as to his chances for recovery. Furnace C," one of the largest blast furnaces, gave way at the bottom and tons of molten metal, like water escaping from a reservoir, ran'out. The furnace had not been working properly during the day, andCaptb Jones called in the evening to see if he could not ascertain the cause. He W9s working with a number of men near the base of the furnace when the break occurred. In an instant names of fire shot forth and hot metal exploded and feillike - sheets of water. Tons of the molten me tal ' poured out of the furnace, and that any person near the furnace escaped instant death is regarded as almost a miracle. The injured are? Capt. Jones, general manager, horribly burned. Michael Quinn, aged twenty-five, so badly burned that his flesh peeled off with his -clothes. He can live only a few hours. John Mokake, badly burned about thebody,but not fatally. Capt Ned Quinn, burned about arms and chest; will recover. Two or three other workmen, whose names could not be learned on account of their serious injuries and the excitement in Braddock, are in charge of the company's physicians

ana may not recover. . Captain Jones is i well known throughout the United States

and Europe, wherever iron and steel are

manufactured, ue receives a salary of

per year and a per centage on the

product of the large mill, making his in

come almost 350,000 a year. It was he who took 300 men to Johnston at his own ex

pense a couple of days after the flood and remained there two weeks, directing the

work of rescue. He is about sixty years of

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Electric street cars were a failure at Richmond, Va. Four hundred union bricklayers of New York are on a strike. The St. Paul Chamber of Commerce has announced itself in. favor of Chicago for : the World's Fair. Edwin Booth and Madame Modjeska began their- season together at Pittsburg Monday night in the "Merchant of Venice." .. ,, . . , "' Methodist Parson Fletcher L. Wharton was arrested while at a banquet given by " a Milwaukee Grand Army Post in hishon- . or. . The charge was slander. Laporte will enjoy the sensation of a female pastor. Rev. Miss Mila F. Tuppor -- having t accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Unitarian Church. ... . , . Information has has been received that pleuro pneumonia has made its appearance in England among cattle imported from : the nortnwestern States. W. M. C. Young, a somewhat prominent man of St. Louis, who has been making love to different young ladies and to one or two became engaged, was publicly horsewhipped Tuesday, by the mother of one of

the girls. It was learned that he had a

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that the land errabbers and subsidized

in favor with

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corporations are

the government. It is no wonder that

the people are aroused when they see

for the tirst time in many years a

rapid increase of the national debt.. It It is no wonder that the people are

aroused when the President boldly in

forms them that he is m favor or reviving the old Republican policy of

subsidizing corporations.

It seems to me that it takes a good

deal of assuranco to proclaim sucu a

policy in the light of the past history

of Renubliean subsidation of railroad

corporations with the people's lands

and the nation's bonds, bet us revive our commerce by reforming the tariff

that destroyed it and then there will exist no necessity to subsidize mail

. . - - steamship corporations with the peo

ple's money, .... .

I do not believe that there is a citi

zen in Indiana to-dav, whatever his

- . - . W ' . .- - political proclivities may be, who does not believe and feel and would say

if he , were enven an honest ana un

prejudiced expression to his thoughts,

that the best interests of the country were not conserved by the election of Harrison and the return of the Repub

lican party to power. Ask yourselves,

mv fellow-citizens, in the auiet of

your own homes, what it was that the

Democratic administration under

Grover Cleveland did during its ad

ministration of the government that

did not meet vour approval and see

if you find an answer that in your hon

est judgment justifies tho result of the

last election. I feel that I can say

without the fear of contradiction, that

the people did not vote to discontinue

the Democratic administration under

Cleveland because it was the first ad

ministration to recover back to the

people millions upon millions of acres of the public lands that have been

given to railroad corporations by Re

publican administrations.

Nor because it was the first admin

istration since the close of the war to exercise care and control, over the

public domain, protecting the rights

of the people thereto, u

Nor because it was the first admin

istration to oppose alien acquirements

of our public lands,

Nor because it was the first administration since the close of the war to

begin the rebuilding of the navy.

Nor because it was the first adminis

tration since Ithe close of the war to

recognize that a public office is a public trust. And that this is a govern

ment of the people and for tho people, and should- be administered in the in

terest of the people and the whole peo

ple, ahd not in the interest of special

classes,-and, therefore, sought to re

lieve the people of the burden of unnecessary taxation, believing unneces

sary taxation to be unjust taxation.

No, my countrymen, the Democratic

administration under Cleveland was not condemned at the ballot box on

account of any fair and honest objec

tion that could be found against it.

ihe defeat of the Democratic party

and tariff reform was encompassed bv

debauching the elective franchise and y gross, misrepresentations in relation to the tariff and by promise of good

times if tariff reform was defeated and

the Republican protection policy con

tinued by the election of Harrison promises and misrepresentations that

have already turned to ashes upon the

lips. of those who made them, and will yet, like sour grapes, set their teeth on edge and cause the people to rise

up in 1892 and hurl the Republican party from power. You were told, my fellow-citizens, during the last , cam

paign, by every Republican speaker

from Harrison down, that if you would

elect Harrison and thereby return the

Republican party to power, that the

country would then understand that the present war tariff would not be

disturbed and that as soon as the country was assured that the blessings of our monopolistic system of high taxation, which has made millionaires

by the thousand and poor men by the

million, would be continued; that the business of the country would immediately revive; that the idle manufac

tories would again be in motion; that the furnaces would vomit forth their fire and smoke by day and by nierht,

and that their activitv would bo n

great as to moke the iron pigs fairly squeal with joy; that the mines, would be worked as never before, giving ample employment to the miners at remunerative wages; that all the arteries Of trade would pulsate with new life; and, above ail, and better than all, would be the Harrisonian home market that would be established by his election and the undisturbed continuance of the war tariff; a home market that would consume all the products of the American farmer at much higher prices than could be obtained abroad. And so solicitous was Harrison for the people's welfare, and so fearful that they might by neglect or inattention fail to understand and be informed as to the great benefit that would accrue to their various interests and occupations by the establishment of the great home market which would surely spring up on his elevation to the Presidoncy, that he procured the people to

be brought before him at University Park in 'the city of Indianapolis, the great Mecca of the Republican protec

tion monopolist during the campaign.

The people were requested to come in

pelegations, each delegation representing itsown: particular interest and occupation, that he might fully oxplai a to each the blessings of the monopoly

war tariff and the groat home market that was soon to come. One day was set apart for the farmer, another for the laboring people, another for the

railroad men, another for the commer

cial travelers and a special day for the

miners. Ihe people came and thev

were told in eloquent language of the great benefits that would accrue to

them and their occupation if thev

would return the Republican party to

power and thereby continue the monopoly war tariff.

Election day came; Harrison got the Presidency and 150,000 a year, and every monopolist in tho .country shouted with joy; but what did the people got? As soon as Harrison was inaugurated Carnegie and other monopolists notified their workmen that their wages would bo reduced 20 per cent., and tho very miners of Clay

county, who came to hoar Harrison at University park, were notified of a reduction on their already starving wages of only $5.75 per week. The price of tho farmer's, product has gone

down and ho has not been able to find tho home market that Harrison promised him. The commercial travelers

have experienced the dullest season

that they have known in a dozen rivi . j f ; i .

years. J. no manuiaccories are numig

all over the country, and a million oi laboring people are out of employ

ment, and fully 50,000 families suffer

ing for the necessaries of life. Up to this time the arteries of trade have

not pulsated with new life, instilled

into them by tho defeat of tariff reform, but at last the people are awak

ening to a realizing sense of tho. situa

tion. They are beginning to under

stand the. true workings of the Avar tariff and how it affects tho industrial musses, and cannot longer be deceived. The tariff monopolists have exhausted their vocabulary of deceptive pleas. It will take something more in tho future than tho promise of a Harrisonian home market something more than high-sounding words and glittering generalities, portray ing the blessings of high taxes to uphold a system of taxation that gluts the market with the products of protectod monopolies, creates and protects combines and trusts to such an extent ss to enable them to control tho markets and fi x their own prices ior their commodities, which, in many instances, they sell at lower prices in foreign markets than they do to the people at home. And that is precisely the kind ... of a home market that the present tariff has established for the people of this country, a home market for tho sale of the products of protected monopolies at fixed prices, while the price of the farmer's product is fixed oy tbe market at Liverpool in competition with the whole world. We exported during the last fiscal year $127,191,687 bushels of wheat. These exports, my farmer friends, fixed the price of your grain. When wheat goes up in price in Liverpool,, it goes down in New York, in Indianapolis and in every city and towu in the United States.

No person is taxed to increaso the

prices of the farmer's product. The

farmer has to take such prices ss the

markets of the world arive him, but

the price of everything that the f armer

uses, his farming implements, his house

hold goods, and everything he wears,

from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, is enhanced in price by the tariff, but does not enhance tho price Of a single article that the farmer produces for sale. The injustice of the present war tariff toward the farming

interest is made apparent by the gov

ernment statistics, which show that

prior to its enactment over half the

nation's wealth was in the hands of the farmers, while to-day they do not own one-sixth of the wealth of the country. And when we consider that man derives his sustenance from the tillage of the soil; that without its cul

tivation he could not exist: that the

prosperity of every business and occu

pation in the country depends upon the

prosperity of the farmer, not only justice but the welfare of all classes de

mands that the burden placed on the

agricultural classes by the war tariff

should be removed. Neither will the scarecrow of free trade, set up by the

protectionist, any lonsrer deceive the

people. Tariff reform does not mean free trade. It moans a just and equit

able system of taxation, reduced in

amount to the requirements ana ne-

cessmes ot the government, uen a

system of taxation would be protection,

for the reason that it would be just to

all classes.

But the present tariff that taxes

common pine lumber, that is used in

the construction, of humble homes, $2 pel thousand feet, and does not tax

satin wood,, rosewood and other fine woods imported and used in decorating

the homes of the rich; that taxes com

mon window crlass 66 per cent. ; tin

ware, 45 per cent. ; knives and forks,

50 per cent. ; common dress goods, 52

per cent. : clothing", 56 per cent. : fur

niture, .35 per cent. ; carpets, 47 per

cent. ; flannel, 69 per cent. ; knit goods, 61 per cent. ; sugar 79. por cent. ; rice,

112 per cent. ; and the wagon and

farming implements of the fanner, and does not tax the income on the securi

ties of corporations, nor the incomes of the rich: that taxes those who are

the least able to pay taxes and does

not tax those who are the most able to pay; that taxes the poverty .of the country and not its wealth, thereby protecting capital and oppressing labor, is not entitled to the name of protection and can not long exist before the scrutiny of a just and enlightened public opinion. A quarter of a century has lapsed since the close of the war and yet it is insisted that the present war tariff, which was enacted during the war under the pretense of raising revenue to help defray the greatest war expenditure which the world ever witnessed, shall bo continued indefinitely. No person in or out of Congress pretended at the time of its enactment that it was for any other purpose than to raise revenue, and all agreed that it was intended only as a temporary measure which is so expressed in the title of the acts, and had not the war come upon us, no political party or politician would have dared to propose such an increase of the tariff. There was great hurry after the close of the war to relieve the corporations and incomes of the rich of all war taxes and it was done. Now my countrymen, do you not think it is about time that the farmers and laboring people were being relieved of at least a portion of the war tax? You vill remember, my countrymen, that during the last campaign, when the

tariff reformers advocated a reduction

of tho average tax from 47 to 42 per cent, (a reduction of only 5 per cent,) what a torrent of opposition was

aroused by the protectionists all over

the country, and they poured their

money out like water to carry tho

election and defeat the reduction. The

protectionist and monopolist tell you, my fanner friends, that this war tax

is a good thing for you and a good

thing for the business of the country.

Then why not put the tax back again

on corporations and incomes of the rihp

Thoy toil you that hih taxes are a

good thing for you but not for corpora

tions and the wealth of the country.

The truth of history is that protectionists took ad vantage of the excite

ment of the war times and the exi

gencies of the war to procure the enactment of a tariff that .would enrich them at the expense of the people. Its enactment was not dictated by patriotic

impulses, but by avarice.. Had the motive for te enactment been solely

to raise revenue to support the Government during the war, a much lower tariff would have been adopted. Tho present tariff was enacted to prevent competition and not to raise revenue, as tho nite of duty fixed by the tariff that existed prior to the war would have produced more revenue during the war. and the revenue would have gone into the Treasury. The difference between a Democratic tariff for revenue

and a Republican monoply tariff for

protection is, under a Democratic tariff for revenue the tax is levied and collected at the custom house and paid

into tho Treasury., while under the

present Republican monoplv tariff tho

principal part of the tax is levied and

collected at the shops and storehouses of tho monopolists and goes into their

pockets. A Democratic tariff for

revenue is a tariff to support the Government. A Republican protective tariff is a tariff to support and

build up private interests. Every

citizen should be willing to be taxed to support the Government. No citizen

should bo willing to Do taxed to support private interests to build up private fortunes, Tho people have been

taxed over since the war to protect and

support private interests, and tho re

sult of such a system has been to

rapidly aggregate the wealth of the

country in tho hands of the few.

Prior to the enactment of the present

war tariff, there were not twenty men

in tne united Mates who coma oe called millionaries, and only one man worth over two millions, and ho had accumulated his fortune without tho

aid of protective legislation.

Now it is alleged by learned econo

mists, who have taken great pains to

cullect statistics in relation to the wealth of the country, that there are over twenty-five thousand individuals in the country worth over a million dollars each, and some of them worth as much as two hundred millions, and that these 25, 000 individuals own over half of the private wealth of the nation. Estimating our present population at only 60,000,000, one-twenty-four-hundredth of the population own half of the private wealth of the country. Now let us contrast the present distribution of wealth with that which existed up to the time of the enactment of tho present war tariff. Our present form of Government may be said to have commenced when the constitution went into force, or when the first President was inaugurated, April 80, 1789, and from that date to the enactment of the present war tariff was seventy-five years three quarters of a century . During all that time there wore not twenty individuals in the country worth over a million of dollars each, the wealth of the country being diffused among tho people. Daring

the past twenty-five years one fourth of a century under the present war

tariff, there have been created million

aires bv the thousands, the wealth of

the country has been concentrated in

the hands of tho few, monopolies, com

bines and trusts have been built up

which control the markets and dictate

the wages of labor.

This rapid accumulation of great

wealth by the few, through special

privileges granted by the Government, created an inordinate de

sire for riches. It is rapidly taking

possession of the public mind .and

threatens to become the ruling passion

of the nation. All history shows that

when avarice becomes the ruling passion of a nation, its days of usefulness to mankind are numbered. Daniel

Webster said in one of his gi

speeches that 4 'liberty can not long

endure in any country when the tend

ency of legislation is to concentrate

wealth in the hands of the few." -v

The question of tariff reform should

receive the immediate and con tinned

attention of tho people. Neither party

ties nor religious creed should prevent

the people from giving it that serious consideration that its importance de

mands. The present tariff should not

be allowed to exist until the reaction

against it majr become so violent as to

demand legislation that will embarrass capital. Capital should not be

wrongfully assailed nor unjustly leg

islated against, but capital can take

care of itself without special legisla

tion in its favor. It is the masses of

the people tho poor who need the

fostering care of tho government.

Abraham Lincoln said in one of his

messages to Congress: There is one

point to which 1 ask attention, it is

the effort to place capital on an equal

footinsr with if not above labor in the

structure of the government. I bid

the laboring people beware or sur-

rendering a power which , they already possess, and which, when surrendered,

will surely bo used to close the door of

advancement to such as they and fix

new disabilities and burdens upon

them until all of their liberty shall be

lost." Again he says: "Labor is prior

to and independent of capital. Capital

is only the fruit of labor, and never

could have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is much the su

perior and deserves much tho higher consideration.11

ihe Kepubiican party to-day is as radically wrong, and its position as in

defensible on the question as was that

of the pro-slavery advocate during the

days of slavery. The pro-slavery ad

vocate contended that slavery was the

normal condition of society, and that

it was right for capitalists to own

slaves and to appropriate the fruits of

tho slaves1 toil to his own use. The Republican party of to-day contends that it is right to tax tbe laboring and producing classes for the bene

fit of capital. In other words, that it is right to tax one man for the hone-lit

of another man. Tho principle in each case is the same; both are founded in injustice and oppression, and the people will ere long bury by their ballots the present system of unjust and oppressive taxation as deep as they buried tho oppression of slavery.

CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

A TRIUMPH OF GALL.

Tho Standard Oil Company Claims to laterally Own the Earth; In a oaso on trial at Findlay, O,, Friday tbe Standard Oil Company gave eiu oxa mplo of its far-reaching gall. The Standard seeks to restrain a railroad frcm passing over land on which it has oil and gas leases. The Standard people assume that when a farmer leases them his laud for oil and gas purposes, ho, by that act, relinquishes all control of his property, except for agricultural uses; that he can not oven lay out a nice track upon it for his own use, or divide it into town Jois, without first obtainiug the consent of the oil company; that the farmer has no rights whatever in,on or about the premises, only such as pertain to purely agricultural pursuits; that ho cannot construct a roadway or drain a swamp up ou his own lauds without infringing upon the rights which tho Standard company obtained when it socured an oil and gas leuso upon his promises ; in short, tho Standard oil company in this suit claims an absolute control of all lands upon which they bold leases for

ail uses, purposes and privileges other

than

tor

Crnwfordsvillo has tennis tournaments. Hog cholera is reported from Mai tin

county. .

South Bend has a policeman named

Kosczorowski.

Monticello is afflicted with the roller

skating craze.

Inks and Ivor.v is the "battery'1 of a

Goshen ball club.

Tho pickel crop at Walkcrton is estimated at 100,000 bushels this year. New factories are new locating in Anson at the rate of about one a week. Two English syndicates are trying to get possession of the Bass Iron Works at Ft. Wayne. Two men, unidentified, wore killed by a Vn ml alia work train at Glendale, near Torre Haute. Joseph S. Miller, of Danville, tho" first man in Indiana to volunteer in the late war, died, Tuesday. The attendance at the State Fair Thurs day was tho largest in the history of the State Hoard of Agriculture. The steam dummy lino between Muncie and some factories about two miles from the city, was opened Monday. Cruelty to animals is so common in Columbus that the Society for Prevention of Brutality is to be revived.

Laurel Fugit of Jefferson villc, tost his

life in a burning building, Friday, while trying to save that of his dog.

A community six miles west of Mont-

pelier is being scourged with typhoid fover.

Eight, funerals were held in one day.

John Walters, of Richmond, while play

ing oase nan, was nit behind tuo car by a

wild pitched bail and died three hours

after.

Fire destroyed the stores 1 of Samuel

Cami audlsoiu McCammon, at West Point,

uecutar county, ..bunuay nignt, cau&ing a

total loss of $12,000. A novel striko has been inaugurated by

the scholars of Harwich school. The

pupils demand shorter hours at lessons and

better teachers ol the daily process ob

served. W. W. Dunn, of New Albany, while rid

iug on top of a freight car on the Monon

Lme, Wednesday, was struck by the

bridge crossing Lime Creek and instantly

killed.

liev. A. i. wane, supernumerary mem

ber of Southeast Indiana Conference, was

Friday found guilty of immorality and

expelled from tho Church Conference and

Ministry.

The man who murderously assaulted

Sister Camilla at Emporia, Kausasi, was

not John Murry. Murry was arrested at

Terre Haute, Saturday. He promptly

established an alibi.

J. M. M. McClolland, agent of .the Michi

gan Central Railway, was Tuesday found

to bo short $1,200 in his account?. His

father made tho defalcation good and he

will not be prosecuted. Lightning rod sharks secured a contrac

for minor repairs to the electric protec

tion on William Walkup's farm house, in Allen county, aud the contract afterward

turned up in the form of a note calling for

$140. ,

The largo flouring and heading-mills of

Elmer Wilson, at Caaa, Jennings county,

with all the machinery, a large lot of grain

and flour anu other materials, were burned

by an incendiary lire. Loss, $8,000; no in

surance. A large barn on the farm of John Roche,

near Huntington, burned, Saturday night,

with a large amount oi grain and farming implements. Loss, in the neighborhood of

$3,000; no insurance. Cause of the un known.

Theodore Foust was playing circus with a number of young playmates in Martinsville, Sunday, when, in doing the flyingtrapeze act, he fell some distance to the

ground, broke an arm and was injured in

ternally.

Dr. F. I Pond, a wealthy member of

the First M. E. Church, of Aurora, was tried before a jury of his fellow church

members Monday. He was found guilty

of lying aud dishonesty and expelled from

tho church.

Considerable building is going on this

.year on tho road between Mishawaka and

South Bend, on the south side of the St.

Joseph. It will not be many years before

this beautiful road will be a continuous

street between the two towns.

Mrs. Catoll, the wife of a Terre Haute

puddler,-poured coal oil over her husband's bed clothing and sot him on fire. He was horribly burned, but the hospital physicians believe ho will recover. She was

arrested and says that he had ill-treated

her. She will be examined as to hor sanity Waldo Hill, a lightning-rod agent of Fort Wayne,, was arrested for constructive larceny, having swindled Wm. Walkup, a

farmer of Perry township, out of 9133 by

the lightning-rod trick. Hill lies grown

rich from tho profits of his business, but a jury of farmers will probably cut his

career short.

The new saw mills belonging to the Ohio Fails Car Works at Jeffersonville,

were destroyed by tiro Thursday. The

flames were discovered about midnight

and a call was sent to Louisville for assistance. Two engines were sent over the river and succeeded in saving the car work shops. Tho loss is about $35,099. In

sured.

Eli Howes, of Memphis near Jeffersonville. made 176 net on one acre of black

cap raspberries this year. Tho fruit grow

ers of this section will plant about 20,000 neach trees, not to mention other fruit

trees, and set out nearly 500,000 berry

plants. Tho area of fruit growing is rapid

ly increasing, and it will not be !.ong until all the available land on the knobs and bluffs will be covered with orchards and

berry gardens. Judge A. A. .Chopin, of the Superior Court, Fort Wayne, is the victim of a mistako so peculiar that it has probably never

before occurred. The Judge is the owner

of a lot in Fort Wayne, and recently he decided to build a handsome iesidouce. Plans

wore made, aud in due course of time the

house was finished and ready for occupation, when it was discovered that it had been built on tho wrong lot. The Judge is now negotiating with a house mover. Patents were issucd.to Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows : Martha A. Carter, Amo,fruit-canner; Edward Dawson, Terre Haute, vise; Chas. N. Ellis, Now Albany, gatelatch ; Henry Fatic, Middlotown, cane or corn harvesting machine; Phillip J. Hurrah, Bloomfield shaft-holder for vehicles; Geo. E. Richetts, Goshen, brush for moistening the sheets of copying-books; Robert S. Taylor and M. M. Slattery, Fort Wayne, automatic synchronizing commutator. . . W. J. Porriu leit on pur table, Saturday

evening, a young twig cut irom an appio

tree tho second growth for this year

that is four and one-half inches in length,

and bears at the point four young half -blown blossoms, and between them a

young apple, also of second growth, that has attained tho size of an ordinary

pigeon's egg. vjii tuo same ulmu, u jow

inches below this 44 freak," wore several

large, full grown and fully matured apples of the "grindstone" variety,--Seym our

Democrat. . ..

A daring robbery was committed three

miles west of Scottsburg, Sunday night.

Jim Boatman, a mere boy, hat recently

received $3,000 on tho death of his father. Ho was in tho house alone with

another boy when two persons entered threatening to chop them up with axes unless tho .money was given up. The

floor in their hurry to bo gone. They escaped, but a neighbor and brother of Boatman's stepfather named Johnson, only fifteen years old, is. suspected. He is dodging the authorities. The single-tax advocates did not attend the State Conference at Indianapolis Thursday in great numbers. A series of resolutions setting forth their beliefs were

ndonted and it was decided to ask Robert

Porter, Superintendent of the Eleventh

Census to collect statistics of the number

jf persons owning. their homes, what pro

portion have their property free from debt

and the number and value of mortgages.

rho first steps taken towards State organ

ization were taken by tho appointment ol

an Executive Committee of ten members:

Honry Hawic, Anderson; Dr. C. A. Ker

sey, uicnmona ; ramuci w. yv imams, v in-

cennes; L. O. Bishop, Clinton; Charles

G, Bennett, Evansville; William Henry,

Con tiers ville: W. E; McDerMott, Fort

Wavuo : T. J. Hudson. J. F. White and L.

. Custer, Indianapolis.

Ever si uco the pretty sixteen-year-old

daughter of farmer John Hood disappeared

so suddenly and so mysteriously from the

esidenee of Michael Shoeing, near Con

nors ville, Saturday, Sept. 21, the search

for her has been incessant, and some of the

best detective talent of tho State has been

employed in tho. work. Monday last the

efforts of the detectives were rewarded by

tho finding of her lifeless body in the canal

near the town. Tho remains bore

unmistakable ' evidence that tho girl

had besu murdered. There was

a large and deop hole in the

head showing that the death

blow had been struck with some blunt

instrument.. Tho bod v was much bruised.

a id tho clothing had been torn to shi'cds.

There was every indication of a fierce

struggle of life and death before the fatal

b'ow was struck. TI e strange disappear

ance of Miss Hood had already created int?n so excitement, which. .was augmented

daily as the unsuccessful search was pros

cciftod. The finding- of the body Monday has heightened this feeling to the superla

tive degree, and were her murderer

positively known his life would not be

worth much. A heretofore, prominent and

respacted citizen has been intimately cor

nccted in the popular inLad with her dis

appearance, and it is not improbable that

he may bo arrested and called to account

for it. He was often seen riding -with ho?

during tho summer.

A TRAIN TELESCOPED,

Terrible Accident with Unknown. Toss of

Life, on the New York ueutral Hailruad,

THE FOUR! NE.W

STATES

in those of a purely agricultural charac- guests know tho hiding place ami produced IfilO The robbers dropped fCQ ou the

WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Harrison and family Thursday

again took up their quarters at Washing

ton.

William P. Dole. Commissioner of

Indian affairs under President Lincoln

died at Washington Monday,aged seventy

eight years.

The charge is made against Gen. Rose-

crane that he is drawing, two salaries from

the government one of $4,500 per annum

as Register of the Treasury and one of

$1,125 as a Brigadier General on tho retired

list of the army.

Colonel Switzler, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, at the request of Secretary

Windom, has tendered his resignation to

take effect October 15. Colonel Switzler

was appointed from. Missouri, in 1SS5, by

President Cleveland.

Congressman Samuel J. Randall, with

his family, is now, and has beeu nearly all

summer, at Wallingford, Pa. Mr. Randall

is suffering again from his old enemy, the

gout. He will, however, be on hand at

tho convening of the House.

The Chicago Herald's "Washington cor

respondent says it is definitely settled that

Attorney-General Miller is to go upon the

Supreme Bench. The appointment, it is

thought, will be one of the. first announced

upon the assembling of Congress.

General B. M. Prentiss, appointed post

master at Bethany, Mo., is a Democrat.

Ho owes his appointment . to ..Secretary

Noble, to whom no applied last winter for

a place. Noble speaks of him as a splendid

follow and fine soldier, and adds that he docs not in such a case care what a man's

politics is. General 'Prentiss's entire com

mand, with himself at its head, was captured at the battle of Shiloh, aud there

has been much controversy over the

facts.

A special from Caldwell, O., gives what

purports to be an authentic, copy of a letter

written from the Pension Office, Septem

ber 10, to J. M. Daizell, of Caldwell. The

letter is marked "Confidential," and goes

into Tanner's course as Commissioner with

a defense of his course as to reiatings, etc.,

as before published. It was a matter of

Secretary Noble's resignation or his own

retirement, Tanner writes, and he thought

it best to save the President embarrassment. The letter closes with the post

script: "I have written you with great

freedom; don't give, me any cause to regret it by saying anything about th ?et-

ter. It is to you solely."

Tho public debt was decreased $13,6S5r

094 during September. Expenditures dur

ing tho first three months of the current

fiscal year aggregated $94,S49,099, against 77,807,599 during July, August and September, 1SSS. Tho increased expenditures in 1S89 over the expenditures for the first quarter in 1SSS are accounted for in the

following items : Rivers and harbors, 3,-

200,000; in military establishment, $1,905,-

000; construction and miscellaneous, $900,000; for Indians. $326,000; deficiency in

postal revenues, 1,690,600; for pensions,

$10,565,000; making a total of $18,655,000.

Prom this should be deducted $1,075,000 interest and premium paid less in 1SS9 than

in 1SSS, leaving a net increase amounting

to 16,980,000. This increaso is subject to

further reduction when the full repay

meats for the quarter ending Sept. 30,1889,

shall have been received, yet the payments from tho Treasury are larger at this time

than in the same period for 1888, because of tho smaller drafts upon the Treasury

for funds last year while awaiting the

passage of the large appropriation bills.

Palatine Barons, N. Y., Sept. 28 1 3 a,

m. moot, ijouis express, jno. o, wmcn

left Albany at 10 o'clock last night, mot

with a bad accident about two miles east

of here about midnight. The first section broke down and stopped for repairs. The roar brake-man was sent back to signal

the second section, but, for some unknown reason, failed to perform his duty. The engineer of the second section says he did

not see him and tho first thing he saw was

tho lights of the first section directly in

front. Tho first section was made up of

the baggage, mail, express and three pas-

seimer cars, nacked with neome and a

Wagner sleeper ou the end. The crash

was terrific. Tho section telescoped into tho first section, knocking out the lights

and plunging everything into darkness.

Up to this hour four bodies have been

taken out of tho sleeper, and it is feared

the total number of deaths will run up to

tventv-live. and possibly more, as the

car was full. It is difficult to get particu

lars at this hour.

An Albany dispatch says : The first sec

tion of tho train is usually made up of two

ordinary coaches, two parlor cars and

three baggage cars, while the second sec

tion seldom coes out with less than sevon

sleeners. A d miner car sorves dinner on

the section to Albany, where it is dropped.

Phis train travels over the Michigan

Southern via Niagara Falls. It is a favor

ite with travelers on tho Central, and the

second section is entirely of vestibule cars.

The schedule of running was forty miles

an hour. It is said that three sleeping cars

are ina sbaneless mass. Many lives have

been lost. There were fully three hundred

people on board the two trains. Relief

trams, with physicians on board, were

summoned from this placo and Utica. En

gineer Worth, of the second section, was

so badly injured that ho is not expected to

survive the night. He resides in Albany.

2:30 a. M.It is. now reported that be

tween forty and fifty persons were killed.

Tho first section was completely telescoped.

The excitemeut is so intense that it is hard

to get reliable reports.

A dispatch from Albany at 3 a. m., says:

Authentic information received here says

that four persons were killed, three men

and one woman. Engineer Worth, of Al

bany, had both legs brokeu. Ho will be

brought homo this morning. Extra sleepers

have been sent from here on train No. 29

for tho transfer of passengers. One sleeper was telescoped and two other cars badly damaged. Superintendent Bissell has is

sued orders that'the injured be conveyed

to hotels and taken care of."

Elections oh the First I Co ml t in Fat or of

Republicans in J hroo and tho Democrats in One. : '

conceded:

the

DEFENDED BY THE ORDER.

The K. of li. Charred with Upholding tne

Wyandotte Train Wreckers. v. It will be recollected that during the

.great strike on tho Missouri Pacific rail

road system in 1886 a freight train was wrecked near Wyandotte, Kansas, and two

of its crew killed, and that a number of

EC. of , L. strikers were arrested, charged

with the act. Ono of the arrested . men,

George Hamilton, was tried and acquitted, and the other cases were nolle prossed. Subsequently Mike Leary and Robert Geers, two of the arrested knights, brought suit against the Missouri Pacific company for damage for malicious prosecution and Friday depositions were taken in St. Louis in this case by B. P. Waggoner, of Atchison, Kas., attorney for the Missouri Pacific. These depositions are given by knights said to bo more or less dissatisfied with the

order, and it is alleged that they show that

the order took the Wy andotte train wreck

ers directly under its protection, and spent some $30. 000 of its ereueral fund in their

defense: also, that in a spirit of revenge

over tho failure of the strike,

the Missouri car works at St. Charles.Mo., and the Vandalia freight depot in East St.

Louis. were destroyed by fire, and that

plan was devised to blow up the St.; Louis

bridge by floating a dynamite laden barge

against it, but this was not carried out.

The names of tho actors in these events were given, and it was stated that men

much higher in the ranks of the knights

knew much about these things. In view of these statements, it is said .that , Master

Workman Powderly and Secretary Hayes,

when they arrive in; St. Louis nest week

will be put through the affidavit mill, and that other members of the executive board

will be compelled to tell what they know.

Elections in the four new States, North

and South Dakota, Washington and Mon-

tana, were held on the first instant, and

the voters have given expression to their

political views, a sort of announcement ot :-

birth, and to their eider brothers in . the ? Union of States congratulations are to b

extended fcr the acquisition of four pros

perous commonwealths as members in full "j in the body politic, The capital fight In

South Dakota and Washington called out

the few voters who might otherwise have been classed as stay-at-homes, while close-

nesu of the State acted in a similar way in. Montana. Work Was not by any mean , abandoned for votes, the Sunday-school

children in Aberdeen, S. D.3 marching U

procession during the day to influence the-; Volo on the prohibition amendment. Those

towns in South Dakota which were not themselves capital aspirants . were filled with workers for the contesting cities

The two Dakotas had bee

to the Republicans early in

day, tho point to be settled being only as

to the size of tho majority;: The interest'

in. North Dakota was centered in - prohibi-

tion,tho friends of which were hbpeful,ancl r

the district judgeships. Also ? there was much interest in the Legislature asregardf the feelings for or against the senatorial

candidacy of ex-Governor Pierce and Ordway. The retu rns at this writing are not

sufficient to give actual majorities. In

Soutli Dakota from all directions come re

nnrta nf tho heaviest vote ever nolled m

the history of the Territory: The City:o&&

aioux 'aiis aione pouca a vote pi ,iou ana.

gives a small uepuuucan majority. ne? ,

ports from different parts of the State;.

come in slow, but enough has been receiv

ed to show that the Republicans have car, ried the day. Mellette for Governor, and Pickler and Gifford for Congress will have

a majority of not less than 10,000. Prohi

bition is running well, and has certainly;

been carried by a small majority. Indicar-

txons point toward Sioux Palls as the se lection for the capital. Reports from, dif

ferent sections indicate that the Republicans have the Legislature by a majority of about 120 on joint ballot. This insures both United States Senators. The State Constitution is carried almost unanimously, but minority representation is defeated.

. TCnrth Dakota, rntnrns- also indicate a

Republican majority of at least 10,000.

The vote was the largest ever cast in t Washington. Indications all point to the election of Ferry and the entire Republi-V v can State ticket, including Wilson for

Congress, by a majority averaging 4,000. Scratching was general on both tickets The complexion of the Legislature " must -remain in doubt until the yote is fullycounted, as, the battle was concentrated onf that field. The separate articles, to the, -Constitution, embracing the prohibitory- . and woman suffrage planks, are unque- v tionably defeated by a large majority. The- ' constitution will be ratified but not by the '. ; majority its supporters thought it would " 4; obtain. . r. '". J..-.... v?''.;.::- . -v 2 a. M. Returns indicate that Washing- ? ton has elected a Republican Governor and-: Congressman by 7,000, and thej'felature by fif teen majority. ; . . - . At Walla Walla the women's' vote was . received at all precincts, but were deposit- Sced in separate boxes. The total vote, excepting worn en, is 1,402 . Only ninety wo men voted. At Rockf ord thOfWomen tried! to vote, but were refused. V, vs fV Returns show almost a complete change in the vote in Montana from the last Con- ... gressional election. The counties of peer Lodge and Silver Bow, in which the towns of Anaconda and Butte are .situated, and' which gave last rear a Republican ma jori- Z

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POLITICAL,

MARRIED AGAINST HIS WILL.

A Yomic Man Makes a ifarcain . Witn a

Russian "Chad-Chin" and is Forced to

Keep His Word.

A stranee story was told at New York

police headquarters, Suuday night, by two

men about a young man, a friend of theirs, named David Kirchnerolf, being forced in

to a marriage with a Russian girl against

his will. While the two men wore looking

for redress at headquarters, tho marriage ceremony was being performed in the Golden Star Hall, No. 93 Hester street. The father of the newly-made wife is a cloak maker, and his naino is Aaronsoa. Thinking, some time ago,that his daughter Rose should get married, he paid 100 to a "chad-chin" to get her a husband. The "chad-chin" got young Kirchnoroft to fill the bill, and, it is said, gave him half of the money. The couple wore made acquainted but soon tho bridogrooiu-to-bo manifested a coolness toward his fiancee, Ho made up his mind to leave the city, and tried to carry out tho design on Saturday last. He wont down Grand street towards tho terry, but was followed by Aarouson and the "chad-chin," who captured him on a Williamsburg ferry-boat, and brought him

back. He was te.kon to a house 111 unnstio

street, and kept there until Sunday under a guard of six men. Sunday night ho was compelled to walk to the Golden Star

Hall, don a suit of wedding clothes and go

through his part of the core monies. Rabbi

David Falk, of No. 05. Canal street, offici

ated. It is not yet Known wmit steps wm be taken in the matter

Mississippi Republicans held a State Convention at Jackson Wednesday and

nominated Gen. Chas. A. Chalmers for

Governor, and a full State ticket. Sixty

counties were represented by 254 delegates.

B. K. Bruce was made temporary chairman. The resolutions adopted endorse the

administration of President Harrison in

most eloquent terms, and the platform of

the Republican party at Chicago in 1SSS.

The administration of the Stut3 Government was condemned as more extravagant than under Republican rule. The manage

ment of the State Penitentiary was so

verely assailed, and its long continuance was declared a disgrace to Christian civil

ization.

Massachusetts Republicans nominated

J. I. A. Bracket for Governor and a complete ticket. The resolutions endorse

Presidents Harrison's administration and

favor a protective tariff.

New York Republicans were,. regaled

with a speech by. Chauncey M. DePow

John I. Gilbert headed the ticket, receiv

ing the .nomination for Secretary of

State. President Harrison's administra

tion was endorsed.

Maryland Democrats endorsed tho St.

Louis platform and declare against trusts

and for national and local reforms. L.Victor

Baughman was unanimously nominated for

Comptroller. About 100 delegates attended a conven

tion of the Union Prohibitory League, a

non-partisan organization, at larrisburg,

Pa., Thursday.

Tho Boston Globe sta tes that a meeting

of sixty or seventy Fourth District Demo

crats was hold at the Sherman- House Mon

dav in the interest of John L. Sullivan's

candidacy for Congress in that district; that eulogistic speeches were made and

elans laid for securing the champion's

nomination at the expire ion of Hon. J. H. O'NeilPs term.

FLAMES AT GRAND HAVEN.

The Residence Portion or the City .

Htroyed-A X.oss of $500,00 A' special from Grand Haven, Mich.,

says: iv. largo pact ui. iuu uuaa iu. ui uuu

residence portion of this cit3r wa wiped

out by a great liro, Tuesday moi :ning.

Tho fire was discovered at 1 o'clock. The

flames spread with great rapidity.. The

fire department and the, herculean efforts

of tho citizens could not do much to stay the spread of the flames. Among the

buildings burned aro tho following: The Cutler Hotel; residences of Dwight Cutler, Mrs. Clayton, T. A. Parris, George B. Sanford, Captain McCullom and A. Sked sic; three churches were buimedFirst

Reformed, Unitarian and Methodist- Besides those, about thirty residences. No lives were lost The total loss; is about

500,000, with a fair amount of Insurance,

ty of 2,500, have gone pemocratic ...tiiia - year. The Democratic managers claim the c '7-0 entire ' State ticket and .ialsA the Legislature. The Helena

Journal . (Repubiican) chiims7 v the State for Carter by 3,500, and says Power :'( will not run 500 behind it, and , says the. ; Legislature cannot be forecasts but is con- ? fideut of a Republican majcrity- The Jouiv ; nid says the country districts show large'' Republican gains over Carter's majority v of 5,000 last year, and returns' from Butte and Deer Lodge cannot overcome epub; lican country districts. ' . if Later dispatches indicate that the vote , ; is close, with the probabilities in favor op the Democrats, who seem to have elected -the Governor and the Legislature. The ; - congressman is in doubt, with Carter-. -(Republican) running aheadpf h; ticket. , ' ' . X . :-

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Captain Kello-rK, of tli Os8pe, Bffes H, to Take Minister Iougla to Hnyti. ;" The United States steamer Dispatch er?, rived at Washington Friday evening for v the purpose of carrying Minister Fred Douglas to Fortress Monroe, where he 5 was to have taken the M Ossipee for Hay but Mr. Douglas will not sail in the Ossipee for. his poat at all. The. commander of -the Ossipee is Captain. Kellogg.1 In Mr. , Kellogg's make-up thjere is a very strongvein of animosity toward the negro race, and . this caused the commander to ern v , phatically refuse to carry Mr. Douglass on his vessel. He said that his officers idi -not care to associate with a colored man, and that he himself would absolutely deA ; cline to sit in the . mess with a nigger." Ho, therefore telegraphed to be released from the command of- the vessel, and his request has been granted. The command ; was transforredto Lieutenant-commander Evans, who has suddenly discoyiered that the boilers of the Ossipee are in such a . condition that ho would not dare to take. ; her to sea unless they shall first be thorj oughly overhauled. Of course, the Navy Department cannot think of sending the officers of the navy to sea in an unseat worthy-ship and they , areaverse alse tp risking the life of the new minister t0. :7 Hayti in such a vessel; The consequence is that the minister will ' not sail in the '' Ossipee, and as there is no other vessel which is immediately available he is to re

min at Washi netin' until the Kearsajre;

can do maue reauy ior soa. yv uu wus i done Mr. Douglass wjlll sail in that vessel

from New York, ; ."

Later advice is to the effect that CJapt;, Kellogg signified a desire to retire from the command of the Ossipee before it was known that Fred Douglass was to be

conveyed to Lis post of duty on that vessel.

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It is reported that General Boulanger

will leave London, and take up his res!-.

dence on the Isle of Jeisey. l is said that

the change is due to his desire to reduce

his expenses, as the persons who have been

furnishing him ith financial support are ,

refusing to continue Ue supply him with

money. He has had a quarrel with Henri

Roehefort. M. Rochef ort will visit .Egypt,

aud pass tho winter there unless he is

granted au amuesty by the French govern

mont.

Among the emigrants who ' mived at '

Castle Garden, Monday, was a prepossess v ing young woman named Godborg Bjanardr

ottis. She comos f rom Roykjavik,Iceland.

and will make her home witihra friend in

Brooklyn. The young woman's head-gear

attracted much attention. It consisted ot Ki a black skuil cap with a long, silken pend-W

ant hanging down over her shoulders. She,

called it a Scotthufa. ' ,. ( : "

Excessive rains and worms have done

great damage to the vcottoa crop ia the;

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