Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1886 — Page 1

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Reasons for Sending 500 Captives to Florida.

Army Officers Think They Will Die Off in That Climate Like Sheep.

NEW YORK, NOV. 29.—A Washington special to the World says: The fate of the Indians captured in the Miles campaign is practically settled. It was not decided when they were first sent east whether any of them would be tried for the crimes or not. The president has examined the case very carefully and has come to the conclusion that lifeconfinement for all of these Indians in Florida where they can do no harm, will be the most thorough punishment which can be visited upon them. It is the only practical way by which they can be punished. If the criminals among them were to be singled out, no military commission would have any authority to try them. They would have to be turapd over to the civil authorities in the place where the crimes were committed. It would be a travesty on justice to have these Indians tried in Arizona or New Mexico. There is not a white man in either one of those territories who could sit in a case involving the rights of an Indian with any kind of fairness. The conviction of the criminals would leave their families untouched. These families would train up children to revenge the deaths of those who were punished and the result tvould be a continuation of the outlawry which has for years made life andssraerty so insecure in the two territories. TW removal of the Indians J® Florida' takes away nearly all the families, and leaves no stock to breed rpjroers andassMteins for the future. ..

As matter of faoif'the 500 Julians transferred to,.Florida have set d{jwn to a lingering death. They have been brought up iu- the mountain countries, accustomed to freedom in the pure, cold air of high altitudes. Their transfer to, and confinement in the warm climate of Florida will simply result in their dying off like so many sheep. Experienced army officers do not tbiflfe that there will be one of'them alive at the end of the next five years.

THE LIQUOR FIGHT.

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The aggressive and determined fight for reform in liquor selling goes on at Indianapolis and last Sunday was the quietest and most Puritanical Sabbath day the Capital has seen in many years. The saloon-keepers closed up Ikeir places and then took to seeing that all other businesses were likewise abandoned for the day. It was almost impossible to get a shave, a hack, a cigar and many other luxuries the people have been accustomed to etfjoy. Agents of the liquor men were about all day taking notes of what violations of the Sunday law took plaoe. The Sentinel says: "Hotel men are bitterly and unanimously opposed to the present policy of strict enforcement. Mr. Louis Riebold, the proprietor of the Bates House, remarked. 'My business will be seriously crippled. Commercial men who have made Indianapolis their headquarters when convenient will now stop over at Louisville or go on to Terre Haute or St. Louis. I wrote Supt. Travis Saturday asking if it would be illegal for me to furnish wines at private dinners on Suuday. After receiving assurance from him that it would be illegal I was particular not to serve wines on any of my tables. Commercial men and transients will have liquor and dears, and if they can't get them here they will stop over elsewhere.'

Mr, Fred Riebel, the cigar manufac turers, said that at least twenty cigar makers would be thrown out of employment by the continuance of the present policy."

HORSE THIEF.

He tscapes From a OeDuty Sheriff, Who Snoots Him Through the Head. ST. LOUIS, NOV. 39.—A special from Burlington Junotion says: Deputy Sheriff Nelson, of Union Star, Mo., yesterday succeeded in arresting James Boyle, who stole three horses in this vicinity lately, and started on his way with him to Maryville, where he intended to place him in jail. At Maitland he received a telegram that a crowd was iu waitintr to lynch the prisoner, so he ooucluded to bring him to this place. They got off the train about two miles from the statiou and were walking to the jnii when the prisoner made a break for liberty and Etarted ou a run for the woods. He was called upon to halt, but he persisted in the flight, and the deputy drew a revolver aud shot him through the brain, killing him instantly. Upon bis person were found letters which go to prove that her» is an organizeed band of horse thieves operating in northwest Missouri and southern Iowa.

The family of Hon. W. B. Hoke, Judge of the Jefferson County, Ky.', Court, used St. Jaoobs Oil with signai sucoess.

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THROUGH THE RAPIDS.

A Crank and His Best Girl Go Through In a Barrel.

NIAGARA FAILS, N. Y., NOV. 29.— George Hazlett and Miss Sadie Allen, of Buffalo, went through the rapids and the whirlpool yesterday afternoon in the torpedo-shaped barrel used by Hazlett and Potts last summer. £he7 were in the rapids and whirlpool five minutes, and were taken out of the eddy on the Canadian side just below the whirlpool three-quarters of an hour later, in good condition. Miss Allen is eighteen years old, a brunette and rather pretty.

The start was made from the Maid of the Mist landing on the Canada side. When the barrel reached the maelstrom it shot right into the center of the pool, making two or three turns. Leaving the pool the barrel followed the current out toward the Canadian shore and down to the outlet of the pool, where it got into a large eddy and bobbed around for half an hour. Friends near by shouted to the occupants of the barrel, when Hazlett opened a small door on top of the barrel, and Frank Lawson threw a rope from the shore, which Hazlett secured and the barred was towed ashore.

After coming out of the barrel Hazlett and Miss Allen had a tramp of a mile and a half through brush and over bowlders before reaching the top of the precipice.

Miss Allen, when she appeared at the ferry ready to enter upon the perilous journey, wore a neat walking dress. Taking off her hat and jacket, and throwing a shawl over her head, she stepped lightly into the barrel through tha man-hole, tucking her garments close about her, and laughingly remarking: "Come, George, jump in I'm all fixed." Soon after Hazlett stepped into the craft, fastening himself in the opposite end to that |ocoupied by Miss Allen. Just thirty minutes from the time the barrel was towed out into the river it reached the whirlpool. Miss Allen and Hazlett returned to Buffalo this evening.

FROM BROOKLYN, BRIDGE."

War Knrty Leaps Off of it This Afnoon.

NEW YOBK, NOV- 29.—WRRF." Kurtz started over the big bridge to Brooklyn at 1:40 this afternoon in a brewery wagon without the knowledge of the driver Eurtz sprang from the wagon and got over the railing next to the lamp-post outside of the New York tower. He clung to the rail for a moment and then let go. He turned two somersaults in the air and fell on his back in the water. He disappeared at once. A light steamer picked him up. He was under the water for about five minutes. He was frothing at the month and was exhausted. His face had a yellow look and his eyes were glassy and vacant. He said he tried to commit suicide. He was taken to the hospital.

CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET.

The Effect of a Big Fire at Duluth on the Market. CHICAGO NOV. 29.—The advance in wheat here this morning is largely attributed to the big fire at Duluth Saturday, which burned up two'big elevators and 750,000 bushels of wheat The fire ceemed to please almost everybody this morning, an indication that a majority of Chicago's speculators are "long" on wheat and happy to get aid of any sort to advance the price/ The burning up of the wheat apparently afforded more satisfaction than its export would, for in the latter event the wheat would have filled a bole that under the present circumstances must still exist. The "bulls" did not waste any sympathy on the insurance companies nor on the elevator proprietors. They were a little anxious, however, to know whether the 760,000 bushels of wheat went up in flames and smoke Saturday night would disappear from the "visible," or whether some sort of red tape would keep the stuff still in the 60,000,000 Bupply to harrass the believers in higher prices another seven days.

Weary of Mugwump ComDany. NBW 1'ORK, Nov. SO.Gen. Isaac S.Catlin,

a prominent Republican, of Brooklyn, announoes that he will resign his membership in the First ward Republican Association,of that city, on account of mugwumpism in the party. He intends to retire from politics for a season He claifhs to have been defeated for Mayor,! ast year, by the mugwumps, but says he would not have left the party organization on that account. What has soured him most is the fact that his friend General Tracy received oniy 300 majority in the ward at the recent election for district attorney, whereas the full Republscau majority is 1,500.

Prefers Murderer.

ST. LOUIS, NOV. 30.—A stay of execution hns been granted in the cases of W. H. L. Maxwell, Preller's murderer, and the Chinese high binders who were! under sentenoe to be banged Jaqpary 1st, under February 1st, in order that: a transcript of the oases may be finished before an appeal is taken.

ESTABLISHED 1869. TERKE HAUTE, IND., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1886.-TWO PARTS,-PART FIRST. $1.50 PER YEAR

Rev. Oscar McCulloogh, of Indian cpolig, Defends the CondemnedAnarchists.,..

Indignation Expressed By the People and the Press at His ~'V Action.

A hornet's nest has been stirred up at Indianapolis by Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch, a Presbyterian minister of Indianapolis, who is very prominently identified with the charitable movements of that city, publicly declaring from his pulpit last Sunday his sympathy with the condemned Anarchists at Chioago and that they ought not to be hung. Many of the congregation left the church with expressions of resentment. All the newspapers have jumped on to Rev. McCulloch with a unanimity that is to be commended and that gentleman must now be in the delightful condition that the boy was in after he was kicked by the mule—he was not as pretty as he used to be, but he knows more. Rev. McCulloch has felt the necessity of saying something to Btem the tide adverse feeling he has aroused, but he does not seem to have bettered his

osition any, for in his card reiterates his sympathy for the men and pleads for mercy for them and that they should not be hung. The spectacle of a minister of the gospel like Rev. McCulloch appearing in the role of a defender of such bloody scoundrels as the Chicago anarchists has very properly stirred up the people of Indianapolis in right good fashion and it is a good sign that they are agitated about the matter. The Journal says: "Of course, Mr. McCulloch has a perfect right to think the bloody wretches in Chicago should have a new trial, or that their sentences should be mitigated and he probably has the right to stand in his pfilpit and say so, even at, a time when their cases are still in process of judicial consideration -but we think that neither Mr. McCulloch nor any other man has the right to use a pulpit of a leading and intelligent church in which to utter unmitigated 'hogwaoh.' As it seems to us, it is a gratuitous insult to common intelligence for any man of responsible prominence to say that the seven men under sentence* for murder in the Chrcago jail did not know what they were doing, or were moved by any higher motive than actuates the man who pistols or bludgeons another to rob him of his money."

Again the Journal says: "It is very well to preauh the gospel of gush, and to talk of a nation being great in the proportion that it is forgiving. It is all very well to repeat the words of Jesus on the cross, and to wrench them so as to apply to murderous dogs who seek to overtarn organized society, and whose hands are red with bloodjjshed in the most cowardly manner. But neither divine or human government is based on any such mockery of principle, or any such perversion of virtue. No government is made great by forgiving onminals, and Almighty God does not forgive rebels in arms against his laws. It may well be conceded that there is much that needs readjustment in social and economical conditions, but these readjustments will not come and are not to come through a reign of dynamite inaugurated by a nest of murderous wretches, nor by public teachers,, and preachers, and the newspaper press giving currency to false and unsound theories, however beautiful and touching tbey may be made to appear in a dress of flowers and poetry."

VIGO'S TAXABLES.

The Total Taxables of the County.--Assets and Indebtedness.

From the duplicates, now completed, in the County Auditors office some very iuteresting figures have been compiled for the GAZETTE. There are 249,713 acres of land in Vigo county not subdivided. The value of lands is 85,690,280 and the value of improvements thereon is $844,935, making a total of 36,535,215. The value of lots is 35,948,480, and of improvements thereon 34,785,545, making a total of 810,7H4,025. The value of personal property is 35,957,065, of railroads 31,050,145 and of telegraph companies 37,500. The total taxable property of the county is therefore 324.283,950.

The indebtedness of Vigo county at the present time is as follows: Free gravel road bonds $ 33,400 Court house bonds, Series A IWjO 0 Same Series 10 '.0(jo Seme Series 0 120,000

Total indebtedness $403,400 The assets of the county are as follows: Gash note 3,5 HI Fair grounds 15,000 Poor farm 20,0"0 Old jail lot 5,1X 0 Old c®urt house property aO.OOo Lot on Ohio s'reet 2,5 0 New jail and lots 35,0* New court house and lot 500,00' Other lauds 1 ,* '00

Total assets...... $602,000 Thus it will be seen that the financial affairs of Vigo county are in a pretty healthy shape.

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yffc McQIJADE'S TRIAL.

The Second Trial of the Alderman Begins Today.

NBW YOBK, NOV. 29—The second trial of Arthur J. McQuade, ex-Alderman, acoused of being offered a bribe in consideration of his vote on the Broadway surfaoe railroad franchise wap fixed to begin today. When the mass of eager people went hurrying up the stairs of the Court of General Sessions they found before the doors of Part 1 a bar with [a sliding gate. Behind this no one was admitted except court officers, jurors, reporters and the accused with his counsel. MoQuade talked pleasantly with his counsel, among whom was Richard Newcombe, despite the rumors that he had withdrawn from the case.

District Attorney Martine, with his assistants, Col. Fellows and De Lancy Nicoll, were on band early. Recorder Smyth opened court at 11:15 A. M.

NEW YOBK, NOV. 29.—The calling the talesmen in the special panel to select a jury to try McQuade then began.

The first juror obtained was John H. Bambach, a tonsorial artist, in Sixth avenue. The audience smiled broadly as be gave his oocupation. He knew ex-Alderman Wendel had met Sayles had read about McQuade's first trial had an impression but it would not influence his verdict. Had no prejudice against the evidence of an accomplice.

Counsel for defense objected to the line of questions, as it foreshadowed the juror's action. After argument, the Recorder admitted the form of questions. The juror was accepted and sworn as foreman of the jury.

Six succeeding talesman were excused for bias or challenged.

BACKED OUT.

The Man Who Was to Fight Smith Doesn't Show Up.

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LONDON, NOV. 30.—Kniflou, who was to have fought a prizev fight with bare knuckles to a finish with Jem Smith in Paris today for the heavy-weight championship of England aud heavy stakes, backed out at the last moment and refused to go to the battle-ground. The men had been in active and close training for the encounter for several weeks and the |nte^getrt^ken in the event was widespread and intense.

The amount of money wagered was large. Last evening all the preliminaries having been satisfactorily arranged, a train load of prominent sporting men and aristocrats went to Paris to witness the battle. The only reason Kniflon gave for his conduct was that he fonnd that the number of (Smith's adherents who would attend the fight was so much greater than the number' of his own friends who would be present that he feared be would be unable to obtain fair play and so concluded to abandon a a contest which he felt convinced would be hopeless for him under the circumstances.

The British sporting world is howling with chagrin over the fiasco.

Favette Institute., 't

SANDFORD, Ind., Nov. 20.—[GAZETTE special.]—The teachers of Fayette township met at this place today. All the Fayette teachers were present, also quite a number from the adjoining townships.

Prof. Sandison, of the State Normal, was with us, and in a very interesting manner presented his mode of reading a book. He illustrated the method by taking up the "Educational System of Italy," by Bennett.

In the afternoon the Reading circle work was taken up, but for wapt of time nothing but "Watts on the Mind" was discussed, and it was decided to meet at New Gosheu on the 4th of December to complete the Reading circle work.

After extending a vote of thanks to Prof. Sandison for his services, to the teachers and trustees for their presenoe, and to the people of Sandford (or their hospitality, the institute adjourned to meet at New Goshen the 18th of December. Mc.

Who is Eck Barrack?

A. M. Barrick, of Prairieton, called at the GAZETTE office this week and wanted an inquiry made of "Lemme Squeezer" as to who Eck Barrack, who repaired the U. B. church, is. He wants to make his acquaintance, if a relative.

Mr. F. Rentscbler, San Francisco, Cal., contracted a severe cold, and became so hoarse he could not speak. He tried a number of remedies without benefit, aud even the efforts of two physicians failed to (five the slightest relief. He was induced to try Red Star Cough Cure, one bottle of which entirely cured him.

Boston's Labor Candidate.

BOSTON, NOV. 30.—George E. McNeill this morning informed the committee of the Labor meeting, which last evening nominated him for Mayor, that he would aocept A telegram was sent to Henry George asking him to fix a date for his speech in Boston.

The leeoont Increases His Majority

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Work of the Election Commissioners Finished This Morning. 'J

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The commissioner?) appointed by Judge Mack to make the recount of the votes cast in this county at the last eleotion for joint representative, on the petition of Mr. Decatur Downing, the defeated candidate, completed their labors at about 8 o'clock this morning after being in continuous session from yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. The commission was composed of Geo. E. Farrington, Andrew Grimes and Edwin O'Boyle, all gentlemen of scrupulous honesty and integrity in whom the people of Vigo county have the utmost confidence. The law is that the count shall not be adjourned after it has been commenced until it has been entirely conoluded, so the labors of the board, as one might naturally expect, all through the long hours of the day and night, were anything but pleasant and desirable. The gentlemen, however, acquitted themselves creditably, working carefully and systematically at the recount from the start^'^

The recount increases Mr. Beasley's total vote in Yigo county from 5,134 to 5,144 and increases Mr. Do wring's vote from 5,649 to 5,653, a net gain of 6 for Beasley, reducing Downing's majority in the county from 515 to 509. This increases Beasley's majority in the district, since the recount in Vermilllion, where Beasley lost 7, from 24 to 30.

The following table will show the gains and losses of the two candidates on the recount, in the wards and townships not mentioned there was no change from the result as heretofore printed: 2 DOWNING* BBASLBT.^ tlain. Los&r Gain Loss. A, First- $4 2 .... C, First j,%{•$.* 1 A,Secon 3, .... -C B,Secon 1" .... "**-l'-'.... O, Third "1 B, Fourth ci 2 A, Filth 1 'vi B,Fifth .... B, Sixth 1 ".... £&$ ....

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The friends of Mr. Downing were disappointed when the votes of Precinct A of Sugar Creek were counted. Rumor bad it that the original election board that counted the votes of that precinct had not added to Mr. Downing's total vote six votes cast for him on the Prohibition ticket, but had made separate footines of each, and that only the liepublican votes cast for him had been counted by the county board of canvassers. This bad been talked about so much that many people believed there was something in it and that possibly the original election counters had not given to Mr. Downing all the votes cast fer him in that precinct. When the returns of the precinct were unsealed the condition of the returns were as follows: There had been 74 votes cast for Mr. Downing on Republican tickets. There had been 6 votes cast for him OH Prohibition tickets. When the clerk of the board came to the Prohibition tickets he made a separate line of these six votes instead of adding them into Mr. Downing's original Republican column. When he went to count up the votes tallied on the sheet, however, he ^discovered his two columns for Downing and he transferred bhe six votes over to the 74 votes, making the total 80. He failed, however, to mark out the six votes in the prohibition column, thereby giving rise to the unfounded rumors. The board, by counting the votes, found there were juBt 80 votes cast for Mr. Downing, all told, and the poll book bore out the very apparent fact that the six votes in the prohibition column should have been crossed out.

County Clerk M. N. Smith personally acted as clerk of the board and performed bis duties in an able and scrupulously fair manner, winning golden opinions from tbose opposite to him in politics. The costs of the recount will have to be paid by Mr. Downing, although it is rumored that Mr. Downing did not press the contest of his own accord and that he said he would not pay the expenses of it himself. It is a singular fact that Mr. Downing was not present at th» recount at all. Mr. Beasley remained with the board until 4 o'clock this morning.

The members of the recounting board area terribly used up and sleepy looking lot of men. Mr. Farrington did not go to bed at all and neither did Ed. O'Boyle, Mr. Grimes or Grove Crafts, but resumed their regular business. "It was a thankless job/' said Mr. Farring

ton, "and I tried my best to get out of it. I told Judpe Mack that there were others who wanted the place and that I didn't, but he replied that this was just the reason he wanted me and you know there is no use trying to talk the Judge out of anything.* It was the most tiresome undertaking I was ever enin."

TORY TYRANNY.

John Dillon Given a Great Ovation -«on Going to Court, \%v.

Lois DON, Nov. 30.—Mr. Gladstone's prediction that the Tory government of Ireland would be a government of coercion, has come true. It was hidden for some time und^r a mask of conciliatory" sentiments which the Irish widely distrusted. The Tory policy to role with force is at length disclosed. The Sligo meeting has been prohibited- Troops are marching to lend strength to the prohibition, which is based upon the landlord justices' contention that the meeting is intended to frighten jurors into acquitting agrarain offenders whose cases are to be tried at the winter assizes. United Ireland, the people's organ, has been warned to be lees independent or prepare for suppression. Mr. Dillon, whose successful campaign frightened the Tories into this unmasking, is to be put under heavy bonds to hold his tongue and refrain from stirring up Irish patriotism. That is the plain English of the notice served upon him Wednesday, that he would be required to find sufficient sureties that he behave well toward the Queen and her subjects. It was the plan of Dillon and O'Brien to have the rack-rented tenants bank their rent in a solid fund for mutual support until the landlords consented to a living reduction. This, coupled with Mr. Dillon's stirring and too true speech on the Clanricarde estates and elsewhere frightened the landlords thoroughly and precipitated the development of coercion. The new departure of the Tories finds but weak support among their, most ardent supporters of the press, but while some merely hail it as a foolish step, rashly entered upon and soon to be regretted others see in it'the beginning of a giant scheme of suppression, and a no less clever one than the landing of the Irish leaders jn jail, including Parnell, Sexton, Biggar, Dillon, O'Connor, O'Brien, or-»s many pthers as possible, so that they may be out of the way when Parliament opens m* the.jQjtJdle^f January.

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It will be notioed that Beasley's vote was not decreased in any of the precincts wherejerrors were made. Every error made in his case on the original count was against him. Before the recount was commenced in Vermillion county Beasley's majority was 31. The net result now, after recounts in the two counties (Downing having abandoned the recount in Sullivan), leaves his majority one less than it was formerly.

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v, A PARING R0B8ERY-

Inhuman Treatment of Chinese Section Laborers. ST. LOUIS, NOV. 30.—A special from Big Springs, Texas, says: A most daring robbery was committed at Morit, the first siding on the line of the Texas & Pacific railway, ten miles west of here, at midnight last night. The only inhabitants of the place area gang of fifty Chinese section laborers and a white foreman. At about midnight the Chinamen were waited upon by five masked men who demanded their money. Upon refusing to give up their hard earned cash, they were one at a time hung up by their cues until they gave up their money. The robbers, thinking they had not got all the cash in the camp, returned and tortured one of the Chinamen by helding him on a hot stove until his comrades gave up the balance of their money, some $500 in all. One celestial had bis cue cut off and was otherwise horribly tortured. No arrests have been made.

The Clay Murder.

James Blackwood, jr., son of Blackwood, the Clay county murderer, tetified as follows on the Coroner's inquest: "I am 18 years old My father

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mother did sometimes become intoxicated' and when he was under the influence of liquor ha would strike my mother. On the 15th of November, 1886, we unloaded a car of slack, and when we got through father sent for a bucket of beer. About 6 o'clock father and mother went to Cardonia together father was a little intoxicated. Did not see either of them until about midnight, when tather came home more intoxicate than when he left and very much excited. He asked me where mother was. I told him she had not come home. He insisted that she was in the house, looked for her, and then went to bed. Pretty soon he requested me to go to Cardonia, just below Dance's fence, to get my mother as, he had left her iying there. Before I left I noticed that my father's clothes were very bloody. He said he had been fighting with John Short. I went as directed and found my mother lying in a pool of blood. My brother Thomas and I took off our coats and put them over her. She was dying at the time. Tnomas got some straw and put it under her head. She requested me to take care of the children. She was very weak at the time: her voice was almost inaudible. To the best of my belief she said said two men had murdered her that night I did not call any one or let any one know that I had been there. Went home after I had done what I have here said. I did not go back any more. I thought I hid better stay at home for fear that father might do something wrong.

Blackwood is stolid and indifferenf and desires a change of venue from Clay to vigooonnty.

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