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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, APRIL. 30, 1891.
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The Nows consents that the jail shall
bo built on the court-house square.
Now let tho work go on.
If iron-clads can be blown out of the
water by torpedoes it seems to be just
as well that the United States has not
spent more money than it has on these
costly additions to its navy.
. Mator Washbuune's first order was
to shut up every gambling-house in
Chicago and to keep them shut. Tho
fraternity baa been running tho city by
tho aid of the Democratic managers.
Chicago realize: last year 2,731,12o
from its saloon-license tax. This city
realizes about $03,000 a year, and could
easily realize twice as much if ,a Demo
cratic Legislature had not stood in the
way.
The last commercial report of Dun &
Co. announces a decline in tin, and that
large importations cause tin-plates to be
offered at some decline. But the' free
trade organ will not learn this fact to
repeat.
TnE Democrats of Ohio are entering
upon a bitter contest over the party can
didacy for Governor. The mossback
element is determined to prevent the re
nomination of Governor Campbell, and
are organizing for that purpose.
TnE decision of ho'Supreme Court of
Louisiana to the effect that the lottery
charter most be submitted to the people
will be followed by the most exciting
and bitter campaign ever known in that
State, in which the Democratic party
will be divided against itself.
Ex-Senator Wade Hampton says
that he is opposed to free. coinage, but
roted for the free-coinage bill, as did
many other Democrats; to secure suffi
cient votes to kill the federal elections
bill. This is a confession which will not
be relished by some Republicans who
voted against the measure designed to
eecuro fair elections.
An Iowa paper tells of a Democrat
who, when sugar began to be sold at the
McKinley price, laid in a largo stock for
home use. On his way home his team
was stuck in the mud, whereupon ho be
gan to curse the McKinley law because
it made it possible to buy so much sugar
as to overload his team. Democratic
managers, however, are cursing the Mc
Kinley law because its benefits to the
country are overloading the Democratic
wagon. ,
TriE querulous New York Evening
Post is still carping because the law
passed at the close of the war, which
forbid ex-confederates from being com
missioned in the army, has not been re
pealed. The whole thing is frivolous,
since if it were repealed, there is not a
possibility that one ex-confederate
would enlist or be commissioned in the
United States army at the present time,
because of age. Consequently, it is a
petty thing for a metropolitan newspa
per to waste spr.co upon.
In the early days, of the Republic,
that is, when George Washington was
President, Governor Hancock under
took to ignore him when visiting Bos
ton by not calling. Washington, who
always believed that a nation was
greater than any part of it, did not go
near the Governor. After a timethe
Governor, with the magnificent auto-'
graph, came down and paid his respects
to the President. If Governor Pennoyer,
of Oregon, had .read this incident he
would not have remarked that his rank
was the same as the President.
Hon. John S. Wisk, in his speech be
fore the Middlesex Club, of Boston, a
few nights ago, declared that the Re
publican party was the only political
party in the United States. "There
are1 ho said, "people ogainsv the Re
publican party, and a good many of
them, even in Massachusetts, but they
are not a party. It is the omnium gath
erum of every opposition. A Democrat
in Massachusetts and a Democrat in
Mississippi aro slightly different, I as
suro you. I have seen them both. There
is no Democratic party. There are no
Democratic principles." This is a cor
rect diagnosis of tho :nse. Democracy
is political agnosticism.
The announcement of a combine for
tho control of the oleomargarine busi
ness is not of interest to those alone
who buy and use the article for table
or domestic purposes, although the
number of these is very large. It con
cerns all consumers of butter, the price
of which is now mateiially affected, if
not regulated, by that of oleomargarine.
There are now five large manufactories
of oleomargarine in the United States
which have formed a combine for the
purpose of regulating tho price of thear-
tide, the consumption of which is in
creasing very rapidly in this country
and in Europe. An advance in the price
of the better grades of oleomargarine is
pretty 6ure to affect the price of the best
grades of butter, thus indirectly reach
ing a class of persons who would be
horrified at the idea of using the manu
factured article.
WOEZrjSQilEK'S DEMONSTRATIONS.
May 1 is likely to be a day of consid
erable apprehension in several European
countries on account of the labor dem
onstrations. The organization of labor
has made rapid progress in Europe dur
ing the last few years. Grafting Ameri
can ideas on the old-fashioned guilds
and trades-unions, which have prevailed
there so long, European workingmen
have reached a much more efficient
state of organization than they ever had
before. There is now concert of action,
not only among the workingmen of each
country, but, to some extent, among
those of different countries. Their or
ganization is becoming more and more
international. It follows, of course, that
they have become more important as a
social factor, and are making them
selves more sensibly felt in politics than
they ever did before. There has been
more favorable legislation for working
men in Europe during the last ten years
than in any previous hundred. This is
not because the ruling powers are any
more kindly disposed to them, but be
cause the latter, through organization,
have been able to make themselves
heard and felt.
May 1 has been selected by the labor
organizations in several European coun
tries as a day for public demonstration
and processions, and hence the trepida
tion of the authorities. European gov
ernments hare an instinctive dread of
any public demonstration except such
as they order or direct. A military
demonstration, a military funeral, a hol
iday parade or anything planned and
directed by the government is all right,
but a demonstration by the people, and
especially by workingmen, is a danger
ous affair. A street parade that is not
under government control is regarded
with alarm. That is the European idea.
In Austria, Germany, Italy, France and
Spain there is apprehension of trouble
on May 1. It may not occur anywhere,
but it is evident the authorities fear it.
In Austria all demonstrations and pub
lic processions on that day have been
prohibited, ajd workmen employed by
the government will not be granted a
holiday. In Italy a circular has been
issued to the prefects prohibiting organ
ized processions. In Franco and Ger
many no prohibitory orders have been
issued, but the military and police are
held in hand to repress any disorder.
The situation is much the same in Spain,
where trouble is expected in some of the
larger cities.
How different from this feverish state
of affairs is the happy condition in our
own country, where all kinds cf public
demonstrations are freely tolerated, and
where Labor day is regarded as pecul
iarly the workingman's holiday, to be
spent in the nost enjoyable mnnner
possible. The true American working
man is a true American citizen, and,
being a shareholder in the government,
it does not fear him. On the contrary,
he is one of its main supports in time of
danger. He may organize and agitate
for his rights, as other classes and inter
ests do, but between him and the gov
ernment there is no hostility and no dis
trust. .May the day be far distant when
workingmen's demonstrations will be
prohibitedorregarded with apprehension
in this country, as they are in Europe.
WILL KOT BE COMPORTED.
When the McKinley bill was under
discussion in the Senate, Senator Car
lisle, of Kentucky, who is regarded as
an oracle on revenue matters, declared
that the measure would produce more
revenues than the then existing law;
and, inasmuch as the chief object of
revenue legislation was to reduce tho
volume of taxation and to get rid of the
surplus, which was kcepiug the money
of the country out of the channels of
circulation, the pending bill was tho
most unwise that could bo devised.
Thereupon, the free-trade press set up
the cry that the McKinley bill would
increase the volume of revenue and take
(unnecessary millions out of the pockets
oi tne people, it was useless to say to
these people that $55,000,000 of duties
would be taken from the single article
of sugar, and to show that other duties
were abolished, making tho aggregato
net reduction of duty $60,000,000 on the
basis of tho revenues of the preceding
year. This cry, let it be remembered,
was based upon the prediction of Sen
ator Carlisle, who is held to be the best
informed man in his party on the sub
ject. The first month of free sugar is
drawing to a close, and it is evident that
the receipts from tariff duties will be
$5,000,000 less during this April than tho
April of last year. These $5,000,000. were
the duti3 collected chiefly on sugar.
The volume of imports is larger than
a year ago, biit sugar and a few other
articles are onthe free list. As the sur
plus was what the Democrats complained
of, and the burden of taxation was their
perpetual lamentation, one would think
that a reduction of revenues of $5,000,000
a month would meet with the approval
of their silence, if no more. Such is not
the case. , They are now deploring such
a loss of revenue. In it they see a
deficit and one reads doleful free-trade
editorials about national bankruptcy
and all sorts of predictions of the many
kinds of disaster and disgrace which
will follow a failure of the government
to meet its obligations. Meantime,
every intelligent man. Republican or
Democrat, knows that there is no dan
ger of a deficit a thing there has uo
really been, in time of peace, since tho
days of James Buchanan. The fact is
it is just no use to try to satisfy theso
people unless the government is turned
over to them. That experiment would
be far too costly. They must be per
mitted to worry. It is their vocation.
In connection with the arguments on
tho mandamus to compel the submis
sion of tho lottery proposition to the
people of Louisiana it was stated that
a Senator and the clerks of the Sen
ate and Houso went to the public
printer's eight days' after the ad-
journment of the Legislature and
took forty-eight pages out of the legis
lative journals, which showed that the
proposition was not lawfully submitted,
and substituted forty-eight other pages
changing tho action of the Legislature
to conform to the wishes of the lottery
people. There are those who will de
nounce this high-handed outrage, but
the officer of the Indiana Legislature,
who interlined an official law of that
body, may be put in the same classifica
tion. THE FEB CAPITA CURRENCY THEORY",
-i
Nearly all the demands of the Farm
ers' Alliance, and other organizations of
discontent, resolve themselves into a
demand for more money. Complaints
of the unfair distribution of wealth, of
its undue accumulation in the hands of
comparatively few persons, of low
prices, the stagnation of trade, etc., all
end in a demand for more money. Tho
is the supposed panacea for all the evils
which the various organizations of dis
content make tiie basis of their clamor.
The Farmers' Alliance formulates it
into a distinct demand for a circulation
of not less than $50 per capita. Just
why it should be $50 per capitaf instead
;of $49 or $51, does not appear, and
probably could not be explained on any
other ground than that fifty, beiug a
multiple of ten, and an even half-hundred,
is the natural standard for a cur
rency which is to be regulated per
capita. Our present circulation averages
about $24 per capita, so the Alliance
demand would a little more than
double it.
Tho theory of tho per capita finan
ciers seems to be that doubling the vol
ume of the currency would double ev
erybody's chance of getting a share and
double the prosperity of the country
generally. Nothing could be more ab-
eurd, If the present volume of currency
were quadrupled or multiplied by ten
no one could get his share unless ho had
labor or something else to exchange for
it, and there would still be an army of
idle, improvident, thriftless and unfor
tunate people who would have very lit
tle and be always clamoring for more.
Also, no matter how great tho volume
of currency there would still be the same
tendency toward congestion. At would
still, as now, accumulate in money cen
ters and in comparatively few hands,
and there would be as great or greater
inequalities thau ever. . Until laws can
be passe1 making all men equally sober,
equally industrious, equally thrifty, en--terprising,
energetic and capable in bus
iness there will still be inequalities in.
the distribution of wealth, and those,
who think they have not their share will
still be clamoring for a new divide. No
matter how great the volume of circu
lation no person could get his per capita
share unless he gave an equivalent, and
that he can do now. The idea that in
creasing the per capita 61 currency would
necessarily increase the per capita pi
prosperity is very ridiculous. If in
creased beyond a healthy point it would
have precisely an opposite effcet. '
THE LIMITATIONS OP IMMIGRATION.
.t
The New Orleans affair, trivial as it.
was, seVms to have thoroughly aroused
the American people to tho evils and
dangers of unrestricted immigration.
During tho past ten . or fifteen years
many have seen -this ; evil and have
proved that it was one Which snould be
promptly remedied; still not a large
number of people saw or would see the
danger. Doubtless the increase of the
number of undesirable immigrants has
impressed itself upon many, but it seems
to have been left to a comparatively in
significant event to rouse the country.
Now that it-is aroused, and. all sorts of
remedies for the evil are being pro
posed, there is danger'that some may
be carried toa far by their zeal. The old
cry, "America for Americans," is not
suited to the present time, even iit did
not raise the question, "Whoarp Ameri
canst" the answer of which, if literally
demanded, might cloud , the title of
the first settlers. This country owes
much of its present proportions and
prosperity to foreign-born people who
have come to it during the past thirty
years. Such people brought to us much
of the skill in our varied industries, and
hundreds of thousands of industrious
and intelligent peoplo, who have become
useful and patriotic citizens, and have
added millions to the wealth and re
sources of tie country. They are as
much Americans as any who dwell in
the land, and are much better Americans
than some who are native born," who ape
what they mistake to be the customs of
foreign titled people.
There should be no sentiment culti
vated which would discriminate against
such people none of the narrow bigotry
of discarded Know-nothingism. People of
intelligence and good intentions, who
have the means to pay their own passage
money, and to support themselves until
they can find employment, and who are
not content to livo in squalor, as do
many of the immigrants of to-day, are
welcome. Tho criminal, the pauper and
the degraded we do not want. No
more do we want Anarchists, Nihilists
and other elements that aro intent on
war with the established order of things.
Here is where the lineshould be drawn.
All intelligent and well-meaning people
who come here with a purpose to be
come a part of the American Nation by
availing themselves of its educational
facilities, and putting themselves in
accord with the spirit of its institutions,
will not be discriminated against. All
others should be kept oat, and such
seems to bo the present purpose of the
American people.
THE PROTECTION OF THE OCEAN.
A few days since a walking free-trade
doctrinaire was addressing a few per
sons who were wnUing for a street car
as follows: "The mason, the carpenter,
the blacksmith, tho plumber and like
workmen are not protected by a tariff,
yet the?r wages are higher than those in
the protected industries. Doe not this
fact prove the absurdity of the claim
that a high tariff sustains the wages of
tho American workingmauf "I have
heard that statement before," replied
one of the audience, "and it proves
nothing of the kind. All of the me-
chanics in the building trades, the black
smith and the large number of wage
earners who are employed as salesmen,
clerks, book-keepers, collectors in fact,
in hundreds of capacities enjoy abso
lute protection from the competition of
low-priced labor in Europe in the same
employments, because the service they
perform ninst be performed in this coun
try." He was right. American houses can
not be built in Europe. American horses
cannot be shod in England, the work
on American newspapers cannot be done
in London or Paris, and so with hun
dreds of employments in which good
wages are maintained. If people could
take their houses to Germany to have
them painted, or to France to have them
papered and frescoed, or their carriages
to Belgium to have them repaired, the
wages of the workmen in this country
who are employed in those vocations
would gravitate to the low standard
maintained abroad; but the Atlantic
ocean affords the protection of complete
prohibition. Still free-traders will make
such statements as above quoted as one
of their unanswerable arguments, al
ways putting it in the form of a ques
tion which they assume fo be unanswer
able. In this case one of the audience
had an answer, and the street-corner
doctrinaire walked away in silence. It
is,' however, his one argument, and he
will be repeating it again to-morrow and
the next day, and the day following, with
all the assurance of one who has dis
covered a weapon that will destroy one
of the corner-stones of the theory of
a protective tariff. It does not seem to
make any difference with such apostles
of free trade to be shown that their
argument is fallacious.
Private advices received in New York
state that the Chilian torpedo-boats de
stroyed two war vessels, viz., oneiron-clad
and one monitor. The lose is regarded as a
serious blow to the Insurgent cause, inas
mnch a it leaves them oniy one powerful
armed vessel. The merits of the contest,
however, or the relative strength of the
combatants are of little interest compared
with the fact that it has beep demonstrated
that the - most powerful iron-clads and
armored vessels are powerless against tor
pedoes. ' Commenting on this phase of the
case, the New York Times says: "Unques
tionably, the quotable price of the iron
clads the great powers now have 'in stock'
will be seriously diminished by these unlooked-for
eveuta on the west coast, and it
is equally certain that the study' of the
possibilities of torpedo warfare will re
ceive a wonderful impulse."
Rev. Francis Bellamy, a cousin of Ed
ward Bellamy, and a Baptist minister of
Boston, has resigned his pastorate to take
editorial charge of a department of the
Youths' Companion. The name and the re
lationship suggest nationalism, and this
suggests the query: "Is the Companion
about to start a Looking Backward depart
ment!" Prkbident Joiin T. Hill, of 'the Ninth
National Bank of New York, saved him
self an unpleasant encounter with the
sheriff, or at least a trip to Canada, by
dying quietly in his bed before his embez
zlement of $100,000 of the bank's money was
discovered. Still, if he is "dojng time'' on
the other side for his crookedness perhaps
bis gain is not great.
TnE announcement of the Hon. John
Lawrence Sullivan, of Boston, that he will
probably be elected to the next Congress
because he is the most popular Democrat in
a Democratic district will terrify the nice
young men of mugwump tendencies who
are running the Massachusetts Democracy
and holding the best officee.
. BnCATJSE ground has been broken fo the
Grant monument at Riverside it does not
follow, by any means, that a Grant monu
ment will be built at that place. On the
contrary, there is reason to believe that tho
grass will grow again over that broken
ground before anything further is done.
Now that the work on the Grant monu
ment in New York has been finally begun,
the country hopes that it will be pushed to
completion. Nearly six years seems time
enough in which to get ready.
TnAT python story from Eckerty needs
verification. There is some reason to sus-
pect that the fellow who thought he saw it
forgot that be was in Indiana instead of
India.
BUBBLES IN T1IH AIR.
.. An Oversight.
Waiter Erai a' t you forgotten something!
Diner I gare jou a dime, didn't I
Waiter Yes; with' a hole in it. I thought
may be you had forgotten to put a string to it.
Breaking the News.
Who's grolng to break the news to the widow V
asked the chairman of the vigilance committee.
"I've got it," aid the secretary. TU write
her a rote." ,
.' And after, two hours effort he had only gotten
this fan '
'Dear Madame A number of us have this
evening saved your husband from being
drowned."
A Small Ileqaest.
Mrs. Watts Oh, Pm so glad you have come
home. ;
Mr. Watts You are! There must be some
tfiing wrong, sure. What is itt
Mrs. Watts -Why, It's Fido. I am afraid he
has hydrophobia. I have been so anxious for
you to come home, so you could feel of his noe
and find If It is hot and dry. They say that is a
pretty sure sipn.
ABOUT rEorLE AXD T UlNGS.
Mr. Taplino, a British member of Par
liament, who died recently, was supposed
to have the largest collection of foreign
stamps any man ever possessed.
The heirs of the late King Kalakaua are
to receive $5,000 from the American Legion
of Honor, of a branch of which, at Hono
lulu, the deceased had been for ten years a
member.
Donxa Isidora Cousino, in Chili, is
supposed to be the richest woman in the
world. Her monthly income is $60,000.
She is a stately widow of thirty-five years,
and a famous horsewoman.
Queen Victoria is said to have been
much depressed by the death of her per
sonal housemaid, Elizabeth Reynolds, who
had been for fifteen years in her service.
Her Majesty selected ibe place of inter
ment in the cemetery at Grass, and Prin
cess Beatrice designed the tombstone.
Krv. Thomas Dixon, of New York, is
of the opinion that "we need a more vigor
ous Americanism in society. Society swells
aping the aristocracy of Europe are be
neath contempt The American girl who
marries a foreign snob is a foot, who de
serves little pity when she is abused by the
brute whom she calls My Lord.1 "
E. J. Glavk. who has been with Stanley
in Africa, started recently for Alaska to
hunt for Messrs. Wells, Price and Schanz,
the young men sent out over a year ago by
W. J. Arkell to explore that country. The
latest information from AUdta is to the
effect that the three explorers have prob
ably lost their lives. Such at least is the
opinion of the natives. When last heard
from Messrs. Wells and Price, contrary to
Mr. Arkrli's caution, were bound for the
Cooper . river country, while Mr. Scbanz
had gone into winter quarters in an Indian
village.
Prinxe Louis Napoleon, who succeeds
to the head of the Bonapartists. is now in
his twenty-seventh year a tall, slender
wiry young man with an expression of in
telligence tinged with melancholy. His
manners are aftablo and somewhat artless
on the surface, but mentally he is credited
with being as subtle as a Florentine of the
sixteenth century.
Mr. Justicr'Lamar recently delivered a
brief lecture to the Sunday-afternoon class
of the Yoting Men's Christian Association
in Washington. It was noticed then, as is
frequently vthe case now, how much he has
aged of late. He is said to be a thin, stcop
sboulderod man, with tleshless cheeks, to
which the skin hangs in folds; long, thin;
gray hair, claw-like hands, and a general
air of feebleness.
General Miguel Lopez, whose death
was caused by the bite of a mad-dog. was
the most thoroughly detested Mexican on
record. He was the trusted officer who be
trayed Maximilian to his doom, and ever
since that time has been despised by his
own countrymen and scorned by his wife,
who Med from him in horror when he so de
graded himself as to become a traitor to
his best benefaotor.
It is pointed out that a great many dis
tinguished soldiers have attained to un
usual 'length of years. Moltke was one.
Wellington, who died at ejghty-three. and
Lord (lough, at ninety, are instances in
the British service: Marshals McMAhon'
(eighty-three), Soult (eighty-two) and
Uronchy (eighty-one), in the French. In
America, one of the xnont noted cases was
that of General Stark, who almost reached
ninety-four.
Bishop Williams recently wrote a reply
to a yonng Hartford man about to be mar
ried: rl regret, sir. that it is without my
province to order the word 'obey' omitted
from the married service. There is no way
that thi can be done except by vote of the
House of Bishops. The house next con
venes in 1S92, and if yon will postpone yonr
marriage until then, I will take pleasure
in prMenting your petition to the house for
its action." Ibe young man concluded not
to wait .
Tub Princess of Wales, who la an ex
perienced photographer, has sent a large
selection of ber best productions to the
great interoatioualexhibitioo to bo opened
next mouth in Vienna under the patronage
of a fashionable club of amateur photogra
phers, presided over by the Archduchess
Maria Theresa. Under ordinary circura-
stances the Princess would have as com
petitors the Grand Duke Ferdinand of
Tuscany and the Archduchess Maria
Theresa herself: but it has been arranged
that the numerous royal exhibitors shall
all be bora concours.
George W. Child?, of Philadelphia, has
consented to exhibit his fino art and souv
enir collection at the Chicago fair. Among
his treasures are the little green harp which
belonged to Tom Moore, and which he car
ried into hundreds of Irish homes; the mas
sive silver vase presented to Henry Clay,
when he was at the height of his populari
ty, by the Whi g ladies of Tennessee; Wash
ington's champagne glass; cups, saucers
and glasses which came from Louis Napol
eon, the late Emperor William, the late
Emperor Maximilian and the ex-Emperor
of Brazil; a miniature ship, formerly the
property of President Andrew Jackson, and
the silver waiter presented to General
Jackson after his viotory by the citizens of
New Orleans. ,
HIS THOUGHTS elsewhere.
Behold the eager, happy boy
Spade in the mellow ground.
As tbough In work a hidden joy
His hungry soul hath found.
Behold again ten minutes late
How silently he squirms
Around the house and through the gate.
With tin can full of worms.
Colombo Post
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
Remarkable Career of "Jack," Who Was a
Tramp Dojr, Found in a Box-Car.
Special to the Infilsnipolla Journal,
Crawfordsville, April 29,-Tor some
time a crew on a Louisville, New. Albany &
Chicago freight train has been known as
the "dog crew," the name coming from &
mongrel-bred dog called "Jack," which
has been tho pet of the crew. In daylight
or dark, it is said, this dog, which, by the
way, was a "tramp," having been discov
ered last winter half-frozen and locked in
an empty box-car, would get out on top of
the cars and follow the brakemen the en
tire length of the train.
Naturally, "Jack" was regarded as a mas
cot by the superstitious trainmen, and
nothing would induce them to part
with their canine friend. Stories
are ' told of mysterious warnings
given by "Jack" when dangers threatened.
Certain it is that one cold, sleety night in
February, when the foot-boards on the cars
were very slippery, he saved the life of the
front bra keman.
On Tuesday last "Jack" fell from the
train near Ladoga, The brakeman in
stantly signaled to the engineer, who re
versed his engine, although going at a
twenty-tive-'mih's-an-hour speed. The train
backed up and "Jack" was found lying in
the ditch, whining, with a broken leg and
several fractured ribs. Life was almost
crnshed out of him. but he licked the
hands of his faithful friends when they
pioked him up and bore him tenderly into
the caboose, and is now on the road to
recovery. , -.
EXPLOITS OF A PIGEON.
Honored with the Haymaker's Degree' hy the
Independent Order of lied Men. "
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Muncie, April 29,In the burial ritual of
the I. O. R. M. it is necessary to free a bird
at a certain time during the ceremony. De
Ember Tribe of this city has a pet pigeon,
owned by Lafe Thornb'urg, that for
the past three years has been used on such
occasions. Once the bird was taken to
Winchester and used at a borial service.
Whep released the bird flew to the dome of
the court-house in that city, took a view of
th4) surroundings, and then soared west
ward in the direction of home, arriving
here ahead of those who returned on the
train. .
When taken to Bethel recently the bird
sat at tbe head of the grave for a minute,
looked around and took its flight Muucie
ward. again arriving homo in advance of
tbe members of the lodge.
The bird has been freed ton three occa
sions in this city. It is mnch admired and
petted by the members of DeEmber Tribe.
whohavebestowedon.it the Haymaker's
degree, including all the corn and oats from
the haymow it can devour
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NEW SENSATION FOR SARAH.
Bernhardt Goes throngh Chinatown and
Watches a Prize-Fight.
San Francisco. April 20. Sarah Bern
hardt seems to have energy enough to tire
out half a dozen ordinary women. Saturday
night, after two performances of "La
Tosca," the last of which only ended at
midnight, she made a tonr ox Chinatown,
inspected several opium dens and spent a
long time in the Chinese Theater, tiring
out every one who accompanied her. Early
this morning (for tbe performance of ''Cleo
patra" did not end till nearly 1 o'clock) she
went with several of her company to wit
nf: a slugirin match at the Cremorne
Th e:ter, on Market street Thomas Gillen
and Ed Scooney gave a lively exhibition of
the manly art. They fought four hard
rounds, aud Bernhardt was a deeply-interested
spectator, especially when it looked
atone time as though bcoonev would be
knocked ont. She had never before wit
nessed a prize-tight, and yearned for this
new sensation.
"OLD HUTCH" HAS GONE DAFI
Fleeing to the Southward to Escape Im
aginary Financial Troubles.
The Ei-Klng of Wheat Speculation Turns Up
at Evansrille Alter Mysteriously Disap
pearing from Chicago Not Bankrupt
Special to its IndlanspoKa JournaL
Evansville, Ind., April 20. B. i Hutch
inson, the Chicego speculator, arrived in
this city this morning on the lC:15 tram
from Chicago. Ho was carrying a valise,
and his eccentric appearance attracted at
tention at once. He was recognized by
several who had seen him in Chicago. He
seemed troubled and paced up and down
the platform as if undecided what to do.
Finally he started up Main street and in
quired the way to the L. & N. depot He
was given directions. He remained at the
depot until 2:05. when he purchased a ticket
and went South, presumably to Memphis.
A dispatch from Chicago say a: B. P.
Hutchinson, the multi-millionaire grain
speculator, known nearly the world over as
-Old Hutch," is mysteriously missing. It
is supposed that he is demented and his
bus mesa a financial wreck.
Mr. Hutchinson, whose tall, aged yet
erect figure has for years been one of tho
most picturesque sights on the Chicago
Board of Trade, left the city about mid
night last night taking with him a small
satchel and a ticket to Pensacola. Fla.
None of his friends or relatives appear to
have known that he was going. The vet
eran operator, however, never was much of
a man for confidants. How he occupied his
last hours in Chicago has not been discov
ered except that he paid lengthy visits to
two of his favorite drinking resorts, and as
each place told the bartender in leaving
not to expect to see him again.
It has been a matter of common rumor oa
the board that buainefes misfortunes had un
balanced "Old Hatch's" mind. Hi alwars
eccentrio conduct seemed increasingly
erratic For weeks at a timo his abode,
day and niabt. has bewn his little otlic ad
joining the exchange. When, some time
ago. it is said, nis sons, in view f their
father's reported heavy losses following
recent trades, began to consider the ap
pointment of a conservator to take rhsrtra
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of his art lure, tbe old man was furiousTv
angry. More than ever he isolated himself.
and in the board appeared to enerulate for
revenge ratber than gain. ihe uiillko
Which he was said to entertain for certain
members of the board seemed to nettle into
systematic hatred.
AO one but "Old Hutch" himself knew.
or lor that matter vet knows, tho exact
eondition of his finances. It was bractiVal-
ly certain, according to all indications.
that he had lost of late heavilv and stead
ily. This morning when tbe news of his
queer departare became noised about al
most the first question was. llow much
did he leave!" It was answered hv the sn-
nouncement of his relatives that the miss
ing man's outstanding trades .of 3,000,000
bushels could be settled up without loss to
any one. W bether any portion of tbe
speculator's fortune remained they did n)t
say. The moment it was dehuitefr known
thatMr. Hutchieson had really disappeared -the
operators who had deals with him b j
gau calling upon his representatives for
margins. Shortly afterward W. I. Hutch
inson, youngest son of the nits
ing speculator formally announce!
the fact that his father was
missing and that neither his
family or business associates knew the old
gentleman wneraoout. inis waa
eonpled with the information that, as a re
sult the house could not put up any m.-r-
gius. tor a time the announcement caused
the wildest exciter, ent on the lioor, and the
market sharply declined. It was stated
that "Old Hutch" was insolvent, and that
his liabilities would be $5,000,000 in excess
of-his assets. On the other hand. W.I.
Hutchtuson, while saying "1 think father's
mind is unbalanced and that he has wan
dered away," added: "1 do not believe he
is insolvent. When we can rind how his
affairs stand lam confident everv thing will
be paid in full, dollar for dollar."
According to the information that could,
be gathered from all sources to-night tho
missing speculator is long on July and
short on May wheat in large quantities.
lie is also "long" a large line of July and
May corn. These trades, it is said, aro
being carried by Baldwin & Farnum,
Elmendorff & Watle, George O. Parker,
Kosenbanm Bros, and Kussell & Barrett
all of whom, it is claimed, will lose heavily
1 1 M f a. 1 . .a . .
uvuiu in w iuaii ut, uutvutuawu to in
Solvent v
Almost every broker in Chicago has au
individual theory o account for the disap
pearance. Not tbe least plausible is one
that "Old Huloh" has simply gone on his
long-talked-of vacation, and will pretend
the greatest surprise and resentment when
ho hears that a sensation has been made of
his going away. It is asserted that he has
taken but one vacation before in twenty
years.
In an interview to-night II. D. Rnsselt
of ltuasell & Barrett said: "1 estimate
Mr. Hutchinson's losses-during the patt
fourteen months at not less than S2.000.OO0.
Tbe largest amount lost by him in one deal
was 0,000, when he acted as the
Chicago broker for Sawyer &. Wal
lace, in their attempt to corner pork.
Since then his losses have been very heavy,
although current reports arc, in my opin
ion, grossly exaggerated. We place his
present obligations at $.Tj0,000. and his
available assets at fi'AOOO, representing
a total shortage of $100,000. I am informed
that about four months ago he
settled $000,000 on his wife and
youngest son, leaving for bin own use about
200.000, all of which. I believe, he has since
lost. Since July, K)Q. there has been a
radical change in Mr. Hutchinson's method
of transacting business. Of late, in a
word, he has been risking large losnea
to gain possible small profits. In his de
partare from the city I think Mr. Hutchin
son knew what he was doing that be was
aware he could not settle in full, and was
so mortified i that he concluded to absent
himself till a settlement could be made."
Van-American University.
Galveston-, Tex., April 29. Articles of
incorporation have just been signed and
transmitted to the Secretary of Mate set
ting forth the object of a great enterprise.
The name of the corporation is the Pan
American Education-promoting Associa
tion. Its aims, as stated by the articles of
incorporation, aro to promote, and estab
lish, and to solicit benevolent polittraland
governmental aid in the establishment of a
pan-American university upon the coast of
the Gulf of Mexico, where languages, hab
its, usages, customs and trades of the
American He-public may be learned, thereby
promoting mutual interests and extending
acquaintance of the tvmimerce of the Amer
ican people. The general oflices of the
Association are established in this city.
Incorporators are: J. 1. Hampton and Geo,
B. Greggs. Ohio: ex-Governor John Evans,
of Colorado; O. M. Sherman. Kanfta; Prof.
O. II. Cooper. Judire W. B. Lockhart. Hon.
Walter Gresham, Hon. F. 8. Dana and Hon.
R. L. Fulton. Texas. The ollicers are: Prof.
O. H. Cooper, president; Hon. Waiter
Gresham. vice-president; G. B. Greggs. sec
retary and treasurer.
Tin-Plate Manufacturers. x
New York. April 20. Representatives of
the chief tin-plate manufacturing hrms of
the country got together at the Fifth ave
nue Hotel, this afternoon, and perfected a
temperarr organization of the tin-plate
manufacturers of the L'nited States. It
was placed on record that the object of th
organization was to promote the manu
facture of tin and plate In the l'nited
States. It was stated by several members
that tbe mills represented were already
working, and that as roou as protected
mills were built they would prodnce sixty
thousand net tons of tin-plate per, aiinnm.
A committee was appointed to . perfect a
permanent organization. The next meet
ing will be at Pittsburg, May 20.
Kxteniire Forest Fires.
Trenton. N. J.. April 29. A special to the
State Gazette from Point Pleasant ea.vs
that much property and timber have bc n
destroyed in that region by tire. Tbe 11 ro
began in a barn at llerbertsril! and spread
northwesterly over seven miles of c ountry,
eating up fifteen thousand acres of timber
in its progress. A number of cranberry
bogs, barns and outbuildings were also de
strjed. Tbe citizens of Toms River and
Point Pleasant are fightiug the flames.
Hrrbertaville is penned in by tire. West
I'oint Plaant and Toms River are now
threatened by the uaxuts.