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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
POLITICAL COMMENTS.

The choice of such person aa
Mr.. Allan Thorndike Rice to take tho
place so admirably filled by Mr.. Lo-
throp at st. Petersburg belittles the
government that makes it. Boston
Post.
--Memorandum from Murat Hal
stead's diary under date of March 2S,
1889: 1.-The United States Senator is
vindictive animal. Great care is
necessary in stirring him p.'-Chi-
cago Herald.
Lost, stolen or strayed, a war
Foraker. Information only wanted.
The person finding him can keep him,
as his former masters have no further
use for him.-Chicago Times.
-Halstead doesn't go to Germany
as Minister. Here is chance for
sonny Hayes,
lGarfield.
Chicago Times.
-"Offensive partisanship" is not
a good reason in General
Wanamaker's opinion for the removal
of a postmaster, so Mr. Clarkson
bounces the Democrats for pernicious
activity in politics. Louis Post
Dispatch.
-Organizations for the reduction
of wages should not be tolerated under
prosperous, high tariff administra-
A fn,,
Harrison on the subject might do
much good now in Pennsylvania.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
-"Pa, I'd like to be a man, and
have soft job with a big salary like
Fred Grant" MY boy. you make
me feel bad. 1t grieves your fathers
heart to hear you talk that way. My
most earnest prayer is that you will
grow up to have too much brains for a
foreign mission. "--Chicago Herald.
Tho office-seekers should step
aside for a few minutes and permit
President Harrison to operate protec-
tion so rs to "fill the dinner pals" OF
the tens of thousands of iron-workers
and wooden operatives who have re-
Gently had their wages reduced by
highly protected manufacturers -
Buffalo Courier.
The popular movement against
trusts has behind it a feeling of injury
and belief that the business distress
among manufacturers and the depres-
sion that has overtalken commercial
and agricultural operations are large
ly due to inequalities and disablli-
ties inherent in our present revenue
system. philadelphia Record.
1t is estimated that the "aggre-
gate wealth of the Cabinet is not
above $1,000, 900. The reader should
be careful not to mistake the word
0ealth as signifying value. However
great the aggregate wealth of the
plutocratic Cabinet may be, its aggre-
gate value to the country promises to
be very small.-Chicago Globe.
Tho grandson of his grand
father" could not refuse to countenance
the claims OF 1.-The son of his father"
and hence the sending of the envoy |
Extraordinary" to Vienna. To COM
plete the matter 1t would be now in or
der to send to the Senate the name OF |
Ferdinand Ward as Consul General to |
the same city. Some arrangement |
might be made to procure his release
from Sing Sing. The firm of Grant a.
Ward would thus be rehabilitated un-
der moro favorable auspices. Albany
IN. r. Argus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
FACTS ABOUT SHIRTS.
Devises Calculated to Reduce tho Laundry
Bills of Bac eIors.

AS the shirt industry grew and ex.
panded the garment itself became the
subject of much mental exercise, and
the result is that there are more than
three hundred patents on various de-
vices pertaining to the garment and
covering every part of it from the neck
band to the tail. Most of these are de-
signed to add to the comfort of the
wcarer, the strength of the shirt, and
the income o, the inventor, and are OF
no particular interest to the general
reader. One of the most singular OF
these inventions is a contrivance to
cheat the laundress, called the multi
BOSOM" consisting of one body and
many bosoms, either detachable or
otherwise. A man in Boston built a
shirt with many bosoms so arranged
that when one was soiled it could be
dropped down below the waist and a
clean front exposed to view. 1t is sug-
gested in the Haber-dasher, from which
this information is obtained. that this
shirt should be accompanied by an
automatic portable laundry, operated
by the legs of the wcarer so that the
dropped bosom could be "done up"
while not in use. Another man has
produced combination shirt made of
flannel with an extra bosom of linen,
which is made to appear on unbuttoning
a flap, and Chicago man has secured
a patent on a shirt to which extra
bosoms are attached by buttons. The
notched neckband is patented device
and consists in cutting V-shaped
notches in the top of the band, thus
permitting it to spread or contract to
fiji collars of different sizes. Another
patent was issued recently on shirt
open all the way down the back and
front-a shirt in two halves; and still
another on the open shoulder, which
has not yet become popular. There are
also a number of patents on sleeve ad-
justers, most of which consist of
system of buttons and straps to regu-
late the length of the sleeve.
The linen for American shirts comes
entirely from Ireland. 1t is said that
the United States can never become IL
competitor in this domain for the
reason that it can not grow the proper
quality of flax and that the extremes
of climate prevent perfect bleaching.
Ireland is the worlds best bleaching
ground. Nearly all the muslin used
in the trade is manufactured in the
mills OF New York ana the New En-
gland States, the Southern mills sup
plying only the heavy fabrics known
as ''cotton Innings. Chicago Tribune.
In recently issued tables giving
statistics on the subject OF divorce, our
country leads in having granted nearly
half million divorces during the
twenty years past, but there have been
only eleven divorces throughout the
length and breadth of Erin during that
period. Protestant or Catholic, In
or in abuse, the Irish con-
tinue the partnership unit! " is dis
solved by death.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
PRESIDENTIAL LOOT.
Tho First and Second Harrison and tn
Half-Starved Buzzards.

Tho First and Second Harrison and the
Half-Starved Buzzards.
1t seems popularity of Presidents
of the house of Harrison that they at
tract to the place where the spoils car
cass is more of the buzZards called
office-seekers than do Presidents of
any other family. During fifty years
from the organization of the republic
in 1889 the capital never witnessed
any thing like the countless hordes of
the hungry and the thirsty that
swarmed there upon the accession of
Harrison the First Their numbers,
their opportunities by day and by
night, their incessant, ravenOus, hid
eous clamor for the loot and booty of
public places and employments, drove
the poor old man who held the ap-
pointing power to delirium and death
in thirty days. Says historian of
his brief reign: "Sometimes in his
delirium he would say: My dear
madam, l did not direct that your hus-
band should be turned out. did not
know it. tried to prevent it, On
another occasion he cried out in broken
sentences: 1T is wrong!-I won't con-
sent!-itis unjust! These applications
will they never, never ceasep " In
deed, it is an accepted fact of history
that the resistless assault of the army
of office-beggers was the cause of the
death of the first Harrison exactly one
month after his Inauguration.
The horde of buzzards by which Har-
rison the Second is now environed eX-
ceeds in number, as well as in raven
BUSINESS, those that killed his ancestor.
And it is the openly expressed opin-
ion OF the Northern Senator from Illi-
nois that they will drive this Harrison
also to his death, unless he shall pro-
coed at once to farm out the appointing
power to the Senator's (which ought
to be ours by rightr' says that Senator.
Mr.. Farwell overlooks the fact that
Harrison the Second is much younger
man than was Harrison the First, and
the further fact that, being a graduate
of the political school OF Indiana, he
is 'tough, sir! very tough!' There is
not SO much danger, therefore, that
the spoils-beggars will kill him; but
the likeness in other respects between
the conditions following the installa-
tion OF the two Harrisons suggests
some occult and mysterious relation of
the house of Harrison to the Unsuitable
lust OF tho Presidential loot and booty.
Chicago Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
CHINESE SUPERSTITION.
How n Pig-TaiIed Sorcerer Exercises An
Evil Spirit.

A family by the surname of Ii, re-
siding in the vicinity of Ia Tu III Tenn
pie, has, says Chinese paper, always
been harrassed with diverse troubles,
and not long ago Lii himself the pater
familias, was taken possession of by an
evil spirit, which caused him an incon-
ceivable amount of distress. Every de-
vice was tried to exercise it, but with
out avail. AT last they engaged the
services of a sorcerer, Mr.. Hsuan. who
has the reputation OF being able to deal
with every sort of devils and spirits.
AS soon as Mr.. Hsuan entered Lis
house he carefully scrutinized the room
where the devil was supposed to be ca
sconced, and laughingly ejaculated
1.-The matter is easily doneH Forth
with he addressed the spirit, crying:
"Thou demon, why deiilcst thou the
people? with my poniard l will kill
thee, and no mercy will be shown thee"
He changed his tone, and proceeded to
humble II sort Of imprccation, and be-
hold! great glittering serpent APP
peared in an attitude of humble sup
plication, gazing piteorsly into the
eyes of the sorcerer. The latter took
out shining needle from his sleeve
and plunged ii into the head of the
serpent, intending thereby to kill him;
but Iii, fearing lest greater disaster
might beiall his family by taking the
life Of the serpent, implorcd the sorcer-
er TO snare him. which he did accord
ingly, and in twinkling the serpent
had disappeared. All the beholders
maryeled at this miraculous affair, and
ut once set about to relate it TO their
friends and acquainlances.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
S2b.OOO Fire.

TIFFIN, April "a destructive fire visited
Attica, this county, at two clock yesterday
morning, consuming s25 900 worth of prop
erty, about one-third insured. The fire or
iginated in the poler room OF Myers sa-
loon and spread to adjoining buildings very
rapidly. Following are the sufferers :
Myers saloon, Mrs Keller's general rtore,
Shellhorn's grocery. &. w. Whitman's sa-
loon, W. II. Pelcher's house and barn, DR..
Blaine's Office Attica Journal office, Mrs.
Treeple's millinery, a. B. Laws photograph
gallery Riningcr IL Silcox's warehouse and
severa' barns aud outbuildings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
Why They We're Appointed.

James G. Blaine. couldn't help It.
John Wanamalser, for value received
Walker Blame, nepotism, pure and simple.
Whiisiaw Wiiism waaSm' RsS Because Blaine desredt
j. s. clarkson, for his offensive partisanship.
Redheld Proctor.
j. s. Noble, God only knows.
Jeremiah Rusk.
w. ii. II. Miller, I,or ,r,enasb,ns sake
John G. New. Tror ''''""'"'p S"~e'
Frederick DGrant, on his fathers reputation.
Omaha Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13

-Congressmen are elected to
make laws--not to serve on patronage
boards or to act as bosses of their dis
tricts by permission OF the President
st. Louis Republic.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13

In proportion to the population
there are more isachusetts peo ,le
in the State of Iowa tban in Maisa
chusetts.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
AN IMPoRTA Mt CASE.
Bill That Will Be Filed in the United
States COurt TO-day

To-day Hon. j. L. Caldwell, of Lincoln,
will file bill IN equity In the United States
court In the case OF the Western Union Tele-
graph company vs. the Union Pacific road.
1t will he remembered that some time last
spring the Union Pacific announced that
under the provisions of an act of congress it
proposed to take possession of all telegraph
lines along and on its right of way and
operate them. The Western Union company
demonstrated and applied to Judge Brewer,
of the United States circuit court, for an in
junction restraining the Union Pacific from
taking possession or confiscating any lines in
use by the former. The matter was finally,
by mutual consent, referred to the attorney
general for settlement, but appears through
some failure on the part of Mr.. Garland, to
have gotten back into the courts.
Under the provisions of an agreement
made in 1862 years ago by the Union Pacific
that corporation agreed to MAINTAIN and op-
crate line of telegraph along its right of
way and to employ its own operators and
agents, and to furnish the government and
the public means for the transmission of
messages, subject to the control of congress,
according to an agreement made, by which
the government ceded lands and loaned
money to the enterprise. The Union Pacific,
in violation of it's contract with the govern
ment, granted to the Western Union the eX-
elusive right to send all kilograms over its
right of way, thereby giving the latter a
monopoly Of the business and depriving the
government of the use Of the line TO which
it was and Is entitled.
Congress put in a protest and by an act
approved by President Cleveland in 1883 in
sisted that the Union Pacific should adhere
to the provisions of the agreement made with
the government. The railroad company,
fearful of the results which might follow if
the mandate OF the national executive body
annul the contract with the Western Union,
which was made In 1851, whereupon the lat
ter applied for an injunction In the United
States circuit court,
Mr. Caldwell, who Is an attorney of abil-
ity, has been chosen by the government to
protect its interests. The bill ne will file to-
day will cite the above mentioned facts and
will ask that the Union Pacific be compelled
to adhere to the provisions of the agreement
made and legalzed by the senate and house
of representatives
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
The Halbur Tragedy.

CARROLL, Ia, Sept. IT. Special Tele-
gram to THE BEE. M. S. Ish, the station
agent at Halbur who shot and killed William
Eike at that place last night, is here IN jail
awaiting examination. He is very reticent
and will say nothing whatever IN regard to
the affair. 1t appears, however, that Ish
had incurred the enmity of certain class
of tonghs at Halbur and yesterday after
noon having offended one of their number
the whole gang armed themselves with clubs
and car pins and drove Ish into the
depot informing him that as long as
he remained in town that was
where he was expected to stay and threaten
ing if he ventured outside the depot 20 ''fx
him." Fearing night visit from the
rowdes, he told his little boy, who was alone
in the depot with him, that if he heard any
one around the depotrto let him know. About
O'Clock the little boy called to his father
that some one was prowling around behind
the depot GrasplnR his revolver, Ish opened
the door, and seeing man coming towards
him, fired, and the man dropped without a
groan investigation proved it to be William
Eike, who was looking at some cars to be
loaded next day. Although the circum-
stances connected with the shooting are
greatly In extenuation, very bitter feeling
exists against Ish, as Eike was an old set
tier and peaceahle, law abiding citizen.
The coroner's jury is still in session.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
Horse Thieves Captured.

DEs MONIES, Sept. IL Especial Telegram
to The BEE. Sunday morning when MIR.
Reno, living few miles east of Bladens-
burg. Wapallo county, went to the barn he
found that some one had been there during
the night and fed some borses. He mistrust-
ed that they were crooks, and, getting
neighbor, he started in pursuit, The tracks
led to Ben Burnaugh's, a farmer living three
miles from Agency City. Early that morn
ing two strangers had stopped at his house
for breakfast and when they looked out and
saw Mir. Reno coming they ran to cornfield.
Officers were notified and citizens Joined in
the pursuit and the pair were finally traced
to Eldon, where they were found in bed at a
hotel. They were arrested d proved to be
George Burnaugh, who had served one term
at Fort Madison and one at Joliet, and the
other refused to give his name Their horses
were evidently stolen and were held await
ing an owner. 1t is believed the pair were
planning au extensive raid when thus accl-
dentally discovered.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
Marysvine Booming.

MARYsvILLE, Kan, Sept. 11.-ISpecial to
THE BEE. .l-Material for the, water works
has arrived and work commenced this morn
ing. The system is one of the very BEST and
Marysvill soon boast of the best water works
in the state.
A new opera house is under construction
and will be complete in sixty days. It's seat
ing capacity will be 1000, and it will be
opened by Prof. Bachs band, of Milwaukee,
consisting of forty-hve musicians.
The Topeka, West Moreand & Marysville
railroad is settled question, as final ar
rangements were made last week, and be-
fore one year Marysvile will have another
good road, making three IN all. the last of
which gives us a direct opening to the south
and east.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
The Billings Trial.

WATERLOO, Ia, Sept. l7.-TSpecial 1ele-
gram to THE BEE. lin the Billings case to-
day Judge Ney admitted the evidence of ex.
County Clerk Phillips to prove the docu-
ments found on Billings person on the night
Of the tragedy were in defendents hand
writing.
j. G. st. John testified that he sold Bill
lings the revolver tnat was found in his
overcoat pocket, and that it was not pur-
chased in Kentucky, as defendant claimed.
The state offered the various documentary
exhibits in evidence. The defense objected
to their admission. Arguments are being
heard upon this point.
George Barnham, of Lacrosse, Wis, n
witness for the state, has arrived, and his
evidence will cause the collapse of what was
promised as Uit of sensational evidence in
behalf OF the defense. Burnham bought the
revolver from the two Waverly parties,
which, it was alleged to be claimed by the
defense to be the revolver that was found
near Kingsley. Barnham has the revolver
in his possession, and says that it was never
sold to Kingsley
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
Ran Ashore

BALDwINs, L. L, Sept. I7.-LSpecial Tele
gram to The BEE. The British steamer
Vertumnus, Captain Thompson, of the New
York and Jamaica steamship line, ran ashore
about Z 80 last night in dense fog opposite
the life saving station at Point Lookout,
Long Beach. She had cargo chiefly of
bananas and oranges and four passengers,
J. H. Shelpon, owner of the cargo, his wife
and two children. Most of the cargo was
thrown overheard and the hatches sealed up.
The passengers were taken safely ashore in
a life boat. The crew of eighteen remained
on board the steamer all night and were
taken off this morning. Hundreds OF men
went from the mainland to the beach in
boats and gathered up barrels of oranges
and lunches of bananas, with which the
beach was streWn
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18

LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE advice of the lead
ers of the strike tothe dock laborers to observe
all the provisions of the agreement under
which they returned to work at first ap-
peared TO have been etfectual Early this
morning the men appeared at the docks and
went to work peaceably with the "black
legs" the men who had taken their places
during the strike. Later the strikers and
"black legs'' became involved in dispute on
the India dock, and the men who had been
on strike drove the 'black legs' out of
the dock. The police interfered and
quelled the disturbance. The strikers then
with drew and the ''blacklcgs' resumed
work.
The striking workmen ana 'blacklegs' on
the Albert dock to-day had some trouble, in
which the latter received injuries which
necessitated their removal to the hospital
The men who made the assault were dis
charged
The directors of the dock companies
threaten general lockout if the men do not
live up to the terms of the agreement their
representatives have signed.
The disturbance among the dock laborers
has been queled and there has been no
further moestation of the "blacklegs" on
the part OF the strikers.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
SHE WENT 1T BLIND.
The Escaputie OF Pretty Catholic
Gtffqn Kentucky.

LoUIsviLLE,rKy., Sept. fI.-[Special Tele.
gram TO THE BEEsl- blind Baptist divinity
student and the vivacious daughter Of an old
Catholic family eloped last Saturday to New
Albany and were. married. To-day the girl
Is missing and her husband is seek
ing TO findo her by the aid
of the court. Blind and bereft OF
both parents at'the age of seven, Charles Bo-
hannon was taken charge of twOnty years
ago by his aunt Mrs. Holman. In a blind
school he proved very apt and, having re-
ligious turn, was placed after graduation in
a Baptist theological seminary. His aunt,
who is comparatively poor, worked hard
to sustain him. Bohannor has made
good showing as student
and has been preaching under license.
Near his home with Mrs. Holman lived Miss
Vica Alfred with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Max Fischer. They became friends. She
is pretty girl of twenty and took
romantic intsrest in the blind preache-.
Soon they were lovers. Bohannon
persuaded her TO renouuce her religion and
become a Baptist. When the preparations
were making for her immersion her mother
first heard of the change and forbade it. She
daughter was to send her to
convent. She had her plans
all ready for this last Saturday,
but Miss Vica found means to communicate
with Bohannon Friday night, and at dawn
Saturday morning she slipped out of
the house and joined him. They drove
rapidly to New Albany and were married
by a Methodist minister. On their return
they went to Mrs Holmans, and Mrs. Bo-
hannon at evening sent messenger TO her
mother. Mrs. Fischer came in a
storm of excitement. The daughter,
seeing her in the yard, bolted the sitting
room door. Mrs. Fischer, who is a large,
muscular woman, seized a piece of timber,
burst in the door, seized a fragment and
struck at Bohanuon. Mrs. Holman nterposed
and was felled to her knees. A struggle fol
lowed, during which the young people
escaped. Mrs. Holmans little son called
policeman, and Mrs. Fischer
was finally queted and taken
home. To avoid a scandal Mrs. Holman
asked the officer not to report the matter.
The next morning Fischer came with
friendly message, saying his wife was
prostrated by excitement, and If the
daughter would come to her all would be
forgiven. Mr.. and Mrs. Bohannou, accom-
panied by MIR. Holman, returned with Mr..
Fischer. Once in the house the daughter
was asked to step into the sick room, while
the gentlemen waited in the parlor. No
sooner was Mrs. Bohannon within the bed
room door than it was closed with slam and
n sound of blows was heard. Fischer, who
is much larger than either of the other men,
cooIiy informed them that his wife was
perfectly well and was giving her
daughter sound thrashing. He bade them
be off at once. After trying for two days to
secure his wife without publicity,
Rev. MIR. Bohannou to-day got
writ of habeas corpus from Circuit
Judge jackson. Upon an attempt to use
house and the mother refuses to tell where
She
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-18
A REQUEST FROM MILLERS,
The Hawkeye Association Wants a
Revision of Rates.
BILLINGS TRIAL AT WATERLOO
Delegates to the Iowa Democratic
state Convention Assembling
In Sioux City--Buried
Under Roof
MnIers Want Justice.

DEs MONIES, Ia, Sept. 17.-lSpecial Tele-
gram TO THE BEE. The State Millers' asso-
citation filed request with the railroad COM
missioner to-day asking for revision of the
present schedule Of rates so far rs it effects
the milling industry of Iowa. They ask that
the rates be so changed as to put them on
fair and competing basis with competitors
in adjoining states. They ask specifically
for milling.in. transit rates and that all roads
doing business in Iowa should be made to
give joint rates; that the milling -in-transit
rates should be so fixed as to permit them to
ship -four out in lots of not less than one
hundred sacks on the one through rate, and
that lots of one ton up to one hundred sacks
should pay only the difference between car
lots and fourth class rates