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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03
TUESDAY.

Working mon MI over Europe are
preparing fora labor demonstration
on May lst; and fall continental gov
ernments are taking precautions to
prevent disorder, while number of
great works threaten their men with
discharge if they absent themselves
from their work on May lst.-The con-
ference of striking carpenters and
bosses was resumed at Chicago yester-
day.-Therc is renewed talk of strike
at the Chicago stock yards on Thurs
day.--A meeting of miners and opera
tives' representatives from every
mining point in Illinois was held yes
terday, for the purpose OF amicably
arranging a scale Of prices in order TO
avoid strike.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States, in an Iowa liquor case, has de-
cidei that the seizure of liquor
brought into the state in original
packages is unconstitutional, as an
interference with interstate com
merce.
The announcement comes from Rus
STA that that government is preparing
to assist capitalists to build up a cat
tie shipping and packing business tC
compete with the United States il
shipping meat to England and Ger
many.
The Boston police board has notified
all the salOOn-kecpcrs in the city tC
remove their bars within twenty days
The order is the result Of a new Law
providing that liquor may only be solo
as an accompaniment TO food.
The Ohio ballot-box forgery com
mlttee has resumed its sittings a
Washington. after rest OF seyera
months.
Another Pittsburgh bucket-shop ha
gone TO the wall.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03
EHE NEWS.
SATURDAY.

The striking Chicago carpenters
nave asked the bosses TO meet with
them for "a conference. -Thc hotel and
restaurant walters will strike unless
their union is recognized and an equal
ling of wages ade.-The gas-htters
will strike on May lst.-The u. :. FIX.
90. is threatened with strike in OPP
position to reduction of wages.-A
number of harness makers struck yes
terday for higher wages. Many
gas men at Vienna will strike for an
increase of pay. Train hands on the
CT. S. and w. R'y, at Dublin, have
struck for increase OF pay.
The attorney general has recon-
mended, and Secretary Window has
agreed to the recommendation, that
nineteen Cinnamon arrested for viola
tion of the exclusion act, now in Gus
tody be- returned to China at govern
ment expense. An appropriation Of
4l35, 600 was made to feed the destitute
victims OF the recent floods in the
south.
4 leycc break near Baton Rouge,
La, is flooding the cOuntry.-A bill is
being made up for congress to give
Capt. C0wden $500, 900 for every foot
the food level Is reduced by the Cap
tain's scheme Of providing outlets for
food waters.
The DoranW Wright company, Of New
York, one of the largest buckct-shops
in existence failed Yesterday.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03
SUNDAY.

The FasSett Investigating com
mittee in New York had a sensational
meeting yesterday, when Mayor Grant
and Richard Croker were accused by
the lattcrs brothcr-in-law Of having
been concerned in "a large corruption
fund raised to pay for Grants con-
iirmatiOn as commissioner OF public
works.
The Pittsburgh Commission com
pany, "A buCket-ShOp doing business
Of half a million annually on capital
Of $4,000 failed yesterday for $3.50, 900,
after paying out $35O,0O0 In the past
seven weeks. The old st0ry--markets
going all one way.
The big Odd Fellows parade laid
out for Chicago yesterday was busted"
by a steady and heavy rain. An enter
tanmcnt appropriate to the seventy
first anniversary was, however, held
in the evening at the Second regiment
armOry.
The breaks in the Louisiana lcvees
are growing greater daily. Vast teri
tory is being flooded, but as the water
Of the greatest crevasse is pouring into
an uninhabited swamp, there has not
as yet Deen any serious suffering.
Stanley has arrived in England, and
Giovanni Succi made the day adj
ditionally memorable" by completing
a fast Of forty days at the royal acqu-
rum.
A conference was held yesterday
between the carpenters and some of
the bosses. The peace prospects are
not fiatterlng by any means.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

For some reason-probably the. re-
suit Of mixing up the teachings OF the
missionaries among chem their own
myt hology-a widely distributed myth
has got among the Cheyenne and Ara
pahOe Indians in Montana and Da-
kota, that Messiah is soon to appear
ameng them. He has made his will
known to some Of their chief medicine
men, who are preaching the coming
savior to their people and have gotten
nearly all Others to believe in the new
religion. He is now in the mountains
and wants all she Indians to come to
him. He proposes TO PUT the Indians
behind him and have all the whites in
front, when he will roll over destroy
the whites and leave the Indians mas
tiers. AS no one has yet seen the Mes
siah, the situation seems to present a
fine opening for Mr.. Schwenfurth.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

The american architect presents the
following rather sad story as told by
Mr.. Valentine, a Vermont official.
about the descrtion Of that beautiful
state by its former inhabitants, the
4. A. only adding: Not pretending
to any ideas of political economy, we
we will not try TO account for this
strange condition OF things, but 1t is
certainly curious that a region so
favored in climate and position should
be retrograding so rapidly:
Standing with other officials on a
hill in Bennington county, and look
ny over the valley OF the West River,
a tributory To Connecticut, they
counted fifteen contiguous farms, OF
perhaps "a hundred acres each, all
fenced. and with dwelling-houses and
barns in at least tolerable condition,
without single inhabitant. Beyond,
toward the Connecticut, but hidden
by the maple groves in the valley, were
as they saw, fifteen more also deserted
vet ali well situated and still showing
signs of their former fertility. Stats
tics show that a similar condition pre-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

cloud, appearing at the opening Of the
administration, has spread until II
covers the sky. Mr.. Lea thinks he has
right, therefore, to address the presi'
dent and demand cessation OF the
malign ascendancy OF Mr.. Quay.
Under IL, thus far, he tells the presl-
dent:
"You have degraded it 1.-THE Rcpubli-
can party to the lowest level, till 1t
no longer deserves or enjoys the pub
lie confidence, and its interest, as well
as that Of the nation, demands its
publication by defeat. You have
earned for it the dcnunciatiOn Of the
Hebrew prophet: The heads thereof
judge for reward, and the priests
thereof teach for hire, and the prophets
thereof divine for money: yet will they
lean upol the Lord and say, Is not the
Lord among us? none evil can come
upon us. Therefore shall Zion for
your sake be ploughed as a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps"
If men like Quay in Pennsylvania
and Platt in New York are to remain
at the head Of the party machinery,
Mr.. Lea Justly concludes that "party
allegiance may become fatal to public
welfare and party denunciation the
duty Of the highest patriotism"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03
WEDNESDAY.

IL Is said BOulanger will take part
in the labor demonstration in Paris
on Thursday Forty anarchists were
arrested in that city yesterday charged
with melting disorder among the
wOrkingmen.-lt is reported that the
carpenters strike was settled by
agreement yesterday. The situation
at the stock yards is growing more
uncertain daily, and IL is probable the
men will strike on Thursday.
The execution Of Kemmer by cleo
tricity, which was to have taken
place this week, has again been post
poned, Judge Wallace, Of the U. S.
Court, having yesterday granted a
writ Of habeas corpus, returnable June
II, the ground Of the writ being the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

Congressman NiedringhauS, who
had himself elected from st. Louis as
a protectionst at a cost of $4,000,
finds himself suddenly victimized as
the wrong OK in the Mckinley tariff
revision goring match. Mr.. n. is con-
nected with an industry in st Louis
that uses large quantities of boraX, the
ORDINARY commercial price of which is
= ceHts pound. Now Senator Stewart
of Nevada and congressman kenna, a
member of the ways and means com,
raittee, have become the owners of a
lake in California the waters Of which
are SO impregnatsd with bOraX that
they can furnish the article in I'M
limited quantity at cent pound, if
need be. But is nearly the only source
in the y. S. from which the article
can he supplied at any price, all of the
article now in use being imported.
Now Il tarif of about 3 cts pCnud on
boraX, it is plain to see, would be mil
lions in the pockets Of Stewart and
and accordingly they have
prevailed upon McKiaiey to put it
into his bill. To Mr.. Niedringhaus
Jhis simply means loss of $4,000
year, and as it's only purpose is to fur.
ther fatten two already befattened
bears, he protests agaist 10 as robbery
HIS demand of its removal has been
denied, and Mr.. n. IL so
mad that he has written a. letter de-
louncing his purpose to fight she
whole MCKINLEY tariff schefac'aS listle
Else shan systematized robbery, which
nc doubt is.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

walls all over the state. In Widham
county are more than forty thousand
acres OF land, once cultivated, but
now deserted, and in the whole state
the number OF abandoned farms, com.
plete with houses. fences, barns and
IOutbildings, must be several thousand.
Yet Vermont Is one of the pleasant
est, healthiest, most fertile and most
civilized state in the Union. In its
river valleys Is no malaria, while its
hills are covered to the summit with
vegetation. The reckless agriculture
which has made portions of the South
nearly barren has never been favored
in Vermont, where a century or more
OF St0ck-farming has rather enriched
than exhausted the soil; yet the peO-
pie who once found happy homes there
have crowded into the towns, or have
lett the state altogether. In thirty
years, from 1850 to 1880, the increase
or population OF the whole country
more than doubled, and that Of the
adjoining state of Massachusetts in
creased by nearly eighty per cent
The situation appears to afford a
flat contradiction at least one favorite
pretensc of the protection preaching
economists, that the building up of
large manufacturing industries in his
vicinity affords splendid home mar
ket to the farmers, for there is hardly
one OF these forsaken farms but is
from one to three hours drive of a
thriving manufacturing city. The
simple truth is land it needs but lit
tie knowledge of political economy to
figure it out, though we shall not
stop to do it,, these farms have been
taxed to death to build up in those
cities the promised home market,
which has proved delusion and "A
snare.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

More than two weeks have elapsed
since the New York Eccning Post
brought its serious charges against
Boss Quay. These were that eleven
years ago, in collision with j. Blake
Walters, cashier of the Pennsylvania
state treasurer, he had possession Of
$500, 900 of the state funds and Squan-
dered the money IN gambling; that,
though Don Cameron helped him and
Walters to restore this money to the
treasury, subsequently, when Quay
became state treasurer, he stole $780,
600 more, and invested it in North
Chicago railroad stock; but being sue
cessful in this speculation, he was
afterwards able himself To restore the
money to the treasury. Being called
upon TO meet these charges, Quay yir-
tually admits them by maintaining a
.dlpnifled silence" But is that TO be
the end of the matter? Mr.. III. G.
Lea, distinguished New York Re-
publican, thinks not. Mr.. l.. had in
1884 been mugwump, but IN 1888, ac'
cepting Harrison's pledges of reform
in good faith, voted for him. But the
first symptom Mr.. Lea sees of that re-
form is Mr.. Quay at the head of politi
cal affairs of the new administration
Wanamaker, at his dictation, con
fessedly as a reward for contributions
of money during the campaign, IL
given seat in the cabinet. This
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

To the statement of the FREE
TRADER, that it was ''meanly dis
honest to claim that, because free
trade in England has injured the Eng
glish farmer, therefore free tsade must
in like manner injure the American
farmer, the Ottawa Repnblicaa replies
that there is no getting around it,,
''free trade is largely responsible for
the pltiable condition of the English
farmer, and no amount of assumption
can make it appear otherwise" Who
prctends otherwise? That was It's in
tention there. The open, avowed pur-
pose of the repeal of the corn laws was
to break down the price of whaat in
England so as to give the people cheap
bread. And it did so To the fullest ex-
tent-it cut wheat from $3.50 to 33 or
a bushel down to Sl.25 and 81. or
course it was hard on the British land
holders, the hoary old aristoCracy, less
than 200 of whom own every acre OF
farm land in England ana Nco0lahu'
but it was the making of the country.
1t made England the workShopof the
world, the wealthiest, strongest,
mightiest, most enlightened nation on
earth. The farmers of England are
tenants, and whether they get S3 or
80 cents bushel for their wheat the
result is all the same to them: they
get enough to live on-no mcre-the
rest goes TO the landholder, ny noble
lord the baron, marquis or duke. But
to pretend that repeal OF corn laws, OF
any other tariff imposition in this
country, could possibly have che same
design or effect here is the essense OF
nonsense-can be the pretenSe only OF
the unprincipled knaye on hopeless
fool.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

Not less than fifteen parishes, or
one-fourth Of the state of Louisiana, is
affected by the present flood, and the
damage Is almost incalculable. In
1882 the loss was estimated at sl5, 900,
900. but that amount will no doubt be
largely exceeded this year,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

1t seems to be well understood
among. the politicians at Springfield
that Ex-Governor Dick Oglesby has
made ap his raind 10 be a candidate
for U. 5: Senator this year. While it
is about decided that the Democrats
will nominate Cen Palmer for that
position with she understanding that
he is to make thorough canvass, of
the state; the Republicans, 10 iseqHal-
ly well understood, will make no such
nomination and have no one to meet
Gen. p. the sunny 1t issiiore That
Gen. Oglesby ENDS his Opportun itY.
Though anything but in high favor
with the republican managers, they
can't prevent Gov. -. from eanvassing
the state in besGalf OF the parry If hede-
sires to, and having done ~, if the
party shJuld happen to carry the leg
iSlature, of course Dick win claim it
AS the result G.f his efforts, why Dick
will claiei the senatorial plam as, his,
of course 1T was tlgktl between
Palmer and me-" he will say, land |
won" As the shortest way out be-
tween fifer. Farwell Sam Alhrton
and others who are making ,cram-
bic for. the ssnatorShip- tho &epuir
lican machine is said tC, favor Greec
b. Raum but This flank movement 81
Uncle Dick threatens to knOC& theil
plans away and is giving thea a heal
Of trOy Die,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03

The Ottawa WorchenbldH Is entirely
"off" in its statement in yesterday
issue that at first the FREE TRADER
| following the line Of the Chicago
Herald, spoke decidedly in favor Of the
strict enforcement Of the Illinois com
pulsory education law: but subse.
quently, finding that Bishop Spauld,
ing had energetically denounced that
law, the FREE TRADER had changed
its tune and concurred with him. All
of this is shamefully untrue and dis
honest. The FREE TRADER has held
and holds but one position on this
question, which is the same we under
stand Bishop Spaulding TO hold, and
that is, that the law of Illinois, so far
as it COmpels parents to provide for
the education Of their children, and
partly in the English language, is
fully defenSible on grounds Of public
policy; but as far as its purpose or ten
dency is to cripple, or impair The etlici-
ency Of private, parochial or denOmi-
national schools, that conform to the
main principle of the law (which is a
certain minimum Of education for
each child and i'm the English IAN
guage), the law is Objectionable in
many points and ought to be amended.
In view of the fact referred to By
Bishop Spaulding, OF the wholly in
adequate provision made by the pub
lie school system OF this state for the
education of all its children, the peo-
pie welcome the parOchial or private
school as an important assistant; but
there is one point on which the state
is inheXible: ALL children must have
opportunity for more or less schooling,
and part of that must be. in the Eng
lish language.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01
CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH.
Unnecessary Alarm About the Few
Cases of Smallpox Waco Had.
Official Statement OF the Present Situation.
One Person Now Sick and Three
Convalesclng.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
WACO, Tex, Aug. 31.-Ihe uucer-
tainty which attended the first diagnosis
of the small pox cases here and the sub
sequent result of visit from the state
health officer, created such fears among
the people in the surrounding country
that it was deemed necessary to publish
and distribute circular giving the exact
condition of things. Acting upon this
view of the matter g meeting of
the most prominent citizens was
had few days ago and
q committee was appointed to formulate
an address to the public setting forth the
facts in the premises. This committee
was composed of DIR. Thomas Moore, c.
G. McCulloch, mayor of Waco, Z. Rotau
and Sam Sanger. The address contains
the following among other things:
A brief history of this disease shows
that it first made its appearance on the
4th day of July and was recognized as
an eruptive fever of a loathsome type.
The last case developed was reg
istered on Monday, August %.
Number Of eases since first date
unit! present time, Is; rumber now sick
L; number convalescing, 3; number re-
covered and discharged, 8; number of
deaths, 8. The hospital was established
August s, beyond the city limits where
all suspects and all developed cases, to-
gether with immediate family, were
promptly removed. Isolation is COM
plete; the hospital grounds we'll guarded;
all premises on which cases have origin
ated have been overhauled, disinfectsd
and fumigated, and all clothing belong
ing to afflicted has been fumigated or
destroyed.
Experienced detectives furnished by
the state are on duty. ably assisted by
the entire police force of the city.
This address fs signed by the members
of the committee and about thirty of the
most prominent and reliable citizens in
the city. The object is to allay all ex-
element as to the spread of the disease
by convincing the public that such strin-
gent measures have been adopted that
further dissemination is impossible.
In addition to the above facts
your reporter can say that the
general health of Waco is better
than was ever known before.
Mr.. j. W. winfrey, who keeps all the
hearses IN the city, stated this morning
that only twice had he been called upon
for hearse since August leone August
"a, and the other on the 9th. There
were only eleven calls during the entire
month of August, and one of them was
for the funeral of the woman killed in
the Reservation, - aud another was
for the funeral of e lady who died in
Marlin and was brought to Waco for in
termeut.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-01
AN AWFUL RIDE
a Mississippi Darkey Caught Between
Heaven and Earth.
The Latest Returns from BalIoonist Leroy-A
Drummsr's Remarkable Ysrn-Hurled
Through Infinite Space.

"D'ye remember chap calling him
self Professor Leroy who passed through
Fort Worth in the early part of this sum-
mer, and gave several exhibitions of bal
looning?''
1t was New Orleans drummer who
put that question TO a reporter last night
as they stood in front OF the Pickwick.
The reporter remembered the man aud
the daring feats he performed in this
city, riding high into the regions of
ethereal space in his balloon and swoop-
ing back TO terra flrms with a fragile
parachute.
Then sit down a moment want to
tell you about an experience he had down
in Mississippi when 1 was present.
They took chairs. 1t was early in the
evening. The bright evening star had
just came into FAINT view, and as the
drummer spread himself comfortably
over a couple of chairs he winked back at
twinkling Venus, mistaking her for the
chambermsid putting the earth to SUM
Der.
LET me see, - said the genial knight
of the grip as he pulled forth and opened
a notebook, Eyes, 1t was on August IS
that 1 reached Greenville, Miss. / ar
rived there early in the morning, and as
have a good many customers there,
put in the day taking orders. During
the morning L was banded poster an
nouncing that Professor Leroy, the
world-renowned seronaut, etc., would
make balloon ascension and parachute
descent in the afternoon st the baseball
park. Leroy had been in the city sew
eral days giving exhibitions and bad at
tracted considerable attention, especially
among the negroes. 1 determined TO go
TO see him, although 1 had seen him
several times IN Fort Worth, and accord
inGly l was on hand with great many
others at the appointed time and place.
"You know how Leroy initiates his air.
ship. He gets q large crowd of men and
bows TO selZe the canvas and hold il down
while the gas is injected into the interior
and expands the immense thing grad
ually. Well he did the same down at
Greenville. And when the canvas was
about as much inflated as the eronRut
desired, he asked few men to hold
some ropes while he ran around and
seized the trapeze on which he sscends.
There we're a large number of negroes
standing around and one of them volun-
teered to bold rope.
"Bill Scott is the name of that
out high on the scroll OF fame, for he
passed through an experience that
has Sc dom been eQualed.
"Bll wore a big SLOUGH hat, and
sported sideburns. he was probably
twenty-five years of age, and had the
appearance OF possessing ordinary negro
intelligence.
Gwen, he took bold of the rope.
was standing near by and observed his
actions. He wanted to give satisfaction
10 bis employer, and for the sake of pre-
caution he twisted the rope a couple OF
times around his body, then around his
leg, and fastened the end into q loose
knot.
80 AN ready! Let go!'
Cup shot the balloon, up shot Bill
Scott, colored, and lsst came the bal