Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-14

O they tied. together and then making one end fast in the rooms they threw their inn provised ropes out of the windows and by this means descended. In some instances, however, through the insufficient strength of the shooting or the hurried manner in which the knots had been tied, the sheet ing parted and those who were seeking to escape the flames were precipitated to the ground and badly injured.
 WHOLESALE sWINDLERs.
 How Messrs. Field & Miller of Chi-
 cago Ouped People of London out
 of Million and a Half of Dollars
 Victims in This Country.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-The local papers de- vote considerable space to the operations of Messrs. Field and Miller, who are al- legged to have swindled people in London out of million and half of dollars. One journal says:
 William w. Miller is far from being novice where schemes for swindling people are concerned. The idea that he and J. H. Field have so successfully worked out in England was first suggested to Miller by the plan of loaning money on chattel mortgages. In 1S72 Robert Smith and George M. Sloan conducted chattel mort gage loan office in Chicago, and Miller was @ handy man around the premises, exam ming property and passing upon the availability of security. Later he started out to loan money for Ottawa & Co. and thus secured a wide acquaintance which enabled him to start on his own account He borrowed money from all sorts of peo- ple-car drivers, conductors, seamstresses and clerks. To them he paid per cent. month for the use of the funds, which he loaned out at an advance of per cent People told their neighbors that Miller was paying them like lord and his business waxed great. About this time he ran foul of bright chap named Farnham and took him into his confidence. Farnham said to Miller: "This business is only local; let's take in the country at large for our field" They did this. Prior to extending their horizon they took John Fleming in- to the firm. He got up circular that was translated into Spanish and sent broadcast over Mexico and South America and all over the United States. Dupes were found in all the countries, and money for investment came pouring in. They did not invest it but returned part of the principal, calling it dividend, to keep the gulled ones quiet. They called it 'fund w." This was in 1883, and in January of that year the postoffice authorities shut down on the transmission of the mail of Fleming & Merriam, as the firm was called. Merriam existed in name only. Then came the exposure. Dan Loring, who had joined the firm, was arrested. Miller and Fleming fled but the latter was arrested and brought back. Miller's wife was diplomat, and it is said that she interested one of the prosecuting parties so much that Miller was given certain promises of immunity if he would return. He came promptly paid. He then turned states evidence against Fleming & Loring, who were convicted of using the mails with the l intent to defraud: They lay in jail until President Arthur pardoned them. Miller was said to have laid away over $100, ,000 as his share in the profits of the ''fund w" swindle. On this he has since been iv- ing. The scheme that he and Field worked in England was identical with that which seven years ago lost Americans of both the western continents many thou sands of dollars.
 THE NEW YORK CAMPAIGN.
 Speaker Reed Delivers an Address at
 Utica-A Housing Receptfon-Other
 Speakers.
 | UTICA, N. Y., Oct 13.-The political campaign in New York state was opened at Utica this evening by a speech by Speaker Thomas B. Reed. The occasion was rousing republican mass meeting at the Utica opera house, in which about 3, 800 people, nearly all voters, were gathered. The speaker was met at the train by the | Utica republican Continentals, five hundred strong, and escorted through crowds of people and blazing fireworks to the opera house, where he received an ovation. Be- sides Speaker Reed addresses were deliver ep by Senator Coggeshall, Hon. Martin I. Townsend of Troy, Congressman James S. Sherman of this district, Consul General Knapp of Montreal and others. After thanking the audience for their warm re- ception MT. Reed said:
 | Two years ago you solemnly declared
 that you were in favor of the doctrine of
 protection, not incidental, but protection
 on purpose. Laughter. The Mckinley
 bill embodies that doctrine and gives more
 fully than any other law the American
 markets to the American people. In order
 that it may have full support and be useful
 to the American people it must again receive
 your sanction, for your sanction alone will
 give to it that stability which will encour-
 age business and give us prosperity. l
 therefore appeal to this audience to declare
 
 their verdict in 1888. One would not
 think that would be necessary, and yet the
 sacred writings tell us that when the good
 man sleeps citizen of another country is
 about sowing tares. When the republicans stay away from the polls the democrats
 are sure to go there. You will find that youI
 presence at the polls is necessary for the
 inauguration of a period of prosperity. desire your approval by the reelection oi | T ho1.
 such an election will be conducive to the
 interests of good government in this coun
 try-good government not in 6 partisan
 sense, but on the basis which represent the , liberties of this country. It is great spectacle, that of govern
 ment of GA, ,000, 900 people, and the specta cle is the more wonderful when the gov i ernment is carried on by themselves. Die you ever think what is meant by govern ment of the people, by the peoplea It doe not mean a government by the rich fo perty qualification was abolished. I . does not mean a government by the mos 2 intelligent, for that might leave you ant many others off the voting list. It doe
 not mean government of the highes
 morality, for that would mean tn
 millennium. On the other hand : does not mean government by tn
 poor or Dy any class, put Dy tn
 average sense of all, rich and poor, al 8 mingled together, and, in my judgment f the average of all is that best governmen d that ever existed on the face of the earth The speaker said there were eight million of people in this country who were nc 7, represented in the government and COT .s tinued:
 if Is there anything in the burning and C f. the south that makes higher intelligene , or greater business sense than the chill 0 h the north? In Wisconsin 150,000 vott 70 elect nine members of congress. Twent l. thousand more votes in five of the soutl n ern states elect twenty-six members { ' r congress and every southern gentl ,a man who has the honor to con ..99 back to us for the purpose ,,I governing us counts for three of you. Al Q you prepared to indorse this9 Are yo ar prepared to indorse this when it is ,d defiance of the solemn adjudication of u as people as recorded in the consi @ er tutiona [Applause.l don't disgui o Q the fact that while we seek th "a vindication of the rule of majo ~, m ity at the hands of the people oss the United States that the dice a sJ loaded against us. Our doctrine is that ty - men know more than one. Their doctri ao is that one man, if from the south, knoN o, more than three of us. After we met .s the house of representatives it was l'' strange sight that met the eye.