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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-03-06
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-03-06
FURNITURE.

Parlor Suits, Chamber Sets, Dining
Room Sets, Hall, Library and OBace
Furniture, Cabinets, Rockers, Ba0y
Carriages, Refrigerators and Odd
Pieces.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12
RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.

Rhode Island held it's annual state
election on Tuesday, and again, as
last year, the Democratic candidate
for governor has large plurality over
his Republican opponent, but there
having been third party candidate
| in the field, the Democrat lacks few
hundred votes of a majority over all,
and the election is again carried into
the legislature. That body, by the
same gcrrymandering system that pre-
walls in Connecticut and other New
England states, is pretty sure OF hav-
ing Republican majority, so that
the people of Rhode Island will again
be cheated out of the governor, for
whom large plurality voted, by the
minority rule system, through which
in half dozen eastern states the Re-
publcans have for years so largely
protlted. Thus i'm Connecticut, where
the Democratic majority ranges regu-
larly from | 500 to 5000, but where a
prohibition, woman's rights or some
other craze, always manages to get in
votes enough to prevent the Demo-
Gratis from having majority over all,
the state is so apportioned for men,
bers of the legislature that the Re-
publicans never fail to have majority
and invariably elect the minority can
didate governor. The same is the case
in New York, where the Democrats
can never secure the legislature unless
they carry the state by $4,000 major
| ity. And the same Is the case in
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. Talk about
minority rule in the South. '1n the
blackest state in the black belt of the
South" as the Chicago Herald forcibly
puts 1t, "there is not any where COM
monwealth so nOtoriously subject to
continuing and fraudulent minority
rule as Is the case with these states.
The alleged disfranchisement of the
negroes Is purely theoretical. There
is no proof that they want to vote.
They certainly make no sign. But
here in the North are states where
large pluralities of the people annually
40 TO the polls and deposit their bal
lots only to be disfranchised after all,
the control of public affairs being
turned over, by reason of the gerry
wandered legislative districts, TO a
party that has not even plurality"
The Australian system, which was
in vogue for the first time In Rhode
Island at this election, is also COM
plained of as having worked badly for
the Democrats In the larger cities,
and 10 way to go far towards justi-
flying Gov. Hills opposition to the In
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12
TROUBLE IN IOWA.

The Democratic measure in the
Iowa legislature, for local option and
high license instead of the present pro-
hibitory law, was defeated on Satur-
day, the fifty Republicans under the
caucus lash and on labor union inde-
pendents voting against the fifty demo
Gratis for indefinite postponement.
1t was not that the Republicans in
the debate did not virtually admit all
that was alleged by the late anti-pro-
hibition Republican convention at
Des Moines, that prohibition had
proved failure; that where one
licensed saloon had been closed six un-
licensed saloons had taken its place,
as in Ottumwa, where eleven licensed
saloons were closed and there were
now sixty unlicensed saloons; or in
Council Bluffs, where there were eight
unlicensed saloons to every licensed
saloon closed; and so in all the cities
of the state. The question vas not
which method would be the more effec-
tive in restraining the liquor trade,
but how to vote so as best to conserve
the interests of the great Republican
party. A vote for the Democratic
measure would ALLEVIATE from that
party two-thirds of its rural vote,
which would be simply suicide.
1t is not believed, however, that
this action of the Republican mem.
bers of the legislature can save the z.
o. p. The 200 delegates that met at
Des Moines, representing twenty-five
leading Republican counties in the
state, were In earnest, and now that
their voice has been unheeded by the
legislature, it is confidently stated
that they will organize separate
party and put tickets in the field OF
their own.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12
TUESDAY.

Mr.. Postgatc's second letter on the
state of industries in free trade Eng
land appears in yesterdays Chicago
Herald, and Is devoted to the iron and
steel industry. He found the trade
active in every branch, which OF course
means good times for the workmen,
who have made the most of the oppor-
tunity to demand an advance in wages.
In prosecuting his Investigations he
made at the OutStart two discoveries.
The first was, an unwillIngness on the
part Of headmen and managers, as
well as the workmen, To talk freely, on
account of the constant misrepresent-
ations made in regard To the industry
abroad. Thus he was told that gen
tleman who holds prominent posi-
tion in our government came TO Man
chester a few years ago TO deal with
wages from protectiOnist standpoint.
The prices were given him, but as pub
lished the man had turned the figures
TO his purpose. Prices OF c0mmodi-
ties were quoted higher and wages
lower than were given him, denoting
deliberate attempt to mislead the
American people. The second discov-
cry was, that In all protectionist lists
Of wages published on this side those
Of three TO five years ago are given,
whereas wages have been steadily
rising, and to-day are at least 25 per
cent higher.
The statement of Mr.. Postgate then
goes into minute details, covering the
industry from the Clyde to Wales,
abounding in irrefragable facts and
figures, and showing conclusively that
no laborers in the world in the same
industry, and certainly not those in
the United States, are better paid or
more comfortably situated than those
of England; and the further fact is
shown that such condition is the
direct outgr0wth Of free trade, the
wise adoption OF that system having
raised the operatives In the Industries
in question from condition little
above that of abject slavery to one Of
stalwart, independent manhood.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12
WEDNESDAY.

The "terrible cyclone" reported from
PrOphetstown yesterday appears not
to have been a serious affair. No de-
tails have been sent out and no news
have been received except what comes
through railroad authorities, who say
that the depot has been blown off its
foundations: a grain elevator blown
down and several private dwellings
have been wrecked. Several persons
were hurt, but no one was killed.
An Abandoned woman was found
murdered at Heberstahl, Germany,
with all the tlcndish daring and mutt
lation of the body which characterized
Jack the Ripper's deeds in White
chapel.
Mr.. Marcus G. Stearns, who shot
himself in Chicago on Saturday, died
at 80 yesterday morning. He was
"A years Of age, and mad lived in Chi
cago since 1886.
The G.. A. II. encampment of Iowa
| is in session at Des MOines. Gen.
Alger is on hand. About 900 dele
gates are present and many visitors.
The plumbers strike at Chicago has
been compromised and settled, the re-
snlt being a partial victory for the
men.
The Tsar of Russia has recovered
and twenty-eight students have been
expelled from st. Petersburg.
The Farmers M. b. A., are holding
secret meeting at Lincoln, ILL.,, with
800 members present.
The young Due d'Orleans will be re-
leased and pardoned for his violation
of the exile law.
Navigation on the lakes has begun
for the season, the Straits being
clear of ice.
The Iowa house passed the Austral
| ian ballot bill yesterday.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

Monday morning between six and
eight thousand carpenters in Chicago
went out on strike, the result being,
of course, almost total cessation of
building operations in the city. The
strike is for eight hours as a days
work and 40 cents an hour as wages,
no discrimination to be made between
the men as to efficiency and compe-
tency, all members of the union being
on level. The cessation from work
includes both unionists and non
unionists but many Of the latter it is
expected, will in a few days resume
work. The first effort will now be to
settle the difficulty by arbitration, the
strikers protesting their willingness to
stand by any decision fairly-selected
board may reach. Indeed, they claim
to be fighting more for a recognition
Of their union than an advance of
wages, and arbitration would involve
that recognition. The masters are to
hold a meeting on Thursday night,
when, no doubt, the question of arbi-
tratiOn will be settled, and with it, if
arbitration is agreed upon, it is con-
fldently believed, the strike.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

PRODUCTION Of that system in New
York. The voting under 1t proceeds
so slowly that in Providence alone
over 1900 voters, mostly Democrats,
were disfranchised, and the require
ments OF the law In regard TO marking
the tickets was so little understood
that hundreds more votes were lost in
that way by being cast out. The main
fault, however, seems to have been
that the voting districts were too
large and the requirements In regard
to marking the tickets too cOmpli-
cated-faults which an honest amend
ment of the law could remedy, but
which it would be idle to expect from
Republican legislature.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

A typical southern Republican has
passed away in the death of Gen. II.
G. Anderson at New Orleans. He was
the man who forged the returns from
Vernon Parish, La, in 1876, by which
Tilden was defrauded Of the electoral
vote of that state and Hayes was
elected president. He was afterwards
convicted of the forgery and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary, but imme-
diately pardoned out. Hayes rewarded
him with the deputy collectorship of
New Orleans, but Harrison ignored
his application for another office.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

The Des MOines Republican conven-
tion, convened to save the party from
destruction on account of the strong
tide running against prohibition in
that state, to which the party is pledged
in its platform, closed it's labOrS with
an address and recommendation to
the faithful in these words: ''The
situation of the largest and most i'm
pOrtant cities of the state, and, indeed.
of many other communities, is de-
plorable. TO leave them as they are,
subject to all the evils which absolute
free whisky can inflict, is little less
than treason. There never was time
when fearless, high-minded action
upon the part of Republicans was so
necessary as at this moment. We beg
that you will not fail to respond to
the most urgent appeal for help and
justice that was ever presented to a
legislative body" The English of
which is, that the Republican mem
bers Of the legislature must vote for
the Democratic high-license bill now
before that body, and then claiming
themselves to have passed it, steal
the credit of it from the Democrats.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

Ottawa. Illinois, April 12. 1890.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

Marcus 9. Stearns, a well known
millionaire and old settler of Chicago,
made desperate attempt on Satur-
daa, at his elegant house at 3l3 Mich
gan avenue, to commit suicide by
shooting himself with revolver. He
was at last accounts still alive, but his
wounds will probable prove fatal. Mr..
Stearns is well remembered by some of
the older settlers of Ottawa, where he
was frequent visitor in the days OF
Walker & Hickling, with whom he
had extensive business connections.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

II, tered of N, Post once at Otd,od. THtnos, as
Second Cldss NdU Mdtter.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12
EHE NEWS.
SATURDAY.

Russian affairs are beginning to eX'
cite attention since the disOrderly
outbreak by the university students
The universities have been closed
and Yesterday the students made an
attack on the chief of police who was
thrown down and kicked. The stu
dents protest their uprising has nc
political meaning whatever. Inc
Tsar is i'll with nervous fever.
Arkansas City, in the flood district
was visited by q severe rain and wind
storm on Thursday night. Two
churches and several dwellings were
blown down, and nearly every house
stands i'm from ten TO twelve feet OF
water. The government boats are al
work removing the people from dan
ger.
The New York men profess still &c
be suspicious Of Chicago's worlds
Fair fund, and cOmmitte was ap
pointed by the senate to investigate
the character of the fund before tina,
august body will proceed to any Fail
legislation.
In retaliation for the Chicago
Boards cutting off of quotations, the
w. Z. Tel. Co. has abolished its spe
cial rates to the board and its mem
bers who will hereafter pay full rates
Two diamond thieves worked Den
yer jewelry store yesterday while the
proprietor was at lunch, leaving gir
In charge. They got over $1,000
worth.
Faster time than ten miles an hour
will be resumed by the Chicago rail
roads, probably next week.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

The beautiful Minnetonka lake,
which is to st. Paul and Minneapolis
what Coney Island and Long Branch
are to New York, is said to be rapidly
drying up and petering out. 1t lost
four feet of water last year and over a
foot and a half more this winter. At
this rate few years will leave its bed
dry land. AT present it is body of
water Is miles long and miles wide,
with an average depth of l2 or Is feet.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12
SUNDAY.

Senator Ingall introduced in the
senate Yesterday the bill prepared by
the WagewOrkers' Alliance, providing
for a system of banking by the United
States. The bill provides for the estab-
llshment of an Executive Department
of Banking, with a secretary at its
head. and having branches at post
offices throughout the country where
banking for the people" shall be done
at a nominal cost
Sullivan agrees to fight the San
Francisco heavyweight, j. M. Corbett,
four rounds for 81 900, he to knock out
Corbett in four rounds, the winner to
get all the money.
Frost, oyerflows and other causes
have cut down the wheat prospects in
Missouri to So per cent, but the out
look continues good in Minnesota, and
in Kansas satisfactory"
The Chicago "Gas Trust" has sue
cumbed to adverse legal decisions, and
is succeeded by the Chicago Gas Com
pany." A rose by any other name, etc.
Lewis A. Grant, of Minnesota, has
been appointed by the president to be
assistant secretary Of war, and Brig
Gen. Miles to be major general.
The Chicago Journal says Mayor
Cregier is laying his plans to secure
the nomination for governor OF Hi
nois from the Democrats.
Further damage by flood is reported
from the lower Mississippi valley, new
levee breaks occurring on the Mis-
sissippi side Of the river.
Now that the emperor's great labor
conference is over, national hors,
show is announced to begin at Berlin
June II.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

The Chicago Daily Ne,os recently
made the startling statement that
there were fifty-two veteran soldiers
in the Cook county almshOuse. AS the
laws Of the state pursuant to which
the soldiers home at Quincy was
erected contemplate that no veteran
OF the War OF the Rebellion and the
Mexican war shall be allowed to go to
the poor house, this statement natu-
rally attracted the attention Of the
authorities at Quincy and an investi-
CATION was Immediately ordered, the
result Of which was that the state
ment Of the Nems was found sub
stantially true, and no little censure
is cast upon the officers of the G.. A.
X. about Chicago for actual or feigned
ignorance Of the fact. The suppress
sion Is intimated to be the work of the
pension sharks, who are after the fees
for getting pensions for these paupers,
no pensions being granted to veterans
permanently quarted in Home.
Eight OF these soldiers have already
been removed to the soldiers home,
and the removal Of the rest will fol-
low as rapidly as their records can be
made up.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

Board of trade business Is increasing
In volume. The gamblers crowded out
of the bucket-shOp, or open board, are
transferring the business TO the reg
ulars." The ''scalping" and other
forms Of fictitious trading Will CON
tinue just the same, only the pr0tts
will go to the regulars and not the
bucket-shop man; distinction with
out a difference.
The nominations for aldermen last
evening was exceptionally good
throughout. The men are all good
business men and men OF good com
mon sense, and all have accepted the
nominations as made. IL Is hardly
possible that any one Of them will be
defeated by any candidate who may be
put against him.
Chicago has a carpenters strike on
hand, which began yesterday. The
demand Is for an increase or wages
from % cents and 35 cents per hour 10
40 cents, there to be no discrimination
among men. About 5000 men are OUT
A favorable report has been made 10
the house Of a bill to build ship canal
around Niagara Falls on the Amerl-
can side. 1t will cost twenty-three
millions. And the Illinois canal still
hangs fire.
Rumors OF Turkish Outrages upon
Christian churches In Gambia were re-
corded yesterday. Europe is evidently
getting ready to fight.
Aurora has adopted the Thompson
Houston system OF electric railway:
The company will build ten miles OF
road this season.
Seven ocean steamers landed 1886
immigrants at New York and Balti-
more yesterday.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12
KANSAS FARMERS.

The Farmers Alliance Of Kansas
has Just concluded a four days secret
meeting at Topeka, and thus far very
little in regard to the result Of the
conference has been made public. OF
their solid agreement on few points,
however, no cOncealment is made.
They give to the papers the following
as one Of the resolutions adopted
without opposition:
Notwithstanding the fact that John
j. Ingalls, has represented Kansas for
eighteen years in the United States
senate, it is diilicult matter for his
constituents to point to a single meas
ure he has ever champiOned in the in
terests Of the great agricultural and
laboring element Of Kansas, and that
we will not support by our votes or
influence any candidate for the legls-
lature who favors his reelection to the
United States senate.
AS the Alliance embraces 2, 100 local
organizations, with total member
ship of 10000 voters, nearly all Repub-
licans, this resolution certainly seals
the fate of ingalls,, rendering his re-
election to the senate sheer impOssi-
bility.
On the other points, the Alliance
let the public know they agreed with
equal uanimity, viz. : Opposition to
the tax on Mexican argentlferOus lead
ores, and opposition to reduction of
the sugar tax unless accompanied with
an equivalent bounty on sorghum and
beat sugars.
On the tariff question in general
Farmer Glover, president Of the Alli-
ance, after the adjournment, would
only say this: "We are not men of
business, but farmers, and it is not eX-
pected that we can grapple with such
an intricate subject right off-hand.
One thing Is certain, that when the
Alliance is fully convinced that the
tariff is inimical to the best interests
of the farmers then we will 60 further
i'm a demand for reduction than the
Democrats have ever dared to do.
These demands may not bear the Dem
ocratic stamp but they will be made
loud enough for the country to hear
them. And the day for that may be
not far Off, either. We farmers are
thinking, thinking all the while"
Meantime the Alliance, at this
meeting, came to no conclusion in re-
gard to future political action. The
feeling, however, was strongly against
entering the field as an independent
party, the general sentiment being to
stand aloof, let the other parties make
their nominations, and then go in for
electing or slaughtering such as they
recognize as friends or enemies OF their
cause. Standing in such an attitude,
it will no doubt be fun alive, not only
to themselves but the outside world,
to witness the blandishing grimances,
antics, cavortings and jesticulations
with which the two parties will assail
the poor grangers between now and
the fall elections. If one dared think
of thing so sordid as greed for pelf
in connection with so impeccable a
being as a Kansas granger, what a
| field would here be open for Mr.. Dud-
ley and his system of "blocks-of-fveH'
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-04-12

1t is actually true, that number of
people in Oakland and San Francisco,
the dupes of the earthquake prophesy
of the lunatic Erickson and Mrs,
Woodworth, are already fleeing to the
mountains, and before the 14th inst,
the day of doom, the number of fugi.
tives it is believed will reach thou.
sands. Mrs. Woodwork herself, not
daring to remain and face her dupes
after the l4th, has announced her pur.
pose to 60 east.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-22
For Commissioners.

-, Under the appropriate head in to-
days issue will be found the an
nouncement of E. Woodruff as Il can
didate for the Office Of Long Term
Commissioner. Mr.. Woodruff is one
OF our oldest and most respected
citizens, and this is the first time, SO
far as we know, that he has ever
asked for the nomination to a county
Office. He is so we'll known through
out the county that he needs no intro
duction at our hands, and being a
man of we'll known honesty and in
tegrity he is sure TO receive hearty
support from those who look to these
characteristics as II claim to public
favor; and we feel assured that if
elected to the Office to which he as
pires he would serve the county with
honor t. himself and credit to the
people. Mr.. Woodruff will, without
doubt, have a large support in the
Republican County Convention.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-22
Consistency.

The Reno Gazette ACCUSES Demo-
cratic editors and statesmen OF Insin-
certify because they are not satisfied
with the recent commodity silver law
passed by Congress-. Democratic
editors and statesmen demanded, and
still demand, and are satisfied with
nothing less than free coinage, and
that is wherein they are entirely con-
sistent; while Republican edit0rs and
statesmen who demanded free coinage
now indorse a measure the very
opposite of free coinage, because "our
party" passed it. which shows the
very essence Of insincerity in the
claim that they favored the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. Con-
sistency is jewel, but there is very
little OF that kind Of jewelry worn by
Republican editors and statesmen.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-22
The Rsv.l,se Angry.

,
The Austin Reveille tries to edGsslS
itself with tho l,eliet, or it fti&i to
make it's readers b0lieuD, that the
gold bugs of Wall Street were beaten
in the fight on the silver question.
Vain hope; for while the Reveille has
the candor to admit that "the 1ND&-
PENDENT, as a general thing, IL IN
oliued to be fair" it canpot get round
the fact that Lohn Sherman is the
ardent friend of Wall Street, and. tn at
John Sherman advocated the measure
which became a law, and which is SO
far FROM being in the interest of the
white metal that it makes that metal
a moro commodity with gold, the only
standard Of values, and also gives
capitalists and others the power,
which they will not be- SLOW to take
advantage Of, to repudiate the legal
tender provision Of the Treasury
notes issued for the purchase of bull
lion, and hence everybody knows
that can read" that it is law
favorable to Wall street, and that it
is no dirty innuendo" to say 80.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-22
State Officers.

The Silver State, of last Saturday,
prints an article on the subject of our
State government, and sums up the
situation as follows:
1.-THE Govern Jr, who does not have
to sign his name to u public document
once month, except when the Legis-
lature is in session, and then il he dis
played COMMON sense he would not
sign anything except his objections
to bills, must have Private Score
tary, and the Secretary Of State, Con-
troller and Treasurer mast each and
all have deputies, who do all the work
while the principals assume airs and
dignity, look wise and damn the
Demccrats.'