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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08
RACE QUESTION.


Our esteemed contemporary Of the
Ottawa Republican, takes up the Race
Question" with "A magniloquence u
indicate inspiration from the recent
utterances of the great ingalls,. "Ihe
FREE TRADER is in error when IL says
ingalls, suggests no remedy for the
wrongs of the colorcd man. says our
est. cot. He suggests justice-"the
granting to them Of their legal rights
The legal rights intended, OF course,
is the unobstructed right to vote, ana
wherever in majority TO NIL the
offices with their own people. mat
right was secured to them from 1868 To
1872, and enforced by government
| bavonets, and what was the RESULT
! A Saturnalia of disagreement, pub
lie robbery, outrage and wrong, such
as no civilized people had ever before
witnessed horrible and sickenlng,
indeed, that the Republicans them
selves, that had inaugurated the syS-
! ten, became ashamed Of it. Withdrew
the military, and gladly turned over
the government Of the southern states
to the white people. The demonStra-
ton was complete that negro rule
meant nothing but ruin-to the negro
himself as well as the whites.
The demonstration went further: 1T
covered the bold declaration OF Mr..
Ingalls, himself:
UNLESS history is false teacher, 1T
is not possible for two distinct races
not homogeneous, to exist on terms or
political equality under the same
government. One or the other must
go to the wall
1t went further still; it justified the
declaration of President Harrison,
that, II have ceased to put faith in
the possibility of forcible intervention
by the government in behalf OF the
negroes for securing to them their
rights, constituted as our government
is, with its federal and state govern
ments Independent Of each other with
in certain limits"
The right of an inferior race. wher-
ever in the majority, to rule the super
ior race, according to ingalls, and liar-
rison themselves, and all the great Re
publican lights, for that matter, is
thus a sheer ''impossibility." That
covers the whole case. Your magnlfl-
cent dream, to secure the entire negro
vote North and South in one solid
block for the great Republican party,
accordingly, is idleand impossible" of
realization.
What then? The negro is here and
must stay. Isolated from the whites
in separate communities, he rapidly
descends to his original barbarism-
fetish and vaudoo worship. His only
hope is in the friendshipof the whites.
''The only hostility to the negro at the
South" says Mr. ingalls,, sis politi-
cal" Then let him drop politics.
That is what Mr.. Fortune advised at
the recent convention at Chicago, and
that is what that convention itself
endorsed.
AS to there being no race prejudice
at the North, the Republican knows
that is all poppycock. At what the
aires are negroes admitted to mingle
with the whites; at what hotels to
sit at the same tables; to what fami-
lies on terms of social equality? All
CANNON! Let our school board place
a negro wench over white children in
our high school, or any ward school,
and there would be an insurrection.
No race prejudice at the North, in
| deed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08
According to the WASHINGTON dt

According to the Washington dis
patches Senator Farwell is still talk
ing to the newspaper reporters about
Clark's appointment to the Chicago
Collectorship. The proper time and
place for him to talk on that subject
wat when the question of contlrma.
ton came up in the senate, and as he
was afraid to open his head then and
there, he had better now "dry up"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08

There is one thing that Chicago and
most people along the Illinois river
forget: and that is the fact, univer
sally recognized as true (outsidc tn,
Chicago mayors Office and that Of DR.
Rauch, who fills the place OF chief OF
the State Board Of Health, that "A man
Of more scientific knowledge or back
bone for the peoples interests ought
TO occupy that no dllution Of the
poison Of sewage can render that sew
age harmless. The turning OF Chicago
sewage into the Illinois river will poi
son the river: destroy it for drinking
water for stock; destroy its pasture
lands for the pasturage Of stock. The
poison Of sewage Is IN the water, no
matter how great the volumeOf water,
1t seeps with the water through the
soil into the surface wells along the
along the river: it enters into the food
and drink Of cattle, hogs and sheep,
and through their flesh into the hu-
man stomach, creating disease and
causing suffering and death. The
whole scheme of Chicago to turn her
sewage this way is, in fact, an
outrage upon the owners of Illinois
valley lands, and upon those people
who, living upon the rivers banks,
must get their water supply from wells
sunk in the soil; and, at best, the
plan is unscientfic. and is based upon
an idea that the experience of the old
world covering centuries) has long
since condemned as "A failure. Chicago
knows this as well as any people on
earth; but the Chicago plan appears
to be cheap, therefore sit goes"-un-
less the people Of the Illinois valley
rise in their might and prevent it.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08

The latest find of Silcott, the CASH
Ter who ran off with $50 900 belonging
to confiding members of Congress, is
at Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada. He
defles arrest, claiming that he has COM
mitted no extraditional offence.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08

The statement of the Ottawa Re
publican, that when Mr.. Osman took
possession of the pOstotlice 'all the
Republicans i'm the Office had to walk
the plank" is as untruthful as the
other statement that 1.-THE RepuJlicdn
condemned Mr.. Osman at the time the
changes were made" 1t was under
stood, of course, that change would
be made in first assistant, thought Mr..
GOndOlf was retained as such over five
months, until he had secured a better
situation. The mailing clerk was re-
tanned month aud then removed for
cause-his politics having nothing
whatever to do with it. All the other
employees Of Mr.. Bowman were retain
ed until one, finding employment at
better pay elsewhere, left of his own
accord, the postmaster being very UNI
willing to lose him, and the other
died while yet an emplOye of the office.
Indeed, the clerical pay in the Office
was so meagcr that the difficulty to
get competent help cast politics quite
out of the question, though that diffi-
Guilty has since been mcaSurably over
come by securing more liberal allow
ance for clerk hire. AS to carriers, the
only aim was to secure good men, and
such were certainly obtained. If there
were no Republicans among them it
was because no Republicans applied,
for certainly none of them was ever
asked his politics, nor was any such
test applied.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08

Speaker Reed, who so valiantly
took the bull by the horns to crush
a venerable principle of parliamentary
law, may yet find that dangerous
practice. In the next encounter the
bull may get the advantage and fling
him over the fence.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08

Sunday was ground hog day." and
rs it was cloudy all day and the animile
didn't see his shadow, we shall have
no more cold weather. Jolly news for
the ice men.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
South and West.

BY the burning of John Hamlet's residence
near Valparaiso, Ind, Mrs. Hamlet and four
children, the oldest only eight years old, lost
their lives.
THREE miners-John Hart Thomas B.
Bunney and Richard L. Abb-were killed by
Highland mine, near Lead City, South
Dakota. Another man was killed in an
accident at the mine that same afternoon.
ONE of the principal business blocks of
Denton, Texas, was burned. Loss, 800, 900.
THE drouth in Kansas was ended by
soaking rain, the first that had fallen there
In twenty-five days.
A NUMBER of additional bodies were re-
covered at Red Wing, Mimi, making the
one hundred.
THE Ohio Republicans in convention as
sembled at Cleveland nominated Daniel J.
Ryan for Secretary of State.
A VIOLENT wind and rain storm damaged
Monroeville, Ohio. Lightning struck Otto
Goldner's house, killing three Considerable,
Willie and Otto-who were sitting on
lounge.
The Farmers Alliance Convention in
Minnesota nominated s. M. Owens for Gov
ernor.
has been sold to Massachusetts, and Virginia
syndicate for 100000. 1t was purchased
from Colonel Fl. G. Parsons and James G.
Blaine, who have owned it for a number Of
years.
JOHN STEELE. the Mayor of Tuscumbia,
Ala, was shot by John W. Goodwin He fell
dead in front Of Curry e Alternately 5 drug
store. Goodwin was fatally wounded.
GREEN JACKSON fcolored) was lynched at
Fort White Fla, by neighbors of Mrs. Rob
ert Pritchard, a white woman whom he had
attacked.
CYRUS CRAIG. for many years local agent
at Maryville, Mo-, for Bartlett Brothers,
brokers and real estate dealers, has disap-
peared, and it has been discovered that he
has defrauded the firm and others out Of an
amount variously estimated at from $780,
600 to SITS. 900.
JOHN P. BUCHANAN, President of the State
Farmers Alliance was nominated for Cover
nor on the twentY-sixth ballot by the Tennes-
see Democratic Convention at Nashville after
a heated struggle extending over four days.
r. G. NORTON. JR., shot and killed two
brothers named Willie and John Bird at
Guyton, Ga. Norton refused to return
mule for which he had traded with one of
the Birds.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES PETER WALKER
died of apoplexY at his home in Dexter, Mo.
Mr.. Walker was born in Tennessee in 1851.
This was his first term in Congress. He was
a Democrat, and a member Of the Committees
on Invalid Pensions, on improvements OF
the Mississippi River and on Expenditures
on Public Buildings.
AT Hubbard Mills O small village In Knox
County, KY, the Smith and Messer factions
met and when the smoke had cleared away
four were dead. The Messers lost two young
men named Mills, and the Smiths lost Bob
Porchett and Hubbard.
WHILE Louis Pippin was digging in a well
near Anderson, Ind, his pick broke through
into O hollow at the bottom. There was
rush of gas and Pippin dropped dead. His
son-in-iaw, David Walker, was lowered into
the well and he, too, was suffocated- The
bodies were recovered two hours latar
a SINGLE bolt of lightning at %apnanee
Ind. killed Charles Hathaway. ell known
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
In the House.

10TH DAY.-After the journal had been
read, Mr.. Breckenridge objected to its APP
prevail It was agreed to-yeas, 1853; nays,
g. One hundred and twenty members were
House went into Committee of the Whole
on the Land Grant Forfeiture bill, but no
action was taken. Only 142 members, less
than quorum, responded to their names on
the last vote. A resolution was adopted
directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to
bring to the bar of the House such mem
bers as were absent without leave. -. A mo-
ton to adjourn at o'clock was agreed to
yeas, II; nays, 60.
16STH DAY.-The Land Grant Forfeiture
bill was passed. Mr.. O'Neili presented
resolution of the Philadelphia Maritime Ex-
change protesting against the Dill granting
to a corporation the use of the north pier at
the entrance to the harbor of Buffalo, n. Y.
10TH DAY.-Mr. Hit asked unanimous
consent for the immediate consideration Of
a joint resolution providing that nothing in
the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation
bill shall be construed to delay or interrupt
the prompt translation, publication and dis
tribution of the reports of the proceedings
of the International Conference. .. 1t waS
decided to order the previous question on
the Original Package" bill, and on the
Bankruptcy bill. :. The consideration of the
Bankruptcy bill was begun. The House
met in evening session, but nothing was done.
Mr.. Enloe raised the point of no quorum, on
the first motion on private pension bills, and
the House then adjourned.
10th DAY.-Mr. McRae introduced a
joint resolution directing the Secretary of
the Interior to suspend the issue of patents
for lands to the Union Pacific Railroad
Company until the adjustment Of the debt
due the United States from said company
The House then resumed the considera-
ton Of the Original Package bill. :. Mr..
Henderson reporte the General Deficiency
Appropriation bill, the last of the regular APP
preparation bills to be acted upon initially
by the House. The bill makes total appro-
priation of S., 140 440.
17lsT DAY.-Mr Comstock introduced a
bill authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture
to establish uniform grades of all kinds of
grains transported from one State to an
other, or to any foreign country, which shall
be known as American grades -~>Upon an
nouncenent of the death of Representative
Walker, of Missouri, the House adjourned
as a mark of respect.
172D DAY.-The substitute of the Senate
''Original Package" bill was passed by a
vote of 176 to 49,. "A debate was held on the
Bankruptcy bill. -. Mr.. Bingham reported
favorably bill to create the office of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-General at salary of
$1,000 year.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
4 YOUNG FIEND.
A Sixteen-Year-OId Lad Murders His
Father and Mother.

An almost incredible tale of youthful de-
pravity comes from Goreville, ILL.,, small
town in the western part of Johnson County,
far removed from railway and telegraph
stations. During the night when every
one was asleep, man, sup
posed at the time to be bur
glar, broke into the house of a
farmer named Morris Sullivan. On being
spoken to he fired pistol at the bed in which
Sullivan and his wife were sleeping The
ball struck Sullivan in the breast, inficting
fatal injuries. Mrs. Sullivan jumped out Of
bed and threw herself upon the murderer,
but the pistol was discharged again, and she
fell wounded in the left breast Her injuries
are fatal.
By this time the alarm had been given and
the neighbors came in. On securing the
murderer he was found to be Sullivan's SIX
teen-year-old son. A few months ago the
boy poisoned some water which he gave to
his parents, but this attempt at murder
failed. He gives as his reason for commit
ting the crime that he was tired of waiting
for the old folks property.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
WAR ON THE ISTHMUS,

San Salvador's Army Defeats the
Guatemalans With Heavy Loss.
The long threatened war has broken out
between Guatemala and Salvador. 1t began
without the usual formalities of a declare
ton of war.
El Universal, paper in the City of Mexico.
publishes an account of battle between the
forces of Guatemala and San Salvador in
San Salvador. in which the former were de
feated with heavy loss. The Guatemalau
force numbered 5000.
Private kilograms from San Salvador say
that the San Salvador soldiers captured the
Guatemalan artillery in the battle
General Barrundia, the Guatemalan ref
ugee, has left Oaxaca to take part in the war
He will probably raise the standard of revolt
in Guatemala.
1t was rumored that President Barillas, Of
Guatemala, thought Of resigning.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
Foreign.

THE fire in the STEAMBOAT quarter Of Con-
stantiH ople, Turkey, destroyed q thousand
houses and ruined les timber merchants. It
was feared that many lives were lost.
AN increase of nav and othar concessions
have been granted by the British Govern
ment to the telegraphists.
BARON GRAvENREUTH has been appointed
temporary Imperial German Commissioner
In East Africa.
THE strikers in the nitrate district Of Chilli
number 1000. 4 conflict occurred bstween
a number Of riotous strikers and body of
troops i'm which forty Of the strikers were
killed or wounded.
THE Newfoundland bait cruiser Fiona fired
on French vessel which was taking bait of
st. Johns.
A NEW Cabinet has been formed in Cape
Colony, South Africa. 1t is probable that
the railway policy of the Government will
be modified, and that the lines will be ex-
tended I'm 1891.
THE twelve-year-old SON Of the Rev. DR.
Mclean, a well-known Indian missionary,
and farmer named Batten were killed in
stantly by lightning while at supper, near
Moose Jaw, Northwest Territory.
SOME citizens of Fee have been arrested
for trying to take the life of the Sultan of
Morocco.
WILLIAM GRIFFIN, eighty years of age,
and his grandson. eight years old, were
drowned in the Humber River, at Bolton
Canada. The boy fell into the river and the
old gentleman attempted to rescue him.
A WHOLE family, consisting of father,
mother and six children, was suffocated to
death by charcoal fumes in a room in Paris,
France.
LARS NIELSEN, q trader residing on the
small island of Celia, in the Solomon group in
the Pacific, and three of his native assistants
have been killed and eaten by the islanders.
Within the past year six white men have
been killed and eaten by the cannibals of this
group out of a total white population of
thirty.
INFLUENZA RACES in st. Louis, France.
The whole population of the place is affected.
Business in the public departments is para
lyzed.
THE Manchester Canal Company's ware
house in Liverpool, England, has been
burned. An enormous quantity Of cotton,
grain and -four was consumed. The damage
is estimated at $780, 600.
EUGENE SCHUYLER, the American Consul
General at Cairo, Egypt, is dead.
MAHoMED BIN CAssIM and three others
have been hung at Bagamoyo, Arabia. Three
years ago they murdered near Tabora, Gle
seeke. a German merchant. Cassim belonged
to distinguished Arabian family.
OsMAN DIGNA is at Omdurman, Egypt,
and his followers have returned to Tokar.l
Osman Is said to have lost 400 men by famineI
and sickness.
SUICIDES by drowning and hanging have
become alarmingly numerous in Toxic,
Japan. The average is ten per day and on
June 26 there were no less than eighteen.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.


Eastern and Middle States.
MISS LAURA EGAs. OF Jersey City. ". J.,
died i'm agony OF blood poisoning, caused by
q centipede's bite.
THOMAS MURPHY, aged seven years, and
John Pmlpot, aged seven, were drowned
while bathing in the Charles River at New
ton, Mass.
CHARLIE JACKSON, eight years old, picked
up pocketbook containing nearly &15, 600
in gold, gold certificates and checks near
Eahant Mass.
THE works of the Columbia Iron and Steel
Company and the Pennsylvania Construction
Company. at Uniontown, Penn, have been
sold TO English capitalists.
WILLIAM H. WEBB OF New York city, haa
endowed college and home for shipbuildera
with OF, OO0, 600. It win be one of three SINH
lar institutions I'm the world.
Two children, between four and five years
old, belonging to Timothy Sullivan and
John Brull, Of Colchester, Conn, set on fire
barn In that place, while playing with fire,
and persisted i'm the flames.
A TERRIBLE explosion Of gas occurred in
blast furnace No. at the Cambria Iron
Works, Johnstown, Penn, by which four
men were badly injured, two of them ia
tally.
THE body Of newborn infant was found
j. The infants lips had been stitched with
thread to prevent it from making an out
cry.
SEVERE gales, with rain and hail visited
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The roofs OF
over twenty houses in Trenton, N. j., we're
blown off. and fully three hundred trees were
blown down. Michael Corcoran and Louis
&c Hewftt's mill, at Trenton, were killed by
lightning.
THE population Of New York city, as de-
termined by the official rough count at the
Census Office in Washington, is /, 5l3, sol.
THE 90, 900 striking cloak contractors and
makers in New ork city decided to repudiate
their representatives agreement with the
manufacturers and refused to resume work.
JOSIAH D. RICHARDS, Postmaster of North
Attleboro, Vt, and member Of the Demo-
cratic State Committee, was killed by the
accidental discharge Of his gun while he was
hunting.
JEWELS worth from SIC, 600 to $15, 900 were
stolen from the cottage Of George Bliss, a
New York lawyer, in Saratoga, N. z.
THE Supreme Court at Providence, r. T.,
allowed Miss Carrie e. Barnes SIC. 900 dam
ages for injuries received In railway acci-
dent, and gave her SIC, 900 additional with
which to pay her lawyer. The decision Ia
against the New York and New England
road.
a FIRE in the machine works Of Joseph @.
Todd, Paterson. n. j.. did damage to the exr
tent of $50, 000
THOMAS FARoUHAR, of Jersey City, N. j.,
was killed by a train after saving his three
little children from death.
Dr. CHRISTIAN HENRY FREDERICK PETERS,
Director of Litchield Comm Observatory,
and Professor of Astrology of Hamilton Col
lege, was found dead in Clinton, N. =. Death
had resulted from apoplexy while he was
making observations. DR.. Peters was born
on September 19, 1918, in Coldenbuttel,
Schleswig, Germany.
J. W. WATSON died, after a long illness,
at his home in New York city, of heart dis
ease He was born in that city sixty-eight
years ago, and was famous as the author Of
the poem 1.-THE Beautiful Snow"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-01
: 4rfY-FIRsT CONGRESS.


I57THDAY.-Their irrigation survey question
was discussed, but no action was taken. The
House bill TO establish q National military
park at the battlefield OF Chickamauga was
passed. -. The resolution offered by MIR. Cul-
lom Is TO transportation of goods in bond
between the Atlantic and Pacific ports OF the
United States over the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road was passed. =. Mr.. Dawes reported the
Indian Appropriation bill :. Mr.. Sawyer in
troduced a bill to establish limited postal
and telegraph service. Mr.. Teller intro
duced a bin giving q pension of 5000 q year
to Mrs. Jessie B. Fremont.
15STH DAY.-The day was spent IN further
discussion Of the irrigation survey paragraph
Of the Sundry Civil bill i. Among the nomi-
nations received from the President were the
TO be Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury;
j. FL. Stackpole, FL. w. Somerville, and +.
N. Shurtleff, to be General Appraisers OF
Merchandise.
159TH DAY.-A message from the House
asking q conference on the Land Forfeiture
bill was presented and the request was
agreed TO. Messrs- Plumb, Dolph and Pasco
were appointed conferees on the part of the
Senate. The Suadry Civil bill was consid-
cred, and the amendment OF the Committee
on Appropriations regarding reservoir sites
was adopted. Mr.. Pierce introduced re-
ciprocity feature in the Tariff bill.
16OTH DAY.-Mr. Frye, from the select
committee on Pacific Railroads, reported
back the Senate bill authorizing the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to settle the indebted
ness TO the Government of the Sioux City
and Pacific Railroad. Placed on the calen-
dar. The Senate resumed consideration Of
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Many
amendments reported by the Committee on
Appropriation, were agreed to. The bill
was then passed. =. The Tariff bill was then
taken up as unfinished business
161sT DAY.-The discussion of the Tariff
bill has begun. Mr.. voorhees, making the
only speech. The bill for the transfer Of
Revenue Marine service to the Navy De-
partment was discussed and laid aside with
out action. >. Mr.. Hoar, Chairman Of the
Committee upon Relations of Commerce and
Business with Canada, presented the testi-
mony which has been taken by that COM
4nittee.
162D DAY.-The Indian Appropriation bill
was considered. -. The Senate bill giving a
pension of 5000 year to Mrs. Jessie FIRE.
mont was reported from the Committee on
Pensions and placed on the calendar.