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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-11-30
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the matter Of The trust estate Of RfcH
ARD q. MITCHELL.
No. 1871 Equity.
In the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County.

ORDERED. by lie Circuit Court for
" Anne Arundel County, in EQUITY.
this 2lst day OF November, 1891, thai
this Court take jurisdiction Of the within
mentioned trust. and that James r. Bra.
shears. trustee. 10 the above entitlad
cause, give NOTES to all persons having
claims agsinst tho estate of Richard O.
Mitchell, to file their claims legally az
iheniicaiei with the Clerk OF this Court
on or before the
2lst DAY OF JANUARY. 1892.
by causing copy Of this order to be
published In some newspaper printed ia
the City OF Annapolis. once week for
three successive weeks, before the 2lst
day OF December, 1891.
/. THOMAS JONES
True Copy. Test
n 81 SPRIee HARDWOOD, Clerk.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-11-30

HAPPY and content i home with " The Ro-
chester; q lamp with the light of the morning
Catalogues, write Rochester Lamp Co, Newlork.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-11-30

H. hat we sell is guaran-
HVfkY teed. Your new hat
should be the latest
style both in black and color. =
Our department is crowded with
all the newest winter shapes
Special line of 50 Derbys at
Sl.9S. Boys durable hats, 80
cents up.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-11-30

H. and clothing. Best
made is our rule. Our Fall and
Winter line of Suits and Over
coats is now ready for inspec-
ton. They are all of pro-
per fabric and right color, 81 to
500. All the way from neat
ness to luxury.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-11-30

FURNISHING DEPART
MENT stocked with full lines
of this seasons Underware,
Shirts, Hosiery, &C.. at very
reasonable prices,
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were enacted for the protection of the
miner from the avarice OF the operator.
One of these looked TO the prevention Of
the primary extraordinarily the miner
was deprived of pay for large share of
his work-by abolishing the screen, or
compelling operators to weigh coal mined
before screening. The secondlaw enacted
sought to prevent the robbery Of
the miner by Withholding his wages,
and thus forcing him to pat
ronize the company store, with it's
extortionate prices on everything sold.
This second law requires the operator to
pay the miner at least once in two weeks
in lawful money-no store orders, or GER
ti6cates, OF anything but the lawful money
OF the land, good for its face anywhere.
There can be no doubt that il these
laws were faithfully observed the con-
dition of the miners would be greatly
improved. But the operators do
served. They will not openly violate
these laws, for the penalties are costly. and
they know full well that an outraged pub
lie sentiment would cause their speedy
enforcement.
Afraid TO violate the laws the opera
tors set about working their notification.
They notified the miners that no man
could work for them who would not sell
his birthright-sign a waiver of all his
rights under these laws. This would
again put him in the clutch of the opera
tor. He would once more be compelled
to dig twice as much coal as he would be
paid for; he would be forced to purchase
all his supplies from the company store
at whatever inflated prices the operator
might see fit 70 put upon them.
This is the situation in Clay county to-
day. The operators are simply seeking to
nullify the laws of the state. They set up
defiance to the will of the people as ex-
pressedby their representatives and boldly
seek to break down the statutes of the
commonwealth. They do this that they
may further starve and enslave and OPP
press their fellow human beings. They
are fghtingfor the maintenance of slavery
just as much as were the South Carolina
nullifiers in 1882. What pity that the
governors chair is not occupied by a
JACKSON to crush out the seditionl
II the clay county operators accomplish
their purpose it will establish a most
dangerous precedent. If they can nullify
these laws why cannot any other class OF
men do the same with other laws? Why
cannot the murderers and rapists and
horse thieves get together and nullify the
penal code2 Why not not the bankers
nullify the usury laws. or the saloon
keepers the license laws?
Governor HovEY ought Immediately to
call the legislature together to take action
in this matter. 1t is grave crisis in the
states history which should be met
promptly and vigorously. Notification
should forever be made both odious and
dangerous in Indiana.
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WEEKLY wAeEsIN GERMAN HOUSE INDUSTRY.
Average of all per week.

The Economist tells us that, of course,
"the living of these people must cor
respond with their incomes" Itsays:
In some cases single room is made to
serve for all purposes OF living, working
and sleeping, with a table, bench, chairs
and two beds of straw, with no sheets /;
with these they have a kitchen, with
small clothes press and plain bureau. Two
and often three and four persons occupy
single bed. Matchmakers cook their food
on stoves on which PHOSPHORUS and
sulphur are prepared. The food of these
people is correspondingly meager, consist
ing chiefly OF potatoes morning, noon
and night. Other foods include chicorY
coffee. coffee water, bread, cheese, vegeta-
bles, sauerkrapt, beans, rice, beer and
sometimes milk. In Saxon Voigtland the
average yearly consumption OF meat for
1875 was placed at 49.4 pfennigs (ll4
cents per mead of population, while for
the entire kingdom OF Saxony the years
meat averaged 66.l pfennigs (l52 cents).
The effect of this state of things upon
the health of the population is seen in the
fact that only 2974 to 56 per cent. of the
men are fit for military service. As to
morals, the result is seen in the returns,
showing ll.5 per cent of the entire popu-
lation OF Germany from 1865 10 1870 were
illegitimate, while the rate in some sec
tons stood as high as DID, per cent.
This is certaialy sad picture, and, no
doubt, faithful one. But sadder even
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13
Some Indiana NuIiifiers.

Sixty years ago the people of the whole
United States were greatly excited over
the course taken by the nullifiers of
South Carolina. Today q band OF multi
fiers is seeking to set at naught the laws OF
Indiana, and the people of this state are
giving this matter almost no attention.
These modern nullifers are the block
coal operators of the Clay county district,
and the real cause of their anxiety to
break down the statutes is to continue a
system of human slavery-the identical
motive which inspired the South Carolina
nullifers OF sixty years ago. For many
years the Clay county operators have held
their employees in bondage, every whit as
servile as that which held the negroes
south OF Mason and Dixon's line, but far
less merciful and considerate OF the bond
mans welfare. The southern slave owner
kept his chattels well fed clothed and
housed. The Clay county operator keeps
his on the verge of starvation, ragged,
houseless and constantly in debt.
Two years ago the legislature began to
investigate the condition OF the Clay
county miners. 1t found that they were
working under system of veritable peon-
age. 1t found that the miner digged
in the earth and brought to the
surface quantities of coal in Jumps,
and quantities of 1t broken
into fine particles termed slack" It
found that the miner WAS paid for his
work by the ton in this wise: The whole
product of the miners work was passed
over a coarse screen; that portion which
did not pass through the screen was
weighed and the miner credited with its
weight. For that portion of his product
which passed through the screen the
miner received no pay whatever. But he
was not permitted to take it away II he
wished to do so he was charged good
round sum for every pound of it. That
slack" which the miner digged was valu-
able to the operator, though he paid moth
ing for securing it; so valuable that he
even begrudged the miner what little he
carried away on his grimv hands.
The legislature found, further, that the
robbery of the miner by the operator did
NV NNeAoN AiNAOs ~ ACuho tAidb OpCId-
tor held back the wages OF the miner.
sometimes for many months at time. 1t
found further that, in lieu of money,
the operator gave to the miner, in pay for
that part of his work which the operator
credited him with, an order on the "com-
pany store" for family supplies. AT
this store the miner was charged
double or triple what he would have
been charged at any other store for similar
articles.
Against this robbery the miner was
utterly defenseless. If he refused to ac-
cep. the screening of his Goa! he could not
work. He had no money with which to
buy elsewhere, and if he had had. he
would have lost his job by refusing to
patronize the company store"
When the legislature found this condi-
ton OF affairs it took immediate action
looking toward its reform. Two years ago
it enacted a law abolishing the "pluck
me" store system. This law was evaded,
and at its late session two more laws
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than the picture is the depravity which
can move the Economist 10 say:
In contrast with this showing of the
condition of things among the indus
trial classes Of Germany, let us briefly
refer to the situation OF the same under the
protective policy Of The United States.
Following this the Economist gives some
figures purporting to show the wages of
labor in Michigan.
Now, when it is borne in mind that the
very same protective policy which is in
force in the United States is also in force
in Germany, and has been for fifteen or
eighteen years; that the workingmen
whose sad lot is described in the forego-
ing are protected" workingmen, and
that the editor OF the Economist is fully
aware of these facts, the assurance which
moves him TO the publication of such an
article as we have quoted must be pro-
nounced sublime. But most protection
editors are endowed with the same quail
ity. 1t is a favorIte trick of theirs to
publish heart-rending descriptions OF the
woes and wrongs of labor in other protec-
ZIONIST countries, and point to them rs the
results OF free trade. For instance, take a
recent tariff picture" in the New York
Press:
Average Daily Wages,
IaWalara
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Fires in Wisconsin.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. May 9.-Reports from
northern Wisconsin are that heavy rains last
night have checked the forest fires in many
localities. The principal damage has been to
standing timber Three miles from Florence
the logging outfits run ly Luddington. Van.
Shalieck & Co. were burned. The Ashland
iron and steel company lost $4,000 cords OF
wood at High Bridge. The Wisconsin Central
was stopped in the Gogebic range by the burn
ing of the bridge. Dispatches from Bayfield,
say that trains on the Omaha are delayed at
Drummond by burning bridges. Seven thou
sand paving blocks and 1000 cedar posts were
destroyed at Ashland. The smoke from the
forests hangs like dense fog over the towns
and adds to tie apprehensions of the inhabit-
ants. Fierce fires burning in Shawnee
county.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

JOHN SCHRAEo, Backford. Ind: The
new tax law repealed the provision re-
quiring assessors to collect farm statistics.
j. W. NJ, Peru, Ind: If by the Latta
creek marsh. Green county, is meant the
marsh land in sections 8, /, 5, s, 8, 10 and
Ii in town n, range W and through
which Latta creek runs, then it belongs TO
individuals.
JAMES T. Hoop, Point Isabel, Ind: ~
Examinations for life state licenses were
held by the county superintendent on
the third Friday or Saturday of February,
March and April. The manuscripts were
distributed among the various members
OF the state board OF education for exam
ination. The board will meet May - to
announce the result. o. The board Of
education advertised on April for bids to
supply the remainder of the school text
books. Bids viii be opened May Z, at
o'clock o. m
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eligible to the governorship. The governor
has been voting for many years and has
held number of offices. The decision
against him may doubtless he set down to
the account of partisanship, which re-
publican judges usually carry with them
on to the bench. Governor BOYD promptly
surrendered his office, when the decision
was announced. into the hands of the
former governor-THAYER-w was not
candidate at the last election. The case,
court Of the United States, by which, it is
believed, the Nebraska decision will be re-
Yersad.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

A MEMORABLE event was celebrated at
ings ago with appropriate exercises.
1.-TWO thousand insane persons rescused
from the poorhouses of the state and
placed under state care, the county
system, with all its barbarity, abolished and
the humane treatment of the state insti-
tutions extended to these poor unfortu-
nates"-this, says the Herald, "was the
achievement to which the State charities
aid association called public attention and
for which it invited popular congratula-
ton" This association has been in exist
ence nineteen years, during which it has
accomplished a great work for the cause
of humanity. 1t would be well if, in
every state, the insane and idotic could
be removed from the almshouses, where
their condition, as a rule, is deplorable,
and placed in state institutions erected
especially for their care. When the ad-
ditional hospitals for the insane were
erected in Indiana, it was believed that
they would afford adequate accommoda-
tons for all the insane of the state. But
the alarming increase in insanity has
prevented this. All the hospitals are
well filed and yet nearly every county
Intimacy in the state still shelters the
hopelessly insane. What Indiana needs
is an asylum especially for this class, in
addition to the hospitals already existing
for the treatment of persons whose in
sanity has not been pronounced perma-
nent. But the prospect is that it will be
some years before such an institution can
he nrovidsd.
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How Labor Fares in Protected Ger
many.

The american Economist, the official or
gan of the American protective league,
declares that "the most satisfactory test of
the merits of an industrial policy is fur
nished by statistical reports, where care
fully and intelligently made" 1t then
proceeds to quote freely from recent re-
port by our commercial agent at Moyence
JAMES II. SMITH relating chiefly to
''house industry" in Germany in contra
distinction to factory work. "The former"
says the Economist, Consists in the en-
ployment, at their homes, of many thou
sands of people, in the production Of
SPECIAL classes OF articles, and is carried on
largely in small villages and in mountain
GUS regions. where agricultural pursuits
cannot be made to meet even limited re-
qulrements OF life. In some cases simple
machinery is employed, but hand labor
is the main reliance. The production of
this work, as rule, is for middlemen, and
not for consumers"
1t appears from this report that about
$4,000 persons were thus employed in
Germany when the latest census was
taken 1882. A large proportion OF these
were women and children. The hours of
labor were, and are, very severe. Wood
engravers work all day and late at night;
hand weavers, fifteen hours per day
slate makers, eighteen hours; basket
makers, in summer from 80 a. m, and
in winter from earliest dawn until late at
night by lamplight; workers in meer-
schaum, fifteen to sixteen hours in sum-
mer and eleven in winter; at net work
(women) from a. N. until 10 p. m. with
short respite for scanty dinner. The fol-
lowing table shows the returns made
these German house workers for six days
hard toll of twelve to eighteen hours
each:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

IT is said that a railroad company is
holding a number of Bohemians in slavery
in Virginia, and that the government of
Austria Hungary will make row over
the matter. 1t is q good thing for these
wretched Bohemians that they have a
government which takes some interest in
them. There are several thousand Ameri-
can citizens held in slavery in Pennsylva-
mia by CARNEGIE & Co., and large num-
Der who are held in bondage in Clay
county, in this state. But unfortunately
there is no government to which they can
look for succor.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

THE first democratic governor ever
elected in Nebraska has been turned out
of office by republican judges on very
gauzy technicality. Governor BOYD is a
native of Ireland. He came to this coun-
try with his father when small boy.
After he became of age his father was
naturalized. The governor himself never
took out naturalization papers. The court
holds that if his father had been natural
lied before he became OF age it would
have made him citizen, but that, as the
matter stands, he is an alien, and in
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

THE Pittsburg Dispatch, republican
paper of very wide circulation, in discuss
ing the efforts of the Harrison boomers to
force Mr.. BLAINE off the presidential track
declares that president HARRIsoN's sec
ond term is an impossibility." 1t insists
that Mr.. BLAINE is the choice of the re-
publican rank and file, and warns the re-
publican managers that the farmers
alliance is liable to nominate Judge
GRESHAM next year, in which event it will
be necessary to put the strongest repub-
lican in the field" We republish this
article elsewhere. Our political readers,
and especially those of Harrisonian pro-
clivities, will find it very interesting.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13
FoRTY-FlvE MINUTES
Il the Length OF Time President Harrisou
VIII stop I'm Indianapolis.

VIII stop In
The Joint committee of the board Of
trade and Commercial club on the recep-
ton OF President Harrison next Thursday
afternoon met Friday and appointed
the following committees:
On carriages, w. C. Griffith, w. II.
Armstrong, and w. NJ. Levey. On state
house and grounds, Tim Griffin, f. II.
Eldridge, Edward Dean, C. E. Hall. Mill
tary, Gen. n. r. Ruckle, Col. W. j. Nc
Kee, Capt. J. b. Curtis. Music, II. Lie
Der, G. E Coffin, J. =. Frenzel. Finance,
II. c. Adams, Alexander C. Ayres, W. II.
Schmidt, Tho mas Taggart, w. Ii. East
man, Philip Hildebrand, W. /. Dunlap.
Transportation, r. B. F. Pierce, Albert
Iieber, w. b. Holton. Press, William
Fortune. s. Z. Morss, W. 4. Wilkins, II.
o. Thudicun, Morris Ross, i. J.. Purdy,
Jacob w. Smith, Line OF march, Gen.
Fred Knefler, Irwin Robbins. j. II. Csrna-
han. Speakers. A J. Beverage, /. 5. Cor
don, A. w. Conduit. Decorations, 5. h.
Fletcher, G.. r. Sullivan, w. +. c. Colt,
Edward Hawkins, Otto Stechan. J. A.
Wildman, Ferdinand Mayer, ;. r. Holt,
II. Hamburger. Clubs and societies,
Mvron d. King, Stanton ]. Peelle, 5. Y.
PerrOtt, l.. NJ. Oruelle, Eulllp helchnSlu-
Selecting delegation to meet President
Harrison at Montezuma (the J. ID. d w.
road, through the courtesy of its officers.
having rendered train for that purpose),
Gov. A. p. Hovey, Mayor Thomas L. Sui
livan, Fred Fahnley, r. NJ. Smock, ID. p.
Erwin, DR.. J. L. Thompson, Nathan Nor
ris. J. w. Carey, G.. w. Fairbanks, Ed 7.
Thompson, Gel. Eli Lilly, John r. Wilson,
Theodore p. Haughey, Leon Kahn, A. \.
Barnes. Gen. Fred knetier will act as
grand marshal of the procession.
The following telegram was received by
the board of trade yesterday:
BLACK RIVER JUNCTION, Wash. May 6.
GEORGE G.. TANNER-Please accept the
presidents thanks for your kind invitation.
The railroad schedule allows him but forty
five minutes at indianapolis. and ENGAGEMENTS
made at Washington make it impossible 10 pro.
long his stay. (Signed.I ID. NJ. RANsDELL-
u OIL
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government to the hands of monopoly
and greed. Since 1883 we have had Tom
REEDS billion dollar congress, which
bankrupted the treasury and loaded the
people with new taxes for the benefit of
millionaires and jobbers; we have had
the infamous Mckinley law; we have
seen the money collected from all the
people turned over to a favored few in
the form of subsidies and bounties; we
have seen the senate packed with repub-
hcan partisans from rotten boroughs; we
have narrowly escaped a subversIon of
our form of government by the passage
of the iniquitOus measure known as the
force bill-all of which is to be laid to the
account of the republican party.
Again we say that if the grand old party
can "look into the past without blush
ing'-as Mai. MCKINLEY saws 1t can't
must be because it has lost the capacity
to blush.
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THE Fort Wayne Gazette. the leading re-
publican paper of northern Indiana, in
commenting upon a recent Harrison boom
article in the indianapolis Journal, says !:
The personal friends of President HAIR
RIsoN who are working for his renomina-
ton were greatly disconnected by the feel
ing of indifference manifested toward their
favorite at Cincinnati There is abundant
reason for believing that it was the DELHI
crate purpose of the leaders of that con-
vention to ignore the president altogether.
Had it not been for the unfortunate
they would probably have carried out
their plan. This may have been a wise
course to pursue and it may not. Repub-
licans have a right to choose their own
leader. If the members of the league did
not desire to boom Mr.. HARRISON it was
no violation of the constitution nor OF
iealty to their party, or OF any law of
ethics, for them to do as they intended do
ing. Probably they reasoned in this way:
President HARRISON is now out on an
electioneering tour. He is taking in the
southern states, not because they can give
q single electoral vote, but because they
will have votes in the republican national
convention that he would like to have.
He is doing all he can to get a renomina-
ton, and as we do not wish him success,
and do ot wish to attack him, we will
simply be silent. This was probably the
feeling OF a majority of the delegates to
that convention, and who shall cay that 1t
did not correctly represent the masses from
whom those delegates received their ap-
pointment
the Gazette continues inIthis strain, and
concludes its article as follows
The simple fact, and all there ia that is
entitled 10 be stated as fact, is that the
party in the North has not yet made up its
mind to renominate Gen. HARRISON. 1t
NAV do So but if it does it will be be-
cause after full consideration il believes
that such q course is desirable, and not
because the president himself desires it,
nor because his mouthpiece threaten s
them with political perdition if they don't
do il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

THE president of the latest failed Phila-
delphia bank is reported by the dispatches
to be gentleman whose strict integrity
is not to be questioned, yet he admits that
he has been specializing and that he has
piled up in the banks vaults a large
amount of securities so worthless that he
cannot raise money on them. 1t is pity
that so many men with an oversupplv of
the highest integrity" and q deficiency
of good business sense should drift into
the banking business.
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!, THE republican Globe Democrat is candid
<enough to say:
There has been extravaganza and reck-
lessness in the matter of appropriations,
and every reasonable republican will re-
greet this.
Republicans both reasonable and other
wise will certainly regret this" good
deal more in 1892.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

among civilized people, and no community
which tolerates it can fairly claim to be
civilized.
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Really Wasn't IL.
Wheeling Register.l
At Cincinnati poor little Mr.. Harrison
wasn't "in il.