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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-15
A NEEDED REFORM.

Before another general election is held
in this State the manner of counting the
votes should be changed. Our present
system, besides being very slow, is open
to other serious objections. AS the
votes are now counted, it takes from
twenty-four to forty-eight hours or
longer to get the official returns in a
county. In the recent election it took
more than three days to get those of this
county. The result is that we always
know tho result in most of the other
States before we do in Indiana, and in
in many States before we did that in this
county. And siowness ia not the only
objection to the present system. As the
counting has to be done by the same
board that receives the votes, and must
be carried on continuously, running.
perhaps, through the entire night and
far into the next day, it is obvious that
members of the board must become ex-
hausted and apt to make mistakes. ALL
night counting also offers opportunities
for fraud that ought not to exist.
The remedy lies in providing for a
count that shall begin and continue
while the votes are being cast. Under
our present system the counting cannot
begin until after the polls are closed.
| There is no reason why it should not
begin an hour after they are opened
and be completed within an hour after
they close. This is done in some States,
and is entirely feasible. All that is re-
| quired is to have two boards, one to re-
ceive and deposit the votes and another
| to count them every hour. This need
not involve any additional expense. as
it would not cost any more to pay two
boards for one days work than to pay
| one board for two days, and it would in
sure much greater rapidity and proba-
| bly, greater accuracy in the count.
There is no reason why the vote IN
every precinct in the State should not
be counted and the result known with
in an hour after the polls close. Our
present system is old fogyish. cumber-
some and unsatisfactory. We should
have the continuous counting system
that prevails in some other States.
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AFRAID OF THEMSELVES.

While yet the shout of Democratic
is a Fastening to and fro of the prudent
leaders of the party to muzzle the DEM
ocrasic donkey, who has already begun
to bray. Mr.. Cultivate, of Ohio, rises
with suggestion that the Democratic
leaders in Congress meet and agree
upon conservative line of policy, to
the end that the business of the country
may not be alarmed by the demands of
those who believe that the Chicago plat
form was an honest declaration of
Democratic purpose. The friends of
Mr.. Cleveland in New York who are in
touch with business men have impro-
vised a banquet Of the Reform Club, and
have persuaded the President to
attend and outline the policy of his
party. There is widespread alarm
among his followers. Something must be
done to check the feeling of uncer-
tainty which the hasty demands and an.
nouncements of the Chicago Herald, the
Indianapolis Sentinel, the Louisville
Courier-Journal, the Atlanta Constitu-
ton and other Democratic papers have
made while they were yet excited over
their victory. If these battle cries are
accepted as the party policy, if the dec
larations of the Chicago convention are
to be kept in good faith, confidence will
leave the business Of the country. Con-
sequently something must be done, and
done at once. Hence the feast and the
speech of Mr.. Cleveland. They want
him to say that the Mckinley law will
not be wiped out. as was pledged, and
that matters will be permitted to 60 on
in the Republican grooves. At any rate,
they want Mr.. Cleveland to muzzle the
Democratic donkey. whose braying,
from Maine to California, is certain to
brighten conservative business men.
They confess that the untrammeled
Democracy is menace. Mr.. Cleve-
lands friends fear the Democratic party,
or rather the Democratic donkey.
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LOCOMOTIVE BOILER ExPLODES,
And Hills Two Engineers, Two Firemen, q
Conductor and Scalds Brakeman.

PoTTsvILLE. Pa, Nov. IA most dis
tressing accident occurred on the Pbila-
delph,a & Reading railroad at 2 O'clock
this morning. at Conner's Crossing. a short
distance north of Schuyikill Haven. when
the boiler of mogul engine No. sos ex-
ploded, killing five men and probably
fatally lnjuring another. The killed are:
Henry c. Allison, engineer, residing at
Palo Alto leaves wife; William Mackey,
fireman, Port Carbon. leaves wife and
child: William Cowhey, engineer. on way
home to Mount Carbon. leaves wife and
ten children; William Kendrick. conductor
of Port Carbon. leaves wife and four chill
dren; William Meyer, Cowboys fireman,
Pslo Alto single. Besides the foregoing
Michael DobbiDs. OF Mount Carbon, a
brakeman of engineer Cowboys crew, was
badly scalded and will probably die.
Engine 56S was north bound, with q
heavy train of empty cars. Engineer Cow
hey had brought up train of empties and
after running them into the Cressona
yards boarded Engine 563 at the Mine Hill
crossing with the intention of reaching
thor homes In that way, and as is Gus
tomary. took possession of the cab. Dob
hins. who escaped instant death. was
crowded eut of the cab and was sitting on
the tender. The men had barely been on
wagon crossing at Conner's, half mile
north of Schuylkill Haven station. with
ont any warning, the terrible ex pi0sion oc-
CURED, throwing the crews into the air in
all directions. The boiler and fire. box
were blown clean oil the trucks, and the
tracks were SO badly damaged that traffic
was considerably delayed.
The Inflated engine was one of the L
class. and the impression here is that the
explosion occurred because engineer ALI
son had allowed the water IN the boiler TO
terminal at Palo Alto. The unfortunate
men were horribly mangled. two of them
being blown to atoms. Cowhey and his
fireman were blown up against an en- bank
ment, and the formers face was crushed to
jelly. while Meyers body was badly bat
tered. The bodies of the victims were re-
moved to their homes during the forenoon.
The engine had only left the shop two
weeks ago, when slight repairs were made
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OUT OF THE WORLD,

The American clipper ship A. j.
Fuller arrived at New York few days
ago after three months voyage from
San Francisco. during which she touched
at Pitcairn island. where the inhab-
itants were found we'll, prosperous and
happy. AS good many people in this
country feel just now as if they would
there is no politics. no government, no
taxes and not much of anything per-
tanning to civilization. they may be in a
mood to hear something about Pitcairn
island and Its nondescript but happy
population.
In December, 1887. the British gov
eminent sent out ship called .he
Bounty to Tahiti to collect breads fruit
plants for colonization in the West In
dia colonies. The Bounty was COM
manded by captain, afterward Admiral
Bligh, skillful sailor but cruel mas
ter. After six months stay ON the
Island of Tahiti he sailed again for
England, but his men mutinied and cast
nlil1, WIFI cikHttcu Ihcu WHO StOOu ny
him, into an open boat and set them
adrift with small stock of provisions
and without chart. 1t speaks VOL
umes for Blieh's seamanship that
he was able to sail his lit
tie craft 5000 miles, and finally.
after incredible hardships. make a
safe landing on an island near Java.
Eventually he returned to England.
where he received other naval appoint
ments and was finally raised to the rank
of admiral in 1911. The mutineers took
possession of the Bounty. and after sail
ing about u while, LANDED on Pitcairn
island. The island lies between Aus
tralia and South America and measures
2la by mile. When the mutineers
took possession of il there were nine of
them. six Tahitian men and dozen
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TINE TO STOP IT.

For more than q decade the Demo-
cratic press has been holding the manu-
facturers of this country up to the people
as class of monopolists, millionaires
and trust-organizers. Week after week,
day after day, this has been done, until
the larger number of people employed
by them have come to regard their EN-
have been denounced as "baron robbers"
by free-trade press so long that many
people have come to believe it. Dema-
gogues who labor only with their jaws
have 80 long proclaimed that all wealth
comes OF manual labor. and that those
who have more property than have the
mass of laborers are robbers, that they
have led large body of people in great
cities to hold the man who has accumu-
lated property as one who has taken
from them part of their earnings.
Democratic orators from Voorhees, down
to the crossroads ignoramus, have told
farmers all over the country that they
are compelled by American manufac-
turers to pay more for agricultural i'm
plements than they ask of foreigners.
Demagogues on tho stump and doc
tyindires in class or lecture-room have
been telling all who would listen that
manufacturers are adding the amount
of the tariff to the prices of their cloths
and other protected articles. until a
feeling of distrust and antipathy has
been aroused against manufacturers.
Calamityites, purely for political effect,
have assailed capital as q wrong upon
of fact. the loanable capital of the coun-
try is largely the deposits of work people
in savings banks and life insurance insti-
tutions. All these people, knowingly
or ignOrantly, have preached heresies
which have raised class antipathies and
sown the seeds of socialism.
1t is time now that they stop. 1t
would be we'll if some of them would ex-
plain their conduct by saying that they
have assaulted capital and manufactur-
ers simply to get into political power,
and, having got there, they take back all
that was mischievOus In their utter
ances. Having got the two elements of
production into attitudes of mutual dis
trust, if not into hostility, let them stop
and try to undo their evil work. The
New York Herald, which. a week ago.
was dcnouncing the employers of labor
in this country as heartless plutocrats.
has set the example by saying that the
changes required in the laws affecting
the industries of the country are few and
small. thus confessing that it has been
guilty of attempting to hoodwink the
people. The smaller demaRogues and
still less important doctrinaircs should
follow the example OF this audacious
leader of demaRngy At any rate. this
work of arraylng one element of our
people against another must stop at
once if catastrophe is tn be averted.
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and beautiful work that had been product
i've Of so much good In Europe and in this
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Ex-SECRETARY BLAINE refused to DO in
terviewed regarding the result of the
presidential election, and even had his
telephone taken out of his house to escape
continual interruption of his work last
week.
WHETHER it be because Mr.. Gladstone
is vigorous or reckless. il does not clearly
appear; but English papers talk about his
tripping about London in heavy drizzle
without an um bTeila. though wearing an
Inverness cape. recently. It was not pa
common. ten OF twelve years ago; for him
To walk from Downing street to the House
OF Commons without Gil overcOat.
QUEEN VICTORIA has been studying Hin
deostanee for some time. and takes pleas
ure ID conversing in their native tongue
announced that in the Christmas number
of the Strand Magazine her Majesty Will
have two translations into HindooStanee.
one OF letter which she wrote to the
s shah some time ago, the other OF the let
the death of the Duke of Clarence.
RENAN had the odd fashion in working
of piling around him every imaginable
book of reference before he began to write.
Hewould SIT with hundreds of huge vol
umes open around him, volumes destined
to remain open for weeks. the servants be-
ing forbidden to touch them with hand or
buster. Ho never visited public library.
Madame Renan being accustomed to go to
the Bibliotheque Rationale IN order to
copy out any passage he might be IN need
of.
APRoPos of Lady Randolph ChurchilPs
recent illness. the Pail Mall Gazette says
that she first met Lord Randolph at a DIM
ner party In Paris. His attention was
attracted to her by her beauty and the
fiucncy and brilliancy with which she car
RED on conversation in French. He ad-
dressed her, and soon found that he had
met his match in repartee. When the
ladies had withdrawn Lord Randolph
turned to q friend and said: That's the
brightest woman ever met, and mean TO
marry her." And he did.
CAPT. e. w. ADAMS. of West Addison,
VT, has raised quite a large portion OF the
timbers of the flagship Congress of Gen.
Benedict Arnold's Iieet. which was sunk in
Lake ChamplaiI in October, 177G. The
timDers. of which there are about thirty
feet of the after part of the keel and keel
son, with number of the ribs attached,
are of oak. aud perfectly sound. The
wood, when polished. IL very dark. and
takes beautiful finish. 1t will be either
worked into canes and other articles as
relics. or kept intact for the worlds fair.
Mr.. Adams has also several shells and sold
shot, grape and musket balls. which he has
found near the wreck.
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AS an indication of Tammany methods
and Boss Cookers influence over his fol-
lowers it is stated that when the con-
vention that nominated Mr.. Gilroy for
Mayor of New York met, few days be-
fore the election, not single delegate
in it knew for whom he was going to
vote until Croker entered the hall and
informed them that they were to nomi-
nate Gilroy, an ex- street contractor and
friend Of the Tammany boss. Mr.. Gill
roy's name had. up tc that time, never
been heard by any of the delegates as a
possible candidate for Mayor, but as
Bo0n as they got their instructions they
Immediately fell into line and he was
promptly nominated. In blind obedi-
snce to the same orders he received
the solid support of Tammany and was
elected. And this is what is called mu-
nicipal government in the metropolis of
The United States!
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HILL MUST SEEK ELSEWHERE.
Friends of the Most Beautiful" Georgia
Widow Say She won't Wed the Senator.

NEW YORK, Nov. IA morning paper
says that Senator David b. Hill, when he
returns to Washington in December. Will
probably he married man. The lady is
stated to be Mr. Fannie Iverson, OF
Atlanta, Ga. The papers says that the an
nouncemcnt of the engagement may be ex-
pected any day.
ATLANTA. Ca, Nov. 14-The report of
Senator Hills engagement to Mrs. Fannie
Iverson, of Atlanta, is unequivocally
denied. She met Senator Hill five years
ago on his first visit to Atlanta at one of
the receptions rendered him here. The re-
port of their engagement was circulated o
short while after Senator Hills visit to
Atlanta at that time. and the report has
been revived at intervals. Mrs. Iverson
has not met Senator Hill since then and
those who know her say there Is not a word
of truth In the report. She Is one of the
most beautiful women in the South and she
has been widowed about six years. Her
friends laugh at the report that she is en-
gagged to any body.
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SLY MARGARET MATTER.
She Won't Talk About Her Reported Marriage
Her Niece's Affirmation and Denial.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.-The latest in
formation obtaInable here regarding the
reported marriage of Margaret Mather to
Gustav Pabst is to the effect that the we'd
ding took place in the East almost imme-
diately after the conclusion OF the divorce
obtained by Miss Msther from Emil Ha-
berkorn in Chicago, and II was not very
far from Chicago that the knot was tied.
1t had been the attention of Miss Mather
TO have the marriages announced here. but
the annoy ances that accompanied her en-
gagement here decided her 10 postpone the
announcement.
Two days before Miss Nather began her
engagement here. three weeks ago. young
Pabst appeared at the California Hotel,
and engaged q suite of rooms numbered
co. 6sJ2. UU4. When Miss Mather arrived
the rooms were occupied by herself and
niece aud Pabst. IL was reported then that
Pabst and Miss Mathcr lad been married.
but both denied the story. Miss Matbers
niece, however, coniided TO n friend that
they n ad been married near Chicago short
ly after the actress secured divorce from
her husband, Emil Haberkorn. While here
Pabst was very devoted To the beautiful
actress. aud WAS constantly in her COM
pany. He attended every performances.
and W hen Mas Mather was taken Ill Was
unTemittIng IN his attentions 10 her. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-15

THE success of Gladstone, from a BIZ
metallist standpoint, was unfortunate.
He and his followers are the doctrinaire
class, while the Conservatives have
come to more generally represent the
mercantile element. Gladstone stands
by gold monometallism because it is
English. but the Conservative leaders
Are bimetallists because British mer-
chants and anufacturers favor very
generally the restoration of silver to
full money power. Mr.. Goschen was a
bimetallist, and Mr.. Balfour, leader of
the Conservatives in the House. has an
nounced himself a bimetallst in two or
three recent addresses.
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THOSE who have noticed the footings
of the votes in this State could not have
failed TO see that President Harrison
either leads his party vote or stands
with the highest in nearly every county.
This fact disposes of the campaign pre-
diction that he would not run up with
the rest of the ticket, and proves the
Rbsurdity of the talk to the effect that
o combination had been made in all the
counties by the anti-Harrison Repub-
licans to deprive him of several thousand
votes. And the same is the case else
where, except, possibly, in Illinois,
where a couple of somewhat influential
soreheads united with the newcomers
who voted against the Republican ticket
to oppose their employers. In New
Hampshire. Massachusetts,, Michigan,
Nebraska and other States the compar-
alive returns, which have been pub
lisbed in part. show that the President
Il Mt the head of the poll. In at least
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NO WHITE. Gaping THIS.
Men Without Masks Whip Tramp at Ander.
son and Run Him in the-Riyer.
sD.c,a, to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON. Ind. Nov. 1i-Yesterdsy aft
ernoon the citizens of North Anderson were
thoroughly aroused and enraged by the
attempt of q tramp. who gave his name
as George Sheets. TO assault Gertie McCar-
ty, daughter of Squire b. 4. McCarty.
The human brute accosted the young wom-
an in her fathers yard, but her screams
brought assistance. Sheets ran through
the fields and hid himself along White
river. where he was afterwards captured
BIZ q posse of men aud aed in Jail. To-
night at o'clock. his release was ordered
BY a Justice of the peace. AS be left
the jail a Dozen stout men took
possession OF the tramp and escorted him
10 White riyeT. east OF tho city. There
they were provided with rawhides. and
the fellow was given an awful punish
ment and run through the river. half dead.
The fellows screams were heard o quarter
of a mile away. The event has created .
profound sensation In the city tonight A
number OF PROMINENT women had been in
suited on the streets By tranlps, and the
punishment is thought TO have been the
proper thing,
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THERE has never been time since
the organization of the Republican party
that its defeat did not cause rejoicing in
Europe. A London cablegram to the
New York Sun says:
There is no question that the result of
the election in the United States is q source
of unmitigated satisfaction to albEurope.
bare victory for the Democracy would
have excited little interest, but vast sig
piticance Is ascrIoed to the measure of the
Republican rout.
1t is curious state of things when a
result largely due to the workingmen of
the United States should cause such uni
versal rejoicing among the wealthy and
aristocratic classes of Europe.
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GOT AWAY WITH 100000.
Experts Fix the Ams unit Stolen by the Treas
urer of the Lombard Investment Company.

KANSAS City, No., Nov. 1.-THE expert
accountants. who have been examining the
books OF the Lombard Investment Com.
pany. in the cndeavor TO ascertain the
exact amount of the stealings of Russell,
the embezzline local treasurer of the COM
pany. have about completed their work,
which shows that Russell got away with
upwards of 100000. The examination of
the books was carried back eight years,
when Russell first entered the company's
employ. and 1t shows that he began his
peculations almost from the start. He 10
now in Mexico. safe from arrest. embczzle-
ment not being extraditable. Book
keeper Lewis who stole $4,000 from the
company and committed forgery IN so do
ing has been extradited and 10 now being
brought to Kansas City.
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papers hero commented on young Pnbst's
devotion TO the actress. but She said Pabst
was merely q friend, and they were not
married. Pabst expressed himself as will
ing and anxious TO marry her. but said
thatso far she had refused TO be united 70
him.
Ii the couple were married here, as re-
ported. they kept the secret well. as the
newspapers could obtain nothing abont IL
The fact that MISS Mather's niece admitted
that her aunt was married 10 Pabst was as
certained late last 4 ght after rumors of the
marriage reached here from Chicago. The
niece confessed the marriage 10 - friend
while here In explanation Of the intimacy
existing between her aunt and Pabst- 1t
was learned at the California Hotel that
Pabst registered there Oct - and en-
gagged rooms as before stated Miss Mather
arrived with her company next day. Oct.
% Pabst remained only two days and left
was stated at the time He returned here
Nov. and on Nov. G left In company
with Miss Mather for Los Angeles. A dis
patch from the latter place Gays: Mar
garet Mather left for the East last night.
just before her departure a reporter called
ana asked TO see her about the ruurored
marriage. She positively refused TO see
any one. Her niece was seen aud positive
~ denied the marriage. The niece further
denied that she admitted the marriage in
San Francisco. Miss Mather, her niece
and Mr.. Pabst came up from San Diego,
Nov. 10. Mr.. Pabst registered the party at
the Hollenbeck Hotel"
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premacy."

In San Francisco the independent can
didate for Mayor charges the non-parti-
san candidate with classifying the re-
turns. This action must be very dis
tressing to those excellent persons who
believe in the party of independent ac-
ton and that there will be no first-qual-
ity politics in the country until the par
tisau ia abolished
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rru.,. wn, yhrire Under Democracy.

New YORK Nov. 14.-It is officially stated
that NEGOTIATIONS are pending Tor a consol-
ldauon of rhe linseed oil interests of the
United States Tho plan OF consolidation
includes the National Lead and Linseed
OIL Companies. AS well IS other outside
concerns representing, in all. about - per
cent. of the industry. Controlling inter
ests of the Linseed Oil Company are To
meet this week Tor the purpose of arriving
at u basis for the consolidation. The Ma
ti0nal Lisseed OIL Company has n capital
of SlS00O.DU0 and iifty-two oil works stu
ated IN forty-two cities of the United
States. The National Lead Company sue
ceeded the National Lead Trust IN Deeem-
ber 1871. Its capital stock CONSISTS OF Sl5.-
O00, 600 common stock and Sl50O00U0 seven
Der cent. cumulative preferred stock. An
issre of S2.5O0.0oo six percent debenture
bonds has been authorized. but the amount
outstand ing Is not known. The company
owns twenty-s.x piapt&