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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-12-09
IN A NEW ROLE.
Senator Quay as an Amateur pstectfys.
Ho Makes Big Raul.

Ho Makes a Big EARl.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Dec. ga spe-
cial to the Times Union from Fort Pierce,
Fla, says:
Senator Quay, his son Richard, P. ].
Hoban and Peter ]. Hughes, two Phila-
delphia guests, at daybreak this morn
ing captured I'aac Robinson and Ma
rion Williams, two fishermen, in aloop
in front of his residence at st. Lucie,
fishing with gill nets in violation Of the
law prohibiting fishing within one mile
OF any inlet. Tho prisoners were brought
here and given hearing before Justice
Bell, who held them in $500 bail each
for court.
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NOTICE.

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portfolios is due to the great demand,
which taxes the publishers resources.
They will all bo received in good time.
Send in coupons now that the delay
NAV be as short as possible
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DON'T APPROVE IT.
The Catholic Bishops of the New
York Archdiocese
DO NOT FAVOR The PROPOSED Bill
To Give Parochial Schools a Share
of the Public Moneys.
RECENT CIRCULAR OF THE LEAGUE

For tho Protection of American Ini
stitutions Discussed, and 1t iS De
veloped That tho Heads of the
Catholic Church Do Not Want suoh
Measure as tho League Protests
Agaius. = Archbishop Corrigen
Strongly Denounoes It-seorotary
King, of tho American League,
Looking Up tho Origin of tho Bill
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LONDON, Dec. 8.-The house Of lords
to-day, in spite OF government oppoSi-
ton, adopted the amend ment Of the
earl OF Dudley providing for clause In
the employers liability bill, enabling
workmen to contract out. The amend
ment was adopted by n vote Of l4Sto
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-12-09
FnAsHY LITEnArURE
And What it Led to-TwO Young Men Die
on the Gnllows.


on the GallowS.
DAHvibbR, Ill, Dec s.-The two
young murderers, Pate and stires, were
hanged at 1856 p. m. to-day without
hitch.
The crime for which Pate and stircs
were executed was committed August
%, 1898. Four young men, Harvey
Pate, aged twenty.one, Frank Stires,
nineteen, Elias McJunken, eighteen,
and Charles Smoolen, seventeen, were
great readers of aashy literature, and
Pate had served two years among the
cowboys of Texas. The four conceived
the idea Of holding up Henry Helmick, q
farmer. The boys walked twelve miles
from tho city and waylid Helmick aud
his wife, who were in q buggy. Hell
mick struck his horses when demand
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for money was made and Pate shot him
dead. Young Harris confessed to COM
plicity in the deed and upon arraign.
ment all four pleaded guilty. Pate and
Stires were sentenced to hang and Nc
Junken and Harris to the penitentiary
for lie.
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Special DipdieA 10 de InteLliGsaeT.
CHARLESTON. Dec S.-W. GilchrfSt
large shoe merchant, assigned to-day In
favor Of creditors. Assets about S, 900;
liabilities about 5000.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04
ct csTeRA.

BOOSTERS are good deal like men. A
rooster never gives notice OF finding a
worm until after be hiss swallowed it.-At.
Gibson Giob,.
TINS In a sad Christmas for the little
folks OF Vienna. The monkeys at the ZOO
logical garden in Schonbrunn have all
died OF consumption.
ASDREw CAHNEGtE is said 10 be great
admirer Of Herbert Spencer, TO whom he
has made numoer Of gifts. The latest Is
said 70 be a fine piano.
FRANK VINcEST. who has left Colombo
to continue his explorations in Africa, has
already travelled over 100000 miles. and
though he has had many narrow escapes
he never had assrious accident.
THE latest victim OF the Monaco gam
ing tables to shuttle of this mortal coil Is
a wealthy retired merchant oil Carlaruhe
name Strauss He lost about $4,000 be-
fore IL dawned upon him that playing
rouge Il NOR was not his forte. Then
ne went home and drowned himself in tue
Rhine.
"CoNsIDERABLE prominence has been
given to the fact that Mrs. Gladstone, wife
OF the English premier. is a property,
owner at Niagara Falls, Ont, aud cosor-
quently is entitled to vote for mayen
school trustees and councillors of the
town" SAYS theNew York Tribune. Her
name appears on the voters list.
BosToN's aldermen propose to use part
Of the public library loan in erecting a
triple equestrian statue OF Grant. sherman
and Sheridan in Copley square, somewhat
after the style OF the Kaiser Wilhelm,
Bismarck and Won Moltke monument in
Dresden; they also propose. to erect a
monument to John Boyle O'ReiIly.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER's Mexican
Notes" contains this bit of interesting in
formation: Mexico has one evidence of
civilization that some other civilized coun-
tries lack. In every city, in nearly every
town, there are attractive bath houses.
However mean the town NAV be other
wise, the public bath house is pretty sure
to be neat and attractive.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS.
What They Say or the Revised En-
cyclopedia Britannica Which
Many Have Bought

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newspaper receives many letters from its
subscribers aud others, and many con-
tanning inquiries. requests, congratula-
tons and other evidences OF an interest
in their paper OF late this correspond
ence has been largely added to by the re-
ceipt OF many strong letters extolling the
merits of the Revised Encyclopedia
Britannica which our readers have been
so fortunate as TO obtain at the very low
figure and reasonable terms which we
offer. These letters come FROM every
state in the Union, and al tell one ia e,
that of pleasure at receiving this grand
work which they could not we'll afford to
10 without, even at higher price. Else
where we print few OF these letters re-
ceived. Our files contain scores OF Others.
This offer is to continue Tor limited
perod only and you shou d avail Yourself
of it now, il you have not already done so.
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WELCOME, NEW YEAR.
The empty nest /;

Old year, depart Old bird OF time, away.
Thy nest lies empty for younger mate;
Thy voice more distant fingers In the air.
While one more oithful thy old songs awake.
Come Come! Thou unsolved iutur' tins.
Come! Gomez Re good bad thy signs.
We give thee welcome, New Year.
Aitr the storm:
Now thou futurity shine n bright rainbow whors
dark clouds stand
Bring peaceful. happy sunshine TO our view;
Hide far away the sea Of troubled storm.
And dip our future live, in holier dew
Come 10 as. New Year, as the rising sun,
And warm our hearts to good deeds yet undons.
Then have well thee welcomed
Tho bitter drink:
Now, thou reeeding time-thou mixtursd drink oil
sharpened woe;
Thou bitter draught OF living and OF dead,
Curde thy substance for a newer drink,
That Borrowing hearts with piadful JOY be fed.
Come, thou New Year. in dress Of hope attired,
And mold our hearts TO gain llies desire
Then thou art doubly welcome.
The good and bad
Depart, old year. depart,
And mask thy bad as may bad lives hood;
Aud, even as praise good lives that live,
So sanction memory to recall thy good.
Tn, come. thou stranger, It's thy day,
Thy foot replace the old away;
We give thee welcome, Now Year.
The future;
Kew Year, awake in a nobler life
Aud shade the earth with richer heavenly rays,
That sin may fade fore the dazzling light
And good outweigh the Old Years evil ways
Then, Old Year. We thee bid good-by.
Come thou. New Year. thy time will dy
As fast We thee welcome.
WILLIAM lisa WATTS.
IndiAnAp olls, Dec. %.
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col. THoM DENIES IT.
No Money Expended TO Influence Legisla
ton Here for the Canal.

No Money Expended TO Influence Legisla-
ton Here for the Canal.
TERRE HAUTE. Dec. 29.-[special. l-THE
SENTINEL correspondent tonight called at
the residence of ex->ecretary of the Navy
Thompson, late president of the Ameri-
can branch of the Panama canal COM
pany, and interviewed him regarding the
charge OF the New York World of today
that there was crookedness in the Ameri-
can management of the canal and that
millions OF dollars had been used in
American legislation at Washington.
Col. Thompson was shown the telegram
asking for a statement from him. which
was the first Intimation the old man elo-
quent had that such sensational charges
had been made. He readily granted an
interview and himself wrote the following
reply:
IL have no knowledge of there ever be-
ing dollar expended in this country 10
influence legislation in the interest of the
Panama canal, and am sure there never
was a dollar so expended. There never
WAS Panama canal lobby in Washington
City, and no legislation favorable TO the
canal was required"
Col. Thompson remarked then that he
supposed that denial was sweeping
enough; that ne dlu not Know that ne
could make il stronger; II he could he
would do il; that there was no necessity
for a Panama canal lobby in Wash .ngtou
or for spending a dollar for legls alton. for
there were no matters that came
before congress that would affect
the canal. The only possible question
that ever came before congress affecting
the canal company was when de Lesseps
was in this country. and when he Col.
Thompson made an argument before the
house COMMITTEES of foreign affairs relative
to his contention as to the Interpretation
OF the Monroe doctrine.
The house committee of which :. =
Cox vas then a member. reported unani-
m0usly in favor of the view advanced in
his argument That was the only measu e
possib affecting the canal that came be-
fore congress-
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AIcssnn i'm Thievinr-


The financial embarrassments that have
been created by republican administra-
ton and republican legislation in the last
four wears. and which are now about TO be
handed over TO a democratic administra-
ton for correction, are added 10 bv the
pressure for settlement of the indebted
ness Of the Pacific railroads. \ tenn porary
arrange ment was made last year bS which
the difficulties of the Union Pacific were
tided over, but this will expire in a lew
months and the creditors may take steps
To enforce their c aims unless satisfactory
arrangem ents are made. The situation Of
the government with regard to these roads
is one OF the most damning bots on the
dark record OF the republican party
When the government voted it's aid to
them it was fully agreed and stipulated
that its advances should be first lien on
ali their property, and thus it would be
secured from any possible loss on account
of them. This provision would perhaps
have been sufficient had il not been for
the fact that there was not, and could not
be. any way of preventing future congress
es from changing il.
But in due course of time the schemers
who had secured the govern u ent aid pre-
pared to dump the government, and they
found q willing and able tool in Mr..
JAMES G.. BLAISE, then a member of the
house of representatives, who presented
the matter so plsusibly that congress.
with perhaps the aid OF a little financial
oil. waived the first lien of the govern
ment and permitted the road TO issue
mortgages which should be prior liens.
At the same time it continued carrying
out its original agreement of paving inter
est on the bonds when the road made
default, so that on July l of the present
year, according to the report OF the COM
missioner of railroads, the United States
has a very large credit from these roads
in excess of what they are worth, and it
will have to take care OF al prior liens in
from them 10 S64 100000 principal, and
Sg4. 600 interest that has been paid for
them. There is credit, however, for
transportation OF A ,240000 so that their
total indebtedness To the government is in
the aggregate sll4, 10000. While this
enormous debt has been piling up the
managers of the roads have been building
enormous dividends and making branch
lines and terminals which they now
claim to own personally.
Possibly it is too late 10 recover much
of the plumber which these rascals have
secured by the aid of republican congress-
men and other officials, but the affair
should at least serve as a lesson. The
country 10 now confronted by another
scheme of very much the same character
in the Nicaragua canal project. The plan
proposed by Mr. MILLER and his com psny
il very fair as it stands. but what assur-
sncs 10 there that it will be permitted TO
stand? 1t is not improbable that these
gentlemen will be sbls to find some
future JAMES g. BLAINE who will be de-
sirous Of" casting an anchor to windward,"
and who will mot be deadhsad in the
enterprise" Congressman will probably
be corrupted in the future as in the past
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04

New YoRK, Dec. 30.-The session OF the
New York presbytery, which is sitting as
court on the trial OF Prof Briggs. was
begun promptly at o'clock this afternoon.
The calling OF the roll was proceeded
with. There were 40 or more names 10
be called and each member was allowed
three minutes in which to express his
views.
The voting on the first charge was be-
gun at 4 o'clock and the vote on the fifth
charge was completed and the presbytery
adjourned shortly before 8 o'clock. The
result OF he several ballots was then an
nounced to the reporters. The result was
great surprise, for on all OF the six counts
the vote was adverse TO sustaining the
charges
On the first charge, accusing Prof. Briggs
OF teaching that the reason is a source OF
divine authority. the vote was as follows:
To sustain the charge, 60; against sustain
ing the charge, IS.
On the second charge, which accuses
Prof. Briggs of teaching that the church
ia a source of divine authority, there were
55 votes cast in favor OF sustaining the
charge and Il against
The closest vote was on the thir charge.
that Prof Briggs taught that the scriptures
contained errors Of history and fact. On
this charge the vote was as follows: To
sustain the charge. 81 against, 6S
Alter this vote had been taken two or
three OF the anti Briggs men left the art
and others RETAINED from voting on the
last three charges.
On the fourth charge. accusing Prof.
Briggs of teaching that Moses was not the
author OF the Pentsteuch, the result was:
To sustain the charge, %; against, -.
The vote on the fifth charge. accusing
Prof. Briggs OF teaching that Isaiah did
not write many OF the chapters in the book
bearing his name, was: In favor of sus-
tanning the charge, 49, against, 20.
The vote on the sixth charge, accusing
Prof. Briggs of teaching that sanctification
is progressive after death, was as follows:
To sustain the charge, 81; against, 90.
The case will DO appealed to the general
assembly, which will meet in Washington
early in the spring. The assembly will APP
point a commission consisting OF fourteen
unprejudiced members. TO act on the APP
peal.
The friends OF DR.. Briggs were greatly
pleased with the result They had calcu-
lated on q majority ranging rom to ..
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04
Who Got the Ninner2


The denial OF Col. THOMPSON that he
knows OF any purchase OF legislation in
the Panama canal matter is very we'll so
far "a 1t goes. but u does not meet the
case. The fact IL established bv the i'm
vestigation OF the company's affairs In
France that about S2.5O0,000 OF its funds
was paid To the American committee
For what? Mr.. THOMPSON was quoted
several days ago as stating that he had
never done anything bat draw his twenty
fve-thOusand.dollar salary as president Of
the American branch OF the company
Possibly enough that is true, but he
certainly ought to know what became OF
the S2,500,000. II il was not used for
bribery, what was it used for? What be-
came OF il? Who got il? What end was
secured by the payment OF this enormous
sum OF money TO a few American gentle
men, who. TO all appearances, did nothing
whatever but draw their salsries7 Was
De LEssEPs obliged to make an arrange
ment OF this kind in order to prevent the
Hayes administration from interfering
with his work? There is something YER V
strange about the whole proceeding and
il has never been adequately explained.
For example, take the explanation quoted
from the Financial Ncrs of London:
The American syndicate is one of the
most shameful corruption funds ever re-
corded in the history of financial enter
prise. Imagine this expenditure of
e4S0,00 so that few men in New York
-. al.
and when necessary cooperate with IL.
To that fund is due the success which
met NJ. DE LEssEPs' invitation to the then
secretary OF the navy of the United States
to accept the presidency OF the syndicate.
No respectable bankers should ever have
participated in that costly fraud upon the
shareholders of the Panama canal COM
pany. These men are challenged to show
that they ever did anything Tor the COM
panY except to lend their names so that
IN Europe NJ. DE LEssEPs might say that
America was all right"
In this the assumption is that the men,
bers of the American committee merely
loaned their names to the scheme, or
rather rented their names for the m oder
ate sum OF > 100000. We submit this is
absurd. NJ. DE LEssEPs was not foolish
enough to buy names at that rate when
he could have had dozens as good or bet
ter for much less money. There is no
sort OF equality between the services rem
dered and the compensation. Moreover
the manner of payment refutes the theory
that the money was paid for fgureheads.
The frat payment was 100000 francs.
The second payment. one year later, Was
! 400, 900 francs and following that there
was to he paid 100000 francs year for
was so much paid down. and why did the
payment stop in five years? Those are
tho questions that will have to be answered
before the shadow of the Panama canal
scandal is removed from the american
committee"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04

WE would respectfully call the attention
OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MILLER to the fact
that the plste-glass manufacturers of tho
country, in order to prevent the cutting
OF prices, have appointed selling agent
through whose hands al orders shall pass.
and who shall distribute the orders
TO the various factors. We have a faint sus-
picion that if the encouragement should
90 nosing into this matter he might find
something more or less remotely resem-
bling a violation of the antitrust laws
And perhaps this violation would be more
oppressive TO the public than that OF the
cash register trust. which has excited the
estimabie attorney generals righteous In
diRnation.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04

FRoN s,l accounts the best way of deal
ing with the men who are making so much
trouble on the Mexican border is to exter-
inmate them. Capt. JOHN BouRKE of the
u. :. cavalry describes them thus:
Mexican in their origin and speech, but
anti Mexican in sympathy. they cause our
sou hern neighbors a great deal of trouble.
incidentally they worry us a great deal,
for they are Just as much anti-American
as anti Mexican. Their character il ut
terlv devoid oil principle and in all their
utterances there is no semblance OF patri-
otism. When you say they are "agin the
government" on both sides of the river,
YOU have stated their cfeed. They live
from hand TO mouth, and are altogether
extremely undesirable people to have any
dealings with.
Most of them are of the criminal class
refugees from beyond the border. When
there is an opportunity to do a little SNUG
Cling they embrace it eagerly, end il il
happens TO involve murder or two they
are ess disturbed about it than any one
else. Some OF them raise few cattle
which run around in the brush, a few
goats and a handful OF sheep, and occa-
siona ly they take advantage OF a rainy
season TO plant few hills of corn and
beans None OF them ever attempt to raise
fruit, although they could do so easily.
They prefer putting in their time in
more or less successful endeavors to raise
trouble.
The people OF the United States are
friends to patriots OF all countries, but
they have no sympathy TO waste on ban
dts. euerillas. smugglers and pirates.
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plan for holding these under the same
legal safeguards that surround regular
elections, and also makes the proposition
that no person be allowed to vote at an
election who did not vote at the primary.
This is a fsr.reaching scheme, but posi-
bly, it is the very thing needed in this
country. Certainly il all citizens pariici-
pated in the primaries we should have
better delegates chosen 10 conventions
and probably better men nominated for
office. The Stewart plan is worth consid-
ering
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04
Hands on the Australian Law.

The Nei0s wants tho legislature TO change
the method OF voting again. Our con-
temporary objects to the system OF group
ing the names OF candidates under party
designations on the official ballots aud
allowing electors to vote for the entire
group by stamping a single square. IL in.
sists that there is a discrimination against
independent voters. or those who de-
sire TO vote "mixed tickets" and wants
the legislature to put oil voters on the
same footing by requiring that the voter
stamp the name OF every candidate for
whom he desires TO vote.
There are several objections any
one OF them fatal TO the proposition OF
the Ae,cs. No change should be made at
this time in the method OF voting, because
ii would tend to confuse aud bewilder the
voters OF the state, who pretty generally
understand what is now required oil them.
But the change proposed by the Nous
should not be made at any time, becaus o
the present system harmonizes perfectly
with the traditions and habits Of our peo-
pie. Party government obtains in the
United States. and has since they were a
nation. The grouping Of names in the Of
ticial ballots under party designations il
simply recognition of this fact. and per-
hitting the elector TO vote Tor each group
as a whole by stamping HE ballot once
Is in the interest of simplicity and
economy. There would be no sense and
no justice in requiring an Q ector TO stamp
twenty or thirty times to give effect to his
preferences when the same end could be
attained by stamping but once. II is sig
nitcant that several states which have
adopted the plan proposed by the Ncirs
have found ii unsatisfactory, and the in
dications are that more than one of them
will this winter substitute the Indiana
plan. Our method has worked well, and
there is no good reason for changing it.
Ii there were no other objection to the
innovation proposed by tho Nctrs, the fact
that il would compel a very large increase
in the number of voting precincts and a
corresponding increase in the cost of cleo
tions would be fatal
THE SENTINEL's advice to the leeisla-
ture is 10 let the Australian ballot
law alone. II is all right az it stands. THE
SENTINEL began the fight for election re-
form in Indiana, and it was to the per-
slstent efforts of this paper that the en-
actment of the present election law was
due. The people are Just becoming fairly
accustomed to the system of voting as
adopted in 1889 and modified in 1891. II
should not be changed. The legislatures
of 1889 and 1891 did not go amiss when
they followed the advice of THE SENTINEL.
The legislature OF 1893 will not 90 amiss
now ii il heede THE SENTINEI's warning
sRainst tampsring with the Australian
law. Some more expeditions method of
canvsssinQ votes shou d be adopted But
the present method OF voting should not
be CHANGED IN the slightest degree.
the suggestion, by the way, that the
present system is unconstitutional be
cause it places burden on one class of
voters whiie relieving others from that
burden" is too childish TO be seriously
considered. 1t is the very refinement of
puerility.