The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-07
MYSTERIOUS MURDER
UNEARTHED.
Men in Official Life InvOlved-The
Proof IncOntrovertible.
JOHN SHERMAN IMPLICATED.
Preliminary Examination Had
Bound Over to Grand
Inquest.
JOHN SHERMAN IMPLICATE
AT LARGE ON BAIL.
Trial Day in the Near Future-Full
Particulars in Chapters.
AN ALLEGORY.
By a Minneapolis Detective

A reputable and highly useful citizens
of the United States, a few years ago,
suddenly disappeared from the haunts of
trade and commerce, where he was well
known and highly esteemed. His gen
eral usefulness was such that he is sore
ly missed by his neighbors and friends
and where he was best known and where
he long resided,-in fact, everybody,
men and women, boys and girls,-all
knew him and all loved him dearly. He
had lent willing hand to all the public
enterprises of the day. He assisted in
opening up farms on rugged hill-sides,
narrow valleys, in the bosoms OF great
forests and on treeless prairies,-he aid
ed in the construction of lake and river
crafts to carry to competing points and
to reach the sea-board, the productions
of the farm and the manufactures,
developed mines of coal, copper, lead and
iron and of all other minerals for mans
necessities and grateful to his intellec-
tual advancement,-het took large shares
in railway stocks, in big ships which
sail between distant points, carrying
men and women to and fro around the
world, and equalizing the bountiful pro-
ducts of labor and Of skill among the ma
tons of the earth. He was patron Of
religion and education, and gave liber
ally to missionary enterprises in i'm
h.. - ho
den and oppressed and helped in paying
salaries of hierrophants and secular in
structors. He was patron of the arts
and of inventions, and opened his purse
in bestowing liberal bounties to excel
lencies in either school. His presence at
great fairs, festivals, celebrations and
conventions, was a benediction; and if
it happened that he could not be present,
a melancholy sadness was everywhere
visible. He was a thoroughly loyal
American, and had great affection for
the American Union which was symbol
ised in it's flag. The flag was doubly dear
to him, for he had fought under it's folds
and won victories on sea and land. His
heart beat in unison with the pulse of
the common people at home and abroad,
and on all great ceremonial occasions
he took the lead and his seat was above
the salt at the head of the banqueting
table; no glitter of heraldic devices, or
orders of nobility,-not even the sGold
en- Fleece" or royalty itself, could chal
lenge his right to this honor.
His exodus had the seal of silence
placed upon it,-like the son of the des-
ert, he seemed to have folded his tent,
and silently stolen away" For long
time, owing to this silent departure, he
was hardly missed; the great enterprises
which he had been for a half of CEN
fury or more building up, by their own
momentum seemed to be going on for
while. True, all progress was checked
but population increasing created new
demands for food and clothing; more
coal iron, wheat cotton and wool were
wanted, and these were not forthcoming.
Laborers were turned adrift,-multi-
tudes took on migratory habits and wan
dered in droves about the country
others, goaded by their unsatisfied rea-
scnable wants, created public disturb
ances at great centers of population, and
were shut down or imprisoned,-th
farms yielded abundantly of the
fruits of the earth but the
market was slaughter house
and debts could not be paid,-the
railways were rifled by presidents and
managers, and passed into the hands of
impecunious receivers who in return
stole and swallowed the earnings
steamboats, and ships rotted at their
moorings,-real estate-land-th only
solid thing on earth,-was valuless in
the market; general bankruptcy stalk
oH rh aitiac rofirino fO "a
prison-house of sloth and inertia our
best business talent; banks were robbed
by their officers and depositors de-
spoiled,-suicides, and murders, and
raids for robbery, occurred daily
Hecate herself was let loose from hell,
and her progeny reigned supreme. Pub
lie treasures too were rif1ed by their
fleeing custodians and crimes of every
known kind were revived, and new ones
invented surprising in enOrmity the
hitherto diabolical inventions Of man..
Several years had now elapsed since
the disappearance of Allxis Nevada, the
name of the public benefactor. It began
to be rumored around that he had been
foully dealt with. He had been a great
traveler-had floated around the world
for many years and was known at all
the commercial centres of Europe and
Asia. He had had large business inter
ests in India and in South America and
Mexico; he had been the principal i'm.
porter to America of the teas Of China
and Japan; of sugar from Cuba and cof-
fee from Java. AS the United States had
been his domicile for many years, here
was conferred the greatest anxiety as to
his whereabouts.
The more the question of his disap-
pearance was agitated, the greater be-
come the excitement 1t began to be
claimed that his withdrawal from the
business world had much to do with the
financial distress and disasters so pre-
valent. Many very respectable gentle
men,-at least they claimed to be respec-
table and Internationally claimed
this. Very prominent among those who
set up this claim, was James G. Blaine.
a great orator and statesman, now dead.
once the idol of his party, and led it
whithersoever he willed. In the re-
srlendent noon of his day, to question
his superior knowledge as a statesman.
seer and prophet, was to vote ones self
a crazy crank and an object Of contempt,
so patent was the magic of his name.
At this writing, his once disciples now
scout his teachings, making practicable
the theory that live ass can kick dead
Lion with impunity. With a diverse
party following, another equally great
man,-the Jevans of all America-John
G. Carlisle, proclaimed from the house
tops and from the high seats at Wash
ington, that the return of Mr.. Nevada
would be boon to the civilized world.
One Hoke Smith, little (known) son OF