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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17
FLYING BEETLES IN MAINE.
A Great Outbreak of the insects In
the Hot Weather of Early May.
New York Heral


"Journeying by carriage In the pretty
rural town OF East Corinth, north Of Ban
gor. Me-, during the unusually " arm wealth
er that ushered in the month OF Nay
said a traveller II was startled at receiving
a sudden sharp blow over tie lett eye,
and with il came the sound OF some hard
object falling like spent bullet upon the
bottom OF the buggy. As L stopped TO see
what IL was / was again struck sharply
upon the ear. l found that what had hit
me were hari-shel,ei beetles, with which
the air seemed suddenly To have become
filled all the wing, flying iiercely on
tangents without care for what they mighS
encounter. My horse was wincing and
shying as the armored insects struck his
head and sides. and 10 protect my own
face / had to extemporiZe a mask from
handkerchief. with holes cut through II Tor
my nose ana eyes People that met on
their faces variously protectei AGAINST tie
insects. one PROM OF academy Students
walking along the village street presented
a queer sight vita the skirts of heir coats
pulled up over their heads.
This plague OF beetles lasted several
days. and disappeared with the coming on
OF the cold raw weather that succeeded
the hot spell. There is no record In the
locality that such an invasion OF these
insects ever occurred before. those OF The
species which appear in the usual time.
the first weeks of summer. being compare
lively few In number and inoffensive. Tnat
is due to the fact thatsthe untimely hot
weather brought them out before the many
enemies OF the insect had time 10 destroy
most OF the larvae. which they usually
was an interesting instance OF what the
tremendous reproductive power OF nature
might accomplish. almost in day. In the
filling OF n land with single species or
agencies of DESTRUCTION that environ its
birth time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17
THE RoTHsCHILDs' MONEY VAULT
Experience of n Man Who Assisted I'm
Delivering Bonds.

washington star.
The largest shipment of United States
bonds to Europe, SO far as i can remem-
ber. said Mr.. j. X. Upton, former As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury. was
made in 1875, and consisted Of 100000
coupon tours. 1t was tmade under my
charge, and l presume my experience was
about the same as that of others serving
in like capacity. The bonds were in five
steel boxes, weighing, when packed. about
four hundred pounds each, all fastened by
combination locks. of which we had no
key. We rode with the boxes to New
station we were met by the superintendent
OF the subtreasury OF New York, who had
secured for US the necessary transporta-
ton to the boat, where the bonds were
deposited in the specie vault, under the
immediate control of the purser, but until
the boat left the pier some one of our
party kept an eye on the boxes. Once at
sea, however, We relaxed our vigilance
and renewed it only when again approach
ing land. At Liverpool, where we arrived
after a pleasant passage, / had some
trouble in getting the boxes through the
custom house, not being able to declare
under oath that l personally knew their
them. A compromise was finally effected
by my taking with a customs official
who should see that the boxes reached
opened contained the bonds as alleged, his
expenses to be paid by the syndicate. This
Liverpool. We had the ooxes taken to our
rooms, and there we took turns in watching
them through the night-the English Of
fetal, however, had no relief from his
vigls. In the morning, through a little
British gold, 1 obtained the practical con-
troll of a passenger car, into which we
put our personal baggage and the five
weight baggage. The exclusive use of the
car deemed important. the bonds rep
resenting such al enormous amount Of
wealth.
"At London we were met by other treas
ury officials temporarily employed at the
headquarters. Of the syndicate, Messrs
Rothschilds & Sons. in scheduling and
counting bonds and coupons received in
payment of the new bonds. We went with
toned, and in it's money vaults our bonds
were counted, found correct, and receipt
given showing that our duty had been
performed, much to my relief.
This money vault, as 1 remember IL
opened only at the top, through the floor
of the room above, and We descended by
a little lift Ii was not an imposing
sight, but it contained an enormous amount
of securities issued by nearly every nation
all the time receiving and sending out
securities, or in cutting on the maturing
coupons. We were permitted to remain in
London about ten days at the expense of
the syndicate, unless there was work for
them to do when the time was prolonged
There were so many of these parties
during the refunding period that nearly
every prominent treasury official, and a
great number not so prominent. who wished
charge of bond shipments. There was no
money in it. but of course, there was con-
siderable experience for those going into
a foreign country for the first time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17
THE SILVER BULLION POOL.

1t should cause no surprise that the
existence of a silver bullion pool is an
nounced and that the plans are ex-
posed. 1t would be a wonder il there
were not one, so great inducement does
the situation offer for the bold specu-
lator For a long time silver bullion
has been quoted below 90 cents an
ounce, and often below so cents. IL
there should be an international agree
mert by which there could be free COIN
age of silver at any ratio under 20 TO 1,
or IL the Congress could be induced TO
provide for the free coinage of silver at
the present ratio. silver purchased at So
cents an ounce would at once be worth
nearly 1923. If combination of mine
owners and capitalists in the larger cit
les and in Europe should hold nifty or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

sixty millions worth of silver bullion
ly as many more millions would be real
lied as profits by the enactment of free
coinage law. Money could be borrowed
on silver bullion we'll up to the market
price, so that these spectators can
carry their stock Of silver bullion at the
cost of the interest and the free-coinage
propaganda which these capitalists are
keeping up.
1t is desperate undertaking, but the
silver bullion holders are playing for
immense stakes Their purpose is to
control the next presidency and the next
Congress. The conspirators are the in
spiration of the silver excitement and
conventions which are being held in diff
ferent parts of the West and South.
These capitalists are paying the ex-
penses of the out-of-a-job politicians
who are travelling about the country de-
nouncing gold bugs" and appealing to
prejudice to array the poor against the
rich. Yet this combination is made up
of men of wealth-a clique of million
aire spectators. They have had a lob
by called the bimetallic league about
Washington for three or four years, and
now they have organized and are sup
porting the travelling combination which
attends silver conventions. Here in In
diana there is reason to believe that
these silver spectators have their
agents under pay, who are circulating
free-coinage tracts and filling such news
papers as they can break into with their
rant about the crime against silver. The
tools of these conspirators are threaten
ing political parties in the hope that
both of them will be frightened into
nominating candidates who will pass
and approve a measure which will dou-
bic their wealth. They will be about
the convention of the Lincoln League in
Cleveland in the person of their claq-
uers.
In the history of the country there
has never been such a bold conspiracy
to carry a stupendous job through Con-
gress as that which will double the
wealth of the silver bullion owners. 1t
involves the fooling of the people and
bribery of members of Congress. For
tunately, the plot has been suspected
and the general features of it have been
published. In the course of few
months the silver ring will be as well
known as the Sugar and Whisky trusts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

the continent. no silver coin will pass at
par In any but the country where it il
issued. He relates the following Incl
dent:
We had an experience in Constantinople
that illustrates the matter very we'll: /
had a letter of credit for 500 francs on the
Imperial Ottoman Bank there. and asked
the teller TO give II to me in twenty franc
friend who was with me, I am going to
count these coins and see how many diff
ferent nations are represented by them.
which is OF the value of the twenty-franc
piece. and they pass at this all over the
world In those that 1 got there were the
tries. had some silver in my pocket which
L had been carrying from country to coun-
try with me. and went TO a money changer
and asked him what he would give me for
IL and found that / could get just 40 per
cent. of what il was worth for it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The Hon. S. P. Sheerin, who is the
secretary of the Democratic national
committee, tells the Louisville Courier
Journal that he lis uncompromisingly
for sound money and opposed to the
free coinage of silver upon any basis at
this time" He goes on to say that 1--WE
(the Democrats) must meet this issue of
free coinage courageously," and that
while there is at present a strong free
coinage sentiment in Indiana, he is con-
fident that by next year the whole mat
ter in this State will be settled in favor
of sound money" Mr.. Sheerin should
organize a Democratic sound-money
league in Indiana. True. the number of
the prominent Democrats who would
now come out flat-footed with Mr..
Sheerin is small. yet he, Lieutenant
Governor Nye. ex-Representatives By
mum, Cooper and Hammond. ex-senator
Kern. ex-Attorney-general Smith and
the most prominent business Democrats
could combat the heresy supported by
Governor Matthews and the two Sena-
tors. Besides, they could have no end Of
fun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17
THE SENATOR is CORRECT.

1.-The people have been betrayed for
the last time," exclaimed the frantic
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, at the
Democratic free-coinage convention in
Memphis. He is probably correct-at
least, it looks So That is, it looks as if
the people would not be betrayed into
the support of the conspiracy to double
the wealth Of few thousand silver-mine
owners in the United States and Mexico
by stamping silver bullion worth so or go
cents in market 100 cents and thus dou-
bling their wealth. Every day the indi-
cations multiply that the intelligent
people of the country are arriving at the
conclusion that there is not so much
good sense in the demand that Congress
double the wealth of the silver-mine
owners as there was in the demand of
the Farmers Alliance. few years ago.
that the government build warehouses
for the reception of the wheat and cot
ton crops of the country and issue ware
house receipts to so per cent. of the
value thereof, which should be legal
tender. The craze is over, and now peo-
pie are asking, why is the Nation I'M
der any more obligation to make dou-
BILE market price for all the silver mined
than for all the wheat grown, the pig
iron smelted. or even the watermelons
raised? Why are the silver producers
to be favored above all other produc-
ers?' These are the questions of prac-
teal, cool-headed men who will not be
fooled by class appeals or deceived by
the sophistries and lies of the paid lob
byists of the silver-mine owners or the
demagogues who take as naturally to
the bad side of a question as do swine to
wallowing in the mire. simply because
they can never get rid of the false i'm
preston that the people are easily
fooled all the time.
AS for Senator Stewart, no one is dis
posed to call him hard names, even if
he does, in his private capacity, put it
into the bond when he lends money that
payment shall be made in gold, because
it would be unjust to require him to
take dollars which have lost half their
purchase power in return for full-value
dollars loaned. No one particularly
his demand for a law which will double
the price of the silver bullion which is
about the only product of the $4,000 peo-
pie in the State of Nevada, which he in
part represents in the Senate. He is
vehemently and abusively a free-silver
advocate for the same reason that nine
tenths of the more intelligent people
outside the silver-producing States are
nationally opposed to the free and un-
limited coinage of silver by an act of
Congress, namely. self-interest.
But the Senator is right when he says
that 1.-The people have been betrayed for
the last time on the money question.
They have been, and Mr.. Stewart nor
the full-fiat money cranks can betray
them any further. 1t is not often that
the believer in a sound currency can
agree with the Senator Of the highly
seasoned epithet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

Not long since the Journal commended
the action OF Judge Shively, of Wabash,
IN instructing the grand jury to investi-
gate the charges made by Republican
paper against the Republican County
Commissioners, because those charges
were grave and explicit. That grand
jury has made the investigation and
finds that the charges are sustained. II
is said that criminal prosecution will
follow. Ii should, and If what the grand
jury allege is sustained before a trial
fury the commissioners should be pun
ished. A letter written by one of these
officials. and sent the Journal when
these accusations were made. indicates
that he Is grossly incompetent TO do any
sort of business. Doubtless this will be
found 10 be true in quite a number of
cases, as IL too frequently happens that
men who have no qualification for bus
mess. public or private. get themselves
elected to the most important Offices in
the counties. and. in fact. in the State.
The county Offices require men of in
tegrity and fair ability. but the duties
OF the county commissioners. require
firsf-class business men for their proper
discharge. Wabash county is one OF the
most intelligent in the State-one in
which IL would be expected that men of
character and intelligence would be Sc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

lected for public Office II such irregu-
larities are found in Wabash 1T be-
hooves the taxpayers of other counties
to look after their county affairs. The
good citizens associations could profita-
bly, employ themselves in such investi-
cations. The Wabash Plain Dealer is
entitled to much credit for the courage
1t has displayed in exposing the irregu-
larities alleged. OF course. IT was de-
nounced as a traitor to the party, but
it has proved that it never did its party
so good service as when it exposed the
officials who betrayed sacred trusts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

Mayor" Wednesday night he was in
trusted with the avecation OF a "parlor
style. he was compelled to go from house
10 mouse and solicit money.
The Rev. DIR. Joseph Cbok looked very well
when he reached San Francisco on his way
to Australia and the Orient He appeared
stout and hearty in his brown business
suit, and his loss of prestige in Boston
MI. Cook is going TO be away from this
country for two years. In Honolulu he
NH WI be the guest of Chief Justice Judd, an
OLD classmate. and from there he will go
to New Zealand and then to Japan, China
and India.
An enthusiastic admirer of Victor Hugo
has made a collection of all the black and
white or colored portraits of the poet that
he could find Altogether they number
nearly four thousand, of which about $500
are cdr1catureS and cartoons. The collector,
Nj. Beuve, has also gathered together with
infinite pains innumerable pipes, canes, to-
bacco jars, bottles, scarf-pins, handker-
chiefs, even cakes of soap on which the
head of the poet appears.
Rev. DR.. Z. r. Ollie, the leading Method
list preacher on the Pacific coast, is the Dr.
"arkhurst of San Francisco. He leads the
Civic Federation there in its fight for re-
form and good government. He has tall,
thin figure. an expressive, mobile, smooth
Shaven face and rapid, brilliant, nervous
delivery. He also has peculiar faculty of
carrying minute facts, figures and statistics
arrested for libel on complaint of local
politician.
Many are the successful men who owe the
success they've had
To the never-ending usage Of the simple
little ad.
West Union Qa.) Gazette.
Mother, may go out to bike?"
Yes, my darling daughter,
But when you reach the Schuylkill pike
Don't tumble in the water;
For IL you do you'll get a fall.
With melancholy thud,
And then yourself, your bike and all
Will be wad of mud"
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The London Pottery Gazette, the lead
Ing pottery publication of Great Brit
ain. IN a recent issue says: 1T is very
satisfactory to note that our pottery and
glass trade with the United States has
OF late shown marked increase" AS
matter of fact. the sales OF British pot
terry in the United States have been
more than 100 per cent. greater under
the Wilson tariff than they were under
the Mckinley tariff. and American in
dustry has suffered to just that extent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The New York Sun quotes Jerry
Simpson TO show that there are more
silver Republicans than Democrats in
the West, but If the Sun will turn to its
files 1t will find that Republican conven-
lions in Ohio and Kentucky declared
unanimously against the free and unlim-
tied coinage Of silver, while the present
indications are that il is a pretty even
thing between the two factions Of the
Democratic party in those States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

Silver Democracy and silver Populism
seems very much alike in Kentucky
when Senator Blackburn has Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, take the stump for
him. True. Stewart voted for 1.-The
crime of 1872 but when he did so sill
yer dollar was worth s1.02, and he repre-
sents State of $1,000 people whose chief
industry is silver mining
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The pa-son was praying for rain.
do you really bleeve he is in arnest?
whispered Soapless Jones.
You bet he isl replied Rubberneck Bill
Il bet him $40 agin his mule that we
wouldn't have no rain fer six weeks yet"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17
Buffers Gra N tlson.
Philadelphia Record.

The namesake of another great man has
just come to the front-Benjamin +. But
Ter, the younger. He was the late General
Buffers granddaughter Young Benjamin
happened upon the scene OF fight while
IL was in progress i'm New York, and could
not resist the impulse to take part In the
fray. He got into police court, and as
a matter OF course, into the newspapers
1t was his first step upward on the ladder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The constant bringing of new branch
es OF the public service under the civil
service rules shows that the law is vim
dicating itself. 1t is now stated that the
next extension of the rules, to be made
soon. will take in the pension agencies,
of which there are eighteen. with about
two hundred employees in all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

Our Fourth of July orators and pro-
nouncers Of congressional eulogies have not
monopoly of ridiculous rhetoric. An adj
dress of welcome presented by the people Of
Liverpool to the Afghan Prince on his re-
cent visit spoke of him ps "a pearl out of
the ocean of nobility fruit of the tree Of
chivalry," "star revolving in the orbit of
fortune" and suspicious bird soaring high
en- the spiritual plain of enlightenment"
That ought to pass for oriental imagery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The Democratic party is and always
has been the great conservative force in
this country" said Secretary Carlisle in
his Louisville speech. IL is the first
CLEAN Of humor to be found in mis- series
Of addresses
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

Senator Blackburn protests against
Secretary Carlisle invading Kentucky
rs the mouthpiece of the administration
on the silver question. AS one of Ken
tucky's favorite sons Mr. Carlisle has
at least as much right in that State as
Senator Stewart. of Nevada, who is
there talking for free silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The meeting of the Republican Lin
coin League al Cleveland this week will
De marked by the presence OF woman
delegate, Miss Helen Boswell, who will
go as the accredited representative of a
New York Republican club. The new
woman seems to be coming.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The retributive aftermath of Commander
Ccxey's wild crusade of last summer comes
TO him in the clandestine marriage of his
only daughter, an unsophisticated girl of
eighteen years, to his former lieutenant"
Carl Browne. a dilapidated old tramp of
nearly fifty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The most of the failures and betrayal
OK fiduciary trusts which are exploited
In the papers are traced to that variety
OF gambling which is known as trading
In margins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

Whatever else may be said OF the
South Carolina law under which the
State assumes the trade in intoxicants,
IL has been a profitable thing for the
State, as the dispensaries yielded a rev.
enue of si6o,2s7. in spite of the fact that
decision of the Supreme Court closed
the dispensaries a part of the year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

The Journal trusts that those Demo-
Gratis whose devotion TO the Governor
leads them 10 speak abusively or the
Democratic members OF the Supreme
Court will soon conclude that they have
already talked too much, and be silent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

DIR. j. NJ. Crawford. who has recently
was United States consul-general five
years. and who has travelled extensively
In Europe. says that while the gold coin
of any country in Europe will pass at
its face value in any other country on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17
The Cucumber Fad.

"Narrowit is so violently temperate that
he will rot use vinegar, because it is made
from wine.''
Il suppose he will now eschew pickles be-
cause they are made from cucumbers.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

President Cleveland is reported as
saying: 1T takes idleness TO produce ag-
i:ators." And it takes the success of
the. Democratic party to produce idle
ness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found al the following places
PAKIS-American Exchange In Paris, % Boulevard de
Capucines.
NEW YORk-GIlsey House, Windsor hotel and Aston
House.
PHrLADELPHIA-A. z. KembIe cor. Lancaster ave-
and Barring 81.
cHiCAGO-Palmer House. Auditorium Hotel and p.
O. News Co., 81 Adams street
CINCINNATI-J. r.. Haw.ey & Co., lA Vine street.
LCrISyILLE-C- T. Dee-fng, northwest OF
Third and jefferson ss., aud Louisville Book Co., $50
Fourth ave.
81. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House, EbbItt House.
Wizards Hotel anil the Washington News Exchange
18th street. bet Penn ave- and street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-17

II IT is necessary to cut down the debts
OF the country Ii could be better done
by declaring that in all existing con-
tracts dollars shall mean quarters or
dimes