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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-08
Speaker Reed in Demand.

WASHINGTON. Oct. THE demand
which has been made on the Republican
committee from all sections of the country
for the services of Speaker Reed in this
campaign is described at Republican head
quarters as simply enormous. In reply to
a letter Mr.. Reed writes follows to
Chairman Babcock: very glad that
you have some of tn +ers which might
unfortunately come I, for / am very
much disturbed by tn, The country be-
ing rather large and ng only one, it is
impossible to comply with 10 per cent of
the requests that are made. If some of the
people whom / have to refuse knew how
hated to do it, ] should have their COM
passion instead of less tender feeling"
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Bald and Cooper Tied.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 7.-According to the
figures prepared by E. G. Spooner, the Ma
tional Circuit cycle followers Eddie Bald
and Tom Cooper. who competed here Mon
day tied for championship honors, each
having siXty-five points to his credit. Both
Bald and Cooper say the tie was made.
Cooper now says he will challenge Bald To
d match race for $500 a side to settle the
matter, and If meeting is arranged ii
will come off at some pace South, pos
sibiy New ORLEANS or perhaps on the in
door track at the Chicago Coliseum.
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COIN HARVEY REBUKED.
Patriotic Generals Are Not "Paid
Wrecks of the Civil War;"

Wrecks of the CIVIL War;"
ST. LOUIS, Oct. THE Republican pa
triotic battalion, composed of Generals
Sickles. Howard, Alger and Stewart, and
Corporal Tanner, arrived in Bellevlle, ILL.,,
at O'clock this morning over the Illinois
Central and made a stop of nearly an hour.
during which short addresses were made by
the members of the party from the plat
form of their car. John r. Tanner, Re-
publican nominee for Governor of Illinois,
was also in the party. Encampment No
SO. Union Veterans Legion, preceded by a.
band and followed by the Republican clubs
of the city marched to where the crowd
was assembled to hear the speeches. Dur
ing their speeches a Clinton, Ia, Generals
Howard and Stewart delivered scathing re-
Dukes to 'tCoirR Harvey for referring to the
distinguished party as paid wrecks of the
civil war" PHo thousand people were
turned away unable to get into the opera
flo
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OUR COMMERCE INCREASING.
Ten-Year Statement Issued by the
Agricultural Department.

WASHINGTON. Oct. IA statement is
sued by the Agricultural Department shows
that the total commerce of the United
States, including imports and exports for
the ten years ended June 80 last, was Ns,-
013. 205 3SS, or yearly average of more than
81 GOO 600, 900. Compared with the annual av-
ment says the figures for 1896 show an up
ward tendency not quite marked az tho
gain of 1895, but sufficient to warrant the
hope that unless some disturbing factor
arises the commercial depression of 1894
1895 is a thing of the past and our COM
nerce, the measure of general prosperity.
Will soon resume its former dimensions.
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Fusion I'm West virginia.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Senators Faux
ner and Butler. of the Democratic and
Populst committees, respectively, to-day
received kilograms from Parkersburg. w.
Va. informing them that fusion between
the Democrats and Populists on the cleo
toral ticket in that State had been per-
fected on the basis originally suggested by
the Populists, of four Democrats and two
Popul:sts. The committees continued their
session to-day with the hope of extending
the agreement to the State ticket
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Shooting ARRAY at the Polls.

ELBERTON, Ga, Oct. AT the polls
this morning a quarrel arose and Will May
field shot and wounded Bud San
ders. Tom Wall shot l. G. Swift in the
arm and shoulder. The tragedy Great
ed tremendous excitement. and for a
while it looked as if bloody riot would re-
suit The young men are well known in
this section, being active county politicians.
The dispute arose over conteSting votes.
One of the men is a Democrat and the
other a PODuiiSt
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct AT the
conference of the Mormon Church all the
authorities of the church were sustained,
with the exec .ion of Apostle Moses Thatcb-
err, whose name was omitted>from the list.
The action against Thatcher was for fail
ing TO take counsel before accepting nom
Ination for a political office. Apostle
Thatcher was the Democratic candidate for
the United States Senate last year.
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WILL YOU BET, GOVERNOR:
Claude Matthews Says Bryan VIII
Carry Indiana and Ohio Is Doubtful.

Carry Indiana and Ohio Is Doubtful.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 7.-Governor Mat
thews of Indiana, has written the Rich
mord State as follows regarding the polit-
zeal situation III his State:
I'm reply to yours of the 30th ult.. which
] have just read, / am glad to say that,
after quite an extended canvass of the
State, / have no doubt of the result. Bryan
will carry Indiana by tremendous major
ity. Our people. especially in the country
portance of the issue. My advices lead me
to believe that Illinois viii be for BRYAN
and Ohio may be put in the doubtful list.
Wen informed gentlemen from Kentucky
feel satisfied that Kentucky will return TO
the old faith and be in the Democratic
in
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Murder and LynchinE.

AUG USTA, Ga, Oct 7.-To-day's election
caused a murder and lynching at Mount
Junction, in Screven county. Gus Williams.
Fopulist, negro, struck a ticket out of a
Democratic negro voters hand The Demo-
cratic negro struck Williams for his inSo-
lence, and Williams fired at his assailant
but missed his aim and shot and instantly
killed engineer Middleton, of the Central
railroad. who was innocent locker on.
Bystanders took Williams and lynched him
and riddled his body with bullets.
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A Parfisan.s Successor.

WASHINGTON. Oct. THE President
has appointed William II. White. of Vir-
ginia, TO be United States attorney for the
Eastern district of. Virginia. TO succeed
Francis r. Lassiter. whose participation In
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plete and detailed character from every
election district during the past few days.
There is no doubt whatever as to the
suit; Maryland will go for Mckinley by a
large majority. My informant is not
guesswork but is definite and positive in
every particular
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DENVER, Col, Oct. 7-Secretry OF State
McCaffey this afternoon gave decision
sustaining the protest of the silver Repub-
hcans against the use of the Republican
name and emblem by the Mckinley party.
Should this protest be sustained by the Su-
preme Court the Mckinley people VIII have
no ballot in this State as they neglected to
file by petition before the time for so doing
expired
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BALTIMORE, Oct. 7.~-United States Sem
ator-elect wellington, In speaking of the
political situation In Maryland. said to-day:
II have received reliable reports of q COM
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Offensive Partisan Removed.

BENTON HARBOR, Oct. 7.-R. ]. Jarvis,
postmaster of this city. has been removed
from office because of offensive partisan-
ship. He is the candidate for Congress
on the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS union silver
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Old Dominion politics drew forth a letter
from Attorney-general Harmon taking
strong ground against judicial officers ac-
lively participating in politics.
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he attributed that effect to silver. and yet,
when We say that legislation can affect the
price of silver. they say we don't under
stand anything about the subject.
If we had never known anything about
the subject we could find out a great deal
about it by reading those speeches made
few years ago by Republicans which they
are sorry now they ever made. The differ
ence, my friends, between those Republic
row abandoned it and the Republicans who
still advocate silver is that the Republicans
first and party afterward. No silver men
Who favor the Republican cause are willing
TO suppress conviction and quiet conscience
and make themselves believe whatever the
party tells them to believe. Parties are
not ends-they are instruments in the dc-
compiishment of ends. party Is IKE
useful to you, but when it is full OF holes
and ceases longer to protect you from the
elements you ought to throw ii away and
get suit of clothes that will be of some
Use.
II understand that some of your people
We're invited to wear golden-rod to testify
that they were Republicans. Let me give
you better badge this year. Take yell
low card and write upon it: / think my
Nation is not big enough to attend to its
own business and they will know that
you are a Republican"
Cicero where Mr.. Bryan told the people
that he was glad to see them, but he was
not going to make a speech in a town
named Cicero. for f he should chance to
fall below Demosthenes or Cicero in
town of that name he would not be for
given, and therefore he would save his
speeches for other places
Speeches were made by Mr. Bryan at Tip
ton. Kokomo, Logansport. Winamac North
Judson and Crown Point. At the latter
place Mr.. Bryan's voice SO hoarse he
could only be heard a few feet away. In
the course of his remarks at Logansport
Mr.. Bryan said:
1.-The Republicans managers idea of crcu-
lation is to circulate large amount OF
money just before election in order to con-
tract the currency right after election. And
the Republican manager claims that he Is
the advance agent Of prosperity. i am
tional committee is the forerunner or the
advance agent of that peculiar form of
prosperity that comes just before an cleo
ton to those who expect to make enough
now to run them until the next campaign
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ring

Is the time for purifying the blood,
cleansing the system and renewing the
physical powers. Owing to close confne-
ment, diminished perspiration and other
causes, in the winter, impurities have not
passed out of the system as they should
but have accumulated in the blood
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

miss Anne Walworth, of Cleveland,
has given;$lO0,O O0sto the Euclid Avenue
Presby terian church of that city, Of
which Rev. Dr.S. i. Sprecher is pastor.
Benjamin D. Silliman, of Brooklyn,
becomes the oldest living Yale gradu-
ate by the death of Charles L. Powell,
of Alexandria, Va. Mr.. Powell was
born IN 1904. and was graduated from
Yale in the class of 1923. For several
years his name has appeared first in
the list of living Yale graduates.
Baron Achille Paganini. the only
son OF the great violinist, who died re-
Gently at Parma, was himself good
amateur musician. BY special appeal
to Plus TX. he obtained permission
to have his father, who died without
the sacrements, buried in consecrated
ground.
Ramkriskna Gopal Bhandharkar,
professor of Sanslxrit at Poona, has
been elected foreign correspondent of
the Academic des Inscriptions, being
the first native of India to receive the
distinction. The other new CORE
spondents are Kirchoff, the classical
scholar of Berlin, and Benndorf, of vi
emma, the archaeologist.
Sir Frederick Pollock, whom Har-
yard honored with an LII. D. last COM
mencement, has not forgotten the dis
tinction, and there is much praise OF
American Jurists and American charac-
ter in general in the article on the
Harvard law school which he contrib
uted to the London Times.
The board Of visitors Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin has just investi-
gated a charge that President Charles
X. Adams is "a born and bred aristo-
crat," and has decided that the charge
is unfounded, on the ground that the
president was born on a farm, and
worked his way through school and col
lege.
-Evangelist Smith, who is conduct
ing series of successful revival meet
ings at the Peoples temple: Boston, is
a full-blooded gypsy, and was brought
up in New Forest, England He is de-
scribed as most picturesque, forcible
and eloquent preacher, although at the
time of his conversion he could not
read.
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course, and then head winds blew fol
a week, so that it was the last day in
the year before they came in sight Of
the Cuban coast, and not over ten miles
off Cape St. Antoine the wind failed and
there came one of those dead Gains Pc
culiar to these ATTITUDES; the sails hung
without a SILVER and the pennant was
as straight down as a yard of pump
water. But this was not the worst.
Capt. Drake knew that he was in the
track of the pirates and was practically
at this moment he was doubtless sig
nailed off shore to some of their YES
sells. Everything depended on keeping
a stout heart.
His six 24-pound carronades were
loaded with grape and kentledge, the
arm chest was opened, cutlasses and pis-
tolls were served to the crew, muskets
were loaded and the cook filled his cop
pers with hot water, ready to repel
boarders. All hands kept watch that
night, and in the morning Mate Spain
went aloft with a glass. He at once
hailed the deck. ''There is topsail
schooner lying behind that point of
land off the starboard quarter. I can't
make out any sail on her."
''All right, come down. Well have
breakfast. There's trouble ahead. But
there are % of us, all good men, and we
ought to make a tidy fight for our lives"
A strict watch was kept at the mast
head, and at ten o'clock hail came:
There's boat full of men putting OF
shore. It is a yawl with a tug. She's
coming fast under sweeps" 49,.
The ensign was seized union down tc
attract some passing vessel, and al
waited and watched. There were not
less than 40 men in the yawl.
When it was within about 20 yards OF
the brig the captain cried "fre!" But
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as usual two of the carronades missed
fire, the other scattered ten feet wide
of the boat, and next it swept under
the bow, the leader, a white man,
springing into the chains, followed by
gang of mulattoes, negroes and Span.
iards, all big men. Their captains head
just came above the bow, when he was
run through the neck by a pike and
dropped overheard, but his men man.
aged to get on the bowsprit and some
aboard. Two of the pirates mounted
the channels and tumbled in to the
waist. The cook, negro giant weigh.
ing 300, rushed at them with a cutlass,
beat down their guard and hewed them
down. A third had grasped the swifter
to help him up, when his arm was cut
clean eff at the shoulder by the negro.
\ splash in the water told the rest.
In the bow the defenders had done
good work, but Capt. Drake was
stretched on the bits, covered with
blood. The. last pirate had run out on
the jibboom and fired his pistol just as
a musket ball took his life, but he had
done his work, for poor Spain got his
bullet in the head and never spoke
after. They were beaten, and under a
parting volley the rufians sprang to
their sweeps, and, with the loss of half
their crew, made for land.
Suddenly the mainsail gave flop. No
orders were needed. The topsail hal
yards were manned. Cup with the fly
ing jib, trim sheets, round in starboard
braces!" was the cry, and the little brig
began to surge through the water.
See! see! the schooner's making sail
Up goes her gait and foresail. The
fights not over, men! She'll cut us to
pieces with her long Tom" Just then
came the sound of a heavy gun, and so
intent were the crew watching the pi-
rate vessel that they had not seen, half
a mile away, a British corvette piling
on sail up to royals. She was flyer,
too, and inside Of five minutes swept
down on the brig, hailed and was told
what had occurred.
The pirate craft was intent only on
saving her men in the yawl, but it was
too late. The corvette ran her down
and at 100 yards gave the marauders a
shower of grape that tore the boat and
crew into splinters. The schooner made
off, followed by the man-o'-war, and
both disappeared in the southern board.
The second mate took command of
the brig. Her captain had broken
thigh and shot through his body,
while the mate and four of the crew
lay dead. The breeze kept steady, and
On the 4th of January they came to an
Choir in Spanishtown harbor. Capt.
Drake lived to get well and quit the
sea. But before the Christ church
chimes rang for another Christmas
poor Emma Drake had followed her
lover to better land. Philadelphia
Times.
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KEPT AHEAD OF THE BULLETS.

Astounding swiftness OF Foot Shown BY
q Georgia Razor-Back.
Col. Taylor Jenkins, who lives a few
miles north of Blakely, is known
throughout that section as one of the
most truthful men in it. At least, so
says the Early County Times. Re-
Gently, while Mr.. Jenkins was out
hunting, his dogs began barking at
something in a large hollow log. 1t
was wild hog. He took the hog home
and dropped it in his cornfeld. It is
there now. A few weeks ago Mr.. Jen.
kins went out to kill it, thinking he
could easily do so with his unerring
rifle. He searched about till he
Jumped" it. Down a corn row it went
like lightning. BE levc!ed his rifle and
''cut down" on it, but never touched u
hair. He Jumped" it again and shot
again, but no hog. Again and again
he Jumped" it and shot at it, with the
same result. He began to wonder what
could be the matter. The corn rows
were as straight as moonshine whisky
and his gun true as the third party to
Tom Watson, yet hit it he couldn't. 10
shoot at the hog as it ran off down the
corn rows was just like shooting at it
standing, so far as getting a bead on
it" was concerned. To make sure that
he didn't ''wobb:e" OFF the hog he put
up small target and Cracked down.
at it five times, then took his AK and
chopped in and found five balls all in
one hole in the middle of the spot.
That settled it-that the fault was not
in him Or the gun, but the hog had out
run the bullets.
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Is therefore the best time to take Hoods
Sarsaparilla, because the system is now
most in need of medicine. That Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the best blood purifier and
Spring medicine is proved by it's wonder
full cures. A course of Hoods Sarsaparilla
now may prevent great suffering later on.
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thing was suspicious, and with north
west wind he sailed down the river. He
remarked long after that he felt un-
usually Hurried by his parting with
Mrs. Drake and her daughter Emma on
the wharf, but not being of an imagin-
ative turn OF mind, the impressions
passed and he saw the tall poplars and
red-roofed farmhouses in the Neck fade
away under the winter sunset with pro-
fessional Indifference.
The Gov Clinton was only 430 tons,
and she left port in company with 26
others, foreign bound, most of them
square rugged.
Mrs. Drake and Emma walked up
Second street to their home, which was
i'll the house, then a two-story, after
wards the tea store of the late eccentric
John Lamond, who died a few months
ago. TO be a captains wife in those
days was to hold social position next be-
low the magnates of Society Hill, and
Capt. Drake was reported a prosperous
man. :-..
"Mother,' said the daughter, "do you
feel any unusual anxiety in parting with
1alnef LnlS voyage!
''No, my dear, Don't let such things
get into your mind"
eyes, but the Aggy Slade has been out
over 60 days, and she's bound for
Jamaica, too. Poor Mrs. Folsom is just
wild about her husband. How do wish
father would give up the sea and stay
ashore"
Shipmasters' wives had to have stout
hearts in those days; there were perils
on the sea then that are unknown now
"a West India voyage meant poor
charts, lodging among the reefs and
keys Of the Bahama banks, northers,
hurricanes and more deadly assaults
from the desperate rutiians that infested
the coast of Cuba and were secretly up
held by the Spanish authorities, who
shared in their plumber, and at this time
.both Tardy and the La Elites were
known to be cruising in the gulf.
Christmas passed, and as New Years
came on a feeling of uneasiness and
dread entered the Drake household
Emma had an additional source of anx-
iety. Sam Spain, although only "a, was
first officer of the Gov. Clinton, and
splendid specimen of the American
sailor, and before this voyage he and
Emma had exchanged vows. And so
poor Emma fretted, and made her
mother anxious.
New Years day, 1896, was cold, blus-
tering and sleety, and after attendance
at early mass at St. Joseph's both wom-
zen sat down to breakfast.
"For the Lords sake, Emma, don't
tell me anything about your dreams.
You make me nervous. Your father and
the brig are all right, and when the
Quickstep comes in We'll hear from
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A DROP OF BLOOD.
1775 the brigan-

y l775 the b1'igan-
tine Gov. Clinton
left Philadelphia
loaded with flour
for Spanishtown,
Jamaica. 1t was
the 18th of Decem-
Der, and Capt. Ira
Drake, her COM
nlander, expected
toeat his New Year
d j IL n e r on the
i S ! a II d. Every
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Spanishtown. She sails from there to-
day."
But, mother, there is something
in dreams, and never had such dread
full ones before, and you know good
God, what is that?" and the girls voice
arose to a scream. ooh, mother! on
your hand, on your hand:"
The mother looked and grew pale as
death. There, on her plump, white
hand was a drop of ruddy blood. She
murmured: Maybe pricked myself
with the fork" and with shudder
wiped away the dread token. But there
was no wound, the skin being unbroken.
''There, there, it has come again! Oh,
another, let's pray. My dear father and
Sam are in peril. Iknow it. feel it,"
And they knelt, and with heads bowed
down prayed to Him who rules the
winds and tempests to spare their loved
ones on the sea.