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The Progress., 1898-03-19

Low was lor Mch nley and pros
perity 1881; for Bryan and silver
money 1886. This was a falling
OH from the previous Democratic
ote of 1874 votes, and a gain t.
Republicans of 8,144 votes. Nc.
klnley is there, Hon. Thomasso is
there, but what about these work
ers?
| The striking glass workers of
kokomo, Indiana, have been COM
p7lled to accept the reduction of
their wages, and return to work.
1t was a question between half
starving and starving.
Dun & Co and Bradstreet are
still issuing their weekly bulletins
which tell of prosperity just about
to get here. They remind one of
the boy who, when asked how
many fish he had caught, said: IF
get this one that's biting nowl
ana another, and two more, III
nave FOUR Them fellers hay emit
caught their prosperity yet. It's
"nibbling' they say.
The cross Of gold and crown of
thorns that figured in the last cam
palgn, will be surmounted this
year by nine point star, emblem
attic of the nine leading principles
lai down by w. j. Bryan, on
which all opponents of gold mon
ometallism and greenkack de-
struction, can agree.
Congressman LIQUIDS attemp ut to
1estroy the country newspaper,
md thus limit all information for
he people, was dismal failure.
The bill was beaten by a very de-
'lded vote. Moon, of Tennessee,
jhamp Clark, Of Missouri, Jerry
simpson, of Kansas, and the Uni 4
ed States, with a number of 9TH t
rs calamity defended the country I.
aper and won the fight. It is :
aid That Loud was so angry with | i
loon, who is a member of the t
committee, that when i
loon and another member spoke :
Loud, he refused to recognize
loon. Possibly he was WORKING h
,r a contingent, and lost. |;
The government receipts for the O.
eek ending Saturday, the 9Th ic
ST., were $500, IA; the expend- m
lres SS,043,00O. For the five tf
-ys of the month the receipts ="
ere S6,32O, 1853, and the expendi- h;
res 81 400 600 Shourinn q IaSa;4 | La
The Progress., 1898-03-19

af1alrs drove honest men to COM
mt against the suffrage crimes
which they wonld rather comm II
than to commit murder.
we believe Louisiana will have
hereafter on honest election law
and that honest men will in the
iuture nave no reason not to en-
force 1t. We expect that much
from the sitting convention,-Lou-
isiana Appeal.
The Progress has stated more
than once that it's reference to dis
honest elections, stuffine ballot
boxes ct cetera, did not apply to
what may have taken place during
the reconstruction era. Our civil
lzation, our liberties, our political
and social life was under bondage
to an ignorant and passion inflam-
en- horde of negroes, and their
more corrupt and venal white al
lies and leaders, the "carpet-bag-
ers.' Whatever was done then.
was done in the interest of pat
rlotlsm, good government and our
homes.
But what we have attacked, and
what we mean to continue to as
sail as long as it continued, is the
selfish, unholy, wanton stuffing of
the ballot-boxes against white
men. OF robbing the opposing
party-composed of white men as
good, as true, as honest, as pro-
sresslve, as patriotic as the
plrates-with vested powers which
should be honorably exercised,
who deprive them of their inher-
INT and political rights.
That this has been done, even
against factions of the Democratic
'arty, by Democrats, is is too we'll
Inown for an honest, intelligent
Democrat to even refrain from adj
The editor of The Progress is as
'ood Democrat as any man. He
s. firmly believes in the suprem-
cy of the Caucasian race. But
vhen he knows that his party has
ommitted piracies on the ballot
OK, for no othe- reason, purpose
desire than to perpetuate GER
Tin men in office, certain
lctlons in power, he will not act
lie hypocrite, by pretending that
lese election frauds were COM
tilted for the sole purpose Of de-
ating the nj gger.
And that this fact is well known
evidenced by the fact that there
e numbers of men in this State
good, intellig ent, cultured, pat
'tic and devoted to the Demo-
attic party as breathes, have lifted
The Progress., 1898-03-19
NEWS BUDGET.
4 PERFECT FUND OF INFORM
ALTON.

-. u. l.
Written Eor The Progress
Before this gets into print the
Nation may be at war. The Uni
ted States is a great, powerful and
peaceful Nation. 1t will avoid
war where it can do so without
dishonor, and particularly will it
try to do this with weak Nation
like Spain-a Nation totally un-
able to cope with it. But Spain is
forcing war, and the United States
may have to accept it. OF course
such war would be a trivial mat
ter OF sixty or ninety days, but ev-
cry Democrat should sustain the
Administration. There are no
parties in this country when it is
assailed from abroad, and the
Democrat in Congress who at
tempts to block legislation intend
ed to prepare for war, had better
order his political coffin, his con-
stituents will prepare the political
corpse.
The paper Trust is now organ
lied with capital of S45, 900 900,
and proposes to regulate the en-
tire output of paper. The failure
OF the Loud bill to destroy the
country newspaper, and that was
several days ago, made it neces-
sary to take other steps in that di-
rectlon. The money power will
not submit to have the free trans
OF news they can not con-
troll. The country newspaper can
not be bought nor bull-dozed. and I
y must be hampered in every way.
raper will be made higher and {
scarcer. q
wire is protected by forty per t
cent duty. There is an enormous G
lemand and not over five per cent Z
= the wire used is imported. and S
,nis duty will enable the Wire \
trust, fifty million capital, to con p
loI the markets and make tbe n
~, mostly farmers, paw tx
ny price the Trust may make. N
fl
Diuoeford, Maine, is in the dis
Ilce represented in Congress by
~. Ihomasso Bustamente Reed. w
{ niuae1ord thirty-ffve hundred in
80 YES We're employed in cotton il,
'nis' and some weeks ago, on be- ds
8 Doeined of reduction OF ten w,
!. .oeno IN their wages, these ope- tn
went on strike, They fol
e starved out, and on March 7 th,
saliieo to work at the reduced sos
sse' Inc vote IN New York 50;
The Progress., 1898-03-19

Have We Not An Honest People?
The Shreveport Progress OBJ
serves editorially:
Before we may expect an hon.
est suffrage law, an honest ballot
law, we must have an honest peo-
pie who desi1e all these ti,ings.o
Certainly! And VIC h lieve a
vast majority of the Intelligent
people In Louisiana ARE honest in
desiring these things.''
Ihat honesr men have for wears
aided in dishonest election practi-
ces IN this State is fact too palm
able to be controverted. But WHY?
n OF from choice, we must emphat-
lcally declare. Dishonest elect
ions have been held in this State
for the last twenty years; and by
men who are scrupulously honest
IN all the other affairs of life.
But it was a matter of choice be-
tween killing men, dishonest. dis
reputable, irresponsible men. at
the polls, and swindling that class
of men. Either kill them, swindle
them or submit to their domino
'AOAA IL SoNSl dIalTS was |
inevitable. To submit was worse |
han death to the State; to swind-
e that class at the pallot- box was
ar preferable to murder, 1t was
'windle or murder.
But honest people who desire an
honest election likewise desire a
aw that will exclude from the
light of suffrage a class of scoun-
lrels who are always menace to
GOD government and fair elect
ons. 1t was to attain that law,
1ore than for any other purpose,
hat the present constitutional con- .
ention was called.
If the best people Of the State
ave not been deceived in the Sc {
'ctlon they made when the mem t
ers OF that convention were elect ,
lere is no question but that Lou
lana will henceforth be rid of the
at the polls of a class of
clous and illiterate voters whose
The Progress., 1898-03-19

OF 81 ,974, S25. This, however in
cludes over s4O,O0O.OOO paid by the
Union Pacific, so that up to date
the expenditures exceeded tn G
regular income by about SAC, 900,
900.
The Pure Food Congress, which
assembled in Washington on
March 1st, effected a perm anent
oganization, Of which Mr.. Alex
ander j. Wedderburn was made
secretary, with his station at
Washington Mr.. Wedderburn
has been, for years, the editor of
an agricultural paper, fighting for
pure food, and his election was a
deserved compliment to the origi-
tor of the fight to protect the peo-
pie from impure and injurious
foods. The farmers and the peo-
pie OF the country villages and |
their representatives, the country
press, should do all in their power
to stimulate the movement for
pure food and pure drugs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
A REMARKABLE COLONEL.
He Was Not Posted on the Military
Manual, hut He Was n
horn Leader,

Gen. Bryant, of Madison, recently
told the following story of Gov.
Brough's organiza ton in Ohio of a
regiment at the time John Morgan
made his raid through the state: "The
governor kept close track of the great
confederate raider. lie found that
Morgan, with his large force, would
pass given point at certain hour
the next day. So he had a trainload of
arms, equipments and ammunition
made ready, and himself, his adjutant
general and other members of the staff
prepared to make an extensive trip.
He telegraphed to various stntions
along the line to have companies
raised, ready to get on to his train,
and go to point for regimental organ
isation.
"When ten companies were ready
the train stopped, and the various COM
panies elected their officers, the gov
ernor promising that their commits
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
AN INQUIRY ORDERED.
Investigation of the Charges Made by In
dian Commissioner Jones VIII Soon Com
mence.

Investigation of the Charges Made by In
dian Commissioner Jones VIII Soon Com
mence.
Washington, Nov. 2.-The attorney
general has received from United
States District Attorney Robert G.
Evans, at st. Paul, Mimi, an answer
to the inquiry in regard to the recent
trouble with the Leech Lake Indians
in that state in which he warmly de-
fends United States Marshal O'Connor
and his deputies from the allegations
made against them by Mr.. Jones, the
commissioner of Indian affairs, who
alleged collusion between boarding
house keepers and deputy marshals, by
reason of which large numbers of In
dians were uselessly brought long dis
tances as witnesses in liquor cases.
Mr.. Evans denies that the charges are
well founded.
United States Marshal O'Connor also
has made report to the attorney gen.
eral in which he denies every allega-
tion made and asks that the matter be
fully investigated. In compliance with
this request the attorney general and
the secretary of the interior have
agreed to institute an investigation
and to that end each department will
name an officer to conduct the inquiry
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
TOO MUCH "REp TAPE"
Doctors Testify that 1t Hampcred Their
Efforts to Secure Medicine for Sick Sol
dIera


Doctors Testify that 1t Hampered Their
Efforts to Secure Medicine for Sick Sol
diers.
Lexington, KY, Nov. 2.-Before the
war investigating commission yester-
day Chief Comissary Marshall, of Camp
Hamilton, denied the statements made
by Lieut.. Col. Mitchell. He said every
requisition had been honored from the
territorial regiments.
The second witness was Gen. j. G.
Bates, who testified as to the Santiago
campaign, the camps at Mobile and at
Chickamauga. AT Santiago we had
bread and meat always. MontaulS
Point was not the proper place for a
camp of sick soldiers. The medical
supplies were woefully short. The
medical officers said they could not
get them. This was especially true at
Siboney. In going over we had enough
medical supplies, but we were cut
down"
Maj. j. ID. Glennan, who was assist
ant surgeon in the regular army and
who was at Chicamauga and Tampa
with the Sixth cavalry, later returned
to Chickamauga as brigade surgeon.
He said that he found much larger
amount of sickness among volunteers
than he had been used to seeing. He
found the sinks left open and not dug
deep enough to make the camp health
full and the wafer supply was affected
by this. Maj. Glennan said he reported
on these conditions both verbally and
in writing and made certain recon-
mendations, but that no attention was
ever paid to his reports.
He said he tried to get lime; that
requisition was made on the quarter
| masters department and they SAID
| they did not furnish it; then requisi-
tion was made on the medical depart
ment and DIR. Huidekoper, the corps
| surgeon, concerning whom sensational
| charges have since been made, disap-
proved the use of lime and returned
| the requisition. Glennan stated that
| he knew of certain regiments where
the sick were kept for weeks because
the division hospital had no room for
them. He said he believed the water
| in every well in Chickamauga park
contained the colon bacillus, which in
dicated contamination by sewerage.
Maj. Cogswell, surgeon of the Eighth
Massachusetts,, said that when his
regiment reached Chattanooga it was
kept in the freight yards 1S hours and
it took them then four hours to be
transported to the park; that the men
went two weeks without fresh meat
Their health was thus greatly i'm
paired and many were taken sick.
DR.. Cogswell attributed the typhoid
to the water, milk and lemonade drunk
by the men. He said that the cloth
ing and blankets belonging to the men
who died of typhoid were brought
back without having been washed or
boiled and were used by other men OF
the regiment. He mentioned other
abuses too degraded to write, which
he said were reported to the highest
authorities without action being taken,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
HE SHOT NINE MEN.
A Victim of Practical Jokes Goes Cunning
for His Prosecutors.

for His Prosecutors.
Beaver Dam, Wis, Nov. adam
Hammer, of this city, became suddenly
insane yesterday and, securing a gun,
wounded nine men and was finally
shot himself to prevent his doing fur
ther injury. Hammer was employed
in the machine shops of the j. r.
Rowell Manufacturing Co. He was
good worker, but at times had fits of
supposed insanity, the result, it is
said, of religious excitement. His
peculiar ways made him the butt for
practical jokes.
Yesterday some one placed some
tacks on stool where he worked and
this angered him. He left the shop,
went to a hardware store and rented
shotgun and shells, and, taking up his
position south of the main building of
the plant, kept every one at bay for an
hour and shot several of the employees
through the windows. Finally Lieut..
Tibbetts, of Company X, Second regi-
ment, who has a reputation for good
craftsmanship, was selected by the
marshal to shoot him in such manner
as to bring him down without killing
him. Lieut.. Tibbetts shot Hammer in
the right shoulder with rife, when
he dropped. He was quickly arrested
by the marshal and taken to the lookup,
where his wounds were dressed. They
were found to be not serious. None of
the men he shot will die.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
A FIGHTING CHAPLAIN.
How Archbishop Ireland Furnished
the Soldiers with Cartridges
In Battle. &f

Archbishop Ireland is perhaps the
most noted chaplain OF the civil war.
He went cut with the Fifth Mime sofa,
and the first thing he did afte4the regi-
ment took the field, and befofesthe
first batt lie, ,wasfto substituteschess for
chuck-a-luck among the soldiers. This
was in 1862. In October of that year
the young chaplain had chance to
show the stuff that was in him. AT a
critical point in battle the Fifth Min
nesota was called upon to. fill a gap
through which the enemyhad pressed,
capturing, as they surged into our
lines, one of our batteries. The Fifth
went in with a yell, and poured Volley
after volley almost point blank into
the faces of the confederates. This
was not the first appearance of the
Fifth in thesday's fight, and Y'as not
long before the, cry went; down the
line: "We're out of ammuhttioh9"S'F
The men stopped over andaDok the
cartridges from the boxes oftheir dead
comrades, and triedgto hp1d sdheir
ground. 1t was not many minutes be-
fore a stout, smooth-fhced y6iing man
appeared with box on his, shoulders,
and called out: ~ II
Here's cartridges for you, boys!"
He passed quicklyin along the eirear of
the ranks, throwing athe cartridges
into the soldiers haversacks-a more
convenient receptacle thansthe cart
ridge box, with its, separatsseom
ments. &, S6s
"Bully for you, father" you're the
stuff" and similar eSpressionsa We're
heard, and the men turnedsto their
work with redopbled Sigor,is
That night when the battle.was over,
and the fragments Of the egiment had
been gathered together, Chaplain Ire
land was missing. After long and anx-
ious search he was found on the very
front. in animprovised hospital close to
the cnemy's pickets.-Detroit Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05

Akron, Oct. 29.-Tncendiaries burn
ed down the barns of the Akron &
Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Transit Co.,
at Cuyahoga Falls, early Friday morn
ing. Fire broke out in several places
at once and the building was cnnsum-
ed in a few minutes. Nine closed
and seven open cars were destroyed
entirely, entailing a loss of $4,000
Insande's scale works were also de-
stroyed, with a loss of $4,000. The
Falls is in the throes of q water
works election, and it is supposed the
incendiaries wished to give an object
lesson to voters. Two years ago, on
the occasion of a similar election, the
paper mills were burned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
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W/TI N% W -
WOUNDED BY A SHELL.
A Veteran of the Civil War Relates
n Thrilling Experience on
n Gunbont.

shall never forget my first awaken
ing to full realization of what warreal-
ly is, says veteran of the civil war.
Several of us were detailed to serve
upon an extemporized gunboat on the
Mississippi in the place of marines. We
were to patrol Island No. 10. That
meant TO paddle and puff ten miles
down the river in broiling sun, and
then strain and snort and paddle ten
miles up, day after day, and night after
night, until the mon notony of it, in spite
OF seven-up, and dominoes ,and troll
ing for catfish, ate into the souls of us.
If we had any internal resources, we
exhausted them in week, and went
sullenly about, yawning and glowering
at each other, and wishing that some
body would blow us up.
After awhile the confederates got
some big guns masked along the shore,
and began to drop shells at us at long
range. That was relief. At first the
report, the scream, and the final ex-
plosion made every man strike an at
titude of suspense. We used to hold
our breath between the initial and the
concluding noise. But after awhile
this experience fell into a prosaic
phase CT it's own, with subject and
object and futile predicate, and when
we heard the scream in our sleep we
accepted the dull logic of the explosion
without thinking about it, and went
OH sleeping.
was detailed as stewards assistant,
and one morning was leisurely
strengthening up what we called, for
regulations sake, "the ward-room,"
and wondering if certain little girl,
away off somewhere on the edge of
pastures green, was thinking of her
soldier boy, and If so, If she was not
thinking of him in cuirass and feath-
ers, with his conquering foot on the
neck of the dastardly foe, instead of
sweeping up cigarette ends in white
npron-when, in twinkling, the boat
blew up, and we were all hurled into
eternity.
1 put it that way, because that is
the way my sensibilities instantly in
terpreted it. Such are the lightning
convictions that come of shock, shock
that is indescribable, and that, to the
Inconsistencies, ends everything.
Deaf, blinded, and partly paralyzed, it
was minute before / realized that
was still alive, and began to see that
was in the center of NJ
enormous splinters, twiste
and torn stanchions.
1t was in such experiences
that the sensibilities make
and sweeping deductions. My
clusion was that this ended
1t was impossible for me to
of anything beyond'the pres
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
THE FRENCH WILL LEAVE.

Marchand's Expedition is Ordered to Evao-
uate Fashoda and There VIII be No
War.
London, Nov. 2.-The Paris corre-
spondent of the Mail says: ''France
will retire from Fashoda uncondition-
ally and without asking compensation.
Baron De Courcel, whose term as
,French ambassador in London expired
long ago, but who has held on to con-
duct negotiations affecting Egypt, will
now be recalled and no haste will be
shown to appoint his successor, with a
view of showing French resentment at
British action, for England has almost
taken the place of Germany as the OBJ
ject of French hatred"
The Graphic says: "We learn from
an official source in Paris that Capt.
Baratier bears instructions to Mai.
Marchand to return to Fashoda and
then to withdraw his expedition in the
direction of the upper Ubanghi river,
north of the Congo, evacuating Fashoda
and the five posts established by him
east of the frontier indicated in the
Anglo-German agreement. Egypt's
government will be invited to send
troops to accompany Marchand as he
retires from the Bar-el-Gazal territory
and to reoccupy the posts as they are
evacueted by the French officers"
The Paris correspondent of the Times
says: "Baron De Courcel gathered
from conversation held after the last
British cabinet council that Lord Sails
bury's attitude had undergone a
change, the British premier insisting
that it was impossible to disregard
public opinion in England, and moth.
ing could be done until Fashoda was
levacuated. So far as French public
| opinion is concerned there is not the
slightest idea of going to war for
Fashoda, and any government doing SC
| would be regarded as a government OF
imbeciles"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
Lovers Saved from suiclde.

Cleveland. Nov. 1.-At an early hour
Monday morning Railway Detective
Williams, of the Lake Shore road,
while patrolling the tracks near the
Erie street pier, saw man and woman
jump into the lake from off the pier.
Williams leaped into the water and
after short struggle succeeded in
rescuing the couple. They proved to
be j. e. Cleckner, a Cleveland & Pitts
burg conductor, and Rose Laurer.
Cleckner had bound the woman to him.
self by leather strap before taking
the leap. He was drunk. They were
lovers and had decided to die together.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05

,n,.., a... .oa4 anu 81 un.il old John
Morgan turns and runs
"At this point somebody called for
Three cheers for Col. Farmer; They
were given, and then the colonel gave
the commands: Grab guns, powder,
shot and the other fixin's, and we II go
after Morgan r-'asse1A 's''s,
"Col. Farmer 1sasn3. much Of mill
tary man, and his troops were not
dress-parade soldiers, but they got
into bunch in time to give John Nor
gam some struggling yelleys that old
him and his crowd "A heap of harm.
They were called the minute men, and
were mustered out. soon after Nor
gan's raiders were captured or driven
out of the state."-Chicagos Times
Herald. k4s
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-05
Struck n Snag.

Columbus, Nov. 1.-The Detroit &
Lima Northern railroad people struck
snag in their contract with the To-
ledo e Ohio Central, over whose tracks
is such as will force the Northern to
build line into this city from Peoria,
distance of 30 miles, unless modifica-
tions of the contract can be secured.
The Northern road expected to figure
as an initial line in the matter of rates
from Columbus, but the Ohio Contra.
will not permit it.