Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, . WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1889.

David J. Brewer, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme. Court. This was called np by Senator Ingalls upon tho favorable report of the committee on judiciary. Although there was no minority report, confirmation of tho nomination was opposed by Senators of both parties, it is said, who based their objections upon two grounds: First, decisions in the prohibition cases in Kansas, which were afterward reversed by the Supreme Court: second, that the statement of facts in Judge Oresham's review of the appointment of receivers of tho Wabash system of railroads by Judge Hrewer, whose order in tho case Judge Greshain vacated no far as it affected the roads within the limits of his circuit, justify suspicion that Judge Urewer is the lrieud of corporation interests, as against those of the public; and that tho facts, as stated in Jndge Greshain'a review, warraut an investigation. The friends of Judge Urewer, it is said, denied that bo was in any wise unduly inlluenced in his action in the Wabash receivership, but adjournment came before the case was disposed of. It is believed, however, that the nomination will bo continued, probably to-morrow. PENSIONS roil VETERANS.

Residents of Indiana and Illinois Whose Claims Hare Been Allowed. Pensions have been granted the following-named Indianians: Original In valid -Daniel Schuster, Llncolnvllle; JoLn U. Vore, Blutlton; John Cameron Alanin, Soraervllle; John C. Uruvell, La Fontain; Joa. Heiter. Loronport; Geo. W. Mott, Laro ill; Ernest II. TheK l:ising San; Chas. S. frnepard, South Bend; Jas. Pejrg, rem: Lambertus Engbers, St. Wendell's: Harlow J. Jlern. Brighton; Wm. J. McCot. Paraxon: Jo. Lochridire. Manville; Chas. C. htudlej-. Laiell; I'. llicrouTinus, Frank lin: Joel li. uarrlson. Htllesville; m. Jordan. CrawfordsvilJe: Allen McCov, Whltestown; Robert 8. White. Wavnesburjr; Jas. A. Vivert.New Salisbury; Jos. Mandary, Lawrenccburg; Wm. Curry, Willow Branch; Adam Btoup.Lapaz; 3111ton lie id, Ouincy; Junn C. blawson, Indianapolis. Increase Jos. II. Kinder, Ayershlre; Jas. P. Pands, Greensburg; Jas. II. 2Iye rs. Pittabursr; Jas. II. Mather, Orangevllle; .Mathias Wald, Madison; Samuel Whiteridge, Indianapolis; Wm. McCameron, Knightstown: Zachariab Beasley, Mount Vernon; Alfred Bwalls, Torre Haute; Jacob T. ltarns, Rosevllle; Philip Kirsh, Aurora; Anthony Walters, St. Magdalen; John E. Keys, Kmclitntown: w in. J. Davidson. Farmland; jas. T. Wiggins, Stewartavillc; John N. Cooper, Linton; Wm. 8. Johnson, Edwardgport; Geo. W. Bennett. Koieen: Iavld MO eel v, w inslow; John 1. Kelleher, Vlncennes; Jos. Haddock, Iiright: Michael W. Parker. Thorntown; Wm. E. Umbers, Angola: Jeremiah Coridou, Eagletown; Jeaae Fret-man, 2ew Harmony; Avaoa C. Butler, 3Iorrl.town; Ell M. Ray, Monroe; Wm. Whitaker, Noblesvllle; Ja- II. Cooper, Odon: Wm. I. Benham. ICieumond; Joshua Euthultz, Kennaru; Arthur N. Bryant, Lowell; Lyman Brooks, Alton; John A. Shlrkey, Brownsville; Lewis M. Ohom, Richmond: George R. Ashley. Portland: John JL. Hinkle. CornellSTllle; David L. Kkelton, Lena, John U. Brown, Losran; John Hhafer.Logansport; James M. Maxwell. Dana: Wm. ' If. Laws, Kewanua; Wilson II. Kobiaon, Peru: IMrlln M. Tuttie, Cowan; Alonzo Meener, Oxford: lialph II. Jones, Mapleton; Jefferson Reigle. Portland; Jamea Inlow. FountRiutown. Increase Benjamin F. Green, McVIIIe; Luther J. Baker. Portland: William D. Kinrie Clarksburg; James F. Carjr. NewtonvlUe; William II. York. fctinesviue; Elliott w. Leacn, sneioyviue. Keissuo and Increaso David J. Waggaman, Kokoxno. Original Widows, etc. Catharine, widow of John Klrby, Kempton; Roxana, widow of Alfred 8 walls, Terr Haute; Amelia, mother of Allison Grirtin. Bulllvan; Hannati, widow of William J. U. Taylor, fctato Line City. TO RESIDENTS OP ILLINOIS. Original Invalid James L.IUggin, Dal ton City; Zachariab T. Forth, fit. Johns; Alford Piles; Htreaton Jonn Geraty, Clay's lTalrle: Joseph C. Meigs, Osceola: John M. Delaney, Modesty: Ed mund Smith, Thompson; John Croix, Ivy; Tho. W. Browning, Robinson; Franklin, W. Ford, Dwlgbt; Barrett I. l'ayne, Bushnell. Increase Andrew J. Wood, Newton: Ellsha E. fJAbbert, WLUey Station; William M.Johnson, Vera: Napoleon B. Weaver, Parish; Charles Kellar, Marshall; Joseph G. Henry, Girard; William F. Durfe, Stone Fort; Milton J. Medlin, New Haven; Lewis, foreman, ShelbyTille; James Ribson. Fairfield; William Meleher, Sprinjrtield; James Richards, Quincy: Edmund K. Brown, Oak; Henry O. Arms, KnoxviUe; William Miles. AIt Pass; Henry Certain, Fairmount; David Walter, Morrtsonvllle; JlerryNash, BibleGrove; I;ivid C. Edwards, Bloomington: Andrew J. Kimble. Chilli cot he; Louis Butler, Mattoon; Milton M.Jones, Seaton; John E. Morgan. Mt. Car roll: Otis F. Gunn. Walnut Prairie; Parker Shepii em. li omen eorge fninaie. iucconneii: ni. N. Emerson. Iiodces Park; Joshua Smith. Ma homet; Charles Olsen, Cambridge; John Graham. Leaf Riven William II. Dotson, Tuscola; James II. Anderson. Belknap. PeUsne and Increase James K. Rawlev. Pana. Original Widows, etc. Sarah, widow of Ellas icmau, uuiuu ,cuier. MEN OR MATTERS. Appointments TT the President A Former Indianlan Gets a Good Office. "Washington. Dec. 17. The President today transmitted the following nominations to the Senate: Registers of Land Offices Alphonso Barto, at m. Cloud. Minn.; August Klcxbusch. at Wnosau. Wis. Receivers ot Fubllo Moneys William Westerman, at 8t. Cloud, Minn.; Andrew M. Crawford, at Kosehnrgh, Ore.; Frank JL Poote. at L vanston, Wy. T. United States Attorneys Engene O. nay, for the district of Minnesota; Fremont Wood, for the Territory of Idaho; Willoughby Cole, of California, for the Southern district of California. United States Marshals George K. Gard. of California, for tho Southern district of California; John W. Jacobus, for the Southern district of ew York. Collector of Internal Revenue Cyrus Leland, jr., for the district of Kansas. Th appointment of Eugene Q. Hay to bo district attorney for Minnesota, made today, ends a controversy that has been going on for some time. Mr. Hay was indorsed by Senator "Wanhburn and opposed by Senator Davis, who had another candidate. Mr. Hay has lived in Minnesota only a few years. He was for many years a resident of Indiana, and is a warm personal friend of President Harrison. The President's Narrow Escape. Special to Louisville Commercial. President Harrison had a narrow escape this Monday afternoon, no was driving out the Woodley Lane in a buggy with a younger man, supposed to bo Mr. Kussell Harrison, his son, when the horse stumbled and fell, breaking the shafts of the vehicle. The horso began to kick and struggle, and for a moment there was imminent danger that tho President would be injured. But a well-known society man, Mr. Kobert Neville, who happened to be riding ont tho f.imo road, saw the accident, and galloped tip in time to extricate the President from his perilous situation. Mr. Harrison was perfectly cool throughout, and thanked his rescuer in very handsome terms. Mr. Neville offered the President his horse to ride back upon, but tho animal was formidably iipirited. and the President had presumably had enough cf lively horses, for that dav, at least. Just then a rickety old vehicle came along, bound for town, and the President took passage in that, rather than risking the more gandy. but less conservative, method otlered by Mr. Neville's horse. Extradition TrAty with England. i Washington-, Dec. 17.-Prcsidcut Harrison to-day transmitted to the Senate the extradition treaty with England, referred to in his annual message, negotiated by Secretary lllaine and Sir Julian Panncefote, tho llritish minister. By its terms the number of extraditable oflenses ii largoly increased, the most important addition being that of embezzlement, so that if the treaty be ratiiied. Canada and the United States will cea?o to exchange a cl.tfs of undesirable residents who have hitherto secured immunity from punishment. The text of the Sanioan treaty negotiated at erlin last spring has not yet been transmitted to the Senate. Patent Istaed to Indiana Inventors. Elrf-vUl to the IuUuuiaio'.la Journal. Washington. Dec.' 17. Patents wero granted to Indiana inventors to-day as follows: TbouiAB Austin. I-ogan$port. taml-box valve: Henry C liailey, l-liuburc. wooden mat and Man'; litttnc mnrhtiie; Albert J. Hart. Cromwell, traction emrlne: William A. llorrall, astU'Uor of one half to J. C. IMthelmer, W nnuington, niail-ponch fastener. Ch.irle I. Jenny, Iniianaix)li. asumnr to Thompson-Houston Klectrlc Company, of Connecticut, automatic regitlatur lor dynamo; John A. McOill. South IJend, railway Rate or ritual; John F. Miller, Monon, calf-tveantr. dark 11. Nel-on. assignor of onohalrtoj. ji. Watson, (TRwroniAiiie. metallio cre.t-title; John fc. ratiiHUe. alienor of one-half to J. H. Holan, Ttrn; liaute, thn e-wlictltd rel.iole: Kohert K. Toindexter, Indianapolis, aw gagejoititer. Oklahoma M.irliaU A 111 lc Tald. Wamiinotox, Dec. IT. First Comptroller .Matthews lia- decided to allow theaccountfj of United Stat Marshal Needles, of Oklahoma, and tlie United Mates commissioners appointed by Judgo fchackelivtd for duty in that Territory, uu the

ground that the services rendered by them

holds that the commissioners had ample aumoniy ior ine service ui irj,ai pn;uaom in HL-1 a t.nm . nnilpr their Annnintments by circuit judges in Arkansas, KanOklahoma. Theso accounts amount to about 815,000. General Notes. Special to the IndUnapoUs Journal. Washington. Dec. 17. James JL Caraahan, of Indianapolis, is here. He attended the Kathbone funeral at Utica, N. Y., rnence ho went to Virginia. He was tendered a reception to-night by the Knights of Pythias of the District of Columbia, and to-morrow night rill be given a reception by the Knights at Alexandria, Va. E. II. J. Hartshorn, oi lowa, Micoit's successor as ca3hier of tho House, ha given a bond of $.,ooo for tho proper performance of his duties. To-dav'a bond offerings were as follows: Coupon fours, l,ii0, at $1.27; registered lour-and-a-halfs. .1.8o0.atS1.0458. All the oilVriues were accepted. 1 he President now has under considera tion the question of the appointment of a successor to the pension agent at Louis ville. Ky.. -whose coinumsion will expire on Jan. IS next. A tire was started in some mysterious way last night on the large, handsome mahogany desk which stands in the center of the otlice of the Secretary of War, and burned a large hole through the top before it was discovered and extinguished by tho watchman. Several oilicial papers were destroyed. They were not of special value, and can bo replaced. Secretary Proctor rnnnot nnderstmid how tho tiro originated. as he does not smoke, and keeps no matches j about his desk. m0m TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The vacht Fearless, bound from Chicago to Nicaragua, arrived at Vicksburg, Miss.. yesterday. Tho police of Baltimore have ordered Wm. L. Crostey, a dealer in "green goods" to leave the city. Associate Justice Lamar, of the Supremo Court, has been invited to address the Davis memorial mass-meeting at Kichmond, Va. Lawrence Barrett has rallied well from the ellects of the operation upon his throat, and was quite comfortable yesterday. He is still at St. Margaret's Hospital, Boston. Oil has been found on the Krugfarm. three miles eat of Chillitothe, O., whero a eas well is beincsunk. The How of oil is estimated at 200 barrels a day. Great excitement prevails. The Kepnbucans of Menden. Conn., yestcrday elected all their ticket except city clerk, and are returned to power after bein g oat three years. Benjamin l'age (Kepublican), for Mayor, has 243 majority. The British schooner Mary, -which ar rived at Gloucester, Mass.. Monday, from Capo Brovlen, Newfoundland, with a cargo of fish, was seized, yesterday, by Col lector rrcsson for discharging her cargo without a permit. Miss Flora Lusk. of Chester county. Iovra, is on trial for killing a man who was engaged in a charivari party in front of her granuiaiuers nouse. ine gin suoi lino me crowd to frighten the serenaders away.. Public sympathy is on her side. Miss Grace Pedley, an Euglish actress, claims that Edward J. Henley, who recently married Miss Mary Hampton, and is now m California, is her husband, and she yesterday applied at aa New York police conn ior a warrant; ior uis arrest. Charles Seiner, proprietor of the Toledo Sunday Herald and Times, is in jail on a grand jury indictment charging him with forcing notes and orders, the principal one of which is said to have been a bill of exchange on Bates, a New York advertising man. George Gnenthcr.- aged seventy years, was fatally beaten by his son, Emil Guenther, at fet. Louis, yesterday. The boy bears a bad reputation, and is but seventeen years old. The quarrel arose over tho refusal of his mother to 'furnish him with money. The well-known Joanna furnace, at Joanna, Pa., and the Jones iron-ore mines, near by, have closed down for the winter. Nearly 1,500 tons of pig-iron are stored at tho furnace, and operations will not be resumed until the overproduction is disposed of. The mystery regarding the whereabouts of banker Jos. u. Dittmnn. of l'hiiadelnhia. is as deep as ever. Clerks are hard at work endeavoring to unravel Mr. Dittniau's com plicated accounts, but his counsel will give no information as to tho condition of his financial all'airs. At Lone Tree, Mo., several months ago, a young girl, aged seventeen, was forced by her parents to marry Newtcn Summers. aged 6ixty-tive. Yesterday Summers was found lying in his house terribly Druised. His wife and her former lover had robbed him and gone on together. Kobert W. McFarland, of Owensboro, Kv.. a prominent attorney and former mem ber of the State Legislature, was yesterday found dead at the bottom of a stairway in the Spoerri Hotel. His skull was fractured and his nose was broken. When last seen alive he was under the influence of liquor Frank Hargy. a Chicago traveling man. was shot and fatally wounded at Mt. Ster ling. Ky., yesterday by K. E. Smith, who travels lor J. M. nobinson & Co., of Louis ville. Some weeks ago Smith made a flippant remark to llargy's wife. Hargy mot Smith yesterday for the first time and de manded an apology. A shooting match was the result. Obituary. "Louisville. Ky.. Dec. 17. James G. Car ter, of Carter Bros., a leading wholesale dry goods house, died here to-day. He was l.i! m i: . r " a. i a native vi cinipsou county, ivenincKy, and sixty-four years old. lie came to Lou isville when fourteen years old, and for tnirty years nas uecn prominent in Dimness. Ho was noted for benevolent and re ligions work, being a chief worker in the Methodist Church South. Saratoga, N. Y Dec. 17. Oliver L. Barbour, the famous compiler of law re ports and authority on the same, died here this evening, aged seventy-nine. New Yokk. Dec. 17. Dr. C. II. Nichols. euperintendent of the Bloomingdale Inaane Asylum, died last night. A Lineman! Fntal Fall. New Yoi:k. Dec. 17. The first serious accident attending the raid of the citv author ities upon the electric wires occurred at 10 o clock this morning, on 15 road way, in front of the Chemical liank. Daniel Mon tague, a lineman in tho employ of the United fctates Illuminating Company, fell from a pole on Broadway at Chambers street, and received injuries from which he will probably die. Montague was standing , ,1 a on a cross-uar, wnien snapped cit close to the Tole. II fell across some wires. bounded off to tho stone sidewalk, and rolled into the basement of the building at that point. Montague was engaged in taking down the wires of his company to save them from destruction by the city's can g of workmen, who were at work behind him. Five Miners IHown to Atoms. Calumet. Mich.. Dec. 17. Carl Carlson and John Sullivan, miners, and Andre Adamski, a sixteen-jear-old drill boy, were blown to atoms in the Osceola mine, last night, by a premature blast. At Ishpeming, two brothers named Bergluud wero instantly killed in the Cleveland mine yesterday. lhey were endeavor ing to discover whv a certain blast of dynamite had not exploded wnen the discharge suddenly took place. Both men were ter ribly mangled and died instantly. Mixture of YVliUky, Razors and Guns. Baltimore. Dec. 17, Joseph Kafter. Charles Kose and Charles Hart went into William Zorn's saloon, in Canton. Baltimoro county, last night, for drinks. A dimcnlty arose over payment, and Zorn nulled out a razor and cut on hatter s nose. also slashing his cheek and head. Zorn then procured a gun and shot Kafler and Hart in the legs. Zorn Teloaded and shot Kose in the legs and abdomen. All three are seriously wounded. Require a Majority of All Voted Cast. Columbus, 0.. Dec. 17. The Supreme Court to-day decided the biennial-elections amendment'to the Constitution of Ohio, which received a majority of votes cast on tho proposition at the last election, was not legally adonted. This establishes the principle that to change the Constitution a majority or all votes cast at a general elec tion must be in the affirmative. For throat auil lung troubles Ayer's Cherry fectoral, K-a&ouably taken, is a certain fcpccilio.

INMANAAND ILUNOISKEWS

Eow YoungMarquisCametoWrecktho Wabash Atlantic Express at Kellar's. Ministerial Conference of Friend A Girl Who Drank Half an Onnce of Carbolic Acid and Lives A Covey of White Quails. ' INDIANA. The Toothful Train-Wrecker Flaa No Conception of the Enormity of Hit Crime. gpectel to the ImliauaiK)U Journal. WAnASir. Dec. 17. This morning William Marqniss, the Miami-county lad, who was arrested yesterday, twelve miles 1 north of Peru, for wrecking the Atlantic express on the Wabash railroad at Kellar's, this county, last October, waived an examination, and his bond was fixed at $2,500, which he was nnable to give. He is now in jail, where he weeps almost constantly. His father arrived in the city this morning, and stated to your correspondent that the day following the wreck he, suspecting that the lad had ditched the train, accused him of the crime, but his son denied it stoutly. Further inquiry in tho case reveals a startling phase of human nature and malicious intent upon railway property, without any thought as to imperiling human lives. From the confessions made at Peru to Superintendent Gould, Chief Clerk LaBanta, and detectives Furlong and Soliett the eighteen-year-old boy did not, nor has he vet realized the enormity of his crime. When asked if ho thought how many might have been killed, he said no. that had never entered his mind, ins soie idea was to cause the company trouble in return for refusing him a ride. The boy came to Fern on the day mentioned and walked to Wabash, fourteen miles, where he purchased a ticket to Peru, and he naturally built great expectations on tne riue, as never Deioro in uis me nau no ridden upon a train. Carelessly losing his ticket, and having no more money, he walked to Kellar's Station and there endeavored to procure one to Peru, tendering his handkerchief in payment. Being refused this, he deliberately proceeded to break the lock and spike the switch and then immediately trudged on homeward. The complete wreck of the train and narrow escape of all is well remembered. On this handkerchief clew the detectives traced down tho case and arrested the boy in the country school-room. Marqniss shows no st r- - , T.l t oviuence oi a weaK mum auu wus am nvn u bright scholar, and the whole is put down as due to petty, childish pite and disappointment over tne nrst auiiciraieu railway ride. This explodes the theory of a iranir organization of wreckers and also that of complicity with the wreckers on the L. K. A". W. railway at Kokomo the same night, in which three men lost their lives. Conference of Friends. jecial to the ImllanaiHlls Journal. SriCELAND. Dec. 17. At the late Yearly Meeting of Friends, held at Richmond, a new departure was made looking towards educating the ministers of tho church. A proper committee was appointed to have the matter in charge. Under the auspices of that committee a large conference was held here yesterday of the ministers and active workers belonging to Spiceland, Walnut Ridge and Dublin quarterly meetings of Friends, the object of the conference being to promote thestudjrof the Bible and sacred literature by the ministers and active workers, liev. Murray Shipley, of Cincinnati, was president, and Kevs. Isaiah Jay, of New Castle, and K. S. Bailey secre taries of tho conference. A number of interesting papers were read, and future papers and lines of Bible study were laid out. Swallowed Carbolic Acid and Survived. EiMtMal to the Imuanavolis Journal. Muxcie. Dec. 17. Last night Miss Mary Scott swallowed nearly a half ounce of carbolic acid, and, strange to say. is lingering yet. The attempt at suicide would have been successful but for the effective .work done by Dr. Horner H. Bowles,, who , had sold the girl the poisonous .stuff, as. few hours previous, upon her statement .that she wanted it to color clothes. Ten ? drops oi ine iiqmn are supposed to cause instant death, and their failure in thiscasoisa freak. 1 he cause of the attempt is said to do aiove anair. The Sage Murder Trial at Marion. ftwtal to the Indian a polls Journal. Mariox, Dec. 17. The second trial of John fc?age, for murder in the first degree, was commenced here to-day. Sago is charged with procuring the killing by drowning of Harry Albert Cunningham, an eightcen-months old child, by Eliza Sage, its mother, on June 18, leKJ. at Hartford City. At Sase s first trial, held here last March. he was found guilty and received a life sentence, but was granted a new trial by the Supreme Court on the ground of a de tect in tne indictment. Diftastrou- Finale of a Spree. , Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Madison, Dec. 17. -Two old farmers from Saluda, fifteen miles below Madison, came to town and became intoxicated. One of them, named Samples, was put in jail and the other, Enoch Robinson, started bomo to-night with a team of two horses, which ran away, throwing Robinson out. breaking his arm. indicting frightful gashes on his head, and otherwise injuring him severely and possibly lataily. lie is unconscious. A Covey of White Quail. ppeclAl to the Indianapolis Journal. IIaktfokd City, Dec. 17. Hunters from Moutpelier yesterday discovered a covey of white quail on the Slocum farm in the northeastern part of the county. Whether the quail are albinos or the Mediterranean quail, imported to tnis country from Jgypt several years ago, is yet to bo determined. Prominent sportsmen will goaf ter the white quail again to-morrow. They are considerably larger than tho other quail in this section. Smothered Her Babe. Fpecial to the Intll&iiapolis Journal New Alhant, Dec. 17. When Mrs. Geo. Maxwell, residing in the western part of this city, awoke yesterday morning she discovered that some time duriug the night she had rolled over upon her two-months-oldbabe. The child died oou after being taken up. Mrs. Maxwell is almost crazed with grief. The coroner investigated the afiair, and decided that tho death of the in fant was due to accidental suuocation. Murderous Atsanlt on a Woman. Birai! to the Intlianavoli Journal. Mariox, Dec. 17. Last qigbt as Mrs. Arthur Labelle, wifo of a ieadiug architect, stepped outside of her door, she was struck with a large stone and felled to the earth by sumo unknown cut-throat, who took to his heels. Mrs. Labelle's injuries are serious. It is impossible to assign any motive ior the dastardly deed. Prominent Farmer Shoots IHmself. Fpecial to the IuiUaiiaixilU Journal. Fort Wayne, Dec. 17. John J. Coulter, a prominent farmer and horse-dealer, near Chumbusco, this county, shot himself early this morning. He lived about twenty min utes. It is not known whether the'shootingwasan accident or dono with suicidal intent. Prominent Farmer Hurt. feudal to the Inllanapoll Journal KocKroRT, Dec. 17. While gathering corn yesterday at his farm, two miles west of here, George Thomas, one of the county's most prospeions farmers, was seriously in jured by a team of mules running awav and throwing him out. Internal injuries are learcu. Alleged .UalMtohber Hound Over. Scrotal to the Imtlaiiapolla Journal Fort Waynf, Dec. 17. Samuel Brokaw, the baggagemastcr who was arrested a few days ago, charged with stealing mailpouches on his run between this city and Richmond, had a preliminary hearing hefere Commissioner Leonard to-day. It was

shown that Brokaw frequently had postal notes cashed, both iuthis city and in Richmond, and that out of titty claims of lost mail on his road, forty cases are on Brokaw's run. The prisoner was bound over for trial before the United States Court at Indianapolis. Minor Notes. The State .Farmers Institute met at LaPorte yesterday to hold a two days' session. The Madison tobacco-works to-day make a shipment of twenty-five car-load of tobacco to Detroit. A large frame farm dwelling-house on the farm of John R. Ford, near Lagrange, burned yesterday afternoon. Josiah Durfee, a prominent contractor of Xoblesville, aged fifty-four years, died Monday night of lung fever. Arthur Shull yesterday pleaded guilty, at Portland, to forgery and was sentenced to three years in tho penitentiary.

Mrs. Susie Galloway, of Lagrange, attempted suicide Monday afternoon by taking laudanum. She is yet alive. Mike Slater, who hired George Ford to assault groceryman Sawyer, of Hammond, was arrested in LaPorte on Sunday. A donation of So.OOO has been raised at .Portland for the Lvans glass-works and work will commence on the factory soon. A Standard Oil warehouse at Valparaiso was burned Monday night. The cause of the h re is unknown. ISo insurance; loss. about 1,000. Muncie is entertaining a nartr of twentynve capitalists trom JJunalo. iN. i., and vicinity, who are prospecting for paying investments. Fred Collis was thrown from a train be tween Martinsville and Spencer while stealing a ride, and his right leg was broken in the knee joint. Frank Pleanitz. of IocransnorL was thrown on to the railway track bv a runaway hcrse, a few days ago, and his right foot was crushed. A farmers' institnte has been organized at Goshen, the idea being to control local markets and secure co-operation among the members. H. S. Bartholomew was elected president. Governor Fifer. of Illinois, lias honored the requisition of Governor Hoveyforthe extradition of Frank P. Adams, wanted at iai'orto for grand larceny, lie is in cusumy a v,nicago. Fire, vesterdav mnrnini?. destrored the larcre frame barn nf A. T. Rntvl. nt Prn together with a fine surrey, narness, hay and .V 7 - - - oue norse. iose. about 00: insurance. &aX). in the Phoenix, of Hartford. The fire was ox incendiary origin. Monday uitzht the barn of Sam Brown, a farmer living eight miles west of Kockport, hurned to the ground, together with a large amount of hay. corn, farming implements, three horses and oue mule. It was insured ior very little, and the origin of the fire is un Known. The tirst annnal nonltrr show nf thn Montgomery County Poultry Association opened yesterday and will continue until sauiraay. lho exhibition is held in the K. of P. armory at Crawfordsville. and there are o entries, and more to come. The awarding of premiums commenced last evening. Fire, of incendiary origin, destroyed the Larountain liverv barn, at Fowler, last nignt. mere wan $1,500 insurance on the building in the Phoenix of Hartford. The stock and fixtures belonged to W. B. Sheets. Fifteen tons of hay, three fine sleighs and other property was burned. lie carneu no insnrance. Capt. H. O. Halbert. late of tho One-hnn-dred-and-fif teenth Indiana Volunteers, died at his home in Spencer Monday night, need sixty-nine years- He was well known in the county, and highly respected. He will be buried from the Christian Church, at 10 a. M. to-day, with the honors of war, by his . m - " comraaes oi uettysburg Tost, Jso. V3, G. A. II. Mrs. Anna Ferrv was arrested bv tho sheriff of Floyd county on two indictments by tho grand iury. chargiuc her with trrand larceny and obtaining goods by false pretenses. Tho woman is alleged to have swindled several firms out of a large amount. The furniture firms of Now Alm nany nave lost not less than 100, and other nouses are out as much. Ed Cory, of Crawfordsville. who is to fight Dick Keating, of Lafavette. on Mon day, Dec. 23, is being trained for the con test, lie is in charge of J.oe Alien, who commenced the training last Thursday. v. neu no commenced no weigiied Impounds, which has now been reduced to 1S3. It Is proposed to reduce this weight to io pounds by tne day ox the fight. Hon. K. B. Reynolds, of Wavne eonntv. delivered two speeches on the 'temperance question, at .Lagrange, on Sunday and .Monday evenings. 1 no address on Monday evening was confined to the discussion of prohibition as the ultimate obiect to be reached, and local option as the best inter mediate step to bo taken; and it was such as appealed to the indgment of all present, and made an excellent impression. W. A. Garrison Fost, G. A. K., at LafonCalfee: quartermaster. John W. Harner: uoicaiD iu. oMiie ucampmenv, l. li. liruuer: alternate, Ueorge t arris. ILLINOIS. a wo toai junera viiiea dj failing in a N T r mm m a Shnft at Catlin. Special to tlte Ia&l&nauolls Journal Catlin, Dec. 17. Charlie Dosrgett and John Bilman, miners, were killed by falli nr n VTa 1 1ntT'a olifift on of fG Vt , lirief Mention. George Jackson, formerly of Burllneton. WU.BUUCK UV UiU Ut CUVIT UUW JUUC- .....!. v.. -a w i " tion, Mont., and killed. A two-days' session of the National Live stock Commissioners and Veterinarians will begin at bpringheld to-day. Jacob Goubler, who for over thirty years has been employed by the Wabash road at Spriugtield. was ruu over and killed iu tho yards at that place. Geortre N. Evans, a carpenter of Snrintriield. has received word that he is one of nix heirs to $200,000 left by his grandfather in ngland years ago. George Arthur, an employe, of the Pioneer I? ireproot Construction Company at Uttawa, was caunns in tne suaiting and heaten to death against a beam. At Elgin. Monday, G. Y. Vannorstrand tfc Co., grocers, made an assignment. Liabili ties. Sl.NlO: assets, i.2.900. McNeil Ac Higgin. and Mac Yea gh & Co. are among the c realtors. The Rock Island branch of the Illinois Humane Society had a big meeting at Harper's Theater. Kock island. Sunday evening. The Mayor of tho citv and pas tors ot most ct the churches, I'rotestant and Catholic, made speeches. Dr. Spitler is about to close his operahouse at Carthage the only amusement hall in the city and convert it into oft-ces. This is the resilt of a recent revival and the reqnest of pastors and church people. who consider the theater dangerous to morals. Kev. W. II. Prestly denounced progressive euchre and whist irom the Methodist pul pit at Dccatnr. f-unday, as tramblinir. and declared that players of such games should be punished lor gambling. earlv the en tire congregation went forward and thanked him for the fearless stand taken. . Combination of A V heel Manufactories. Jackson, Mich.. Dec. 17. The Jackson Wheel Compaux has been merged into an organization eomposed of nix of the largest wheel establishments in the country consisting of the Sandusky Wheel Company, Sandusky, O.; Key heel Company, lerro Haute, ind.: X. G. Olds Wheel Company. Fort Wavne. Ind.; Wood burn-Sar ven Wheel Company, Indianapolis; Wapakoneta Wheel Company, W apakoneta, U., and the Hooper Bros, Garling Company, of West Chester. Pa.The new company will be known as the American Wheel Comnanv. and its main oftice will be in Chicago. The lease of the old nuritier buildines has been transferred to the new concern and the workof getting into running order will be pushed as rap idly as possible. Judge Cooley Not Serloul3' 111. Ann Auitou. Mich.,Dec. 17. -Judge T. M. Cooley arrived Lome from Washington to night. He is in much better health than when he left here ten days a to. notwithstanding the Washington dis patches, which state that ho broke down there. He hail some work on the commission which demanded, his atiention and,

taine, V abash county, elected the following officers: Commander, G. F. Johnson; senior vice, W. T. Howard; junior vice, John

unepper; outcer or the day. J. B. Bruner; officer of the guard. Perry L. Martin, sergeant, John P Thompson: chaplain. Frank

that being finished, he returned home for j the holidays as he had intended when he j

left here. Dr. Vaughn, bis physician, says he is much better than ho expected to tind nun. Southern Field Trials of Dogs. Birmingham. Ala.. Dec. 17. The second day's sport at Amory. Miss., was excellent. The weather was cloudy and cooler, mak ing the work on the doers and men much lighter. The Derby was conclnded as to first place, Fannie M. being the winner. Tempest and Gath's , Hope wre the tirst down, winning. Simonides beat Bessie M.; Dad Wilson, jr., won from Tribulation: Fannie M. ran a bve. This terminated the second series cf the Derby. In the third series Fannie M. won from Tempest: Simonides beat Dad Wilson. jr. In the fourth series, to decids the tirst place, r annio M. boat JMinonides, Second and third place will be decided in the morning. Two heats in the all-agcd-setter stake were rnn, Duke beating Howdy li. and Lufra sMarK defeating Flor ence Uiadstone in this stake, ihere will be sixteen starters.;ncludiug the above They will run in the lollowmg order: Dan Wil son, jr., vs. B.n-Hur, Cincinnatns vs. Dim ple Dad;, Gladstone vs. Mark of lirnnswick, Startler vs. Toledo Blade. Tennessee Charlie vs. Chickasaw, Second Hope vs. Corsair. The same judges othciated to-day. Birds i i were pieuuiuj. Mormon Mayor and Others Arretted. Salt Lakk. U. T.. Dec. 17. The recent investigation of the grand jury into the alleged frauds in the disbursing of funds and the making of contracts by city and county officials is resulting in a large number of arrests. Ma3or Armstrong was arrested last night, there being nine indict ments against him. charging intent to defraud the city and county. To-day Charles A. Smith, Bishop George Ranney, Jesse W. Fox, county surveyor; John C. Cutler, county cleric: L. 1). Young. Abram Cannon. Alonzo Young, Joshua Midglcy, Stephen K. Marks and W. N. Williams were also arrested on indictments of the same nature. All were taken before the United States commissioner and gave bonds in 1,500. All will be arraigned Saturday. Mother Fatally and Children Badly Burned. Louisville. Ky.. Dec. 17. Mrs. Charles Kiefer, wife of the cornet player, was fatally burned here last night. She was sitting beside a work-table, when her two-year-old boy Ernest pulled the cover olf the table, bringing the lamp down also. The lamp exploded, throwing burning oil over the mother ond boy and two other children. The mother died of the injuries to-day. and Ernest is very low. The other children will recover. Got Her Money and Deserted Her, Louisville. Dec. 17. Vasco D. Browne. formerly business man a cot of the Maytield Democrat, recently eloped with Miss Novella Landrum. of that place, and married her. The nirl had $1,000 in cash. Browne had already a wife living at Lex ington, of whom Miss Landrum had never fteam. aesteraay tne girl returnea xroin St. Louis, saying Browne had deberted hcr taking all the money. The Kansas Qlty Colored Church Row. Kansas City. Dec. 17. Sixteen warrants were sworn out this evening by Key. J. H. Jones, whose faction was routed at the riot in the First Uaptist Church (colored;, at Kansas City, Kan., last night, lhe war rants allege various violations of the laws, such as disturbance of the peace, assault and battery, murderous assault and conspiracy to do bodily injury to tho pastor and his supporters. THE FA lit CASIIIEU'S TROUBLES. IIow She Is Festered by Fresh Dudes and Old Men. Pbiladelphl Inquirer. "VY ould you like to go to the theater to night!" No, thank you." "Ah. this is Charley night, I suppose!'' "Sir!!!" Then the attractive brunette who pre sides at the cashier's desk at a large Chest nut-street store, the customers of which are mainly members of the sterner sex, looked at herself in the mirror and pushed a refractory bang into place as the crushed dude with the theater tickets opened the door and let himself out into the cold. cruel world, then she threw a bewitching smile at the nest customer, and when ho wanted to know if she got many theater invitations, sho answered: "Oh. lots of them, lint I prefer to select my own company. One can't be too care ful, you know. W by. a girl who once worked here actually eloped, so I've been told, 756 times so far. I wonder why it is that so many men bother me with all sorts of questions. Oue man, who lookod somewhat sensible, asked me not long ago if I knew a good cook. Then a handsome drummer, with such a nice mustache. asken mo 11 ine prony casnier in tne biggest dining-room in New York was my sister. But I don't mind tho young fel lows. They will flirt and talk nonsense whenever they get a show. Sometimes it is hard work to get rid of our pennies, but when a particularly susceptible 'Johnnie7 appears then I get in my work with the coppers, and they form the biggest part of the change. We have to nave lots of tact. The old men bring me a novel once in a while, usually by Laura Jean Libbey or some such crank, and I give them to the boys that work here. "Lifo is too short to read such trash. Then the old chaps want to tell me their troubles, and if 1 go out shopping for a minute or so some one is sure to think it's proper to speak to me, simply becanse I gave him his change at the store. Isn't It ridiculous!'7 I suppose you receive many offers of Marriage," interrupted the cashier: "oh. not many, consideriug. The boys nowadays don't seem to take kindly to that sort of thing. They say it's too hard to lay by any money. 1 hey put all their money on their backs, or else loaf around the leading saloons. 1 know all about it, for that innocent young man who is coming this way has told me a good bit. I'll have to ask you to go now. Here's another toothpick." So the interested listener withdrew with great ideas of the worldly wisdom of some youug women. A FERILOUS TRADE. Well-Shooting" Is a Profitable but Danger ous and Unpopular Ilusfness. New York Star. ' Gustave Windmueller is one of the few men in tnis country Known as wenshooters." He resides near Pittsburg, Pa., but is compelled by his unsinets to travel all over the county. "Shooting a well'' consists in letting down a cartridge of dvnamite. nitro-irlvcerine or other hich ex plosives to the bottom of a well, whether of water, salt, petroleum, natural gas or mineral water, and then exploding it. In discussing his vocation at the Fifth-avenue Hotel he said: It's a tirst-class business, and gives a man a handsome income, but it is not nop ular. The life insurance people will not issue policies to us, and tho railroads refuse to transport our tools of trade tne moment they tind ont what we are carrying. There have been over a hundred men in my call ing since I took it up, ten years ago, and there are only six lelt. The rest have disappeared. They are spared the evils of sickness, the death-bed and the funeral. They simply vanish. I once had a partner, a royal good fel low. named Tom Allison, who had no more fear of nitro-glyceriue than other people have of champagne. We had received a two-huudred-and-htty-dollar order to shoot a well for a Philadelphian, who lived near Movamensing. My partner was careless and at times drank a little tO' much. Ho started for the well with a heavy cartridge of nitro-glycerine, and called in" at several saloons on his way. Probably he staggered and struck the cartridge against a tr e. No one will ever .know the exact fnct.. There was an explosion, partner and tree disappeari d, and there was simply a hole in tho ground to tell the story. "All that was ever found of hi remains was his watch-chain, and of that only a small piece. As every pane of glass was broken in the neighborhood, 1 did not report to the authorities.7' 'What good is 'shooting a wellT' "It increases the llow. The explosion shatters the rock in every direction for lilty feet, and makes a thousand crevices, where before there were ten, through which the liquids can llow which are wanted by the well-owner above. I have known the operation to change a pumping oil well to a llowing one to increase the artesian 500 per cent and. nar Pitt;dmrg. to make a very poor natural gas well one of the best paying properties iu the district. Sometimes, however, it does no giMl and once or twice it has injured the well. Do 1 like the business! Quite well. Of course. I know I shall vanifdi someday, like every one else in my calling, but it is a painless death, and u good one."

Government Chemists Certify i " The Royal Baking Powder h abjo luteiy pure, for I have so found it la many tests made both for that company and the United States Government 4t I will go still further and state tha because of the facilities that company have for obtaining perfectly pure cream of tartar, and for other reasons deoendent upon the proper proportions of the same.'and the method of its preparation the Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly the Purest and most reliable Baking Powder offered to the public. " HENRY A. MOTT, Ph. D United Statet Gavemmtnt Chemist OLD-FASHION III) HELU

The Incentives to Christian GoodnM That Were Offered Unr Grandfathers. Iowa Register. No religions creed of forty to seventvfive years ago was orthodox if it did not advocate a literal "hell of fire and brimstone," into which the wicked would be cast and burn forever and ever. Tho ministers of thoso days received small salaries, but they wero vcrv zealous in their eilorts to convince their hearers that "in Adam' fall we sinned all," and they took tho quickest method to gather all into the fold by scaring them into full membership through fear of bodily torture "where tho tire is not quenched to all eternity." It sounds like btrange doctrine in these new revision days, but it was tho general belief of the fathers in the earlier years of tho present century, and it was urged with all the fervor of the old-time eloqifenco that "he who hesitates is lost, and he who doubts will bo forever punished." though the last word given here is not the word used by tho pioneer ministers. There still ample authority in the Bible to predieate an actual hell for bodily torture, and many good people still think thai if thero' is no actual hell there ought to be one. and that without one a jrreat many sinners will never be sntliciently puuislied for their wickedness. The religion of the pioneer seemed to have moro of tho Sam Jones llavor, more of straight talk against the sinfulness of mankind, more appeals forthe wayward to turn from the error of their ways before it was too late, and more of the moral suasion effort to induce the wicked to confess their sins and turn to better life of their own volition. That would seem like pretty good theology for these days. The successful modern churches have retained a considerable portion of tho "personal touch" doc-, trine, but there is a growing tendency among many ministers to regulate pinners by law. The State undertakes to do this with criminals who have been convicted, but every neighborhood is a good missionary field for work among thoso who are not wicked but who canuot be driven into religious moods and tendencies by ordinances or law. THE SAUERKRAUT TRUST IN TROUBLE. The Emperor of Austria I'erplexed as to What He Shall Do About It. Vienna Letter In New York Tribune. The "sauerkraut war" which is now raging, while it atlords great amusement to the public, has become a source of much trouble and annoyance to the government. The sauerkraut manufacturers of Austria constitute a close corporation or guild, whose charter was granted to them by tho Empress Maria Theresa a centnry and a halt ago. According to tho terms of this document, tho manufacture of sauerkraut is limited to members of the guild in question, who, although wealthy, aro relatively few, and the Austrian appetite for sauerkraut is every year becoming more enoinious. A number of unlicensed niarfacturers have sprung up on all sides, who contemntuously ignore tb& privileges of the guild and turn a denf ear to its protests. Public sympathy, however, is altogether against the corporation, which has used its monopoly to keep up the price of sauerkraut, that pillar of the empire, which is devoured alike in palace and cottage. The guild has been nnable to obtain justice in court, both judge and jury, as consumers of sauerkraut, being alike interested m tho maintenance of a sufheieut supply thereof to meet tho demands of the market, and consequently opposed to tho perpetuation of the monopoly. Tho mem1ers of the corporation have m therefore drawn np a petition, which was "presented to the Emperor by a deputation of "sauerkrauters' a conple of weeks ago. His Majesty now linds himself in a qnandary.. For. while on the one hand popular sympathy is against tho guild, the latter is clearly entitled by the terms of its imperial charter to tho exclusive rights and privileges contained therein. The Razor as a Weapon. Washington Yost. The razor of the barber-shop is a razor. . The gun which the cullud pussun carries is a rozzer or a razzer, as you prefer, and it is it weepun and not a weapon. Down on tho Mississippi, to use it properly yon must swing it clear back to tne handle, grasp its back, and then slash. In Hell's liottom and on de canal tho blade is swung free, and in the hands of tylosis as dangerous at the breech as the muzzle. The advantages of it over tho revolver are exemplified in the laneuage of Col. George M. O. S. Washington, li. A.: Hit air alwus loaded. Hit airquiek on tho dror. Hit never eit ont'n ordah. Hit don't go off in the pocket. Hit know its owner's wissle. Hit bito quick nud nevah bark. t Believes in the Wlndom 11 an. Minneapolis Tribune. Uoth these element tho "silver gang' and the "gold bugs'' are selfishly interested. They are enemies of the monetary and commercial welfare of the country. They ought to bo rebuked with severity by the great producing and commercial inter- . t .1 t l ests luai are so vuun. ojirnt u i-uaiiK" in the purchasing power of the dollar. The representatives of tho new States ought to stand upon tho linn, honest middle ground where we believe that Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio will stand and support a policy that will give us expansion of currency so far as espansiou is safe and desirable, that will rid us of tho reproach of a further cumpulsory coinage of dollars that are scandalously below value, and that will at the same time obviously improve the market for silver. Valuable and Friendly Advice. Brooklyn Eagle (I)em.) It is announced that Associate Justice Lamar, of the United States Supreme Court, has been invit d by an organization in Kichmoud. Va., to deliver tin address upon the career and character of tho late Jelfcrson Havis. It is to be hoped that Mr. Lamar will not accept the invitation. He has a habit of talking talking not wisely, but too much, when ho annexes his mouth and his memory, as working twins, to am subject or any character connected with the late unpleasantness. A Pointer for Mr. Shaffer. Xebranka Journal. Another promising invention has been brought to the attention of stri ct-railway men who are anxious to tind a better motor than horses, tables or electricity. The Cooper Pneumatic Motor Company has been organized to manufacture the new motor and put it in operation on a road in Minneapolis soon after the 1st of January. Engineers who have examined the device say that it is tho most wonderful invention yet made for working street-railway trains. Can I grow mutton profitably three hundred miles from the market! ;sks a correspondent. Well. Kentucky sell more than liO.000 sheep every year in the 15oton market and gets more per pound for th'-m than New England breeders can get lor thus ahecn.