Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 January 1894 — Page 1

VOL. YII-NO. 164

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A Happy New Year

To all our friends and customers is the wish of

MIDWINTERand MIDWAY PLAISANCE.

—TO BE—

OPENED JANUARY 23rd

—AT—

Y. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM.

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World Renowned Beauties.

Museum of Startling Wonders and Patent-Applied-For-Novelties. Hagenbeck's Circus,

Ferris Wheel, Old Vienna, Moorish Valace, Irish Village, and

Smith's Addition of Out-Lots.

Without doubt the Midway will be the funniest show ever given in this neck of the woods. Next week we will tell you more about it.

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MUSIC HALL

Saturday, Jan. 13.

Grand and Elaborate Production of the

Black Crook.

The same splendid production that was pre dented to thousands of delighted patrons at the Academy of Muslo, Now Torn, for one entire year.

Elaborate Mounting's, Costly Armor, Trappings, etc.

3 Grand Parisian Ballets. Huge and Marvelous ArtisticScenery. A Host of European Specialties. A Superb Dramatic Cast. 3 Bewitching Premiers, 00 Beautiful and Lithesome Coryphees, and the

Superb Tranformation Scene. PRICES—35,

50 and 75 cents

MOHONROOIK.

2:18 a.m Night Express 1:50 a.m Passenger t:40p,m 1:00p.in 2:50 p.m Local Freight. 9:15 a.m

BIG 4—Peoria Division.

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'NEATH ICY WATERS.

A Small Boat Capsized in Baltimore Harbor.

SIX SAILORS LOSE THEIR LIVES.

A Bridge Over a Long Inland Stream Col. lapses, Throwing Many Into the Water—Seven Persons Misting Many Uurt.

ALL BUT THKEE DROWNED. BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 18.—The heavy gale has cost six lives in this harbor. About a. m., while the white caps were running so high that a steamer could hardly rido them, a signal of distress was heard, and the search light revealed three men struggling in the forbidding waters. They wore all who were left of a party of sailors who, accompanied by a ferryman, left the foot of Broad way to cross over to Locust Point. Their boat was swamped before they had gone 600 yards, and five of the sailors, and it is supposed the ferryman also, sank before the police boat could reach them. The three rescued men were taken to the city hospital. The names of five of the lost men are: Neal Finlayson, William B. Nelson, Robert J. Wilson, John Hughes and Peter Safranski. The drowned men, except the ferryman, were from England. They were of the crew of the Meraca and had been on shore leave. The rescued say the boat was a small one and that the nine men loaded her down until the gunwales were almost even with the water.

Down with a lSrldge.

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Into the chilly waters of Newton creek a hundred men and boys without warning were plunged late Friday afternoon by the breaking of a flimsy wooden bridge. In the struggle for their lives that followed no one can now tell how many of them ware swept away to death by the tide. The first accounts were that many of them wore missing, but most of these had been accounted for at midnight and many a family that had first feared lest it be fatherless or brotherless rejoiced in the safety of those that had been near to death. lif! Minting.,

The following, all of Brooklyn, are reported missing: Barney Boyle, Aujrust Blum, Robert Link, Patrick Kelly, John Kerwin, Michael Logan and Hugh Mackey.

The Injured.

The injured are: Timothy Gannon, suffering from shoclt and wound in left ankle: John McAvoy, leg broken: John Toomey, suffering from shock A score or more slightly Injured.

The Brldgo Collapses.

The draw had been opened for a couple of tugs and one of them had become fastened in the opening. The people, anxious to be first in crossing when the draw closed, crowded upon the stationary span and overtaxed its strength. The accident caused great excitement in the neighborhood, and many who were waiting on the shore to get across lost their self control to such an extent as not to be able to assist those strugling in the water for their lives. The unfortunate people in most instances were left to scramble out as best they could.

In Ten Feet of Water.

The tide was slow and had just turned, but there was still a depth of 10 feet of water, and in this the struggling mass of humanity was thrown amid the wreckage of the fragile structure. Some of the cool ones on the shore threw pieces of wood to serve as buoys to those struggling in the water. At last the ropes with which the fallen span had once been swung were cut away and used in dragging the unfortunates out of the stream. It was several minutes before any of them were taken ashore. Only a few of them were able to help themselves by swimming, and these were dragged back and down by those who could not The fortunate coming of two tug boats was all that served to avert a greater disaster. These were the J. W. Cloud and the Couklin. Many of those in the water supported themselves by the floating timbers of the fallen bridge, keeping themselves afloat until they were dragged on board the tugboats.

A Young Lady's Good Work. Miss Annie Foley, 20 years old, whose father keeps a road house on the Brooklyn shore of the bridge, heard the cry of those in the water, and looking from a window saw them struggling for their lives. She picked up a carving knife, ran into the back yard, cut off part o' a clothes line, and then ran to the shore. She threw one end of the line into the water and tied the other end to a pile. Four men climbed up this rope and were saved by this girl's determination. Her father rescued three men. His son Michael rescued two.

The accident happened at a place notorious as the scene of man}' disasters. It is just outside of Long Island City, at the southwestern corner of Calvary cemetery, near where the accident occurred on the Long Island railroad last August, when many lives were lost in a railroad collision.

Who Is to Ulame?

The firm of Dean & Westbrook, of No. 136 Liberty street, this city, were the builders of the temporary bridge and upon them may fall the blame, if upon anyone, unless it is to be upon the unfortunates themselves who were plunged into the creek in the wreck It is true they had been warned not to crowd in too great numbers upon the structure, but no means were provided to prevent them doing so. The structure that collapsed was made of wood and was built as a foot bridge for the use of pedestrians while the new iron bridge is being built.

Freuoh Losses S80.000. '.-'v

CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—French exhibitors at the world's lair now state their losses by the recent fire will amount to over $80,000. Their losses are largely covered by insurance, but the French companies have already entered a protest against payment.

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL.

CRAWFOKDSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1894

A NEW COMPLICATION.

It Is Claimed That Willis Mode His Demand Without Authority. WASHINGTON, Jnn. 18.—The constitutional lawyers of the house have detected an interesting legal complication in connection with the Hawaiian situation which may result in bringing in question the authority of Minister Willis to make a demand on President Dole to retire. Up to December 18 last President iCleveland and the executive branch of the government were directing the course of Hawaiian affairs. But on that day Mr. Cleveland's message was sent to congress, stating that he would turn over the subject to the broader authority of congress and would thereafter cooperate in any Just solution which congress might propose.

The president's course in turning the subject over to congress was undoubtedly communicated to Minister Willis at once with instructions for non-ac-tion. No steamer left this country for Hawaii nntil December 19, so that the president's conclusion to leave the subject with congress could not have reached Minister Willis until December 26.

Under these circumstances there is a hiatus of eight days from December 18 to 25, during which the authority of Mr. Willis to act was most obscure. It happened that the date on which Minister Willis made the demand on President Dole to retire was December 19. President Cleveland had already given tfie subject "to the broader authority of congress."

Under these, circumstances the lawyers of congress are asking as to the authority of Minister Willis to act during the hiatus, and particularly as to the validity of his action on December 19, after congress had received authority to direct his actions.

Judge Culberson, ehairman of the judiciary committee and an authority on legal questions, said that Minister Willis was bound by early instructions until he received notice that they were changed. It made no difference, he said, that the president turned over the subject- to congress on December 18, as this fact did not become known to Minister Willis until December 20. so that up to the latter date he had authority to execute his early instructions.

GIVEN A SET-BACK.

Action of the Committee Against an Income Tax Clause. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The ways and means committee, by a vote of 6 to 5, decided to report the measure known as the Wilson bill free from the in-come-tax clause. However, the com mittee agreed to send an income-tax bill to the house.

This conclusion was reached at the meeting of the committee by a ate of 6 to 5. Those who voted in the affirmative were: Messrs. Wilson (dem., W. Va.), Breckinridge (dem., Ky.), Stevens (dem., Mass.), Oocltran (dem., N. Y.), Montgomery (dem., Ky.) and Bynum (dem., Ind.). Messrs. Bryan (dem., Neb.), McMillin (dem., Tenn.), Tarsney (dem., Mo.), Turner (dem., Ga.) and Whiting, (dem., Mich.), opposed the proposition. It was believed, however, that the incorporation of the in come tax feature in the tariff bill would seriously endanger the fate of the latter and this consideration was sufficiently potent to receive the support of the majority of the committee.

It was further decided to report the internal revenue bill on Thursday next No suggestion was made looking to any increase in the whisky tax beyond that already agreed upon by the commit tee nor is any likely to be made.

Found Rich (}o)d Ore.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Col., Jan. 13. Ore has been struck in Bell Mountain tunnel which assays tl,000 to 110,000 per ton. The tunnel site was located in 1861, and the owners claim that under the decision of the courts of Colorado they have a priority right to all the veins located upon the surface subsequent to their location. The tunnel as driven through the mountain, would cover fifty veins, but the rich ore is from an unknown vein which had not been located upon the surface.

Machine Shops Burned.

JKITSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 18.—The Erie railway machine and repair shops took fire Friday night from a spark from a locomotive and in less than an hour nothing was left of two large buildings and the machinery and patterns and seven freight and three pas senger cars. Three two-story frame buildings near by, occupied by Poles, also were burned. The loss is (65,000. One hundred and fifty men are thrown out of work by the fire.

Redwlne Gets biz Years.

ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 18.—Louis Redwine, who was convicted in the United States court for embezzling (103,000 front the Gate City national bank, was to-day sentenced to six years'imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary. Redwine made no statement other than that he had no money, not even enough to pay his lawyer's fees.

Post Office ICobbed.

MASCOUTAH, 111., Jan. 18.—Burglars forced an entrance into the pobt office and the Carson jewelry store at Ashley Thursday night A small amount of money, a large quantity of' postage stamps, pension checks and 200 letters were stolen. There Is no clew.

Gen. Alger Will Not Ruu.

DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 18.—The Tribune will publiEh a letter from Gen. Iiussell A. Alger, in which he declines to be considered a candidate for United States senator. He states that the declination is in the interest of party harmony.

Cuts Her Throat with Scissors. BOONE, la., Jan. 18.—Mrs. William Rasclilce, aged over 70, committed suicide by cutting her throat with a pair of scissors. Grief over her son, who has been indicted for forgery, led to the act

For Four New 8tates.

WASHINGTON,Jan. 18.—The executive committee of the republican national committee adopted resolutions favoring the admission into the union of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

AT A MOBS HANDS.

The Author of a Brutal Crime in Ohio Lynched.

MURDER OF AS OLD COUPLE AVESGfcu

Roscoe Parker, a Young Negro, Taken from Jail at West Union, O., and Hanged —HI* Body Is Riddled with Bullets.

LYNCHING IN OHIO.

WEST UNION, O., Jan. 18. Roscoe Parker, a shiftless colored boy of 16 years, was lynched early Friday morning for the murder four weeks ago of Pit Rhine and his wife, an aged couple living at West Union, who were murdered in their cabin for •10—all they had. A heavy club and a butcher knife had been used. The throats of the aged couple were cut from ear to ear, aud the murderer had fearfully beaten the bodies with a bludgeon. Roscoe Parker was examined by the coroner and remanded to jail, where he was reported to have made several confessions. The people gathered to lynch him, but the officers took him to Portsmouth jail. Thursday Parker was brought to West Union for a preliminary hearing, all talk of a mob seemingly having died out.

Taken from Jail.

The mob formed out of town in a quiet aud business-like way and the members were, it is said, all good citizens and taxpayers. Late at night, having left a guard over the vehicles that had brought the country people in, the mob moved oft like a regiment of soldiers. Sheriff Dunlap saw the masks and bolted the doors of the jail. The door was beaten in and Parker, half-clad, leaped to the top of the cell and fought the mob back. He was quickly overpowered and was started for the wagons. The sheriff harangued the mob, but to no purpose.

Uanged and Shot.

Quickly the procession drove to a point near North Liberty. The party formed in double rank and the murderer, with pinioned arms, was taken out and hurried to where a long limb reached out over an embankment A rope was fastened to the limb, passed about Parker's neck and then a score of hands hauled away. Suddenly one hand burst from its bonds and seized the rope above his head. He was quickly lowered, the arm refastened, and again the body shot upward. A shot was fired and soon a dozen pistols were sending lead into the writhing body.

DEATH OF G. W. LYON.

The Famous Musician Passes Away In Florida. CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—George Washburn Lyon, of Chicago, the noted dealer in music, is dead. At 1:80 o'clock Friday morning at the Windsor hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., Mr. Lyon breathed his last after an illneBS of nearly three months. Death was due to dropsy. [George Washburn Lyon was born in July, 1425, at.Northboro, Mass. At the age of 18 he went to Boston and entered the store ot H. Keith, a music dealer. Later he engaged by Oilver Dltson & Co., where his fleld of usefulness was greatly enlarged, From there he went to the house of H. Tolman & Co. E. ,K. Eaton was his teacher In the use of brass In strumenta, while from Apthomas he received instruction on the harp, from Nolceinla on the piano, and under the supervision of Herr Friedman he mastered the violin. In the summer of 1884 he came to this city from Boston, asoompanicd by Patrick J. Healy, and within a few weeks they formed the partnership of Lyon & Healy for the sale of musical Instruments of all kinds. While the name, as a Hade mark, still stands, the firm was dissolved In 1889. Mr. Lyon retiring to Join W'lll'am Stclnway & Sons, of New York, and E. A. Potter In organizing the house of Lyon, Potter & Oo. with whioh he remulned to the time of his death]

CRONIN'S KNIVES.

Mate Witness Against Dan Coughln Produced In Court. CHICAGO, Jan. 13 —Two pocket-knives which once belonged to Dr. Cron were brought to bear mute witness against "Dan" C-oughlin Friday. The state put forward one of the strongest links in its chain of circumstantial evidence. Detective Barney Flynn, who placed Couglilin under arrest, searched his prisoner, and in one of his trousers pockets found two knives which were afterward identified by Mr. Conklin as having been the property of Dr. Cronin. Flynn on Fri day told the circumstance of finding the knives in Coughlin's pocket Assistant State's Attorney Bottum produced a four-bladed, pearl-handled knife and a smaller knife with a tor-toise-shell handle. These the witness said were the same that he had found on Coughlin. The evidence in this di rection was completed with the estab lishment of the fact that the knives had belonged to Dr. Cronin by the statement of T. T. Conklin.

Excitement Causes Death.

TIFFIN, 0., Jan. 18.—The residence of M. D. Shetterby, an old soldier, near AVest Lodi, was burned Thursday night and in the excitement Shetterby dropped dead of heart disease.

Sent Back to rilling,

CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—The bleached bones of twenty-eight Chinese, temporarily buried here, were packed in a tin box, hermetically sealed, and shipped to the flowry kingdom.

Choked to Death.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 18.— Frank Chapman, of Clyinan, Wis., aged 77, choked to death on a piece of beefsteak he wa trying to masticate in a restaurant

Hanged.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 18.—Samuel Welsor was hanged hero Friday for the murder of an abandoned woman. He had admitted the killing.

Kobbed a Safe.

DANVEIIS, 111- Jan. 18.—bnrglars blew open the safe in Joseph Parkhurst's jewelry store in this city and secured $1,000.

Rejected.

DENVER, COL, Jan. 18.—Gov. "Waited proposition to make foreign coins legal tender in Colorado waa rejected by th« legislature.

Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report

JERRY SOLD COAT.

Ueed by Congressman Simpson as an Object Lesson.

absollttely pure

WHAT THE POOR OF AMERICA WEAR.

He Calls It "A Product of American Protection"—Favorable Report to Bs Made on Bland's Bill to Coin the Seigniorage.

||Mil. SIMPSON'S OBJECT LESSON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The important tariff speeches Friday were made by Mr. Payne (N. Y.), one of the leaning republican members of the ways and means committee Dr. Everett, the Massachusetts mugwump, and Mr. Jerry Simpson, the Kansas populist. Mr. Simpson created the sensation of the day.

He Speaks for Free Trade. Mr. Simpson said that white he intended to vote for the Wilson bill there were many provisions in it which he did not approve of. "The people's party," said he. "stands on a platform pledged, as I interpret it, to the principle of free trade. What 1 say here in the discussion of this bill shall be from the standpoint of a free trader."

He believed that the cause of evil times can be easily discovered if gentlemen would divest themselves of party prejudice. It had not come suddenly, but had been the result of causes which began far in the past and would have come long ago had it not been for the wonderful resources of the country and the wisdom and industry of the people. The intolerable burden put upon the agricultural* classes through the indirect system of taxation had been one of the potent causes which had produced the present condition ot affairs. The farmers of the country in 1850 owned 60 per cent of the wealth, S3 per cent in 1860,40 per cent in 1880 and 80 per oent in 1800.

Teaching an Object Lensoa. It was at this juncture Mr. Simpson created great applause and amusement by treating the house to an object lesson by use' of a dilapidated overcoat He proposed to show the house exactly what the poor people of the country did wear. Reaching down under his desk he seized a tattered old overcoat, fringed at the edge and bespangled with great patches. He held it on high, while the house aud the galleries cheered. "1 bought that of a farmer," said he, "who told me he had left home at 12 o'clock at night and driven 85 miles to sell his products in your boasted home market. There, as Mr. Cleveland said, is an object lesBon. [Laughter.] "There is a sample of what men wear under the beneficient system of protection," he continued. "It Is made of shoddy and rags. See?"

Here he ripped it up the back. "Yet he added, "1 can find its duplicate on the backs of a million men in this country. "Where did he buy it?" asked Mr. Cannon (rep., I1L). "He bought it a year ago in this city for S8, and bought him another shoddy coat to take its place for 110.40.° [Laughter.] "Is it American or imported?" asked Mr. Cannon. "1 don't know," replied Mr. Simpson. "I don't care but it is the product of American protection. No one jan deny that." [Laughter and applause.]

Mr. Simpson concluded with an appeal to the people to ring out the old aad ring in the new order of things. Many members tendered him their personal congratulations when he sat down.

Mr. Daniels (rep., N. Y.) argued against the bilL Mr. McDowell (rep. Pa.) followed, and Mr. Meiklejohn (rep., Neb.) closed the debate for the afternoon session in opposition to the bill.

The Tariff Debate.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Mr. Reed (rep.. Me.) will close the tariff debate for the republicans on the afternoon of Saturday, the 27th Inst Mr. Wilson (dem., W. Va.), chairman of the ways and means committee, will perform a similar service for the democratic majority. The vote on the bill will be taken Monday, the 29th Inst

To Coin the Seigniorage.

WASHINGTON,

Jan. 18.—The bill of

Representative Bland (dem., Ma) directing the secretary of the treasury to coin the silver seignorage now In the treasury, was favorably acted upon by the committee on coinage Friday. The vote on reporting the bill was 9 to 8. The affirmative rote was all democratic, with the exception of Representative Sweet The negative vote was republican, with the exception of Messrs. Tracey, Harter and Raynor.

Its Provisions.

[The Bland seigniorage bill aa agreed on, Streets the secretary of the treasury to immediately issue silver certificates of current denominations up to the amount of the seignior* age now in the treasury, viz., tM.lW.Ml. These certificates are to be at onoe available pay current government expenses. The selgn. forage is to be coined as fast as possible to redeem the certificates, A further provision is added that the remainder of the silver bullion purchased under the act of July 14, 1800, shall be oolned into silver dollars and the coin held In the treasury for the redemptlou of treasury notes Issued in the pufohase of said bullion. Tbe notes presented for redemption shall not be reissued, but shall be canceled and destroyed In amounts equal to the ooln held at any time in the treasury, and silver certificates may be Issued on such ooln In tbe manner now provided by law.

PRICE 2 CENTS

OVER THE STATE.

Telegraphic New* from Various Towns In Indiana.

Still at I^rge.

MITOCKM., Ind., Jan. 18.—Sherman Waggoner, the Martin county wife murderer, is still at large and a telegram Friday from Shoals says that there is no immediate prospect of his capture. He is armed with two revolvers and a repeating rifle and he is supposed to be in hiding in the hills. Waggoner was accused of causing the death of one or more ot his children and his wife prosecuted him for brutality. She then left him and returned to her father's. Waggoner followed and deliberately shot her dead.

Murder at a Revival.

MOUNT VERNON, Ind., Jan. 18.--At a revival at Millersville, near here, a fatal affray occurred Thursday night William Rolfenberger and Marsh Duckworth, leaders of rival gangs of toughs, met at church. After services a general fight occurred and Duckworth received a seven-inch slash in the head and was stabbed in the breast^ the knife penetrating the left lung. Duckworth lived but a short time. Koffenberger eacaped.

Acquitted of Murder.

VINCKNNKS, Ind., Jan. 13. —John B. Kirk, who shot and iustantly killed Luther M. Smith, his brother-in-law, in the house of Smith last March, was acquitted of the charge of murder by the verdict of the jury Thursday. It is believsd that Kirk acted in self-defense. When discharged by the judge Mrj Kirk smiled and silently left the room, lie has been out on bond since the day following the killing.

Victim of Highwaymen.

POLAND, Ind., Jan. 18.—John McMillan, a well-to-do stock-buyer living near this place, was assaulted Thursday night and robbed of about 1300 lu money. He was on his way home and was just entering the dark Polaud bridge over Eel river when two masked men sprang from the dark recess of the bridge and attacked McMillan wiljh a knife and club, probably fatally wounding him.

Poet OIBcs Bobbad.

BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 18.—The post office at Cory, this county, w'as broken into by burglars Thursday night and robbed. Tbe large safe was blown to pieces and $182 worth of stamps and a large sum of money were secured. Rev.' Mr. Boon, of the Methodist church, deposited a sum of money in the safe Thursday evening for safe keeping and it was taken.

Man Shot by a Highwayman. OAKLAND CITY, Ind., 18.—While on his way home Thursday Ed McAtee, living 4 miles north of here, in Pike county, was attacked by Berry Deprey and shot six times. McAtee had considerablc money, and it is thought Deprey attempted to kill him and secure it Every shot took effect and McAtee. cannot recover.

Arretted for Murder.

RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 13.—Patrick Duffy, wanted at Muncie, Ind., for the attempted murder of Michael Shay, was arrested here Friday. He has successfully eluded the officers for some months and was taken greatly by surprise, but offered no resistance.

Employment to the Needy*

KOKOMO, Ind., Jan 18.—The city council, acting with the county commissioners, has adopted a plan to give work to the unemployed factorymen. All roads leading into the city will be widened and the city park will be improved.

Indicted for Murdor.

MADISON, Ind., Jan. 18.—Albert Smith, who one year ago last September killed James Starling in this city, the grand jury refusing to Indict then as self-defense was alleged, has now been indicted for murder and arrested.

Knight* of Pythias.

VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. 18.—The officers of the Knights of Pythias lodge of this city have received notice that a convention of tlie Knights of Pythias of Indiana has been called to meet in this city Thursday, January 26.

Two Mora Arrest*.

TERBF. HAUTE, Ind., Jan. IS.—'The arrest of Harry Hamill, superintendent of the workhouse, on a charge of robbing a drunken man of $200, has been followed by the arrest of King and Lowry, two companions.

Four Aged Persons Pass Away. VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. 13.—Mrs. Ullon, aged 55 years Mrs. Elizabeth Groth, aged 70 years Charles Johnson, aged 73 years, and John Carlson, aged 60 years, all old residents of this county, died Friday.

Throw. 000 Meu Out. of Work. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 18.—The eiglay polishers in the plate glass factory here struck l' riday because of reduced wages and increased time. This closes other departments, throwing 500 people out of work.

Kxprew Agent Kolihed.

MARION, Ind., Jan. 18.—J. B. Hicks, express agent in this city, was robbed of #600 by burglars. The money was secreted in many pluces about the house.

Gen. Torres, of Mexico, has asked Gen. McCook to cooperate with him in suppressing the border troubles.

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