Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 August 1894 — Page 1
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Notice to non-resident land owners of the widening of Green street. Be It remembered, that on the Oth day oT July, 1804, It was ordered by the Common Council of the City of Crawfordsville, Indiana, that the matter of wldeniug Green street from tho south Line of College street to tlic north lineol Franklin street Injeald clt. be referred to the City Commissioners for their action thereon, and that said Commissioners having on Die 3d day of August* 1804, tile 1 a notice In my office that they would meet for tho purpose or hearing evidence and assessing benefits and damages at the office of the Mayor of tho city on Monday, the 14tli day of September, 1804, atOo' toek a. m.
Notice is therefore hereby given to Mary P. Fuqua, Allen T. Frenc, Flora I. French, Aaron H. Ulal*, Jane Dillman, William C. Armentrout and Herman Wray, of the day when said Commissioners will meet to he «i7idonce and take action on the widening of or.ld street.
Witness my hand and the seal ol snid city title 3d day of August, 1804. C.M. SCOTT, ug. 4,-3wd City Clerk.
THEO. McMECHAM, DENTIST,
O.HAWFOllDSVILLK. INDIANA Tenders his service to the public. Motto good work and moderate orlcos."
MORE PLANS FORMED.
Latest Propositions by the House Tariff Oonferrees.
THE SENATE IS STIRRED UP BY HILL,
He Calls Upon the Senate Conferrees te Report the Causes of Disagreement—A Lively Debate Is In
Proflpoct.
THE TARIFF CONFERENCES
WASHINQTOK, Aug. 11.—A crisis in the tariff affairs was reached Friday, both in the open senate and in the seoret councils of the democratic tariff oonferrees. When the conference olosed Friday night It was with tho understanding that the nicotines would be suspended for the present. No time was set for reassembling the conferrees to-day or thereafter, and it was felt that no further sessions might be necessary In case the Senate noted favorably to-day on Senator Hill's resolution directing the senate conferreea to report the situation of affairs.
The house conferreeB determined to aocept all the senate amendments and get the bill baok to the house before the senate oan pass a resolution postponing it. The plan la to have the house conour in all the senate amendments and immediately pass separate bills putting sugar, ooal and iron on the free list. This is the programme. It may not be adhered to any longer than any other programmes that have been agreed upon, but it Is the plan now.
The day opened with the senate proposition for free sugar still pending before the couferenoe. Chairman Wilson and his house associates were satisfied that the tender of free sugar was not made in good faith and they had, therefore, requested the senate conferrees to furnish a poll of tho senate showing that if the proposition were acoepted It would be adopted by the senate and the bill passed. The poll was considered as soon as the conferrees oonvened. Itdisolosed that in the event of the acceptance of the free sugar amendment the bill as a whole would be voted against by thir-ty-eight republicans and by Senators Kyle, Allen and Peffer (populists) and Oaffery and Blanohard (democrats), a total of forty-three votes, or sufficient to defeat the bllL
While the matter was being discussed word reaohed the conference of Senator Hill's coup d'etat In the open sen-, ate. The conference hastily adjourned, the senators going on the floor to take part in the debate.
Another Meeting Held.
At o'clock the conference, or a remnant of it, again assembled, with the Hill resolution and the exciting debate thereon as the main topic among them. All of the houso men were present, but Senator Jones was the only aenate conferreo In attendanoe for any length of time, and it was said Senator Vest felt Indisposed to confer pending the llill resolution. Little or no attempt was made to take up items or schedules, the talk being on the sensational general phases just developed and no progress was made up to 6 o'clock, when the conference separated without fixing a time for reassembling.
The house conferrees no longer disguised the deep concern they felt over tho future of the bill. They had made a rou.^h estimate of the vote on the Hill resolution and they felt it would pass to-day. Under these oircumstances they said nothing could bo done until the resolution was disposed of. If through some hopeful turn it wug defeated, they said, it would leave the conference to proceed and the contest would be carried on for the Wilson bllL If, however. It was passed, it would practically discontinue the conference. In that event, the house men stated with satisfaction, thry would be able to avert the complete failure of all tariff legislation by hav lng the house agree to the senate bill.
In case the senate conferrees are called the house conferrees say they will hold the bill and wait for tho senate to send them other conferrees. 1f the senate does not do so, the house conferrees will of necessity report the facts, the bill and the papers baok to the house for suoli action as it may desire to take.
Senator llill Seeks Light.
In t) iJ ate Senator Hill tried to obtain recognition to offer a resolution calling for information as to the status of the tariff conference, but was temporarily crowded out by other business. While the resolution was lying on the table and had not been rend Senator Gray moved ail executive session. Few senators voted on the viva voce vote and Hill demanded the yeas and nays. The democrats generally voted for the motion. Tho motion was lost—yeas, 81| nays, 82.
Senator Hill's resolution requested the senate oonferrees to report to tho senate the principal Items of disagreement in the tariff bill, and as to whether an agreement was likely to be reached. Senator Harris stated that the main disagreement was on sugar, coal and iron ore. Objections were made to the consideration of the resolution, as It laoked unanimous consent. Senator Hill insisted that it was a proper matter for the consideration of the senate at this time. The vice president decided that under the rules the resolution must lie over for a day.
Vest Talks.
Senator Vest said he was heartily in favor of the resolution. He continued: "When it comcs before the senate I sbull take occasion to make a statement before the senate which can be done without violation of tho confidence of the conference. It Is time. I think, that the calcium light of truth be shed on tho work of tho conferences, that the calumnies and false Issues whloh have been hcaped upon tho confcrence and snut broadcast over the country be dispelled. With this end In view I will, when tho resolution Is considered, speak of the Infamous lies which have been Invented and circulated as to the work of the conferrees on the part of the senate."
Senator Aldrloh executed a flank
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movement by calling up a resolution heretofore offered by Senator Allen. The resolution w%s uplmportant, but It gave Senator Aldvtah the floor and he claimed tho Allen resolution
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morning bustneae. He moved to strike out all after the word resolved, and Insert the resolution of Senator Hill.
Fieroe opposition was made to the consideration of the resolution. Senator Aldrioh said the opponents
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"trying to filibuster It out of sight, when the country wanted the Information."
Senator Mills objected that the amendment wit not Mncui to the resolution, which was for the consideration of a biil for the issue of 9000,000,000 of treasury notes, whloh lad Senator Hill to aaki "Is the amendment not as germane aa it Is for a senator tQ dlsousa tho Chinese question L. a tariff speeoh?"
Senator Mills insisted It would be a breaoh of the rights of the house to direct its conferrees to return the Mil.
Postponed.
At 9 o'olook the resolution and everything pertaining to It went ovfr until jto-day under the rules and the senAte prooeeded to the consideration of executive business.
Wanted to Expedite Hatters.
In explanation of his eourse, Senator Hill said "My objeot In offering the resolution was to expedite the disposition ot the tariff measure. Bvery day's delay la injurious to the beslness Interests of the eountry, and the bill should tp disposed of at onoe one Way or another. It lias now been under consideration in Conference oommlttee for over a month and further delay Is absolutely taMtousablt. The eonfetfees ought to know each other's minds by this time, and if they oannot agree the faot of suoh disagreement should bi reported to the two houses when, if no understanding oan be reaohed upon a bill, oongreaa ahould promptly adjourn and give the oountn a rest. We have now been |p session for nearly whole rear and have had ample opportunity to leglswte. A senator pr member who does not know exootly what he wants to do on the tariff question after all this time spent In useless deliberation Is unfit to represent any constituency.
Some Action Is Needed.
"We have deliberated enough. We want action. Let the two houses take the blU out of the hands of their oonferenoe somiqlttee and proceed to vote at onoe upon the disagreeing provisions, and If no agreement oan bo reached let the whole matter go over until the next session and let oongress adjourn to give the business Interests of the oountry a ohanoe to reouperate from the present depression. Oongress must arouse from its lethargy and should act In aooordanoe with publlo sentiment and not in defiance ot It. Hither pass the tarllf bill at onoe or adjourn and go home. These are my sentiments, and I believe they are the sentiments of nine-tenths of the people of both parties."
OAN'T AGREE.
Conferrees on the Sundry Civil Bill Unable to Beaoli Settlement. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The houso conferrees on the sundry olvll appropriation bill reported baok to the house an agreement upon all of the senate amendments exoept fourteen. Most of these embody radleal new legislation. One is the proposal to glre each of the aridland states 1,000,000 acres of arid publlo lands for reolamatlon, another the appropriation of 9200,000 for government exhibit at the Atlanta exposition, which will probably be satisfactorily adjusted when the bill is recommitted, and a third is the item of 9200,000 to purchase Mahone square as a site for the government printing office, a matter over which the public-buildings committee of both houses are at odds. Other items aggregating 9100,000 for sites In Cheyeynne, Wyo.i Boise City, Idaho Helena, Mont., and Spokane, Wash., are points of disagreement. The house conferrees could not agree to give 96,000 eaah to the heirs of government clerks killed by the falling of the Ford's theater building to the item of 925,000 for a quarantine station at South Port, S. C., and 940,000 for ene at the mouth of tho Columbus river for a resurvey of oertain lands in Nebraska, and the othor prlncipal difference was over an Item of 938,000 for a dry-dock at Pugut sound.
MARCHING ON SEOUL.
An Army of SO.OOO Japanese A(1 vanning on the Capital of Corea. LOBDU, Aug. 11.—Thecorrespondent of the Times at Shanghai telegraphs that 12,000 Japanese troops from Feusan and 8,000 from Yunson are marching toward Seoul, the capital of Coren. The Tsung LI Yaman, tho supremo counoil of the empire, has guaranteed the safety of foreigners in the interior of China.
A dispatch from Shanghui says the Japanese have expelled the Corean operators from all the telegraph offices In southern Corea and have placed their own operators In charge. Danish operators in tho Chinese employ are working the telegraph station in northern Corea. Messages relating to the war are refused by both sides. It is oomputed that China will have 60,000 troops in Corea by the end of September.
SAW FRANCISCO. Aug. ii.—The steamship City of Pekfe, whloh arrived Friday from Hong Kong and Yokohama, dla not have a single Chinese passenger on board. There were only a few Japanese. The Chinese government persists in its refusal to allow any Chinese to leave the oountry.
Mel Death In Singular Manner. CABLTLE, 111., Aug. 11.—Anton Wlonhoff, a oarpenter residing at Oennantown, was killed in a most singular manner. He returned homo at a late hour at nlglit, and In opening the gate he fell, his neck becoming fastened between two pickets. Before he was cxtrlcated he was strangled to death.
A Jud^e Impeached.
MOSTOOMKKY, Ala., Aug. 11.—The supreme court has Impeached Judge John I'. Talley, of the Ninth judicial district, for complloity In the murder of Kobert C. Ross by the Skelton brothers last February. This is the first impeachment of a distrlot judge in the history of the state.
Iteslgned.
NEW YOKK, Aug. 11.—J. W. Reinhart, president and one of the receivers of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway company, has resigned his position. Critiolsm of his administration w«s the cause.
TWO DOZEN DEAD,
Awful Result of tho R&llway Disaster In Nebraska.
CORONER FIKDS TWENTY-FOUR SLAISi
Eleven Other* Were The Victims Bora Before Those Willing But Unable to Resoue Work of
Train* Wreckers.
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LIVCOLN,
Neb., Aug. U.—Twenty-
four dead and eleven lnlured Is the result of Thursday night's frightful dl» aster on the Rojk Island railroad neaf here as reported by the ooroner. The names of the known killed followi
Dr. H. Plnney. Oounoil Bluffsi J. D. Matthswf, commercial man, Omaha Harry Mosroe, Kansas Oltyi Isaao Depew, engineer, Oounoil Bluffs W. O. Hambell, lawyer, Fairbury, feb-l O. D. Stannard, conductor, 9t jpsSphi John Uunger, grain dealer, ptn&ha: H. R. feters, merobant, Counoil Bluff* E. H. ternlke, lawyer, Ltnooln, Neb.| two unknown farmersi five unknown men: Charles unruh, mother and son, Jensen, Neb. A. B, XBdde, merobant. Pawnee, Neb. M. Bearer, meroh^nt. Pawnee, Neb. two unknown farmer* trdm Jsnsen, Neb.
Those marked as unknown are those passengers known to have been on the train by the brakeman and unaccounted for.
I^ate Friday night the remains of Andrew Hensen, a farmer of Mcpherson oounty, Neb., were Identified by a watch found lying In the midst of human bones. All of the bodkis, or parts of those mentioned by name In the list of killed, have been recovered.
Injured.
The injured aret CoL 0. J. Biles, Second regiment, Nebraska national guards. Falrbury, deep flesh wounds In left log Henry 0. Foot, brakeman, Coaucil Bluffs, leg broken Jay MoLiowell. Falrbury, legs cut and foce bruised: 0. H. Cherry, mtill clerk, Kearney, badly bruised and outi F. F. Scott, express messenger, lnjurod Internally. Mrs. Fish, wife of a Burllugton Missouri engineer, badly bruised O. 8. Bell, traveling wan. Llnooln, Internal lnjurlesi J. TD. Puet*. traveling man. Llnooln. internal Injuries! Somrot. passenger, hurt about the head Mrs. Fritz and sister-in-law, Lincoln, bruised.
Supposed Wrecker Arrested. The police have arrested a colored man named Oeorge Davis, who is suspected of wreoking the train. Shortly after the wreck he applied to a haokiman and asked to be driven up-town, saying he had been on the train and lost his ooat. He was seen with S orowbar near the place where tlie wreck oocurred, It ia asserted. Tlie police say they have evidenoe suffloleot to oonvict. His motive is not knowi^
Train No. 8 is an accommodation called "Forth Worth accommodation* and Is due to arrive here at 0:40 p. m. Thursday night It was about ten mlnr utes late and was making up time when it struck the trestle that crosses Salt creek, about 4 miles from the olty and 3 from the penitentiary. When it struck the trestle the rails Immediately spread and the engine, drawing the two cars after it, went thumping along over the crosetlea for about 00 feet and then with crash It fell 40 feet to the bed of the creek below. The engine burst and glowing coals Ignited the wooden supports and the coaches behind it, auc\in a few moments the bridge, dry as tinder from Its long exposure to the sun, was one mass of flames.
Set Fire to the Care.
The ooals falling upon tho coaohes lying In the dltoh set them afire and five minutes after the first warning the entire mass of oars with their load of human freight below was one mass of flames. The engine fell first, then the combination car of smoker and express ooaah followed, partially upon the engine, and the rear coaoh falling upon the combination oar pinioned the unfortunntos who were in the smoker so that it was impossible to save them or for thorn to escape.
Cremated While Held Fast. One victim, whose name will never be known, lay under the tender, tlie upper edge of which restea aoross his thighs, crushing them Into the hard gravel. As Col. Bills approached he begged piteously to be released Mid saved from the flames. Cel. Bills is a man of nerve and deoision, but he was confronted by a terrible alternative. To move the tender was an utter impossibility, and the long tongues of hungry flames were reaohlng out greedily for their victim. For an instant he thought that only one of the man's legs was pinned down and he thought about amputating It Then he saw both were fast, and while he hesitated helplessly for a .moment a gust of wind drove the flames and smoke upon him, blistering his face and scorohlng Ills clothes. Before he oould reoover himself the longflery tongues had wrapped themselves about the body and head of their Intended victim and stilled his screams.
Theories of tho Wreek.
There are two theories as to the wrecking of the train, it being oonoeded that the train was derailed by the removal of the rails for a part of the way aoross the trestle. One theory is that strikers from South Omaha did the work believing that a company of state troops, who were to have boarded tho train at Falrbury, were aboard. The oompany missed connection, however. This Is not aa genrrallv credited as the other—that the element that hts been causing so much trouble in Oklahoma, who are bitter against the Rook Island, did the job, though why they should have come this distance to wreck a train that might have been wrecked nearer home is not explained. The Rook Island officials offer 91.0U0 reward for the capture of the train wreokers.
To Investigate Alabama Election. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Senator Chandler in the senate offered a resolu tlon directing the committee on privileges and elections to investigate the reoent election in Alabama and ascertain if frauds were committed. At Senator Hill's request the resolution went over for one day.
Highest of all in Leavening rower—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE ALL FEEL IT.
The Injury to the Corn Crop Af feots Many Lines of Trade.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC MAY SUFFER.
Oeneral Review of the Iluslness Condition, of the Country—Bradstreet'a Heports indicate Nlgni of Revival—
The Failures.
DUN'S RBV1RW.
NEW YORK, Aug. ll.—R. G. Dun 4
Bradstreet's telegrams from those In 0 position to know as muoh as can be learned In the great oorn growing states are at varlanoe with more sensational dispatches bearing on damage to the corn crop and lndloate that most of the bull views as to thot staple are exaggerated. the lnoreased oorn acreage south and west pointing to a probable crop as large SB either of tho two preceding years, In eaoh of which tho outturn was not more than 6 per cent, below the average for nine years past. Wheat has Jumped 9H oents this wsek In sympathy with corn, and oats IK cents. While hay Is no higher at New York. It and other breadstuffs hi-ve advanced briskly at the west boor.use of aliened .ooarolty of corn
Exports of wheat. United states and C:inBda, both coasts, this woek aggregate A,4l7.U00liusbels. against *,977.000 bushels last wenk. 6.0(18,000 bushels in the week a year afro. 4,140.000 Ijushels tn tho woek two years ago, 6,147,00V bushols In the week throe years ago, and 1.908,000 In tho week four years ago.
The undorlying foots In the speculative situation ure that stocks are (Irmly held and there is a general belief that the settlement of the tariff controversy will tie followed by a speculative movement of considerable force. While the extent of tho damagn to crops from the drought is appreciated there Is at present a disposition to minimize the offeots on the railroads, particularly as ourreut earnings exhibit comparatively small decreases while the actual movement of traffic Is dosorlbed as quite brisk
BASEBALL.
How Professional Games I'layed on Friday Resulted. National league games on Friday resulted as follows: At Chicago—Cleveland, 2 Chloago, 1, (ten Innings). At Brooklyn—Boston, 12 Brooklyn, 0. At Pittsburgh—Pittsburgh, 9 Louisville, 0, At Baltimore—Baltimore, l&l Now York, 8. At Washington—Washington, 4 Philadelphia, 1.
Western league: At Toledo—Toledo, 9 Indianapolis, 0 (game forfeited for non-appearanoe). At MilwaukeeMilwaukee, 18| Sioux City, a. At Minneapolis—Kansas City, 11 Minneapolis, 8.
Western association: At St. Joseph— St Joseph, 8 Qulnoy. S. At Dos Moines—Jacksonville, 4 I)es Moines, S.
Jumped from a Train.
STMATOB, 111., Aug. 11.—Tho wife of John M. MoKahan, of Centerton, Ind., jumped from a Santa Fe train near here, receiving Injuries whloh caused death In two hours. She was on her way home from California. Mrs. MoKahan was slightly demented and had attempted to Jump from the train during the night.
A Murderer Commit* Suicide* NEW YORK, Aug. II.— Charles Miller, S3 years old, confined In the Tombs awaiting trial for the murder of August Ii«?ffler, ai) yld_ watchman In a
Baking Powder
candy store on I riuiltlm Mrcrt. about ten weeks ngo, committed suicide in his cell by cutting his throat with sonic sharp instrument.
(let »»rer to Denver.
OMAHA, Nob., Aug. 11.—The relay bioyolists arrived in Omaha Friday evening at 8tI3 o'clock, just twentysix hours and fifty minutes ahead of the scheduled time.
Death of an Aged Couple.
DEOATUH, 111., Aug. 11.—Wednesday night, half an hour apart, John Frorlet, aged 76. and Mary Froriet, aged T4, husband and wife, died of typhoid fever at St. Mary's hospital
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Co.'s weekly review of trade says: I The advance tn oorn dlsolones a general bo-1 lief that the Injury to this most important crop has been so great as to affeot materially the traffic of railroads, the demand for manu-' factured producta, and the oost of meats for the oomlng years. Unless the markets ileoelve and are entirely deceived our oountry will have to faoe a real oalamlt.v in the loss of something like 600,000,000 bushels of corn and this loss oonsuiners have to share through the advance of 14 cents In two weeks and 0 cents since Friday of last -reek. Neither offlolol nor unofflolal statements as yet preolude the hope I that the lots may prove less serious, but at eurrent prices 1,600,000,000 bushels would onBt£ns
muoh as 2.000,000,000 bushels would have cost ft fortnight ago. Wheat has risen SH cents lu the fortnight and 8Vi during the week, although western reeetpts have been B.K8.128 bushels,
Pork products are a little stronger, as Is natural. Cotton has twice risen and again declined a sixteenth, with Increasing prospects Of a very large yield, dosing without change for the week.
The Iron and Steel Manufacturer records a great lnorease of nearly 80,000 tons In weekly output In July and the production Is 116.840 tons weekly, about 11.000 tons less than In April, but 8,000 tons more than a year ago, when the prostration had nearly reached Its worst. The decrease In unsold stocks was only 8,187 tons for the month, showing consumption In manufacture not }ulte ecual to the present output. Prices sustain this view, having ohanged only In the direction of weakness: the disappointing demand for finished products Is still the main footor.
The failures for the Ave weeks ended August 1 showed liabilities of til,144,718. of whloh 16,8(4,664 were of manufacturing and 16,££0.!M7 of trading ooncerns. The failures during the last week have been 881 In the United States, against 894 last year, uud 84 in Canada, against (5 last year.
What Bradstreat Says.
Bradstreet's says: Elvldenoe oontlnues to aooumulate that the earlier portion of July witnessed tho lowest point In the ebb of the oommerolal tide in the reaotlon after the moderate revival In the spring. The preotloal cessation of Industrial disturbances of the year has emphasised the tendenoy to Improvement reported by telegraph from leading manufacturing and oommerolal centers this week. A further indication of the tendency to improvement is seen in the week's odvanoe of 60 oents per ton for steel billets and In the faot that domoBtlo wool markets to-day are more in favor of the seller than they have been for a year, and that wool Is Arm at the cent advance soored In the last few weeks. ReQned sugar Is cent higher, possibly for reasons not dlreotly connected with questions of demand and supply, but prices of pig iron at St. Louis are higher, and for cotton are 1 1-flo up on reports of damage to the orop and the Improved feeling In commercial olroles south. Panlo and unreasoning speculative Interest In Indian corn has put up the price nearly 8 oents a bushel this week, about 86 oents above low water mark for this year.
OVER THE STATE.
Telographlo Dispatches from Vari. ous Towns in Indiana.
llurglnrx Make A Geiiornl Kulil. AVII.I.A, Ind., Aug. 11.—Burglars made a general raid on this suction Thursday night and secured goods of considerable value. Friday a large posse of citizens carrying all kinds of firearms were scouring the country, and were confident of socuring tlie criminals. A deputy captured one of tlie burglars, but he was rescued by a pal at the point of a revolver. Excitement is high, anil the scene recalls tho old regulator days of Noble county. Friday morning Frank I,eighty, a young man engaged in the search, was struck bv lightning and instantly killed.
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against 8,108,694 last year. Atlantic exports I are still about half as large as a year ago, 1,800,405 bushels, against 8.784.TB4 last year.
Died In Ahjoot Poverty.
KANSAS Crry, Mo., Aug. 11.—John W. Payne, said to have been private secretary to Oov. Morton, of Indiana, who served through tho war as captain of an Indiana regiment, and whose brother, W. T. Payne, Is said to be a prominent banker of Louisville. Ky., died here hYiday, friendless and lu abjeot poverty. lie oame hero from Stoux City, la., six months ago and made few friends, and but one or two knew his real oondltlon. lie rented a small room lu an outlying street and lived alone, lie was subjaot to epileptic fits, and In one of these he died.
Still Out of Prison.
MIINCIE, Ind., Aug. 11.—There is considerable indignation in this city over the fact becoming known that Francis 11. Benadum, convicted of the murder of Lemuel Bailey, is still out of state's prison and Is serving his fifteen years' sentenoe for murder in the Randolph county Jail. Benadum was convicted June 'JU, sen tenood and refused a now trial a few days later, but for some unknown reason Is still in jail at Winchester, whore he was tried on change of venue.
Coru Orop a Fulluro.
VALPARAISO, Ind., Aug. 11.—Tho oorn orop in this couuty will bo nearly a failure because of the drought. Thousands of acres will not even make good fodder, and tho farmers are already cutting it and feeding their stook. The pastures aro burned, and nearly every farmer Is feeding wheat to stock. Tho wheat crop of tho couuty will average thirty bushels and oats sixty bushels per acre.
Five Hundred Dclt'ffitLett to Meet. MUXCIK, Ind.. Aug*. 11.—Muucle is aiready preparing to entertain another big convention. Tho second week in October the northwestern branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary society of the M. Ii. ohurch will hold Its annual convention at the High Street M. K. ohurch In this city. About 500 delegates, representing Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan will bo present. "Seer of White Klvcr."
AMUKHHON, Ind., Aug. 11.—Joseph Mix, of this city, known as "the Seer of White River," has been nailed into the Fonst murder investigation, now in tlie hands of three detectives. Foust was a wealthy farmer who was found murdered in an alley at Elwood one month ago. The doteotivos have been unable to find the murderer and will resort to psychological methods.
All Uanda Fought Fire.
WABASH, Ind., Aug. 11.—Fire from a Wabash railroad locomotive ignited a stubble field near Andrews and the flames spread with suoh rapidity that they threatened the town. The handJul of men fighting the fire wore driven baok and almost the entire population was out striving to check the flames, which burned over hundreds of aores of land and destroyed many hundred rods of fenoes.
Death
of
a Plonaer.
ASDBRSOS, Ind., Aug. Jl-—Word was received frpm Sprlngdaie, Ark., that John Bunt, an old Anderson pioneer physician, had died there at 8 o'clock Friday morning after a short illness. He was MS years' old. In 1860 he was a state senatov, in 1$S4 representative, and in 1808 he was eleoted oounty treas* urer.
First Rain cilice June 20.
COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. Ii.—The thermometer registered luO degrees In tho Shade here lor several hours Friday. Then rain began falling, the first slnco June 80.
A featal Fall.
PBwnimrwri Ir&I 4uf. U-—William Marshall, TyluU painting the roof of
f[l%ss
factory here, fell and was fatally nJv.reU.