Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 December 1894 — Page 1

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ISM

It Is Not

Ross Bros,

Too early to select Christmas Presents.

New goods coming in all the lime. Call see what you can get at reasonable prices.

M. C. KLINE,

Jeweler and Optician.

—at tiip:—

Neckwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Umbrellas, Canes, Plush Caps, Children's Caps, Silk Suspenders, Silk Handkerchiefs, Linen Handkerchiefs Smoking Jackets, Bath Robes, Mufflers.

AMERICANS

The Most Appreciated Gift

-Second Store,

W.K.WALLACE

Agent for the Coonectleut Fire Insurance Co., ot Hartford. American Fire Insurance Co., of New York, Glni'd Fire Insurance Company, of Plilltu

Iphln, Undon Assurance C'orp'Tatiou.

of T/onuoii. Grand Knplds hire Insurance Co., of Michigan.

Oftico in .loci Hlock with K. K. Bryant, South Wash. St. Crawfordsville.

line to select from. See the

display in our show win

dows.

The American.

vV'e 'vill continue our R»d Figure Sale and added to the ile our entire line of Overcoats. Take advantage

of this opportunity.

The American.

Wholesale and Retail One-Price Clothiers, Tailors, Hatters and Furnishers. Corner of Main and GieenSts.

IIEAIHJUAKTEUS FOR lOHACCO AX It riOAllS.

VOL. VII—NO. 130-' UKAWFOUDSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY,

and

is'something that is us fill,

and a selection made from

our immense line of'holiday

goods will be acceptable to

any gentleman. We have

prepared for you a large

Hello 99c Store! Hello SantaCfaus! What Is it?

Why. do you know tImi Christina* is utmost hero itjmln and that I has lots of wi.: to do'/ I wiM -e FT jrtnr More us UMIHI llu« joif and have more presents than ever for the elnhlreo. Did you reeovcthe eurloud of toy? thai sent ou lu«*t week:

V«s, hut wjiui (-hall we do with them all? hy. 'here are doPs. 'IMIIIIS. mnncs, books. sand don't knowwi.^t ail--enough for nil th children in Indiana.

I» with them? Why, ihev re tor tlie ehll dren of CnuvlonUvHIe and Montgomery eounty. 1 (Mend to |fivt' tlwin more presents Imu ever this M/ur. Hut 1 mut. hurry us I have lots ol'work dn. I whl *end yon mother eurload l" tc.ys U.-ilny ai-.d ill be ut your store tn.t If in short inn ll all ihe ehll iren to come uml M'i» Jitr, •»ve. 0*-\\,\ Santa Cli.llrt

Everything you wat and at way clown ptict s. New Furriuire a Specialty. Opposite City Building.

STEPHENSON & HOLLIDAY.

99e Store

CAMPBELL,

]5oot and Shoe Maker and Repairer",

104 South Green Street,

ist Door South Elston's Bank.

BURIED L\ A BOX.

Discovery of a Horribly Brutal Murder in Chicago.

VICTIM'S BODY IIACKK!) WITH AN AX.

A Janitor Slaughtered, Ills Hrnmini 1'ut Into a l'K'ktiiK-('itM» »iul Dumped Into Sidewalk Hole—ArreMt of the rrohahto MurdererH.

CIIK'AON, Deo. 8.—A. 1). Darnes, who was employed as janitor of the Hiawatha apartment building, 25S East Thirty-seventh street, was murdered in, a shockingly brutal manner Thursday night in the basement of the building, nod an elaborate effort was made by his slayer and accessories after the fnet to conceal the crime by hiding

the hacked and mutilated corpse in a hole under the sidewalk on South I'ark avenue, just south of the elevated railroad tracks on Sixty-third street.

SnsjM-rlH Arrested.

The packing case in which the bloody remains were hidden was discovered Friday morning

and every

person, except, perhaps, one woman, who is .suspected by the police to have had any knowledge of the crime is under arrest. The circumstantial evidence so far secured against Edmund Jordan, the assistant janitor at the Hiawatha Hats, is said to be of the strongest character.

The persons who are in the Woodlawn police station charged with the murder, complicity in the disposal of the body, or held as material witnesses are: Edmund Jordan, assistant janitor, Hiawatha 1lats, the alleged murderer John llenson Jersey, alia* "New Jersey,*' a boon companion of Jordan and the man who is suspected of bein on the wagon with Jordan A. U. Winslade, engineer and fireman of a Hat building

at H744 Rhodes avenue

Mrs. Andrew K. Winslade, bis wife, who is said to have been intimate with Harnes Annie Mahoney, mistress of llarnes. who loaned him §150 and did not get it back: Mrs. Edmund Jordan, wife of the alleged murderer, who is said to have been unlawfully intimate with Harnes.

The Motlxi*.

It is in evidence against Jordan and Jersey that they met shortly after the time the murder is supposed to have been committed and that Jordan said to him that the "job was done and it did not take him an hour to do it." This meeting" was in a saloon near the scene of the murder. As to the motive of the deed the police say that 1

Sanies

received his month's pay Thursday and no money can be found in his bloody clothes or in the iixihcmeut where the man met his death. 'Hob bery on the part of Jordan, \'ho was a good-for-nothing fellow, may have been one of the motives. Then there was the relationship which is said to have existed between the murdered janitor and the wife of the supposed murderer in chief. That may have prompted Jordan to strike the cowardly blows with the nx. But the police believe more titan anything else that Jordan wanted to pet rid of Uarr.es for the sake of {retting* his job, and tiia in this view of the case his pal. Jersey, was willing- to aid iu hit!ing the body, and as a reward be installed by Jordan as his assistant.

Ttu» Evidence,

As for the circumstantial evidence which the detectives have woven around the neck of Jordan during* the brief time since the discovery of the body, it can be said that the clothes which the murdered janitor wore Thursday night, all cut. and covered with blood, were found in the basement hidden. The bloody ax with which Harnes life was taken was also found secreted in the same place. Ked stains were detected on the floor of basement of the Hats in front of the furnace. This indicates that .1 lames did not die without a struggle. Then the packing* ease in which the body was pressed was recognized as having

been used, in

the basement for the receiving* of rubbish (low Ho Wi\n Killed.

Jordan was the first, person to identify the body of his supposed victim after the police had removed him to the morgue and he immediately fell under the suspicions »jf the police. He had been employed in his position onl3 three mouths and there is little known about him that is good. An effort was made to hide the bloodstains on the fioor of the basement and walls by sprinkling fine ashes over the spots. It is believed that liarnes was struck from behind by an axon the head, fracturing* his .skull and his body doubled up in the box, which was then carried from the basement into the back yard nnd lifted over the fence by Jordan. Jersey and probably another man, as the load was almost too heavy for two. The clothes were first removed and the body wrapped in odd pieces of eat pet. The police have not been able to find out yet where the horse and wag*on was taken from, but they are sure no expressman was hired for the purpose of removing* the body to Woodlawn. The Mahonev woman and Harnes had severed their former relations on account- of his failure to return the SIM) loaned.

Don't Itclieve MIKH Hrand.

CINCINNATI', Doc. H.—The police ofllcinls discredit the story »f Miss Josephine .Brand, of Lawrcneeburtf, I ud., who claimed to have beeu robhed of $10,000 in csish on Thursday. Miss ISrnnd is defendant in lawsuit filed by her sister to £ot her share of this *ainc *10,000, nnl it is I the theory of the police that she has transferred her money to another bank and g*iven out her sensational storv for a purpose.

Cut 11 IN OWII Throat.

1'i itr Iml Dec. S.--James Kcafer, ttjfed r»o venrs, a farmer living near here, lulled himself by cutting his throat with a razor.

THE CRAW FORDS VILLE JOURNAL.

COUNT DE LESSEPS DEAD.

DtitIn^'dHlied French riimtieter nnd IIlfine«»r 1'HMPK AWUY. I'AHIS, Dec. 8.- to ^HT Ferdinand de Lesseps, who has been one of the most prominent characters in France for more than a quarter of a century, is dead. The end of his life came after a protracted illness, induced and aggravated by the severe strain to winch

FKKIUNANH 1K 1.KSNKP8.

the distinguished man was subjected during* the Panama canal scandals, trials and results. (Ferdinand Marie, Viscount do hessops. wns bora in Versailles. November 11. 1*05. He received his early education in Paris, but Mulshed it with his father, a consular ayrnt. and lived with him In Philadelphia iu lHiy-22 He WHS eou-»u!ar iiijcnt ut Lisbon la 1S." to 18*-?. and seryud nftprwwrds at. Tunis. Alexandria, Cairo, Kotterduiu, Malaga and Barcelona. He wus then appointed KUCoesslvoly minister to Spain and to Home. While on a visit to Kuypt la 185-4 he disclosed tin' project of a Sue/ canal to Said Pasha and two years later secured the desired concession. The c.uial was opened for steamers of liidit draught In IstlY and the full plans were carried to completion in IBM, Since ls7:t Count de Losst-os has concentrated his attention to the J'anama canal. was In 187f that de Less"\) inaugurated the'movement that culminated In the canal conprress of ls?i' and the adoption of the scheme for uniting the Atlantic and l'aeillc at the isthmus of Panama. Prom the begin r:inK the atred eu^ineer and diplomat seems to have been as badly deceived and victimised. :is the publto. l.yiutf circulars were ls««ui-d. and the Paris and Panama papers were-indueed to aid in the deception of Investors.. The magic of the name of de I.esseps caused the thrift,y peasantry all over Prance to open their woolen stockings, nnd. gold poured into the Panama treasury in a flood. The story t' the.extravagance and corruption which followed i- still tresh in the public mind. It constitutes one of the most disgraceful, as well as one of the most gigantic swindles in history.

At lhe time the exposure came the actual cost of the completed fraction of the canal variously estimated at one-fourth, one-fifth and one-tenth-- was *200 0J0 000. more than double the ilrst estimate of the eutire work The money had gone into extravagant and useless outlay and into the pocket of the conspirators and those of leading Ftitcsjrien and journalists in Paris. There was not sntMcient evidence that either de Leseps or his son had received any of the money in tv corrunfc way. but to satisfy the public rage both were convicted, although the sentence agaiust de Lesseps, Sr.. was never carried out. 1

IN THE HOUSE.

A Synopsis of Frtday'n Crooopdln^w -Forestry Hill UtscuBsod. WASHINGTON,

Dec.

DECKM13KH

—There was no

session of the senate on Friday, that body having* adjourned on Thursday until Monday.

Anion# the executive communications laid before the house was one from the secretary of the treasury submitting* an estimate for an addi tional appropriation to meet the expenditures of the civil service commission for the year ending* June 80. isu.'i. A favorable report from the committee on judiciary was made by Mr. Childs (rep.. 111.) upon the sen ate bill authorizing* the appoint incut of an additional judge for the Seventh judicial circuit. On mo lion of Mr. Hansen (rep.. Wis.) the second Saturday in January, beginning* at 'J o'cloeU.was ordered to be set aside for-the delivery of eulogies upon the life of the late representative. leorg*e Shaw, of that state.

A bill to protect the public forest reservations was discussed for an hour, but no conclusion was reached by the house. The house adjourned at 5 o'clock.

During the course of his remarks ii opposition to the forestry bill, Mr Wells (dem., Wis.) jjrew excited. The pine-land thieves of Michigan and Wisconsin, he declared, had #rown rich on their plunder, and had then bought seats both in this house and the other. He would not permit the pftople of this country to be plundered of mil lions of dol lars* worth of timber. Ilea]) pealed to members of the house not to permit these thieves to g*o into the for ests with the disguised purpose of cutting' only dead and matured timber He challenged any advocate of the bill to show aline In it designed to protec* mid preserve the public forests. When Mr. Wells took his seat Chairman MeUae amse and indignantly donied that there was any land ring or association behind this hill.

Took Only ®1,300.

O MAHA, Neb., Dec. 8. —President 12. M. Morsman, of the Pacific lCxpre*s company, said Friday that his advices are that the amount taken iu the Texas Pacific railway express robbery near Fort Worth Thursday night was only Si.M00. The publication, he rays, of the exaggerated reports of sums stolen from express trains has much to do with the many attempts to rob trains. At the present time express trains are canning very little money or-other valuables.

.Ulchlgun Federation of i.nhor.

KTROIT, Mich., Dec. 8.-^The sessions ol the Michigan Federation of Labor closed on Friday. John D. Flanigan, of Grand Rapids, was elected president. The federation will meet at Saginaw next December. A resolution was introduced that all laboring and union men refraiu from joining state militia companies, but the mover and the resolution was sat down on hard.

ilobbi-d And Murdered.

PjtAGt'K. Dec. 8.—The author and young Czech leader llelicius and his wife were found dead Friday morning on the porch of their home near Prague. They had been robbed and murdered, llelicius was years old und his wife tt7.

s,1804

THE CURRENCY.

Merits of he Plans of Carlisle nnd Ecikols Discussed.

Yltws

OF A PROMINENT SENATOR.

xplutna the Kflfoet of the hod* of KovlhUm Proponed by tho Serretui\ Mud tlio Comptroller ot

Tho Two t'luim.

Mr. Cnrlfsle's plan for currency reform, when applied to practice, will produce the following result: Taking for t\io purpose of illustration the example of a bank havIn# "capital, such a bnnU would be entitled to Issue notes up to the limit of ij75.000 (75 per cent, of thetapitah. hut before doing so must deposit ie«ol tender notes to tbe amount of ifiiil.nOO (80 percent, of circulation). That In effect would be equivalent to a net Issue of in circulation by the bank, or $7?i.tKX) received iu notes from the government, minus $22,500 in noto.s deposited with the government. Upon this of currency the bank would earn its profit provided it could keep them in circulation, after deducting costs of redemption, tux for \safety fund* and tax for administration of comptroller's bureau. As a plan for relieving the general government from the burden and charge of redeeming United States unte.s it. would, according to the secretary's estimate, result in securing the temporary deposit of fcg'JiS.OW.OUO of theM' note* with tho government if all thi national and htate banks now in existence .should take out circulation to tho full amount proposed." Let n* see how this nsult wojid be arrived at. The present plt:il of all national banks in existence is a brut ?tV:8.000,0(K. Jf this be added £ffl2.000.0K) as tbe capital of state banns availing themselves of the privilege, a total capital of fl.DQO.OOO.OOO would be had as the basis upon which to Issue currency. Assuming thut all the brinks possessing this capital Issued currency up to the full limit (if 75 per rent we will have an Issue of bank currency to the amount of ifTMUKM.OuO. Auainst this lejral tenders to the amount of 30 per cent, of circulation must be deposited, or *\.1 Y0CHU00.

Discusses Kckles* Scheme.

•So much for the practical workings of the secretary plan, and we now lake a look ut the plan proposed by Comptroller Kckels. As he gives '#it, few figures on which to base a computation, but simply outlines tlfe principles of his plans, only a hypothleal illustration of Its practical- workings can be attempted.* Taking a bank with $KH).(XK)capital. as in the other case, the comptroller's plan HpUeur* require that the Dank deposit with the treasury $50,000 iu United .States notes or legal tenders (for cancellation«, in exchange for which It will immediately receive SftO.tKiO In bank notes for the current redemption of which only It shall be liable during its lifetime, the government reassuring responsibility for ultimate redemption of the bank's notes of til's class only upon tho failure or liquidation of the bank. In this feature, therefor.', there Is neither expansion nor contraction of the currency, simply the exchange of one kind of currency for another just as good, but for the purpose, and with the effect of entirely relieving the government of the burden and cost of current redemption during the existence of the bank receiving and issuing the same. Cnder this branch of the comptroller's p'nn with the present capital of national banks vlz.: 8^08,000.000) ^HS-I.OOO.OOf) of legal tenders would inmicdi.jtvly be retired and withdrawn from the possibility of being ledecrned Infold by the general government, while a banking capital of II .OOO OOO iKrt) would serve as the basis for retiring the entire issue both of United states notes and Sherman act notes, amounting together to about "rMOOO.-iWO, while under the secretary's plan a capital of 1 .OOO.OOO.OOO would effect a withdrawal according to his own estimate of oni.v *225 noo ikK)

Sufety Fund Circulation.

"Passing to the other feature of Mr. ISckelH recommendation it is found that a bunk with •-10)."00 eap'tal eouM also issue as much as 50 kj ot safety fund notes, constituting a first losn upon its asset" at I'd upon the liability of its .shareholders, and redeemable upon the failure of the bunk promptly r.utof a safely fund created by a light tax upon all the banks Issuing this kind of circulation.

Of the present national bank capital 50 per cent, woukl be &CH,U'!0.0'0. or a sum 5lfl2.000.000 greater than the total of present national bank circulation—vij: $].22.o00.u00, while a capital of fl.0U)JO.IA0 would provide for 000,000 of this safety fund circulation, a sum 3328.UOO 000 greater than the present bank issue

The legal lender currency out of the way by Mr. Kckels' plan of substitution of bank notes, the practical result would t-e that all tho paper currency would be redeemable only in gold or silver coin, for there would exist only bank notes, gold ccttitieates and silver ccrtlilcates."

ARMENIAN OUTRAGES. S

Terms t'pou Which tho Cultcd States Will Aid tin Investigation. ONST A NTI NOPI.E, Dec. S.— The Sttllan on Thursday dispatched an invitation to the. president of 1 ho Cnitcd States to participate through a representative in a mixed commission of the powers to visit Armenia and investigate conditions there. President Cleveland declined the invitation but Intimated a willingness to permit an American representative to accompany the proposed commission in an independent capacity. The sultan thereupon cabled to the president inviting the appointment of such a representative and has learned that the I'nitcd States would accept the modified invitation.

LONDON. Dec. 8.-—The Daily News says that Milo A. Jewett,i'nitcd States consul in Sivas, has been instructed from Washington to attend the commission of inquiry in Armenia, while maintaining a strictly independent attitude toward representatives of European powers.

Killed at a Crossing.

.1AMI:STOWN, N. V., Dec. 8.—Myron Sherman, wife and grandson were struck by an Krie train while crossing the tracks between Asheville and Luke wood Friday afternoon. The child was instantly killed. Mrs. Sherman was fatally injured, while her husband received severe internal injuries and his right leg was badly fractured. The horse was killed outright ami the buggy smashed into pli liters.

Highest

::-p.

t!»«» Treasury.

W ASHINGTON. Dec. 8.-Mr. Carlisle's plan of currency reform is naturally attracting great attention in and! out of congress.

While Mr. Carlisle's plan is favorably commented on by many prominent I members of both houses. there are others, whose opinions are 1 value. who argue that the plans proposed by KekeN in his annual report has supr rior merit, and when thoroughly derstood will meet with general approval. A prominent senator, who is a recognized authority on all financial juest.ions, explained his views on the two plans, lie said:

HOLDS ITS OWN.

ABSOLUTELY PURE

But I.jUl.le Chimgo le Apparent in, Qusinoso

HOI.!I'W 1HUHi lilllNCS \C 1IY1TY.

il I*. However. Hut leniporary and nf l.ntlc SiuMin«aot Protpects ollowLLLK LB.- Nrtt ear .Ire IMI- I •d'.iered II upef O I.

KV.w VOJUT 1er\ U. fV Dun & Co.'s weekly rcviei\ of trade snys:

It 5'» difficult to detect any change In current business. Prospects for business after .lauuary 1 ar- quite generally considered more hop^fui in -some branchus. There are larger orders, and the vvcst-bou:id shipments of merchandise ttre..k rger. Hut the working force Is Jjatuv. llyvr :hnltiishfd near the end of the year, •.itid.tlie.holidn.v traflic brings just now a temporary activity which ls: not of much genet'al significance: -'The meeting of congress and the announce.nent. of the new currency ipi.ui and of various bills proposed have not affected the situation perceptibly. Paynuims- for bonds have been completed without disturbance, but did not prevent the shipment of some gold to Kurope l-'ridaj .• l»n the whole, agricultural product^ are scarcely stronger, and wage* of

Ub.o.r do hot advance) but there Is reason to expect the eiuploynie'nt of a somewhat larger working force alter the holidays. orti ami I ottoo. '"The e\'i' !'t IL gov-OT IUWCU* report on feeding of \Vhe=l W vn'n'le a:ud hogs has scarcely in•liuericed the iuarheC it is doubted whether the esthi'uit?^

JS, more-'reliable UIUM the esti-

uu!tes:ot vle'fd ''f wireat and conoti whi-h are not. egarued^•.seri.o.uViy-. Ttie jeceiju«. of wheat, ure hitgcrviaiiiva'-year.'ago. and the •vports smaller V^^fore.ign accounts, particularly as to ihe.Arg.ent,ine.«.• -q). have helped an advance of.-lucent,, estimates of the winter .'wheati.-.tn.'VV V^e-*Jndieate,MJi increase of 1.9 per cciik. witlf a epndjii»n sf.uii'What better than la:-t -vear-. .*-AU-lieugh' e.orn ic^eiji's have been much larger thaijaryeHria^ and exports not onesixth as large, tne price has changed but little. 'f-oUon has'.'fallen again to cents, vety elofe to the/.iow.e-.i- point, lor many years, and ictuui• recLMp\!j:.Creui planlatious are larger to dat.'- thvti in..dHlll. when die crop was over 0oq).t0) bale*.- .^SJf ither al.u*oad nor here are there* indication:* Us y«rt of more than an average tonsumpfir'n. lioo and Other Industries, •'I'ho iron indust rv ^. em^ to have distinctly brighter pp»spev:t.s {jt CliU ajro. where pig iron i^ tlrmer 'aud nar in larger demand because of orders for freight cars. Hut Hessetner Iron has sold at ?10^5 at Pittsburgh, steel rails have been reduced to w.' there, and wire rods and nails are weaker. Comparison of prices there and at the east si ow't,iie" lowest average yet recorded, taking prices of October. 1S90. us 100. quotations ha\e ftdieti to "a,7. and are so far shaded thrii substantially, half the. price has been cut ofT within four years.. "Heavy sales of shoos''during, the past two months ut prices said t/j be toT'e i^ents lower than recent prices of leatherwarrant, cause a general effort-.for uh u-h a-ice.. and some job. ber.i have concedede*-t»ts on women's grain tind buiT shoeH bat. ot het's prote.-.i that no advatice Is possible, iitid cut down or withdraw their orders. 'The orders for nc.vt .season are quite encouraging as to quantll.y, but. Il Is claimed that few can be tilled at a protit. "The wool manufacture.--judging from sales at the three chief markets since September I, has been doine 3 per cent, more than last year, but 31 per cent, less than in^l^. and the average of 10-1.qualities of. wool quoted by Coales

Uros. is ».7ue, the lowest ever known. 14 percent, lower than last year and 3\» per cent, lower than hi 1 lie I' a iI tire Keor(l. •The liabilities in failures'for the last week of No vernier were :?*J.OilbVIO?, against ^.i+0-i.'i70 lor the sanib week last year, but the decrease wus wholly in. manufacturing liabilities. fl'.'T Oil. 'against *l-.-(.7S.Or27-'l'nst year, while trading liabilities were. $i.f.iT Sis. against ^1.^.449 last year. For the -'four weeks of November theaypre«ate was against j^O.Wl.'.'•'1 last .year The fjdluies this week have' be :Wf in the United' .Slates, against. WS last, year, and 4u In Canada, against 1J last yejr

THE BILLIARD GAME.

M-ltViVfer Sueceetlfi iti Kediieing (lie Lend of Ills Oppooeitl. incA«i«, l)ee. s.--I'riday night, for tlu* Jirst time during the billiard tournauicn t. .Iac»b Schacfcr was ahead on the night's play. He struggled nobly to iverc«uue part of the tremendous lead of VMU» which Ives had laii up a/ainst him. and succeeded in reducing it h-m points, lioth men played Hue billiard, and made big averages. Schacfcr played the new in-and-out of-anchor shot, in which a player is allowed to make nine before driving them out of anchor, for all it was worth. The majority of his big runs was made in this way. At the conclusion of the night's play the score., stood: Ives, i).000 Schacfcr. *J.r?VI5v Schaefer is now ti'-ia behind.

The score for the night stood: Ives, WM) Schaefer,- IM-i. Ives' average for the riight, highest rim, 104: grand average. 41 5mo. Sehaefer's average for the night, 0'J M-C»: highest run, 21V grand average. .w-y-i'-.-y-Y:'

OUTPUT OF GOLD.

Production of tbe Mines lor 1 KUL Will .\ ppi o\. mat .• Ni 3,000.(){)(. W A sin NOTON. I KM*, ij. The trL'.tsnry dcjiartmeiit has received Mich returns in regard t( the protluciion of gold in the I'nitcd States during* the calendar year ism as warrants the statement that the output will approximate $18,OdO.OOJ. The states of Colorado, Montana. Malta HIKI California will show an increase amounting in the aggregate to .ST,'OU0,00u. Of the total production of the year il is estimated that California will Contribute SiH,750,000 Colorado, SI l,u'T5.000: Mon tana, $4,575,ouo. and Idaho.

IJeuth »f a Notij.l S«o*geoii.

\N AsniNoroN. Dec. S.--Medical Director John Mills P.rownc, I'nitcd Slates navy, retired, died ut his apartments at the Portland hotel iu this city Friday night. He was striclcen with paralysis Wednesday moining and never rallied. Dr. lirowne attained the tfra.de of surgeon general of the naw with the relative rank of

PI? ICE 2 CENTS

in Leavening Power.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report,

Powder

commooore. run ne is oest KIIOWII as' the •»ur_ eon of the Kearsarge in her: victorious battle with the confederateram Alal-aiua. lie wrote the account of the Uattl.-' for the (Vnlnry mttpav /.ine's war series. He was 73 vi ars c«f aye.

Ituroed t»» Heat It.

Ii\t,i.vs.' lex.. Dee. At 1 Fci,l iy flormion .Mrs. Davis 1'ntsliy WHS inn-iK',1 t,, death. lU-r l-vciir-old child is |rnlal'L,v fatally IMII-IMMI. and... M. \\a--siin. nliu tj-i,,,l to rescue them,' hadly Imrnoil. Mrs. l'atsU.v was ivioUiiiy- dinniM- DII a ^rasnliiRi slnvc, whicli i'\(iloded. 'I'll!' house at .V^o Kliu li-cct "lis partially destroyed

mm nkws.

Telefcrre.phic Dispatches from Vnrioua Towns In IIKHUIIH.

Indhin:! Insiinc Anyhon.

T-oi ANseoK'j, 1ml..Dec. s. Dr. Joseph t». Uogcrs, superintendent of the northern Indiana insane hospital at. Long ClitT, has filed his annual report, Jt shows r»r»s inmates at present, with a total of I.I admitted since the asylum was tirst opened in July, isss. The mortality rate on the number treated has been but 0.7,: per cent., while the average recovery rate has been Within the last year the capacity of the institution has been increased 10* by the erection of new hall, ami Dr. Rogers states that the exegeneies demand the construction of another annex, with a. capacity of eighty. The running expenses of ism were S'Ja.OOO.

r*i. dolmen I'uyH lhe Money.

I MUANAPOMS Ind., Dec {?.—The suit against II. U. Holmes, the insurance swindler, brought in this city by the Fidelity Insurance company, has been dismissed. The reason for the dismissal is that Mrs. Holmes sent a chccl to the company's attorneys for $000, which amount she luid deposited in a local bank, and which money was all the company expected to get. The fact that Mrs. Holmes paid the sum apparently proves that the man who swindled the insurance company out of §10,000 and the man who married the Indianapolis school-teacher are one.

MyRterioim Woman IdentifiedANDKKSOX, Ind., Dec. S.--lhe mysterious woman arrested ut Lu Torte and who gives her name as I'Jmma Montgomery is identified here as the woman who eluded the Anderson police otticers one week ago, where she practised the same dodge of entering privat resiliences. She is said to be a spotter for a gang of thieves that looted Anderson, Wabash. Muncie and Huntington. She will be returned to this city for prosecution.

'./. Alleged Counterfeiter Insane. HANKFOHT, Ind.. Dec. s. 1). K.Caldwell, a merchant, whose arrest on the charge of being an accomplice of Counterfeiter Jtuck Harlan caused a sensation here, became violently insane. When Huek Harlan was arrested some time ago in Shelby county he made certain revelations implicating Caldwell in his counterfeiting transactions. Caldwell was arrested but was released on bond, Caldwell will be taken to I nd ianapol is in charge of federal officials.

Say# Ho Wan Thrown Off.

Loo.u'ti'oiiT. Ind., Dec. 8. —David NeflF. a Jeweler of Hoyal Center, has brought suit against the Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati Sr. St. Louis Railroad company for $5,000 damages. He alleges that a conductor threw him off a train one night last week in tho midst of dense woods and many miles from home. His ticket was not good on that particular train, but he claims to have tendered his fare to the next stop

jirro\vly lOnenped Suffocation. JR.RKKKKONVII.I,K, Ind., Dec. 8. Herman (Jalrein, wife and five children came near being asphyxiated. Jtefore retiring Oalreiu turned off the gas jet. in doing so he thoughtlessly turned it on ami a few hours later the house was tilled with gas. It was only by the promptness of the father that his family was saved from suffocation.

Stopped tho Itounty.

I,A I'OHTK, Ind., Dec. 8.—Kor years this county has paid a bountj' of fifteen cents each on woodchuck scalps in an effort to exterminate the pests. It ha* just been discovered that profitable industry has sprung up in tho clandestine shipment of scalps into the county. There'ore, payment of bounty has beeu discontinued.

Acquitted of Murder.

ICHMOND, I ml., Doc. H.—Charles Rowan, the city marshal of Ccnterville, who shot and killed lluftis Rrumfield, of this city, while resisting- arrest for disorderly conduct, was acquitted. Rowan was indicted for murder.

•State A ji[,olilt in,1IIlh.

I.NDlA.NAl'Ot.is, Ind., Dec. 8.—State (ieologist Hlntchley made known his appointments, diet Hall is made oil inspector J. Or. Leach, of Howard county, g-as inspector, and Robert Fisher, of Clay county, mine inspector.

Wanted to Die.

l.or.ANSi'oicr, Ind., Dec. 8.—Mrs. W. M. Neill attempted suicide herewith morphine on account of poverty and domestic troubles. Physicians saved her life, although she pleaded piteously to be left alone to die.

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