Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 June 1890 — Page 5
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R*V. DR. TEMPLK, Bishop of London, drinks enormous quantities of strong tea.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the journalist, ia reported to have declined an offer of knighthood from Queen Victoria.
AKMSI PASUA, the Egyptian patriot, complains that his incarceration at Ceylon is killing him. The climate is too damp, and he iit tortured with rheumatism.
Eur IXT SCHILLING,
the coachman
who once achioved notoriety by his marriage with Victoria Morosini, is earning his living as a painter at Steinway, L. I.
THE Prince of Wales gave more than his mother for the Johnstown sufferers. She sent her sympathy. He bought, two tickets to Buffalo Bill's benefit performance.
EX-MINISTER PHELPS has written to the faculty of the Yale law school saying that ho will be on hand at the opening of the college year to instruct the classes in equity and evidence.
GEK. BUTLER is set down on the Colby University commencement programme for the anniversary oration on July 2. It is juat fifty-one years since the general was graduated from that sterling old Baptist colloge.
MARTIK IRONS, the once' powerful labor loader in Missouri, who 6ent word to General Manager Hoxie that he didn't have time to sea him, ia now —dirty and half clothed—running a shabby little fruit stand in St Louis.
MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWOKTH, who has written seventy-nine stories and novels, and earned over $100,000 by her pen, thinks she might have aided mankind in general far more by writing some sweet ballad without charge.
BBONSON HOWARD, the dramatist, is subject to literary moods. He has learnod by experience that work he produces when he is not under inspiration Is practically of no value. He is a great smoker, and often finds that by lighting a cigar he can at the same time start the fire of his genius.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, oldest son ef the Prince of Wales, i3 to be sent to India to divert his mind from his disappointment at the failure of his love affair with the Princess Victoria of Teck. He will visit princes who have too many wives, and may thus become reconciled to the fact that he has none.
ULYSSES S. GRANT, JR., has again made his appearance in Wall street, his identity being concealel from the general public in the "Co." attached to the name of a small stock brokerage firm. During his mother's absence in Europe young Ulyises and family ocoupy her elegant mansion in the arLjtocratio West End of New York.
PROF. MOSES COIT TTLER and family are now in London, England. In a letter to his brother, Maj. John M. Tyler, the professor says: "We find London an inexhaustible fountain of fascination. I am doing work every morning in the liabrary of the British Museum and then have my afternoons and evenings for runuing about." Prof. Tyler's health is good and he thinks ho shall return to his work better fitted to do it than he has ever been before.
EX-UNITED STATES SUBGEON-GEN-ERAL HAMMOND says he recently ordered a bottle of wine at dinner in a Rhode Island hotel and was told by the waiter a physician's prescription would be required. "That's easily obtained," he replied, and gave him this: "R.— Vini Champani, 82z William A. Hammond, H. D." "I succeeded in getting that wine without any further difficulty, he added, "and as many more bottles as 1 desired."
THEODORE ROOSEVELT recently astonished the scientists in the Cosmos club of Washington by putting together correctly the skeletons of animals long since extinct, and describing their appearance, habits, and natures. The host of the evening, a man of mature years, who has spent a large portion of kis lifetime in a study|of these animals, Was completely surprised at Mr. Roosevelt's knowledge of them, and said to his guests that the possession of such expert knowledge in such a young man
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•^||LORD GRANVILLE, the liberal leader In the house of lords, recently strayed into the tory Carlton club and sat down leisurely to read a newspaper.
A conservative member- ventured on an expression of pleasure at seeing Lord Granville so much at home. "Why shouldn't I be here?" asked his •lordship. "This is the Reform club, is :it not?" But a glance around the room convinced him that he had blundered ,and then, disregarding the eager invitations extended to him to remain, he hurriedly made his way out of the enemy'9 quarters. The error was a carious one, seeing that the clubs are •o much unlike in their tU-uctural arrangement*.
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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Manitoba crops are very promising. Cracker bakera are forming a trust. ,• The public debt was reduced $6,661,871 during May.
A Montreal, Can., cashier is on his way here with *50,000. The worst storm of the season visited western Iowa on the 3d.
One thousand one hundred carpenters struck Monday at Cincinnati. Washington barbers talk of serving a bowl ol soup with every shave.
High waters have done much damage to lumboi- interests at Arcadia, Wis. Philip Lyon, or Ithica, N. Y., was killed by cable cars at Chicago on the 2d.
The weather last week was generally favorable to crops the country over. The new gunboat Bennington was sues oussfully launched at Chester, Pa., on tho 3il.
Geo. L. Hutchings, formerly cashier of the Third National Bank, New York, has skipped.
Francis Murphy, tho temperance evangelist, is to wed a wealthy Council Bluffs, la., wiuow.
By a strange scries of accidents four persons lost their lives near Leadville, Col., on the 4th.
Prank Mange, a New York census enumerator, at the close of his first day's work, committed suicide.
The election in Oregon on the 3d l-esulted in a Republican victory, with the possible exception of Governor.
An Egyptian wants to sell the World's Fair the sarcophagus of Cleopatra for $60,-* 000 f. o. b. at Alexandria.
N. E. Harl, of Pittsburg, Pa., agent for a number of mining firms is missing \vlth $20,000. Gone to Canada.
A number of Baltimore hotel and saloon lceepors have been indicted for violating tho new high license law.
Joseph Kay, aged eighty-two, who built the first school house ever erected in Wabash county, died Saturday.
Isaac Gaston, drummer for I. R. Howard & Co., Richmond, is said to be short $5,000 and is now in tho Black hills.
Six cadets in the Navy, who deserted thoir ship in the Mediterranean, have arrived at New York under arrest.
Loveland, Iowa, was almost dostroyed by a water spout on the 2d. One life was lost The village is a very small one.
C. A. Thompson, cashier of tho Owego National Bank, is charged with defrauding itof$80,0C0. The bank has suspended.
The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania railroad company was held on the 3d, The net earnings for tho year were $720,802.22.
A sleek thief of Lawrenceburg, Ky., Btole from stamp-deputy Potty's house a check for 144,047.50, and other valuables.
Chicago boss carpenters who have
Christ Church, where Washington wor- fsrsh,0,lay
Jewott Publishing Co., Boston, has disap-
Denver, wero burned to death on the 3d while trying to light a fire by the aid of kerosene.
I. M. Taggett, Edward Goodchild, William Holmes and Matt Ringles, farmers were struck ly lightning at Cairo, Mich.' and killed.
Brtwn Hal, the champion raco stallion of the world, paced a quarter of a mile in twenty-eight seconds at the Ewall Farm, Spring Hill, Tenn.
Geo. W. Roberts, Superintendent oi the Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Co., Chicugo, played poker and dropped $15,000 of his employers' money.
At Glcenwood, Iu., the chimney of the Institute of Feeble-Minded Children was blown down by a storm. Two of the childrcn were killed and six injured.
An auditing committee found a deficiency of §10,020 in the accounts of the Kansas City Treasurer. Chief Clerk Hbrace McKim has been relieved from duty.
St. Louis came near being visited by a calamity on the 2d by the burning of a tenement house. As it was, one life was lost and six other people were badly in— jureti. -«.
Institute, N. Y., on the 2d, from St. Joseph, 111,, tor treatment for mad-dog bite. They were bitten by a mongrel cur about a week previous.
making an examination of hla books. The amount of his shortage cannot now be determined, but it will reach up into the' thousands.
Thirty-seven thousand five hundred enumerators began taking the census of thes® United States on the 2d. It will require eighteen days to feel tho pulse tf our 65,000,000. Then we will discover many a 2,000 town where a 5,000 city is now located
The Circuit Court Saturday at Richmond, Va., granted a charter to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. Its object is to collect battle flags, relics and other emblems of the late war, and secure the Jefferson Davis mansion in which to store them. ...
Jacobs Brothers, Steamship and Rail road agents, New York, have been swindling poor workmen who sent money through them to their families in Europe for their support or to bring them to America. Tho brothers kept the money, and when discovered lied to Canada.
The City Council, of Columbus, granted John S. Crump a franchise for a lino street railway. Four miles of track will be laid and the line will bo completed by October 1, next. Tho motive power wil be horses at the start, but will afterwards bo changed to electricity.
At Clarkville, Iowa, the team of a German named Lobock started to run, when Lobock's wife sought refuge under a fence with a child in her arms. The team ran over tho fence, trampling the woman and killing her instantly. The child's arm was broken, but it was not fatally hurt.
One hundred and twenty Mormons arrived at New York Tuesday morning on the Guion Line steamship Wisconsin from Liverpool, under the leadership of Elder Wiley, representing the Union Pacific Uailroad, and Elder Prlndle of the Mormon Church. Tho party is en route to Utah.
Alabama Democrats nominated Thomas C. Jones, of Montgomery,, for Governor. Tho platform reaffirms "unswerving and unalterable fealty and a'legiance to the timeshonored principles of'the Democratic party, as promulgated by Jefferson, de fended by Jackson, and maintained by Grover Cleveland." A strong tariff reformed plank was adopted.
Elzo Allen, confidential clerk ol' the Austin Investment Co., who skipped from Kansas with $20,000, has boon been arrested in Chicago. His arrest was a clever piece of detective work. One of Pinkerton's men found in the absconder's dairy some tender references to aMiss Lulu Probst, of Marquette, Mich. Miss Probst proved to be a school teacher. She was shadowed, and it was learned that she was corresponding with one M. Thompson at Chicago. Thompson called for a letter Saturday, and was arrested. lie proved to De Allen. It is not knoVn how much of the stolen
violated the alien contract labor law are money was found in his possession. Allen's to bo prosecuted by the Federal authori- wife and baby in Kansas City are destitute, ties.
Edward J. Cottell, resident partner at Jackson mercilessly and atrociously St. Paul, of the firm of Walker & Co "iurdiered
stock brokers, has defaulted and gone to *1 *rk"
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Ex-Judge Henry S. Austin, of Chicago, was sent to jail Tuesday for robbing an esu-te of $7,000. Austin is seventy-nine l)r(?sent fiscal year
years old and says the money was stolen from bis safe. John J. 'Voodward, of Cleveland, has been arrested for obtaining $10,000 under false pretences. He represented that ho owned an unincumbered farm of 215 acres in Mahoning county, O.
J. M. Sholienberger, of Doylestown, Pa., the lawyer who caused such a wide-spread sensation by his forgeries and other criminal escapades has been sentenced to twenty-two years at hard labor. jjjd
Herman Oelriohs, of New York was married on the 3d at San Francisco- to Miss Theresa Fair, daughter of ex-U. S. Senator James G. Fair. The wedding was gotten up in royal magnificence.
A powder magazine near Mansfield, O. was exploded by lightning on the evening •f the ltd. Many dwellings in the vicinity were destroyed. One child was killed and mother and child fatally injured.
Original package liquor dealers convicted and sent to jail under tho Kansas law, have been released by United States Judge Foster on writs of habeas corpus, based on the rccent decision of the United States Sus preme Cou.-t.
John Lutz, county auditor, St. Cloud, Minn., has absconded, leaving his affairs in a rory complicated condition. Stato K\tmlner Kenton, from St. Paul, is tbei
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PENSION DEFICIENCY.
A deficiency was reported on the 4th in tho pension appropriation and some of tho pensioners will liavo to wait until July 1st for their money. Tho deficiency in the aps propriation is prorated among all the pent sion agencies of the country. The defiency in the general fund is between
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The deficiency,
It is stated at the Pension Office that the deficiency in the amount of funds in the hands of the different pension agents has been caused by thn unusually large number of allowances made by the Pension Office under tho present administration, and
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Another drain upon tho appropriation, it Is said, was the act #f March 1, 1890, which increased to $72 per month all pensions for total disability requiring tho aid and attendance of another person. Tho number of these cases is large and involves the expenditure of a large amount of money. The Pension Office record for tho present fiscal year, it is stated, will be far ahead of that of any fiscal year for many years.
DEATH IN THE STORM. c-
Bradshaw, Neb., was wiped out of existence on tho 4th by a cloud burst. It struck the town fairly and there was not left a single building. Every business house was made a total wreck and the principal street was filled with ruins. In the extreme western part of the village a few houses are left with a semblance of their former appearance, but they are without windows and doors and their contents were scattered broadcast over the prairie. The depot building was crushed into kindling wood, and every car standing there was wrecked except one that was loaded with stock, and which was blown, without leaving the track, to York, a distance of nino miles "»n people were killed outright. Tho ii t'J number probably fifty.
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
Fort Wayno pays her mayor $2,500 per year. •New Albany is getting out of financial difficulties.
Grand band tournament is booked at Seymour for June 6. VIcte Churchman, Evansville, is 12 years old and weighs 160 pounds.
A "spattering of oil" was struck in tho Grcencastle well on the 3d. Wells county farmers who emigrated to Kansas, are all moving back.
Evansville wants the Princeton University removed to that citv. The charge is made that Bismarcl^is intriguing against the Emperor
Dunkirk's bottle factory, employing 200 men, begins operation Sept. 11. There are two Daviess county sisters whoso combined ages are 176 years.
Soven mad dogs have been killed in one township in Putnam county this week. The little girls at Warsaw are raising money with which to improve tho streets.
Geo. N. Thompson, of Columbus, Ind., has left town. Short iu his accounts $15,• 000.
James Davii»_ and wife were fatally injured in a ]/naway accident near Cloverdale.
Milroy Sexton, of Jasper county, was crushed to death while assisting in loading sawlogs.
Mrs. Mary Stewart, South Bend, was re licvcd of a tape worm that measured 2S feet in lepgth.
Sixty citizens of Lebanon have petitioned the mayor to persuade a circus to come to town.
The boat "Asher G. Caneth," launched at New Albany, is tho first boat built there for many years.
Danville merchants arc realizing hand somely in improved business by reason of free gravel roads.
G. H. Ivasting, aged nine-four, of Seymour a resident of Jackson county oyer half a century, is dead.
A. H. Carrier, of Ft. Wayne, the test known French resident of Northeastern Indiana, died on the 1st
John Hershman, ex-soldier of Tipton county, and blind, has received arrearages of pension aggregating $8,770.
The Louisville & Nashville Railway Company has 468 men on its pay rolls in the Howell shops, near Evansville.
Two-year-old son of James Best, Putnam county, ruptured a blood vessel while vomiting, and died in two minutes.
D. M. Cavender, Versailles, very wealthy and well educated, has been sent to tho pen. for two years for burglary. .1 ohn Bach, tourist, left his pocket-book containing $158 in the Fort Wayne depot, and when he returned for it it was gone.
Mrs. Jajpes Saurbery, Anderson, found a burglar in her house, and after firing several shots at him she seared him away.
The Washington High School had one colored graduate, Miss Rosa Howard, for whom special commencement exercises were held.
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Wm. Rodenbeck, Jr., of Fort Wayne afflicted with cancerous growth of the stomach, slowly starved to death. HPwas thirty-eight.
The latest fad at Seymour is black ice cream, it being colored by adding a little powdered charcoal and the juice of Tur kish prunes.
Sure enough strawberries are raised nround Columbus, one recently gathered measured four and oneshalf inches in circumference.
J. A. Hardin and Carrie Ireland, Pendleton, wero married in the moonlight on Fall creek bridge, with only the stars and moon as witnesses.
Edward Evans, aged twenty, of Lafay ette, has been placed under $5,000 bonds charged with using the mails to circalate and dispose of imitation greenbacks.
Monday, at Stringtown, while John Shannon was playing with his little child, he swung the infant by both hands, and in doing so dislocated both its shoulders.
Miss Mary Kintner, of New Albany passed what may bo called a perfect ex, animation, being marked 100 in all her studies as a pupil in tho public schools.
An Air Line sleeping coach jumped the track while passing through New Albany Friday,and plunged headlong into a house, tearing away the greater part of the structure.
Win. Kratz's four-year old girl, Jcffersonville, was qpught on the railroad by an engine and thrown high in the air, landing on a pile of stone. She escaped without injury.
A fourteen-year-old girl at Amboy has been sleeping for two months. All efforts to awako her are futile. She appears iu good health, and is fed regularly with liquids.
Fred Hollis, Fort Wayne, insane, at tempted to leave a room in his house, and was locked up as a burglar. At the jail he became a wild, raving maniac on account of the mistake.
Mrs. Elizabeth White, of Rich Valley, a well-known lady, has become possessed of the hallucination that she is making a special fight against satan, 'and she has been declared insane.
A syndicate has purchased the old court house property at Evansville for $78,900 und will erect a handsome hotel on the site. The county Is now building anew court house, which will cost $1,000,000.
Benjamin Moore, who recently died in Spencer county, lacked but two months of roachingbis 109th milestone. When ho was aged 103 ho walked five miles to the nearest precinct, in order to cast his vote.
Tho burial of Mrs. O. J. Stono and two children and Mrs. Poe Wimmer, killed in a railway accident at Marion on Friday last, occurred Monday, at Somerset, and it is estimated that 5,000 people attended.
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C. L. Jones, of Sullivan, was followed to his coal house Tuesday and was sandbagged and robbed of $3,000. The money belonged to his wife and mother-in-law, and had been drawn from deposit for ins vestment in a farm.
Tho City Council of Evansville held a meeting this week, and for tho first timo ,n two years not an angry word was
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spolcen. The contrast was so startling, in comparison with former sessions, that Evansville is dazed.
Jen nie Bowman, Madison, was sent to a Lonisvillo, Ky., convent. She grew tired of .life there, made a rope out of bed clothes, climbed from a third story window and escaped to New Albany. She was arrested and sent back.
The wheat in Wabash county is general ly bad. In the south not more than one" third of a crop will be harvested, while along Eel River, in the north half, the grain looks well. The entire county will possibly turn out a half crop.
Tho remains of eighteen Confederate soldiers, captured at Fort Donelson, and dyngas a prisoners while confined at Terre Haute, lie buried in Woodlawn Cemetery On Decoration Day their graves were also strewn with flowers by the local G. A. R.
John Lingnrd, of Laporte, suffered for years with what was diagnosed as tumor of tho stomach. Tuesday, shortly before his death, ho vomited a small lizard, which was dead and partially encysted. The long retontion of the animal had poisoned his system and death was caused thereby.
Thomas Kcrins, of Brazil, who was Prosideut, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager of a local branch of tho Catholic Knights of America, until he was arrested for embezzling tho funds of the society, escaped from the Clay county jail on Saturday, being aided bv outside parties.
Tho wheat stalks are heading out, and what seemed two weeks ago to be good wheat now proves in many fields to be badly mixed with cheat. Some of the farmers have lot down the fences, shoved their hands deep iuto their empty pockets and called the hogs and cattle. "They're grig ter graze hor down." The fruit prospect Is good, and some fine berries ar coming into market.
At Broad Ripple the wueat, which escaped being killed by the winter, still has a fair chance to be destroyed. Tho cereal had scarcely hoaded out before it was found infestod with millions ox llco, commonly called midge, the same that was so injurious to the wheat crop last yew. How much damage these insects will do can not now be ascertained, bu farmers are hopeful that tho plague will not be so bad as last year.
Byron H. Boyd and Miss VInneva Brcmaker, daughter of Charles Bremaker, of the Bremaker-Moore Paper Company, Joffersonville, have been secretly married in the above named city, Rector F. C. Jewell officiating. The father strenuously objected to the marriage, and the bride was kept confined at home for several days with the hope of inducing her to give up her choice. 1'he Bre makers are very wealthy, while the goom is poor.
While Charles Neff, a young man, was rowing a skiff up the Center and Pike Lake canal, Warsaw on the 2d, some one in ambush fired at him, the shot taking effeot in his right shoulder. Young Neff rowed his boat as best he could to the Buffalo-street landing, where ho went to a drug store and secured the services of a surgeon, who probed for the bullet and found it to be a rifle ball. The officers are on the traok of the would-be assassin,who, it is claimed, is known, and is said to be a rival of Neff for tho hand of a young lady.
Patents were granted Indiana inventors on the 3d as folio vs W. H. Bennett, Kokomo, saw gummer: D. E. Doctor, Syracuse, wire-fence machine J. B. Dobson. Indianapolis, bolting-reel F. B. Hunt, Richmond, plow B. F. Keoncy, Quorcus Grove, broadcast hand-seeder F. H. Love less, Lafayette, buckle J. A. McCarty Lebanon, wire fence J. McElroy, Madison, pen extractor C. L. Morrill, Indianapolis, pump W. Millard, Indianapolis, adjustable baso for grooving saws D. M. Parry and T. Parry, Indianapolis, securing tires to the rims of wheels O. B. Rockwell'and E. A. Rockwell, San Pierre, land marker C. O. AVilder, South Bend, fueloil burner.
Harry Goodwin and Miss Cora Skinner eloped from Lawrenceburg to Now Elizabethtown, O., on Tuesday, it being a runaway match, and her family gave swift pursuit. 'Squire Sterling was called up on to officiate at the marriage ceremony, but upon examining tho licensc it was found to have been Issued by an Indiana clerk. There was nothing left but to make a run for the State line, a hundred yards away traversing a plowed corn field and a ravine covered with bushes aud briars en route, to a tree marking it8 boundary, where the ceremony was performed before tho pursuers burst upon the scene. The bride was so exhausted by the long run that she could scarcely make the eccssnry responses, and the fat and plethoric 'squire was also badly winded.
Tho Ninth District Republican Congressional Convention was held at Kokomo on the 3d. U. Z. Wiley, of. Fowler, was made chairman, and Sop Vater, of Lafayette, secretary. The resolutions adopted warmly endorses the administration congratulates the country on the admission of four new States approves the course of speaker Reed, and "one sky for but one flag.'' Present incumbent, Sample B. Cheadle, Judge Daniel ,Waugh, of Tipton, Harry M. LaFollotte, of Lebanon, Judge Rhoades, of Wllliamsport, J. T. Lindley, of Noblesville, and Col. A. O. Miller, of Lafayette, were placed in representee for tho Congressional nomination. The first ballot resulted: Cheadle, 91 LaFcilette, 43 Waugh, 50 Lindley, 41 Rhodes, 16 Miller, 5. In all flfty ballots were had. some of them amid considerable excitement, the vote standing nearly the same. Cheaale's highest was 99 LaFollette's C5. On the 50th ballot, Bonton county led off for Waugh, followed by Tippecanoe and Warren, (Howard and Tipton) were solid for him from the start, and he was nominated, receiving 133 votes as against tho field. Pandemonium followed this ballot, and one would think the campaign had opened in all its glory. Tho nomination was made unanimous. Judge Waugh is well spoken of as a man, and with a good record as a soldier and citizen.
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has completed the school apportionment for the next school year. Beo ause of reduction of interest on the school fund from 8 ner cent, to 6 per cent., tne amount of mmey placed to the credit of each child enumerated Is $1.31, whereas 1 ast year it
was $1.86. It is estimated that this do crease in the per capita will shorten the. common schools next year about ten days. Tho total income of the Stato for sohool' purposes next year will be, from the school tax, $814,613.01 interest on common school fund $197,400.82 unclaimed fees, etc., $19,071.40 total $1,030,085.29. The Congressional Township fund is in addition to this amount. Of the money $10,000 will go to the State Normal School, $1,096,052.37 to the counties, and $10,432.92 will remain in the treasury. Of the counties in thoi State, forty-eight draw from the school revenue more than thoy pay into it, and forty-two pay in more than they draw out Tho method by which aU tho children of tho State are given equal facilities for obtaining an education «is hero clearly shown. Tho poorer communities receive help ^from the moro prosperous. Crawford county pays into tho fund this car $2,580.19, and draws from It $7,035.70 Harrison county pays in $5,377.39, and draws out $10,400.64 Martin pays in $3,022.09, and receives back $7,224.65 Orange pays in $4,995.55, and receives $7,008.50 Clarke pays in $10,515, and receives$l,7,203.92 Brown pays in $2,603.30, and receives $i,995.03. On the other hand Fayette county pays in $S,273.52,and draws, out only'$4,970.14 Union pays in $5,407.20, and receives but $2,813.88 Wayno pays iu $25,345, and receives $16,960.57. For the first timo in years, tho amount that Marion county pays in will amount to a little more than it receives. Both Vigo and Vanderr burg counties receive more than they give
The enumeration of school children in the: State shows a slight decrease from tho %imber reported in 1S89. In that year there were 770,875, while this year there are 770,723. Several counties show a falling off, while tbo counties in the natural' gas belt show substantial gains.
KN'IGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias convened at Indianapolis on tho 3d. The reports show that the order has been enjoying a very successful year. There are now 247 lodges with a total membership of 17,897, again of twonty-eight lodges and 3,246 members in the last year. The ro-' ceipts were $162,010.65. The Grand. Chancellor defended hjs action in issuing' a circular asking aid for the striking Clay county miners. He condemned lotteries and gift enterprises.
The following, officers were elected for tho ensuing year: Grand Chancellor—A. C. Hawkins, Evansville.
Grand Vice-chancellor—Elmer F. Williams, Torre Haute. Grand Prelate—Rev. W. H. Zeigler, Anderson.
Grand Master of Exchequer—C. F. S. Neal, Lebanon. Grand Keeper of Records and SealFrank Bowers, Indianapolis.
Grand Master-at-arms—R. A. Brown, Franklin. Grand Trustees—Geo. W. Powell, Indianapolis L. A. Barnett, Danville E. G, Hcrr, Goshen.
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS^
Illinois Democrats held their State convention at Springfied on the 4th.- Great applause followed the reading of a letter from ex-President Cleveland. Joseph Mann, of Vermilion county, was made permanent chairman. Judge E. S. Wilson, of Olney, was nominated for Stato Treasurer on the first ballot Henry Raab, of Belleville, for Supt. of Public Instruction, and Richard Morgan, of Livingstone, John H. Bryant, of Bureau, and N. W. Graham, of Jackson, for Trustees of the State University. A resolution endorsing General Palmer for United States Senator was adopted. The platform favors an unlimited coinage of silver endorsing Chicago and tho World's Fair affirms the national platform, of 1888 insists that a tariff is a tax denounces the admission of the Republican Senators from Montana, arraigns the Republican party for not equalizing State taxes so as to compel large corporations and trusts to pay their portion of the common burden demands the abolition of truck stores and insists upon numerous other specific enactments asked by coal miners favors the' eight-hour work day condemns the McKinley bill as a crime and conspiracy tj» impoverish the masses and enricK-M5!|mL facturers already millionares favors the Australian bnllot system pledfros the Democratic party to reverse the/existing policy of depositing tho Stato/funds In banksoutsido of Illinois promises that the interest on public funds on deposit shall bo paid into State treasury, and favors the election of U.S. Senator and State railroad and warehouse commission ers by direct vote of the people. The plat" form then denounces the pending ship subsidy bill now in CongrcsBand advocates the State preparing and furnishing school books at actual cost. In conclusion comes the following:
Resolved, That the Democratic party,in convention assembled heartily indorses the public school system of the State of Illinois and it declares that the parental right to direct and control the education of the child should forover remain inviolate, and that the provision of the law of 1889, commonly known as the compulsory educational statute, impairing that inaltenble right should be at once repealed.
LAWLESSNESS AT HARVARD.
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Athletic Victories Celebrated in gtart.' ling Manner bj Exuberant Students.
The celebration of Harvard's victory pn the ball field, and In the Mott Haven games on Saturday, took a queer turn that even ing. A plentiful use of orimson paint had produced a startling effect upon the college buildings. The statue of the dignified John Harvard, the founder of the univei» sity, was literally covered with crimson paint. Tho statue is ruined, for the discoloration cannot be removed except by rechisellng. The steps of the Memorial Hall was also covered with the same col. ored paint, these words standing out in bold letters: ^To with Yale." On tho doors of Swer Hall were the inscriptions: "H 32,'r'"H 9," "Y 8." Appleton Chapel, Gore Hall and Boylston Hall were also daubed in the same manner. Tlj boys also built a big bonfire on the camnu and one student cremated his dress suiffin the exuberanoe of bis pride. The rem- ^$ nants of whisky bottles are many, and toa^l total damage to the college property will'N reach nearly $10,000.