Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 June 1890 — Page 3

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IT is Said that a ourious shrinkage 'of the lakes, seas and rivers of the world is going on.

IT is reported that Henry M. Stanley lis to be married in June to Miss Doroithey Tennant, of London. Wo hope it is true, and that Mr, Stanley will now settle down and quit gadding about.

AN official estimate sets down the number of wolves in Russia at 170,000 it is further stated that the loss caused by the destruction of sheep and swine by wolves is so great that it can not be even approximately estimated.

IT IS said the law regulating child labor in the factories of New York, is generally observed. The law prohibit the employment of children under twelve years of age, and limits the 3 labor of all minors to sixty hours each r-weelc. The measure was not intended as a hardship upon employers.

J. BRYAN GRIMES, of Pitt county, N. C., had planted thirty-five acres in Irish potatoes, and one night whec he thought there was going to be frost to kill his potatoes, which were twelve Inches high, he built log heaps about his field and kept them burning durl&g the night, and next morning his potatoes were untouched by the frost.

A COLORED man named Joseph Saunders was employed to dig a well for a farmer near Augusta, Me. The farmer beat him down to half wages, but after going ten feet down the digger struck a jug with $750 in gold in it and took a skip. The farmer then dug twenty, jfcwo feet more, nearly broke his back, and didn't hit anything but stones.— Detroit Free Press.

BARBARISM is doomed. A recent battle between the French and Dahomians in Africa, resulted in the complete overthrow of the Dahomians, with a loss of 1,500 lives. The French loss was fifteen killed and seventy-two wounded. The power of civilization over barbarism is nowhere better illustrated than in the armies of civilization as against those of barbarism.

IT IS putting an explorer to a crucial test to take his book back to the people he describes and translate it for their benefit. That is what has been done with the description by an Englishman of the cannibal feasts and other remarkable practices of savages on an island near New Guinea. Sir William McGregor could not find any •vidences of cannibal feasts. A few months ago he translated the earlier visitor's description, and read it to the natives in their own tongue. Some of them, he says, roared with laughter. Others took the matter very seriously, pnd said the language was bitter anil ^he story false. If this sort of thing is kept up it will be severe on that class of travellers who are bound to tell a good story any way, even if they have to evolve it from their inner consciousness.

THE first presentation of the Passion Play at Oberaumergan, Prussia, was given recently, and will be repeated at intervals until September. .The 4,000 seats of the theater were, .filled and several more thousands were junable to obtain admission. The Centre of attraction was Josef Mnier's rendition of Christ, Never before has khe play attracted so large a multitude, jfrom all quarters of the globe. This 5.8 due to the fact that the Bavarian ^government has absolutely forbidden any performance after this year, because the ecclesiastical authorities and (all decent people have come to regard the affair as a desecration of religion. The last performance of the play took place in 1880, when there crowdcd to this remote village a sensation-seeking-ludience from all parts of the earth. railroad has since been constructed Ho the place, and the people that are JQOW there are of the same class that rvisited there ten years ago. The origin pi the play, the last relic of the mysitery dramas of the middle ages, dates Iback to 1638, when a pestilence fell fupon the district, and the inhabitants (vowed that at its stay they would act the play decendially. This resolve iwas kept, and only once—in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war was the representation discontinued. It .•was. however, repeated in 1871, ostensibly as a thanksgiving (or the peace, and in 1880 it drew to Ober-Ammegau the greatest multitude of sight-aeerers [that ever collected in the place, greatly "to the scandal of European Christian eoclety. Great but unavailing efforts were made this year to induce the ^authorities to interdict it. Over 500

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THE NEWS OTTHE WEEK-

Aeven ^hod3ui\i New York cloak makers are locked out. Tbo Vermont Republicans nominated O.irrol S Paige for Governor.

The Nw rk Central Labor Union, Sunday, expelled all Socialists. Steamer war lias reduced the "fare and Toed" bfiweeu Louisville and Cincinnati to $1.

The Masonic Grand Lodge, of Nebraska, lias indorsed the edict against the Corneaus.

An objectionable Mormon elder was tarred and feathered at Mementos. Ga., on the 22d.

Pleasantan, a town of 200 inhabitants, in Nebraska, was wiped out by a cyclone Sunday alteriioon.

Morris Daloy, cashier of the Chicago water works, is missing, and so are $34,000 *om tbo treasury.

A legislative committee reports favors ably a proposition to remove the Louisiana capital to New Orleans.

The Cincinnati carpenters' strike is extending to the other building trades, and many men are quiting work.

Charles F. Pustner, of Troy, O., being threatenod with total blindness, escaped that fate by committiug suicidc.

The TribuDC states that the census figures in New York show that the population is over 1,800,000 and nearly 2,000,000.

It is reported that John L. Sullivan will invest his money in a stock farm in Massas cliusetts and retire from the prize ring.

Mrs. Sylvester Bowman, residing near Whitesville, Muhlenburg county, Ky., was struck by lightning and instantly killed.

The Millers' National Association, in session in Minneapolis, unanimously indorsed the Butterworth anti-option bill.

The Eastern Building and Loan Association of Philadelphia is proved unreliable and has been doing a bogus business in the west.

The Park National Bank, Chicago, closed its doors od the 20th. No reason is given for the failure. It did not do a very large business.

Estimates undor the now census gives tlie^following figures: New York, 1,027,227 Cincinnati, 310,000 Philadelphia, 1,040,440 Boston, 417,720.

A tug-boat was blown to pieces at Brooklyn on the morning of the 24th, and the crew, of four hands, who were asleep, were all killed.

Rev. M. Lockwood, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Cincinnati, has been nominated by the Prohibitionists for Sec retary of State.

A freight train fell over a precipice on (he Western North Carolina Road, thirtytwo miles from Asheville. and three trainmen were killed.

Chicago claims second place in the list of cities of the United State, the recont census showing a population considerably over one million. '••'•'•F .ivy?'''

A bad Indian, af. Niagara Falls, stabbed a man six times in the fore part of the body, once in the back, and then cut the veins of his limbs to insure death.

The safe of Lewis M. Bliler, bookmaker at Kansas City, was cracked by burglars who secured $3,000 in cash, $800 worth of diamonds and about $300 in notes.

The Masonic Temple Association of Chicago will crcct an eighteen-story building, to cost $2,000,000. Its height from the street level will be 240 feet.

New York claims 1,627,227 Cincinnati,1 310,000 Philadelphia, 1,040,449 Boston 417,720 and Indianapolis 125,000, including suburbs, as the result of the completion of their census.

There has been a split in the national order of railway conductors on the strike question, and the seceders (the antistrike) held meeting and organized an opposition order.

Commencement exercises at Kalamazoo College. Kalamazoo, Mich., Monday, were marked by the absence of a graduating class, owing to suspensions having been made for hazing.

If New York failes to raise the money for the Grant monument by Sept. 1, a number of ex-confederates propose to raise the amount by subscriptions, exclusively from southerners.

A farmer near Wilkesbarre, Pa., punished his eleven-year-old son by tying him to across and allowing him to remain for seven honrs. The child is not expected to live and the father is under arrest.1

Owing to the refusal of the Democratic State Convention of Maine to adopt a license plank in the platform, there is a threatened revolt, and a call for a convention of all those believing in local option and license.

The school-book board, created by an act of the last session of the Ohio Legislature, has determined that the maximum price to be paid for school books shall be at a reduction of 33£ per cent, from the "list" price, competition to settle still further reduction.

A conference of the Finance Ministers of the various German States will shortly be held for the purpose cof discussing and agreeing upon the means of defraying the military expenses of their respective governments, as well as the contribution of each State to the maintenance of the Imperial military establishment.

While fifteen young ladies from the Schuylkill Seminary, at Fredericksburg Pa., were on their way to the railroad station, at 'Jamestown, in a coach drawn by four horses, the animals became unmanageable and suddenly plunged down a twenty foot embankment, the coach and its occupants falling Qn top of the animals. All the ladies wero more or less seriously injured, and the coachman badly trampled

A tornado passed near .Cornell, 111., on the afternoon of the 20th, wrecking everything in its [pathway. Several persons were fatally injured. "'A cloud burst at Bloomington did heavy damage. Norths eastern Kansas was also the scene of an eleotrlcal storm, and the damage was great, Four persons wero killed near Dixon, 111. Charles Morrison was struck by lightning and killed near Shoals, Ind. At Mta Carmel, 111., it was one of the severest rain storms ever seen in that town.

A scandal is rumored in connection with the location of the World's Fair. Mr. Leland, who owns property abutting, |and who is opposed to the Fair being held in Lake Front Park, says he was offered ©,000,000 to withhold his objection, but be refuses to state who made the- offer. Ri-

parian right to'thc locality in dispute hat ong been a bono of contention. It it believod the offered bribe was]mado by one of the parties at interest, with a view o* such action as would more clearly establish his claim.

A strange accident or murder occurred at Omaha, where J. J. Warner and L. O Sccrist, the best of friends, were attending the .Grand Lodge of Masons, and were rooming together at the hotel. Warner says he dreamed he was fighting a monster, and when he came to himself he found that he had thrown his room-mate out of the window. There are indications that the men quarreled over the Cerneau Scottish Kite, which has created considerable dis* turbance in Nebraska Masonic circles. Warner was arrested.

A singular offer comes to Willcsbarre from a farmer named William Morgan, of Pawnee county, Kansas. He has read of the Ashley disaster, and the distress which exists among the widows and orphans. He states that he is unable to forward any money, but ho offered to marry one of the widows and provide for her and her children to the best of his ability. He gives no details, but he invites correspondence, and gives every assurance of his good faith in the matter. The communication, whioh was received by the Mayor, has been submitted to the Ashley Relief Committee, and they will open correspondence with the Western man.

Americans, as well as Englishmen, are interested in the now and rigorous enforcement of the law relating to the residence of foreigners in France. No foreigner can now reside in any part of Franco for a period exceeding four months' without registering his declaration. When he leaves a commune where he has been residing he is bound to notify the Mayor and inform him of the place to which he means to proceed. The Mayor thereupon notifies the authorities of the commune to which the foreigner is about to remove, aud specially mentions the day of arrival. The foreigner failing to register maybe fined. Thus a perfect surveillance, as thorough as that of Russia, is maintained over the alien population in France.

More people are going to Europe this year than ever before. During the month of June, so far, more than 5,000 passports have beon asked for, and it is estimated that less than 10 per cent, who go abroad ask for them. Only those who travel lor the first time in Europe think they need them. Those who go regularly, or frequently, to Europe never ask for thorn, nor are they carried by merchants or other business men who run over to the other side two or three times a year. There is one class of citizens who never go across'' without a passport, and these are German* who intend to visit the fatherland. They need them for fear they may find thefti necessary to avoid being gobbled up rrtr military service.

The most destructive wreck, both in li/fe and property, known to the history of &he Western North Carolina Railroad, occurred at Melrose Station, thirty-two miles fj-om Asheville, on the 17th. From the apes'* of Saluda mountain to Melrose, a distance of more than three miles, there is a fijill of fully 600 feet. This fact has made the railroad authorities especially careful at this point, and an engine is kepi, constantly there to help all trains up and doyvn the mountain. The track was very we't when a coal train started down, and soon after beginning the decent it became 'evident that the twelve loaded cars were tjbo much for both engines to hold with aVl brakes set, and the speed gradually Quickened under the heavy pressure until speed of seventy-five miles an hour was reached, when the tracks spread and the 'entire outfit plunged headlong down tlie^' .mountain with a horrible crash, burying {beneath the broken cars, cross-ties and eartth the brave fellows who had stood to theirr posts. Ihe loss to the company in engiaes and cars alone will reach $75,000. Bo/th engineers and firemen were killed and tfbo conductor, brakemen and flagmen dangerously injured.

FOREIGN./

A dispatch to the Siecle fro,n Berlin announces that Field Marshal Count Von Moltke is seriously ill.

There are fears of a revolution in Mexico. It is believed President Diaz is conspiring to declare himself Dictator.

The province of Tripoli, Africa, is being devastated by locusts. The decomposed bodies of tho insects fill the wells, infect ingthe water and rendering it unfit for use.

Premier Mercicr, the apostle of the Ultramontane and the hope of tho French race, has been returned to the head of the Government, in Quebec. Canada, by an overwhelming majority.

Congress having amended the tariff bill, reducing tho duty on lumber to $1 per thousand feet, board measurement, the Canadian Government in return, will remove the export, duty on saw-logs.

Fritz Dubois was hanged in the jail yax-d at Quebec, on tho 20th, for tho murder in February last, of his wife, his two children and his mother-in-law, whom ho hacked to pieces in a most brutal manner with an ax.

Brazil is preparing for self-government,

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nd the new constitution is ready to be acted on by the Assembly. The American system of a responsible executive hasbeeni adopted. The first, election of the President will be in November next, he holding office for six years.

Hordes of famished wolves arc overruns ning Austrian Galicia, destroying thou sands of sheep and many larger animals. In a number of cases men have been at tacked by tho ferocious beasts and devoured. In some regions it is extremely dangerous for the inhabitants to go abroad, and the people have organized large bands of armed men to exterminate the brutes.

It is stated on good authority that the French government recently made an offer of $400,000, to the American inventors of smokeless powder, for tho secret of the manufacture of that explosive. The sum was largo, but the offer could not be enter* tained, as the secret had been sold to the Italian government only a short time previously for an amount somewhat smaller.

Lieutenant Baron Von Gravenereuth, who was connected with Wissmann's:oxpodition in Africa, has written a letter, in which he says he is painfully surprised a the terms of the Anglo-German settlement in regard to African territory, especially that part of tho agreement providing for the surrender of Zanzibar to the British. He says he considers Zanzibar as the key to Africa.

INDIANA STA'/'E NEWS

Hartford City will soon have a gas plant.

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Marion ladies are organising a humane society. Car wheel works wi'ji soon bo located at Anderson. lerre Haute saloon, men aro fighting the $250 license.

There are fifty-foiu-iif convicts in the Prison North. A\ heat harvest has begun in the vicinity of .Jeffersonville.

Highway robbery'is unplcasautly cii ,- mon near Elkhart. 1.he complaint, ^a.nst the ccow OBO meration is general.

Plainfield is to have a new Methodist Church. Cost $4,000. A foreign syndicate is trying to purchase the Bedford quarries.

Sparrows have been ravaging wheat fields near effrersoaville. Mishaivaka 'and South Bond are connected by electric railway.

Scottsburg has struck a meagre supply of gas at a despth of 190 feet. Anderson has secured the Ditridge glass factory, of New Brighton, Pa.

A man natned Lemon, near Corydon, has been flogged by the White Caps. Burglars stole $36 from the J. M. & I. depot at P^ru at noon on the 20th.

A dangerous type of flux is reported in Madison tfownship. St. Joe county. Contract has been awarded for a new school ho,use at Peru, to cost $17,500.

Streaks of gold were found by drillers at Indian Springs, while boring a well. Harry Hensley, aged ten, was killed at Visiceirnes by eating too many cherrios.J

Thre£ magnificent steamers are being built a*, Madison for traffic on the Missouri.

Farmers near Hortonville are using tho oil f'''3m the well there for painting pur poses.

Da.iiiel Gulp, of Huntington, was frightlully stung while tryiug to hive a swarm of bees.

Ijerre Haute is advocating the removal of fr(£nt tences. What will the young ladies Ic^n on.

Not only the midge but the red weevil is' plundering the wheat fields in Hancock county.

J. D. Carter, Jr., of Wabash, presented jPurdue University with a fine blooded 'Jersey bull.

The postofflce at Woodbury, N. J., was robbed on the 20th. One of the burglars was captured.

The 128th and 130th Indiana regiments will hold a joint reunion at Logansport, beginning Aug. 6.

The storm at Indianapolis, on the 22d, unroofed a shed at a pleasure resort. Six persons were injured.

Edward Fowler and wife, of Columbus, partook heartily of oat meal and were dangerously poisoned.

Albert Houston, •while unloading stone for a bridge abutment near Gosport, fell into the water and was drowned.

John O'Toole, of Browusburg, among the first immigrants from Ireland to In dianb, died Friday night at the age of 83.

Hiram Marling, who settled in Jackson county seventy-one years ago, and was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe.

Davis Pegg, one of the early pioneers of Wayne county, and an upright and valued citizen, is dead. He was aged ninety* three.

A tramp "jour printer," Wm. K. Barnes, has boen arrested at Greencastle for forging the signatures of.Editors Beckett and Arnold.

Burglars secured $1,500 in securities, three watches and $50 in cash by cracking the safe of V. D. Miller, at Laporte, on tho 17th.

The Farmers' Alliance of Greene county has passed strong resolutions demanding a reduction in fees and salaries of public officers.

Burglars robbed the safe of V. D. Miller's saloon at Lagrange, carrying off $1,500 in notes and mortgages,^three watches and $70 cash.

Aurora is proud of a turkey gobbler which batched fourteen turkeys out of sixteen eggs, and is taking great care of the brood.

The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles long and four miles wide, and the wells average twentysflve barrels daily.

Miss Lillio B. Alnut, aged 10, of Jeffersonville, started afire with kerosene. Tho can exploded and the young lady was burned to death.

Miss Lillio B. Atnut, aged sixteen, of Jeffersouville, on Sunday, attempted to hasten tho kitchcn fire with gasoline, and was burned to death.

Jasper Hill, offFrankfort,under sentence for twelve years to tho penitentiary, attempted suicide, Wednesday evening, with broken glass, but failed.

Marshal Dillon, of West Indianapolis, was shot Saturday night by a member of a gang of toughs ho was endeavoring to quiet. Ho cannot recover.

Lottie, tho seven-year-old daughter of Adolph Geisman, of Ft. Wayne, was im paled on an iron fence, on the 18th, while playing in an elevated position.

Charles Baker, of Indianapolis, for assaulting a simple-minded colored girl, has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary by a Criminal Court jury.

S. L. Rowan, recently sent to tho Indian. apolis Work House for petit larceny, was formerly a prosperous citizen of Monticell o. His downfall is due to drunkenness.

Many Terre Haute saloonkeopcrs refuse to pay the new $250 license, doubting the validity of the [ordinance. The marshal proposes to close them up, and a hard fight is anticipated.

Two men were killed in a (railway aocis dent on tho Baltimore & Ohio, at Child's Station, on the 20th. Among the injured were Bishop J. J. Keane, rector of Catholic University, Washington.

A number of skeletons have been exhumed near Montpolicr, together with tools made of stone, apparently used for tanning leather. There was also a quantis ty of flints and stone axes.

Charles L. Clatke, of Woicott, committed suicide this weojc, the result of two unhappy marriages and illegal complica tions with a third woman. He-was aged forty-eight, ard an ex-soldier.

J. C. Stott, Railway Station Agent ax Amboy, while returning from Marion, two pis

Sunday, attempted to alight from the rapidly moving train. He was thrown under the wheels and crushed to death.

David Spurgeon and Jacob Fiddler were arrested for criminally assaulting Mrs. Ann Williams, of Edinburg, and in the trial Mr. Fiddler was acquitted, while Spurgeon was placed under bonds.

Phillip and Josephine Fraglich, Of Fort Wayne, are under arrest, charged with abusing a twosj'car^old son of the woman by a former marriage, and with attempting to drown tho little one in tho canal.

Tho late David A. Jones, of Chicago, formerly an lndianinn, bequeathed $10,000 with which to remodel the Presbyterian Church at llockville, already a handsome structure. The work will soon begin.

Harry Insley, of Torre Haute, a young medical student, arrested at Greencastle for alleged grave robbing, has been released on bail. The body stolen was that of a tramp, killed a few days ago by a train.

Valentine Whitehead, a prominent and wealthy farmer living near New Paris, has been fined one cent and costs for hauling chickens to market with their legs tied. He was prosecuted by the Humane Society on a charge of barbarous cruelty.

The Harrison White Caps made one of their raids a few nights ago, and took from his house, near Corydon, a man named Lemon, and administered to him a severe floggine. His offense was alleged to have been an undue intimacy with a woman of ill-repute residing in the vicinity of his residence.

Auburn, South Bend, Ligonier, Goshen, Angola, Kendallville, and Waterloo have joined with Montpelier and Hicksville, O., in forming a fair circuit, advertising and working in common, Tho first fair will open at Auburn, September 7, and the others will follow in regular succession, closing at Waterloo, October 10.

There has been readjustment of the salaries of first class postmasters in the country, of which there are now 116, fourteen having been ordered during the year. Following are the changes for Indiana: Evansville, from $3,000 to $3,100 Fort Wayne, $3,000 to $3,100 Indianapolis, $3,500 to $3,000 South Bend, $2,S00 to $3,000.

Darlington was incorporated last spring, but the no ,v School Board fouud that the retiring Trustee had contracted with G. W. Welt as Principal of the schools, beginning September next. The new Board, however, engaged Mrs. Lizzie Morrison, of Crawfordsville, and the rival claims will have to be adjudicated in the courts.

Auditor Taggart, of Marion county, has made up his semi- annual settlement sheet. It shows taxes collected an tho first installment, $826,159.89 for -which the Treasurer is allowed $3,139.67 fees. Of the amount collected the city of Indianapolis received $301,827.5S Indianapolis School Board, $79,481.52 Marion county, $184,978.15, and tho State, $138,404.01.

George Baker, a farm hand, was found dead, Monday morning, on the Nickel Plate railway track, with his head and both logs entirely severed. He was twentyfour years old, and was betrothed to aMiss Dick, who was helping him to pay for a small farm, near Claypool,, where his remains wero found. Fears of foul play aro entertained by his friends.

Lewis Moore, the Democratic candidate for Auditor of Delaware county, has offered, in case of his election, to refund $1,500 per annum of his salary to the county, making a total of $6,000 for tho term. Claim is made that this proposition conflicts with the new election law, and that Mr. Mooro has laid himself liable to prose, cution, because it is a bid for the yptos of tax payers.

A conferencc of Mississippi colored men promulgated an address in which they declare that the constitutional convention to assemble August 13 is designed by the Democratic party to abridge, if not to practically destroy, their liberties. They declare that the negroes as a race should be represented, and announce their purpose to elect men of their color, or show the world that they are denied a free ballot and a fair count.

Gottlied Selfert, of Terre Haute, died Thursday evening undor peculiar circums stances. On the 5th inst. he was slightly injured in a runaway accidcnt, and a dog licked a bruise on his hand while it was still fresh. While he continued at work until Sunday last, his condition grew worse, and finally he was confined to his bod, the symptoms indicating hydrophobia, tetanus or lockjaw. He suffered untold agony. There is a belief that his death was duo to absorption of saliva while the dog was licking his injured hand.

Tho most disastrous railroad wreck known to Anderson occurred just cast of the crossing of tho Big Four and Panhandle railroads on the evening of the 18th. Whatever the cause, thirteen cars wore suddenly jerked out of the middle of a west-bound merchant freight of forty cars and piled in a promiscuous, splintered heap on tho track and at either side, resulting in the destruction of many thousand dollars' worth of [property, including oars, pianos, furniture, buggies, lime, powder, paper, wire, nails, etc. But one person was injured, a brakeman, who was only slightly hurt in jumping from the train.

Jasper Hill, the elder of the notorous Hill brothers, was given twelve year's in the penitentiary, at Frankfort,the 18th for the part he took in the attempted robbery of old farmer Durbin, one night last May. The Hills had undertood that the old man, who is eighty years old, had secreted about his house $S00. The attempted robbery was made known to tho officers and the gang was capturod while tbo leader was holding a revolver in the old man's face. The others will probably escape with a lighter sentence. The same evens ing of his arrest Hill made an effort to end his existence by swallowing pounded glass.

George W. Saines, formerly night operator at Delphi on the Monon, while going home, was caught by a south-bound pas sengor train, Monday night. He was crossing over a long trestle, and in stepping down on one of the projections of the bridge the engine cut off his left arm,three inches below tho tho shoulder. In falling off the bridge, he broke his right arm in below the elbow. He was

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thrown on a barb-wire fence, and his body •was frightfully scratched. He walked from where he received his injurios to the city, about half a mile, by the aid of Tennis Roskuski, who found him. Ho will likely recover.

Indianapolis roughs visit suburban resorts on Sundays. Tho Sentinel of the 23d describes one sceno as follows: "Broad Ripple was wide open yesterday. Although the lady swimmers advertised to be present and give exhibitions did not materialize, beer, base ball and dancing furnished entertainment to about live hundred people. About 3 o'clock the rain began to descend in such torrents that this mass of turbulent humanity sougiit refugo undor the dancing shod. Faster and faster fell the rain, and louder and louder grew the hilarity of tho maudlin crowd. Young girls from twelve to fifteen years of ago •eeled and staggei-ed in a state of beastly intoxication. On tho train coming back to the city after the afternoon's .revel tho spectacle, if possible, was still more disgusting. Drunken hoodlums elbowed drunken girls in passing through the coaches, and ofttimcs could bo seen five or six slobbering, drunken members of both sexes piled in ono seat. Songs that would split the icicled atmosphoro of tho Arctic regions rang through the cars, making what few respectable people who were on the train wish that Broad Ripple were a hundred miles away."

INDIANA FARMERS.

They Meet, Organize and Adopt IteKolutioiiN.

Indiana farmers met in'convention, at Indianapolis, on the lUtti inst, to organize a State League. All farmers' organizations in Indiana wore represented, the large attendance being something of a surprise even to the delegates. The convention was made up of earnest, intelligent men, keenly alive to their own interests, and capable, as developments showed, of expressing their ideas in a forcible way. The political significance of tho meeting boars chiefiy on legislative matters, and the wiser heads openly said they woro not convened to threaten any party, but to advance their own interests. The majority present represented the [Farmers' Alliance, tho Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, the Grange and other bodies.

The delegates declured that they were unalterably opposed to the liquor traffic demanded that United States Senators elected by the people demanded the repc of the law which authorizes County Co inissioncrs to call special elections for purpose of voting aid to corporationsinanded the passage of a law makin fees and salaries of county^offlcers tionate to tho anionritS siinilth*«ervi responsibilities would command open market demanded the pa« law making the legal rate of inter portionate to rate paid capital invested agriculture and other productive industries demanded thj*'., thif 'Government should loan its credit directly to the people on land or its products as Isecurity, at not to exceed 2 per cent- interest. It was also* resolved that there should bo a law which1 will secure equal and exact justice to al children of the State in the apportionment of the State school revenue that the' public printing should be let to the lowest responsible bidder that there shall be a change in tho law which will secure the debtor an oquitable exemption from taxation against bona fide indebtedness favoring the passage of the Butterv worth bill by Congress declaring that th« farmers' organizations Jof Indiana bo authorized to select one delegate for every 10,000 or fraction thereof to look after legislation nee/led that tho free coinage bill should be fhade a law.

In conclusion, it was resolved, with' much enthusiasm, that, Whereas, We [can much more certainlyj and with less oxpenso secure such legislation as the condition of our iutercstsi demands by placing men in sympathy with' our purposes in tho halls of Congress therefore be it

Resolved, That we demand of ,the lead-t ing political parties that they place sucht men on their tickets for Representatives! and Senators, and that where such nomln-i ations aro made we pledge them our per-! sistent support, regardless of past political affiliations, and

Resolved, further, That when the politi-j cal parties fail to nominate men identified with our interests by occupation, wo deem| it our duty and pledge ourselves to nom-| inate such men independently, and strive) by all honorable means to ^secure their olection.

CUBA ANDAMERICAN FLOUR.

Secretary Blaine received the following telegram from Chairman Imbs, of the National Millers' Association, in session at Minneapolis:

It is reported that an additional duty of 80 cents per barrel will be imposed upon American flour by Cuba on July 1. This would prohibit any possible flour trade between tho United States and Cuba. Tho millers are consequently agitated, hence your prompt telegraphic reply is earnestly solicited.

To which Mr. Blaine replied: "We have no official adviceat the State, Department of the eighty cents additional duty on flour in Cuba. If levied, it will make the duty $5.81 per barrel—evidently intended by Spain to be prohibitory. The whole subject is within the power and wisdom of Congress. It has been constantly said there for the last six months that) the Western farmers demand the unconditional repeal of the sugar duty. Itis: within the power of Western farmers, byi encouraging of reciprocity, to secure, in exchange for tho repeal of this duty, the. free admission of their breadstuffs and1 provision into the markets of of 40,000,000 of people, including Cuba. "In my opinion this is the most profitable policy for tho Western farmer. Free sugar in the United States should be ao companied by free breadstuffs, and provisions in Spanish America."

"Marion Harland," Mrs. Mary V. H. Terbune, of Brooklyn, ia a tall woman of gracious manner and dignified presence.

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