Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 December 1890 — Page 6

THE EE VIEW.

8OTB0BMENT.

CRAVnPOKODSVIEJUB IKDIARA

I WHEN Mr. Parnell says that Mr. Gladstone is not tO' bo trusted as a friend of tbo Irish people and a cham. pion of their rights and interests, he shows himself to be most uujust and un^ratoful. The Irish cause owes the greater part of its strength and popus iarity to Mr, Gladstone's sincere and unselfish devotion, and its chances of eucce9a will diminish very rapidly in case his services shall be lost for any reason.

FARNELL is one of tho thousands of jmen and the scores of men eminent in history who have been wrecked by women. There is no influence in tho wor'iil so powerful for good as that o' the woman who is what we all know our mothers and sisters to be, and there Is nothing more demoralizing than the impulse given to a man by a bad woman. It is strange, too, that some of the victims of such enticement have been those who would resist any other ordinary temptation. Themoro sensitively constituted the person, the moro likely he is to play his career against a smile and his reputation for *. «ti8B. It is only fair to say, however, that Mr. Parnell has never in his public life, manifested the least sensitiveness.

LORD WOLSELEY has a very poor opinion of the white trader in Africa. !He says it is useless to appeal to his humanity or feelings. The avorage trader, he says, does not care whether the vile alcohol ho soils claims more victims than war or pestilence, or whether the arms he barters for oil and ivory cause large districts to bo laid waste by the slave dealer. If he only grows rich he cares nothing for all the suffering he may inflict, though Lord Wolseley adds that the mouth of this same trader is often filled with moral platitudes when he speaks in Europe on African topios. Lord Wolseley thinks African questions ehould be settled by the European powers, without any regard for tho wishes or opinions of African traders-

THE modern ooean steamer is an enormous craft. Those of the larger eizo have as many as fifty-four furnaces, which create steam in nine enormous steam boilers. There are fiix furnaces to each boiler, and ten firomen to each furnace—or sixty liremen in all. Only half of them are on duty at once- thirty at a time—the shifts changing every four hours. They feed the furnaces with fifteen tons of coal an hour—two tons for e&o.h fireman during his four hours' ahift, or 340"lons a day for the steamer. The work of a fireman is hard, and not relieved by a sight of sea, 8ky or land. Pie is a sort of prisoner in a heated dungeon. The pay of a fireman is $20 a month. His life—between heat, exposure and riotous dissipation when ashore—is short. The maximum age of the class is 45 years.

THE unseemly wrangles that have marked the preliminary efforts to organize the Columbian Exposition—announced to be held ic 1893 instead of 1892, as should have been the case— Will certainly work against the interests of the fair and may result in Bomething very near a National disgrace. We, on this side of the water, understand how largely the rival interests of Chicago people are responsible fo" the squabble, but it will not be easy couvey to the mind of the fore:^ner an appreciation of this fact. Unler-f ive has made a study of the political system in ibis country, he will hold tho Urnted States at large responsible for the acts of the State of Illinois and the city of Chicago. In fact, ha will be to a degreo justified in doing this, for the reason that the Congress of the United States designated Chicago as the place for tho holding of the fair,

transpirft* that the enormous aggregated monopoly of tho Goulds, Rockafellera and Vanderbilts now owns every independent railroad west of Chicago, and, excepting the Pennsylvania and Lackawana, nearly every considerable road east of it. The recent largo purchases of tho Rockafollers have increased the grasp of this octopus, so that it now holds tho Pacifio Mail Steamship company, tho

Southern Pacific and the Northern Pa oific. The enterprise is one of threat ening proportions, and the latest purchases will be made to accrue to the benefit of the Standard Oil company— the greatest monopoly in Aaierioa. There seems now to be simply no limit to the extension of the railroad combination, and Jay Gould's cherished ideal of one company controlling *very road la the country is nearer ita rjali cation than ever befor*.

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TEE NEWS 0V_THE WEEK.

A flro did $135,000 damago at Athol, Mass., on tho Si»t. Spotted fever is decimating the little town of Fairfield' Texas.

IngaHs has very poor show of boing re eleoted Senator from Kansas. Gen. Custer's widow boiievos Sitting Bulls death to have been a good tiling.

Signor Suoci, an Italian, completed a fast of forty-llvo days at New York on tho2l)th.

Oswald Ottondorfer has sold the New York Staats Zeitung to Herman Kodden for $4,030,000.

Prominent Mormons have como into possession of 8,000,1)00 acres of land in Northern Mexico.

A general strike of tho switchmen, fires men and trainmen on all the roads centering at Pittsburg is threatened.

Iaaao Smith, Elmer Sharkey and Henry P°PP. murderers, were hung in the Colurnpenltontiary on tho 10th.

Qen. Alfred H. Terry, of tit a army, Cook's predecessor in tho command of the West, died at New Haven, Conn., on the 16th.

Christ Knoiling,

tailor of Dayton, O.,

who put 13,000 in a eigarbox and buried it tor safety, has been robbed of the whole amount.

The presiding judge has refused to quash thi indiotment against ex-State Treasurer Nota«d, or Missouri, charged with embezzlement.

The temperature at Lydonville, Vt, on the 9th, wa9 80 degrees below zero.' Ice on the Kenneboo at Augusta, Me., is from 6 to 8inches thick.

A gang of men on a new railroad In Wayne county, West Va., attempted to throw out frozen dynamite on the 21st Two of them were killed and ten permas nently crippled.

Mrs. Washington Anderson^, over ninety years old, *vas buried at Dubuque, la., on the 20th. It is claimed that she was the last living representative of tho family of George Washington.

There is a proposition before the Kentucky constitutional convention for a redisricting of the State that will reduce the Republican representation in the Legislature to almost nothing.

The stbamer Ferndale burned to the Water's edge off the south shore of Lopez f«lan4 in Puget Sound, Monday night. ^heFerndale had on board 500 barrels of lime and a quantity of hay and grain.

The Lerillard Brick Works Company, oj IftyrYprlf and Keyport, N. J., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. They fcre short of ready cash. Liabilities, about $1,000,000 assets estimated at $1,500,000.

The total number of children of school age in the State of Illinois, according to the annual report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is 1,163,440 total en-, rollment of scholars, 778,319 teachers 23 1C4.

At Blanchester, O., J. N. Lazure and Bert Cadwallader quarrelled over a game of cards and Lazure was shot and killed and Cadwallder, failing to escape the pur, suing crowd, shot himself through ths head.

The State Farmers' Alliance of Nebraska closed its session, electing John H. Powers president, H. G. Stewart vice press ident, J. M. Thompson secretary, and .Tay Burrows chairman of tho executive com* mittee.

The last car of a passenger train went through a trestle on the Wheeling and liftke Erie road near Canton, Chio, on the 18th, and fell thirty four feet into the Tus casawa river. Four persons were killed and eight badly injured.

Arthur ftoyt t)ay, who murdered hid wife by pushing her over a cliff at Niagara Falls In July last, was hanged at 8:30 Thursday morning. The condemned maa walked to the scaffold with a firm step snd a smile on his face. His death was easy.

In Joint session of the legislature of Idaho, Thursday, Gov. George L. Shoup. W. J.B^Connell and Fred T. Dubois were elected U. 8. Senators, Shoup and McConnell with short terms ending March 4, 1R93. Dubois gets the full term of six years from March 4 next.

An epidemic is raging among horses in Jefferson and Shawnee counties, Kansas.

Scores of horses have died. In Missouri •ontences

the same disease has recently made its ap- """"1

the 18th. By some means one of the

coaches became derailed, throwing off all

the cars following it. Tho cars

thrown down an embankment. Five persons were killed and many injured. At the Coalburg mines, near Birming ham, Ala., on the 20th, a number of the striking miners signed an agreemont to quit the Mine Workers' Union md return to work. On tho night of tho 20th, while engaged in cleaning out tho opening of a

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dated I.ongPine, Neb., Dcc. 10, as follows-: "Gen. Brooke reports that Two Strike an-it 184 lodges of about bOO Indians uro now camtii at Pino Ividge agency, and these, topother with the other Indians at Pine Uidgo and Rosebud, are all that can be drawn out of the disaffected camp. The others are defiant and hostilo and arc determined to go to war, has no hope that any other effort at pacification wo#!# be successful."

Heavy snows have fallen in Pittsburg, on the 17th, and telegraph and telephone wires were rendored usoless. Three horses wore killed, two drivers kuocked sensoless and a street car set on Are by electno light wires being down in the street. All trains are budlv delayed. Reports from the surrounding country show even greater damage. This is tho heaviest snow in five years. Tho sterrn extended to all parts of the East, and the snowfall at Staunton, Va., measured three feet. Other places report the fall no loss heavy.

FOREIGN.

C_TheEmpress Augusta Victoria of Germany gave birth to a son on the 18th. The ex-Empress Eugenie is reported a heavy loser by tho rocenfc depreciation in South American securities, as she had ins vested very largely in them.

A dispatoh to the National Zeitungfrom Rome says that there is much anxiety at the Vatican over the condition of the Pope, who has been seriously affected by the extremely cold weather. Dr. Ceccerelli, who is in attendance on His Holiness, is prepared for the worst.

The Spanish coaster San Francisco recently ran ashore near Alhucemas, Morocco. A party of Moors boarded tho vessel and carried off everything they could lind, Thoy made prisoners of the entire crew and a woman who was a passenger, and deprived thom of all thoir clothing, even stripping them of that which they had on. A detachment of native troops pursued tho robbers and rescued the prisoners.

WASHINGTON.

Senator Sherman reported to the Senate from the financo committee Thursday morning tho financial bill agreed upon by the Republican caucus, and it was recommitted to the financo committee. The only change of consoqucnco made in tho measure was to limit to banks having a capital of $50,000 each the operation of the provision reducing to $1,000 the compulsory requirement of deposits of bonds with tho Treasury. In addition to the features of the bill heretofore described the measure contains a requirement upon the Secretary of the Treasury to issue treasury notes to the amount of *10,000,000, based upou the abraded and otherwise uncurront subsidiary silver coin now in the treasury: also Senator Allison's proposition for an international arrangement to secure uniformity in the ratio in silver coinage, with a provision for the appointment of three commissioners to represent tho United States and an appropriation for their salaries and expenses.

The third caucus of the Republican Senators was held on tho night of the 17th and resulted in agreement. Tho basis was the adoption of the financial scheme reported by tho caucus committee, with the exception of tho 2 per cent, bond pro, ject, which was eliminated. So the meas uro will provide for the purchase of the twelve million dollar silver bullion sur blus, the reduction of tho compulsory reuirement of bond deposits by uationa banks, the extension of the national bank circulation Xo the full amount of their bond deposits,the replacement of the deficiency national bank circulation below $1S0,K 000,000 by treasury notes based on silver bullion purchases tho provision for free coinage, when silver is maintained at par "•or one year the provision for a charge on the conversion of gold coin into bars and the rescoinage of tho subsidiarv silver coins. This measure was not satisfactory every detail to all Senators, but was accepted as the best compromise.

BURNEDALTVET

Fear Drives Chlnene Villager* to the Commission of a Horrible Crime.

«,uuuue», lvansas. Chinese advices report tho execution of

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slope, a party of them were fired oi* by 'the

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an 1 case

Louis, from the abdomen of a woman

Gen. Schofleld received a telegram on

too morniBff of tho 17th from

villagers near Shanghai

the wounded and dead. Last March these

tion of the disoase is being made. salt inspectors made a raid on a village A frightful accident occurred on tho 'rhey w°re no mnifoi-nas, emtl the villagers Intercolonial road, near Lewis, Canada,on

mistook them for

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found

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cars were

pirates. The inspectors

Pile

contraband saltwhich they

by tho side of a house, and while re-

I moving it to their boats thoy were attacks ed by villagers and overpowered. Nearly all wore only stunned by blows, but a visit to their boats showed the villagers that, they had attacked government officers, and fearful of the severo punishment, they decided to burn tho boat, and with it the bod ies of the vvoundod inspectors, to remove

traces of the crime. So they carried

iulured men to tho

parties in ambush. their entreaties, sot lire to it and bui-nod Petitions are circulating all over Okla jtho

w'hole.

homa, asking that Congress declare the tenced to decapitation, but committed

present Legislature an illegally organized

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which bequests are madewill be therosid, ,vith

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boat, and, despite

The chief criminal was sen-

cide

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before *he day arrive'd, and, accords

body and all its work bo set aside. It will ito law, his body was exhumed and the head reach Washington on tho 2-d. It Is the 'struck off and exhibited as a warning to MUtgrowth of general dissatifaction among \the public. Four others were strangled the people over tho work of legislation no

and

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after heavy fines.

d'SlM0"""1 JOHN SHERMAN FOR ^ygSwOB.

The suggestion of tSie name of Senator

Feyerweather, of New John Sherman in connection with tho gu111T. hn ra«*tAi«« 1 oM

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ouoim«u 1U Luuuuvuon

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colleges to bernatorial nomination of Ohio 1ms met

number of strong indorsements

and

the moro tho subject is discussed the

*3'000'000 Wa- Stronger becomes tho sentiment that Mr

of Sherrran should be the next Republican

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candidate for Governor. It is learned thai

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the will get$^6,000. 't wing of tho party are not at all favorable A fibroid tumor weighing ninety-three to the nomination of Major Mciiinley -r and a half pounds, and said to bo the largs 'if est of its kind in the history of surgery, was removed at the P'us Hospital, St'

number of tho old leaders in the Foraker

HOW TO KILL CHICKENS.

At Peoria, 111., James Hannon, while showing a funeral party how to kill chickii in ii

The patient lived five days afterward, and ens, Sunday, broke tho neck of Patrick mtg have recovered had her case res Lyons, a man sixty years of age. The enceived professional attention a f3w weeks tiro party were sitting in a saloon after the earlier. Death was due to the exhaustion funeral and Hannon gave the old man's of the vitality of the patient by the growth,' neck a slight twist. Tho fact that the old and not to shock of the operation.

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fNrnTAW A QT ATT? ATE'WQ- fconirty, Ohio, Jan. 25, 1842. Ho had his

ill IS 1AIX & O A schooling in the district school and tho

Laport has seventeen physicians. it is said that tho farmers aro boycotting tho Bluffton merohauts.

Fire at Lawrenceburg badly damaged the Central House on the 20th. One thousand dollars monthly goes to Boono county in the way of pensions.

Charles Stador, of Jenniups county, reports that he fouud two diamonds in tho rough on his farm.

The family of Thomas J.- Courtney, at Waynotown, were chloroformed and robbed of $300.

George Blazier, of Anderson, a drayman, while unloading a heavy safe, was caught underneath and crushed to death.

Dr. H. H. Per guson, of Henry ville, found a flow of natural gas at a depth of fifty feet and is using it in lighting his store.

A syndicate has been organized to drain what is known as Gooso Pond, near Linton, which will bring 10,000 acres of land under cultivation.

The police having failed to capture "Jack the Kisser," as he is known at Fort Wayne, tho citizens are hanging up a purse for him, dead or alive.

The Hon. J. Q. Shanklin, Capt.J W. R. Meyers, Charles D. Jowott, Col. C. C. Matson and Mortimer Nye are mentioned as Democratic candidates for Governor.

Jacob Marsh, of Bartholomew county Is agod ninety-two. and has been voting the' straight Democratic tickot all his lifo. He claims .to be the oldest Democrat in the 1 State.

Two men entered tho ticket office of the Chicago & Erie railway at Kent and bouud and gagged W. A. Hoberdier, the agent, after which they robbed him of $118 cash, al. so taking his gold watch and diamond breastpin.

The Miami county commissioners have ordered that$2S,ooi.v:tj De drawn from the treasury for the benefit of tho Peru & Detroit railway, which is the new Wabash link between that city and Chili, and forms the main lino to Detroit. A total subsidy of $40,000 was voted.

In answer to an inquiry by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith Thursday, gave an opinion that children of school ago who are inmates of the State/ I Reformatory and benevolent institutions can not be legally included in the enumers ation which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These childron are given especial educational opportunities In,tho institution which they occupy

Indiana Inventors were issued patents Tuesday, as follows: T. M. Bates, Dublin, alarm bell J, L. Ackerman, Lowell, clamp C. G. Conn, Elkhart, cornet J. F. Haugh, Indianapolis, cushioned car wheell J. Hoffman, jr., Ashvllle. combination table anu quilting frame P. Hook and F. Q. Jacob, wire stretcher W. I. Hunt, South Bend, wagon eeat and wagon seat support R. E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, saw tjointer C. Reuter and J. L. Schruber, Lafayette, bed clothes fastener? C. E. Tower, South Bend, plow, sulky plow and sulky: J. L. Wagner and J. Seath, Terro Haute, car door

Mrs. Woodworth again demonstrated her faith cure power at her meeting to day, said a Munoie dispatch of tho 10th when Alfred Chalfant was apparently cured of deafness. Mr. Chalfant is a respectable farmer who had the drums of hia ears mutilated during the war, and has since been nearly deaf. Determined to try the woman's alleged powers,he went to the altar, and with her engaged in fervent prayer for an hour, when he arose and shouted, claiming to have had restored to him his long lost sense. Several tepts proved that he could tedi* a 16W whisper. He is a member of {the Methodist Church In good standing and will make affidavit oj his allegations. A colored woman prayed long for the supernatural power to cure her lung trouble, but to no avail. Sunday a lady here drove to the church in a cab to be healed of rheumatism. She had to be carried from the vehicle into tho building, but walked home, and now does her housework. |p§x

The F. M. B. A. members who held a meeting in Peru on Saturday last, during which extraordinary precautions were observed to prevent outsiders procuring any information, Wednesday publicly announced the result. They assert that existing fees in county offices are exorbitant, tna the legal rate of interest is too high, and that foreign corporations we drawing vast incomes from the State without taxation. As all political parties in the campaign just closed promised alleviation, they have resolved to call upon Representatives and Senators-^lect to keep their promises, and enact stringent laws for the immediate remedying of these wrongs. They demand that assessors take property at its true cash value tbat official fees be reduced 10 per oent. that taxes from toll roads, railroads and pipe lines be divided among the various school districts that all sheep killed outside the county in which owners lives'be paid for by the county in which the owner lives that a law be enacted permitting debtors to deduct their bona fide Indebtedness from their assessments: that mortgages not reported to the assessor be? come null and avoid in tho county whero recorded that county officers' terms bo fix at four years and that they bo not eligs ible to a second, and also that personal judgment against defendant in case of foreclosure be made a law.

M'BRIDE IS APPOINTED.

Judge Mitchell's Competitor Sucooeds to the Vacancy.

Robert W. McBride, of Elkhart county was appointed as Associate Justice, on the 18th, by Governor Hovey, and is now in the seat on the Supreme Court Bench

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dead did not develop until sever-

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hours later, whon the party arose to no

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Judge Joseph A. S. Mitchel The appointment, upon tho whole, seems

to have mot the genearal expectation, and

to be looked upon with favor Judge Mc,

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and affable

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Kirlcvillfli, Iowa, Academy. At eighteen ho taught school, continuing tnereat for threo years- Then bo was a clerk until Nov. 27, lSli^, when ho enlisted in tho Ohio Union Light Guards. After ^oing to Washington tho squadron was assigned todul.v in Virgiuia. By an accident McBride was injurod by his horse and permanently disabled from active duty on the field. Ho served, liowovor, faithfully withoutchnnco for glory or distinction, in detached duty as clerk to a military commission, and-jf-terward in the Adjutant General's ofileo in the War Department at Washington. Ho was honorably discharged Sopt It, 18G5. Ho was appointed to a place under tho Quartermaster General, but resigned, and, returning to Mansfield, O., continued the study of law, which ho had, asoppors tunity offered, taken Up. Ho eaine to Indiana in lbOti and clerked a while at Waterloo. In 1S67 he was appointed enrolliug clerk in tho Stato Senate, and in tho spring of that year he was admitted to tho Dekalb county bar. In 1880 he was elected Judge of tho Circuit Court, and iu lSVO was the nominee of tho Republican convention for Justice of tho Supreme Court. Early this month McBride was appointod commissioner by the President to consider disputed points between the government and the Klamath Indians of Washington Stato. This appointment contemplated a short engagement and will not now bo acs cepted. Ho is a Republican, and all the members of tho Supreme Court aro now Republican.

Judge McBride is a Methodist, a Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar and an Odd Fellow. He was married Sept. 27, isus, to Miss Ida, daughter of Dr. Chamberlain, of Waterloo. There aro four childron in his family.

INDIANA'S COAL INTERESTS.

Thomas II. Tislow, Stato Mine Inspector, submitted his annual report to the Govs ernor Iuesday. He says that, although warm wintersand natural gas have greatly injured tho coal business in this State, the output of coal in 1890 has exceeded that of 1888 by 573.500 tons. In tho coal mines of Indiana during the past year there were seven fatal accidents and fifteen accidents not fatal, The following table gives tho number of mines in the State, capital ins vested, output in 1SU0, and men employed, classified by counties:

No.ol Estimated Mines Capital ...28 J67AC00 ..... 8 77,000 ..... 1 10,000 2 18,000 5,*00 6*,000 69,900 1W,000 f.0,000 131,000 14,000

Clay Daviess 8 Dubois 1 Ureou ... 2 Knox ,... 2 Parka 8 Pike 4 Hullivan 8 Vanderburg... 5 Vigo 8 Warrick 3

Tonnage Men (Est.) Emi.'ld G,tHt),L'l'0 3,5::o 400,000 •183 ati,l«) 4t. 2S5'i 00 220 5,000 20 654.GC0 69S 1.W.0K0 182 700,000 443

S00.000 2P0 728,000 600 59,41(0 60

Total 77 2.0*1,000

6,676,000 6.&50

CONGRESSIONAL.

A bill was introduced in the Senate on the 13th to establish a record and pension office in the War Department. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, spoke against tho elections bill. In tho House, notice was given that the apportionment bill would be called up next Tuesday. A report was made from committee favorable to the establishment of a merchant marine, A memorial was presented to Congress urging tho immedis ate passage of the Torry bankruptcy bill as a relief to tho commercial interests of the country.

The Senate did nothing but discuss the election bill.

The House resumed consideration of the apportionment bill. After leng thy sate it was passed without amendment by ayes 187 nays 82, many Democrats voting with the Republicans for its passage. Tho bill provides for House of 756 members.

Tho House discussed t.e re-apportion-mont bill.

The Senate on tho 16th discussed the election bill. Tho Democrats aro doing nearly all tho speaking, in opposition.

Iu tho House, Thursday, on motion of Mr. Goodnight, of Kentucky, tho Senate bill authorizing the bridging of tho Groen and Barren rivers, in Kentucky, by the Bowling Green & Northern Railroad Corns pany.

The Senate on the 18th discussed the election bill and passed the following bills: appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Danville, 111., and for public Duildings at South Bend, Ind., ($75,000) and Bloomington, 111., (§75,000).

In tho House, on tho 18tli, the bill amending the interstate commerce act to permit notaries public to take depositions passed also bills for bridges over Willamette river in Oregon and the Duck river in Tonnessce. Mr. Baker tried to call up the subsidy bills but the Democrats claimed ho was not authorized by the committee to call it up and a long squabble followed, after which the House went into commit toe of the whole on the state of the Union and tho bill was taken up after one or two appeals which were decided in favor of tho chair. The bill was discussed for awhile but the House adjourned without action.

In the Senate Mr. Spooner spoke live hours in support of t'p elections bill. Mr. Ingalis also supported the elections bill. In tho House the urgency deficiency bill was amended by striking out tho amendment relating to

Senate employes and then

passed. The bill was favorably reported making the authority of tho Secretary of tho Treasury to exchange gold bars for gold coin discretionary instead of mandatory.

A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.

A disaster has occurrod at Cordova. Ai--gentine Republic, where tho canal has

which his late successful competitor, burst its embankments and destroyed

occupied, hundreds of houses. One hundred lives

are reported to be lost. Gen. Iloca, the

minister of the

scenoto

gentleman. with such sagacious

MoBrlde was born in Richland

interior', has gone to the

superintend measures of relief

Bride Is a gentleman of excellent reputa-1 tion. Like his predecessor he was a sols' W. J. Devol, of Cebanon, inherited $10,dier, and rendered distinguished service 000, In October, 1889, he became of age to the State before he became known as a and the money was paid him by his guar jurist. As a DeKalb county circuit judge, dian. Immediately a patent-right shark, Mr. McBride is said to have righted many aided by a supposed friend of Devol's, per» longstanding wrongs, and to have arroused suaded him to invest his all in a scheme some little personal opposition thereby. Devol now sues for 38,000 damages, and Generally speaking, however, he is a pop- now claims ho was not capable to dep ular

men

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with the ways of tho

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THE

INJSrAfM COUNTRY*

Troops Concantrat»d Around iln IVwrlorn, Four hundred of the Severtocnth'KlnJ fantry from Fort, Russell disombarkeoP at( Rapid City, S. D., and at other points on tho Elkhorn railway, Saturday, and toOlc up thoir lino of march for General Carr'i* fflamp at t!'.o junction of Rapid creck and.1 Cheyenne river. General Jlilea has cons' oentrated ar, that point tho Eighth audi Sixth Cavalry, tho Seventeenth Infantry* scouts and artillery, making a figUtiugi force of about 1,200 effective men. Thera Ida lsrge encampment of hostiles in-wbat is called the Grass Bashi, in tho Bad* Lands, about ton miles southeast of Carr'a camp, from which thieving forages hava been made on tho ranches. General. Miles is marfiug dispositions to guard* every pass and outlet lrom the camp,

and,

has issued orders for the cavalry to scout^ and intorcopt Sitting Bull's follower.^ who are supposed to be on route to join those hostlles.

General Miles' present dispositions) contemplate protection of the settlors and1 holding the Indians in thobasin or pocketi awaiting a general movement into the Bad! Lands simultaneously with General Brooke's forces. The result of th» peace oflort of the 500 friendly Indianai who left Pine Ridge to bring in tho ho's^ tales is unknown. Tho escape of tho In dians being cut off, they must soon sur«« render, or, like Sitting Bull, die lighting.,

DETAILS OF SITTING BUI.I.'S DKATn. It seemed necessary to act at once, and, tho police SGiout Sunday night, tho troops' following cl#ae ofter. On reaching tho camp the polioe found tho campcrs ready to move. Sitting Bull was seized, placed under arrest, but not bound, and the polico quickly started for the ugeney. But tha followers of the old man soon got ove» their surprise, and a sharp fire was at once* opened on tho police. The polico responded in kind and several foil from thoir horses, among the number being Sitting Bui) and his son Black Bird. Tho old medicine man had tried to direct mattora for a time by loudly shouting orders, but) his fall upset tho tiostiles. They at once rallied, however, and surrounded tho pos lice, who fought bravely and well, but would soon have been ovei^powered had) not the cavalry, which had been scut fol^ arrived on the scene. The police were at that time almost out of amunition, andl fighting hand to hand, but the sight of the soldiers and tho machine guns alarmed tho Indians, and they fled up Grand river. Tho cavalry followed but a short dlstanco and then returned to the camp and took pos^ session of th6 bodies of Sitting Bull and his son. Four policemen were killed and threo wounded, and it is thought that eight other whites were killed. Crow Foot, the twelve years old, the son of Sitting Bull* was wounded, with a number of others.

Sitting Bull's followers, when they fled up the Gsand river, left behind them their tents and thoir families, which wore taken possession of by the soldiers and will bo returned to the agency. After going a short distance up tho river the fleeing redskins scattered and went off in all directions through the country toward the Bad Lands. Some of them may try to reach tho Indians of Two Strike's band further south, while others will seek an escape to tho north. However, there is little chance for them In any direction. Soldisrs are located all around the Bad Lands district, and the Indians will bavo little chance to get at the few ranches that arc located in that direc* tion. Even they attempt to go on small raids the soldiers are s^'placed as to head them off. In fact, they ai-o completely surrounded, and while they might hold out sometime in fee Bad Lands, it Is simply a matter of time until they must surrender to the superior forces and supplies of the whites. With Dickinson as a conter on the north and Pine Ridge as the southern center, Fort Sully on tho east, and troops stationed along the western border of the Bad Lands, there is no chance for the hoBtiles to withstand their pursuers.

The effect of the death of Sitting Bull

problematical. He was not achlof, in the sense of being a leader iu battle, and had never been addressed as a ohiof by any military commander, but he was a wily old rascal of great ambitions, with more of the politician in him than is ordinarily credited to the savage. By working 011 the superstitions and fears of the Indians, be had gained whatever prestige he has had, and just how thoso who survive him will take his death cannot be estimated. The other leaders who hated him will surely not seek to avenge his death. Still ho had gained considerable following among the ghost-dancers, and these may attempt some thing in revenge. The people abound Bismarch and the neighborhood of the Stands ing Rock are greatly wrought up over the killing of tho old fellow, and express the greatest fears for tho outcomo. Thoythinlq the hundred or more followers that Bull had at the time of his death will attack the, scattered settlers.along the frontier and, kill whom they can.

The scene at tho agency must bavo been indescribable. Tho death of tho flower of the tribe will be mourned by tho squaws for weeks, and the old warriors will join, in the mourning for the present. It will be a grand Indian funeral that these police* men will have, and the death song will con* inuo for weeks.

FIFTY KILLED.

Reports of Desperate Battle Retweeu Cavalry and Indians, jjjvj

A courier from a camp near Daly's ranch has the following from Rapid Cit»y, Dak., on the 10th: "A rancher has just ar» rived in great haste to our commanding officer and reports that a command of cavalry was attacked and two officers and fifr ty men killed, but the Indians were re« pulsed with heavy losses. Tho number of Indians killed is not known. Tho Indians were put to route. Tho report isprobabiycreclitable. It is not known whoso com* mand it was. It is probably that of

rHar/.

Maj.

Tuppor of the Sixth cavalry and his three troops of 140 men. Our command march es to thoir assistance to-morrow.

Warden Jauies Murdock, for twelve years at tho head of tho Northern Peniton* tiary, has signified his Intention of retiring from that position about the

1st

of Feb*