Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

Tile Democrat. Official Paper of the County A. J. Ediloy and Buslnet’ M ouairer. TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE: : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. FX G. M. PHYMCTAX & SURGEON, DKCATv’R, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co f’.-»nk2nd door. Wil attend to ail protest •al calls promptly, night or day t'linip - reasonable. Resi dence eii n«rih side of Monroe street, 4th house eibt of'HWrt.** tftttr 25jy79tf W.’lf. MYER •> Urick A Stone imitruc'i DEOATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n45n)3. E k 'a i c a >. WICKS \ MERRYMAN, •Attorneys al Law ASb ' - > Ilia! Kuflatc Jgmti. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Legal Instruments draw with neatness aud dkpatoh. I’rtXitiou, sediment of .fecedent’s estates. and collection'? if* Specialty. Office up stairs in Stone’s building—4th door. vol, 25, no. 24, yl.

DR. KITCHMILLER i g” WillJ’i' *> fl>« BURT HOUSE, DECATUR. INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of ttthwlh to treM • hronic Diseases. Consultation free .Cail apd see him. All louoroof inquiry received at the home office *<- Piqua. Ohio, wiU prompt attention. Write to him aud make a statement of your esse.—v2snß6ly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRT, Sp cc tacles, cfcoRepairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work K iTExMoirpSf ”W. H. HtMJ CT.Cashier B. Studabamvb, Vice Pre* t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK. DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of « general banking business. We buy aud sell Toausbip and CoudTV Orders. 25jy,9tf PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR. INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining eoujties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No Uries I’ublio and draw deeds and mortgagee Real estate bought, sold and rented on tea soluble terms. Office, rooms 1 end 2, I.C 0. F. buildiig 2,ijv7'.nt

FRANCE & KING. ; attorneys at law, BZCaTIB, INDIANA. —' attorney at law, PXCATCB, ISDIAK*. All legal business promptly attended tn Office ap Btairs in Stone 8 building 4lh door. y earl - ! ~~ _ S. G. HABTINGML D. homoeopathist PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ‘ PMIATUB, INDIANA aiv*u« or p ■■‘•“U’r. “U" 4 '' to Artwe Tn WtudaLker s miilliug, fir-' do'.r south of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14. f THE"DECATUR WOOLEN ■ ■. MILLS

RUNNI ’C AGAIN! — en ;*Ulls we arc prepareato announce to the publie generally that we have fur sale at Bottom Prices at our factory on the corner of Ist and Jefferson -streets a fine-line of strictly ALL WOOL I . \. GOODS, i ■■’St; * Otouroirn Manufacture. We earnest *• TV »<tli£it ail former patrons of the ' Eicher Woolen Mills to come and see us, as we expect to reciprocate your patronage by honest, fair dealing. We will pay you the ( highest market price in &tsh for your wool, or make ■anvexchange for goods. Call and s eeour suaA of FLANNELS. BLANKETS SATTINETS. JEANS and • SHOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere, we ■ promise to furnish ’ ■ you a better ar- ' tide for LESS MONET! Than you can buy anywhere else. MYERS BROS. Decatur May 5,1881. ts

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John T. Bailey, attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent Decatur, Indiana. Special attention given to collections.—nos2.tf. R. B. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouse’s Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. Vol. 25 No. 22. ts.

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MON K Y SAV E D Uy buying Groceries of WILLIAM P. MOON. 0 I have just renewed my grocery establish* meat from Houston’s building, to the new brick block of Studabaker and Allison and have added largely to mv stock of GROCERIES and will keep in stock all the leading articles in my line of business. I take pleasure iy inviting all my old customers and the public at large to come and see me at mv new quarters, assuring my patrons that they will get quoted to them the very lowest POSSIBLE FIGURES. and that I will make it to their interest i» they will CALL ON ME BEFORE PUR CHASING. I also keep in stock Glass and Queensware I wish to buy all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE for which I will pay the; very HIG HES Remember my stock is fresh and new and contaims everything usually found in I a rirst ciass grocery. W. P. MOON. No. 25 —2B ts.

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THE WHISKEY RING’S INFLUENCE. The good luck in cases of bills with] money In them has escaped no one who has paid attention. The expla nation has probababiy been less ap- ’ parent. The more influential agent in , such legislation has been the Whiskey Ring. j “Do you say you want half a million for public buildings in your dis- , trict?” said the Riner, I “Then come to us and stand by our ' banner, and you shall have it. Together, any thing is possible; without ; us nothing. And so they pulled to- ; gether. Whoever bad bills with money in them, could drive an easy bargain with the Ring; ami they generally did it. The committee of Ways and Means, framed for the conditions, was-easily , managed. Tariffites, public building people, ami people with bills with money in them, comprised the committee. All the Ring asked was that their grist should be ground first; and it was ground. The Whiskey bill, transferring S7O, 000,000, as Secretary Folger argues, from the Treasury to the pockets ol the Riugsters, had a unanimous report from the cemmittee. It came into the House, with the banner of the Ring swung aloft, and around it there was a scramble to rally: public bulldog people, people! with bills with money in them, jobs large and jobs small. And so when the word was given, the Whiskey’s Ring’s bill, with S7O 000, 000 in it, was takeu up bodily and joyfully on the shoulders of the whole House nearly, men with bills of all sorts with money in them scrambling for precedence to put it through. All but White, of Kentucky. He was denounced as a crank. His sin was that he declared the bill of the ring to be a huge iniquity. His feeble voice was silenced in th« jneru of the men having bills with money in them, and which were to be put through in compensation for their support of the aforesaid huge iniqu ty. Mr. Shufelt, one of the ring’s mana’ gers, swears that much money is wanted to pay the expenses at Welker’s. Be it known that Welker’s is a

famous dining and wining place for the seduction of innocents. Senator Windom should have pushed his questions: Who dine? Who are the seduced ? Why the immense expense so readily admitted? There was an expensive entertainment given by the ring at Welker’s. What for? Do men spend much money in fun? Mr. Artherton swears that it cost a great deal to pay the expense of these dinners. What are these dinners for but io put the ring’s business through? The potency of whisky as a motor in legislation was never so clearly shown before. This is a republican congress. SENATORS WHO ARE ON TRIAL.

The terms of twenty-five Senators, or nearly one-third of the Senate, expireonthe third of next March. Their successors will be elected by the Legislatures of the several States, meeting, most of them, at the beginning ofthe new year. One of the twenty-five Senators, Anthony of Rhode Island, the patriarch, journalist, and gastronomist, has already been re-elected. A majority of the remaining twenty-four, we suppose, would be glad to have the assurance that they will not be set aside for new men. The Democrats whose terms and next March are fourteen in number, to wit: Morgan of Alabama, Garland of Arkansas, Saulsbury of Delaware, Ben Hill of Georgia, Beck of Kentucky, Lamar of Mississippi, McPherson of New Jersey, Ransom of North Carolina, Grover of Oregon, Butler of South Carolina, Harris of Tennessee, Coke of Texas, Johnston of Virginia, and Davis of West Virginia. The Republicans who share the uncertainty as to their political future are nine In number; Chilcott of Colorado, who is merely filling out the brief remainder ofTeller's term; McDill, who succeeded Kirkwood when he went into Gen. Garfield’s Cabinet; William Pitt Kellogg of Louisiana, whois certainly at the end of his rope; Frye of Maine, G. Frisbie Hoar, ts| anxious; Ferry of Michigan, Windom of Minnesota, Saunders of Nebraska, and Rollins of New Hamp, ‘hire, . There will sJ«o be elected in Illinois a successor to David Davis. Independent, now temporary President of the Senate.

Let us see how many of these Senators, candidates for another term, will make a stand for honesty and economy in this year’s appropriations, such a stand, for example, as Morgan of Alabama in regard to the Mississippi Improvement biil. Suppose they begin with the River and Harbor bill and the Pension Appropriation bill, whieh are already in their hands. In tliis day and age of enligthenment it takes a Mormon newspaper (the Utah News') to boldly declare that for upwards of fifty years the Mormons have testified to the world that the sick are healed in this age, as in former times, through “the prayer of faith,” and it adds that there are thousands of people able to bear testimony to the truth of the statement, and that in all kinds of diseases, also in injuries through accident or otherwise, the Mormon ordinance of laying on of bands for the sick has proven efficacious. A Good Lesson for Bad Boys. An eminent local naturalist has made the discovery that the swallows of San Jose,Cal., are faithful observers of the Sunday law, remaining mostly within doors on Sunday and obtaining wholly from the work of nest-build, ing.—esan Jose Murcury

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1882

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, June 20.—House joint resolution authorizing the secretary of war to erect at Washington’s headquarters at Newburgh, New York, a memorial column and to aid in defraying the expenses of the centennial celebration to be held in that Bills appropriating $300,000 for the extension of the executive mansion passed. The extension is tobeerec - ed directly south of the present building, similar to it in exterior and connected with it by a broad corridor, and with accommodations for the egress of a large crowd of visitors. Two years will be required to complete the extension aud during its progress the occupancy of tile present building will not be interrupted. Tjie presiding' officer, Mr. Davis, of Illinois, in presenting the credentials of Henry B. Anthony, re-elected as senator from Rhode Island, said that for the second time in the history of tlie government, a member of this body had been chosen for the fifth consecutive term, and expressed the hope that Mr. Anthony would be blessed by Providence with health aud happiness during his remaining years. House bill to enable national banks ‘.o extend their corporate existence was taken up, After discu ’ion the bill was recommitted. HOUSE. Washington, June 20. — The house —yeas 154, nays 30—pa-sed the senate bill authorizing the secretary of tlie treasury to examine and report to congress the amount of all claims of the slates of Texas, Colorado, Oregan, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the territories of Washington aud Idaho, on account of money expended and indebtedness incurred in repelling invasion and suppressing Indian hostilities. Mr. Young introduced a bill amending the law relating to internal revenue. Referred. Mr. Updegraff, of lowa, chairman of the committee on the law respecting the election of president and vice president, reported a bill “to fix the day for the meeting of electors for presioeui aun vice presiueui, io pmvide for and regulate the counting of votes and decide questions arising therefrom,” as a substitute for the senate bill on the same subject. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, June 21. —Mr. Mahone called up tlie senate bill providing for public buildings at Lynchburg, Abingdon and Harrisonburg, Virginia. The bill had been amended by the committee on public buildings to provide for only one building at Harrisonburg at the cost of $50,090.

Tbe consideration was then resumed of the house bill to enable the national banking association to extend their corporate existence. The section before the senate was one authorizing them to issue gold certificates. Mr. Allison submitted a copy of the bill recently repealed from the commerce committee for the construction of what is known as the Hennepin canal, which he intends to oiler as an amendment to the river and harbor bill. Mr, Hill, of Colorado, submitted an amendment to be offered as a general deficiency bill, authorizing the payment of $2.50 per diem and mileage eight cents per mile to witnesses in the star route eases from west of the Missouri river, and appropriating a sufficient sum to pay the same. house. Washington. June 21.—Tbe speaker beingabsent this morning the house was called to order by Burrows, of Michigan. Mr. Reagan rising to a question of privilege stated that the bill passed Monday to regulate immigration was not in the shape in which it was intended to pass. The committee on commerce had intended to pass a substitute for the original bill, but by mistake a wrong draft had been sent to the clerk’s desk. A resolution was adopted requesting the senate to return the bill to tlie house. Tlie bill as passed charges the cost of returning paupers, criminals, etc. to tlie nation to which they be ong, while the substitute charges it to the steamship companies bringing them over. The house resumed the consideration of the bill for the erection of a congressional library building. During the debate Mr. Townsend, of Illinois, created a sensation by charging that tbe measure embodies a lot of eastern parties interested in the proposed site on Capitol hill. The house then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Camp in the chair) on the bill to reduce internal revenue taxation. Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, submitted a conference report on the military academy appropriation bill. Avreed to. Mr. Williams, of Michigan, from the committee on judiciary, reported) a resolution directing a recommittal of the bill allowing Nebraska additional representatives. Adopted.

SENATE. Washington, June 22.—The presi fio’AVfo^W^^fn 0 of a convention of the citizens of Utah transmitting an application for the admission of that territory into the union as a state, with a copy of the proposed constitution. Referred, Mr. Allison reported favorably the house joint resolution appropriating $30,000 to continue the Arctic exploraration on the near shores of Lady Franklin bay, and the scientific observations at Point Barrow, Alaska, during 1883. Passed. Mr. George presented a resolution upon tfie request of the citizens of Vicksburg, of Italian birth, granting permission for tiie erection of a statue of Garibaldi in the national cemetery at Vicksburg, House bill to enable national banks to continue their corporate existence came up. Several amendments were introduced and voted down. Tiie bill was reported to the senate and passed—yeas, 34; nays, 13. Adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, June 22.—The house weut into committee on the bill to reduce internal revenue taxation. After discussion the bill went over without action. senate. Washington, June 23. —Mr. Frye called up the rule recently reported by him from the committee on rules, allowing the president pro tern of the senate, when temporarily absent, to designate in writing a senator to perform the duties of the chair for the day and during such absence, till the senate shall otherwise order. The subject, after occupying the time allotted for new business, was referred with amendments, to the committee on rules for further consideration.

House bill to accept and ratify.me agreement with -he Shoshone andßau .j el. Indians, for the sale of a portion of their reservation in Idaho, for the Utah and Northern railroad, and to make the ne/essary appropriation for the carry ing eout of the same was passed. House resolutions commemorative of Representative Allen of Missouri, were received, and after impressive remarks upon his life and services by Messrs Cockiell, Dawes, Brown and Vest, the usual resolutions were adopted. HOUSE. Mr. Kasson, from the committee on ways and means, reported back the bill amending section 2,983 of the revised statutes, that the duties paid on sugar shall be assessed on tlie quality delivered from instead of the quantity entered into the bonded warehouse. Referred to the committee of the whole. The house then went into committee and resumed consideratiou of the bill to reduce internal revenue taxa tion. After argument the bill went over without action. Eulogies were delivered upon the life and character of Thomas Allen, of Missouri, by Messrs. Robinson, of Massachusetts; Hewitt, of New York; Hatch and Erost, of Missouri. Out of respect to t e memory of the de ceased the house then adjourned till tomorrow. HOUSE.

Washington, June 24.—Mr. Kelly, chairman of the committee on ways and means, reported a resolution for the final adjournment of congress on the 10th of July. Adopted. The house refused to order to a third reading the joint resolution authorizing tbe president to call an international conference to fix upon and recommend for universal adoption a common prime meridian. Bill passed authorizing the construction of a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi fiver at the mouth of the Upper lowa river. The house went into committee on the bill to reduce internal revenue taxation. The remainder of the day was spent .n discussing the measure, which went over without action. SENATE S l !* ia»xrv/vruiK, Tiiua* iLfr AIH. son, from the appropriation commit tee, reported back tbe legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill with amendments, and gave notice that he would move its consider ation to-morrow. It provides an aggregate of $20,200,000, an increase of $326,000 over the sum of lhe bill ai passed by the house. Ordered printed. After a long discussion the senst< took up the resolution instructing the committee on civil service and retrenchment to inquire whether any attempt is being made to levy or col lect assessments for political purposes by p«--ties from the government em ployes in Washington. Whether the same be under tbe guise of asking contributions or otherwise, etc. Mr. Pendleton addressed the senate. The concurrent resolution for a final adjournment of July 10th was tabled temporarily, without dissent. The debate upon the political assessments was then resumed. HOUSE. Washington, June 26 —The con fereuce report on the army appropriation bill was agreed to. After the passage of some District of Columbia bills the house went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Camp, of New York, in the chair, on the bill to reduce internal revenue taxes. The bill went over willunit action

Fishy Curiosities. Another remarkable property of some of these creatures is the possession of a stomach so capable of distention that it can hold a prey of twice or thrice the bulk of its destroyer. Dr. Gunther gives figures of two or three fish with distended stomachs and Dr. Johnson, his associate, in this investigation, writes of a specimen i which he procured at Madeira: “The man from whom I obtained it stated he had a fish with two heads, two mouths, four eyes, and a tail growing out of the middle of the back, which had astonished the whole market; and the fishermen all declared thev had never seen anything like it before. At first it really did appear to be the monster described; but a short examination brought to light the fact that one fish had been swal lowed by another, and that the sea tures of the former were seen through the extensible skin as the latter. On extracting the fish that had been sw allowed, it proved to have a diameter several times exceeding that of the enemy, whose stomach it had distended to an unnatural and painful degree.” The action performed by the fish in these cases is not, however, real swallowing, but more like the similar process executed byserpents. The interest of Dr. Gunther's book does not end with the account of deep-sea fishes, but the chapters devoted to that subject aud to classification iiiusta ter the most striking discoveries that have been recently made in ichthyology. Among the euriosi ties of fish-life that please aud amuse as well as instruct, is the story of the fighting-fish of Siam, which on seeing another of its species, or even its own image, In a niiirpr, becomes suddenly excited, and of which, though it is dull in hue at other times, “the raised fins and the whole body shine with metallic colors of dazzling beauty, while the projected gill-membrane, waving like a black frill round tiie throat adds something of grotesquciiess to the general appearance.” The Siamese are infatuated with the combats of these fishes, staking on the results considerable sum-, and sometimes their persons and families, while the license to exhibit fish-lights is farmed, and brings in no small revenue to the royal treasury.—From “Dr. Gunther on the Study of Fisht s,” in Popular Science Monthly for July-EvANori.iNE.-O? tli/'longer poems of our chief sjngep I should nqt hesitate to select “Evaiigclum’ as the inahp-rpitaa,, qud I think the geimral verdict of opinion would confirm my choice. The German model which it follows in its measure and Vw character of its story was itself suggested by au earlier idyl. If Dorothea was the mother of Evaugelmq, Luise « as the mother of Dorothea, And what a beautiful creation is the Acadian maiden! From the first line of tiie poen — from it* first words—we read as we would float down a broad and placid river, murmuring softly against its banks, heaven over it, and the glorv of the unspoiled wilderness all around. The hexameter has been often criticised, but I do not believe any other measure could have told that lovel’v story with such effect as we feel when carried along the tranquil purrent of these brimming, slow-moving, soul satisfying une» imagine for one moment a story like this minced into octosyllables. The poet knows better than his critics the leugtn ol the step which beat belits law muse.—[Dr Holmes. _ BA new three-truck freight car is being tried an the O. $ M. railway. The refusal of the Ohio Republican convention to indorse the Smith Sunday law, has caused dissalisfation among the more Radical Republicans in some sections of the state.

TELEGRAPHIC. New Haven, June 22.—1 n the Malloy trial to-day Dr. Francis A. Harris, medical examiner for the northern district of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, testified that in his opinion Jennie Cramer came to her death by drowning, and that the arsenic found in her system had nothing to do with her demise. Chicago. June 22.—An Evening Journal’s Danville, Illinois, special says that Allie Mills, aged fourteen, Mary Oglie, aged seventeen, and Mary Jones, aged twelve, committed suicide this morning by taking arsenic. Allie Mills gave as her reason that her father lived with a shameless woman. Miss (folie’s reason was that she was an orphan, and Mary Jones took the drug becausetbeothers did. Nevada, June 22.—William Fitznaorris was arrested at Lima, 0., and brought to this place last night charged with stealing a watch from a man unloading lumber at the depot, and had a hearing before Squire Balliet. He plead guilty, and paid thfine, costs, and reward, amounting to SSB, whereupon he was released. Cedar Rapids, lowa, June 22.—A special to the Republican givss some details of a very destructive wind storm at Independence, at4:3o p. m. The railroad depot was badly twisted and the wind mill destroyed. In the city' a large number of residencesand business house were unroofed and some demolished. The school buildings were partially unroofed. Sells Brothers’ tent was demolished and three of ilia men are repoited killed. It was not a whirlwind, but a sweeping hurricane. The extent of the damage cannot be learned as lhe wires are down. Buffalo, June 22.—Tbe Courier aud Commercial-Advertiser remain firm in the position take" at the outset of the strike. Both papers have printers from out of town to take the places of the strikers. St. Louis, June 22.—Mr. Abey Owen, receiving teller of the Third national bank of this city, was arrested at about 12 o’clock to-night on a ebarge of having embezzled $150,000 of the funds of the bank. Very little ia bn..ivn of fha oft’uiru ill t.hiu writ.jni/but it is said that Owen’s operations have extended over a period of several years, and have been very carefully concealed. St. Louis, June 23.—When the gambler’ cases were called for trial in the criminal court this morning, there occurred a remarkable scene. A special jury had been summoned and it was expected that the eases would go t< the general term, but when they were lead from the docket and the defendants announced themselves ready for trial, the state answered that they were not yet ready, aud vice versa. In some cases when the defendants did not answer personally the state moved for a forfeiture of their bond, which was granted, but about in half an hour the defendants wculd appear and the forfeiture would be set aside. The whole proceedings seemed like a farce and a game of bluff, and at noon the court adjourned till 2 p. m. The whole morning has been or copied in wrangling and lias been wasted, to the disgust of tbe judge and special jurors.

Chicago, June 23.—A Little Rock special says that advices from the Indian territory say that small-pox is raging with fatal effect among the Creek Indians at Okmulgee, there being twenty-two cases, many of which are likely to be fatal. The scourge is spreading rapidly, and the neighboring villages have quarantined, while a general vaccination is progressing. At Okmulgee the medicine men are adopting a very unwise treatment, which kills many patients. St. Louis, June 23.—The condition of the Third National bank will not be disturbed or seriously affected by the embezzlement of its receiving teller, Obey E. Owens. Its president, Thomas’ Tutts, states that the clearings of the past six months, together with the standing surplus premiums on United States bonds and the capital of the back, amounted to $1,250,00), which is immediately available. There will be no interruption to business or to individuals. The amount of the defalcation is not yet definitely known, but w ill probably exceed SIOO.000. Owens has been with the Third National bank fifteen years, and has always ranked high as a faithful and efficient officer. He was at one time engaged in outside business as a part ner of his father, but he gave this up on the demand of the bank officers. It is s’ated, however, that he got into trouble several y ars ago, and has speculated a good deal in options and mining schemes since then, with a view of retrieving his fortune, using the bank’s money for this purpose, but his operations were unsucces. ful and his losses continuous. A warrant was sworn out by President Thomas E. Tutts, of the Third national bank this morning against Mr. Owens. It charges him with embezzling .$100,030. President Tuttalso filed an attachment suit in the civil court against the property owned by’ Owens, amounting to about $70,000. Owen’s bond is for $30,000, and the sureties are responsible parties, so that the loss to the bank after ail will not be great, although thr entire $150,000 would not afleit the bank’s credit in the least degree. A heart rendering scene occurred in the ealafeooae this morning when Owens’ sister visited him. Shebroke down completely, threw’ herself on his breast and wept bitterly. Owens was unmanned and fainted. A ph - sician was called in, who said Owens is prostrated. It now appears that Owens was a silent partner in the firm of O’Brien & Co., in which his father was an active partner, and it is presumed that the money was lost through this firm. Owens' father, however, states positively this morning that the money was not used hy the firm, and that he is ignorant of how his son got rid of it. Owens confesses that his defalcation extended over two years. Coxsackie, N. Y„ June 23.—The Italion laborers, of the West Shore & Buffalo railroad, near here, who demand the wages due and an Increase of pay, headed by their leader and interpreter, Frank Cava have taken possession of the tools, chained the locomotive, and threatened the Ufg of Contractor Scully or any who interfere until .heir demands are granted. They beat and drove away several Irish workmen. Sheriff’ Ciffirphill, with a posse a n d a company of militia from Catskill, are "here to make arrests and clear the road. New York, June 23,—The strike of the freight handlers along the North aud East river fronts still continues wi'hout any material Change. Same block of traffic In the streets surrounding the depots still exists. Trucks with their loads waited all night gt the depots so as to discharge their contents tfaia morning, At noon today many of these truckmen are still waiting patiently to discharge their

loads. At none of tbe depots wheie tbe men struck is anything in the way of receiving or delivering reigbt, which is being done with the single exception of the Jersey Central depot, and piers 12 13 and 14. North river Here business is progressing very favorable, a large number of tbe old hands being at work superintending tiie new employes. The business men in the neighborhood of the depots complain bitterly of the streets being blocked and their business impeded by the gatherings of trucks. Tbe strikers assenibled at the Battery park tills moruiii", and with a band of music at theit hexd marched through the down-town streets aud back to the starting point, where they’ dispersed. The switchmen employed by the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, at the Bt. Johns, Thirtieth street and Sixty-fifth street depots, have asked an increase of $5 per month. An answer will be given them this evening. The boys who drive horses in front of dummy engines, have also asked an increase of $5 per month. Chicago, June 23.—The brickmakers’ strike has ended, the men havingeecured the advance they asked for. The manufacturers claim tiiat tbe men acted in bad faith, taking advantage of the full yards and heavy contracts to demand the advance, although they had agreed not to do so when tlie recent raise was allowed Buffalo, June 23.—The places of the striking compositors are being taken by new men, and it is believed that by to morrow night, all the frames will be filled by’ new hands. The compositors of the three German dailies have joined the strikers, but the papers issue, and n?w men are being engaged. St. Louis, June 23.—John A. Presnall, son-in-law of Judge James Baker, was arrested in Springfield last night on acharge of embezzlement of some $15,090 during the time that the store of Presnall & Baker was operated at Granley, Mo. Presnall was arrested on Baker’s affidavit. A Wetherford, Texas, special says: “Brown, the man arrested on suspicion of being one of the train robbers at Ranger, was discharged. The offinare -aaii vr i AA’liS tllft wrong min.” A Cape Gerardean dispatch says: "Julius Vastine committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He was a young merchant in thriving circumstances, and no cause is known for the rash act.”

Chicago, June 24.—George Scoville, Guiteau’s brotherin-law, has addressed an open letter to the presi dent. It consists of a general arraignment of the press, the people, the court, the witnesses and tlie president for their ill treatment of him, of his family, and of Guit eau. He incidentally remarks that Guiteau has done more harm to him in his purse, hie family affairs aud his peace of mind than andybody on earth, but he urges the president, notwithstanding, to grant a respite and not yield to tbe insatiate thirst for vengeance which blinds the high and low alike to justice. He maintains that the question of insanity iias not been fairly settled. Incidentally he accuses Reed of improprieties iu the conduct of the Gui eau case. St. Paul, June 24. —At 3:30 o’clock yesterday morning Conductor Sykes’ train, on the lowa & Minnesota division of the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, encountered a washout near Aurora, a point eleven miles distant from Owannatta, and before the engine could be reversed or the danger was discovered, it plunged into the abyss. Engineer Musser was caught under the falling engine and was killed, but his associates on the train escaped without injury. Other portions ci the train were not affected by’ the accident. Des Moines, June 24.—A dispatch just received by the Register from Fort Dodge says that the Milwaukee & St. Louis dispatcher says that the town of Emmettsburg, the county seat of Paia Alto county, was blown to pieces this morning by a tornado and over one hundred people killed. Illinois Central and Chicago & Northwestern trains are blown from the tracks, and the Milwaukee & St. Louis road is wrecked. There is a washout north of Forest City, and there are reports that three or four more towns were totally blown to pieces. The wires north of here ar< all down, and it is impossible to get more news, but will work hard to get everything possible. Yankton, June 24 —There was a violent wind storm at 5 a. m., accompanied by rain and electricity. The Press office was partially unroofed, a dozen or two chimneys blown down around town, signs scattered in all directions, and a giea many shade trees destroyed. Several wind mills were demolished.

Rockford, 111., June 24.—A terri--1 le hail storm amt tornado visiteel this place to-day, doing great damage to crops and fruits. A s7,ooocherry crop was totally destroyed. The corn fields in the country are entirely | ruined. Hailstones fell as large as hens’ eggs, aud windows were broken I from neaily every building in the j city. No person was injured. Minneapolis, June 24.—Rain.fell in all parts of the stale in perfect tor- ' tents last night. Zumbro river, at Rochester, rose suddenly, overflowing the lower part of the city, and doing considerable damage. There is much loss of stock if not life along the valley. gT. Lovis, June 24.—Owens, the defaulting teller of the Third national bank, was brought before United States Commissioner Shelby this afternoon ip the criminal court. The information is issued by United States Attorney Bliss. His bail was fixed at $2,000, and he is to appear before the United States court at the Movember term. It has been discovered that John T. Filloy, a broth-er-in-law of Owens, connected with a coal company as a clerk, has been dealing pretty extensively in cotton operations, and it Is believed that he was operating in tne interest and for Owens. Mr. R. Ellis, jr., national bank examiner, has arrived here and will make a thorough examination of the Third national bank under instructions from Washington. San Francisco, June 24,— A Santa Cruz dispatch says that late last night a coach ;n which a number of young people from San Francisco, who had been camping out in the vicinity were taking a ride, went over the bank of the turnpike near Felton, killing Misses Iva Cowdrew, Iva Sus- j sey, Celia Scott and Injuring Masters j Burr, Benjamin, Burling and Wil* liam W. Cookley seriously. The accident was caused by the horses shying. Cairo, June 24.—At Belmont, Missouri, last night, a sewing machine agent was shot and fatally wounded by a man named Milgour. The difficulty arose out of a family affair.

NUMBER 13.

INDIANA. Six private banks in Indianapolis make return of $6,102,322 deposits. The mayor of Indianapolis deciares bis intention of compelling the enforcement of the Sunday law, without ear or favor, in that city. Mr. Henry S. Shepare. a well-known farmer living south of Vincennes, lost a $350 span of mules on Saturday, some scondrel having poisoned them. The 3-year-old sou of John Sack, of South Bend, fell while running, and a small stick which 1 ■< held in his hand ran about an inch up his left nostril, and broke off. Miss Cochran, daughter of John B. Coebran, residing eight miles from Deputy, swing to unfortunate love affairs, fired a pistol ball into her head and immediately expired. While digging a well at Carlisle, VVm Buckley fe 1 from the top to the bottom, a distance of forty feet. His leg and arm were broken, and it is thought he will not recover. Paxton White, an old farmer residing seven miles south of Crawfordsville. was robbed on the streets of that place, the other day during the parade of Cole’s circus, of SI,OOO cold cash. The Terre Haute Express says that one of the young ladies of the recent Normal graduating class earned a portion of the money to pay her way through the first tern by hoeing corn. Edward Frakes, while loading logs, about five miles west of Greencastle, was instantly killed by being thrown under a rolling log. His head was crushed to a jelly, and death was instantaneous. The owners of property fronting on Circle park, Indianapolis, offer to donate $1,501) to the erection in the park of an ornamental light tower, 250 feet in height, with electric lights of 32,000 candlepower.

Miss Anna Fowler, a popular music teacher in theschools'of New Albany, who was so badly injured in the accident on the L. N. A. & C., near Bedford, bad part of her left hand ampuIt is proposed to m'ke the annual reunion of the Twenty-first regiment (Gen.-Grant’s first command), to be held in Terre Haute in September, the occasion of a general reunion of the veterans oflndiana and Illinois. Alexander Mitchell, a young man employed as a farm-hand by a farmer in Jaeasou township, Miami county, fell dead while engaged in planting corn. He is supposed to have been overcome with heat. Anna Davis of Indianapolis attempted suicide, yesterday, by taking half an ounce of the oil of tansy and fifteen cents worth of morphine. The prompt interference of a physician prevented her escape from the earth sphere. George Lazell, living on Cook street, in Chicago, his occupation being that of a baker, was killed just north of the Blue river bridge by an east bound freight train on the C. I. & St. L. railroad while attempting to get on board. While rowing on Hudson lake, near Laporte, by an oar-lock breaking, Charles Reynolds fell backward into the lake and sank before his companions could reach him. He was thirteen years old, and a nephew of Hon. John Reynolds. George Rosselle, a tramp,was killed near Shelbyville, while attempting to get on a moving freight train. Both legs were cut off close to the body. He was French by birth. 26 years old, and said before h j died that he had just come from Chicago, where he had been working in a bakery. Thomas Dover, of Jeffersonville, has just died at the pest house in that city of confluent smallpox. He recently came with his family from Seott county and none of the family had been vaccinated. They all took the disease from a daughter, who had become infected in the lower part of the city. Joseph Schondrus, a cattle dealer from Kokomo, while engaged in driving cattle near Craigvllle, was thro vn from his horse and severely if not fatally injured. After throwing him, the vicious brute stood over the prostrate body, striking and biting him until it had well nigh destroyed the unfortunate man’s life. A man giving the name ofj. N. Alvey presented a check signed by Lee D. Alvey, on the Frst National bank, of Indianapolis, at the bank in Greenfield, but it was not cashed. It now transpires that the cheek was forged,|and Lee D. Alvey, whose name was on the check, is after the guiltv party. The check called for sl,9oo.The forger has skipped.

The stock holders of the Edinburg union agricultural society have been wrestling with the question as to whether to admit all games of chance, j etc., to their grounds this year. The society is several thousand dollars in i debt, and, as quite a handsome sum I is realized every-year from gambling, the feeble virture of the society could | not withstand the assault. On Saturday, Joe Snyder, living ueai Georgetown, having some wet powder, placed it in the oven of his stove to dry, and apparently forgot it, »s an explosion occurred soon after which blew things in all directions. His two children, who were in the room at the time, were struck by pieces of the stove and fatally wounded, the oldest dying in ten hours after. The younger is still alive, but its recovery is almost impossi -o[q Girls Who Had Their Dander Cp. On Sunday last as Misses Mattei and Cornie Hubert, daughters of Mr. HoHubert, and nieces of Judge Morton, aged fourteen and sixteen years, were going home from Mrs. Young’s, they found themselves suddenly brought to a standstill by a huge rattlesnake, which had taken possession of the road. The first thing for girls to do under such circumstance is to scream and run away. Not so with the heorines of this story. They immediately armed themselves each with a fence rail and commenced hostilities. The monster made fight at first, but finding himself over matched attempted to get away, but the girls had got their dan- . der up and followed the reptile into I the woods, belaboring him with rails. Th re is no telling what two determined girls can do (it only took nne determined lass to capture us). Miss Cornie was victorious and succeeded • in killing the snake, which measured ’ over five feet in length and nine 1 inches in circumference. It was a •• brave deed and deserves commendation.—Qu tman Free Press.