Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1890 — Page 2

©he JJentocva" decaturi nd, N. BLACKBURN, - . - . Publisher. TO CONFESS HIS CRIME. BUCKEYE LEGISLATURE CALLED IN EXTRA SESSION. Irish Nationalists to Visit the United States—Gold Fever In I. T.—Struck by an Engine—Will Use the Lake Front—A Balloonist Badly flanged Up—Other J Short Specials, Etc. - 4 HE WILL CONFESS. Mnrderer Birchall Will Make a Clean Breast of His Crime. Woodstock special: Since his conviction, Birchall has been constantly tftlk- » ing about the rtiurder of Benwell, and it is probable that before the date set l’or his execution arrives, he will have made a clean breast of the crime. He has already made a number of important admissions regarding the case. He acknowledges tiiat he was an accessory, and confesses that he took Benwell . to Eastwood and beyond in the direction of the swamp, where the body of the young Englishman was discovered, but denies that it was his hand that slew. Benwell. He does not say much about hfs negotiations with the victim and his father, though he freely admits he went in to swindle both them and I’elly. Mrs. Birchall had an interview with her husband the other day for the first time since he was condemned to death. The < interview was a brief and affecting one, Birchall exhibiting considerable emotion. To Visit tiie United Spates. Tl|c Convention of the Irish'National Party convened in Dublin. When the opening preliminaries had been completed the convention proceeded to select the gentlemen who arc to. compose the . deputation hicli is to proceed to the United States to represent the Irish political posit ion and solicit aid for the peasantry who arc threatened with famine as a consequence of the potato blight. The as agreed upon is const!-, tilted as follows: John Dillon, Wm7 O’Brien, Thomas Power O’Connor, M. P., for Scotland. (Liverpool); Timothy D. Sullivan, MJ-P., for Cologne Green, (Dublin City); Win. Abraham, M. P., for western division of Limerick, and Thos. P. Gill. M. IL, for the southern division of Louth. Struck by a Locomotive. j A distressing accide'nt occurred outlie Missouri Pacific tracks at Ewing Avenue, St. Louis. While Mrs. C.‘Gabriel, living at No. 2,646 Clioutcan Avenue, and her little 5-vear-old daughter were crossing the railroad track', they Wereo struck by locomotive drawing a ' construction train. Whim they saw the train apAproachiiig' the mother and child attempted to get out of the way, but, the child ’’slipped and fell directly in front of the engine. The mother sprung to save the little girl, but was struck and hurled twenty feet away - k and rendered jineonscious. The child’s - body was terribly* mutilated and dis- . . Covington, (Ky. > Election. The election in Covington, Ky., was conducted ballot somewhat similar to the Australian system. Hitherto themethod of voting lias been yiva voce. The result was the election of Mayor J. T. Thomas ( Republican) by a majority — B of 146. The llepubliean.s iflso the city weigher,three of the five Aidermen, five of the ten Coiineilmcn and five of the ton members of the School Board. The ’Democrats elected the Assessor. Tills is the first Republican mayor in twentyfile years. Boycott Bob Ingersoll, - 'The private secretary of Robert G. In-. g gersoll has had ciHisiderable difficulty at Philadelphia in-Jeeiiring a suitable hall for 'the H'olbnel-s lecture on "Art and Morality. The officers of the Academy of Music declic.ed’tQ rent the academy to any person "who advocates infidelity and atheism.'; An attempt to' secure the Union League Club annex was also nirsnccesst ul. Ei.nally Horticultural Hall was secured, and the lecture, which is designed to lie a testimonial benefit to “Wall Whitman, is arranged for Oct. 31. | 0 Ettra. fics-ibit of file 0-11 Ip Lcuislatiiro .Called. 1 Governor hascalled the Ohio Legislature to convene, in extra, session Tuesday. October 11. The ouiv 'extrik, session before, tfie present called onecon- • vened on Julie s. |s.';.‘>. by proclamation of Governor. Rotiert Lucas to consider the quesf.ioii -relating to the southern boundary line.,and extension of. oiir conslit nt iona I boundaries as described hi law enacted at (leneral Session. Gold Fovor Expected, Authentic reports have been received at Ardmore. Indian Territory, of the finding of immense veins of gold anti silver (it the Arbuckle Mountains in the Chickasaw.nation, forty-five miles north of. that city. Army officers and others who have gone through that region have long said tiiat gold was in the Arbuckle Mountains, A small sized California gold fever i- expected. The World’s Fair. Chicago special: 'Flic Committee of Hie Local World’s Fair Directory sent to Washington to confer With Secretary Proctor in reference to the use of the Lake front have returned. They bring with them a letter from the Secretary addressed to Secretary Butterworth in which it gives formal consent by the Wa r I lepart incut, to t lie piling of the lake Basil). • • Don’t Hike It, ‘ Tiie Tfjfwspa pers of Mexico call on the, Government to appeal to the Postal .* 'Union against the action of the United Ntnt.es. Government in forbiding the transportation of Mexican newspapers bearing Mexican postage with lottery a,d Vert iseinent s. Blaine Will Not Campaign in Ohio. Mr. Blaine stiys he will probably not be aide to v.isii <thio to take part itt tho campaign in McKiiitey’s district, although he desires to do so. a j a i:>;i:ic ,\ nd A sioiiT, .<3 ’ * - 0 Who Heel Ijia liailn In Missouri, Under Arrest. Lex ington i Mor) .special: The Otfer- ' ill'’ train robbers were captured at. I’.imtra. m ar here,-and tire now In jail in 1 Ilk-city. I’eteciive 'Ehoinas I'iiilong lias been quietly working on the case since August io,, when a Missouri Pacific train was held up by masked men in Robbers’ Cut, Otterville, Two weeks ago he located the' t hold bandit’}. Keeping his own counsel, and al the su-me Hine holding the men under strict surveillance, he finally completed a web of evidence that warranted their arrest. In company » with the deputies ho proceeded to the house of Horatio S. Hines, a farmer, near Elmira, and arrested him and his pal, Frank Hoffman, a country sport and all-round tough, Hines attempted to ahow fight, and when he saw who tho visitors wore ho grabbed a Win--cheater rifle from the wall, but was dis-

armed before he conld use it. The men were brought to this place. It was at first said that five men were engaged in the robbery, but it now seems tihat Hines and Hoffman unaided held up the train. While one covered the engineer with his revolver the other forced Express Agent Avery to surrender to him two packages supposably containing money, but subsequent development showed that these amateur bandits had made a water haul, as the packages contained nothing but SIOO worth of jewelry and railroad vouchers. , BANBITS IN OHIO. Two Masked Men Bind and Gag an E x * press Messenger and Rifle the Safe in th* Car of *I,OOO. As train No. 2 on the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland road was pulling out of Urbana the other morning at 3 •’clock two masked men broke in the Adams Express Company’s car, and presenting revolvers at the head of A. L. Scudder, the Express Messenger, demanded the keys. Scudder surrendered and was then bound hand and foot and gagged. The robbers then rifled Scudder’s pockets, securing $75, and his watch, and the keys rifled tho safe of its contents, about SI,OOO. The train had reached West Liberty, a small town, by this time, and the robbers left the car and took a position on the platform. .Scudder succeeded in calling the attention pf the local agent and was liberated and the alarm given, but the robbers covered the trainmen with their guns and ordered the train to proceed, which it did, and just as they reached Bellefontaine the robbers left the train and disappeared in the darkness with the booty. Scudder saw them jump and fired Upon them. They returned the fire with a volley from both revolvers, hovyever, doing no damage. A reward has been offered for their capture. Scttdderl the messenger, is an old employe, and jrio blame is attached to him. His doojs were, locked, and the first intimation! he had was the cool, end of a pistol held at his head,— witlt the blood-curdling > “Throw up yomyhands!” The rifling of the safe was but short work, and by the time the robbers were through Scudder had regained his voiep and began to hollow. One of the marked men placed hist revolver at his head and pulled the trigger, but the gun snapped without exploding the cartridge. The other rObber then interfered and saved the messenger’s life by standing between him and his pq,l, saying, "We do not need to kill him.” Superintendent Birnble. of the Adams Express Company, in a circular described the nu;n as follows: Five feet 11 inches In height., weighing in the neighborhood of JBO pounds each, wearing plain black overcoats, one. with a cap, the other with a hat. . - FELINE FIEND. A Huge Cat Licks the Breath of a Six-Months'-Old Child. Chicago special: The Coroner lias been notified that, little Stella Woyda. a 6-months-old child, was killed by a big eat, her breath being actually drawn out by the feline. The baby’s father and mother reside at 1046 North Hoync avenue. In the afternoon the baby was put in the cradle, the cat being placed along side of it for a plaything. During the afternoon it was noticed that the eat kept continually near the baby's bed,*but, little attention was paid to this. In the evening, thinking the child was sleeping remarkably well, Mrs. Woyda went to the cradle arid was horrified toHind the Infant dead. The cat had sucked its life away. Efforts were made to resuscitate the child, but without avail. As soon as the, facts became known among the neighbors there was a general clean-out of cats. Tabbies that for years had enjoyed of a good a placc.pMMV kitchen stove were ruthlessly “flred’fuito the cold world, and.it is safe to say that in the immediate vicinity where the child lived there are not now half a dozen felines. The murderous cat is one of the common species .and particularly large. It has been a' household pet for several years—in I Act, • sifice it w.as a kitten. When the mother discovered that the baby was dehd, she drove the eat . out from the, bed, and it disappeared and did not return until-the morning, when it came back and crawled under the house, where its young ones lay and where it remained till drawn out. The case is a peculiar d ie in mgny respects, and excited nojittle consternation in the neighborhood. NO KNIGHTS OF LABOR — On tlie ’New lock Central—They Must Give I |> Their Organization or Leave the Company. * e The New York Central officials have decided th it no more Knights of Labor shall be chi ployed on the road, and Vice President }Vebl> lias issued a circular directingtfthe Ireads of the various departments to make their doeision known. The circular is addressed to the general manager, general superintendent, ehief engineer, alnd superintendent of motive power and [rolling stork, and says: “The reeent strike and the acts of lawlessness, committed in connection therewith, the published correspondence between tiie leaders of the organization that ordergil it. and the fact tiiat many men now seeking, re-employment state that they quit work from fear of personal violence and did not dare to offer to resume work for the same reason, compel the management of the company t<> announ’e that it. objects to its employes being members of the organization known as “Knights of Labor.” “The management assert that membership in this particular organization is inconsistent with faithful cnd> efficient service to the company, and liable at any time to prevent it from properly discharging Its duties to the public. You will at omre take such action as will bring this circular to the attention of tiie employes.in your respective departments.” PRIESTS STILL PRESIDE. i j- * What Governor Thomas Says About the i , Moiinona. . The Mormon question has been discussed at some length by the Governor oFMJtah. fie asserts that the Mormon people are governed by the priests, and that in eVery political and busfness act the church is put, first, the country afterward. The population of the Territory is,elstiniated to be, ,?20,932, an increase of 55 per cent, during tiie past ten yearjs. Large numbers of Mormons arc recruited by immigration from Great .Britain and Scandinavian countries. 'l’he report says tiiat,the average number of foreignborn persons brought to the Territory by the Mormons have been during'the past nine years about eighteen hundred annually, and that this average has probably bei<n maintained during tiie past I year. The Governor says J.hat political I and oflh’ial Mormonism deals in evasions j and ineiiningiess words, or words of doubtful meaning, hypocritical pretenses and false assertions. Its attitude toward polygamy is delusive in tiie last degree. It knows that there has been no change on the subject, but Itsceks to convey the Impression that there has been. Five Mon Killeil by the Explosion of a Boiler. At Chewalla, McNairy County, Tenn., five men were instantly killed by the explosion of a steam boiler belonging to Mr.Guerly, who had recently bought the mill. Gnerly’s body was torn into shreds. William Johnson had his head torn from his body and it was thrown

fifty yards from the mill; Walter Pitman and his brother and a son of Gnerly’s were killed. A negro was badly injured and it is thought he will die. There was another person injured but not seriously. Morley’s Condemnation es the English Government. London special: Mr. Morley’s outspoken condemnation of the course of the Government and the police in the officially conducted riot at Tipperary, and of the brazen partiality of the court before which O’Brien and Dillon are being tried, and the meeting of the Liberal leaders at Howarden to discuss the situation and decide upon the course of the party, very lively time for the Government as soon as Parliament reopens next month, and the disgraceful Balfour regime will probably receive the hardest blow which It has experienced. Mr. Morley had yet to give expression to the result of his tour, as viewed from the side of the potato famine, the immediate Interest of the public having been attracted just now to the flagrant outrages at Tipperary. The Rev. Mr. McFadden, a priest, declares that Mr, Jackson, the Financial Secretary ofthe Treasury, who gave so roseate an account of his trip to Ireland, never went near the really distressed parts of Gwcedore, about which he pretends to talk so glibly, and that his misrepresentations of the state of the crops in Ireland are willful. A Divorce in High Life. Mrs. R. W. Rathbone, jr., of Chicago, has decided to apply for a divorce on the grounds that her husband has been unfaithful to her. Mrs. Rathbone is the daughter of A. B. Pullman, a brother of the palace car king. Mr. Rathborne is the son of a leading flour merchant, and the two families are conspicuous in the best society Chicago can boast. Mr. Rathbone Intends fighting counter charges, accusing his wife of over-partiality toward Dr. Chesholm, a New York physician, who has been in Chicago for some time past. The latter vehemently denies the charges and characterizes them as base lies. The couple have been married thirteen years. Fenny Postage. It is well understood that the Postmaster General is strongly in favor of the establishment of a postal saving bank, and it is believed his next annual report will advocate of the plan which may seem to him the most practicable to carry out at the present time. When Mr. Wanamaker addresses himself again to Congress he will no doubt give it the benefit of his investigations into the practicability <t>f a reduction of the present letter postage to one cent. He will find a strong point in his favor in the comparison with the reduction of postage made in 1883 from three to two cents, which eventually resulted in an increase instead of a reduction of postage. ® Dreadful Destitution. Denver special: Alonzo Moore, a prominent Linden, Col., merchant, arrived here, and in an interview says: “It is estimated that there are at least one hundred families who are in a destitute condition and who will suffer for the necessaries of lite unless aid is procured. These settlers reside in what is known as the “Rain Belt” of Eastern Arrapatoe County. Owing to the scarcity of rain during the past season the crops have been a total failure. Most of these destitute families have recently come into the county and relied upon this year’s crops for a start." Kidnapped a Girl. j Two discharged colored farm hands of John a well-to-do farmer of iSarryville, Pa., kidnapped his ijaußhter Julia, aged/20, took her to a hut in a ravine and her there over a week, assaulting her repeatedly and ’ forcing whisky down her throat. They then left her. The fiends’ names are Sami. Johnson and Jack Williams. A searching party went out when she faijed to raturn home, but it was some time, before she was found. She was almost- insane and instantly accused Johnson and Williams The men have not yet been captured. He Whs a Brute. Alexander Frazer, a noted colored preacher, was iii Police Court at Little Rock, Ark., charged with drunkenness. The testimony gave a sensational color to the case, it being shown that Frazier's wife had recently died in childbirth and that Hie had sold the body of the infant. The purchasers, who are presumably medical students, went to Frazier s house and dissected the body of the woman, leavingpieces of the reremains scattered all over the room. Warrants have been issued for all the parties implicated. Held Up by Bandits. Eureka Springs (Ark.) special: Road agents held up the Harrison and Eureka Springs stage recently. The driver was commanded to halt by one of the highwaymen, who covered him with a shotgun, while his masked comrades, revolver in hand, stepped to the door of the stage and interviewed the passengers of whom there were two. They were not hioiested, however. Taking the mail pouches with them the robbers disappeared in the woods. This is the third time this stage has been held up. A *90,000 Conflagration at Des Moines. was discovered in the Health Oatmeal Mill, located near the railroad een'ter of Des Moines, lowa. It was well under headway before an alarm was sent in. The loss on the mill and machinery will be $50,000; on the storage buildings, $10,000; on the stocks, $30,000. The total insurance on both buildings and stocks is about $60,000, distributed among a number of companies. The origin of tiie fire is unknown. An incendiary is strongly suspected. A Female High way men. OttoNelheim,a well developed German, while walking along Fourteenth street, near Penn avenue, Washington, was seized by a colored girl, who pulled him into an alley;,' kicked him in the stomach and knocked him down and then seized his watch and what money he had in his pockets and ran away. She was subsei <iiiently arrested and turned out to be I Eliza Frey, who was just released from ; the penitentiary, where she served a I term for arson. Worth *IOO,OOO anil Put in Ohio Penitentiary for Burglary. Probably tiie wealthiest convict in the Ohio prison, excepting E. L. Harper, is Arthur Picard, a Portage County man, who donned the stripes recently for one year for burglary. He is a young man ami the black sheep of a respectable and wealthy family. Just before he was taken from the jail at Ravenna, to go to the penitentiary lie received notice of the death of a relative, by whose will lie received SIOO,OOO. * Executed for an Atrocious Crime. Two frothers, Joe and’Cartnei Diaz, were executed at Havana for a particularly atrocious crime. They had attacked a Turkish woman near Hinear del Rio and subjected her to the grossest indignities. The hlisband of the woman sought to avenge the dishonor of his wife, but was killed by the brothers,who also murdered the woman and then mutilated the bodies of their victims. A Negro Murderer Lynched. Ernest Humphreys, tho negro who shot and killed Dick Miller, another negro, at Princeton, Ky., was taken from

jail at that place by a mob and hanged. Miller was the second man that Humphreys had killed. FubUc Debt Statement. The public debt statement for September shows a decrease in the debt during th* past month amounting to $4,582,907. The interest bearing debt, exclusive of the bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad is >638,688,070, against $680,978,02t September 1, a month ago, or a reduction in the bonded indebtedness during the month amounting to $42,289,950 while on the other hand the surplus ft the treasury, which a month ago including subsidiary coin and national ban! redemption fund, was $107,397,677, is today $59,791,350, a decrease during the month of $47,606,327. Idaho Ejection. Incomplete returns from seven out of eighteen counties in Idaho give Sweet, Republican, for Congress, 1,500 majority. The same counties in 1888 gave Dubois, Republican, delegate, 980 majority. Ths entire State is Republican by 2,500 to 3,000 majority. Late returns show that the Legislature will probably stand 33 Republicans to 19 Democrats. Fire at Mansfield, Ohio. The Mansfield Carriage and Wagon Company’s works were totally destroyed by fire. The works were closed for repairs, and the cause of the fire is unknown. Loss estimated at $30,000; insurance, SIO,OOO. The works were almost totally destroyed by fire four years ago, when operated by the firm of Scherdit & Miller. Lawmakers Nearly Lynched, Hot times have been experienced in the Oklahoma Legislature over the capital question. Representative Perry grabbed the unsigned bill and started to run. Some one cried “Hang him!” The cry became general. The spectators joined the members, an attack was made on Speaker Daniels and a general row resulted. Three Ladies Killed. While Mrs. Dostaler, wife of Dr. Dostaler, was driving across the Canadian Pacific tracks at Maskinonge, Que., in a carriage containing herself, Mrs. Piche, Miss Heroux ajid two children, aged about 5 years, the carriage was struck by a freight train and all three ladies were instantly killed. The two children escaped without injury. Wrecked in Wyoming. The east-bound Union Pacific passenger train No. 2 ran off the track at an open switch, at Rock station, Wyo. The engine and six cars went into the ditbh, Engineer Watson and Fireman Carr were scalded by escaping steam. Several passengers received slight injuries. Fireman Carr’s injuries are fatal. will Contest the Will. The will of the. late John Crcrar of Chicago, which disposed of an esta e of over three million dollars, much of it being bequeathed to charitable and reis to be contested. The contest is made by relatives of the deceased on his father's side, none of whom are named in the will. Run Down Kobber. Among the party who started from Lo Alamas, Cal., after the daring express robber was John Conway, a San Francisco agent. The pursuers separated and Conway, after twenty-four hours riding overtook the robber and cap ured him. The robber confessed and said his name was Harry West. Cheever’s Crime. D. G. Cheever, sixty years of age, was arrested at Ganesville, Wis., on a charge of embezzling $5,000/ Cheever is a prominent member of tjie Baptist Church, in Clinton, and served for three years as executor for an estate. He inx ested the funds in Dakota lands, and the land fell in value. • Two of ’Em Caught. Two of the robbers who held up the C., S. & C. Express train near West Liberty, Ohio, were captured at Bellefonta ne by the railroad detectives, and one of them has made, a confession. The third robber implicated in the job is still at large with S6OO of the plunder in his possession. ■ ' ' Kamishing Farmers. A committee is in Denver from Eastern Colorado to secure aid for the destitute in that region. It is estimate 1 that nearly two hundred families aroun 1 Linden and Harrisburg are destitute, the crops having been a total failure. The County Commissioners will subscribe SI,OOO. . • Watching the Corners. Assistant Secretary Spaulding las informed a correspondent that the mportation by mail of gold or silver substances, pieces of money, jewelry >r any articles whatever liable to custom- duty, except printed matter, is prohibited by law. Gordon Knocked Out. Returns from the Georgia election, show that the full Democratic ti ket is elected by the usual heavy maj irities. Both constitutional amendments have probably been carried. The General Assembly is three-fourth Alliance. At the “Old Romuu’s” Banquet, Ex-President Cleveland has accepted the invitation to be present at the Thurmah banquet, to be given November 13, under the aqspiees of the Thurman Club, ip Columbus, Judge Thurman, will be 77 years old on that day'; Adjourns. Both Houses of Congress have adjourned. ' THE 51AKKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primes 3.25 (t? 5.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 & 4.75 SMKf 3.00 & &00 Wheat— No 2 1ied...96 @ .96 S Corn—No. 2 .! .47 .43' Oats-No. 2... 37 .38li Bye—No. 2 1. 60 .61 Butteb—Choice < reumery 21 & .23 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 1 .08->@ .09 Eggs—Fresh .IV-i® .18U Potatoes—Western, per bu...., .So .90 INIIIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping. 3.50 13 5.00 o Hogs—Choice Ijght 3.00 & ■ Sheep—(Jommon to Prime...,.. 9.5 C «3'ii7s( W heat—No. 2 Bod .97 @ ,98V Cohn—No. 1 White ~49 @ 50 Oats—No. 2 White. .30 & '4O ST. LOUIS. Cattle..... -3.50 @5.00 Hogs 4.25 & 4 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 9taz@ JJ7U Cohn-No. 2 [ ‘47 Oats—No. 2. 37 @ 38 RYES-No. 2..,, .3« ;58jx CINCINNATI. Cattle 2.50 @ 3.75 Hogs 3,50 & 4.75 Sheep y.ou @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Rod 97’Z@ ,98'A Cohn—N°. 2 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 331..@ 3914 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring9s @ .96 Cohn—No. 3. _■ .4 @ Oats—No 2 White Bahley—No.2 ’. .67 @ .68 Bye—No. 1 63 @ , DETROIT. , CATrt.E.., 3.M @4.50 HoGSi’' t & 4 75 SHEEP.. 3<co @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed <l7 @ .93 Cohn—No. 2 Yellowsl @ 5116 Oats—No. 2 White @ '4l , ~ TOLEDO. y*HEAT <>6 @ ,9«U Cohn—Cash ,9 @ ,sqiz Oats—No. 2 White., . 19 @ 40 „ BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime...”..... 4.00 @5.00 Hogs—Medium and Heavy.... .. 4775 @5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.13 @ 115 Corn—No. 2 ~2 @ ,‘53 „ EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Primo.... 3.4) @4.75 Hogs—Light 4.25 @ 5.00 Sheep—Medium to H00d........ 4.25 @5 35 lambs. 4. .0 @ 6.00 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.35 @ 5 03 4. >0 @ 5.25 Sheep... 4.09 @5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red j.Ol @1,09 Cobn— No, 2 35 @ m Oats—No. 2 White u @ .45

HUSTLING HOOSIERS. WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING FOR A WHOLE WEEK. A Big Libel Suit— Sent to the Pen —By the Morphine Route—Attempted Assassination—A Big Bond—Kot to Get Hoosier Gas—Died of Lock-Jaw—Stood on the ' Deadly Platform—Killed in a RunawayBuncoed a Business Man—Disappearance of a Sweet Sixteen—Highwaymen Jailed—Crushed to Death, Etc. —Simon Yandes has given $30,000 to Wabash College. —Thomas Saberton, of Evansville, was found dead in bed. —German anniversary attracted big crowds at Evansville. —Soldiers’ reunions are prevalent throughout the State. —O. E. Lawrence was mysteriously drowned at Michigan City. —Mrs. Mary Bailey, of Attica, fell into a cellar and was fatally injured. Fred Poschen, an inmate of the poor house at Valparaiso, hanged himself. —A passenger train on the Monon ran into an open switch and was derailed. —Mrs. Ed Doody publicly whipped Mts. Kidney in Indianapolis. Jealousy. —Alexander Lane, the slayer of Al Hoover, has been arrested at Lebanon. —Carelessness and fog caused a serious collide on the C., W. & B. neai Linwood. —Fred Sachen, Valparaiso, preferred death to the poor-house and hanged himself. —Mixed schools after a week’s trial are to be done away with at Crawfordsville. —E. & excursion train jumped the track near Hazleton. Narrow escape. —John Hancock Craig, Danville, is the biggest man in the world. 600 pounds. . -s(Real estate agent, Al Brown, was acquitted at Laporte of a charge of embezzlement. —Edward Colvin, a child of 3 years, swallowed concentrated lye at Attica, with fatal effect. —President Wright, of the Cambridge City Council, was struck by a train and seriously injured, —The funeral of ex-State Senator Carpenter was one of the largest ever held in Shelby County. —Five gorses at Annapolis, afflicted with glanders, have l?een killed by the State Veterinarian. —W. H. Schrieber, who robbed the Columbus. Bank, was arrested in Detroit and made to disgorge. —Robert Burton stood on the -platform of a fast mail train while going through Washington. He'll die. • —John Cunningham, of Harrison County, sold the apples on his orchard of 300 trees for $1,600. —Mrs. Michael Ronan was instantly, killed at Ronan by the collision of a runaway team with her buggy. —The dry-kiln of the Eagle Sash and Door Company at Goshen was burned. Loss, $2,000; no insurance. —Stephen Sterkey, a teamster of Marshall, was caught under his overturned wagon and crushed to death. —Quimley King was caught by a falling tree he had chopped down at Bloomingsburg, and fatally crushed. —White Caps notified Fred L. Weil, of English, to either sober up or leave the county. He left the county. —The widow of the lato Vom Heilman, Evansville, has qualified as executrix of the estate. Bond, $1,500,000. —Three smart residents of Danville -refused to answer census inquiries. They’ve been over to the United States Court. —Harvey H. Weed, of Fayette County, was seized with a hemorrhage of the lungs while at work in a field, and death ensued. —Grandmother Hawn, one of the oldest and best know pioneer women of Northern Indiana, died near Rochester, aged 94. —Hon. John V. Bentz was thrown from his horse at English, and the animal stepped on his face and then fell upon him. —Michael McCarthy, of Muncie, preferred his church to a Protestant sweetheart and at the last moment refused to marry her. —A grand reunion of ex-soldiers was held at New Albany, and Governor Hovey and General Gresham were the honored guests. —Large headed postmaster at Brazil bought ten dollars’ worth of stamps from two tramps for $7. The stamps, 01 course, had been stolen. —Quire Kardos, former treasurer of the Sick Benefit Society at Sduth Bend refused to turn over the cash to his successor. Suit has been brought. —Deputy Marshal George N. Bird, of Frankfort, attempted to 4ake Arthur Palmer to jail for alleged horse stealing. Palmer shot the Marshal dead. —The authorities have been unable to find Martin Schaffer, the murderer of Edward Lowry, at Walton, and it is supposed that he has fled tiie State. —Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dalrymple, of Elkhart, two years ago were divorced. One day recently they met and engaged in a hand to hand struggle over the possession of their little daughter. —Mrs. Henry McCann, of Muncie, smashed with bowlders the windows of the saloon of John Weisse because he had sold her husband liquor contrary to her orders. —Burglars worked Union City. They bored through a panel in the rear door of Kerr’s hardware store and reached through and unlocked the door. They carried off about fifty Wade & Butcher and Wirth razors, a lot of Woostenliqlin pocket cutlery and a lot of Roger’s sil-ver-ware. - '■ t —The second m ad-dog scare in the past month occurred at Peru recently. A dog of the Spitz breed badly bit the hands of the two children of Jacob Edwards, aged two and four years. The dog was a household pet. The celebrated mad-stone of Mrs. Roe was immediately procured, and adhered firmly to the wounds for a considerable length of time, finally dropping off. This was repeated next moFniiig with similar results, only in a lesser degree, and the ppison is believed to have been successfully extracted. The dog was immediately killed. o

—Oscar Watson, Carl Dowden and Grant Phinney, the juvenile highwaymen cf Muncie have been bound over to court. —The last work of the Morgan County Grand Jury was to return twenty indictments for the violation of the liquor laws. —The barn of Luther Wild, at Marion, was burned with the grain and agricultural implements therein. Loss, $2,■000; insurance, S4OO. —A man at Crawfordsville hung another man in effigy on the court-house corner because of a grudge he held against him for over twenty years. —Alfred Lashley, an aged citizen of Centerville, was pulled from his horse and terribly beaten by Walter Commons. He will sue for damages. —A crazy man, apparently about 35 years old, was found on Abner Rudd’s farm, about a mile north of Colfax. He says that his name is Rider. —Andrew McMullen’s.house, at Montpelier, caught fire from a defective flue, and was damaged about S2OO, with no insurance. —James M. Everly, of Terre Haute, was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary for criminally assaulting Clara B. Voncleave, an insane woman. The assault occurred last May. —“Joseph Sliney, near Lagro, has sued Louis Gauss, a saloon keeper, for $2,000. Complainant alleges that Gauss sold his son liquor, which caused the latter to drown himself in the Wabash. —A tramp appeared at the barn of Jas. Taylor, near Ladoga, and asked permission to sleep in the barn. This [ was refused, and a moment later the tramp fell dead from apoplexy. —One Wall, a brakeman from Mount Carmel, 111., was attacked and seriously stabbed at Princeton by friends of Lizzie Turpen and Ida Brookins,; young girls whom he had attemped to abduct. —Thomas Hart, of the Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association, was seriously burned about the face and hands by a natural gas explosion, at the Maring-Hart Glass Works, at Muncie. —Ed. Rile, white, and Jimmie Dylon, colored, both about the age of 13, became involved in a quarrel in Charleston, when the Rile boy struck his adversary in the temple with a stone, crushing the skull. —Frank Kooken, a teamster, of Decatur, was unloading a saw log, when it happened to roll on him, mashing his left leg in a horrible manner. He ‘lingered in great distress and died a few Hours afterward. —Arthur, the 10-year-old son of J. H. Curran, of Logansport, died from the effects of an injury received while playing with some companions at school. He fan against the corner of a seat and ruptured his bowels. e —Frank Darting, of Brazil, has brought a five-thousand-dollar suit against the Evansville and Indianapolis Railroad for damages sustained by an assault made upoji him by fellow-passengers November 22, —Socrates Darremeyer became insane from religious excitement while driving from Fulton County to his home near Winamac. He upset his buggy, threw his clothing into a ditch and was found wandering about in the woods. —At Aurora Thomas Curnyan attempted to assassinate “Rip” Sickles, a local bully, shooting at him in a saloon; The ball missed its aim, however, and entered the breast of one Tim Dernagan. Curnyan fired again, inflicting a wound in Sickles’ breast and gave him another in the back as they clinched. Sickles got hold of the weapon in tbe struggle and clubbed his assailant almost to death with it. All three are dangerously injured. —Five hundred men working on the natural gas pipe line from Howard County, Indiana, to Chicago, have been called off, and work suspended. It is said that the Indiana Natural Gas Company which was to pipe gas to the State line for the trust, will abandon the idea •of supplying the fluid to consumers in Chicago, and dispose of it to towns along the line. Tfie immediate cause of the suspension of operations was the - hostile attitude of Chicago authorities toward the gas trust. —The prisoners in the county jail at Marion, set fire to their mattresses. The night watch discovered smoke issuing from the windows and gave the alarm. The fire was extinguished after several prisoners had been nearly suffocated. The supposition isthat the fire was started in the expectation that the doors would be opened and a delivery effected. Ed. Robeson and Newton Leach, who started the blaze, will be prosecuted for arson as soon as their present terms have expired. —A boiler explosion in a tile mill at Deedsville, a small town north of Peru, killed Charles Deeds, a young man, his head being blown into fragments, besides seriously injuring George Abbott and Elijah Shoemaker, other employes. The building was completely wrecked, and fragments of the boiler were found three squares away. Deeds was sitting near the boiler at the time of the explosion. The other twq men and Richard Robbins, engineer and owner, was some distance away. Robbins was unhurt. The cause is not known, as only a few minutes prior to the accident the gauges showed ample water. The explosion was heard for miles. —Frank L. Sefrit, city editor of tho Washington Gazette, criticized the brutality of Marshal Cavanaugh. The latter then attacked Sefrit and beat him in a frightful manner. —David C. Reede was found dead in his room at the residence of his mother, in Liberty. A coroner's inquest found that the deceased came to his death by sulphate of morphine, self-administered, with suicidal intent. It is alleged the cause of the suicide was disappointment in love. —A novel lawsuit was disposed of in the Circuit Court at Crawfordsville. J. D. Hoss, of Indianapolis,sued Mrs. Lydia Hesley on a note. The defense set up a counter-claim for fuel and light used when Hoss was coming to the house of Mrs. Hesley to. see a girl. —Richard Roberts, an old veteran, dropped dead in the M. E. Church at Cicero, while attending Sunday-school. It is supposed that heart trouble caused his death. Deceased was a prominent member of the G. A. R. and was buried by the Post. He leaves a wife and one grown daughter.

Hmmaa tea are trail craatnrea phyaieally—tka robust amang us. The anhwalthy Uiaa » worean is In great measure iaeapabla of It to aotfety. If. for instanea, a trouble <rf frequence and often obattaasS resistant of ordinary medication, obstruct* barraonioue action of the liver and tbe sufferer is sure to be dyapeptiß. The three disordered conditions are sue to bo eonfoaaad by naglaot. Under tho erroneous impsaaeie* that there is no hope him. an impreeuto* ta Ml Ufcelihood confirmed by the use of objeouqn. able remedfea. the sufferer to apt to becomo neglectful, nay, evsn reckless, and that tte sooner ho is removed from the sphere of hneqan sndeavu the better for aU parties ooncoraed. What a series of mistakes l His liver is rosptesible. It is an incorporate part of himself. How discipline it? By the sld of Hostetter'S StomsMh Bitters, a certain medium fm tho reestablishment of united, regular action in the stomach, liver and bowels. It also cures an'l prevents maluial. rheumatic and kidney troubles. Bustle in a Store. Mrs. Hayseed (on her first visit to town) —One would think that big store I was just in would do considerable business, but I suppose most of the crowd jest looks around and goes out again. My! Wasn’t there a commotion when I bought something and paid for it. Hostess— A commotion? Mrs. Hayseed—Mercy! yes. Jest es quick as that clerk-girl got my money, she began yelling “cash” like mad—and half a dozen little errand boys came rushin’ up to see it.— New York Weekly. J. C. SIMPSON, Marquess, W. Ya., says: ■Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad care of catarrh.” Druggists sell it, 75c. The Asperities of Debate. The Speaker (to the gentleman from Indiana, who has just called the gentleman from Illinois an ass) —Does the gentleman from Indiana withdraw the epiehet? The Gentleman from Indiana—l withdraw the language, Mr. Speaker, but maintain that the gentleman from Illinois is not in order. 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