Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1890 — Page 2

©he democrat r>E<JATURfIND. N. BLACKBURN, - - - Publisher, . OUR NEWS SUMMARY. SITTING BULL AT LAST BITES THE DUST. He Is Arrested By Indian Policy and His Followers Attempt to Rescue Him—ln the Fight He and Several Others are Killed—Re-Coinage of Trade Dollars —A Black Fiend—Fatal Wreck. SITTING BULL, The Treacherous Red Man, at Cast Bites the Dust. The following telegram was received at army headquarters at Chicago: St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 15. Col. Corbin. Assistant Adjhtant General, Chicago,: Sitting Bull was arrested this morning at daylight by Indian police. Friends attempted his rescue. Fight ensued. Sitting Bull, his son. Black Bird, Catch Bear, and four others were hilled; also seven Ipdian police. Capt. Fechet arrived just in with two troops. Hotchkiss and drove the Indians away and secured the body of Sitting Bull. By command of Gen. Miles. [Signed] Maus, Aide. - When the Indian police, who numbered about twenty men, reached Sitting Bull’s village, they found the Sioux all ready to depart for the Southwest, and instant action was necessary to prevent this movement. The police at once made a rush for Sitting Bull, surrounded him, and, telling him he was a prisoner,started at once on the trail for the agency. The old chief made no attempt at l&sistance, but hardly had his capture been made known than his son and a party of Bull's followers attempted to recapture their chief. A desperate running right ensued, and,the police were getting the worst of it. In the skirmish Sitting Bull attempted to get away from his captors, and to join the attacking, party of his friends. He fought wildly, and was killed, with several of his followers. Seven of the Indian police also fell dead, and the whole band would probably have been massacred had it not been for the timely arrival of the cavalry. Gen. Miles says that Sitting jBuII had been dispatching couriers to all the tribes —even those in Canada —instructing them to secure all the ammunition possible and be prepared to go on the war path in the spring; When he found that preparations were being made by : the army to break up his scheme, it was 1 believed that he intended to begin fighting very soon, and his arrest was ordered. \ ‘ I leave immediately for the Black Hills," said the General, “and I shall be on the rcservntion in three days. Gen. Brooke has reported to me* that he has exhausted all peaceable means ’of settling whatever difficulty there may be ” . Prosecuting Train Men. • W. J. Leßoy, a freight conductor, of the Louisville and New Albany road, was arrested Louisville. His arrest, it is alleged, is the first of a wholesale prosecution to begin at once against train men on the road. They are accused of systematically breaking into and robbing freight cars, and it is even charged that wrecks have been arranged in advance jo cover evidence of wholscale thefts. These thefts, it is stated,are part >f a conspiracy against the road which v has existed since the strike of three months ago. A Fearful Fad. A curious state of affairs is reported from Mayeace, Germany, where during • the last few days, twenty-five females have been assaulted by a boy with a large saddler’s needle, with which he infli‘ ted upon them wounds in the legs and Stomach. In some cases the injuries are of a serious nature, and assailant has not been caught, woman are afraid to go out of doors after dark. A special detective force is employed to effect the arrest of the culprit. dRe-Coinage of Trade Dollars. The Republican caucus committee has reached an agreement whiato\jjtflhtake the shape' of a bill to be prepared by Senator Sherman, providing for the purchase of surplus silver bullion, estimated at twelve million dollars’ worth, ajid the issue of $100,000,000 of 2 percent, bonds to purchase silver bullion from time to t ime to make good the retirement of national' bank circulation, and the r-ecoinage of trade dollars. Serious Charges. Mayor Gardner of Cleveland, was suddenly Called from his office recently to visit the bedside of a noted law-breaker, Aug. Fav, whose parents were once wealthy and respected residents of that city. To Navor Gardner, Fay made serious . charges against Superintendent J W. Schmidt, of 'the police force, declaring thatjSchmirlt has extorted large sums of Thorn y from him at various times during iff- administration. All Three Drowned. The bodies of Joseph Marshall, his I..car. bld son Charles, and a young '' man named Herbert Corner,, of Harbor Springs, were found on the beach seven m ies west of Petoskey, Mich. They were seen returning from their fishingground jtiet before a terrible squall and ~ snow storm swept over the bay. A Black Fiend. Dau McAllister, a negro, was arrested at Mt. Vernon, Ind., with assaulting three prominent young ladies with evident intend to rape. Fortunately, the ladies all escaped without injury. There is greatexcilement, and a strong probability that the negro will be hanged by a mob. Three Killed. A boK of giant powder exploded in • Sunday Lake Mine, near Wakefield, Mich., killing one man. Two others are missing, and two are seriously if-not fatally injured. ' » C . Fatal Wreck. ' There was a disastrous wreck on a branch line of the Danville road near Laurensclle, N. C. A construction train Jumped tjm track and piled up alongside Bf it. John Lawrence, James'E. Walling, John Ellis, and Robert Scott, members of the train’s crew, were taken out of the wreck dead. Four others were badly injured, s Caught and Caged. McDaniels, the notorious desperado, who was the leader in the Cotton Belt train robbery, was arrested at San Antonio, Texas, and lodged in jail. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The Court of Claims has given judgment in the celebrated case of the Berdan Firearms Manufacturing Company fff New York against the United States. This is a-suit to recover about $400,000 for the use of the patent in the manufacture of Springfield guns used by the Government. It has been pending twenty years. I The Steel Patents Company of Pittsburg, Pa., which controls the patents for making basic steel, finally has dehided at a meeting to sell to outside

manufacturers the right to use the proc- , ess upon payment of a royalty of , $1 per ton. A great demand for the basic process has been made bf the mill men of the South, who Mere unable to utilize a .large proportion of the ore deposit in those States. The royalty of $1 a ton is considered reasonable by the owners, considering that the Bessemer people pay Henry Bessemer $5 per ton for the use of his famous patents. One of the worst wrecks in the history of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad occurred at Ridgeway, Elk County, Pa., by a train-dispatcher running two freights together. Both engines and thirty-five cars were totally demolished, with a loss of about $40,000. The trains were going at a high rate of speed, but happened to meet on a straight track, and the trainmen jumped and were uninjured, Both trains were running at the rate of forty miles an hour, and the engines met with fearful force. James Lane, a Salem (Mass.) morocco dresser, deliberately shot and killed at his door at an early hour in the morning. Charles Chutt and Michael Callahan are the persons implicated, but the shooting is believed to have been done by Callahan. The men charged ; Lane with being a non-union labor man ' and a “scab,” and this was the immedi- ; ated cause of the tragedy. Jealousy over a woman, however, is said to be at the bottom of the affair. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. £? —■ The following dispatch was sent from Wichita, Kan.:,. “Hon. J. B. Mayes, Tahlequah. I. T.: “I will see Williamson & Blair's twenty millions for the strip and go fifteen millions better. I hold royal flush. Send deed and abstract to Wichita National Bank. “M. W. Levy.” Mr. Levy is acting for a company organization within the last few days that is in earnest about the Cherokee Strip, j It is not known positively w'hether they are acting entirely on their own judgment and capital or not, as it has been intimated an financial circles that they can get New York and London capital ; if they desire to part with any of the | stock. / ~ ' | A special by courier from the eamp of two troops of the Sixth Cavalry stationed on the South Fork of the Cheyenne River to Rapid City, S. D., says a squaw-man named Rider has brought a report to the commanding officer that 1 there has been a bloody encounter four miles north of Pine Ridge Agency be- j tween the United States troops and some four or five hundred Indians under Kick- ■ ing Bear, and that a number have been I killed on both sides; that the Indians I have been put to rout and a large num- j ber captured, including Kicking Bear. ■ A courier frpm the mouth of French i Creek says that the latest authentic re- ’ ports from Capt. Wells are that a large parfry of Indians attacked eighteen men : four miles below the creek. Several were wounded, and it is thought four I Indians were killed. An engagement is i expected with the hostiles near Battle Creek. ' - State Representative Brandt, whp died a few days ago at Tiffin, Ohio, was $6,000 shdrt as Treasurer of Venice Township, Seneca County. He was also a bankrupt, with liabilities of $30,000 and assets of only SIO,OOO. At a birthday celebration in the Buchtel College, at Akron, Ohio, thirty lady students were gathered in the society’s library building. They were entertained i by eight who wore masks and loose, flow- j ing garments, with high hats, also cov- I ered with cotton. The hat of Miss Aurelia Steigmier. of Utica, N. Y., caught fire and communicated it to the entire party, fr Every effort was made to save the young ladies, whose screams were heard throughout tile great building and whose blazing costumes seemed to fill thg room. Miss Mary Stevens, of Clifton Springs, N. Y.. had every particle of clothing burned from her body, and , rolled over and over in the center of the ■ room, where a little group tried to extin- I guish the flames. Sjhe was fatally burned. j Miss Steigmier was burned from head to | foot, and both are dead. Two holes were burned in the floor,’but the fire was extinguished. Eight others were injured. The fall term of college ends Thursday, but recitations will be abandoned and many young ladies are packing their trunks and hurrying from the city to get away from the scene of horror. The college halls were filled with the odor of burning flesh, and many young ladies fainted as they went about doing relief work. The Seventh Cavalry from Pine Ridge | and the Sixth and Eighth from Fort ; Meade, Rapid City and Oelrichs have started for the Bad Lands, and a fight ! with the hostiles seems inevitable. The I Sixth Cavalry consists of five hundred or six hundred men. Accompanying these will be 250- infantry under Capt. Wells, of Oelrichs, and 400 State militia under M. 11. Day. The day guaztl at Pine Ridge has been doubled and the night pickets quadrupled. Just before taps sounded in camp the other j night groat sheets of light were seen in j the northwest in the direction of the | Bad Lands. The light spread until it j extended for a’distance of two miles i along the horizon. In the morning a scout ; brought word to Gen. Brook that the light ■ was made by burning long rows of haystacks, and was the signal that the hostiles had determined irrevocably to start ' on the war path, and that all the Indians ! who did not join them would hereafter be dogs and enemies. The scout also reported the hostiles constantly being re- . enforced, and no desertions occurred except Two Strike and a few followers. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. The vicinity of Monroe, Walton County, Ga., was visited by a destructive cyclone. The storm cleared a space of several miles long and 100 yards wide, blowing down houses a«nd killing sev- ' oral people. Jack Henderson and his ' wife were buried beneath the ruins of their home. Henderson was killed, but his wife was not badly hurt. Radford Chapman, a colored man, , who was being treated at the Baltimore : University Hospital for a lacerated hand, has become insane from fright. Ever ; since his arrival at the institution the ; students had poked fun at. him, and con- j fidentially informed him that Dr. Hun- I ter, the physician in charge, would cut him soon as he was fat enough. | To keep up the joke they usually felt him to see whether he was get- ■ ting ripe. Finally the darky be- I came alarmed for his safety, and one night dashed out of the hospital to the residence of a lady on the opposite side and insisted that she should spare him. Word was sent to Dr. Hunter, who succeeded in inducing the man to return. But the mischief had been done, ■ for the man was already crazy. Early the pext morning the doctor visited his : patient, who lay wide awake. As it was unusual, for the physician to call at this unseemly hour Chapman took it for granted that he was to be cut up, and with a yell made for the window. After a desperate struggle the doctor prevented him from leaping out. The first, woman’s temperance crusade ' which has ever occurred in Tennessee has resulted in a victory for the crusaders. At Germantown, nine miles from Memphis, there was but one saloon, and the women resolved that it should go. ’Tuesday last they met in convention and nominated a Prohibition ticket for town

officers and then went on a still-hunt for votes. The election "was held and the women’s ticket, with “No License” at the head, was elected by a big majority. Evictions of striking miners have been begun at the Monongahela mines in West Virginia. The strike has become alarming in its proportions. The men at the Montana and Despard works have joined the strikers, and over 2.000 men are now out. The strike is against a reduction of 5 cents per ton. The mines are controlled by a syndicate in which ex-Senator Camden, Gov. Fleming, and Senator Gorman, of Maryland, are largely interested. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Some of Dr. Koch’s lymph has reached Washington, consigned to Dr. Magruder, who, in the presence of a number of prominent physicians, inoculated several patients at Garfield Memorial Hospital. The injection was made ,by means of a sharp sterilzed syringe. No marked effects have been noted as yet upon any of the patients who were treated. The residence of Mrs. E. N. Jay of Washington, B. C., .was robbed while i the family was at church. Besides a small amount of money and some jewel- | ry four SI,OOO coupon bonds of the St. i Louis, and Iron Mountain railroad and the Arkansas Bank were carried off by the burglars. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Advices from Chung King, China, by steamer China, just arrived in San Francisco, state that the trouble at Ta Chu Hsien arose from the massacre of the Chinese Christians at Loong Tuy Tsin by members of the Hoo Huy Sos Society during a celebration in honor of the society’s patrbn deity. After the ■ celebration had lasted several days the j brotherhood consulted their gods as to whether it would be safe to plunder the Christians. The reply, being in the affirmative, the brotherhood made a raid on a number of l well-to-do Christian families and carried ! off a lot of booty. A few days later they | made a fresh attack and massacred over twenty persons,, nineteen bodies being counted in the streets, and several more are known to have been cut in pieces and thrown into the river. The mission i buildings and many others were burned i and the corpses thrown into the flames, tin the following day the brotherhood proceeded to another market town and ! made an assault on the Christians there, i The latter, fled, but one of them was ■ killed. | The Dublin newspaper, United Ireland, I has got into trouble through its perI sistent advocacy of the retirement of | Mr. Parnell. Mr. Parnell is one of the i directors of the company owning the paper, and acting in that capacity ho | went to Dublin and seized the plant of the papor, stopped the issue of the curI rent edition, and ejected the acting edi itor, Mr. Bodkin. A, desperate row oci etirred in the down-stairs office between j the Sheriff s officers and the sub-editors. ! Sticks and stools were used as weapons, and the air was filled with flying missiles. Finally, after a sharp and fierce struggle, the sub-editofrs were put out of the building. Late at night a strong party of Mr. Parnell's opponents made a descent upon and recaptured the offices of United Ireland. The invaders destroyed all the “leaders” which had been prepared, and turned all the j matter that they found set up into the I tire. Then they took possession of the ' ledgers and other books and documents belonging to “the concern. All this was done in the name of William O'Brien. A strong posse from various laborers’ societies has been left as a garrison, with instructions to remain on guard day and night and to resist by force any farther intrusion by Mr. Parnell and his friends. Tiie steamer San Juan, from Panama, brings news of ravages.of cholera in j Guatemala. More than'l2,ooo cases are i reported in the State, and 1,200 deaths i occurred in the City of Guatemala in I seven weeks. The steamer passed with- | out touching in order to avoid quaran- , tine. The steamer Servia, from Liverpool for New York, carries 1,061 sacks of mail, the greatest quantity of mail matter ever taken out "by a single steamer. FRESH AND NEWSY. R. G- Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The business outlook is more hopeful, , but the past disturbance and continuing | uncertainty are felt in a reduced volume of ! business throughout the country which, | though slightly larger than a year ago, 1 no longer shows the material Increase I until recently maintained. The supply of money is ample for necessities at New Orleans, but at other points money is tight, though banks help their customers as far as they can in legitimate business only. At the West colder weather has helped trade at Cincinnati, Detroit, and some other points, and business is only fair at Denver; : good for the season, with large cattle and I hog receipts at Kansas City; strong, j with liberal distribution of goods at j St. Louis; fair for the season at St. j Paul, and more active in holiday lines at I Cincinnati. Chicago business continues i much larger than last year, being little I affected by Eastern troubles, and the re- | ceipts of-most products show increase. At I Pittsburg the worst is thought to be over and money and collections are easier, though iron has declined and there is less j demand for manufactured products. Philadelphia notes little improvement. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO? . Cattle—Common to Primes3.2s G.OO Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.25 ® 4.00 Shelf 3.00 & 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red Corn—No. 2 oils® .52 Oats—No. 242 & .43 Rye—No. 267 @ .69 Butter—Choice Creamery2s & .28 Cheese—Full Cream, flats .1014 Eggs—Fresh .23jij® ,24]j 1 Potatoes—Western, per bu ,85 ® .95 I, INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping. 3.50 @4.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @3.75 Shf.ep—Common to Prime 3.00 ® 4.75 l Wheat—No. 2 Red 93 (?; .93*.j i Corn—No. 1 White?.. .50 @ .51 Oats—No. 2 White4B @ .48J£ ST. LOUIS. ■ Cattle 4.00 @ 5.25 Hogs i 3.00 @ 3.75 : ' Wheat—No. 2 Red .95J£ i Corn-No. 2.....51 @ .52 I Oats-No. 2 44>4@ .45]* ■ Barley—Minnesota .74 & .76 CINCINNATI. ! Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 < Hogs... 3.00 @3.75 I sheep... * — 3.00 @ 5.25 1 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97J*@ .98% Corn—No. 2 ,52%@ .53% Oats—No. 2 Mixed47%® .48% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring .86 @ .88 Corn—No. 349 @ .50 Oats—No. 2 White.A44 @ .45 Rye—No. 1.. .68 @ .69 Barley—No. 2 M » .64 @ .66 DETROIT. * Catt1e.........;....... 3.00 @ 4.25 Hogs 3.00 @ 3.50 i Sheep 3.00 & 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 96 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 Yellow T. 53 ® .53% Oats—No. 2 White 46%& .47 I . TOLEDO. Wheat... .96%® .97% Corn—Cash.,s2 @ .53 ‘ Oats—No. 2 White47%@ .48% BUFFALO. Catt —Good to Prime 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 'dlum and Heavy. 3.50 @ 3.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.00 ® 1.09% I Coen—No. 258 @ .58% EAST LIBERTY. ‘ Cattle— Common to Prime..?.. 3.50 @4.75 ; Hogs— Light 3.75 @ 4.50 : Sheep —Medium to Good 4.00 @5.00 Lambs..— 4.00 @ 5.75 NEW YORK. Cattle....— 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.50 @ 3.75 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.00 Wheat— No. 2Bed 1.04 @ LOS Coen—No. a.... M @ JS OAT»-Mix«d Western 55 • M

INDIANA NEWS BUDGET. INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes Casualties and General News Notes. —A. J. Cottrell, of Atherton, was killed by the cars. —Elder M. M. Vancleve, of Crawfordsville, is 80 years old, and ha£ married 681 couples. —John Payne, of Mount Auburn, aged 80, committed suicide by swallowing morphine. —John G. Lantz, an aged German, who lived alone at LaPorte, was found dead in his chair. —The American glass-works at Anderson, closed down for some months, will resume Jan. 1. —An incendiary burned G. W. Watkin’s stable at Mt. Vernon and six draft horses perished. —The Morgan County F. M. B. A. has petitioned the Martinsville authorities for a market house. —Dr. W. W. Steel, of Waveland, is under arrest at Anderson on the charge of highway robbery. —Anson Albee, of Crawfordsville, aged 72 years, walked off a trestle at Martinsville and was killed. —Benjariiin Bains, of Greentown, was fatally crushed by a saw-log, which he was assisting to load. —Daniel Taxworthy, of Johnson County, lost his right arm by the careless handling of a shot-gun. —Frank Ballinger, of Rome City, attempted to skate across the lake at that point and was drowned. —The barn and out-buildings on Sheriff Brown’s farm, near Seymour, was burned. Loss, $2,800. —The population of Crawfordsville, including the suberbs, is 7,649, according to the new city directory. —Prof. A. H. Graham, of the Rushville Academy, was thrown from his carriage and dangerously injured. —Thomas Edwards, who mysteriously disappeared from Goshen some days ago, was killed by a train in Ohio. —Mary Faulkner, colored, of Jeffersonville, didn’t know a flobert rifle was loaded. She w r ill probably die. —A wild beast, supposed to be a panther, is playing havoc with stock in Sugar Creek Township, Vigo County. —Lewis Myers, a prominent farmer of Hanover Township, /Shelby County, was found dead in his barn. Heart disease. 4-The Orange County Poor Farm has been run during the past year at a net cost of 77 cents per week for each,inmate. —Mrs. L. A. Henning, of Waterloo, was killed by the discharge of a revolver which she knocked off a table in the dark. -T-Bainbrldge claims the tallest man in the State in the person of Andrew Hart, who feet and.eleven inches. —The carriage firm of Berkner & Bnser, at Crawfordsville, has made an assignment. Assets, $1,200; 'liabilities, $2,000. —Fort Wayne Coasts a “Jack the Kisser,” ‘aisd women have fallen victims' to his uh welcome caresses. —W. J. ( Weedman, of Jeffersonville, coughed up a piece ot a rib that had been lodged in his lung by an accident during the war. —Henry Volmerding, employed in a Fort Wayne brass foundry, was horribly burned by the upsetting BT~7r ladle of molten metal. —Fire in the Lowell school, near Columbus, was' discovered by the teacher just in time to clear the room before the roof collapsed. « —Two policemen had a lively pistol battle with half a dozen tramps in the railroad yards at Greencastle, but no blood was spilled. —William Gipe, of Wilkinson; was accidentally shot on his leg, below the knee, with a ■shotgun, by his brother, while out hunting. —The Montgomery County, Commissioners have elected W. T. Whittington as county attorney and Dr. E. W. Keegan as county physician. —Benjamin Harris, aged 93, fell down the cellar stairs while carrying a keg of lard at his home near Sevastopol and was seriously injured. —The committee appointed by the Wittenberg Lutheran Synodfhas declared Rev. D. J. Mitterling, of Lagraffige, guilty of immorality. —George Webb who had been employed as telegraph operator at New Castle, for some time, has fleffithe town taking S2OO of the company’s money. —Matthews & Hatland, of Indianapolis, have purchased two hundred acres of heavily-wooded land near Wheatland, and will convert the timber into lumber. —The hqqsq of T. H. Winton, at Crawwastamaged by fire to the amount of SI,OOO.Jj| There was no insurance, the policy having expired the Ist of —The threatened injunction against the disposing of the Pettit history of the trial has not materialized yet, and the books are being sold at Crawfordsville in large numbers. —The city officials of Crawfordsville are inspecting the electric-light system at Rushville, having in view the putting in of a new system to be owned by the city. The contract with the present electric-light company expires next June. —August Reiling, a locksmith, 65 years old, fell off a ladder while repairing a bar sawed out of a window in the county jail at Fort Wayne, and struck the stone floor fifteen feet below. He suffered a fracture of the skull and died n two hours. —About a dozen persons in Heth and Washington townships, Harrison County, have been notified by the White Caps that they must reform or take the consequences. —John Truse, a switchman in the Evansville and Terre Haute yard, was crushed to death at Terre Haute. He was standing between two tracks on which were moving freight trains. A door of a box car bulged out far enough to catch him, and he was rolled along between it and the car on the other track until all his ribs and a shoulder-blade were Crushed in. |

—The pension department hns appointed a board of examining surgeons for Huntington county consisting ofDrs. LaGrange, Seyerence, E. H. Leyman, and B. H. B. Graystone. —The authorities of Wabash College do not know anything about the $50,000 bequeathed to the college by D. B. Fayerweather, of New York City, other than what is stated in the dispatches. —A bill has been prepared to be introduced in the Legislature providing that children born out of wedlock shall take the father’s name, be supported and educated by him, and become an heir to his estate. —Freeling Fetters, a Wabash brakeman, was horribly crushed, at Lafayette, while making a running switch, which resulted in his death. The deceased leaves a wife and two children. The remains will be sent to Andrews, where he resided, for interment. —The schools at Swamp College, Blackford County, have been closed on account of scarlet fever. The County Board of Health has taken hold, and will do all in its power to prevent the spread of the disease, of which there are grave fears. —A corn show was held at Whitlock and premiums were given by F. J. Phillips. There were thirty-three entries for the best bushel of corn, and the first prize, a stove, was secured by Jesse Palin, and the second best by Clint Otter. The prize for the two best ears of corn was given to Campbell Schemerhorn. The display of corn was exceedingly fine, and the judges William Kerr, Brazie Kiss, and David Flacher. —A frightful accident, the result of carelessness, occurred at Montgomery. A miner, named Malachi Salters, started!! hunting. He stopped to talk with friends and rested the gun-butt on a rail. While toying with it the weapon slipped off and was discharged, the full load entering his breast. He cannot recover. Salters was nearly fatally shot in a row, two years ago, and had his jaw broken by an officer's club several months ago. A —One of the most bitterly-contested applications for liquor license ever known in Miami County, consuming four days’ hearing before the County Commissioners, with over one hundred witnesses, and able counsel on both sides, has just been adversely decided against William Lancaster, a saloonkeeper at Xenia, that county. This leaves only one saloon in the village, and is a fereat triumpTUof the temperance and moral element of the place. ' • —Billy Grogan, a tinner, had what iS probably his last fall when he fell sixty feet from the top of the new refrigerator building erected by the brewery company at Terre Haute. One of his arms was broken, and he is injured internally. He was on the roof of the tool-works when it fell in recently, and was ..badly injured. Later he was on top of the woolen-mill when it caught tire, and was again seriously injured in trying to get I down. I —One of the boldest robberies ever | committed in Delaware county was perpetrated at Cowan. Some time "in the night the robbers drove a big wagon to the general store of Perdue & Knott, loaded it with SIOO worth of assorted goods and drove off unmolested. When leaving, the robbers awakened a number | , of unsuspecting citizens with their loud j hallooing. They gained an entrance by | chopping a large hole in the side of the > , building, and then climbed in and opened ■ the door. —ln the report to the Governor, for j , 1890, of President Langsdale, of the Sol- I ■ diers’ and Sailors’ Monument Commis- I ‘ sion, he reviews the causes of the delay I in the completion of the works, and de- | • tails how the commission has used every ; ■ means to have it forwarded as rabidly ' as possible. The disbursements dur- ; ing the year amounted to $27,- ; : 566.61, of which amount $3,310.61 i i was for incidental expenses, and > the entire expenditure to date is $112,864.99, of wfich sum $26,423.88 - were for incidentals, and the remainder, > $86,441.11, for the structural work. —On waking up the other-morning Miss Lagora Jones the 14-year-old - daughter of Charles Jones, chief of the i Brazil fire department, discovered that i she had been relieved of her beautiful . tresses of auburn hair, which were the i pride of the family. Investigation f showed that a window at her bedside I had been raised,-after forcing open the shutters, through which the thief had ; reached and clipped clean and close her I beautiful, wavy ringlets. All the girls , in town with beautiful tresses are on the qui vive. [ —Police Officer William W. Reeves, of : Union City, was struck by the incoming ) passenger train on the Big Four Road and instantly killed. He was watching ■ for suspicious characters, who j vous in Kuntz’s lumber-yard adjoining , the west end of the railroad y'ard, and, . being confused by the headlights and - escaping steam of engines on the side j tracks, he did not notice the in-coming - train, and attempted to cross the track b immediately in front of the engine, which caught him and mangled his body b in a horrible manner. Mr. Reeves served j through the war' as a member of the j Sixty-ninth Regiment Indiana Voluni teers, being mustered out as first lieutenant. He leaves a widow and oner son. ’ -—ln the postoffice at Rockport, Miss i Annie Brown was assaulted by Miss ' Bettie Love, with an improvised slung--3 shot, inflicting injuries that will probt ably prove fatal. Jealousy over a lover • was the cause of the trouble. 5 —The Government Engineer has ac- • cepted and approved the awarding bf 3 the Madison ship-yard bid for building i thirteen new government barges. The B same yard recently completed a similar 1 contract for thirty barges, giving good satismetion. 1 —A Miss Acrea, who lives with her » parents near Reelsviile, eight miles east s of Brazil, has begun suit in the Putnam - Circuit Court lor $5,000 for defamation of character against Moses Risley, a B wealthy young farmer neighbor. s —The directors of the Montgomery B County Agricultural Association met and t elect 3d new officers as follows: President, John L. Davis; Senior Vice-President, i M. B. Waugh; Junior Vice-President, ? Wm. H. Durham; Treasurer, G. W. £ Hadley; Secretary, W. W. Morgan. Th« b Fair-Ground Committee is J. S. Brown, JaCob Hutton and Colonel Barnhill.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS. ■ ■■■■'. I MEASURES CONSIDERED AND 1 ACTED UPON. 1 1 i At the Nation’s Capitol—What Xs Being i Done by the Senate and House—Old I Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Considered. In the Senate, the election bill was again taken up on the Bth, and Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts moved to terminate the debate on Friday. Mr. Gormon of Maryland opposed the motion, and said: “Westand today, Mr. President, on a volcano. We have heard the discussion as to the starving Indians, but we take no note, it appears, of the fact that the farmers of the land are meeting and resolving that there is danger and trouble, if not starvation, among them. The labor of the country appeals to the administration and to Congress to stay this awful wreck. The faces of the bankers and merchants are blanched with fear. No man can tell whether to-morrow or next day every bank in the great centers 1 of commerce will not be closed by the suspension of payment. And now in the midst of such a state of affairs, we who came here flushed with victory had the hope that the majority party in ' the Senate would give us an opportunity to join with it in preventing the wreck which is now impending. But the Senator from Massachusetts, since the second day of the session, has continued to keep this bill before the body day by day and hour by hour, refusing even the usual time of adjournment from Friday until Monday. He asked that the Republi- * cans lay aside this partisan measure and join with the Democrats in some measure of financial relief. In the House, Mr. McKinley reported from the Ways and Means Committee and the House passed the bill providing for a rebate on tobacco in stock equal to the reduction made in the internal revenue tax by the last tariff bill (Sec. 30), which had been omitted in the enrolling of that measure, and on the declaration by Mr. Mills, of Texas, that it was “all right” no opposition was made to its passage. In the Senate on the 9th Senator Plumb (Rep,) of Kansas introduced a bill for the ' free coinage of silver. Mr. Plumb also offered an amendment (in the same terms) to a bill now on the calendar, so that the matter can be brought before the Senate independently of any report from the Finance Committee. In doing so. he gave notice that if the election bill were not disposed of at an early day he should move to lay it aside for the time being in order that the bill just introduced by him and all other measures relat.ing to the financial condition of the yountry should be considered. Something, he said, ought to be done. Congress had on it a responsibility which, in his judgment, it could not avoid for any great period of time without letting go by a great opportunity for helping the country, and one which, in his judgment, would not occur again in a very great many years. If something was not done within the next two or three weeks it might as well be postponed indefinitely. In the morning hour the House resumed the consideration ot the Plumb resolution looking to the removal of the remains of Gen. U. S. Grant to Arlington. Mr. Quinn, of New York, regretted the presentation of this resolution, which could have no other object than the tearing asunder of the heartstrings of the devoted family of the illustrious dead. The resolution was finally beaten —yeas, 92; In the Senate, on motion of Mr. Aldrich, the House bill to authorize the payment of drawback or rebate on tobacco (to correct an omission in the tariff bill) passed on the 10th, and it'now goes to the President for his approval. The Senate then resumed consideration of the election bill, and Mr. George spoke in opposition to it. Mr. George I occupied just four hours in the delivery of I his speech, all of which he read from manuI script. Senator Farwell introduced a bill to amend Section lof the act of July, 1890, I “directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon,” so as to read as follows: “That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to purchase from time to time all the silver bullion that may be offered at the market price thereof, not exceeding $1 for 371.25 grains of pure silver, and to issue in payment for such purchases of silver bullion Treasury notes of the United States to j be prepared by the Secretary of the Treasi ury, in such form and of such denominations, not less than SI nor more than SI,OOO, ' as he may prescribe. And a sum sufficient I to carry into effect the provisions of this j act is hereby appropriated. Congressman | Abner Taylor introduced in the House j a bill to restore the law in relaI tion to importation of tinplate as it was I before the McKinley bill was passed. He i proposes to reduce the duty to 1 cent a | pound. He says he does, not ask that tinI plate be put on the free list, because he is a j I protectionist, but he. thinks 1 cent will give i I all the protection needed. He would like to S’ ; have the McKinley act amended by reduc- j ‘ lag duties that it increased on some other | i articles, but he dues not seem to be hopeful j i the Ways and Means Committee will coni sent to any change in the law. | In the Senate, the resolution offered by j , Mr. Plumb for daily meetings of the Senate, ' with recesses from 5 to 8:30 p. m., was | taken uji on the 11th. Mr. Cockrell sugi gusted that if 11 a. m. were fixed for the i hour of meeting there would be an opportunity to attend to some committee work, i I whereas if the Senate met at 10 no commit- ' ‘ tee work could be done. He also questioned , the advisability of night sessions and the probability of an attendance of a quorum. | No vote was taken. On motion of Mr. Mc- | Kenua, of California, the House passed j Senate bill appropriating SIO,OOO to reim?* burse Charles N. Felton, formerly Assistant | Treasurer of the United States at San ; Francisco, for losses incurred in the payi ment of forged checks. . ! The Senate decided on the 12th to hold | 1 longer daily ‘sessieps. The resolution ; offered by Mr. Dolph instructing the Com- j mittee on Privileges and Elections .to in-| quire and report whether the right to vote I at any election for Presidential electors, | ; member®-©! Congress, or State legislatures [ i is denied to any citizens of any State, i or is abridged, except for participation in ■ ; the rebellion or other crime, was taken up, i . arid .Mr. Dolph stated the reasons which I had induced him to offer it. What he de- I 1 sired the committee to give special attenI tion to was whether some States had not ■ provided in their constitutions or laws such voting qualifications as were not permitted [ , by Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment i to the Constitution, without an abridgment of representation. He claimed that the I constitution recently adopted in Mississippi j did impose such qualifications and that. | therefore, the representation of that State j should be abridged. The reapportion- ; ment bill, based on a representation of 356 j members of the House of Representatives. 1 as originally proposed by Mr. Frank of Missouri, was favorably acted on by the ■ '■ House Committee on Census. The agreei ment to report the bill was unanimous, i although Mr. Holman and Mr. Tillman rei served the right to vote for a different numI ber tHan 356. The only vote taken was on | a motion made by Mr. Holman to fix the ■ number at 332, and it found no second. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Tennyson wants Owen Meredith to be his successor. The Mikado of Japan will visit Wiesbaden next summer. Rudyard Kippling is known to his i familiar friends as “Ruddy.” ■ Susan B. Anthony is sitting for her i first portrait to a Boston artist. I Tolstoi has left off smoking cigarettes as a luxury unsuited to his present prinj ciples. Mb. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, has recovered the sight of one eye. „ ° Edwin Arnold’s new poem, the I “Light of the World,” will appear about Christmas. ) Lord Lytton has written a novel in French; said to be one of the very best of his works. f William E. Russ Ell, the Democratic Governor-elect of Massachusetts, is only 33 years of age. I The man who invented the pig-in-clover puzzle has been sent to a lunatic , asylum in St Louis. j William H. English, of Indiana, ex* | candidate for Vice President I* writing * history of Hoosierdom.

An Equivalent for Su'eidn. If we allow our bodily infirmitieß to make sway with us through neglect, have we such an Immense moral advantage over the deliberate suicide? Scarcely. For example, the deadly progress of Bright’s disease, diabetes, acute uephitis and gravel is sure—often terribly swift In the catastrophe. Most people of average information know that this is the simple, unvarnished truth in regard to those widely prevalent maladies. To delay judicious medication is specially suicidal in such cases. The means of restraint is to be found in Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Give an impetus to the action of the kidneys with this’ sale and reliable diuretic, and the infant complaint is shorn at itadrirth of the power for evil. Allow it to grow, aru anticipate the worst. The Bitters, which annihilates these growing troubles, also eradicates dyspepsia, rheumatism, malaria, and liver complaints. stee P> vigor are also promoted Storm Signals Vy Telephone, "It is proposed to increase the facilities for obtaining warning of coming storms by utilizing the telephone. Mr. Faye, a leading authority of the French Academy of Sciences, has asserted his belief in the feasibility of the plan, and he is of the opinion that the telephone is capable of transmitting storm sounds and of predicting a tempest at least; twelve hours before it bursts. There seems to be no reason to believe that the telephone cannot be used for the purpose, as satisfactory work has been done on somewhat the same lines by the microphone, by which most reliable . indications of subterranean disturbance are now SIOO Reward. SIDO. The numerous readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now know nto the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for auy case that it fails tc> cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. <S*Sold by Druggists, 75c. His Modest Request. Distinguished Individual — Possibly, sir, you do not remember me. Years ago I was your office boy. One day you sent me with $lO to buy stamps. I took that money, invested it, and realized a cool SIOO,OOO. Great Merchant—Well, I’D forgive you. What do you want now? Distinguished Individual—l would like to borrow another $lO. How a Girl Made Money. Mb. Editor: —I am tempted to give my experience for the benefit of others. I sent $5 to H. F. Delno & Co.. Columbus, Ohio, and received a fine machine for plating with gold, silver and niekel. The plating is done so nice every person wants work done. I get alLthe knives, forks and jewelry I can plate. I made 84.40 the first day. s27.9O|the first week.X in one month I had $163 clear profit. My brother makes $lO to S2O per day selling platers. Any one can do as much by writing to the above firm for circulars. Yours truly. Lucy Y, Babbit. A Co-opeative Farm. A colony of about twenty-live families have recently purchased a tract of 3,0Q0 acres of choice farm land in CullmSn County, Ala.’, on which to locate a cooperative farm. 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