Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1891 — Page 2

• ©he democrat DECATUR, IND. W. ™ . Publisher. • ~~ - " - - • """~ LARGE GRIST OF NEWS. THE SENATE LAYS ASIDE THE FORCE BILL. V _ Ghh Explosion—Blown Up by Dynafriilte—: Terrible Wreck on the Union Pacific— Tin Plate at Canton, Ohio. hnrcli Lotteries Doomed, • A special from St. Paul, Minn., says: .. The Catholic Church, which, up to the present time, has permitted lotteries at fairs ft>r the raising of money for church purposes, is to shut down on all such practices, at least in this section of Minnesota and North and- South Dakota. Archbishop Ireland has issued the followin'? Prt|er: “Public sentiment has become so pronounced, and rightly so, against lotteries and chance games that we deem it our duty to prohibit altogether, as we now (-do, the raising of money for “religious or charitable purposes by the sale of chances, the use of wheels of’ fortune or by any method savoring of lottery or gambling. This rule, which we now make, admits of no ' exception. It applies to counties as well as to towns, to convents as well as parishes.” * . . Soldier Savages. It is proba'ble that one of the many attractions of Chicago during the World’s Fair will be a small nation of Sioux Indian' encamped at, Fort Sheridan. Gen. Mi’u s, who is’ expected to arrive" X soon from i’ine Itidge Agency, proposes to briny .from their reservation about two hundred Sioux warriors, enlist them in the I'niti-d States army and station them. a? Fort Sheridan. There they will be drilled the same as white enlisted regular' ami reserved for use in possible future Indian war.'. "Gen. Miles has p' been talking oxer the prospect in a gelife, ■ era! way.” said Col. Corbin at army’headquarter', ‘•but I don't think he has yet evolvent he details, lie has been thinkHbL ing of bringing a couple of companies of Indiati' to. Fort .Sheridan, but before it & can be d, lie many preliminary arrangebc« merit' :u't't be made." New Mceeiali Crane. Ki The tlie spread of the messiah K- craze to the Minnesota Indians on the reservation near St. Hilaire and the threateiied uprising proves to be an absurd fake perpet rated by a member of Gov. Merriam’s 'taff. The. officers of the Great Northern Kail.way. Gen. Huger ami others strenuously deny all knowledge <>f an uprising. It turns ’but to be a scheme to induce the Legis- , Jat.nre to make a heavy appropriation for th'' national guard, for which a lobby i' >.ow making a strong light. Blown L’p With Dynamite. Biiietield f\V. Ma.) special: The fourth instance iir which houses . iu this vicinity have bei ri blown up with dynamite occurred here recently. The home of James < ollin's was .demolished: Moses Henri'' -tore wa* partially wrecked the same night and William Roairs dwelling was demolished and several persons in- • jiired. Three arrest'have been made as j a result of the explosion. The town is tidrort/ed. A Postmaster in Trouble. Columbus special: John L. .bines,' postmaster at Newbern, Ohio, is tindcr- , going a preliminary trial before United States Commissioner llacker of this place, for taking a letter from the Columbus postoilice that was addressed to John Cohen, of., New,hern. Ind. Cohee owed Jones a store bill tjuid he came here and got, the letter, it is charged, in which there was s?i due Cohee as a pensiop. Fatal Ice Carnival. At an iye boat carnival, at Eric, Pa., while om of the crafts was traveling at a, terrific >pee“d|, it rati into adog, scarcely visible above the ice. Hemau Fidler had his head erit'hed and legs broken. He died shortly after. Henry Sehar'efcr wa' badly injured. Others on board escaped with little or no injuries. (las Explosion. A horrible gas explosion at Mill Grovie, ’Blackford County. Ind., is reported. The' Salinionie tins Company, of Kort Wayne, have med there digging a gas well, and it is 'Opposed the explosion was under the boiler. It. is rumored that two men were ,'eTiously hurt and om; fatally burn-d. Tin I'lute at Canton. ’I ’.ie first tin place manufactured iirthis country i' on exhibition at Canton. Ohio. It is om; of two cups made by a St. Louis company, and presented by them to Maj. K<:Ki h lev. ft is COIN pl ised.of !»" per eent. iron. A s.i.ifc Trqtsnrrr !*{>.-»,<><><> Short. The count qf currency in the Arkarif . sas State Treasury proceeded. The sum of $61.00p still wanting shows the shortage to be s 1 .15,(11 )0. The balance will tie made good by the bondsmen as soon as official!) notified. Indiana K*d'i*us to Appropriate Money for the World's Fair. * The Loxxer House of the Indiana General Assembly after debate covering several hours.- by a. vote of tig t 032, resolved not to appropriate one dollar to the World's Fair if the Federal Senate passed ’t he force I’ilL . “ . . Forty Miners Killed. Berlin special: A terrible disaster has occurred at. the Hibernia Colliery at . Gelseiikif hen. Forty men were killed and thirty were severely injured by an explosion Miiich took place in one of the pits. The Faroe Hill Defeated. By a vote, of 35 to 34 the Senate laid aside the election bill, a virtual defeat fob that measure. The apportionment bill was taken up. TerrltUe Wreck On the Union Pacific Koad. • . The. Union Pacific passenger train was wrecked at Florena, Kans., in a collision with a double header passenger train bearing returning soldiers from the West. No particulars can be obtained as the road officials are close-mouthed. Sev-eral-persons reported killed, including two engineers. The. three engines and ten or twelve passenger coaches were totally wrecked. Dropped Dead. John Herriman, the well-known retired New York dry goods merchant, dropped 4; ad. , EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The Italian laborers employed on the Baltimore and Ohio at Uniontown. Pad struck against a reduction in wages from $1.35 to $>1.20 per day. Abbot half of the gang quit and the other half wanted to continue work, but the strikers attacked them in a body and drove them off. The ring-leaders in the riot have been arrested. Information is said to have reached the New York Board of Health that in a den in Mott street are five Chinamen Buffering from leprosy. Two others are

said to have been sent back to China a I ‘ few days ago. George Kendall, the young English '. farm hand of Arlington, N. J., who was bitten in the lip by a Skye terrier, died in a New York hospital, a victim of hy- ’ drophobia in its most horrible form. Being told by a medium that her husband was faithless Mrs. Ludwig Ander- , son poisoned herself and three children, at Brockton, Mass. . A fire occurred at Jersey City and re- ' suited in the killing of Chief Engineer ' Henry E. Farrier and Daftiiel Dinan, ! stoker of No. 3 engine, and in serious injuries to several other firemen. Two barrels of turpentine exploded with force enough to shatter the plate-glass windows of the store and to shake the build- | ings in the vicinity. In a fire at Buffalo, N. Y.', two fire- • men were buried under a wall aud instantly killed. i Communication with the world was : 1 suspended at New York during the I - prevalence of a frightful storm. All ■ local traffic was stopped, wires were • down, and the mud was a foot deep. In Peter's Valley, N. J., bears have be- ; come so bold and numerous that farmers i ' have been compelled to begin a hunt for , their extermination to save their stock. ; Scottdale, Pa., coke, workers to the ; number of 16,000 threaten to strike Feb. 2, if their wages are not raised. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Gen. Mii.es reviewed the troops at ■ Pine Ridge in the midst of a driving | storm. The review occurred two miles ' south of the agency, and all the troops j 1 participated except four companies of I ; the First Infantry. The trial of the Plattsburg (Mo.) cru- I 1 saders is in progress there. The defend- , ants, e Mrs. Bristol and Mrs. Barrett, [ ' pleaded guilty. There is no doubt that 1 they will be convicted. A blizzard has been in progress at 1 Crookstown, Minn. Snow lias fallen ; 1 and has drifted badly. | ’ A special from Mazeppa, Minn., ! the oatmeal mill and elevator to E. M. Johnson of Minneapolis tflPhEd. The loss on the buildings is s(iffJ)OO.y Fifty thousand bushels of grain was tqsj/ ' Peter Jackson, the colored Aus : ' tralian pugilist, and Joe Bowers, wh<X Ijave been giving sparring the Tivoli Opera House in San Francisco, 1 were arrested. . Veterans of Nebraska have appealed ; b the Kansas Legislature to re-elect Senator Ingalls. .. A Dks Moines (Iowa) • snecial says that the Alliance ’Twine Company, of Des Moines, has purchased all of Lowry's ' patents for the manufacture of binding twine from slough grass, and will in a short time start a $300,000 bindingtwine plant. George W. Magee, proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, St. Paul, failed, iwing ?15,000. The assignee will run the hostelry for the present. Street Commissioner Patterson of Kansas City. Kan., and his corps of ' workmen sawed off and tore down the Kansas end of tlie notorious Bill Lewis’ ; saloon, in Toad-a-Louis. The Missouri end is left standing yawning and bleak. | Tlie saloon stood on the State line of ; Kansas and Missouri, tlie j place without a license. The exact location of the line was never determined , until recently, and Lewis when arrested , by the officers of one state always claimed to be doing business in the other. ( James R. O’Neil, a freight conductor, , was shot and instantly killed by tramps ; at Long Point, lowa. A jury fixed the punishment of James A. Wood, an attendant at Richmond 1 (hid.) hospital- for the insane, for the murder of Jay Blount, an inmate, at twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Gov. Merriam received this dispatch from T. J. AVikstroin, St Ililare, Minn.: 1 “The Chippewas are having wild dances everyday. Give us protection at once. ” The Governor received a dispatch from the President of the Council and Postmaster at Thief River Falls asking for 100 rifles and ammunition to protect themselves against the Indians. There ( arc 12,000 Chippewas on that part of the Rod Lake Reservation in the neighborhood of' Thief River Falls who have shown a decided disposition to be ugly for the last month. Near Butte City. H. W. Lord, of Devils Lake. ,N. D.. was killed by a wreck on the Northern Pacific, and 1 eight other people were badly hurt. I A freight collided with a sleeper. Ex-Senatoi: Tabor has bought for ’ SIOO,OOO some mining property worth $ 15.000,000, in Idaho. A telegrapher named Street, of St. Louis, discovered 1 it. and sold before he learned its value. At Pierre, in the legislature, charges of wholesale bribery have plunged members In the greatest excitement. Names- . are openly called, and investigation will , follow. Ab' Spokane Falls a loss of $62,000 was caused by the burning of Green’s block, a three-story brivk. Insurance, $55,000. 1 The indictment against R. C. Wood, : of ba/lot-box scandal fame in Cincinnati, 1 has ifeen dismissed at the suggestion of | ’ the * prosecuting attorney. Judge) Ermston, in granting the dismissal, said ') he realized that P was practically impossible to obtain tlie testimony necessary to convict. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. John P. Blsuianan has’ been inaugurated Governor of Tennessee. Charles Williamson at Shelby. S. C., shot and killed his brother Erastus. ) No motive is known for the deed. The murderer escaped. A Burgin (Ky.) dispatch says that i Mrs., Lucy Cook, wife of the Rev. Strater Cook, was burned to death in her house. She fell asleep before an open fire. At New Orleans, Drs. De Roaldes, Archinard, Mathis and Blanc, of the Throat Hospital, officially reported that Koch's lymph had been tried on one case each of tuberculosis knee, tubercular laryngitis, incipient phthisis, lupus face ano pulmonary consumption, and that the symptoms were eminently satisfactory. In Atlanta, Ga.. fifteen thousand people and 100 floats celebrated King I Cotton. The Bourbon County DMtfiliug Com- ■ pany’s distillery, at Paris, Ky., burned, 1 causing a loss of $20,000; insured for ■ one-third that amoupt. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. j Senator Hearst is in an extremely j ! critical condition at Washington. While 1 there have been no signs of immediate dissolution, yet he is rapidly growing weaker. . I 2== ■ | POLITICAL PORRIDGE. ——— Senator Platt, re-elected in .Con- , necttcut. Senator Vance, re-elected from | North Carolina. Senator Vest, re-elect- I , ed from Missouri. Senator Jones, re- ■ elected from Arkansas. Senator Came-;

! ron, re-elected from Pennsylvania. J. ' H. Gallinger succeeds Senator Blair from - New Hampshire. Senator Mitchell, re--1 elected from Oregon. Senator Teller, 1 re-elected from Colorado. Watson C. Squire elected from Washington. In joint session of the Assembly at Albany, N. Y., the following was the ballot for United States Senator: Hili, 81; Evarts, 79. Demarest voted. I FOREIGN GOSSIP. The Austrian Socialist# have deter- ‘ mined to make another strike in May for a May labor holiday, and the unfortunate scenes of a year ago are more than likely to be repeated. 1 In the Reichstag Herr Barth, a mem- ' ber of the DeutschesFreisinnige party, moved to repeal the\i>rohibitions on American pork and bacon imports. A London cablegram says an election was held at Hartlepool to fill the Parliamentary seat made vacant by the death of the late Thomas Richardson. The poll resulted in tlie return of Mr. Furness, the Gladstonian candidate, who received 4,603 votes, against 3.2Q5 polled jy Mr. Gray, the nominee of the Unionists. At the Charity Hospital In Berlin Professor Sonneberg exhibited a consumptive patient whom tlie doctors had cut open in order that tlie Koch lymph might be injected in the cavity pf a diseased lung. The Professor said that the patient, who was in sin advanced stage of the disease; had been making rapid progress toward recovery since the operation was performed.-Advices’-from Buenos Ayres say that Valparaiso, Iquique, Coquimbo and Pica remain in a state of blockade. The insurgents are also represented to be masters of tlie situation. T ara P aca l ,as been seized by the revolutionists. In Valparaiso all store containing or supposed to contain arms and ammunition were gutted by the revolters. A Kanaka legend exists that when a red iisli enters Honolulu harbor the reigning sovereign must soon die. Such a fish appeared on the 10th of November, fifteen days before the late King Kalakaua sailed for San Francisco. Debate in the Reichstag shows an overwhelming sentiment in favor of tlie admission of ztmeriean pork, and the prospect is that the embargo will be quickly removed. Southeastern Russia is suffering terribly from cold and starvation. Many deaths are reported. The worst snow storm for years prevailed, isolating many towns. FRESH AND NEWSY. Guatemalan officers are buying arms and ammunition in New York. A dispatch from Buencs Ayres says that the revolt in Chili is spreading rapidly. The insurgents are very energetic, and arh said to be managing their campaign in a very skillful manner. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: It has been noteworthy throughout -recent financial troubles that Western centers of trade have been comparatively free from disturbance or apprehension, and now the energy and growth of the, West have their effect in larger trade and stronger confidence in Eastern commercial centers. In the reports of tnis week a moderate but steady increase in the volume of business compared with last year is the most striking feature. The exports of domestic products continue larger than a year ago, and the excess of exports over imports is so heavy that sterling exchange does not advance, though salei of stocks on foreign account occasionally appear. Suits attacking the McKinley act, similar to those begun at Chicago and Cincinnati, have been entered by St. Louis- importers. A wreck occurred last week on the Mexican National at Golondrinan Station, near Monterey. An open switch caused tlie accident. Engineer J. W. Dehani was instantly killed and Fireman U. Stafford fatally hurt. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last last seven days number 380, as compared with a total of 411 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figufts were 338. t A Rio Janeiro dispatch says a new ministry has been formed in Brazil. In Chili the revolutionists are gaining strength rapidly, and the overthrow of President Balmaeeda is imminent. Soldiers of the regular army are deserting. L. J. Gage. President of tlie Columbian Exposition, lias announced that on account of increasing private business he will retire from his position. While intoxicated, C. E. Stanley, of Cleveland, Ohio, jumped into the whirlpool at Niagara and was drowned. The B. I’. O. Elks have bounced John L. Sullivan, because he is “unworthy to associate with gentlemen, and his conduct lias brought shame and disgrace upon the order.” All lodges are ordered to refuse him admission. The strike of conductors and traindispatchers on tlie Chicago and Erie Railroad came to an end, and trains were at once put in motion, after having been tied up three d&ysMARKET REPORTS. ■ CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.25 @ 5.75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.00 1® 3.75 Sheet.... 3.00 (£5.00 Wheat-Np. 2 Red Cobn—No. 2...... .49 @ ,49Ji Oats—No. 243 @ .44 Rye—No. 2... .70 @ .72 Butter—Choice Creamery 22 @ .27 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 09Xo(£ ,10t$ Eggs—Fresh Potatoes —Western, per bu9o (9 .95 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 (I# 5.00 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 3.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 (9 4.75 Wheat—No.2 Red... .95 & ,95>» Cobn—No. 1 Whiteso @ .50,’s Oats —No. 2 White.4s}<i@ .46 ST. LOUIS. Cattle•. 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 (9 3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 (9 .93 Cobh—No. 2. ; .49 Oats—No. 2 44&(£ .45 Babley—lowa. .68 @ .70 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 3.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red....% .95>i@ Coen—No. 2 7. -.. .52>a@ .53Ju Oats—No. 2 Mixed .48 @ .49 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Springß7 @ .89 Corn—No. 3 .49 & .50 Oats—No. 2 White r .45 @ .46 Rye—No. 1.. A .71 @ .72 Babley—No. 2... 1 .66 @ .67 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 & 4.50 Hogs 3.00 & 3.50 Sheep 3.00 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 96 @ .96U [ Cobn—No. 2 Yellow Oats—No. 2 White..."47"4@ .48)4 TOLEDO. } Wheat 95 @ .95)4 | Cobn—Cash 51 @ ,51)4 1 Oats—No. 2 White4s)4@ .45)4 j BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs —Medium and Heavy 3.50 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.07)4@ 1.08)4 I Cobn—No. 2...55 @ .56 EAST LIBERTY. I Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 5.00 I Hogs—Light 3.25 @ 4.00 . Sheep—Medium to Good.' 4.00 @ 5.50 I Lambs 5.00 @ 6.50 NEW YORK. \ I Cattle 3.50 @ 5.25 I Hous 3.25 @ 4.00 j Sheep 4.00 @ 5.50 i Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.06 (9 1.08 i Cobn—No, 2... 61 @ .62 i Oate—Mixed Western 39 0 .53

« » ' 1 1111 I’ —■ STATE LIFE AS IT IS. PEN PICTURES OF THE EVENTS OF ONE WEEK. Disastrous Kxploston—Practical PatriotIsm—New Editor of the Indiana Baptist —Suicide 0/ a Fanner—Dynamiting » Saloon. ' —Michigan City is putting up a bamboo factory. —ls you live in Vincennes you must muzzle your dog. 4—Tipton County is so proud of her good gravel roads. I —Mhny families are leaving searlet-fever-ridden Bedford. —At Terre Haute Ethel Towne was acquitted of the charge of forgery. —A movement, is on foot for an elee- i trie road from Brazil to Knightsville: —Madison's"Marine Railway Company ' has reorganized and will soon be in oper-) —Samuel Lance, a farmer of Vistula, j was crushed to death by a tree ho was j felling. —Jack Hart, a Monon brakeman, was crushed to death between the ears at Attica. , —M. Brunkman Son's tile factory at i Mount Vernon, was burned, with a loss i of $3,000, —77ie Clipper is the name of a paper just started at Hillsboro, by the Crayton brothers. —James Dofen, cneof the old pioneers of Peru, and a veteran of the late war, died, aged 83. —A syndicate has been formed in Louisville to hunt for gold among the Silver hills in Scott County. —The Acme hoop and tap factory, of Edgarton, Ohio, is prospecting for a location at Crawfordsville. —Joseph Lamb, attempting to break into Thomas Neal’s farmhouse near Washington, was shot. —Jonathan Spencer died from strychnine poisoning, the result of a blunder by an Owensboro druggist. —L. A. Maulin, dealer in boots and shoes at New Carlisle, lias assigned. Liabilities about SIO,OOO. = —Evan Mitchell, of Seymour, a brakeman on the O. & M., was crushed to dcatli while making a coupling. —William Squad, a farmer residing near Hillsboro, ■is in jail charged with' attempting to poison his family. —The citizens of Franklin, by. a ; majority of 145, have decided to keep tlie ) cows off the streets of that town. —Some one stole ex-Maybr Herr’s) docket at Brazil, and he hasn’t settled I with the State yet! Here's a nice fix! —Daniel Kotz, South Bend’s landscape artist, has won favorable recognition and is now located in New York City. —The four railroads running into Greencastle have all been sued for failure to comply with the railway blackboard law. —Mrs. David Wright, of Cambridge City, began bleeding at the nose while in church and soon afterward died of exhauston. —Louis Sauer of the J., M. & I. was badly hurt at Seymour while making a car coupling. He was taken to his home at Henryville. —Elias Snyder, of Daleville, was probably fatally injured by a fall from a wagon, the seat of which tipped over and threw him out. —William Watson overturned a tank of boiling water in a Terre Haute saloon and was badly scalded. Three days later he died of lockjaw. —J. M. Bucket, a model gentleman and brick manufacturer, of New Corner, has disappeared, leaving mourners to the extent of about $1,300. —The aged mother of Mrs. Sarah Johnson, of Kokomo, fell down a stairway sustaining injuries that will prove fatal. She is 82 years old. —James McDaniels’ son, 15 years old, was accidentally shot in the leg by a companion while hunting near Lebanon. The leg had to be amputated. —John Musselman, of Raysville, shot the left side of his face off while out hunting. In climbing a fence his gun was discharged accidentally. —James C. Stanfield, of Henryville, a .brakeman on the J., M. & 1., fell between the wheels while making a coupling at Columbus, and Was cut in two. —The fly-wheel of the engine in Lauderback’s saw-mill, near Grass' Creek. Cass County, went to pieces. None of the many employes in the mill were injured. —The two lads who started from Crawfordsville to fight the Indians have returned home, having come to tlie conclusion that their services are not needed. - —Frank McGowan, of Seymour, has sued tlie Pennsylvania Company tor $6,000. He was ejected from a train although he offered a coupon of an excursion ticket. —George Warburton, inmate of the Boone County Poor-house, was beaten to death by Samuel Beecham, colored, also inmate. Dispute arose over the ownership of a chair. —The body of Peter Sheets was found in a swamp about eight miles from Plymouth. He was a well-to-do farmer, but became demented, and about six weeks ago wandered away. —A dog belonging to Farmer Elliott, Knox County, went mad last week and : bit several other dogs. Mr. Elliot had to kill a span of valuable mules, and cows, hogs and horses which had become afflicted. Alarm is widespread. —Tin C >ll nty Commissioners of Tipton County ordered all log-haulers of the different saw-mills and the heading teams of the A. R. Colman headiDjf factory to stop hauling-on the pikes, owing to their present condition. The teamsters at once submitted to the order. —James B. Logo, over 70 years old a retired saw-mill operator, fell from a chair and died instantly while fitting in D the office of Risch’s livery stable, at Wabash. He was one of the oldest citizens and was in feeble health, having, had two strokes of paralysis. —Some of the-most wealthy men in Fairmount have formed a stock company, and have leased several farms, with the intention of drilling for oil. Petroleum has been dacovered in several gas wells in this immediate vicinity, and there is no doubt but what it can be found in large quantities,

——— - ■ —Oliver Cromwell, aged 83, an ex-mem* b>ar of the Legislature,' has just secured a divorce from his third wife, at Brazil. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swintz, of South Bend, served cheese at a luncheon. and all thehr guests were seized with sudden illness. The results wore not permanently serious. —A confidence sharp, claiming to be a ! Mason, from Ripley County, has just been exposed after victimizing seve.ral.of Madison s citizens by taking contracts to furnish spoke timber. Geoige k. Jovce. who lived about two miles north of Fairland, was ini stantly killed while engaged in felling timber by having a tree fall on him. He was about 25 years old. —Mrs. John Spraugler eloped from Milton the other night with a Quaker j preacher conducting meetings there. 1 They w<‘_re met in Cambridge City by a ‘ mob and stoned and beaten. i —Taylor Hubbard, of Darlington. wIV | was out on bond, failed to appear in the ) Mon tgomery County Court when his ease ■ was called and the bond will be forI feited. He was charged with larceny. —The First Presbyterian Church at ' Crawfordsville has given a call to Rev. ; R. S. Inglas, a student in the Princeton ; Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. IJ. This church has been without a pasj tor for a year. —Alexander Ramsey, a well-to-do farmer living five miles west of Danville, was found dead, hanging in his barn. He had looped a trace chain around his neck, tied a rope to the chain, tied the rope to a beam, and jumped down from the loft. He had lately said that he feared lie would became insane. The coroner's verdict wits that he was temporarily insane. —Spontaneous combustion iu the oilroom of E. R. Moore’s grocery at Laporte caused a very destructive fire. The building was badly damaged, and the hea.y smoke from the burning oil blackened and ruined the entire stock of goods which was valued at $5,000. The damage to the building is covered by insurance. and the stock of goods is insured for $3,000. I —’flie Crawfordsville Land and Improvement company has secured $6,000, and word has been sent to the officers of the American Wheel company to come and sign the necessary papers for ftte I removal of the Newmarket hub and ) spokiX factory to Crawfordsville. The ' officers of the improvement company are ) C. M. Crawford, president; Louis JBirch- ) off, vice-president; 11. R. Tinsley, treasI urer: B. Russell, secretary. i —As Griffith Williams, one of the proprietors of Williams Brothers’ foundry and machine-shop at Greensburg, was near a barrel of oil lie let a torch or lamp he was bearing ignite the oil. An explosion followed, and he was badly burned about the face and limbs. A very disastrous lire occurred, and the large building was almost gutted. Insurance, SI,OOO in the North British, on building, and $756. in the Westchester, on contents, which may cover the actual loss. —The Postal Telegraph Company, which has recently extended its lines from Indianapolis to Terre Haute, and is nearly into St. Louis, is having considerable trouble in Clay County, owing to a spirit of opposition on the part of a few farmers this side of Brazil, whose land fronts on the National road, along which the Company has strung its Wires. The farmers claimed the Company’s men cut limbs from trees when they were building the line, and retaliated by cutting down telegraph poles. —Mr. and Mrs. Vestal Beeler, who reside in north part of Morgan County, near the Marion County line, have succeeded in rearing one of the largest, families on record. They are the parents of twelve sons intd seven daughters. but one daughter oTwhom is dead. Both are native Hoosiers, and have resided almost all their lives in Marion and Morgan counties. Neither of the parents is more than fifty-five years old. nor are they broken iu health. A remarkable feature is the fact that there*are no twins among the children. — Rev. C. M. Carter, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Mitchell, was elected to the editorship of the Indiana Baptist, at Indianapolis, the leading Baptist journal of this State, and also one of their first papers in this section of the country. This is indeed a high honor to Rev. Carter, he being a young man under thirty years of age. He is a graduate of Franklin (Ind.) College, iu 1887, of the Union Seminary, of New York, and tlie Southern Baptist Seminary, of Louisville, Ky. For the past two or three years lie’has been pastor in charge at this place, and has been one of the most successful pastors ever here. — The first session of the Wabash County Farmers' Institute was held in Wabash, and was very largely attended. The feature was the paper read by Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of Cambridge City, on “Tlie Possibilities and Probabilities of Farm Life.” The 'ady owns and conducts one of tlie largest and most prosperous farms in the State, and is thoroughly conversant with her subject, and Iter paper was received with marked attention. A paper on "Natural Fertilizers,” by Frank Mossman. and a general discussion of the topics presented, completed the exercises. The sessions of the institute are constantly growing in popularity and liiteresi. —A Panhandle passenger and Erie : freight collided at the junction near Tipton. demolishing a freight car and causing heavy loss. Nobody was hurt. —While Henry Reese was tearing down an old log stable on his farm, west of Connersville about four miles, he found stowed away a jewelry case containing a lady’s gold watch and chain, pair of bracelets, breastpin and ear-rings, all in good state of preservation. They were of au old style and costly, and had probably been there for years. —Mrs. Jane Meldrum. probably the oldest person in Shelby County, Is dead. She was born in Scott County, Kentucky, May 1795, and was in her 96th year. Her father lived to be 107 . years old. Her mind was vigorous to the last, and shoremembered and could describe many things that took place during the war of 1812, and even before. —While Rev. Mr. Whiseand and Newton Miller were conversing, at Bethel Church, Richland Township, Greene County, some unknown person fired through a window, the bullet passing between the two gentlemen.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Tke Senate met in the afiemoon at . January 19. The following bills were inti-o-duced: Providing for a scheme of. fire in--1 suranee to be conducted by the State;, foi ’ the appointment of a, mine inspector and prescribing his duties; to enable cities to issue bonds for street improvements, and j prescribing how the business shall be trans- ’ ; acted. The special order of business for 1 tin- hour was the House bill appropriating ,! $105,000 for the current expenses of the ■ General Assembly during this session. The act divided the sum into three portions. ) The first part, SGO.CW, was to be devoted to | the expenses of the House; the second | part. Sia.lW, to the Senate, and the third i part. $3.00Q. io the joint expenses of both houses. The attempt of the House to dictate how much money the Senate should expend was resented and voted down overwhelmingiy in the House. The regular order of business was the report of committees, but they evidently had not had fime enough to do anything definitely. Mr. Claypool introduced a resolution authorizing the appoiritnient of a committee of three to investigate the present condition of the Constitutional Amendments of last session, and to present’the same to the House for consideration. It was adopted. Mr. Troy offered a resolution authorizing the Standing Committees of the House to aet as Special Committees in making negotiations for the management of State institutions, ete.. and giving them power to examine witnesses and send for persons and papers, ete. It was adopted without opposition. The House spent the afternoon of January 20. in considering majority and minority reports from the Judiciary Committee concerning grand jury powers. The majority favored an indefinite postponement of the bill to. restrict investigations to felony eases. The minority favored the bill. The latter was finally substituted for the majority report, but so many amendments proposed that the bill was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. The House committee on affairs of the Prison North was formally authorized to makea fullandeomplete investigation of the affairs of that institution. and will go to Michigan Citv on Monday for that purpose. Thev will have a stenographer to take the evidence, and will ask the Governor and State Board of Charities to furnish what information they have. The vote for United States Senator resulted: House. Voorhees. 74: Bovey. 25: Senate. Voorhees." 74: Hovey. 16. The following bills were introduced: Fixing the penalty for an assault with intent to commit felony at not m>>re than fourteen years, nor less than one year: providing that after June I. 1S!)1, Caeli county shall constitute a judicial circuit: authorizing the Superior. Circuit and Criminal Courts to pay short-hand reporters f<>r transcribing the short-hand noteH of evidence taken by them in certain cases; an act requiring employers to provide suitable seats for female employes in mercantile establishments, to be used by the employes wlieu their duties do not require them to stand. A large number of bills were reported in the Senate January 21. bv committees. The joint convention of the two houses declared D. W. Voorhees elected United States Senator by 69 majority. Vote stood— Voorhees. 109: Hover, lit. Resolution adopted to investigate State Treasurer Lemeke. Senator Howard presented a memorial to the Senate. January 22. numerously signed by citizens of South Bend, asking that the provisions of the metropolitan police bill be extended to cities of twenty thousand inhabitants. House bill No. 3S. to legalize the acts of notaries publie whose commissions had expired, was passed. Senator Magee introduced a resolution, which was adopted, requiring the President of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Assoeiation to present a detailed report of expenditures to date, with the estimate of the amount necessary to complete the monument. Senator. Lynn’s bill providing that Harrison County shall have four terms of court of five weeks each, and that Crawford County shall have four terms of three weeks each, the two counties comprising the Third Judicial Circuit, was passed. * The House passed the day in getting bills into shape for definite action. Standing Senate committees. January 23, reported favorably on. a number of bills, which were subsequently advanced to a third reading. Among the most important measures was Mr. Byrd’s bill providing for the payment of theeinployesof mining companies once every two weeks. Adjourned until Monday, 11 a. in. In the House a resolution was adopted instructing Senators ami reciuesting Representatives in Congress to vote for suppression of dressed beef and other trustsandfor tlie repeal of the McKinley tariff, which protects trusts. Some New Postage Stamps. Philatelists will be interested in hearing that both the new companies in South Africa are in the field with especially designed postage and revenue stamps. The British East Africa Com-f pany has started with an issue ranging from the half-anna to five rupees, and bearing in each design a crowned sum, with the motto, “Light and Liberty,” surrounded by a horseshoe label, inscribed xvith the title of the company. An issue is also in preparation for the South Africa Company, which is following the precedent established some years ago by the British North Borneo Company, some of whose earlier issues (long since withdrawn from circulation) already rank among the rarities in the stamp-collecting world. — Etujene Field’s l,ondon Letter-in the Chicago Netos. Captives. Coleridge, in his old ag-e, became a characteristic feature in Highgate. He was the terror and the amusement of all the little children who bowled their hoops along the popular avenue. Notwithstanding his fondness for them he called them *'Kingdom-of-Heaven-ites.” His cyclopean figure and learning caused them indescribable alarm. Sometimes he would lay his hands on the shoulders of one of them and walk along discoursing metaphysics to the . trembling captive, while the rest fled for refuge, and peeped out, with smiling faces, from behind the trees. “I ■ never,” he exclaimed one day to the • baker’s boy, “I never knew a man good I because he was religious, but I have known one religious because he was . good.” - 1 Yeast—When a man comes oS with • colors he is covered with glory, is he > not? Crimson beak —Yes, unless he is a painter, and then he is covered with paint— Yon hers Statesman. As a Reminder. •! A friend reports the following con- ■ versation between himself and a rich but miserly old customer: Jeweler—This is a fair watch, but I ) can hardly guarantee it. ‘ The Customer —Oh, that’s just what I I want. lam going to give it to my i nephew as a keepsake. The poorer it t runs the oftener he will think of me.—. 1 Jewelers’ Weekly. • The man who never talks about his • neighbor is usually a splendid listiner. — Elmira Gazette. 5 One Deadly Feature of Smokeless Pow--5 v dor. > The recent experiments made during “ the Austrian maneuvers with smokeless ( powder demonstrate that one element in j its employment had not been sufficiently . calculated upon. Heavy firing went on . for hours without a cloud in the air. It was very difficult to ascertain where a battery that was notin plain sight was ’ placed, and almost impossible to discover where infantry was located when 5 the powder-cloud was absent. In real 1 warfare a whole brigade might be de-> - stroyed without knowing where thfi shot i«nd shell came from. • / ..

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