Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1891 — Page 2

DECATUR, IND, *. BLACKBURN, - - Publisher, - — ■"— - . ... f NEWS GATHERED IN. FUNERAL RITES OVER THE BODY OF SECRETARY WINDOM. Terri Hie Railroad Accident 1» Georgia— IriHh Statesmen Compromise — Four Firemen Hurt—Blown to Atoms. . At Windom’s Bier. The funeral services over the remains of the late Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. William Windom, were held at the church of the Covenant in Washington. JThe vast'concourse comprised more officials of President Harrison’s administration than have ever before gathered together in One edifice. The scene was impressive in its solemnity and awe inspiring in its simple grandeur. Gathered within the walls of the stately white marble church were the Nation’s greatest Statesmen, the most renowned diplomats of foreign countries, the highest officers of the army and navy of the United

States, the most brilliant women of the social world, while mingling in the vast crowd wore many- whose plain dress bespoke the position in social life and emphasix.ed the truth that “death levels all ranks.” Rev. D. Hamlin, of the Presbyterian Church, officiated,and the remains were deposited in the Rock Creek CcnieNearly a Riot. - s T)ceatiir (Ill.) special: During the progress of the’Crawford murder trial a riot was nearly precipitated in the court room. William Woodruff, a witness for the defense said-Mrs. Mathias had had improper relations with different men, with the knowledge and consent of her husband. Mathias . .arose and said: --“You’re a liar, — yp.fi,” and in the same instant raised a chair to assault the witness. Mathias is a powerful man, and it required several balitfs to disarm khim. A hundred men stained toward the witness, and several revolvers were flourished. Some tim& elapsed before order was restored. Killed by the Lymph. >. Gcorge’M. Bradley,’who was the first patient in this country to receive the Koch treatmci.it, died at New Haven, Conn., and the son of Prof. Blake, another lymph patient, who has been under treatment for nearly two months, is at the poiwt of death. Bradley was not in an adv'aui-.vd stage of consumption when he Itcga-n receiving treatment. The inoculation had a distressing effect upon his throat, making it difficult and ex- ’■ tremcly painful for him to take any nourishment, and his physicians state .that his death was iindoubtedlyliastencd by bis condition. Irish Statesmen Compromise. Tlie London Timex says it is .reported on good authority that a settlement of the differences in the Irish factions has been arrived at. Parnell and O’Brien will go to America: McCarthy. wUI re-, main chairman for the present; and Dillon will surrender himself to imprisonment, tlie understanding being that he will be nominated as leader at the next session. O'Brien has written a long letter to the Timex, regarding Balfour's speech, as to the origin and working of. the plan of campaign. Lobby rumors confirm settlement reported in the Tliiicv. ■ ' • ■ ’ Four Firemen Hirht, —A fire in Wiler's building on Fifth street-, Philadelphia, caused a loss of #35,000. During the progress of the fire four firemen were injured. The names of thq injured are: Samuel Dunlapp, assistant- engineer, fatally; James Shebao, toroman engine company No. -22; /Michael Kenyan, hoseman engine" 2: James Garrity, assistant engineer engine 20. The three last named will,recover. They were ali crushed by tlie elevator ving way and falling on them.. 5 A Murderer Confesses. Coliimma, (S.U.) special:'Waite Martin,’colored, confessed to the murder of Alice jMeLeod. who mysteriously disappeared recently. Heretofore he lias denied all .knowledge of the woman's whereaboutsTJie woman's body was found in the river and Mfhi'ii Martin was informed of this fact, fie weakened. He.confesscd that ho chocked h< r to death ii) a tit of rage, tied rocks to her body, kissed her cold lips, ;md pli-hed her into the river.

Three Negroes Burned in a jail. Friars" Point, (Miss.) special: Early Tuesday morning the town jail Was discovered to be in flames, and the poisoners were heard shrieking for rescue. The marshal, who had the key, lived some distanei from the jail, and before his-.arrivu 1 the prison was entirely destroyed. and three negro prisoners wen 1 burned to death. 'Die prisoners started the lire by trying to burn the door in or- . /Jer to eflei-t their escape. “ t 1 Blown to Atoms. A wibgjm. load <>f- nitro-glycerine exploded near St. Mary's, Ohio: The drivers, horses, and wagon were blown to atoms. A big hole in the ground was all that told the story. ’r«rril>.le Railroad Accident. A terribh- railroad accident is reported ’ a few mile* from (1 riftin,-(la. Nodetails ••an b<* learned, but it is reported that seventeen persons 4 are killed and many injured. Insurgents Kadly Defeated. A decided engagement had taken place ofl Aeeud between the tleets of the Chilian Government and those of the insurgents. in which the former was-vic-torious, Tn Help tile Half Breeds. I jiited,States Marshal Slaughter has left Omaha for the Omaha Indian reservation to serve an injunction on Agent Ashley to prevent him from omitting the half breeds of the tribes in the distribution of $90,000, which he has on hand for apportionment among the Indians. Serious Collision. A jhixeo train bn the Utah Northern from Butte and the regular passenger • north-bound came into collision a half mile from Dillon. Engineer Frost and Fireman Tussell were killed and several passengers injured. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. It is estimated that the damage doni hy. the great storm that swept the East will not fall short of $(5,000,000. Giant powder exploded at Crafts Station. N Y., and literally blew Section Foreman Connelly to pieces. His r& mains wouldn’t fill a peck measure. Four workmen at the Daqnesne steel works in Pennsylvania were fatally burned by molten steel. Ar Youngwood, Pa., 107 bodies hav« been recovered from the mine, and it ii

. —r .1 r thought that forty-four more are yet interred. So far no evidence! is found that any of the dead victims lived a second after the explosion. Several workmen were seriously injured by an explosion at Arlington, N. J., which demolished the celluloid factory. News of the sudden demise of Francis B. Ogden, ex-Consul to Bristol, England, from heart disease, comes from New York. At Erie, Pa., Miss Mary Jane Healy was arrested on the charge of murdering her child. Owners of twenty-one furnaces and rolling mills In the Mahoning and Shenandoah valleys, representing a capital of over $6,000,000 and ’ employing 20,000 men, formed a combination. The Bellefonte '.Pa.) Furnace Company’s furnace, ore banks, and quarries shutdown for an indefinite period, owing to an increase in freight tariffs, throwing 660 men out of employment. Katie Kophef, 8 years old, died at Pittsburg, the result of a wound inflict- . ed by a stone thrown by an unknown boy.

WESTERN HAPPENINGS. It was reported that, tlie wheat crop of Nebraska was 10,000,000 bushels short of the amount reported by the Governor, and that the growing crop was in bad condition. At Park Side. 111., the body of Nicholas Siennas was found lying in the bushes, with thirty-three wounds in its trunk. It was evidently the work of an Italian with a stiletto. Eight men are imprisoned in raging flames in the Chaplin Mine, Michigan. All shafts are dosed down to prevent air from fanning the furious blaze. T. A. Mann, of Minden, Neb., becoming enraged at a cow. tied her in a stall and sawed her legs off. He was compelled to flee to escape lynching. Wheat touched the dollar point at St. Louis, causing much excitement among the bear element and heavy losses. No failures were reported. John Nii.es, a horsethief, was shot in Montana. The balance of the gang was arrested. .George E. Crawford, ex-Governor of Y. V I Kansas, died at-Grand Junction, Co! Because he couldn't win tier love, ; Charles Goble of Kansas City shot Anna . Luther and killed himself. At Butte City. Mont., an attachment was levied on the store of James R. Boyce, Jr., it Co., one of the oldest and I largest dry goods houses in tlie West, for #60,000, forcing an assignment. The assets are stated to be 8125,000; liabilities estimated at #IOO.OOO. Firs. wiped out the little town of Cygnet, Ohio. Six blocks were burned, and the following p rsons are known to have perished in the flames: C. Maloney. Frank Satterly. Gertrude Satterly. The loss will reach #IOO,OOO, with little or no insurance. The cause is unknown. ; The Nebraska House indefinitely postponed the bill providing for a recount of the votes cast at the late election on the prohibitory amendment ’’rhe bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the relief of the drought sufferers in the western part of the State was passed by a unanimous vote. Directors of the Anglo-Nevada Assurance Company at San Francisco resolved to reduce the capital stock from #2.000,000 to $500,000 preparatory to going out of business.

Tiif. Missouri Senate passed a resolupledging itself not to appropriate any money for the World's Fair should the force bill become a law. Two masked men entered a San Francisco store; hold four perso.ns at bay, stole S3OO. and escaped. John Aroken, a stockman who was a passenger on a train wrecked by an open ■ switch near Kansas City, died of fright. | The proprietor of the horn factory at | Elkhart, Ind., Colonel C. G. Conn, has appointed six of his employes a board of managers of his establishment, and propose to divide next year's profits with his hands. At the Chapin mine. Iron Mountain, Mich., four of the imprisoned miners escaped the fire, and but two were killed. Wilson Howard, a notorious desperado and outlaw, has been arrested at St. Louis. He was one of the principals in the notorious feud that for eight Wears has existed between the Turners, the Baileys and the Howards in Harlan County, Kentucky, and, ae- I cording to the statement of John S. ! Bailey, a brother of two of his victims, Howard is responsible for the lives of ' six members of the Bailey family, three t members of the Turner family, and a ; dozen or more of the distant relatives of | Bailey. Advices from Singapore report the arrival at Manila of the Spanish steamer Don Juan with news of another terrible massacre of Spanish troops and residents in the Carpline Islands. It appears that the natives without warning fell on the Spanish garrison, killing some ninety soldiers and civilians. The Spaniards thereupon attacked the native fort. It Is said that the natives fought with singular bravery, but were eventually driven into the jungle. Allen Healy. a prosperous Norwegian farmer of Corona, Co!., was victimized out of $'.,000. He went into a low saloon:, there he was induced to bet S4O that his check was not good for’ $5,000 at the German National Bank. He wrote the check and that is all he remembered until he awoke in the rear of the saloon. The check had been cashed. Ja.miS A. Smith, Sr., President of the James A.' Smith & Sons Ice and Fruit Company, of St. Louis, and for forty years identified with business interests in that city, was arrested at his residence on capias warrants charging him with embezzlement and fraud. Masked men roblrnd a saloon and three attendants at Kansas City, securing $l9O, three watches, and some jewelry. Aid has boon solicited from Western Kansas, Great suffering is reported SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Citizens of Woodville, Miss., in massmeeting adopted a resolution warning S. A. Bradford, who wrecked a pay train on the L., N. O. & T. Railroad recently, and escaped punishment through a technicality, to leave the country immediately and never to return, oh pain of death. Southern steel com; any workmen at Chattanooga, Tenn., threaten to expose the company for violation of the contract labor law if the proposed 10 perjzent re- - duction In wages is enforcedAt Overton, Texas, the boiler of the Reed & Henry saw-mill exploded, killing Gill Henry and Dan Tuckb. and fatally wounding John Austin, a colored man. Robert Dotson and John Banks fell undera train on the Louisville & Nashville road at Memphis, Tenn., and were

instantly killed- Tlie men were stealing a ride. Gabe Strickland, a convicted murderer at Amite City. La., was forcibly taken from the Sheriff by his friends. H. C. Keeble, of Selma. Ala., head of the Keeble Company, which failed for $250,000 a few days ago, has fled the State. Out of a capital stock of $165,000, j President Moore of the People's Bank, lat Fayetteville,. S. C., left $65,000. He is arrested, Notwithstanding his mind is affected. Rev. William Mitchell, of Fort Worth,.Tex., is found guilty of forgery and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. At Macon, (■&., Jake Young, the most notorious outlaw in South Georgia, who, through the influence of rich relatives, is once more free from the restraints of jail life, has resumed hiscareerof terror. At Denison. Texas, eight persons were poisoned by eating bread made with cotton-seed oil. Reports are current of an attack by white men at Galloway, Ala., mines on negroes who had been put to work during the recent strike. Eight negroes are reported to have been shot down. The State militia have been ordered to the scene. 't The Union Compress Company 's building in Argenta, opposite Little Rock, Ark., caught fire iq the machinery room | and was partiafly jdestroved, causing a loss on building, machinery, and cotton aggregating #185,000. Phillips & Stein's large crockery house in Richmond, V;i.. was destroyed by tire. The building and stock were completely wrecked. Tlie loss is placed at $75,000. At one time the tire threat- e ened the destruction of the whole block. POLITICAL PORRIDGE.

In grand committee the Rhode Island Legislature declared Oscar Lapham (Dem.) elected to Congress from the First District. There was no election in the Second District, and a new election will bo ordered. A committee reported that in both districts 2,045 defective ballots were cast. M. A. Peffer. F. M. B. A. candidate, is elected bv the Kansas Legislature- to succeed John J. Ingalls in the United States Sonate.'l’iie result of the canvass conducted by two farmers' papers shows that Cleveland is tlie choice of Democratic farmers by a vote of 71.787 to 17,118 for Hill. Republicans are soy Blaine by 39,209 to 31.013 for Harrison. The Wisconsin Legislature, by a.vote of 82 to 45. lias elected W. F; Vilas, exSecretary of the Interior, to succeed Senator Spooner in the United States Senate. John P. Jones was re-elected United States Senator from Nevada for the fourth time, receiving .54 votes out at 60. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The Liberal party in England lias espoused the cause of the Scotch railway strikers. The barque City es Papeete brings news of a serious rex against French rule at Tahiti. The. natives want the United States to protect them. London physicians have given up hope of the recovery of Leonard W. Jerome. Nir. Jerome is probably' the most noted man ,in racing circles in America. Several leprous Russians and Russian Jews have sailed from Odessa for America. Quarantine officers are watching al! ports. •, Mrs. Bai.i., tlie wife of Thomas the American sculptor, died at Florence, Italy. / Prix-ate advices received say that the Russian Government will not seize any sealing vessels on the Siberian coast unless found taking seals inside of the three-mile limit. FRESH AND NEWSY.

Business failures for Ihe week number 320, as compared wit h 380 last week, and 291 in the 'corresponding week of 1.890. War news continues to filter from Chili, but it must lie admitted that the information received seems to come in the main from sources favorable to the insurgents and unfavorable to the Chilian Government. The insurgent's warships are blockading the island of Chiloe and Chiloe archipelago, their ships patrolling the Gulf of Ancud. and thus cutting off I all communication between the island ! and the mainland. I Five hundred subscribers to the New I Orleans Watch and Jewelry Company, a, I branch of the Chicago concern of the j same name, mourn the Joss of their sub- ' scriptions. The concern has vanished. The Canadian Parliament, it is bei lieved. will be dissolved at once. It is stated at Buenos Ayrt« that ValI divia Port, or Corral, possessing the I best harbor on the Pacific coast, and the j seaport town of Valdivia are both block- : ailed by the war vessels of the revolutionists. - MARKET REPORTS. I CHICAGO. I Cattle—Common to Prime $3.25 (3 5.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.00 0 3.75 ‘ Sheet 3.00 <3 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red v . .95 0 .96 Corn—No. 2 . .49’.*0 .50 Oats—No. 2 4?SjO .44'<Rte—No. 2 7U 0 .72 ~ .>■ Butter—Choice Creamery 22 0 .25 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 10 0 .11 Eggs—Fresh 21 0 .22 Potatoes—Western, per bu 90 0 .95 , INDIANAPOLIS. ; Cattle -Shipping 3.50 0 5.00 J Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 0 3.75 , ' Sheep—Common to Prime...... 3.00 0 4.75 ; Wheat— No. 2 Red..#■ . .98 0 .98’ c t ; Corn—No. 1 'White........ 50 0 .51" - , Oats—No. 2 White 45Js.@ .468; ST. LOUIS. ‘ I Cattle 4.00 & 5.00 Hogs 3.00 (3 3.75 . , Wheat—No. 2 Red ......... .98 & .99 Corn—No. 2..... .49 «4 .50 I Oats—No. 2 .45 la .46 • Barley—Minnesota. ... .71 <3 .72 1 , CINCINNATI. - Cattle... 3.00 0 4.50 . Hogs 3.00 0 4.00 ; Sheep.. 3.00 0 5.75 i Wheat—No. 2 Red 97\0 .988; Corn—No. 2 52’ 2 0 .535a 1 , Oats—No. 2 Mixed 7 47 0 .48 I MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 96’A0 ,97' 2 1 Corn—No. 3...., 49 0 .50 ; Oath—No. 2 White. 46 0 .47 ’ Rte—No. 1 72 0 .74 - , Barley—No. 2 66 © .67 , I DETROIT. ' Cattle 3.00 0 4.50 1 Hogs . 3.00 0 3.50 Sheep 3.00 0 4.75 ' Wheat—No. 2 Bed 99 0 1.00 I Corn—No. 2 Yellow 51 0 .52 - | Oats—No. 2 White.... .47)4© .48)4 „ ' ' ! TOLEDO. “ I Wheat .98),© .99’» Corn—Cash .51 u© .525a t Oats-No. 2 White -45JfiM .46)a | BUFFALO. el Cattle—Good to Prime 4.00 @ 5.00 • ' Hoos —Medium and Heavy 3.50 0 3.75 v I Wheat—No. 1 Hard. 1.07>£0 1.08’4 >• Corn—No. 2 55 0 .56 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime..... 4.00 0 5.25 e Hogs—Light 3.25 0 4.00 a Sheep—Medium to Good 4.C0 0 5.50 B Lambs 5.00 <3 6.50 y . NEW YORK. i. | Cattle. 3.50 0 5.25 „ 1 Hogs. /. 3.25 @ 4.00 II Sheep.. 1...... 4.00 0 8.25 !-| Wheat—No. 9 Red. I LlO ts 1.11 I Cobb-N0.2, 1....... ,«9 0 .84 • j Oath— Mixed Western....; M • .54

POSITIVELY ILI REFERRING, OF COURSE. TO THE NEWS IN INDIANA.

A Narrow Escape—Work of Conscience— His Fingers Ground—Suicide of an ExSheriff. —John Mills dropped dead while chopping wood, at Medora. —Salem will be able to see' its way soon by electric light. —New Albany will have a Y. M. C. A. building to cost #30,000. —Reports of scarlet fever epidemic at Bedford are greatly exaggerated. —Greencastle fondly hopes the early future will bring them a canning factory. —lndiana press almost unanimously favors the repeal of the Grubbs libel law. —Miss Mary Cox, of Okalla, Putnam County, dropped dead from heart failure. —Abram Koontz, of Yorktown, was seriously injured in a runaway at Muncie. —-John Eiderberry, Columbus carpenter, lost all fingers of one hand in machinery. —Amo is all upset over the attempt being made to open a saloon in their peaceful burg. —W abash is getting good, too, and hast warned their gamblers to “get a move on them.” —Paul Bcsche, 17, died in South Bend, from “unaccustomed indulgence in intoxicants,” —A mad dog near Alaska wounded! several dogs and other animals before it was killed. —Joseph Perod’s horse dropped dead with fright in Elkhart at sight of an electric car/ —Mrs. Elizabeth Miller has been j elected a member of the Murfcie Board I of Health. ; —Clay good for, aluminum abounds I near Fairmont. Maybe they’ll manu- j facture it. —Salem is to have electric light, arti- i ficial ice, cold storage, and a cannery. How’s that? —Mrs. Jennie S. Glare, of Madison, fell dead while conversing with friends I at her home. —A. Carrier, of Covingt on, was caught • by tlie branchesof a falling tree and sc- i riously injured. —Monroe Talbott's little, boy was run over by a horse near Shelbyville, and deformed for lite. —H. S. Badollet's canary, Vincennes, after a silence of three years, burst forth in beautiful song. —The Christian Church at Crawfordsyille has extended a call to Rev. S. W. ! Brown, of Logansport; —Samuel Catherwoud. a veteran rail- ! way agent at Greencastle, has been) stricken with paralysis. —Jacob Faith, of Scott Township, Harrison County, died of injuries caused by falling from a wagon. —Sellersburg is one of three towns in the United States appointed to have “experimental free delivery.” x —Miss Redecca Rannells, of Richland Township, Fulton County, was fatally injured in a sleighing accident. —Leonard Brosan bower, of Stony Creek Township, Madison County, attempted to co mmit suicide. His mind I was upset by religious excitement. —Brigham Young, while repairing a I smoke-stack at New Albany, fell forty feet, and was killed. He leaves a family.

—James N. Lasswe.i), proprietor of a hotel at English, tsruck Pat llannegan, his porter, with a club and broke his skull. » —George Martin, of Covii.gton, was badly disfigured by falling from a scaffold and striking his face agaihst a sawbuck. —The two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Evans, living at Donaldsville, was fatally scalded by the overturning of a tub of hot water. —Willis Norris, a once notorious gambler and once the wealthiest man in New Albany, died in the Floyd County pooraouse. —Stephen Iluffer, a prominent teacher of Clinton County, has disappeared with about $4,000 of money intrusted to him tor investment. —Lester Lastutter, a wealthy farmer ; near Rising Sun, was found dead in the depot at Aurora, with indications positing to suicide. —Wm. Foreman, aged 23 years; was killed near Poland. He was coorirhnnting with others, and was crushed under a falling tree. ; —Mrs. Frances Spray sues the city of Seymour for $5,000 damages; hurt in a fall a dark night where warning light should have been. —Five prisoners in the Dearborn County jail walked out the other night, but three returned during the day, and another was captured. —The body of Johnny Miles, a sailor and well-known character on the lakes for twenty years past, was found floating in the harbor at Michigan City. Gasper, aged lt», of Michigan City/Jwas arrested and confessed to ten burglaries. It is estimated that he has stolen $5,000 worth of property. < —A business block, owned by E. Campbell, was burned at Sedalia. Eli Masters, merchant. lost $4,000 on stock, upon which he had $1,500 insurance in the Citizens’ of Evansville. —I. F. Force, of New Albany, was probably fatally injured bv walking out of a second-story window of a hotel at Rochester, N. Y., while In a somnambulistic condition. —Jack Milligan almost demolished the central police station at New Albany during the temporary absence of the officer in charge, in an attempt to rescue a friend, Macus Duncan, using a pick-ax to accomplish his purpose. He was surprised while at work and promptly locked in a cell. —Dr. Schutt, reputable LaPorte citizen, proposes to make it torrid for Detective Norris, of Ohio, who had him arrested on charge of unlawfully obtaining money, and subsequently offering to “let him off” for SIOO. —Joseph Shearer shot and killed George Miller and seriously wounded his brother, Ell, at Portland. Shearer’s wife—by him deserted last fall—borrowed $lO of Miller to go to her father, giving some furnitnrt as security. Shearer returned lately, wanted the furniture and refused to pay the $lO. Miller protested, hence the'shooting,

I —William Nimmert, an employe in the I chilled plow works at South Bend, was I killed by the bursting of a grindstone. —Jack Baber, of Jeffersonville, is a philanthropist in his humble way. He has whitewashed all the telegraph poles of the. town, and is now building board side waks where they are most needed, at his own expense. —The Monon ditch.thirty-five miles in length and one hundred feet in width and sixteen feet in depth, located in the counties of Jasper, Pulaski and White, when completed, will reclaim over 100,000 acres of farming lands. —Miss Hattie Smith, aged 17. daughter of the Hon. W. K. Smith, of Shoals, died in St. Louis, after an illness of only a few days of congestion of the stomach. She was to have been a bride in a few weeks, and her trousseau will now servo as. burial robes She is a very popular I young lady, beloved by all. —Ora Rodgers and Murray Ray, two young men of Valparaiso, were serL I ously injured by a gas explosion. They i threw coal-oil in a church furnace, i which ignited a quantity of generated I gas. The \oung men were hurled i against the wall of the building, but I managed to crawl out and were afterward found. I > —At St. Mary’s of the Woods, the j mother home of the order of Sisters of I Providence, in Vigo County, Bishop I Chatard performed the ceremony by I which seventeen young women joined the I order. Several of them were from Terre Haute and had a large social acquaintance there. There were many friends present at the ceremony. — “Buck” Stanley of Logansport, has just completed a series of temperance meetings at He has an inimitable but popular style and he accqmplished much good for the cause of temperance in that community. About 800 signed the pledge. He closed by a lecture wherein he described his work in the capture of the famous Green brothers. —The inhabitants of Monroe City, Knox County, are much agitated over the mysterious disappearance of -Samuel Campbell who left his home on the 21st inst. to buy furs in Daviess County, since which time nothing has been heard of him. He has been traced to some shanty boats in White River bottoms and it is feared that he has been fouly dealt with. -—The Lebanon Light, Heat and Power Company are to be made defendants in a SIO,OOO damage suit, growing out of the company shuttttrg the supply of natural gas from John M. Powell’s business room, in which he used it for heat and light.: Mr. Powell is a leading member of the council and had paid for the use of gas for the month of January in This is to be a test ease, and, if successful, more are to follow. —Over four years ago, shortly after Indiana's first natural-gas well was found at Eaton. Frederick Hoover, of New Corner, ten miles from Muncie, with his sous, erected a derrick, which has since been used in the sinking Os a well. Mr. Hoover would employ no one but his own family in the woru, which made It slow and tedious. But it has just resulted in giving the man one of the best wells in the State. * —J. K. Miller, a highly respected farmer, living two miles west of Brazil, was arrested, charged with cutting down the Postal Telegraph Company’s poles, erected on the National road, near his farm. Farmers along the line are indignant at the company, which purchased its franchise of a Terre Haute claimant, whose title they deny. It is charged that one or two farmers hjive been paid for right of way, anil all now demand it. It will be a test case, involving an issue of much interest, as tho line extends from Indianapolis to St. Louis.

, —A very narrow escape from a fatal accident occurred recently at Crawfordsville. As Gus Karl and Duff Casad were driving a horse hitched to a buggy, the animal ran away. Karl jumped out,and the animal jumped over a slop-wagon driven by a colored man named Robert Jones. The wagon, buggy, Jones, and Casad were all thrown into, the gutter "and the two vehicles demolished. Casad was badly injured, as was also Jones, who also had his pants torrs and ruined. —Sam Grant, «f Lafayette, has challenged Ed Cory,, of Crawfordsville, or any other man who is aching for a tight, to fight for a S2(X» purse, or spar ten rounds in any opera .louse, the winner to receive 5 per cent, of receipts, or will light upon any terms. Grant says that he never makes bluffs through newspapers. and when he says tight he means it. and be wants less talk and more scrap.' He also says that he. is “always ready to come at the call of time.’ - —John Muruau. who lives in Moral Township. Shelby Countyi stole five steers from a neighbor and drove them nff to Indianapolis and sold them for SB3. This, was in December last. John’s conscience has been worrying him ever since. The other day he came voluntarily into court and confessed to having committed the theft, and prayed the indulgence of the Judge. Judge Hackney let him off upon bond uinm the condition that he pay back the money he received from the sale of the steers, then he shall be a free man: if not. he will be prosecuted for grand larceny during the next term of court.

i —John Candan. aged 60. residing near ; Monon, was deserted by his second wife, who joined the Salvation Army. He blew out his brains. ■ - -e ■ —Mrs. Owens, Connersville, shot her 5-year-old boy, not dangerously. Said she wouid thus prevent his being taken to the poor-house, as was intended. —The Chicago Intcr-Occnn says: No State can make a more interesting ex-, hibit of difficulties overcome, of progress attained, or of prospects more bright, than Indiana. ’ s —Rev. C. E. Bacon, who for the/past three years has been pastor’of the Aleth- • odist church in Wabash, has decided to [ accept a call from the First Methodist i Church at Evansville. —James Welsh,, a brakeman, was killed at Columbus. He was a son of John Welsh, of Edinburg. He was a well-respected young man and the main support of his father and sister. —Bartholomew Surver, a farnler living near Clay City, formerly sheriff of Clay County, committed suicide while temporarily He was 70 years of I age and leaves a wife and nine children.

GRIM, UNBIDDEN GUEST. DEATH CLOSES A NOTABLE NEW YORK BANQUET. Be«r*l*ry Windom Suddenly Expires—lntense Excitement Ensues —- A Notnble Life Snuffed Out— Heart Disease tlie Cause—Sketch of the Deceased Statesman. . [New York dispatch.] The Hon. William Windom. Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, died tonight at 10:05 o’clock in the banquet hall at SDelmonico’s. where he was the guest of the New York Board of Trade and Transport ation. His had been the first toast of the evening. He had finished his response. had seated himself, swooned at once, and died almost immediately. This was to have been a night of a feast of reaSbn and flow of soul at Delmonlco's. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation was to sit 6ECBBTARYWM. WINDOM. at it 3 nineteenth annual dinner, and the great gold hall was bright with light and colcr. And feasting there was happy and unrestrained, but death too, sat a’t the board, and the only soul that flowed out was that of the nation’s financial head. His spirit fled away at the close of his speaking, which was the first of the night, and the last The dinner, which began at 6 o’clock, was completed shortly after 9 o’clock, and Mr. Windom, introduced by Judge Arnoux, arose to speak, being the first speaker of the evening. He responded to the toast: ‘'Our Country’s „'osperity Dependent Upon Its Instruments of Commerce.” He finished his speech at 9:55 o’clock. It had been ’•emarked that he was reading it off hurriedly from the printed copy, going faster and faster as he neared the end, and at last he requested the audience not to applaud. A quiver of fear shot through the assemblage, like an electric shock, when he finished. Mr. Window was standing erect under the glare of the gas-lights, while the faces of the most famous body of men in the country all turned toward him. Something was the matter, they knew not what. For a moment the Secretary of the Treasury stood silent, while the banqueters, equally silent, watched him. It was a moment that no one who was present will ever forget. Then Mr. Windom sat down quietly, too quietly many thought, in his seat, and Toastmaster Judge Arnoux arose to Introduce ex-Secrctary of State Bayard as the next speaker. He began a short speech, but had not proceeded far when Mr. Windom gave a short, sharp moan of anguish and fell back in his chair. His face grew purple; his lower limbs stiffened and stretched out. of their own accord apparently, under the table; his eyelids opened and shqt spasmodically, but there was no gleam of intelligence in the eyes, which were rapidly losing the luster of life. For only a moment he appeared thus. A cry went up from those sitting near the guest table. “Look! Look at Mr. Windom!” Every eye was turned toward the man whose voice had just ceased upon the air. At the rear of the hall many stood, and many echoed the cry that Mr. Windom had collapsed in his chair and was falling to the floor. His face was ghastly, and a cry of horror arose from the lato festive banqueters. There was an immediate rush on the part of ajl toward Mr. Windom’s chair, but several doctors who were present at the dinner got there first and drove the others back. They were Drs. S. A. RoMnson, Durant, Whitney. Fisher, and Bishop. Dr. Robinson bent down, and making a close examination of the prostrate form, discovered that the heart was yet beating, and with the assistance of Judge Truax-, Captain Snow, and one or two others, lifted him to his feet, deathly pale. He was carried into the room behind the banquet hall, and everything was done to resuscitate him. Messengers were hastily dispatched for electric batteries, and as many as four were applied to his body, which was rapidly growing cold. This was exactly at 10.05 p. m. For six minutes the electric shocks were applied incessantly, but without success. He was then pronounced dead by Drs. Robinson and Durant. “I would say that "the cause of his death was apoplexy.” said Dr- Robinson, “if It was not for the history of heart disease. lam inclined to think that heart disease killed him. Mr. Windom was subject to fits of heart failure. On Tuesday last he was seized with an attack while on the steps of the Treasury qt Washington, but he did not lose consciousness, and was able to take sare of himself. ” At 10:11 p. m. Judge Arnoux came out of the room where lay Mr. Windom and announced to the diners that Secretary Windom, whom they had the pleasure of hearing only a few minutes before, had breathed his last. “He is dead.” he said. This was the fearful announcement, uttered In a voice midway between a sob and a whisper, that floated through that gayly bedecked banquet hall, around which still hung, like a funeral pall, the smoke of the after-dinner cigar. “He Is dead!” The words went to the heart of every man who heard them.. I Could they believe it?

That the brilliant orator of a few minutes before, that glowed with enthusiasmin predicting his future poli-jy in the Treasury, was now only inanizna • e clay. His voice was forever silenced, and his last words were for his country. Every man looked at his neighbor with blanched cheeks. Death had indeed been with them at theirfeast. and taken from the throng one of the nation’s chief officers. William Windom. Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Belmont County. Ohio. May 10, 1827. His parents had immigrated to that region from Virginia. He was brought up on a farm, was educated in the academy at Mb. Vernon. Ohio, studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1850. He became Prosecuting Attorney for Knox County in 1852. In 1855 he settled in Winona. Minn. Joining the Republican party, hegained a reputation as an orator, and In 1858 was sent to Congress. He was a member of the House of Representatives for ten years, serving on the Committees on Public Lands and Expenditure, and on the special committee on the rebellious States, and for three years as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. He was appointed United States Senator in 1870 to All an unexpired term, and was afterward elected for a new term and re-elected in 1877. In 1881 he resigned on being selected by President Garfield for the post of Secretary of the Treasury. He resigned when Vice President Arthur succeeded to the Presidency, and engaged in railroad and other financial enterprises, making his home principally in New York, until he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Harrison March 4, 1889. Moine State Statistics. Nevada contains 109,740 square miles; was settfed in 1860 at Washoe, and was admitted into the Union on Oct. 31, 1864. Ohio contains 40,760 square miles; was settled in 1788 at Marietta, and was admitted into the Union on Nov. 29, 1803. Oregon contains 94,560 square miles; was settled in r IBU at Astoria, and was admitted into'the Union on Feb. 13, 1859. Colorado contains 103,645 square miles; was settled in 1858 at Denver, and was admitted into the Union on Aug. 1, 1876. lowa contains 55,375 square miles; was settled in 1788 at Dubuque, and was admitted into the Union on Dec. 28, 184& Michigan contains 57,439 square miles; was settled in 1670 at Detroit, and was admitted into the Union on Jan. 36, 1837. Missouri contains 68,735 square miles; was settled in 1764 at St. Louis, and was admitted into the Union on Aug. 10, 1821. Maine contains 39,895 square miles; was settled in 1665 at Bristol, and was admitted into the Union on March 15, 182 U

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