Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1891 — Page 2

democrat rUCcXTURTIKD. Me BLACKBURN, • • • PVBZJSWRL PLEASANT TO PERUSE. THE HAPPENINGS IN THIS GREAT WOULD OF OURS. Biota at Mt. Pleasant. I’a.-Lemck» Decline. the Treasury Shi p—lndiana’s EightHour Law Declared DncoastltritlenaL BALL. AND TORCH. The Striking Coke Workers, Two Thousand Strong, Attack and Burn the More-, wood Yards. A special from ML Pleasant, (Pa.) dated the Ist inst., says: All last evening the striking coke workers began gathering at the More wood yard and Bridgeport plants. At 2 o'clock this morning the strikers concentrated their forces on the hills around the More wood plant. Morewood is admirably situated for a raid. Shortly after 2 o'clock 3,000 strikers, armed with clubs, bars, stones, revolvers, and other weapons commenced firing revolvers and made a dash toward the ovens. The deputies hearing the bullets hiss by their heads uncomfortably close commenced seeking places of safety. The strikers then began tearing up the tracks for a distance of 500 or 600 feet. They burned other property, tore down fences and committed other depredations until 5 o’clock this morning. So far as known no one has been seriously injured. To-night Mount Pleasant is trembling with excitfiment, and nobody is willing to go to bed, and there is more confusion than since the riots of 1886. At midnight, fully a thousand men were on the hills surrounding the works. Sheriff Closson has increased his force to 200 men. Harrisburg special: Gov. Pattison has received a telegraphic request from the Sheriff of West Moreland County, for permission to use the State arms of two companies in that county in suppressing the coal miners, who are on a strike. The made to the Governor Showed that the riot was formidable, over 1,000 participating in it. He has replied that there will be no military interference until the civil power has been exhausted in the quelling of the outbreak. Lemcke Declines. J. A. Lemcke, of Indiana, who has been prominently mentioned as the probable successor of United States Treasurer Huston, has informed the President that His health was so bad that lie dia not desire to l>c considered in connection with thatoffice any loftger, especially as he had arranged to go abroad in May. It is stated at the White House that while Lemcke had never been tendered the treasurership, hisjiame has been favorably considered in that connection, and also that Huston’s resignation will not be accepted until his successor shall have been appointed.

j, Uncoil MtlttitionaQ ./ At. Muncie. Ind., Judge. Lots sustained a motion to quash the indictments against Superintendent Kennedy, of the Muncie Pulp mH), charged with violating the eight?hour law in*employing a day and night force working thirteen and eleven hours respectively, and paying weekly wages for their work. The court held that the indictments were based upon an unconstitutional act, inasmuch as no definition is given of what shall constitute, a violation of the law. Muncie attorneys applaud the decision. A bangoroiis Counter/elt.. Tire secret service officers declare the counterfeit two-dollar.silver certificate a most dangerous one. The vignette of Hancock is as fine as the original, and the. lettering ppd-lathe work is an exact copy of the treasury non". In fact, the only difference is too minute to be visible to the naked eye. was called this counterfeit some time ago. and has beep called to it at frequent, intervals siijcc, but the unknown counterfeiters watch the secret service bulletins closely. James J. West Acquitted. /The Buprernti_Court of Illinois has re/vcrscd the jtulgmehvnf the Cook County CrirninalfCourt in the mse of James J. West, ex-editor of the/ Chicago Timex, who was convicted of /embezzlement in connection with the affairs of the Thncx Company and sent to\the penitentiary for five years. Mr. West has been at large on bail since he appealed from the decision of the lower court a year ago. Killed tor Refusing to Slope. Robert. Barjiett, town marshal of Priestvillle, Ky., being infatuated with the young wife of- Conti, a prominent physician there, shot, her through the breast because, she would not elope with him. Mrs. Conti will die.; He also fired two shots at M. C. Hunt and wife and escaped. Bartlett, is a genhinb desperado. * Mlmm 'ft'eston Fuller Married. Mi&s Weston Fuller, daughter Chief Justice Fuller, was married at Washington to Archibald Lapham Brown, of Chicago. A large number of invitations were issued tb'both the church and re- • ceptlbn, and the affair was one of the most brillianjt social loccasions of this season/ . schooner (Jliapmaii Lout. Advices from Hawaii say that the missionary schooner Chapman was lost on the west coast of Tapita, November 30, 1800. She was bound from IJonolulu to the Pltcalr Islands. The crew numbered sixteen, and they were all drowned. Stand Pipe Falls. ( The stand pipe of the Defiance (Ohio) water works collapsed and fell, wrecking the engine house and severely injuring several persons. The town is now without. water. • <'lioke<l to IJr at It. . * Nicholas Ilaige. aged 50, choked to death, at Indianapolis. While eating dinhib’ a piece of meat, got into his windpipe and before it could be dislodged he was dead. Wealthy WUlow Kl<l napped. Mrs. Margaret t'hapeton, a wealthy widow, ludonging to one of tin; oldest. French » families in Detroit, has been missing for some time, and it, is hinted that she . has been kidnapped. Mrs. Chapcton is ”3 years oid and very eccentric, one of her fads being to carry a large sum of money at all times. A Fatal Blast. The cupola iij a blast, furnace, atTcrre* Haute, Ind., exploded. Michael Garvey . atid Patrick Hurley were fatally burned, and it is believed that two other meh aro buried under the bebris. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. At Boston, the granite block manufacturers of New England and several other States hold a meeting to take ad tion on the alleged exorbitant demands of the Paving Cutters’ Union. Resolutions were adopted empowering a committee to order a suspension of work bj the various manufacturers whenever they deem it necessary In the settlement of disputes. ■' At Tiffin, Ohio, the Sterling Emcr] Wheel Works were damaged to the ex tent of $15,000 by escaping natural gat igniting from a watchman's lantern. Tht

watchman was badly. but rot fatally, ’ burned. Insurance on the building, 113.600. Chaut.es Akbvcki.v., the millionaire coffee merchant, is dead. Mr. Arbuckle gained notoriety in a breach of promise snlt by Miss Clara Campbell, in which Mr. Arbuckle received the sobriquet of “Baby Bunting.” ~ The house of Mrs. Caroline Tuck, at Hainesville, Me., was burned, and Mrs. i Tuck was burned to death in her bed. i At Lancaster, Pa , the turnpikes and | county roads arc blocked with drifts, I while the snowfall op the level measures , about nineteen inches. A number of • freight trains on the Beading and Coium- | I bia Railroad have been abandoned On I account of the heavy snow on the tracks. AJI te egraphic and telephonic com- | mnnication is badly cripplod. Kate Castleton, the actress, has been admitted to a hospital in Philadelphia by the advice of her physicians. She is suffering from a serious complication of i ailments and the chances are against her recovery. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Four mysterious murders committed within the past year, which puzzled the officers of the law, now seem to be in a fairway of being solved. The victims were Alexander Handiin, who was killed Ju'y 9, 1890, near Parcel, I. T.; an old German and his son, who were called from their cabin shortly after the opening of Oklahoma, and shot, and a clerk employed bv the Santa Fe Railroad at Bolton, in the Cherokee strip. The murderers are believed to be none other than Bill Hudging and his gang, who were captured at Faris. Texas. At Spokane Falls, Wash., at the Casino Variety Theater, Charles Elliott, a faro dealer, shot Mabel Debabian, killing her almost instantly. Another bullet struck Carrie Smith, a variety actress, inflicting a fatal wound. Elliott then blew his own brains ouL The shots were intended for an actress named Lulu Durand, who was on the stage at the time, and of whom Elliott insanely jealous. At St. Joseph, Mo, Mrs. Mary B. Cushing died, aged 84 years. She was the mother of Milton B. Cushing, at one time paymaster of the United States Navy; of Luther Ward Cashing, who Was killed by Indians in Arizona in 1874: of Colonel Alonzo Cushing, killed at the battle of Gettysburg, and of Commander W. B. Cushing, of Albemarle fame. Mr. Curry, County Clerk, Mr. Gloderly. Treasurer, and County Commissioners Morton and A. Cole, of Comanche County, Kansas, have been arrested, I charged with malfeasance in office. Sev- I oral tax-payers have retained lawyers to ‘ institute suits for the recovery of money illegally withheld. < At Omaha, Neb., in the family of J. < S. Hascall, a prominent politician, live i members were taken suddenly sick, and next morning Emma Anderson.the housekeeper died. The doctor who called to j see Miss Anderson, deelaffed the patients had been poisoned with either nux , vomica or strychnine. ,

At the meeting in Kansas City of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Congress of the Western States the following speakers and subjects for discussion were agreed upon: “Improvement of Waterways,” General T. J. Henderson, of Illinois, and Newton C. Blanchard, of Louisiana; “Reciprocity,” Don M. Dickinson of Michigan, Ben Butterworth, and J. C. Burrows of Michigan; “The Coinage Question, ” General A. J. Warner, of Ohio; “Agricultural Depression and the Remedyv’xJ. J. Ingalls, of Kansas; “The Promotion of Manufacturing Interests,” Major Wm. J. McKinley, of Ohio; C. B. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, John H. Gear, of lowa, and Chas. Stewart, of Texas; “Immigration and Settlement of Unoccupied Lands.” Gilbert A. Pierce, of North Dakota, and J. M. Thurston; “Union. Commercial Laws,” Judge J. L. Torrey, of St. Louis, author of the Torrey bankrupt bill; “Railway Transportation,” George R. I’eck, of Topeka; “Legislation as Affecting Commerce,” General Wheeler, of Alabama; “Irrigation of Arid Lands,” T. C. Henry, of Denver, and John Jay, of Junction City, Kan. Among the others who will be present are General David Henderson, of lowa, and Benton McMillin, of Tennessee. Near Mansfield, Ohio, an attempt was made to wreck the New York limited vestibule, train No. Bon the Erie Road, by placing a heavy rail on the track. The train was running at 4 high rate of speed when it neared t'hd obstruction The engineer saw the rail and applied the air brakes in rime to prevent what might have been a horrible accident. The railroad officials think the attempt was for the purpose of robbery, as at this point the track is over a high embankment, down which the cars would have gone, if derailed. It was in this locality that the express company was robbed some time ago. The officials are making every effort to discover the perpetrators. Reports from many parts of Kansas show a falling off in the registration of women voters. In Topeka, however, the registration is unusually large. Over 25 per cent, of the 9,000 voters are women, 4 The increase Is due to the colored women, who were hauled to the registration offices in droves. At Atchison but 224 women registered, and it is believed not over 100 will vote. At Leavenworth there is a big falling off. At Wichita there is an increase, but reports from most pla--es show a decrease. While George Steele, Sheriff of New Madrid County. Mo., was en roqte for the penitentiary with ia colored convict on the Iron Mountain train, the prisoner In some way got loose from the seat to which he was chained, and, raising the coach window, crawled out backward, letting him.self down at full arm’s length, and dropped^to—the ground. The train was running at full speed at the time, and before it could be stopped the convict had secured a good start, and has not beyn recaptured. LxjUhicago the “grip, ” instead of losing j.ts deadly hold, is, according to the returns, more fatal tlqin ever before. The death roll for the week, according to the weekly returns, reaches the appalling total of '.)2(i' It is almost unparalleled in the history of Chicago, except during a great epidemic. Last week the total was 809. and this was looked upon as abnormally large. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At New Orleans some sensational disclosures are made in connection with the grand jury investigation. It is learned that the defense in the Hennessey case made an effort to doctor the records of the electric light company in order to show that the light at the corner of Girod and Basin was burning dimly when the assassination occurred. A subpoena was issued for the records, but for some reason they were not offered; why, it is not known. The report of the grand jury promises to be startling, as Detective O’Malley is said,to have had a hand in having the records altered to suit the purposes of the defense. ( . The Warreh Lumber Company, of Beaumont, Tex., has been placed in the I hands of a receiver. The mills are about the largest In the State. The liabilities are placed at half a million. -Thp assets . •

will about meet this sum. The recelvei thinks the company will be able to meet all claims and resume business tn a shop time. Another attempt was made last nigh l to .wreck a passenger train on the Burlington branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad at the Fountain woods, about a mile from Burlington. N. J. The engine of the passenger train struck the obstruction, but fortunately kept the rails. All trains have orders to run slow by the place. A most thorough investigation has failed to reveal the slightest clew to the would-be wreckers. The Norwegian bark Dictator was driven ashore near Life Saving Statioc No. 2 at Virginia .Beach, Va. Os the crew of seventeen nine were rescued, the captain .among them. Including those who pushed were the captain’s wife and li ttlechiid. The Dictator wai putting into Hampton Roads in distress and leaking, having encountered a series of gales and hurricanes. Captain Jorgensen never left the vessel until she broke up. Then, lashing a life preservei around his wife, while his child was secured to his body, he jumped into the raging waters. The captain was picked up on the beach senseless. John Dances, colored, was lynched for attempting to assault a white woman in Shelby County. The affair occurred at Columbiana. Two officers who at tempted to rescue Dances from the mot were forced to go along and witness tht hanging. Mbs. Sid Keitner, who resided ir Lauderdale County, Tenn., while as sisting her husband in burning corr stalks had her dress catch fire and wa.' in a mass of flames in a moment. Hei husband tried to extinguish the flame? but without success, and the womai burned to death in a few minutes. At San Antonio, Texas, H. M. Stanley will not lecture. His manager, Majoi Pond, has received a telegram, from Agent McKeown, of Austin, which says: “Criticism of Stanley is so .severe that I have been compelled to cancel all Texas dates.” A disastrous wreck Occurred on the Ensley City Dummy Line at Birming ham, Ala. A train heavily loaded with pleasure seekers, and going at a rapic rate, ran off the track about five miles from town from no apparent cause, and fell down an embankment about ter feet high A. L. Brown and Bob Taylor, two negro passengers, were instant ly killed. FRESH AND NEWSY.

A syndicate of Ohio capitalists has purchased 40,000 acres of timber lands in Clay and Nicholas counties, Ya., as •310 per acre. ■< The residence of Mr. Marchand at St. Valero de Bulstrode, Canada, was destroyed by fire. Two of his children were burned to death. Miss Susan Dickinson, the sister olAnna Dickinson, says: “Os her entire recovery from this attack of nervous prostration I have not the least doubt, and neither have her physicians. ” Miss Dickinson intimates that Anna has not by any means given up her intention of going-on the stage.” Miss Zoe Gayton arrived in New York from San Francisco, having walked the entire distance from the Golden Gate. In San Francisco she «made a wager, through G. H. Church, that she would walk to New York before April, 1891. 5 The stakes were $2,000 a side, the expenses of the trip to be paid by rhe loser, and she should follow the railroad tracks as far as possible. Miss Gayton left San Francisco at 4 p. m. on Ang. 27 last. A very important revenue measure went into effect on April 1. That was the date fixed by the provision of the McKinley tariff act for the free admismission of sugar not above No. 16 Dutch standard. Sugars not above 16 may now be refined in bond without paying duty under regulations established by the Secretary of the Treasury, and transported in bond and stor >d in specified bonded warehouses. R G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: If no news is good news, as concerns the condition of business at this season, the outlook is fairly satis factory. Trade has been rather quiet and hesitating, as is natural at this season, and there Is rather more complaint of slow collections, but throughout the Northwest bad -weather and the bad state of country roads supply an 1 explanation. Money ij in fait and Increasing supply, and though still tight at Salt Lake and scarce at Jacksonville, and in stronger demand at Omaha and Milwaukee,- is almost everywhere easier, so that the wants of legitimate business are met without trouble. The outlook for the coming crops- continues exceptionally good. Wheat rose to $1.16%, and at $1.15% is still 2 cents higher than a week ago, sales, here having been 73,000,000 bushels. and corn with sales of 73,01)0,000 bushels, and corn with sales of 35,000.000 bushels has risen 4% cents to- 78% cents, while oats at 59% cents are less than 1 cent higher. Pork produces have advanced, and coffee and oil a small fraction each, while cotton is ° a sixteenth lower The general average of prices reached its highest point this year, and though now a fraction lower is still 1 per cent, above last week. But manufactured products do not share in the advance, except in a few cases. The Iron market has a better tone. Copper is weaker,»tin steady, with lead a shade higher. Wool is selling steadily at Boston, and the very large consumption of Australian is a surprise. Carpet works at Phlladelphi are fairly busy.

MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prims..... $3.25 @ 6.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.00 4.75 Sheep.. 3.00 Whiat—No. 2 Bed 1.02 1.03 Cobx No. 266 @ .67 Oazts No. 2 ,53 <«) .54 Bye No. 2» '.85 @ , .87 Butter—Choice Creamery...... .25 .29 Cheese—Full Cream, flatsll .12 Eggs -Fresh .16 ©) .17 Potatoes—Weetern, per bu 1.05 @1.15 JNDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 5.50 Hogs-. Choice Light..... 3.00 1® 5.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.0 J @ 5.25 Wheat -No. 2 Red 1.00 @l.Ol Co bn —No. 1 White .67 @ .68 Oats-No. 2 White .5514 Z ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat- fjo. 2 Red 1.02 ©) 1.04 Coen—No, 263 @ .64 Oats—No. 2»53 @ .54 Barley—Minnesota74 @ .76 CINCINNATI. Cattle 8.00 @ 5.50 Hogs,. 3.00 ® 5.00 Sheep; 3.00 @6.00 Wheat—No: 2 Red 1.04%@ Corn —No. 2 60%@ .70H Oats—No. 2 Mixeds6 & .57 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat-o No. 2 Red 1.05 @1.06 Corn—No. 2 Yellow7l @ .72 Oats- No. 2 Whitess @ .57 TOLEDO. Wheat 1,04 ' a @ 1.05% Corn—Cash7l @ .73 Oats—No. 2 White...s4. @ ,i>s Clover Seed 4.50 @ 4.60 EAST LIBERTY. Cattt.b—Common to Prime 4.00 @5.75 Hogs—Light 3.25 @5.00 Sheep—Medium..' 4.00 @ 6.50 Lambs 6.00 @7.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring9o%@ ' .97% Corn—No. 3 .69 @ .70 Oats- No. 2 White .55 (ai ,5a Bye—No. 187 @ .89 Barley—No. 2 69 @ .70 Pobk—Mess..l2.oo @12.25 . NEW YORK. Cattle. 4.00 @ 6.50 Hogs... 3.25 os 4.75 Sheep.. 5.00 @6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.16 @1.19 Oobn—No. 2.:.....78 @ .80 Oats—Mixed Westernsß @ .59 Buttkb—Creamery .21 @ .39 Eggs—Western. 19 Q M Pons-New Men. 18.95 @14.00 I

PLEASURE AND PAIN ENTERING INDIANA HEARTS AND HOMES. Colombas Dwarf Dead—Favorable Test or the Sugar-Beet—Fouad Dead la Bed— Bow 815,000 Church at Martinsville— Accidents. Deaths, and Suicides. —John Cotton, a pioneer of SL Joseph County, is dead. —LaPorte trotting club’s races come off July 3 and 4. —Over three hundred people •in Edinburg have the grip. —Martinsville is soon to have a new $15,000 furniture factory. —Washington’s going to manufacture smokeless fuel to cost $4.50 per ton. County farmers never had a better outlook for a big wheat crop. —American Starch Company, Columbus, uses 6,000 bushels of corn per day. —The coal underlying a twelve acre tract in Parke Connty sold for $50,000. —William Paddock, an aged citizen, was found dead in bed at Cambridge City. —Henry Grevie, Aurora, attempted suicide by hanging; found, cut down, will live, —Lewis Willy and Isaac Sefton sue the Deeatur Connty Agricultural Society for $5,335; —Eli Stussman, a brakeman on the Nickel Plate, was fatallv crashed at Wanatah. —Wm. Patterson died at New Albany from injuries received in a railway accident there. —Religious revivals and la grippe have made the winter of '9l a memorable one to Indianans. —A new bank is being organized by some of the leading German citizens in New Albany. ° —Met Tarlton. Greenwood, tried to suicide with morphine. Stomach pump restored him. —Mrs. Maiinda Brown, one of the oldest and best-known settlers of Cass County, is dead. —The members of the Christian Church in Martinsville, are preparing tobpild a new $15,000 church. —George E. Toner, of Edinbyrig, has a hen that has laid an egg which measures 6%x9X inches. —On the farm of Charles Fields, near Union City, the bones of a large mastodon were unearthed.

—While prospecting for oil at Terre Haute a vein of valuable coal was struck aj, a depth of 175 feet. —Elder E W. Hammond, of Spencer, has been called to the pastorate of the Christian Church in Seymour. 7—John Loew and George W. Taylor, of Aurora, indulged in a shooting affray, bjjt iio serious injuries resulted. —A South Bend saloon keeper had to pay S4O for selling whisky to four school boys—all under 12 years of age. —Miss Jane Slader, of Walesboro, was run over by a cow. sustaining injuries from which she may not recover. —The barn on the farm of John Overstreet, near Greenwood, burned, cremating six head of horses and two cows. —Rush Chambers, Columbus, attacked by a mad cow last week, had to have a limb amputated, will die from the shock. —A calf with two tails, one growing out between its shoulders, is an interesting curiosity In a neighborhood near New Albany. —Mrs. Cornelius DeHilt, Lafayette, fell dead in her husband’s arms as he was assisting her from a carriage.- Heart disease. * —A breeders' association has been organized atEimdale, Montgomery County, where it is proposed to establish a large stock farm. —At Hope a company has been organized. with a paid-up capital stock of $6,000, for the manufacture of creamery 'butter and cheese. —The newspaper agents of New Albany have organized a protective association for united protection against- dishonest subscribers. —Supt. Kennedy, Muncie pulp works, arrested for violation of eight-hour lawcompelled his men to work ten hours without extra pay. —Mrs. John Hickler, of Terre Haute, received a painful wound from a bullet fired from a flobert rifle in the hands of a lad named Kloer. —The new glass factory in c< urse of construction at Dunkirk is nearing completion, and will be ready, for operation by the first of May. —The triplets, John, James, and Jacob Farley, residents of Wabash County, celebrated their sixtieth birthdav anniversary -recently. , —John Gleason, of South Bend, fell from a step-ladder, and was impaled on a meat-hook, which penetrated his side, inflicting a serious wound.' —While timber-cutters were, at work upon a tree near Lebanon, gas oozed from the saw-cut, and upon application of a match burned for twenty minutes. —At Lafayette. Capt. Daniel Drew was acquitted of the charge of murder preferred against him for the killing of a man to protect the honor of his Wife. —Hon. Ithamar Davison, a prominent farmer, was thrown from a vehicle a few miles west of Shelbyville, and badly hurt. He was at one time a member of the Legislature. —Little Charley Johnson, who went gleefully forth to play at Evansville with both pants pockets full of loose gunpowder, will not join his mates in merry spdrt for several weeks to come—he does not care for play now. —Thomas Hall, a dwarf, who died at Columbus recently, left an estate valued at $15,000. In his will he bequeathed 62,000 to the Christian Church. He died from the effects of a broken legs, which was the twenty-seventh time his leg had been broken. —While Dr. B. F. Hutchins, a prominent physician of Crawfordsville, was returning from the country, his horse upset the buggy, throwing him out and injuring him severely. One arm was broken, and an amputation may be necessary. .—The countafaseat war has broken out afresh in Perry County. The County Commissioners recently let the contract for building a new jail at Cannelton, the old county-seat. The Tell City people obtained an injunction restraining the tearing down of the old jail, but before the Injunction papers could be served the old jail was demolished.

—lndiana building stone quarries cover a surface of more than 300 square miles. —Clark Albertson and Anna Crone, living near Martinsville, were married last week. The bride is 38 years old and weighs 250 pounds; the groom is 19 and weighs 110. —As George W. Lane, of Harrison County, was accompanying Mrs. Amanda Harris home from church he was assaulted by three brothers of Mrs. Harris and severely handled. —ln the Orinoco furniture factory at Columbus, Frank Kennedy, aged 17, got his right hand caught in a shaping-ma-chine, and it was so badly crushed that it will require amputation. — : lt is reported that Florence Hurschell, whose mysterious disappearance from New Albany, several months ago, caused so much excitement in that city, is now in a Cincinnati hospital. —An unknown woman gave birth to a child on the midnight train at Staunton, and threw it from the backdoor of the car while in fast motion. The head struck the rail and was mashed. —“Bullfoot” Kernoodle, who is now serving a term at the Michigan City Penitentiary, is one of the three heirs to $4,600 pension money just allowed his deceased father, late of Crawfordsville. —George Knotts, Jack Puffinberger and George Bobertson, who were arrested for seining fish from White River in September last, were tried in the Circuit Court at Columbus. They were each fined SSO and costs. State Fish Commissioner Dennis was present during the entire trial and made a hard fight. Other prosecutions will follow. —Nixon Rush.. Sr., was run down ,by the local freight, while switching, at Fairmount, and fatally injured. He was walking alongside a switch when the corner of a box car struck him, knocking him down, and, his clothing catching somehow, he was dragged for some distance. Mr. Rush is deaf and did not hear the engine approaching. —A distressing accident occurred near Delphi. Augustus Stoner and Ovan Million were hunting ducks along the Tippecanoe river. The rifle Million carried was accidently discharged, and the bullet entered young Stoner’s abdomen, injuring him so badly that he died in a tew hobrs. The boys were 15 years of age, and both belonged to prominent families.

—A powerful gas well was opened up iu the geographical center of Kokomo, the only one that has been drilled in the city jimits for two years. It is owned by a local syndicate, who will sink other wells immediately. This well is for the purpose of supplping gas for operating an electric street railway and the Wat-son-B.runer planing mill and furniture factory. —Judge Snyder, .of the Montgomery County Court, has made a ruhng in the injunction suit Jo restrain of Crawfordsville from putting in an electric light plant for the purpose of supplying light for public purposes and to private consumers. He held that the city can put in the plant for the purpose of street-lighting, but could not furnish light to private consumers, unless the Supreme Court shall make a new ruling. —Gov. Hovey has pardoned Arthur Vance, of New Albany, who was sentenced to the Floyd Countv jail for thirty days for petit larceny. Since his incarceration his health has become impaired, and having consumption, his confinement was telling on him severely. He was sentenced March 10. Vance belongs to a good family and can live but a short time, the disease of which he is a victim being hereditary. He is 17 years old. The offense consisted of the theft of $2. —The test that was made in the growth of the German sugar beet in the soil of Bartholomew County has been made by a Government chemist, and is very satisfactory, The beets produced on the farm of Frank Graves show 14.1-10 per cent, sugar, or '280.20 pounds of sugar per ton. The Government bounty of 2 cents a pound on this showing would be $5.60 a ton. If raw sugar can be sold for 2 cents per pound, the product of one ton Would be $8.40, after paying the bounty. There will be a large amount of the French sugar-beet grown this season. It is estimated that at least four tons of these beets can be produced on one acre, which will make the crop profitable, and may tend to revolutionize the agricultural interest in tljat part of the State and establish a factory there. —Ratner a romantic marriage occurred at Russiaville recently. James R. Pollock, a wealthy farmer and widower, living two miles west of that city, was married to Mrs. Theresa Hudson, widow of the late William R.JHudson, and daughter of Hon. James Thompson, of Irvington. The ceremony was performed at high noon by Rev. Hayden Rayburn, at his residence in Kokomo, after which the wedding party drove to the country home of the groom, where they were cordially received by the members of the united families, consisting of several children from each. The romantic features of "the match are as follows: Twenty-five years James R. Pollock and Theresa Thompson were lovers? and their troth was plighted; but owing to some slight misunderstanding they drifted apart and each married other companions and each raised families. The last courtship was short and sweet, being rapidly ( developed into a happy consummation. ! —A strange coincident occurred*in the ' death of two brothers, John and Daniel French, farmers, of Vigo County. Daniel died suddenly one night, and while eating breakfast, the next morning, John fell from his chair and expired instantly. —Thomas Burton, aged 83, one of the oldest inhabitants of Connersville, died recently. He was a shop-mate with Andrew Johnson in a tailoring establishment in Nashville, Tenn. He also had a trunk given him by ex-Gov. Blue Jeans Williams.

• —The City Council of Noblesville have decided to advertise for bids for the construction of water-works on the rental system. Th e question was recently carried by a/popular vote, and the Council is now ready to receive bids for the construction of the works. - * —The other night there was hung to the flag-staff on the court house at Greensburg au effigy, with a black flag above and below. On the flag were words of warning, while attached to the effigy were several lines of a malicious nature written in red ink. The matter is causing much comment. .. ‘'V'f-'-’L. 'y- *

GONE TO THE BOTTOM. VIRGINIA LIFE-SAVERS DO NOBLE WORK. A Captain’s Wife and Chl'd and Six of a Norwegian Bark’s Crew Find Watery Grave’s Off Cape Henry—Thrilling Description. The Norwegian bark Dictator, from Pensacola, Fla., to West Hartlepool, England, laden with pine lumber, with a crew of fifteen and the captain’s young wife and little boy of 3 years, went ashore in a strong easterly gale four miles south cf Cape Henry, Va , and two miles north of the Virginia Beach Hotel. The weather was so thick that the vessel was not seen until 9 o’clock a. m., and then she was in the breakers broadside on, within a quarter of a mile of the shore. Full crews from two life-saving stations, those of Cape Henry and Seatick, under command of Captain Drinkwater, were promptly on hand and began firing lines to the ill-fated bark. The guns could not deliver the lines so far, though they were repeatedly fired. The ship finally succeeded in getting a line ashore tied to a barrel, which the surf carried to the life-savers. The breeches buoy was quickly rigged And sent to the vessel, but unfortunately the bark’s crew were ignorant of its use, and the rescue was delayed until Captain Drinkwayer, of the life-saving crew, wrote instructions, put them in a bottle, and sent it to the Dictator by the line connecting the vess?l with the shore. The men on board broke the bottle at Once, as could be seen by glasses from the shore, and proceeded to carry out the directions. The first man was delivered ashore in eight minutes, and seven others were rescued before sunset, four of whom came ashore in a life boat which was capsized, but the mon succeeded in reaching the shore in a half dead condition, one man having his arm broken. During the entire day the ship rolled and pitched terribly, and made the work of rescuing the unhappy sailors exceedingly difficult and slow, as the life line would tighten or slacken in response to the motion of the vessel. Once the line broke with a man midway to the shore, and he was hauled back to the bark half dead. The line was mended and the same man safely landed. The beach was lined with people who had come from the country houses and the hotel, and to the spectators the anxiety and suspense was awful, as they could plainly see the people on the bark and hear their constant cries for succor. At nightfall there were still nine persons on the bark, and among the number the captain, his wife, and little child. The captain had urged his wife all during the day to take the buoy and come ashore, but she steadily refused, as she would not leave her husband and child, and only one could take the buoy at a time. The wife and child were already greatly exhausted, according to the report of the sailors At night the work of rescue was continued! and the captain vainly besought his wife to make the attempt for life* It has been impossible to get the names of the rescued to-night, owing to the fact that they are entirely exhausted and all are foreigners. Lloyd’s register gives the captain’s name as Jorgonson. The bark is a complete wreck and went to pieces fast; the sea was tremendous. All that could be gathered from the half-dead sailors as to the cause of the stranding of the vessel was that they did not know where they were, the sun not having been seen for four days, and the weather so thick last night and this morning that they struck the breakers before they could see the coast. The life-savers worked all day with great heroism without food since morning. The apparently slow progress of the work of rescue is due to the fact that a life-boat could not live in the surf, and that the guns would not reach the bark, and that the crew could riot use the breeches buoy until they were instructed from shore, which caused great delay. The captain, just before the snip went to pieces, sprang into the sea with his son strapped to his back and reached the shore alive, but the boy was lost, making a total of eight lives The Dictator was trying to make Hampton Roads, having been fifteen days disabled by hurricanes.

WENT WEST FOR NAUGHT. A Pennsylvania Damsel Travels to Spokane Falls for a Husband to Meet Disappointment. An advertisement inserted in a Chicago matrimonial paper by Harry F. Fleming, a wholesale baker, of Spokane Falls, Wash., caught the eye of Miss Grace Glassgow, of Marklesburg, Pa. She is a petite brunette of 30, and is the eldest daughter of Professor Samuel L. Glassgow, a leading educator and prominent figure in Huntington County politics. An ardent correspondence ensued, photographs were exchanged and Miss Glasgow finally accepted a proposal of marriage from her unknown Western wooer. The gallant Fleming furnished her with a through ticket and an abundance of moneju<for the traveling expenses, and Miss Glasgow left quietly for Spokane Falls. The other night she returned unexpectedly to her parents’ home still unmarried, weary and dejected over her fruitless and fatiguing journey. She had met her fiance, but his material and physical charms were not in keeping with his written and pictured representation of himself, and so the disappointed damsel nullified the engagement with a frigid farewell bow. Big Mine in Danger of Floodiu?. At Plymouth, Pa., Dodson colliery,' one of the greatest in the coal fields, is in danger of total destruction. Water is breaking into it from abandoned workings. The mine is connected with a vast number of old works. The water has gained such headway that the work of pumping machinery seems to be of nc avail. The suspension of the colliery means a total loss of work to 800 men and boys. Liabilities Large, Assets Small. William Youngler, the owner of the large flour milljit Catasaqua, Pa., has made an assignment, having confessed judgment for $44,000, Other liabilities will swell the total to $90,000. The assets are $12,000. Closed by the sheriff! The doors of the wholesale clothing house of R. Newboner & Co , Milwaukee, are locked and the Sheriff is in possession. Kansas*'Direct Tax Refunded. The Treasury Department paid to the State of Kansas $60,918, its share of thu direct tax. Rabbit’s Foot Philosophy. The first snow flake of winter, how significant—and the first white hair. Beware of the man who has no petty vices. Some people spend their vacation ih worrying over the business they left behind them. She was regal, she was h4htghty, she was high-born and distinguished; and, like the rest of us, she was clay. Friendship at the highest height is stronger than love. Dig, sow and reap; but the harvest is Death’s. God sets the stars in the window of night to cheer the belated world as it rolls through the darkness. True hojjor despises evasions. Waste of money and time usually, go hand-in-haitd.—^lrkunsatc Traveler.

THE NEW SENATE. Vorty-aevoo KepabUeans. Tfclrty Democrats end Three Indepsodeata. All the Senatorial elections have bean held except in Florida and the election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Wilson, of Maryland. Democrats will, be chosen In Florida and Maryland. The new. Senate will have 47 straight Republicans, 3 Independents (Irby, of South Carolina: Kyle, of South Dakota; and Peffer, of Kansas), and 38 .Democrats. On national questions Peffer and Kyle are in sympathy with the Republican party, and Irby is a Democrat Following is a list of the members of the new Senate: Alabama— Montana — 1895 John T. Morgan. D 1813 W. F. Sanders, B 1897 James L. Pugh, D 1866 Thos. C. Powers, B Arkansas— Nebraska—--1895 James H. Berry, D 1893 A. 8. Paddock. B 1897 James K. Jones, D 1835 C. F. M.wtewny California— Nevada—--1893 Chas.N. Felton, B 1893 Wm. Iff. Stewart, B 1897 Leland Stanford, B 1887 John P. Jones. B Colorado— New Hampshire—--1895 Ed. O. Wolcott. B 11805 W. E. Chandler. B 1897 Henry M. Teller, 81897 J. H. Gallinger, B Connectiout— New Jersey—189a Jos. R Hawley, R 1893 Rufus Blodgett, D 1897 Orville H. Platt, R 1885 J.R McPherson. D Delaware— New York—--1893 George Gray, D 1893 Frank Hiscook, D 1895 Anthony Htggina.R 1891 David B. Bill, D Florida — North Caroltns1893 Samuel Pasco, D 1895 Matt W. Banaom.D 1897 A Democrat 1897 Z. B. Vance, D Georgia— North Dakota1893 A. H. Colquitt, D 1893 Lyman R Casey. B 1807 John B. Gordon, DIBO7 H.C. Hansbn>ugh,B Idaho— Ohio—--1893 Geo. L. Shoup. R 1893 John Sherman, B 1897 Fred T. Dubois, 81897 Calvin 8. Brice D Illinois— Oregon—--1895 A-M, Cullom, R 1895 Jos. M. Dolph, B 1897 John M. Palmer, D 1897 Jno. H. Mitchell, d Indiana— Pennsylvania—--1893 David Turpie, D 1893 M. 8. Quay. B 1897 D. W. Voorhees, D 1897 J. D. Cameron, B lowa— Rhode Island—--2895 Jas. F. Wilson. R 1893 N. W. Aldrich. B 1897 Wm. B. Allison, 81835 N. F. Dixon, B Kansas— K South Carolina — 1895 P. B. Plumb,Sß 1895 M. C. Butler, D 1897 Wm. A. Peffer, F A 1897 J. L. M. Irby, F A Kentucky— South Dakota—--1895 J. G. Carlisle. D 1893 F. R Pettigrew. B 1897 J. C. 8. Black b’n, Djlßd7 J. H. Kyle, Ind Louisiana— . Tennessee—--1895 RL. Gibson, D 1893 Williamß. Bate, D 1897 Ed D. White. D 11897 I. G. Harris. D Maine— I Texas—--1893 Eugene Hale, R 1893 JohnH. Reagan, D 1895 William P. Frye, R 11895 Richard Coke, D Maryland— I Vermont—--1893 A. P, Gorman, D 1893 G, F. Edmunds, B 1897 A Democrat 11897 J. F. Morrill, B Massachusetts— I Virginia1893 Henry L. Dawes, R 1893 John W. Daniel, D 1895 George F. Hoar, R 1895 John S. Barbour, D Michigan— 1 Washington—--1893 F.B. Stockbridge,R'lß93 John B. Allen. R 1895 James McMillan.R 1897 W. C. Squire, R Minnesota — I West Virginia1893 C. K. Davis, R (1893 C, J. Faulkner, D 1895 W. D. Washburn,R; 1895 John K. Keuna, D Mississippi— | Wisconsin1893 James Z. George, D. 1893 Philetus Sawyer,R 1895 E. C, Walthall, D >1897 Wm. F. Vilas. D Missouri— _ Wyoming—--1893 F. M. Cockrell, D 1893 "F. E. Warren, R 1897 George G. Vest, D |IBJS Joseph M. Carey, B TWO OF THE AVENGERS. Active Part Taken in New Orleans Politics by the Leader of the Anti-Mafia Mob. W. S. Parkerson.’who led the mob that lynched the eleven Sicilians in New Or-

leans, is about thir-ty-eight years of age aud a lawyer. He is a son of J udge Parkerson, of Lafayette, La. Mr. Park ers o n fl r s came into prominence two ago. when he organ s ized and led what » was known as the Young Men’s Democratic Association, an independent organization which

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revolted from the regular Democratic party, placed an independent ticket in the field and swept New Orleans by the largest majority ever known. The organization was more or less secret, and a committee of seventeen, at whose head was Mr. Parkerson. made all nominations. It was believed that the regular Dem-

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AU YVO9 UCIIUIUU VAX ocracy, or “The Ring,” as it was called, would count in the defeated candidates. The Young Men’s Democratic Association was organized on a militarybasis, and during the three or four days while the ballots were being counted a company armed with Winchester rifles stood on duty at every

polling place in the city and watched the count. The success of the campaign exceeded all expectations, the Y. M. D. A. carrying everything, electing the Mayor and all the city officials, the Council, Sheriff and all the members of the Legislature except three. For this success most of the credit is given to Mr. Parkerson, who shoved unusual leadership. He declined office and devoted himself to private practice. Another potent factor in the recent affair was John C. Wickliffe, whoso speech at the Clay statue set the mob in motion. He is a business man of .excellent standing, is cool-headed and determined. Mr. Wickliffe is one of the progressive young men of the Crescent City. A Wise Father. Here, for instance, is a story, taken from the Chicago Heral'l. of a boy who wished for a half-holiday, but, as his father knew, was not really in want of it. When I was about 11 years old I one day rebelled against going to school. I preferred the hook and line and the babbling brook, and I said to father, a farmer, at the dinner-table: “Can’t I stay out of school this afternoon ?* “Oh, yes,” he answered, promptly, to my no little surprise. I ate my dinner with keen anticipation of a jolly afternoon, but as we rose from the table father said: “Come with me. I need a little help in picking up the fallow ground.” When the trees of the forest were felled they were cut into logs, rolled together, and burned, after which it was necessary to pick up the charred sticks and make smaller heaps for an-, other fire. When father said, “Come with me,” I knew what he meant, and I went. At night 1 was as black as a negro and sour as a lemon, and the next morning I said: “Father, I think I would rather go to school to-day.” “All right.” he answered, “go ahead,” and after that I was careful not to ask for a holiday without very good reason. , '■ Enforcing Prohibition in Dakota The first arrest for violation of the State prohibition law in North Dakota occurred at Bismarck, when Millard Shibley was brought before a city justi<& by the State’s Atterney The Sheriff searched Shibley’s place, where considerable liquor was found and retained for evidence. Prisoner Jumps from a Train James Kierk, a sentenced criminal, while in charge of a deputy sheriff en route to Jefferson City. Mo., jumped through the window of a train which was running forty miles per hour. He was evidently unhurt, as he made his escape. Chopped Off Hlb Wife’s Head. At Wheeling. W. Va., Peter Richtpond ordered his wife to pick up a pair of scissors. When she refused he seized an ax and chopped her head off. He then attacked his mother, but was overpowered by neighbors. He is supposed to bo Insane. = V"*