Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1891 — Page 6

@he Qetnoctal DE3CJA.TUR, IND. N. BLACKBURN, - -' - Publisher. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. BLOODY ENCOUNTER BETWEEN BOSSES AND STRIKERS. Three Killed and Thirteen Injured in a Collieihn—Tortured Unto Death—Michigan Forest Fires—Oil Wells on Fire. * helpless men shot down. Bloody Encounter Between Bosses and Strikers. A special from Denver says: A terrible battle took place in City Park between F. N. Davis and Ed. Davis, (white,) and Jno. White, Tom Davis, E. Farris, J. W. Smith, and James Blackburn, (colored,) on one side and some fifty or more strikers on the other. One man was killed, two men were fatally shot and about twelve others wounded. The fight was at close range and was brought about by the brickmakers’strike which has been in progress for some time. F. N. Davis and son, proprietors of the brickyards, with eight negroes, armed with double-barrelled {funs heavily loaded with buckshot, started for the yards with the intention of beginning work or dying in the attempt, As they neared the yards a party of strikers, headed by Frank Surber, appeared and asked that they be allowed to talk to the men who were going to work. Davis replied that the men did not want to talk and ordered the strikers to allow his men to pass. This thgrftrikers would not do, and Davis' and his son and five men opened fire on the strikers. Immediately after thfb firing began the strikers ran, except those who were too badly hurt to get away, and Davis with his men proceeded to the yard where they surrendered to an officer and were locked Up. Immediately after the shooting a United Press reporter arrived on •the scene of the trouble and found a large crowd of men there, being attracted by the shooting. A number of the striks ers who had at first fled from the scene, returned, but some were away having their wounds attended to. Thomas Kelly was lying on the ground breathing painfully and dying. Beside him was his sister, a girl about fourteen years of ago, almost crazy with grief and moaning most piteously. Before he was too far gone to speak, Kelly stated that F. N. Davis was the man who shot him. He then fell back fainting. Kelly was not a striker and only went to the place out of curiosity. John Ridenour, who was also mortally wounded, was taken to the Sisters’ Hospital, where he now lies in a dying condition. W. J. Shumutc.who was one of the injured,said: “We were sitting under the trees when Davis came up with their guns on-their arms. Mr. Surber said: ‘Mr. Davis, we would like to talk to these men.’ Davis replied: ‘Gcioutof this, we want no talking,’ and immedi- ’ ately shouted‘lire,’ and emptied his gun at the strikers. When poor Ridenour fell, vonng Davis shot him after he was down.” A number of men who were present at the time of the shooting corroborated the account of the shooting. PEKIDS OF THE RAIL. Three Killed and Thirteen Injured in a Triple Collision at Shepherd, Michigan. An extra freight from the north approaching the yard at Shephard, Mich., ran into fourteen loaded log cars, wrecking engine No. 20 and the caboose. The men on this train jumped and escaped uninjured. The force of the collision started thirteen cars down the grade, through the Shepherd yards, to a mile south of Shepherd, where the .rest of the train was being loaded with logs. In the collision which followed three men were killed and thirteen ' injured. Following is the list of the killed and injured: Killed, Z s Bigelow, Clark E, Stubbles and Sherwood Clark, all of Shepherd. Injured, Charles Walling, badly bruised and head smashed; Jay Strubble, slightly bruised; John Kennedy, bruised slightly; Amos Pickett, breast injured; O. H. Farrel, shoulder badly smashed and dangerous scalp wound; C. Huntington,\ back injured; Frank Hartford, spine injured; Augustus Ride, head and leg badly injured, Geo. Starr, shoulder bruised; Lew Cole, shoulder bone broken; James Wilson, severely bruised. All these live in Shepherd. Conductor Anway, ~of Owosso, was slightly injured, and Brakeman Squires, of Owosso, had his breast and head injured. The injured are quartered at farm houses, except those who were able to be moved to their homes. Tortured Unto Death. Frankie, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weber, of 123 Maumee avenue, Fort Wayne, died from the effects of being scalded about his face, hands and body. The circumstances are painfully sad. The child playfully caught hold of the teapot, which stood on the kitchen stove, and pulling the vessel tod near the edge, it was upset and the boiling contents showered over the little one’s body. Medical attendance was summoned, but the "child was beyond the physician’s power. The child lingered in great agony a few hours, when its sufferings ceased with the flight of breath from its body. Oil Wells on Fire. Thirteen of the oil wells of the Fuel Supply Company at Pine Grove, Pa., are on fire. Several fishermen have been arrested for setting fire to the forest. Another National flank. The First National Bank of Elizabeth City, N. C., has been authorized to begin business. Michigan 1-orest Fires. „ o Forest fires are raging in Newaygo • County. The villages of Otis, Fields and Park City have been entirely destroyed, and the hotel and depot at Lilley are all », that remain of that village. A great ; number of cars belonging to the Chicago and West Michigan Railway have also been burned. The above named places are villages of about three hundred people each. Gladstone Has the La Grippe. Gladstone is down with influenza and grave, fears are entertained by his friends. A Fotomac Catastrophe. Baltimore special: A three cornered collision occurred in the Potomac River, near quarantine, in, which the brig Edith, with a full cargo qf sugar, went down, and the schooner Henry S. Little and the tug» Peerless were badly damaged. The cargo of sugar was worth $40,000. The total loss is estimated at 565,000; insured. x The crew of the brig had a narrow escape from death, while’one of the men on the schooner was seriously injured. The Edith and Peerless Yvcre at anchor when the Little was seen bearing down * upon them with every sail set. The Judith sank in a few minutes. 'Louis

. i Nelson, of 33 Commercial street, Boston, had a leg broken. The lost brig was owned by Hutchinson Brothers, of New York. The responsibility has not yet been placed. TBBBIBLB FIRE. Eight Acres of Lumber Burning Fiercely. A special from New YorK dated the 27th inst., says: Fire started in the Doncaster Iron Foundry at West avenue and Flushing street, Long Island City, entirely consuming the building with its contents. The Clark & Sampson feed mills, next door, also took fire and were burned to the ground. The flames then spread to the immense lumber yards across the street, which cover seven or eight acres, or thirteen city blocks. At midnight all of the lumber in these yards was burning, with no possible hope of saving any of it. This immense lumber district is situated on the north side of New Town Creek. Just across the creek are many oil refineries and a terrible conflagration will follow if they should become ignited. Fortunately the wind is blowing the other way and this will not occur unless it changes and carries the flames across the creek. To the north of the burning district is the new station of the Rock Island Railroad, and as a high wind prevails in that direction it will probably be burned. The firemen are directing all their efforts to save this property. AH the locomotives of the company are in readiness to pull out all the cars in the yard if the depot should begin to burn. The loss cannot be estimated now, but will considerably exceed a million dollars. The fire lights up New York and Jersey City and the surrounding country for miles and presents a magnificent spectacle. There was a great deal of shipping in New Town Creek which was towed out into the East River by the tugs of the Standard Oil Company,which concern controls the immense oil works. A Frightful Death. -aj By the explosion of a can of gasoline Miss Jennie Tucker, aged 19 years, was burned to death at Chicago. A can of gasoline for house cleaning purposes had been placed besides the register in the bathroom of her uncle Prof. Loomis’ house. • It is supposed that the heat from the register forced the stopper from the can and allowed tjhe fumes of the gasoline toescape. Miss Tucker went,to the bath room to get some of the fluid and struck a match to light the gas. The flame ignited the fumes from the gasoline can, which immediately exploded, enveloping her in a sheet of flame. The screams of the unfortunate girl could be heard, but as she had fallen on herback, against the door, those outside were powerless to open it. When they finally succeeded in opening the door Miss Tudker was found stretched on the floor, her lower limbs burned almost to a crisp. She died a few moments afterward. Prof Loomis, with his wife, was seriously burned attempting to rescue her. Au American and His Daughter Assaulted iu Italy. Mr. Wm. Jacques, of Newton, Mass., who with his daughter was assaulted by an Italian mob in Florence, is the electrician of the American Bell Telephone Company, and well known in Boston and the principal cities of the country. He sailed from New York for England and the Continent about a month since for pleasure, and intended to be absent about five or six months. He was accompanied bv his wife and two children, both daughters, one about 8 and the other about 10 years old. He is a man of about 40 years and of a very quiet and unpretentious disposition. He very seldom expresses any opinion concerning public matters, and his friends are entirely at a loss to understand how such a man could become the victim of a mob. He is a highly cultured gentleman and was formerly a professor at the Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore. Killed in Church. J. T. Stephenson and three brothers named Cuinbo, the former married and the latter three single, .were engaged in tearing down the old Southern Methodist Church at Ashland, Kv., when the ceiling on which they Were standing fell with a crash, burying the four men beneath' the debris. Mr, Stephenson •died in a few minutes after being removed, but the other three men are yet alive, with small chances of recovery. One of the Cumbo boys sustained a fractured skull, and had a hip broken ‘’in three places. The other two are not mangled, but have serious internal injuries. The old church building has been standing for more than thirty years, and the roof was constructed after the truss bridge fashion. A new church building is to be erected on the old church site. Deatli in a Well. Emahuel Ulrich, a farmer living near Maples, Allen County, Ind., met an almost instant death from fire damp at the bottom of a well. Mr. Ulrich informed his family that he wanted to find out what was the matter with the well, and to do so he had to go to the bottom of the pit. When Mr. Ulrich had descended about twenty feet, he suddenly relaxed his hold and fell to the bottom. It was evident he had been overcome by the dreaded damp and was beyond human aid. After repeated efforts- a rope was looped around the body and it was drawn to the surface. The heart had cealed its action and the man was beyond resneitation. Mr. Ulifich leaves a family. / A Radical Flop. The New York Herald has come out with a bold and remarkable announcement of which the following is but a line. It suffices, however, to give the drift of the announcement: “Our candidate, James G. Blaine, the man who attends to business and does not go masquerading about the country.” President Harrison seems to have awakened the ire of the Herald to a tremendous degree, as for the past few months this journal has been- conducting a systematic fight on Blaine and all his pet measures. The Herald’s flop is creating considerable comment. They Must Be Fixed at Home, A New York dealer in watches says he has in stock a number of fine imported watches, which are out of order and cannot be repaired in the United States, and he asked the Treasury Department if he might send them to Switzerland for repairs and have them returned to the United States free of duty. A negative answer was given by the department, on the ground that there is no provision of law authorizing the free entry of foreign merchandise exported and returned to the United States. Captured a Train. Citizensof Waynetown,* Wayne County/ Ind., and a number of the employesof th® Midland railroad, captured a train and are holding it at that place. They say that no trains shall pass through the place till the employes are paid. The men are backed by the most substantial citizens of the town. The trainmen called upon the local officials when the train was stopped, but they refused to interfere. ’ V Crushed to Death. Passenger trains No. 7, west-bound, and No. 10, east-bound, on the Pan Handle road, collided at Suscarwas, Pa. Daniel Longenecker, baggagemaster, of Columbus, Ohio, was instantly killed. C. D. Rogers and Otto Miller, postal clerks, of Indianapolis, and G. F. Marvin, express messenger, were badly injured, being cut about the head and limbs. Their bodies are also contused. The *• ■■ *< ■ ►. Ac*

1 L . i engineers and firemen of both trains jumped and escaped injury. Terrible Mine Explosion. An explosion occurred in Ocean mine, near Clarksburg, W. Va., which resulted in the death of four miners and serious injury to several others. A fire followed the explosion which is still burning. Those killed are: Joseph Feather, 50 years old, of Connellsville, Pa. Wm. Dougherty, 35 years old? of Bridgeport. Nathan Gaines, 35, Clarksburg. Chas. Welsh, 23, Clarksburg. The body of the last named victim was the only one recovered. It was found some distance from the pit with the clothes entirely burned off. The heat from the burning mine caused a suspension of the search for the other bodies. Murderer Ford Hanged. Ford, the murderer, was hanged at Ottawa, 111. The crime for which Ford suffered the death penalty was the murder, on June 23, 1880, of David Moore, an Omaha traveling man. Ford’s wife, Kate, enticed Moore to Allen Park, on the banks of the Illinois River, where he was set upon by Ford and one Bill O’Brien and beaten to death with railroad coupling pins. Mrs. Ford and a woman named Winterling, who were suspected of complicity in the murder, remain to be tried. Arsenic in the Coffee Fot. Mrs. George Carter, who lives with her husband and family in Lawrence County, Ky., made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to poison her entire family with arsenic. Fot some time the woman has been despondent and her friends feared she was insane. One day recently she put a quantity of arsenic in the coffee pot. After the family had partaken of the meal all became violently ill. Medical assistance was called. Killed by His Wife. Chicago special: While in jail in the suburban town of Austin, Alfred Townsley, a gambler, was shot and killed by his wife, who has of late been separated from him, residing in Lafayete, Ind. The charge against Townslcy was that of many times repeated criminal assaults upon his 18-year-old step-daughter,whose father was Townsley’s brother. Mrs. Towrisley was arrested. There was no witness to the tragedy. A Woman in the Case. The Union Pacific Tea Company, of New York, with ninety-five branches in that and many other cities, has assigned without preferences. The senior partner, Robert P. Mcßride, was divorced from his wife recently on the ground of cruelty and intoxication, and was ordered to pay her $6,000 a year alihiony. McBride said at the time that his business did not warrant so large a payment. Only a Baby Boy. A mysterious case of cancer of the stomach has just come to a head at Bloomingsburg, Ohio. Miss Ada Noble, the 34-year-old daughter of prominent parents, was taken ill several months ago, and for a long time has been bedfast and under medical treatment for cancer of the stomach, What was the surprise of everybody a day of so ago, however, when Miss Noble gave birth to fine large baby boy. Big Demand for Dimes. The demand for dimes upon the United States Treasury is so great that it can not be met. Within the past ten days $174,090 in dimes lias been shipped and orders for $60,000 are now awaiting to be filled. There -has been ordered, smelted and coined into dimes at the several Sub-Treasuries $231,000 of debased silver coin. Caught In a Burning Mine. •J There is a serious fire raging in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company’s No. 4 Colliery at Summit Hill, Pa. One man is still in the mine. Hugh Sharp, of Lansford, and Hugh Black, and Wm. Geary, of Summit Hill, wore severely burned in making their escape. The mines will have to be flooded. Manning Damaged. The fire at Manning, lowa, was the work of an incendiary. It broke out in the Postoffice Block, and - destroyed the hotel, postoflice, three dry goods stores, three groceries, a restaurant, three saloons, a jewelry store, drug store and a clothing store. The loss exceeds $125,000, with but little insurance. The Prince of Wales in a Hole. London society has been convulsed this week by stories of the insolvency of the Prince of Wales. It is said that he was $3,000,000 in debt, caused by gambling. The Queen has put up $1,500,000 to keep her heir-apparent from compounding with his creditors. » Wrecked and Crew Drowned. London special: The British ship Craigburn. Melbourne from Liverpool, was wrecked by a severe southerly gale which swept over Victory. The vessel was shattered and five of her crew were drowned. Thaddeus Stevens’ Estate. Edward McPherson, last surviving executor of the estate of Thaddeus Stevens, has filed a final account after nineteen years’ service. The balance on hand is $50,349. An Honest Failure. ' Comptroller Lacey says that he regards the failure of the Spring Garden National Bank, of Philadelphia, Pa., as “an honest failure, and not a bad one.” Swallowed Concentrated Lye. The 2-year-old child of Milton English, of Alliance, Ohio, drank concentrated lye and died. THE MARKETS.' CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prim®s3.so @ 6.50 Hooa—Shipping Grades 4.50 @ 5.25 Sheep. 4.50 @ 6.75 Wheat-No. 2 Red 1.014 @ 1.024 Cohn—No. 264 @ .66 Oats—No. 2 .52 & .53 Bye—No. 284 .83 Butter—Choice Creamery 26 @ .28 Cheese—Full Cream, flatslo4@ .11% Eggs—Fresh 134@ .144 per bu 1.00 & 1.10 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—shipping 3.50 @ 6.00 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 5.00 Sheep—Common to Prime...... 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 1.03 & 1.034 Corn—No. 1 White 694@ .704 Oats—No, 2 Whites 6 @ .57 bT. LOUIS. Cattle 4.00 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.01 @ 1.02 Cobn—No. 2614@ .62% Oats—No. 253 @ .54 Barley—lowa....'..' .75 @ .80 CINCINNATI. Cattle 300 @ 5.75 Hog* 3.00 @ 5.25 Sheep 4.00 & 5.25 Whevt— No. 2 Red 1.06 @1.07 Corn—No. 2 70%@ .71% Oats—No. 2 Mixed.. .56 @ .58 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.00 jfiHEEP t 3.00 & 5.50 ‘What-No. 2 Rod 1.08 @ 1.09 j-gtiiN—No. 2 Yellow7o @ .71 Ifkis—N,o. 2 Whitess & .56 TOLEDO. Wheat.’.... 1.06 @lO7 Corn -Cash7o @ .71 Oats—No. 1 Whitesl @ .52 Clovbh Seed 4.15 @ 4.25 EAST LIBERTY. Sattle— Common to Prime.... 4.25 @ 6.25 oos—Light 3.25 @ 5,50 Sheep—Medium 5.25 @ 5.50 Lambs. 5.75 & 6.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Springo9 @ 1.00 Corn—No 3 66 @ .68 OATS—No. 2 White .54 & .55 Rye—No. 190 @ .91 Barley—No. 2 78 & .75 Pork—Messl2.oo @12.25% NEW YORK. Cattle 4.75 @ 6.50 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.75 Sheep... 5.75 @ 8.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed;.. 1.12 @ll4 Cobn—No. i. 82 @ .83 Western .56 @ .62 Butter—Creamery 25 @ .80 Eggs—Western...... .164@ .17% Pork—New «... 18.50 @14245

~ HELD UP TO THE LIGHT IS THE DAILY LIFE OF MANY INDIANANS. Woman Burned to Death—A Pony in a Well—*3o,ooo Sensational Suit atEvannvllle— Deaths. Accidents, Etc. —Laporte complains of bad streets. —Y. M. C. A. organized at Vincennes. —Delphi’s waterworks will cost $38,000. —New Albany has 7,801 school children. —Marion bootblacks have formed a union. —Anderson’s new rolling mill will empty 250 men. —Big fight against the demon rum is on at Mitchell. —Crawfordsville has lost $19,000 by fire the past ye air. ! —A cat at Vincennes has adopted three young squirrels. —Lewis Gekeler, Lancaster, fatally injured by a horse kick. —Farmer Stevens, near Walkerton, has struck oil on his place. —Peru people can’t decide whether or not to pen up the town sow. —Rev. John Stuck committed suicide by hanging at Boundary City. —Mrs. Biondell nearly died at Brazil from an overdose of laudanum. —A. P. Craig, train robber, given ten years and SSOO fine at Laporte. —The Edinburg ice-plant will soon commence the manufacture of ice. —Ground has been broken for the new Theological Hall of DePauw University. —Stephen Jenks’ house burned down at Dana. Loss $3,000, insurance $1,200. —Columbus street car line to be extended out to Orinoco, fashionable suburb. —Crawfordsville will issue $30,000 worth of bonds to pay for electric light plant. —Elkhart , Globe tissue paper works burned down. Loss $30,000; insurance $15,000. —lsaac Miller, aged 87, and Sarah Graves, aged 79, were married at Ladoga. —A Piqua, Ohio, firm is arranging to manufacture farm implement handles at Columbus. —Minerva Cross, a maiden lady 63 years old, was found dead in her bed at Rushville. —A farmer’s wife in Putnam County has hatched 463 chickens by incubation this spring. —Chas. Combs feel from a kitchen loft at Reddington, nose broken and otherwise disfigured. —C. H. Hancock, Seymour, clipped 14J< pounds of wood from al-year-old Scuthdown sheep. —Claude Murrer, 6 years old, horribly bitten by a dog at Fortvi e, is threatened with hydrophobia. —The Prison South contains 599 inmates, the largest number since Warden Patten assumed charge. e , —Louisa Lows, of Manchester, on her 87th birthday,fell and broke her hip bone, from whiqh she soon died. —A child of Alfred Mead’s Daviess County, was frightened by a hog and is going blind from the shock. —Oliver Wood received the naval cadetship appointment at the competitive examination held at Tipton. —Joseph Bangard sues Alonzo Smith for $30,000 damages at Evansville—alienated his wife’s affection. —Thomas Sternberry, a hostler at Brazil, was cornered and kicked into insensibility by a vicious horse. —Outbreak of hydrophobia and measles ‘ in Clay County. One child died with measles and several more dangerously sick. —Wm. Smelser, a Jeffersonville telegraph operator, home from New Orleans, tells that he helped massacre the Mafia gang. —Standard Oil Company’s building a large plant at Columbus for storing refined oil for distribution in southern part of State. —Johnny Keimnitz, 12 years old, killed by the cars at South Bend. His, sister was killed on same road a short time ago, —A Crawfordsville woman rushed into her burning dwelling and rescued a canary bird, thereby receiving several ugly burns. —Joseph Banyard, of Evansville, claims $30,000 damages from Alonzo Smith as the price of his (Banyard’s) wife’s affections. (j —Corydon is prqud of a broad-spread-ing elm under whose branches, tradition says, a session of the Indiana territorial legislation was once held. —There is a married woman 1n Montgomery County who does carpenter work, hangs paper, digs cellars, etc., besides doing all her own housework. —Jackson Rust, of Jeffersonville, found an Indian skeleton in the creek, it having been washed down during high waters from an old burying-ground. —Walter Wisehart, Smartsburg gallant, escorting Tessie McFeeley home from meetin’, accidentally shot her with a weapon he carried for her defense. —The mother of Dr. Claire Taylor, of Peru, requested' that her heart, hands, and feet be preserved in alcohol and taken to France after her death, and the doctor has left Peru to carry out the instructions. —The name of New Providence has been changed to Borden back to New Providence and over the fence again to Borden within a few months. —Midland-agent Mooreland, Lapel, concealed S6O in a waste basket for safety—janitor emptied contents of basket into a fire, burned up money and all. —Ah Leon, Chinese laundryman, Evansville, 50 years old, ugly as mud, fell desperately in love with a handsome young lady in that city and was arrested for dogging her footsteps. —The family of Thomas Knox, of Cambridge City, has been poisoned by eating weinerwurst sausages. One child is dead, and four others critically affected. —The body of a woman was found under a raft in the Ohio River, hear New Albany, supposed to be that of Florence Hirshall, who has been missing since December. —Mrs. John Creviston, near Higginsville, was trying to save their farm fences from an approaching timber fire, wfcen her clothing ignited, burning her to 5

—The first accident since the electric street railroad went into operation two years ago, happened in Richmond last week. A little boy was pushed under a car by * girl playmate, being ground to pieces. —Miss Lizzie Barnett, Crawfordsville Salvation Army soldier, kicked by a mule, declares she’s going to die; doctors say she isn’t; she knows better, she is, too, ’cause she had a “death warning” just a short time ago. —At Greensburg the 4-year-old daughter of John Lawrence fell in a spring and was drowned. There was only about eight inches of water, but the child was unable to recover herself, and was dead when the mother found her. —Aaron B. Scott, one of the pioneer merchants of Peru, and who was prominently identified with its advancement for forty years, died of paralysis, aged 76 years. He was one of the oldest Knights Templars in Northern Indiana. —Quite a number of “queer” half-dol-lars are being circulated in and around Edinburg. They made their appearance the first time within the'past few days. They bear dates of 1854 and 1856, and are light in weight and color. They are also easily mutilated. —A colored man in Crawfordsville, besides carrying a rabbit’s foot and other voodoo articles, has lately secured the dried handbf a child, which he keeps in his vest pocket. He secured this human relic in the West and considers it a charm more powerful than the incantations of a voodoo doctor. —Henry Harris has twenty acres of la-nd in German Township, Shelby County, on which, twenty years ago, Henry Maley purchased 100 fine walnut trees for $3,300. Last week Maley purchased seventy-five walnut trees on this same tract for $1,600. There is yet SI,OOO worth of ash and oak timber on |he tract —Bedford can now boast of three banks. A' new bank, organized under the State just been incorporated under the name of the Citizens’ Bank of Bedford, with a capital stock of $50,000. Col. A. C. Voris is President, and J. R. Voris, Cashier. The directors are W. H. Martin, John Hasse, F. D. Norton, and J. R. Voris. —Wm. Wrightman, living near Middletown, who has kept se.eral hundred G> bushels of wheat stored in his barn for a year, while removing the wheat for market, found an old pocketbook containing $11,500 in gold coin and paper eurrency. How the money came there is a mystery.* The money has been placed in the bank at Middletown. —Rev. Gee, Attorney M. Cf. Rhoads, Dr. M. L. Hall, and several other prominent citizens of Newport went to the Wabash River fishing. They tied their te"ams some distance from the river, and when they returned one of Attorney Rhoads’ fine ponies was missing. After searching some time the animal was discovered at the bottom of an old well, into which ho had fallen. The pony was small and easily hauled out of the well, slightly worse off for his fall. —The Attorney General has been asked: “Is a convict, who is granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, and returned to his County, entitled to sls as provided by the law?” Green Smith’s opinion says: “The law says that every convict who shall have served six months or more when discharged shall be furnished with sls. A convict is not discharged when a new trial is granted; the custody of the prisoner is simply shifted from the warden of the prison to the County Sheriff, and in a legal sense is not discharged.” —The Episcopal minister at Crawfordsville the other night by woeful yelps of a dog. A search revealed the fact that the dog had fallen into a dry well under his house. He planned and carried out several schemes tqget the dog out in vain. As a last resort he got a rope and made a lasso on the end. After a few minutes’ time he got the head of the dog in the lasso and then pulled the dog out The animal was almost choked to death when he reached the top of the well, but soon recovered breath and started for home on the run. —Great excitement has been caused at Burrows by a gang of so-called White Caps, who have been trying to terrorize the community for the last eight months. A mob has been meeting secretly at various times recently, and the other night collected at midnight and aroused from bed some, of the best citizens. They have for some time been sending “White Cap” letters threatening to burn and do bodily harm. They threaten to burn the Wabash Railroad depot. There is strong talk of a vigilance committee getting in some effective work if this state of affairs continues. —At Muncie, Patrick Ford came within a hair’s breadth of losing his life. Constable J. K. Miller called at Ford’s home to subpoenea him. The little Irishman was intoxicated and refused to go. As Miller took hold of him Ford pulled a revolver, but the officer was too quick and fired first. The ball hit Ford over the left eye and miraculously glanced off, plowing a furrow to the ear. Miller, supposing he had blown out the man’s brains, gave himself up. While going to look after the dead man the horrified officers met Ford on his way to demand the arrest of Miller for attempted murder. —John Kohback, fatally injured in a runaway accident at Fort Wayne. —A man living near Jamestown would not go to thq funeral of his daughter because she did not die at home. —John Evered, "of Peru, hid S2OO in greenbacks in an old stove, and his wife set fire to rhe rubbish without realizing its contents. —The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision giving the widow of brakeman David L. Pearcy, of North Vernon, SB,OOO damages. —Luther T. Browji, a life prisoner at Michigan City, has been paroled by the Governor. Brown was sent from Madison County, in 1885, for the murder of Eli B. Cummins. The two men were rivals fc&r the hand of a pretty girl, and had two fights in consequence. Brown was badly whipped in the first of these affrays, but in the second he stabbed Cummins. The plea is that there was strong provocation for the deed, Brown having been humiliated by his rival before a company of young people, whereat his temper got the best of him and a fight ensued with the above-noted result 5 .. '

GALES IT AN "ERROR.” SECRETARY BLAINE’S SHARP “ REPLY. He Trips Up the Italian Premier on His Beeent Communication—An Alleged Telegram Not Delivered in Strict Confidence at Washington. Secretary Blaine replied to the dispatch of Premier Rudini to the Marquis Imperial!, which was made public in a green book at Rome and telegraphed to this country. The Secretary is even more sharp in the tone of the cablegram he sent to Rome than before, and distinctly contradicts a statement of the Italian Premier. The dispatch is as follows: Department or State, ) Washington, D. C., May 4, 1891. f Porter, Minister, Rome: A series of statements addressed to the Marquis Imperial! by the Marquis Rudini was telegraphed from Rome yesterday, and was published by the press of the United States to-day. The only part of the Marquis Rudlni’s communication which this Government desires to notice- is the one here quoted, namely, “I have now before me a nate addressed to you by Secretary Blaine, on Abril 14. Its perusal produces a most painful impression on me. I will not stop to lay stress upon the lack of conformity with diplomatic usages displayed in making use, as Mr. Blaine did not hesitate to do. of a portion of a telegram of mine communicated to him in strict confidence, in order ta get rid of a question clearly defined In our official documents, which alone possess a diplomatic value.” The telegram of March 24, concerning whose public use the Marquis Rudini complains, is the following, which was quoted in full in my note of April 14 to Marquis Imperial!, Charge d’Affaires of Italy at this capital: Rome. March 24, 1891. Italian Minister, Washington: Our requests to the Federal Government are very simple. Some Italian subjects acquitted by the American magistrates have been murdered in prison while under the Immediate protection of the authorities. Our right, therefore to demand and obtain the punishment of tlie murderers and an Indemnity for the victims is unquestionable. I wish to add that the public opinion in Italy is justly impatient, and if concrete provisions were not at once taken I should find myself in the painful necessity of showing openly our dissatisfaction by recalling the minister of his majesty from a country where he is unable to obtain justice. Rudini. The Intimation of the Marquis Rudini that the telegram in question was delivered in strict confidence is a total error. As a telegram expressed the demand of’the Italian government it was impossible that Marquis Rudini could transmit it in strict confidence. As I have already stated, it was communicated to me in person by Baron Fava, written in English by his own handwriting, without a suggestion bt privacy, and the telegram itself has not a single mark upon it denoting a confidential character. I have caused a number of copies of the telegram to be forwarded to you to-day in sac simile. The usual mark for italic printing was used by me under four lines, and they appear in the copies. You will use the sac simile in such manner as will most effectually prove the error into which the Marquis Rudini has fallen. Blaine. It was plain to those who saw Mr. Blaine that he was annoyed by the remark of Rudini that he had failed to conform to diplomatic usages. The Premier also went so far as to accuse the American Secretary of disclosing a confidential dispatch in order to get around a question which the Marquis intimates had puzzled him in the previous negotiations. The Secretary by this reply has once more placed the Italian Premier in an unfavorable light, and has spoiled his attempt to let himself down easy. This dispatch necessitates a reply from Rudini, and the opinion among Government officials is that it cannot add anything to the dignity of his position or aid in maintaining the Italf&nMde of the controversy. ’ / Bite the End Your Cigar. Dr. Ferd Wilson and friend went into A Bioadway cigar store the other day. The friend selected a dark Havana, put one end between his lips, rolled it a bit to moisten it, then put the tip in the metal cutter on the counter and clipped it off. He then placed the clipped eud in his mouth and drew in once or twice before lighting. He coughed several times as he lighted the weed. “Pardon me,” said the doctor “you should never do it that wa . Here is the method.” The doctor picked up another cigar, bit the end off with his teeth, placed the other end in his mouth and blew smartly once or twice and then leisurely lighted it. “You notice,” said the doctor, “I did not cough. You did. The philosophy of it is shis: when the end of a cigar is bitten off it crushes a small portion of the tobacco into powder. If you put the end immediately into your mouth and inhale, the small particles are almost certain to lodge somewhere in the throat and cause irritation. That makes you cough, and, if your tonsils happen to be in the right direction for it, a case of bronchitis or worse may compel you to call me in. I never use the clipper that is used by the frequenters of a cigar store. The majority of the men moisten the tip of a cigar, as you did, before cutting it. Now you never know * the condition of the man who preceded you. Some of the moisture from his lips remains on the cutter, and' your cigar may take on a portion of it. “Some years ago a young man came to me with cancer of the lip, contracted as near as I could trace in the way I have described. He had had chapped lips at the time, and the poison got into his blood through a break in his skin. It was a particularly distressing affair. ’ The young fellow was a personal friend of mine, and was engaged to be married. I knew his habits and conduct to be above reproach, but he was extremely sensitive. He broke off his engagement and went West, although his prospects here were excellent. I could only commend his course, for disease had become fastened in his system. I pitied him from the bottom of my heart. So don’t use the cigar clipper that others use.” — New York Recorder. The Old Way Best. The old poem of the days of the month, entitled “Thirty days hath September,” has been changed in the New York public schools so that the charm and beauty of its defects have vanished, and it is now correct and commonplace. As it stood for a century or more it ran: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November, s , February has twenty-eight alone All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year, that’s the time When February has twenty-nine. The version peculiar to New England would have done so far as correct rhyming goes. That version ended with these lines: Except the second month alone ■Which has but twenty-eight in fine. Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine. But the form in which it is taught in the public schools is neither more oor rect nor as simple. This is the part that has been subjected to modern improvement : AU the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, J Which has four ana twenty-four, And every fourth year one day mors. York Sun.

OOOD-BY TO CALIFORNIA. PrMldent Harriaon Makaa HlaLast In the Golden State. President Harrison and party mad* the first portion of their journey in Northern California in a mild rainstorn, the first experience of that kind they have, had in the Golden State. The President arose early, and was the only member of the party to greet the crowd that gathered about the train at Tehama. He was loudly cheered and shook hands with all the people within reach. About half an hour later the train drew up at Red Bluff, where a large crowd with a.band was assembled. They gave the President a most enthusiastic welcome. Captain Mattock, an old army comrade, introduced him to the people. The President in his speech referred to Captain Mattock, and alluded to the* number of Indiana people he had met in the State. Continuing he said: My friends, you have a most beautiful State, capable of promoting the comfort of your citizens in a very high degree, and, although already occupying a high place in the galaxy of States, it will, I am sure, take a much higher one. It is pleasant to see how the American spirit prevails among all your people, love for the flag and the Constitution, those settled and permanent things that live whether men go or come. They come to us from our fathers, and will pass down to our children. You are blessed with a genial climate and a most productive soU. I see you have in this northern part of California what I have seen elsewhere, a well-ordered community, with churches and school houses, which indicate that you are not giving all your thoughts to material things, but are thinking of those things that qualify the soul for the hereafter. We have been treated to another surprise this morning in the first shower we have seen in California. I congratulate you that it rains here. May all blessings fall on you like the gentle rain. [Cheers.] Postmaster General "VVanamaker, Secretary Rusk, and Mrs. Harrison were also introduced to the crowd and were loudly cheered. At Redding the President and party were greeted with a national samte and showers of bouquets from a throng of school children. The President addressed the throng, saying: Mr Fellow Citizens: It is very pleasant as we near the northern line of California after having traversed the valleys of the South, and are soon to leave the State in which we have had so much pleasurable intercourse with the people, to see here as I have seen elsewhere a multitude contented, prosperous and happy. lam assured you are t here a homogeneous people, all Americans, all by birth or by free choice lovers of one flag and one Constitution. [Cheers.] It seems to me as I look into the faces of these California audiences that life must be easier here than it is in the older States. I see absolutely no evidence of want. Every one seems to be well nourished. Your appearance gives evidence that the family board is well supplied, and the gladness on your faces is evidence that in your sdbial relations everything is quiet. orderly, and hopeful. I thank you for friendly demonstrations. I wish it were possible for me to do more in exchange for all your great kindness than simply to say thank you. But I do fondly thank you and shall carry away from your State the very happiest impressions and the very pleasantest memories. [Cheers.] a The Presidential party at Dunsmuir Shook hands with a largo number of old soldiers, and thanked the citizens for their reception. They arrived at Ashland, Oregon, shortly after 8 p. m., and received an enthusiastic welcome. A special <ommittee from the Oregon State Legislature boarded the train and welcomed the President The President made a happy response and also spoke, to the crowd at the depot. After a stay of about thirty minutes the train pulled out, preceded by a special carrying the legislative committee and prominent citizens. At Tacoma, Wash., the President and party arrived in the midst of a driving rainstorm. He was met at the depot by a procession composed of companies of r the National Guard, Sons of Veterans, a troop of cavalry, posts of the G. A. R., Sons of America, Odd Fellows, Masons, and others. The President was escorted through the city to the City Park at Tacoma avenue, where the school children were lined on each side of the street. The little ones,'dripping with rain, gave the President a hearty welcome. When the carriage stopped to enable him to make them a brief address he, was covered with a shower of flowers. The party reached Portland from Seattle and left over the Union Pacific for the East. When the train left Portland the skies were clouded, but about half-past ten they cleared, and the remainder of the trip through the picturesque Valley of the Columbia was made in bright sunlight, which disclosed the mountains and cascades in all their beauty and grandeur. One of the pleasantest incidents of the run from Portland was the visit of the President and party to Multnomah Falls. The entire party left the train and spent several minutes admiring the slender veil of spray falling 850 feet from a cliff. The first stop of any importance was made at the Dalles, where the party received an enthusiastic ovation. Responding to an address of welcome by the Mayor, President Harrison said: “I quite sympathize with the suggestion of your Mayor that it is one of .the proper government functions to improve and open to safe navigation the waterways of our country. The Government having reserved to itself the exclusive control of all navigable inland water, it is of course incumbent upon the Government to see that the people have the best possible use of them. They are important, as they furnish cheap transportation and touch points that are often either for economy or natural reasons inaccessible to railway traffic.” ■ Postmaster General Wanamaker also made a short address. At Celilo the President visited a sal-mon-canning establishment and was presented with a large box of salmon caught that morning. Worms that Spoil Corks. Investigation in France proves the existence of two or three types of moths in wine cellars. The grubs feed on the fungoid growth that forms on the wine vats and moldy corks. The insect bores and forms galleries in the cork nearest to the glass, and through the holes thus formed air gains access to the wine, spoiling it The San Francisco Chronicle says: “Our chief difficulty in bottling wines has been in obtaining a supply of perfect corks. At least 25 per cent of corks, after examination for fitness, are rejected. An examinination of several bins was made at the vineyards, and it was found that the corks were perforated, and in some cases the wine oozed through them. Now we are trying a method to stop the inroads of these grubs. After soaking the corks in hot water and then in brandy they were dried, and when they are put into the bottles the tops are coated with a layer of paraffine wax previous to sealing then* with the ordinary wax. We hope by the use of the paraffine compound to stop the ravages of these insects. Neither the grubs nor insects feed upon the wine, but simply use the cork as a place to deposit their eggs, anc& the coating may possibly prevent their entrance. In “A. Miner” Key. The office-seeker in Washington hope* for an early spring opening. What others drink distresses a teetotaler more than it does a dozen others, frequently. A Texas misej. keeps every thing under lock and key, aad he even, bolt* hte food. <