Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1891 — Page 2

®he democrat decaturTind. M. BLACKBURN, - PVBUSHXB. HISTORY OF A WEEK. 3 PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS OF THE WORLD. The Charleston's Chase After the Itata— Reported Disaster on the Santa Fe Road —Police Law Void—Panic >■ a Church. SAILED SOUTH. The Steamer Charleston at Sea Again. A Washington special dated the 20th Inst, says: Jnst befcre 4 o’clock this afternoon the Navy Department received confirmation of a press dispatch to the effect that the Charleston sailed southward from Acapulco last evening leaving the Esmeralda in port. No word from the Itata. The presumption is that the Charleston's commander is satisfied that the Itata passed Acapulco either before she arrived there or while he lay in port, and that is why he resumed the long chase. It is estimated that the Itata has been steaming along at about seven knots, and as she* was ten days out last Friday night, she should at that time have been just off Acapulco. It is reported from that place that she met the Esmeralda and as she is a much smaller vessel than the Esmerajda and burns very much less coal, it £s regarded as within probabilities that the latter vessel might have supplied her with tiiis necessary article, which would account for the strait the war ship is now in respecting a further supply of coal. If it be true that the Itata was off Acapulco Friday night she has two full days start of the Charleston when the latter again started in pursuit last night. This is about tie same lead that she had when she started from San Diego, but if the two vessels now follow the same course, the Charleston steaming at fourteen knots, should come up with the Itata in forty-eight hours. Police Law Void. Terre Haute (Ind.) special: The wide open saloon people received a black eye in the Superior Court here when Judge McNutt held the metropolitan police law enacted by the last Legislature, to be unconstitutional. The decision was ac- ■! companied by a written opinion, in which the court set forth its reasons at length, being largely governed therein by the ruling of the Supreme Court. The court will issue an order of ouster, deposing the heads of the metropolitan force, who have had charge of the police under injunction for several weeks, and placing it within the power of the City Council to reinstate Robert Dg,yis as Police Chief, or appoint a new one. ’This is the greatest victory ever won by the law-and-or-der people of this city, and it is the first time in many years they have had it in their power to close the saloons. The fight in the courts has been bitterly contested, and the loss of the case is a severe blow »o the saloon men. Twelve Killed. Mrs. A. A. Center, of Pottsdam, N. Y., who is visiting at the home of W. °W. Morgan, Kansas City, says that a bridge on the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, near Albuquerque,(N. M., fell, carrying with it a passenger train that had been two hours in advance of the train by which she was traveling. The latter train was flagged and the passengers were obliged to cross the cut which the bridge spanned and meet a train on the other side. Mrs. Center says that it was reported that twelve or ' fourteen people were killed. No telegraphic report of such a wreck has been received. - A Naval Officer Ketlres. Capt. Henry Erben, United States Navy, has succeeded Rear Admiral Daniel L. Braine in command of the Brooklyn navy yard, the Admiral going I upon the retired list. Admiral Braine’s retirement was made the occasion of great ceremony. The marine battallion paraded, a salute of thirteen guns was fired, and all officers were in full unifrom. The retiring officer was the third in rank in the navy. He entered the service as midshipman in 1846, was in several engagements in. the Mexican war and served with distinction in the civil war. He is a native of New York City. .Poison in tlie Greens. Last Monday the family of Allan Morris, a colored man liying on Colgrove avenue, Indianapolis, was taken ill after eating some greens. Dr. Bigger was called and saved the lives of five persons who partook of the dish. It was rumored at the time that Estella Morris, the 14-year-old daughter, had dosed the food with Paris green. She was arrested and admitted poisoning the greens and said she did it to punish a boarder at the house, Benz Rector, who was annoying her. Judge Sullivan held her in $5,000 bonds for attempted murder. Panic in a Catholic Church. A panic was narrowly averted at St. John’s Catholic Church, Defiance, Ohio. A class of thirty-nine was receiving its first communion and the church was packed. Suddenly there was a flash of light and it was discovered that the veil of Miss Clara Emjnger was in flames. The coolness of Father Jung and some of his parishoners averted what would have been a terrible disaster, if a break had been once made. Beyond His Depth. Frankie Fox, the 6-year-old son of Lawrence Fox, of Fort Wayne, waded into the St Mary’s River with his younger and older brothers and several other playmates. He got beyond his depth and sank beneath the water, only rising to cry for help and then sink out of the view of his little playfellows. His remains were recovered. Blaine Is Better. The President has received a telegram from Secretary Blaine saying that his health was much improved and that he expected to be about in a few days. Rear End Collision. At Philaris, Ala., a rear end collision occurred between two south bound freight trains on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad/ Brakeman J. M. Costello was instantly killed and his body burned In the wreck. Fireman Lester Brown was also killed and Engineer Edmunds hurt mortally. Three oil cars look fire and the wreck was consumed. Nellie Goodwin Gets Alimony. Mrs. Nellie Goodwin has been allowed F 75 a week alimony, pending the trial of her suit for separation from Actor Nat Goodwin on the ground of desertion. She is,.allowed $250 for counsel fees. Mob After Stanley. While Henry M. Stanley Was delives a lecture at Sheffield, England, th< hall was invaded by a gang of Socialists, who began to sell among the audience a pamphlet attacking the explorer. The pamphlet was very freely bought, under the belief that it contained a report of one of Stanley’s lectures. When the fraud was discovered there was a great commotion, and the venders were Violently expelled. The gang lingered around the building, ajid as Mr. Stanley, at the conclusion of his lecture, left the ball they attempted to mob him. His ••tends gathered around him wit* gaftl f >•<- -'.'/A’** - '■ V*’ S’i'itr? ’

the assistance of the police, kept off his , assailants. He was then hurried into a , eab and driven to his hotek FIKE-SWEPT. Terrible Work of the Flames at M«»* kegon, Mich. ’ A special from Muskegon, Mich., dated the 18th inst., says: This afternoon at 6:30 fire started in the Launkawell hotel barns, swept ten blocks up Pine street, then by a sudden shift in the wind the . -flames were driven towards Terrace avenue. Ten Pine street business blocks were wiped out. The court house was burned but its public documents saved.' . The prisoners in the county jail were liberated. A little child stopping in the Launkawell barns, where the fire started, is missing, and by 9 o’clock the fire ° ' reachedsthe southern district of the city. Tmrfiremen succeeded in reducing the further progress of the flames. Tonight twenty blocks of business houses and dwellings are-Tn smoldering ruins. The total dwellings burned may safely be put at 300. A conservative estimate 1 of the total loss is $500,000. The total insurance is unobtainable and many have no insurance. Hundreds of families are thrust upon their friends for accommo1 dations. Dynamite was used in some instances to clear buildings and in the endeavor t<J prevent the spreading of the flames. . - • Among the sad incidents connected with the fire was the death of Harry" Stevens, Assistant Postmaster and son * of Postmaster Stevens. He was very ill with pneumonia, and the flames made it necessary to remove him to a place of safety. He died amid the crash of falling houses while being removed. THE MAFIA Wanted the Blood of the Mob Leaders. New Orleans special: Signor Gorte, the Italian Consul, said before starting for Rome, that he was not recalled, but only summoned home to give his testimony in regard to the affair of March 14. He knew of no reason why he should be recalled and asked) if it was because he had the courage to ex l press an opinion upon matters vital to the dearest sentiments of his countrymen, Mr. Corte continuing said that he had saved Mayor Shakespeare’s life and the lives of Messrs. Parkerson, Wickliffe and other leaders. The day after the killing there was a determined resolution among certain of his countrymen to kill the Mayor and all those who had had a hand in the butchery. Mr. Corte sqid he restrained their hands and told them if harm befell the gentlemen he would immediately denounce the perpetrators of the deed. The Consul believed an amicable understanding in regard to the imbroglio was near at hand. A Fierce Riot. Corfu special: Inc anti-Hebrew excitement which existed here for some time past and which caused an outbreak about April 27, when the body of a child who had been murdered was found in the Hebrew quarter, is becoming more venomous. The Greeks then claimed that the Hebrews murdered a Christian girl for the feast of the passover and the Hebrews retorted by declaring that the Greeks murdered her as an excuse for rioting and plunder, although the body was eventually identified as that of the child of a prominent Hebrew. The Greeks broke into the Hebrew quarter and built a bon-fire in the square and declared that the Hebrews should be burned, After a number of Hebrews had been beaten and otherwise injured, the rioters were dispersed by the troops. The excitement caused by this incident never died out and the Other dqv the rioting was resumed and two Hejjpews were killed and a number injured. The troops again dispersed the rioters and now surround the Hebrew quarters. The Hebrews are forbidden to pass outside of, the cordon of troops and all stores kept by the Hebrews are closed. The prefect oiCorfu has been summoned to Athens in order to explain the situation to the Government. A detachment of troops under command of a Major has been sent here from Athens i to restore order. Chained to the Track. A special from Anderson, Ind., states that Otis Courtney, George W. Wilson and Elisha Abney, three Midland Railroad strikers, spiked a switch at Lapel with a train on it. Later they were placed under arrest and brought into the Circuit Court on a charge of interfering with the running of trains on that road. They gave bond for a trial June 2. While the men were in court executions against the road to the amount of nearly SI,OOO were placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Parson, and he levied upon the locomotive that was on the spiked switch, and now has it chained to the track. THE ENGLISH VIEW OF IT. What They Think of Our Pursuit of the Itata. The London Standard, in an editorial, says: “We can only account for extraordinary zeal in the pursuing of the Chilian steamer Itata on the assumption that the government is delighted at haying an .opportunity of retrospectively justifying in Alabama contention as against England. It is doubtful, however, whether this ingenious manoeuver can establish any new dictum in international law.” • A Olean Sweep. Chicago special: Every switchman in the employ of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company—2oo in this city and 300 employed at points along the line—have been discharged and paid off. The road has been preparing for this action during the past two months, and for 'Svery man discharged there was another ready to take his place. Yardmaster Frank Mclnerney, whose discharge the switchmen demanded and enforced by a tie-up during General Manager Whitman’s illness six weeks ago, was reinstated and took charge of the new men. loung Lady Poisoned. Near Wesley Chapel, in the northernpart of Fayette County, Ohio, some unknown persons are making an effort to poison stock, and in some mysterious way Miss Della Allen has been dangerously poisoned. The stock on the farm of John Dougherty was suddenly taken ill and two cows died. Several piles of salt wore discovered ‘in the fields, whidh, upon examination, were found to contain considerable poison. Miss Alien’s illness is supposed to result from drinking water into which some of the stuff had been thrown. Wreck on the B. and O. , A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train bound for Philadelphia, dashed into the side of a freight train at Boundbrook, Pa., wrecking the passenger engine, some of the passenger cars and eight freight cars. The passenger train did not leave the track. The engineer of the passenger train was seriously Injured. The fireman and one of the brakemen were also hurt. It is said the accident was caused by a switch tender being unable to get the switch closed in time to avoid the accident. Youngstown Officers Worsted. > The other night the residence of Dr. , McCurdy, of Youngstown, 0., was bur- . glarized. An hour after the robbery the police discovered three strangers ! with sealskin sacques, stolen from the residence, trying to jump on a freight , train to escape the officers, and the i burglars began firing. Officer Wm- , Freed was shot through the body, and* tbv surgeons say he will die. Officer

Petrie had his left arm badly mangled by a bullet Officers captured, one of the burglars, who gives the name of Wm. Sherman, New York. Driven from Home by Forest Fires. Big Rapids (Mich.) special: The fires in the woqds this year have been fully as disastrous as those in 1871. At Brice’s Station, three miles from here, a tract six miles long and three miles wide, has been burned over, destorying everything. Four farm-houses and barns were burned. At Paris the entire town has frequently been called out to fight the fire in order to save the town. The poor ■ settlers hereabouts have been driven from home, saving absolutely nothing. Caught In the Act. Two men made a desperate attempt to steal a registered letter pouch from one of the mail wagons while it was en route to the Grand Central Depot at Fortysecond street, New York. When the wagon had reached Thirty-fifth street the men approached, and pulling open one of the doors, secured the pouch. They started on a run down Fifth avenue. A policeman who witnessed the theft gave chase, and the thieves dropped their booty and escaped. The Marine Engineers. The marine engineers’ strike at Cleveland is still on. Mr. Gallway, President of the Engineers’ Protective Society says: “The report that we are weakening is wholly unfounded. The vessel owners are getting along fairly well now, because very few boats are running. When navigation really opens up our services will be needed, and we will receive what we demand.” Both sides are firm in declaring that no concessions will be granted. Ohio Pytliians* Encampment. Gen. J. W. Greene, of Toledo, commanding the Ohio Brigade. Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, has issued an order locating the annual encampment at Presque Isle, near Toledo, fixing the middle of July as the time. Hamilton, Sandusky and Zanesville offered a bonus for the meeting, but the General got better terms. Two thousand uniformed Knights are expected. Crashed By an Avalanche of Slate. Gaylord colliery, one of the Kingstone coal company, at Plymouth, Pa., was the scene of an accident by which two men lost their lives and one was fatally injured. The killed are: Felix Wieczhalowiz, Michael Y’iechofshi. The man fatally injured wasJoeßostz. His back is broken. About ten tons of slate broke loose from the roof and fell, crushing the men beneath it For Writing to a Lottery Company. In the United States District Court, Warren M. Frame, of Raleigh County, West Virginia, was convicted of violating the lottery law by sending a letter through the United States mails to the Louisiana Lottery, and was fined $25 and costs by Judge Jackson. This is the first conviction for this offense known to have been made in the United States. A Drunken Father. Three children of Abe Newman, a farmer, were drowned in the mill pond at Jenks’Mil), Ga., while Newman, to whose intoxicated condition the accident was due, and his wife And infant child had narrow escapes. The family were on their way home in a wagon, when the drunken father drove over an embankment into the pond. He Won’t Be Elected. Joseph H. Elwell, candidate for County Attorney of Rock County, Nebraska, and a proifiinent politician was arrested at New Port, Neb., on the charge of making counterfeit money. United States Marshals watched Elwell in the process of moulding silver dollars and pounced upon him. The authorities have been at work on this case for the past six months. Blaine Ordered to Quit Work. It is said that the doctor has positively forbidden Mr. Blaine to return to his duties. He said that he must not think of work for two months or work might become an impossibility. Mr. Damrosch said that it was likely that Mr. Blaine would go to Maine for the rest and quiet he so much needed. Fight With the Dalton Boys. An Indian scout just arrived- at Norman, Oklahoma, from the Choctaw Nation reports a fight betwen the Dalton boys, the alleged robbers of the Santa Fe Express some days ago, and a posse of United States Marshals. It is not known whether any one was hurt. The outlaws escaped after q sharp fight. • The Old Log Cabin Won’t Go. St. Louis special: Gen. Grant’s old log cabin, which it was expected would go to the World’s Fair, will not be transferred to that exhibition. Mr. E. A. Joy, of Old Orchard, Mo., has purchased the relic for the sum of $5,000, and, it is said, will not permit it to leave this city. Lawyer Littick “Licked.” Mrs. Eugenia Fox whipped Lawyer Littick at his office in Kansas City, Mo., because of his impudence to her while she was on the witness stand in a case in which she was interested. She gave him one of the soundest thrashings ever administered by a woman. The Prince Can’t Walk. London special: The Prince of Wales is suffering from muscular rheumatism in his legs, which prevents his standing for any length of time. His doctors advise him to refrain from walking as much as possible. Young Raum’s Resignation. Green B. Raum, Jr., has resigned his portion as assistant chief clerk in the SHE MARKETS,' CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime..... $3.50 @ 6.50 Hoss—Shipping Grades 4.50 & 5.25 Sheep 4.50 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 2 Rod j. 04 @ 1.05 Cobn—No. 2. 63)5@ .64 Oats—No. 2 50 & .51 Rye—No. 2 84 @ .86 Butter—Choice Creamery 24 @ .27 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 11 @ .12 Eggb—Fresh 13)5@ .14)5 Potatoes—Western, per bu 1.00 & 1.10 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 6.00 Hogb—Choice Light... .*. 3.00 @ 5.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat-No. 2 Red. LO3 @1.03)4 Corn—No. 1 White. ... 69)5@ .70)5 Oats—No. 2 White 50 @ .57 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4.00 @ 5.75 Hogs ........ 4.25 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 @ 1.02 Corn—No. 2..., .58 @ .59 Oats—No. 2 ; 52 @ .53 Barley—lowa 75 @ .80 CINCINNATL Cattle 300 @5.75 Hogs . 3.00 @ 5.25 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 @ 1.07 Corn—No. 2 70)5@ .71)5 Oats—No. 2 Mixed .56 @ .58 DETROIT. « Cattle 8.00 @ 5.25 Hogs ..>. 3.00 @5.01 Sheep..... 8.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red LOS @ 1.09 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 70 @ .71 Oats—No. 2 White ; 55 @ .55 TOLEDO. Wheat Cohn—Cash 70 @ .71 Oats—No. 1 White .51 @ .51)5 Clover Seed 4.15 @ 4.25 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 4.25 @ 6.50 Hogs—Light...a 8.25 @5.50 Sheep—Medium 4J5 @ 5.25 Lambs M 5 @6.75 MILWAUKEE. ~ Wheat—No. 2 Spring... 1.00 @l.Ol Cohn—No 3 .68 @ .65 Oats—No. 2 White .51 @ .53 Rye—No. 1..., .01 @ .93 Barley—No. 2...; 78 @ .75 Pork—Mess 11.50 @12.00 NEW YORK. CATTtE 4.75 @ 6.50 Hogs 4.25 @ 8.75 Sheep..... 5.25 @6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.11 @ LlB Corn—No. 2... 81 @ .82 Oats—Mixed Western .55 @ .61 ’ Butter—Creamery 24 & M Poa»j—New Mess 18U0 OImMI ■’ -• • •■ r'

— ; LATEST CROP REPORTS. — GENERAL,CONDITIONS IN ALL SECTIONS ENCOURAGING. i : r ■ ’ . Early Winter Wheat All Headed Out—- . Spring Wheat All Seeded. Coming Up. j and Making a Good Stand —Generally Too Dry and Cold for Oats. , The growing areas of the conn* i try have experienced a period'of dry s weather accompanied by severe frosts . which are thought to have damaged t more or less the small fruit, nipped the spring wheat, and what it has" done to the winter wheat, which was just heading out, it is impossible at this time to » say. > WINTER WHEAT. ’ In Central Illinois the prospects now are that the early wheat will be fit to cut * by the middle of June. The crop is 1 generally heading out In Southern 1 Illinois wheat is from fourteen to eighteen inches high. Considerable of it is ‘ in head already. There are no signs of [ fly or insects yet The frost damaged ! vegetables and fruit to some extent. There was more or less wheat Just ready to head out and the earliest wheat may . have been damaged. In many of the ; largest winter wheat countries in Southern Illinois wheat on the bottom . lands is over two feet in height, and on I high lands about. twelve inches high. [ Northern Indiana reports a cold, dryweek, with a recent hard frost The ( crop as a whole stands even, and is - 1 ■ -- ■ - - -

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growing very slowly. The plants are perfectly healthy And strong, and the prospects are good for a large crop. Wheat is scarce, and more or less is shipped in all the time to supply the home trade. In Central and Southern Indiana the wheat is from eighteen inches to three feet high. The weather ■ has been dry and cool for ten days, i No reports of fly or insect Harvest will be on about June |2O. In Northern Ohio wheat has made slow growth during , the last fourteen days. Late-sown fields where the water has stood are more or less spotted, although the prospects for wheat are as a whole good. In Southern ’ Ohio wheat has literally caught itself. This situation was caused by the ' unusually favorable weather during ' April. New wheat ought to be on the market by July 4. Winter wheat in ' Southern Michigan varies all the way 1 from six to ten inches in height. The weather has been cool and dry and the ’ crop is doing well. In Southern Kansas wheat will probably be harvested about June 15. Its height is from eight to eighteen inches. In Northern , Kansas wheat will now average from twelve to fourteen inches in height. [ None has headed out yet In Northern l Missouri wheat is now from ten to fifteen inches in height, and just ready to , head out. In Southern Missouri the largest wheat Is now fully twenty-four inches high, and the general condition of the crop is uniform; the earliest vari-

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eties will be ready to harvest about the first week in June. In Tennessee the early wheat is now all’headed out In Kentucky there is some complaint of wheat turning yellow on account of the | grain louse. These complaints, however, are not very numerous. In Northern Texas wheat is three feet high and headed out Harvest will commence the last , of May. Oregon reports winter wheat about ten inches high. The April rains helped the fall wheat greatly, and the crop looks better than at this time last season. Harvest will commence the latter part of July. spring Wheat. In the Red River Valley spring wheat 1 is practically now all seeded. The early 1 sown wheat is coming up evenly and the stand is considered good generally. The acreage is about the same as last year, possibly a trifle larger. There is quite a diversity of opinion with regard to the effect of frost the present week upon the young wheat plants: Some claim frost is beneficial, causing it to root deeply and stool out better. While tfiere have been no rains recently, crops

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are not suffering, although showers would undoubtedly be a benefit. In South Dakota wheat is about four inches high. Although the season is late the general conditions are so much more favorable than usual that crops will' soon catch up. In Minnesota the early sown wheat is generally up all over the State; the stand is good. CORK. The country is forging ahead rapidly in planting the corn crop. Large areas of corn will be in the ground within the next ten days. Os course in several of the States the bulk of the crop is now in the ground. OATS. During l the week the oat crop of the country has hardly held its own. There is m uniformity in its general condition.

Nebraska, probably shows the best outlook at present for a full crop of any State where a surplus crop of oats is made. In Missouri and Kansas the conditions are not an average; in Tennessee and Kentucky the prospects are poor; in the State of Illinois fair; very uneven in Indiana and Ohio; in lowa more or less mixed. It is too early to> say anything yet with regard to the condition of the oat crop in the Dakotas and Minnesota. FROST AND FRUIT. The late frost was not confined to limited areas. It swept over the country from North Dakota, where the spring wheat was just coming up, and left its mark upon it, and went upon its journey of destruction across the country as far south as the Ohio River, where it caught the early winter wheat, just in head. Rich Men and Charity. In a recent speech Abram S. Hewitt is reported to have said that he knew but one rich man in New York—and by rich he meant a man worth at leat $20,000.000 — who was doing his duty. That man, he said, devoted his entire income, above the sum required for the necessaries of life, to charity. This shows a decidedly high standard on Mr. Hewitt’s part in two respects, remarks the Pittsburg Dispatch. That a man must have $20,000,000 before he i is rich reduces the vast bulk of the population to a common level of poverty, while if the rich man gives all his

1 income above the necessaries of life to ! charity he will do very well—unless the necessaries for a millionaire include 1 yachts, racing stables and cottages at ' Tuxedo and Newport. But as there is only one rich man who does his duty , the crowd of common millionaires and half-millionaires must be reconciled to ; their poverty and their superior virtue. L Winchesters vs. Negroes. i A terrible race riot was narrowly ’ avoided on the Western Railroad at ’ White Hall., Ala., be the coolness and i determination of Conductor R. W. Gori man. Two car-loads of drunken ne- > groes, picnickers, were attached to the I regular train. The., negroes made a 1 rush for the ladies’ car, swearing and using vulgar language. The conductor, rushing into the express car, returned i with a half-dozen Winchesters and some i revolvers. Quickly organizing a posse among the passengers, he ordered the negroes out. Under the muzzles of the i fire-arms they were slowly forced from the car and into their compartment with- > out any bloodshed. The ringleaders were jailed. The conductor could hardly prevent crowds at different stations along the line from assaulting the negroes. , 2 — , All Sorts. ■ Heptarchy, or government of seven rulers, was gradually formed in England from 455, when Hengist became King of

Kent. It terminated in 828, when Egbert became sole monarch of England. There were at first nine or ten Saxon kingdoms, but Middlesex soon ceased to eiKist, and Bernicia and Deira were generally governed by one ruler as Northumbria. There is not a single city in the United States. More bicycles are used by ladies in Denmark than in any other European country. The largest bear-skin in the world is in Kansas City. It was taken from an animal weighing 2,800 pounds. The oldest of four sons in a Kentucky family is Leon C. Carter, and the others are Elfio C., Noel C., and Enol C. The use of the same letters in each name was unintentional. In the year 1800, except for a few banks and insurance offices, turnpikes, hedges, canals and land companies, neither bonds nor stocks were known. The city of New York was so small as to make extravagance difficult; the Battery was a fashionable walk, Broadway a

countfry drive, and Wall street an uptown residence. Great accumulation pf wealth had hardly begun. The Patrobn was still the richest man. in the State. John Jacob Astor was a fur merchant living where the Astor House afterward stood, and had not yet begun those purchases of real estate which secured his fortune. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a boy 6 years old, playing about his father’s ferryboat at Staten Island. New York City itself was what it had been for a hundred years past, a local market. No matter how good an umbrella a man may carry, the snow often gets the drop on him. None but first-class girls are permitted to graduate at, Vassar.— Duluth Paragrapher.

•u- . ■ READ ABOUT INDIANA —■l I IN THIS COLUMN FULL OF FRESH NEWS. Regained Ble Reason—Boy Accidentally Shot—Kicked by a Horse—Horrible Death of a Five-Year-Old Boy. —lndiana has 535 acres devoted to floriculture. —Wm. Rowe, Dublin, killed by the cars at Jeffersonville. —Burglars got S2OO in Littell Bro.’s store, at Greensburg. —August Markus suicided with rough on rats, near Oak Hill. —A mad dog was killed at Greensburg, after biting two children. —Salcon licenses have been raised from SSO to $l5O at Mitchel). —Louis H? Frey has been missing from Evansville since March. —Rolling’Prairie has $4,400 toward a creamery and cheese factory. —Mrs. Eli Haggard found dead in bed at her house near Morgantown. —James Coroden, of Ellettsville, was wrestling and got one of his legs fractured. —Michael Feiber fell dead while pumping water at his home near Greensburg. —Crawfordsville’s going to have a band tournament July 4 and will give $225 in prizes. —Does to the number of 1,555, including pugs, are wearing license tags in Evansville. r —J. D. Everly, of Spencer, is in a dangerous condition from being kicked by a vicious mare. —Recent election at Crawfol dsville cost $750, and they only had three councilmen to elect. —A barn on the DeForest farm near Butler, struck by lightning, and four fine horses cremated. —Mrs. Permelia Baldwin severely injured by falling down a stairway at her home near Seymour. —William Fountain, a farmer near Bedford, hanged himself in a barn. He was suffering from measles. —James McHenry was struck by a freight near Romona and instantly killed. He leaves a family of seven. —Thomas F. Patton, of Brown Valley, Montgomery County, claims to be the possessor of a five-legeed calf. —Ex-United States Treasurer Huston has discovered a ledge of fine blue marble on his farm near Connersville. —Mrs. Rev. Maison, New Goshen, had had a needle extracted from her side recently which she swallowed forty years ago. 4 —“Lemon teas” are all the rage in Jeffersonville, having supplanted Japan, Young Hyson, Gunpowder, and “pink” teas. —Jay Eaton, a prisoner in the county jail at Portland for burglary, while assisting the sheriff outside the jail, made his escape. —Joseph Noonan, a laborer employed in Jaap’s stone yard at Fort Wayne, was crushed-to death by a falling stone. He leaves a wife. —Mrs. Rose Early got judgment at Seymour, against the O. & M. Railroad Company for $5,000 —husband killed by the cars in 1887. Bader, a Jeffersonville boy with too many thumbs on one hand, underwent a surgical operation and parted with one. —Forty Scottish Rite Masons were initiated at Fort Wayne, to the mystic shrine. Two hundred Indianapolis Masons attended the exercises. —A series of lawsuits between a x son and his fatner, which has been in in the Montgomery County Court for ten years, has at last ended. The son froze to death last winter and his body lies in a pauper’s grave. —Melvin Bennett, the Jeffersonville boy who was shot a year ago. and who still carries the bullet beneath the skull, prefers constant suffering to taking the risk of having the skull reamed out and the ball removed. —John Mock, wife and daughter excommunicated from Muncie Baptist Church because Mrs. Mock claims to have recently discovered that she possesses strong powers as a spiritual medium. Pioneer members of the church and representative citizens. —A strange case is reported from .Michigan City, where Heury Boyle, a life-term convict, has recovered his reason after being a raving maniac for many years. Boyle was received from Fort Wayne for a most atrocious murder. After being confined several months he became deranged. For two years it was found impossible to keep an article of clothing on him. He has now seemingly recoverhQ, and protests his innocence of the crime for which he was convicted. —At Medoria, Vance Hunsucker, a boy of 7 years, was shot and killed, the whole left side of his face and neck being torn off. The Coroner’s verdict in the case showed that he came to his death accidently, at the hands of parties unknown. At the time of the shooting the boy was in a room of his father’s house with .two little boys of about his own age, and they are so badly frightened they can give uo account of the affair. The child’s parents are almost wild with grief. —A bitter fight is going on over the naming of a postoffice recently located at the station east of Elizabethtown. —Amos Hudson, who cut his throat at Wingate, was insane and imagined a mob was after him. May recover. —Joseph Micner and Perry Wagner, of Wakarusa, met in Nappanee and swapped horses. On the way home Micner’s horse reared up and kicked over the dash-board, planting it’s hoofs in Micner’s abdomen. The latter died that night. —The 5 per cent, bonds issued by the city of Crawfordsville for the purpose of erecting an electric-light plant have been bought by the Citizens’ National Bank at par, $30,000. —John Rush, a prominent minister of the Friends’s Church, died suddenly at his home, in South Wabash. Death resulted from heart failure. Rush was 48 years old and a popular pastor. —The little son of Frank Weber, of Fort Wayne upset a teakettle of boiling water and was horribly scalded over the face and body. The child died after suffering terrible agony for many hours.

===-'1 —Frank and Harris Burns sawed their L way out of Jeffersonville Penitentiary. . ” —An accident occurred foty iniles r northeast of Greenwood, in which the 5-year-old son.of David Carney met a horrible death. Mr. Carney was using a r roller on his ground, aud. wanting a » drink of water, left the team in charge -of the boy. While his father was ab- , sent the boy placed the lines over his head and started the horses. The lines ( caught under the roller, drawing his head to the ground and against the rol- . ler, choking him to death. —A sad case of accidental poisoning t occurred at Huron. Charles King, a boy about 13 years old. with four or five companions, spent the afternoon In the woods. While there they ate some kind of wild I roots, which, it is supposed, were wild parsnips. None of the lads experienced , any bad effect until after 6 o’clock in the evening, when two or three were taken k violently ill. Young King was a stiffened corpse in less than two hours, but his I compaions have recovered from the effects of the poisonous herbs. , —A beautiful oolitic limestone monu- . ment, ten feet high, and well proportioned, with proper inscriptions, was ' s dedicated ten miles west of Greensburg, . as the center of population in the United States. The monument is surrounded [ by a court, or open space, and on the ( eastern face is the following inscription. Center of Population of the United States. 1890, 35 degrees 32 minutes and L 53 seconds West Lontritude, 39 degrees 11 minutes and 56 seconds North Latitude. Erected by Chicago Herald. k —Numbers of fish are being found dead and dying in White River, near Matins- , ville, and the river banks are lined with buzzards, feeding on the bodies. People who have examined the fish say dynamite . cannot have been the cause. It is , claimed the fish are poisoned by filth thrown in the river at Indianapolis. Some, however, say that dynamite is be- . ing used, regardless of the law, and it is certain that explosions are frequently , heard about daylight. The Fish Com- , missioner’s attention wiU be called in this direction. , —As the south-bound through freight train entered Flat Rock bridge near Columbus, the engineer, Rar Bennett, was horrified at seeing a man step upon i the center of the track, only a hundred feet away, and deliberately lay down. The danger whistle was sounded, but te . no purpose. The man’s head was severed from his body, over which the en- [ tire tram of thirty cars passed. The . unfortunate man was Rost Test, and his ( home was in Jennings county, near North Vernon. He is a single man and t is said to have grown despondent over a love affair. ’ —The 5-vearrald son of James Miller, residing near Round Hill, met a horrible ’ death by hanging himself in the door of • a granary. The door was made to slip s up and down, and it fell down after the child had put his head through, holding i him fast. The boy struggled hard to j free himself, and in his efforts knocked • the measure from under his feet. This left him hanging by the neck and soon ; life was extinct. After his mother had i missed him for two hours, she found him in his awful position, cold in death. In his efforts to release himself, the boy > had knocked all the skin from his knees and otherwise bruised himself. I —Conrad Morgan beat his way from Dublin to Riqjjmond on a freight train, s to see Forepaugh’s circus, and after the ; show he was trying to beat his way > back. It was dark, and Morgan leaped from the train to avoid arrest. It hapi pened to be on the bridge, nearly seven- ■ ty feet to the water where he jumped. The train was stopped and word sent > back to look for his dead body, but he t had struck some soft dirt in the side of the bluff, and rolled, perhaps, sixty feet > to where he was found unconscious. He » bad sustained only a fractured wrist and , a few bruises, and after a night in St. ! Stephen’s Hospital was able to be sent I home. —A large pin-oak log was being sawed • at Jesse Cox’s saw-mill, at Seymour when s the saw struck some hard substance. • The engine was stopped, and the side of ■ the log was chopped into, and a whole horse-shoe was found, the outer end of ■ which had been struck by the saw. .The tree had been sawed down in the old fair i grounds in the northeast part of the city, i The shoe was located about three feet ■ from the end of the log, and there were ’ twenty-six distinct yearly growths over i the outside part of the shoe. The out- ■ side of the tree • was smoothly grown I over, and there was nothing to indicate • the bidden shoe and save an i snare in the bark. f —At the Lake Erie and Western rails road bridge across White River, just east s of Muncie, an accident occurred that will likely cause the death of Daniel Fer- < guson, of Lafayette. The bridge is a > covered trestle structure, high enough to • permit a man passing safely under it i standing on top a box-car. Ferguson > was standing on a high car, and as 4he ■ train rushed inte the bridge he was ■ struck in the face. He fell insensible to > the top of the car, from where he was in » > the act of rolling off when caught by the • other brakeman on the train. The young ■ man’s condition is quite serious, with his i face so badly mashed that his friends could not recognize him. > —Martin Griner, a one time # wealthy fe and prominent citizen of Logansport, shot and killed his mistress, Mrs. Anna b Keister, and then blew out his own i, brains. Left a wife and family. —Spartansburg citizens have met and , passed resolutions calling on the jury to I do its duty in the trial of Charles Keuny, - the tramp who is held for of r Farmer Morgan a few days ago. The i atmosphere is full of lynch talk around t Winchester and the jail is being guarded night and day, j —Dr. F. B. Thomas, of Winlmac, cut j his throat and stabbed himself in the ab--5 domen with a pair of shears in vain at* 1 tempts at suicide. He was twenty years the editor of the Winimac Democrat, and t a delegate to the Horace Greeley convent tion. —Rusnell L. Squier, of Muncie, has re--1 ceived a check for SI,OOO from the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railroad Co. t byway of compromise erf a suit for dam** ; ages against the company. Mr. Squiei i was injured in a collision on that road - near Anderson several months ago, and had entered suit tor SIO,OOO damagea ' , ' ■ •' • ' . i -