Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1891 — Page 2

©he DECATUR, IND. S> BLACKBURN, ... Fmussn. PROFITABLE PASTIME, READING THE WEEK'S HAPPENINGS IN THE WORLD. ■ — A Terrible Accident—Stolen Schooner Found—Took Polson by Mistake—Origl* nal Packages—Coal Famine in lowa. The Supreme Court Adjourns. The Supreme Court of the United States has adjourned, until the second Monday in October. A large number of decisions, several of them of general importance, were rendered by the court. The most important case decided was that of John M. Wilkerson, Sheriff of Shawnee County, Kan., against Charles H. Rohrer. This is one of the original package cases, and it came to the Supreme Court on an appeal from the Kansas Unlted’f’tates Circuit Court. Rohrer was the agent at Topeka, Kan., for a Kansas City, Mo., liquor firm. Last year he offered for sale beer and Whisky in original packages. Rohrer was arrested for violating the Kansas prohibition law; but the United States Circuit Court for Kansas released him on a writ of habeas corpus. The Kansas authorities then ' brought the case to the Supreme Court on an appeal. The Court reverses the Circuit Court decree and remands the cause for further proceedings. A Terrible Accident. The limited on the Pennsylvania road dashed into a carriage at Mills’ Crossing, near Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pa. The particulars are very meagre, as the trainmen refuse to talk except to say that they were not running at extraordinary speed. Miss Mollie McNally, aged 17, was instantly killed; Miss Bertha McCreary, badly injured, and her companion, named R. Root, was torn to pieces. When the train pulled into Pittsburgh the engine presented a shocking appearance. The pilot, wheels and even steps were clotted with blood, while torn pieces of dress and strands of women’s tresses were still clinging to portions of the train. The ladies, it seems, were driving across the track - when struck. The engineer says he whistled and rant?, but the horse was frightened and balked. - Is It True? Mr. S’.muel Ohmart, of Laketon, Ind., while fishing on the banks of Eel River, dislodged a half pint flask, containing the following note: Viola, Noble Co., July 30, 'ex To whom it may concern: This certifies that I, Will Morris, murdered Joe Smook tor the purpose of robbery and because of ill treatment of me, on the 13th of July, 1803. Yon may find his body in Turkey Lake, about four miles east of Syracuse, Kosciusco County, In i. His body lays about fifteen feet from the shore and about 175 feet southeast of a very big rock about lUO feet north of the shore of the lake. I got about sls, and will go to Mexico, never to return. W. C. Morris. Took Polson by Mistake. Particulars of the death of Congressman Leondias Houk has reached Cincinnati. It states that Mr. Houk, went into a drug store in Knoxville, and asked the clerk for a glass of icewater. It was placed on the counter next to a glass of dissolved arsenic and Mr. , -dfouk picked up the latter and dranK ft? The clerk discovered the mistake and at once gave him an emetic and summoned a physician, who worked with his patient all night, but Mr. Houk grew worse and died before morning. * Coal'Famine in lowa. The strike among the coal miners in lowa must soon be settled or a number of railroads will suffer seriously from it. The lowa Central can stand the strain for a few weeks yet, but the Milwaukee Road’s supply is about exhausted. Work being resumed in the Illinois mines has helped matters spine east of the Mississippi, but the lowa lines have been supplied from the lowa mines, and it is entirely shut off. Amid a Shower or Bullets. The wife of Derato Medina, living-at Rio Grande, City, Texas, deserted him two weeks ago for a soldier at the barracks. Medina, on entering his house, found her arranging a basket of flowers. He stepped up, and while speaking words of welcome, drove a dirk into her heart, killing her instantly. He then fled followed by a mob, swam the river amid a shower of bullets, and escaped into Mexico. Memorial May. The President has issued the following executive order: “It is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments and the government printing offices be closed on Saturday, the 30th instant, to enable the employes to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who fell in detense of the Union during the war of the rebellion.” Killed Two Officers. At Clements. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, two officers, names unknown, surrounded the house of Jim Morrison, a notorious outlaw, and attempted to arrest him. Morrisqn opened lire, killingboth officers, and was himself dangerously wounded, but escaped. Sweetness on Our Shores. There are thirty vessels lying at the' laden with sugar from the West Indies. Their cargoes are worth $720,000 and aggregate 12,000 tons of sugar. This is the largest amount of sugar that ever passed the port of Wilmington, Del. <7 Increased Duties on Gold. Telegrams from Rio Janeiro say that owing to the increase of exchange on London the Brazilian government’s decree ordering that customs duties be levied in gold has been rescinded but that the duties have boen increased 5 per cent. Stolen Schooner Found. The schooner Addie Emma, of Gloucester, Mass., which was stolen by Captain Edward Worthley several weeks ago, was picked up by. some Lunenberg fishermen in an abandoned condition off Halifax harbor and towed as a prize to Lunenberg. The whereabouts of Worthley and his crew are unknown. Still Running. -o Secretary Tracy said to a reporter that he had heard nothing yet from the Charleston in her pursuit of the Itata. “I suppose she is still running,” he Added. ■ ■ EASTERN OCCURRENCES* > A great sensation was created Tn financial circles of Philadelphia Whet it became known that G. Wy Marsh, President of the defunct Keystone N» tlonal Bank, had forfeited his bail and fled to parts unknown. The excitement ’ was intensified an hour later, when a brief line was read in the Common Council of the city from City Bardsley announcing his resignation of his office. Mr. Bardsley confesses that he has embezzled $930,000, money belonging to the State, and announces his purpose to assign his property and make restitution as is in his power. Since

the failure of the Keystone Bank, in which Bardsley had on deposit $441,000 belonging to the city, he has confessed that he had deposited in the same institution, in his own name and mixed np with his private account, all the State money he has collected. Marriages of many prominent couples in Allegheny, Pa, have been pre vented by the carpenters’ strike, suitable houses being unobtainable. Henry Brose, of Etna, and Thomas O’Rourke, of Pittsburg, died from the effects of eating smoked sturgeon, which has poisoned more or less seriously 500 people in this city and vicinity. The two men died in terrible agony, and other cases have become so unexpectedly serious that the authorities have taken hold of the matter and a most rigid investigation will be made. Public interest in the sensational developments in the affairs of the Spring Garden Bank and the Keystone Bank, the flight of the indicted President of the latter institution, and the resignation from office of City Treasurer Bardsley, continues unabated at Philadelphia. William H. Wanamaker. one of Marsh’s bondsmen, offers a reward of SI,OOO for the arrest of the fugitive, and has employed detectives to run him down. The liabilities of the Davis Shoe Company, recently failed in Boston, are placed at, $2,000,000. Creditors will probablV" realize 50 per cent, of their claims. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Ex-Minister Taft, who had been critically ill for several weeks, died in San Diego, Cal. Judge Taft was born in Townsend, Vt, in 1810, and was the son of a farmer who served several terms in the State Legislature. After the resignation of Gen.Belknapin March, 1876, Judge Taft was made Secretary of War, which office he held until the May following, when he became Attorney General. President Arthur appointed him supces&vely Minister to Austria and Russia. Since 1885 Judge Taft has lived in retirement at his home in Cincinnati. Official reports submitted at the annual meeting of the Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows show that the order in that State has grown until it now has property worth $41,918,444 and its yearly receipts are $131,000. During the" last year the membership increased 2,036. The Illinois House of Representatives by a unanimous vote passed the Senate bill repealing in toto the Merritt anticonspiracy law. A dispatch from Albuquerque, N. M., says that a Mexican, just arrived from the west part of Valencia County, brings tidings of a serious affray which took place at Ojo Le Frigo. Two Mexicans. sheep herders, named Sanchez and Aranson, claimed the same place along the Rio Grande where they could shear their sheep. Sanchez came along with his Lord, found that Aronson had already taken possession and ordered him to leave. Upon his refusal go, a gen» eral fight ensued in which throe men were killed outright and several others seriously wounded. J. C. Perry, of San Rafael. Cal., grandfather of Florence Blythe, one of the contestants in the noted Blythe will case, was thrown from his carriage and instantly killed. The Secretary of the Galena (IB.) Board of Park Commissioners received letters from Senator Allison, of lowa, and Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, accepting the invitations which had been extended to them to be in Galena June 3 to witness the unveiling of the Grant statue. • • st. ■ •- ■— Mrs. McDermott, wife of a Cheyenne man, has informed the authorities that her husband committed murder in Montana many years ago. He has been arrested. The Indianapolis School Board has filed a protest against tne late enumeration of school children, which showed a falling off of 14,000 compared with two years ago. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Special from Paris, Texas: Armstead Homers and Coleman Perry were shot and killed by James Lowman and his son Joe. Lowman had in his possession a jug of whisky, and Homers, who was a deputy sheriff, attempted to take the whisky from him and spill it on the ground. One account says that Lowman and his son, divining the purpose of the deputy sheriff, drew their guns and opened fire, killing Homers and Perry. The Hill Shoe Company failed at Memphis, Tenn , and William Vilas Hill, the President of the company, immediately thereafter committed suicide. The fail-’ nre was directly due to the failure of the Lynn Davis Shoe Company, which owed the Hill Shoe Comuany between $300,000 and §400.000. R. H. Dignan, a railroad Contractor of Henderson, ,Ky., was found near the grave of his wife unconscious from laudanum. In a quarrel between Thaddqus McFadden and E. Shirley, brothers-in-law, near Fort Lawn, S. Q, McFadden was killed. A duel according to a modification of 'the old-time code took place near Liberty Hill, S. G, between P. H. Cheatham and John Whately, both prominent planters. They met with their seconds at the appointed place and exchanged shots at ten paces. According to agreement, when word was given both men wheeled and opened fire, continuing to shoot until one or both fell. Cheatham fired eleven shots and Whately five?' Both men received severe wounds, but none of them will result fatally. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Navy Department is much concerned over the small number of cadets who have been nominated to appear at the Naval Academy for examination. The majority of the members of the House of Representatives, who have the privilege of nominating these cadets, have failed to send in the names of their candidates, and but twenty-six boys have appeared at the Annapolis Academy for examination. This will result in an unusually large class next September, by which date the vacancies must be filled. A dispatch from Washington says the Government has gained $24,450,000 as total profit on the coinage of §20,00,000 in standard silver dollars each month since the silver act of last year went into force. This is the difference between the bullion and face values of the coins, after making allowance for.the cost of alloy and coinage. While there is nothing in Secretary Blaine’s condition to excite alarm, he has reached that stage where absolute rest and freedom from business cares is necessary to prevent a protracted and perhaps dangerous illness. If Mr. Blaine followed his own inclinations he would probably leave the sick-room and resume his official duties at Washington, but his family insists that his health is of greater importance than affairs of State. His anxiety has been relieved to a certain extent through an understanding with the President that the Hon. John W. Foster will act as diplomatic adviser at

the State Department during Mr. Blaine’s absence. • POLITICAL PORRIDGE. •The People’s Party of the United, States of America” was born and chris-’ tened at Cincinnati. The great convention representing the farmers and workingmen of the United States has completed its work, the result being the certainty that Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Blaine, or whoever may bear the standards in 1894, will have to fight, against a candidate representing the industrial organizations of the country. Who this candidate will be can only be guessed at, but it is understood that Senator Peffer, “Sockless" Simpson, Gen. Weaver and Ignatius Donnelly all have lightning rods bn their houses. A number of President Harrison’s personal friends from Indiana are endeavoring to persuade Gen. Lew Wallace, author of “Ben Hur,” to let the Republicans of the Hoosier State nominate him for Governor next year. They say the nomination will be made by acclamation if Gen. Wallace will only say he will accept The Kentucky Prohibition State Convention met at Louisville and nominated a full ticket, with Josiah Harris, of Paducah, for Governor. They reaffirmed the national platform. About 100 delegates from all parts of the State were present The meeting was harmonious, and §IOO a month has been" subscribed for State work. FOREIGNGOSSIP. Bitter complaints are made tn London commercial circles because an agent for the Chicago World’s Fair has not. yet been appointed. Many firms are on the point of giving up their intention of sending exhibits to the fair, and declare that the English portion of the exhibition will be a failure unless an agent is soon appointed. A terrible accident took place at the Pont-y-Prid colliery, near Lantwit, in Glamorgan County, Wales. It was caused by a bungle in firing a “shot" in the mine A portion of the roof falling crushed ten men fatally and injured a number of others. At Monte Carlo a banker of Munich named Speckart committed suicide because of heavy gambling losses. Six suicides have occurred at Monte Carlo since May 1. Three ,/STen were killed in a fight between soldiers and citizens in a suburb of Berlin. Delegates representing the syndicate of French distillers called npon M. Roche, the Minister of Commerce, Industry and the Colonies, in order to urge and immediate temporary admission of foreign corn and molasses without duty into France in order to prevent foreign distillers from competing in French markets and in order to enable French distillers to compete in foreign markets. The Pope is taking steps to secure greater economy of expenditure at the Vatican. IT has appointed a commission, consisting of thirteen cardinals, charged to do their utmost to effect a reduction in expenses. It is believed to be the first time since Sixtus V. that a Pope has interfered in the constitution of the congregations of Rome. The health of the Prince of Wales causes great anxiety to his relatives and intimate friends. The malady from which the Prince suffered so severely in 1890 has reappeared in & different quarter, and this fact Is looked upon as one of great significance. FRESH AND NEWSY. Guatemala will send its, National Band to the Columbian Exposition. This band is the third largest in the world, that of Austria being first, and the Mexican National Band second. It is reported at San Francisco that the Congressional party of Chili, otherwise known as the insurgents, has entered into an agreement with the United States Government to surrender to the United States the steamer Itata and her cargo, and that the Charleston will not pursue the Itata any further, but will proceed to Callao, and there the" Itata will quietly be handed over to the American authorities. President Harrison denies that during his recent visit in Nebraska he talked with ex-Governor Boyd or any one else on the merits of the gubernatorial dispute or offered any opinion whatever on the matter. The review of the week’s trade by Dun & Co. contains the following: At most places trade seems healthy, and there is not more than the usual complaint about collections. At Philadelphia collections are bad in groceries. Pittsburg notes that railroad orders are -held back waiting for crop results, and, while window glass does well, flint glass has slack business. At Cleveland dry goods, groceries, hardware and shoes Improve fairly, but machinery, iron ore and clothing are dull. At Cincinnati the tobacco trade is brisk, but the carriage trade is not quite up to last year's. Detroit notes good prospects, though margins are dull. At Chicago dry goods sales exceed last year's considerably, as do sales of clothing, and there are fair country orders for shoes. Crop reports are very satisfactory, the recent rains having been of inestimable value. The business failures occurring throughput the country during the last seven days number 254 failures as compared with 237 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 222. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primes3.so @ 6.40 Hoes— Shipping Grades.... 4.30 @4.68 Sbeep 5.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.03 @ Lt'4 Cobh—No. 2 57 @ .58 Oats—No. 247 @ .49 -BYk—No. 286 @ .89 Butteb—Choice Creamery...... .17 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, flatso9)£@ .10 Eggs—Fresh J 5 & .16 Potatoes—Western, per bu JJS @ 1.05 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.5 C @ 5.73 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 4.00 @ 4.7 S Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.03 & 1.04)4 Corn—No. 1 Whitesß @ .59 Oats—No. 2 White 49 @ .50 ST. LOUIS. Cattle. 5.00 @ 5.9> Hogs 4.50 @4.60 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.>2 @ 1.03 Corn—No. 2 54 @ .54}$ Oats—No. 246}*@ .47 Barley— lowa 69 @ .71 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs„ 3,50 @ 5.60 Sheep 3.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.07 @ 1.09 Corn—No. 267 & .68 Oats—No. 2 Mixed.s4 @ .56 DETROIT. Cattle..... 3.00 @ 5.25 Hoes. 3.00 @ 4.85 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.09 & 1.09)* Corn—No. 2 Yellow6l @ .63 Oats—No. 2 Whites 2 & .52)* TOLEDO. Wheat. 1.08 @ 1.09 Corn—Cashsß@ .60 Oats-No. 1 Whitesl @ .52 Clover Sbbd 4.10 @ 4.23 EAST LIBERTY. - Cattlb—Common to Prime 4.25 & 6.25 Hogs-Light 4.00 @ 5.00 Sheep—Medium 4.50 @ 5.25 Lambs 5.00 @ 7.03 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No 2 Spring. I.M @1.04 Corn—No. 3 64 @ .66 Oats—No. 2 White .53 @ .54 Ryb—No. 1, -93 @ .95Babley—No. 274 @ .75 Pork—Measll.2s @11.75 NEW YORK. Cattle 5.00 @ 6.53 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.40 Sheep....% 5.50 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.12 @ 1.14 k Cobn—No. 2 .67 @ .69)4 Oats—Mixed Westernso @ .55 Butter—Creamery .14 @ .19

Egub—Western is 2 .J6k Pobk— New Mee*....12.00 MIL2S

BORN AT CINCINNATI. THE PEOPLE’S PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES. Platform Adopted Amid Frantic Excitement—lt Will Nominate a Presidential Ticket — Favors the Sub-Treasury Scheme, Demands Free Silver and Government Control of Railroads — “Good-by, Old Parties. Good-by.” A little political party was born into the world to-day, says a Cincinnati telegram. A chorus from the Farmers’ Alliance song-book and three bangs from Temporary Chairman Cunningham’s iron hammer preceded a prayer by the Rev. Gilbert Delamatyr, the Greenback ex-Congressman. Mr. Delamatyr was roundly applauded when he arose to pray. ; Frequent and earnest amens from the audience punctuated the invocation, after which the delegates seemed to feel better and settled contentedly back in their chairs, while the Kansas Glee Club regaled them with a humorous ditty. After an address by Jesse Harper, of Illinois, the report of the Committee on Credentials was presented, showing that thirty-four States and Territories were represented by 1,417 delegates having proper credentials. An invitation to lunch with the local delegates and an intimation that the lunch would not be entirely dry provoked a row. Helen M. Gougar created a scene by repudiating the convention, and retired amid cheers and hisses. Senator Peffer followed in a fervent address in favor of a new party, And then a recess was taken. Soon after the conyention had reassembled the report of the Committee on Platform was presented by Ignatius Donnelly and read by Robert Schilling. It opened with a lengthy statement of the political and social grievances and evils that had rendered political action not only desirafale butjiecessarv. Then came the resolutions/wnteh read as follows: 1. That in view off the great social, industrial and economical revolution now dawning upon the civilized world, and the new and living issues confronting the American people, we believe that the time has arrived for a crystallization of the political reform forces of our country and the formation of what should be known as the People’s Piirty of the United States. 2. That we most heartily indorse the demands of thb' platforms as adopted at St. Louis, Mo., in 1889, Ocala, Fla., in 1890. and Omaha, Neb., in 1891, by the Industrial organizations there represented, summarized as follows: A—The right to make and Issue money Is a sovereign power to be maintained by the people for the common benefit, henc j we demand the abolition of national banks as banks of issue, and as a substitute for national bank notes we demand that legal tender treasury notes be issued in sufficient volume to transact the business of the jountry on a cash basis, without damage or especial advantage to any class or calling. such notes to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and such notes, when demanded by the people, shall be loaned to them at not more than 2 per cent, per annum upon non-perishable products, as indicated in the Sub-Treasury plan, and also upon real estate with proper limitation upon the quantity of land and amount of money. B—We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver. C—We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by alien and foreign syndicates, and that all land held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers only, D—Believing the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privilege to none, we demand that taxation—national, State or municipal—shall not be used to build up ?ue Interest or class at the expense of another. E—We demand that all revenue—national. State or county—shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the Government, economically and honestly administered. F—We demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on income. G—We demand the most rigid, honest and just national control and supervision of the means of public communication and transportation, and if this control and supervision does not remove the abuses now existing we demand the Government ownership of such means of communication and transportation. H—We demand the election of- President, Vice President and United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. 3. That we urge united action of all progressive organizations in attending the conference called for Feb. 22, 1892, by six of the leading reform organizations. 4. That a national central committee be appointed by this conference, to be composed of a chairman to be elected by this body and of three members from each State represented, to be named by each State delegation... 5. That this central committee shall represent this body, attend the national conference on Feb. 22, 1892. and, if possible, unite with that and all other reform organizations there assembled. If no satisfactory arrangement can be effected this committee Shall Call a national convention no£ later than June 1, 1892, for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice President. 6. That the members of the central committee for each State where there is no' iniependent political organization conduct an active system of political agitation in their respective States. The platform was adopted by a rising rote, and the roll of States was called tor members of the National Committee, the convention adopting the innovation jf appointing three members from each State instead of one member as the old parties have. The Alliance Congressman, J. G. Otis, as Kansas, nominated H. E. Taubeneck, >f Illinois, as Chairman of the National Executive Committee. There was a treat outburst of cheers when Taubeaeck's name was mentioned. W. R. Lamb, of Texas, seconded the nomination, saying he had watched Taubeneck’s record and was satisfied. Taubeneck was chosen by acclamation. Loud calls tor Taubeneck finally brought that gento the rostrum, where he maub a brief but very manly and modest speech, thanking the delegates. He said: “Gentlemen, you see before you all that is left of the celebrated independent party in the Illinois Legislature so often called the ‘big three’. • He added that while he sincerely appreciated the honor the convention had conferred upon him, he scarcely felt equal to doing the position of National Chairman justice, but he would do the best he could and would rely upon the assistance of the other members of the committee. The following is the National Committee as appointed: Arkansas —L. P. Featherstone, Isaac E. McCracken, J. Q. A. Bush. California—Marion Cannon, H. C. Dillon, A. G. Hinckley, Connecticut—Robert Pique. Florida—W. D. Condon, L.’’ Baskins, J. D. Goss. Georgia—C. C. Post. lowa —J. B. Weaver, M. L. Wheat, A. J. Westfield. Indiana—O. A. Powers, Leroy Templeton, J. D. Comstock. 1 Illinois—S. N. Norton, A. J. Streeter, H. E. Taubeneck. Kansas—P. P. Elder, Levi Dumbald, R. 3. Osborn. Kentucky—D. L. Graves, S. F. Smith, T. G. Fallin. Louisiana—J. J. Mills, Dr. B. B. Paine, John'Pickett. Massachusetts—C. F. Washburn, A C. Brown, E. M. Boynton. Michigan—Ben Colvin, Mrs. 8. E. V. Emery, John O. Seabel. Minnesota—lgnatius Donnelly, C. M. Perkins, Andre Stevenson. Missouri—Paul J. Dickson, J. W. Bodgers, W. O. Atkeson. Maine—H. S. Hobbs, F. A. Howard, D. W. Bmith. ‘' Nebraska—J. H. Edmeston, William Dytart, W. H. West. New York—Jacob H. Studer, Joel J. Hart. ,

Ohio—Hugo Preyer, J. O. H. Cobb, H. P. Barnes. Oklahoma—Samuel Crocker. A. E. Light, John Hogan. Pennsylvania—B. A. Thompson, F. B. Agnew, Lewis Edwards. South Dakota—J. W. Hardin, H. L. Loucks, Fred Zeppe. Texas—W. B. Lamb, Thomas Gaines, J. H. Davis. Tennessee—H. P. Osborne, G. W. J. Kay, John W. James. Wisconsin—Bobert Schilling, Alfred Manheimer, A. J. Phillips. West Virginia—Lather O. Sbinn, George W. Hammond, Thomas C. Keeney. Wyoming—H. Bretenstein, James A. Smith, H. D. Merrett. District of Columbia—Lee Crandall, 8. A. Bland, H. L Schultheis. A few moments of confused preparation for adjournment sine dio ensued, then the Chairman’s gavel fell, and the first convention of the People’s Party of the United States had passed into history. SCENES AND INCIDENTS. Possibly the picture that will be longest remembered by those who witnessed it will be the unequaled display of enthusiasm by the big gathering at the joining of the blue and the gray with the black, in the person of au ox-Union soldier, a Texan ex-rebel, and the leader of the Colored Farmers’ Alliance. The significance of the incident was little if any marred by the fact that the third of the trio was of pure Caucasian blood. An appeal was made from the platform for funds tapay the fare home of a colored Alliance delegate from South Carolina. The delegate, Savage by name, came forward personally, and in a really clever speech, said the reason so few of the colored organizations were represented was that the colored people were too poor. It was perhaps as well for tho convention, he added, naively, eyeing the hats that were being passed around for his benefit, that so few of the colored delegates camo. Ho was handed the hatfuls of small change and retired amid great cheering for the colored Alliance. A sensational feature of the proceedings following Donnelly’s announcement came after the plarform proper had been adopted. A California man was the individual that nearly rivaled the classic youth of aneieht renown who fired’ tho Ephesian dome. The Californian’s name was G. W. Miller, and he was a Prohibitionist from the summit of his steeply brushed hair to the very bottom of his boot heels. Apparently nothing on earth could disconcert that Californian. Over 1,000 thoroughly enraged and disgusted brawny grangers and mechanics turned on him as if they could tear him limb from limb, but he refused to budge an inch. He worked his jaws without ceasing, though every syllable he uttered was lost in the hurricane of jeers and contumely. The Californian wanted to thrust before the convention a resolution pledging the new party to the prohibition cause. The contention emphatically did not want to submit to any such process. But it had to. The nerve and grit of one man against a thousand carried the day, and the People's party before it was an hour old was forced to go on record upon the young Westerner’s resolution. The convention, however, instantly took its revenge. Like a vicious yonng colt it kicked the resolution into kingdom come with a sickening suddenness and vigor that must have surprised even Mr. Miiler himself, though he managed somehow not to betray the fact It is reported that many members of the national reform organization, headed by President W. W. Jories, of Illinois, had withdrawn from the party because of the defeat of the resolution. THE PRESIDENT AND WIFE. Some of the Presents Given Them on Their Recent Trip. When Mrs. Harrison had her trunks unpacked, all the souvenirs of her journey were brought to light. She has them all arranged on the tables up stairs in the corridor, and they make a glittering array of precious metals. The presents made to the President are also among the display, and between them all the number must certainly reach 400. On one long table are arranged all the gold and silver souvenirs. Their value is great, and in size and variety they range from the superb silver salver presented to Mrs. Harrison by the ladies of San Francisco to a tiny bit of a silver baby carriage, not much over an inch square, but beautifully wrought in filigree work, which was intrusted to the President to present to his grandson, Benjamin McKee. In Utah the President was given the freedom of the Territory in the presentation of a silver map of the Territory a foot square. In San Francisco the invitation to the Palace Hotel banquet was on a thick gold card, his menu card was another gold plate, and the freedom of the city was on a superbly wrought square of gold. MORE NEW JERSEY JUSTIQE. An Illinois Man Fined Because He 'Wore Rubber Boots. They do things queerly in New” Jersey, say a New York telegram. A young man dressed in the height of fashion, with his feet encased in a pair of rubber boots that reached to his knees, was walking hurriedly through Summit avenue, Jersey City, late the other niglrt. A number of burglaries have been committed in that part of the city, and Policeman Rockford met the fashionabydressedman, and concluded that became under the head of suspicious characters, and arrested him. At the police station the prisoner, who declared his arrest an outrage, gave his name as Isaac P. S. Olivar, and said his home was in Tompkinsville, 111. He was locked up. He told Police Justice Davis that he was on a walking tour when arrested. “Why did you wear rubber boots?” asked the justice. “I supposed I had a right to wear any kind of boots or shoes I pleased,” replied the prisoner. “You are fined §10,” said the justice. Lawless Huckleberry Farmers. Anyone who has ever lived or traveled through the wooded countries of this State or Pennsylvania, writes a correspondent for Corning, N. Y., can't have failed to notice, in early spring or late fall, pillars of smoke rising among the trees on the mountains at reguiar intervals in the woods. The fires are the work of the shiftless bushwhackers, who live in the mountains of all such regions. They start the fires in the woods simply to increase the area of huckleberry bushes in the picking and marketing of the fruit, on which they largely depend for eking out the miserable existence they lead. There is only one way in which the huckleberries can be cultivated, and the huckleberry farmer does not need to own an inch of land. If he has the title to only one lucifer match he can put thousands of acres under cultivation in a very short time. He has only to light it and touch it to the dry leaves and brush, either in early spring or late fall, and his cultivation is soon under way. What the result may be in loss of life and property does not concern him, and nine out of ten forest fires that devastate the Pennsylvania woods annually may be traced directly to the torch of these outlaws. By the aid of popular subscription, and after much agitation, the Metropolitan Museum in New York will hereafter be open on Sundays. A Springfield (Ma) man burst a blood vessel by blowing his nose and nearly bled to death before medical at* tendance arrived.

STRICTLY FOR INDIANA TAKE THE TIME TO READ ABOUT A GREAT STATE. Injured While Rolling Logs—Co-Op«ra-tfvo Cheese Factory—Paroled by the Governor—New Albany Needs Brick— Sudden Deaths. —Frankfort expects soon to get free delivery. —The usual fee for a spree in New Albany is §9.50. —A child at Fortville caught diphtheria from a cat and died. —Total sales of plants by Indiana florists last year $276,909.58. —Lulu Preefer is the second woman notary public in Clark County. —Clark County has twenty-three onearmed persons—all self-sustaining. —The Methodists are preparing to build a new church in New Albany. —The New Albany Council expects to increase the salaries of all city officers. —Charles Strand fell- into an elevator shaft at Michigan City and was Killed —Dr. D. Pagiu, of South Bend,predicts the world will come to au end in the year 2062. —Andy Brown, prominent fatmer, disappeared from his home near Martinsville. —They can't make bricks fast enough at New Albany to supply building demands. —Kokomo Strawboard Company will be prosecuted for polluting waters of the Wildcat —Sherman Perkins, of Company E., Sixth Ohio Infantry, was found crazy wandering in Rising Suu. —Six-year-old Frank Fox waded over his head in St Mary’s River at Fort Wayng, and was drowned-. —Norton Brown, one of the wealthiest farmers in Floyd County, died at his home near Galena, aged 74. —A firemen’s tournament will be one of the features of the Fourth of July celebration at Crawfordsville. —John Ifcker, New Albany, took sugar of lead for epsom salts and was retained on earth with great difficulty. —An unknown man about 70 years of age was run doo by the Big Four eastbound passenger train at Colfax. —Condifit system for electric railways invented by Wm. Bradley, Fort Wavne, awakening interest the country over. —Women are not permitted to sell ribbons and corsets from house to house in New Albany without a city license. —Rev. J. W. Bird, of Charlestown, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Pi sbyterian Church at Seymour. —Frank Bullet, a Claysburg boy, while being chewed up by a vicious bull dog, was rescued by a large Newfoundland dog. —Frank Smith, traveling man of Indianapolis, drove off a bridge uear Crawfordsville, and had his thigh broken. —A man in Montgomery County, when his child died, made inquiry if he could get a second-hand coffin cheaper than a new one. —Tramps near Richmond took a bas ket of groceries from a boy named John Johnson and then tied him to a tree in the woods. —Rain or shine, ’Squire Keigwin every day manages to kiss some Kentucky bride and get his name in the paper at Jeffersonville. —There are 207 members in the Crawfordsville Young Men’s Christian Association, which has been organized about four years. —Laudlord Burnett, who was euchred out of his hotel at Logansport on a Dakotajand deal, has “swapped back” by order of the court. —Aaron Hudson, of Montgomery County, who, in attempting to commit suicide, severed his , wind-pipe, is able to be up again and at work. —The Cerealine Manufacturing Company at Columbus is erecting a §37,000 elevator, as a store-house for corn to be used jn the manufacture of cerealine. —Panhandle Engineer John Manes, of Hartford City, has presented the Soldiers’ Home at Marion with one of tho eagles captured at English lake, Porter County. —The §IO,OOO damage suit of Mrs. Elizabeth Goedecker, of New Albany, against the Monon for killing J. B. Goedecker in the wreck near Mitchell, in February, 1890, has been compromised for §3,000. —Florence Boyd one,of the best known men in Clay Township, Wayne County, was perhaps fatally hurt while loading logs on a Pan-Handle car at Greensfork. A stake was thrown against his breast with such force as to knock him ten feet, injuring him internally. —At Amboy a peculiar and terrible accident befell Mrs. David Lemon. She started to a neighbor's, and had walked but thirty yards, when she was stricken totally blind. She was taken back home, and an hour later became a raving maniac. Before midnight she was dead. —ln 1825 Mrs. Elizabeth Daugherty reached Bartholomew County byway of Madison, and since that time until the other day had never been out of the county. She went down to Madison to see some relatives that have reeenty moved there. She is one of the oldest inhabitants in the county. —Ted Ring, the Montgomery County desperado, who was serving a jail sentence in Parke County for beating his grandfather, broke jail aud returned to Crawfordsville, where he was thrown out of a saloon and rearrested. —Henry Schenk, of Montgomery County, made an attempt to commit suicide by jumping in the creek, but the water was not of sufficient depth, and he will be sent to the insane asylum, where he had been undergoing treatment. —The Humane Society of Greencastle has issued a decree that cruelty to animals as well as children must cease. The city fire department is preparing to take part in the firemen’s tournament at Crawfordsville, to be held on the Fourth of J uly. Frequent runs with a heavy hose reel are made to the city limits to tost the speed of the horses. But now comes to the S. P. C. A. with a protest to the city authorities against making the noble steeds suffer in that way. The fire committee has promised that there shall be no further cause of complttnt

—James Maham, 50 years old, whfl was trying to break a colt at Peru, re* ceived a bad tall and will die,. —Lucinda McKee and Martha Ann Darnell, of Bainbridge, are 81 years of age, and are twins. They look alike, dress alike, were married within a yeaF of each other, and were widows within three months of each other. Mrs. McKee is the mqther of sixteen children,, and Mrs.’ Darnell of fourteen. —S. Webber Smith, a farmer and stock dealer, residing one mile east of Columbus, recently sold to Eastman & Co., of Jersey City, 135 head of fat cattle for §10,964. One fat steer weighed 2,280 pounds. This is the largest sale ol fat cattle ever made in Bartholomew County. The cattle were bought for export. —The 10-year-old daughter of Virgil Wolf, living near Stamper’s Creek, eight miles southeast of Orleans, was burned to death. While the mother was gone to the spring for some water the daughter attempted to lift the tea-kettle from > hook in the fire-place, when her clothing caught fire and burned her so badly that the flesh fell from the bones. —Charles McMillen, sent to the Southern prison for two years in March, 1890, from Parke County, for larceny, has been paroled by the Governor upon petition of the court officials and many citizens, including the man from whom McMillen stole two revolvers, the theft for which he was sentenced. He is only 17 years old, and was led into crime by an older man. who is now serving a sentenc® at Michigan City. —The belter class of people in the vicinity of Martinsville are determined to put an end to the wholesale slaughter of fish in White River by dynamite. Thousands are being destroyed in .this manner, and the original sport of polefishing has been almost ruined. Tho other morning Blueford James was arranged before the Mayor on a charge of fishing with dynamite and pleaded guilty. He was fined $lO and costs. The officers are looking for several more persons who are said to have been engaged in the same business. —A wood-house was erected in the yard of a country school in Montgomery County, and was painted. In a few days a saloon advertisement was paJnted on the building, and the trustee promptly painted over it In a few days.an advertisement for a grocery was found on it, and again it was painted over. One morning last week it was found that the Barnum show-bills had been pasted on the shed, and then all further attempts to keep the building free from advertisements were given up. * . ■ —Seventeen months ago Willie, the 13-year-old son of Louis Affelder, a very prominent and respected citizen of Peru, disappeared, and since then not the slightest trace has been obtained of hi»whereabouts, though his father expended a fortune in advertising and in detective agencies. The other day Willie came home. He had spent his time seeing th® world in all large cities, as was his intention when he ran away. He spent th® last seven months in San Francisco, was in Chicago for the first two weeks working as messenger in a police station, during which time the Chicago Pinkbrtons had the case. —Miss Mary H, Krout, one of the lady managers of the World's Fair Commission from Indiana, had a narrow escape in a runaway in Crawfordsville. She was in a carriage on the way to th® Monon depot to return to Chicago. The driver left the horses standing in front of a hotel, and during his absence the team started rapidly down the street to the ’bus stable. Turning the corner, the wheel struck a telephone pole, and Misa Krout was violently thrown against the side of the vehicle. The horses were caught, and as the carriage failed to be overturned, Miss Krout escaped with nothing worse than a scare and a bad shaking up. —George Mabbitt, a prominent farmer, was instantly killed by lightning while returning home from Frankfort His little boy occupied the seat with him in the wagon, and escaped with a slight shock. One of the horses was killed aiid the other badly injured. George Mabbitt was a cousin of the four Mabbitt children whose uames have been so frequently before the public. Luella Mabbitt was murdered by her lover Green, who was brought back from Texas and lynched a few years ago. The other three children, Orvis, Mont and Minnie were arrested last winter, charged with murdering Minnie’s baby. She was acquitted and the two boys are awaiting their trial. —A dastardly attempt was made to wreck the Pacific express on the Wabash railway,a mile east of Wabash, A steel rail, lying in a rack at the side of the track,was thrown aerpss the rails in such a manner as to derail any train passing. A huge bowlder, weighing five hundred pounds, was rolled upon the track five hundred feet further west. The express, running at the rate of fifty miles an hour, struck the rail,, the engineer not perceiving it until he was nearly on it. The truck wheels of the locomotive left track, and ran along the ties for some distance. Fortunately the driven held the rails, else the entire train would almost certainly have gone down a fortyfoot embankment. —While engaged at plastering a highceiling at the Columbus St. Denis Hotel, Charles Ross fell to the floor, some fifteen feet below, breaking his right arm and sustaining internal injuries. H® will recover. —A student of Wabash College, while riding a bicycle down a hill, struck a man in the back and landed him at the bottom among several dozen eggs, which he was carrying. The student paid $1 for the broken eggs, and the man departed happy. —George Farrell McCabe, of Richmond, who never saw or heard anything of his father after the latter went to the war, has found his long-lost parent In the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton. —A new company, with a capital stock of $4,500, has been organized at Russiaville for the purpose of starting a butter and cheese factory on the co-operative plan. There are fifty-one stockholders, the greater number being farmers. A contract has been let for building and equipping the factory to a Chicago firm, and the factory will be in operation about September. 1 - ■ ' ’