Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1891 — Page 6

democrat DECATUR, IND. —T y, BIACKBUBN, - - • Pttblibhkb. FULL OF FRESH FACTS, ALL RELATING TO PEOPLE AND THINGS IN THE WORLD. Minister Porter Called Home—Small Mexican War—Grand Army Memorial Ball—Hank Robber Arrested—Fatally Wounded—The Old Story. Cause for Alarm. A'. G. Porter, United States Minister to Italy, arrived in New York on the steamship Norway, and after a few hours’stop proceeded on a fast express to Washington. This sudden and unannounced arrival leads many here to believe that he has been hurriedly summoned to Washington to confer with the President and the Secretary of State on the present situation of the controversy with Italy, growing out of the troubles in New Orleans. It is more than probable that Italy has taken advantage of the trouble between the United States and Chili, to make a demand for an apology and a money indemnity for the killing of two of her Subjects in New Orleans. Minister Porter refused to give any reason for his hasty and secret trip to Washington. Immense Losses In Transporting Cattle to England. Glasgow special: Vessels arriving from America with cattle report immense losses on the passage. The General Gordon, which got into Glasgow recently, had on board the cardasses of 140 animals that had been trampled to death during the vovage. The inspectors at this port prohibited any carcasses of this kindjgto be allowed for sale as food, and directed that they all be boiled for rendering purposes. Sixteen steamers that have recently arrived at Dundee report a total loss of 150 cattle out of 1,000 that have been shipped. Great indignation has been aroused, and steps will probably be taken to regulate the traffic still more tn the interest of humanity. Railway Postal Clerks Organise. A large and enthusiastic meeting of railway clerks of the fifth division, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee, was held in the Custom House at Cincinnati for tlie purpose of perfecting an organization to push their cause before Congress at its coming session. A bill has been prepared which will be presented to Congress. The bill provides principally for the reclassification of the railway mail service. It has been endorsed by all the division superintendents of the country and Postmaster General Wanamaker, Second Assistant P. M. Bell,.and the general superintendent of the railway service. •_ Veterans to Contribute. Decatur (Ill.) special: The Decatur Executive Committee of the National Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall Association has received a copy of the general orders just issued by Gen. John Palmer, Commander-in-Chlef of the order, in which he commands every post In the United States to proceed at once and make substantial contributions to the half fund. The association is after $300,000 to $500,000 to be used in the erection of an imposing memorial hall at Decatur, the birthplace of the order. Brazil vs. Canada. Halifax special: Yarmouth ship-own-ers are much exercised over the refusal of the Brazilian Dictator to permit cable dispatches to be delivered to Canadian vessels in distress in Brazilian ports. The Yarmouth bark Lottie E. was recently compelled to put back to Rio Grande de Sul leaking. The owner cabled his Instructions to the captain, but the message was returned with the . statement that the authorities refused to allow it to be delivered. Mr. Crosby immediately reported the fact to the Canadian Government. Trouble at Terre Haute. Terre Haute (Aid .) special: Superintendent Leifert, of the New Pittsburgh mines, came over from Indianapolis, accompanied by a United States Marsha), who is expected to suppress the trouble among the miners of the Alum Cave. The miners have given the company two days to take away the fifty Polish miners brought from Chicago last week. If the warning is not heeded the miners threaten all sorts of violence. Trouble is anticipated. Small .Mexican War. Rio Grande City (Tex.) special: News received here says that on November 12, Catarino Garza and about one hundred men met several hundred Mexican soldiers twelve miles from Mier on the road to Guerrero. A volley was fired at Garza’s force with no damage, at close range, which returned by the revolutionists, causing the death of three soldiers and badly wounding another. The Government forces fell back in disorder. Paid tor a Pruioner’i Eacapo. William Anderson, the saloon keeper who acted as deputy sheriff in taking Tom Lyons, a one-legged burglar, from Indianapolis to the penitentiary and who let him escape at Monon, was summoned before Judge Cox, of the Criminal Court, to show cause why he should not bejflned for contempt. The conductor of the train testified that Anderson made no attempt to prevent the escape*. The court fined him SIOO and costs. Bank Robber Arrested. Frank Barns, alais Arthur Burns, one of the men who robbed the Chicago Stock Yard Bank, was arrested at Omaha. Identification is complete. Barns and several others drove up to the bank at the noon hour, taking possession of and carrying away a lar&e amount of money. Fatally Wounded. •: Emil Smith, employed by John Cooper, one of the best known residents of Pearl | River. Rock County, N. Y., while handlInga revolver, accidentally discharged I it, shooting Mr. Cooper’s son, Clarence, > in the leg, puncturing the groin. The r wound is considered as probably fatal. The Old Story. By the explosion of a gasoline stove L>. at Beatrice, Nob., Mr. and Mrs. J. h. Baldwin were seriously burned, the L . latter fatally. K*'• '«> Sam Small Assaulted* Atlanta (Ga.) special: Ssm Small, g the evangelist, was attacked and severely U" beaten by Tom Minor, an Atlanta | saloon keeper. The liquor man’s fists /*: were weilded with great force, and the BE sensational preacher came out of the encounter with a split lip and & a badly bruised nose. Last Sunday t- the reverend gentleman delivered an ; ( address to a large crowd in Prohibl- | tton Hall in Atlanta,snd after attacking nV the character of several Atlanta whisky p dealers, he charged Tom Minor with having deserted his family, leaving them to starve. Minor saw Small enter a barber shop and followed him. As Mr. ,

Small hung up his overcoat and started toward a chair Minor struck him on the nose. Small fell to the floor and before he could rise Minor kicked him in the face. Small’s face is badly bruised, his under lip is cut and he has lost three tedlh. TOSSED ON THE SEA. Skip Wrecked Mariners on the British Coast. London special: The most disastrous storms for years are sweeping over the British Isles, carrying death and devastation in their course and leaving the shores strewn with wrecks and the dead bodies of drowned sailors. From almost every point comes news of disaster and lossof life. At Sandgate, Kent, the British ship Bieuvenue, of Glasgow, was drived ashore after a hard struggle and twenty-one of the survivors were clinging to the rigging, facing death in plain sight of thousands of people on shore who were unable to render them any assistance. Three lifeboat crews tried hard to reach them, but unsuccessfully. One of' the lifeboats was overturned in the surf and several of the crew were drowned. After fifteen hours perilous work the efforts of the life-saving crew resulted in the rescue of the crew of the British ship Bienvenue, of Glasgow. All day, since the terrible situation of the crew became known the Hythe and Sandgate life boats had been struggling to reach the doomed vessel through the dangeroils breakers, which beat with a fury, seemed to make existence even of a life boat impossible. While the crew dung to the masts, the people on shore tried to make their encouraging cheers heard above the roar of the storm. About 4:30 in the afternoon the Bienvenue began to break up, but the masts, with the unfortunates clinging in the - rigging, still held together. It was 9:15 p. m. when the life boat touched the wreck and the work of taking in t «e poor wreicaes was as pen ous as that of getting to them. The reception on shore will be remembered for many a long day. Everybody rushed to cheer and shake the rescuers by the hand and most generous attention was devoted to the victims of the storm. These were taken to Folkestone. Ten minutes after the Sandgate crew had succeeded in saving the Bienvenue crew the Dover life boat arrived. • The bark, T. P. Pfluger, from San Francisco for Bremen, was wrecked off Hastings. Her crew of seventeen, and five passengers remained in the rigging five hours, while the life savers sent rocket after rocket with line attached, to the rescue. Several rockets fell short, but at length a line reached the vessel. Thousands were assembled on shore, thelf sympathies more aroused by seeing a womans form among the shipwrecked. A tremendous cheer went up when it was seen that the line was fastened. The crew behaved nobly and the woman was the first to be sent on the perilous journey to safety. Nearly half dead she was hauled ashore. Then followed two boys, and after them the irten, the captain coming last He was given an ovation. CREMATED. An Entire Family of Five Persons. Columbus (Ohio) special: One of the most disastrous tires in years from the fact that an entire family were consumed, occurred here early the other morning in a row of tenement houses on North High street The exact origin of the fire remains a mystery, but on the first alarm flames were seen shooting from the roof, licking up everything within grasp. The firemen endeavored to .enter the rooms, but the dense smoke made this impossible One of the captains did get partially inside the building, but was pulled out again nearly suffocated. Two hours were consumed in gaining control of the flames and long ere that every person was supposed to have escaped. Such, however, was not the case. It was nearly 4 o’clock in the evening when a little girl in the neighborhood, with childish curiosity rummaged through the ruins and found a naked arm, which led to a search and the ultimate discovery of five blackened bodies, burned to a crisp and beyond recognition. The entire family of Charles Bothers was destroyed while sleeping In a little eight by twelve room in the second story. They were: Charles Bethers. aged 30. Elizabeth, his wife, aged 28. Carrie, aged 9. « Myrtle, aged 6. J ames,' aged 3, The clock on the mantel had stopped at 3:35 a. in., indicating the hour of the fire. In fighting the flames two of the pipemen stood In the window sending the stream Into this room without discovering the dying occupants, who were unconscious and unable to utter a cry. The fire Is supposed to boos incendiary origin, as two suspicious characters were seen leaving the scene as the flames were started, A full investigation will follow, and not a little criticism is passed upon the action of the fire department tn not making a thorough examination before leaving. The room was only ten feet from the ground, and the entire family might have been rescued. MURDERED HIS CHILD Because the Little Toddler Attempted to Prevent from Visiting the Rum Shops. New Brunswick (N. J.) special: Patrick Bagley, a vagabond, is wanted at Sayreville, this county, for the murder of his 2-year-old child. The father and child disappeared about three weeks ago and the matter was reported to the police by Bagley's family, who expressed their belief that the father had taken the child into the woods and murdered h. Ho had threatened to do this because the little toddler used to follow him to the door, catch hold of his coat* and endeavor to prevent him from going to the rum shops. About three weeks ago. the child, as usual, tried to coax him to remain at home, when the Inbumanfather, with an oath, picked the little one from the ground and said he would put him where he would never follow him again. He took the child in the woods. The child never returned and neither did the father. A search party has been organized with a view of discovering the body of the child. GARZA'S BAND. Routed By Mexican Soldiers and Their Ammunition Taken. Laredo (Tex.) special: • Colonel Ceron, commander of the Mexican garrison in Nueva Laredo, has received a telegram from Geurrero.a Mexican town on the Rio Grande, sixty miles below Laredo, stating that a force of Mexican cavalry came in contact with the army of Catralno Garza at a point known as LaGunna Legar, fifteen miles back from that place, and after a short combat, dispersed the revolutionists. A cart load of ammunition was taken across the river to the revolutionists. The force of Garza is placed at about 300 men. There are several thousand Mexican soldiers scattered along the frontier ready to combat him. The number of killed and wounded in the combat is not known, but the losses are believed to be small. ratal Wreok ta Italy. Rome special: A fatal accident is reCrted to have occurred on the railroad tween this city and Turin. A dispatch received here stated that a fast < rain bound from Rome for Turin collided

with an ordinary passenger train from Genoa for this city. The scene of the accident was at the Galeria station. The (trains crashed together with terrific violence, causing a wreck that blockaded the line tor hours. Three persons were killed and seven were injured. Among the injured are five persons who are so severely hurt that little hope is entertained tor their recovery. The accident was due to the fact that the signals for the running of the trains were disregarded I THE WRONG MAN Victimised by a Michigan Sharper, Who Was Badly Worsted. Jackson (Mich.) special: It was not a lamb-like, Unsuspecting farmer whom a sharper tried to victimize on the Michigan Central train which arrived in this city just before midnight. The sharpers in question were very desirous of having a S3O-bill changed. The farmer whom they had picked out as an easy mark accommodated them and then found out that it had cost him $lO for having such an obliging nature. He was wroth. He jumped upon the sharper and pounded him unmercifully. He not only got back his S2O. but he went through the sharper and relieved him of t<e pieces of silver which he had on his person. The conductor and brakeman removed Mr. Sharper to the baggage car, their intention being to have him locked up in this city. When the junction, one mile from this city was reached, the sharper jumped and exerted his sore body in fleeing. He departed penniless, however. Dug Up a Gold Brick. Herbert Peck, a wealthy farmer living near Alliance, Ohio, had a narrow escape xfrom !‘ , gold brick” swindlers. A man from Arizona interested Peck tn his secret and took him to the woods where two bricks were found. Peck agreed to pay $5,000 for one of the bricks, but refused, to pay over the money except in the presencqot witnesses. The sharper refused to consent to that arrangement, and ttye deal was declared off. The swindlpr escaped. Caught the Wrong Men. Seventeen alleged Anarchists who were raided at Greife's Hall on West Lake street, by the Chicago police, were tried by Justice Woodman for disorderly conduct and resisting officers. The Incomplete evidence submitted shows that Inspector Lewis’ men had made a blunder and in looking for a gang of bloodthirsty “reds” bad captured a meeting of stockholders of a Socialistic Publishing Company which prints the Arbelter Zeitung. Work of Masked Robbers. The Catholic Church at Minster, Ohio, has been the scene of several 'robberies and desecrations during the past month. The other evening two masked men forced an entrance In the rear of the Catholic parsonage at that place and held up the pastor. One of the robbers placed a revolver at the priest’s head, while the other ransacked the house. They secured $75 in money and a small quantity of silverware and jewelry. Michigan's Crop. Detroit special: The Michigan apple crop this season is the largest for years, and dealers report that they have never received a better quality. The dally receipts of the Detroit shippers at present average 4,500 bushels a day., Potatoes are also exceedingly plentiful this year, and cabbage is so numerous that the market is glutted, and farmers hardly find it profitable to bring it in. William Toll, Jr. Mrs. Adda Mienot, of Grand Rapids, Mich., took her 17-year-oid son to a museum where one of the attractions is a Wjlliam Tell act. After going home she playfully put a potato on her head, remarking to the boy that he could not shoot It off. The boy had a revolver and aiming it pulled the trigger. The bullet lodged in the woman’s neck and she will probably die. Fell Nineteen Stories. James Charleston, a terra-cotta worker, fell nineteen stories, from the top of the Masonic Temple Building at State and Randolph streets, Chicago, and was crushed into an unrecognizable mass of flesh. He was leaning against a light timber, whien broke in two, precipitating him to the ground floor below. He was married and leaves a family. No Chinese Admitted. The steamer Rio Janeiro sailed for Hong Kong, from San Francisco, having on board 400 Chinamen who will not be legally entitled to return to the United States unless the present laws are changed. Blown to Atoms, At Kingston, N. M., two men, named William Huntchins and Richard Joy, were blown to atoms in the Brush Heap Mine by the premature explosion of a quantity of powder. They were each about 20 years of age. Tim Healy Become* Frightened. Timothy Healy has become so alarmed by the active demonstrations against him at Dublin that for the past week he has worn a coat of mail under the ordinary clothing. The New Chilian Minister.! Senor Montt, the newly appointed Chilian minister, has been formally presented to the President THE MARKETS CHICAGO. 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ITS AN OPEN REVOLT. BRAZILIAN PROVINCBS DECLARING INDEPENDENCE. They Will Have None of Fonseca—Rumors of New Secessions—Grande Do Sul Rqjeots the Dictator and Announces Its Autonomy. The Crisis in BraslL When, on the 15th of November, 1880, * Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, was hustled on board a steamer at Rio Ja- I nelro, and shipped to Lisbon, the world regarded the feat as the most completely successful and absolutely bloodless revolution in all history. Those nations, like our own, who had ceased to respect the divine theory of monarchs, clapped their hands with joy and welcomed another and important acquisitson to the great family of republics. Though that revolution was as unexpected as it was thorough, preparations had been made for it as for back as 1883, by the establishment of a military club, which was the focus of republican ideas, and of whom the leading spirit was President Da Fonseca. Dom Pedro, who had ruled the country since 1831, was a man, like Abraham Lincoln, who, if he erred at all, erred on the side of mercy. Like Lincoln, he had also

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liberated the slaves; and as a member of the House of Braganza he bad indulged to the utmost the political pretensions of the Catholic clergy. While not disliked by the people, he was considered to have passed the stage of usefu'ness His daughter, the Princess Isabella, had also al owed herself to become the mere tool of Cardinal De Costa, tbe Primate of Brazil, and the p ople therefore, feared that on tho death of Dom Pedro the government would be-handed over to clerical influence. It was thia belief more than anything else which nurtured the spirit of revolution. When Fonseca established a provisional government many of the nobility and the Jesuits had to quit Brazil, and

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the founding of new convents and monastic orders was strictly prohibited. The authorities of the church did not therefore take very kindly to the re public, and being favored In their intrigues by all the monarchistsand the owner* of the liberated slaves, the clergy last February secured the modification of those temporary laws which legalized civil marriages, secularized the cemeteries, and excluded the monastic orders from the control of the public schools. At that time the provisional ministry of the President resigned, and Brazil adopted a new constitution which, while not going so far as to restore the empire, was really a compromise between the principles of republicanism and the sullen attitude of the clergy. For example, the new premier, Baron Lecuna, not only Ignored those decrees which abolished title* bnt insisted on having his own rank of baron officially recognized. With such a premier the republicans were sure to have trouble sooner or later. It has now appeared. Closely following Che dissolution of Congress and the assumption of dictatorship by Da Fonseca, the Important southern province of Rio Grande do Sul has not only refused to recognize this

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act of usurpation but haa declared Its Independence and Mt up a miniature republic of its own, to the Presidency of which it has elected Silverco Martinez, a citizen of great influence. Reports also come from the northern province of Pernambuco, showing great discontent, and there are rumors of a disquieted feeling in all the States, which bodes little good to the republic. As the outcome of the action of Bio Grande do Sul, it is confronted already with the dismal prospect of civil war, for, having the army at his back, it is not likely that the dictator will submit to the courM which this province has taken. Later advices say there is no longer any attempt to deny that the Provinca of Pernambuco has joined the Province of Rio Grande do Sul in declaring Its Independence. Great excitement prevails at Rio de Janeiro and tbroughont Brasil, It is repot ted that Marshal da Fonseca has been Informed that he Is suffering from a dlseaM which must soon cauM his death and that he has announced bls willingness to resign the reins of power. The German population of Rio Grande do Sul is reported to bo organizing into armed bodies of mon on the plan of the Dutch settlers of South Africa and to bo determined to defend the Independence of their now State. Rio Grande do Sul Is the sixth largest province In Brasil, the other ffvo being

Ceara, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Minaa-Geraes, and San Paula It has an area of 91,335 square miles, a population of 504,597, and ia situated at the extreme southeastern point of Brasil, bordering on the frontiers of Uruguay. It has a coa t line of 400 miles, but not many porta of importance, owing to the difficulty of, navigation in their harbors. Nevertheless it has considerable commerce and promises to beIcome one of the most prosperous of all the Brazilian provinces. It has valua- , ble coal mines. Important fisheries, raises large herds of cattle and hand- ! some crops of wheat, which is made into flour in its own mills. The Italian colonists produce 25,00 t) pipes of wine annually. Wool ia grown and cloth manufactured, and fine cassimeres from its merinos are sold in Rio Janeira The dispatches state that thia province is largely colonized by Germane, and maintains an army of 50,000 men of German origin. The statement, however, ia not altogether correct. A German colony of 120 persons was organized at San Leopoldo by Pedro I. in 1834, which has increased since that time to over 40,000. The dispatch, therefore, must refer rather to the entire German population than to the number in the army, though it is not improbable that a liberal element of Germans or German descendants are to be found in the ranks, and that to this extent it will be found superior to the native forces when it ia called into action. Out of thia colony forty-three others have sprung in thia province, the members of which are largely engaged in agricultural pursuits, the principal one of which is the cultivation of tobacco. Their whole number, however, does not reach 50,000. It w:il be seen from thia general sketch that in military strength and resources Rio Grande do Sul is in a position to make serous trouble for the dictator. If the revolution breaks out in other provinces, as now appears likely, it is not impossible that he may meet with a fate akin to that of Balmaceda, so far at least a% defeat la concerned. The situation, indeed, ia a deplorable one, but there appears to be no other solution of the problem than by the stern and bloody arbitrament of civil war. The cause of the present trouble may best be judged from the following language of the Primate of Brazil, so far back as February, threatening if the constitution did not suit him "that a conflict, painful and grave, will ensue throughout our dear country, which can but result in the direst calamities.” President Fonseca Is a man of ability. He was the soul and life of the movement which deposed Dom Pedro, and has both the army and navy at his back. He is also a large landholder in the very province which now revolts, and while he has been forced to dissolve Congress, that body was never very friendly to his administration and had ranged Itself In opposition to the party who, by a masterly stroke of policy, made the country a republic. Julian Hawthorne, who has been writing a history of Oregon, took the

precaution to send West every chapter of the work as soon as completed for examination and revision by a committee of men expert in tbe history of the State. This will undoubtedly secure accuracy of statement, but it must tend to hedge Hawthorne’s descriptive work somewhat. „ The Ostrich I* a Dangerous Bird. During the nesting season the. male ostrich is anything but an agreeable creature and resents the intrusion of any visitors on his domain in a very pugnacious way. Hi* mode nt attack is by a series ot kicks. Instances are known of men being killed outright by a single kick. It a man Is attacked it is useless for him to seek safety in flight, as the bird would easily overtake him. Tbe only plan Is to lie flat on the ground and submit as resignedly as possible to the inevitable pummellng, which, it may be expected, will be repeated at intervals until a means ,ot escape presents Itself, or the bird affords an opportunity of being caught

by the neck, which, if tightly held and kept down, prevents much further mischief. OU from Smoko and Gm* In Scotland there ia a company which pay* a certain amonnt yearly to a number of iron works for the privilege of collecting the smoke and gases from the blast furnaces. These are passed through several miles of wrought-iron tubing, and as the gases cool there is deposited a considerable yield of oil; one plant Is reported to yield 25,000 gallons of furnace oil per week. Oil thus obtained is distilled, and a considerable quantity of creosol, phenol, and some other substances are procured from it, Tnn people of America who have sat under the spell of Edwin Booth's masterly acting certainly hope that the reports that he has lost his mind are not true. It is bad enough for his health to be in such condition that he legve thb stage, without the additional misfortune of a clouded intellect, L SoMwmms there is a good deal of pride to tolling how big a sinner yon used to be ■

THESE ACTUAL FACTS ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An later«a«lng Summary of tho More important Doing* of Our Neighbor* — Crime*, Cacualtt**, Death*. Etc, Scarlatina ia epidemic at Cartersburg. Diphtheria among adults ia reported at Martinavllle. Jesse Towell, aged 73, of Orange County, is dead. • Burglars are having a harvest in manv sections of the State. Gold, zinc aud allver ores have been found In Brown County, it is said. Charles Young fell Into a ditch at Michigan City and was badly hurt. • Kokomo is building a 100-room, $50,000 hotel, to be known as the Columbian. James L. Jones, while working near English, found a Spanish doubloon of 1703. Luther Ward was dragged 300 yards in a runaway at Seymour.and badly hurt Two freights came together at Marion on the Pan Handle road doing a great deal of damage. John G. Hatfield, a wealthy retired merchant at Greenfield, dropped dead with heart disease. Isaac Golt, a boy 17 years of age, dropped dead of heart disease at Nashville, Brown County. Messrs. McPhee and Houck, of Princeton, claim to have killed 153 quails in four hours one day last week. The little daughter of John Payne, of Brown County, set her clothes on fire playing with matches and was burned to death. Richard Foster, an Ohio and Misatsalppi Railway bridge-mason, of North Vernon, was killed near Washington, by a derrick. Mrs. Sarah Justice, of Richmond, took a vial of chloroform with suicidal intent, and it required several hours to revive her. Russell Gilmore has been gathered in at Zanesville to answer the charge of a murderous assault on the Marshal of Miltonsburg. Sherman Cale, of Valparaiso, has sued the Pennsylvania railroad for $lO,000 damages for the loss of his hand while coupling cars. A parrot beheld a thief enter the residence of Dr. H. Martin, at Jeffersonville, and set up such a series of shrieks that It frightened away the burglar. John Wyman’s wife and four children have died at Kirklin of a disease called black toneue. Wyman la now insane. The disease is beyond medical skill and fatal. T. L. Liter, driving across the Monon tracks, at Crawfordsville, was dumped Into a ravine by a passenger engine that struck the tail-end of hla wagon. The man escaped serious Injury. German carp weighing eight pounds have been captured in the river at Franklin. The fish come to the surface by hundreds, apparently intoxicated by the gas escaping from the refuse of the starch factory. Maurice Miller has entered suit against Amos White In the Montgomery Circuit Court for $3,500 damages for striking him on the head with a billiard cue, whereby his hearing and eye-sight were permanently Injured. Police at Crawfordsville hkve found In a woodshed some discarded clothing. In the pocket of the vest was a translation of Caesar’s commentaries. The police think they have a clue to the burglar who has been robbing residences there, Mrs. Charles Williams, two miles west of Monrovia, swallowed a pin a week ago. The pin has worked through from the Inside, so that the point is exposed. Tbe head of the pin prevents its coming out altogether, and her physicians fear cutting the wind-pipe It they attempt to remove It. A distressing accident of a peculiar nature occurred a half mile from Huntingburg. William Halsacher, about 30 years old, was engaged In unloading logs at Koerner & Co.’s saw-mill. His head caught between two logs, mashing It almost flat. Assistance was Immediately called, but when he was released from his awful position he was, of course, unconscious. By the time medical aid arrived tbe man had lost a gallon of blood. He cannot recover, Hundreds of acres of land In Pulaski County were purchased recently by parties from Ohio, purporting to represent the Standard Oil Company. A party of Pennsylvania capltalsts are now on the ground endeavoring to secure an option on valuable oil-producing fields. A large number of wells will be drilled at once, and if a good flow be struck, Jasper County will be the location of one of the largest oil plants lu the United States. Citizens of Ripley County arc greatly excited over the discovery of a large vein of the finest quality of coal on what is known as Laughley Hill, four and a half miles from Batesville. The stratum, according to reports received, ta a thick one, aud was discovered by boring through ten feet of limestone, four inches of granite, two feet one Inch at soapstone, four feet of cannel coal and six inches of soapstone. Ripley County, In the opinion of experts, is to be a great mining district. Several companies for boring are being organized. Henry McCormack, a farmer residing near Scottsburg, went to Jeffersonville with his wife to do some shopping. The old gentleman Imbibed too freely and became involved In a quarrel which resulted In bis being badly beaten up. When the afternoon J„ M. A L train left for Indianapolis Mrs. McCormack returned on it alone, the trainmen refusing to permit tho husband to enter the car because he was intoxicated. Next morning, while wandering around drunk, McCormack approached the dinkey track just west of the penltentiarv as a train was going toward New Albany and was struck before the engineer could put on the brakes, McCormack’s right leg was crushed into a shapeless mass, so that amputation was necessary. Chas. Roar, Treasurer of the town of Clarksville, has In his possession nine honorable discharges from the United States Army, which show a consecutive service of thirty years as Sergeant of the Commissary Department in the United States Army. Frrk mall delivery for Frankfort, to begin the first of next January, has been ordered by the Postoffice Department. Three carriers will be allowed for the beginning of the service. Frankfort was chosen from the list of cities In Indian* which were eligible for the free delivery services. The others were Michigan City, Valparaiso, Fern, and Huntington. Charles Graxnxman a carpenter employed by the Wabash railroad, at Fort Wayne, was struck by a passenger train and received Injuries which will probably cause his death. He Is 05 years old, and has been in tho employ of the road since It was builtDuring a severe storm the people residing In the vicinity of the Iron viaduct, on Mulberry street, Jeffersonville, were awakened by what seemed a fuslladegf ’ pistol-shots. An investigation revealed the fact that the reports were produoeh by electric fire-balls, which traveled bad and forth on th* Iron-work of th* brid*« producing thnnder and lightning In smal doses. Th* *pectade was vnusual and Imautlfnl,

CTO RENT COMMENT. Poor Old Bruit. Brazil is also having domestic trouble*, In borrowing ideas from the United States, the South Americans have evidently overlooked the free schools.— Sansas City Star. There is evidently a bitter contest going on between parlies in Brazfl, and th* rival British and American interest* ar* playing an important part In It President Fonseca’s previous success and the service he has done his country lead to the hope that he will triumph—Buffalo Express. < If it Is true that a revolution la Impending and that martial law £aa*bsen proclaimed, the outlook is far from pleasing. The background to which th* recent monarchy was removed is not far enough in tbe dim distance to prevent a good many regrets which may ripen, in the case of an upheaval, into a determined effort for restoration.—Detroit Free Press. If anybody has set himself up as a dictator in Brazil, the occurrence is unfortunate for that county, as it will retard Its developments and the progress of trade; but the change will not be permanent There will be another revolution by *nd by which will restore the republic. The state of equilibrium to which the political oscillations tend is one of self-government —Philadelphia Inquirer. Indiana's Annex. We have acquiesced in Chicago’s annexing a large portion of Illinois, but when she begins to gather Indiaaa In also, It is time to object—Pittsburg Dispatch. Chicago has been doing a Rood deal of annexing lately. Now she will have * chance to show how she enjoys the prospect of being annexed herself. —Rochester Herald. Indiana Is claiming a part of Chicago’* territory. If tbe sky-scraper people keep on building up into the air as they are doing on paper now, some of their top stories will be claimed by Canada.—Minneapolis Journal. A government survey uow about finished la said to show that Indiana is entitled to a slice of Illinois that will take In Chicago. It is rather late to move the fair, but It may yefbe held in Indiana This would be considered by the Breezy City another of those Chicago, Illa—Philadelphia Ledger,. And now arises * controversy over what State Chicago is iq. Indiana claims It on the authority of an old boundary which has been discovered, and her claims seem to be well substantiated. The fact of the matter is that Chicago covers about enough ground to constitute a whole State by herself. —Boston News. Mine* Returned to His Drink. Bichloride of gold is making.a brave struggle, but whisky is still master of the field.—Brooklyn Times. The Keeley bichloride of gold treatment may not be the realization of scientific expectation in thia direction, but it is entitled to a fair and impartial test.—Troy Times. On th< theory that drunkenness is a disease it is perfectly consistent for a patient to have a relapse if he gets out too early or comes in contact with whisky —Milwaukee News. The bichloride of gold cure for internS erance receives a severe blow in the eath from alcoholism of its late champion, Col. John T. Mines, who believed the preparation had cured him.—New York World, c. We do not think logical aud fairminded men will draw final conclusions from the case of Mr. Mines, and condemn the treatment a» a fraud simply because he fell. — Rochester Post-Ex-press. As Mines has been the chief advertiser of Dr. Keeley’s alleged “cure, ” and has paraded himself, so to speak, as Keeley's prize patient, his sudden death, directly due to an alcoholic debauch, will be a blow—a literal blow between the eyes—to Dr. Keeley and hi* much puffed “certain York Advertiser. Home Rule. There will soon be but one Irish Home Rule party that anybody except a few Fenians will recognize, Cleveland Leader. , It is evident that if Ireland is te be freed it will b < In spite of a considerable Eirtlon of her own people —Ht Louis epublic, As an organization po ent in Irish politics the Parnellltes nave apparently ceased ta exist. The only advice that America has for the factions is to get together for th* good of Ireland and not for head-cracking. "-Washington Star. It Is folly for Mr- Parnell's followers to keep up the struggle. It Is Impossible to contend with the Irish priesthood In politics, and the fact has been so thoroughly demonstrated that a blind man can see it.—Nashville American, The defeat of the Parnellltes in the recent election at Cork has shown th* real weaknea* of that portion oft th* Irish party. As the matter now stands the Parnellites are without mouoy, leaders, or prestige even among those who would be expected to be their 6 friends.—Boston Journal. Cities Cry for It We have found something at last that Republicans and Democrats agree on to a dot. It is that New York Is to hav* both conventions.—New York Recorder, Chicago has decided to make another grab. Hhe will ask for the Republican Convention of 18*3, Her greed la insatiable—Pitsburg Commercial-tiaaett*. Since New York couldn’t get th* World’s Fair she is clamoring for both the big national conventions. Hhe ia bound to have a circus of some kind any- < way.—Brooklyn Union. At least five American cities are crying for the honor of welcoming the convention that la io nominate the next President of tbe United Htatea. It ia a high honor.—Baltimore American. Minneapplls, Cincinnati. Han Franatacc, and Chicago are already c*ndt< date* for the next Republican national convention. Chicago fa tho boat plao* after all.—Kalamazoo Ttlograph. The Cigarette Bug, A Ht. Louis chemist has made tho startling discovery that cigarette* ar* filled with bugs Th* horrible smell I* fully aeounted for at last,—Grand Rapid* Tvwgram. According to Dr, Ohmann Dnmcanfl, of Ht, Louis, cigarettes ar* often mad* poisonous by th* ravage* of a worm that eomes from the egg of a coleopterous inseek which is passionately addicted to the us* of tobacca H*nc* bronchial affections and throat complaints, and no wonder. If tho Insect Is na terrible a* tho description —Buston Post A BL Louis physician ha* discover** »r* tn cigarette* He save the bug sons the cigarette This dictum win probably not spoil th* demand for th* artld* but ft will furnish the perishing dude with a remark for hfs part of a Hitl* street colloquy, “Wot's eaten’yer?" the gamin will flippantly Inquire, ®A . coleopterous InsecL* 1 th* dud* will an*w*r, with n Wnt lourteh of cay and ’ f ' '/}' a» >' a. ■ ■ c , A Kill; . . J