Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1892 — Page 6

®he senwixat ■S’?; • . DCCATUR, INJL>. H W.tnCRUBX, - - - Pvblwh«r. A GOOD CROP OF NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD. Cyelon« In Northern Indiana—Gen. Weaver Nominated for Proaldent by the Poople’B Party—Five Person* Killed In a-Wrock on the Wubaih—Bai Enough of Congress. Went Down to Death. A special train on tho Wabash Road went into the ditch at, Keller. Ind., and killed George Shorey, engineer, Frank Moore, fireman, Q F. Wilcox, trainmaster, Dunlap, superintendent of bridges and buildings, and Alfred Helm, fore-r man of carpenters. The wreck was caused by a washout The catastrophe was caused by the audden rising of a small stream known as Kentner Creek, which dries up entirely but becomes a raging torrent in the rainy season. It is spanned by a culvert probably fifteen feet wide in the clear and upon this culvert is built an embankmqpt fifteen feet high. The little rill was swollen to a mad flood by the heavy storm and the culvert becoming gorged the water backed up on the north side of the fill until at last it cut through the earth on the east side of the culvert and carried out the ponderous arch and thousands of cubic yards of soil, leaving a yawning chasm thirty feet from brink to brink. The rails and ties hung over the abyss and gave the track the semblance of being safe. A Cyclone’s Swath. Plymouth (Ind.) special: One of tho severest wind and thunder storms, accompanied by heavy rains, that was ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitants visited this section of the country the other night Houses were lifted off their foundations and carried some distance, buildings untoofed and hundreds of trees blown down. From all over the country reports are coming in of heavy loss to Stock and much damage to the crops. North Manchester, Bluffton, Huntington and other Northern Indiana points report extensive damage by the storm. Much stock was killed, but no fatalities are reported. Three Children Burned to Death In a Colorado Tenement House. A two-story tenement house at New CaStle, Col., caught fire, and the three small children of David Kingfield were burned to death. The oldest was 9 years of age. The children screamed and eried for aid, but the men in the street were unable to render them any assistance whatever. Several attempts were made, but the men could not endure the flames. The sight of the children standing in the window in their Sightgowns and appealing piteously for elp unnerved all. Boning Min Sold. The Anderson and Irondale Rolling Mill, one of the largest industries located In the Indiana gas belt, situated in Anderson, has changed hands. George Laughlin, of Cleveland, and H. W. Prawle and R. W. Numet of Chicago, are now the owners. The consideration was 935,000. The mill will be doubled tn its capacity to turn out sheet iron. It has been a paying venture from the •tart, and will be managed by George Laughlin. To Visit the Fair. Rio de Janiero special: A company has been formed here for the purpose of chartering a steamship with accommodations for 100 first-class passengers desirous of taking a trip around the world, Including a forty days’ visit to the World’s Fair. The steamer will start from Rio de Janeiro August 1, and before its passengers return they will have traveled about 60,000 miles by s«a and 5,000 miles by land. Bevolution In Honduras. According to steamship advices received at New Orleans a revolution which bids fair of success broke out June 23 in Ceiba, Honduras, and a number of government troops were killed and wounded. The revolutionists seized the American steamship Joseph Oteri, Jr., •wned in New Orleans, and embarked for Truxillo to seize that place and other coast points. Had Enough of Congress. The Hon. H. C. Patten, member of Congress from the Tenth Indian* dls-trict,-has written a letter to H. A. Barnard, State Committeeman, declining to be a candidate for renomination owing to his private business affairs, which now demand his immediate attention. Was Granted a Pardon. Samuel C. Graham, an American citizen, condemned to twenty years imprisonment for the murder of a Mexican in the State of Talisco, has, upon recommendation of Congressman Springer and Other prominent citizens, been pardoned by the Mexican Government An Ex-Senator Injured. Jonn J. Patterson, formerly United States Senator from South Carolina, was dangerously and possibly fatally injured at Bloomington, 111., by tripping over a Mouse-moving chain carelessly left on the sidewalk. The People’s Party. The National Convention of the Poeple’s party in session at Omaha, nominated Janes B. Weaver bflowa, for jPresiden', and James G. Fields of Virgina, for Vice President < A Long Fast. Mrs. M. Curtis of • has taker, no food for forty-five days. Bhe suffers from cancer of the stomach. Bought Bogus Gold Bricks. O. P. Brown, one of the wealthiest farmers of Parks County, Ind., went to the Montezuma Bank and drew 96,000, which he invested in gold bricks. The iwlndlers who robbed him are now toeing sought after. Killed by a Toy Cannon. Some boys who were firing bullets from a toy cannon at Chicago, accidentally killed Annie Weber, 3 years old, who was playing in an adjoining yard. ■■■ I- ' . Explosion of Fireworks. t A terrific explosion of fire works ocawred in the store rooms of the Ameri•smToy company, 155 Fifth avenue, Chicago. The roof was blown out and the •Hilding almost instantly took fire. A Crowd gathered, which was treated to aaremhture Fourth of July display, and When the fire engines arrived sky rockets, Roman candles and serpents Were soaring through tho roof, while ire Crackers and torpedoes exploding tt bwnehes of hundreds, made a din like h; ■. that of a pitched battle. The fire was \ gulckly under control, however, and - »one off the adjoining buildings, suffered. Although the toy company’s store was

gntteg. The loss is shout 120,000, half Insured. All the persons in the building escaped with slight bruises, except Mathie Wright, who was badly crushed on the stairs In the rush to escape from the building. DEATH AfND DEBTKDCTION ‘lealt Out By a Pennsylvania Cyclone. A special from Philadelphia, dated the 2nd Inst, says: A death dealing storm passed over this city at 11:30 a. m. It was most severe in the northern part of the city. John Jenkins, colored, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The injured are: John Mercer, blown off tho roof of a house and had his right thigh fractured; George Solely, badly shocked by lightning; Patrick Furlong, shocked by lightning; Frank Sherrlng, ankle fractured by being blown from a ladder; Mrs. Wiggman, seriously injured by the roof of herdwelling crushing upon her. Tho roof of 3561 Geiser street was blown off and Charles Christian was badly hurt Roofs by the dozens were blown off, trees were uprooted and considerable damage to property done. The storm was of cyclonic proportions when it reached Gloucester, N. J., the sporting resort on the Delaware River, diagonally from Philadelphia five miles, and carried death and destruction in its path. The tornado was 600 feet in width and it resembled a huge waterspout as It crossed the river. Tho water and everything in its track was lifted up and destruction marked the wake of the gale. The dead are: Patrick Highlands, 5 years of age, Philadelphia. Robert Hamilton, 40 years old, of Gloucester, a truckman. The injured are: Mary Ann Hamilton, 35 years, wife of Robert Hamilton, head and foot cut; Mary Hamilton, 18 years, legs crushed and hurt internally; Maggie Hamilton, aged 9 months, arms crushed. The tornado first struck and demolished the pavilion attached to the hotel of Julius Fromhagen along the river front John Fromhagen was killed. The roof circled through the air, and, descending through the building, demolished the house. The Hamilton family, consisting of the father, mother, and daughters, Mary and Maggie, were at dinner when the storm broke. The storm was severe at Stanford, N. J., and points in general along the river, and inland suffered. IRON WORKERS STRIKE. Nearly 150,000 Workmen Out of Employment. Pittsburgh special: When the clocks tolled twelve strokes at midnight Friday, nearly 159,000 workmen, who had toiled almost incessantly during the past twelve months, were out of .employment The scales in force during the past year expired at midnight, and in all mills the proprietors who have not signed the scale for the ensuing year’s work ceased entirely at that time. The number of Iron and steel mills that closed down is estimated at upward of 460 rolling mills in the United States, 425 of which have trains of roils connected with their establishments. Twenty-five or . fifty of these have been idle for some time past Os the 400 in operation until Thursday night nearly 300 are situated west of the Alleghany Mountains. Quite a number of these have signed the scale, leaving about 250 mills, which are at present lying idle. These employ upward of 160,000 men. The number of glass factories which are not in operation is >laced at 200 and the men are estimated at nearly 50,000. The firm discharged all the employes at midnight and notified them to report for their pay at the office on Saturday. By this action the Carnegies have forestalled the men and by making it a lockout instead of a striae have placed the men on the defensive. The streets are trowded, but everything is quiet FAMOUS CANNON. The Guns Carried in Columbus’ Flag Ship In Chicago. Chicago special: Two of the cannon, which were at one time, it is believed, mounted on board Christopher Columbus’ flag ship, have been received in this city. Nothing but the body of the guns remains, the woodwork, of course, having rotted away. The guns themselves are almost worn to pieces, and are not much more than huge chunks of rust Indeed the cannon are put on the “scrap iron” list in the custom house papers. One of the officers who was detailed for work in connection with the exposition found the relics at one of the West Indian Islands. Tradition and more substantial proof showed that the cannon had been nsed in a fort erected by Columbus’ son, and that they were brought from Spain with Columbus’ fleet The ruins of the fort arp still to be seen. The Government prizes 4he cannon as the best exhibit yet secured. Mr. Davis May Resign. Chicago Special: It is not among the impossibilities that officers of the Columbian exposition may soon be looking for a new director general. Colonel Davis, who now occupies that position, is not satisfied with and will not accept the aew agreement between the sub-com-mittees from the Board of Directors and the national commission. That agreement, which creates a new board of adminstratlon for the entire management of the exposition, strips Director General Davis of some of the powers conferred upon him, he thinks, and if it is approved by the two boards and put into effect there is nothing left for him to dp- but resign. Director General Davis did not say that ue would resign, but the statements he did make leave a very clear way to that inference. Horrible Hanging. Thornton was hanged in the jail yard at Fort Smith, Ark. The execution was repulsive in the extreme. When the drop fell, the rope nearly severed Thorhton’s head from his body. Many of the spectators were overcome by the horrible sight. When he mounted the scaffold Thornton protested that he was Innocent of the crime for which he was to suffer. John Thornton murdered his daughter at Krabs, Choctaw Nation, in November of last yean The motive of the murder is unknown, but it is believed that Thornton attempted to assault his daughter, who had been recently married, and then killed her to prevent her from testifying to the assault. A Frightful Situation. Chicago special: A frightful condition of affairs exists in St. Albert’s cemetery, the Bohemian-Polish burying ground away out on Milwaukee avenue. The city of the dead is a vast swamp, and the drainage percolating through it flows into the river and then qut into the lake, perhaps to be taken into the mains and distributed through the homes of Chicago citizens. There are 26,000 bodies in the cemetery, and burials are taking place there at ,the rate of 150 a month, lhe graxes are scarcely a foot apart and often half full of water when the coffins are lowered into them. Bay Gresham Will Accept. Omaha special: Sam T. Jonet, deleand M-C. Rankin, Treasurer of the I ecpie s Party National Committee, both of Terre Haute, have arrived here In advance-of the Indiana delegation. n^ e 7« W v ar 9l e ! iha,n badges and assert that several delegates have letters from H Gre * ba ?’ which tbe >' wfll show in good time, saying that he will accept the

' nomination if tendered him. TheGeorgis delegates are talking strongly antiGresham and say they will not supporl him, Stewart or any other man who hat not hitherto identified himself with ths Alliance. * Lost an Arm to a Lion. At Duluth, Minn., Edmond Reed placed his right band on a lion in a circus to make him rise to please the spectators. Reed had been cutting meat tc feed the animals. The‘Hon struck bis arm a terrific blow its paw and closed Its Jaw upon tho irm above the elbow. The keeper’s prong was jabbed into the beast’s nose, but it did not release its hold. The fainting man wat torn away, his arm being stripped oi flesh and the bones smashed. Ho was removed to tho hospital and the arm amputated at the shoulder. A Frightful Faß. A frightful fall occurred at Niagan Falla Painters were busy on the tower of the new suspension bridge on the Canadian side when a piece of sdantllng supporting a scaffold, on which were Stephen Duffey and Charles Johnson, broke. Duffey pitched headforemost down the dizzy height, fully 100 feet, to the stone foundations of the twver and was smashed to pieces. His head was simply a mass of pulp and broke the heavy stone where he struck. Johnson fortunately caught one of the guy cab> les and saved himself. The Big Slugger on » Drank. John L. Sullivan and his backer, Charles Johnson, had a little quarrel at Coney Island the other night because of John’s unsteady habits of late, but the matter has been patched up by Sullivan promising to start at once for hia training quarters. Sullivan will keep his word and starts immediately with bis trainer, Phil Casey, for Oyster Bay to begin work. Casey and Sullivan will be constantly together from now until the big fistic contest in New Orleans is decided. Canada Sat Down On. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has unanimously agreed to favorably report the Bill introduced by Senator Davis authorizing and directing the President to enforce retaliatory measures against Canadian commerce by imposing a toll on vessels passing through the St. Marys canal as an offset to the toll levied upon American vessels going through the Welland Canal. * Mr. Davis has been instructed to press the bill for passage. k A Libel Suit. At Indianapolis, Capt Eli. F. Ritter, a prominent member of the Prohibition Party, has brought suit against Leonard Hinkle, formerly chairman of the Marion County Prohibition Committee, demanding 910,000 for libel. Hinkle it is alleged, caused to be printed and distributed circulars that stated that Ritter was the most unprincipled of men and one of the greatest scoundrels that he had ever had any business dealings with. A Foiled Highwayman. At Denver, Col., a young man 18 years old, giving the name of Herbert Sullivan, walked into the National Bank of Commerce, presented a pistol to the head of the paying teller, D. A Barton, and demanded 95,000. Mr. Barton reached for his revolver and fired at the man, who dropped his pistol and ran out of the bank. He was pursued and arrested and lodged in jail. Cholera In Italy. The Vienna correspondent of the London Chronicle says: Cholera has appeared in Italy. .Five cases of the disease have been reported in Brindisi and two cases iq Latcano. None of the cases have proved yet, but the great alarm felt' by the people over the appearance of the malady in the country is greatly increased by the attempts of the officials to keep the cases secret Train Ditched. The express train, east bound, on the Chicago & Erie road, was wrecked ten miles east of Huntington, Ind. Ten cars of bullion, silk and fine horses went into the ditch. The wreck was caused by ties being piled on the track, for the purpose of robbery. Nobody was killed, but the monetary loss will be very heavy. The train was running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour. Four Men Killed. Four men were killed while at work laying the stone abuttment to a railroad bridge at Providence, IL L The bank above them caved in completely burying Patrick Sullivan, Leroy Libbev. Pietro Grande and Pasquale Diorio. Two other workmen were partially buried but were rescued alive. Killed by the Cars. A special on the Panhandle Road instantly killed Samuel Ackerman at Frankton, Ind. The special carried Superintendent A. B. Leeds, General Freight Agent D.T. McCabe, Train Master J. S. May and other officials of the road. The train was making fifty miles an hour. They were inspecting the natural gas towns. Youthful Safe Blowers. A remarkable instance of youthful depravity has been brought to the attention of the Rochester police. Three brothers named Moss, aged 8,9, and 11 respectively, were arrested for safe breaking and burglary. The boys admitted their guilt and told an astonishing tale of juvenile waywardness. st 7 THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to I-rime;.... $3.50 9 5.00 Hoos—Shipping Grades 3.50 & 5.50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 100 9 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 78 @ .80 Coen—No. 2, new 49 & .51 Oats—No.2 32)4® MM RTB—No. 275 @ .77 Butteb—Choice Creamegyl9 @ .20 Cheese—Fall Cream, flats os @ .0914 Koos—Fresh. 12)4@ .13)4 Potatoes—New, per brl 1.75 @ 2.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 a 4.54 Hoos—Choice Light 3.50 @5.26 Sheep—Common to Prime...... 3.00 @6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 79 @ .80 Cobn—No. 1 White 49 @ .51 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @5.00 Hoos 3.50 9 6.x Wheat—No. 2 Red 76 & .77 Coen—No. 2 .43)4@ .44)4 Oats—No. 2. 30 @ .el Bie—No. 2.79 @ .81 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 9 4.50 H 008..„....... .. 3.00 ® 5.50 Sheep 4.00 @6.60 Wheat—No. 2 Bed .81 @ .83 Cobn-»No. 2. .49 @ .51 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .35 DETROIT. CATTTLE 3.00 9 4.50 Hoos 3.00 9 5.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red....- 86)4® MH COBN—No. 2 Ye110w.47)4® .48)4 Oats—No. 2 White M ® .37 TOLEDO. Wheat—No.2 85)4® .88)4 Coen—No. 2 White4B @ .48 Oats—No. 2 White 34 ® .36 Cloveb Seed 6.45 9 6.56 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle—Com. to Prime.. 4.00 ® 6.00 Hoos—Beet Grades. 4.00 @6.60 Wheat—No. 1 Hardßß @ .90 COBN—No. 2.64 @ .66 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 76 @ .76)4 Coen—NO. 346 @ .47 Oats—No. 2 White .36 @ .30 Rte-No. 177 & .79 BaBLET—No. 2 56 @ .58 POBK-Mess 10.50 011.00 NEW YORK. Cattle , s.so 0 5.00 Hoos 3.00 @ 5.76 Sheep 4.50 @6.00 Wheat-No. 2 Bed. 91)4® fe>4 Coen—No. 2 ; 69 @ .61 Oats—Mixed Western M @ .40 Butteb—Creameryl6 @ .20 PoBK-Old Mess 10.00 @ll.OO

INDIANA REPUBLICANS. — THEY HOLD THEIR STATE CONVENTION At FORT WAYNE. tn J. Chase Renoi«l n »t«Hl for Governor and Theodore Shookuey for Lieutenant Governor-Full Text of the Platform Adopted—The Convention In Detail. A special from Fort Wayne, Ind., says: Not unlike the scene in the exposition building at Minneapolis a fortnight ago was tho picture presented by the interior of Indiana’s Republican Convention hall at Fort Wayne. An enthusiastic throng numbering over 5,000 were comfortably seated in tho vast hall, the tasteful and profuse decoration of which with national emblems made it not only a thing of surpassing beauty, but an ever present Inspiration to the 1,430 delegates there assembled. The convention was called to order by Chairman John K. Gowdy, of the State Central Committee, who introduced the Rev. Dr. Moffat. The audience reverently arose and stood with bowed head while tho Rev. Dr. Moffat Invoked divine guidance through and over all the deliberations and acts of the convention. The report of the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization was read by Mr. Hawkins, Secretary of the Committee. The report named Charles W. Fairbanks for permanent Chairman, and Gil Starxount for permanent Secretary. The rules adopted by the Fifty-second

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Congress were to be used for the government of the convention insofar as they were applicable to a political gathering. The report was unanimously adopted. Chairman Fairbanks took up the gavel surrendered, by Mr. Gowdy, and in distinct, measured tones clearly audible in every part of the hall, addressed the first State Convention of a great political party that ever assembled in Indiana outside of the State Capitol. At the conclusion of the Chairman’s address, the Convention took a recess until 1 o’clock. At a quarter past one Chairman Fairbanks seized the emblem of authority, called for order and asked for the report of the Committee on Credentials. The committee, finding no contests, recommended that the list of delegates reported to the State Central Committee be recognized. The report was unanimously adopted. Next in order was the report of the Committee on Resolutions. The reading of the platform was listened to with rapt attention, interrupted with generous and sometimes vociferous applause when an especially strong or striking plank was reached. The following is the platform in full: First—The Republicans of Indiana heartily approve the declaration of principles adopted by the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis. As citizens of Indiana, we congratulate the people of the State upon the nomination for President of the United States of our fellow citizen, Benjamin Harrison. The' administration of the National Government under his leadership has been marked by such wisdom and patriotism as to embrace the whole country and to give abundant assurance of its continuance, will add luster to the American name and increase the comfort of the American home. We commend the candidates of the Republican party and Nation as eminently worthy of the suffrages of an intelligent and patriotic people. The Democratic party has ever demonstrated its incapacity for government in both National and State affairs. In Indiana, believing itself intrehched behind a gerrymander of surpassing iniquity, it has show a reckless disregard for the people’s interests and welfare, imposing intolerable burdens without benefits. We therefore condemn the Democratic management of our State affairs as incompetent, wasteful and in the interests of office holders and party managers, and direct attention especially to the subjects hereafter mentioned. Debfbnd Democracy are synonymous terms with the taxpayers of this State. Unparalleled extravagance in public expenditures has marked the course of the Democratic party in Indiana during the past decade, until the State Is now burdened with a debt of 89,000,000. The current expenses of the State government have been rapidly increased by reckless mismanagement The burdens thus 'imposed have become too oppressive to be endured. Our progress as a people has been frequently impeded and the credit of the State will soon become seriously Impaired unless radical changes in the conduct of our public , business are freely introduced. Relief lies with the people and’we Invite the voter® of ail po-' lltical opinions to unite in turning out of power the party that has always been false to its pledges of honesty and reform. We arraign the Democratic party of Indiana for enacting an unequal and unjust tax. It Imposes upon the farmer, laborer, and householder an excessive and unjust share of the public burden; it creates a great number of unnecessary offices hitherto unknown to the law; to the unrden that Is already too heavy; it adds more than one hundred thousand dollars to the fees and salaries and expenses of these offices and officers. We demand its radical revision. We pledge ourselves to enact such amendments to the present tax law as shall relieve the farm and the home from the unjust taxation now imposed by them, which should place a just share of that public burden on capital and corporate property and provide a more simple and Jess expensive method of assessment. We condemn the action of the last Democratic Legislature in largely increasing the fees and salaries of both State and county officers. It made many./ i

public offices sinecures by providing for the performance of official duties by deputies paid out of the public treasury. The laws passed by the last Democratic Assembly apportioning the State for legislative and congressional purposes were designedly and wickedly framed so as to deny to many counties and localities fair and equal representation in the legislative departments of the State and nation and to place and retain under Democratic control in this State all its public institutions and affairs and to give that party increased and unfair representation in Congress and the State Legislature. Such a policy is dangerous and destructive of all government and merits the condemnation of al) patriotic people. Aijd we now pledge the Republican party to continue the warfare against this dishonest policy of the Democratic party until the State shall be honestly apportioned by giving each countv and locality its fair and equitable representation in the legislative departments of the State and Nation and each party representation In proportion to its members. We denounce the purpose of the Democratic partv, clearly avowed in the National platform, to repeal the law imposing the 10 per cent tax on State bank Issues and thus remove the only barrier to a return of "wild-cat monev,” which once disgraced our State and largely Impoverished our people. The Democratic party deserves tho emphatic condemnation of every citizen of the State for its refusal to place our benevolent institutions upon a non-parti-san basis, when murder, cruelty, debauchery and fraud and incompetency

mark that party’s management of many of those institutions, and for still persisting In retaining partisan control of these asylums of the helpless and unfortunate, that they may be made the coin in payment for party services. We therefore demand absolutely non-partisan management ot the benevolent, penal and reformatory institutions of the State through boards whose members shall be appointed by the Governor from the different political parties of the State, to the end that they may be relieved from their present profligate management We favor amending the law concerning the construction and maintenance of the public highways so as to utilize to the best advantage the large sums yearly expended thereon and thus put the farmer in close and easy communication with the market at all seasons of the year. We believe in the enactment by Congress of a law which was by President Harrison, compelling the use of the standard safety couplers for the protection of the lives and limbs of employes engaged in inter-state commerce. The people in the employ of railroad companies in this State form a large percentage of its population and are justly entitled to such legislation as will place them on an equality with such corporations before the law. And we are opposed to railroads maintaining insurance companies by coercing their employes to become members of them. The employers of labor should be liable for damages for injury to persons or destruction of life where the employer is more at fault than the employe. We also believe in a law governing convict labor in the convict institutions of the State that will work the least possible injury to free labor. We are in sympathy with al) well directed efforts of laboring men to improve their condition by united action or otherwise, and pledge ourselves to give them such aid by legislation as will tend to advance the interests of wageworkers. We most heartily endorse the generous pension laws enacted by Republicans in Congress, and congratulate the country that during the administration of President Harrison no pension bill has been vetoed. We demand that suitable and proper provision be made for the care and maintenance of Indigent soldiers and their wives and widows, that no soldier, flr wife or widow of a sqldler shall ever be an inmate of a poor house in the State of Indiana, and that such provision be made that the snldler when overtaken by poverty and adversity, shall not, in his declining years, be separated from the wife of his youth. We therefore advocate the establishment by the State, in connection with the Indiana department of the Grand Army'of the Republic, of a suitable state soldiers’ home for the care and maintenance ot indigent soldiers and their wives and widows, upon the plan recommended by the Grand Army of the Republic. The people of Indiana cherish the memory of Alvin P. Hovey, who was a native of this State, and with only such opportunities as were open to all, rose to high positions in the State and Nation and distinguished himself as jurist, soldier and statesman. The Republicans of Indiana lament his death as the loss of a trusted leader and of a statesman who crowned a long and useful career by a courageous and manly defence of the constitution he helped to frame and of the just powers of the State’s chief executive, • We tender to that eminent Republican leader, the Hon. James G. Blaine and the members of his family our sincere sympathy and with thOra mourn the loss of one who so recently termed a part of their family circle. - h. The platform was adopted amid great enthusiasm. The following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That we hereby adopt the American eagle as the emblem of the Republican party for use on the ballots to be voted throughout the State of Indiana, in conformity to the law on that subject, The Chairman then announced that nominations were in order and the following ticket was chosen: 7 For Governor—lra J/ Chase, Hendricks County.

1 ■ For Lieutenant Governor—Theodore Shocknoy, Randolph County. Secretary of State—Aaron Jones, Rh Joseph County. ' /* Auditor of Slate-John W. Coons, Marlon County. Treasurer of Btate-<-Fred J. Scholtz, Vanderburg County. Superintendent Public Instruction— James H. Henry, Morgan County. Reporter Supremi Court—Jalbos P. Haywocd, Tippecanoe County. Attorney Generalf-Josoph D. Fetrall, LaGrange County. ' State Statistician)—Simeon J. Thompson, Shelby CoutityJ a For Judges of the Supreme CourtSecond District, Jbhn P. Miller; Third District, Byron K. Elliott; Fifth District, IL Wes Mcßride. Judges of the Appellate Court—First District, Col. Aden G. Cavins, Green County; Second District, Charles F. Baker, Bartholortiew County; Tnird District, James B. Black, Hancock County; Fourth District, Milton S. Robinson; Fifth District, Edward Crumpaeker. The following Presidential electors were chosen: First District—Daniel B. Kumler of Vanderburg County. Second—John H, Weathers of Crawford. Third—Morris McDonald, Sr. of Floyd. Fourth—George F. O’Byrne of Franklin. Fifth—George W. Hanna of Putnam. Sixth—Jacob C. Kltchell ot Union. Seventh—A. IL Hovey of Marion. Eighth—Henry Daniels of Parke. Ninth—David Colter of Clinton. Tenth—L. M. Brackett of Fulton. Eleventh—Jesse J. M. Lafollette of Jay. Twelfth—A. R. Waiters of Allen. Thirteenth—William M. Kendall of Marshall. Mr. Williamson offered the following resolution: Raolved, That this convention congratulate the citizens of Fort Wayne in having redeemed their pledge trade to the State Central Committee, and that we tender to them the hearty and sincere thanks of this convention, and shall carry to our homes lively remembrances of their magnificent hospitality. The resolution was unanimously adopted and the convention adjourned. Buying Ont a Hotelkeeper. Once more the foaming beaker was passed around, and then the second old man began his second anecdote. Our company played one night in a town eight miles distant from Danielsonville, Connecticntt.. It was in the spring, and the weather was beautiful. In the morning, before the company started for Danielsonville, two of the men, who were great pedestrians, went to the manager and asked his permission to walk to the next town. The permission was granted, and the two fellows ground off at the rate of four miles per hour, arriving in Danielsonville a little before the rest of the company rolled in on the cars. Accommodationa for the entire party had been engaged by the advance agent at the one hotel of the place. The manager went to the hotel and inquired what kind of rooms were ready for his people. “I don’t know that we can give yon any, said the clerk, looking coldly at the manager.” “What do yon mean? Didn’t our agent make arrangements with yon?” “Yes; but I’ve changed my mind since." "Changed your mind! What for, Fd like to know ?" “That’s my affair.” “And the clerk cooly turned his back and walked away. The enraged and mystified manager rushed out to seek other accommodations. Os course, he did not find any. But while out he met the two men who walked down. "Didn’t get any rooms, did yon? asked one of them. “No; what’s the matter here?" “Well, I’ll tell yon. Borne kind friend of the hotelkeeper telegraphed him that the company was broke and twooMhem had to walk.” The hearers of the second old man gave vent to various expressions of disguest at this instance of Yankee shrewdness. “What did the manager do?" asked Ptaxrimander. “Well, I’ll tell you,” answered the narrator. “He had $1,500 in small billa done up in two rolls so that they looked as if they contained much more. He went back to the hotel and called for the proprietor. That person approached in a haughty manner and coldly said. “Well, sir, ■shatdo yon, want?” The manager looked ** from head to foot Then he drew out his rolls of money and, slamming them down dn the counter, asked in a voice of thunder: “What'll you take for your inferpal little shanty?” “The astounded landlord fell of about two tons. Then he bowed very low and, rubbing his hands together, said : "What can Ido for you to-day, sir?”— Theatrical Reminiscence New York Times. ' Would Starve Before He’d Pay That. At Perryville, on the Pennsylvania railroad, a thin old man with a month like a cruller climbed on tooard a south-bound train. He carried an umbrella tied up With a shoestring, and an old valise, which looked as if it had been with Lee at Appomattox. He sat down on a cross seat near the the door, deposited his property, and beckoned to a train boy who was passing with a basket of sandwiches. “Got anything ter eat, young feller?” “Sandwiches—ham, chicken, and tongue.” "Are they fresh?" “Certainly.” “There ain’t no ‘certainty’ about It,” objected the old man emphatically; “the sandwich business is ticklish in hot weather. ” “They’re fresh,” said the boy impatiently—“only been made an hour.” "I’d rather like a chicken sandwich,” remarked the old man, “if 1 knowed I wouldn’t draw a wing." “No.wings, sir—all Clear meat” “’Sposeyou let me see one of them sandwiches •” “Can’t,,sir— they are all wrapped up. Take one?” "How much do you ask fer ’em?" “Ten cents.” “Not by the dozen, young feller; bow much for one?” 4 “Ten cents.” ‘•Great day’n mornin”' gasped the old man, horror-stricken—“ten cents fer two bits of bread and a smell of chicken?” I’m hungry enough ter eat a pickax, but I'm game, aftd 1 tell you, boy, before I pay ten, cents for one little sandwich I’ll set here and roll my eyes and swoller all the way to Bowltermer?’ Minister— My dear sir, you are full of whisky. You’ll pay for it some day. Tipplerre—Will I? Then (hie) step across the street and tell, the saloon-keeper, fle’ll beglad to know it

THE WAY THINGS RUM IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Tblac* Which Hara Lately BappeaaA Within Iti Borden—Some Pleaaaat 8omi«» Dad Ate a ding. Minor Htato Item*. New Albany’s burned cotton mill !• being rebuilt Mammoth carbon-works aro soon to be built at Noblesville. Ed. Cook, 70, cut bis throat and shot himself, in Lebanon. • Chesterton is as a carriage factory employing sixty persona Rochbbter has decided to have waterworks by a vote of 441 to 78. George Nelson of Bunker Hill, was • killed by the cars at Onward. The Washington Gazette has dressed itself in a new summer outfit Patent medicine fakirs find easy marks in Muncie by the score. An unknown man was mutilated by a Panhandle train at Valparaiso. Crown Point Is reported to be one of tho prettiest towns in Indiana. The too-previous toy gun Is getting !■ its work on Fort Wayne cherubs. The Anderson Y. M. G A. has bought a site and will build a four-story home. The DePauws, of New Albany, will build a 42-pot glass plant at Alexandria. Kokomo has appropriated 920,000 for another schoolhouse, the third in three years. A Frankfort family has a lamp chimney that has been in use for 30 years. The Muncis City Council has abolished tho fee system for part pay of public officers. Wm. Mentz, a trainman, fell between the cars in Michigan City, and was killed. Fbed Clevenger. Rushville, while going hunting had his hand blown off by the gun. A. N. Howages West Madison, has a stalk of corn measuring nine feet from tip to root C, T. Wilgus, Terre Haute, married a Brazil girl when he had a wife living and now he’s in jail. W. S. Culbertson, the richest man in Indiana, died in New Albany, aged 78. Was worth 97,000,000. A Logansport man got a cinder in his eye recently and gave it but little attention. Now he is blind. Another monster gas well has been drilled in at Marion, having a flow of 8,000,000 cubic feet per day. The fires in six gas factories in Muncla have been turned out tor the summer, and hundreds of men are idle. It may be of interest to politicians to know that Salt Creek, near Bedford, is » up five feet nigher than usual. William Story, acarpenter at Brazil, fell about twenty-five feet from a building and died within two hours. L. J. Coppock, Logansport, left home a few days ago and came back insane. He could give no account of himself. An eight-millton-gusher gas-well at Elwood was set off by lightning, and the workmen are unable to extinguish the blaze. Edward Lawson shot his cousin, Charles Lawson, at Forest Chapple, in * Madison county, during a quarrel about wages. Near Goshen, last week, lightning killed Henry Linn and H. J. Hoffman, and injured J. F. Rote, who was sitting between them. Samuel Aikman, Jr., of Kokomo, was instantly killed at Frankton, While attempting to cross the Panhandle tracks in front of a train. Muncie is doing its level best to get the tetter of Anderson. Mrs. Charles West, of the formdr place, is tho mother of new-born twins. Wm. McClintic, farmer near Colum- * bus, is dead. Lived on one farm for seventy years, couldn’t read or write, but he made 9100,000. The refined women of Brazil have organized a crusade against the bawdyhouses of that town, and are driving the inmates from the city. Moses McClure, near Darlington, claims to be the oldest active Odd Fellow in Indiana. He was born in Fort Patterson, Ky., (Lexington) in 1795. At Parkersburg, fire destroyed the residence of Mrs. Shepherd, and dwelling and tin-shop of William Merrill. Loss, 92,400; tln-shop insured for 9600. An Anderson genius has invented a machine that scours knives and forks, and he expects to have a monument erected to his memory by grateful housewives. Miss Nettie Souls, a Canadian girl visiting In Muncie, was badly injured in an explosion caused by turning on ths gas some time before applying the match. The Muncie water company has placed meters in many of its largest consumer’s buildings and there Is a great howl by the citizens An ordinance has been in- * troduced in the council to cut the rate. Samuel Stucky fired an anvil in Monroe City, a year ago, in honor of a prohibition victory. The discharge injured William Huett, and now Huett has obtained a judgments of 9500 against Stucky. - - Mbs. John Pup.bier, colored, and largest person in Knox County, weighing 386 pounds, was burled at Vincennes recently. Her coffin would not go through the door and had to stand on the porch. The remains of Monroe Garrett* In a bad state of decomposition, were found on a sand bar In White river, opposite the Romona stone quarries near Spencer. Garrett and Price Redmond, both colored, had a quarrel three weeks ago, when Garrett assaulted Redmond with an ax, after which he disappeared and 01 had not been heard from since. Foul play is suspected, and an investigation is in progress. John Huntzinger, a young Madison county farmer, and Miss Fannie Cartwell went to Anderson to be married, but the preacher was away. They drove out in the country, met him on the way, stood up iu the buggy and were there made one. The business men of Crawfordsville have petitioned the City Council to pass an ordinance to keep all kinds of peddlers from that place. This is to ba dime by high license, making protection for the home industries. George Piper, a Kokomo constable, was acquitted on the charge of robbing Squire Morrland’s office of 977 in April. Several mechanics in drawfordsvilla aye building a boat in which they will sail for Arkansas, where they will put in several weeks hunting. They will go by rail to Terre Haute, and thence sail down the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi. The will of W. S. Culbhrtson of New Albany, has been probated. His estate, which is estimated to be worth from 93,600,000 to 97,000,000, is divided between his wife and children. He gives $50,000 to the Old Woman’s Borne oi New Albany, an institution he founded, and makes a few other charitable bequests. His grandsons, Glover and Percy Culbertson of St Paul, he cuts off with 9100,000 each, because they have sngaged