Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1893 — Page 6

Che gcmuertxt DKOATUR, IND. * * • ftwtj —*■ 1893 JANUARY 1593 J3u Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa_ T 234 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 • • 9 • 99 999 99 EPITOME OF THE WEEK. A WHOLE STACK OF FRESH NEWS OF THE WEEK. A Helen ot Bloodshed Soon to Bo Inaugurated In Spain-An Atro.lou« Crime Committed at Durand, Mich—Father McGlynn Kctracta • Nothing— Desperate Dervishes. . A KEIGN OF BLOODSHED Will Soon he Inaugurated In Spain by Anarchist*. Madrid Special: Fifteen hundred anarchists held a reunion in Barcelona to celebrate the New Year. There was much Incendiary talk, and several of the speakers predicted a reign of bloodshed and terror in Spain during the year just opened. The leading anarchist, one Molas, declared that he meant to inaugurate 1893 with a baptism of blood. Great shouts of approval and torrents of denunciation of the grandees and middle classes followed this declaration. A female anarchist named Theresa Claremunt sprang to the platform. She is as tierce an enemy to tne established order of things as Louise Michel, and a good deal handsomer. ‘‘Go home,” she cried, with dashing eves and tossing hair. “Go home for the present and save the centimes your oppressors allow you to earn, while they revel in wealth. Save the wretched pittance to buy rifles, and prepare to executeon the blood sucking capitalists and their miserable tools the destruction provided for them in the anarchist program.” Howls and •bouts of applause broke In upon the words of the speaker. "Give them no quarter,” she cried, “no quarter. I will lead to the points of the bayonets.” The whole audience seemed frenzied by the woman’s utterances and there might have been a dangerous demonstration • but for the interference of some cooler heads, who succeeded in calming the excited gathering. A CKI'EL ACT. An Atrocious Crime Committed at Durand, Mich. An atrocious crime was committed at the house of Layton Beach, a farmer, living one mile east of Durand, Mich. About two weeks ago Leech employed a tramp named McGuire to do chores. McGuire, on pretext of securing rabbits, prevailed upon Leech to accompany him to the woods. After going a short distance McGuire struck Leech on the back of the head with an ax felling him to the ground. After striking Leech several more blows, McGuire dragged his victim to the barn, returned to the house, secured a gun and shot Mrs. Leech through the back portion of the neck. After assaulting her the fiend departed, leaving the woman in an unconscious condition. Mrs. Leech did not regain consciousness for twenty-four hours, when she aroused the neighborhood. Great excitement prevails, and, if caught, Mc- s Guire will probably be lynched. Mr. Leech is still unconscious, and there is little hope of his recovery. Robbery was the incentive of the crime, but McGuire sequred only 850. Don't Belle veil Is Tascott, the Murderer. Chicago special: The poliee do not believe the story coming from the northwest about William Tascott, the supposed murderer of Millionaire Snell. The pursuit of young Tascott has never been abandoned and Inspector Ross, who has charge of the case, made public some of the evidence in his possession on which he bases bls belief that T.ascott is the murderer. In the office of custodian of police property is a small russet leather handbag and a plain gold ring with a ruby setting and a pile of shirts marked “W. H. T.” The goods were received in aSt Pfttjl pawn shop a few months after the murder. I Desperate Dervishes. Cairo special: The dervishes in Southern Egypt are displaying renewed activity. The other day a large party of them attacked the village of Gemal, near Wady Haifa, but were repulsed after a fierce fight in which several of them were killed. Before they could be driven off, however, they had cut a number ot telegraph wires and done other mischief. Next day a second attack was. made on demal, but the raiders were again driven off after a number of them had been killed. The second attack on the village was made by a different band from that driven off. Dr. McGlynn Retracts Nothing. Dr. McGlynn spoke at an anti-poverty society meeting at Cooper Union, New York, and reaffirmed hfc belief in the doctrines of the Society the preaching of which led to his ex-communication, lie spoke with all his old time force and Set at rest all talk of his having retracted and apologized before he was restored to his priestly function. *

t Through a Hurricane. The steamship Werkendam, Captain Barker, from Rotterdam, which has arrived in New York, experienced terrible weather from December 22 until 29. There were continuous gales during that time with very heavy seas. On Christmas day there was a hurricane, during which the steamship recalved some damage on deck. a Fire 'af Kouts, Ind. Kouts, a small town near Valparaiso, Ind., was visited with a disasterous blaze recently. The Ore started in the grocery store bolonging’to Mrs. Williamson, which was entirely consumed together with contents; no insurance. The next to go was the general dry goods store of B. Kouts, which was a total loss. The restaurant of Mrs. Williams adjoining was entirely consumed,' and the postofflce was damaged. The exact loss is not estimated, but will reach into the thousands. The town has no water supply. WHITE CAI'S Administer a Terrible Heating to a Wife Whlpper Near Kokomo, Ind. Kokomo (Ind.) special: The White Caps are again at work in this part of the State. The other night a band of sixteen horsemen, with pillow cases drawn over their heads, rode to the residence of Thomas McCarthy, sixteen miles southwest of this city, took him > from his bed and administered a terrible beating with hicKory switches, lie syas left at a distance from the house in his underclothes, standing in ' ’ the snow with bare feet. The night was intensely cold and McCarthy Suffered severely from his punishment, lie was

•hargod with wife whipping and had icveral times been warned by the caps. f Some time ago a 10-year-old boy In the lame vicinity, charged with being too attentive to a young widow, was severely handled by those masked night ■ riders, supposed to bo the same gang. Half a dozen others have received warn1 Ings. A TKRRIFIC EXPLOSION. At a Crawfordsville Hotel Wrecks the Ollico and Injures Two Men. Crawfordsville (Ind.) special: A terrific explosion occurred in the office of the Robbins Hotel, which shook the hotel frightfully, demolished the rooms, seriously injured two persons and stunned several others. It occurred in a most peculiar manner. Some days ago an employe found what appeared to be a gasplpo turned to a couple ot points, and the same has since been utilized as an ice-pick and stove poker. Fred Mills, the night clerk, was using it in the latter capacity, when the explosion occurred, and, while investigating the cause, thinking that it was from a dynamite cartridge, placed there with evil Intent, the police happened upon the shattered stump of the poker, and were struck by its bomb-like appearance.

Further investigation fallowed, and the poker proved to be a whaling bomb, one of several that were purchased as relics at New Bedford, Mass., last summer by Crawfordsville tour* ists. They are filled with most powerful explosives, and are intended to be exploded from a fuse, but it is believed that Mills allowed it to get red hot, thereby causing the explosion. Mills' proximity to the stove saved him from instant death, but ho received most serious injuries, which may yet prove fatal. Bob Thomas, a colored porter, was struck on the head by a flying fragment, and badly injured. By a miracle they were the only people present at the time, though several traveling men had just stepped out The large stove was blown into a thousand fragments, and the, room had the appearance of having interviewed a Kansas cyclone, with large pieces of the stove sticking in the plastering and floors. The hotel was begrimed with soot, and every window in the room was shattered. A fire brigade extinguished the flames, thereby preventing a serious conflagration. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. Six People Killed and Many More or Less Injured. A special from Long Island City. L. L, dated Dec. 29th, says: At 8 o’clock this , morning dynamite exploded in the yards I of the New York and Long Island Tunnel Company, on Fourth street, be•tween Vernon and Jackson avenues, this city. So far as learned six persons were killed outright and a score of persons injured. Those living in the vicinity where the explosion occurred were startled shortly after 8 o'clock by the noise of falling timbers and the cracking of glass. For a square around the ground quivered, buildings swayed to and fro and the terrified people of the district rushed out of their houses, fearing their homes were about to collapse. In a few moments the usually quiet neighborhood was thrown into the greatest excitement, j The houses adjoining the tunnel com- ‘ pany’s yard caught fire and the entire 1 fire department of the city was soon upon the scene. So soon did the flames burst out after the explosion that it is not yet certain whether al! the residents of the adjoining tenements escaped or are buried in the debris. Those in the vicinity at the time of the explosion say that the shock which followed was like an earthquake. The yards of the New Y’ork and Long Island Tunnel Company are bounded by Jackson and Vejsitn .Avenues. Tenement houses of brick and frame and stores line both these thoroughfares. The explosion was directly in the rear. The company is building a tunnel between this city and the New York Central depot A great deal of dynamite is I used in blasting. Last night the dyna- j mite froze. The men needed some this morning and placed three barrels of cartridges just back of the tenements to be thawed. They buiit a bon fire beside the cartridges. The fire burned nearer to the dynamite than was intended and I the result was the terrific and disastrous explosion.

ELEVEN DEAD. Bloody Battle at the San Juan Mining Camp. Denver (Col.) special: The San Juan mining camp has followed the precedents of all great mining excitements by baptizing itself with human blood. A courier has arrived in Bluffs City and reported a most terrible battle, in which over 100 shots were exchanged. He reported eleven men killed and a large number wounded. George Fergunson, an old prospector, and James Cody, known as “Blind Jim,” one of the best known characters in Arizona and New Mexico mining camps, are among the slain. The courier was in a state of breathless excitement, and had left the grounds after the last shot was fired, to obtain medical aid. The trouble grew out of a dispute over certain claims which had been staked out The information of the trouble has ’ caused the greatest excitement in Denver among- the prospectors, who were skeptical of fabulous wealth of the gold fields. , The battle will undoubtedly bring ( thousands of people to the new camp, . for old prospectors regard deadly con- ‘ flicts over mining claims as the best evft dance of rich strikes.

CALLED A HALT. President Harrison Creates A Sensation on Wall street. The New York Times states that Secretary ot the Treasury Foster’s trip to I New York was not on private business, • as was given out officially, but was for the purpose ot consulting Wall Street managers on the proposition to relieve the money market and check the export of gold by having the Government issue from 850,000,000 to 8100,000.000 of bonds. The Wall Street men were in favor • of the scheme and the speculative contingent were in high feather. The President’s co-operation has been coupled on as sure, but this confidence was suddenly discovered to be delusive. The President not only refused to approve the deal, buthe went further and expressed himself with usual force in a telegram to Foster, and declared that he could see no excuse for issuing bonds and, w.hat was more, he did not propose that any should be Issued while he President , Natural Has Explosion. Lancaster (Ohio) special; A natural gas explosion, which miraculously ruhsAl fatal results, occurred In the rear of Ji. A. Martens & Solns’ hardware store. Frost had broken, a small gauge pipe from the hlgn pressure line, and the gas found Its wav under the frozen crust to the vaults and cellars in the vicinity. Paul Beery of the hardware store, upon going into the water-closet lit a match and was thrown bodily a dozen feet by the explosion which followed, losing his hair and beard. A conflagration was avoided by the efforts of the crowd attracted by the noise of the explosion. Burned to Death. , The house of William Phillips, a colored laborer, living near Stonybrook, L.

1., was destroyed by firo. Four small children who wore locked In the house, were horribly burned. Two of thom were dnad when discovered. Th* others died next morning. It Is supposed that the children while playing with tiro in the kitchen stove sot the house ablaze. The building was a one-story-and-half frame structure. The neighbors saw the flames and heard the children's agonizing cries, but were unable to roach them or extinguish the fire. In Clone Pursuit of the Mexican Bandit*. San Antonio special: United States Marshal Paul Frick received a telegram from Deputy Marshal Eugene Ygleslas, of Webb County, stating that he had just received advices by wire from Guerrero, Mexico, that Second Lieut G A. I led ekin, with Troop G., Third cavalry, and Deputy United States Marshal Pink Hall and his posse were in close pursuit of a detachment of Mexican bandits in Zapata County, Texas. It is believed they will bo overtaken within twentyfour hours, and, as the bandits are desperate, it is thought they will not surrender without making a strong resistance. ' . Reunited After Many Years Separation. Laporte (Ind.) special: After a separation of thirty-six years. Dr. Robert Rhea and wife were united hero the other day. In 1856 Dr. Rhea went to New Orleans on business that finally took him to the West Indies. In the meantime Mrs. Rhea heard that her husband was dead and removed to this city. Rhea lost track ot his wife and only returned to this State a few years ago, settling near Anderson. Recently, while talking to a drummer at that place, ho learned that his wife was alive and hastened to meet her.

Plot to Burn a City.

Buenos Ayres special: A plot to burn up this city was discovered a few days ago, and a number of policemen and firemen have been arrested on the charge of being connected with the conspiracy. The plan of the conspirators was to set fire to the city in several different places at once. They had selected as places at which to apply the torch some of the principal buildings of the city, including the custom house, the police office, and the archbishop’s palace. The object of the conspiracy was plunder. The Homestead Prisoners. Pittsburgh special: There are still fifteen persons in jail for alleged crimes growing out of the Homestead troubles. Among them are O’Donnell, Critchlow, j and Clifford, 'charged with murder, trea- ■ son, and riot; Beatty and Gallagher, ' charged with poisoning, and nine colored non-union men, charged with riot, and James Akers, charged with riot. Twenty-five men were placed in jail charged with riot and sixteen bailed out, eight for muroerand five bailed out, six- . teen for treason and ten bailed out Mrs. Lease Get* an Office. Topeka (Kan.) special: Governorelect Llewellvn has decided to offer Mrs. Lease a position on the State Board of Charities. It will be one of the first appointments he will make. It is reported that Mrs. Lease has expressed her willingness to accept the position, but it is to be well understood beforehand that in accepting the position she does not in anyway relinquish her claim to the senatorship. Driver and Horse Killed. Andrew Ellis, a well-to-do farmer living near Tampico, Ind., on the PanHandle Railroad, was run over by the south-bound mail train while attempting to cross the track in a carriage, and was instantly killed. The horse was also killed and the buggy utterly demolished. The New Spanish Minister. Madrid special: Senator Muruaga has been nominated as Minister to Washington. Senor Muruaga was Minister to Washington three years ago, and was very popular. He visited America a few months ago,including in his tour Chicago and the City ot Mexico.

832,000 for His Feel. The Michigan Supreme Court has at firmed the decision of the lower court awarding Frank A. Retan 832,000 damages for being run over by a Lake Shore train and losing both feet at Hudson two years ago. The company immediately gave him a check for the amount} Both Engines Smashed. East bound freight Na 86, In charge of Engineer Bert Myers and Conductor Horr of the Chicago and Erie road, collided witch engine No. 402 in the yards at Lima, Ohio, and smashed both up prettv badly and blockaded the track for several houjs. Killed by Dynamite. Adrain Fairchild, aged 55 years, of 479 Hudson street New York, a driver imployed by the dock department while passing pier No. 14 was instantly killed by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge. Killed by a Snow-Slide, William Schloss of St Louis was killed ' in a snow-slide near Creede, Colo., at the . entrance of a mine in which he had been i working. The snow fell io a lump t distance of 1,000. Their Lot Kan. Engineer Stone, Brakeman Swegrengen, and Fireman Fuller, who were inj jured In the Rock Island Railway wreek at Troy Junction, Kan., recently, are dead. THE M AKKETI. . ' CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime .. ts. 34? 6.25 Hogs— Shipping Grades SMO ® 8.75 Sheep—Fair t0Ch0ice........... 3J» <1 bM Wheat—No. 2 Spring .... .71 *5 .72 < COBX—No. 2 AU M Oats—No. 2 9> M Eye—No. 2 JO!* i Buttee—Choice Creamery...... .'O \ EGGS-Frteh » ® .26 • Potatoes—New, per im M & .'<> ixDianapolik Cattle—Shipping ... t.r. « 5.25 Hogs—CholceLight z.w @ 7.« i Sheef—Common to Prime...... 44 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed . W* Cobx—No. 2 White. 45 .t> Oats--No. 2 White m n :v> ST. LOI.TK. Cattle s.i/r ® t.v> Hog* «.'/> 0 6.74 Wheat-No. 2 Bed. .67J4 Coax-No. 2.'. 66 <8 .67 Oats -No. 2 ' J>2!4#' M Eye- No. 2 .42 ® .51 CINCINNATI. Cattle wi 6 5.w HOGS 3,'X| 4*8.75 ■ Sheep « 4.25 Wheat--X0.2 Bed .«-4® JW‘4 COBX- No. 2 . .45 <H .43‘4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. ?A M Bye-No. 2.. ....... ... .w ® .57 IIE'DIOIT. CATTLE 3.06 4*4.50 Hook awe •» 6.f<» Sheep . w U t.v> Wheat—No. 2 Bed .72 4t> Color—Xu. 2 Yellow ...... 32 «6 42*4 ■ Oats—No. 2 White .a«; ®’.37 TOLEIIO. Wheat—No. 2 .7H4« .72’4 Coen—No. 2 White . , .<1 « .414 Oats—No. i White. .34 >*<•/, MH Bye .54 «t .to BC'FKALO. , Ca’/tle—Common to I'riiue .. :;.<o ezcSio norm— Bert Oracle* 430 « 7.<0 ' Wheat—No. 1 liard si <A .*2 ■ Corn— No. 2 47'2?4 .is!* MILWAUKEE. Wheat N 0.2 Spring W 4» .07 : i Corn—No. a .37 cz i : Oats—No.2=Wblte.....A>...i;.. s'S M Hye -No. 1 to <4 ,57 Babley—No; 2 on <tt ,'iu ‘ Pork Men* 15.74 Ct.10.2i I NEW YORK. , CatttJb ».M> 45 5.75 Hogs. i ».<» ® 7.W SHEEP - /. a.w> 4J 4.75 j WH EAT- Jfio. '1 Red 7Hs*'Ui ,TO>4 Cobs—No. 2 .42 ® JO OAT»—Mixed Western 3« « .3« • Buttbb—Kactory.., -> .15 ® .23 . Pobb—New Meaa...,. IS.OO 016.00

MANGLED IN A WRECK. —— HORROR ON A CHICAGO CTRBET CAR. Four PMaengera Killed and Fourteen Badly Wounded—Run Down by a Fort Wayne Engine — The Watchmen Not at Their I'oata—BU Arrests Made. Death In the Darkneaa. Four people were killed and more than twice that number injured early Thursday morning by the collision of a Fort Wayno train with a crowded streetcar of the Chicago City Hallway at the 47th street and Stewart avenue crossing. The train which wrought such great disaster was made up of throe cars containing laborers on their way to Colehour. The dead are: John Blaha, crushed to death: Archibald McAndrews, instantly killed, unidentified woman, supposed to bo Mrs. M. Carson, address unknown; unknown man, horribly mangled. The accident occurred at 0:10 o’clock, when the street cars were crowded with workmen. Car 197 going east on Fortyseventh street had at least fifty passengers on board. As it neared the tracks of the Fort Wayne and Wabash roads there Was no warning of an approaching train. Within the ill-fated car sat the workmen smoking their clay pipes and chatting pleasantly, wholly unmindful of their impending danger. All at once there was a wild shriek of the engine, a clanging of the bell, uno a construction train running at> a high , rate of speed crashed into the car, creat- : ing fearful havoc. There was no previous ringing ot the bell, no conspicuous light on the engine which was moving backward, and the gateman and towerman at the crossing had failed wholly to do their duty. Neither was at his post. I The wreck occurred while it was still 1 too dark for the driver or conductor of the street car to see 100 feet down the i tra< k. No one expected the construe- . tion train, and the first known of the : danger was when the engine shrieked ' and the crash came. An instant later the killed and wounded were strewn I along the frozen ground, the street car j was a complete wreck, and the train rushed by, leaving a frightful scene of death and confusion behind. The horses broke loose from the car and ran away. Early risers in the vicinity rushed to the rescue of the passengers, and the alarm was turned into all the neighboring police stations. Three hundred yards south of the crossing the train came to a standstill, and the half a hundred workmen who were on board en ronte to work down the track hurried to the assistance of the injured. Wildest Confusion Reigned. Wild confusion reigned f<?r the first few minutes. Those who had come to the work of rescue could hear the pitiful cries of the wounded and see the body of one dead man. Where to begin was a question which puzzled them. Five police patrol wagons arrived on the scene soon and policemen took charge of the work. At first little attention was directed to the train which had done the damage, but after those about the car had been picked up it was found that the bodies ot two men were under the tender. Thew Vere recovered. ThKywllce at once placed six persons under arrest. These are Conductor Bernard O’Connor and Driver Patrick Stanley, who were on the street car; Engineer Rosscup and Fireman Meager, of the construction train; “Old John” Ullbright, gateman,and Peter Schwartz, towerman at the crossihg. “Old John" was indicted last January for alleged carelessness when the freightful accident of Jan. 14 occurred at his crossing. Both the gateman and the towerman were in what is known as the ground house by the stove when the construction train came down the track. CIVIL-SERVICE EXTENSION. Little Prospect That President Harrison Will Take Action. Washington special: A gentleman who has talked with the President on the subject says that the people who are expecting a large increase in the classified civil service before the administration changes will be very sadly disappointed. He said that the President is strongly inclined to extend the civil-service rules in connection with the Postoffice Department, but that he has practically abandonedjhe purpose of any general extension, such as the increase of the employes of the Government printing office or the customs service. All etnployes now outside the protecting lines of the civil-service regulations are using every endeavor to have themselves intrenched against Democratic interference, but so far without success. There is a snag in the way of the extension of the civil service classification to the Government Printing Office. It is understood., to be the desire of the President and of the Civil Service Commission that the office should be brought within the civil service classification, but there is trouble before them in the form of opposition by the Typographical Union. The objection to the extension of the service is raised that if appointments are made upon any form of examination which does not recognize membership of the union as a necessary qualification it will result in what the union would call “rats” getting into government employ. The government is hardly prepared to declare that none but union men shall be qualified for employment, and the union will certainly object to any employment within that class of persons not belonging to the union. UNCLE SAM’S 810 GAIN. The Destruction of Paper Money Hu Benefited the Government. In all that has been recently written about the depicted condition of the United States treasury little or no account has been taken of the fact that with each passing year the treasury is a large gainer by the complete destruction by casualty of its outstanding obligations, says a Washington dispatch. How much this amounts to, what per"eentage each year, etc., the best statisticians of the treasury department have no means of definitely ascertaining. No two of their figures are alike. Since 1862, when the Government began to Issue paper money, $5,819,629,108 have Iren issued of all kinds ana denominations up to July 1, 1892. Within the same period $4,853,451,629 have been redeemed, leaving outstanding on July 1, 1892, as a liability against the Government, $967,178,479. The basis for the redemption of this vast sum of paper varies—gold for the gold certificates, silver for the silver certificates—sloo,(B)o,ooo in gold as a reserve for certain notes, and so on. All ths money is kept in the vaults awaiting the presentation of the paper for redemption. But much of this paper will never be presented. In an exhaustive inquiry on this subject made by United States Treasurer Hyatt It w.is estimated that the aggregate loss op all the issues up to January, 1888, would not bo less than $8,700,000. This estimate did not Include the fractional currency—“so cents, 25 cents, 10 cents and 5 cent shin plasters”—ln such extensive circulation for the few years following the war. Secretary Sherman construed the act of June 21. 1879, as stating that $8,375,934 of fractional currency issued under various acts had been destroyed, and the debt statement ns issued inonthly ® ft tri®® “ a debt bearing nd Interest but S(MK>3,-

463.820 f this fractional currency. United > States Treasurer Nebekor, however, carries the full amount on hi* books, . and in his report thl* year states that I more than $16,000,000 of this fractional I currency is outstanding, though It has I practically gone out of circulation, and ■ i but little more than $4,000 was present- >, ed for redemption last year. What is : j outstanding is held to n great extent by collectors of coin and paper cabinets, ■ and its value a* such Is greater than Its ' face value as money. • The aggregate of United State* our- ’ renoy, fractional and otherwise, estii mated to have been destroyed and not ■ likely to bw.presentod for redemption, ( approgiipirtes by those figures more than $14,(100,000. A recent estimate i prepared In the Treasury Department 1 place* the sum as high as $20,000,000. This money can only be taken out of the liabilities of the Government by ConI gresslonal enactment. This will probj ably be attempted in the near future. The investigations Into this subject i have shown that most of the money lost has been destroyed In railroad ’ wrecks that caught the, though no inconsiderable quantity has been destroyed by fires thnt occurred in the ' country banks, postoffices and rosl- ! dances. UPSET THE PLAN. The President Vetoes Secretary Foster's Arrangements with Willi Street. A Now York correspondent says that 1 Secretary of the Treasury Foster’s trip to New York City was not on private i business, as was given out officially, but I was for the purpose of consulting Wall street magnates on the proposition to relieve the money market and chock I the exportof gold by having the govern- | ment Issue froi\s >0,000,000 to $100,000,000 of bonds. The Wall street mon were In favor of the scheme and the I speculative contingent were in high feather. The President’s co-operation had been counted on as Bure, but this 1 confidence was suddenly discovered to ; be delusive. The President not only 1 refused to approve the deal, but he went further and expressed himself with unl usual force and declared that he could I see no excuse for issuing bonds, and, what was more, he did not propose that any should be Issued while he was President. According to Wall street reports, Secretary Foster, before he suddenly left town to go West, is credited with having received a dispatch from Washington co'uched in pretty stiff language and running substantially as follows: I want no new bonds issued under my administration Take no steps. Do nothin!. B. Harrison. He says that Mr. Foster met the Wall street men at a club house and a prolonged conference was held. Some of the most notable men in the street are said to hqve been present, and an agreement was formed on the financial policy of the Government. The action of President Harrison upset their plans entirely. NO MERCY TO THE JEWS. Barbarism of a Grand Duke —Cruel Edicts Being Enforced Relentlessly. The latest advices from St. Petersburg and other parts of Russia show that the persecution of the Jews and the inhumanity of the Czar’s officials toward that unhappy race are greater than ever before. .Six edicts have been issued, aiming to disperse the Jewish subjects of Russia, weaken their position at trading centers and crush out their religion. These edicts are enforced with the utmost rigor in many parts of the empire and with severity everywhere. The Moscow papers boast that, since the beginning of 1891, 20,000 Jews have been converted to orthodoxy. - The unhappy converts, who have been driven to a pretended denial of their religious faith, in order to escape intolerable persecution, have been deported to the district of Tcherkosovo, about five miles from Moscow. There they are rigorously governed by priests of the Russian orthodox church, who require them to attend the services of that church and to comply with Its various rules, watching narrowly for any sign of evasion or repentance. These priests have entire supervision of the wretched colony, and the alleged converts from Judaism are only allowed leave to return to Moscow upon a certificate from the priests vouching that the convert holding such document is assured ip the faith ot the orthodox church. TO START A RELIGIOUS DAILY. Methodists Talk of a Paper in Chicago with 1.000,000 Subscribers. It has developed that the Methodists propose someth.ng unique in daily journalism. At a convention of the Epworth League of Northern Wisconsin, at Hudson, n resolution Was passed recommending that the Methodist Church of America begin the publication of a Daily Christian Advocate at Chicago, th? editorials to be in line with advanced liberal religious thought, with sensational and objectionable news eliminated from the news columns. It is estimated that there are five million members of the Methodist Church in America, and the promoters of the scheme say that a daily could be started with a million subscribers. The influence of the paper, it is claimed, will be far reaching. Epworth Leagues throughout the country, it is understood, will pass similar resolutions, and the new venture will be launched in March or April. Brieflets* President-elect Cleveland has secured the services of a detective, who will act as a body-guard. Postmaster N. T. Anderson, of New London, Conn., is missing. He is short $4,000 in his accounts. Secretary Foster will visit New York and confer With bankers on the financial condition of the country. THEBbbltt House will be the home of Vice President-elect Stevenson while in Washington prior to the inauguration. Many distinguished people attended the services at Haverhill, Mass., In memory of the poet, John Greenleaf ; Whittier. E. A. Peck has resigned the position of General Superintendent of the “Big Four” Railway, and the office has been 1 abolished. James 8. Clarkson is at the head of a syndicate which has purchased the ' City of Mexico street railway service 1 for $7,000,000. ’ The United Slates Consul at Ham- ' burg will not issue clean bills of health . to steamers clearing from Hamburg for . the United States. William Grun, in jail at Canton, Ohio, for larceny, hanged himself after • having been prayed with for an hour by r W. C. T. U. members. ' The revolutionary sentiment in Rio • Grande do Sul, Brazil, is subsiding. It ’ is now known that the Federal Governt ment intends to interfere. ’ Thomas Gaston, Captain of the Po- ' lice, shot and killed W. C. Strickland at ? Jackson, Tenn. Strickland charged 1 Gaston publicly with corrupt official ’ acts. George Babcock Hazard, of Newi port R I, who is accredited with much ‘ wealth, has been in jail one week because he neglected to pay damages te--1 cently assessed upon him by the court in a case of trespass. He is upward of . 70 years of age, and is the donor of the Hazard Memorial School.

I THE UMBIUA ARRIVES. DELAY CAUSED BY A BROKEN SHAFT. ffho Overdue Cunurder Ileeehee New York After an Kvenlfdl Voyage—SKe Had Beeu DUablcd by an Accident to Her Machinery.’ All on Hoard Are Safe. The big Cunard steamer Umbria, so long the subject of anxious inquiry, is safe. So much was ascertain nd shortly jfter midnight Friday, when her lights were first s ghted off Fire Island. The news of her arrival was communicated at once to the New York office of the company, and Vernon D. Brown, the local agent, accompanied by a number of newspaper men, boarded the company's harbor tug and set out to Intercept the steamer. The ride out occupied an hour, says a New York dispatch. At 1:20 the tug drew up alongside the gangway and the party filed over the side. Every passenger on the steamer old enough to be allowed out at that hour was up and reaily to welcome the visitors—the first tangible evidence that they were approaching the homos so many of them feared iu days past they, would never rettch. , After days of anxiety, and when many were ready to believe that the big Cunarder with all on board hnd gone to the bottom of the Atlantic, the steamship Manhansctt camo Into port and reported that when out eleven days from Swansea, and pounding along fn a heavy gale, with the wind raising angry seas, she had sighted the Umbria laboring in tho trough of the sea and drifting before the gale. Tho first mate tbs'VUBRIA. was in charge 6f the Manhansett at the time and his practiced eye made out that all was not well. Tho vessel lay to t he north ot the Manhansett,about two miles out of her Course, but In a moment all hands were ordered on deck. Capt. Duck and Second Mate Ellis came on deck immediately. The Manhansett went hurrying over tho five-mils course at its best speed. Soon the Manhansett came near enough to her to see that the Umbria was not badly hurt. The captain and the second mate got out the signal book, and the ships began to talk to each other. “Who are you?” asked tho Manhansett. The Umbria told him, and said he was out from Liverpool for New York, and In reply to further questions stated that the shaft was broken and was undergoing repairs, and would be to-morrow. Tho Manhansett asked if any assistance was required and the Cunarder replied: “No. Report me to my owners." Then the Manhansett bado farewell. At that time the Cunarder was about 765 miles east of Sandy Hook, so that she had drifted considerably before the northwest gale that was blowing. Cunard Agent Vernon H. Brown in speaking of the Umbria, said that Capt McKay had been criticised because of his refusal to accept nil proffered aid, but he certainly showed wonderful sagacity in declining all the assistance that was offered to him. “Suppose, for instance, that he had accepted assistance from either the Galileo, Moravia, or Manhansett; suppose also that either of these vessels, with' the Umbria in tow, the gale which has been blowing from the northwest for tho last week shifted to the east it would not be anything unusual if the towhawser parted. Her machinery would be disabled. She would be on a Ice shore in a gale of wind, and nothing in the world could eave her from destruction and her passengers from death. Instead of that, however, Captain McKay refuses assistance. Iles to 800 miles from shore, where he can drift and drift without getting into danger, and repairs his machinery, so that when he goes near the shore ho will have' nis ship under full control. That is what I consider good seamanship. The Umbria had the whole Atlantic to drift in, and if the storm got too strong for her she could take in her sea-anchors, hoist sail, turn her stern to the wind, and run before the storm. I was thoroughly convinced that the Umbria was all right, and would come into this port in perfect safety. Capt. McKay has shown himself to be a man of great caution ACQUITTAL OF DR. BRIGGS. New York Presbytery Refuses to Sustain Any of the Charges. After one of the most tedious trials in the history of the Presbyterian Church, Dr. - Briggs, accused of herJ esy, has been Xz acquitted by \ V I the ew Yorlc X V I Presbytery. 'Rfc Professor X. Briggs was arraigned on 3 1 x specific charges. F The vot nft Ji I on the first 1 J charge was V I > w/ r begun at 4 DB. BRIGGS. o’clock, lind the vote on the sixth charge was completed and the Presbytery adjourned shortly before six o’clock. The result of the several ballots was then announced. The result was a great surprise, for on all the six counts the vote was adverse to sustaining the charges. On the first charge, accusing Prof. Briggs with teaching that the reason 1? a source of divine authority, the vote was as follows: To sustain the charge, 60; against sustaining the charge, 68. On the second charge which accuses Prof. Briggs with teaching that the church is a source of divine authority, there were 55 votes cast in favor of sustaining the charge and 71 against. The closest vote was on the third charge, that Prof. Briggs taught that the Scriptures contained errors of history ana fact. On this charge the vote was as follows: To sustain the charge, ' 61; against, 68. After this vote had been taken two or three of the anti-Briggs men left the ■ court, and others refrained from voting on the last three charges. On the fourth charge, accusing Prof. , Briggs with teaching that Moses was . not the author" of the Pentateuch, the ' result was: To sustain the charge, 53; against, 72. The vote on the fifth charge, accusing Prof. Briggs with teaching that Isaiah ' did not write many of the chapters In I the book bearing his name, was: In favor of sustaining the change, 49; against, 70. The vote on the sixth charge, accusing i Prof. Briggs of teaching that sanotiflea- ■ tion Is progressive after diath, was: To ■ sustain the charge, 57; against, 69. II The friends of Dr. Briggs wore greatly t pleased with the result. They had cal- • oulated on a majority ranging from four < to six.

IF YOU ARE IN QUEST , OF FRESH INDIANA NbWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: ... T .. Important Happening* of 11 * Week— Crime* aud Cnaualtle* — Solotd**— Deallu—Wedding*, Lto. Minor State Item*. Columbus I* complalnlniuof the large number of street rowdies In that city. A Jun Ferris of Englewood, fell from M a Fort Wayne passenger train ana was seriously injured. Grave robbers stole the corpse ot Miss Eintna Wash an 18-voar-old girl who died recently at Brazil. John Rodgers, an old settler Os Knlghtsvllle, fell from a load ot bay . aud broke his nock. Greentown’s huntinn party has returned from the wilds of Ariiansas with 1,000 pounds of venison. The village of New Hope, near Richmond, will soon have natural gas, and the citizens arc excited. The. little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hoyso of Muncie, was badly burned while playing near a gas grate. The Orphans' Home In Crawfordsville was destroyed by fire. All ot the children escaped. The loss was 828,000. Robert Daniels, a Jay County pioneer, aged 77, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jenk Lewis, at Muncie. The son of a farmer named Scbisslor near Evansville, fell Into a well while doing some repair work, and was fatally hurt Bkn Pini.KiNs, an aged Inmate of tho poor farm near Veedersburg, committed suicide by hanging himself to a beam in a barn. Adolphus Jones, colored janitor of the Rockville court house, was found dead in the auditor's oflicc recently. Heart disease. The next meeting of tho Iroquois Press Club of Indiana will beheld in Mishawaka, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1893, instead of at South Bend on Jan. 6, as originally intended. Miss Myrtle Gwin was awarded 82,500 damages from young Sohu in the brcnch-of-promlse case at Marion. Sohn is the son of one ot Marlon’s most prominent citizens. William Driedel of Jeffersonville, was sitting in his store the other night when some one fired a pistol shot through tho window, tho bullet cutting off some of his hair. A strange man, giving his name as Henry Bryant, was found lying ir.a cinder pile near the rolling mill in Brazil. He was frozen nearly to death and unable to utter a word. ■ That baby skeleton storvfrom Frankfort turns out a fizzle. Tho skeleton was tho bones of a cat, and the detective who was looking up the “murder mystery” Is confined to his bed. A safety valve In tho engine room of tho picture molding factory In Evansville was found to be tied down. There Is no doubt but some rascal had attempted to cause an explosion. Nicholas Siebert, a wealthy farmer living near Evanville. has become Insane on religious questions, and threatens to kill all of his relatives, because, he says, the divine power has so decreed. Mrs. Samuel McCosky of Staunton, the wife of a coal miner in Brazil, has fallen heir to an estate valued between $50,000 and 875,000 by the death of a distant relative in the State of New York. Harrison Shearer, while chopping wood near the Garden City brick-vards at Valparaiso, found an elk. horn about three feet long In a hollow tree. The horn must have rested in its hiding-place nearly one hundred years. ; James Sander's barn, at Wheatland, was burned the other night A fine stallion and a quantity of feud, grain, and Implements were consumed. Loss, 82,000. Incendiarism is supposed to have been the origin of the hra Charley Gregg and Douglass Mills, two Crawfordsville boys,met with serious accidents on the railroad the other day. The former was thrown from a freight car and badly bruised and Mills was struck by an engine, losing a leg. Tre Montgomery County Agricultural Association offered a prize for the best bushel of corn which will be sent to the World’s Fair. There were nine entries and the prize was given to Maxwell McCullough. M. B. Waugh was second. Last October Anthony Coteras was killed by a cave-in at a gravel pit.east of Valparaiso, belonging to the Grand Trunk Railway. Sult has just been brought by the administrator of his estate for 810,000 damages against the company. A man. woman, and boy, ragged and dirty, live In a dilapidated old tent In a woods near Wabash, whore they manage to survive in spite of the cold weather. They claim to have been washed out by tho Kansas flood and are In destitute circumstances. Edward Gardner, watchman on the Big Four Railroad, was caught by the tender of a backing switch engine at Marlon and ground to pieces while signaling others to avoid anr approaching passenger train on the Clover Leaf. He was 65 years old. Judge Hackney-, Shelbyville, has decided that Lambert Goldsmith must stand trial for the killing of Robert Skillman. This case has attracted much attention in legal circles. Goldsmith was tried once before, but the verdict was set aside on account of the sickness of one of the furors. Fred Fritz, a farmer residing near Jackson Center, Porter County, was called upon by two lightning-rod men, who made a proposition to rod the house occupied by Fritz forßs, as an advertisement The house was not his own, but he was finally persuaded Into it and to i signing what he supposed was a document to show that he had paid for the work, but which proved to be a contract for putting up rods amounting to 824a He refused to pay, but compromised by paying tho swindlers 8125. Louis, the 14-year-old son of Samuel Lowery, residing five miles south of Kokomo, was accidentally shot by his brother-in-law, Jud Rhodes. It is thought the Injury is fatal. Tho weapon was a3B-eallbre revolver, which was supposed to be empty. MV John C. Wingate of County, has been given judgment for 82.400 against the Clover-Leaf Railway for the injury of his wile who, in attempting to get oft' a passenger train, was violently thrown from the by the starting of the ears. (She sued and recovered 810,000 and then her husband entered suit. August Anderson, section hand employed on the Michigan division of tho Big Four road, near Soflus, was killed by being struck by engine 018, drawing the pay car. The section men were on ahand car aud Jumped off. when the pay train appeared, but Anderson, Instead of getting off the track, remained on the rails, was run down, hurled some distance, by the locomotive and dreadfully mangled. • Jamks HObbs of Bedford, while at work in the .Salem and Bedford stone quarries’ mills, was killed, his body being<crushcd In a horrible manner. He was transferring a large stone, which got beyond his control and fell on him. He was marrl ' . I