Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1893 — Page 6

©he democrat DECATUB, IND. M. BLACKBURN, . . . FCTLTSWBa. 1893 MARCS. 1893 *Su Mo Tu IWe Th Sa • •• 1 2 3 4 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 • • •••«•• DEATH IN DARKNESS. AN EARLY MORNING HORROR IN CHICAGO. A Pa**enffcr Train Devoured by Fire— The Vloe President Honored by Senator* —locomotive* Collide—Burned by Vitriol —The Adventist*. HONORS TO MORTON. The Vice President Honored by Senators. Washington special: Vice President Levi P. Morton was honored as none of his predecessors have been. The entire Senate, without distinction of party, ■nited In rendering a complimentary dinner and In bearing testimony to the honorable manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of the upper chamber of Congress for the past four years. The banquet, which was held in the beautiful dining hall of the Arlington, was the best that skill and taste could supply, the decorations most effective and the company as distinguished as could well be, inasmuch as scarcely one senator of (prominence was absent. Among the/ other guests who partici* p®tedjin theq>roceedii)gs were ex-Senators Wm. M. Evarts and T. W. Palmer, General Alger, Mr. Frank Hatton, Mr. P.V. Degraw, Mr. H. L. West, and Mr. H. C. Clarke. Senator Manderson, president pro tem of the Senate, was chairman and toastmaster, and his ready wit and graceful rhetoric never once permitted the proceedings to flag. Messrs. Hale, Cockrell, Fvarts, Vilas, and other orators were fully equal to the occasion. DEATH IN DARKNESS. An Early Morning Horror In Chicago—Ten Live* Lost. Chicago special: The north wall of John York’s old building at No. 777 South Halstead street, was blown down early the other morning in a sudden gale of wind which arose about 1:45 o’clock. A frame house which stood next to the building was buried beneath a mass of bricks and timbers. Ten people were , buried in the ruins and ail were killed. Following is the list of Killed: John Smith and [wife and three children, hired girl and bartender at 761 Halstead street William Kunze, jeweler, wife and one sen, William Kunze, jr., at 763 Halstead street 0 6 At No. 761 South Halstead street was . the two-story brick building occupied on the first floor by John Smith as a saloon, while his wife, three children and two servants lived in the rooms above. The next building to the north, ’a twostory frame structure was occupied by- - Kunze and family. Mr. Kunze had a . jewelry store on the first floor. , The The National Liberty Religious as- ’ iociatlon mot with the Adventists con- J ference at Battle Creek, Mich. Resolutions were adopted making the association international and changing the sessions from annual io bi-annual. Officers > were elected as follows: Allen Moon of ] Chicago, President; A. T. Jones, Battle ] Creek, Vice President; A. 0. Tate, Bat- < tie Creek, Corresponding Secretary; A. < F. Baldinger, Chicago, Recording Secretary. No reference was made at this meeting to Sunday closing of the Fair. Encouraging reports were heard from South Africa, Australia, and Central ( Europe. A Keely Graduate Dies. Mansfield (Wis.) special: Dr. Lyman '■ J. Hills, a young physician of Sperry, a little town near here, died from an over dose of chloral and laudanum. He had been addicted to drink and took the Keely cure which, however, proved ineffectual. He then tried the anti-gold dipsomania cure at Fond du Lac, this State, which cured him of his love for drink but resulted in the constant use of chloral. Fir© on the KaiL A special from Paris, Ky., says: The possenger train on the Kentucky Central branch of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, ’caught tire when near Talbot station, three miles from this city. The smoking car was destroyed and several passengers badly burned. The fire was caused by the igniting of a can of gasoline. / Three Killed. Bv a collision of two freight trains on the Boston and Maine railway near St Johnsbury Center. Vt, Fred Clarke, engineer; Charles West, engineer, and Fred Green, firemen, were killed, and William Dowling, brakeman, hurt. The accident was caused by £onductdr Drew, forgetting his orders. Spain Quarantine* Against France. Madrid special: The Spasish Government has ordered the inspection and quarantining and fumigating of persons and goods coming over the frontier from France. They Surrender. The populists of the Kansas Legislature, have finally decided to reciognize the Republican house. The two houses will be amalgamated. Burned by Vitriol. Jack Cavanaugh, dispatcher at the Wabash office, Peru, Ind., was dangerously burned about the face and eyes by vitriol, which was thrown by Miss Sadie Bachman of Delphi. The girl alleges mistreatment at Cavanaugh’s bands nine years ago, and it was her intention to blind him for it She was arrested and is now in jail. Cavanaugh is in the hospital and he will probably recover his sight, as very little of the vitriol struck him in the eyes. He denies the charge which the young woman makes against him. WreCk "on the Pennsylvania. Philadelphia special: The Southern •xprese on the Pennsylvania Road coljibed with the Morten accommodation train near South Street station, West Philadelphia. Three cars of the accommodation train were wrecked. The crash of the colliding trains and the screams and shrieks of the unfortunate people pinned down beneath the broken Umbers of the wrecked car attracted an excited crowd to the acene. Five persons were killed and a dozen Injured. Thehurt were hurried to the University hospital, two blocks away, and their injuries attended to. ,5 The killed were Mr. and Mrs. E. L.

Minter of Media; Miss Marla Road of Media; Rev. James Walker of Lenny. A CRANK Attempt* to A*«.»*ln»te Millionaire John W. Mackay. San Francisco special: The life of John W. Mackay, the millionaire mine owner, was attempted by W. C. Rtppley, an old man who was undoubtedly insane, and who, after attempting Mr. Mackay’s assassination, turned the weapon upon himself and Inflicted a mortal wound. Dr. August A. Drossol called at. the receiving hospital and fully identified the would-be assassin as W. 0. Ripploy. He said: “I knew Rippley very well. He used to come to my place every day to read the papers before going down town. He did not come In this morning as usual, and he seemed very much depressed over something as he passed, abont 9 o’clock. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, aud leaves a wife and family there. At one time he was worth over SIOO,OOO and made about sso,* 000 on the Comstock. He came to San Francisco and began gambling in stocks. His money soon began to go and then be opened a cash grocery store. That venture-failed and about four years ago ho was running a bar and dining room on a steamer, which plies between San Francisco and Stockton.” Rippley was unquestionably crazy and as dangerous a crank as the fellow who tried to blow up Russell- Sage. It Is said Rippley haunted old Millionaire Flood about ten years ago and made desperate attempts to get an interview with Flood, but failed. ' • . ..-A,HARPER’S SENTENCE COMMUTED. The President Says He May Leave the Prison May L The President has granted a commutation of sentence to Edward L. Harper, ex-President of the Fidelity National Bank, of Cincinnati, who was convicted of a violation of the federal banking laws and sentenced Dec. 13, 1887, to ten years imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. The commutation provides for Harper’s release May 1, 1893. The President has twice refused to take action in Harper’s case for the reason that reports showed him to be less dangerously ill than it was claimed by those who sought to have him released. Recently, however, physicians who attended Harper have filed statements that he is very ill and is gradually losing strength and flesh. His indorsement on Harper’s application is as follows: “I have felt that no reason for clemency was shown in the case except the serious health of the prisoner. Perhaps he is entitled to some relief on that ground. His term would expire in April, 1894, and he has now been six months in jail and six years in the penitentiary. Commuted to expire Mhy 1, 1891” JUDGE HANCHETT. He Succeeds Judge Jackson On the Circuit Bench. The President has nominated Benton Hanchett of Michigan, to succeed Judge Jackson in the Sixth Judicial District Mr. Hanchett lives in Saginaw, Mich., and has long been recognized as one of the leading attorneys of the State. Ha was known to the President and the At-torney-General by reputation but neither of them enjoyed his personal acquaintance. Although he has frequently been named ir. connection with offices of various character, Mr- Hanchett has steadily declined political preferment. his only position of this sort being that of a Republican presidential elector in 1876. When Mr. Stockbridge was making a campaign for renomination to the Senate, Mr. Hanchett was brought forward by the opposition, but Withdrew by the time Mr. Stockbridge's case began to grow doubtful. He also declined a proffered appointment to the Supreme Court of Michigan, which was tendered him by Governor Luce. A Woman Find. Miss Alice Atkinson of Converse, Ind., was fined SlO by Judge Baker of the Federal Court at Indianapolis, for alleged violation of the postal laws. It is said that she mailed copies of a pamphlet entitled “Her Flower,” on which was written the words: “Who killed old Wanamaker,Hazen, Holden, and Lasche? T helped,’ said little Flower Journal.” These words are said to reflect on the characters of John Wanamaker, Postmaster General; A. D. Hazen, Third Assistant Postmaster General: George Holden, Chief Inspector, and A. L. Lasche, Postmaster at Converse. The C'ocoaine Habit. Jackson (Mich.) special: A local physician, himsqlf a confirmed taker of cocoaine, has brought many of his patients under its influence. Reputable medical men have determined that the practice must stop, and the practitioner himself be put under treatment or be debarred from practice. Some of the best classes of citizens are addicted to the habit and the loca press publishes a list of hundreds. The majority of the victims became addicted to the habit before knowing what they were taking, it having been administered for throat troubles, hay fever and many minor ills. Swept Overboard. Providence (R. I.) special: The schooner Isaac T. Cffmpbell of Boston, with coal for this port, from Baltimore, has arrived here. The captain reports that while off Hogg Island, a squall struck the vessel with terr*ble force and it was tound necessary to shorten sail and lay to. While in furling the jib, Mate Charles Olsen, aged 29, of Boston, and Seaman George Lawrence, a native of Bangor, Me., and two other seamen, were swept overboard, and Olsen and Lawrence were drowned, the other seamen being thrown back on the vessel by a heavy sea. He Rose from the Dead. Peter Johnson, an aged colored man, died a few days ago at Elkton, Tenn. One of the women who were watching the corpse, procured a towel and some cold water and began to bathe the brow of the supposed dead man. She was startled to see signs of returning life and all the colored people were thrown into a state of terror by the pegro raising his head from his coffin pillow and exclaiming: “What in the debble is you doin’, honey?” 6 The aged negro was taken from the coffin and is rapidly regaining health. Want to Annex! Ottawa (Ont.l special: Mr. Tarte caused a stir In parliament by declaring that two-thirds of the counties of Quebec would declare tin favor of political union with the United States if the vote was taken now. This sentiment is attributed to the unsatisfactory condition,’ of the country, and he said it is not confined to the French speaking population, but is widespread among the English population, in the eastern towwships. He denied that he is anxious himself.but said his ears ate not closed to the demands for a change. Brave Men Lost. *> New Bedford (Mass.) special: News was received of a terrible disaster off Cuttyhunk, one of the Elizabeth Islands, separating Buzzard’s Bay from Vineyard Sound. A volunteer crew of six men went to the rescue of a disabled steamer and five were drowned. They were Captain Timothy Aiken, Jr , L H. B. Tilton, Hiram Jackson, William Bright, and

1 Fred Alkdn. A rope was thrown to Captain Aiken, which ho caught and tied around himself three time*, but It slipped off and he was lost All men leave families. I Victory for the Republican House In KanMIM. r The Kansas State Supremo Court has 1 decided the Gunn habeas corpus case in favor of the Republican House. The opinion is tiled by Justice Horton, Jus1 tlce Johnson, Republican, assenting. 1 Chief Justice Allen. Populist, dissents, and' has filed an Independent decision. ’ The effect of the decision is to legalize 1 the Republican House of Kepresenta- > tives and to leave the Populist body 1 without any standing in law whatever. > Silver in Indiana. 1 In sinking a well at the farm of Morris Blbler, at Windtield Station, Ind.,a layer of blue clay and slate-llke rock was ' etruck at a depth of ten feet. On examination the rock was found to be full ‘ of a crystallized substance. Samples were submitted to an expert, who pro1 nounced it chromo Iron ore and silver. ' The ore contains 80 per cent, of pure silver. The well diggers passed through a layer of this metal about ton feet ‘ thick. Rufus Hatch Dead. Rufus Hatch, formerly a prominent 1 Wall street man and closely connected 1 with the Panama Railroad Company, died at his homo in New York. Hatch ' failed twice, once for 8160,000 and again 1 for 8600,000. Later he amassed a fabulous fortntie. He again paid up all his debts, and at the time of his death was one of the few men who have been engaged in stock transactions who could honestly say, “I owe no man a cent” Flag Raising Ceremonies. New York special: * The flag raising ceremonies on the great ocean liner New York, took place with great eclat The York's best record is 5 days 19 hours and 57 minutes. She is 527 feet long, 63 feet iii breadth, and her horse power is 18,400. Her tonnage Is 10,500, and she has averaged 20.13 knots an hour. She is a twin screw steamer. President Harrison and several of his Cabinet were present A Terrible Crime. At Atlanta, Ga., Miss Juda Force, 38 years of age, shot and killed her two sisters, Florence, 30 years of age, and Minnie, 25 year's of age. She then walked to the police station and gave herself up, saving she had committed a crime and desired protection. It is believed that the woman is insane. She has been considered irresponsible at times, and had frequently threatened to kill members of her family. An Embezzler. Grayling (Mich.) special: Charles M. Jackson, ex-Treasurer of Crawford County, has been arrested on the complaint of the supervisors, charged with the embezzlement of county funds during his term of office. It is said the shortage will amount to over 813.000. Jackson bad a preliminary bearing, and was remanded until March 8. A Fatal Blow. At San Francisco, William Miller, the pugilist, died from concussion of the brain, caused by a blow received during the fight with D. Hawkins, at the Pacific Club, the night before. Both feather-weights were 21 years old. The fight lasted fifteen rounds, and Miller was severely punished throughout Ail the men interested In the fight are under arrest They WIU Strike. At a meeting of the Marble Polishers, Rubbers and Sawyers’ Union Na 4, of St Louis, it was unanimously agreed to declare March 1 a holiday for the union, and if the employers refuse to yield, to strike for nine hours’ work and ten hours’ pay on and after March 2. There are several hundred marble polishers in the union. Striker* Derail Passenger Trains. Two passenger trains were partially derailed by striking Chicago and Western Indiana switchmen at Chicaga Nobody was injured. Switches were thrown in front of an incoming Chicago and , Erie passenger train and an outbound [ Wabash train, but both were moving ; slowly and no damage was done, Lake Shore Wreck. j ,The Lake Shore special train ran into 1 a “light” engine at Wickllff, Ohio, killing Engineer James Gill, of the extra. He was pinioned in the cab, with the lever , through his body, and was otherwise horribly mangled. His tireman has not yet been found. Small Pox In Chicago. James Mullahey. a laborer, living at 98 Sholto street, Chicago, was taken to the pest house suffering from small pox in an advanced stage of development. , The district in which he lived is badly I crowded and it is feared that the disease may spread. — Frozen Babe* Found In a Box. The frozen bodies of two infants about 3 weeks of age were found in a box at the entrance of an abandoned coal mine at Rock Springs, Wya The babes had been healthy up to the time they were placed out to die. Fell on a Stove. Miss Fannie Smith of Crawfordsville, Ind., fainted and fell over on a gas stove near which she stood. Her face and neck were badly burned. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime .... 13.26 @ e.OO Hous—Shipping Grades 3.60 @ 8.50 Sheep—Fair to Choice S.uo @16.60 Wheat—No. 2 Spring72)4o .73)4 COBN—No. 2...t0 0 .41 Oats—No. 230 0 .31 Hye—No. 262 & .53 Butteb —Choice Creamery27)4@ .28)4 Egos—Fresh 24 @ .25 Potatoes—New, per bn7s 0 .86 INDIANAPOMS. Cattle—Shipping;-8.25 @6.60 Hogs—Choice Light...* 3.60 @8.50 BEIIP-Common to Prime 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red6B @ .68)4 Coen—No. 2 White 42 0 *4254 OATS—No. 2 White 36 @ .37 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ s.oo ' WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 67 0 .68 COBN—No. 237 @ .38 Oats—No. 232 0 .32)4 Bye—No. 254 @ .66 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @6.50 Hogs 3.00 @8.76 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.76 Wheat—No. 2 Red 72 0 .73 Cobn—No. 2 44 0 .43 Oats—No. 2 Mixed.33)4o .34)4 Rye—No. 2.......67 & .58 DETROIT. Cattle ....L 3.00 @4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.50 Sheep 3.00 0 4.60 Wheat—No. 2 Red72)4o .73)4 Cobn—No. 2 Ye110w..43)40 .44)4 Oats—No. 2 White 38 0 JO TOLEDO. WII.EAT—No. 2.......72 @ .7254 Coen-No. 2 White 42 0 .43 Oats—No. 2 White J5)40 .36)4 Rye,s7 0 .60 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Primo..... 3.60 @6.60 Hogs—Best Grade*4.oo 0 8.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hardß2 0 .83 No. 2 Red„ .76 & .77 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 66 @ .87 Corn—No. 3 41 0 .42 Oats—No 2 White 84)40 .36)4 Rye—No. 167 0 .68 Barley—No. 2 ,62 @ .84 PoU-MeisT 19.60 @20.00 NEW YORK. Cattle t .. 3.60 @6.60 Hogb 8.00 @ ».oo SHEEP 3.00 @ 8.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 79)40 .80)4 COBN—No. 2 AS @ .64 Oats—Mixed Western3B @ .40 Butteb—Best 27 @ M POBK—New Me**.... J 0.75 @21.24

, CLEVELAND’S CABINET. 1. — ’ SKETCHES OF MEN WHO WILL HOLD PORTFOLIOS. Cabinet Make-Up Cnrlooaly at Variance with Precedent—The President-Elect Has Relied Solely on Hl* Own Personal Judgment, The President’* Advisers. Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet Is now complete. In making his appointments ’ Mr. Cleveland has evidently been governed entirely by his own personal ' judgment, and neither outaide influences nor established precedents have had any hand in hie selections. The Secretary 01 State. Judge Walter Q. Gresham has the unique distinction of having noted successively as Postmaster General and ‘ • Secretary of the Treasury under a Re--1 publican administration, of having been 1 . courted by the Populists in connection ; with the Presidency In 1892, and, finally, of being Install d at the head of a ' Democratic Cabinet Ho was born March If, 18U, on a farm near Oorydon, ' Ind. Hie early surroundings were unprophetlo of the distinguished position he afterward atta ned, and hie education, general and legal, was ao- ' quired only by dint of indomitable peieistenoe and rigid self-denial. He was sent to the Indiana Legislature In SB WALTER Q. GRESHAM. 1869, where he framed the Indiana Legion me/usure and saw it pass into a law. He commanded a volunteer company at the outbreak of the war, and was disabled at the battle of Peach Tree Creek in 1865, after which he resumed the practice of law. He was appointed District Judge by Grant in 1869, in which capacity he served with (ability for twelve years. Under President Arthur he acted first as Postmaster Gen eral and later as Secretary of the Treasury, graduating thence to the Circuit bench, which he leaves now to take the premiership in Cleveland’s Cabinet. The Treasury Portfolio. John G. Carlisle, who will act as Secretary of the Treasury, has filled the public eye for many years, and before

the President-elect appeared on the I stage of national ' politics Carll s1 e j, championed in Coni' gress the antl-pro- , tection principles \ jplth which Cleveland’s name is now ks so distinctly assoak ciated. Strong in debate, with the courage of his convictions and power of leadership, he

3. 6. CABLISLE.

will be an undoubted element of strength in the coming Cabinet. He was born in Kentucky 58 years ago, and after a brief experience as a pedagogue at Covington, Ky., he engaged In. the practice of law. He served several ' terms in the Legislature of his native State, and from 1871 to 1875 be was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. In 1876 he acted as Presidential elector, and was elected to Congress the same year. The Secretary of War. , The graduation of Col. Daniel 8. Laj mont from the position of Private Secretary to President Cleveland to the War

WM DANIEL S LAMONT.

' portfolio is with- ! out a parallel' in th a- Washington records. He was born in Cortlandville, N. Y., in 1852, and < nters the Cabinet at an ■ exceptionally • early age. Educated at Union Col- ■ lege, he was early / 1 initiated into the mysteries of New I York politics by

■ Samuel J. Tilden. When but 20 years of age he was a delegate at the convention at which Tweed was defeated by Tilden. He held an interest in the Albany Argus and was connected with that paper when Governor Cleveland appointed him his Private Secretary. The Postmaster'General. The appointment of ’ Wilson Shannon Bissell is essentially a personal one, and one for which the great friendship ex-

1 sting between the appointee and the President-elect is responsible. Mr. * Bissell has no political record whatever, and his reputation, which is a high one and more than local, is based . entirely on his 'prominence as a

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wilson a bisskll corporation lawyer and on his general business ability. He was born in Oneida County, New York, in 1847, being taken when six years old to Buffalo, of which city he has been a resident ever since. In 1872 he entered into a partnership with Lyman K. Bass, and a few months later Grover Cleveland entered the flrm, leaving when elected Governor ot the State. Mr. Bissell is a director in many corporations, railroad and commercial. . The Secretary of the Interior. The youngest man In the Cabinet will be Hoke Smith of Georgia, who. like Mr. Bissell, is a very large man, weighing

BOAS SMITH.

nearly 259 pounds. A young lawyer In Atlanta six years ago, he leaped to the front by his energetic and successful championing of tariff re- ’ form principles in Georgia. He* bought the Atlanta Journal for a ' small sum and waged relentless war on the oppo-

nents of Cleveland’s tariff views In Georgia. He finally worked the defeat of the anti-Cleveland forces In hie State. He is a very successful lawyer, railroad cases being his specialty. The Attorney General. Bichard Olney, who has been chosen for Attorney General, graduated from Brown University in 1856 and Harvard law school two years later. Twice he has been offered * Massachusetts justiceship, but declined, having the last offer from Governor Russell. Mr. Olney was born In Oxford, Mass., in 1835. His (

only political venture was when he repreeented the Second Norfolk Dietriot in the Legislature in 1874. Thle wm the year when there was a great overturn in State politico, William GMton defeating Governor Talbot by nearly 8,090 votee. In Mr. Olney'a district there was a close contest Un the face of the returns he wm only five behind. A reoount made it a tie, and on a new elsctlon he won the seat It bw been supposed by many that Mr. Olney wm a mugwump, but his fealty to his party has never been questioned. Secretary of the Navy. Hilary A. Herbert, the representative of Alabama in Cleveland's Cabinet will be placed In control of the Navy

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glnla, studied law and was admitted to practice. At the outbreak of the civil war he entered the Confederate service as a Captain and was promoted to Colonel of the Eighth regiment of Alabama volunteers. He was elected a member of the Forty-fifth and each succeeding Congress up to the present time. He was twice a member of the committee on naval affairs of the House and in the present Congress is chairman of that committee. The Portfolio of Agriculture. J. Sterling Morton was born at Adams, Jefferson County, 1 N. Y., in 1832, going when a boy to Michigan, where he at*

J. 8. MORTON.

tended school at Ann Arbor, later attending classes at Union College, New York. From , New York he wenttf to Nebraska, where '/. he acted as editor A of the Nebraska City News. After being twice elected to the Territorial

Legislature, he made an unsuccessful run for the Governorship. Three times thereafter he was a candidate for the same position, each time without success. Mr. Morton’s orchards at Arbor Lodge are the finest in the State. MURDER AND ARSON. A Most Serlons Charge Made Against Adolph Nieae, of Ottumwa, lowa. Ottuma (Iowa) special: There Is now little doubt that Ottumwa was the scene, Tuesday night, of an atrocious crime, It being the murder of a woman and her babe by the unnatural husband and father, who sought to corweal the crime by burning the house Said cremating the bod.es. The alleged murderer Is a German, 39 years of age, named Adolph Nlese. Pending the verdict of the coroner’s jury he wm arrested. Nlese’s house was discovered on fire, and burned to the ground with all Its contents. • Nlese and three children, aged 9,7. and 6, ' got safely out. but his wife and 9-months-old baby were burned io death. Muck sympathy was felt for the afflicted Husband until ugly rumors got afloat, which were confirmed by evidence taken by the coroner. It waemlleged that Niese had been untrue to his wife, that he had quarreled with her, that her life was Insured for $5.00(i in his favor, thatthe household goods were ful y insured, and that Niese had killed his wife ana child and then 'set fire to the house. The testimony of Nlese’s own children before the coroner's jury and others if exceedingly damaging. Nlese took the three children out of the house to the home of Mrs. Pease, a neighbor. The oldest little girl told Mrs. Pease that her father had told her that morning that U the house burned and her mamma was burned up they would have money to build a new house, they would have nice clothes, and would have a new mamma. The sister of the dead woman, who is implicated in the dreadful affair, is unmarried and came from Germany three months ago. She has been arrested and is now in the city jail. Her name is Hattie Volz. The post-mortem of the charred remains of Mrs. Niese shows that the skull had been crushed, and there was a large clot of blood on one side of the head. It is not known whether the infant was killed before being cremated or not. The woman’s life was insured for $5,000 in the Covenant. Mutual Benefit Association of Illinois. One of the most suspicious circumstances Is that Niese was fully dressed, even to overshoes, before arousing his neighbors, and that among the first effects rescued from the burning building were his in* surance policies. ' STOLE OVER A MILLION. Another Lot of Forged Paper to the Amount of 5200,000 at Lincoln, Neb. The Omaha Bee's special from Lincoln, Neb., says that another lot o! forged paper, aggregating $290,000, has been brought to light in the Capitol National Bank case. One batch ol notes now in th® hands of attorneys for collection for Eastembanks, amounting to $173,000, signed by an ex-employe of Mosher named Hurlbut and indorsed by Mosher as president of the Capitol Nat onal Bank, were floated by Mosher and the money sequestered by him. Mosher admits that he got the cash, but refuses to say where any of it went. The bank was opened Thursday for the purpose of admitting creditors to file their claims and wind up its business. It is now stated by conservative men who are intimate with the affairs of the institutkn that the bank's liabilities will exceed $1,200,000, with assets practically nothing. Mosher admits that his efforts to raise money to settle his shortage have failed, It is not expected that the bank will pay to exceed 10 cents on thb dollar. Lincoln’s business men, who have had faith in the statements that a full settlement would be made, are greatly excited. In the Senate a resolution order!, g immediate steps to be taken to protect the Stet j was passed. BERING SEA COMMISSION. Arbitrator* Meet at Pari* and Adjourn to March 23. The Commission of Arbitration on the Bering Sea controversy between the .United States and Great Britain met In Paris Thursday in the foreign office td open formally the proceedings. There were present Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court, American arbitrator; Lord Hannen, British arbitrator; Marquis Visconti Venosta, Italian arbitrator; Baron Alfonso de Cburcel, Freiich arbitrator; C. H. Tupper, Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, there as British agent; J. T, 'Williams, council for the United States; Sir Richard Webster and Sir Charles Russell, counsel for Great Britain. Judge Gram, of the Christiania Supreme Court, the Swedish arbitrator, will not go to Paris until the next meeting. Baron de Courcel was elected to preside. The proceedings, which lasted but half an hour, were purely formal.and the commission adjourned until March 23. ~ ~ lx 1848 1.631 journals were issued is ( the United Atotes.

; JUST GLANCE OVER Tins - '■ * AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE f INDIANA NEWS., t A CaUUaraa Os n» W.ak’a Important OoourranoM Throughout tho Aato- . Flroo. Aonldonta. Crlui.h guloldo*. Kto. » — f Minor Htato Nowa Washington It talking of starting a paper mill. ■ Spottkd fever has broken out in an * epidemic form at Pendleton. g Thk dry goods and clothing houses at t Laporte now close at op. tn. ; Thk revival at Thorntown has just j closed with 297 conversions. , Thk new bicycle factory itCambrldse » City will soon begin operations. 9 Bknjamin Huffman, aged 74 years, } died near Mahalasvllie, of heart disease. J Jakk Hobbs, aged 28, was sentenced ' to State's prison for his third time at 8 Muncie. . David M. Rodgkhs, aged 60, of Roch- . ester, wm caught under a falling trco . and instantly killed. 5 St. Joskpii County has lost one of its I earliest settlers in the death of David > Bowman, residing near South Bend. C. S. Cottingham, after fifteen yffars > service as Assistant Postmaster at Kof komo. has resigned. M. S. Holman takes 5 his place. ’ John Whitlock. 18 years old, was ’ probably fatally. Injured at Noblesvlllo ’ by his horse Slipping on tije ice and'fall--1 Ing on him. Two btrangkrs, wearing rubber boots, are wading around In tho streams ; in Brown County looking for gold. They J claim to be from Maine. Chari.kb Chasteen of Anderson, who a few days ago had a leg cut off while In the employ of tho L. E. & W. railroad company, has sued for $25,000 damages. E. F. Hawkins, a notorious Inuian doctor of Cannelton, was sentenced to five years in tho penitentiary for criminally assaulting a little colored girl at Tell City. A natural-gas stove carelessly left burning over night in the two-story brick schoolhouse at Blountville, Henry I County, destroyed the building by fire; 1 loss, 81,000. 1 Wabash has several citizens who claim to bo legal heirs to the estate of Henry Yesler ot Seattle, Wash., valued at 81,500,000, and they are clamoring to get aslice of it. Harry Jones, tyi employe of tho Muncie Pulp Company, who sued tho company for 810,000 because of injuries : received by a fall in their uulp mill, was allowed 81,680 uy the court* William Coleebt, a brakeman on the 1 Big Four, whose parents reside at La- , gro, Wabash County, was fatally injured while coupling cars at Niles. He ■ was caught between the buffers. ; Thk farmers of Cass County have been < swindled by the lightning rod agent who 1 contracts to put the rods on their houses > for $7.50, but the bill turns out to be 1 $750 and they have to fork it over. ] A few days ago a dispatch stated that 1 a man named Gulley had just died in California, leaving an estate of $1,500,- * 000. John Gulley, a farm hand near 1 Columbus, is the only heir to this vast estate. ' A big deal between Anderson people ' and Chicago and Eastern capitalists was j consummated in the former city recently. ] They sold 200 acres of land near the city 1 for $230,000 to the syndicate, which will j erect factories on the site. James Sanner, the well-known old 5 gas well driller, who was reported as < dying very suddenly of heart trouble a few weeks ago in Summitville, is in ( Muncie, and says he knew the item was ; a He when he read it in the papers. J. M. Fender’s team ran away at t Liberty, and struck a buggy in which e Albert Conklin was going to town. After * the collision voung Conklin was fished “ out from under the horses more dead t than alive. He is very seriously hurt* c Henry D. Lawshe of Somerset, ' Wabash County, father of A. L. Law- ? she, editor of the Converse Journal, died ~ of old age, ho being over 77. He had t lived In Somerset nearly forty years,and c was one of the prominent citizens of the county. During the funeral of Joseph Weaver at the Christian Church In Noblesville, 1 the building was discovered to bo on fire, and the alarm came near causing a 1 panic. The fire department was called 1 out and the fire was extinguished without material loss. t Robebt Lenfestey,living about three 1 miles east of Marion, undertook to repair a natural-gas regulator. He en- 1 tered the building with a lantern, when 1 an explosion occurred, throwing him out of the building. He was seriously burned ; and the building wrecked. . Citizens of Fortville are agitating a scheme whereby a str'p of territory one ( mile wide would be taken off of Hancock ’ County and annexed to Madison County, ’ thereby str&lghtening the north line of ‘ Hancock, which would locate the town of Fortville within Madison County. ( W. E. Hildbidth. conductor on a pas- 1 senger train which runs between Brazil 1 ond Momence, 111., on the Chicago and Indiana Coal Road, was killed north of Brazil. In attempting to cross from one coach to another, Mr. Hlldridth’s foot slipped, and he fell between the coaches, and was ground to pieces. He leaves a wife aud family at Chicago. Patents have been granted Indiana Inventors as follows: John H. Beck and E. E. Reilly. Peru, milk cooler; Frank P. Brewer, Angola, pruning saw; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, electric elevator; Asa R. Hoy, Indianapolis, lubricator; Mary E. Minor, Colfax, dust pan; Marion Powers, Lexington, garden tools; Frank M. Reed, assignor of one-half to E. Shaw, Anderson, generator; Elwood F. Stephenson, Carteraburg, brick or tile Kiln: John L. Ulsh, assigndr of one-half to W. P. Jones. Wabash, belt tightener; Albert M. Vaught, Portland, feed roller; David Wheat, Kent, incubator; George W. Zigler, Anderson, burner for lighting or heating with natural or artificial gas. The dwelling of Flem McCray, near Brick Chapel, burned with nearly all Its contents,. The wife of Ellsbury O’Hair, in running to the fire, fell upon the ice and broke her leg. The jury in the case of the State against John Donavan, who, a month ago, assaulted and brutally beat Fisher Ferry, city editor of the Wabash Times, who had “written him up,” rendered a f verdict of guilty, and titled Donavan $55 and costs, amounting to SIOO. Judge Cowgill increased the bond to $l5O, and, in default, Donavan went to jail. John Ivory, who assisted in whipping the editor, got S2O and costa Felix Haskins, 18, of Jasper, in company with two other boys, went out coon hunting. They treed a coon and proceeded to cut the tree down, when it fell and broke the limb of an adjacent tree, which struck young Hasklnsonthe 1 head, killing him almost Instantly. B. F. Johnson, an employe of the Star woolen mills. Wabash, was caught while attempting to throw a belt un i rapidly revolving wheel, and carried uu against . the celling and around a shaft several times. Every stitch of clothing save his shoes was stripped from his body, and when he fell to the floor he was delirious. Strange to say. he was not dangerously hurt Bis vest, containing a gold watch, was wrapped Rightly around_the shaft

Department He is now a resident of Montgomery, Ala,but was born at Laurensville, 8. O. When he * was a child his * father removed to I Alabama, settling 'in Greeneville. He received his education at the University of Alabama and the University of Vir-

INDIANA LEGISLATURE Ths following bills parsed the Benito Monday: Authorising tho Governor to ■pend ii« much a* $50,900 for the suppression or nreventlon of the coming or the spread of the cholera during his term of office; providing that the County Commissioners shall open to competition all bridge contracts; for the incorporation of loan fund and savings associations; permitting cities to take stock In water companies established bv private individuals, with tho . power to issue bonds to fund their indebt- \ edness: compelling gravel-road superintendents to make quarterly reports to the Board of County Commissioners: establishing boards of childrens* guardians in the counties of Vigo, Alien, and Vanderburg; concerning die duties of clerks of the Circuit Courts ot tho State in regard to registering fees, etc., paid out and taken tn; to allow wstohors, appointed by the campaign oommttcea of Populists and Prohfbl-,.' liouietson election boards. '' The House got into a wrangle over the patronage bill and spent most ot the day deusting IL It finally passed by a vote of 63 to 37. The bill to legalize Ashley, DeKalb County. nasHod. Tho joint convention of the House and Senate went through the formality of electing Miss Ahern State Librarian. DVKixo the House session. Tuesday, a number of minor bllla were passed, and some progress was made in considering the various appropriation* as reported by the Ways and Means Committee. Among tho bills passed was one providing for the general sale of school books. Two important bills were approved by tho Sonata, to-wit: Providing that wardens of State Prisons shall not accept bids for contract prison labor nt Jess than 95 cents per day. and providing for the incorporation of loan, trust and safety deposit companies, and when so Incorporated, with a capital of not less than SIOO,OOO. permitting them to act as guardians of minors, lunatics. hubltualMrunkards, and the estates of deceased persons. The Speaker sprung the Patronage bill, which has caused so many heartaches, on tlm House Wednesday. Representative Adler. who has opposed it from the start, moved the previous question on the passage and the roll call resulted in sixtytwo affirmative and twenty-nine negatives. The Democratic members divided evenly, and Republicans voted solidly for the measure. Tho bill will go back to the Senate for concurrence in an immaterial amendment which hns been made, and it will then become a law. This bill gives ths Governor tho appointment of the boards of nenaland benevolent institutions, each board consisting of three members. Tho house voted down tho Erwin amendment to the general tax law and ordered the bill engrossed as recommended by the State tax commissioners. Much time was spent in consideration of tho general appropriation bill. Tho Senate accomplished a good deal of routine work, and rushed through a number of House bills. At 4 o’clock both houses adjourned in recognition of Washington’s birthday. , The F.rwin anti-insurance bill to prohibit the employes' insurance operated by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Onio railroad companies was handed down on third reading in the House. Thursday, and passed without debate, Tho bill by Johnson of Dearborn, limiting tho number of days county assessors may be employed and grading them according to population, passed. Dailey's bill to put u Democrat on the Monument Commission to succeed Gen. Bennett was read the third time and passed without debate by a party vote. Adar’s celebrated bill for licensing drummers, brokers, circuses, and wire dancers was read tho third time and passed. Dr. Passage's road bill, requiring owners of toll roads to have eight inches of gravel on them came up on third reading and passed without debate. The House legalized the Incorporations of Cayuga. Crothersville, and West Shoals in a bunch. The following bills passed the House. Friday: The administrative tax bill; providing for the taxation of sleeping-car. telegraph. telephone, express, and freight dispatch companies: for handling school supplies just as school books are now handled under the law of 1889; prohibiting the collection of 10 cento premium on cash railway fares; providing for the incorporation of voluntary live-stock jnsurance companies. The balance of the day was consumed in considering the appropriation bills. Senate—Bills passed: Providing a new charter for Evansville; changing the name of Circle Park to "Monumental Place,” providing for the punishment of trespassers or demolishments of the property, and to allow the completion of the monument without any additional appropriations: abolishing the printing of sample ballots; providing for a metropolitan police force system in all cities between 10,000 and 35,000 inhabitants: to amend an act concerning the weight of coal: allowing people who have anopen ditch to convert the same into a tile drain; authorizing the county commissioners of the different counties to increase the salaries of circuit and superior judges to as much as 84,000, including their salaries received from the State. Minor State Item*. Franklin citizens are protesting against street paving with brick. Joseph Abbott. a retired business man and prominent Freemason, died at Elkhart, aged 67. Dan Mise. aged 30. caught between two logs at Maley’s sawmill at Bullivajti_ < and was crushed to death. Owen P. Scarff of Madison City, haa been appointed Government Guager and assigned to du tv at Hammond, Ind. Mrs. Havens, a Montpelier woman, aged 70 years, fell on the ice breaking both legs and fracturing her shoulder. The gardeners and farmers around Seymour are preparing to engage much more extensively than usual In the raising of strawberries this year. William Moore of Nashville. Brown County, who was shot by his nephew a few days ago, has died, and young Joe Moore, the murderer, has been arrested. An Innocent Little Cherub. Jn a certain aristocratic family in Austin there is a young lady, and she has a beau, and the presumption is he is not particularly bashful when he and the apple-barrel of his affections are • alone, or think they are. What strengthens this view of the case is the fact that the young ]ady has a small brother named Jimmy, and the other night there was a tea-party at the family mansion, and tho supper-table was very much crowded—so much so that Jimmy’s younger sister was crowded up very close to him, whereupon he made the remark out loud: “Mamma, sis trowds me bo close I can’t breeve. I ain’t her beau, am I?” If Jimmy should become unwell, that beau would not be the proper person to send for a doctor in a hurry.— Texas Siftings. " 91 ’ -"gE" ' ■— The Testimony of an Expert. In discharging a boy who was acquit* ted of shooting a companion, on the 7 1 ground that, though he handled a loaded'revol ver carelessly, the shooting was accidental, Judge Gildersleeve, ex-Cap-tain of the American rifle-team, said: “You should not have a leaded pistol 4 upon your person or about you. I may claim that I have had an extensive experience in handling fire-arms, yet I would as soon have a rattlesnake near „ me as a loaded gun, and one is likely to be os dangerous as the other.” Aphorisms from the Quarters. Your luck ain’t always ekul to de lenk 0’ your flshin’-pole. Grass don’t grow high roun’ de oomcrib. De man ain’t put together right dot don’t lub his own dorg. It takes a hones’ miller to keep lean ahotes. Don't kill de old goose in sight o’ do fedder-bed. De full moon is a po’ han* to keep secrets. Old hen got ’nough I’srnin’ to tell ha own chillun in de dark,—J, A. Macon, in the Century.