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®he Ik'nwrrat DECATUR, IND. M, BLACKBURN, ■ - - Puifownxa. 1803 MARCH. 1893 8u Mo Tu We Th Fr 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 • •I • I • • • • 9 HE IS WELCOMED lIOMF. ALL INDIANAPOLIS TURNS OUT TO GREET HARRISON. Bngtneers of the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Hoad May Strike—Bad Accident Near Lima, Ohio—Killed Hla Rival—Twenty-Seven Live* Lost. WELCOME HOME. all Indianapolis Turns Out to Greet Mr. Harrison. Indianapolis special: Ex-President Benjamin Harrison arrived home on a special train over the Pennsylvania line. He was given a reception as a citizen of Indianapolis that was tar greater than any he ever received as President of the United States. The crowd was larger than that which hade him Godspeed when he left for inauguration four years ago. The members of the reception committee met him at Knightstown, taken over on a special car, which was made a part of the returning train. When the train pulled into the Union Station is was greeted with cheers from 5,000 throats, and as the ex-President walked through the depot with Mrs. McKee he was tendered an ovation. A procession made up of the local militia and civic organizations escorted him to his home. The evening reception occured at the State House between the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock. Short addresses of welcome were delivered on the part of the State by Governor Matthews, and on behalf of the citizens by Hon. 0. W. Fairbanks, to which Gen. Harrison responded. After these exercises Gen. Harrison and Mrs. McKee, assisted by Governor and Mrs. Matthews and Mayor and Mrs. Sullivan received the large concourse of citizens. Irrespective of party, until a late hour. MAY STRIKE. The Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Engineers Have a Grievance. Toledo special: It Is almost a settled fact that the engineers of the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railroad will be ordered out Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, held a conference with General Manager Asblev of the road, with the result that the latter announced the inability of the company to accede to the demands of its engineers. It is set forth that the men have been receiving from fl oo to $145 per month and they had asked an increase es 15 per cent. Chief Sergeant of the Locomotive Firemen was summoned to confer with Mr. Arthur. Chief Arthur stated that it is almost certain the men on the Ann Arbor will be ordered out. The company have non-union men here awaiting the result, Trouble is feared •n the numerous connections of the Ann Arbor as the employes of the various lines say they will handle no freight from the Ann Arbor if non-union men are taken on. j Through a Bridge. Lima (Ohio) special: A Chicago & Erie freight train became derailed fifty feet from the Lima bridge. The train wobbled along until it struck the bridge, which was so badly wrecked that train and bridge dropped fifty feet to the bottom of the Ottawa River. Twenty-one cars are a complete wreck, and trains will have to be transferred around to the Pennsylvania road byway of Delphos and Forest until a new bridge is built. Strange to relate, the crew all escaped, as the engine got over the bridge before it went down. The wreckers report that two bodies are in the wreck, but as the trainmen have all been accounted for, the supposition is that they are tramps. The bridge is iron and wood, HO feet long and fifty feet high. Seven Day Adventists. The largest and most successful general conference ever held by the Seventh Day Adventists, closed its thirtieth session at Battle Creek, Mich. The final business included the qualification of seventy ministers. Foreign lands will claim most of these laborers. The church at Washington, D. C., will be provided with a minister and a State school will be located at Mount Vernon, Ohio, which will fit students for graduation in tho sol leges. Buried* But Not Dead. Last week Edward Aplund and John Sundblad were buried under 100 tons of rock in the Winthrop mine, near Ishpem-

Ing, Mich., and were supposed to have been killed. The other day, however, the party which was digging fortheir remains found the men alive and unhurt, The mine timbers had fallen In such a way as to make a small chamber, and a broken air pipe supplied them with fresh air from auother part of the mine. .10, «■ ' , . Killed His Rival. At Brazil, Ind., James Walker, who has been the bethrothed of Miss Addie Drake of Bowling Green, killed James Hoffa, 18 years old. Hoffa, who was a neighbor of the Drakes, accompanied Miss Drake to church and Walker on learning the fact, sought Hoffa, finding him at a restaurant. Walker seized a hatchet and buried it In Hoffa's brain. Miss Drake claims she only accepted Hoffa's escort to tease Walker. Twenty-Seven Lives Lost. Advices from Madagascar bring news -#f the wreck of the French dispatch boat, La Bourdonnais, near the French Island ot St Marid; twenty-seven of the crew were lost Fast Skaters. A. D. Smith of St. Paul, Minn., lowered the world’s skating reccrd for twenty-five miles made by Donaghue nearly two minutes. His time was 1-29:57. Good Reports of Country I'ostofflces. In July last Postmaster General Wannamaker sent letters to postmasters at all county seats to make visits of inspection to all postoffices in their respective counties and grade them in management, order, keeping of accounts, cleanliness, etc., as excellent, good, fair, and poor. Reports have been received from 1,270 county seats giving the standing of 20,669 offices. The number of postoffices under each of the heads of grading is as follows: Excellent, 4,290; good, 13,071; fair, 10,019; poor, 2,289. The results of this inspection have been brought to the attention of the President and in the February-March postal guide will be

pnbllshed tho list of offices found to be • “excellent." A CYCLONE’S WORK. Town. Wiped Entirely Ont of Exlstenea. Atlanta (Ga.) special: The cyclone [• which struck the town of Greenville/left not a single building standing, but strange to say tho only person killed was , a colored man who had no house In which to live. It was about 8:30 o’clock, when most of the people in the isolated little town ot 200 inhabitants had retired, that the crash of falling buildings awoke them. It was an hour of terror which fallowed the effort of the stricken people to find out Rdiorc they were. Court-house, churches, and residences were all gone. A terrific rain followed, in which the houseloss! people were drenched. The reports which have been coming in give many Instances of casualties involving loss of property and life. The cyclone entered Georgia, south of Columbus, and followed two tracks throughout the State. In Piedmont Mrs. Ross was killed. The village of Rock reports five deaths in that neighborhood. In Troupe County the dead are James T. Hairston, Sam Henderson and wife, Cullin Fannin, and Mrs. Butts. From Barnesville comes the news of the death of Miss Daisy Hawkins and two colored children. A telegraph message received In LaGrange from Odessa reports six deaths there from the storm. There is a long list of Injured from various points. Many of the persons are seriously hurt. The town of Toonlsuba, Miss., was swept from the face of the earth. It is reported that ten people were killed. At Marlon, Miss., every house was blown down. Among the killed are Mrs. Burton Meador and daughter Myra. SAD ACCIDENT At the Launching of a Schooner at Bay City, Mich. A frightful accident occurred at the launching of a schooner at F. W. Wheeler & Co.’s ship yards at West Bay City, Mich. The steambarge Kittie M. Forbes lay frozen in the ice on the north side of the slip, in which the ice bad been broken before the launch. Hundreds of boys and many men flocked to the steamer and climbed to her hurricane deck. They were warned of their danger and told that the swell from the schooner when launched would knock them off, but many remained, the view being very good from that point. When all was ready, and the last hawser cut, the schooner started slowly for the water. Then with a rush she plunged into the icy slip and an immense wave forced the ice and steamer Forbes in the air. The Forbes rolled until half over and then the crowd on shore saw a sight which chilled them. Those who had remained on the upper deck were clinging on for life if they could find projections, while less Cortunate ones were flying headlong toward the water. Fully thirty were thrown overboard and in an instant the black forms rose to the surface between the two boats and in the field of broken ice. How many are lost has not been ascertained but George Hawkins and Ross Bennett, boys living in this city, and Fred Peel, a Michigan Central conductor, from Detroit, are missing. Fully a dozen were injured, among them being Fred Babcock. George Doyle, William Battishill, and George Clark. Battishiil is probably fatally injured. ’ . ' KAH LANI. Hawaiian Princess in America. New York special: Princess Kaiulani, a eice of the deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, is here. She arrived on the steamer Teutonic. With her were Theophilus Davies and Mrs. Davies, who are the English guardians of the Princess, Miss Davies and Miss Whartoff, companion to the Princess. E. McFarlane, the ex-Minister of Finance to the dethroned Queen, Liliuokalani, and Dr. Mott Smith, the present Hawaiian Minister to this country, went down to the bay to meet the young princess. There was quite an army of curiosity seekers on the pier to get a glimpse of the princess. A suite of rooms had been engaged for the party at the Brevort house and they were driven there Immediately after coming off the steamship. The Princess is 18 years old. She is a tall, beautiful young woman of sweet face and slender form. She has the soft brown eyes and dark complexion that mark Hawaiian beauty. She has come to the United States for the purpose of learning and observing for herself the nature of the people who had been asked to take control of her country and to make formal petition for her crown. “That,” she said, “is rightfully mine, and if the Americans are the noble minded people I have learned to regard them, they will not be a party to the outrage by which I have lost my birthright.” • COLLAPSED. A Big Building Tumbles to the Ground at Indianapolis. The front floor of an Old brick building, No. 25, on the south side of Washington street. Indianapolis, collapsed. The top floor struck the second and struck it down, taking with it to the cellar Henry Benning and William Brockmeyer who were on the first floor at work. Another man had just stepped into the room, but he heard the

cracking of the timbers and ran out in time to escape being hurt, i Benning was struck over the eye by a timber. The blow was a glancing one and his injury was only a severe cut. Brocknfeyer, however, went down with the debris into the cellar. The fire department was called out and the work of rescue began admldst a vast amount of excitement. Brockraeyer was dug out with apparently no more serious injury than a broken leg, and it was soon discovered that there were no victims. It proved later that Brockmeyer was hurt Internally and died. ’ • Refused a New Tri at Pittsburgh special: In the Criminal Court, Judge Stowe refused a new trial in the case of Master Workman H. F. Dempsey, who was recently convicted of complicity in the attempt to poison Homestead non-union workmen. Sentence was deferred in order that the attorneys for the defense may have time to prepare their appeal to the Supreme Court Beatty, Gallagher, and Davidson were remanded to jail in order that sentence may be passed upon all at the same time. Seven of the participants in the Duquense riot were sentenced to the work-house for terms ranging from two to six months. Terrible Casualty. Llfares (Mexico) special: The annual festival in this city closed with a most unfortunate catastrophe. There was a bull fight in progress and the temporary tiers of seats were filled with spectators. The back were made of loosely arranged “silares’' or adobs. and back of this the crowd of men, women, and children were peeping through the holos or crevices in the wall 1 to witness the bull fight, when the ' weight ot the seats forced the ' wall back, and it fell on the heads of the 1 outside spectators, killing eight and ' wounding thirty of them. v t Suflbeated by Smoke. 9 Four children were suffocated in a rear 9 room on the top floor of a tenement ’ at Na 19 Henry street, New York. The I

a names of the victims are: Alleman Bernstein, H years old; Rebecca Bernstein, 10; Heyman Bernstein, 0; and Fanny Rosen, 7 years old. The children „ were alone at the time, the psrents having leit a short time previous and lock- ? Ing the children In the house. The i cause ot the tragedy was the explosion 1 of a kerosene stove, which belonged to 9 Myer Ember, who occupied the apart--1 ments adjoining those of the Bernstein ‘ family. , t Indicted for Murder. 1 Charles D. Law, General Superln--1 tendent of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 1 and Chicago Railroad, has been indicted I tor murder by the grand jury at Chicago ’ in connection with the grade crossing 1 fatality of Dec. 29 last, at the Forty- > seventh street crossing on the Fort 9 Wayne road. Peter Schwartz, a slags man; John Albrecht, a gateman, and 1 Henry W. Roscup, engineer of the train that ran down tho street-car and killed f four and injured fourteen persons, wore 9 also jointly indicted with Mr. Law upon - the same charge. c — Poisoned by Apple Butter. Loreng Seys, a Monroe County, 111, ■ farmer, died several weeks ago. A week later bis daughter died. A week after [ her death a son died and last week aq--1 other child died. Mrs. Seys was taken * sick in tho same way a few days ago and 1 is very low. The cause of tho deaths ! was supposed to have been pneumonia, I but it turns out that the whole family ■ were the victims of accidental poisoning. Last fall Mrs. Seys cooked apple butter 1 in a copper vat The result was tho 1 formation of a poison which'when eaten 1 caused death. i Horrible Burglary, A fight between tho Ross and Morrison families occurred at Whitwell, Tenn. Three of the Morrison boys were engaged in a row also their friend, Pope Dodson. Will Ross with a knife inflicted mortal wounds on two of the Morrison 1 boys. Pope Dodson and Hugh Morrison turned on Will Ross and cut him liter- ■ ally to nieces. Roy Morrison was disemboweled, and Taylor Morrison was stabbed in the lungs. It is almost certain that Will Ross and Roy and Taylor Morrison will die. Crushed Coder a Train. George Michaels, a track-walker on the Fort Wayne road, was walking along the railway west of Fort Wayne, Ind. He saw a freight train approaching and stepping from the track to another was struck by passenger train Na 7 and hurled under the wheels of the freight A dozen cars passed over him before the train was stopped. Both legs and both arms were cut off and death resulted instantly. Michaels leaves a wife and children. Piled Up in * Wreck. A serious bead-end collision occurred west of Richmond, Ind., resulting in great destruction ot railroad property. Passenger train Na 7, from Columbus, while running- at a high rate of speed, struck a construction train at a curve. Both engines were totally wrecked, and the construction train telescoped. Frank Palmer, conductor, was seriously injured, and several . other trainmen received minor injuries! jq? Troubl*som<y Negroeix Gutherie (Okla:) special. The negroes who have been lawy imported from the South are again becoming very obnoxious and trouble is brewing between them. The negroes have been ordered to leave the town, and in several localities in King Fisher County, vigilance committees have warned them to leave. Gov. Seay has been appealed to and will give them protection. Slipped Into the Sea. London special: At Sandgate, county of Kent, many houses were wrecked and" others badly damaged by a landslide. The town is built upon a low cliff close to the sea. TMuWaves are believed to have undermined the cliff, which then settled and slipped toward the water, carrying with it the town. Two hundred houses were destroyed. So rar no lives have been lost Tickets for the World’s Fair. The Agricultural Bank'Note Company, New York, which has the contract for printing the admission tickets for the World’s Fair, struck off the first sheets the other day. A million tickets will t>e sent to Chicago, April 1. and the rest will follow at short" intervals. {Burned to Death. Hugh McHatton, aged 45 years, and a prominent farmer, living near Walton; Ky., was burned to death. He was sitting before an old-fashioned fireplace and fell in a stupor. His clothing was entirely consumed and his flesh burned to a crisp. A Costly Wreck. A Baltimore and Ohio freight train broke iu two at Republic Ohio, and a collision occurred on a grade in the village which wrecked fifteen cars, de--1 molishing a half dozen of them and causing a damage of $15,000. Business Man Suicides. C. S. Lucas, a prominent business man [ of Los Angeles, Cal., threw himseli in i front of a locomotive and was horribly i mangled, dying in a short time. No . reason is known for the suicide. ' Montana's New Senator. Bt..l—* —— J * L. —es es —. w I—4 zv d T x, ex

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SPECIFIC TARIFF DUTY. ITS DANGEROUS FEATURES THOROUGHLY EXPOSED* A Dealer In Chemicals and Drugs Throws Some Light on the Matter-Protection Dies Vorjr Hard - riutoeraer a Beal Miukx Expose of Specllle Duties. In making tho next tariff bill, a bitter fight will be waged over the question ot whether the bill shall be made in the Interests of the people, and contain only ad valorem duties, or whether It ehall be again made in the interests of Importers and manufacturers, and contain tricky specific duties, to a large extent. With ad valorem duties, poor people, who use cheap articles, pay no higher rates than the rich, who use dear articles. With specific duties, cloth that costs but 50 cents a yird may be subject to as much duty vi cloth that costs M 8 yard. * Specific duties also prevent the people from getting the full benefit of the natural fall in the prices of commodities Not only this, but they have ever been the resort of tricky manufacturers for obtaining, on the sly, greatly increased protection. It is for this reason that they are so numerous in the last tariff bllL McKinley, however, in using specific duties, was using a two-edged sword. With the best of intentions toward the manufacturers, he proved himself, at least in the case cited below, to be incompetent to defend their interests; and all because he overreached himself in the use of specific duties. A prominent New York dealer in chemicals, drugs and medicines, in expressing his views before the Tariff Reform Committee of the Reform Club, now preparing a tariff bill such as it would like to see adopted, says in regard to specific duties: While, in the abstract, specific duties are the ideal duties; while they are perhaps easier to collect and certainly easier to determine, yet from the vast number of articles coming under the headings of drugs, medicines and chemicals it is virtually impossible to adopt specific duties. To do so would necessitate special mention of many thousands of articles, and would prove cumbersome in the extreme; I am, therefore, of the opinion, based on many years’ experience, that in this class of merchandise ad valorem duties are the only practicable ones. Now, to come down to the present, tariff law; it has retained almost all of the abuses contained In the law of 1883, added a few new ones, and brought relief in but few instances on articles of minor importance. The greatest change has been made by the introduction of paragraph 74, which reads, “All medicinal preparations, including medicinal proprietary preparations, of which alcohol is a component part, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, not specially provided for in this act, fifty cents per pound." The mischief lies in the clause, “or in the preparation of which alcohol is used. * Under the ruling of the Board of General Appraisers all alkaloids and salts of alkaloids which otherwise (under paragraph 76) would pay 25 per cent ad valorem duty ate now entered under this clause at the rate of fifty cents per pound, a tremendous reduction in almost all Instancesand a contingency certainly never contemplated by the framers of this paragraph. As illustrations of the working of this clause, let me name a few articles which now come in at the rate of fifty cents per pound, and which but for this ill-chosen and ill-considered phrase would pay about the following rates of duty: Cocaine muriatesl6.oo per pound Eserine sulphatea 65.00 Homatropine hydrobromate 155.00 ' Hyoscine hydrobromate.... 225.00 “ * These are all salts of alkaloids, and used in medicine only. In addition to such articles, paragraph 74 has also been made to apply to medicinal preparations protected by patents, and in the strictest sense of the word monopolies. All these come in now at the rate of fifty cents per pound, because in some stage of their preparation alcohol is used, whereas they should pay, according to their value abroad and the twenty-five per cent, clause of paragraph 76, about the following rate of duty: Anti pyrin $2.60 per pound Piperazinl2.6o Diuretin 6.00 “ Both of these lists can be extended almost indefinitely, and according to the statement made to the writer by a former assistant appraiser of the port of New York, which statement I fully indorse, the Government has been deprived of millions of dollars of revenue under the workings of this clause, which was intended by its

authors only to bring about the manufacture of chloralhydrate in this country; it has acted like a boomerang and has made American competition in this extensive class of merchandise absolutely impossible. Plutocracy a Beal Menace. We are willing to admit that the election of Grover Cleveland checked the plutocratic tendencies which were threatening our system of government. But when Judge Gresham made tlft statement quoted it was painfully true. Who controlled the legislation of Congress during the first two years of Mr. Harrison's administration? The rich wool-growers of the West, the coal and iron barons of Pennsylvania, the pampered manufacturers of New England. Why did they so control legislation? Because they had paid large sums of money for the privilege. Why did Wanamakec hold a seat in the Cabinet? Because he contributed about $600,000 to Matt Quay’s corruption fund. The carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia declared in a published statement that they owned the tariff bill because they “had bought and paid for it." Who put $500,000 into the bands of the Republican committee in Rhode Island? The sugar-trust leaders, whose monopoly was made fast and firm by Senator Aldrich, who advanced the duty on refined sugar one-tenth of a cent per pound. Plutocracy is “government by the. rich." The American Government was in the grip of selfish end protected Interests during Mr. Harrison's, administration- Hair-splitting definitions by the avowed organ of the monopolies will not alteir the fact that plutocracy had gained a foothold by the elevation of Reed and Lodge-.

It has been routed, however, at al) ‘ points, and the people restored ui power. Judge Gresham and men lik« 1 him helped to achieve this result. They are entitled to the thanks of the people and are to be congratu- • lated upon incurring tho enmity of ' tho New York Sun.—Boston Ro 1 public, Protection DIM Hard. Only foolish persons, who do not 1 understand the power of organized 1 capital and the blood-thirstiness oi 1 tariff-protected monopolies, Imagine that “protection* is dead in this country, and that there will not be more 1 hard fighting before the protected manufacturers put up tho white flag. ' The people won a great victory over the allied forces of greed and cor--1 ruption on November 8, but another 1 desperate struggle will come wben the “free-tradere” frame their tariff ' bill and put it into operation. The ' ridicule, abuse and lies that will bo 1 heaped upon the measure by the Irate manufacturers and their political allies will put all of their past efforts ; in the shade. It is probable, however, that,with such good men at the ' helm and old tars on deck, but little attention will be paid to the false statements of the pirates on board who would sink the ship of state that they and their allies might secure tho cargo. That the protectionists are rallying their whipped and badly disorganized forces for at least one more desperate battle is evident from the following letter sent out, under date .of Feb. 23, by the American Protective Tariff League. Dear Sib—Many of our friends have oxpressel the conviction that more eork by workingmen in favor ot a protective tariff will have to be don tIo the future. With a view to carrying this Idea bit > effect, and Inaugurating systematic effort, we desire to have a local representative ot the league or “official correspondent” in every factory. Upon the Inclosed cards will you have the goodness to recotnmenl to us one or more intelligent, reliable, earnest protection workingmen, whose active co-opera-tion we can secure? Please give young men tho preference. "Wo have now over thirty-four hundred official correspondents throughout the country, who are proving a power in spreading information favorable to the protective policy. Yours very truly. W. F. Wakbman. Gen. Sec. Tariff Policies of Nations. Now let us look around and view the various countries where either one of the systems, protection or free trade, predominates. Australia (except New South Wales), the United States, and Canada, among the new countries have protective tariffs. Wages and profits here are so high that wordingmen and capitalists from all over the world emigrate to those countries in order to better their conditions. It is true, though, of Canada, that, since its adoption of a rigid protective tariff in 1876, it has been steadily losing ground in the struggle for commercial equality with other nations. At the same time wages and profits upon investments have gone down, causing a decrease of immigration and the exodus of tens of thousands of its sons annually to its southern neighbor, where a larger population and more diversified means for employment cause the baneful Influences of protection to be not so keenly felt as in less thickly populated Canada. But the new countries to the south Gs the United States also have tariffs high enough to protect any industry, and to enable their people to start new industries. Yet wages there are rather low, and almost the only means of subsistence are such pursuits as cannot be protected anyway, even if protection could be made to protect Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Austrian-Hungary, among the old countries enjoy protective tariffs, and their inhabitants (with the exception of those of France) are leaving these countries by tens of thousands in order to try to earn better wages in other lands. Hundreds of thousands at the same time are obliged to stay, but would gladly follow their more fortunate countrymen,if they had the money needed for the Journey. Great Britain, among the leading old countries, has virtual free trade, and the percentage of the emigration from that country is not only comparatively small but thousands are annually immigrating from old and “protected” countries into Great Britain. Wages in the unprotected British industries are so very much higher than in the protected industries of other old countries, that the protected workmen eagerly avail themselves of the opportunities offered in the unprotected country. Russia, which is practically a new country, is perhaps as rich and twice as large as the United States, while it . . * A- A _ AL-

has not as many inhabitants to the square mile as the great republic of the west Yet, notwithstanding the fact that its tariff wall is fully as high as that of the United States, its resources are undeveloped, wages are low, and thousands of its people, not merely the persecuted Jews, are annually leaving its domains in order to seek better means of subsistence elsewhere, Allot this seems to show that high tariffs or “)>rotective” systems cannot be responsible for the higher rate of wages paid in one country than In another.—Dingman Versteeg, in Tariff Reform. Changed Conditions. The Republican organs that pretend to have discerned a weakening of Mr. Cleveland's purpose to secure a reform of the tariff probably do not deceive themselves. They certainly will not deceive the country. The man who risked defeat for an otherwise sure re-election to the Presidency by forcing the ssue of tariff reform because he believed it to be right, and who has adhered steadfastly to that issue ever since, is not at all likely to weaken in its support now that he has been sustained by the people and putln power to carry out his policy. . . To the sneering inquiry whether Mr, Cleveland now thinks that “it is a condition that confronts us, not a theory," the reply is: Yes, butj thanks to Republican profligacy and misrule, the condition is different and more perilous.—New York World. _______ It is the irony of fate that McKinlev should be the victim of the de luslve boom which h< dldwmuchtofos .

; THESE ACTUAL FACTS I. M ■ . ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORf DERB OF INDIANA. 1 latnswatlng Summary of the More Importeel Doings of Our Neighbors — Oriuiee, CaaußHles, DoatUa, Eta, 1 Minor State New*. I Patrick Gorman, an aged pioneer ot I Muncie, is dead. > Greensboro capitaliiU are organizing • to bore tor natural gas. I Thieves robbed the bouse of John I Eckleberger, Somerset, of $3,000. Tub schools at Fortville have been ■ closed on account ot scarlet fever. > Mrs. J. H. Williamson, aged 82, died > near Columbus, leaving a husband aged I 84. i The Laporte Christian Church congregation will erect a new 920,000 brick church this summer. ’ Thr old soldiers of Wavne County are taking steps to erect a suitable monu1 meet over the grave of the late Gen. 1 Tom Bennett Tramps set Are to the barn of Charles i White in Morgan Township, Owen County, and it was burned together with i six head of horses. Lynn Griffiths, aged 22, and cm- , ployed as a farm hand for John Norville, , two miles east of Fairland, was found dead in his bed. His head was injured from a fall out ot a wagon three months aga Ulysses Brunson, whose residence in Anderson was recently wrecked by an explosion, his wife dying from injuries sustained, and the children seriously hurt has brought suit for 610,090 damages. Elijah J. Lane has entered suit against tho Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad at Terre Haute for 815,090. He was a passenger on a freight train which was in a collision June 24,1891, by which he lost a leg. The body of a colored woman, who disappeared from South Bend last December, was discovered In the west race, at that city, recently. It is supposed she Jumped from the bridge a short distance up the river. Never before Io the history of Macy has there been a revival of so much interest as tbe one now in progress at the United Brethren Church. The meeting is being conducted by Mrs. Lydia Nice, the woman evangelist of Carroll County. The Secretary of Agriculture hasjust issued a report upon the numbers and values of farm animals in the United States, from which the following is taken, relating to the condition in Indiana: “There is no material change in the number of horses, but mules and cattle fall a few points below the average, and as regards price all rule low. Sheep have increased in number over last year, and fewer have been killed by dogs than for several years. The hog crop falls very short of an average, and as a consequence prices for fat hogs range higher than for years. Live stock of all kinds are unusually free from disease.” Wabash County is not a fruitful field for confidence men. but two of them caught Mr. Lichtenwalter very cleverly. Mr. Lichtenwalter is a farmer living in the northeastern part of the county, and the men claimed to be establishing agencies for a piano house. In due time Mr. Lichtenwalter's name was attached to an alleged contract. Then the farmer’s “hindsight” manifested itself and he wanted to read tbe contract again, but the men were in too great a hurry. The farmer followed them to South Whitley, and with tho aid of a lawyer and the payment of 825 finally secured a compromise, and the men lost r.b tune in getting out of sight. Patents have been issued to Indiana Inventors as follows: George W. Baugher, Milford, thill-coupling; August C. Constant, Fort Wayne, undried brickprotector; John M. Fender, assignor to Columbia Drill, Liberty, spring device for drills; Alexander Jack, Evansville, heater; James J. Keniman. Petersburg, clothesline holding and operating device; Edward Kuhn, Now Albany, pattern for molding dovetails; Joseph M. Richardson, Indianapolis, farm gate; Ferdinand J. Wendell, Fort Wayne, stereotype casting apparatus; Washington H. Young, Indianapolis, hay-press; William C. Young, Fort Wayne, measuring and registering apparatus. Although little has boon said for some months regarding tho find of marble in Huntington County, the gentlemen interested are by no means idle. For several weeks Dr. Williams has been operating with a half-dozen men in the ledges northwest of Andrews, and has now opened a lodged of mottled marble sixteen feet thick. The bed is fine on every side and the marble is first-class in evert respect A bed of greenish white and highly mottled red is also being opened, and the probabilities are that a heavy company will engage in the business the coining summer. The fact that Huntington has first-class marble is no longer to be debated. That It will be developed and an industry established which will be of great benefit to the country at large seems to be beyond doubt Charles Mitchell, a traveling photographer. had an experience at Wallace’s circus winter quarters, Peru, that he will never forget In company with

some friends he was viewing thojanlmals in the cat building and, although warned by the attaches not to touch any of them, he playfully attempted to stroke the head of a sleeping tiger. Before he could realize it, the tiger thrust his paw through the bars and caught Mitchell on the breast, entirely tearing off hfs coat, vest, and undershirt, and with the other paw caught his overcoat hanging on his arm. By a supreme effort Mitchell managed to tear himself away from the infuriated beast, which proceeded to tear the overcoat into shreds in revenge for the prey which had escaped him. The act was done so quickly that the onlookers bad no time to assist Mitchell. The keeper says it is a wonder that his whole breast was not torn out . Three Lake Shore and * Michigan Southern freight trains collided at Warren, making a tremendous wreck, which took fire and destroyed about fifty thousand dollars’ worth of property. No lives were lost, the trainmen escaping by jumping. Traffic was delayed for many hours. Henby Carter, a colored laborer, on the new Huitnan building at Terre Brute, fell eighty feet and was fatally injured, be stepped on a steam-holst- , Ing elevator, when it broke from its fastenings and fell from the fifth to the first floor, carrying him and four hods of mortar down with It. The First National Bank was organized at Noblesville with a paid up capital of $60,000. The directors are Marlon ■ Aldred, Julius Joseph, Daniel Graveraft, George Dunham, Plcgre Gray, Jesse i Devaney, and Snyder. The i officers are: Marlon Aldred, President; George M. Snyder, Vice President; I George S. Christian, Cashier. . Joseph Larimore died at Columbus ' in April, 1892. At the time of his death ' SIOO back pension was due him. The check for the amount was forwarded. Thia check and the regular quarterly ' payments since that have fallen into the . bands of some one who has drawn tne > money through a system of forgertea His widow will now get the pension.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Tub House got down to business Monday and passed u number of measures of Importaucu The most Important was that authorising the ulty of Indianapolis to compel the Cituens’ Street Railway Company to paVo between tlielr tranks*where there is a double track and two fest on the outside of th Th t «*House, also, passed the EvansyiUa charier bill, giving the oitv o a government eimiUr to that under whioh in» ohy of Indianapolta operates. The bill now only requires iho Governor’s J*! b«eome a law. The Fort Wayne carter bi I Another bill passed under suspension <f the rules, was that granting the city of No' r Albany the right to purchase ths watei • works of that city. Another bill which passed under •uspet * slon of the rules was Mr, Pulser's bill t > abate tho Roby race track by declaring it i nuisance. The law makes the second a ■ sense a felony, punishable by from two t > five years in the penitentiary. m, Tho Senate spent moat of the dayvn hoai ■ ing committee reports, and a great grist c pet measures were killed off. while a fe 1 ’ were recommended for passage, one of Ui most important being that appropriate 1 9100.000 for un addition to the School forth Feeble Minded at Fort Wayne. The Senate adopted the following resolu tlon offered by Mr. Wishard: •Whereas, Benjamin Harrison, tho retlr ing President of the United States, will b accorded a public reception by the oitisem of Indianapolis upon his return to this city, upon March 6,1898; “Therefore. Be it resolved by tho Renate.tne House of Representatives concurring, that» committee of thirteen each, trom tho Senate and House, be Appointed to co-operate with the citizens' committee of Indianapolis in such reception, in order that the people of the State of Indiana may participate wittf the citizens of Indianapolis tn according to President Harrison a cordial and popular reception upon his return to our midst Tuesday the House bill providing a revenue for the years 1893-’94. was substituted for the Senate measure and passed by the Senate. „ The Senate, also, passed the House bill extending the terms of township officers until 1894 and changing the time of holding election from May until November. During the consideration as a committee of the whole of the general appropriation bill in the House Representative Johnson of Marion, sprung the claim of Mrs. Edwin May, who is asking $5,000 for services of her late husband ns architect in construction of the Prison North. It was defeated. Her friends will carry it to the Senate. The Senate bill appropriating $75,000 for the World's Fair was cut down to $25,000. A concurrent resolution passed appropriatingEiSO for a flag for the battle-ship Indiana. launched tbe other day. The senate building and loan bill, which is designed to freeze out foreign oornorations by compelling them to deposit $50,000 with the Auditor, was advanced to engrossment The legislative apportionment bill approved by the Democratic caucus, was introduced. On its face the bill gives fiftyfive Democrats and forty-five Republicans i/. Xie House and twenty-nine Democrats and twenty-one Republicans in the Senate. There are three doubtful Senatorial districts apportioned to the Republicans and one to the Democrats, while in the House there are fifty-five straight Democ-atlc districts and four doubtful Republicans, so that in the future there is a possibility that there will be thirty-two Democratic Senators and fifty-nine Democratic Representatives. The House. Wednesday, called up the caucus legislative apportionment bill and crowded it through under the previous question. The building and loan association bill, which was backed by a powerful lobby of local associations, passed the House, and was submitted to the Governor. It is one of the most important pieces of legislation marking the present session, and its effects will be far reaching. It is. in fact, a boycott of all foreign building and loan associations operating In the State, as it compels them to deposit $50,000 with the State Auditor as a guarantee of financial solidity, besides which the foreign associations are subjected to examination, and are required to pay 3 per cent on gross receipts from Indiana members into the State Treasury. The Senate defeated the bill presented by the Democratic Editorial Assc elation asking for a modification of the preaent criminal libel law. Giving the editor, charged with criminal libel, the right to chow by subsequent publication that there was no malice in the original publicity. The Senate passed the Fort Wayne charter bill, sending it back to the House for concurrence in slight amendments. The charter exempts the city from metropolitan police control. Senator Magee's bill to make the minimum price of contract prison labor 95 cents per day was defeated. A great mass of Dills was rushed through by both Houses, and the way is now easy for a final adjournment on Monday next The bill regulating punishment in penal institutions, which is approved by the Prison Wardens, passed both Houses Thursday. Under its provisions no punishment can be administered until twelve hours elapse after tbe commission of the offense, ana then only in presence of the physician and Chaplain. The convict is given tho right to make a defense, which defense is made part of the record. The Senate worked all day on general appropriations. The House appropriation of $50,000 to the World’s Fair was increased to $75,000. The House passed McHugh’s metropolitan police bill. This gives non-partisan police to South Bend, New Albany, Richmond, Lafayetteb. Logansport, Elkhart, Muncie. Michigan City, Anderson, and Jeffersonville. The House bill also passed making any combine to restrict trade, to limit production. to prevent competition and to fix prices on food unlawful. The penalty calls for $5,000 fine and prohibition from continuing in business. Daly’s road bill also passed, making an application of the savlng-and-loan-association principle to the building of roads, The Government sent to the Senate the names of Editor J. J. Hiligas of Muncie and General George F. McGinnis, of Indianapolis. as Trustees of tho Reform School, The Senate spent all of Friday considering the general appropriation bill. The House passed the following bills: Extending the ten-year installment plan ot paying for municipal improvements to property owners whose assessment is less than SSO: bill extending the children's guardians' act to Terre Haute. Evansville. Fort Wayne, Richmond. Lafayette, and

other cities; to permit building associations to increase their capital stock; to give cities title and custody of school property taken in by extension of their limits; empowering Oxford. Cllnioh County, to buy a gas plant and water works; providing that the cost of purely local sewers in cities and towns shall be assessed against abutting property owners; permitting city councils In cities of 21.000 and upward to compel property owners to make sewer, water, and gas con-, nections to the curb before streets are improved. Minor State Items. A company has been organized at Bedford for procuring a telephone system for that town. The business bouses in some cases reach out for a mile, and merchants see the need of some communication. George Linbay, while at work tearing down an old building at Emison, Knox County, was caught under a fall- ' ing wall and crushed to death. 1 It is said that dynamite is used to kill fish In White and Eel Rivers near Worthington, and that the people are afraid to report to the authorities. Fish is Ming shipped away in barrels, so heavy are i the catches. All of the $12,000 for the now bank at L ' Lafontalne, Wabash County, has been I subscribed by fourteen farmers. The ’ • President is Jehu Banister; Vice Presi- i f dent, John W. Harper; cashier, J. G. ■ Harper of Washington, O. Porter County has four lunatics tn her county jail awaiting admission to i to the overcrowed Logansport hospital. The proposed consolidation of gas 1 plants in the Indiana gas belt Is acer- r - J talnty. The syndicate is composed ■ wealthy New York and Chicago cap- fl" > itallsts. , Harley Hartley of Oakville, Dela- . ware County, ate a pound of <&eese and thirty-four bananas on a wager, his opponent devouring thirty-three bananas ' f and giving up the race. I '■ i..saat 9 In spite us the frightful manner in . which they are imposed upon, women J live longer than men. I I Mil