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©he democrat DECATUR, IND. N, BLACKBURN. - • • PtaiLunitn. 1893 APRIL. 1893 ' Sti^ o Tulwe Th FrTsa • • • • • •* / 2345 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 • • • •• • THE ANN ARBOR STRIKE BROTHERHOOD OF ENGINEERS BRANDED A CONSPIRACY. , Many Homes Die from the Severe Winter In Washington—Killed by ElectricitySpring Elections—Strike at Chicago—A Locomotive Holler Explodes. The Engineers' Brotherhood Branded a Conspiracy. Toledo special: The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is declared to bo a conspiracy against the laws of the country by Judge Tafts, and the temporary injunction prayed for against Chief Arthur in the Ann Arbor boycott case is allowed. The decision was read in the United States Circuit Court byJudge Ricks at the same time that he rendered his decision in the case of the Lake Shore engineers who, obeying the laws of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, refused to handle Ann Arbor freight, as there was a strike on that road. In the latter case the court held Engineer James Lennon for contempt because he. had been twice ordered to move the cars by the officials of the company and did not do so until ordered to do so by the brotherhood officers after the boycott was raised. The seven other men were discharged. Grand Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, refused, when informed of the United States District Court, to discuss the matter. “It’s all right,” he said, “the engineers will get through somehow. I don’t care to say what we will do next, because I have not given the subject a moment's thought.” STRIKE AT CHICAGO. v The World's Fair Carpenters Go Out. Chicago special: Every man of the 1.500 union carpenters employed within the World's Fair grounds struck because the fair officials refused to discharge all non-union carpenters in the employ of the exposition company and to force all contractors at work on the grounds to do the same. The exposition officials were willing to grant the advance from 35 to 40 cents an hour which the men demanded but they declined to discriminate against any American citizen in the matter of employment. This move on the part of the union carpenters has been anticipated and work on all buildings has beep pushed to the utmost limit But half a dozen of the smaller buildings remain incomplete, and Director or Works Hur ham insists that enough nonunion men can be secured in addition to the 300 now employed to finish every structure in time for the Ist ot May. STARVATION AND EXPOSURE. Many Horses Die From the Severe Winter in Washington. Colfax (Wash.) special: J. S. Buck, es this city, has just received a report from the men who have charge of his stock, 300 head of horses, in the Big Bend County,in the Northern part of the State, that 25 per cent, of the band died from exposure and starvation. The winter was the most severe known in that region for many years and the food supply was inadequate to meet the requirements of a long seige. Buck thinks he has fared well, ' however, considering that other stockmen in those regions lost fifty and seventy-five per cent. of their bands. One extensive cattle raiser near Columbia River even suffered the loss of every hoof. The Indians in that section, too, have lost all their horses. Election in Cleveland. The municipal election at Cleveland was hotly contested, the Catholics supporting the Democrats and the A. I’. A. the Republicans. The former won, as Blee, Democrat, was elected by over 4.500 majority. Meyer, the independent candidate, got over 4,000 votes, which defeated Akers, the Republican candidate. A Locomotive Boiler Explodes. IJngine No. 2 of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company.hauling an east bound freight, exploded as it was leaving the boundary of Red Oak, lowa, causing the death of four trainmen: L. P. Durnell, engineer: F. Fredericks, fireman; G. VV. Martin brakeman, and Henry Landers, night hostler. Five People Drowned. London special: A yacht carrying 138 persons capsized in the Groucs, a short distance from Burnham. Five persons were drowned. The rest clung to the yacht until they were rescued by a boatman, who put out from the shore when the accident occurred. Killed by Electricity. James W. Hamilton, the colored expreacher and convicted wife murderer, died in the electric chair at Sing Sing, N. Y. The same chair, electrodes, and switching mechanism, which was used in the case of Fred McGuire last December, were employed. Swept Into a Stream ami Killed. Bridge Watchman Joseph Fisher was swept into a turbulent stream by a loco-' motive and instantly killed at Dickinson, N. D. ' Michigan Election. -< The election in Michigan was for an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and two regents of the State University. Frank A. Hooker, the Republican candidate for Justice, has been successful over

his Democratic opponent, George H. Durand. „ Died of Spotted Fever. John Byers, aged 32 years, died at Muncie, Ind., of spotted fever aftei forty-six hours of suffering. An Old Boiler Explodes. A terrible boiler explosion occurred near Lacona, lowa. Four person were «■ killed, Henry McKinness and three sons. p The bpller was an old affair that had been tn use many years in the sawmill owned by Henry McKinness. The explosion of the boiler completely wrecked the mill which was a very substantial building. Henry McKinness, the father of the bovs, was standing close to the boiler. His body was scalded in a terrible manner. Both legs were broken in,several places and death must have been Instantaneous. It was over aa hour after the explosion before the body of Henry McKinness,-the 32-year-old son, was found. It was lying far from ilia

mill tor# to-ploccs. One foot was burled In his skull. The other foot was found nearly twenty-live feet from the head. The slothes were torn and it was almost Impossible to gather together all the fragments of the body. John, the eldest son, was alive when found, but he died In an hour afterwards. He was badly icalded. Peter, the 11-year-old boy. was found with life almost extinct He was unable to move and died before be could be removed. RANK SWINDLERS. Mexican Lotteries That Are Robbing Americana. Washington special: According to official advices, the traffic in tickets of Mexican lotteries, which has recently assumed largo proportions In this country, Is to a great extent a fraud upon the purchasers. The following translation in the Dlarro, on the Bth instant under the head “A Serious Abuse,” furnished to the United Press by the Mexi-can-legation in Washington, gives some particulars which will boos interest and value. “There has been officially exposed before the Department of the Interior a serious abuse, which has been lately perpetrated in the neighboring Republic to the detriment of the good name and respectability of the Mexican Government. The abuse is as follows: “For the last few months there have appeared In the United States quite a number of enterprises offering for sale lottery tickets alleged to be issued oy the lottery companies established in Mexico, and having no legal existence in this country, not having been chartered according to the laws of the country nor doing business in connection with the Beneticienci Publica lottery having its site in this capitol. The authors of that swindling scheme do not hesitate, in order to further their fraudulent business, to use the name and credit of the Mexican government, stating that the latter guarantees their tickets, thereby victimizing the public by means of a falsehood. “As the most noticeale among the swindling enterprises the following are quoted: Original Little Lottery of the Beneflciencia Publica, tickets signed M. Ottens & Co.; Little Mexican Lottery company, tickets signed E. Fox & Co.; Little Mexican Lottery, tickets signed Jose de Lara; Lotteria Nacional deMexicana, tickets signed E. S. Duvall; Royal Yucatan Lottery Company, tickets signed C. Corstelio J. salsavana: the Mexican Loan Company tickets signed C. Sorata Y. E. de Munoz; the Mexican Premium Note Company tickets, signed William B. Gordon; Loteria Beneflciencia tickets, signed by George V. Whitney; : Loteria Mexicana tickets, signed Menendex; Gran Loteria Mexican, tickets signed G. Perez.” FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSION And Lives Go Out in the Bowels of the Earth. One of the most distressing disasters ihat ever occurred in the anthracite region followed the explosion of a lamp in the hands of a Hungarian employed in the Nelson colliery near Shamokin, Pa., recently. The colliery, which is operated by J. Langdon & Company, is one of the largest and best-known in the region, paying superior wagesand furnishing work to its 1,000 employes the year a round. Fire followed the explosion and the smoke which rushed through the airshafts caught ten men who had just gone to work in a vein above the scene of the explosion and smothered them to death. The fire started about twenty feot from the bottom of the slope, where there is an oil-house, which Is used by the men to change their working clothes for others before, mines. A Hungarian was filling Ills lamp and it exploded, igniting the oil about him. He rushed from the oil-house and the flames spread with rapidity. Attempts were made a fight the fire, but those who started to do so were compelled to flee for their lives. They succeeded In reaching the bottom of the shaft and were hauled to the surface along with some belated miners who owe their lives to the fact that they did not go to wprk at their usual time. The ten men who lost their lives were at work in .the red ash .vein, located nearly one hundred feet above where the fire broke out Through an airway from the lower vein in the red ash vein the smoke poured, suffocating the ;unfortunates like rats in a trap. Almost the entire town gathered in the vicinity of the burning mine, from the air passages of which great volumes of smoke were issuing. The scenes were most distressing. The wives and children of the imprisoned men uttered agonizing cries and implored the fflen in the crowd to rescue their loved ones. TRAVELERS MAIMED! An Excursion Train on the Bio Grande t- Wrecked. By the spreading, of the rails the Rio Grande passengers train east bound was badly wrecked at Leadville, Col., and a large number of passengers injured, though none fatally. The train consisted of ten cars six of them being sleepers all crowded. The whole train except the engine and baggage car left the track and rolled down an embankment a distance of ton to fifteen feet, striking in the soft mud on their sides. The seriously injured so far as reported are: Mrs. T. E. Haywood, SacrementoCal., arm, head,and hand cut; Mrs. J. B. Wilson, Austria, head cut; J. B. Dalton, badly bruised; Annie Lynch, New Yorkj arm, head, and hip bruised; Mrs. H. Martin, Denver, head cut; .1. E. Heyworth, St Cloud, Minn., head cut and back hurt; T. Nye, New York, shoulder broken; J. T. Cahill. Los Angeles, thigh broken; C. H. Walling. Sheppard, Mich., leg broke; Mrs. E. Satiler, San Francisco, head bruised; Mrs. T. A. Guthrie, body bruised; H. I. Higgins, Leadville, slightly bruised; Mrs. G. Wilson, Chicago; Mrs. F. T. Perry, St Louis; F. E, Pyke, Chi- ; _cago; Mrs. F. E. Pyke, Chicago; J. R. Wallace, Mercer, Pa A majority of the passengers were members of the Phillips excursion party, bound from California to Chicago and eastern points. A heavy snow storm . was prevailing at the time of the acci-, * dent, and there was considerable suffering among the wounded before they were r removed to the hotels.

ANOTHER CRISIS IN FRANCE. The Government Forces Defeated on a Vote. Paris special: The Government was lefeated in the vote on the liquor amendment. and regarding that as a vote of lack of confidence the ministry resigned. The M. Ribot cabinet has held swav for eleven weeks. Ever since this ministry came Into power the opponents of the movement have sought an opportunity to overthrow them. The I’anatna scandal, it was thought, would afford the opportunity, stint though more than once attacks were made none proved successful, the chamber each time voting confidence in the Government and discomfiting their enemies. The adverse majority of five . votes cast by the Chamber of Deputies j on the liquor amendment was more or less a surprise to the Government, and after due deliberation the ministers decided to regard it as a vote" of want of confidence. As stated above, their resignations followed. -- Noaction has yet

boon taken towards forming another cabinet THE NAKONIU , Is Heard From—A Bottle Is Found Near Ocean View. A special to the New York Sun from Norfolk, Va., says: William Johnston, night watchman at Ocean View, a summer resort near here, picked up on the beach a champagne bottle with several corks tied about Its neck with a letter enclosed, giving alleged information from a cattleman on the sinking White Star steamship Naronic. The loiter was; 8. B. Nabonic, WirrrK Stab Lins, I AT Ska, Fsb. IS, f To Who Picks this Up: Report when you find this to our agents, if not beard of before. Our ship is fist sinking beneath the wave., and its*such'a storm that we oan never live in the .mail boats. Ons boat ba« already gone, with her human cargo, below God let all of us live through this. Wo were struck by an iceberg in a blinding snow atonn and floated two hours. Now its 3:20 a. m. by my watch and the great ship is dock level with the sea. Report to the agents -at Broadway, New York, M. Kersey & Co. Good bye all. [Signed] John Oi-sr.N, Cattleman. A DILATORY BLAST Fools Three Men and Explodes Unexpectedly. Three quarryinen named Houseman, Ryan, and Kimmell, working in Ryan & Brown’s stone quarry near Aetna Station, Pa.,on the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad, were blown up by an explosion of dynamite. The workmen bad ignited a fuse leading to a blast and retired to a place of safety. The fuse was so slow that they concluded it had been extinguished and returned to relight it. Just as they reached the spot a terrific explosion occurred. Houseman died from his injuries. Ryan is in an extremely critical condition and cannot recover. Kimmell was Jess severely hurt and will got well. Houseman leaves a large family. Ryan, who is a son of one of the owners ot the quarry, is married. A Railroad Relle. One of the most interesting of the displays to be presented at tho World’s Fair by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is the antique locomotive "John Bull” and a train of cars attached, Such as were in use on the old Camden and Amboy railroad, the route between Philadelphia and New York, in 1836. It is the original locomotive constructed in England by John Stephenson, shipped to the United States and erected by Isaac Dnpps, at Bordentown, N. J., in 1831, and has been languished for a number of years in the National Museum at Washington, where it was deposited as a curiosity and for sate keeping. Clarksville Destroyed. A disastrous fire occurred at Clarksville, Va. The buildings on Fourth street, from Main, down both sides wore consumed, except the railroad depot and Magee’s warehouse. Eight stores, hotels, offices, and other houses were burned. A large quantity of leaf tobacco was destroyed. A high wind was blowing and there were no adequate means tostop the flames. Two colored men were burned to death. That Russian Treaty. The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard says that President Cleveland has telegraphed to the United States legation in St. Petersburg to stop all negotiations In relation to the extradition treaty between the United States and Russia, and to endeavor to have the whole matter referred back to him. Buried Alive. At Kensley, Ala., while five men were excavating a pit for the purpose of constructing a foundation for a stack, the walls caved in on them. Three were rescued, but Anderson Collier and John Dorsey were buried alive. Their crushed corpses were recovered ten hours later under twelve feet of earth. Canadian Pacific Railway Smash-Up. Winnipeg special: Word has reached here of a frightful accident on the Canadian Pacific a tew miles east of Harrison, which resulted in the loss of four lives. Among the killed is Mr. Stephen Whyte, a brother-in-law of Judge Killian of Winnepeg. His Head Cut Off. Alonzo A. Rice, a Pan-Handle brakeman, was intantly killed at North Judson, Ind. In jumping off the cattleguard in front of a moving engine he missed his footing, and his head was cut squarely off. Fatal Liner. While playing base-ball at'Mount Holly, N. J., Frank Aaroson was struck back of the left ear by a hot liner juid knocked senseless. A blood vessel was ruptured, and he died. Curran's Third Term. A. F. Curran, Democratic editor ot the Dover News, was re-clected Mayor ol Dover, Ky., for the third term. The vote was unanimous for him. -’I Gen. E. Kirby Smith Dead. c " Gen. E. Kirby Smith, professor of mathematics |in the University of the South since 1875, died at Sewanee, Tenn., of congestion of the lungs. A Double Killing. Jesse Wooten of Beaver Valley, Sheridan County, Neb., shot and killed his wife, and himself. Death wasinstantaneous in both cases. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. / CATTLE—Common to Prime.... $3.25 @ 6.J> Hogh—Shipping Grades... 3.50 & 7.60 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 0 fS-OO Wheat—No. 2 Spring 76 & .76 Coen—No. 2 40 9. -41, i Oats—No. 2 29 0 .29)4 Rye—No. 46 0 .48 BUTTER—Choice Creamery23)4o .30)4 Eggs—Freeh 14 @ - ] 5 Potatoes—New, per hu 70 0 .80 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 0 6.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 0 7.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 0 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red6s 0 .65)4 Corn-No. 2 White .41-0 -42 Oats—No. 2 White. 36 0 .36 • ST. LOUIS. CATTLE 3.00 0 5.00 Hogs 3.00 0 7.60 Wheat-No. 2 Red .64 0 .65 L'OBN—No. 234 0 .35 Oats-No. 2 30 0 .30)4 I Rye—No. 2 51 0 .63 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 0 5.26 Hogs. 3.00 0 7.75 SHEEP 3.00 0 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 67 0 .67)4 Cohn—No. 242 0 .43 OATS -No. 2 Mixed...,. .34)40 -3W4 Rye—No. 2.65 0 .57 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 0 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.75 Sheep 3.<x> 0 4.75 l I Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 0 -09, . Cobs—No. 2 Yellow... .42 0 .42)4 Oats-No. 2 White 37 0 .38 TOLEDO. I Wheat—No.2 .68)40 .69)4 • i<OKN—No. 2 Yellow>... .42 0 .42)4 , : Oats—No. 2 White33)4o .34)4 Rye — 0 .Iff > BUFFALO. i Cattle-Common toPrime.... 3.50 0 5.50 Hogs Best Grades 4.00 0 7,75 ' Wheat-No. 1. Hard 79 0 80 ■ j No. 2 Red 74 0 . | MILWAUKEE. I Wheat—No. 2 Spring6s 0 .W 4 i Cobn-No. 3... 40 0 .40)4 : gats—No. 2 White .32)40 .33)4 ■ RYE-No. J .54 0 .55 Barley—No. 2.61 9 .63 PORK- Mess 17.26 017.76 I 1 NEW YORK. ■ Cattle 3.60 0 6.03 , Hogs 3.00 0 8.50 Sheep 3.00 0 6.115 ■ Wheat-No. 2 Red W 0 «J7 ' Cobn—No. a .51 0 Oats—Mixed Western .87 O .41 Butteb—-Best ...t- # >B3 POKE—New Mesa 18. W 018.35

I WILL OPEN ON TIME. —- PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TO SET THE FAIR GOING. I Col. bavia and Director of Works Burnham Bay the Gates Will Be Thrown Wide Open May I—Kxtortlnate Chargee Will Not 1 Prevail. I The Week at Jacksou Park. 1 Chicago cotreapondcnce: ’ The World's Columbian Exposition will be ready for business May 1. President Cleveland will touch the electrio button, if he lives, and the spindles will t whirl, and the great wheels revolve, and t every door in every department will swing open so that all the world ' through Its representatives may Vnter I and behold the acres of exhibits which > will be in place on that day. Tho can- ’ non will boom across tho inland soa; the flags of all countries will float in the air ot a Chicago spring; tho bands will play; the electric boats will dart along the lagoons, and the gondolas will move dreamily over the waters and loiter in the shadows of tho great buildings. One country will vie with another in exhibits’ which will at that time be displayed in the most attractive manner by men of tho world who have . made effective beauty a study. The T :, r —

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natives of the various States of the Union will go to their State buildings and rqpew their allegiance in such manner as may seem best to them, and then turn to gaze with wonder at the work which has been done in Jackson Park for over a year arid a half. So it will be with those whose mother countries are under other flags. The buildings of most of the countries of the East and South which will exhibit will be ready for the reception of their children. Even Midway Plaisance, that strip about which IKoLS CHOBAGIC&UONLMENT. people outside of Chicago know so little, will be ready. In one day the visitor may wander’ or ride, as he may be prepared, along this great highway and fee how the people of countries Which the tourist seldom visits live and dress. So much has been written and said about this Columbian Exposition that those who are under its walls scarce realize that the time is almost at hand for the penetralia of its wonders to open. On the eve of the opening of the

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gates at Jaekson Park a thousand bene- > dictions will fall, and from the altars of : the world there will ascend the Incense of thanksgiving that the work about which the nations of the earth will assemble in confraternity is completed, for the day before the opening of the World’s Columbian Exposition will be Sunday. The Plain Truth. . An impression seems to prevail in some quarters that the Columbian Exposition is to be cut up in some way into sections, and that the fifty cent entrance , fee will hardly do more than admit the visitor to the vestiblue. The truth is, on the contrary, that that one entrance fee will give the visitor free access to every building erected by the Exposition Company, and to all the State and for- , elgn buildings, including all their exhibits. Every exhibit proper may be seen without any further entrance fee. The false impression in question is duo to the fact that there will be stfbie side < shows, some of them in Jaekson Park, . some in Midway Plaisance, and some elsewhere. Those In Jackson Park ana Midway Plaisance are under the supervision of the exposition management, and a certain per cent, of their receipts will go to the management. Os ' course the World’s Fair Company has no control of what may be erected and 4 maintainedoutsideoftheirown grounds. ? If some circus company should estabJ llsh a tent alongside the Manitoba Building, and there is plenty of vacant space for it, the World’s Fair would bone the less be open in full on the payment of fifty cents. The best of . the side-shows will be of very email ? Importance as compared with what will i be shown in any ono of the regular Exposition buildings. Not only will every requisite of health and comfort be provided without cost to the visitor, but the management has gone so far as to sterilise the drinking Water, a sanitary precaution of great importance to the health of visitors. Again, the iwoman of Chicago have a’ 1

organised a creche, where mothere may leave their Infants In charge of competent nurses while they explore the treasures and curiosities of the buildings. The youngsters will be provided with toys and games for their amuse* fwo “THE Cl UK 11 PUKSS.” BOULPTOII CLARKB'S EXHIBIT. ment; hammocks and cots will be furnished in which they may swing or sleep when tired of romping; good food will be provided for them; for these services a very trifling charge, not yet determined, will be made. But chll*

dren accidentally separated from their parents and temporarily lost on the grounds will be conveyed to the creche and cared for and fed without charge until claimed. As to charges outside of the grounds, let it be clearly understood that the best hotels have said plainly that they will not charge more than their usual prices, and the hotels of lesser magnitude will be compelled to do likewise. Chicago Is full of enterprising people, and really enterprising people know that extortion ruins enterprise. There will be millions of visitors to Chicago during the exposition season, and for that very reason there will be fierce competition for their custom. There are now hundreds of restaurants in this city at which a satisfying meal can be purchased for from 15 to 25 cents, and the number ot such places will be greatly increased during the year. Th,e scramble for the patronage of visitors of moderate means will be furious. It is quite possible that the prices of the restaurants that cater for the people ot small incomes will be reduced by reason of excessive competition, and it is certain that they will not be increased. In short. It will be very easy for a rich visitor to spend $25 or SSO per day, and it will be quite as easy for an economist to find a room at the rate of $2.50 per week and to feed himself for 75 cents per day. The great Exposition Is for the delectation of the people of the world, but specially for thfle of the United States, therefore attendance upon it will be made to be within the reach of all. The rich can enjoy all the luxuries that money can buy, the person of slender means can live well at slight cost. Everybody is invited to come. Everybody will be welcome. Nobody shall bo imposed upon. This is Chicago’s pledge to the nation and to the whole world. Admission Tickets. Three hundred and seventy-five thousand tickets of admission to the Exposition have arrived and have been placed on sale down town. As already published the engraved entrance cards will be handled in the principal hotels, at the Randolph street and Van Buren street stations of the Illinois Central and at the Exposition Treasurer’s office, in the Rand-McNally building. Fifty

cents is the price of a ticket, and the installment just received will be good at any time from the date of purchase until the close of the Fair. A good many Chicago merchants have placed advance orders for tickets with Horace Tucker, superintendent of admissions, who is sanguine enough to estimate » BIG STONES FROM WISCONSIN. revenue of more than $1,000,000 from tickets before the gates open. His estimate is re-enforced by a surprisingly large number of Inquiries from souvenir collectors who wish to purchase specimen tickets of every series issued by the admissions bureau. F. Porterfield, cashier of the suspended Commercial National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Bank Examiner McKnight. Porterfield gave ball in the sum of SIO,OOO. The charges are perjury and making false statements to the department. Miss Lillie Johnson, who was indicted at Memphis, Tenn., as accessory to the murder of Freda Ward by Alice Mitchell, has been discharged, there being no evidence against her. Miss Mitchell is still in the Insane asylum at Bolivar, .Tenn. iL-s---n—

JUST GLANCE OVER THIS AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE INDIANA NEWS. A Cataloffaa of tho Week's Important Oocurreneoe Throughout the State— Fires, Aoeldent*. Crimea, liuloldea, Bto Minor State News. A young man named William Drake was found dead In his chair at Marietta. Tuk 5-year-old son of Mr. Roger near Wabash, was fatallv Injured in * runaway. The annual school oratorical ebntests of Montgomery County will be held at Crawfordsville April 20. William Ba land, a prominent bnsineis man of Mitchell, died of pneumonia, after a two weeks' lllhoba Eight indictments have been filed against Peru business men for selling tobacco and cigarettes to children. The thirteen farmers arrested for White-capping In Perry County represent nine of the wealthiest mon In the State. Fletcher Valentine, aged 23, a laborer employed at Gaar, Scott & Co.’s, In Richmond, fell thirty-live feet down a hatchway. He cannot recover. The South Bend City Council has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to “throw banana and orange peelings, melon rinds, etc., on the sidewalks, cross walks orbridges.” Never before In the history of Bodford has so much activity been displayed in church revivals. The Methodist, Christian, Presbyterian, and Baptist churches are all holding a series of meetings. The. Supreme Court has decided that Frankfort mum pay tho amount that was voted to the Frankfort and State Line Railroad in 1877 by Center Township. Tho amount has increased to $40,000. William Parson, a young man 22 years old, was terribly mangled by fallins against a circular saw which he was operating at a point in tho south part of Martin County, four miles oast of Alfordsville. Charles Bickel, aged 10, was fatally burned in Kelly Brothers’ foundry, Goshen. He was carrying a ladle of molton iron from the furnace to a flask, when ho slipped and fell, tho heated iron running over his left side, which was literally cooked. North Manchester, in Wabash County, is to have a system of water works with sixty-four tire hydrants, five miles of mains, the largest being twelve inches, a standpipe 110 feet high and engines with a pumping capacity of 750,000 gallons per day ot twenty-four hours. Orders have been issued from the Adjutant-General’s office, forming ail the organized regiments and companies of the Indiana Legion into tho First Brigade. Col. R. J. McKee has been promoted to Brlgadier-Generai, and assigned to the command of the brigade thus constituted. Henry Pierson, a 9-year-old school boy, caught on behind a carriage on Second Street, Vincennes. The bov’s foot ran in the wheel and the leg was ground entirely off before the driver could realize the situation. The foot and ankle was picked up several feet away. The boy cannot live. A committee of La Porte citizens visited the surrounding country for the purpose of examining the condition of the growing wheat, and after making careful and thorotfgh Inspection reported that there will be half a crop, the plant belng’badly winter killed, especially In high and exposed places, where the snow did not lay on the ground. Henry Stump, a well-known farmer living eight miles from Goshen, was terribly injured by falling on a drag wood saw which was propelled by steam. One side of his face was stripped, a heavy incision made in the skull at the back of the head, and several severe fracture of bones and other bruises were sustained. His recovery is doubtful. If there had before been any doubt of the justice of the claim of the Lowman family of Wabash County, to a share of the immense estate left by Henry Yesler, the dead millionaire of Seattle, Wash., that doubt has been dispelled. Prosecuting Attorney A. H. Plummer, employed by the Wabash heirs, went to Seattle two weeks ago to look after the interests of his clients, recently a letter was received from him stating that it was now conceded that Mr. Yesler left no will, that the conspiracy to convict Mrs. Yesler of having destroyed the will had failed and that the property, which it will require two years to convert, will be distributed according to the law of descent among the relatives of Mr. Yesler. Mr. Plummer says that the Wabash people—six in number, will have at least $200,000 to divide among* them, with the probability of their share largely exceeding this sum. Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Allen C. Brantingham, assignor to Nordyke & Marmon Company, Indianapolis, feeder for mills; Harry A. Ctimfer, Mishawaka, revolving die head; David V. Garrison, Remington, portable hay derrick; William E. B. v Harris. Vincennes, clothes dryer; William M. Howitt, Sharptown, plow or cultivator tooth; Glen G. Howe. Indianapolis, assignor to Ewart Manufacturing Company. Chicago, chain; Anthony Kehl, assignor to Roots and Holneman, Connersville, clock movement; George R. Kendrick, Portland, steam pump; John M. Cratnpf, New Albany, assignor to W. C. DePauw Company, Indiana, apparatus for recovering sand used in glass grinding and polishing; Andrew Kr'eger, assignor to E. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, saw; Samuel J. Murray, assignor to National Card Company, Indianapolis, packing case for cards, etc ; David Myers, North Manchester, stove pipe thimble; Isaiah Knightlngale, Evansville, attachment for guitars, mandolins, zithersi or other stringed instruments; James R. Sturgeon, Churubusco, check-rein guide; Clarence B. Wisner, Lowell, perforating apparatus. The Coroner has caused the arrest of Joseph' Pigg of Terre Haute, on the charge of murder. Recently the 4-months-old child of his step-mother was found dead in bed. The mother and the elder PlgK had lived apart several times, and the father and son had been known to say they doubted the paternity of the child. The son had also made threats. The night before the death of the child, young Pigg prepared a dose of some mixture and gave it to the baby. He threatened other children who saw him to keep them from telling what they had seen. The body of the child will bo exhumed and an autopsy held. Thomas Collins of Shelbyville, went to bed as well as usual the other night, but awakened vomiting about midnight He was very sick, and displayed signs of poisoning. A physician was hastily summoned, and In searching for evidence the family coffee pot was found smeared with paris green. The members of the famllv claim not to knefw how the poison came in tho house or anything about ft. v John Pease, a young man, until recently a student in the Bloomington college, was Instantly killed by the bursting of • circular saw In Kellogg's mill. A piece of the saw almost beheaded him. He had only engaged to work a few days Instead of a regular employe. —

Business Directory I THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. I Capitol. *50,000. Bnrplui, SIO.OOO i ■ OrlfanlMd AulU.t M, ISSB. H Offiow»~T.T.Dor*ln,lT..l<l.nt;P.W. Smith, Q Vloa-Bra.Meut; R. 8. I'.tenon Caahlar; T. J ■ Dorwtn, P. W. Hmltb, H.nry Dark**, J. H. ■ Holbrook, B. J. Tarvw, J. D. Hate and A < JB Patanon, Dirwtora. . JI Wa ara praparad to make Ix>an« on good aaoa- ’W rlty, raoalva Dapo.lt•, furnlth Domaitio and Foreign Exobanga, bn/ and .all Govarnmant and Municipal Bond*, and furni.b Lattan M Cradlt avallabla in any of the principal oltlai of Europe. Al.o Paeeage Ticket to and from tho Old World, including tranoportatlou to Decatur. r 1 Adams County Bank Capital. •78,000. Surplna, 75,00a ' ‘ Organliad in 1»71. Officers—D. Studebaker. President; Bobt, B. ' Alll.on, Vioe-Preeldont; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. CollsoUoag mads in all parts of ths country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, at Ina’w Doeatur, - - ytoiomm 3EJ, JEE. XjoJBJFLTJToC Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind. Successfully treats all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Will respond to calls at any time. Prices resonable. anvnr, a. x. mann, j. *. HRJFIIT MANN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LI W, And Notaries Public. • Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office In Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IRANCE A MERRYMAN. J. T. rnAKCT. A? ». T. MXRBYMAN Attorneye mt XAa.-w, DICATUII, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1,2 and 8, over the Adams County Bnuk. Collections a specialty. A.«. HOLLOWAY. JPliy«lolaii ctJ Surgeon Office over Burns' harness shop, residence one door north of M. E. church. AU caUd promptly attended to in city or country night or day. jy-RS. M, L. HOLLOWAY, M. ». Office and residence ons door north of M. * church. Diseases of women and ohUdroa specialties. O.T. Hay.H.», FMywiolstndb fll'ux***O3ab ■earee, . . * ladiama. All calls promptly attended todayswighd Dffioo at residence. -- I ■ — A B. 8080, B. T. 8080. Maatar OommlsstoMr. 8080 dt SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Baal Bstato and Collection, Dsoataz, lad. 0.8. M. ABDBBWB, XMxy Mlolatxx «*» MONBOE, INDIANA. Office and residence Ind and 3rd doors wust ad M. B. church, »* Prof. L H. Zilgler, Vetirliiiy JWM Surgeon. Modus Operandl, Orohe M Pl tomy, Overotomy, Castrating, Rldg ling, Horses and Spaylnjg Cattle and Dehon Ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. J. 8. Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, MD. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store. Decatur. Ind H. F. COSTELLO, Flxy aiolaaxx & JHixx-ajeoxx, Office over Ter veer’s hardware store. Resi- ' deuce on Third street, in the old Derkes property. All calls promptly attended to in city or country, day or nteht Lavi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. JQ. NEPTUNE, . DENIBT. Now located over Holthouse's shoo store, and Is prepared to do all work pertaining to ths dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By tbs use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. All work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN Oa farm Property oa Long Timo. Wo OOBMtXiaJLaiflllOMße Lew Bate of Intsrost. In aay amounts can be made at any time amt stop interest. QaU on, or address, A. X. GRUBB, tr J. F. MAXB, Odtoot Odd BsUows* Building. Deootah ■ ' I ' ■/ '■ ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING NEATLY EXECUTED ■ ■ & ■1 I IUI 1 1 w 11 W