Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1893 — Page 6

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EVENTS OF INTEREST THAT OCCURRED DURING THE PAST WEEK. Indianapolis Bank Wreckrm Under Ar. rest—Blrd Evo, Ind., Wiped Out bv Fire —Whlteeapper Goer to Prison—Killed by an Electric Current—Banks Itesume. VNDiB ARREST. The Wreckers of the Indianapolis National Bank.. Indianapolis special: At 6 o’clock Tuesday night Deputy United States Marshal Foley started out with a drag net after the wreckers of the Indianapolis National Bank and by 7 o’clock he had landed Theodore P. Haughey, President of the bank; Schuyler C. Haughey, his son, President of the Indianapolis Glue Works and Indianapolis Curled Hair Works, to which two cqpeerns and their employes and officers the bank advanced $162,000; Francis B. Coffin, President of the Indianapolis Cabinet Works, to which concern directly or indirectly the bank advanced $357,000; Percival B. Coffin, Secretary of the Cabinet Works, and Albert S Reed, Treasurer of the same. The affidavits upon which the warrants were issued were sworn to by Receiver Hawkins, of the defunct bank. Theodore P. Haughey is charged with embezzlement and knowingly misapplying funds of the bank in advancing money upon worthless paper. All the rest are charged with embezzlement and- aiding and abetting in the misapplication of funds. They were taken at once before United States Commissioner Van Buren, where they gave bond and their hearing was set for August 28. The bond of each was placed at $5,000 and the prisoners had no trouble in getting sureties. Each of them except Reed refused to talk, declaring that the matter was now in the hands of their attorneys. Reed declared that all the money the cabinet works had gotten had been expended honestly in extending its business. Receiver Hawkins declares that the prosecutions would be pushed to the utmost, but was inclined to rather exonerate E. E. Rexford, tne cashier, who signed the false statement of July 12. Rexford, he said, was raised in the bank and simply obeyed without question Haughey’s request to sign the statement. French Elections. Paris special: It is now known that reballots have to be taken in 155 districts. The results of these is undoubtedly favorable to the Republicans, whose gains now reach sixtythree. At the last general election the Boulangists returned thirty-five members. The defeat of the Royalists is causing significant comment. It is predicted that it means the extinction of that party. Thompson Need -Not Pay. Postmaster P. Thompson returns to Indianapolis relieved of a burden. The Treasury officials say that the Indianapolis postmaster will not lose the $3,500 deposited in the Indianapolis National Bank, because he was directed to deposit the funds there, and as postmaster was a disbursing officer of the Government for the Indianapolis postoffice. The losses, if any, will be the Government’s. Killed by an Electric Current. Richard Hantzch, lineman in the employ of the Telephone and Lighting Company, Eau Claire, Wis., while at the top of a pole received a full incandescent current. With a cry he fell and hung by one foot to the wires, apparently a corpse. Twofellow workmen ran up the pole and tried to lower him with a rope, but he fell, striking on the curbstone. Life was extinct. WIU Shut Down. Orders have been issued to shut down the Edgar Thompson Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel Co., at Braddoeks, Pa., owing to a lack of orders. Two thousand men will be thrown out of work. This is the first time in the history of the plant that it has shut down from this cause. Killed By a Base Ball. While playing base ball at Chicago, Peter Highland was struck on the back of the neck by a ball from the hands of the pitcher, and almost instantly killed. His neck was broken and he died without uttering a word. Edward J. Carter, the pitcher, who threw the ball, wae arrested. Whitecapper Goes to Prison. The jury in the case of the State vs. William Highfield, on trial at Jasper, Ind., for White Capping, returned a verdict of guilty, fixing the punishment at two years in prison and a fine of $lO. Highfield had brutally whipped William Davis and wife.

Banks Resume. The Citizens National bank, Attica, Ind.; Union National bank, Denver, Col.; Peoples’ National bank, Denver, Col., have been permitted to re-open for business. Brigade Reunion. The sth brigade, Gen. McCook’s division, viz: the 29th and 30th Indiana, 77th Pennsylvania, 34th and <9th Illinois regiments will hold a brigade reunion at Indianapolis, Wednesday, September t>. __7_ — Town Burned Out. Three-fourths of Bird Eye, Crawford County, Ind., was wiped out by lire. All the business part of the town is gone. R. G. Dunn 4s Co.’s Weekly Review. Business is trying to go ahead without waiting for news from'Washington. The imported gold of $9,000,090 or more during’ the week does not go to the right spot.’but the people are creating a home-made currency for themselves by using certified Checks in, payment and epttling local accounts and purchasin grain and ®tton. Little money comes back as yet from timid holders and the paralysis of exchange is nearly as complete as ever, but that very fact pushes each section and city into relying more on itself ana Jess on the Government and Wall street. Resumptions are now becom-

Ing somewhat frequent and in the shrinkage of production mon nee evidence that the demand must soon overtake the supply. LABOR RIOT. Unemployed Mrti In New York Caune a Va«t Amount of Trouble. New York special: Thio unrest and unemployed in this city has burst its bounds, and a mob has jxissesaed themselves of property to which they hail been forbidden entrance by the owners. A crowd of more than 5,000 men attacked Walhalla Hall, 48, 50, and 52 Orchai-d street, because admittance was denied them. They smashed the plate glass windows to atoms, forced in doors which had been turned against them, and forcibly took possession of the place. Several persons were cut by flying glass. Word of the coming of the unemployed reached the Walhalla Hall proprietor, a man named Fliegman. His sons and daughters first barred the door and then demanded through the keyhole to know what the crowd wanted. The reply came that they wanted to hold a meeting in the hall and hud no money to pay for it. They were told they could not. have it. Instantly there was a crash of breaking gloss. Fliegman’s daughter, a young girl of 18 years, tried to get in front of the crowd as it swept in, but she was thrown aside. The men swept chairs and tables aside in their eagerness to hold a meeting, and they had just about settled down to business when word of the affair was sent to the Eldredge street police. The sergeant in charge at once called out a reserve section and fourteen roundsman proceeded to clear the hall. The speaker was arrested and two other arrests were made. The howling mob followed the officers and their prisoners to the door of the station, but the prisoners were locked up. The prisoners were arraigued before Justice Voorhees, but Manager Fliegman refused to make any complaint. He said the men would molest him if he pressed a complaint and he preferred standing the damage to losing their custom, and he was afraid of be- ' ing killed. Justice Voorhees then discharged the prisoners, but took occasion to denounce Manager Fleigman for his cowal'd ice. While this was enacted in the Essex Market Court the police swept down upon the hall and many bruised and bloody heads resulted from the encounter and a rough and tumble fight took place. The-policemen used their clubs freely, dispersing the men in all directions. AN OHIO TRAGEDY. A Family Fend Breaks Ont With Fatal ; Two Men Will Die. Tiffin (Ohio) special: The village of Bascom, five miles west of this city, was the scene of a bloody riot between the Flack and Osterholt families recently, in which the Flacks were the aggressors. The trouble will result in the death of Fred Osterholt and probably that of his brother Perry. The family feud started thirty years ago, when Peter Osterholt, now eighty-three years old. stabbed and almost killed George Flack, grandfather of James and Lloyd Flack, the principal assailants in the recent tragedy. The two Flacks accompanied by their father and Charles Flack a cousin, who is . a justice of the peace for Hopewell Township, went to the Osterholt home, the two boys bent on having revenge for the assault made that morning on their father, and the latter professedly to preserve the peace. The Flack boys then burst into the Osterholt residence, breaking open five doors in order to reach Fred Osterholt, whom they followed into an upstairs chamber and beat almost to death with a club. Perry Osterholt was struck in the head with a large stone thrown by Lloyd Flack, and will die from the effects of the injury. Old Man Osterholt and two married sons living near by, were also horribly beaten and cut up with some sharpened instrument. The two Flack boys were also badlycarved with a] razor in the hands of Fred Osterholt. Riots in France. • Paris special: The riots at AnguesMortes, in the Department of Gard, had its origin in a dispute between workingmen regarding wages. Some of the men, Frenchmen and Italians, became involved in a fight over the question, and in a very short time a general riot was precipitated by the action of the other salt workers, who hastened to the assistance of their respective countrymen. At least fifty were killed and one hundred and fitty wounded in the fight. The French, numbering 500, carried every kind of weapons from pick-axes and bludgeons to firearms. There was a frightful hand-to-hand fight in the streets. Afterwards 500 Italians barricaded themselves on a farm. They were besieged forthwith bv the French and a battle followed. Whenever an Italian escaped he was hunted like a rat to his death. Seventeen People Drowned. Dublin special: A fatal accident occurred to a party of merrymakers in Western Ireland. An excursion party left Kilkee, in the southwestern part of County Claire, intending to cross the river Shannon, which in that vicinity is quite wide, forming what is known as Carrigoholt Bay. When the party were a considerable distance from the shore the boat capsized and everybody on board of her were thrown Into the The accident from the shore and several boats put out to the rescue. Other boats in the bay bore down on the capsized boat, but before any of the rescuing parties could get to the place where the overturned boat was lying, seventeen of tho exursionists had been drowned.

Train Wreckers’ Plans Foiled* Eric (Ph.) special: An'attempt to Wreck the Philadelphia and Erie Express, cast-bound, was foiled by a freight crew. The track on Five Mile Curve, in a secluded spot, was olwtructed with chains and pins. The freight grew, having discovered the wreckers, notified Officers Higgins and Watson, who, as '.they closed in on the train-wreckers, were fired upon by the latter. Watson had his clothes pierced by two bullets and lost his man, but Higgins captured the other wrecker after adesperate battle. The wrecker is a man of 30; gave his name as Edward Mbefre, a shoe-maker, and who. in addition to being heavilyarmed, had a burglar's kit with him. Shipwrecked Crew Taken Oft an Inland. ■ London special: The American ship Highlander, which passed the Lizard the other day, cignaled, '‘Have crew Bowdon.” The Bpwdon was a British ship commanded by Captain Law. She was one of the five vessels that in March last started to race from San Francisco to Queenstown. Four of the contestants arrived safely,but the Bowdon, on A]fril 27', was totally wrecked on Ono Island, one of the. Friendly Group. Wants to Fight. Panama special: There is a populai clamor in Equador for a declaration o . war against Peru to take revenge foi ■ atrocities said to have been committee

e» by Peruvians during the dispute over • the boundary and in violation of the • status quo. The Peruvian Consul here officially denied tho rumor that Peru would bo unable to respond to a challenge to fight on account of troubles at homo. The McDonald Will. 1 Indianapolis special: The appeal ol a tho McDonald will case to the Supreme . Oourt has been filed in the office of the I Clerk. It bears tho title of Josephine F. McDonald (widow of tho lato Sena--1 ter McDonald) and others, and is ap- • pealed from tho Hamilton Circuit Court. Tho transcript fills 1,958 type- , written pages, and is one of tho largest , documents ever tiled in the Supremo t, Court of Indiana. There are thirteen f errors assigned on which tho appeal is , based, tho first being that the Court erred in refusing to vacate tho order . made on motion of appellees requiring [ appellant, Josephine McDonald, to submit to a statutory examination under [ oath before trial. A Society of Tramps. By the arrest at Logansport, i Ind., on suspicion, of Jacob Baney, aChicago tramp, tho Ix>gans]x>rt police discovered the existence of a secret organiza- . tion for thievosand pickpockets, which will interest the authorities of Western cities. Papers with instructions in cypher were found on Baney’s person, which shows that the organization has headquarters-in Chicago, w-hore all members are required to report as to the best fields for operations, giving the names of all persons likely to keen sums of money or have it about. them at stated times, and especially naming persons who hoard money and tho chances for approaching them. A Lynching. Charles Watson, the negro who cut the throat of little Sam Keith, a 10-year-old boy. was lynched by a mob of about 1.500 citizens of Morganfield and Uniontown, Ky. The hanging occurred in Taylor’s woods, about a mile from Morganfield, Ky. Young Keith was at the Uniontown fair selling watermelons. Toward evening Watson succeeded in coaxing Keith into a field ' near the fair grounds. When out of sight of the people Watson cut the boy's throat in a fearful manner, fatally wounding him, and then robbed him of $4. The Troops Fired? A telegram reached Piedmas Negras, Texas, that Federal troops ran onto a body of armed men, near Zaragosa, and i hailed them. Upon their failing to respond the troops fired, killing three and wounding several others. It is also reported some twenty prisoners i were taken, together with considerable ; arms and ammunition. The party proved to be Cardenas’ men. German Mine Horror. Berlin special: The Kaiserstuhl coal pit at Dortmund, in Westphalia, was the scene of a terrible mining accident. An explosion of fire damp occurred in the pit, killing fifty persons and injuring many others. Great excitement prevails and the details of the affair arc not yet at hand. It is feared that some of the injured will die. Four Persons Drowned. At Bennett’s Mill on the Missouri River, Mrs. Foster, her two children, and hier sister were drowned. They were moving from one side of the river to the other.and most of the goods having been taken across the little family were following in a skiff, which was overturned. Engine Blown Up. Freight train engine No. 107, eastbound on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad, blew up near Rokabel, Ohio, instantly killing Engineer Basom, Fireman Roberts, and Brakeman Queen. The track was badly torn up by the force of the explosion. Old Farmer Killed. William Bellows, a farmer of Rutland, Ohio, 75 years of age, was returning to his home from Middleport in a wagon, when a Kanawha and Michigan freight train came along. The team ran off and inflicted injuries from which he died shortly afterward. A Joke Cost His Else. Wm. Rowe, who was shot at Brazil, Ind., last week is dead. John McKay of Caseyville, did the shooting because Rowe joked him about being drunk. The ball passed entirely through tho body, entering the stomach. McKay escaped and is still at largo. Death of Judge Orr. «ahidge Wm. N. Orr, a noted jurist and widely known resident of Orrville. Wayne (’ounty, Ohio, died of Bright's disease, aged 60. He graduated with the late J rimes G. Blaine, being the valedictorian of the class. . Gutted the. town. Fire at Dickson, Tenn.,onthe»Northwestern Division of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway,destroyed the greater part of the business portion of the town.

Both Leg* Gone. A premature explosion in the stone quarries at Peebles, Ohio, resulted in James Settles have both legs mangled' in a horrible manner. Physicians amputated both legs. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. CATTLE—Common to Prime.... $3 26 @ 5 15 Hogs—Whipping Grades 3 75 @ 5 80 Sheet— Fair to Choice 3 00 @4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring »2'J@ C3)t Cons—No. 2...; 3K>s@ Oats—No. 2 24 @ 23 Rye-No. 2 46 @ 48 Butteb—Choice Creamery 21 ‘iff 2214 Eggs—Fresh 13 @ is,'4 Potatoes—New, per ba 65 @ 75 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3co @ 4 75 Hogs—Choice Light 3 so @ 6 75 Sheep—Common to Prime Jw> @ 3 60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 @ 64 Cobh—No. 2 White 40 @ 41 OATS—No. 2 White 25!4@ 2656 ST. 1.0 ClB. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 oo Hogs : 3co @6 65 Wheat—No. 2R d M « #» Cobh- No. 2.... 34 @ 33 Oats—No. 2 23 @ 24 Rye-No. 2 48 @ 00 CINCINNATI. Cattle .too @473 Hogs 3 00 & 6 00 Sheep 3 otr-<na Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 @ 57 COBN—No. 2 4 44 @ 45 Oats—No. 2 Mixed.....— — 24 @ 26 Rye—No. 2 48 & w DETROIT. Cattle 300 @ 4 75 Hogs 300 @ 600 Sheep 300 @ 3 75 Wheat No. 2 Red 60 @ Cl Cobn—No. 2.... 42’j@ 43'j Oats-No. 2 White, old 30 @ 3uJ> TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62)4 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40 @ 41 I Oats—No. 2 White ®.« 231 i Rye—No. 2 45 ® 47 BUFFALO. Cattle--Common to Prime.. . 350 @ .100 Hogs—Dent Grades 4 00 @6 75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1 <W @ 71 No. 2 Red 62 @ 64 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No 2 Spring 58 «< r>9 Cohn—No. 3 3*L@ _3t>q Oats-No. 2White . 30 @ 31. Rye-No. 1 48 @ no Barlev—No. 2 @ f. 6 PORK -Mess 12 25 @l2 75 NEW YORK. —’ Cattle 350 @6 25 Hogs •. 300 @6 6'l Sheep 3 00 @ 4 so • Wheat-No. felled TO @ 71 ’ Corn-No. 2 48 @ 48 J Oats—Mixed Western 32 & 34 ' Butteb—Creamery 20 @ 26 I Pobk—New Meas ...... UOO 0U U

THEY DEMAND WOBK. GREAT MASS MEETING OF UNEMPLOYED IN CHICAGO. Nearly Flva Thousand Men Ont of Employment Gather About an KxpreM Wayon, Near the Statue of Columbus, and Listen to Speeohea from Their Leaden. Labor Blame. Capital. There was a great mass meeting of the unemployed on the I dike Front, in Chicago, the other day. The men decided to march to tho City Hall, carrying the banners of their various unions, ana demand work of tho city. This was presented in the form of a resolution, and was adopted amid ringing cheer®. The unemployed assembled near tho Columbus statue in response to a call from the Allied Woodworkers’ Trades Council. E. O. Cochran, business agent of tho council, using an express wagon as a speaker's stand, stated the object of the assembly to bo to con-

CROWD OK THS LAM FBONT. sider what the unemployed workmen of Chicago should do in the present hard times. A number of speakers of different nationalities were introduced, who spoke in unmistakable tones. A resolution was adopted demanding the removal of the Haymarket monument, as they consider it a relic of one of the worst judicial murders that ever disgraced the history of civilization. Resolutions were also adopted denouncing the capitalistic class and demanding relief from the present Congress DROPPED TO DEATH. Terrible Accident on the Atlantic and Dan. ville Bond Near Milton, Va. A Danville, Va., dispatch tells of an awful accident which cccurred at the County Line trestle just east of Milton at 2:50 o’clock in the morning, by which two passenger coaches and a sleeper were precipitated into the creeK below, a distance of sixty feet, killing seven persons outright and wounding a number of others. The train bound for Portsmouth left Danville at 1:35 in the morning and was the regular train. After passing through Milton and going over the trestle the engineer, Peyton Tunstal. who says he was running at the rate of ten miles an hour, felt the bridge giving way. He threw open the throttle and the engine, tender and a box car got safely over, but the first passenger car was too late, and the span went down under its weight, the second passenger car and sleeping-car following. The cars were shivered into kindling wood and the escape of any of the passengers was a miracle. The water in the creek had risen to the depth of twelve or more feet, and it is tho general belief that the riee had undermined tho foundation of the under pieces, causing the trestle to settle. On the train at the time were about sixteen persons, including the trainhands, but only one of the latter—Conductor H. Morris, of Portsmouth—was killed, none of the others receiving serious injuries. In the sleeper were Mrs. Harvey Giersch, two children and , nurse, of Winston, N. C.: Conductor J. L. Slier, of Richmond; and J. R. Townes, colored porter. The nurse was drowned and the conductor and porter were slightly injured. Mrs. Giersch was on her way to Lawrenceville to visit friends. The depot agent at Milton heard the 1 crash and immediately gave the alarm by tolling the boll. The people turned 1 out in full force and went to work at once to rescue the dead and injured from the debris. The 13-year-old daughter of Mrs. Giersch, not realizing the dancer through which she had passed, 1 said to the rescuers: “Don’t mind mo; ’ lam not hurt: but please take mamma ’ out." The following is the list of the killed:

H. MORRIS, conductor, Portsmouth, Va. W. R. ELLISON. Alton, Vs. J. G. DAVIES, a farmer of Baskerville, Va. W. H. ELAM, of Durham, N. C. JAMES 8. LOWE, a railroad conductor from the West, who was a passenger. o THOMAS LEE (colored), of Winston, N. C. FRANCIS JENKINS (colored), of Salem, N. C. None of the injured are seriously hurt. The dead were removed to the railroad depot at Milton, where they were kept until the arrival of the cor* oner from Halifax Court House, the accident occurring on the Halifax side of the creek. The loss was heavy to the railroad company, as the cars and a full span of the bridge are a total loss. MAY RESUME SILVER. Said to Be Probable that India Will Return to Free Coinage. Private cablegrams from London received in New York contained the important information that the Indian Council or Herschell Monetary Commission appointed by the British Government, to readjust Indian finances, had receded from the position it took When it closed the mints of India to the free coinage of silver and was selling c luncil Bills below the rate fixed at the time this action was taken. Later cablegrams from London confirmed the report and said that the council bad sold 20 lacs or 2,000,000 rupees at 15} pence. Tho ratio fixed by the council a few weeks ago was 16 to 1; that is. the commission decided that 1 rupee was worth 16 pence, or 32 cents in our money. Tho sales were at a discount of H cents per rupee of 32 cents fixed valuation. The advices accompanying the announcement of the Council’s action were very meager, and the exact significance of tho decline in the price Os rupee paper could not be definitely determined by any of the bankers seen in Wall street. It was thought by some that it might mean a return to free coinage at tho Indian mints, and the theory was advanced that the present decline in tho value of the rupee, which is tho silver money of India, might be for the purpose of stimulating trade, (which has .been at a standstill since the Indian Council attempted to fix an in-1 flexible ratio between gold and silver.

HARVEST OF THtt YEAR. Summary of tho -Am.riean Afrieulturlst'»" Annual Review. The harvest of 1103 In the United States is' in many respect* similar to that of three years ago, but with every prospect that homo consumption and an increase of foreign demand will also advance values so as to yield as large a net return to farmers os on tho average of rocont years. Indeed, the American Agriculturist’s annual review makes a distinctly encouraging exhibit In spite of the prevalent drought, though it is admitted that the financial stringency may interfere with the early movement of crops and have a temporarily restorative Influence on prices. Present Indications point to a crop of L760,000,000 bushel* of oom, contrated with 1,650.000.000 last year, and over 1.000,000,000 buehels tn tho Immense yield of two eeasons previous. But unless abundant rains prevail throughout the corn belt in August, followed by milder weather, the production may shrink to 1,800,000,000, and may even drop to the else of tho ISM crop, when we harvested less than in any year for a decade, with a single exception. While the area In corn 1- some 2,000,000 of acres greater than last year in the seven corn surplus States, over » million leee sores are devoted to maise than wax the case two yean ago. The oom crop has been greatly Injured ao far during August, the first two weeks of the month having wrought ten tlmee as much damage as the whole mouth of July. Kansas will not raise more than half a crop, having bnt very little except the eastern quarter, snd Nebraska's crop has been seriously curtailed. The wheat out-turn will not exceed sis.ooo.000 bnshels, compared to 014,000,000 bu-hels as the average for the past two eeasons an l 401.000,000 bushels in IsM. Nearly 2,800,000 leas acres were devoted to wheat last year, and tho bulk of this decrease was in the surplus States, which bid fair to have 7«,00<).ono fewer bushels than last year and 128.000.000 bushels under the surplus States' produot tn IMI. , Available supplies of old wheat are 40,000,000 bushels greater than a twelve-month ayo. out even allowing that farmers also hold 17,000.000 bushels more old whest now than then, the total supplies for the ensuing year are only 600,000,000 bushels, or 117.000.000 bushel • less than tho average of the two previous crops. Our home consumption has averaged sue,ooo,ooo bushels annually, leaving an apparent export surplus of 138,000,000 bushels, against exports last year of 192.000,000 and the season before of 286.000,000 bushels. This yeer's soreage of oats was never exceeded except in lsw>, when over MSB,wo,OOO bushels were grown on 27,400,000 acres, compared with 620.000.000 bushels on a slightly smaller acreage this season. This is within 40,0<000 bushels of last year's out-turn and just about an average of the three previous crops. Reviewing the financial situation from the farmers’ standpoint, the American Agriculturist concludes: Tbs prospect for prices in the early future depends more upon the monetary situation than upon natural conditions, all of whic i point to causes that should result in higher prices. But the wheat crop is conceded to be over 150,000,000 bushels less than last year in the leading importing countries. Stocks abroad are not materially larger than a year ago. so that the excess of 60,009.000 bushels in the United States in old stocks still leaves an indicated shortage on the bread crop of the world of n0.000.0e0 bushels of wheat. Thli allows Russia as good as last year. The European rye crop is hardly a fair average; oats art under average, snd potatoes are injured by drought. With no extra surplus of the bread crops and an assured deficit of wheat, the United States are likely to be called upon to export as much wheat as last year, if not more. Indeed, exports have been much heavlei since Jnly 1 than last season. The conclusion is justifiable that present prices of all grslni are abnormally low, as there is little evidence of our ability to spare as much wheat as Europe wants, unless a large underconsumption prevails in the United States. The hay crop is believed to represent a valu« to the farmers of $1,000,000. Corn at 43 centi per bnshel comes next with a total of $725,000,600. followed by wheat valued at $300,000,000,11 worth 60 cents a bushel, and oats worth slH',000.000, if valued at 30 cents on the farm. Potatoes promise to net an average of 70 or 7: cents per bushel or a total of $126,000,000. This list is about one-half the prospeotivi value of the cotton crop of 1993, reckoned at $35 per bale. APPEAL TO WESTERN FARMERS. Asked to Send Provisions to the Hungry Thousands in New York. Tho delegates and speakers to the Farmers’ Alliance and People’s Partj State Convention at Sylvan Beach, N. ¥., issued the following appeal: Farmers of the West: A cry of hunger and starvation comes up from the heart of the great metropolis—New York. It eomes from the throat of tens of thousands of American citizens who are without work and without bread. It ascends to heaven amid the noise ol the call-board on the stock exchange and ths jingling of the gold on the money counters ol wall street. It is intensified by the tears and moans of starving mothers and famishing children. Men are becoming desperate from want, and the gaunt specter of famine stalks abroad unheeded by thoae who hav • grown fat by the pillage of labor and the ravaging of Industry. The lobby approaching the council chamber ol tho republic Is filled with the paid agents oi the moneyed oligarchy ready to debauch the people's representatives and weld the chains of financial slavery still more securely on the neck of labor. The money sharks ore unrelenting, the Government indifferent, and the people desperate. By the pangs of hnnger, law-abiding, honest men aro being transformed into wrrckless wolves, and this is tho condition deserted by the enemies of tho people. They starve them first i» order to furntsh an excuse to kill them afterward. This mnft not be. The starving poor of New York must not become the prey of designing enemies. Farmers, you must feed them. 'Well, now, you are poor. We know the labor of vonr hands is unrequitted and your toll and perseverance unrewarded. But these men and women are your brothers and sisters. Their cause is your cause. Their starvation and year poverty are Ihs joint production of our common enemy. Send speedily of yonr corn and wheat, your potatoes and breadstuffs, that disorder and bloodshed may be averted. Let the president of each alliance call his alliance and act without delay. Ask your railroads to furnish transportation free as yon give your substance. Organize relief committees at once and communicate with Mr. David Rousseau, 310 Mott avenue. New York City, who has been selected by ns as the consignee of relief supplies snd who will arrange for their prompt and effective distribution. J. B. Weaver, lowa. T. E. Dean. New York. Mart E. Lx a re, Kansas. William J. Kerb, Colorado. Mrs, Marion Todd, Michigan. «, L. C. Paddock, Colorado. Delegates and Speakers to the Farraei s' Alliance and State Convention. No Money to Move Crops. The most serious problem which the Northwest finds itself confronted with at the present time as an incident oi the financial depression, is how the crops shall be moved. There is not sufficient money in the country to send the stream of golden grain flowing into the markets, and aid must como from somewhere. Several meetings of bankers and jobbers have boon held at Minneapolis, to decide upon a plan of action, but none has been agreed upon. To harvest and move or market the crops requires within tho next three months the use of a very large amount of money. It seems to be conceded that the necessary money cannot be obtained from the usual Eastern sources, and that the local banks can do but little toward furnishing the needful, in actual cash. To meet the emergency, a proposition lias been discussed that the banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis should create a local currency by issuing, on tho lines of the tried plan of New York banks, clear-ing-house certificates in denominations of $5. $lO, S2O and SSQ, which would be loaned to the buyers to be used in payment of wheat to farmers and freights and charges to railways, and thus carry the wheat to market, when the proceeds would be returned to tho banks, thus putting them In funds with which toredeem the kcal currency. a N ote» ol Carrent Events. THE Bank of Albany, Mo., has suspended. Malignant diphtheria has broken out in Findlay, O. THE Gorman-American bank at St. Paul will resume business.. Floods near Beatrice, Neb., have carried away many bridges. Congressman Dunn,-of New Jersey, is seriously ill with heart failure. Detroit bankers aro issuing certificates of deposit in place of currency. The Sons of Veterans have adopted black belts instead of belts of gold color. . ,'

BERING SEA DECISION 1 UNITED STATES CLAIMS ARE ’ NOT ALLOWED. 1 ) I No R2gh» to tho Proteotlon of, or Propertv in, tho Boela Frequenting the lelanda of • tho United State* When Found Outside tho Ordinary Three-Mile Limit. Victory for Briton*. f Baron Do Courool, Pre«ideLs of the • Behring Sea arbitration tribunal, has . announced In Paris the decision of the - arbitrators on the issues presented to • It. Exdept for a provision that the ■ Beals shall bo protected from indltorimInate slaughter, the decision is entirely ’ against the United States. Not a . propt sltlon put forth by tho Amorl--8 can counsel has been agreed to by r the tribunal. Every issue made by the . United States has been decided in favor • of Great Britain. The arbitrators • practically deny that Russia asserted i or exercised exclusive rights in the > seal fisheries prior to the purchase of ’ Alaska by the United States. That i any such claims were recognized and ; conceded by Great Britain and that tho 1 United States have any property rights in the seal fisheries other than those 1 belonging to all other nations. Uncle ' Sam is beaten at every point touching , Its sovereignty over the Behring sea, , and the crum of consolation in tho [ matter of protection of the seals is not ’ sweetened by the accompanying decla--1 ration that this power of protection ■ does not lie in tho United States but in the ruling of the tribunal. American Claim* Rejected. ! In a general way the tribunal rejects the claim of the United States that the ■ Behring Sea is a mare clausum and de- ■ nios to the United States exclusive property rights in the seal fisheries. ■ On tho other hand, the arbitrators sustain positively tho contention of the United States that pelagic soal- [ ing should be stopped and that 1 the seal herds should be protected from •extermination by poachers. To effect 1 this end tho tribunal rules that there shall bo maintained a closed season, beginning May 1 and ending July 21, during which no seals may be killed. This prohibition applies not only to Behring eca, but to the north Pacific ocean. To save the teals from slaughter at their breeding places in the Pribylov Islands a protective zone extending sixty miles around the islands is established, and sealing outside this zone is to be jiermitted only after Aug. 1. Further protection from indiscriminate slaughter is provided in the prohibition by the terras of tho decision of the use of fire-arms by sealtakers. Uncle Sam'* Contentions. The contentions of tho United States as to its exclusive jurisdiction in Behring Sea, acquired from Russia by the purchase of Alaska and its property rights in the teal fisheries, are contained in the following five points of article 6 of the treaty creating the tribunal of arbitration: 1. What exclusive jurisdiction in the seanow known as Behrina Bea and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exorcise prior and up to the time of tho cession of Alaska to tho United States? X How far were these claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries recognized and conceded by Great Britain? 8. Was tho body of water now known as the Bohring sea included in the phrase “Pacific ocean," as used In the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia; and what rights, if any, in the Behring sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said treaty? 4. Did not all the rights of Russia as to jurisdiction and as to the seal fisheries in Behring sea. east of the water boundary, in the treaty between the United States and Russia of tho »th at March, 1867. pus unimpaired to the United States under that treaty' 8. Has the United States any rights, and. if so, what right, of protection of property in the fur seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Behring Sea when rsich seals are found outside tho ordinary three-mile limits ? The decision as rendered is practically a knock out for the United States and a victory for England.

How the World Wag*. A. W. Dunham killed his wife at Pensacola, Fla., and ended his own life. August Utlant was run over by a wagon at Greenville, Ala., and killed. The Meadow Grove carpot works burned at Ardmore, Pa. Loss, $60,000. Louis F. Menage, the missing financier of St. Paul, has been located in Chili. The shop force of the Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway has been paid off and discharged. THE International Labor Exchange at New York has opened with a great labor display. Pastors of Denver churches unite in calling on the President to announce a public fast day. John Rourke was stabbed to death at Lima, 0., by Frank Elderin. The affair occurred at a disreputable resort. GENERAL managers of Eastern lines have adopted a resolution to boycott the Wheeling & Lake Erie for rate cutting. Oscar Copeland, a farmer living south of Parsons, Kas., was killed by being struck in the breast by a rearing horse. Charles A. Hawkes, cashier of the Seven Corners Bank of St. Paul, is charged with larceny by the President. Hawaiian Royalists have paid the taxes levied by the provisional government, thereby acknowledging its supremacy. Yellow fever has appeared in Brunswick, Ga.,the first person stricken being the Government officer detailed to enforce quarantine. AT of the Mayor the entire police force of Harrisburg, Pa., has resigned, because of charges of illegal appropriation of fees. Richard Lappin, a switchman on the Lake Erie and’ Western road at Tipton, Ind., was killed by falling underneath the wheels of an engine. By the burning of the Spanish steamer San Juan, on the coast of China, 182 lives were lost. Many persons were devoured by sharks. Two locomotives,two engine-houses and coal Chutes, property of the Niagara Central Railroad, burned at St. Catherines, Ont. Lohs. $25,000. Seth Haskins and Harry Croaston were overcome by poisonous gases while cleaning a well near Chillicothe, Mo., and died before help arrived. Rhode Island’s Supreme Court has rendered an opinion upholding Gov. Brown in proroguing the Legislature before going into grand commmittee. The Baldwin locomotive works has discharged a large number of men, besides laying off ‘I,OOO employes. Three men attempted to enter the express car in a Big Four train at Crawfordsville, Ind. Messenger Julian shot one, and the others disappeared. Antone Kalulsky* and his'wife were attacked by striking miners near Leavenworth, Kansas, and severely beaten. Mrs. Kalulsky may not recover. , AT Lebanon, Ind., Miss Amanda Sundin took chloroform; at New Brighton, Minn., Charles Clough shot himself, and at Cincinnati, George Rogers killed himself with a revolver.

AROUND A BIG BRIEF, COMPILATION OF INDIv I ANA NEWS. What Our NelghlKirs Are Doing -Matters J of General and Local Intereat— Marriages I and Deaths Accidents and Crimes—sonal I’olnter* About Indlanlan*. I I Brief State Items. I THE Blazil rolling mill has resumed I operations. I Laporte Ih clamoring for an in- I creased police force. I J. H. Hiller's barn, near P.ei’Wij/' I burned. Loss, $4,000; insured. I FRANKFORT people are running a I pipe lino into tne Elwood district for I gas. I Charles Heihlf., L. E. W. switoh- I man at Muncie, was killed by an en- I gine. By a local election Brazil has de- I cided to build SBO,OOO worth of gravel 1 road. I The 6-yoar-old son of William Rieble was run over by a wagon and killed at Lafayette. f Thomas Highfield, another of the I alleged “White Caps,” was found not I guilty at Jasper. t The Darnell iron works and several I other factories of Muncie have closed I down indefinitely. I A Washington man has booh ar- ,J rested charged with soiling beer as I soup in large bowls. I Charles M. Turner has been ap- 0 pointed receiver of the Citizens’ Na- I tional Bank of Muncie. I William McMain, a prosperous j miner at Donaldsonville, wus crushed 0 by fulling slate and died. | A horse belonging to Ephraim Mo- | Murray,that, was suffering from rabies, I had to bo killed at Crawfordsville. I Miss Amanda Sandlin, a pretty I young woman near Lebanon,' committed I suicide with chloroform. She gave no I cause. I The malleable iron works of the i Sweet A Clark Company, Marion, have I closed down, throwing 350 men out of L work. I Mrs. John A. Alsfasser. living I west of LaPorte, committed suicide by fl hanging herself. Tho act was caused ■ by ill health. | At a meetinglbf tho stockholders of H the Grant County Agricultural Society r| it was decided to postpone tho annual H exhibition until the times improve. The old Iroquois camping ground, I west of Elwood, has been dug into by I A. J. Moore, who has unearthed a 1 number of skeletons buried in a sitting I posture. I Justice James, Brazil, was called I into the country the other day to I marry Samuel Head and Lydia Somers. I He met tho couple in a corn field and ■ there made them one. fl Passenger train No. 3, west-bound, I ran into the delivery wagon of J. C. ■ Kelly, at Walnut street crossing, An- I derson, demolishing tho wagon, and H hurling the driver, Joe Mitzler, a dis- I tance of thirty yards. He was picked I up in an unconscious condition. His I injuries are regarded as fatal by the ■ physicians who were in attendance, ■ Cora Fugate, a 13-year-old daugh- I ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Fugate, well-to- ■ do citizens of Brazil, has become blind. H She had been suffering with a oompli- ■ cation of diseases since her memorable ■ fast of thirty-eight days, which closed H about a week ago. Close watch was ■ kept over her, and it is declared by .J her attending physicians that she never tasted food in that time. ■ Thomas DENSFORDof Jeffersonville, I was fatally injured while employed in ■ Sweeney Bro.’s shipyard. He was ■ standing near a wagon, from which a I large piece of iron machinery was be- ■ ing removed, when the machinery ■ slipped, striking the wagon tongue. I This, in turn, struck Densford in the ■ breast a terrible blow, knocking him ■ down and injuring him internally. ■ As Booth-bound express No. 2, on ■ the Michigan Division of the Big Four,?® was pulling out of Jonesboro, a scoun- I drel, standing on the left side of the ■ track, fired into the women’s coach ■ with a gun, smashing the windows and ■ barely missing the head of a female ■ passenger. Tho conductor was notified, H the train stopped, and search was made ■ for the miscreant, who made his escape ■ in tho darkness. ■ Near Fort Ritner. Byford E. Cun- ■ ningham, a popular Ohio & Mississippi ■ ; Conductor, was instantly killed by bo- ■ ing thrown from a carload of lumber. ■ , Ho fell on his head, breaking his neck. I , Mr. Cunningham was at one time edi- ■ tor and proprietor of the Seymour Re- ■ publican. Ho loaves a wife and daugh- ■ ‘ ter. He was 35 years old and a mem- ■ bcrof Seymour Chapter, F. & A. M. H and the Order of Railway Conductors. ■ 1 Patents have been issued to Indi- ■ ' ana inventors as follows: Robert C. ■ Elliott, Prairie Creek, picture exhib- ■ itor; Henry C. M’llcr. Fort Wuyne.cn- ■ ' gine; Arthur J. Will, Aurora, drill ■ press; John Marshall, Mentonka, rake ■ ' attachments for mower; Patrick ■ O’Brien, South Bend, tire setting ap- ■ paratus; George M. Pitcher, Logans- J port, brace; Jacob Teeter, Hagers- B , town, mail crane; George 11. Shoe-H maker, South Bend, spark arrester; ■ O’Neal Watson, Crawfordsville, collar ■ ' fastener. ■ Cyrus Brown of Columbus went to ■ the home of Charles Steenberger, four H miles north of town, and held a short H conversation with his wife, who hadß not been living with him for some timeH and who had filed a suit for divorce. H What the two said no one knows, outß Brown pulled a revolver and shot herH dead. He fired two bullets tbroughß her body, one taking effect in the head.B He then made a rush for her brother,■ but could not get close enough on ac-M , count of the darkness to kill him.M Brown escaped and officers arc in pur-B suit. Job Holmes, living in Monticello, isH in a position to sympathize with th<|B ■ White Caps who attacked tho Conradgß in Harrison County. He is lying at hijH home with one eye destroyed and theM other injured with bird shot. Holmesß and several other parties went to thoK residence of Hugh Davis, an ullegedß undesirable neighbor, and began toßj stone the house. Davis emptied theH contents of a shotgun at the gang.Bj They all got some of it, but Holmesß fared tho worst. Davis’ residence haaM boon stoned frequently recently, andß he served notice that no would shoot® one if tho assaults continued. IB William Jordau, a wealthy farmer" near Richmond, now has his name on" the list of “easy buncoed.” He was" worked last week on (the barb wire" fence trick. " The other night as Clom Keyes, a" merchant of Flora, was going to hia® homo from his store, ho was mot by® two highwaymen who ordered him throw up hl's hands. Ho answered by" picking up a bowlder and knock-" ing one of them down. The othei" fired two shots at Keyes, one taking feet in his abdomen and one in his left® thigh. The thugs then robbed him o") SIOO. It is not thought the wound® will bo fatal. There is no clow to th<" assailants, Ma . .. ■