Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1893 — Page 6

®he JJemcHxcrt DECATUR, IND. ■ RLAQIBUBN, • - • rr»Lnn»». AFRAID OF THE BANKS AND HE BURIED HIS GOLD IN THE CELLAR. tlyster lira* Theft of 810.000 from an Inrt ” anapolls Miser Four Dewperndore Terrorize Latty, Ohio, and Are Landed In Jail—An Indiana Family PoUoned. mor AT LATTY. Ton ph, Attempt to Tube the Little Town. Latta (Ohio) special: A lot of toughs attempted to capture the town the other evening, but they found their match in the plucky Town Marshal. G. W. Davis. Three mon named Saylor, and one named Leo, lough characters who lately came to this vicinity from the South and located near here, came in town and proceeded to fill up on bad whisky. They carried revolTors aud “ announced that they could whip anybody in the place. Going to the Nickel Plate'Railroad, they found the westhound local standing at the depot. The engineer was covered by revolvers and told to throw up his hands. He did so. and expected to be perforated wit h bullets, but was ordered to jump on his engine and leave town. The orders were speedily complied with. They then proceeded to “do” the town when Marshal Davis appeared on the scene with a posse and attempted their arrest. For a few moments shooting was promiscuously indulged in. but the officers succeeded in bagging the game, compelling surrender. One of the Saylors escaped, and it is supposed he was severely wounded. Another of the Saylors and Lee were slightly wounded. Dr. Herman, one oi the Marshal’s posse, was shot in the hand and head, but it is thought his injuries are not dangerous. A 810,000 Robbery. Indianapolis special: It developedrecently that David Stout, an old farmer, is loser about SIO,OOO in gold because he believed that the cellar of his little cottage was safer than a bank. He has been keeping the matter secret since the robbery was discovered on October 22, trying to catch the thief himself. Stout lives on a little farm two miles northwest of the city. The lost gold was his hard savings for twenty years. Mr. Stout stuck to bachelorhood until about five years ago, when he married a woman many years his junior. Early in October the family,consisting of husband, wife, and two children, went to the southern part of the State on a visit to his wife’s relatives. He intrusted the keys of bis house to his neighbor, Farmer Dishing, who was to see to the feeding of the stock, and do other necessary work upon the Stout farm fentil the owners returned. One rfight Dishing allowed two young men by the name of Allbright to occupy a bed in the Stout mansion. October 22, Mr. Stout had occasion to put a small amount of gold in his bank. He could not believe his eyee when he had dug at the spot marked by a stake, and found his long-hoarded treasure gone.

Want More Pay. The New York Herald has the following dispatch from Pernambusco, Brazil: The cruiser Nichteroy, purchased by the Brazilian Government in New York, arrived here recently, and was delivered to the Brazilian Government as a fighting ship. There is already trouble with the crew. Those who enlisted in New York demand very high pay for re-enlistment for service in the Brazilian Navy, although it was well understood before sailing that they were expected to re-enlist active service when a Brazilian port was reached. Representatives of President Peixoto refuse to allow the demands of the crew awl will probably ship a new crew of Brazilians here. The Nichteroy will go to Bahia from here and thence to Rio Janeiro. Threatened Rupture. Madrid special: A rupture of the commercial relations between Spain and France is imminet. Spain has refused to concede her minimum tariff on imports from France unless France accords her.jninimun tariff on Spanish wines. If an agreement is not reached by January 1, Spain will apply her ma' imum tariff on French goods imported into Spain and the Spanish colonies. France will ■ retaliate by placing the maximum tariff on Spa nish imports. Strikes Are .Expensive. Grand Secretary Arnold, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, makes the foilowing estimate of the cost of the Lehigh strike to the brotherhoods involved: Engineers, $40,000; firemen, $31,003; trainmen, $35,000; conductors, $20,000, and telegraphers, SIO,OOO. But one other strike has cost the brotherhood as much, and that was the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, which cost the engineers $1,000,000 and tho firemen $500,000. A Respite for Painter. Chicago special: Sheriff Gilbert has received a telegram from Governor Altgeld postponing the execution of Geo. H. Painter until January 12. Be&rlet Fever. Scarlet fever is raging at Etna Green, Ind. Two deaths are reported and a large number of children are affected. The schools have beep closed.

Man aAd Wife 51 ordered. Mr. and Mrs. James Williams, living on a farm near Port Credit, Ont., were murdered by a farm band. A Family Poisoned. At Moores Hill, Ind., the entire family of William Rissell was poisoned by drinking coffee ground in a mill that had just been used for grinding jimson stalks for a sick horse. All will probably recover. Mill* Htarled Vp. The Roxford Knitting Company of Philadelphia, manufacturers of underware have started their mills on full time, employing 1250 hands. Cattle Dying for W<nt of Food. Galveston, (Texas) special: Captain Joseph T'. Nash, an extensive ranchman. reports that in many localities in Western Texas no rain has fallen for five months, an 1 consequently there is no grass, the range in many sections having been completely eaten np. Range cattle have been reduced to skeletons, and even now are dying by * hundreds. ’ With the advent of cold weather, which generally strikes Texas the latter part of December or the early days of January, the loss of cattle is expected to be frightful. Sheep men are as badly off al cattlemen, as their range

.s also exhausted, and the low price tor which wool is selling (seven and a half cents a pound an the San Antonio market, will not cover the cost of production. , THE ROOF FELL, Fatally Crushing »•* Unman Form* Beneath It. A g*anp of Baltimore and Ohio Kailroad carpenters were engaged in tearing dow Swift & Co.’sice house at Bellaire. Ohio, tor the purpose of removing it to Benwood. W. Va., when the roof suddenly gave way. burying seven men under the heavy timber*. Six were probably fatally crushed. The names of the injured are: William Rinker. Bellaire, Ohio, side crushed. Edward Hudnell. foreman, Barnesville, Ohio, spike penetrated forehead; cannot recover. Joseph Pickering, Barnesville,Oh.o, internally injured: will die. > Edward Stein, Spencers. Ohio, leg broken and injured internally; danger°Uß. C. Robert. Barnesville, Ohio, breast crushed: dangerous. William Tobert, Betbosday. Ohio,hip aud foot mangled: injured internally. * , John Burson. Gibson, Ohio, hip and buck injured; serious.

BRAZILIANS FAVOR MELLO. Felxoto ImprNoninc Rio Citizen. Who Criticise tne Government. New York special: The steamer Peninsular has arrived from Rio Janeiro. She left that port on November 6, and stopped at Santos, where the •sentiment o' the people seemed to be overwhelmingly in favor of Admiral Mello and the rebellion. The passengers stated that the people of Ri<s are almost afraid to open their mouths for fear of arrest. Any e.xpres siori of opinion, however slight, prejudical to the Peixoto Government is followed by instant arrest and imprisonment The Rio prisons are tilled with people who have dared to criticise the Government and declare their sympathies for Admiral Mello and the rebel cause. Admiral Mello was deterred from bombarding. the' city for fear that President Peixoto would carry out a threat to put all the prisoners to death. They Show Fight Washington special: The following dispatch has been received by the Navy Department to-oay: "Honolulu. Dec,, 4,18i>3. “Provisional Government has 1,000 men nailer arms. Palaeo prepared for defense. 13W1K." There is not much attempt on the part of the officials in the Navy Department to conceal the satisfaction they ieel at the turn events have taken in Hawaii. The contumacious attitude of the Provisional Government toward the United States authorities fails to awaken any great amount of indignation or condemnation in naval circles. The navy has been rather out of sympathy with the administration policy and the dissatisfaction has increased with the last news received. No intimation can be secured from the White House or the State Department as to the probable time of the sending to the Senate the Hawaiian papers called for.

Important Pension RnhnffA. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds has made four important pension rulings. He decided that the act of Congress prohibiting payment of pension after July, 1893, to a non-resi-dent of the United States, except for actual service disabilities, applies to widows who are non-resident aliens; that where a soldter dies leaving a legally divorced wife and minor children Qyer sixteen years old, his mother occupies a pensionable status and can apply for and receive a pension as dependent mother of such soldier upon making necessary proof, and that wl o e an invalid pensioner dies leaving no increase or rerating claim pending at the bureau, but has accented the rate of pension then received without demurring, the widow cannot file an original claim for rerating of her dead husband’s pension.

A New Silver BilL/ There was but one matter of national importance in Friday's session of the Senate. That was the introduction by Mr. Voorhees (Chairman of the Finance committee of a bill providing for the coinage of the seignorage, or profit, from the silver coined and purchased under the Bland and Sherman acts, at the rate of two millions a month; the purchase after that coinage is completed) of $2,G00,000 worth of silver bullion a month: the withdrawal of all notes of less denomination than $10; the withdrawal of the $2.5'1 and $5 gold coir, and the appointment of live commissioners to attend an international conference for the establishment of a ratio between gold and silver. Tho bill was referred to the Committee on Finance.

A Tx»ne Highwayman. Belle Plane (Iowa) special: One ! lone highwayman walked into the. station at Luzerne, and,with a revolver, I made Agent Thompson deliver i up all the cash in his pos-' session belonging to the railroad and express companies, then coolly j backed out of the door and escaped. A posse from here isoutin pursuit. Three j weeks ago at the same station, the agent, Postmaster, conductor and two operators were held up and relieved of their valuables, the robbers being cap- ’ tured the next day. What this robber obtained is not known. It is thought he had confederates on guard on the outside. A Jealons HusbandA sensational tragedy occurred in the central portion of Fort Wayne, Ind. John Jacobs, an unemployed baker, while standing in the front door of his residence, pulled his wife into the hall and fired four shots from a revolver at her head. One of the bullets grazed the scalp and another was imbedded in the jaw-bone. Jacobs, half intoxicated and raving in a jealous rage, left his < wife prostrate in the hall-way and rushed to the out-house where he held his gun to his left breast and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered just below the heart. It is thought Jacoba will die. His wife will recover. Killed and Bobbed. ,Piedmont (W. Va.) special: As P. E. Haldeman, Superintendent of the franklin Mine, three miles from h<re, stepped from a Cumberland and Pittsburgh train at the mines with in t valise with which to pay the miners, he was struck on the head, knrxikGd icnseless and his valise taken. He lover regained consciousness and died toon after. A tall, dark, smooth-fadixi itranger Wauseon about the minesand, s suspected. One thousand do Jars •eward for the capture of the murderer s offered. ’.Big Millirads. “Wizard” Schaefer won the deeldng game of the “Big Three’ billiard ournov at Madison Square Garden. Hew York, making a most sensational i -un and defeating {Frank Ives by the • ibsurd score of boo to !Jp. The wini ier’l average was IW, the highest of

the tourney, and it also broke the world's record, made by M. Vignaux, the groat French player, in a tri-oor-nered match between Slosson, Schaefer and himself in Now York City in 1802. Indl-na Shaken Op. Evansville, Ind., and vicinity was considerably shaken up the other day by two earthquakes. The shocks wore very distinct from West to East. Persons in the upner stories of buildings were more sensible to the tremors than those on the lower floors, and a groat many were badly frightened. The tremors were aocompanihd by a rumbling, grating sound much like that produced by a heavy wagon passing over the streets. At the court house the audience and attorneys rushed out in the corridor. Telephone information from neighboring points is to the effect that both shocks wore plainly felt Kx-Srrrctary Fonten Ohio, special: fcx-Seere-tarv Foster is making every effort to satisfactorily settle all claims against bun, provided it can lie done by a payment of 50 cents on the dollar at this time, with the possibility of additional .payments in the future. He says that it he can satisfactorily dispose of $150,000 of indorsements by Foster & Co., the greatest obstacle to a settlement of the other liabilities ol the firm will have been removed and the rest will be comparatively plain sailing. Mr. Foster is in New A ork. having gone there with the express intention of securing financial aid. The New Italian Cabinet, Rome special: The pfficial list of the new Italian ministry is as follows: Signor/ Crispi. Premier and Minister of the Interior: Baron Blank. Minister of Foreign Affairs: Signor Sonnino, Minister of Finance, and Minister of the Treasury al Interim: Signor Saracco. Minister of Public Works: Signor Calenda. Minister of Justice; Gen. Moeenni, Minister of War: Admiral Morrin, Minister of Marine; Signor Baccelli. Minister of Education; Signor Roselli. Minister of Husbandry; Signor Ferraris, Minister of Poets and Telegraphs.

Fierce Flames. The Arcade block, on Main street, Buffalo N. Y., caught tire and in a few moments the “Yerxas” block, next door, caught and both were soon a mass of flames. The spread of the tire was stopped at the “Yerxas” block by a lire wall next door. Both the Arcade and the “Yerxas” blocks were entirely destroyed and it was only by the extraortinary efforts of the firemen that other buildings were not damaged. There were a number of narrow escapes of persons in the burning buildings, but all were rescued. Hair Growth After Death. At Logan, Ohio, John Sovey, the County Sexton, removed from the old to the new cemetery the body of a young lady who had been buried seventeen years. He opened the coffin and found that the hair from each side of her head had grown four feet in length, and was as glossy and silken as when in life, while the coil at the back of the head was as perfect and natural as when put up seventeen years ago. To All Mcxi.-i* Rcioluttonl:Zu A telegram from Bayard, Ariz., says it was reported that twenty-five men were arming near Wilcox, Ariz., preparatory to going into Mexico to assist the revolutionists. The department officers have telegraphed Forts Grant and Bowie, the military posts near the scene of the reported trouble, to investigate and enforce the neutrality laws. Crush mI to a Jelly. Peter Jesie, an Italian, who was employed in the new Anchor mine, near Brazil, Ind., met death in a horrible form. He was passing through the entries of the mine on his way to the cage to go home when the roof gave away, burying him beneath an immense body of slate. His body was mashed to a jelly. Shot a Burglai. At Salineville, Ohio, a young man named James Gray entered the residence of Wash Morrison for the purpose of robbery, and was shot and dangerously wounded by Morrison, who was awakened by the noise made by the young man in entering the house. Only a Little Gone

Mary Liggins and Julia Freeman, the colored woman who held up and robbed Charles Wass, the Big Four employe, at Springfield, Ohio, of $02.50 in true Wild West style, have been arrested and $61.25 of the money recovered. Heavy Safe Robbery* Between $5,000 and $6,000 worth of promissory notes were stolen from the safe in John Poorman’s store, at St. Paris, Ohio, which was blown Open. Some cash and S2OO worth of merchandise were also taken. A Respite for Painter. Chicago special: Sheriff Gilbert has received a telegram from Governor Altgeld jMistponing the execution of Geo. H. Painter until January 12. THE MARKETS.

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MESSAGE ON HAWAII. LONG-EXPECTED ANSWER BY THE PRESIDENT. Event* at Honolulu Set Forth In Official DotaU- Mr. Cleveland Say* Hl* Ta*k Ha* Been a Dlßleult . Ona— Blount I* Indorsed. Given Over to Collßre**. The President's response to tho resolution passed by b >th houses of Congress requesting information in Hawaiian anali-s aud especially as to the nature of tho instructions' given to Minister Willis, has been sent to Congress. Tho message Is as follows: To th* Senate and House of Representative*; In my reoeni annual message to t'ongre** I briefly referred to our relations with Hawaii and expressed the intention of transmitting further Information on the subjeot when addit tonal advices permitted. Though 1 am not now able to report a definite change in the actual situation, I am convinced that the difficulties lately both here and in Hawaii and now standing in tho way ot a solution throusn executive action ot tho problem presented render it pro) er aud expedient that the matter should be referred to the broader authority and discretion of Congress with a full explanation ot the endeavor thus far made to deal w ith the emergency and ask them to review the considerations which have governed my action. I suppose that right and justice should determine the path to bo followed in treating this subject. It national iiouesty is to bo disregarded aud a desire tor territorial extension or dissatisfaction with a form ot government not our own is to regulate our conduct 1 have entiiely misapprehended the mission and character ot our government and the behavior which tho conscience ot our people demands ot their public servants. When the present administration entered upon its duties the beuato had under consideration a treaty providing tor the annexation of the Hawaiian islands to the territory ot the United States. Surely under our constitution and law ■ tue enlargement of our limits is a maniiestation of the highest attiibnte of sovereignity aud it entered upon as an executive act all things relating to the transaction* should be clear and free from suspicion. Additional importance is attached to this peculiar treaty ot annexation because it contemplated a departure from unbroken American tradition in providing tor the addition to our territory ot islands of the sea more than 2,c00 miles removed irom our nearest coast. Beason* Against Harrison Treaty. These considerations might not, of themselves, call for interierenco w th the completion ot a treaty entered upon by a previous administration. But it appeared tiom the documents accompanying the treaty, when submitted to the ornate, that the ownership of uawaii was tendered to us by a provisional government set up to succeed the constitutional ruler of the islands, who had been det droned, aud it did not appear that such provisional government had the sanction ot either popular revolution or suffrage. Two other remarkable features of the transaction naturally attracted attention. One was tho extraordinary haste—not to say precipitancy —cna acteruing ail the transactions connected with the treaty. It appeared that a so-called committee of safety, ostensibly tho source of the revolt against tue Constitutional Government of Hawaii, was organized on Saturday, Jan. 14; that on Munday, Jan. iti, t .e United States force* were landed at Honolulu from a naval vessel lying in its harbor; that on the 17th the scheme ot a Provisional Government was perfected and a proclamation naming its officers was on the same day prepared and read at the Government buildings; that immediately thereupon the United states Minister recognized the Provisional Government thus created; that two days arterward, on the lath day of January, commissioners representing such government sailed tor this country in a steamer especially chartered for the occasion, arriving in 8.. n r rancisoo on the 28th day of January and in Washington on the 3d day of February; that next day they had their first interview with the Secretary of State and another on the 11th, when the treaty annexing the islands was practically agreed upon, and that on the 14th it was formally concluded, and on the itth transmitted to the Senate. Thus between the initiation of the scheme for a provisional government in HawaH on the 14th of January and the submision to the Senate of the treaty ot annexation concluded with such government, the entire Interval was thirty-two days, fifteen of which were spent by the Hawaiian commissioners in their journey to Washington. In the next place, upon the face of the papers submitted With the treaty it clearly appeared that there was open and undetermined an issue of fact of the most vital importance. The message of the President oocomp.nying the treaty declared that "the overthrow of the monarchy was not in any way promoted by this Government.“ and in a letter to the President from the Secretary of State, also submitted to the Senate with the treaty, the following passage occurs: “At the time the provisional government took possession of the government buildings no troops or officers of the United Sta es were present or took any pait whatever in the proceedings. No pubUo recognition was accorded to the provisional government by the United States Minister until after the Queen’s abdication and when they were in effective possession of the government buildings, the archives, the treasury, the barracks, the police station, and all the potential machinery of the govemmeht.* But a protest also accompanied said treaty, signed by th>‘ Queen and her minist rs at the time she made way for the provisional government, which explicitly stated that she yielded to the superior force of the United States, whose Minister had caused Uulted States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would support such provisional government. Sending Blount to Honolulu.

The truth or falsity of this protest was surely of the first importance, but no investifatiou to acccrtain the facts had been made, conceived it to be my duty, therefore, to withdraw the treaty from the Senate for examination and to cause an investigation to be u. ade. I selected for this investigation J ames 11. Blotmt of Georgia. His report, based upon an exhaustive investigation, with its accompanying proofs, is now before Congress or is herewith submitted. This report justifies, in my opinion, the statement that when the President was led-to submit the treaty to ti.e Senate with the declaration that "the overthrow of the monarchy was not in ans way promoted by this government," and when the Senate was induced to receive and discuss it on that basis, both President and Senate were misled. , It is sufficient for the purposes of this communication to say that in Jmiuary. isia, a considerable portion of American and oth<r foreign merchants residing at Honolulu favored the annexation of Hawaii i o the United States andhtatthe project was zealously promoted by onr Minister to that country. He evidently had an ardent de? ire that it should become a fact accomplished by his agency and during his ministry and was not inconveniently scrupulous us to the means employed to that end. On the I'Jth day of November, 1892, nearly two months before the first overt attack tending toward the , subversion of the Hawaiian government and the attempted transfer of Hawaiian territory to the United States, he addressed a long letter to the Secretary of State, in which the case for annexation was elaborately argued on moral, political and economical grounds. He refers to the loss to the Hawaiian sugar interests from the operation of the McKinley bill, and the tendency to still further depi eolation of sugar property unless some positive measure of relief be granted. He strongly invel. hs against the existing Hawaiian government and emphatically declares for annexation He says: “In truth, the monarchy here is an absurdity, an anachronism.” He further says: Destiny end the vast future interests of the United States in the Pacific clearly indicate who at no distant day must be responsible for the government of these islands. Under a territorial government they could bo as easily governed as any of the existing territories of the United State*. Hawaii has reached the parting of the ways. She must now take the road which lead* to Asia, or the other, which outlets her in America, gives her an American civilization and binds her to the care or American destiny.” Further he says: If it was wise for the United States through Secretary Marcy thirty-eight year* ago to offer to expend lioo.ooo to secure a treaty of annexation, it certainly cannot be chimerical or unwise to expend floo,ooo to secure annexation in the near future.” ~ ... These declarations show his disposition ana condition of mind. Ina letter to *be Secretary of State March 8.1W2, Minister Stevens says that the existing Government may be overthrown and adds that, while in 1 . 08 ? ® cumstances the ordinary rule limit the landing and movement of United States troops to the protection of*®-4®an citizens and their property, yet the United States’ relations to Hawaii ajp excepiionai. He adds: “I desire to know hot the present Minis! er and naval commander may deviate from established International rules and precedents in cont naencle* Indicated in the first part of this dispatch.” , ... , To * minister of this Umi**JPJJ m janJ. for annexation, there eocmed to *jl«oJ® ary, 18so, the precise opportunity ne was watchfully waiting—an which, by timely • deviation fromi established international rules end precedents' might be improved to successfully object in view, and we alettbe exultant enthusiasm with wliich. in * let tar to the State Department dated .Feb. 1, WS ug.wasst matlc representative on the day the above » ter was written, apparently uname w restrain bls ardor, issned a, prociamawvu, which "by th* name of th* Unitad Stat** as

assumed the protection of the Hawaiian Island*. Thia aaaumptlon was promptly disavowed by onr government, but th* American flag remained over the Government Building at Honolulu and the force* remained on guard until April and after Mr. Blount'* arrival on the scene, when both were removed. _ > On Saturday, Jan. 14. IMS, the Qmeen of Hawaii, in deference to the wishes of ner Cabinet, relinquished a proposed proclamation of a new constitution. Talcing thia relinquished purpose a* a baste of action, citizen* of Honolulu numbering from no to no, mostly resident aliens, met tn a private office and selected a to-called Committee of Safety, composed ot thirteen person, seven of whom were foreign subjects. This committee had in view annexation to tho United States, and between Saturday, the 14th, aud the following Monday, ths Mtn. they were certainly in communication with the United States Minister. At the call and under tho auspices of t hl* Committee of Saf. ty a m***-nieetiug of citizen* was hold on Monday to protest against the Queen's alleged illegal and unlawful proceeding* and purpose*. At this meeting Bio Committee of 8 tety procured the passage of a resolution dcuoiftimng the Queen anil empowering the committee to devise ways and tueana to secure the permanent maintenance of law and order and tho protection of lite. Hbeity and property in Hawaii. Tut* meeting adjourned between a and 4 o'clock in tho afternoon. On t'uesday'snd immediately after suob adjournment the committee, unwilling to take further steps without the co-operation of tno United State* Minister, addressed a note, representing that the public safety was menaced and that lives and property were in danger, and concluded aa follows: "We are unable to protect ourselves without aid. and therefore pray tor protection of the United States foroea." Landing of the Murine*. When the note was written t nd delivered tho committee, so far as It appears, had neither a mau nor a gun at their command and after its delivery tnoy became so panic-stricken st their position that they sent some of their number to interview the minister and request him not to land the United States lorces till the next morning, but he replied that the troops had been ordered aud whether the commit too were ready or not the landing should take place. And ao it happened on Jan. 18, 1893, between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon a detachment ot marines from the United Stat es steamer Boston, with two piece* of artillery, landed at Honolulu. The men, upward of l«o in all. were supplied with double cartridge belts, filled with ammunition and with haversacks and canteens and were accompanied by a hospital corps with stretchers and medical supplies. This demonstration was an act of war unless made with the consent ot the Hawaiian Government or to protect American citizens. The Hawaiian Government protested against the act and there was uo need, to protect American citizens. If any peril to life and property calling for anv such martial array bad existed Great Britain and other foreign powers interested would have been behind tho United States in an effort to protect their citizens. But ihey made no sivns in that direction. Thus it appear* that Hawaii wan taken possession of by tho United States forces without tho consent or wish of the government of the islauds or of anybody else so far aa is shown, excei t the United States Minister. When our Minister recognized the Provisional Government the only basis upon which it rested was the fact that the Committee ot Public Safetv had in the manner above stated declared it to exist. That it was not in such possession of the Government property and agencies as entitled it to recognition is conclusively proved by a note found in the tiles ot the ligation at Honolulu addressed by the declared :4>:id of the provisional governme t to Minister Stevens dated Jan. 17, 18:3, in which he acknowledged with expressions of appreciation the minister’s recoguitlon of the provisional government and stated that it Is not yet in the possession of the station house (the place where a large number ot tie Queen's troops were quartered), though the same had been demanded of the Queen's officers in charge. _ In yielding, however, the Queen protested that she did so because of the superior force ot the United States, and only until sneb time as the United States government at Washington should, upon presentation of the facts, undo the notion of its representative and reinstate her in the an hority she claimed as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawa ian Islands. Yet the provisional government, with this unanswered protest in Its band, hastened to negotiate with the United State* for the permanent banishment of the Queen from power and for a sale of her kingdom. Danger of Government Dlsgr ice. Our country was in danger of occupying the position of having actually set up a temporary government on foreign soil for the purpose of acquiring through that agency territory which we had wrongfully put in our possession. This is in marked contrast to President Jackson’s course after the battle of San Jacinto, by which Texan independence was practically assured and established. President Jackson refused to recognize it, alleging aa one of his reasons that in the oircunistances it became the United States “to beware of a too early movement. ■* it might subject uh, however unjustly, to the imputation of seeking to establish the claim of our neighbors to a territory with a view to its subsequent acquisition by ourselves.” I believe that a candid and thorough examination ot the facts will force the conviction that the provisional government owes its existence to an armed invasion by the United States. , While naturally sympathizing with every effort to establish a republican form of government. it is the settled policy of the United States to concede the i cople of foreign countries the same freedom and independence in the management of their domestic affairs that we have always claimed for ourselves. But for the landing of the United States forces upon false pretexts respecting the danger to life and property, the committee would never have exposed themselves to the pains and penalties of treason by undertaking tha subversion of the Queen’s Government But for the presence of the United State* forces in the immediate vicinity and in position to afford all needed protection aud support the committee would not have proclaimed the provisional government from the steps of vttie Government building, and, finally, but for the lawless occupation of Honolulu under false pretexts by the United States forces and but lor Minister Stevens' recognition of the Provisional Government when the United States iorces wore its sole support and constituted its only military strength the Queen and her governin' nt would never have yielded to the Provisional Government, even for a t line, and for the pole purpose ot submitting her case to the enlightened justice of the United States. Believing, therefore, that the United states could not. under the circumstances disclosed, annex the islands without justly incurring the Imputation of ocqu.ring them by unjustlfi iblo methods, I shall not again submit the treaty of ann xatlon to the Senate for Its consideration, and in the Instructions to Minister Willi*, a copy of which accompanies this message, I have directed him to so inform the provisional government. ..... a government of a feeble but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown. A substantial wrong has thus been done which a due regard for our national character as well as the rights of the i> jured people requites that we should endeavor to repair The iepresentative* of the provisional Government assert that the people of Hawaii are unfit tor popular government and frankly avow that they can best be ruled by an arbitrary or despotic power. . . Butin the present instance onr duty doos not, In mv opinion, end with refusing to qonpummate this questionable transaction. The United States cannot fall to vindicate its honor and its sense of justice by an earnest effort to make ail possible reparation. These principle apply to th? present case with irresistible force when the special condition* of the Queens surrender of her sovereignty arc recalled. She surrendered, not to , the provisions! goveminent, but to th© United ttutes. one surrendered not absolutely and permanently, but temporarily and conditionally until BU~h time as the facts could be considered by th© United btates. Furthermore, th© provisional government acquiesced in her buirender iu that manner. The members ot the provisional government and their supporters, though not entitled to extreme sympathy, have been led to their present predicament of revolt against the government of the Queen by the indefensible encouragement and assistance of our diplomatic representative. Terms Pro, o«ed to the Queen*

I hoped that after the provisional government was assured that annexation could not be consummated I might enoomptu a peaceful adjustment of the difficulty, lienee I instructed Minister Willis to nd vise the Queen and her supporters of my desire to aid in the restoration of the status existing before the lawless nse of onr forces on Jan. 16 last, if auoti restoration could be effected upon terms providing for clemency as will ae justice to all parties concerned. The tlons proposed contemplated a general amnesty to those concerned in setting up the provisional government and a recognltfoo of all its bona-fide acts and obligations. In short, they require that the cast should be buried and that the ro-tored government should resume its authority as if its continuity had not been interrupted. These conditions have not proved acceptable to the Queen; and though she has been Informed that they will be insi ted upon and that unless acceded to the efforts of the Pres.dint to aid in the restoration of her goyernment will cease, I have not time far learned that she la willing to yield them her acquit ecenoo. The oheok which my plane have thus encountered has prevented their presentation to the members of the provisional government, while nnfortunate public misrepresentations of the situation > nd exaggerated statements of the sentiments of our people obviously injured the prospects of successful executive mediation. 1 therefore submit this communication with its accompanying exhibits. embracing Mr. Blount s report, the evidence and statements taken' him at Honolulu, the Instructions given to both Mr. Blount and Minister Willi - and correspondence connected with the affair in hand, in commending this subject tn the extended powers and wide discretion of the Conare-e I desire to add the assurance that 1 shall be much gratified to co-operate in any legislative plan wblcli may > <■ devised tor the solution of the problem be cie us which is

INDIANA STATE NEWS. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Intereating Summary of tho More Important Doing* of Our Neighbor*—Wed. ding* and Death*—Crime*. Ca*ualtle* and General New* Note* of th* State. riooeler Happenings Some coon hunters in Harrison County last wook caught a wild eat. The widow of Patrick Tuhoy at Muneio, fell down stairs, receiving injuries that proved fatal. IT is claimed to boa mistake that many families in Brazil are suffering from destitution. At Anderson James Maloney, of Peru, went to sloop on tho tracks at the round hduse and was run over. His logs were badly crushed and death relieved him of his sufferings. _ John Badgley, a prosperous farmer, living west of Penaleton, was caught under a tree, which he hod cut to secure a coon. Before the tree could be removed life was extinct. Mr. Harman Heitman, apromin.ent grocer of Seymour, aged 4(1 years, died of typhoid malarial fever and derangement of the brain. He 'eaves a widow and three daughters. Crawfordsville High School scholars are on the war-path because dancing after school hours has lioen forbidden. They claim that they helped buy the school piano to use for dancing purposes. William Stiffler of Muncie, has brought suit against the Common Sense Engine Company, asking SIO,OOO for the loss of an eye. An emery wheel which ho was working with burst, causing the accident. The number of the unemployed at Terre Haute is now placed at 3,000. In several instancesemployes have agreed to set aside a fixed amount of their wages for tho relief of the unemployed. The G. A. R. post and the relief corps have taken measures to raise funds for >he relief of destitute soldiers and their 'amilies. Edward Huntsen, an employe of the Columbus Starch Works, was tho zictim of a. peculiar accident that will lost him his eye-sight. Huntsen is an engineer, and while looking at the Nater-gauge to measure the quantity >f water in the boiler one of the glass lubes bursted and broken pieces ot ylass struck him fairly in the eyes, ’oitting them both out. When the Air-lino train pulled in Princeton the other night a child that bad been deserted by its mother was turned over to the police, it was a babe of two weeks, a bright little fellow who had been placed in one of the roar seata and left tied up in a bundle, ft is not known where the mother got on or off the train. Tho little one's linen is of the finest quality, and it is a mystery how a mother could desert so sweet a child. The infant cooed contentedly wnile officer Kerr carried it to his home, where it still remains. Polkoman Kerr will adopt the child if not claimed. James E. Stone, tho Wratten murderer, in the prison south aWaiting execution, received a letter irom his wife announcing the death of his 16-year old daughter, who was a victim of consumption. At the time of the wholesale butchery of the Wrattens it was thought that she could not live but a few' days. Stone wrote a long letter to his dying daughter a few days ago, telling her not to fear death and to prepare to meet him. in Heaven on February 10, the time aet for his execution. He expressed himself as glad that there would be some one to meet him there on that day. A SEVERE windstorm that came from the southwest struck Muncie the other night. The most damage was done on the public square. C. S. Wachtell & Son’s business block, on the north side of the square, was partially wrecked. Two-thirds of the immense roof was raised and carried a hundred feet east, where it dropped on the new Times building damaging it seriously. Wachte.l’s building is a new three-story structure. The Small Block and other buildings were slightly damaged. There is much wonder that no one was killed. The telegraph, telephone, and electric street-ear and light wires are iown, street cars wcFe stopped and uany lights and telephones are useless.

Several weeky ago Gas City was visited by oil prospectors from Pennsylvania; and indications were so strong that it was decided to put down a test well. The result of this well has been lookei ahead to.with much interest. The other day oil was found, and visitors were excluded, the derrick being inclosed. The projectors of the scheme are close mouthed as clams as to the amount of oil found. It is only known that oil has been found and some has /been tanked. The prospectors have been quietly letting contracts for more wells In the vicinity and are buying up all the oil leases which can be obtained hereabouts. It is thought by everybody that a big well has been struck and that an oil boom is imminent. The Indiana State Grange in session at Seymour, elected the following officers to serve the ensuing year: Master, Aaron Jones of South Bend; Overseer, J.. S. Davis of Columbus: Lecturer, F. S. S. Robinson of Cloverdale; Steward, Hiram Henderson of Heltonville: Assistant Steward, R. J. McCallion of Attica; Chaplain, Milton Truslor of Bently; Treasurer, J. W. Holmes of Cortland; Secretary, J. fl. Walker of Adams; Gate keeper, O. M. Curry of Terre Haute; Cerus, Lizzie A. Reiiff; Pornono, Mrs. A. R. M. Sawden; Flora, Laura Robinson of Cloverdale; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. John Hays of Frankfort Executive Committee, T. H. Walington of Madison; John Tilson of Franklin, and L. S. Fitch of Oakwood. George Goodenough, for many years a locomotive engineer with the Pennsylvania road, but retired on account of defective hearing, was run down by a Nickel Plate passenger train at Ewing street, Fort Wayne, and so badly injured that he died shortly after. Miss Grace Berridge, a young society woman of Evansville,awoke the other morning and found that she had been relieved of a beautiful bead of hair during the night. She is almost heart-broken over the outrage. The detectives are investigating, but have found no clew to work on. There is considerable excitement at Seymour among railroad employes about the contemplated removal of the B. &O. S. W. train dispatcher’s office, which has been located in that city for several years, to Washington. An official of the company sa d that buildings are being prepared near the shops in that city, and that the offices would be moved about Jan. 1. The rumor about the retrieval of the freight division to North Vernon has not been verified, and it Is not believed it will take place. Should the division be changed It will , necessitate the removing of the train men to that place, which would be a lose of aver one hundred families to Seymour

UTAH IS CLAMORING. WANTS TO JOIN THE SISTERHOOD OF STATES. Driegnte Rawlln* Stir* Up tho Hou**-«*» •ent* CritlcMin from New-Englaniier** Mr. Harter Objected to Any More State*. Vtah at the Door. • t; Washington correapondonce: ,

VIE House has considered and granted Utah’s petition fotL. Statehood. The" members had con-, sidorable snort in discussing the matter when it waa 11 r s t >■' Tho discussion began slowly and qui-S-'etly with speeches Ifefroin Messrs. Killgore, of Texas, and i .Morse, of Massaiiwehusetts. Spice was — added by Mr. Raw1111ns, tho delegate I-from Utah, who in his maiden speech.

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was listened to with marked attention by every one on tho floor and ’in the galleries. His remarks wore strengthened with sharp satire and humorous comparisons, and wore frequently interrupted bv laughter. Tho great success of the ‘day was his apostrophe to New England as the country which burned witches, persecuted Quakers,l turned out Roger Williams, and produced tho gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Morse). Mr. Rawlins was followed by Mr. Hartor, of Ohio, in opposition. Although the interest, flagged-somewhut when the change of! speakers was it was soon 1 reawakened. In defending his plea Delegate Rawlins said; "There is less polygamy in Utah than in Mastachusetts. When a gentleman gets up here, as did the, gentleman from Massachusetts, and asserts that the people of Utah are assassins, thieves, bigamkto, and makes assertions without a syllable of evidence to back them up, and refuses to accept tho evidence of reputable people of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming in! their defense, 1 say he ought to hang his head in shame?' “Not a syllableof| evidence?" retorted Mr. Morse. “!■ have read the book of Brigham' Young's fifteenth wife, and ehe ought) to know.” “Tho people of Utah." said ! f Mr. Rawlins, “and the leaders of the 5 Mormon Church have no wish to re-! vive polygamy. The law providing! for the admission of Utah revoked the obnoxious Edmunds-Tucker act, which) is an insult to tho people. I think I know the people who will dominate affairs if this bill should pass, and you; will never regret your action if you pass this bill." " i Mr. Harter spoke in opposition to the measure) saying there was no hard-| ship and less expense all around in living under territorial government. Besides, he was opposed to small States. Said he: *1 object to the till solely on the ground that Utah does not have sufficient population. There are too many States in the Union which are! too small, and Delaware and Rhode Island would not be admitted to the; sisterhood of States in this day. They fought their way. Let us digest our dinner of new States before we go to) our supper. Let us civilize Kansas be-; fore we take in other States. The last, seven States admitted to the Union l have not grown as rapidly as States as they have under territorial form of I government, and they are represented ; by fourteen Senators at the other end of the Capitol—a representation en-, tirelyoutof proportion to their population." Routine Business. Tuesday, in the Senate, Mr. Cuflom spoke! In favor ot the federal electlin law. Mr. Stewart was heard against it. and In favor of silver. "The Senate confirmed many nomination*, among them thatof Washington Hesing for Postmaster at Chicago. Th® day In tho House was characterized by an interesting and amusing debat* on the bill to admit Utah. The only actual legislation accomplished was the passage of tho Jblil rei ortod by Mr. Dlnzley changing tho method of making remittances in tho I'ostofflce Department. Instead of bolnz sont to the Sfxih Auditor through the Postofflco De; nrtment they are to be hereafter sent to the Sixth Au-; dltor direct.

The bill for the admission of Utah to Statehood win passed without division by the House Wednesday, the only amendments of Importance being one by Mr. Powers, prohibition polygamy forever and another by Mr. Wheeler reducing one-half tbe land granted to ihe State for common school purposes The resolu lon of Mr. Hitt calling for the correspondence in the Hawaiian affair, amended so ns to Include an extension of the period to bo covreed by the correspondence to March, 18S9. the beginning of the Harrison administration,> was passed. The Myer resolution for the appointment of a joint, committee to examine the rank, pay. and other questions relating to the navy was passed. Mr. Holman Introduced a resolution to Investigate the question of premiums earned by contractors for government war vessels. The Eenate considered nothing but the Hawaiian question. In the House Thursday a bill to Improve methods of accounting in the I’ost.ofilce Department was called up. Without any discussion the bill was passed. Bills were passed grunting patents to settlers In Arkansas and for the relief of thosn having made settlement In Oregon and Washington under the “donation act” of 1850 In the Senate the House bill to repeal ihe federal election laws was reported back favorably. The Senate joint resoltttloq relieving employes was passfed. Al«o the House bill for two additional Justices of I ’ the Supreme Court for the Territory of] Oklahoma, with amendments. The Senatof adjourned until Monday. Friday the bill for admission of Arizona was passed by the House, New Mexico’* claims were favorably considered In committee. House Committee on Ways and Mean* is still engaged In wrestling with the internal revenue features of the tariff, bfll I* How the World Wags. Archbishop Kain, of St. Lottis, is critically ill at Wheeling, W. Va. L, About 100,000 Scotch coal miners, are now on a strike, and 17,000 others may be called out. Three men were killed by the explo-, si on of a Texas Pacific locomotive boiler near Eastland, Texas. The schooner Jefferson has been' wrecked on Baker’s Island, off the Massachusetts coast. Fire destroyed six dwellings in Langdon, Pa., and Jacob Grunley’s 6-year-old child was cremated. Attorneys of both factions of tjie Iron Hall have filed exceptions to Judge Winters’ -ecision continuing the re-; ceivership. Samuel Welsor, who was to have been hanged at St. Louis for murder, has been granted a stay of execution until Jan. 11. Mrs. Delphta Brooks, aged, over 109 years, was burned to death at Fayette, Mo., the bouse in whioh she resided being destroyed by fire. Final plans for what will be the finest theater in the United States have been accepted hy John W. AlhAnch It will Lja built Ln as hint? ton wt i of 000