Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1894 — Page 6

©he democrat DECATUn, IND. , y, MF-AnmUBN, ... rrnßT.rßnim. KILLED AND MAIMED. FRIGHTFUL COLLISION AT HACKENSACK BRIDGE. A National Gathering to Be Held in Ahl of Charity—A Bridge Dlaaltcr on a California Railroad— Indianapolis City Char, ter lluconitllutlonal. FIFTEEN KILLED. Bhocklng Brault* of a Collision on the D. L. & W. Road. New York special: A frightful accident occurred on the west side of tho Hackensack Bridget on tho Morris and Essex branch of the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Hailroad. The train which leaves Roseville at 8 o'clock crashed into the rear of the Dover express, telescoping two cars. Fifteen passengers in these two ears are known to have been killed and at least twenty-five are terribly injured. The Dover express passed through Roseville without stopping. The train which ran into the express is the regular commutation train. It pulled out of Roseville four minutes after the express had disappeared in the fog in the direction of New York. On approaching the Bridge over tho Hackensack River the express slowed up. For what reason is unknown, but it is thought that tho engineer could not see the signals because of the dense fog and that he slowed his train to avoid danger. The commutation train following did not halt at the bridge but came along at its usual rate of speed. The engineer saw the ex-press when legs than 200 feet from it. Although he reversed his engine he could not prevent a collision. A ponderous locomotive crashed into the rear car, throwing it from the track for quite a distance. This car and the one ahead of it were completely wrecked. Both cars were full of passengers who were crushed to death or terribly mangled. The engineer of the commutation train is missing and is said to be among the killed. In Aid of Charity. As a result of correspondence between the different Humane Societies and Provident Associations- in manycities throughout the United States with a view of ascertaining the number of people out of employment and best means of caring for the destitute, a call is to be issued for a National Convention to be held Monday, May 13, at either St. Louis or Louisville, for tho purpose'of discussing these matters and taking such action as may improve the social and other conditions of the masses. W. H. Moore, Secretary of the National Home Association of St. Louis, is the leading spirit in the movement. Indianapolis Charter Unconstitutional. Indianapolis special: Judge Baker, of the United States Court, has issuse a restraining order against the city of Indianapolis and Beverly Porter, a local contractor; to prevent the collection of an assessment for street improvements levied against the estate of Catherine Rebb, of Harrisburg, Pa. The restraining order holds virtually that the present charter under which Indianapolis operates, is unconstitutional. It is probable that the case will be carried to the United States Supreme Court. The ruling, if sustained, will overthrow the present municipal government, i , Seven Men Drov.ned. San Francisco special: At Austin Creek bridge, on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, an engine witn eight men was crossing the bridge, which gave way, and the engine crashed down a distance of forty feet. The stream was swollen by heavy rains. All the men were drowned except Conductor Brown. The dead are: Frank Hartsabin, Engineer Briggs, Fireman Collister, Rice Brellner, and Tom Gould. ♦ - Hornblower Rejected. The Senate at an executive session, lasting six hours, rejected the nomination of Mr. Hornblower of New York, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The opposition was led by Mr. Hill of New York, who made a vigorous anti-administra-tion speech, attacking Mr. Hornblower's fitness for the position, and touching on the political phases of tho question. Senatorial Honors in lowa. John Henry Gear of Burlington,member of Congress from the First lowa District, was nominated for United States Senator to succeed Jas. F. Wilson, at a caucus of the Republican members of the General Assembly. The Democratic members of the General Assembly gave a complimentary nomination to ex-Gov. Horace Boies. f" — World’s Fair Awards. John Boyd Thachf ras Chief of the Bureau of Awards of the Columbian Exjposition says in his report to the National Commission that there were 65,422 individual exhibitors, and the judges made awards to 21,0 w individual exhibitors. A Boy and Gun. Ed Phillips, 14 years of age, who lives four miles west of Bourbon, Ind., while hunting, by the accidental discharge of his shot-gun, tore a thumb off and inflicted ugly wounds in the shoulder and face. S The Code of Honor. A duel with pistols was fought at Berlin between Dr. Bower and Herr Delacroix, a military outfitter. The doctor was killed. Herr Delacroix surrendered to the police. Escaped from Jail. Seven United States prisoners escaped from the county jail at Huntsville, Ala. They knocked the jailer down while taking in coal. None has been recaptured. To Borrow »100,000,000. The bill of Representative O’Neill of Massachusetts, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow money up to $100,600,000 in anticipation of the revenue, and to issue therefore loan certificates bearing 3 per cent, interest, is attracting much attention in the financial circles of Congress and of the administration. It is regarded as something more than the expression of Mr. O’Neill's personal views, as he discussed the subject with Secretary Carlisle and Assistant Secretary Hamlin before introducing the bill. While giving x the measure no distinct

administration approval the treasury officials noted tho fact that Secretary Carlisle's recent report suggested not only an issue of Iwnds, but an alternative plan should Congress not authorize bonds. Mr. O'Neill's bill was looked upon us in line with this alternative proposition. DESPERATE BATTLES Fought Between Farmers acd a Gann of Thieves. For several weeks the farmers in the Armstrong neighborhood, about three miles from Jeffersonville, Ind., have been constantly missing chickensand grain. A man named William Pate, who has recently moved into the neighborhood, was suspected. Several nights ago Ben Veasey was shot through the arm by an unknown man while, watchirfg his henhouse, and tho next night John Armstrong and William Cass, an inmate of the Armstrong house, were attacked by two unknown men. Cass shot one ot them as they were retreating over a high board fence, but ho escaped, and it is sup- i posed that they fought vengeance, as the other night the house of Armstrong was surrounded by about six or eight men, and when the inmates, consisting of John Armstrong, William Armstrong, William Cass, and Ray Howard emerged from the house they met a fusilade of bullets from unknown assailants. A ball cut through the coat of William Armstrong and several through tho clothing of Cass. Cass grappled with one of the would-be assassins, and a gun was pointed directly at his face, but he turned it aside just as it exploded, and his hand was severely burned by the powder. After a time the would-be murderers were driven away, but returned an hour later and again began the attack. By this time assistance had arrived from the surrounding country and the unknown men were driven away. Onejyas shot and fell in the road, but was assisted away by his comrades. The whole country is up in arms against the thieves. Sheriff Davis has arrested Pate, and more arrests are expected soon. Pate is held simply on suspicion. DROWNED. Sailors Perish in Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore special: Bvthe capsizing of a small ferry boat, the following persons were drowned: Neal Finlayson, William H. Nelson. Robert J. Wilson, John Hughes of the British steamer. Mareca: Peter Safranski, the ferryman, and a sailor, name unknown. Three men were rescued by the crew of the police boat, Hannon. The doctors at the city hospital spent several hours in restoring animation in their almost lifeless forms. Unless pneumonia sets in, they’ will live. Their names are: James Carr, Harry Green, and A. Verman. With the exception of Safranski, the men all belonged to the British steamer, Mareca. The sailors employed the ferryman to row them from the foot of Broadway over to their vessel. The wind was blowing a gale. The boat wasswamped before it had gone 500 yards. The cries of the drowning men were heard on board the police boat Lannon aud its search-light revealed the struggling men in the freezing water. Gne of the Lannon's boats was immediately launched, but before it reached the spot six of the men had disappeared. In attempting the rescue of the remaining three men. the boat was swamped, throwing Lieut. Napier and his two men into the water. Grasping the exhausted sailors, Napier and his men supported their inanimate forms and held their heads above the water until their lusty yells brought help. A boat from the Mareca, manned by six sailors, came none too soon. The benumbed men were drawn into the boat and hastily carried to the hospital. All of the drowned seamen belonged to England. Appalling calamity. Another of Those Events for Which China Is Distinguished. The latest advices from Shanghai, received by the steamer Peking, which has arrived at San Francisco, gives details of an appalling calamity at Ningpo which resulted in horrible death by fire of nearly 300 Chinese women and children. On Dee. 8 an annual theatrical performance in honor of the gods was being given in the temple. Over 400 were present, the women and children being on the balconies of the two stories of the temple while the men were in the yard. The performance was on a large stage in the temple-yard. The audidence were eating and drinking and many were smoking. A boy carelessly threw a cigarette which he had b?eh smoking into a heap of straw at the foot of the stairs leading to the second story of the temple. The straw was dry and instantly blazed up, burning the staircase and thus cutting off all escape from the top floor. There was a wild rush for safety. Some were trampled to death, some jumped out of the windows and were dashed to pieces on the stone payment below, while the greater part of the women sat in their seats paralyzed by terror and were horned alive or suffocated by smoke. The fire engines from the foreign settlement in Ningpo were promptly on hand, but could do nothing to stop the Hames.l In an hour and a half the temple was in ruins. Many bodies were so badly burned as to be unrecognizably FROM RIO. «, The Insurgent Forces Destroy a Government Fort—Government Losses, A special to the United Press from Rio Janeiro. Jan. 5, via Montevideo, says: A letter received in this city by an insurgentsympathizer from a friend who is with Admiral De Mello, sent by wav of Sae Paule, says that Admiral De Mello's flagship, the Aquidaban. was near Desterre. He was ./engaged in fitting out five steamers that were to be used to convey troops toßio Janeiro. It is reported that the insurgent forces effected a landing on Eugenho Island and destroyed the Government fort that was in course of construction there. It is also said that the Government forces on the island sustained considerable loss. There is a rumor in circulation that insurgents made a similar dash upon the Government works on Moncaugue Island, north of Nichteroy, and that they captured three field pieces. The insurgents, not having sufficient men to hold either Eugenho or Moncangue Islands, were compelled to retire, SCOUNDRELS Who Attempt to Destroy People’s Property. Wabash (Ind.) special: Last April unknown parties made an attempt to ,' blow up the saw-mill owned by John Blackburn, in Fulton County, a large . stick of dynamite being placed in the t tire-box, where it exploded. The mill ‘ was damaged about SSOO, but the breaks were repaired. No further trouble developed until last week, when Mr. Blackburn found a half-pound stick of jynamite in oho ot the flues of the ’ boiler. It was removed without harm. ' The other night Lewis Bowman, watchman, overheard persons talking ' jnthe inside of the mill and he closed k M.&isah-" - ’L .«■ < . * . *

the door, hoping to retain them its prisoners. Theirstreneth was superior to his, and they forced open tho door and escaped, firing at Bowman, who received a bullet through the arm. The scoundrels are believed to have been there for tho purpose of again wrecking tho mill. Mr. Blackburn has no clue to their identity. Explosion In a Railway Station. London special: Great excitement has been caused at Islington, a northern suburb of London, by an explosion of w lat subsequently proved to be an infernal machine in the railway station there. The machine had been left in tho station and had been placed among tho goods waiting shipment. When the explosion occurred the goods were set on fire. The flames gained little headway, however, and were extinguished before much damage was done. After the excitement had abated somewhat an investigation was made, when it was found that the machine had consisted of a number of glass, tubes that I had been tilled with a liquid. Some of 1 this liquid remained in one or two of the tubes that had not been entirely destroyed by the shock, and it was sent to a Government chemist for analysis. The Anarchist Valliant Sentenced to Death. Paris special: The trial of Augusto Vaillant, the anarchist, who on December 9 last threw a bomb which exploded into the chamber of deputies, was commenced Friday. Just previous to the trial a report was circulated that a bomb with a burned fuse was found outside the court. The place of justice, in which the trial took place, was surrounded by guards and nobody was allowed to pass through their ranks, unless presenting a pass and not until their identity had been fully estultlished. The court was thronged with people when Vaillant was brought in at noon, closely guarded by policemen. The opening proceedings were of a purely formal nature. At the conclusion of the proceedings Vaillant was sentenced to death. Slain in a Snow Slide. A snow slide came down the mountains at Mullan,ddaho. carrying everything before it. Several miners' cabins in its path were crushed and buried. Cornelius MeGrevy and John Bollen were eating dinner in their cabins at the time and before they realized their danger the slide was upon them, crushing the life out of them in a twinkling. It is feared others were buried under the immense avalanche of snow. Not until spring comes will it he known how manv perished. The town of Mullan narrowly escaped being carried away. Children Burned. A small frame house occupied by Philip S/'Dobson at Des Moines. lowa, was burned. The mother had stepped out for a few moments and upon returning found the house in flames. She could not tell in what part of the house her two only children, little girls 2 and 3 years of age, were. Before help could reach them they were burned alive. Horribly Burned. A horrible accident, that will probably result in the death of a 5-year-old girl, occurred at Warren, Ohio. Mrs. Gus Fields went away from home for a few minutes, and when she returned her little daughter, who was left alone in the house, was burned in a terrible manner, not a stitch of clothing remaining on the child's body. Northern Ohio Towns to Be United. There is a scheme on foot to unite the principal Northern Ohio towns between Cleveland and the . Ohio River by street railway. Cleveland capital is at the back of the project. The line, if constructed, will take in Warren. Y’oungstown. Letoonia. and East Liverpool, with spurs to Salem and New Lisbon. Hawaiian Correspondence. The President has transmitted to Congress all correspondence relating to Hawaii since his last message. President Dole utterly refused to surrender in favor of the Queen, and the Queen refuses to take back her throne without permission to behead her enemies. ' British Defeat the Sofa?* London special: A dispatch from Free Town, capital of Sierra Leone, says that the British troops operating inthe interior have -defeated a force of 4,000 Sofas, at Konno. Two hundred ■end fifty of the natives were killed. The British loss was slight. Sudden Death of a Justice. Jasper H. Terrill, Justice of the Peace in Mount' Etna, Ind., for many years, and a very prominent Odd Fellow, fell dead while driving home from Huntington. Fatally Burned by Gasoline. By the explosion of a gasoline furnace in the plumbing establishment of George A. Kees at St. Paul, the proprietor and an assistant named Eugene Weyandt sustained horrible burns which will prove fatal. Twelve Persons Drowned. It is reported at Lyons that the steamer Allonby has foundered in the Bay of Biscay and that twelve of those on board of her were drowned. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... f 3 50 @ 6 00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 @ 6 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 @ 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 63 Corn—No. 2 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 30)4@ 31)4 Bye-No. 2 46 0 48 Butter -Choice Creamery 24)4<«i 25)4 Eggs—Freeh 19)4® 20)4 Potatoes—Per bu 50 0 60 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping I 3 oo @5 25 linos—Choice LUht 3 W (<t 5 so Sheep—Common to Prime..... 200 03 K Wheat—No. 2 Red 56 0 57 Corn-No. 2 White 35)4® M'S Oats-No. 2 White 31 & 32 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 & 5 oo Hogs 3 00 0 5 SO Wheat—No. 2 Red.....' 59 (9 60 Corn-No. 2 32 W 3314 Oats—No. 2. 28 @ 80 Pork—Meets 13 50 @l4 00 CINCINNATI. Cattle.. 3 oo 0 5 oo Hogs 3 Oo 0 5 50 Sheep 2 oo & 4 oo Wheat—No. 2 Red 58’4@ 59)4 Corn—No. 2 36)40 37)4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 @ 32 Rye—No. 2a 62 & 04 . DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @475 Hogs 800 0 6 75 Sheep 200 0 4 <x> Wheat—No. 2 Red 61)4® 62'4 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 38 0 39 Oats—No. 2 White 28 0 30 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 61)4® 62)4 Corn—No. 3 Yellow: 36)20 37)4 Oats-No. 2 White tJ 0 29’4 Rye—No. 2 oo 0 62 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle—Good to Prime. 2 50 0 6 25 H( GS—Mixed Packete..... 4 00 @6 00 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 72)40 WM No. 2 Red 64 0 65 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 60 @ 61 Corn—No. 3 34)4® 35)4 Oats—No. 3 White 29 0 31 P.YE—No. 1 47 0 48 Barley—No. 2 50 0 51 POBK—Mesa 12 50 @l3 00 NEW YORK. CATTLX 3 00 @ 6r. Hogs 3 75 0 6 45 Sheep 2 oo ® 4 W Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 0 69 Corn—No. 2 43 0 -44 Oats-White Western 36 0 40 Blttbr—Choice 20 0 26 Pork— Meae....... U 00 014 75 ■ -1

HAWAIIAN MESSAGE. ALL CORRESPONDENCE TRANSNUTTED TO CONGRESS. Ei-erythln< I< gent to Congrcee Except That Which They Have Already Received and a Dispatch front Minister Stevens Dated October B, ISil'L « AH Now Laid Bare. President Cleveland has sent to Congress the correspondence in tho Hawaiian trouble that had not previously been submitted. Mr. Cleveland makes no recommendations, coutonting himself with a simple message of transmittal, in which ho explains that tho dispatches hitherto withheld are now given publicity with one exception. His communication is as follows: To tho Congress.I transmit herewith copies of all t’Dpatohes from our minister al Hawaii relating in anv way to political affairs in that country except such as have been h tetofore laid before Congress I iilho transmit a copy of the last Instructions sent to our minister, dated Jnu. 12, 1894. being the only instructions to him not already sent to the Congress. In transmlttin t certain correspondence with my message dated Deo. is, ijm, I withheld a uispatch from our present minister numbered 3 and dated Nov. 16. 1893. and alsoa<lispatch fro-.n our former minister numbered <n aud dated Oct. 8. 1892. inasmuch as the contents of tho dispatch of Nov. 16, 1593. arc referred to in the dispatches of a more recent date now sent to Congress, and inasmuch as there seems no longer to boßutHclent reason for withholding said dispatches, a copy of the same isdterewlth submitted. The dispatch numbered T> and dated Oct. 8. 1891. above referred to, la still withheld for tip' reason that such a course still appears to be just ifiable and proper. grover Cleveland. The first piece of correspondence is a letter from Willis to Gresham dated Honolulu. Nov. 16, 1893. Willis states that on Monday. Nov. 13, tho queen visited him anil he made known to her the Pro.-idcnt's regret that she had been dethroned through the unauthorized intervention of the United States, and his hope that the wrong might bo redressed. He then made known tho conditions of her restoration; but she said that the persons concerned in her overthrow would I e beheaded and their property confiscated, as was the law.. Willis then said: “I have no further communication to make to you now,and will have none until I hear from my government.” Further on Willis says: “As to the Queen's safety I do not have any fear at present. There is a” telephone in my sleeping room and I have asked her people to call me up at any hour of the night or day. She also has the privilege, as stated in previous dispatches, of coming here, or of going on one of our war vessels.” He says he has had no interview with the Queen or her representatives since the one of Nov. 13. . The letter dated Honolulu, Doc. 14, which acknowledges the receipt of instructions by the Corwin, is spoken of further on. The letter is brief, and among other ob ervations Willis sayfc: “The excitoment consequent upon the unexpected,arrival of the Corwin is intense throughout the city. The President’s message, which was published this morning, has increased the excitement, but I hope no immediate outbreak will occur.” In a letter dated Dec. 18, W’illis says that on Dec. 16 ho had an interview with the Queen and her advisers. Under date oi Dec. 20,Minister Willis in a confidential dispatch says when he secured the Queen s consent to the terms of restoration, then for the first time he made his proposition known to the Provisional Government. In a letter dated Dec. 8, Willis states thatC. B. Wilson, one of the Queen's supporters, called on him and handed him what he termed “A method of procedure upon restoration of the Queen.” It provides: 1. A proclamation by the Queen's gevernment of her reassumption of the control of the government of the Hawaiian Islands. 2. The appointment of a commauder-in-chief and staff. 3. A proclamation of the martial law aud the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. 4. The calling upon all tho loyal citizens and wellwishers of the government to register their names at the office for enrollment of volunteers. The final instructions sent to Willis by the Mariposa say that ho has rightly comprehended his instructions: that the President regrets that the failure of the provisional government to acquiesce in his conclusionsconstrains him to reach and submit a measure of justice to the Hawaiians and their deposed sovereign. The instructions say that the President has never claimed the right to act as arbitrator between the constitutional or provisional gefvernment. Wants ray for Her Throne. A San Francisco paper contains the following from Honolulu: Ex-Queen Lilluokalanl has entirely abandoned all hope of ever reKaliilnß tho throne of Hawaii and is now perfecting arrangements for bringing suit against the United States for an immense amount ot money. This information comes from a source which makes it absolutely trustwi rthy. Her claim for damages will be made on tho ground that she was deposed solely by the armed force of tho United States, acting under the advice and direction of Minister Stevens; It is well known among the' leading Joyalists that a representative of the cx-Queen left here not long ago for San Francisco. He was instructed to open negotiations with the State Department concerning the payment of a large sum to the ex-Qneen as partial return for tho loss of her position. What action he has taken in the matter has not been learned here. His identity is close!y eoncealed. Thoughts of GreafMtn. Death is an eternal sleep.—Fouche. Placed by his order on the gates of tho French cemeteries in 1794. I LOVE men, not because they are men, but because they are not women. —Queen Christina of Sweden. All the.-e men have their price.— Robert Walpole. Spoken of the opposition in the House of Commons. AFTER thunder fellows rain.—Socrates, when Xantippe emptied a basin of slops from a window i n his head. From the summit of the pyramids forty centuries look down upon you.— Napoleon at the battle' of the Pyramids. It is only the first step that costs,— Mme. du Deffand, in a letter to Horace Walpole. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.—Mlle. Ninon de I’Enclos. I DISLIKE monkeys; they always remind me of poor relations.—Henry Luttrell. We have made a compact with death.—Claude Bazire, French Revolutionist. I can drive a coach and six through every act of. Parliament.—Daniel O’Connell. ' Put your trust in God, but be sure to see that your powder is dry.—Oliver Cromwell. OUR country is wherever we are well off.—John Milton, in a letter to Hcinbach, 1666. The sick man of Europe.—Nicholas I. of Russia, speaking of the Turkish Empire. Peace with honor.—Beaconsfield, after his return from the Berlin congress of 1878. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken recd.—Francis Bacon, to his Judges. ► Life would be quite tolerable if it were not for its amusements. —Sir 1 George Lewis. ■

WORK OF MASKED MEN PASSENGER TRAIN HELD UP IN MISSOURI. llannlbsl Flyer on the Burlington Road Stopped by Five Men Near St. Joseph, Mo., Who Loot the Expreaa and Mall Cara. Torpedoea on the Track. Five men held up the Hannibal and St Joseph fast train, “Ell,” Wednesday night, four miles east of St. Joseph, Mo., and robbed tho express and mail cars. Tho men placed torpedcei on the track and swung a red lantern to stop tbo train, and as it slowed up three men climbed into tho engine cab. Revolvers were thrust into the faces of the engineer and fireman and they wore told to throw up tlroir hands. , It was an old-fashioned robbery, jjut' It was successful in every engineer and fireman wore Mrced to walk back in front of tho robbers to tho door of tho express car, and the messenger was told to Apen the door. Express Messenger G. B. Wetzel did not suspect that there were robbers outside, and when he heard the engineer calling, ho opened tho door. As he did so two of the robbers leaped in. They secured the contents of the safe. The mail car was entered in the same manner as the express car. The mail agents wore unarmed and made no resistance. It is . reported that a registered pouch was carried off by the robbers. Other mail pouches were cut open and rifled, and everything of value in sight was taken. The passengers were not disturbed. As soon as the train had been robbed it proceeded on its way. The rear brakeman, Join Ryan, had been sent back to flag approaching trains. When the robbers released tho train it left without calling in the brakeman. He secured a horse and rode back to tho city, where ho reported at once to the railroad officials. Only three shots were fired by the robbers, and they were fired in tho air. Express Messenger Wetzel open ed the safe, with two revolvers pointed at his head. He saw but two of the men. All of tho robbers carried two revolvers and there weie two rifles in their possession. Wetzel says one of tho men was short, wore a black coat and overcoat and black Derby hat. The other wore a double-breasted coat, no overcoat, and was tall and slender. The other three robbers stood in the dark and could not be described. All wore masks. A n attempt was made to rob a Burlington train near St. Joe on Sept. 25, 1893, and two of tho robbers were killed. The railroad officials believe that tho robbery Wednesday night was committed by some of the same gang who made their escape in the darkness from the first attempted robbery. REPUBLICANS HOLD THE FORT. Get P<MMe«»lon of the New Jersey Senate Chamber—Guarded Day and Night. The Republicans secured possession of the Netv Jersey Senate Chamber Wednesday afternoon, and say that they will'retain the advantage they have gained. The Republicans, Says a di.-patch, asked Gov. Werts for" the keys of the chamber. The Governor refused to have anything to do with the matter. A committee then visited Superintendent Ford. He referred them to Michael Nathan, the Democratic Sergetfnt-at-arms. Nathan could not be found, and the Republicans sent for a locksmith. The locksmith was unable to effect an entrance and a hundred keys were tried in the chamber door, but without avail. Capt. Jack Graham, of Jersey City, smashed in a window leading to the ladies’ gallery. He threw back the bolt of the main doors and in a few minutes Republicans filled the room. At 3:20 Senator Rogers, President of the Republican Senate, was in the chair and the other Republicans were in their seat a A Committee on Rules was appointed and Clerk Potts of the House delivered the Senate a race-track repeal bill. A recess was then taken. The Republicans will place a guard over the chamber and keep watch night and day. The Democratic Senate held a session in the chamber, but adjourned without transacting any business. CONFESSES TO ROBBERY. Trusted Employe of a Philadelphia Concprn Steal* 947*000. After twenty-seven years of [Service, Theodore F. Baker, paying feller of the Consolidated National Bank, of Philadelphia, stood before United States Commissioner Craig, a pnsoner charged with embezzlimr $47,090 from the bank, and with falsifying the" bank's books. Baker attempted no defense, and said his stealings had extended over a period of twenty years. In default of $15,000 bail he was committed to prison. A short time ago a bookkeeper named Van Enzen discovered that his books had been falsified and he found a shortage of $30,000. The discovery and fear that suspicion might fall on him so worried him that he fell ill, and while sick he confided the mat er to his physician, and at the same time protested his innocence. The physician called at the bank and told Van Duzen’s story to the officers. —u_— -i JA — Telegraphic Click*. Robert Hubbard, a wealthy farmer, was killed by an unknown person near Princeton, Ky. ‘ Brock Kelly was killed by a premature blast at a tunnel on the new Cripple Creek Railroad. The Frankfort Lottery Company officials pleaded guilty at and their cS.se was set "for trial Feb. 16. Will Duke killed John West in front of a Tuscogee, Ala., church, and a mob injured him so he is likely to die. John Fletcher, an inmate of the Hancock County, Ohio, infirmary, says Matron Lightibcft threw hot waiter on him. Dr. Louis 'Sprau, a bicyclist of Sandusky, Ohio, was robbed near Tiffin by highwaymen, who demolished hi»wheel. The Kentucky Legislature met in joint session and formally declared William Lindsay elected United States Senator. Reuben Daugherty drove over a thirty-foot bank into the cottonwood River at Emporia, Kan., and was drowned. After living on sandwiches four days at Wilkesbarre, Pa., the Shackford Opera Company secured funds to go to New York. Charles O. Kellar was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for embezzling $2,700 from the Chattanooga Brewing Company. The Ohio Wool Growers’ Association at Columbus adopted resolutions itrongly protesting against placing wool on the free list. A movement is on foot among Pennsylvania Democrats to nominate A. D. Markley as a second candidate for ( C'ongres man-at-large.

AROUND A BIG STATE. BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDI. ANA NEWS. What Our NnlffUbora Are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriage, and Dentba -Accidents and Crimea—Personal Pointers About Indiaulana. Minor Htato Items. There wore 266 marriage Hcensot issued in Gibson County last year. E. C. WiLSON’B large residence, at Noblesville, was destroyed by fire. Loss $3,000. A silver fox was recently captured In Putnam County. They are said to bo scarce in that vicinity. A*r least .’>oo people have so far signed tho pledge at the Francis Murphy Temperance meetings at Albany. The barn belonging to Albert Ribblo, southeast ot Muncie, was destroyed by fire and six head of horses burned. It is reported that tho driving park at Richmond has changed hands and races will be held there next season. Miss Maud Ott, daughter of John Ott of South Bend, was ovoeomo by coal gas. Jminodiate efforts saved her life. Charles and Harry Hale wore perhaps fatally crushed beneath the timbers of a burn that collapsed at Butlerville. THE attempt to get Detective Morris out of the Peru Jail by habeas corpus proceedings, was a failure, Judge Cox refusing the writ. The Southern Indiana Press Association met at Sefmour, read several papers, elected officers and decided to hold the midsummer meeting at Madison. A Valparaiso man is going to sail with a party from Philadelphia to South America in search of $75,00C in gold that was buried there before the war. While boys were playing in a sand pile at Porter, they found a box containing gold and silver' undertaking furnishings. Where they came from is a mystery. Thomas Jones, aged 68, of Rockport, was stricken with paralysis while teaching his Sunday-school class and died. He had taught twenty years without missing a Sunday. .Tamf.s Lemon, Anderson Hatfield, and Frank Stevens, charged with complicity in the killing cti Abe Stumpff in a potato patchat Marion, a few months ago, were released by order of court. AN incendiary burned the stables of Township Trustee John C. Chambers, in Lewis Township, Clay County. The contents, including twelve head of horses aud cows, were destroyed. Loss, $2,500. Lee Wah Sing, a Chinese laundryman at Logansport, has received word from Chicago that tho highbinders there had decreed his death because he had insulted one of them last summer. Lee has sought police protection. A MAN supposed to be A. C. Davis of Kokomo, was picked up on the CloverLeaf Railroad at Marion in an unconscious condition. He was cut about the head and bore other injuries. It is supposed he was struck while walking on tho track. A company of Indianapolis and Chicago capitalists have organized with $250,000 capital stock to irt vest!gate the oil field in the vicinity of Albany. Oil has been discovered near here that flows from the well as clear as water. Thousands of acres of land have already been leased. Mrs. Martin Howley, an aged woman, was found in a dying condition in the back yard of her residence at Fort Wayne, and died shortly after being taken into the house. It developed that her son Martin, with Henry Holland, a boarder, became involved in a fight, in which the mother interfered. The boy knocked her dcjwn and afterwards struck her a brutal blow in the nock and kicked her several times in the abdomen and back. At the postmortem it was found that three ribs had been loosened by the kicks. Y’oung Howley was arrested, charged with murder, i>nd Holland is also in jail to await further action. The other evening, as passenger train No. 76 on the Evansville and Richmond road was nearing Westport, the eastern terminus of the road. Engineer Spellman was signaled to stop. He immediately applied the air brakes, and looking out of the cab window, discovered a number of men standing beside the track. Visions of train robbers passed before him, and he released the brake before the train had come to a standstill and put on a full head of steam. As the tram sped by a number of shots were fired after it. The story of tho attempted holdup has been kept very quiet by tho men and officials, but detectives have been put to work on the case by the company. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Benton Dearderf of Mooreland, assignor of one-half to J. W. Dick pl Hagerstown, corn planter; John B. Haberle of South Bend, sprinkler; Adam Heim, assignor of seven-sixteenths to G. W. Heim of Brownstown, machine for attaching address labels; Winfield S. Jewell of Indianapolis, and A. C. Stoveijp of Des Moines, time and dating stamp; Charles E. Johnson of Motjnt Jackson, ribbon reversing mechanism for typewriting machines; Caleb J. Kelly of Terre Haute, piston-rod packing; Joseph Mandel and J. P. Henderson, assignors to National Metallic Pocket-fastener Company of Logansport, stale-insert-ing and clinching machine; Volney P. Parks of Fort Wayne, pavement; Isaac Springer and H. Evisten of Indianapolis, assignors to Indianapolis Basket Company, shipping basket; James J. Wood of Fort Wayne, alternating cur- - rent dynamo: James J. Wood oi Fort Wayne, connection between separately excited dynamos and their exciters. IT is said that Edward Martin, who 'Was arrested at Muncie with counterfeiters’ tools found in his house, had succeeded in getting into circulation a large amount of the "queer.” The ■bankers pronounce it dangerous owing •to Its perfection. A fatal accident occurred three ’miles south'of Muncie. William Fusion,aged 19,'was assisting his uncle in ■cuttlngtimber, when a tree fell on the ■young man. His head was mashed into a shapeless mass, and the body could not be extricated sot sometime. The tree had betin cut down, but lodged in another tree, and unexpectedly fell. ■John Minnick, superintendent of the Lebanon Electric Light Company, Was Instantly killed by a telegraph pole, bn which he was stretching a wire, breaking with him and (he fell under it. His neek was oroken. Minnick's home was in Lawrenceburg, where he has a mother. Hon. D- R- Alton, ex-Comm lasiorter of the Live Stock Board under the late Secretary Rusk, has a fine stock farm at Vincennes. Within the last ten days he has lost three valuable stallions valued at $2,000. He carried no insurance on the horses. All died suddenly. Dr. Smithers, a veterinary surgeon, has decided that all died from arsenical poison. . - ...■

FBOM WASHINGTON. WILSON TARIFF BILL AND THE PROPOSED BOND ISSUE. Chief Topics nt the National CapitalFree surer Propio Agalnet Bonde-It le Believed the Wlbtou Bill WUI Become a Bone* of Contention. WMhlngton oorreepondenoe:

THE two chief topics of discussion at the capital are the Wilson tariff bill and the proposed T-'J bond issue. The i free silver people OSi are decidedly sq against any Issue of bonds, taking the IM position that all is needed is a Wlfoiiflontiful coinage of IffilFthe white metal and its use as Swrmoney. The Texas —r—delegation will be solidly against any ■ issue of bonds. 1 1 Renresentative Me-

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(fl ||i|y u ti Mlllin, of Tennessee, believes a measure should at once ba passed providing for tho use of the seigniorage of tho silver bullion. This would afford temporary relief, he thinks, and possibly obviate tho necessity of issuing bonds. It has been asserted that until the silver bullion now in tho treasury is coined there can be no seigniorage, but the men who favor its use argue that when it is known the bullion will coin fifty million dollars more than was pain for it there can be no reason for hesitating about it. They do not believe it necessary to coin the* seigniorage, but that certificates may be issued against it Tho Wilson Bill. As to the Wilson tariff bill, the general opinion is that it will pull through in some shape or other. Representative Tarnsey, a member of tho Ways and Moans Committee, svho has just returned from his home in Missouri, tays he found no one among- his constituents dissatisfied with the tariff bill. Representative Hayes, of lowa, says the bill will become a law in time, find that all differences about it will be adjusted within the party, so that there will bo no fatal break over it. Representative Stevens, of Massachusetts, who is a member of the Ways and Means Committee, and an extensive woolen manufacturer, says tho bill will pass the House unchanged, and that whatever changes are made before tho measure becomes a law will be made in the Senate. Representative Cousins of lowa, on tho other hand, viewing the situation from a Republican standpoint, says that if all the Democratic members of the House that he has heard express themselves against the bill actually vote as they talk now, tho bill will cetainly be beaten in the House, to say nothing of the Senate, where its chances are at least doubtful. However, he says, it is pretty hard to get a Democrat to kick out of tho party traces, so you cannot just figure on results when Democratic oolting becomes an essential element in the calculation. Routine Proceeding*. In tho Senate Monday Senator Hoar’* resolution ot Inquiry into Mr. Blount’s compensation was referred after a hot discussion. Among the nominations sent to the Senate Was that ot J. M. B. Sill, ot Michigan, to bo Minister and Consul General to Corea. An adverse report on the nomination of Hern blower for the Supreme bench was agreed to by the Senate Committee. The tariff bill was taken up In the house, the Democrats having mustered a quorum. Mr. Wlbon made a speech In its favor. Chicago members of Congress agreed to push the McGann bill for the construction of a new public building at Chicago. Secretary Carlisle urged on the Ways end Means Committee tho necessity of a loan to supply the Treasury's needs. Debate on the tariff bill was continued In tho House on Tuesday. Congressmen Wilson, Burrows and Black were among the speakres. The Federal elections bill was taken up in the Senate. It will soon become unfinished business and will be pushed to a vote. In the House, Wednesday, Mr. Boutolle (Rep), of Maine, again precipitated a heated discussion in regard to his Hawsillan resolution. Then Mr. Hopklnsfßep-). of Illinois, took the floor to conclude his speech on tho tariff bill begun Thursday. Mr. Cummings (Dem.), of New York, from tho Naval Committee, reported the Boutolle resolution calling oa the Secretary of tho Navy fop information on IJatvailan matters and as to his authority for delegating to Commissioner Blount control of tho United States naval forces. The resolution was reported back with an amendment asking for information in the Navy Department from March 4, 1892, instead of 1893. Mr. Cummings asked for its immediate consideration. As this required unanimous consent. Mr. Dockery (Democrat), of Missouri. objected., Mr. Cummings then asked that the resolution lie on the Speaker's table without losing its privileges, and this tvas ordered. Debate on tho tariff was continued. Congressman Tom L Johnson characterized the bill as a protection measure. In the Senate a re*olutlon by Senator Peffer as to the Inadequacy of the force in the office of tho supervising architect of the treasury to prepare drawings for new public buildings was Jald before the Senate in the morning hour, and was the subject of a discussion. In speaking on the Frye resolution declaring against Interference in Hawaiian affairs. Senator Davis condemned Blount’s course. Hawaii was debated in iho Senate Tuesday. Mr. Turpie denounced ox-Ministor Stevens and Mr. Davis the flag Incident. Speeches In the House upon the tariff bill were limited to one hour. Many members took part In the debate. #Debatq on the tariff bill was continued In tho H >uso Friday. “Jerry” Simpson spoke in favor of the measure By a party vote the nomination of Isaac J. Wooten to be agent at the Nevada Indian Agency was confirmed in the Senate. By a vote of 9 to 8 tho House Coinage Committee ordered a favorable report on tho bill for tho coinage of silver in the treasnry. The postponement of action in the Hornblower nomination is exciting much comment. Overflow of News, E. H. Tones has been convicted of murder at Georgetown, O. The Children’s Endowment Absoclb: tlon assigned at Minneapolis. The assets are $175,000; liabilities unknown. Sherman Jewett Williams, a high school student, committed suicide at Buffalo, illness making him temporarily insane. James F. Galvin, the base ball pitcher, was arrested at Cleveland, charged with stealing a diamond pin and gold watch. ~ - Friends of Prof. 8. C. Shortledge, who killed his wife at Medea, Pa., ask that a commission inquire into his sanity. James Dugan, arrested on suspicion at St. Louis, proves to be one of three men who killed a man in Hennepin County, Minn. R. J. Hosper, accused of poisoning his wife, has been placed on trial at Joliette, Que. The case is complex and sensational. New York City officials will ask the Legislature to permit the issue of $1,000,000 in bonds, the proceeds to be used in employing 1,200 men to work on the parks.