Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1895 — Page 6

rtmuraffl. Joint Session of the Legislature Today Listens to Its Reading. GENERAL STATE NEWS. Terrible Tragedy Near Clayton, In Mfhieh Burglar* Shoot a Preacher and Hl* Wise —Cnrlon* Human Freak Among a Band of Oypele*—State Rest* It* Case In the Smith Marder Trial. Indianapolis. Jan. 11.—Little business was transacted in the legislature yesterday outside of the usual routine incident to the opening session. The j officers selected by the Republican caucus, as given in the report yesterday, were all duly installed. Mr. Adams, on taking the speaker’s chair in the house, madfe an appropriate and timely speech asking the co-opera-tion of the members in discharging the responsible duties of the position and urging them to courageously and dili-' gently address themselves to the work before the body. None of the subordinate positions were filled in either house, but the appointments will not be long delayed. The standing committees for the senate, selected by a senatorial caucus sometime since, were confirmed. A joint session of the house was held today at 10:30 to listen to the message ; of Governor Matthews. The message; was quite voluminous, and covered in a r .. complete and comprehensive manner all the various state matters. The condition of the state revenues, involving a reduction of the state debt, are well presented. Reviews are given of the various state educational institutions, which are reported to be in a very prosperous condition. The governor doubts the advisability of removing the State University from Bloomington to this city. The subject of prison reform is dealt with and the hope expressed that a solution of this question will be found. The labor troubles at Hammond and in Clay county are exhaustively dealt with, as is also winter horseracing and prizefighting at Roby. It is recommended that laws be enacted to crush out these latter practices. The governor thinks the militia should be strengthened. The tax law and the fee and salary law are referred to, and the hope expressed that . nothing will be done to destroy their efficiency. A review is given of the benevolent institutions and the managements commended. ■ DOUBLE TRAGEDY. _ • * Rev. W. E. Hinshaw and Wife Shot by ■ Burglars. Clayton, Ind., Jan. 11.—The little village of Belleville, two miles from this place, was the scene of a terrible tragedy about 2 o’clock yesterday morning. Robbery was the motive of what is likely to result m a double murder. The victims are Rev. W. fe. Hinshaw and his wife. Mr. Hinshaw for several years has been a teacher at Belleville, preaphing occasionally. The first intimation he had of the presence of burglars in his house was a pistol shot. It is the supposition that Mrs. Hinshaw was awakened and, as she attempted to rise from her pillow, one of the burglars fired at her, the bullet striking her in the head a*i,ranging clear through, near the top of the skull. This awakened Mr. Hinshaw, who sprang from the bed and grappled one of the robbers, while his wife, dazed and bewildered by the terrible wound she had received, and yet instinctively trying to protect her husband, jumped up and clutched the other. She struggled with him until she reached the doorstep, where she fell in an unconscious condition. Mr. Hinshaw was shot twice in his struggle with the man, one bullet entering near the heart, the other striking him in the shoulder. He was also badly cut with a knife, having 17 different. gashes on his body. He fought the bunglar to the street where he fell unconscious. The pistol shots and cries for help brought the neighbors to the scene, but the burglars escaped. They secured about SIOO. There is little hope of the recovery of either Mr. or Mrs. Hinshaw. There is no clew to the identity of the assassins. Bloodhounds are to be put on their track. ~ , CURIOUS HUMAN FREAK. Is a Source of Revenue to a Band of ■ ”_L Gypsies. English, Ind., Jan. 11.—A band of gypsies camping near this city have 42 childreif among them. The one, however, who attracts the most attention is 25 years old. He is of the color of an Arab, with well defined features and an intelligent cast of countenance’ He is not four feet high and weight only about 75 pounds. His head is so large and unwieldy that he has never been able to walk, and his peck is more than 12 inches long. The measures 34 inches in circumference, and the neck ’ only about seven. His arms and legs are verit able pipestems, and his vertebrae is so weak that he cannot sit up. The head can be lifted by an attendant and laid on the back, the breast or under either arm. He cSn read, and is an importunate beggar and a source of great revenue to his people. SUES HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. Young Husband Brings Suit* For Damages, Claiming 53,000. Delphi, Ind., Jan. 11. —John L. Wilson, living in the southern part of the county, has brought suit against Mrs. Rebecca Jervis, his mother-in-law, for $5,000 damages, alleging the alienation of his wife’s affections. He was married to the daughter of Mrs. Jervis against the strenuous opposition of her people, who left no stone unturned to prevent the marriage, but the young * folks had their way, and in December, 1893, they were made man and wife. They moved to a farm Mrs. Jervis had given her daughter. Last month Mrs.

'.'.IITP 1 = Wiltion became sick, and her mother came to the house to thke care of her. When the daughter recovered she accompanied her mother home, and a few days later teams appeared at the house and carted off* the household effects, leaving Wilson with nothing but a cheerless hearthstone and a house with bare floors. In his oomplaint the young husband alleges that during his wife’s sickness his mother-in-law poisoned her mind against him, and broke up his home. Mrs. Jervis, who is wealthy, alleges that her son-sh-law treated her daughter inhumanely, and that she simply obeyed the natural instincts of a mother when she took her daughter away. INDICTED FOR MURDER. Widow and Relative* Under Arrest For Poisoning Edward Kahn. Shelbyville, Ind., Jan. 11.—Edward j Kuhn, a wealthy young farmer in the German settlement eaqt of this city, died under circumstances which provoked much speculation. The widow and her mother and brother interposed violent objections to a postmortem, which revealed the presence of a deadly quantity of strychnine in the dead man’s stomach, but the coroner failed to locate the guilt, if any existed, and there were I no arrests. Michael Kuhn, father of the deceased, was dissatisfied with the I result of the coroner’s finding, and he set on foot an investigation, which resulted in a searching examination of a multitude of witnesses by the grand jury, which returned an indictment against Mrs. Edward Kuhn, the widow; Mrs. Elyira Midkiff, her mother, and Alvin and John Midkiff, brothers of the widoW. The charge is murder. The j accused persons are under arrest. Two years before Kuhn’s death there was an ' attempt to poison him by putting arsenic in his coffee, but he detected the bitter taste and threw it out. Case Rested by the State. Indianapolis, Jan. 11.—The entire day yesterday in the Smith murder trial was taken up in the examination of persons who were present at the time of the killing, the coroner and other persons who were present and viewed the body, the testimony concluding the case for the state. Charles W. Smith opened the case for the defense. Took Carbolic Acid. St. Louis Crossing, Ind., Jan. 11.— Emma Bechstadt, 16 years old, daughter of Samuel Bechstadt, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. * She was employed as a domestic by the family of George Theobald, near Ray’s Crossing, and was tired of life. Saved by the Store Cat. Plymouth, Ind., Jan. 11. —Fire eaMy yesterday morning wrecked Hansen’s music stoßb. The loss is $4,000. A young man sleeping in the building only escaped cremation Uy being awakened by the store cat. INDIANA NEWS NOTES. A burglar robbed the Lake Erie till at Spieeland of $42. S. S. Thorne, 67 years old, of Connersville, has been missing since Christmas. Huntington capitalists are trying to buy the Citizens’ Exchange bank of Fairmont. The telephone company at Plymout hare extending their lines to the surrounding towns. John McClintock, near Albian, was killed while attempting to break a colt to harnes's. Helen Gougar of Lafayette, the well known lecturer, has been admitted to practice law. Icecutters of Hammond struck for an increase of pay. They were getting 11 cents an hour. John Trump, near Brazil, celebrated his 73d birthday by cutting and piling up a cord of wood. The miners employed by the Harrison Coal company, recently out on a strike, are going to work on a compromise calling for lower rents. The two children of John Lorain of New Haven set fire to the house while alone and were burned to death. Ray Miller, aged 25, was caught by a belt and dragged under the bullwheel of the engine in a sawmill at Ijamsville and was crushed to death. Found Dead. Minneapolis, Jan. 11.— The dead bodies of Mr. and Mrs. O. Rollings were found yesterday at their home. They had not been seen since Monday and the awful discovery was made by neighbors who broke into the houSe to investigate. There were no marks of hard usage on either body. The cause of death will not be known until the coroner completes his investigation, but the fact that a joint was open in the pipe of a ’ hard coal stove is thought to shed some light on the affair. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Prevailing Price* For Ggaln and Cattle on Jan. 10. Indianapolis. Wheat — 50@52c. Corn — 40@41c. Oats—3o@33c. Cattle—Receipts, 200 head: shipments 100 head. Market, active and steady. Good to choice shipping and export steers, *[email protected]; medium to good shipping steers, *[email protected]; common to fair steers. *[email protected]; choice feeding steers, *3.40@ 3.15; good to choice heifers, *[email protected]; fair to medium heifers, *[email protected]; commbn light heifers, good to choice cows, *2.50@3,25; fair to medium oows, *[email protected]. Hogs—Receipts 4,500 head; shipments 2,000 heath Market active and firm. Good to choice medium and heavy, $4.50 @4.65; mixed and heavy packing, *4.25@ 4.50; good to choice lightweights, *4.10@ 4.25; common lightweights, *[email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; roughs, *[email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 500 head; shipments fair. Market steady. Choice to extra lambs, *[email protected]; common to good lambs, *[email protected]: fine, export sheep, *[email protected]; good to choice sheep, *[email protected]; fair to medium sheep, *1.75@ 2.25: common sheep, fioc@*Lso; bucks, per head, *[email protected]. Chicago Grain and Provision*. Wheat—May opened 58%c, closed **£- Xo. July- opened 59c, closedWWc CORN—Jan. opened 45X<\ eKeed May opened 47%c, closed 48>$o. Oats—Jan. opened , closed May opened 31%c, closed 31M-W& Pork—Jan. opened • , closed *HURL May opened *11.97, closed *11,82. Lard—Jmi. opened *6.87, closed *6.82. May opened *7.07, closed *7.00. RIBS—Jan. opened —, closed *5.82. May opened *6.07 ; 10, closed *<L 00-82. Closing cash markets! WnMt 54M-&C corn 45%c, oats 28%c, pork IXLM, lard *6.82. ribs *5.82. I ■'' ' * - ' ' R ' I • ’’ i ■ ■» ■ . ,'y • ■■ AT *. . \ . Raa -v .

ANOTHER GREAT FIRE. _______ •’ <■■ ■ Toronto Is Again Visited By f Disastrous Conflagration. HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED. Break* Oat In the Immediate Vicinity of the Big Fire * Few Day* Since. Three Person* Badly Mangled In Jumping From an Upper Window—Loa* Will Probably Reach •8,370,000. Toronto, Jan. 11.— A few minutes before 7 o’clock last evening a blaze was noticed in Osgoodby’s publishing house next to the establishment which was destroyed in Sunday’s fire. In the top flat were the caretaker, a man namdd Cavan, his wife, who was suffering from nervous prostration as the result of last Sunday’s fire, and a trained nurse. All means of escape by the stairway were cut off and there was no time to wait for the fire escape. A number of blankets and mattresses were held by the people below and the frightened occupants of the upper story were told to leap for their lives. The care-taker’s wife jumped first and fell into a mass of telegraph wires, rolled over and was caught on a mattress. Then the nurse leaped and was caught in a blanket, and last of all the caretaker made the desperate jump and he also was caught. They were taken to St. Michael’s hospital. They are all terribly injured, but the doctors think there is a chance of all recovering. The flames ate through the block south to Welling street, burning the large fur establishment of Dunett & Co. Next the Corticello silk warehouse was consumned. R. H. Gray, white underware; Brierton & Co., manufacturers agents; Boisseau & Co., wholesale clothing; R. Darling, wholesale woolens, were the next victims. The flames then leaped across the streets to the south side of Welling and destroyed Hart & Riddle’s establishment and badly scorched Wyld, Grassett & Co.’s dry goods house. At this time it was feared that the whole southern portion of .the city would be destroyed and telegrams were sent to Hamilton, Whitby and Kingston asking for assistance, but before they started the request wai countermanded as a deluging rainstorm set iu and prevented the flames from spreading. The loss is enormous, estimated at *2,375,000. 1 Late in the afternoon a piece of the wall of the burned Globe building collapsed. Eli Bowlder was carried down with the brick and fell 60 feet in the cellar. It is feared he will die of internal injuries. TORN INTO FRAGMENTS. . Three Men Killed by an Explosion of Nitro-Glycerine. Toledo, 0., Jan. 11.—Three oil men were instantly killed .on the Prisser farm, three miles west of Wapokoneta, yesterday. Frank Logan, John Pettigrew and W. J. McMally endeavored to thaw out 100 quarts of frozen nitroglycerine with hot water, when it exploded, tearing them all into fragments, together with a team of horses. PoAred Hot Coals on the Baby. . Faribault, Minn., Jan. 11.—A frightful accident occurred near Gerstrand, ’ a village about 12 miles east of here* While Mrs. Ernest Schoutte was out feeding the stock during her husband’s absence, she saw smoke coming from the house. Upon entering she found that a 3-year-old boy had taken a shovel fall of coals from the stove and poured them on the head of a 6-months-old baby, causing its death aud setting fire ta the building. — Relief Bills In Nebraska Legislature. • Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 11. —Yesterday Mr. Stewart of Daws provoked a discussion in the senate by insisting that body go into committee of the whole at once to consider the proposed relief bills. The senate declined to take up the subject until the relief committee was ready to report. This report will not be received before Monday and in the meantime the matter cannot be discussed under the ruling. Mast Not Dance. Warrensburg, Mo., Jam 11.—The churches of Warreusbng, the center of western Missouri church conferences, have declared war upon all who dance and have commenced weeding their congregations of such unwortiues. The session ofthe Cumberland church at its last meeting dismissed five ladies for tripping the light fantastic and now other denominations are following suit. R_. Shooting Affray, . Weimar, Tex., Jan. 11.—A desperate shooting affray occurred here between Drs. E. J. Grace and Eugene PotteSt. Several shots were exchanged. Dr. Grace received two shots through the breast and died in a few seconds afterward. Pottest received three wounds, and although he is seriously injured, there is a possibility of hisTecovering. Budd Inaugurated Today. Sacramento, Jan. IL—Both assembly and senate unanimously adopted a concurrrent resolution fixing noon today for the inauguration of Governor-elect Budd. The vote by counties for governor was read without objection,sshoeingw eing Budd’s plurality to be 1,206. Budd mi then declared elected amid loud cheers. Condemns Bribes to Architecta. Memphis, Jan. 11. — The southern chapter of the American Institute of Architects has adopted strong resolutions condemning the action of material men in offering bribes to architects. The custom is said to cut quite a figure in the dealings all over the country. I

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DR. HOLMES AND HIS PUBLISHER. The Poet Wa* Very Careful and Exact as to Hl* Copy. - When asked as to his business acquaintance with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Heury O. Houghton said that it began with the first publication of the first volume of The Atlantic Monthly, iu .he initial number of which the “AjR rat of the Breakfast Table” was pub led in November, 1857. ‘‘His copy was always written on common white letter paper in a clear hand and most carefully prepared., with very few interlineations, and these were only put in after the greatest deliberation. He used to bring his copy to the office himself i and'would afterward come and get the proofs, which he most carefully and painstakingly corrected, frequently waking additional changes ■ and correction therein when a line in cold type did not exactly suit him. ‘ ‘Our firm did not print The Atlantic 'in those days. We only stereotyped the plates, but nevertheless we were brought in contact with the young poet frequently. . In fact, he was iu the office every few days. ‘‘He was very particular about his copy, and so careful was he as to detail and the exactness of his facts before let- ■ ting matter go to press that he caused us very little trouble, and when anything was to blame he was far readier to assume the responsibility than to censure others. ‘‘He was in every way one of the most charming men I have ever known, of a very sanguine temperament, although occasionally sad and reminiscent. ‘‘He said to me pot long ago that he felt that he was living in another age and generation, and that all the people of his time, with whom he bad lived, had gone and loft him.’’—Boston Herald. “Man With the Branded Hand.” The person who became famous in the annals of America as ‘‘The Man With the Branded Hand” was a Captain Jonathan Walker. He was born at Harwick, Mass., in 1799, and died at Lake Harbor, Mich., on April 2.0, 1878. On June 23, 1844, he attempted to steal seven slaves from the coast of Florida, the intention being to take thorn to Nassau, in tho British island of New Providence. When only a short distance out, he was overtaken and captured by the sloop Catherine and taken back to Key West. At that place he was kept in jail until he could be removed to Pensacola, where a new trial was given, fie was sentenced to prison and chained Jay a chain and ring bolt. He was kept for some time imprisoned in that manner,* or until the time arrived to carry out a r further sentence, which read as follows: ‘‘One hqur in the pillory, pelted with ' unmerchantable eggs; one year in prison for each slave stolen; *6OO in money for each slave, aud all costs, and to be branded upon the right hand vrith the letters,‘S. S. ’ (slave stealer) by a redhot branding iron. ” S That he lived through all this is attested by the fact that it has only been 16 years since his death.—St. .Louis Republic. DON’T CARRY BOOKS. At L»«*t Avoid Doing; So if You Happen Into the Astor Library. A young man strode into tbe Astor library yesterday afternoon, a good sized book under his arm, and was making •tndght for the staircase to the reading room when the old man who serves as hall porter waved him back by a gesture. •‘Well, what’s up with the old chap anyway?” he remarked to his friend. “Come back h§rq, ” said the porter, • ■■

simultaneously pointing a finger at some unnoticed object. “Well, I like that,” answered the youth, not following the direction of the finger. “I like you for a nice, polite sort of guide in this building. Guess I’ll go where I want without your assistance, my good man. ” “You’ve got a book,” said the porter sepulchrally. “Yes,” replied the young man, “I have, and if it hadn’t such a respectable binding on it I’d like to fire it at your head. There, ” and he made a spring upward, three steps at a time, followed by the gasping porter, who finally lay prone on the stone ptaircase frantically holding on to tbe vanishing coattails. . “Come back,” he pleaded, now in plaintive tones, “come back and read the notice. You’ll see I daren’t let you pass "with that book. I’ll lose my place if you’re seen with it. Do, sir, please comeback.” The notice is to the effect that all hooks parried into the library are to be left in the porter’s charge and called for on coming out. The idea is to prevent readers walking off with books of the library. If without one coming in and with one going out, it’s easy to know they’re appropriating library property. Before the making of this rule numerous books were removed, as it was not easy to accost a reader and demand whether or not a book in his possession was his own or other people’s property. “See here, ” said the aggrieved youth, shying his book onto the porter’s table, “next stranger you meet stop your orders and your mysterious passes, lay your stupid old finger on that piece of. pasteboard, will y6u, and say straight out, 'Read that notice. ’” —New York Herald. • The “a” and “ap” In Surname*. The small letters a and ap as they appear between the Christian and surnames, as in Tiionias a Kempis and William ap Hugh, are abbreviations Os Latin prepositions meaning “of,” “at” or “from. ” They generally refer to the town or place where one was born or to the family estate. In the case of the first mentioned person above, the famous author of “Imitation of Christ* ” the a denotes “from. ” His real name was Themes Hammerkin, but he was born in the town of Kempen, near Cologne, and on that account was known during his school days and always after as Thomas a Kempis, which was equivalent, to “Thomas from Kempen.” In modern times these prepositions have be&i almost entirely eliminated from our nomenclature and. are now only found in the contracted forms, as in “Pugh, ’ ’ a surname which was formerly “ap Hugh. St. Louis Republic. Her Idea of Time. At the house of a friend of mine the other day a little auburn haired tot had been guilty of some mischief and had disappeared. We 'Searched all over the hffuse for her without success at first, but at last she was found behind an easy chair. “Why, whereon earth have you been, Annie?” asked the mother. “Been here,” came the feeble response. “And how long have you been here?’’ “Four days 1” she piped; R had seemed a long time to the child with-the guilty conscience.—New York Herald. _____ Mushroom FoHoning. It is well perhaps for the sake of a possible emergency to bear in mind that on the authority of Dr. Taylor, chief of the division of microscopy of the department of agriculture, there is but one known antidote to mushrdßm poisoning, sulphate of atropin. A dose may be given in the usual way by the mouth or by hypodenmio injections. ■... ■ -

A WELL AS A BAROMETER. It Xft on a Cattaraugus (N. Y.) County and Infallibly Foretell* Weather. There is a curious well on the Flintfl I farm, in the town of Great Valley, Cat-fl\J taraugus county. It is a natural barom- J J etfer. Nobody ever passes that farm,fl I winter or summer, if the feather is set-fl I tied, without asking something like-’! I this; j ' fl “Does the well threaten a change?” fl|| For every one knows that if there is flj bad weather coming the well will let fl|| them know it, sure as sure as can be. fl They call the well up there the | I “whistling well, ” although it doesn’t Isl whistle now. But that isn’t any fault fIS of the well. This well was dug about 50 years ago by rhe father of Colonel fIM Flint, who now occupies the farm. He I ? put it down 45 feet, but found no water flfl and dug no farther. Instead of water; a | 4 strong current of air Came from the fl 4 well at times. The opening was cover- fl ed with a big flat stone, and for amuseme,nt a • hole was drilled in the stone fl and a big tin whistle fitted into it. This fl whistle had two tones —ou/i when the fli air rushed up from the welg and a dis- j * ferenfr one when the couißer current fl sucked the air back in the mysterious fl depths. It wasn’t long before the dis- flffi covery was made that within 48 hours after the outrnshing current from the flflfl well started the whistle to shrieking a flfl storm invariably followed. When the fl j| tone of the whistle was changed by the flf reversing of the current, it was discov- flfl ered that the change meant a changefl | and the coming of fair weather. These fl| weather signals never failed. When thefllg weather was settled, the whistle was flfl silent. The whistle got out of order some flfl years ago, and for some reason wasfl|| never repaired, but the coming and go- flfl lug currents of air still prophesy the fl|| coming of their respective “spells of fl weather” with unvarying infallibility, fl —New York Sim. fl . JOHN BULL’S HUMOR. - 5 It Is of the Fat Witted Kind; That Is What fl Americans Think. Hawthorne, observing Englishmen in | England, speaks of them as “heavy ■ witted. ’ ’ Emerson alludes to their ‘ ‘saving stupidity. ” Howells has introduced to us some typical specimens of English ; respectability and rank baffled in their chase after American humor, but on the ecent and arriving at the point of appreciation after considerable silent thought, sometimes lasting irfto the next | day, and hdre is the testimony of Low*-, , ell, from his recently published “Letters. ” In a letter written in 1889 from England to Professor Norton he thus explains the warm reception given to Buffalo Bill by London society: “But I think the true key to this eagerness for lions, even of the poodle sort, is the dullness of the average . English mind. I never come back here without being struck with it. Henry James said it always stupefied him at first when he came back from the continent. What it craves beyond everything is a sensation, anything that will serve as a Worcestershire sauce to its sluggish palate. -We of finer and more touchy fiber get our sensations cheaper and dp not find Wordsworth’s emotion over a common flower so very wondprfuh • : “People are dull enough on our side of the ocean stream also, God wot, but here, unless I know my people, I never dare to let my inlnd gambol. Most of them, if I ever do, look on like the famous deaf man at the dancers, wondering to what musio I am capering. They call us superficial. Let us thank God, -■ dear Charles, that our nerves are nearer the surface, not so deeply imbedded in fat or muscle that wit must take a pitchfork to us.’’—Outlook.