Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1895 — Page 6

Democratic Press. DECATUR* INTI_). OeniiM-ratic Press co.. - Publishers. A GOOD CROP OF NEWS GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. The Finest Block in Anderson. Ind., l.aid in Ruins by a Natural Gas Explosion— Thieves Fire on a Farmer—Troubles In■creasinc in China. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. The City of Anderson. Ind., Suffers a Big Loss. The most destructive natural gas explosion in the history of the Indiana gas belt occurred at Anderson, the other morning. A $T5,000 business block on the court house square was blown all over the central part of the city. In the building were the When clothing store, Prather’s shoe store, Hadley’s drug store, and a large number of business offices and halls on the tipper floor. Fire followed the explosion, which was like an earthquake, and the remains of the debris began burning fiercely. The entire fce department was called out and prevented the fire from reaching the new court house. The loss on the building and contents is total, and will reach fully $400,009. The fronts of all business houses in the neighborhood of the explosion were demolished, the paved streets were ripped open, and telephone cables torn down. How the explosion occurred isa mystery, but its results are very much in evidence, as debris blocks that section of the city in which it took place. It was just about daylight that the shock was felt which shook everything within the incorporate limits of Anderson and sent pieces of wood and glass, office furniture and bricks flying in all direction, la addition to the demolition of the Terhune block the explosion did much damage to the court house, and other buildings were struck by missiles. BOLD ROBBERS Fire on » Farmer While Stealing His Potatoes, One of the boldest robberies on record. , and in which the robbers fired on the owner j of the goods they were pillaging, and forced . him to retire to his house, while they robbed him. occurred near Lexington. Ky. . George Pullen, who resides on a farm near , Lexington, was the victim. A tenant, who has been operating the farm on which , the affair occurred, moved out. leaving . nearly 300 bushels of potatoes buried near the farmhouse. Pullen moved into the , house the same day the fanner tenant left. , Aiiout 12 o’clock in the night Pullen heard • a wagon drive up the potato mound, and | at once went out to investigate. He saw , three men busily engaged in loading the . potatoes into the wagon. Pull-n was seen | by the robbers, who at once opened fire on ] him, forcing him to retire to his house. , An armed guard was placed near the resi- ( dence to prevent Pullen from summoning , aid, and the robbers loaded the wagon with the potatoes and drove away. About six shots were fired at the farmer. Pullen was not armed, and hence could not protect i his pro|»erty. i Cuban Affairs. I While it may lie that United 'states Con- : sul General Williams at Havana has acted upon his own responsibility in othereas-s, | it is learned that but in one instance was he I instructed by the. state department to ' intervene with the Cuban authorities in | behalf of an American citizen under arrest for complicity in the revolution In Cuba. | This was the case of .Jose Mari Aguirre, to i which attention was directed by the Senate i resolution offered in the closing hours of , Congress. The consul general was in- ; strutted to examine and report upon this case. He found that Aguirre had been i arrested in Havana and removed to another jurisdiction. The Cuban authorities, notwithstanding the fact that the island was under martial law, have arranged to try the prisoner before a tribunal and the consul general will keep an eye on the proceedings to see that he has a fair trail. Fatally Shot by Highwaymen. David Miller, a prosperous farmer residing <aear Osnaburg, Ohio, while on his way to iris farm was attacked by two negroes. He resisted and attempted to draw a revolver, ; when one of the robbers pulled a gun and dhot Miller. He sank to the ground, but. frightened at what had occurred, the colored fellows took to their heels. When picked tip Miller was unconscious. The bullet passed through his body an inch below the heart. The wound will prove fatal. Miller ■is married and has a large family. A posse of Osnaburg citizens and the Sheriff of Stark County are out hunting for the desperadoes. Get a New Trial, The case of Francis A. and Percival B. Coffin, who were indicted in Indiana in 1 1893, on fifty counts, for complicity in the 1 failure of the Indianapolis National Bank, was decided in the United States Suprem ■ Court in an opinion by Justice White. Tiie contention of the defendants that nonofficers of a bank could not beconvicted for complicity was not sustained, but the refusal of the Judge to charge there existed a presumption of innocence was sustained, and a new trial ordered. Troubles Increasing. Tien Tsin special: Disturbances are increasing. One of the Chinese generals in the Shan Tung province was beheaded by Lis attempting to suppress pillage Similar troubles are reported at Hanan and Liao Yang. An Earthquake Shock. A distinct shock of Earthquake lasting several seconds, was felt at Winston. N. C. ■Buildings were shaken but no damage. A-ainst Woman Suffrage. The Massachusetts House of Representatives defeated the woman’s suffrage bill by a vole of 127 to 87. Burned to Death. At Brenham, Texas, Wyatt W. Jerry, colored, went to church and left his three children locked in the house. The house caught fire, and the oldest child, aged 7 years, escaped by climbing out of the window. The two youngest were burned to death. A Crossing? Killing 1 . Austin Marony, a coal miner and old resident or’Shawnee, Ohio, was instantly killed at a crossing on theC.,B. and 11. Kailroad.

HALTING Seesn. to be the Condition ot Trade in the Country. It. G. Dun A Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: No gold goes out, though sterling exchange has risen close to the exporting p» int. and it does not yet appear that the syndicate has made any effort to control the exchange market. London has sold about 40,000 shares of stock <iuring the week and the market is distinctly lower for railroad shares, though a shade stronger for trusts. The stock market waits abjectly for London, and foreigners show thus far more disposition to sell than to buy. The withdrawals of gold by the redemption of legal tenders have not ceased, but since the closing of the syndicate contract, have averaged about $120,000 per day. W heat is cent higher, but clearly not because western receipts are a trifle less than a year ago, nor because exports from the Atlantic coast are small. Spasms of speculative activity must be expected during every season, and when prices are at the bottom, such spasms can only mean an advance. Nothing is seen to justify any material rise, as supplies in sight do not decrease more than they would naturally on account of bad weather. CUBAN REBELS. Garcia anti Marrero Disband Their Forces, Tampa i Fla.) special: The Spanish Vice Consul has received from the Governor General of Havana the following cablegram: “Lopez Colomo, Marrero, and Manuel Garcia have disbanded their forces. Gualbert (lomez surrendered to the Mayor of Sabonilla and asked for clemency.” This was posted in the Spanish Casino under the Consulate seal, and aroused much enthusiasm among the Spaniards. A letter was received by Colonel Figueredo from a party in Colorado stating that a numlier of soldiers and officers in our late civil war were equipped and ready to fight for Cuban liberty, Cubans from all over Florida are volunteeriug. A young Cuban here gave SI,OOO to the fund and has loft with a party qf friends for Cuba. The concentration of revolutionists around Baire is authoritatively stated as being for the purpose of forming a republic and choosing a chief, who will be General Gomez. The Cubans here are entirely satisfied with reported results. Spiritualists Exposed, Mr. Jacob Garnett's residence at Dora. Wabash County. Ind., was the scene of great excitement the other night, when Prof. Henderson of Anderson, and Doc Small of Wabash, spirit mediums, were exposed and a free fight ensued. Garnett is a Spiritualist, and had invited Henderson and Small out to give a seance. A seance at which a small admisson was charged was given at Garnett’s house, which was closed tightly so as to shut out all lights. The audienee was treated to various materializations, while tables and ehairs danced and spirits addressed those present in poor English. The little town was set agog, and next night the attendance was larger than ever. During a spirit conversation Wilber T. Teegarten strack a match, disclossing Henderson talking through the large end of a horn 10 feet long while Small capered around the room. The circle broke up, furniture was overture,! and Small and Henderson were knocked down and tables piled on them. They were finally got out the back way and escaped further punishment. Robbed and Tortured. Toledo special: News of a robbery, accompanied by fiendish torture, inflicted on Mr. and Mrs. John Schonbrich, residents of the little town of Ai, west of this city, has reached here. Between $5,000 and $6,000 in cash was taken by the robbers. Schonbrich was known to have a fear of banks ami he was suspected of having a large amount of money hidden in his house. The other night his home was entered by tour masked men, the 14-year-old daughter admitting them. A demand was made on the old man for his money, and, upon his refusal to tell the hiding place, the robbers roasted his legs over the flames. When the agony became unbearable he told where $1,200 was concealed. His wife was subjected to the same cruel treatment and she finally told her torturers where $4,000 to $5,000 could be found in a barrel of salted meat. IV Ison to Succeed Bissell. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of William L. Wilson of West Virginia, to succeed William S. Bissel! as Postmaster General. The fact that President Cleveland intended to appoint Mr. Wilson to the position lias been known for several days to the most intimate friends of Mr. Wilson and to Mr. Wilson himself. The selection is one which the President made of his own motion, without any urging from Mr. Wilson’s friends and largely in recognition of the member’s service in leading the tariff fight in the House. Few members have been on more intimate terms with the President than has the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and his speeches in the House have always been understood to voice the opinion of the administration. Rescued. The anchor line steamer Anchori, which arrived at New York from Glasgow recently, rescued at sea on February 25, the crew of the British brigantine Confederate, which was in a sinking condition. The Confederate sailed from Ft. Johns, N. F„ January 8. for Bristol with a cargo of fish oil. On February 21, after having experienced a succession of hard storms the vessel sprang a leak. The water gained steadily and had not assistance come when it did the erew w ould have been obliged to desert the brigantine. The Sueva brought in to port Capt. Warren and erew of the schooner, Mary E. Amsden. from Calais. Me., for Barbadoes with lumber, wrecked February 10, in latitude 65:16, longitude 48:40. The crew saved nothing but what they had on. Trouble in Cuba Ended. Washington special: It is a question if official dispatches f"ave been received by the Spanish legation here in regard to Cuba, but from unofficial information Minister Muruga thinks that the trouble is about over. None of the many filibustering parties that were announced as ready to start from Key West, Costa Rica and San Domingo have reached Cuba, and the bands of revolutionists in the interior seem to be dispersed. Garcia, the rebel leader, who has been announced as having been killed, has for years occupied a stronghold in the mountains and has occupied himself and his band by carring off plantes and holding them lor ransom. Over fr 1,000,000 Less, Fire started in Simpson’s Dry Goods Store, the largest establishment of the kind in Toronto. < Pit.. and in less than thirty minutes had completely destroyed it. The fire spread across the street and destroyed Wanless’ big jewelry establishment, Love’s drug store, lui|«riai Branch Bank, T. F.

i Brown s furniture store. Charles Milnes* i hardware store. Tremont Hotel, Confederation Life Insurance big brown stone building, Jamison’s clothing store, Knox Presbyterian Church. Sutcliff’s dry goods store, i Bonner’s gents’ furnishings, and Toronto I Furnace Company building. The loss will reach over $1,000,900. Buried Beneath Falling Walls. The rear w all of the old six story malt | house on the northeast corner of Forty- ; three street and Tenth avenue. New York, I in course of demolition, fell suddenly at ! 3 o’clock carrying w ith it and burying in I its rains over a dozen workmen. One I man w as found dead in the ruins: one man i died on his way to the hospital and two are | know to lie buried in the ruins. They are I supposed to be dead, seven men were injured, some of them fatally. It is thought there may be others In the rains. The building belonged to A. D. Schewyer. The workmen were engaged in tearing it down. Il IV as I.nade,i. Homer Hinshaw , aged about 12 years, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Garner Hinshaw, Wilmington, Ohio, went to the home of Mr. Hoiaday while his parents attended an I entertainment at the Ojwra House. He and Robert Hoiaday. of about the same age. were alone studying their lessons when young Hoiaday, getting a 32-caliber revolver of his father’s, began snapping it. Hinshaw spoke up and said: “Aim at me if it is not loaded," and he did so. The gun was discharged, the ball entering just over the right eye, lodging in the base of the brain. His parents are prostrate from grief. Lied About It. Paris special: The embargo placed upon American cattle is due to the representations made by numerous deputation which have recently been calling upon the ministerof husbandry, notably an influential deputation which called upon him on February 22. For some time past a violent crusade against American eattle has been waged in the French press, and description of the alleged terrible condition of American cattle arriving at La Vallette. saying how the animals were a mass of skin, bones and sores. This also appeared in the English newspa|>ers. American Ships Needed. Secretary Herbert has received disquieting advices from Colombia, believed to be from Captain Cromwell, of the Atlanta, relative to the progress of the revolution in that disturbed country. The large American interests on the west side of the isthmus, including the terminal of the Panama Railroad, are very much exposed, there being no warship nearer than Benventura, Colombia, about 300 miles distant, where the Ranger has been stationed since February 20. Burned to Death. While preparing dinner for her husband and children by a eampfire, near Earlington, Ky.. Mrs. Thomas Lundson, who was moving with her family in w agons through the country, was burned to death by her dress catching fire from a stray spark. She came near burning up her children as she ran wildly among them. When she fell to the eartli all the clothing was burned from her. and she lived in agony only a few hours. A Bridge Swept Away. Lancaster (Pa.) special: The bridge ot the Columbia & Port Deposit railroad, over the Susquehanna river at Safe Harbor, was carried away by the great floodand volume of ice together with ten loaded coal cars. A big gorge has formed at McCall’s ferry and the w ater is backing up. Weise’s island, a large tract of land in the Susquehanna is nearly covered with water. Still Another. While a crowd of young people were rehearsing for an entertainment at Bucket’s schoolhouse, near Massillon, Ohio. Miss Josie Lantz, daughter of John Lantz, was shot in the mouth by a young man named Cloyd Rousii. The bullet tore out several teeth, and lodged in the neck, in a drama to be given is a shooting scene. Roush says he forgot the revolver was loaded. fearfully Scalded. The little son of Peter Gnau. who resides at 13 Fourth street, Fort Wayne, Ind., while playing around the house, accidentally fell into a pail of scalding water. The cries of the child quickly called its mother, who was in another room. The child was seriously scalded in the face and will probably die. Wealth Weds. The marriage of Miss Anna Gould, •laughter of the late Jay Gould, to Count Paul Ernest Boniface De Castellano was solemnized Monday at noon. Archbishop Corrigan officiating, at the residence of her brother, George .1. Gould, Sixty-Seventh street and Fifth avenue Xew York. Accidentally Drowned. At TTopkinsville. Ky.. While out in a skiff fishing upon Little River, Dora Moss, colored, accidentally fell in the water and was drowned. Several persons were near her and saw her go under the last time, but could not save her. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 (<24.50; sheep, fair to choice, [email protected]; wheat. No. 2 red, 50(£r51<*: corn. No. 2. 4.36/4 4o; oats. No. 2, 256/,29c; rye. No. 2. 516/;53c; butter, choice creamery, 226/ 22L7c: eggs, fresh. 266/28c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel. 656/80c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. S3O 5.50; hogs, choice light. sheep, common to prime, wheat, No. 2 red, 52<U53c; corn. No. 1 white. 41fu Jl’oc: oats. No. 2 whte, St. Louis—Cuttie, hogs, 4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 51@52c; com, 2,416 t 42e; oats, No. 2. ’ corn. No. 2, Cincinnati—Cattle. hogs, sheep, $2,506/4.75; wheat. No. 2. 546/55c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 426x43c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31@32c; rye, No. 2, 576x59c. Detroit—Cattle, hogs, $46? 4.50; sheep. $26/4.50; wheat. No. 1 white, 556256 c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 42@43c; oats, No. 2 white, 33@34c; rye, No. 2. 57(?/59c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. 536/54c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42@43c; oats. No. 2 white. 33 1 rye. No. 2. 546/56c. Buffalo Cattle, $2,506/6.00; hogs. s36| 4.75; sheep. [email protected]; wheat. No. 2 red. 57@58c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 46@47c; oats. No. 2 white. 356d3Gc. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring. 53@ 54c; corn. No. 3. 426;43c; oats. No. 2 white. 316/32c: barley. No. 2. 526j54c; rye. No. 1, 10.25. New York—Cattle, $36/6.00: hogs. $3.50 674.75: sheep, $3625; w heat, No. 2 red, 586/60c; corn. N< . 2. 496/,50c; oats, w hite Western. 356/42c butter, creamery, °4c; eggs, Westerr., 30fQ«31c.

WW M. 1.. WILSON. The new Postmaster General. TO TEACH FARMERS. An Appropriation Asked to Instruct Them in Scientific Agriculture. A bill prepared by Jonathan Periam one of the best-known writers on agricultural topics in the West, has been introduced in the Illinois State Senate by Senator Aspinwall appropriating $6,000 for farmers’ institutes. The bill authorizes the trustees of the University of Illinois to hold institutes for the instruction of the citizens of the State in the various branches of agriculture. So far as practicable one such institute shall be held in each county. The course of instruction is to be so arranged as to present to those in attendance the most recent investigations in scientific and practical agriculture. Mr. Periam says of the bill that the only unsatisfactory thing in it is that it does not make a large enough appropriation. It should be twice as large. New’ York appropriates $15,000; Wisconsin. $12,000; Missouri. Minnesota, SIO,OOO, and Indiana. $5,000. There is another bill before the Legislature appropriating SIOO to each county holding an institute. If each county in the State holds an institute it would require $10,400 to pay the bill, but when institutes are held independently none realize the advantage except those in attendance. To be made practically and permanently useful there should be a printed record kept. This Wisconsin ami Minnesota do. After a trial of eight years both these States are inclined to raise, rather than reduce, the annual appropriaton. The concerted work of the institutes in Wisconsin has made that State one of the foremost in the West, notwitlistatiding its extreme northern position. An appropriation of $lO,000 would allow an institute of two days’ duration, print 50.000 copies of a welledited digest of each meeting, and possibly aid toward the organization of a second institute in such counties as might wish to undertake the second one.” MINISTER TO MEXICO. Senator Ransom, Who Has Been Appointed to Succeed Isaac I’. Gray. Senator Matt. W. Ransom has been appointed Minister to Mexico to succeed Isaac I’. Gray, recently deceased. The nomination was made by Senator Sherman and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, in which Mr. Ransom is ’ ery popular. He was born in Warren Ccunly. N. C., Oct. S. 1826, and received a cdlegiate education, graduating in IS 17 from the University of North Carofin.i. He chose the profession of law and was also a planter for several years. He entered politics in 1852 as a presidential elector on the Whig ticket, but a few years later joined the Democratic party. When his State seceded he enlisted in the Confederate service as a private, having previously done what he could to avert the war. He received several promotions and when he siiirejjtlrrvd with Lee at Appomattox, held the rank of major general. g* 7 i w- ■ ' £ MATT. VV. BAKSOM. He has been a member of the United States Senate since 1872, but failed of reelection last year. He will not qualify until after March 4, thus serving out his time in the Senate. IT SHATTERS A TOWN. Loss of Caused by an Exploerioii ut Anderson, Ind. The most destructive natural gas explosion in the history of the Indiana gas belt occurred in Anderson at 4 o’clock Tuesday morning. A $75,000 business block on the court house square was blown all over the central part of the city. In the building were the When clothing stores, Prather’s shoe store. Hadley's drug store, and a large number of business offices and halls on the upper floors. Fire followed the explosion, which was like an earthquake, and the remains of the debris began burning fiercely. The entire firdepartment was called out and prevented the fire from reaching the new court house. Attorney Ballard and County Commissioner Metcalf lived in rooms above the When store, and, the dispatch says, it is feared they have perished. The loss on the building and contents is total, and will reach S4IX>.OOO. The fronts of all the business houses in the neighborhood of the explosion were demolished, paved streets ripped open and telephone cables torn down. The Grant Monument Association reports $330,482 oa band—enough to finish its work.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAfTHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing* of Onr Neighbors-Wed-dings and Deaths—Crimea, Casual tie* and General News NotesCondensed State News. David Sellers was killed by the cars at Columbus. Fkanktox will have a tin-plate mill. It will emplov 500 men. Corx-TEKFEIT half dollars of 1892 issue are in circulation at Columbus. Tekke Haute’s death rate for 1894 was only 12 i»ersons out of every 1,000. A detachment of the Salvation Army I is now engaged in saving ( rawfordsv ille. Gref.xberkv Teague, wealthy of Greenfield, was run down and killed by a freight train. Lewis Keever, head engineer at the Muncie pulp mill, was seriously burned by I a natural gas explosion. A large mad dog fastened his teeth in i the wrist of John King and wouldn t let go. Had to be beaten to death. A max by the name of Carson was fatally burned in the Fortville chemical , works, by an explosion of nitric acid. John Xihi.aik, Wheatland, who was terribly wounded by burglar-, recently, is recovering and w ill soon be on his feet. It proposed to build an electric railway from Valpariso to Chicago, which will carry passengers for 40 cents for the round trip. The Paragon Paper Mill Company, Muncie. was fined SSOO for polluting the waters of the Mississinewa River with its refuse. Ax 8-vear-old Fort Wayne boy named McKay, held a lighted match to a blank cartridge, to see it go off. He will recover. At the American starch works, in Columbus, Stephen Sanders was badly burned by the explosion of a coal oil torch. A farmer near Syracuse put ground eoal in liis hog feed, having heard that it was good for swine. All his porkers are lead. Muncie is to have a flat silverware company. The contract has Iwn closed with Toronto, Can., parties. The plant will employ 250 hands. The Indiana Teachers’ Association will hold its annual meeting at South Bend the first week in April. It is expected that 1.000 teachers will be present. Michigan City doctors, took out a portion of a man’s skull to cure fits. The man is getting along likely. Theskuil had been fractured and pressed upon his brain. Charles Moore completed a twenty-otie-years term at the Prison South recently for killing a man in Vanderbnrg county. During his confinement he entirely lost his mind. Two carloads each of horsesand cattle were sent to the Hammond sausage factory, from Decatur] county. Horse meat is Ised almost exclusively in that establishment now. Ed Graham, Gosport, found a pearl in a mussel shell in White river. He had it set by a New York firm, which informs him that the pearl is of the best quality ind is worth SSO. At a meeting of well-known horsemen in Wabash, steps were taken to organize a lircuit, including the tracks at Fairmount, Swayzee. Marion, Wabash, North Manchester, Rochester and Bourbon. A Big Four engine was seized at St. loseph by Tax-collector Silvers. The company refused to pay the sewer tax. While he engine was still the collector ran a log ihain through the drivers and chained it to Jie track. The damage suit of Mrs. Nellie Walley, Muncie, against gambling houses, has brought to light many other losers, who are aow flooding the attorneys in the case with letters stating their losses and asking whether they can recover or not. Tin: 2-year-old child of Charles Ahrent was dangerously burned by its clothes catching lire from playing with matches at Pera. It died a few hours later. With a brother four years older, they were alone in the house. The elder boy made every effort to lave his brother by pouring water over' lim. A Ifi-YEARs-old boy named James Watson went to the undertaking establishment of Henry Wessinger, Mt. Vernon, and said that his mother had died when he was 6 years old and Mr. Wessinger had furnished the coffin which had never beat paid for, as bis father had died soon after. This proved to be the case and the boysettled the bill. Mrs. Andrew Knotts ofElwood, was horrified upon going to the bed to take her three-months-old daughter to find her dead. She had been doing the housework, am! when that was over she went to take the baby and found it dead, having been mothered to death by the bed covers Jetting over its face. She was prostrated Tom the effects of the discovery. 1 he western part of Gibson County and northern part of Posey County, is to have theliingrst dram ditch in the State. Its source will be five miles west of Princeton ind w ill empty into the Wabash River. It will be 40 feet at he top and average 12 feet deep and 10 miles long, at an estimated cost of over a SIOO,OOO. It will be contracted tinder the laws of 1892. Bonds, covering a period of 20 years will be sold to the highest bidder. The route w ill lie surveved atonee and the contract let. Bids will be ad vert ised for. A resident of the Indian resevation states that .lames Sasaquo, known as Jame Sassafras, the venerable Miami Indian, lately died ot starvation in his little hut on the reserve. Sasafras was never a Chief of the Miami's, nor was he related to a Chief. He was of plebeian strain, inclined to lie iazy and with a passion for firewater, Cuaraeteristie of the degenerate remnants us iris tribe, lhe Township Trustee had wearied of supplying Sassafras with food and clothing, and requested him to go to th* Poor-house, but Sassafras was obdurate and was left to starve alone. A messenger from Gabriel Godfrey, one of the few industrious and thrifty of the Miarnis, with a basket of clothing and victuals, called at ;he little shanty which Sassafras called borne, just liefore the latter’s death, but he was too weak to accept the present. John Gray, a prominent business man M Logansport, has been honored by one of the leading lire insurance companies of the country for doing something that was with- > out precedent. A large portrait of Mr. Gray has been hung in the directors’ office i of the insurance company, and beneath it Is told that it is the picture of the only man who ever in the history of the company returned exe-ssive insurance money. Air i Gray some time ago had part of his stock j (.amaged by fire. Tiie loss was immediately adjusted by the insuiance company. Late.r Mr. Gray found that he had been I < y , er l' ti e company, and returned the amount to the insurance people.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. The House, Tuesday, passed the N icholson temperance bill under the previoua question, by a vote of 75 ayes to 20 nays. Other bills passed as follows: To relieve* citizen of Greencastle from double taxation: providing that where a public highway has been of a certain width for twenty years, it shall not be widened; to appro- : priate <6OO for two years for tiie publication of Indiana Academy ot Science reports. The House passed a bill to provide for the election of county superintendents of instruction in September instead of June as I under the present law. The following bills wereengrossed in the I Senate: To fix the salaries of county com- [ missioners: to amend the law concerning proceedings in criminal eases; to amend the law concerning public offenses; concerning commercial paper maturing on legal holidays; authorizing the sale of bonds to pay the state debt; relating to partition fences; to repeal an act on the subject of railroad crossings at grade; to regulate the sale of convict-made goods; concerning the incorporation and government of cities havinrtiore than 35.00 b and less than 49.000 population. The bill refers to Fort Wayne alone: to promote the science of medicine and to provide for subjects for dissection: to provide for repairs on highways; to regulate the practice of dentistry. The Senate passed the Wishard-New-house legislative apportionment bill Wednesday after nearly four hours of haranguing. The bill now awaits the action of the Governor, having passed Imth branches of the legislature. The following bills were alsa passed: Abolishing the 80 percent, clause in insurance policies and providing for the full payment of a loss where the insurance covers it; legalizing dtssls issued under illegaltax sales; providing for attorneys’ fees where an employe has to sue for wages; to create a state Board of Regents to suceeel lhe State Board ol Monument Commissioners; limiting the time of service of County Assessors; providing tortile relocation of county seats in counties having an area of over 500 square miles; for the protection of owners ami keepers ot hotels, etc.; regulating the powers and duties of township trustees. The House legalized the fee and salary act of 1891, as it was before a false sheet was inserted in the body of the act by some designing person. For the first time of the session a Democrat was allowed to ait as Speaker for a while. Mr. Adams showing tins courtesy to Mr. Bobily a of Allen County . The second reading of bills was made the order of business of the day arid a large number w ent to engrossment. The House Thursday, settled down to the appropriation of money, the direct tax bill for the support of the State educational institutions was passed under suspension of rales. This bill gives Indiana State University at Bloomington a tax of onefifteenth of a mill on eacli IKK), amt onetwentieth each to Purdue University at Lafayette and the State normal at Terre Haute. ' The House in committee of the whole passed tiie appropriation of $234,009 for the Central Hospital for the insane in Indianapolis. The Northern Hospital for the insane at Logansport was given »W,OOO for maintenance. The House passed the fee and salary bill only two Republicans, Dinwiddie and Hunt, voting against it. Like action was taken with the bill ousting custodian Griffin of tiie State House, a.id wiping out the 12 per cent, grab of the Attorney General. As a committee of the whole the house agreed on the appropriation bill, making few changes over the original bill. The senate passed the military bill providing for an appropriation of $75,000 for the state militia, an increase, of $20,900. The senate also passed tiie bill abolishing the 12 per cent, clause in the fee and salary bill as a com{>ensation to the attorney general for the collection of the surplus school funds held by township trustees and school trustees. The bills concerning drainage and the repairs of ditches and supplemental to existing laws for the drainage of sw amp lands were passed. The House in committee of the whole, Friday, decided upon the following salaries for State officers: Governor, $5,090 salary, S6OO house rent, $1 000 for private secretary; Auditor. $7,500, bis deputv, $2,u(W; Treasurer. $0,000; deputy. $2,000; Superintendent, $2,500: State Librarian, $1,500; Reporter of the Supreme Court. $1,000: State Statistician, J'.'.rtM: Geologist, $2,500, The House passed the bill amending the election law so as to require four booths, and to provide a penalty for failure to enclose booths with curtains. The bill appropriating $40,000 for marking tiie position of Indiana troops on the Cbiokamaugua battlefield was passed. lhe Senate passed the anti-winter racing biil and the bill giving blacklisted employes the right to recover for actual and exemptlary damages. The Senate defeated the bill to make Lincoln’s birthday a legal holiday. The bill requiring the teaching of the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics on the human system in the publie schools, was passed. When the caucus bill to reorganize the the penal institutions us the State, was presented in tiie. Senate, Saturday, senator Crumpacker caused a sensation by calling attention to some suspicious errors in the printed copies. It was decided to act on the original bill, which was passed. Later in the day it came up in the House, and was passed after the Democrats had filibustered for an hour. Senator Shively’s metropolitan police bill was passed; also, a bill by Senator Vail io permit eities and towns to redistrict wards and precincts every two years for the nurpose of electing ward officers. Senator Schenck’s bill restricting the sale and providing that convict-made goods shall be marked, passed. Senator Seiler s anti-winter racing bill, which passed the Senate Friday, went through the House with a whirl. I he House passed the bill fixing the State levy, also Mr. Barber’s bill to appropriate a sum equivalent to about $75,090 for the purpose of placing Hags in each schoolhouse in the State. As welt, spread a suin’,tuons banquet and invite no guests as to open a line store and not advertise it, Black Silk Reviver. Boil logwood in water h ,ls an hour, then simmer the silk hdf an hour, take it out and put into the dye a little blue vitrol, or green copperas; cool it and simmer the silk for half an hour. Or, boil a handiul of fig leaves in two quarts of water until it, is reduced to one pint; squeeze the leaves, t■■ ’.; ■ii .u.,r toi use, V, in n wanted s] imge the silk frith it. < tatterton was undoubtedly insaae when he took his own lite.