Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1895 — Page 2

Democratic Press. DECATUR, Democratic Pre*« t 0.. - PublKher*. FI LL OF FRESH FACTS ALL RELATING TO PEOPLE AND THINGS OF THE WORLD. Lord Li Ching Fang an i .Mr. Fc*ti'r Turn the Island of Formosa Over to Japan — The History of Indiana Masonry to lie Written—Heavy Downfall of Kain Stops the Big Oil Fires. History of Indiana Masonry. At a recent in 'tine of the Indiana Grand Lodge if M ons the Grand Master. Judge F. E. Gavin.officially complimented the "History of Early Indianapolis Masonry,” by the Hon. Will E. English, recently issued by the Bowen-Merrill Company, and recommended that the example be followed in State affairs and a similar history of early Indiana Masonry be wntten under Grand Lodge auspices. The Grand Lodge immediately adopted the suggestion and passed a resolution directing the appointment of a committee of three historians for that purpose. The Grand Master, in pursuance of this order, thereupon appointed Past Master Will E. English of Indianapolis, Past Grand Master Daniel McDonald of Plymouth, and Past Gragid Master Thomas B. Long of Terre Haute, as the official historians of the Grand Lodge to prepare a "History of Masonry in the State of Indiana.” . A Serious Charge. Guthrie ill. T-1 special: The Osage Indians assembled in mass convention and have declared the management of the government schools on this reservation to be corrupt and immoral: that their children are being morally ruined; that they are being daily robbed by the licensed government traders; that their land is leased to cattle syndicates against their will, and their people kept from advancing because of the tyrannical action of the Indian agent in refusing to allow them to associate and trade with the white people surrounding the reservation. Therefore, they demand the abolishment of the government schools so they can send their children to private schools, where they will not be corrupted: the alH'lishment of the trader system, and the removal of Indian Agent Freeman. Turned Oxer to Japan Shanghai special: Li Ching l ang, the son of Viceroy Li Hung Chang, and Mr. John W. Foster, who have been to the island of Formoso for the purpose of formally transferring it to the Japanese according to the terms of the treaty of the Shimoneseki, have returned here. Mr. Foster, in an interview after his return, stated that Admiral Viscount Kaibayma. formerly chief of the Japanese navy department, has been made Governor of Formosa. The formal transter of the island of Formosa and the Chinese property on that island was effected at Kee Lung on Sunday. June 2. w hen the documents necessary to the transfer were exchanged. Mr. Foster will return to the United States by the first steamer. Train Held I’p. South Bend (Ind.) special: Freight train No. 11 on the Lake shore was held up the other night between here and Mishawaka. The engineer was compelled at the point of a revolver to stop. Two men watched him until the gang went through the merchandise cars. Several cars were broken, and the stolen goods loaded into wagons. The gang got several hundred dollars worth of goods. Detective Frank Brobst brought five local characters to tiie city handcuffed. Brobst was in a box ear with tramps in disguise of a tramp when the train was held up, and was an eye witness to nearly all the proceedings. Supreme Court Against O’Malley. The Indiana Supreme Court has handed down a decision in w hat is known as the Columbian Athletic Club case, sustaining the Governor at all points in the controversy between him and Dominiek O'Malley. The Columbian Athletic Club was established at Roby in 1893 under a law which authorized “exhibitions of science and skill." The Governor contended that the law did not give authority for prize fightisg and raided the club with military force. The decision sets at rest the question of prize fighting in Indiana. Grenhani'fl Pension. For three years Secretary Gresham has not drawn his S3O a month pension from the Chicago pension office. lie has never surrendered it. but for some reason he had not made any call for it. There is an accumulation of $l,lOO to his credit. The pension was granted him for w ounds received at the battle of Atlanta. Under the laws of tiie department the accumulation is subject to the order of his wife ami the pension of S3O a month will go to her. I lames Quenched. Bradford (Pa.) special : Rain has quenched the forest tires in this vicinity and everything is quiet. Knapp's Creek, N. X'.. the town that was threatened with destruction, escaped with a loss of three dwellings, 150 oil rigs and two tanks of oil. Between Dukes Centre and Knapp's Creek. 200 rigs were destroyed together w ith a large amount of standing timber. Olney to Be Secretary of State. Though no official announcement has yet been made, the impression that Attorney General Olney will lie transferred from the Department of Justice to the Department of state is so general in the best informed quarters that it is accepted as a strong probability, or, as one Cabinet officer put it in a non-committal way, "an exceedingly likely guess.” Warships In the Bosphorus. A dispatch from Vienna to the Central News says that it is reported that in consequence of the unsatisfactory character of the porte's answer to the Armenian pnqmsals of the powers, a naval demonstration will tie made in the Bosphorus by England. France and Russia. Cholera io Russia. Consul General Karel, at St. Petersburg, reports to the State Department that cholera still continues in Russia. Ti“ official report from the government m Volga shows that there were 106 eases and thirty-three deaths from April Uta Apt'. 27. Six cases were reported in St. Petersburg. Trajnmcn Elect a Grand Master. Tiie Brotherhood of Trainmen’s eonve”tion. in session at Galesburg. 111., elected PH. Morrissey grand master.

FOREST FIRES ! Raging in th. Fennsylrani. Oil Region. Bradford i Pa. > sjieeial: Forest tires are again raging in this vicinity and much property is being destroyed, although an army of men are fighting their progress. Five rigs, tanks, and boiler houses belonging to the Middlehead Oil Company were destroyed near Hunter Run, seventeen miles from Kane. A large quantity of logs and lumber were burned. Fires are raging at Chipmunk, Tally Ho. Cuffey and along the line of the Erie and Buffalo and Rochester and Pittsburgh Railways between this city and Johnsonburg. The settlement of Coon Run, in Elk County, ten miles from Kane, is reported completely w iped out. There were twen-ty-five dwelling houses in the village. Before telegraph communication was shut off forty-six oil rigs w ere reported destroyed. To the north, near the New York state line, forrest tires surround' Knapps Creek. Communication is shut off and tiie damage cannot be ascertained. river in the Nealy district fires are fiercelyraging. though about all the damage that can lie done lias been accomplished. Ball A Tate are reported to have lost two tnillfeet of logs. On the Kinzua Creek the Penn Tanning Company's standing timber is burning. A message from Knapp's Creek via rilean. N. Y.. says: Fifty rigs, belonging to Curtis. Burns A Russell have been destroyed. The town is completely surrounded by fire, and should a fresh wind spring up the town will undoubtedly be destroyed. Everything between Russell City and Coon Run has been wiped out, including all the rigs, tanks, etc., the pump station of the Standard Oil company and the Elk County Pipe Line company. FIRE BIUF Have Reduced Their Work to a Science in New York City. New York special: Morris Schoonholz. who was arrested recently on the charge of arson, has made a statement to the police which will probably result in the arrest of a dozen or more insurance adjusters. It is alleged that Schoonholz confessed to fireing at least a dozen houses in this city and Brooklyn by pre-arrangement for the insurance money. One fire in Yonkers was all prepared and ready, when it was prevented by accident. The fires that "panned out" were all set with benzine on the bladder plan. This plan is as simple as it is effective. The doomed store or fiat is sprinkled with alcohol and a bladder filled with iniflamable stuff is suspended from the ceiling. Then it is set on fire, and when the flames reach the bladder there is an explosion which destroys the proiierty and every vestige of the manner in which the fire w as set at the same time. A similar result is obtained by turning on all the gas and letting one jet burn. The explosive point is readied in due time. These are the flash fires that so long puzzled police and firemen. Morris Schoonholz was the ex]iert who did the business, but he was himself the Ltoof a gang of tire insurance adjusters. THE LOST COLIMA. Only Twenty-six Persons Saved Out nt a Crew ot 313. San Francisco special: The Pacific Mail Company has received the following telegram: Manzanillo—The Colima foundered, goingdown astern and sinking entirely in ten minutes. There was no strong wind, only a heavy swell. The same swell caught the Mexican schooners Josefina and Albina, and the America schooner Hayes. The captains report heavy swells, and onlyentered here for safety. The saved were: Cabin—Albano. Tiiornton. Sutherland, Cusbing. Ruiz. Gutierrez. Sarabia. Saved, steerage—Boyd, Zaongone, Oriel, Hoss. Ramon, Soliz. Rolan and three more, saved, crew—Third Officer Hanson, Carpenter Richardson, Raymond, Morll. Have sent a steamer to look for the shipwrecked passengers. Until now twenty-six persons saved. The steamer is a total loss. The latest advices state that twenty-six persons are known to have been saved so far, leaving 187 unaccounted for. Sensation at Madrid. Madrid special: Major Clavijo, an infantry officer, walked into the office of Gen. Primo Rivera. Captain General of Madrid, w hom he saluted. As he dropped his hand, after touching his cap. Major Clavijo drew a revolver, and. without a moment’s warning, fired two shots at the General, both of w hich took effect in the chest. Gen. Primo Rivera fell to the floor mortally wounded and his assailant attempted to fire again, but Gen. Ayinerich, who w as present, struck the assassin dow n with his saber and summoning the guards had him taken to prison. It is believed that Clavijo is insane. The last sacrament was at once administered to Gen. Primo Rivera, and all the cabinet ministers called to inquire as to hi, condition. Major Clavijo had been confined in the military hospital for some time with dementia. Terrific Shock. Parkersburg iW. Va.) special: Two hundred and fifty quarts of nitro-glyce-rine exploded aboard a large skiff on the Little Kanawa River. The boat and the man in charge were blown to atoms, and the city was shaken as though by an earthquake shock. The damage done by the w recking of buildings, breaking ot glass and the wreckage of boats and barges is estimated at $75,000. The business streets oi the city were strewn with glass and wreckage. Numerous persons were cut and injured by falling glass and timbers. The greatest damage was done in south Parkersburg!) where houses caved in. and the plastering fell off the walls and ceilings. Horses were frightened and ran away and bedlam generally broke loose in this city. A Train Ablaze. A special from Shiloh. Ohio., says a car on Big Four train No. 66 caught fire from the engine between this place and Greenwich. It was loaded with horses, and before the fire was discovered and the tram could be stopped, seven horses had been burned. Tiie trainmen opened the doors of the car and the remaining fourteen were taken out, but in very bad shape, some having their ears burned off and eyes put out. Also, some were injured in jumping Horn the burning car. The horses were the property of a Mount Gilead Shipper. Trains were delayed over two hours before the wreckage could be cleared away. Great Britain Will Adhere Firmly to Gold. A London cablegram says: “bir W illiam Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor ot ttie Exchequer, has formally replied to the memorial forwarded by influential bankers and financiers, in terms emphasizing his previous strong remarks in favor of the gold standard. His reply concludes thus: “ 'You may rely upon it that Her Majesty’s Government will give no countenance to auv change in the fundamental orinciules

of our monetary system, nor in any discussions In which they may be called upon to take part, will they admit any doubt as to their intention firmly to adhere to the sinI gle gold standard.' ” To War Agaiu. A dispatch from >hanghai to the Pall Mall Gazette says there are alarming rumors that a renewal of the fighting between j Japan and China is imminent. The Japanese warships at Formosa have been cleared for action, and the French ships at Tamsui I are ready for any emergency. In conse- , quence c- a rumor that Russia intends to ' intervene, all the available steamers have : been ordered to Tien Tsin w ith cargoes of ; rice. The London Globe prints a dispatch from shanghai which says it is reported I that lighting has occurred at Tamsui, on j the northwest coast of Formosa. Willing to Meet the Called State. Balt Way. Ottawa (Ont.l special: Sir Charles Tupper. Minister of Marine and Fisheries, says he has reconsidered the matter, and is prepared to recommend to the government the abolition of license fees and all restrictions upon Americans fishing in Canadian waters, provided the United States authorities will take executive action with regard to restraints upon Canadian boatmen, fanners and others plying in the American water of the St. Law rence or disposing of their farm products. Assassinated. James Keith w as walking along a lonely road near Esculapiau Springs, Ky., when he came upon the body of a man. He turned the body over and discovered that it was that of Major William Hardiman, 78 years old. and well known. He had been shot while walking along the road evidently by some one under cover of the woods. Who killed him is a matter of conjecture. It is said that he had a number of enemies, but as yet no clew has been secured that will lead to the identity of the murderer. Steamer Sunk. Alpena I Mich, i special: During a heavy fog the Canadian steamer Jack, bound down with lumber, collided with the steel steamer Norman, of the Menominee line, opposite Middle Island. The Norman sank immediately The cook, wheelman and fireman were drowned. The barge Unsicken was near by and picked up the the balance of the crew. The Norman was valued at $200,000, insured for $175,000. The Jack is afloat, but badly damaged. The Norman sank in 300 feet of water. Mrs. Gresham's Home. Washington special: It is announced that Mrs. Gresham will not return to Washington, but w ill make her residence in Chicago hereafter with her children. All the effects of the late secretary at the Arlington have been packed up. and will be shipped to Chicago. As Secretary Gresham had no real property here it is believed that his will will not be submitted for probate in Washington. Good Time for Wanship*. The telegrams received at the Navy Department showing the timeof the arrival of the New York ami Columbia at Southampton. England, make it appear that they made the trip acre the in ten and nine days respectively, and this without being pushed in any degree. This is said at the Navy Department to lx? the best passage on record for a man-of-war. A Homan Walked Out of a Window. The dead body of Mrs. George Hamilton was found beneath her chamber window at the home of her son-in-law. Dr. Green Simmons, in Athens, Ky. Mrs. Hamilton occupied a room in the second story of the residence, and it is supposed that in a fit of somambulism she w alked out of the window. Flayed with Matches. The 4-year-old child of Oela Fanslerwas fatally burned at Peru, Ind., by its dress catching fire while playing with matches. Its lower limbs were badly charred, its hair burned from its head, and it is feared it eannot recover. A Lion Develop* Hydrophobia. A lion belonging to Sands A Ashley’s circus and menagerie, which exhibited at Blanchester, Ohio, was shot and killed. It took seven bullets to end its life. It developed a case of hydrophobia and had to be killed. Walter’s Mistake. Walter, the 15-year-old son of Vol Thompson ot the Glades Precinct, McKinney. Ky.. mistook wild parsnips for angelica and ate some of the herb, and died an hour later. Don’t Favor a Strike. Columbus, (0.) special: The inter-state miners convention here passed a resolution declaring it unwise to order a strike at this time. THE MARKETS. Chicago—( ’at tie. common to prime, $3.75 to $G.25; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2,51 cto 52c: oats, No. 2, A)c to 30c; rye. No. 2. 66c to 67c: butter. ■ hoiee creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh. 11c to 13c: potatoes, ear lots, per bushel. 45c to 60c: broom corn. per lb, common growth to tine brush. 4c to 7c. liidiaiiSfM.ilis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs choice light. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime. s2j£' o $4.25; wheat. No. 2, S3c to Ssc; corn. No. 1 white, 52c to 54c; No. 2 white. 33c to 35c. St. Louis—Cattle. s3.*«o to $5.75: hogs. $4 00 t«> $4 75- wheat. No. 2 red. 82c to 83c; com. No. 2. 49c to 51c: oats, No. 2. 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2. 67c to 69c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, Ssc to 87c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c: oats. No. 2 mixed. 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2. 71c to 73c. Detroit —Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; hogs. $4.00 to $4.75: sheep. $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 83c to 85c; com. No. 2 yellow. 53c to 54c; oats. No. 2 white, 34c to 35c: rye. 69c to 71c. Toledo—Wheat No. 2 red. 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2,67 c to 69c. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.50 to $6.00; bogs, $3.1 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 1 hard, 84c to 85c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 58c to 60c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 37c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 3. 51c to p2c; oats, Nc. 2 white, 31c to 33c: barley. No. 2, 50c to 52c; rye. No. 1,65 cto 67c; pork, mess, $12.50 io $13.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 81c to 82c: corn. No. 2, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c: butter, creamery. 14c to 19c; eggs. Western, 12c to 14c.

TORRID ZONE BURSTS. PAST WEEK HAS BEEN A RECORD BREAKER. Mercury Climbs Up and Peeps Over the Top of the Glass —Many Deaths and Prostrations Ke ported—Crops in Many States Burning Up» Hottest in Years. There is not much in the way of weather that the United States cannot dish up m the course of twenty-four hours. Indeed, coincide htly there may be every conceivable variety fashioned into a sort of meteorological mosaic*, making up what may be styled one unitied aggregation of universal climates. As a matter of fact the American weather nowadays is not. strictly speaking, weather at all: it is an assortment of samples, no sample warranted to ’’hold.” According to former rules of computation and average it should be intensely hot down South; whereas the region of the magnolia has been deliciously cool. refreshed by abundant and frequent rains, with now and then a delicate, barely perceptible pinch of frost in the air. In New York, where a reasonable degree of heat would have been admitted, but cool breezes were normal, all records have been broken for hot May weather. While New York was sweltering in this way Colorado had lost herself in eight or ten inches of snow. While Texas was being deluged with rain Indiana was burning up with drought. Other sections pined for a patter of rain upon com leaf and wheat ear, and a cloudburst came along to drown out a part of Nebraska. Now. all this is indicative of bad management somewhere. The distribution is performed in a bunglingly incompetent manner. This business of turning on a burning glass where the earth is already parched and the people baking, emptying clouds into lakes, and sending a surplus of rain into a State that has an instinctive aver sion to water, has been carried to a stupid excess. It is time a stop were ordered. Record for the Week Appalling. Tuesday’s torridity was the climax of a hot week that broke the record of twentyfive years. In Chicago every day the mercury climbed up to the 90 mark, and several times took a peep over the top of the glass. Not since the bureau began regulating the weather had the corresponding week let loose so much caloric. The excessive heat was due to the south wind, the scorching breath from some Mexican inferno that so often sweeps across Kansas and Nebraska, leaving death, destruction and mourning in its track. The record shows a remarkably high temperature from an early hour and a striking drop during a shift in the wind. Chicago did not get the worst of the heat, for at Indianapolis, Louisville and Charleston, S, the thermometer reg istered 101), making the first century record of the season. It was 98 at Washington and Norfolk, Va. The maximum of 96 was reached at Detroit. St. Louis, Springfield. 111., Cairo. Nashville. Mem phis and Cincinnati. Ni w York, as usual, played a second to Chicago, with only 94. Boston had a lucky day. having a sea wind which kept the record down to 60. At 7 o’clock nt night Ohio and cistern Indiana were still sweltering under a temperature of 90 to 92. The Rocky Mountain region was enjoying compensation for the suffering of last week. Beyond lowa and Minnesota the temperature was down to 60 or below. In Colorado and Wyoming it even went as low as 50. There were general rains, with more or less thunder, in lowa, Nebraska and Colorado, and those sections will probably got more showers later. This is likely to prove the longest spell of wet weather the arid section of the West has had for years. Cairo and Nashville also reported showers. Government correspondents sent in the following as the highest marks for Monday: AbileneSß Little Rock m Bismarck 52 Louisville too Boston no Marquette 72 Buffalo 74 Memphis ph Cairo Mlles Cltv 66 Cheyenneso Milwaukee 7R Chicago pg Mlnnedosa 62 Cincinnati 96 Montreal 70 Cleveland9o Moorhead M Davenport 92 New Orleans 84 Denver 5H New York 94 Des Moines S 4 Omaha so Detroit 96 Oswego so Dodge City ns Palestine is) Duluth 60 Pierre 4s El Paso 84 Pittsburg 94 Erie Rs Port Huron 94 Galveston Sil Pueblo 70 Grand Havenßapid I'itv 54 Green Bay 7s St. Louis.‘ w Helena uc. St. Paulso Huron RO Salt Lake City.... w Indianapolisl>«) siouj I'itv. 715 Jacksonville 92 Springfield, ill. .. IM Kansas City 84 Springfield. M 0... ss Knoxville 96 Toledo ,14 La Crosse Rs Washington9B Many cases of sunstroke are reported. In New York it is safe to say that at least twenty-five persons hare died during the last five days as a result of the heated term, and that over 150 have been prostrated ami taken to the different hospitals of the city. In Chicago four persons died Monday from sunstroke and many others overcome by heat will not recover. Philadelphia reports seven deaths and marly tffty prostrations as Monday's addition to the heated term fatalities, while Baltimore and Pittsburg each record four fatal cases. The mean temperature for May from 1871 to 1895 is shown in the following table: s Jbll 68 1880 65 1388.... M 18*31-8251 1890.... 53 1511 188353 189153 JJ76 59 1 S.XS 53 1593 ’’’ 5“ 187<. ..1X8657 1894 -.5 1™. 1887 80 The highest notch reached during May, 1895, was 94 degrees, the lowest being 32 degrees. (In seventeen days the temperature was above normal, and on fourteen it was below normal. The weather has been more freakish during May this year than in twenty-five years before. Ou four days Mai 4, 29, .in and 31—the records were smashed, the mercury beating its competitors in former years. Crops Burning L’p. The most serious condition which ever confronted the farmers of Illinois, Indiana. lowa, Wisconsin and Michigan reigns in many localities, and every crop is threatened by serious danger—wheat corn, oats and hay. There has beeu less than half the usual rainfall this year, and many of the smaller streams are now dry. while wells and cisterns have been dry for weeks. The hot wave of this week has made the condition more alarming. So long os it was cool the growing vegetation held its color, but under the influence of

the n . a»d wind ot week >f all kind. i. withering. Many of the meadow, are already in Augu.t brown. The blue grass pasture will not much long er afford cra.ing for the cattle, the farmer. sav. and the wheat .nd corn are both in danger of being destroyed. RUIN IN MEDICINE VALLEY. The Dreadful Effect of the Flood Plainly Discernible. I»e«th and destruction rushed hand in s-n i ’ »• Medicine Valley, Neb., on the creM of a raging flood. Swelled by the h. arv rams until its banks could no longer withstand the strain, Curtis Lake burst from its restraint, and Monday's sun ‘I ' , vallev of desolation through Ivuthwesi'Nebraska. Thousand, of dol- • \ of raiir 'ad property ha» b<*eii of meadow, that covered the earth with a carpeting of green are n .w a mudd.' waste, dotted with wrecked buildings and drowned live stock. No lives were b>st. Most of the damage I. to crops where the fields were flooded. The first intimation Curtis citizens had that the totality was threatened with disaster was the bursting of ths lake s bank, with a roar that could be heard several miles, and a wall of water ten feet high rusbtnl down the valley, carrying e'<ry thing in its path. House#, freight cars, 1 live stock and a mountain of debris were caught up and dashed about like feathers. The fine roller mills which occupy the east side of the great ravine received the first shock of the torrent and the building was ruined. A few hundred yards below the mills Medicine river passes under the railroad tracks of the Burlington. When the flood struck this narn»w defile its progress was impeded, but only for an instant. Then the heavy embankments gave way and the wall of water rushed through, cutting a path 100 yards wide. The railroad company’s loss is about $25. J MM). As the wall of water passed beyond the city it rapidly spread out over an immense territory, and its powers destruction were corresi*undingly decreased. The damage, however, was merely shifted, as the extensive alfalfa meadows for many miles to the south were flooded several feet deep, and all details from the south where the torrent passed indicate very extensive damage. Farm products of every description were engulfed and in many instances where the homes of the farmers were in the immediate vicinity of the valley the disaster was almost ruinous. Small buildings were washed away or undermined in such a manner as to be rendered worthless, ami in some sections the water rose so rapidly as to seriously menace the lives of families. FEELS THEIR PULSE. The New York World Polla Congress on Money Mattern. The New York Werld publishes a telegraphic poll of the next Congress, as far as obtainable, up,?n the silver, tariff and income tax questions. The World sums up the result as follows: In a general way it may be said that out of llti metuliers who gave unequivocal answers to the silver question, fifty-five are unqualifiedly in favor of free coinage, forty-four favor bimetallism, generally with a proviso of an international agreement. Only seventeen can fairly lx* lassed as favoring a : single gold standard, arid the attitude of some of these even is not definite. South and far western States are almost unanimous for free coinage. The South Central States are almost unanimous for free coinage. The North Central States lean towards silver, with an international bimetallic qualification and it is only in New York. New England and adjacent Eastern States that there is any avowedly gold standard men. In regard to the tariff, only twentyeight members are against all changes, while thirty-fire want moderate changes, and thirty-eight are pronounced for radical changes. Few are free traders. Moderates are chiefly those who think changes will be necessary in order to increase the revenues. The income tax question brought out many sharp and piquant answers. Forty-nine Congressmen say they favor the principle of the tax. Forty-seven oppose it. A great many evaded the question or failed to answer it. A few details by States will be interesting. Alabama. Arkansas. California, Colorado. Florida. Idaho. Mississippi, Montana. Nevada. North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Yirginia, Washington and Wyoming are solid for silver, so far as heard from. The bimetallists are chiefly in Delaware. Georgia. Illinois. Indiana, lowa. Kansas. Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri. Nebraska. < Ihio, Pennsylvania and West V irginia. New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont have gold advocates. Alabama. Arkansas, Texas, the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana and most all other Southern States are solid for the income tax. New Vork and the East are generally opposite. Elsewhere the division is nearly even. GRESHAM S DEATH MASK. A Perfect Plaster Cast of the Face ot the Late Secretary of State. The plaster cast of the face of the lats 8 -r.-tary Gresham has been completed and tb.. s. iilptor, U s J. Dunbar, has made two photographs, giving effective front and side views of the cast To the man who will be unable to see the fact of the dead these pictures will give a strikingly accurate view of the features of thr Secretary, calm and peaceful in death, with the lineaments of strength, firmn.-s; I»EATH MASK OF GRESHAM. and dignity still present. Aside from the 'alite of the cast as a representation of the Secretary’s features in death, it will have its chief purpose as the most accurate guide for the perfected bust of Mr. crrcsham. The east is out a mechanical process, but the hand of the sculptor will now fashion the clay into a complete representation, giving life to the eyes and expression to the features. One of the last acts before the remains of the Secretary were robed for death and committed to the casket was to make the plaster cast of the features.

NEWS OF OUR STATE. A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. «That Our Mrl<hhor» Are D.»in r Matter, of General and Ixx'al Interest and Death* — AccidenU and Pointers About Our Own People, Mrs. <'ha*r in Need. Just after Rev. Z. T. Sweenev, of the Talx'macle Christian Church, Columbus had coiii luded his sermon last Sunday he read the following statement concerning the life of the late Governor Ira J. Chase: ••Notwithstanding his long and valnal,s sen ice to his Mate, tbe v..un ry at large and the church, ex-Governor Chase left bis family in actual need. Thia information will be most distressing to thousands of friends and admirers of the late Governor. For more than twenty-five years his wife has been a confirmed invalid, confim-d nearly all of the time to her led. ami fifteen years has been totally blind. Governor Chase was a man of large and warm heart, and in his time gave away thousands in charity. In his young manhcod, when the Nation called for defenders, he offered himself and bore his full share of the great conflict. Although he was a party man. he had many friends in both parties. There are hundreds of largeheated men in Indiana who doubtless would be happy to give to help creates fund to make the last days of his window comfortable. To let her remain destitute would be a shame on the good name ot the State he served so long and well, on next Sunday night, June 2, I will preach i memorial sermon on Governor Chase, how he lived and how he died, and start a fund for the sup|H>rt of his widow." Minor Rtate News. The neighborhood of Xewburn is infested with chicken thieves. Owixo to a barbers’ war at Goshen a hair cut costs but ten cents. The latest improvement talked of fist South Bend is a sß>o,ooo hotel. Mrs. John Poland, Shelbyville, took laudanum by mistake, and is dead. Albert Haao. 20. was drowned near Wabash, while fishing with a seine. Colvnbvs market house and city building will soon be ready for occupancy. Very large and valuable deposits of shale have been found in Clay County. Btimilaks secured SI,OOO worth of diamonds from A. W. Stevens’ home, Logansport. Er.l West of Fairland, was sunstru'k while fishing. He is in a precarious condition. A Farmer of Laporte County has not been outside the county tot thirty-three years. Met Kkrnai. of Rockport, aged 18. was accidentally shot and killed by Robert Meyers, aged 17. The toys were shooting birds. Watchman Di n of the Lake Erie rout, at Frankfort, at the risk of his own life, saved little Cecil Jones from being crushed by an engine. Yot xo men of Cowan, near Muncie have threatened to tar and feather Dep-uty-prosecutor Kiger unless he ceases prosecuting them. Anderson has a policeman win- •~> conscientious that he w ill not attend the ball games for fear that he will become infatuated with the sport and neglect his duty. Mrs. Isaac Hi mes. Ingalls, conf---•si that she had cut her own throat and then given out the report that she was assaulted A suspected tramp w as nearly lynched for the supposed crime. James Rvmbavgh, farmer near Laporte. allowed a stranger to make him believe that he was a cousin of Ins and then gave him $3 and signed a paper. The latter turns out to be a note. Thebe was a desperate running battle between officers and burglars, at the Pittsburg y ards, in the eastern portion of Fort Wayne. One tramp and a Deputy sheriff are probably fatally wounded. John Cook, a colored barber, aged 30, attempted to crawl under a freight train at a street crossing on the Big Four road at Muncie, and both legs were mashed so badly that amputation at the hips was necessary. He died three hours later. Muhtin Bassett, a young farmer living five miles north of Shelbyville, blew the top of his head with a shotgun. Tiie reasons given for the suicide is that the frost and cut worms had ruined hispro--pects for a corn crop and that bis wife had threatened to leave him. Gov. Matthews has pardoned Harry M. Hodson of Evansville, who sh"t c l killed his father. William T. Hodson, n August. 1892. The pardon was asked by the Judge that tried the case, the twelve jurors who returned the verdict, and numerous citizens of Evansville. The s: -w---ing was made that the father had assault’d the boy first with a steel rod and then ">tl> a pitcher, and that the latter had shot Self-defense. Ghanville Cowing of Muncie, who is a recognized authority,says: "Then 'id be no raspberries or blackberries, and the crop of strawberries will not ’x* l li I 7 cent. Apples and pears are badly injured, but not as many kil.. .1 as some people believe. There will be some late eherrebut very few grapes. The drought - ing the meadows, and some wheat is Ix'inH plowed up, while much com is be.; g ! " planted. Rye was badly injured during the late Cold snap.” The Grand Lodge of Masons of Indians met at Indianapolis, in annual sessi"nwith alxiut five hundred delegates in attendance. The annual report of Granu Secretary Smythe shows tiie order to lx- m 1 prosperous and growing condition. The following officers were elected: Grand Master, Edward O’Rourke,of Fort W Deputy Grand Master, Simeon P. Gilietn - of Evansville; Senior Grand w ardei., N fwn J. Niblack, of Vincennes; Junior GrandjWarden. George A. Macomber, ot South Bend; Grand Treasurer, Martin II Rice, of Indianapolis; Grand .secretary, William H. Smythe, of IndianapoliMbs. Jambs Stbanghn and daughter, Cora, of Alto, were fatally hurt in a runaway at Kokomo. They were going town when an advertising man tried w throw a circus poster into the buggy- 1 paper fell under the horse's feet, causing the runaway. Both will die. A Nt’MBEB of fanners who are considered good authority on the fruit subject were discussing the fruit problem at Hagerstown, and were unanimous in the conclusion that though there has been the most unfavorable fruit weather this springand especially in May. that they have ever experienced, apples promise lhe J ar J”. yield in many years. The trees are loaded.