Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — Page 2

Sljc JlemocraticSentind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. 4 Bills were rormauy reported *e tbe Senate, on the 26th ult, to prohibit the mailing of newspapers containing lottery advertisements, and for the relief of Fits John Porter, the latter to come up March 12. An adverse report was made on the bill to abolish the military reservation at Fort Rice. A joint resolution was passed expressing the appreciation by the nation of the generosity of Great Britain in presenting the Alert for the Greely relief expedition. A resolution was passed calling upon the Secretary of the Navy for information regarding the progress of work on the Panama Canal. The bill to authorise the construction of additional steel vessels for navy led to some debate. In the House, Mr. Cobb asked unanimous consent for the passage of the joint resolution of thanks to Great Britain for the gift of the arctic steamship Alert, but Mr. Robinson objected. The plenro-pneumonia bill was discussed to the hour of adjournment, it being argued that the measure was full of unconstitutional provisions, and was in the interest of a ring now being formed to control the cattle trade. « Bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 27th ult, to improve the channel between Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico, and to incorporate and aid the Yellowstone Park Railroad. A resolution was passed calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the rumored lease of the Crow Reservation in Montana. The bill for the construction of eleven vessels for the navy led to a hot debate. Mr. Van Wyck asked immediate consideration for a resolution directing the Postoffice Committee to inquire whether at any time the Western Union and the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Companies had negotiated for consolidation. Mr. Plumb offered the resolution, and it was referred to the Postofflce Committee. The bill to repeal the test oath which passed the Benate some time ago, was passed by the House. The House adopted a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to state how much money there Is in the vaults, and to report what amount can at present be applied in liquidation of the public debt. Mr. Le Fevre offered a resolution directing the preparation of a bill to prohibit option trading in grain or provisions, but Mr. Cox objected. Mil Ingalls, of Kansas, introduced a bill In the Senate on the 28th ult. to remove the injunction of secrecy from the members of the Fit* John Porter court-martial. The remainder of •the session was spent on the bill to authorize the construction of steel vessels for the navy. An amendment that the number of ships be reduced from seven to four was defeated by 17 to 34. In the House, two German-Americans, Messrs. Deuster and Guenther, rose, by unanimous permission, and delivered speeches which they believe better express the true sentiments of the German people than did the contemptuous act of Prince Bismarck. Mr. Kasson, of lowa, was promptly on his feet to regret the speeches of the gentlemen from Wisconsin, and to urge that a resolution adopted by members of the Reichstag and presented by the previous speakers should be smothered in that yielding pillow called the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Kasson’s motion prevailed. Bv a vote of 155 to 127 the plenro-pneumonia bill was passed. Eulogies npon the late Representative Haskell were delivered bv several members. The bill for the admission of Dakota into tbe Union was favorably reported in the Senate on the 29th ult Mr. Ransom reported back adversely the joint resolution for an appropriation of $500,000 for the cyclone snfferers in the South, the distress having been overstated. The bill for the contraction of steel cruisers was passed by 38 to 13. Adjourned to March 3. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury If additional clerks are required for the tobacco rebate claims. A resolution was offered directing tbe Committee on Public Lands to report ■whether the grant of the Portage Lake and Lake BnperioaJUiip Canal Company is liable to forfeiture. Tfts commtttee of the whole it was resolved thatSSen. Pleasonton be retired with the rank of Colonel. The postoffice appropriation bill was reported. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. A BBSOLtmtJSf was adopted by tbe House «f Representatives, on tbe Ist inst., calling on the Secretary of the Interior for Information relative to the fencing in of public lands in several States and Territories. Bills were reported to provide for the issue of circulating notes to national banks, to establish a Board of Interstate Commerce, to Increase pensions, to provide for a canal between Lake Union and Paget Sound, and to construct the Maryland and Delaware free ship canal. Several speeches were made on the naval appropriation bill. There was no session of the Senate.

EASTERN.

The National Bird Show, for which 2,000 entries were made of all varieties known in America, opened at Boston last week. Judge Hilton has purchased from Mrs. A. T. Stewart, for $2,100,000, the wellknown store building: at the corner of Broadway and Chambers street. New York. Cornelius Van Kiper and his three children were burned to death in their house, at New York, and Mrs. Van Riper, who wa9 enceinte, was killed by jumping from a third story window. At Boston the price of liquor licenses of all grades has been advanced. . The chemical works of Powers & Weightman, in Philadelphia, the most extensive in the United States, were destroyed by fire last week. Explosions of fusel oil cai ried the fluid into the streets and spread the flames to adjacent buildings. The losswill exceed $1,000,000. At New Bedford, Mass., Bobert Smith and wife were found dead in bed, from the effects of coal gas.

WESTERN.

Farmers in the vicinity of Yandalia, 111., are nearly unanimous in the opinion that late-sown wheat has been seriously damaged. Mrs. Mary Shanks, a wealthy widow of Milwaukee, has brought suit to recover SIO,OOO damages from Marshall Field & Go. of Chicago, the ground being slanderous charges that she offered counterfeit money at their storo in payment for goods. A collision between a passenger train and a freight occurred on the Indianapolis and St. Louis Koad, near Paris, 111. Fireman Lindsey was killed, and four other persons were severely injured. The damage to engines and cars will'amount to $50,000. The great spectacular drama “Jalma” has proven a great drawing card in Chicago, the auditorium of McVicker’s Theater being crowded at each performance. The scenery la pronounced the finest ever witnessed in this country. The dramatic part is in the hands of the excellent company of the Boston Theater. The piuy will doubtless have a long run at McVicker’s. Orrin A. Carpenter was last week removed from the jail at Lincoln to the jail at Petersburg, 111., there to await trial for the murder of Zora Burns. The Lincoln County Board of Supervisors have employed a Petersburg lawyer to assist in the prosecution. In the harness-shop at the Joliet Ponitentiary the .notorious Frank Rande seized a poker and crushed the skull of Deputy Warden John McDonald. He then attacked Assistant Deputy Garvin with a huge knife, and that official shot the desperado three times through the %

bead and body. Rande was taken to the dead-house, but Boon recovered. Rande was received at the prison Fetr. 23, 1878, on a life-sentence from Knox County, HI. He was the criminal sensation of the day at that time, and gloried in the various titles of “the American brigand,” “the Knox County desperado,” “the St. Louis pawnshop fiend,” and tbe “Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash." His real name Is Charles C. Scott, a son of Malachi Scott, of Fairfield, lowa. Rande killed no less than five men during the year 1877, and is the supposed murderer of thirteen different persons in the States of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Jndd Crouch and Daniel S. Holcomb were arrested last week, and formally charged with the Crouch massacre, near Jackson, Mich. Four warrants, for murder were issued for the retention of each prisoner, to guard against possible technicalities. Three months have elapsed since the murder.

SOUTHERN.

The vigilance committee at Hot Springs has banished about two dozen undesirable citizens. S. A. Doran and bis confederates have been transferred to the State Penitentiary at Little Rock for safe keeping. The citizens of Medina County, Texas, have hunted down and lodged in jail thirty-nine fence-cutters. Marsh T. Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of Tennessee, died of heart disease at his home in Nashville, last week. He had been sentenced to imprisonment for thirteen years, but was released on bail to await a hearing of his case by the Supreme Court, Mrs. Adolph Morath, better known as Laura Lavarnie, “the tattooed woman,” gave birth, iu Baltimore, to a baby, whose skin is marked with exactly the same figures and colors as seen on its mother’s body. Mrs. Morath has been tattooed within nine months. The Federal Court at Nashville, on the petition of the railroad companies of Tennessee, enjoined the State Railroad Commission from interfering with the business of the roads. The judges hold that the act of the Legislature creating the commission is in conflict with the State and Federal Constitutions. A delegation of the law and order citizens of Hot Springs, Ark., waited upon Mose Harris, editor of the Daily Horseshoe, and notified him that his immediate departure from that city would contribute to its welfare. Harris stood not upon the order of his going, but went at once. Harris’ offense was a too close alliance with one of the rival factions of gamblers that have been slaughtering each other, and by an occasional poor shot now and then winging an innocent spectator. Harris has led an adventurous career, having figured in numerous shooting and cutting affrays in Arkansas and Texas.

WASHINGTON.

Speaker Carlisle is in receipt of a letter from several Liberal members of the German Reichstag assuring him personally that the signers fully appreciate the honor which the House of Representatives visited upon their countryman, Herr Lasker. Tbe House Committee on Public Lands will doubtless adopt the proposition of Mr. Scales to forfeit the Northern Pacific land grant alongside that portion of road still unfinished. President Arthur gave a dinner to about sixty people one evening last- week, lime. Nilsson, Henri Watterson, and Muiat Haisteail were specially invited guests. The House Committee on Public Lands has decided to, report in favor of forfeiting that portion of the Northern Pacific grant where the road had not been completed July 4, 1879. This will restore to the public domaip about 35,000,000 acres. It is pro posed to treat purchasers from the railroad company as though they had been made from the Government.

The House Committee on Foreign Af* fairs, by a party vote —the Democrats favpring and the Republicans opposing—has agreed to favorably report, with two amendments, the bill prepared by the Pacific delegation in Congress for the prevention of Chinese immigration. During February the diminution in the national debt was $2,582,587. Appended is the official monthly statement: Interest-bearing debt — Four and one-half per cents $ 250,000.000 Four per cents 737.643,550 Three per cents 264,891,550 Refunding certificates 805.800 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt.... ,$1,266,840,900 Matured debt ( 12,067,365 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 846,739,586 Certificates of deposit. 18,215,000 Gold and Bilver certificates 218,581,321 Fractional currency 6,986,307 Total without interest $ 690,522,214 Total debt (principal) $1,869,430,479 Totalinterest 10,364,105 Total cash in treasury 396,263,451 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,453,501,133 Decrease during February 2,582,587 Decrease of debt sinoe June 30, 188 J. 67,590,074 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid..., $ 1,572,837 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 12,067|365 Interest thereon 825L646 Gold and silver certificates 218,581 321 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 18,215,000 Cash balance available 145,534,281 , Total $ 396,293,451 Available assets— Cash m treasury $ 396.293,451 Bonds issued to Pacificrallwavcompanies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 646 235 Interest paid by United States 61,ie0’798 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 17,935 869 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings 665,198 Balance of interest paid by United ' States 42,569,730

POLITICAL.

The Senate of lowa has passed a bill prohibiting bucket-shops and option trading in agricultural products. The Indiana Democratic State Convention will be held at Indianapolis, June 25. S. M. Weaver, a disabled member of the lowa House, was taken to the Clerk’s desk in a reclining chair and wrapped in a buffalo overcoat, in order to record his vote on the prohibitory liquor bill. The Copiah Investigating Committee adjourned sine die at New Orleans on the 27th ult,, after examining 152 witnesses. The Republican Editorial Association of Indiana, at its meeting at Indianapolis, deprecated making prohibition an issue in the coming campaign. Gov. Stonemanlbas resolved to call

an extra session of the Legislature of California to take measures to force tbe Central Pacific Road to pay its back taxes, aggregating $1,000,000. The Ohio Republican Convention will meet at Columbus on the 23d of April. The Rhode Island Republican Convention will be hold at Providence, March 20. President Arthur last week submitted to Congress the first report of the Civil Service Commission. The members of that body declare the law a successful and satisfactory act of legislation, and state that they have, in every stage of thpir work, bad the constant support of the Chief Executive. The election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of D. C. Haskell in the Second Congressional District of Kansas, came off od the Ist inst., and E. H. Funston, of Carlisle, Kan., the Republican nominee, is elected by about 4.000 majority over Samuel A. Riggs, Fuslonlst, of Lawrence. The vote was the heaviest for years. The prohibition bill passed the lowa House by a vote of 52 to 41—all the Repub. Means and one Democrat voting for the measure. There being a prohibition major Ity of twenty-four in the Senate, Its passage in that body is certain.

FIRE RECORD.

The record of fires of the week, where a loss of SIO,OOO and upward was entailed, is as follows: Losses. Shelbyville, Tenn., six stores $30,000 Woodstock, DL, three stores 20,000 Winamac, Ind„ five buildings 15,000 Worcester, Mass.,woolen-machinery mill 60,000 Mayaguse, Porto Rico, forty-two houses.. 50,000 Pittsburgh, four dwellings 10,000 lonia, Mich., prison shops 15,000 Cassville, W. Va., business block, 20,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., street-car stables 15,000 New Orleans, three dwellings 30,000 St. Paul, Minn., warehouse 125,000 Jackson, Mich., Union Hall Block 200,000 Henrietta, Texas, business property 25,000 Corsicana, Texas, general store 60,000 Green Bay, Wts., dry goods store 10,000 South Chicago, 111., steel works 30,000 Compton, Canada, hotel 15,000 Denver. Colo., two hotels 15,000 Louisville, Ky., cloak manufactory 60,000 Greenville, S. C., business property 30,000 Osceola, lowa, flouring mill 20,000 Lincoln, Neb., hotel and other property.. 75,000 Duluth. Minn., two hotels 40,000 Philadelphia, cotton mill 30,000 Boston, wool warehouse 80,000 Nicholasville, Ky., flour mill 30,000 Harrisburg, Ohio, general store 20,000 Toledo, Ohio, brush manufactory 15,000 Richmond, Va., cedar works 90,000 Philadelphia, Powers <fe Wclghtman’s chemical works 1,000,000 Faribault. Minn., small stores 10,000 Paris, Ky., warehouse and contents 20,000 Racine, Wis., wagon factory ; 35,000 Boston, Hawkins Machine Company’s works 200,000 Eldorado, Ohio, flouring mill 20,000 Iredell, Tex., business property 50,000 Philadelphia, carpet mill 25,000

MISCELLANEOUS. The challenge of George Smith, of Philadelphia, to run any man in the country a 100-yards race for from SI,OOO to $5,000 a side, has been accepted by M. R. Kcttleman, of Harper, Kan. The United States Consul at Birmingham reports that the foot-and-mouth disease exists in nearly every county in England. Instructions will be sent from Washington to American Consuls in Great Britain to certify no Invoices of cattle until they have been found sound by veterinary surgeons. W. H. Hunt, United States Minister to St. Petersburg, died at the Russian capital on the 27th ult. His disease wqs dropsy, superinduced by chronic inflammation of the liver, from „ which he had been suffering for some time. Mr. Hunt came into national prominence through the desire of the late President Garfield to gratify the South by putting in his Cabinet a representative man. Judge Hunt resigned a seat on the bench of the Court of Claims to take a Cabinet place, and relinquished the Secretaryship of the Navy after the death of Garfield. He was then appointed by President Arthur to the diplomatic post at which he died. At the hanging of William Moore at Franklin, La., it was found that the feet of the suspended felon were touching the ground, when he was raised to the platform, the rope shortened, and th» trap sprung again. Luke and William Jones, brothers, were executed at Jackson, Ohio, the contortions of William’s body causing horror among the spectators. They murdered an inoffensive old farmer named Alexander Lackey for his money Ben Gilliam was executed at Bayboro, N. C., for the murder of Henry Carter. Bradstreet’s reports 337 business failures for the week, nineteen more than the preceding week, but twenty-three less than for the corresponding period In 1883. The Canadian Government agrees to give Manitoba a census every two and a half years; to hand over the control of odd-num-bered sections of unoccupied lands, and to grant a subsidy of 12,000 acres per mile for the construction of a line of railway from W innlpeg to Fort Churchill.

FOREIGN.

The police of London report that the Irish dynamite party has made Paris its headquarters. It is believed that the explosive is made at Montrough. Five members of the active section have been traced from the United States. Parnell and his followers strongly denounce the dynamite conspirators. In the British House of Commons the "Home Secretary stated that another in. fernal machine had been discovered in the Paddington Railway station. The police discovered a large quantity of explosives underneath the Charing Cross Railway station. The Czar of Russia has decided to convene a council, composed of representatives of the ruling classes, to consider whether a powerful Nihilist party really exists, and how to crush it out or satisfy its wants. German editors, probably taking their cue from Bismarck, attribute the blame for the Lasker Insult to Minister Sargent. These editors are now all of a shiver from fear the Reichstag may pass a resolution thanking the Amerioan House for its good intentions. The Bospliore Egyptian, the principal journal of Cairo, has been suppressed for too freely criticising English methods in Egpyt. A black bag, made of American cloth, containing forty-five packages of dynamite, was found in the cloak-room of the Ludgata Hill station in London. The bust of Longfellow was unveiled with becoming' ceremonies and plaoed in the Poets’ Corner of Westminister Abbey las' week. Gen. Graham defeated the rebels, near Teb, after a hotly contested fight. Four

English officers were killed and nineteen wounded, including Baker Pasha and Co!. Burnaby, both of whom are severely wounded. Nine hundred of the enemy’s dead were counted in the captured positions. Tokar was oocupied by Gen. Graham the following day. In the recent debate in the British House of Commons on the Egyptian policy of the Government, W. T. Marriott, member from Brighton, declared that the yMlnlstr had lost the confidence of the oountry. He Immediately resigned, and has been re-elected by a majority of 1,377.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

Recent deaths: Gen. Schramm, a French hero of tjie Napoleonic era; Gen. de Wimpffen, upon whom fell the duty of surrendering the French army at Sedan; Lucius J. Knowles, one of the wealthiest citizens of Worcester, Mass., well known as an Inventor; R. D. Hubbard, ex-Govemor of Connecticut; Edward Smith, of Boston, an early Abolition. Ist and associate of William Lloyd Garrison; Mrs. Mary Brown, of San Francisco, CaL, widow of Osawatomie Brown; Dr. D. F. Robertson, of Port Jervis, N. Y., inventor of the flying machine; Alvin Bigelow, leading merchant of Boston; J. B. Wlnstanley, a leading citizen of New Albany, Ind.; John Rapp, a pioneer of Henry County, m.; Col. Joseph Cushing, of Dover, N. H., one of the oldest circus managers in the country. The following commercial failures were reported during the week: Liabilities. W. L. King, dry goods, Rockport, N. Y.s 20,000 Dewey <fe Hogan, groceries. Galena, 111. 15,000 J. O'Sullivan, lumber, St. Louis 30,000 C. F. Moachim, hats, Montreal 100,000 W. A. Pew, manufacturer, Gloucester, Mass 225,000 Albert Benson, clothing, Chicago 15,000 Spalding & Co., printers, Chicago 20,000 A. 8. Howell, dry goods, Bath, N. Y.... 100,000 David & Letcher, hardware, Little Rock 20,000 Alexander Butler, agricultural implements, Platteville, Wis 30,000 Howes <fe Co., bankers, New York 80,000 Martin Turner & Co., East India merchants, Glasgow, Scotland 2,500,000 E. Detrick & Co., San Francisco 380,000 The Mt. Vernon Co., Baltimore 10,000 Woodward, Baldwin & Co., brokers, New York 50,000 Middleeroft <fc Sons, Clinton, lowa 20,000 Zimmerman & Grubb, grain, Greenville, Ohio 30,000 In the British House of Commons, Sir Wilfred Lawson charged the Government with cowardice and butchery in regard to the campaign in Egypt. Mr. Gladstone stated that at present It was necessary to 1 hold Suakirn to repress the slave trade. I A “noble Lord” in the upper house of the British Parliament urged that a dynamite note be sent to America. Lord Granville begged the Lords to consider that It was desirable that such a matter should be conducted by the Government with perfect reticence, The Ministers, Granville assured the Peers, were handling the nitro-glycerine business with the utmost ckre. A reward of $5,000 has been offered for the detection of the authors of the recent dynamite explosion in London. Leonard Weindel, President of a manufacturing company in St. Louis, had a quarrel with his wife, and fired at her through a closet door, inflicting a dangerous wound in the thigh. The Senate Committee on Public Lands was almost unanimous in deciding to forfeit the Texas Pacific land grant claimed by the Southern Pacific Company, and proposes to make sure that the tract will be available only for actual settlement. Mr. Bayard offered a resolution in the Senate on theSd'inst., which was adopted, that the Committee on Naval Affairs inquire into the expediency of equipping a foundry for the manufacture of modern artillery of the largest caliber. Mr. Vest presented a memorial from the territorial council of New Mexico in regard to assumption of power by the clerk, and a resolution was adopted that the matter be investigated by the Committee on Territories. Bills were passed for the construction of public buildings in twelve Southern and Western cities, and authorizing the purchase of additional grpand for the postofflce at Springfield, Illinois. Messrs. Ingalls, Plumb, and others addressed the Senate in regard to the honorable career of the late Representative Haskell, and a resolution of sorrow at his demise was adopted. The House of Representatives passed the bill pensioning survivors of the Mexican war, the vote being 227 to 46. Mr. Randall reported back a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that the claims for rebate on tobacco can be paid In three months. Mr. Converse, of Ohio, was outgeneraled in his attempt to bring his high-tariff wool bill before the House. The opponents of the scheme, to prevent any consideration of the matter, carried an adjournment 104 to 96. A resolution was adopted that the Committee on Naval Affairs make an investigation of the charges brought in connection with the Jeannette arctic expedition. It was resolved that the Committee on Banking and Currency look into the alleged misconduct of Federal officials In the collapse of the Pacific National Bank of Boston. Bills were introduced for the erection of public buildings at Zanesville, Ohio, and Fort Worth, Texas, to prevent the importation of lazzaroni and beggars, and to liquidate the war debt by the issue of $1,200,000,000 in greenbacks.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ e.no @ 7.75 Hogs 8.00 @ 9.25 Flour—Superfine 4.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Cuicago 1.05 @ 1.06 No. 2 Red. 1.08 @I.IB H Corn—No. 2 62fc@ .65 Oats—Mixed 42 @ .47 Pork—Mess 17.00 @IB.OO Laud .09?i@ .10 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 © 7.50 Fair to Good 5.50 @6.25 Common to Medium.... 5.25 @5.75 Hogs 6.00 @ 7.50 «Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 6.2 > @6.00 Good to Choice Spring 4.50 («? 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 92 @ .9214 ’ No. 2 Red Winter l.oi @ 1.02 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .32)4 Rye—No. 2 58 @ ,r. 9 Barley—No. 2 62 @ .64 Butter—Choice Creamery 28 @ .31 Eggs—Fresh 23 @ .24 Pork-Mess 17.76 @is!oo Lard 09 @ ,ouv> MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 92 @ .94 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .64 Oats— No. 2 31 @ .33 Rye—No. 2 66 @ .57 Barley—No. 2 59 @ ,gi Pork—Mess 17.50 @ls.oo Lard 9.25 & 9.50 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.08 @l.lO Corn—Mixed 47 @ 49 Oats—No. 2 34 @ .36 Rye 57 @ .59 Pork—Mess 17.60 @ia.oo Lard ....- 09 @ .09u CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 @1.07 Coen 53 @ 54 Oats 35 @ .37 Rr* 66 ’@ .67 Pork—Mess 17.76 @18.25 Lard 09 @ .ogu TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 @1.05 Corn—No. 2 54 @ ,55 Oats—No. 2 35 .37 DETROIT. Flour 6.00 @ 6.60 Wheat—No 1 White. 1.02 @ l.osw Corn—No. 2 53 @ .55 Oats—Mixed 37 @ 33 Pork—Mess .-... 19.00 @19.50 „ % INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 @ LO3 Corn—No. 2 ,49 @ .60 Oats—Mixed .36 @ 36 „ „ FAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best 6.50 @ 750 Fab - 6.76 @ 6.60 Common 6.00 @ 6.00 BHKIn * 4.75 @ 5.26

OSTRACIZED.

Hie Jury in the Emma Bond Case Having a Stormy Experience. Hanged in Effigy, Charged with Bribery, and Their Personal Safety Threatened. [Hillsboro (Ill.) Telegram to Chicago DaUy News.] Although it has been nearly two months since the termination of the Emma Bond trial, public Interest in the case has not abated. The mystery is still unsolved, and people wonder whether the guilty will ever be brought to justice. As is well known, the Jury has been condemned In scathing terms for acquitting Montgomery, Pettis, and dementi. The vsrdict was and is still considered a second outrage. The jurors themselves have had a hard time Bince the trial. They have been hanged in effigy, charged with bribery, and at times their personal safety threatened. Only a few weeks ago one of them was attending a big public sale in this county, and as soon as his presence was known the crowd became so infuriated that trouble was only avoided by the juror’s hasty departure. The fact that some of the Jurors have apologized for their verdict only serves to intensify the bitter feeling toward him. One of them Is reported as saying that he would give thousands of dollars if he had never had anything to do with the case. He talks about the trial constantly, and looks ten years older than he did since he sat in the jury box. Another one weeps a great deal of the time, can’t sleep at night, -and seems sorely afflicted In body and mind because the verdict was not received with favor. The juror, Peter L. Davenport, looks much older since the trial, ans had almost become a hermit, rarely leaving his house, and avoiding people as much as possible. But the greatest misfortune has befallen Boone Isaacs. He was engaged to a hbndsome and accomplished lady of this county, but she has discarded him since the verdict, and he refuses to be comforted. Mr. Bond has suooeeded in getting the names of the five jurors who voted at first for conviction, but were subsequently induced to vote for acquittal, and is after them with a sharp stick. In fact, all of them have trodden a thorny path since the trial. Judge Jesse J. Phillips, who tried the case, has not escaped the storm of public indignation. He has been hanged in effigy at Pana, Taylorville, and Vandalfa, and has received numerous threatening letters from all parts of the country. It is said that his connection with the case will probably injure his political aspirations in tbe future. The late defendants, Montgomery, Pettis, and Clementi, have been practically ostracized since their return to their home in Christian County. Resolutions declaring that their names be dropped from the roll of decent society have been passed, and merchants and business men have refused to have any dealings with them. In retaliation Montgomery and his friends have threatened . their persecutors with terrible punishment. It is claimed that the dastardly attempt a few nights ago to wreck a passenger train, on which were several hundred people returning home to Taylorville from Pana, where an entertainment had been given for the benefit of Miss Bond, was the work of the late defendants or their friends. The Wabash Railroad Company has offered a big reward for the apprehension of the would-be wreckers, and it is hoped they will be captured.

A HORRIBLE DEATH.

An Entire Family Cremated in a New York Tenement House. [New York Dispatch.] Afl re which broke out in the three-story frame building, 326 Stanton street, caused the death of Cornelius Van Riper and his family, consisting of his wife and three children. Mr. Van Riper and his three children were suffocated and burned to death. His wife, Rebecca, jumped from the third-story window to the sidewalk and was instantly killed. The cause of the fire is unknown. The Are wag discovered by a policeman, who, after calling for assistance, kicked in the door and made a rush for the stairs, shouting at the top of his voice to rouse the sleeping tenants. A confused jumble of shrieks and stamping Overhead. answered him. But the dense smoke drove him back just as the door on the second floor was opened, and a young woman ran past him in her nightclothes. The policeman was compelled to seek the open air to save his own life. As he reached the street in a half-dozen desperate jumps he sprang over the prostrate body of Mrs. Rebecca Van Riper. The Are was extinguished after two hours. When the firemen made their way to the rooms of the Van Ripers, after the fire had been extinguished, a sickening sight awaited them. They found the entire family, save the mother, burned to death. The family had evidently been half suffocated before they were aroused to find escape from an awful death cut off. The bodies were all found in different places, showing that the unfortunates rushed wildly and blindly around the rooms In their efforts to escape. In the rear room was found Jennie, aged 19, with her night-clothes burned off. Her arms and hands were terribly burned. The skin from the hands and arms of the boy, Albert, aged. 7, hung In shreds, and his left arm was raised across his face. He was found doubled up in a corner, and one side of his body was very badly burned. Frankey, aged 2, charred and blackened, was found near his father’s body In the front room. The face and head of Van Riper presented a shocking appearance, the features being scarcely recognizable.

A Massive Sheet of Flame.

Many singular incidents and accidents and miraculous esoapes are reported in connection with the recent cyclone, says a Columbia (8. C.) dispatch. A reliable gentleman oi Aikeri County, who, suiiered severe losses, says the roof of his baru was taken off and the dry fodder caught up in the whirlwind, and as it was being carried round and round' a sheet of lightning passing through ignited the fodder, and for a distance of one mile the eloud appeared to be a massive sheet ol fame. He describes this scene as grand beyond conception. He narrowly escaped being caught up in the fiery element, his face being badly burned. Martin . Mingo, a colored man of Midway, weighing 200 pounds, was blown 200 yards. At the edge of a swamp he caught a small bush and held on until the storm was over. His overcoat was blown four miles.

CHIPS.

Beatrice King, 18 years old, was put in prison in London for stealing half a pint of milk. An Atlanta picture dealer put a picture ol Godiva in his window, and the ladles made him take it away. A factory with facilities for making 100,000 wooden dishes per day is to be ereoted in Chattanooga, Tenn, A New York lady writes to the Sun to say that her husband annoys her very much by snoring, and asks what she can do about it The will of Ralph G. Sellcw, of New York, is to be contested because it gives his $1,200,000 to his nephew, and disinherits his brother! and sisters. Mknnonites in Nebraska ocoupy three entire counties, are good farmers and hard workers, and so economical that their prosperity is remarkable. February will not again have five Friday*, as it has this year, until 1912.

A MONOPOLY BEATEN.

The Protected Barb-Wire Litl tion in lowa. Another Decision Against the W horn ft Moen Company. [Keokuk Dispatch.] Judge McCrary rendered final decrei the two suits brought by the Washbu Moen. Company against Walter and J Rhodes for the infringement respective the reissued Glidden and Kelley barbed patents. The decrees in these two case ply to eight lowa salts in all, in whicl Bame l issues are involved. The decre the Glidden reissued patent declares invalid and of no effect, becaus is tbe same invention described in original patent, and secured because claim of the reissued patents was unlaw expanded, and there was undue dela applying for said reissue. Complain bill was therefore dismissed and defenc have the right to recover their oosts. In the suit involving thp Kelley pat< was held that the fourth claim of th Issued patent was invalid for the same sons stated in the first case, and the < found for the defendants upon the issi infringement made in the pleadings, same order was made concerning costs dismissal of the bill. , The Washburn & Moen represents say the next fight will be on the ori| Glidden patent. Same of the lowa casei likely to be carried to the United State preme Court. HISTORY OF THE LITIGATION. Plain or nnbarbed wire had been in quite eral use for fencing throughout the Wei some years before barbed wire began to be 1 in a small way under patents taken out as as 1868 by Kelley and 1874 by Glidden.and o not so well known. Between iB6O and 1876 were fully thirty different patents grants various patties on barbed-wire fences. Bn business was in its infancy. Few realized it was to become in half-a-dozen years. Oi these few was Mr. Washburn, of Woroester.l He conceived the idea of buying up all th portant patents and making a great monop In February, 1876, Washburn <fc Moenobtt their subsequently famous “reissues" of Kelley and Glidden patents. The reissuin; ingenious. In this new form the patents tabled and claimed much more than the inals. Under these reissues the Worcester set up its so-called “broad claim.” It helc the patents gave it control of the principU barbed-wire fence, no matter by whatdevit wire had been prepared. Having securet patents, having had them reissued with new and sweeping claims, the next step w secure a decision from the courts sub fa them. This was not gained for se years. Meanwhile the business had £ enormously. Thriving wire factories grown up everywhere in the We States, competing with the large Ea establishments. The business was entirely Makers knew little about the patents, cared and were not interfered with. But Wash <fe Moen were quietly at work. In Novel 1880, they gained their famous case in the U States Circuit Court at Chicago. Judges D mond and Blodgett deciding that the re-ii patents were va|jd and in full force. The barb-wire business was brought to a halt by this decision. Every man in the < try making, selling, or using barb-wire liable to suit for infringement, and mannfa ers were liable to pay ruihous back royaltie this state of affairs Mr. Washburn and his a neys summoned the principal manufacture the country to meet them for a grand si ment. They came together in Chicago in ruary, 1881, three months after the dec Washburn was in a position to dictate t< and each maker took the best be could About forty firms were licensed to con the business, each being limited as to the ai tonnage of its output and each being assei certain sum, larger or smaller, for back ages. Mr. Washburn and his licensees at same meeting fixed upon a certain prio wire, no licensee being allowed to 'unde The price of wire to consumers was advano the monopoly about S4O above the recent rent price (raising the wholesale price about 6 cents to about 8 cents per po Washburn <t Moen’s royalty was sls pel Small makers were not licensed, and we crushed out. Such, then, was the little mi oly which from February, 1881, to the pr time has added somewhat more than SIO,O extra profit to the price of wire sold farme half-a-dozen Western and Northwestern Si lowa, being much the largest consumer, fe burden heaviest. The farmers of that formed a "protective association.” They s an establishment in Des Moines for ms "moonshine” wire, and prepared themselv fight the matter through thexourts. ' Meanwhile the Supreme Court, of the U States had indirectly struck a blow at th« nopoly by its decision on the subject of reis patents in the celebrated case of "Miller vs Brass Company." In this case a new and v ble doctrine was laid down. There had a among a certain class of Eastern capital very corrupt and pernicious practice in matter of patents. If this article or comm began to come into the markets, they h practice of rummaging among old and 1 • doned patents until they found somethii some wise relating to the now popular modity. Of course this old patent coni bought up for a song. They would then hi “reissued” and so broadened and strength as to make it valuable and to give them'* nopolizing power over the commodity. II to check this dangerous practice that tip preme Court laid down in the case of “Mill! The Brass Company" a set of new and strir rules governing the reissue of patents. The new doctrine threw a cloud over the den and Kelley barbed-wire patents anc Chicago Drummond-Blodgett decision. It the lowa farmers their basis for a Under the countenance of the Fan Association several other “moonshining” f ries arose and grew like mushrooms into business by their ability to undersell the nopolists. Washburn & Moen entered and petitions against all these moonshi Instead of oarrylng tbe suits against the far through the courts the monopolists, it charged, bought up the Des Moines mam turer, who was tl e agent for the Farmers’. brunt of the fight on the “1 claim” was borne by the Grinnell Wire < pany. A decision was made by United S Judges McCrary, Love, and Treat in she Cl Court for the Southern District of lowa in 1883, that the Kelley and Glidden reissued ents were invalid. This decision has now affirmed in the Rhodes cases.]

A SOUTHERN TRAGEDY.

W. B. Cash, Son of the Noted Duelist, 1 tally Wounds Two Men. i’ [Telegram from Chcraw, S. o.] Saturday of last week W. B. Cash, so Col. E. B. Cash, the noted duelist, who V Col. Shannon a few years ago, came towp early in the day and remained dark. Just before starting for home h« came very boisterous, and was approa by Town Marshal Richards and request* keep quiet. A difficulty ensued and clinched, the Marshal using his club free Cash’s head and arms, but finally the Mai was overpowered and terribly beaten kicked in the head and face by Cash, jj the two men were separated Cash imraed ly left town. ~ This afternoon about 3 o'clock Cash a came to town, and after remaining abou hours walked up to Marshal Richards, was sitting on a dry-goods box in front store. Passing by him a few paces Cash denly wheeled round and without sayi word drety a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson tol from His hip-pocket and fired three t in rapid succession at the Marshal. The shot passed through the left lung of Ji Coward, an innocent bystander. The se ball took effect in Richards’ left lung, an ho fell, Casli fired another shot, which m its mark. He then ran to his horse, w svaß hitched at a convenient place, and ii excitement whs permitted to escape, a men are mortally mounded.

GLEANINGS.

Montreal abolishes the Mayor’s $ salary. i The Parisians intend to name a street i Darwin. One of the hangings to come off soon be that of John Coyle, of York, Pa., killed a girl who would not marry him. Contents of a house which was loviet by a bailiff of Blakeley, Ga: One tin two tin plates, one broken tray, one br spider, one looking-glass, one pair of tc two guns, and a “yalier coon dog.” The Prinooss Louise at a recent wed wore a muff and boa made of skunk fur.