Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1884 — Page 2

% \)t JlcmocratitScittind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I W. JfcEWEN, - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN, A Union town (Pa.) dispatch says: “The worst fear touching the fate of the ir.cn who were imprisoned In tho coal mine at Youngstown, four miles from this place, toy the explosion of fire-damp which took place there at 4 o'clock last evening has been fully confirmed. Six of the miners were taken out last evening soon after the disaster, two of them were dead and two of the other four 60 seriously Injured that there is no hope of their recovery. This left from fourteen to eighteen men supposed to be still imprisoned in the mine. The exact number is not certainly known. The work of reaching these men was continued industriously throughout the whole night, and by this morning the dead lodies cf twelve of them had teen 1 rought out and dellverel to their friends and relatives at the mouth es the pit* This makes fourteen dead in all, and, together w,ith tho four injured, accounts for eighteen, or the whole number supposed to be in tho mine. Tho scenes at the mouth of the pit as the disfigured bodies of the dead were brought to the surface and given into the hands of the wives and relatives was distressing in the extreme, and vividly recalled to mind the piteous wails of the bereaved families who waited at the opening of tho Leisenringniino last February for tho bodies which they knew were coming lifeless to them froth tho uncorapassionate bowels of the earth. It was as id spectacle, indeed, and moved totears many of hundreds w ho had leen drawn to the place by the news of the disaster.” ■*" Sig. Pasqualine Brignoli, the noted tenor, died at the Everett House, New York. He had been suffering for the last six weeks with a complieat'on of diseases of the liver and kidneys, and had been confined to his bed for three week. Horace Deland, of Brookfield, N. H., aged 18 years, chained himself to a brush heap near his father’s house, then set the brush on flro and deliberately burned himself to death. A gash was found on one side of his throat, made by a razor, which was found near by. A note was found directed to bis | arents, saying he was tired of living. He gave no reason for the act, but it is thought to have been caused by unrequited love. Ellis Ames, one of the venerable lawyers of Massachusetts, died at Canton in' his Tt th year. Alfred G. Luders & Co., commission merchants at New York, owe 5106.000, while their actual assets are but $2,300.

WESTERN.

Three masked men bound James Crain in hit house, near Ilrookston, Ind., and maltreated him when ho refused to disclose where his money was concealed. They found S4OO, but ?2,100, hidden in a secret place, escaped their dutches. Portland (Ore.) dispatch: Two Indians are reported killed at Long Creek, Grant County, by a party of unknown whites. The band had camped on the stream for tho purpose of hunting and fishing, and the whites crept within rifie-range and fired into their camp, killing two braves, and made their es. ape. It is said these Indians took an active part in tho recent Bannock war, and committed several outrages and murders among the whites. In that county hatred of the Indians is intense. The matter is to be investigated, as trouble is feared, and an Indian outbreak of serious proportions is thought very probable. Denver (Colo.) telegram: “Rumors have reached here of the lynching, by vigilants, of a gang of seventeen cattle-thieves, captured while in camp cn Rock Creek, in tho Goro range of mountains, twenty or thirty miles west of Georgetown. No particulars are at present obtainable. The rope rt is thought to be exaggerated.” A six-story building on the corner of Michigan street and La Salle avenue, Chi. cago, owned by Charles E. Culver and occupied by several manufacturing firms, was destroyed by fire, the loss,' being $90,000. James Carr, foreman of a cigar-box manufactory', conducted thirty of his employes to the fire-eecapo, and lost his life by falling from a wlndow-silL C. D. Cobbitt’s People’s Bank, at Canton, 111., failed for SIOO,OOO. The assets are placed at $50,009. Owing to internal dissensions, the Ohio State Dental Association, which has been in existence since 1866, disbanded at Columbus, after a two-days’ session. Lena Haberland, aged 10, died at St. Louis of trichinia6is, tho muscles and tissues of her body being found infested with pork parasites. Her little brother is ill from the same malady, and her who passed away a month ago, Is believed to have died of the disease. B. Power Palmer, connected with an Insurance a), ency in Chicago, poisoned himself in a hotel with laudanum, evidently on ac:ountof poor health. P. J. Moses, formerly Governor of South Carolina, having been jailed at Detroit for swindlng a clergyman, nearly succeeded in banging himself in his oelL When cut down he was black In the face, and had lost consc.ousness. On recovering he was sentenced to ninety days in the House of Correction. An explosion in the gas-works at Milwaukee, caused by a stoppage in a pipe leading to the purifiers, inflicted damage amounting to (15,000. Two men were killed at Duluth by falling from a scaffold on the side of an elevator 100 feet high. The Federal Grand Jury at Cincinnati has indicted Police Lieutenants Michael Mullen and John Burke and Patrolmen Keating and Cunningham for preventing a party of colored mon-rom voting, at the recent election, by locking them in the station house all day. The Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, In session at Cincinnati, deplored the desecration of ihe Sabbath, and favored prohibition of the manufacture and aale of intoxicating liquors.

In a Republican procession in Taylorville, 111., Leroy Hunter allowed his torch to hit Eugene Darner on the bead. A quarrel and fight ensued, when Darner struck Hunter with a base-ball bat, breaking his neck. The murderer was arrested, and taken out of town for safety.

SOUTHERN.

George T. Jackson, President of a ootton factory at Augusta, Ga., is confessedly a defaulter. The investigating committee estimates the steal at from $60,090 to SIOO,OOO. Parkerville (S. C.) dispatch: Sunday last was the white church dedication. It is reported that colored men disturiied the service by firing pisto’s. A bad feeling has continued since, and to-day culminated in the killing of James Blackwell, an officer, in attempting to make arrests, by a volley fired by negroes who were barricaded in a house. There is great excitement, and further violence is expected. Gov. Thompson has been advised of the situation. Parkesville is in Edgefield County, thirty miles from Augusta. Dr. Paret, of Washington, was chosen Bishop of Maryland by the Protestant Episcopal Convention in session at Baltimore. Dr. Paret who is of French extraction and a native of New York, is 55 years of age. Albert and Charles Goodman (colored) were hanged for murder in St. Bernard Parish, La.. Albert said ho was guilty, but maintained that his brother was innocent. Fort Smith (Ark.) dispatch: While Elijah Henderson, a tenant on the Arnold plantation, Choctaw Nation, was playfully presenting a pistol, supposed to be unloaded, at several friends assembled at hie home last evening, it accidentally went off and killed his wife. Henderson became almost crazy and begged to be killed. To-day lie surrendered to tho United States Marshal, and desires to plead guilty to murder so he may he hanged.

WASHINGTON.

During the year ending Nov. 1, the the national banks withdrew from the Federal Treasury $17,320,313 deposit; d to secure circulation. At tho prepared rate of redemption the 5 per cents will disappear by June, 1886. . Washington special: The par value of the United States bonds held to secure circulation at the close of business tosiay was $325,341,300. The value of those held for the same purposes the Ist day of July, 1883, was $356,598,500, showing a reduction in sixteen months of $31,255,200. The 5 per cents have disappeared from the vaults; the 6’s remain substantially unchanged; tho 3’s have decreased nearly 25 per cent; there are no longer any of 3‘i’s,while the 4’s and 4 H’s show an Increase of about $12,000,090 and $10,000,OCO, r. spectively. While the 3’s held in the Treasury show the most marked decrease, the proportion of these bonds so held to tho full amount outstanding is greater than it was a year ago. Then the ratio was as two to three; now it is about as three to four. The bond-call maturing to-mor-row Is tho last of those already made, and as, there will be about sls 009,000 to pay out on account of pensions before the close of the year Treasury officials are of the opinion that Secretary.McCulloch will not issue another call to mature 1 efore Jan. 1. The 3 per cents now held for the banks aro nearly all of the lower numbers, as the banks made special efforts to secure those likely to be called last, but another call cannot fail to draw out a considerable number of them, unless Cfingress takes some action to prevent further contraction of national bank circulation.

MISCELLANEOUS. The schooner Lady Dufferin, from Chicago, was wrecked on Caribou Island, Lake Superior. The crew abaudoned tho craft, reached another island in a yawl boat, were picked up, and landed at Port Arthur. Assignments have been made by S. Selig, a wholesale milliner of San Francisco: George E. Hutchinson, a mining capitalist of Cleveland; William Ogle, a shoe-dealer in St. Louis. A letter from Nassau, N. P., dated Oct. 24, says: The hurricane which swept the easterly part of tho Bahamas, from the 10th to tho 16th inst., caused considerable damage on land and soa. A number of vessels engaged in sponging and inter-insular commerce aro known to bo lost. The American schooner Jonathan Knight, from Philadelphia for New Orleans, with coal, was driven upon a refef at Palmetta Point, Elonthera, at midnight, on the 15th, and became a total wreck. Only two of her crew were saved. Capt. Malloy and son, the sieward, and three seamen were drowned. The schooner San Bias, a Baltimore trader, was lost together with her crew. Business failures for the week numbered 205, twenty-nine less than the previous week, but an increase of ten over the corresponding period of 1883. Bradstreet's Journal, in its commercial summary, for the week, says: Special telegrams this week indicate that in general there has been no gain as compared with the movement of merchandise for several weeks past. General trade at almost all commercial centers continues quiet, with little if any prospect of material gains prior to the opening of tho new year. The treaty now in process of negotiation between Spain and the United States provides for the free admission to the latter country of sugars, molasses, and raw tobacco, and a reduction on other articles from the West Indies. In return therefor, Cuba and Porto Rico are to receive American cereals on the same footing as Spanish, and the tariff on cattle, fish, and manufactures will be freely trimmed down.

FOREIGN.

Tho steamship Maasdam, from Rotterdam, was found burning' 700 miles from the coast of Ireland, and deserted by the crew and passengers, of whom no trace was discovered. The vessel was enveloped in smoke and flanks, and had evidently been burning for daj : s. It is hoped that tho crew and passengers have been picked up by a west-bound craft. The municipal authorities of Limerick, by a vote of twonty-sevon to five, decided to persist in their refusal to pay the tax assessed for extra police service. The arrest of several members ol the corporation is probable. .Rumors have reached London that a

severe type of cholera Is spreading through the French squadron under Admiral Courbet, now blockading Formosa. Admiral Courbet has telegraphed the French Minister of Marine that the sanitary condition of his troops is far from satisfactory. He fears that he will be compelled to abandon some of his projects against the Celestials. The French Government has ordered the dispatch of two cruisers and five gunboats to China. Italy will soon send two war vessels to the Congo region to 'xmserre commercial Interests.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

A fire along the wharves of Lubec, Me., destroyed $40,000 worth of property. The Willow Springs distillery property at Omaha was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, 825,000. The National White Lead Works at Willow Grove, Pa’., were ruined by fire. The office of the Montreal Herald is in the hands of its creditors, whoso claims aggregate SBO,OOO. C. H. Ccrdlngly & Co., liquor importers, of that city, have made an ass gnnient. A petition in bankruptcy was filed at Oakland, Cal., by Alexander B. Cooper, a mining speculator, who owes $260,000. The city of Wheeling is in default of the interest on its building loan. A press dispatch from New Iberia, La., gives the following particulars of a bloody affray at a Republican meeting a day or two before the election: “Judge Fontelieu and eight or ten others left hero for Louisville to hold a political meeting in the interest of Kellogg. After the crowd had assembled, a disturbance was created by persons hallooing “Hurrah for Gay.” Joseph Guilfaux rushed to the scene of tho trouble, and was fired at, the ball passing through his hat. Ho returned the fire. At that moment there was a general row, and Capt., Bell, a prominent sugar planter and a Democrat, and Joseph Guilfaux, a leading Gay man, and Oliver Boutte (colored), a Kellogg supporter, from New Iberia, were killed outright. The wounded, as far as known, are: Jules Mostayer, Republican candidate for Sheriff last spring, thigh broken; exSheriffT. Viator, shot twice in the abdomen. About a dozen others were slightly wounded. Six negroes were killed so far as known. The perpetrators were surrounded and kept under guard until the Sheriff arrived to arrest them. A courier was then dispatched to New Iberia, and in u few minutes after he arrived the town was in the wildest excitement. All saloons were closed by order of the Mayor. Fifty or seventy-five men from here loft under order from the Sheriff for the scene of trouble. All were armed with double-barreled shotguns ahd rifles. They arrested Fontelieu and Adolph Bienvenu, and five white men, who are now in tho parish jail under heavy guard. It is said a thousand shots ware fired simultaneously. A Dresden (Tenn.) dispatch says that Taylor, who poisoned five men with cantharides near Pillowville, Weakly County, from which two have died, was taken from jail and lynched. Twenty-five or thirty masked men walked into Dresden, and with sledge hammers broke down the doors of Taylor’s cell. Taking him out, they carried him about half a mile from town and shot him to pieces. Tho mob was sober and orderly. Taylor was a cousin of Andy Taylor, the notorious East Tennessee desperado. The cry of “Fire” was raised in the Star Theater at Glasgow. In tho rush to escape sixteen persons were killed and twenty others were wounded. A gas vein with a flame of fifty feet was struck at Cannonsburg, Pa. The members of the Providence Base-Ball Club, who won the championship, have each been presented by the management with a gold badge and an order for a new suit of clothes. The lumber shipments from Saginaw have been 7,000,090 feet more this year than last. A passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, while running at full speed, leaped the track near Alta, Ohio. Eighteen persons were injured. Judge Anthony has decided in the Scott law tax cases in Cincinnati that where the suit was not commenced within a year of the time the tax was paid nothing can be recovered. Hamilton County is interested in the decision to the amount of $400,000. In a street duel at New Orleans, John Duffy killed Edward Gardner, Master Methanlo of the City Railway. The Bev. Dr. Paret has been elected to the bishopric of Maryland.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Reeves $6.25 @6.75 HOOS. 4.75 @5.25 Flour—Extra 5.5 D @ e.oo WilEAi'—No. 2 Spring i @ .85 No. 2 Red .85 @ .86).j Co'tN-Nn. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—White 34 @ .37 Fork—New Mess 16.50 @17.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.25 @7.00 Good Shipping 5.75 @ 6.25 Common to Fair 4.00 @ 5.00 Ho IS 4.50 @ 5.25 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.25 @ 4.75 Good to Choice Spring.. 4.00 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 75 @ .76 No. 2 Red Winter 74 @ .75 Conx—No. 2 41 @ ,42)b Oats—No. 2 24 @ .25)« UVE—N'o. 2 40 @ .50 * Barley—No. 2 01 @ .63 Butter —Choice Creamery 26 @ .28 Fine Dairy 20 @ .23 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .13’/, Skimmed Flat 08 @ .00 * Eogs—Fresh 21 @ .22 Potatoes—New, per bu 32 @ .37 Fork—Mess 15.25 w 15.75 LARD 06%@ .07 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 70 @ .71 Corn—No. 2 4s @ .50 Oats—No. 2 27 @ eg MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 72 @ .73 Corn—No. 2 43 <a» .45 Oath—No. 2 27 @ .29 Barley—No. 2 54 @ .55 Fork—Mess 15.00 @15.50 Lard 6.75 @7.00 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 76 @ .77W Corn—M xed 36 @ ,37)| '• ATS—Mixed 26 @ .27 RVE. 49 @ .50 Pork—Mess 15.25 @15.75 ' CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red 77 @ .79 Corn 48 @ .60 Oats—Mixed...., 27 @ .28 Pork—Mess 14.50 @15.00 Lard 06M@ .07)£ DETROIT. Flour e.oo @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 1 White. 77 @ .78 Corn—Mixed 43 @ .44 Oats —No. 2 Mixed .27 @ .28 Pork—New Mess 17.50 @IB,OO INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red, New 73 @ .75 Corn—Mixed 40 @ .42 OaTs—Mixed..- 25 @ .26 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle —Best e.oo @ 6.50 Fair 5.50 @ 6.00 Common. 4.00 @ 4.50 HOOS 4.75 @ 5.00 Sheep 4.50 @ 5.0)

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A postoffice has been established a( Balaka, Randolph County. —Chaplain McCabe dedicated a Methodist church at Richmond, which cost $73,001). —Herbert Sparks, a 13-year-old boy living two miles above Rising Sun, was kicked by a mule and killed. —Harry, a little two-year-old son of William Purtlebaugh, residing on the bank of Wolf Creek, near Columbus, fell into the creek an l was drowned. —The County Commissioners of Clarke will offer a reward of SI,OOO for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. Reynolds, who was killed by an unknown burglar. —Mattie Freemin, a young woman employed as a domestic in Washington, attempted to kill herself the other day with a revolver. She shot herself twice, one bullet entering her breast, the other her mouth. She is in a critical state. —A flock of wild geese, dazzled by the glare, flew against the Brush electric light on the dome of the Court House at Wabash, broke four globes, and inflicted such damage that it will require some time to repair it. Three of the geese were killed by the shock. —Paities rowing on Clear Lake, in the noitliern edge of St. Joseph County, found a drowned man standing erect on the bottom with the top of his head barely out of water. It is believed from letters found in the pockets that it was the body of Arnold Hoess. • —David A. Fish died at Sharpsville in the sixtieth year of bis age. He held the office of Country Treasurer from 1868 to 1870, since which time he has been one of the best-known farmers of Tipton County and a man noted for his many good deeds and charitable acts. —Three men left a hotel at Lafontnine, paying their bill in silver dollars, some of which, after their departure, were found to be bogus. They were overhauled and arrested, one of the party turning informer. Besides disposing of many spurious dollars, they also put in circulation counterfeit S2O silver certificates of excellent workmanship. —Prof. George Hubbard, principal of the lower seminary, at Madison, administered a slight punishment to Emma Stanley, aged 14, for persisting in whispering in class, and sent her home temporarily suspended. The girl's father, Harry Stanley, went to the school, knocked Hubbard down with his fist, and horsewhipped him. Papers are out for Stanley’s arrest. —The Circuit Court has divorced Mrs. Louisa Doolittle from Henry C. Doolittle, now serving a fifteen-years’ sentence for attempting to kill her in Connersville several months ago. The court finds that he married her under a false name, his true name being Henry C. Davis. In the decree the wife’s maiden name of Smith is restored, and the custody of the little girl is given to her.

—W. F. Walker and Noah Hayes, patients at the State Insane Asylum, quarreled in their ward the other night, and Hayes was struck by Walker a savage blow on the head with a floor-rubber, from which ae died a few hours later. His skull was crushed. The attendant was out of the ward at the time, but says neither of the men had been regarded as dangerous, although Walker had sometimes engaged in scuflies with patients. The deceased was from Terre Haute. —The proposition made by the Commissioners of Wayne County to Peter P. Kirn and his bondsmen has been accepted. A mortgage has been executed on real estate to secure any deficit that may occur in the amount of money that the county had on deposit in the Richmond National Bank, and the Commissioners will withdraw the suit commenced against Mr. Kirn, who, all agree, acted in good faith and is held blameless for the unfortunate state of affairs that now exists. —Rafferty & Southerland’s dry goods store at Springville, .Lawrence County, was entered, and $1,400 taken from the safe. Twelve hundred dollars of tho amount belonged to Dr. Short, who had left it there for safe keeping. After getting the money the robber went to Mr. Southerland's stable and took two horses and rode away in plain view of several men who were sitting within 100 yards of the store. The horses were found afterward twelve miles from Springville, near Harrodsburg, where, it is thought, the robber boarded a train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad. A reward of S3OO is offered for the arrest of the thief. —A telegram from New Albany says: At 11 o’clock last night, at Palmyra, Harrison County, a party of thirty women, disguised in men’s clothes, rode up to the liquor saloon of William Bott, and demanded admission of Bott, whose residence is in the house with the saloon. Enforcing the demand with drawn revolvers, they were admitted to the house, aud at once set to work and broke all the decanters, glasses, and other furniture of the bar, and knocked in. tho beads of all the barrels and kegs, and poured out the liquor. They then gave Bott notice that if he reopened the saloon they would pay him another visit and lynch h'.m, as they did not intend to tolerate the o.Je of liquor in the town. Bott is looking for another location.

—Ed Thixten, of ftashville, went into the woods sqnirrel-hunting, and, failing to return home, search was instituted, and-His dead body was found lying in the woods, his gun and two squirrels iu his hand, and one barrel of the gun empty. It is thought Thixten attempted to blow in the muzzle, of his gun, ns the charge had entered his mouth, ranging upward, coming out at the top of his head. —Judge David McConnell died at his home in Oxford, aged 92J

WHEAT.

A Reduction in Acreage in Europe and This Country Next Year ProbaWe. The monthly report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, says a Washington telegram, contains some interesting facts concerning the crops and grain markets of Europe. It seems that stagnation and depression in prices are agitating the fanners of Europe as well as of this country. There is little if any profit to the farmers, and it is believed shat the inevitable result will be a reduction in the acreage of wheat next season. The crops have been unusually large, and the abundance there, as well as elsewhere, has furnished a supply almost unprecedented, and vastly in excess of the demand. The disheartening price which all grain is now bringing is even a severer blow to the farmers than the bad crops of previous years, and coming when their resources are pressed to the utmost, the future is looked forward to with dismay. The papers are teeming with farm statistics shewing the cost of raising grain per acre and the resulting mcney returns in tho markets. Average English wheat brings $1.03 per bushel, which is less than it can be raised for in that country. A year ago, when the average was 20 per cent, higher, it was said there was more money to be made with average crops at that price, and now as the reductions in rent have not kept pace with the falling markets the amount of loss per acre is the only question. A writer from Great Britain estimates the wheat yield of that country for the present year at over 74,000,000 bushels. He estimates the requirements of the 36,000,000 of people to be fed at over 300,0(10,000 bushels, of which 74,000,000 bushels are supplied at home, leaving 126,000,0t)0 to be imported from foreign countries. About this amount was imported last year. The writer continues: “The stock of foreign wheat in the warehouses on Sept 1, 1883, was known to be enormous, and this stock has probably been reduced. The total price of wheat during the past year has also caused a larger proportion of homegrown wheat to be consumed by stock, and the still lower prices which are likely to prevail during the coming year will tend to increase the consumption. The imports of foreign wheat during each year do not, therefore, at the present time supply so reliable a measure of the annual requirements as was the case formerly, when the stock of foreign wheat' had not assumed such gigantic proportions. ” This condition of the grain market in Europe, which draws so heavily from our supply, it is believed, wi#result in a large reduction in the acreage in this country next year. With an increased foreign demand and a smaller supply, the price of cereals would be raised, a movement of the crops would become more active, and a better condition of things generally is predicted for next year.

WARDS OF THE NATION.

The Annual Report of the Indian Bureau. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his annual report, says the progress of the Indians toward civilization is most encouraging, and that it is fair to presume that in the near future they will be no longer a burden but a help to the Government. He states that the Indians’ appropriation is too small, and urges the necessity of passing an appropriation bill early in the session. Congress is urged to pass a stringent law prohibiting the sale of arms and ammunition to Indians, and to enforce the law forbidding the sale of liquor to them. Touching the removal of the Crow Indians, in Montana, it is stated that it has thus been made possible to add to the public domain at least 3,000,000 acres of the reservation, leaving still all the land necessary for the use and occupancy of this tribe of Indians. If these 3,000,000 are so disposed of as to give the Crows some benefit from the proceeds thereof, they will no longer require any aid from the Government, and thus one factor of the Indian problem will have been solved, and an example and incentive given other tribes of Indians to do likewise. Great good has resulted from the establishment of courts for the trial of Indian offenses, and an appropriation of $50,000 is asked to pay the salaries of judges. The Commissioner calls attention to the necessity of establishing a United States court in Indian Territory, and recommends that the bill pending before Congress, to prevent timber depredations in that Territory, be made to include coal and other minerals. A more liberal compensation is asked for the Indian police, and their efficiency is warmly commended. School work is reviewed at length, its great value demonstrated, and the necessity shown for the expenditure of a much greater amount of money in this direction. Attention is called to the fact that Congress granted a right of way through Indian Territory to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and the Railroads, and the statement is rasde that the Indians consider this a violation of treaty obligations. The Commissioner refers to the invasion of the Indian Territory by Payne and others, and says there is no possible excuse for these repeated lawless invasions. The lands are not public lauds in any sense as yet, whatever disposition mny be made of them hereafter. It is manifest that, without tihe passage of some stringent law, intruders can only be kept out by the troops, and should they at any time be temporarily withdrawn for nny purpose, the Territory would be rapidly overrun. The Commissioner indorses the report of the commission to review the award of damages of $36,000 to the Indians, on account of the construction of reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi, and says no one c m compute what evil consequences may arise should Congress ignore its duty to these Indians by a failure to make appropriations to carry out the terms <3 the award.

CLIPPINGS.

Gov. Butler does not travel on Sun* day. The dentist to the court of Italy is an American. Sacramento is shipping sweet potatoes to Montana. Mme. Gerster, ill with rheumatism of the throat, has canceled all her engagements. President Darling, of Hamilton College, has been elected a member of the Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain. i In Cleveland John T. Raymond advertised a grand parade of "the new party,” and in the evening hired 100 small boys to march through the streets with torches and transparencies, on which was inscribed: “Vote for John T. Raymond for Congress." The streets were crowded that night to see the parade, and the theater was packed all week. Lieut. Greely has leased a house on I sheet, Washington, for the winter.

WILBUR F. STOREY.

Biographical Sketch of the Deceased Proprietor of the Times. ————— A Life of Great Ambitions, Arduous Labors, and Brilliant Successes. _ Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago 2 imes, died at his residence on Prairie avenue, in that city, on the 27th of (October. Hi* death was not unexpected, as it had becomegenerally known that his phvsicai system wasseriously impaired and his mind shattered. For some time before his death his mind was entirely powerless and inactive, and the only evidence of life remaining was shown in respiration aud by his pulse, both of which were faint. His passing away was rainless. Wilbur F. Storey was one of the best and most widely known residents of Chicago. Hi* reputation as a journalist ranked among theforemost. When in his vigor he was radical and a .-gressive, and at the same time comprehensiveand well poised. These qualities were reflected ■ in the great newspaper which he edited so ably and successfully for so many years. He had qualities which drew to him many strong and faithful friends, and at tho same time made him bitter enemies. His influence, and that of the Times, when hewa- actively at its head and shaped and enforced its policy, were very great. But few, if any, journalists in this country have wielded a wider or more potent influt nee. I rom the Chicago Daily Fetes we glean the following biographical sketch of the deceased journalist: Mr. Storey was bom Dec. 19,1819, in Salisbury, Vt. His family was of the same stock a* that of the celebrated jurist. He passed the first ten years of his lire on his father’s farm, attending a cpnntry school in the winter only.. When he was 12 years old, his father having moved to Middlebury, he entered the office of the Middlebury Press Press, to learn the printing Dnsiness. He remained there until he was 17, with the exception of one winter, during which he attended school. At 17 he had saved sl7, and with this small amount, added to $lO which hi 9 mother gave him, he went toNew York to begin life for himself. As a youth he was said to be quiet, retiring, and industrious, and rather averse to society. In New York he worked as a compositor oh the Journal of Commerce for a year and a half and then came West to LaPorte, Ind., where he established a Democraticpaper, he undertaking the mechanical part of its management and the celebrated Ned Hanneg&n afterward United States Senator, being editor. This enterprise did not suoceed, and Mr. Story purchased a drug store. Falling in this, also, he established a Democratic paper in Mishawaka called the Tocsin. After editing it a year and a half he went to Jackson, Mich., and studied law for two years. A tithe end of that time he started the JacksoaiWU-Jof, and conducted it with such ability that he pushed to the wall the Democratic paper already in existence there. After editing the Patriot a year and a half, he was appointed Postmaster by President Polk and held the office until deposed by President Taylor. Having sold his paper when he became Postmaster, he was again, without an occupation. Soon he went again> into the drug business, and dealt also in groceries, books, and stationery. While in Jackson he took an active part in politics, and in 1850 waselected a member of the constitutional convention of Michigan by a large majority over Austin Blair. Having an opportunity to acquire am interest in the Detroit Free Press he availed himself of it, and in 1853 removed to Detroit. Before long he becameihalf owner and subsequently sole owner of the paper. When he wentto Detroit the Free Press was a feeble organ, with almost no circulation or inflnenee. In tight years Mr. Storey paid for the entire concern, saved about $30,000 and made the paper the most able, prosperous, and influential Democratic organ in the West. For the first six years Mr. Storey did all the editorial work on the paper and during the next two years had but a singleassistant. He was always the first to reach the office in the morning and tho last to leave it at. night. His remarkable success was due not alone to his ability as a journalist, intellectuallyspeaking, but to untiring industry. It was notunusual for Mr. Storey to remain at his offleauntil the paper went to press, at 4 o’clock in the morning, and then to return at 8 o’clock to resume his labor.

In 1861 Mr. Storey realized that he had built up the Free Press to the limit of prosperity which its field permitted, and his ambition urged him to something of larger scope and dimensions. After hesitation between Chicago* and several other cities, he decided to come to this growing commercial center of the West. At that time the Chicago Times had deteriorated from being the influential organ of Stephen A. Douglas to a paper of almost no influence or standing, and with a circulation less than 1,200. Mr. Storey.bought the paper and at once began the work of makingi the influential journal it subsequently became. He i racticed the same industry and wonderful application, and exerted the same remarkable journalistic ability by the exercise of which he had gained success in Detroit. The rebellion, had just begun and the time was one of great political excitement. Mr. Storey sent out numerous special r orresr ondents with the different armies, used the telegraph most liberally, and the Times had always the freshest war news, often outstripping its contemporaries in thecompleteness and accuracy of its accounts of battles and operations at the front The attitude which the paper took editorially during the exciting times of the rebellion was such a* to give the paper an enormous circulation. Mr. Storey was accounted & rank copperhead and ardent rebel sympathizer, and shaped the policy of his paper accordingly. Numerous threats against his life were made by exasperated Unionists, and once the Times was suppressed for a few days by military order Whatever else may b« said of the course of the Times at that time, It certainly was such as was best calculated to Increase its reputation and circulation. The paper grew very rapidly into one of the greatftt journals of the West, and Mr. Storey was obliged again and again to increase its publishing facilities. The financial sueoess of the paper was great, and Mr. Storey, as was often said,, had more money than he knew what to do with. In 1867 the Times building on Dearborn street was built by Mr. Storey. Tula was .burned in the great fire of 1871, after which Mr. Storey built the existing Times building at the corner Oi Fifth avenhe and Washington street. For the past six or seven years Mr. ,Storey has done but comparatively little in the matter of editing the Times. The strain of hard work and close application began to tell upon his system, and he was obliged to relax his labor. In the spring of 1881 he took a European trip in hopes of regaining his health. While abroad hesuffered a paralytic stroke, and was almost immediately brought home. He grew better, and undertook to do editorial work again. It was apparent, however, that the vigor of his mind was gone. Subsequently he spent periods of greater or less length at Green Lake, Wis., Hot Springs, and other health resorts. During last winter he was in Philadelphia undergoing medical treatment. From there he returned last spring in a partially demented and physically weak condition. It has been more than twoyears since he did any editorial work on tne Times, and since his return from Philadelphia he has not been at the office. One of the strange ambitions of Mu Storey’s declining years was to erect for himself a magnificent residence, of proportions and elegance so great as to entitle it to be called a palace. As is well known, he entered upon this undertaking some years ago, and the mammoth white marble edifice, still unfinished, though having eaten up hundreds of thousands of dollars iu its construction, remains down on Vincennes avenue to testify to his strange desire. In personal appearance Mr. Storey was tall and always neatly attired. His hair was abundant and snowy white. His forehead was high, and his hazel eyes clear and bright. As a journalist Mr. Storey had a clear, concise, and veryforcible style. He was more of a paragraphisb than essayist. In his editorials he often repeated the prominent idea again and again, each time with verbiage so forcible yet different that the effect was like that of the repeated blows of a battering ram, as many who have felt theforce of them can testify. Even his enemies, and they were many, attest to his remarkable ability as a journalist.

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