Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — Page 2

SlKilcmocraßcScnUud RENSSELAER, iENDIANA. 1 Ml MeEWES, - - - Publish er

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESa Hr. Kiddelerrger, *A Virginia, offem-i a resolution in the Senate, on the 2d inst.,-tV.at the President is not restricted by law in rer.wiving officials, and that the Senate has no right to require a statement of his reasons for suspensions. Mr. Pugh submitted a substitute, declaring the President responsible to the people for rowovals or suspensions from office. The matter went over. The electoral-eount bill, with *ll the amendments proposed, was recommitted. Mr. Chace introduced a hilt to prevent Congressmen from recommending appointments to office, and Mr. Harris a measure approjiriating $75,00;) to establish a bureau of public health. The Secretary of the Treasury answered a resolution of inquiry by stating that no assistant treasurer has been instructed to rofuse to issue certificates on deposits of silver dollars. The House of Representative devoted the day to eulogies of Vice President Hendricks by leading members. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, was the first speaker to bear testimony to tho true Worth of the dead statesman. He traced tin life of Mr. Hendricks through childhood, youth, and j manhood, showing that in every stage ho had j manifested that ability and talent which had j made his name familiar to every household in j tho lend. Mr. Hewitt said that tho nomination ! of Mr. Hendricks in 18S4 secured tho success of I the Democratic ticket. It prevented an issue ! addressed to tho conscience of the people, I said in New York especially was so acceptable to a portion of tho party otherwise dissatisfied that pirsor.al grievances wore to a largo extent swallowed up and postponed to the largo duty of justice to tho man in whose person tho will of tho people had once been defeated. But for tho existence if this feeling the accession of independent voters would not have materially changed the strong current of feeling among a portion of tiie Democratic voters for tho candidates of the other party. Mr. Hendricks, he said, was a partisan, out this partisanship was never exerted at tho expense of his patriotism. There was no reason for apology or explanation so far as Mr. Hendricks' vii tvs on the matter of appointment to public office were concerned. These views were given in his letter of acreptom e of the nomination for Vico Presitb nt in JH7(i, and coincided with the views of Washington and .Jefferson. Mr. Randall expressed admiration for tho dead statesman, whose life had been the emboA•ment of that old Latin saying, “mild in manner and resolute in conviction." His ways were gentle and kind, but in a matter of right or wrong he was iixed and immovable. As he was greater than others he was also stronger than any political organization to which he was attached. He believed that, our liberties were sacrod only when all tendencies toward centralization well) to be resisted and destroyed. He dfocras ho lived, calmly and serenely. Like a shadow thrown softly and sweetly from a passing cloud, death fell upon him. Thf. Chair placed before tho Senate, on the3d inst., the resolution as submitted by Mr: Riddleberger and tho substitute tor it submitted by Mr. Pugh, relating to tho relations between the President and the Senate in regard to information and papers affecting Government officers suspended or appointed. Mr. Edmunds said that practically but four months of the session were left for business. Tho resolution offored embodied no practical question —only mooted—questions—and it would be timo enough to debato tho question When it should become a practical question. Ho moved to lay the resolutions on the table. Tho motion to lay on the table was then agreed to, only one voico being heard in the negative. At a subsequent stage of tho Senate proceedings, Mr. Riddieberger again called up his resolution and criticised tho course of the “Senator (Edmunds) whose voico is too repressed to bo heard except by himself, who first makes a speech ahd then IVAvfA an undebatablo motion. “I don’t mind being run over by a railroad train,” continued Mr. Riddleborger, “but I don’t like being mashed by a wheelbarrow,” [Great laughter. I On motion of Mr. Morrill tho resolution was then, without debato, referred to tho Committee on Privileges and Elections. Tho Dakota bill was placed beforo the Senate, and Mr. Logan took tho floor in favor of the admission of that Territory as a Stato. Mr. Morgan opposed tho admission of Dakota under the present conditions. He thought tho Senate was asked to admit the new Stato merely for tho purpose of admitting the officeholders that had been sent here. Tho patriotism that had been so much referred to had in it a strong flavor of self-interest. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution, offered by Mr. Bland, requesting information from the Secretarv of the Treasury whether an arrangement was made with the New York Clearing-Houso to prevent the circulation of silver, and asking for a statement of Silver dojjarg arid certificates on hand and alloat. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that since 1827 the conscience fund has developed to $220,747, was read in the Senate on the 4th inst. A memorial from the Legis’ature of New Jersey protested against the granting to the Baltimore and Ohio Road the rydit to build a bridge from the Jersey shore to Staten Island. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to appropriate $150,000 more for a public building at Fort Scott, and Mr. Dolph a measure to extend the limits of Portland, Ore., to include the east bank of tho Willamette. Mr. Cameron called up the bill providing for an assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Senate, and a debate of the merits of tho bill was entered upon which soon took the character of a polit'cal discussion anil ended in a fight over the action taken by Secretary Whitney in tho Dolphin matter. Mr. Cockrell defended the actions of Secretary Whitney. In the House the day was devoted to the discussion of the Dakota bill. Mr. Harrison declared that the real animus of the objections to tbe bill was that another Presidential election should pass before tho people of Dakota wero to be permitted to participate in such elections. Mr. Morgan said that Mr. Harrison, who was evidently a candidato for the Presidency, might not have a chance at the votes of Dakota, for he (Mr. Morgan) did not think that he would ripen in four years. Mr. Harrison replied that if ne over should bo a candiiiate, although he would not be sure but that he might justly claim the electoral vote of Alabama, he never would expect to have it counted for Riio. Übou tho reading of Mr. Harrison of papers In contraction of those read by Democratic Senators to show the feeling prevalent in Dakota with regard to the question of admission, one Senator brought down the House and Senate by quoting Falstaff’s exclamation: “Oh, Lord, how this world is given to lying!” When, at another time, Mr. Harrison asked amid laughter whether Mr. Butler would have entitled the constitution of Dakota “The Constitution of tho State of Dakota, by tho grace of God and the Senator from South Carolina," Mr. Butler turned the laugh against his opponent by replying: No; I should have simply said: “By the grace of tho Senator from Indiana.

This feonato closed its long and wrangling debate over the admission of South Dakota into the Union as a State on tho sth iust., by passing the bill of the Committee on Territories. A Vote was first taken on tho Butler substitute, which was an act to enable the people of Dakota to frame a State constitution, etc., and it was rejected by a vote of —yeas 22, nays 3'?. A vote was then taken’ on the bill itself, which resulted in—yeas 32, nays 22. The negative vote was wholly Democratic. The affirmative vote was made up of thirty-one Republicans and one Democrat— Mr. Voorhees. Tho bill as it was passed divides the Territory of Dakota on the lino of the 4titli parallel of latitude ; provides for the admission of the southern portion as a State under the title of Dakota, and the organization of the northern portion into a separate Territory under the name of Lincoln. The Frye bill for the appointment of a commission to investigate the alcoholic-liquor taiffic was reported favorably to the Senate. It provides for {be appointment by the President of five peraons to investigate the alcoholic-liquor traffic,

-fw relations to revenue and taxation, and its ,general economic, criminal, moral, and scienytitle aspects in connection with pauperism, .crime, social evil, the public health, and general welfare of the people; to inquire and take 1 testimony as to the practical results of license and prohibitory legislation for the prevention of ■intemperance in the several State*, and to report tut result of their investigations to the President, to be by bim transmitted to Congress, fc appropriates 810,000 for the expenses of the investigation. The Senate passed Mr. Sewell’s bill .providing for an annual appropriation. of SOOO,OOO to buy anas and ordnance .fclores, quartermasters’ stores, and camp equipage for the militia of the several States and Territories. No State is to reeeive a share of the appropriation unless its militia force numbers at least one hundred men for each Senator <uid Representative to which it is entitled in Congress. The Senate also passed a bill providing iw the sale of the old site of Fort Brady, in Michigan, andfortho purchase of anew ite and tbe erection of a suitable building thereon. The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill to pay to Joseph W. Parish, of Peoria, $58,341.85 for ice contracted for army hospitals in 1863. Mr. Itandall reported to the House the pension bill from tbe Appropriation Committee, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. The bill as reported apjiropriates ¥75,754,200, an increase of about $15,000,000 over last year. It is made tip as follows; For army and navy pensions, $75,000,000; for tees and "expenses of examining surgeons, $500,000: for salaries of eighteen pension agents, $72,000; for miscellaneous expenses, including clerk hire, rents, etc., $182,200.

EASTERN.

Owing to the strike, it is reported that the coke supply will not last over ten days, and as a result employes of mills and furnaces throughout the country will be rendered idle. A number of imported laborers who were brought to Standard, l’u., refused to go to work, having been dissuaded from entering the mines by the striking Hungarians. A gas well three miles southwest of Buffalo discharges 144,000 feet daily. A sentence of five years’ imprisonment lias been passed upon John McMahon, the ex-Colloctor of Revenue at Hoboken, New Jersey, who absconded two years ago with ssl, 000. The fishing schooner Maud M. Stovoy, of Gloucester, Mass., has been given up for lost. She carried a crew of fourteen men. J. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor, has completed the model for a soldiers’ monument in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The shaft will he eighty feet high, and will cost $300,000 or more. Mrs. Marie Branchu, wife of a wellknown decorative painter in New York, committed suicide in a sensational manner, jumping from High Bridgo 120 feot below. Every bone in her body was broken.

WESTERN.

President Cleveland lias pardoned Georgo It. Sims, who was convicted in Chicago three years ago of fraudulent pension operations. An organized attempt was inaugurated at Seattle, W. T., to drivo out tlio Chinese. It is alleged that the Knights of Labor head tho movement. Tbe Chinese to the number of 100 were marched to tho steamer Queen of tho Pacific, lying at tho wharf, and shipped by stcerago to San Francisco, the citizens paying $lO a head passage. Cliesley Chambers was sentenced at Bloomington, Ind, to two years’ imprisonment for assaulting a baggage-master wbilo robbing a traia The remains of the late President James A. Garfield, which rest in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, wero last week placed in an ornamental bronze sarcophagus. Tho military guard about the vault will be continued until next'June. Edward Hudson, Cincinnati’s Chief of Police, lias been suspended by tho Mayor for insubordination, and Arthur G. Moore appointed in his place. The United States fish hatchery at Northville, Mich., shipped to tho Postmaster General of New Zealand ono million whitefish eggs. Edward Cowl was sent to jail at Cleveland, charged with forging his mother’s namo to notes to the amount of SGO,OOO.

SOUTHERN.

The Government Directors of the Union Pacific Road report its gross debt at $30,99)1,090; stato that without the branch system tho line would be bankrupt, and recommend Congressional action on the principle of the Hoar bill, the period being fixed at eighty years.

Chattanooga, (Tenn.) special: “The killing of George and Frank Taylor at Oakdale Junction, Tenn., on suspicion that they were burglars, creates tlio most intonse excitement It develops that tho doceased were nephews of Cot Blackburn, one of the leading criminal lawyers of Cincinnati, and steps are now being taken to prosecute their murderers to tho full extent of tho law. The evidence is now clear that the young men were merely traveling through the country, and wero innocent of any crime.”

Ur. C. Whittier, of California, has purchased 70,(K0 acres of land in Swain Comity, North Carolina, and will open a vast cattle ranch and build a new town.

At New Castle, Delaware, with the mercury in the neighborhood of zero, five thieves were lashed on their hare hacks and a forger was placed in tlio pillory for an hour.

During a heavy fog at New Orleans the British steamship Castle Craig refused to obey her rudder and collided with several other vessels, doing about $70,000 worth of damage.

WASHINGTON.

During the month of January the United States mints coined 3,709,000 pieces of gold and silver, valued at $6,209,470.

The Hydrographic Office at Washington lias just issued its February pilot-chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, and devotes a largo part of its margin to recommending tho use of oil in storms at sea. It says the evidence of tho value of oil in a heavy sea continues to be of so satisfactory a nature as to justify the policy of disseminating tho facts as widely as possible. Tho use of mineral oil is not recommended, but the importance of carrying a supply of the animal or vegetable product

for use in cases of emergency cannot be overestimated. About one gallon of the latter i for every ten miles run by the ship is referred! to as having proved sufficient in one ease of terrific storm. * Gen. Sheridan is opposed to the billj authorizing the recruiting of two regiments' of cowboy cavalry, and thinks that instead' any addition to the service should be made by recruiting the cavalry to the maximum. A bill was presented in Congress requiring all mastlass vessels to carry lights at night The Government su't to test the validity of the Bell telephone patent will lie conducted by Solicitor Geueral Goode, assisted by ex-Senator Thurman, of Ohio, Grosvenor Lowrey, of New York, and Eppa Hunton and Jeff Chandler, of Washington.

POLITICAL.

The Governor of Ohio has sustained the charges mado against the Police Commissioners of Cincinnati, but they absolutely refuse to vacate their offices. A favorable report on the Hennepin Canal bill is considered as assured from committee having it in charge. W. M. Campbell, of Litchfield, Minn., has been appointed Marshal for Minnesota. In regard to the fight for the admission of Dakota into tho Union, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs that journal as follows:

Although Senator Harrison got his Dakota bill through tho Senate, it was only by sacrificing what Judges Edgerton and Moody and a few [other residents of the soi-disant State deem the most important of all the features of his bill —namely, the sanction of the acts already performed in anticipation of admission to the Union. Tho preliminary organization of the State government and tho election of two Senators all go for nothing, and tho Territory of Dakota will have it all to do over again. It really doos not matter much. There is extremely little reason to believe that the House will pass the Senate bill. The House is probably willing to pass a bill admitting Dakota as a whole, or making a division on a north and south line, but there will not be two Republican Statos in the new Territory of Dakota within tho next few years. Really what most of the Democrats are fighting for is delay, and that would be accomplished by the passrgs in the House of almost auy kind of a bill different from the Senato bill. The passage of two bills by the two houses would leave the thing hung up until next year, and all that the Democrats are at all sure of accomplishing is to keep Dakota out of the Union until after the Electoral College of 1888 has met and performed its duty.

MISCELLANEOUS. It is reported that Grant & McLennan have been awarded tbo contract to build the Hudson Bay Railroad, to run from the head of Lake Winnepcg to“ Fort Churchill, on Hudson Bay, and that work will bo begun in tho near future. The coldest weather ever felt in some parts of tho South prevailed last week. Tho mercury throughout Virginia showed a temperature of from 4 to 35 degrees below zero, the most severe weather being at Staunton. Throughout the East generally the temperature was very low. Snow blockades interfered seriously with tho movements of railroad trains. George Koch, a wealthy farmer of Wilson, Wis., froze to death on tho highway, Avitliiu one hundred yards of his house, whilo driving home from Sheboygan. Official reports to the Mexican Minister state that tho recent encounter of Mexican troops with Crawford’s command was the result of a mistake. Tho Mexican loss was four men killed and four wounded. Complaint is made in regard to the alleged lawless acts of American scouts. A permanent Quaker mission is to he established in the City of Mexico. Business* failures throughout the country for tho week were 253 for the United States and 34 for Canada, a total of 287, as against 289 for last week and 329 for the week previous. Most of the failures wero in the Southern, Western, and Pacific Statea The Adams Tobacco Company, of Montreal, went into liquidation, with liabilities amounting to $175,003. ■

FOREIGN.

Lord Duflferin has gone to Bumah to make arrangements for the extension of the Indian administration to that country. A huge block of buildings in Manchester, England, valued at $500,000, was destroyed by fire. The Supreme Court of Denmark has canceled a sentence of six months’ imprisonment imposed upon a journalist named Horup for printiug an article insulting to the King. The Freeman’s Journal, of Dublin, declares that Mr. Gladstone recognizes the fact that no settlement of the land or education questions is possible without Irish self-govern-ment Henry M. Stanley, whose hair was almost white from exposure in Egypt, has returned to London again with hair and heard that are described as beautifully brown. They are undyed Gladstone has selected the Earl of Aberdeen as Viceroy of Ireland, Baron Wolvorten as Postmaster General, J. Rigby, M. P., as Solicitor Genoral, and J. Codings, M. P., as Secretary of the Local Government Board. The Tories are boasting that they will be able to overthrow the Gladstone Cabinet The Chinese Envoy has had an au dience with the Pope, and as a result the Vatican will in the future be represented at the Chinese court, and China will send an Embassador to the Vatican. The Queen is very much annoyed at the reports that sho gave an uncourteous reception to Mr. Gladstone, when he w#nt to Osborne to receive her command to form a now Ministry. It has also been stated that the Prince of Wales rebuked his mother for her alleged display of reluctance to summon the Liberal leader to take chargo of her Government. Efforts are being made to form a National liberal party under the leiderslrip of Lord Hartington. In the Austrian Beichsrath a new anti-socialist bill has been introduced. The chief purposexrf the measuro is the suppression of socialist organs.

LATER NEWS IETMS.

Over 15,000 men, representing the “starving mechanics of London,” met around Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square, on the afternoon of the Bth inst The gathering was managed by Socialists, conspicuous among the leaders being a man named Burns, who was a candidate for Parliament from Nottingham at tho recent election. Interference by the police precipitated trouble, which culminated in a serious riot The residence of Arnold Morley, the new Patronage Secretary, was totally wrecked despite the frantic appeals of the tenant for aid. Besides smashing the windows and doors of a large number of private houses, the vast and maddened throng sacked Hatchett’s Hotel in Picadilly and carried off everything eatable and drinkable. Lord Cremome was met and badly beaten. The Carlton, Devonshire, and Turf Clubs suffered severely. Every person met who looked like a foreigner was stoned or maltreated, and shops of all kinds were burglarized. At midnight the mob, which early in the evening consisted of 50,000 men, melted away, and quiet reigned once more.

A cablegram from Borne announces the death of Prince Alexander Torlonia, who carried out many extensive public works in Italy. According to the report of the New York Produce Exchange, the visible supply of grain on Feb. 6 was: Wheat, 54,197,045 bushels; com, 7,251,352 bushels; oats, 1,824,398 bushels; barley, 1,750,207 bushels; rye, 715,067 bushels. Near Graham Station, Kentucky, Mrs. Slater and her nurse and babe were drowned by the ice giving way beneath their sleigh.

A nice silver debate was running along peacefully in the Senate on the Bth inst., with Senator John Sherman on the floor pointing out the mistakes that had been made in the Treasury Department In failing to follow his example," when some accidental remark was made about the inquiries tho Senate was making of the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to Bilver, and the Senator from Ohio at once branched off into a discussion of the great question of the hour—the relations of the Executive and the Senate. Mr. Edmunds was absent, and Mr, Sherman had a chance to come to the front as the Republican spokesman. For half an hour the debate between Mr. Sherman on one side and Messrs. Saulsbury and Pugh on the other was decidedly interesting. Mr. Sherman’s position was that the Senate had no right to question the President as to his reasons, but it had a right to any information that exists in the departments. Tho doctrine, he declared, had always been recognized till the present administration came in. In the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan committees of Congress had a cabinet minister before them, and overhauled papers in the departments, and it was never even suggested that the two houses of Congress were not entitled to see everything on file in the departments. When ho was Secretary of the Treasury he was summoned before committes of both houses, and questioned about executive acts both in regard to appointments and removals and in regard to financial policy, and he answered all questions but one, and that was as to what he was going to do. The Senate agreed to a resolution offered by Mr. Ingalls, which directs the Finance Committee to inquire into the propriety of making such an amendment to the Revised Statutes as may be necessary to require tbe issue of United States notes of the denominations of $1 and $2. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Blanchard introduced a rt solution calling upon the Secretary of tho Treasury for a statement of all moneys seized or collected in the Department of the Gulf by Generals Butler and Banks. Mr. Springer introduced a bill to enable the people of Dakota east of the Missouri River to form a Constitution and State Government, and there is strong reason to believe that it will be tbe measure which the House will oppose against the Harrison bill which passed the Senate. The bill provides for admitting tho east half of Dakota, which contains about 420,000 inhabitants, with two members of Congress and two United States Courts. This will leave only about 30,000 inhabitants west of the river to bo organized into the Territory of Lincoln. Bismarck is left out of the new State, and will become tbe cap>itnl of tho new Territory. The bill provides that Congress may hereafter, when the Indian reservation titles are extinguished, annex the Territory of Lincoln, and Dakota is required to consent to this in her constitution. Mr. Weaver addressed the House upon tho coinage question. In the course of his remarks Mr. Weaver attacked the national bunking system. There were four things, lie said, relating to finance which this Congress must enact. First, it must provide for unrestricted coinage of American silver. Second, a law must be passed for the issue of Treasury notes to take the place of bank notes. Third, the largest portion of the surplus in the Treasury musz be paid out in liquidation of the interest-bearing piublic debt. Fourth, it must forbid by law any further discrimination against Bilver coin.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.00 @ 6.50 Hogs 4.00 © 4.75 Wheat —No. 1 White .95 @ .96 No. 2 Red 90 @ .91 Corn —No. 2 50 @ .52 Oats—White 40 @ .44 Rome—Moss 10.25 @10.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.75 @ 6.25 Good Shipping 4.25 © 5.00 Common 3.25 @ 4.00 Hogs 4.00 © 4.75 Flour—Extra Spring 4.75 © 5.25 Choice Winter 4.5 > @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Sirring £2 © .82’4 Cohn —No. 2 345 © .36 ’ 2 Oats—No. 2 28 @ .30 Eye—No. 2 58 © .59 ISahlky—No. 2 64 @ .60 Butter —Choice Creamery 28 © .30 Fine Dairy 18 © .22 Cheese—Full Cream, new 10 @ .11 Skimmed Flats 06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh 20 © .21 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 55 @ .60 Pcrk —Mess 11.00 @11.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2... 60 © .82 Corn—No. 2 36 © .37 Oats—No. 2 28 © .2S}4 Rye—No. 1 57 @ .59 Pork—New Mess 11.00 @11.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 92 @ .93 Corn—No. 2.i. 38 © .39 Oats—No. 2 '.30 © .32 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 89 @ .91 Corn —Mixed 33 @ .34 Oats—Mixed 28 © .28}£ I'ork—Now Mess 11.00 @11.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 © .94 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .38’$ Oats—No. 2 31 © .33 Pork—Mess 1100 @11.50 Live Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 DETROIT. Reef Cattle 4.00 © 5.25 Hogs 3.75 © 4.25 Sheep 2.50 © 4.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 89 0 .89)$ Corn—No. 2 38 © .39 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .35 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 91 @ .93 Corn—New 34 @ .36 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .31 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.50 @ 6.00 Fair 4.50 @5.00 Common 3.50 © 4.25 Hogs 4.25 © 4.75 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.25 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard wv.96 © .98 Corn—Yellow W 42 © .43 Cattle a. 6.00 © 5.50 \

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A fire at Stockwell completely destroyed five business houses. —The barn of Cash Herron, near Lynn, burned, with contents. —Fire has destroyed J. Stephens & Co.’s general store at West Shoal. —Charles Canfield was found one mile south of Vernou frozen to death. —Andrew Starkey, of Porter County, committed suicide by shooting himself.' —Harris & Cook, dry goods merchants of Kokomo, have made an assignment. —The residence of Humphrey Frickus r above Evansville, was destroyed by fire. —The Lafayette Gas Company proposes to furnish that city with electric light in the spring. —John Miller, tried at Columbus for shooting Buck McKinney, has been acquitted. —Harrison M. Crockett, one of the first settlers of South Bend, died recently of paralysis.

—Great excitement prevails there over the discovery of coal a short distance south of Vernon. —Rufus Crisman, of Frankfort, committed suicide by hanging himself with a trace-chain. —William Shipe, of Evansville, was thrown from a wagon by a runaway horseand almost scalped. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm and other machinery, has made an assignment. —Fire destroyed W. J. Rawlins’ photograph parlors at Vincennes, and partially destroyed (he building. —Dr. C. L. Thomas, of Logansport, has been appointed to succeed Dr. J. M. Justice on the Pension Board. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm machinery and iron dealer, made an assignment. —The religious revival in Counersvillo Jias been the most extraordinary season of the kind ever known in that city. —At Martinsville, Allen L. English, Trustee of Clay Township, charged with obtaining money by false pretenses, was acquitted.

—George Keller, near South Bend, hanged himself because he had too much money and too little education to care for it. —The daughter of Joseph Blossom, living near Keller’s Station, near Wahash, died from a dose of morphine given through mistake. —The burning of the Fisk Block, at Valparaiso, entailed a loss of $20,000. The Knights Templars lost SB,OOO in furniture and regalia. —Philip Babb, of Buck Creek, who shot, and fatally wounded Nathaniel Warfield a few nights since, was arrested Saturday and bound over. —William A. McCaffrey, of New Albany, a carpenter, fell from a trestle on the Kentucky and Indiana bridge, and died in twenty minutes. —lt has been discovered that the baking powder which recently caused the death of Margaret Garrettson, at Williamsport, was dosed with arsenic.

—Win. Bums, while rendering lard near Evansville, upset a kettle of the grease, which went over his face, chest, and legs. He will lose his eyesight. —Clayton Pavey, who created a sensation in a crowded church in Dora, by shooting William Oates, who two years ago eloped with his sister Ida, is yet at large. —Thomas Birmingham, the Indianapolis barkeeper who killed William Rennion last October, has been convicted of manslaughter, with two years in the penitentiary. —Citizens of Daviess County are making: objections to the raising of $75,C00 by taxation as a bonus to the Ohio and Mississippi. Railroad shops to locate at Washington. —Joint Railroad Agent C. M. Keck and J. B. Barnett, telegraph operator, were arrested at Auburn Junction, on bench warrants charging wholesale robbery of trunks.

—Charles Broker, of Jeffersonville, while working on a pistol, fatally shot his son, five years old. The child exclaimed, with a, smile on his lips, “Why, pa, you’ve shot. me.” —At Peru, J. Savage, traveling peddler,. while showing his traveling companion, named Golan, how steadily he could handle a revolver, accidentally shot and killed. Golan. —Thomas Marley, captured in Arkansas,, is now in jail at Paoli. Marley was indicted for the killing of Martin Archer, Jr., in the northern part of Orange County, in 1882. —The Indiana Coal Mine Inspector recommends that all persons employed to. weigh coal be sworn. He tested twenty-six scales and found twelve incorrect. Of these twelve only two weighed in favor of the miner.

—A sleighing party south of Columbia City passed a party of young men who werewalking. Thomas Fullerton tossed a partly. filled bottle of whisky in the sleigh, which » struck John Gachette. Tho latter jumped i out, and he and Fullerton fell to lighting. . Fullerton produced a revolver and fired, tho ball entering Gachette’s abdomen, and he died in forty-five minutes. FiilLirtou admits the shooting, but claims it was in self-. - defense.