Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — Page 6

PLOTTING ANARCHISTS.

Alarming Disclosures Show that the Anarchists Are Still Planning for Murder and Rerenge. A Fiendish Plan to Assassinate Judges Grinnell and Gary and Capt. Bonfield Foiled. [Chicago special telegram.] A wicked and murderous conspiracy to assassinate the chief officers of the court and several prominent pesple who assisted in the prosecution of the case of the Chicago anarchists who «uttered death at the hands of the law last fall, came to light by Inspector Bonfield and his assistants arresting three Bohemians named John Hronek, Frank Chapek, and Frank Chebowa. Hronek was the chief conspirator, and their principal prey was Judgs Gary, who presided at the anarchist trial; Judge GrirmeO, who ’conducted the prosecution; and Insi>ector Bonfield, who worked up the evidence. The plot was to be carried out regardless of the destructsan of property. It was generally supposed that when the knots closed around the necks ■of the instigators of the Haymarkot riot that Chicago would not be troubled for a while -with the dull-brained and blood-thirsty villains -who prey upon their victims unawares. The citizens of Chicago have lived in comparative peace, but to read of another conspiracy adds fresh horror. As the news of the arrests passed from mouth to mouth on the streets it was received with greatest surprise. Considerable dynamite, knives, and other destructive weapons were found in possession of the trio, but the form of destruction had not been determined. 'That part of the plot, so far as the three men -whose blood they desired was concerned, seems to have been left to circumstances. The manner of death might be a thrust from a knife, a bullet from a pistol, or the explosion of a dynamite bomb. Anarchy killed when Its chiefs were executed. It was not even scotchod. Shortly after the first conspirators were convicted the Inrge groups of the International disbanded. Their members gave public notice that the anarchists were disorganized. They united in quite a different manner on a much more dangerous plan. They organized In small groups. Inmost instances three sworn friends and determined unarchists constituted a group. No one outside the trio was made acquainted with the plans of the group, and the opportunities for detection were reduced to a minimum. Each anarchist

JOHN HRONEK, ALIAS "NUMBER ONE.”

'knew his fellow-members and it became next to impossible for a detective to get into a group. The anarchists also proposed to operate on a different plan. No wholesale murders-dike the Haymarket massacre were to be attempted. They selected their victims and arranged to kill them singly. The that makes men tender-hearted in desperate deeds saved Judge Grinnell’s life, aud kept Judge Gary and Capt. Bonfield from assassination. In the group arrested were John Hrone'c of 29.V2 Farrell street; Frank Chapek, 498 Twentieth street; and a,man named Frank Chebowa, Kving on Zion’s place, a short street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, running from Throop to Loomis. John Hronek is one of the dare-devil Lingg type, a relentlessly vicious anarchist and a notoriety seeker. He was No. lof the group, and the evil spirit of it. He has boasted that he was at the Haymarket riot and ithat he was one of the anarchists who sought to destroy the police on the night of May 4. Among his anarchist friends he has declared that he was supported by the anarchist organizations. Until recently he has been unemployed, ■except in a desultory manner. His occupation as a wood-worker has been prosecuted within the last week or two for the purpose, as he has said, of averting suspicion and of provihg an alibi should he be suspected of tho murders he had planned. The two others were drawn into his plans by Hronek’s vehement and persistent talk of vengeance. Hronek said that the cause of anarchy demanded the lives-of Judge Grinnell, who as Prosecuting Attorney convicted the eight anarchists; Judge Gary, who tried and sen.tenced them ; and Inspector John Bonfield, who ■worked up the cases against them. They agreed tto kill these men in the order named. Grinnell was to be assassinated first, Gary next, and the third sacrifice to their vengeance was ■to be Capt. Bonfield. The methods of disSosing of their victims were freely canvassed, ut the minuter details have not yet been devel- • oped. After deciding upon the general plan of their murderous campaign the conspirators began to arrange its details. On July 4 they visited Aldine Square; the pretty park on whioh Mr. Grinneil’s house fronds, and observed the location. They discussed the question as to whether it •would be better to place a dynamite bomb under the house or to execute the deed with a revolver. ’The conspirators Were armed with dynamite bombs, revolvers, and poisoned daggers. The ■circumstances and the opportunity were to decide which should be used. Hronek carried bomba in bis pockets', a 38-caliber self-acting revolver, and apoisoned dagger when on his mission of revenge. Chebowa is a pleasant-faced man of 27 years, and his countenance indicates too much milk of human kindness in his heart for cold-blooded, treacherous murder. Until their plana had reaohed the 4th of July point of preparation, Che-

CAPT. SCHAACK.

y bowa had been carried along by the blood-thirsty impetuosity of Hronek. Chebowa said that Hronek's plan meant murder—deliberate, dastardly . assassination. He 'was shocked at the prospect. The conspirators had arranged to assassinate .Mr. Grinnell July 14. The mode of the killving had not been decided, but either a dyna-

mite bomb was to be thrown into his bed-room or exploded beneath his residence, or he was to be enticed to the door and shot or stabbed to death. Mr. Chebowa considered what to do for a day or two, and then made a complete confession to a prominent Bohemian, of which nationality all the conspirators were. He immediately called on Mr. Bonfield and repeated Chebowa’s story. C»pt. Bonfield pushed his investigations as rapidly as possible, with the assistance of the

JUDGE GRINNELL.

Bohemian gentleman and two or three members of the force who speak the Bohemian language. Hronek’s love of notoriety and his desperate resolve to avenge the fate of his anarchist friends led Capt. Bonfield to precipitate matters rather than risk Hronek beooming suspicious and murdering one of his victims before he could be apprehended. The Cap .ain with a number of officers surrounded Hronek’s house. Captain Bonfield would not risk the lives of his men in attempting to eapture Hronek in his own fortified castle, so waited until Hronek came out, when Wfyj immediately arrested. He was completely taken by emprise, and made little show of resistance. A search of his house was made. In his bed were found a JB-C’Uber revolver and a knife with a se'ven-ilich blade which Hronek has boasted is tipped with poison. A half-dozen bombs—some loaded, others empty—were found in tbo room. The bomb? were made of a cast-iron pipe, cut in pieces four inches long. They are an inch anti u half in diameter and differ from the gas-pipe bomb in being considerable shorter. Some were closed at the ends with wooden plugs and had apertures • for fuses or caps. A small portion of dynamite In the original packages, labeled “.Etna No. 2," was also fospd in the room. , , Chapektwas captured while in bed, and made no resistance. Chebowa was arrested at his home. Gn his premises were found eight onehalf pound packages of A£tna No. 2 dynamite, a loaded liomb of the pattern found with Hronek, and a fulminating cap. After the men had been secured Capt. Bonfield undertook to pump Hronek. “He at first denied that he knew where Aldine Square was. I asked him what he was‘doing there July 4. He replied at first that he wasn’t there. I sold: ‘Chapek ought to know, and he says you were there.’ He at once admitted that he had been seen there, and then said ihey had taken a walk and got over there and were just looking around. It isn’t likely thev would come a mile and a half or two miles just to stroll around a little park like Aldine Square. “I asked him where he got that dynamite. He said a friend who got it in May, 1880, got scared after the Hajfmarket riot, and gave it to him, ‘How much was there of It ?’ 1 asked. “‘A whole box,’ he answered. As it comes in boxes which weigh twenty-five pounds, and we only found a small quantity, I asked what he had done * with it. He said he hail thrown it . into the river. We had ascertained previously that he

JUDGE GARY.

had distributed it among other anarchistic groups. 1 then asked him where he got his bombs, and he told me that they had been given him by some friend—the one -who gave him the dynamite. He said he had thrown them into the river, also. Hronek did not at the time know that his house had been searched and large quantities of dynamite found in and about the house, especially beneath the floor of the room in the rear of the house.” Mr. Bonfield says that, little by little, he has picked up the story of the plot, and many of its details remained to be unearthed. A number of persons, he thought, would be implicated. but he declined to indicate whence they would cotne. The distribution of twenty pounds of dynamite gives the detectives a clew to further detailß. This dynamite was distributed June 3, and it is said that .many of the old anarchists received it. Captain Bonfield thought some of it might be traced very close to members of the Central Labor Union, which interested itself in money and sympathy for the anarchists during their trial. It is claimed by the detectives that the present plot will implicate the whole brood of anarchists. Some of the early plans of the friends of the convicted and executed men have been in the possession of the police for some time, and this development is expected to lay bare the entire plans of the schemers and plotters. In the ramifications of the plots are included as proposed victims, Edmund Furthmann, Copt. Shaack, Frank Walker, M. E. Stone, Witness Seliger, and members of the jury which convicted the anarchists. For months after the trial and execution the persons and residences of Judge Gary, Mr. Grinnell, ( apt. Bonfield, and Capt. Schaack were guarded. Since the present revelations were made the houses of the three victims have been protected by police surveillance. John Hronek, “No. 1," is a small man with an intelligent lace. Back of his boastful air and savage talk is said to be a recklessness of spirit that makes people feel uncomfortable in his presence. He wears a scraggly, faded-out blonde, mustache and a little goatee. Hits nose is sharp and thin, his face pinched and decisive in expression. A lathe that had seen little recent use was found in a shed in his yard and a small turning machine in his house. He has worked little at his trade in the last year or two. He is about 35 years old, is well educated, and speaks German and Bohemian fluently and English fairly. He got his anarchistic ideas in Vienna and brought them with him to this country. He is an admirer of Louis Lingg and as rabid in his notions respecting theories of government. Frank Chapek is a small man, with a bold head and a full beard, and is about 40 years old. He is also a wood-worker. His anarchism is of a less rampant type than that of Hronek.

DISCUSSING THE TARIFF.

The Wool. Paragraphs Give Rise to a Lively Debate in the House. Messrs. Outhwaite of Ohio, La Follette of Wisconsin, and Others Air Their Views. [Washington telegram.] The wool paragraphs of the Mills tariff bill wore discussed by the House Saturday in committee of the whole. Mr. Outliwaiteof Ohio ridiculed the assertion that the effect of the tariff bad been to incroase the number of sboep In this country. He thought that the natural fecunditv of the flocks had something to do With the increase. There had been an increase in the number of cows. , Possibly some protectionist would claim hat this was because cheese and buttnr bail been protected. The number of horses hail increased; possibly on account of the tariff on curled hair. Swine had increased in numbers. The tariff on bristles might account for this. But mules, upon which there was no protective tariff, had also increased. How did the gentlemen account for that ? Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio suggested that the increase was attributable to the demaud for inuies in Indiana. Mr. Outliwaile proceeded to urge that the high tariff had no inllucnco upon the juice of wool, which was regulated by the law of sujiply and demand. He quoted s atistics to show that •under a high tnriff the price of wool had steadily declined. He did not Ciaim that the djtcUue was attributable to the tariff but to the increased supply of wool. He quoted a remark made to him by a shecfjt-grower in Ohio, to the effect that ho would surrender all the benefit which he derived from his clij> on account of a jirotectivo ttiriff for the jiriviloge of buying one j»air of untaxed jiants. He contended that the woolen manufacturers had nothing to soar from the woolen schedule. The bill presented a fair proposition—a jirojiosiUon to make a reduction on woolen goods equal to the riduction which would result from putting wool on the lroe list. Mr. La Folette, of Wisconsin, criticised Mr. Carlisle s speech upon the bill, osjiecially t hat portion in which the Sjieaker endenvo o l to show the prosperity of the country during the low tariff decade from 1&50 to 1860. To do this, said Mr. La Folette,' Mr. Carlisle had rocourso to the percentage argument. The trick of. the percentage argument was that a manufacture might he so small that any increase would make a percm.age showing. The gentleman in selecting the ar.icles upon which to show the percentage of increase had taken care [o jcl'M those jrticle's which, with one wefe ilot touched, or only slightlv, by the act of 1846. Ihe gentleman had said that the tariff of 1846 had been so beneficial that, in 1857 every representative from New England who voted at all hud voted for a bill making an almost uniform reduction of 20 per cent, and that among them was Justice S. Morrill. He challenged the gentleman to mention a single reduction on any important article of manufacture which was made in the bill of 1857 as it first passed the House, when Mr. Morrill and the other New England representatives voted for it. The statement of the gentleman was either inexcusable blundering or the meanest sort of political pettifogging. Nothing escaped his net; he claimed everything for the low tariff. Ho had both ends of the “teeter” in the air at tho same time. He trifled with the facts when he said that this country recovered from the depression of 1857 in a few months. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. La Foliate was heartily congratulated by his Republican colleagues. Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, referred to the recent speech of Mr. Kelley, giving an account of the interview between himself and Mr. Carnegie in the committee-room. Mr. Scott pronounced the statement made by Mr. Kelley to be a tissue of misrepresentation from beginning to end and made gut of whole cloth. Mr. GrosVenor told how he. with other Ohio members, had called upon the Ways and Means Committee, when the Morrison bill was pending, “before the star-ehamber process of incubatiug tariff bills was invented.” General Warner, a Democratic member from Ohio, had protested stoutly against any reluction of the wool tariff, and no dissenting voice was heard. That was two years ago. The Democrats from Ohio are now taking a dish of crow in silence—all except h s colleague from the central district, who now coolly asserted that he always liked crow. Mr. Grosvenor referred to the decrease of the wool industry in Ohio, and the great falling-off in the price of the wool crop, and said it was all due to the menace of the Mills bill. Would any san) man strike down this great industry for the sake of reducing the revenue by a few million dollars ? Mi Ford of Michigan said that it wab tor the country to choose between cheap whisky and cheap clothing. The wool tariff was burdensome. There was scarcely a breeze when the Iron and copper schedules were passed upon. But now, backed by a subsidized press, the Republicans tumbled over one another to get to the front and bounce the wool schedule. He djdn’t believe that the effect of the bill would be to decrease the price of American wool. Put all of the protective tariff you please on wool and you could not i>roduce all of the needed varieties of wool. But it taxed the manufacturer and thereby hurt tho farmer’s best customer. The manufacturers of the country asked the farmers to worn and stint and pinch while they took their ease. This was the feast that the farmers of the country were invited to partake of by the Republican party, but he predicted that they would reject it in November. [Applause on Democratic side.]

EARNEST POPE LEO.

Another Letter from the Holy Father Denouncing the Plan of Campaign. A papal encyclical letter has been read in all the Catholic churches in the diocese of Dublin. In it the Pope says: I have heard with regret that excited meetings have been held, at which inconsiderate and dangerous opinions regarding the recent papal decree have been uttered, even the authority of the decree itself being unspnred. I have seen with pain forced interpretations put upon the decree, and statements made that it was prepared without a sufficient inquiry having previously been made. The l’ope continues, strongly denying this assertion, saying the decree was based upon the most complete information; that previous to issuing it he had conferences with Irish Bishops on the subject, and sent a tried and trusted delegate to Ireland to inquire into and report on the true condition of affairs. His Holiness reiterates his affection for the Irish people, and says he has always urged them to kei-p within the bounds of justice and right. He refers to a communication to Cardinal McCabe in 1881, adding: “As the x>eople were led on with gradually increasing vehemence in the pursuit of their desires, and as there were not wanting those who daily fanned the flumes, the decrees became a necessity.” The Bishops, be says, must remove all misconception and leave no room for doubt as to i he force of the decree. The whole system of the plan of campaign and boycotting is condemned as unlawful. The encyclical Utter is dated June 21. It caused intense dissatisfaction. At Bray people left the church during thtfreading of tbo letter.

THE PISTOL BALL ROUTE.

A Horse Jockey Kills » Notorious Chicago Levee Tough. Andrew Bond, a notorious levee tough of Chicago, was shot and instantly killed in Dan Scott’s saloou, Chicago, by Kobert Brazel, Bike Barnes’valet. The two latter hod been attending the Chicago races, and were about to leave the city with considerable money. The trouble occurred when drinking, Brazel refusing to accept Bond’s invitation to take “something.” A quarrel and the killing followed. Brazel gave himself up.

Gambetta’s Statue.

A Paris special says : The monument to Leon Gambetta, at the unveiling of which Premier Floquet took a prominent part after his duel with Boulanger, oost $71,000, a sum furnished bv publio subscription, and is erected in front of the Louvre gardens, between the Molliere and Turgot pavilions. It is directly opposite the little Arc de Triomphe of the Place du Car. rousela. The monument is a very elaborate one.

HRONEK AND CHAPEK.

The Two Dynamiters Deny Knowledge of Any Plot—Arraigned in Court. The Latter Talks Mournfully About His Wife and Children—The Prisoners Photographed. [Chicago special dispatch.] Th three Bohemians arrested for the conspiracy to murder Grinnell, Gary, and Bonfield were arraigned before Justice Lyon, who continued their case ten days. No more arrests have been made, but it is believed that some may be. There is an impression that more than three were gathered in the other day. It is based on the statement of James Heinik, who was arrested along with Hronek, but discharged later in the day. He is a carpenter by trade, and lives at No. 517 West Twenty-first street. Hronek was his employe, but he repudiates any knowledge of dynamite or anarchism. Hronek, after being confined in prison, was interviewed by a Tribune reporter. When his name was called he rose to his feet, grinned pleasantly, and then drawing one finger across bis throat to imitate a noose, made a gesture with his other hand toward the sky, at the same time making a significant click with his lips. After this pantomime he burst into a laugh. “You are accused of making a plot to blow up Judge Grinnell, Judge Gary and Inspector Bonfield with dynamite. ” He shrugged his shoulders, scowled, and exclaimed : “It is a lie, a packiuf lies.” "Then there was no conspiracy?” “No.” “How about the dynamite ?" “Karafiat, a friend of mine, had that when the Haymarket raid was made by the police. He brought it to my house and left it there, as he had to leave town in a hurry. It did not belong to me, and after keeping it a while I threw some of it into the river. While coming back I met a policeman, and was afraid to go for more for fear I should be arrested.” "Then you hod made no plot?” “No.” “What ware you doing near Grinnell’s house in Aldine Square the Fourth of July?” “Lies again; I was not there. I wa’k only near my home.” “What we.e the bombs for?” “Not for us i by me. I wish them in the river.” “Do you know Chapek and Chleboun?” “Yes :I do know them. I like not Chleboun too much. ” “Are you not afraid ?” The prisoner expressed his indifference in empnatid pantomime, and the conversation ended as it began, with a shrug and a glance aside. Chapek is a different type, and a man of much more intelligence. His dress is neat, and his appearance not unprepossessing. He was decidedly nervous,’ and was pacing up and down his cell and biting the end of his cigar as be smoked. His voice is soft and agreeable. He said in effect: “I don’t know clearly why I waß arrested.” The charges made against him by the police were explained. “Ah, it is the same old charge—and I am chosen as a victim. I know not of any plot.” “Why do you Bay ‘betray’ if there was no plot?” “No plot; I will say no more; all false, all false.” During the interview the prisoner grew much excited. When he referred to his wife and children his eyes filled with tears and he turned away to hide his face. His manner when denying the existence of a plot wub emphatic, and his eyes flashed. Access to Chleboun was denied by the police. Alter the hearing in court Chleboun, the informer, was carried off by Bonfield to undergo a further apjilication of the pumping process, and Hronek and Chapek were taken to tho gallery where they were photographed. A description of ihe two men was then taken according to the BertillcH system.

HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE.

An Explosion in a Basement Results in the Destruction of a Chicago Piano Store. [Chicago special dispatch.] The large piano manufactory of Julius Bauer, at 156 and 158 Wabash avenue, Chicago, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over SIOO,OOO. The porter. employed at the piano store went into the basement in the morning to get some varnish. He had a lighted lantern in his hand, according to the accounts of the men who know most about his death, and somehow an explosion occurred. Whether the basement was full of gas or whether the varnish i aught fire no one knows, but in a few minutes the great building was on fire. Up the elev tor shaft the flames roared, and from the top of the house to the bottom the fire had everything its own way. The porter, .John Schwenk, has not since been seen. ‘ He is believed to be lying dead under a pile of broken pianos in the flooded basement, crushed and mangled by the avalanche of debris that came down through the broken floors ; but he was probably killed by the explosion. His

THE BURNING BUILDING.

cap and part of his coat were found when the debris was cool enough to permit a search, but nothing has been seen of* his body. It was a very quick fire, the building being, filled with highly inflammable material. - A great many pe .pie were at work in the building, which, betides the piano and organ warehouse, was occupied by the Chicago Carpet Company. Thiß company also occupied the next building south. On the top floors about one hundred and fifty young women were at work, and these were got out with a good deal of excitement but no casualties. The chapter of aocidents is a long one. Frank Loor was in front of the store, Bitting on a box. He was knocke 1 down and badly singed. Louis Wasche was also slightly scorched. Firemen Scott and Caesar were partially smotbMiecl. Marshal Murphy was also temporarily overcome, and another fireman was badly wounded in the face. It was thought for a time that the Chicago Carpet Company’s store would go, too, but by hard and well-directed work it was saved. For more than an hour the fire had things entirely its own way, but finallv it was brought under control, and, little by little, flooded out and stopped. A great deal of damage was done. The heaviest sufferer in, of course, Mrs. Julius Bauer, who now conducts the business which her husband began in Chicago nearly forty years ago. Nothing more than an approximation of her loss is possible at present, but a very conservative estimate .puts the figure at $75,003. If the. papers in the fireproof safes ore intact it is said it will not go much over this figure, but if the a< counts and notes are lost the sum will be increased by a good many thousand dollars. Outside the stock which the Chicago Carpet Company had in the horned building its loss is due rather to water than to the fire, and it Will not be as heavy as was at first supposed. The other neighbors also suffered, but the total damage done, both by fire and water, to buildings and stock will hot run over $125,000, if it reaches, that figure. The building was insured for $75,000, which Is distributed among a large number of home and foreign companies. The insuranceon the stook is not definitely known. The walls of the Bauer store are standing intact. Nothing is g6ne but the floors, the windows, and the iron pavement in front. The building will speedily be put back into its formar condition.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Washington Street-railway Company , has just been organized and a street-ear line will be built in that place at once. This is quite a new enterprise for Washington. The city has just made a contract for $100,000 water works. These two enterprises, together with the Ohio and Mississippi Bailroad shops, will make a boom heretofore unprecedented in the history of the place. —The next annual re-union of the One-hundredth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, will he held at Portland, Oct. 10. —Gas well No. 8, at New Castle, was shot with the most gratifying results. The well, which made a splendid showing before shooting, is now the best in the county, and the citizens are feeling very much elated over the result. —The State encampment, which will be held this year at Evansville, Ang. 20 to 27, bids fair to be one of the largest and most interesting of its kind. A prize list of $1,550 has been made out, apportioned as follows; Infantry prizes, first, $500; second, $200; third, $100; fourth, $50. Artillery prizes, first, $250; second, $100; third, $75; fourth, $50. In addition to these $100 will be given to the best drilled Gatling-gun squad, $50 to the best equipped band, and $75 to the most perfect zouave company. —Patents have been granted Indiana inventers as follows: George J; Cline, Goshen, cuff holder; Ross Cohoon, Crawfordsville, wheel cultivator guage; M. Cooper, Port Huron, Mich., assignor of one-half to D. Wood, Kouts Station, spark arrestor; Albert M. Gruf>bs, MenT* tone, railway crossing; William Leppert and W. I. Gardiner, Seymour, buckboard wagon; William L. Miller, Van Buren, broadcast seed-sower; David W. Smith, Wabash, thill coupling; Israel M. Swank, Dayton,, 0., assignor to S. B. Rittenhouse, Liberty Mills, broadcast sower.

—Jesse Ashley, while attempting to board a moving freight train at Jamestown, fell beneath the cars. He was, perhaps, fatally injured. —William Phipps, a painter, while engaged in painting a dwelling-house in he eastern portion of Evansville, lost .is balance and fell from a high stepladder, alighting qn his back across a scantling, sustaining internal injuries from which he cannot recover.

—Joseph P. Stewart, a brakeman, was killed near Milldale recently. He lived at New Albany. —Mrs. Louis Young and daughter were seriously injured by a runaway at Fort Way De. —Some boys stole a can of paris green from a smoke-house near Marion, and placed it on the railroad track, where it was struck by a locomotive and spread over an acre of grass. A number of.cattle ate the poison and died. —Henry Lehrman, an employe of the gas works, Fort "Wayne, while eating dinner was choked to death by a piece of bread lodging in his windpipe. He leaves a large family. —The (5-year-old daughter of John Temeyer, of Martinsville, pulled a largesized coffee-pot, filled with steaming hot coffee, from the dinner table, spilling the contents upon her face andbody. The child is now lying in a critical condition.

—An affection which appears to be quite general among the horses of Indianapolis is occasioning some uneasiness. The animals do not appear to be seriously sick, but all appear to be affected in the same way. The disease has something of the nature of pink-eye,-but shows symptoms not always found with that distemper. —While hitching up his horse to attend a neighbor’s funeral, H. N Sow r ers, a wealthy farmer, living near East Germantown, received a paralytic stroke, his entire left side being perfectly helpless. His condition is critical.

—The largest half-day’s work of wheat threshing that is probably on record was accomplished by Henry Hoen, of Bartholomew County. In six hours he threshed and cleaned 1,200 bushels of wheat. The average day’s work is about 700 bushels. The feat was performed on the farm of Frank Crump, near Columbus.

—A shocking accident befell W. J. Purdy, one of the oldest route agents oh the Bee Line Kailroad. He was working in a field on his farm, near Hagerstown, when he was pitched forward from his seat on the reaper, and fell in front of the scythe. Before the horses could be stopped he was frightfully mangled, both legs being severed from his body. The latest report from his bedside is to the effect that he is still alive, but bis recovery is extremely doubtful. —John Fay, of Champaign, employed by the Champaign and Havanna branch of the Illinois Central, while passing from a freight car to the side of the engine, near Seymour, fell unnoticed from the train, and was found an hour afterwards with his leg crushed off below the knee. He died here soon after amputation. He leaves a widow and six children.

—While shooting sparrows from his office door, Ike Strous'e, editor of |the Rockville Tribunt , accidentally shot his “devil,” Revey Strain, who was going after a pitcher of water. Ike was holding the gun, barrel down, when it was by some unknown means discharged. The ball passed through the fleshy portion of Strain’s left leg, making quite a flesh-wound, but nothing dangerous.