Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — Page 2

Elje UfmocroticScnltnel RENSSELAER. INDIANA, f. W. McEVTEN, - - - Pcffirram

CAUGHT AT SMUGGLING.

LONDON’S GRFAT SCANDAL AT AN END. Disgraceful Affair in au Indiana Church— Conviction of a Jury Irlber—The Counterfeiters (aught— ilarnum ffm Worth 84,000,000 Hippolyto's Bt?ra Measures. KAVAL OFFICERS CAUGHT SMUGGLING. Dutiable Go ds Discovered on Hoard the Omaha and Svratara. At San Francisco, a sensation was created in naval circles when it was learned that a large amount of dutiable goods had been seised on the United men-of-war Omaha and Swatara on their arrival. It is the usual custom for the chief officers of men-of-war coming from Oriental ports to submit manifests of articles brought in by officers. In the case of the Omaha and Swatara this was neglected and u search by Special Agent Evans revealed the presence of a large amount of valuable silks and curios which are dutiable. The entire list of articles amount in value to several thousand dollars. Special Agent Evans has written to Washington asking if the chief officers of these vessels shall be indicted as ordinary smugglers. SIK WILLIAM DIO CHEAT. An 1 the Prince of Wales Owned the Gambling Outfit. The jury in the baccarat scandal case at London returned a verdict against Sir William Gordon Camming. He had brought suit for slander against several persons who accused him of cheating. In the game in question the l’rince of Wales participated, and he was called as a witness. It was proved that Wales not only started the game, but that he owned the “lay-out.” just like any ordinary gambler. The whole affair is most scandalous, and will result In Curnming’s expulsion from the army.

ON THE DIAMOND. How the Clubs Engaged In the National Game Stand. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. $C.[ W. Tj. Cbicagos... .25 14 .041 Bostons 1!) 21 .475 New Yorks. .24 15 JlSjßrooklyns . .IS 22 .40 bFhiladelp’s..2l 2j .512jPitt8burgB. .17 21 .447 Clevelands. .2J 22 .47o|Clncinnatis.lO 25 .200 American association. W. L. %»c. i W. L. s>o. Bostons 31 17 .640;PhiIadelji’8.'.'2 25 .408 St. L0ui5....33 20 .621 Columbus... 23 27 .400 Baltimores.,27 2) .574 leuisvl]los..23 31 .42; Cinciunatis .24 25 .4! 0 Waahingt’s..l3 31 .‘.03 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. tV. L. W. L. <j9c. Lincolns ... .23 14 .650 Kansas C’ys.2o 2> .4 £ Milwaukees 20 17 .13 i Denvera 18 26 .400 Omahas 23 16 .500 Sioux Citvs 17 2il .305 Mmneap’lis.2s 10 .£ot St. Paula.... 14 31 .311 SHOT ON THE CHUJRCH STEPS. A Man Fatally Mounded in a Dispute as He Was About to Enter a Meeting House. At a country church near Warrior, Ala., a large congregation was engaged in worship when they were suddenly startled by the reports of two pistol shots on the front steps. Hall Hambrich and James Jett had a dispute about a shovel-handle and at church renew ed the quarrel, winding it up after everybody else was indoors and ro one could interfere. Hambrich was fatally wounded, and in the uproar that followed Jott escaped. Throe Deaths from Hydrophobia. Recently a mid dog bit a steer, one of (he heid of cattle belonging to the Vanderburg Brothers, living in the western portion of Atchison County, Kansas. The steer was soon affil -led with hydrophobia, which spread to other members of the herd. There wore three of the Vandorburg brothers, and each of thoiu was bitten by one or another or the affected animals. Two of the men have died iri the most excruciating agony, ana the third can survive a day or two at the furthest. Mackerel on tile African Coast. The Alice, the pioneer fishing schooner 1o Africa, returned from a twenty months’ cruise, brought about fifty barrels of mackerel, and has sent homo nearly one thousand barrels. The Alice aroused the jealousy of the local fishermen, as one sweep of the American seine took more fish than ajl the oilier fishermen could catch during the day. After a hot light a law was passed prohibiting the use of the deepwater seine, which spoiled the Alice’s fishing at Cape Town. Prlzs Fight in a Church. Jake Stortz and Dave Glass fought for a purse of $lO a side at Cenientville, Ind. The house where the fight occurred Is used as a church and schoolhouse, and nine of the spectators brought their wives to see the disgraceful show. Glass sprained Ills ami, and the fight was called a draw. No arrests. Tennessee Counterfeiters Kun to Earth. A gang of counterfeiters, whose headquarters were at Dayton, Tenn., have been run to earth. Their mint was in the basement of a saloon, and In it were found a pile of bogus d liars well calculated to deceive; also the molds for casting them three at a time. The I-atc P. T. Barn inn’s Wealth. The appraisers appointed to Inventory the estate of the late P. T. Barnum have comp etel their work and filed the result Nith the Probate Court. Following is the total: Persoual property, $1,283,590; real estate, $2,093,983; grand total. $4,279,532. Tried to Bribe a Juror iu the Mafia Cs«e. At New Orleans Bernard Glaudi was convicted of offering a bribe of s.">oo to Henry B. Atwood, a tales juror in the Hennessey case. The jury was out only three hours. No Fooling with Hippolyte. Since the suppression of the recent outbreak in Hayti. President Hippolyte has bad several hundred persons supposed to be in sympathy with the insurgents shot. In She a seal Poacher? The United States revenue cutter Corwin has been instructed to overhaul the steamer Hatde Gage, which sailed from San Francisco ostensibly for Unga Island, Alaska. It is stated that the real destination of the Gage is Behring Sea, where she wi.l engage in seal poaching. Shot and Killed the Postmaster. B. M. Clark, postmaster of Old Jefferson, Tenn., was shot and killed by an unknow n assassin as he was leaving the residence of Miss Susie XVade, where he had b. eu making a call.

ITALY BADLY SHAKEN UP. A. Series of Violent Earthquake Shocks and 3lany Lives Lost. Advices from Badia, Calalevena and Trerananzo, three of the towns In Northern Italy that were visited by.the earthquakes, ihow that the inhabitants are terroritricken and that they have taken to the lelds for safely. The authorities have furlished a large number of tents to shelter ■liose who had fled from their homes. The lubterranean rumblings continue and occaflonally slight shocks are felt. The people tre In droaa of momentarily seeing the »arth opening and swallowing them. The lamage done at these places is much greater ;han was Indicated In the first reports. The towns were practically destroyed by ihe severity of the shocks. A commission ippointed by the authorities to examine he houscs'which were hot thrown down by .he undulations of earth have made a »asty InvestigatiJMpund they report that it least of the houses are in tuch a condition that public safety denands that they be pulled down entirely. Large bodies of troops have been dispntchtd to those places to assist the authorities n clearing the streets of debris, in leaving lown dangerous houses, and to render such >ther assistance as they may ba called ipon.togive.

HAD FLOODS IN TEXAS. •‘ever at Persons Drowned and Large Numbers of Cattle l.ost. Dispatches from several points along the Red River In Texas Indicate that that itrearn is on the rampage. At Gainesville :t Is above the high-water mark and information comes from above that place hat the rise was very rapid and unexpected and many people barely escaped xith their lives. All communication with ;he Indian Territory has been cut off. MeslengerS from Burlington state that the •iver Is running wild In that section, with destruction to property and some Ives lost north of Doss. I). T. Harris, a itockmau, lost 400 hoad of cattle and lifty3vo horses. A volume of water ten feet algh came rushing down the valley, bearing trees, brush, housetops, dead animals ind debris qf all kinds. Crops of all kinds soar the river are all underwater and mud. During a heavy rain at Ohlllicothe, Texas, two employes of W. P. Lindsay, and two itrangers who were camped near the bridge it that place were drowned. FINANCIERS PLEASED. Hopeful Reports Come from All Points. K. G. Dun’s weekly review suys: Trade is not very active, hut almost everywhere hopeful. Failures at Ho,ton have made shoe manufacturers cautious. Hides aro easy, dry goods quiot, and wool sales moderate. The exposures o official and banking misconduct at Philadelphia tend to make business inactive, and no life is seen in Iron; wool is dull, though some concessions are made by Western holders. At Pittsburg a rise In iron is prevented by the reopening of some Muhoning and Shenango furnaces, and preparations of others: window glass is fairly active but flint is dull. At Cleveland iron Is in more demand; trado Is good in drygoods, hardware and groceries, and dull in shoes. Some activity is noted at Cincinnati in clothing,und at Detroit trado isuptothat of last year In volume, though the late season hto* made the wool movement slower than uspal. Throughout the West and South the fine crop prospects give encouragement, almost the only complaint coming from New Orleans of drought In the adjoining region. In the Northeast continuous ruins huve made the prospects unsurpassed.

THE ITATA’S FLIGHT. (There tho Now Noted Vessel Made Her Fleeing Course. The officers of the Itata have in eonverlation with their friends told the story of the cojjise taken by the Itata In fleeing from tho American cruisers. They of ;ourse did not know that they wero purlued, though this was deemed probable, but acted upon the theory that such would be the case. As toon ns they received the arms from tho Robert and Minnie —and they claim tills was allowable, us this was accomplished naapy miles from shore—they took a direct southerly course and steamed 12,000 miles, irrfvlng at Tocopllla on the morning of June 3 tilth machinery much disabled. The afficers indignantly deny the rumor that the engines were purposely damaged. The yfflders ai*o being made much of in Iquique, where tho anti-Baluiaceda party Is In power. GUNNING FOB A RIVAL. Why Mrs. Cresson Tried to Kill Miss Gibson at tt Paul. There was a tremendous sonsation In the Mannbeimer Block, St. Paul, when a little woman.rushed directly into the school of Embroidery of Miss Margaret K. Gibson and began firing at Miss Gibson, at tlie samo time hissing, “You won’t steal any other woman's husband as you have mine.” Occupants of other offices seized tho woman just as slio was dropping her revolver and swooning away. Sue proved to be Mrs. George L. Cresson. Miss Gibson was not injured. Mr<. Cresson charges her husband. George L. Cresson, assistant engineer of the Omaha Railway, with being too fond, of the society of Miss Gibson, and sought to murder the latter on that account. BLAINE BACK IN OCTOBER. Official Business Mar I!e Done at Bar Harbor. President Harrison lias been informed that Seoetary Blaine has gone to Bar Harbor and will not ret urn to Washington before the Ist of October. .Mr. Blaine has not asjei determined whether lie will resign or not. lie will probably wait until lie is better he'eve doing so. lie has practically disposed i»i a\i t.bo pending questions in tlio Stare r>‘v3zfment, and the details cun bo easily »*u»>dod io by President. Harrison, assi-ren by John A. Foster, and occasional conferences with Blaine personally or by proxy. SIR JOHN IS DEAD. The Canadian Premier Is Done with This Wor.tl’s Affair . Sir John Macdonald. Premier of the Dominion. is dead. He never rallied from unconsciousness and passed quietly away. Lady .Macdonald sat by iter dying husband’s side, and the members of Sir John’s family were called to the side of the death bed. But no sign came from the dying man. So he lay until tho end, when Dr. Howell, his hand on the patient’s pulse, looked up and said with quavering voice: “The end has come. He has passed a.vay without a single struggle.” Rescued from the Crois’.rees. The steamship Robert Mills, arrived in Chicago, reports that w hen about nine mites east-nortlicastof the Dunning liglitoa Lake Erie, her officers hoard the outcries of men. The steamer stopped and lowered a boat, wdicn it was discovered that tho schooner Fayette Brown had been sunk about an hour before, and that Captain Kalstrom and five of Ills seamen were in Ihe ernsstrees. Captain Kaistrom's statement was that the steamship Northern Queen. Captaiu Smith, passing swiftly Along, had struck the Brown vn the port quarter, and that she had iw-

mediately filled and sunk. One of the Brown’s men had leaped aboard the Northern Queen. Captain Kalstrom said lie and his men all shoutod out to the Northern Queen to stand by, that they were sinking, but that no heed was paid to their cries, and that the Northern Queen was not seen or heard of afterward. Panic on tne Turl. Over four thousand people were at La-* tonia. Ky., the other day, when the racing began. At noon dark, stormy clouds gathered on the northwestern horizon. Driven by a hurricane, they rushed swiftly on, displaying that ominous greOn color with fleecy fringes In front so peculiar to dangerous storms. Suddenly the wind struck the grand-stand. In which were 3.000 people. one-third of them women. Then came the rain, first In stiearns and afterward in sheets. Horse-sheds outside the racecourse were picked up and strewn across the railway track. 200 yards away. Blinding water, driven by a forty-mile-an-hour hurricane, drenched everybody. A wild rush was made for the broad central stairway that leads to the plaza In front of the stand. Brave men rushed Into the crazy crowd and averted a calamity. Fought lor His Life. At Wickllffe, Ky.. at midnight, Evan E. Shelby, charged with the murder of Mrs. Sallio Moore, was taken by a mob of 100 unknown men from the jail and hanged. The sheriff resisted and was roughly handled. Shelby fought desperately and severely hurt several of the mob. The murder was committed In 1887, near Woodville, a village near Wickllffe, just across from Cairo. 111. Shelby had been sentenced for life, but had been granted a new trial from the Court of Appeals. The mob said they had previously hung Mart Shelby, under indictment as accessory. A Pension for the Mother of Private Dye. Assistant Secretary Bussey has reverse:! the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions who rejected the claim of Anna T. Dye, mother of George 11. Dye, private, D Company, Forty-fifth Illinois Volunteers. While on a furlough Dye was thrown from a horse and fatally injured. General Bussey holds that the sohlior who left his command on furlough to visit the deathbed of his father did not transcend the limits of his veteran furlough and was lu the line of duty for pensionable purposes.

ConfWlora'e Monument at Jackson, Miss. The unveiling of the white statue of a Confederate soldier surmounting a monument at Jackson. Miss., attracted an immense throng of visitors to witness the ceremonies incident thereto, and all passed off without a single unpropitious circumstance. Gov. Lowrey’s tribute to Jefferson Davis especially went to the hearts of the veterans. The next annual session of the United Confederate Veterans will he held in New Orleans, June 8. 191)2, In Honor of a Hero. The unveiling of the Grant monument at Galena, HI., was un event of more than ordinary interest to the more than 30.000 people who witnessed the Imposing ceremonies. It was the gift of Mr. H. H. Kolilsaat, of Chicago, and cost $25,000. Ex-Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, presented the statue, and spoke in behalf of the little city where once Ulysses 8. Grant made his home, and the distinguished orator, Chauncey M. Depew, made the dedicatory address. The Indiana Midland A-ain. Tho Indiana Midland strike, which tied up the west end of that road for thirty days and was thought to have been settled, is again at fever heat. The men are firm and demand tlielr rights. Ihe Sheriff of Montgomery County went with a posse of men to the scene of trouble, with instructions that if necessary the State militia would be called Into service. Trouble for the Letter-Carr’.era. Three mall-carriers have been suspended by Postmaster Barlow, of St. Louis, Mo., for violating the regulations of the Postoffice Department. The three men were engaged In getting up an excursion, the proceeds of which were to be donated to the local association. This Is in direct violation of a rulo of the department. Revenge of a Jealous Man. In a lit of Jealous rage, caused by suspicious conduct on the part of his wife. Siirn Liday, a restaurant keoper at Salt Lake, Utah, shot her alleged paramour, John Kirby, a night yardmaster of the Rio Grande Western, his own Child, ageds years, and after firing a shot at his wife turned the pistol on himself and committed suicide.

Delivered to American War-Ships. A telegram from Iquique, Chili, announces tho arrival at that port of the steamship Itata and that she had teen delivered by the insurgents to the American war-ships there. The cruiser Charleston was expected there hourly. The Itata had handed over all the arms she took from San Diego, consisting of 5.009 rifles. An Original suicld >. . Dr. John Thompson, who lived near Liuesville, Pa., tied his feet together with a rope, hitchod the- rope to a tree, leaving plenty of slack, and then plunged headlong into a creek aud was drowned. He was sixty-seven years old and hud frequently threatened suicide on account of ill-lioa.lthi. Shot His Wife and Himself. Charles Gray, a colored man. shot his wife and then blew his own Inins out at St. Joseph, Mo. The cause wa; the wife’s inconstancy. He bes luglit her to return, and on her refusal drew a revolver and shot her, inflicting a fatal wound in ttie head. Placing the revolver to his own temple lie fired three shots. According to Custom. Beloit (Wls.) College Freshmen tried to prevent the Senior preparatory class from holding its annual banquet. Several of the Seniors wero kidnaped. C. W. Ward, of Chicago, resisted and finally drew a revolver and shot H. 11. Jacobs, a Freshman, inflicting a flesh wound. Frightful Suffering. James Crooks, an inmate of the Crawfordsvllle, Ind.. Asylum, ran away from that place because he had to work. He was discovered five weeks later, lying in a ravine, starved, and so helpless that lie was unable to fight off the myriads of vermin that were eating his flesh. He will die. Million sire Young Acquitted. The jury In the case of John G. Young, charged with tho murder of his coachman, at River Head, N. Y., brought in a verdict of not guilty. Youug. who i,s heir to $3,900,000, claims to have killed Carsou In selfdefense while the coachman, who was drunk, was attacking him. They Want to Know The City Council of Philadelphia adopted a resolution asking the Mayor to petition President Harrison that he order an investigation of the action of the Treasury Department with regard to the wrecked Keystone National Bank. No Trouble at • ondoh, Special cailes from London in answer to inquiries made say that the Rothschilds are

not at the bottom of the Paris troubles, and deny, on the authority of the Governor of the Bank of England, the story that large houses are seeking financial assistance. Half a Million In A>hes. Fire destroyed Parker & Young's saw mills and adjacent dwellings at Lisbon, N. H. The total loss was 8100,000. The establishment of the Bradford Belting Company, at Cincinnati, was damaged $20,000 by fire. The loss by the fire at the Brooklyn Cooperage Works was $420,000. Appointed to West Point. Cadets have »eeu appointed to the West Point Military Academy as follows: Harry B. Stout, of Tidionto. Pa.; Percy D. McConnell, Bradford, Pa., alternate; Guy Bartlett, of F’alrtnount, W. Va.; and C. Perry. of Warsaw, Ky. Reverend Counterfeiters Sentenced. At Springfield. 111., the Rev. Jerry Holmes of Stonefort was tried and convicted of counterfeiting and sentenced to three years In the penitentiary. The Rev. George Vancll of Duquoin pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced for one year. For a Long Term. The Georgia Central, was leased for ninety-nine years to the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company. The terms of the lease guarantee seven per cent, annual dividends on the capital stock of the Georgia Central. May Yet Be a Nation. Jewish capitalists are said to be considering favorably tho settlement of half a million Jews In the northwest of Arabia, near the Red Sea, with Baron Hirsch as the reigning prince of the province. Prospectors A-e Busy. A rich lead of silver has been struck in the town of Saratoga, Wyo. The ore assays Si 1 to the ton, and the lead seems to promise big results. Prospectors aro busy in the surrounding territory. Governor of Connecticut. The “For” ballot caSe was decided by the Supreme Court of Connecticut, in favor of Morris, the Democratic candidate for Governor. It is claimed that this gives Morris the seat.

Blown Up by Dmmite. At Chattanooga, Tenn, a dynamite explosion occurred In which t lire a colored laborers lost their lives. The explosion was beattl and the shock felt on Market street, a mile distant. Mont Mabbitt Acquitted. At Lebanon, Ind., in the trial of Mont Mabbitt, who is charged with having killed liissisler Minnie’s child, a verdict of not guilty was rendered. Bishop Brooks Approved. The New York Churchman announces that Dr. Hr. oks, having been approved by twen-ty-seven dioceses, is elected to the bishopric of Massachusetts. Ireland’s People. The recent census of Ireland shows a population of 4,706,162 males and 2,317,076 females, being a decrease of 468,674 in the total since the last census. Self-Destruction. Judge T. D. Edwards, District Attorney at Carson. Nev., committed suicide by shooting himself. He had been suffering from nervous prostration. City Fathers Repudiate. Many men and their families in St. Louis, Mo., are starving because the City Council refuses to pass an appropriation bill to pay them for services already rendered. No Parcel Post with Great Britain. Postmaster General Raik ;s of Ehgland states that all efforts to induce the United States Government to Institute a parcel post with Great Britain had failed.

Owen Gets a Position. The President has appointed the lion. William D. Owen, of Indiana, to be Superintendent of Immigration, with a salary of $4,000 per annum. Harvard Students Fined. In the Cambridge (Mass.) court thirty students of Harvard College were fined $65 each for having liquors stored iu their rooms. All Down but Two. St. Paul’s Island, Nova Scotia, is being ravaged with la grippe, only two men on the Island being able to move about. The Governor has appealed for help. Death at the Switch. In a wreck caused by jumping a switch near Talladega, Ala., t lie engineer, fireman, and a quarryman were killed. Held Up. The Tombstone and Bisbee stage was robbed by two Mexican; near Bisbee, N. M. They secured only SlO. Five Men Killed. Near Bodford. Ind., the boiler of a sawmill engine exploded, killing five men and wounding three others.

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SIR JOHN MACDONALD

FIRST OF ENGLAND’S FMPIRE BUILDERS Since Clive and Hastings—The Affectionate Brgard in Which “Old To-Morrow” Was Held l»y the Dominion People— The Greatest Canadian Has Fought His Last Fight. It Is very long since any other man held a place so peculiar in the affairs of any country as Sir John A. Macdonald has won for himself in the affairs of the Dominion of Canada. There is not, nor has there been in modern times, a man in the Un ted states whoso demise could seriously disarrange the settled policy of the country. No such man now lives in England. The political obscuration of Bismarck did not disarrange the policy of Germany. There is no man now living in France whose death would cause a jar or a pouso in the motion of the politica! machinery of the country. But the death of Sir John will leave the Tories of the Dominion without a leader. While his life was devoted to the service of Canada, he was for many years one of the foremost men in the British Empire, distinguished above his fellows in tho-c vast colonies of Britain that girdle the earth. To look back over tho great retrospect of Sir John A. Macdonald's long public life is to review tho whole history of greater Canada. He was a native Scotchman, but ho became identified with the affairs of British North America before th* patriot war, commencing the practice of law in Kingston in 1836, in his 21st year. lie was active in political life from this time. Ho was first elected to the Parliament of Upper Canada more than forty-seven years ago. He was chosen lor Kingston, for which

SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD.

city lie sat in Parliament at the close of his brilliant career. Hr John became a member of the Cabinet of Canada (then comprising Ontario and Quebeci early in 1847, as Commissioner of Crown Lands. He served nntil 1850. Ho was again a Cabinet officer from 1854 to 1858, as Attorney General. He first became Premier in 1358, and la’d firmly the foundation of his subsequent great fame. In 1802 he was Minister of Militia, and his Government suffered defeat on the militia bill of that year. For two years ho was tho leader of the Opposition, but did not endeavor to embarrass the Ministry, which was trying to administer the affairs of Canada on the policy of the double majority, or governing both Ontario and Quebec by its own preponderance of representative; in tho House. This effort was a complete failure. In May, 1803. John A. Macdonald moved in the House a vote of want of confidence in a powerful and logical speech, ever since remembered in Canadian history, aud regarded as one of the greatest of his life The vote carried, and from this day Macdonald s conspicuous leadership in Canadian politics was recognized everywhere. It was not nntii the following year that he again took a Cabinet office and became the acknowledged leader of the effort for the consolidation of all British North America into tf.ie Dominion. He was a delegate to tiio convention on Prince Edward's Island in 18(54, where the union was first projected, and tho leader in the second conference, at Quebec, later in the year. He was chairman of the London colonial conference of 18f5<57, and remained in Europe until the pa-sige of tho imperial a‘t for the consolidation of the North American provinces.

He relumed to the new world and was at once inirusted with the work of forming the first government of the great northern Anglo-Saxon nationality of which he had dreamed from his first entry into public life, and to which he had devoted many years. Ho became Premier of tho new confederation, and was knighted by the Queen. From 18(57 to (h 3 present time he has been the grandest ngure of the Canadian nation. With the exception of a few years in the early seventies he has continued the Premier of the greatest dependency of the British Crown, which ho did so much to make great and so nearly independent. Canada has grown in domain, in populat on, in wealth and in influence during all the years of Sir John’s preponderance in her affairs. She extends from ocean to ocean and from the lakes to the frozen sea. He was at tho very zenith of his grbat fame when the summons cam.;. He had hot found the sem-sovereign republic waich he created ungrateful, for the incense of the approval of the people came still fresh upon his senses from their last opportunity to express it. The greatest Canadian has fought his last fight; his remarab e career is at an end. All Canada aimer, ly mourns. I’ar-ti-ansh pis forgotten. At this visitation of death, a nat on is in tears. As the sweet singer who wears the laurel of the empire has said of another one gono before:

Fallen at length. That tower of strength; That stool four square To all the winds that blow.

Wales Not of Good Character .

In court at Pittsburg, Ta., on application of tlohnnio Staley, well known in every sporting center, for a transler of liquor and hotel license, the court objected because he wa< given somewhat to gambling. Staley's attorney remarked: “I desire to call your Honor's attention 40 jthe fact that the Prince of Wales gam dies a little.” “Well, I don’t <ons der him of good character. He could not get a li.enso in this court,” replied the J udga The hand of fortune—Four acea

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the Week— Crimes au<l Casualties suicides— Deaths—Weddings, Etc. —Stone pile to be abolished at Crawford:»/ille. —lndiana has more mile tracks than; any State in the Union. —lnfant child of J. P. Eradficld fatally scalded at Noblesviile. —Greenbury Hughes fell from a tree: at Madison, fatally injured. —Frank Ferry thrown from a buggy in a runaway at Columbus, fatally hurt. —Mrs. Thomas Swanger gored by a bull near Washington, will die from injuries. —Wesley Rountree, a prominent citizen* of Montgomery County, died at his home near Alamo. —William Everson, an aged citizen of' Port Fulton, died from eating too many young radishes. —There are 11, children in Montgomery County between the ages of six and twenty-one years. —Mayor Harrison, just elected at. Shelbyville, refused an increase of satery, talks of resigning. —The Young Men’s Christian Association at Richmond reports 511,000 subscribed toward its proposed new building. —Alameda Gallegher.au aged and deaf woman, was struck by a switch-engine in the P., C., C. & St. L. yards at Jeffersonville. —White Warrell, of Owen, was attacked by an angry swarm of bees and came nearly being sti*fg to death he was rescued. —A cow-bell made by hand fifty yearsi.go is being worn by a cow of A. H. Nutter, near Martinsville, The bell teas large as a six-quart pail. —Will Davis, a Jefferson ville telegraph operator, has received notification that he had been left 530,000 by an aunt whohas just died in Pennsylvania. —John Osborne, of Elkhart, fell dead upon the appearance of a vivid flash of lightning. The Coroner says he died, from fright, not from an electric shock. —Miss Florence Shearer, 20 years old, fell from the steamer Bluewing atEvansville and was drowned. She was. returning from a pleasure trip up Green River.

—During a pleasure trip down theOhio River, on the City of Chartiors, S. A. Culbertson, of New Albany, shot and killed a bald eagle that measured live feet from tip to tip. —lsaac Wells, a colored horse-thief, tried to sell a stolen animal to farmer McCullough, near Jeffersonville, but the latter marched the negro to town at the point of a gun-barrel. —James Perkins and William Kern were killed in a boiler explosion near Bedford; while George Hayden, the green engineer, and Edward Dusard cannot, recover. Jas. L. Dillman, Joseph Kern, and the Dusard brothers escaped with slight ihjurics. —Miss Anna Harper and Miss Denna Haundehild of Indianapolis, wagered a. box of gloves that they could climb tothe top of the smoke-stack of the cottou mills around which the scaffolding still fitood, 120 feet in height. The feat was a dangerous one, even for an athlete, but both successfully accomplished it. —The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company ha& brought suit at New Castle, to enjoin the county officers and the. corporation officers of Knightstown from collecting the tax levied upon the road to assist in building the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan extension through the county. The Panhandle’s share of the tax is somewhat less than .SI,OOO. —At Goldsmith, a small station west of Muncie, a Lake Erie and Western freight-train brakeman caused a terrific explosion on his train and came near losing his life. Iu the train was an. oiltank. The young man, wishing to know if it was empty, lifted the cover from thetop and placed his lantern in the .lank. The gas exploded, blowing him into a-wheat-field fifty feet distaut. He was so badly burned that it is thought lie will lose his eyes. The car was weecked. —The Montgomery County Fair Association will set apart Tuesday, of fair week, for the children. In the declamation contest there will be prizes of $3 $2 for boys and girls. For best original map of the Uited States, $1; second, 50 cents. Best map of Indiana, $1; second, 50 cents. Best map of montgernery County, 50 cents. Best diagram of a. sentence containing not less than fifteen words, sl, second, 50 cents. Best exhibit of penmanship, $1; second, 50 cents.

—The application of Mrs. Wm. Fields, of Elkhart, for a divorce from her husband, will result in a highly interesting divorce suit. They have always lived together as husband and wife, but Fields claims they were never married, and the supposed wife will base her fight to establish a legal claim to Mr. Pields as her husband on the relation they have borne to each other for so long, and the fact that she has always been recognized ashis wife. A highly interesting constitutional case is expected. —A wealthy Daviess County farmer named Christopher Weigler, left his home, telling his wife he intended killing a hawk. Instead, he went behind his barn and blew his brains out with a. musket. No cause was assigned. —Car inspector William F. Abbott,, thirty years of age, was caught between the bumpers of two cars at the Union Station, near Indianapolis, and fatally injured. He was taken to the hospital, where his death occurred, after three’ hours of terrible suffering.