Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 6 September 1889 — Page 1

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FIRST YEAR.

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HAVE NO CAUSE TO COMPLAIN.

I -!i $t^TH CITY rA

IN" A I'UOSI'KLIOL AND

nowixc

It in with much complacency and pride that the

NEWS

Investigation seems to confirm the nerai impression that the city is growirig more markedly toward the north. The fine park up in that direction and 1 he street car line lending 4'thereto are the principal argufnt'tttM in favor of Mint locality. JoB^phus

Collet t, Isaac Fechheimer, M. Joseph, \Y. |i\V. Oliver, P. J. Kaufman, Max Myers And others, including Jacob Kolsem, own property near the park and they have sold lots' in thai neighborhood during this vear to the number of jjossibly hree hundred. There are not half a &o«»n lots remaining on Eighth street in ho vicinity of the park, but on Seventh there are more. The former street is '.more desirable on account of intersecting he park at alxnut its center and on ac-

Isount of having a car line. The southwestern part of the city has also been the m»ne of a great deal of improvement lis year, owing to its Jlftving a line and to the contiguity of the Tool Works, The southeastern portion has ilso been greatly improved with addiional houses ami reconstruction of old

Mies. The street car line only goes south Thirteenth to Poplar, but the nail Works are in that locality and business lown there is building up. The three particular localities mentioned lmve been ^specially notable for their new buildings, but all over the city are to be seen vtdences of the fact that the carjienters lliftve not been indolent. 'This has I wen Hi year," said a prominent real estate

tnuld

naii thin morn?OK, "of num activity real estate Uian we have known in Vrre Haute for teu years. The oil loom 1H! felt everywhere in the prices ntl the active movement. Even after the liscouraging results of the various 'dus*?rs' was generally known, however, mnsacjions have held up and prices have been letter than for years. While the development of our oil field—we unIdoubtedlv have an oil Held would give til impetus to the city's growth and advancement still, with our cheap fuel and our facilities of .^vvry imaginable description, we not fail to prosjer ,7 lespit«' the neglect of the treasure which I lies beneath us. Cheap fuel iud good jiipping^facilities, together with the pat-

imago of a magnificent nuding, must, in the make a city of a vast and prts|erous popillation. In the language of Ingersoll, 'A vision of the future arises 1 see our itv filled with happy homes, with firei«u» of content-, 1 ««'e no guant and atamng wretches, no beggars ont*'*tn tehed palm.

JniuiiclUitf, must, in the course of time,

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ther

f§w»ahip.

ta»

%u was arrested.

CONDITION.

ESPECIALLY Active »W ALL PARTS

BUILOINO THE CITY, IMOTCATIMQ SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT.

notesTerreHaute's growth

and her commercial and industriol advancement during the year jmst. It has

been a year of unparalleled prosperity— jeriod which has witnessed a greater activity in real estate matters and a greater amount of substantial building than in any previous time of equal duration in many years. Nearly all of the ^industrial establishments of the city, not-

51withstanding

stagnation in their line at

other places, have been running almost continuously during the entire summer. Comparatively, our business 'men have enjoyed a steady trade, of 'which they cannot complain without earning the title of pessimists. In a word, looking upon the situation with a clear and intelligent eye—an eye not by prejudice or iim med

intelligent and deluded

party fanaticism—one cannot but confchide that Terre Haute, in the mutter of progress and the matter of the well-be-ing of her jeople, is leading many of her sister cities of more majestic pretentions.

I look, life lengthens.

%-joy deepens, love canopies the earth and *above it all, in the great dome, shines fthe eternal star of human hope!'"

A CELESTIAL FEAST.

OAKt«' AND ROAST PlO ro* FAIR LtMA'8 EVENING MCAL. NEW YOIIK, N. Y., September H,—{Spe-ial,)-The Chinese of New York are busily engaged in preparing for the cele« Juration of their big moon feast, which /come* otr Sunday."

HYulk

WASHINGTON,

hi tigs," or

J'moon cakes are .lietng baked by the thousand by several large firms on Mott Mtreet These cakes are made without yeast and are filled with five kinds of liuds, representing the five bread-making grains. It us supposed to

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the favorite

jktish of her celestial majesty, the nu*n, *npon the fifteenth day of the eighth *uoon. "Vnlk bings" and roasted pigs,

Jit* later decorated like a first-elass clown itna ciivns, will 1h otTeml in profusion to the moon on the evening »f next

Sunday,

I DMT.TUT.O* ASO SLCKMCT« AMONG TMK MLNKLW

HRA?.it,t 8eptemlH*r 6.— [Special,)—The aiuty Ismnl of wmmiswioiiefs is rest' nig with the jwiHj»er On the thof August, Dr. Slner, of Harmony, i»o ha*l taken the contract last Jwue for

I® pauper practice itt Van Buret* town* [i lit Itoo

ip ftoo for the ^r^nwndmMi I cial-J-Tlie rfate butvmi of labor statistic* ,d tlmnv np the service, teeau»o of the has returns of the output of iinonnt of practice among the families of coal hi lilinoii* for the year ended June ihe striking latnem, most of whom are last, ehowiftg it net decreas** of 358,000

iom six to ten visits*a day. The trusted] tnv OUV.

THT FTTT« AH UMRNM TA*«.

CHARLOTTE

N. C,,

louth Canitw* district. n»h«ni up with a X** Vo*iv, Se}*ember

aI ^4'

AS GOOD AS A GRAVEL PIT.

A DITCH DIQOER FINDS A BOX CONTAINING VALUABLES. RRNSSRMRR, Ind,, September (^[Spe

cial.]— A curious and valuable "Hnd was made this morning by workmen engaged in extsivating a ditch in the Kankakee swamp. An iron-lound box about two feet long aud twelve inches wide was unearthed "at a depth of thirty feet. On forcing open the lid the 1K»X was found to contain $4'W in gold and silver coin of an old *bte three gold and five silver watches, tarnished and rusted BO as to le practical!)- worthhsss except for the gold ami silver, a number of old pistols and knives and a miscellaneous collection of jewelry. This is supposed to be some of the plunder hidden by a gang of butvlara, horse-thieves and cut throats that infested the vicinity al*mt twenty years ago ant* were a terror for miles around. They were forced to leave in a burn- to avoid a determined set of men organised for the purpose of hanging tliein.

ILLINOIS COAL OUTPUT.

RRE HAUTE

TANNER WILL NOT TARRY LONG.

SECRETARY NOBLE WILL LAY THE COMMISSIONER'S HEAD ON HARRISON'S DOORSTEP.

Washington special says: Tanner's

days are numbered. Secretary Noble returned to the city to-day, and gave out a

or very strong inference that the report of the pension office investigating

commit

tee would le taken np in a few days and the conclusions of the committee" given the hearing and effect to which they are entitled, no matter who is hurt thereby. Secretary Noble's friends have known for several weeks that he is determined to have Tanner's head or lay his own on the President's doorstep, and it is now pretty certain that President Harrison has consented to permit Noble to rid his department of Tannery An interesting story about this, however, is to the effect that up to the departure of the Secretary for his vacation Harrison had stubbornly refused to give serious consideration to the charges against Tanner. Like many, Harrison very much dislikes to admit that he lias made a mistake. Bnt for the President's disinclination to make official confession that he ought never to have appointed Tanner, the friend of Lemon and Dudley, would have had to go ere this. It turns out, curiously enough, that the Milwaukee encampment, on which the pension triangle were depending for vindication and re-enforcements, was the last straw on the camel's hack. If Tanner had not disobeyed the wishes of the Secretary of the Interior by going to Milwaukee and there making a bad break with his unfortunate mouth he might possibly have pulled through. According to the present programme he may pack his trunk in about two weeks.

D. C., September 6.

[Special .]-~Commissioner of Pensions Tanner denies the published report that he lias tendered his resignation.

CONSIDERING ROAD MATTERS.

THK COMMISSIONKR8 MAKE A NUMBER OF DECISIONS IN SUCH CASES.

The commissioners this morning considered the application of Isadore Mulvanoy, of Han ford, for liquor license and postponed the hearing until next week. The ferry and road matters occupied the attention of the board during the remainder of the day. Yesterday for the I«aForge road in Linton township east of Har'ford the reviewers reported in favor of damages in the sum of $50 for Mr. French. French asked greater damages and appealed the case to the circuit court. The John Funkhouser road in Fayette township, Lucy C. Warner ciaimed damages in the sum of $75 and thet viewers award her $!i2. The Thomasf J. McCain road, in Sugar Creek township, viewers reported favorably and the road was ordered opened also the Wm. Mc Far land road in Linton township. The road in Pierson township, in which William Pierce, J. It. Melson, Elizalieth ami Robert Smith art* interested and from the proposed change claim $400 damages the viewers reported that these persous would lie benefited by the changes and etc., and ordered the change rniidc.

The following bills were allowed: W. f», Buraan, fuel, I'- W $ ir lit A. I. \Vt«eks, crlciimil,......SW IS

ONLY FOUND A TOE.

A TKRRIFIC DYNAMITK EXPLOSION IN WHIPH TWO ARE KILLEDJACKSONVIM.K,

Fla., SepiemTier fi.~

[Special.]—A terrible explosion ooomred yesterday morning at the month of St. John river by which two men were killed aud several injured. Captain K. t«. Ross, in charge of the government jetty work at St. John's bar. has' leen engaged for several day in blowiug up the submerged wreck of the old Hutch brig Neva, which has for years obstructed the channel oil' Msiyport. He had in his employ a lighter in command of Capt. A. C. Moore, with a crew of twelve men. Two of the men, K. T. Moore, aged 215, son of the captain, and a colored man named Powell were soldering a twenty-five-pound can of dynamite, when it exploded with terrific force and blew both men to atoms. The only portion of Moore that was found after "the explosion was one toe.

UK, September ft.—{Bpe-"

Van Bttivih Trturtw Marks engaged ion* compared with the output for the sfcmporarily the service of Dr. Thornton, preceding. The decrease confined pf Kuighiwille, who i* to the wrvice \0 the districts in the northern part of your peaceful inauguration and the bright

$5 day. Both Marfc* and Thorn-! tiu state. According to thews reports the

sav that if the strike continue* an- southern Hlhiois mines ar? prospering, thirty day* two physician* will be to the gtv*t detriment of thosn^ the jeessary to do the pan|*er practice of the northern part of the state.

The doctor ». mm making

MEANS

uow affording tempa(j(Ky relief to niomj A*m.\.vi, Wis,, September 6,—{.^{jesixty families. cial.}~-Go^nwr Hoftrd lias deciwd tlml Conley and Cardiff cannot fight to a fin-

BustNtsi,

)-~Iu a game of txw at lfcrhug-1 ^|ra3t4r«{,.«!«. HurW»v Uniirltt for an: ^me afterwanl. Another was shot lH^tween the IMrlingHon aiwl but Sheriff received a lhroo|?ht the leg am! «wwly hurt, Tim joro etulw. WiHiatu Marshall, of Watlesi disj*tch froir« itovetttor Hoard flghMt appears, w^ occa^Mmetl by a disc !f0ro, aeteiS umpire. Ihmng the came mg him to arrest lx»th prittci}wl$ and ao p«t« wtweeij two puny Hungarians over jb gave a cl«»e dectskm agssinM a larl- ce^vsork^ should the former attempt to wmsian. Igton player at»d a dfepute arose. I*on

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Vt and dealt ibe uinpin- a bk* on the Henry W. (ienet. known "IMttoeHml mouth xm «nme, near he*e tlm morn%a.t, Marshall died Khortlv after. lar- of the Twml ring, died hen? this t.Jom-1 ing. ooe man was killed

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•.i ^W W§fi?Ii .FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1889.

WELL, WELL COMMISSIONS

HALF-WAY COMPROMISE THIS FERRY DIFFICULTY.

WEAK PO-

AFRAID TO MAKI: IT FREK—A VERY SITION ASSUMED BY THE COUNTY /V?,,* 8AOES-'

The commissioners after scratching their heads for days while considering

the ferry question, have at last reached a conclusion. This is no more wonderful than the conclusion itself. It has required the board a week to formulate the following table of rates and orders to the ferrymen.

For each 2-horse wagon and team, 15 cents one Way or 25 eent* round trip. For each 4-horsc wagon and lean 23 cents each way.

For each one-horse wagon and team 10 cents eaoh way. For each foot passenger 5 cents each way,

Horses males and cattle led or driven, per head, cents. Hogs, sheep and calves 2 cents.

Gosnel shall keep sufficient number of hands for the proper management of such ferry and take» all precautions required for safety of persons and property in their transportations and shall post the above rates of ferriage at the door of his ferry house or his boat or some place convenient to the ferry.

The commissioners assured us if a free ferry was not given that so low a rate would be fixed that neither people on this or the other side of the stream could possibly object. We beg leave to differ with the decisions of the august assembly of county devisors. The only changes made in the former charges is for the ferriage of two-horse teams and* wagons, which was reduced to 25 cents for the round trip instead of 50. This is too high and will give dissatisfaction all around. Our advice to farmers is not to patronize the ferry when it can possibly be avoided. Bring your horse feed with you and hitch your'teams to a tree on the opposite side." It only costs 5 cents to cross on foot. Another idea which suggests itself is if you are obliged to cross wait at the ferry until some neighboring farmer comes along then all of you pile in the wagon with him and the whole boodle of you cross for 25 cents. It only cost 25 cents for round trip for twohorse wagons loaded or unloaded and fifteen pr twenty fanners can easily cross in orfe wagon if they hang on behind, straddle the tongue, pile on top of each other and ride the horses. Do not pay any attention to the ferry man if he kicks, for, according to law the whole population across the river can be ferried across for 25 cents if you can all get into one two-horse wagon. Then there is a splendid place to ford the river between the two bridges and if you cannot all get into one wagon and do not feel like expending 25.cents you can easily, at the present low water stage,

V»ade

your teams across. To foot men it is suggested that you hew' out a log and Kiddle

paddle your own canoe if you do not aire to walk to the Yandalia bridge where there is a splendid crossing, for even the most squirmish of women. To enterprising boatmen we suggest that you place all your boats on the opposite side of the river and convey everything possible across at less rate than the ferry and thereby run a good trade. The commissioners are the best men in the world but they aw not the wisest as they have evinced in fixing the ferry rates and now that the edict has gone forth let all who have to cross show their superior wisdom by devising means to get across without paying ferriage.

FIELD TELLS THE STORY.

BELIEVES TKRRY WOULO HAVE KILLED HIM BUT FOR NAOLF.. SAX FRAXCISCO,

September

0.—

[Spe

cial.]—The principal witness in the Nagle halwas corpus case yeslenlay was Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court. He detailed events in connection with tltc. ease the past year, and the response shooting at Lathrop. In to questions he expressed the opinion that if Nngle had not shot Terrv he (Field) wonld have been dead within a minute. The expression on Terrv's face when be raised bin hand tontrike a second time could not le mistaken it was full of malice and murder, Justice Field declared he never had trouble of any kind with Terry prior to the rendering of the judgment in the Sharon case. He added that the story of his having asked Terry to supiortVim for the presidential nomination several years ago was a pure fict ion.

ROYALTY IN THE MUD.

ST. PKTRRSM'SG, September G,—[Special.]—Further details have been received lie re of the accident which befell the rail way train on which the shah of Persia was traveling through Russia. It seems that a portion of an embankment o\er which the train was passing suddenK gave wav and seven carriages were precipitated to the foot of the embankment. Just before his carriage rolled over on its side the shall jumped from the window and fell into the deep mud, whence he was dragged out by the trainmen.

Now THEY'LL ALL OKTT Omces.

WARSAW,

Imi., September t.—The Rtv

publican editors of Indiana, in convention at Spring Fountain Park, adopted the following resolution and sent by wire

,4To

the President of the United "States: The Republican Editorial Association of Indiana, in session at Wan&w, sends greeting and tenders congratulations on

progpecta of a brilliant and benificent ad' ministration, as indioited by the wisdom and sagacity displayed in public acts to date.

n** i» the hwlly he died a short

Mmc

SiwroRT, R- I., Hejiteniber 6.—

WANT A SALOON LICENSE.

THE JBUC IN FAVOR OF IMPOSING A TAX BARGER'S AMENDMENT.

ANOTHER AMERICAN GIRL OG*E LONDON,

Jennie

•.

FOUOM 0*T* A WOMAM.

GKEKKSBITW), Pi, Se{rtember 6,—Nt?ws

has just reached hem of a riot among tbt Hungarians at the Standard mines, near

gCJeiln Arfitaiid Ml* Pleasant, in which one of the Huns}

*l\ «*|dowm at the Ports-

WKI

era ww seriously injured.

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To say that popular sentiment is favor of imposing a city license upon the proprietors of the saloons, is expressing a self-evident truth very mildly. The whole city drew a sigh of relief when the intelligence was promulgated that the council had taken just one step in this direction. With the city treasury devoid of funds, the tax rate already at the maximum, the community has stood aghast at the indifference and injustice of the municipal law-givers in not re quiring, as other cities, a license fee from the retail liquor dealers.

In conversation with a representative of the NEWS-r-that fearless and aggressive champion of the interests of the people a prominent citizen gave utterance to the following golden truths: "Resort to a license is our only feasible alternative in dealing with this question. Sooner or later it must come. If the present council does not vindicate the people's rights, another will. Such a tax wonld improve the moral tone of the city and contribute to its treasury. What saloons we have, let them be in the hands of responsible and respectable men. High license means 'a toning up' of the morality of the city, means death to the doggeries and surplus in our treasury."

TO REPEAL THE TOBACCO LAW.

A COMBINED EFFORT TO ELECT A SPEAKER WHO FAVORS SUCH A MEASURE.

ASHIXGTON,

September i.—[Special.]

—friends of the proposition to repeal the tobacco tax are preparing to combine upon a candidate for the speakership who will support their cause in every way possible. They charge that,a bill coukl lave been readily passed in the two former congresses had not Speakor Carlisle refused to recognize the members who would have called it up at times when it might have been considered. They propose to forestall any course of this sort hereafter. Judge Hauke, of Tennessee, is mentioned as their probable candidate.

The President hag been taking the advice and opinion of many leading members of congress on the subject of an extra session and it is understood he finds the feeling is not so strong in favor of it, as it fras three month ago.

SWEE2Y, SWEETZER, SWADENOR.

LOVKRSI A METHODIST MINISTER, MARRIAGE AND IRATE FATHER. MARION,

Tnd., September (.—Field W.

Sweezey, a young attorney, and Miss Anna B. Sweetzer were quietly married yesterday morning by the Rev.M. Swadenor, of the Methodist Church, and immediately boarded the train for Chicago. A sensational feature is given to the marriage by the bitter opposition of the bride's father, I), B. Sweetzer, who is a banker and one of the wealthiest men in the county and a former member of the Democratic state central committee. Befog notified of the wedding Mr. Sweetzer disowned his daughter, ordered all her effects moved out of the house, and declared his intention to disinherit her. •_

FIFTY MINERS KILLED.'

A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY NEAR

EOINBURO

KutNTH RO, September 6.—[Special.]— Fifty miners lost their lives by nh explosion in a colliery yesterday. The flames spread rapidly and only fourteen men were taken out alive. The mine was located at Penicuick, ten miles from this city.

SLEEPS WITH KIS PRISONER.

BKASEMKK,

Mich., September C.—[Spe

cial.]—Train robber Holzhey is still carefully guarded and heavily ironed in the frail structure used as a jail here. He will be taken to the new stone prison in a day or two. All his fellow-prisoners have been put in irons and men scattered about the jail in all directions to prevent crowds from approaching the prison. There is no danger of an attack by a lynching party, and then1 is absolutely no excitement here. Sheriff Foley sleeps of nights with his prisoner, and says he will protect his captive to the bitter end.

September Special.]—Miss

Chamberlain, second (laughter

of Mr. Chaml»erlain of Cleveland, Ohio, was married to-day in St. George's church, Hanover square, to Capt. Herbert Nay lor Iieyland. The bride wore white satin with silver and pearl ornaments. Her sister Josephine was bridesmaid. The presents Mere numerous and included a brooch in the shape of a horse shoe studded with diamonds and pearls to the bride and a diamond rubv pin to the groom from the Prince of Wales.S^^p

VrrftOL IN A DOCTOR'S FAOK#^^TF§LTI Bomuox, Intl., September^.—[Special.] —Dr T. Lynn, a prominent physician of this place, waa the victim of an inhuman act last night Mrs. Myers, wife of a blacksmith, sent for him and as he entered the gate threw vitrol in his face. {Hitting ont one of his eves. It is claimed that Lynn had taken advantage of Mrs. Myers while doctoring her. Ko arrests have been made.

IM INTERPRETING TESTIMONY. LITTLK ROCK,Arkn

cial.

]—A

ed in the federal court at Fort Smith. Five Creek Indians are charged with the murder of deputy United States marshal, Mcintosh, in the"territory last November. Neither of the principals and few of the witness*® speak English, the testimony Wing interpreted.

*CMARGES AOMNST A BOAMC OF TRAOC MAN.

i*T. I*oina, September 6.—[Special.]— The Western Union Telegraph company has prepared charges before the Merchants Exchange against Robert Nidhok, a prominent broker, chaining him with shops. giving quotations to backet shops. They ask that he be discharged front the board of trade,

A MUCKLY MAMISKO MAN.

FORT SMITH,

Ark., September 6.—[Spe

cial]—Jefferson Hc^oe, white, aged 25, irasanrertetl here on the charge of bigamy. Two girt*, neither over 16, mm tlie eomplainingiritimstm. Hqgoe aekaowlhaving marrieii them and says be leka Offieera claim that he has still other*.

aema! oth- hm another wife at Eureka Springs.

PLANTED A CHESTNUT TREE.

PftKSIDKXT HARRISON AT .JOHN WAXAMAKEll'S COUNTRY SKAT.

PHILADELPHIA TO BR LAUNCHED To-MOR-ROW—MRS. HARRISON WILL BE A SPECTATOR.

4- fP| PHILADELPHIA, September Gl-^[Spe-cial.]—After plan ti ega chestnut tree this morning on Postmaster General Wanamaker's grounds at his country residence, at Jenkintowii, President Harrison started for Philadelphia in a private car containing only the President and Postmaster General. On ariving here the car was attached to the Washington express, which left at 11:30. Mrs. Harrison did not go to Washington but remains .here till Monday as Mrs. Wanamaker's guest.

The cruiser Philadelphia will be launched to-morrow morning from the company's shipyard and will be christened Sy Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter of the postmaster general. Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Wanamaker are expected to be present. A special train from Washington will bring a large number of prominent naval officers to wit ness the launching.

DRAWING TO A CLOSE.

INDICATIONS THAT THE LONDON STRIKERS WILL RETURN TO WORK. LOXIKIX,September6.—[Special.]—The

Lord Mayor, Cardinal Manning, the Bishop of London and Sir Thomas Brassie will hold a conference to-day with the officials of the dock companies and will endeavor to arrange a settlement of the strike by which the strikers can return to work.

Not more than a qnarter of the men on a strike have found work with wharfingers and ship owners. The rest are growing impatient and some are discontented with the management of the strike. A section of ship workers decided to pass over the Burns and Leek personal interviews with the officers of the dock companies against his advice. These dissensions are helping dock companies and causing relaxation of discipline of the strikers. Pickets are not so vigilant or effective as formerly, and many men are passing into the gates and accepting work at the dockmaster's terms. Burns undaunted refuses to hold direct communication with the dock directors and implores the men to maintain an unbroken front now that victory is within their grasp.

The strikers yesterday refused to allow 3,000 porters to go to work, though the Commercial dock company ofl'ered to concede to their demands, and the men were willing to resume. The loss already by the strike is estimated at oyer a million and a half pounds. The third officer of the steamer, Clan Graham, which had been loaded by Iaiacars, was attacked by a number of dock men yesterday, beaten and kicked until he was unconscious and his valuables stolen.

A PASTOR CENSURED.

HE PAID TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO A DASHING YOUNG WIDOW. CKAWFOROSVII.I.K,

September

M^B.

September 6.—[Spe

remarkable trial has commenc

0.—[Spe

cial.]—The following special was received here last night from the Methodist Conference at Brazil: "The Rev. W. F. Pett.it. this morning surrendered his ministerial mrchments and withdrew from the conerence under censure."

The Rev. Mr. Pett.it lives at Wingate, ten miles south of this city, where he had until recently been the* pastor of the Methodist Church. He came from the East a year or two ago with his wift^and child ami was liked by the parishioners. Being a rather young man he mingled in society a great deal. About a moi)th ago

Pettit took ill and died

rather /suddenly. She wius taken to New York for burial. Startling rumors soon began to float aloot to the effect that the wife had died of poison, and some of them went so far as to accuse the husband of poisoning bis wife. Pettit admitted that his deceased wife' had been using strychnine poison to kill ratsaliout the house, which statement seemed to the people as rather queer. Near the Methodist parsonage lived David Moharry, a wealthy farmer having a widowed daughter residing with him, a Mrs. Whitehead by name. This lady and the minister are said to have formed quite an attachment for each other before sirs. Pet fit's death, and at the Battle Ground camp meeting were censured by some of the brethren.

THE POPF.

ST.

FEEBLE

Lor IS, September 6.—The Rev. D, S. Phelan, editor of the Western Watchman, the Catholic paper this city, ia traveling in En rope. Father Phelan sends to his paper an amount of life audience with the Pope. "What struck me most forcibly was hia,very great apparent age and feebleness. He fairly looked a hundred years old if he looked a day. His face is almost inhumanly white, lie looked too old and gone to impress one only as a relic might impress. I was very much struck and disappointed. I had hoped to see a stirring face and an eye full of life and fire. Leo hail both once, but they are now gone. When I knelt at his feet his look was very feeble and paternal."

THE CLAY CITY MUROSR.

BRAZIL,

September

oner Sullivan went down to Clay City yesterday aud held an inquest over the body of Robert McClucky, ahot the day before by Potts, the bank boss at the Harrison mines. Potts is to have a preliminary hearing to-day. Hoc. George A. Knight, of this city, has gone down to conduct his defense.

NOTXD SPANIARD DEAD

MADRID,

September 6.—[Special.]—

Marquis Demoliu*, chief of the Conservative party ia the senate author, died suddenly

PARIS,

iv UNDER THE $80,000 DOME.

THE GRIST OF THE COURTS—JUDGE MACK MAKES A NEW RULE.

In the Superior Court yesterday the trials of Ed Barns andEd Walters for lar-, ceny were postponed until Monday acount of witnesses failing to appear.

Judge Mack aunounced that the fol* lowing rule of court would be enforced "Any civil case having been on the docket two terms will be dismissed at the end of the third term unless good cause is shown for remaining on the docket," fl

The Superior Court was occupied this morning in disposing of general business and filing demurrers. The case of Henry Wheeler vs. Alice Wheeler, divorce, wa« heart! and granted on the grounds of abandonment. The ease of Fita^eral vs. I. St. L. R. R. Co. for damages fov killing a eow was appealed from Justice Felsenthals court wher& judgment was rendered.

New suits filed in su]x?rior court are: Ellis O. Whitman vs. Nancy Youmr, foreclosure the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. vs. 78 others, foreclosure Max Myers, Emil Myers vS. A. P. Brown, appealed from Felsenthal's court George Juge, Will Juge, James Van Zant vs. Naonia Wolf, on note.

A FOOL'S EXPERIENCE.

GRASPED AN IRON ROD OF'AN ASCENDING CARRIAGE IN A COAL MINE. SCRAXTOX,

Richard Shovlin's awful experience in the Providence coal company's shaft last evening is the wonder of anthracite mining circles. No case like it baa ever been reported before. Slvovlin was footman and signaled the engine to draw him up. There was some delay ami Shovlin got off the carriage, when*it began to move and passed by Shovlin. He grasped holt! of the iron rod beneath and is liurried up the shaft 300 feet. The alarm was given and Shovlin was found hanging unconscious to the bar and grasping it so bard that force was required to loosen his hold, lie was conveyed home almost dead, but recovered consciousness after several hours' work by physicians..

THK BRAZIL CONFERENCE.

BRAZIL,

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September 6. [Sperial.]~~

Maurice Dudevant Hand, Don of Mme. Oeotge Sand, dead. He wm 00 yearn of age. jft.

THK TOWER PAYS.

PAKIM.September

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announced that the receipts from the Eiffel Tower since the opening of the exposition haw been 4,000,000 franca.

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September ..—The session of

the Northwest Indiana Conference opened yesterday morning, with Bishop Hurst in the chair. Revs. Mr. Mathews, late of the Southeast, Indiana, and J. 11. Strain, of the Southwest Kansas Conferences, both transfers, and Dr. St owe, of the Book Concern, were introduced.

The eighteenth question was asked and William Graham, J. L. Boyd, Frank Mikles, J. R. Wood, J. E. Newhouse, II. C. Neal and J. W. T. McMullen were continued in the supernumerary relation. J. B. Gray, Jesse Sparks. J. J. Stallard. J. M. Stallard, T. C. Hackney, Moses Wood, M. H. Wood, S. T. Cooper, G. W. Stafford, FranklinTaylor, E. H. Bradburv, Philander Wiley, C. B. Heath, W. \V. Jones, N. Green, Eliiiu Mason, J. E. Wright, L. C. Buckles, II. C. Vencil, J. II. Hull, JesseHilt, J. B. DeMott, G. W.* Boyd, superannuates, were continued in this relation.

A MAYOR BUNCOED.

NKW YORK,

September

(I.—[Special.]—

Mayor M. R. Marks, of Orlando, Fla., reported a£ police headquarters this morning that he was swindled yesterday out of forty dollars, all the money he had with him at the time, by bunco men, who played the familiar trick of discovering his name, inducing him to visit a house to examine samples of cloth, leading him to display his money, which was snatched from his hand by a confederate, who eseaped.

""A CHINESK DIVOROE CASE.

CHICAOO,

September i.-[Special.]—A

Chinese divorce ease is the latest, addition to the martial misfit, bureau of the courts. The complainaut is Mrs. Blanche Lov, wife of Ching lxiy, a Chinese laundryman, whom she married iu New York, September li), 188(5., She alleges cruelty and desertion.

WILL REACH TRIAL NEXT CENTURY. CHICAGO,

HI., September (!.—[Special.J

Lawyers in the Cronin murder trial resumed the work of securing a jury this morning, with only one juryman accepted. The defense bad used twenty ami the state ten of their peremptory challenges. Each nido are allowed one hundred

4 A E E I O O E S

JUFFJiKsoxviiXK, Ind., Septemlier i.— On August 21, the smallest child ever' liorn in southern Indiana appeared at ,. the borne of Otto Ogden. It is a girl and -. weighs only eighteen ounces, is perfectly develo|eil, liright, oliservantand healthy. •".* fct

POWDRBLY WILL COMP. WEST.

St. Urns, September 0.—[Sjwial.]— Master Workman I\»wderly will visit St. Ixiuis, Septemljer iJOth, to confer with ,, leaders of the Knights of l^lor on affairs i,n the Southwest, and will likely deliver several addresses on labor topics,

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THREATEN TO WITHDRAW

OTTAWA, S?ptember

0.~[Spt«cial.]—

Some local Knights of Lalior threaten to withdraw from the order, because the "wearing of the green" and similar airs were allowed in the great demonstration at Montreal last Monday.

SPORTING EDITOR DRAD.

Septemlxrr 0.—[Speeial.]~-Ed-

wanl B. Rankin, sporting editor of the Boston Herald, died this morning of heart-failure, aged 40. He was the must |roininent sporting writer of Kew Eng-

LO WILL NO* HAVE TO HUTTLT.

WIXXIPBO, Septemlwur (J.—[Special.]— Reports from Peace River districts say the prairie ami bash fires have destroyed berries and driven away same. Both are an important aupply of Uie Indiaus.

KILLED BY THJCVBS.

EAJIIOS, September «.-{8pee»al.f —While Geo. Siefries, of Be^mville, was searching for thieves at his hennery last night, he was nhot and killed by some iknown mat peraon who escaped.

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ViExsfA, Septembers.—[Special.]—Tbe "Nene Freie Preawe" leclare* if the csarieb gom to Paris tiie whole world will believe all Europe is on the eve of a genera) war.

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