Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 12 April 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

Norfolk, Ya., suffered $500,000 from fire and storm, Sunday. Four men were killed by an explosion near Junction City, Ky., Monday.

A large colony of Chicago clerks storekeepers, idlers and workmen are bound for Oklahoma.

During a prize fight at Seattle, Ore., Monday, a row occurred and two men were fatally injured. "Prof.'YWm. Glass, of Verndale, Mich. Tuesday, ate five dozen eggs in two minutes on a wager.

The net earnings of the American Bell Telephone Company for 1888, show an increase over 1887 of $203,608.

Mr. Theodore Steinway, of tha firm of Stein way Son, piano makers, of New York, died Tuesday at Brunswick.

Mrs. Herman Flechsig committed suicide at Allegheny City, Pa., because she thought she was afflicted with cancer.

The Lousville (Ky.) Bridge and Iron -Company machine shops were com"••alv destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss

harivari given a newly-married jit Chester Center, la., one of the ants, Fred Bacon, was shot and wounded. 'after-elections" in Rhode Island he Republicans a majority of in the Legislature and they will the State officers. fire at Savannah, Ga., Saturday, croyed property worth $1,500,000. nerset. Ky., also suffered a loss, probiv reaching $100,000. Mr, Allis, the wealthy Milwaukee ian who died a few days ago, was among ie heavy patrons of life insurance. He ad policies amounting to about $500,000.

The Railroad coal miners of western Pennsylvania met at Pittsburg Thursday, and decided to demand the same wages as last year, vi*., 76 1-2 cents per ton.

After a turbulent session the Tennessee Legislature passed the Australian System Voting Bill. It practically disfranchises voters who can not read or write.

William Dallas, a workman at Birmingham, Ala., met with a horrible death Wednesday. He slipped and fell into a red hot iron furnace and was cremated in a second.

Hon. C. R. Breckinridge has provided the Governor of Arkansas with funds to prosecute the search for Colonel Clayton's assassin, and he says he will get thousands more if needed.

A recent decision ol the Maryland Court of Appeals in regard to the holding of property of married women, is found to cloud the titles to nearly onethird of the property in the State.

The steamer Westernland, from Antwerp, landed at Castle Garden Wednesday 1,438 steerage passengers, mostly Italians and Germans. The Circassin from Glasgow, brought 432 steerage passengers.

George Abrams, a seventeen-year-old employe of the Michigan Buggy Company at Kalamazoo. Mich., was caught by a" belt and carried over a pulley. His head was torn from his body, causing instant death.

Police Lieutenant John M. Haines, of Chicago, is charged with being one of the men who not long ago lured a lawyer named Collier out of a club-house by a bogus telephone message and sandbagged him in the dark.

The celebrated steamer Haytian Re-

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ublic was sold Wednesday to Wm. New Bedford,Mass., for $41,000. After being fitted out as a whaling suuply craft, she will be sent to Behring's Sea and the Arctic Ocean.

At Marietta, Ga., the house of Abner Bascomb burned Wednesday night. Bascomb's young son and two girls were cremated. It is thought the girls were assaulted, then killed, and the house burned to divert suspicion.

Philo Remington, son of the founder of the great iron works at Ilion, N. Y., and since 1861, one of the proprietors, died on the 5th inst. The works employ 1,200 men, and manufacture guns, sewing machines and typewriters.

The failures for the first quarter of 1889 number 3,294, as against 2,945 Tor corresponding three months of 1888. The liabilities for the first quarter of 1889 are $42,786,000, as against $38,834,000 for the first quarter of 1888.

A storm, which raged in Baltimore with severity on Saturday, swept over the lower Chesapeake most disastrously to shipping. Over a dozen seamen lost their lives, and thirty or forty vessels, some small and others large, were wrecked.

P. L. Pratt, cashier of the first National bank of Anoka, Minn., fled to Canada after robbing the bank of $100,000. In addition he went away with $30,000 belonging to an aged widow. Fast living and stocks caused nis downfall. The bank has closed.

J. W. White, Sheriff of McLean county, Kentucky, attended a religious revival and confessed that thirteen years ago he embezzled $1,000 of the county funds. He paid over the money and promised to pay the interest, which will amount to $800.

There was not sufficient evidence forthcoming to warrant the return to Antwerp of the four hundred and odd musicians who were landed on Wednesday at Castle Garden, and they were permitted to shoulder their initruments and leave the garden.

The hard fought legal contest instituted by the heirs of tne late Dr. Scott Stewart, of Philadelphia, to break his legacy of about $269,000 for establishing a hospital of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was brougtt to a close, Monday, by a decision of the Supreme Court in favor of the trustees of the hospital.

George W. Ward, Assistant Postmaster," at Elmira, N. Y., has disappeared, and $1,500 in Government funds are reported missing. Ward was appointed under a previous administration, and was retained by Postmaster Babcock on civil service reform principles. Ward is married and has a family in Elmira.

The new postmaster, Mr. Van Cott, said Monday: "I am going to run the New York postoffice on strictly business principles. There shall be no removals in that office except for cause. I believe thoroughly in honest civil-service reform, and I shall carry it out with all my might. This iB no new position with me."

The town of Fairbury, 111., has been quarantined on account of the prevaence of scarlet fever. There are more

than twenty cases of the disease in the little town,and six deaths have occurred in the past few days. No religious services were held Sunday. The Sunday schools were closed, and the public schools have been adjourned.

Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, aged 80, arrived at Bridgeport, Conn., Sunday night from Wheeling, W. Ya., having walked nearly the entire distance. She said she was afraid of the poor house in Wheeling and started for her children in New York. "My boys are too poor to help me with any more money. They sent me $100, but I used it to pay debts."

Detectives Baldwin, Robinson and Wallace, coal police for the Elkhorn region, Mercer county, West Virginia, went to Tug Kiver, Tuesday, to arrest a desperado and moonshiner named Moran I A fight ensued and Moran was killed—not, however, until he had wounded seriously all three of the detectives. Much trouble is anticipated.

Upon being elected Speaker of the Florida House Tuesday, Dr. J. L. Gaskins commented on the fact of Harrison's election notwithstanding Cleveland received 90,000 more votes, and intimated that there was a defect in the national organism that required correction. The speech is regarded as a "gun" fired in behalf of the popular election of President.

Mi6s Sorosia S. Alexander, an old maid of Vermont, has been awarded $26,867 in a suit against her brother's estate. The brother promised her that if she would not marry, but stay at home and take care of the old folks, he would give her $1,000 a year. She discarded her lover and did as requested, but the brother failed to reward her as promised hence the suit and verdict.

Edward Dietz of Pittsburg, Pa., cut the throat of his three-year-old daughter from ear to ear Thursday morning y.nd then cut his throat. They were discovered shortly afterward both dead. Dietz was a German. He assaulted his wife Wednesday night and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He became desperate on hearing of it, and said he would put an end to all his troubles.

Mary Collins, the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphian, visiting in California, suffered from neuralgia. She applied to a druggist for an opiate. The clerk offered to cure her for $5. She consented. He applied a liquid to her face, and it was immediately discovered that the liquid contained croton oil. A part of it got into her eyes, and her face is not only permanently disfigured but she will lecome totally blind. The clerk fled.

Edwin Booth, the distinguished tragedian, was attacked with dizziness Wednesday night at Rochester, N, Y., and an immense audience had to be dismissed. Mr. Booth had baen ailing for several days and it was feared that his illness would result in paralysis and death. Mr. Barrett, in apologizing for his non-appearance, gave voice to this opinion. On Thursday, however, Mr. Booth had improved considerably and there are strong hopes of his recovery.

Larv McDonald and John Schneider, Government employes working on the Mississippi River Improvement Commission, quarreled Sunday in a small skiff in the middle of the river at St. Louis. The men clinched and a terrible struggle followed. McDonald proved the more powerful, and seizing Schneider about the waist, threw him headlong into the river. Schneider was drowned. McDonald rowed ashore and escaped.

A man who called on Henry Achtemaite, near Pomona, 111., last Tuesday, and asked permission to occupy a cabin on the farm for a few days, was found dead in the cabin by Mr. Achtemaite, Tuesday. A bullet wound was found in the calf of his leg, and his pockets contained a bottle of powder, some fuse, a bunch of skeleton keys and some flies. There is little doubt that he was a burglar, who. on being shot, did not dare to call on a doctor, but died from the neglected wound.

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dynamite bomb, which occured on the evening of February 8 in the area of David Stevenson's brewery, New York, has been found to be the work of Labor men, four of whom are now in custody at police headquarters. The informer is Henry A. Fitzgerald, formerly walking delegate. Tne men whom he implicates in his confession, and who are in custody, are John O'Connell, President of the Local Assembly Patrick F. Close and Thomas Reardon, members of the executive committee of the Local Assembly.

At the closing session of the Mormon Conference at Salt Lake City Tuesday evening, George Q. Cannon read the statistics of the church, which are: Twelve apostles, 70 patriarchs, 8,719 high priests, 11,805 elders, 2,069 piiests, 2,292 teachers, 11,610 deacons, 81,899 families, 115,915 officers and members, and 49,302 children under eight years of age—a total Mormon population of 153,911. The number of marriages for six months, ending April 6, 1889, was 530 births, 3,754 new members, 488 excommunications, 113. Cannon said that many young men were leaving the Territory to take up land elsewhere. The Saints, he said, had been called together to build up Zion, and this scattering must be stopped.

A dispatch from New York states that Philadelphia parties have ••cured an option on the controlling interest in the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford. The Company has assets of over $10,500,000, ana is controlled by a capital stock of $100,000. A. C. Goodman, President of the company, has $100 more than half of the capital, and the report says that his $50,100 of stock is oflered at $501,000, or $10 for $1. The would-be purchasers are said to be endeavoring sow to borrow purchase money on pledge of the stock. The highest scale «f the stock known in Hartford was below $600 and last year's taxes it was valued at $220. The company is in strong financial condition, with over $600,000 in bank, and it is reported that policy-holders may resort to the courts or Legislature to prevent the deal, which, it is understood, has been entered into without ths knowledge of the other directors of the company.

FOREIGN.

Great distress is reported at Panama. All contracts on the Panama Canal, ha^e been canceled and the work practically abandoned.

A bailiff who had charge of a farm from which the tenants had been evicted at Colerain, County Londonderry, Ireland, was shot dead, Thursday, by unknown parties.

Terre Haute claims 46,000. Anderson needs an orchestra. The freeze hurt vegetation at Seymour. Kendallville is suffering from incendiarism.

Incendiarism and robbery is rampant at Columbus. Black measles is reported in portions of Madison county.

Nearly $70,000 has been expended on the Jefferscnville levee. Madison county farmers will also boycott the twine combine.

Miami county farmers are combining against the twine combine, Winehester has organised aBoard of Trade and has its net set to catch a boom.

Fish are dying by thousands in the streams near Columbus from an unknown cause.

Geo. H. Godfrey has been the Western Union agent at New Albany for twenty-eight years.

John'Wright, probably the tallest man in the State, died at Anderson Friday. He was over eight feet high.

Mr. Miller, of Mexico, has donated $12,000 in land for the poor and the orphans of the Dunkard faith.

Miss Mary Mitchell, of Evansville, has brought suit against Charles White for $10,000 for oreach of promise.

John Perry, the horse thief, recently captured at" Wabash, was, Tuesday, sentenced north for a four years' term.

The Y. M. C. A. at Crawfordsville, Sunday, dedicated their fine new hall. The building and grounds cost $46,000.

The postoffice business at Madison is sufficient to justify the free delivery system, as demonstrated by the report for the past year.

In the village of Swartsburg, Montgomery county, there are ninety-four Inhabitants, and the ages of thirteen of them aggregate 994 years.

A midget, the daughter of L. P. Fisher and wife, of Columbus, Ind., died, Tuesday, of measles. She was three months old and weighed three pounds.

Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Columbus, was stricken with nervous prostration, Monday, due to fright from a visit by a burly tramp, and she was found in an unconscious condition, with recovery doubtful.

Among the nominations chat were not acted upon by the Senate, and which therefore died with adjournment, was that of R. E. Bebout as postmaster at Rushville, Ind.

Jasper N. Watson, of Jonesboro, has been arrested on nine indictments, chargine violations of the liquor law. He failed to give surety in $1,400, and was committed.

Jefferson Stevens, of Shelby ville, who died on Saturday aged eighty-six, it is claimed, was the* oldest Odd Fellow in the State. He once served as Auditor of Ripley county.

It is learned that Robert L. Beabout was not confirmed as postmaster at Rushville, Ind., because the chargfs made against Ochletree, present incumbent, were not sworn to.

Acorn stalk, nine feet seven inches to the ear and eighteen feet from root to tossel, is being exhibited at Columbus as shoving the productiveness of Bartholomew county soil.

Burglars entered the First National Bank at Plymouth, early Wednesday morning, and secured $1,500 from the safe. An inner compartment containing $20,000 resisted their efforts to open it.

Henry Pitmeyer, of Evansville, while showing off the good points of a horse, was kicked in the face by the animal, the iron hoof splitting his lips, knocking out several teeth and mangling his chin.

The Terre Haute Gazette makes the charge that J. C. Evans, an alleged burglar, who robbed the Worthington Bank of $940, was set free after restoring the money, and that a similar result characterizes the Shannon Bank robbery.

R. L. Schor, assistant cashier of the first National bank at Evansville, hung himself in the basement of the bank at an early hour, Tuesday morning. His accounts are said to be all right and the cause of the deed is attributed to temporary insanity.

Judge Ferguson, of Jeffersonville, has decided that the bondsmen of ex-Warden of the Prison South, A. J. Howard, for the second term, are only responsible for that fixed period- No bond was given for his last term, and the State will have to stand the loss.

Dr. Perry Bowser, of Elwood, is said to have gone insane, and one cause is said to be the habit of using opium, which he had contracted. A peculiar phase lies in the fact that he made considerable money in selling an alleged cure for the habit which finally marked him for a victim.

Gust Johnson, of Chesterton, while intoxicated and leaning against a stable, fell over, and his head entered a small hole filled with water. By reason of his drunken condition he was unable to help himself, and he drowned. Once he was one of the most prosperous business men in Chesterton.

Last Monday Daniel Baugh, residing' four miles east of Scottsburg, celebrated his one hundredth birthday. He is a very spry old man, and on this occasion utased the crowd by dancing a jig and alas by jumping clear of the ground and crooking his heels together twice before agaim touching the ground.

The gang of Starke county car thieves recently captured, have just been tried and convieted. Bring, Kretlinger, the two Harmon brothers and the two Newman brothers have been sentenced to one year each. The goods stolen were valued at $5,000. They were found buried in the ground at the home of Bring.

A special train of twenty-five cars, loaded with refrigerators and ics chests manufactured by the Alaska Company, of Michigan City, was started for Worcester, Mass., Friday. The train was handsomely decorated and placarded, and will run through on a special time card. It is intended as an advertisement of Hoosier products.

The Montgomery Palace Stock Car Company, of which Jas. Montgomery, of Chicago, is President, has selected a site at Muncie for the erection of shops which will employ 1,500 men. The Muncie Natural Gas and .Improvement Company, of which ex-Governor Abbett.f of New Jersey, is President, Becureui this enterprise by donating fifty acres of land, free gas and $50,000 cash,

Capital stock of Chicago Companv. $5,000,000. The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners recently created by the Legislature for Evansville has been recognized by the Evansville City Council and the old board has been declared "usurpers." To all appearances the "tangle" is similar to the one with which Indianapolis was afflicted. An agreed case has been submitted and appealed to the Supreme Court however, and the result will depend upon the decision in the Indianapolis cases.

A. J. Miller, of the Evansville Tribunehas been selected by a newspaper syndicate, which includes the New York Sun, Louisville Courier-Journal, St. Louis Republic, Evansville Tribune and three others, to take charge of a scientific exploring expedition into the unfrequented portions of the five Republics of Central America. Mr. Miller will be accompanied by Professor Thomas Darragh, naturalist and taxidermist Professor J. Roy Brown, geologist and antiquarian, and William H. Venable, of Atlanta, Ga., and will sail from New Orleans earlv in May.

Mr. H. E. Kellev, of Marion, corrects the impression that there is a boom at Marion, so far as carpenters are concerned. He claims that there is scarcely sufficient labor to supply the home demand and carpenters from abroad are doomed to disappointment, if they expect to be employed at wages other than the minimum. So great has been the influx that journeymen are working for $1.50 per day, and some $1.25. Mr. Kelley also makes the point that supplies can be purchased cheaper at Indianapolis than in Marion.

Charles B. Albertson, fresh from the theological seminary, and a young man of great promise, is pastor of the First Methodist Church, at Goshen, but when he sought admission to the North Indiana Conference, the charge was made that he drew largely for his inspiring sermons from Talmage. The charge was refuted, and he was admitted by an overwhelming majority, and was returned to the Goshen church. It is said that his rejection by the Conference would have resulted in an independeut church movement, at Goshen, so determined were the congregation upon retaining his services.

Patents were Tuesday issued for Indiana inventors as follows: Peter Anderson, Fort Wayne, corner iron for wagon boxes Ben jam F. Berger, South Bend, cultivator, Andrew J. Calloway, Chester Hill, corn planter and drill combined Clark Chiddister, Decatur, gate Joseph Frenick, Laforte, wheel Thomas J. Harriman, New Paris, drive apparatus for piles, etc. James A. Little, Cartersburg, spade or shovel Edward J. Purdy, Michigan City, hunters' portable stool George W. Pyle,' Geneva, retail case and support for stores Abbott M. Reeves, Indianapolis, metallic mat George W. Schock and W. H. Wansbrough, South Bend, paint mixer Frederick W. Tremain, Fort Wayne, washing machine.

The unusual proceedings of the Salvation Army of Goshen continue unabated. Wednesday night a new convert, crazed by the excitement of the occasion, fell in a "trance," and threw her hand and arm against the heated stove. She made no effort to remove it and the skin was burned to a blister before the bystanders changed her position.

The prostration of the enthused Salvationists are now of nightly occurrence. The fanatics, insane with the shouting and noise, fall to the floor headlong. After a time they raise one arm aloft and often lie, as rigid as in death, in this position for hours. Their fame is spreading abroad and the farmers of the county nightly flock to the hall, accompanied by their entire families. Their peculiar actions are thought to be due to the fact that the new lady Captain is a mesmerist and exercises mesmeric influence upon the converts.

The embarrassment over the failure of the Loan Bill is already being widely felt by the State institutions. The ordianary expenses might be met, but the biggest bills are extraordinary. Some of the institutions has procured plans and had begun work under the provisions of the appropriations made for improvements. These have been brought to a summary stand by the developments. It is proposed by some of those who will suffer most by the failure to procure money, to join in a petition to the Governor to call an extra session. They cite the fact that Governor Williams once caldle a session after having first pledged a majority of the members of both Houses to adjourn at the end of thirteen days. That session was called to procure a passage of the State House bill. It is held that Governor Hovey could procure a similar pledge that no legislation except that agreed upon would be transacted, and that the business in hand be dispatched within ten days.

Gov. Hovey thinks he can now see his way clear for carrying on the State government without an extra session of the Legislature,if money can not be obtained on the temporary loan bonds. Some of the benevolent institutions may be crippled, but responsibility for that, he says, will rest with the legislators who neglected to make the proper provision for meeting the demands upon the State Treasury. His plan is to apply the revenues where they are most needed. The income from taxation aggregates about $1,400,000 annually. The temporaiy bonds for $370,000,issued for the purpose of raising money to pay the interest on the outstanding debt, were accepted by the German Savings Bank, and the total revenue for the next year, therefore, will be about $1,800,000. This is about the amount of the annual expenditures. No effort would be made to pay the specific appropriations and the undrawn balances amounting to $1,4000,000. The new appropriation act does not go into effect until next fall, and in the meantime he believes that it will be set aside by the courts, if the matter is brought before them, as revolutionary.

The completion of the natural gas line from Howard county to Logansport was celebrated Thursday night by a grand illumination. It was, in fact, a howling success. Four four-inch stand pipes were erected in the east part of town, and at o'clock the gas was turned on. The pressure was put at 300 pounds, and steadily maintained for over an hour, and the flames extended fully thirty feet into the air. People icould not stand nearer than 200 feet of the flames. The test proved highly

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satisfactory to the company, and fully 5,000 people witnessed the illumination. All the neighboring cities were represented, Lafayette especially sending a very large delegation. A brass band furnished the music, and the occasion

caused much rejoicing. The fierce roar of the flames could be heard a long distance. It is predicted that natural gas will soon make Logansport one of the most important cities in northern Indiana. It is already blessed with an energetic, wide awake population, and with the many natural facilities surrounding it, the city must of necessity boom its way into an important commercial center.

Secretary Heron, of the State Board, Friday, relative to crops said: There are no crops to talk about now except wheat. The sowing of oats is going on in the southern part of the State, and will probably begin in Northern Indiana in about ten days or two weeks. You didn't know that there is a difference of two weeks in the planting season in Northern and Southern Indiana? Yes, that:s true. It's che same in harvesting. In Gibson county the crop is harvested at least ten days before it is in DeKalb county. The wheat crop looks well, and the prospects for a large yield are now good. It was a little backward until the rains occured at the first of this week, but that was helpful and it is now growing rapidly. I think the conditions are all favorable. Seven years ago we-had just a season following a mild winter, which had been preceded by a very dry summer. The yield of wheat that year was the largest we have ever had in Indiana. The outlook indicates that we will have another such yield this year. I took the trouble to ascertain from the members of the State Board what they thought of th- outlook. Their estimates vary from 85 to 100 per cent, as the condition compared with a year ago, and as.they represent all parts of the State the estimates indicate what would be a fair average."

OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.

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The officials of the Santa Fe Railroad were busy Sunday investigating the story that the boomers, concealed in the woods of Oklahoma, had banded together for the purpose of destroying the railroad bridges on the night of the 21st inst., in order to obstruct the influx of homesteaders until the men concealed in the country could make perfect their claims. It appears that the boomers in hiding are desperate. They have selected and watched their claims for years, and t.hey now fear that the newcomers, with the assistance of rapid transit, may get the best of them. There was a meeting of these boomers held in the timbers near Oklahoma City last Thursday, and they canvassed the situation. After the meeting adjourned the Santa Fe agent received notice that the railroad bridges would be burned and the trains stopped on April 22, as the old boomers did not propose to jeopardize their chances by allowing a flood of "tenderfeet" to drop in on the land they had picked out. Detectives have beeh sent along the line through the country, and every precaution will be taken to prevent railway obstruction. There are twice as many people now on the borders as can be accommodated under the homestead act in Oklahoma. Sunday fully 300 passengers arrived in this city all bound for Oklahoma. Many of them represent colonies, and are here as the advance agents. There are men here representing colonies from Washington, California, Utah, Colorado. Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Alabama. The colonies number from twenty to five hundred persons.

Sunday evening, twenty empty passenger coaches pulled into the city on the Santa Fe, attached to the regular freight train,and were run into the yards to await the 22d. A railroader said that the Santa Fe Company had 400 cars already engaged by parties who desired household goods removed to this point bv the 21st. The crowd has increased here te such proportions that persons who get their mail at the free delivery window at the postoffice are compelled to form into a procession and then it is frequently five or six hours before they can get to call for their mail. As a consequence of this large influx of people here, real estate commenced changing hands. The sales of Saturday amounted to $62,000.

AWFUL FAMINE IN CHINA.

Tlionsamls of People Starving to Daath and Greater Distress Expected.

Detailed reports of the great famine in Shantung and Manchuria, brought by the Chinese steamer Monday night, shows that its horrors have not been exaggerated. It is the worst famine known in China for twelve years, and the saddest feature of it is that in many parts of these two provinces the overflow of the Yellow River has ruined the land so that no good crops can be expected for severally ears. Letters from American and jsnglish missionaries, who have been distributing food, say that no more than one hundred thoueand can be reached by them, although fully five million are starving. Many of the men abandoned their families after the flood and the women and children have nothing to live on. The missionaries report that the snectacle of patient suffering of these "people is heart rending. One ease is recorded of a blind woman who strangled her little girl rather than sell her or see her starve, while an old man of sevenl y-#even, maddened by hunger, sold his da«ghter-in-law for $9. It costs only one c**t jfer day to maintain one person, yet the wealthy have been so reduced they cannot aid their poor neighbors, a??

Near Chefoo, Dr. Laughlin writes that the whole plain is dug up by the people in search of roots which serve to fill their stomachs, but draw up their hands as though they had inflamatory rheumatism. .7

WASHINGTON MOTES. Since the adjournment of the Senate the President seems indisposed to hurry in the matter of making appointments. None have come from the White House for two days, and none are in sight. The members of Congress who have made ife a burden to the President and heads of departments are not accomplishing anything, and many of them are growing weary. The best they can do at preseut for their constituents is to

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et fourth-class postmasters appointed, of this kind they can secure by writing to the Postoffice Department, and most ot them do not care to Btay around Washington any longer unless the administration puts on morest'eam.

Hon. Milton J. Durham, at present First Controller of the Treasury, is reported to be a candidate for the Demo cratic vacancy on the Civil Service Commission. Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thompson, of South Carolina, was appointed to this office by President Cleveland, but the Senate failed to confirm him. He is, however, making a fight for re-appointment by President Harrison. Ex -Representative Truman A. Merriman, of New York, backed by Hon. Samuel J, Randall, is also making a struggle for the place.

It is stated that the President said a few days ago that he did not intend to make a change in the office of Commissioner of Railroads, now held by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. General Sherman, it is said, has made a special request that General Johnston be retained. The Commissioner is now eighty two years of age, but in spite of his advanced years he is able to attend to the business of the office.

It seems that the man Secretary Wanamaker has appointed postmaster at Philadelphia was once offered by Wanamaker $25,000 a year to take charge of his wholesale business. Philadelphia is rejoicing that she is going to get a $25,000 business man for a $6,000 postoffice.

Joel B. Erhardt has been appointed Collector of Customs for the district of New York, to succeed Magone, and Cornelius VanCott, of New York, to be Postmaster at New York, succeeding Pearson.

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Holman have issued cards for the marriage of their daughter, Pamela Dean, with Frederick L. Harvey, on Mondajr morning, April 8, at 9 o'clock, at Trinity M. E. Church.

There are 3,800 odd applications for consulships. It is understood that no appointments of this character will be male till the middle of May or the 1st ofJune.

Hon. Samuel J. Randall has been sick in bed at Washington ever since Congress adjourned. His trouble is a severe attack of gout.

Robert T. Lincoln has formally accepted the English mission, and will sail for London about May 15. I

Hon. W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky has declined the Corean mission, The public debt was reduced $13,605, 655 during March.

Senator Sherman will sail for Europe May 1.

LIVELY OKLAHOMA.

The members of the Kansas Board of Railroad Assessors, just returned from a trip through Oklahoma, report army fficers as saying that thousands of boomers are still concealed in the brush and that if the whole United States army was there it could not drive them out. Names are taken, but ninety out of every hundred are fictitious. Captain Woodson and Lieutenant Carson are in receipt of telegrams daily to hire horses, have them saddled and bridied, and in waiting on the arrival of trains at Oklahoma City, April 22, at noon. The object is to mount at once and by fleet steeds distance rival boomers on foot and capture choice?! claims. A party of four Hoo3iers, with a balloon, are camped near Antelope Hills. They will make an ascent in the morning, drift until noon, and then de-. scend, hours in advance of teams and speedy horses.

State official anticipate trouble and say the country will be an Eldorado for good land office lawyers. The excitement is increasing daily and all Southern Kan- I sas is ablaze. The assessors think that Oklahoma is not what it has been painted. The soil is red and the land i3 good chiefly for hay and cotton. Oklahoma,:: was surveyed some years ago, but the corners are nearly all obliterated now Settlers taking claims will find it difficulty to describe the same when they go to the land office to make a filing, and this will give rise to innumerable contests.

EMIN AND STANLEY.

Advices received from Stanley Falls state that Arabs who have arrived there, report that Henry M. Stanley and Emin Pasha were heard from in February. They were then marching toward Zanzibar with several thousand men, women and children. They also had 6,000 tusks of ivory. The Arabs who brought this news arrived at Stanley Fails in February. They claimed to have seen, Stanley several months before that time,

Sir Francis De Winton, president of the Emin Bey relief committee, I doubts the truth "of the story concern--,, ing Stanley and Emin which was brought to Stanley"Falls by Arabs. Suppfciug that Stanley reached Erain at Christmas,' Sir Francis thinks that the story broughtby the Arabs has traveled too quickly to be a fact. He considers it more likely that it originated in a discussion of Emm's projects.

Advices received from Zanzibar are to the eftect that news of Stanley maybe expected there abeut the end of May.

A Reservation.

Minister (dining with the family)— Bobby, I suppose when you crow up to be a man you will wast to be an earnest Christian, won't you?

Bobby—Yes, sir if it doesn't interfere with being a drum major. v""

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 10, 1888. 'SIM GRAIN. Wheat— CornNo. 2 Red 96 No. 3 Red 90

No. 1 White 33 No. 2 Yellow 32 Oats, White 29

LIVE STOCK.

CATTLE:—Good to choice [email protected] Choice heifers... [email protected], Common to medium 2.0l)@2.50 Good to choice cows [email protected] HOGS—Heavy [email protected] Light [email protected] Mixed [email protected] PigS [email protected] SHEEP—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium 3.50®4.50

EGGS, BUTTER, POULTRY.

Eggs 10c I Hens per ft 7c Butter,creamery22c I Roosters 3c Fancy country...12c I Turkeys 10c Choice country..09c

MISCELLANEOUS.

WOOL—Fine merino, washed ...33@35 unwashed med 20028 very coarse ....17@18 Hay, timothy..11.75 Bran 10.50 Clover seed 5.00

Sugar cured ham 12 Bacon clear sides 11 Feathers, goose 35

Chicago.

Wheat (May) ..1.04 I Pork. Corn 35 1 Larc Oats 26 I ILoS..

.12.45 7 05 6.25