Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 23 August 1889 — Page 7

WEEKLY NEWS EPITOME.

DOMESTIC.

Hon. S. J. Randall is ill again. Wisconsin's pearl craze is spreading. Forest fires have done great damage ia Montana.

Brown county, Kansas, had a disastrous storm, Tuesday. Storms have done much damage in Kansas and Nebraska.

Bismarck has been selected as the Capital of North Dakota. Wheeling, W. Va., had a ton-thousand-dollar fire, Tuesday.

White Caps demolished a saloon at Deshler, O., Saturday. George Reif was robbed of $2,000 in a barber shop at New Philadelphia, O.

The Pennsylvania Steel Co., of Harris burg, have increased wages 2% per cent. Illinois operators are arranging to bring miners from the East to take the place of the strikers.

Sioux Falls, Huron and Pierre are mak ing a triangular fight for the capital of South Dakota.

King Humbert has appointed Mr. Thomas Edison a gi'and officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Several hundred men struck, Wednesday, at a Pittsburg iron mill rather than work non-union-made iron.

The old story that Henry Villard will fit out an exposition to the South Pole has been revived in New York.

Eugene Mercadier, of the Excelsior Amateur Athletics, St. Louis, swam the Mississippi in 12:15 with his hands bound.

The City of Paris has just made the trip across the ocean in the shortest time on record—5 days 23 hours and 40 minutes.

Senator Evarts is going to Europe to consult oculists about his eyes, their condition being such as to cause him much uneasiness.

Miss Sarah Harvey will receive a bequest of §3,000,000 from her grand-aunt of Orange, N. J., provided she embraces tlie Catholic faith.

President Harrison received a warm greeting on his return to Bar I-Iarbor, Tuesday. A flower parade was given in his honor.

At Pooler, Ga., Walter Asburg (colored) who assaulted a young German girl, was taken by a mob of 300 masked men and lynched.

It is proposed to exhibit the scaffolding on which John Brown was hung fox' the purpose of raising funds to build him a monument.

Assistant Secretary Bussey decides that dishonorable discharge from service is not a bar to pension when the applicant is otherwise worthy.

The Grand Jury at Purvis,Miss., Wednesday, found indictments against Sullivan, Kilrain and their seconds. Jake Kilrain was arrested at Baltimore.

S. F. Sherman, of Sherman Bros. & Co., Buffalo, whose irregularities several months ago caused a large deficiency, was arrested, Tuesday. He got away with 1375,000.

An attempt was made, Monday night, at Shortsville, on the Auburn Division of the New York Central Railroad, to wreck a passenger train. The train was ditched but nobody hurt.

Commander-in-Chief Warner, of the G. k. R., has completed his report for the past year. The port shows a total membership ef 413.328, an increase of 59,012 members during the past year.

At Huntington, Pa., Monday night, fire destroyed the erecting and machine shops of the Huntington Car Manufacturing Company. together with thirty cars in various stages of completion, entailing a loss of about $30,000.

The barn of C. S. Bragg, of Avondale, near Cincinnati, was burned, Wednesday. It was one of the most expensive of such structures, and contained costly carriages, etc., making a total loss of $-30,000. The torses were all saved.

The annual athletic exhibition of the Clan-na-Gael, at Philadelphia, was attended by 25,000 persons. The profits which amounted to $5,000, will be devoted to securing the arrest and punishment of the murderers of Dr. Cronin.

At Dulutli, Minn., Wednesday, Judges Stearn and Ensign,of the Circuit composed of St. Louis, Lake and Cook counties, decided that the Scheffer Dressed-Beef law was unconstitutional,being an interference with interstate commerce.

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On an average there has been two bodies found every day during the past week at Johnstown. Hi ere are undoubtedly a great many more in ih cellars all over town, and at the present rate of cleaning up they will not all be exhumed this year.

Afire broke out in a restaurant at No. 305 Seventh avenue, New York, Monday morning. and nine of the inmates lost their lives. It is believed the cook used kerosene to start the fire. The flames and smoke filled the stairways and residents of the upper floors had no way of escape.

At Janesville, Wis., the Salvation soldiers were out, Monday evening, with drums and tambourines. They ci'eated considerable excitement and caused several serious runaways by frightened horses. The City Marshal arrested and jailed the entire army. Many of the members en? tered the prison shouting "Glory, Hallelujah

Syvant Hanson commenced suit in the United States Court Saturday at St. Paul against Bassett & Co., the Minneapolis lumbermen, to recover $30,000 damages. While an employe of Bassett & Co. a wagon broke down upon him. His head was terribly crushcd, and his cheek and jaw bones broken, making it impossible for him to masticate.

Among the papers of incorparation filed with the Illinois Secretary of State Saturday was that of the Queen Isabella Association of Chicago, the object of which is to erect a statue to Isabella, Queen of Spain, to be unveiled at the world's fair of 1893. The incorporators are Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, Catharine V. Waite and Dr. Fanny Dickinson.

FOREIGN.

Spain does not want the Pope.

ed on the payment of a ransom of 012,000 in gold. Speaker Carlisle is being banqueted and shown great honors in Mexico.

An epidemic of suicide prevails among the officers of the German army. The French Senate court found General Boulanger guilty on the charge of embezzling public funds and refused to allow that there were extenuating circumstances. The court then sentenced General Boulanger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort to be deported to a fortified place.

There seems to be no abatement of the suicidal mania which has of late been prevalent among officers in the German army. The latest case reported is that of Major Luck, who blew out his brains at Weisba* den with a pistol loaded with water. The effect of this unique method of self-murder was extremely horrible, the victim's head having been literally blown to atoms.

The friends of Mr. Conybeare, the imprisoned member of Parliament, are furious at his treatment by the prison authorities. On the second day of his confinement he caught the itch, but wa9 not permitted to communicate the fact to his friends outBide. He is only now enabled to mako his condition known through a clever stratagem. He says the Dcrey jail, in which he is confined, is a perfect pest-house.

If the Queen and her royal offspring have been very much put out over the shameful way in which the Radicals opposed their modest request for more money, the Prince of Wales, at least has something with which to soothe his lacerated feelings, as a direct outcome of the agitation instituted by the Radical members of Parliament and their supporters. The Prince has received an anonymous letter, in which the writer deplores the inconsiderate conduct of the Radicals, sympathizes with His Royal Highness in the unpleasant position in which their agitation placed him, and last, but by no means least, he gives a proof of his sincerity by inclosing ten crisp, new Bank-of-England notes, each ofthedemonination of £1,000. No name is signed to the communication, and the writer has been to such pains to avoid leaving any clew to his identity that no one is prepared even to Ifuess who he can be. The Prince himself has no suspicion of any one, but in any event it is not likely that the police will be asked to interfere to drag this modest specimen of British loyalty from his anonymous retreat.

A PITCHER OF DYNAMITE.

A Bass Ball Player Does Effective "Work at Honolulu.

Some passengers by a recent Honolulu steamer, who were seen late Tuesday night, gave interesting accounts of scenes at the recent battle in Honolulu. The day was won by abase ball pitcher, who utilized his skill by throwing dynamite bombs into the bungalow that formed the headquarters of the insurgents, and brought them to terms quicker than rifle or cannon shots. The bluejackets kept up a disastrous firing all day, and it was finally decided to throw dynamite on the bungalow.

Bombs were quickly made but it was found that there were no guns to fire them. It was along throw, and in their dilemma the King's Guards secured the service of Henry Woodhouse, pitcher of the Honolulu Base Ball Club. Woodhouse took up his position in the Coney Island building, just across a narrow lane and overlooking the bungalow. No attack was expected from that quarter, and there was nothing to disturb the bomb thrower.

Woodhouse stood for a few moments with a bomb in his hand, 51s though ho rvere in the box waiting for a batsman. He had to throw over a house to reach the bungalow, which he could not see. The Grst bomb went sailing over the wall, made a down curve, and struck the side of the bungalow about a foot from the roof, md a terrible yell followed. The bomb liad reached them and hurt a number of in-, surgents.

General Boulanger is pronounced dead! First Clubman IIow does politically. happen that Good fellow had sucti Large discoveries of petroleum have been hard time getting into Hocicty made in Chiapas, Mexico. Second Clubman "Society foui.

Senor Sardina, who was recently llid- out that he wanted to get in. —No naprd by banditti in Cuba, has been releas* Jfork Weekly.

Woodhouse coolly picked out another' bomb. Then he took a step back and made half turn and sent it whizzing. It landed on the roof of the bungalow, smashed a hole that four men could have dropped* through, and scattered old iron among the rebels until they thought they were in a boiler explosion. The base ball pitcher was too much for the rebels. He threw one more bomb, and Wilcox came out and surrendered.

O"'" p»rje{ort«t_

In the States of the Ohio inc1.". .!- ing Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kcatacky. and Iowa and Kansar., the crops are greatly improved by the favorable weather of the past week. In these States the corn crop is in excellent condition and maturing rapIdly. A large crop of oats is been harvested, and the hay crop is much heavier tnai. was expected at tho first of the mouth. In Michigan the cool nights were unfavorable to corn, and some damage resulted to the crop in Missouri from local stores and drought. The good tobacco crop of Ohio. Indiana and Virginia was improved by favorable weather. More rain is needed. IH the cotton region, extending from Georgia to Texas, the weather was favorable and the cotton crop improved, although cotton worms are on the incivasc from Alabama westward to Arkansas, and have car.seo some damage to the crop. Mississippi imports caterpillars in thirteen counties. In the eastern portion of the cotton region the crop has been somewhat damaged by rain, but farmers are yet hopeful. In New I-hig land, New York and New Jersey the weather was generally unfavorable. Potatoes are rotting from excessive rain, and it has been too cold for corn north of Pennsylvania. Hay, oats and barley have bee:: damaged in New York, and the fruit crop injured in New Jersey by heavy rain, hail and severe thunder storms. In Pennsylvania the corn crop is in line condition, ar.d a large second crop of hay is being harvested. Rain has interrupted the threshing of whoat in the western portion of Oregon, but these rain3 will doubtless prove bene ficial to fruit.

GoodfelloVs Mistake. Clubman—"How

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JUDGE TERRY SHOT FOR INSULTING. JUSTICE FIELD.

A United States Marshal Kills a Judge Who Insults a Juatlcfe of the Highest Court in the .Land—Quick Vtngeanoe.

Upon the arrival Of the southern overland train at Lathrop, Cal., at 7:20, Wednesday morning, United .States Supreme Judge Stephen J. Field and Deputy United States Marshal David Nagle walked into the depot dining room for breakfast and sat down side by side. Soon after Judge David S. Terry and his wife came in also. They were proceeding to another table when Mrs.- Terry, evidently recognizing Justice Field, did not sit down, but retired to the train for some unknown purpos. Before she reached it, however, and as soon as she had left the dining room Judge Terry approached Justice Field, and stooping over him, slapped his face. At this juncture Deputy Marshal Nagle arose from his seat and shot Judge Terry through thejheart. As he was falling the Deputy Marshal shot again, but missed him, the bullet going through the floor. Both shots were fired in very quick succession. The Judge never uttered a sound after being shot. He had hardly fallen when Mrs. Terry rushed to the side of his body and threw herself upon it. Then ensued a soene of the wildest excitement. People rushed from the dining room and others rushed in. During this time Justice Field and Deputy Marshal Nagle retreated to a sleeping car where they were securely locked within.

At times Mrs. Terry would call upon the citizens to arrest them. Before the train pulled out Constable Walker entered the sleeper and was carried away on board the train. He informed the party that he knew his duty and would perform it. During the time the train was standing at tho depot Mrs. Terry was running wildly alternately from the body of her husband to the sleeper, demanding admittance, that she might slap Justice Fields' face, and, at the same time begging that they be detained and have their examination.

Previous to the entrance of Constable Walker into the sleeper, Sheriff Purvis and deputy, of Stanislaus county, had already taken charge of Deputy United States Marshal Nagle. '•'Ex-Judge David S. Terry was one of the best known men on the Pacific coast. The famous case of Miss Sarah Althea Hill was tried before Justice Field, who gave the final judgment that she was not the wife of Senator Sharon. Judge Terry had warmly espoused her cause, and married her two years ago, before the court had adversely ruled.

He had been counsel for Miss Hill since early in the proceedings against Sharon, and has been assiduous in his intention to the plaintiff during his connection with the case. In the days of the gold fever, when the pro and anti-slavery parties were struggling for the mastery, Judge Terry, who came from the South, was an ardent slavery man. Senator Broderick was just as determined in his anti-slavery views. The natural result was that the two men became bitter enemies, and as "the code" held sway in those days, a duel resulted in which Terry killed Broderick. Terry escaped punishment. During the war he commanded a Texas regiment, and upon the cessation of hostilities returned to California and entered politics. He was made a member of the Democratic State Committee in 1875, and in 1879 was nominated for Attorney General by a branch of the Workingman's party. In 1880 he was a Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket, but although all the other Electors received majorities ranging from 87 to 143, Terry was defeated by over 500 votes. Since then Terry had retired from politics.

The following facts were submitted to Justice Field Wednesday afternoon, and declared by him to be a correct statement of the circumstances that led up to the shooting: During Judge Terry's confinement in the county jail he threatened,upon his release, to take the lives of Judges Field and Sawyer. Prior to the contempt of court for which he was in prison, Mrs. Terry, in his presence, had made an assault on Judge Sawyer in a Pullman car. It is believed that had Sawyer resisted the insult Terry would have killed him. Terry's threats were so publicly made that they reached ::the ears of Justice Field's colleagues on the Supreme Bench, and were made known to the Department of Justice in Washington, whereupon Mr. Miller, At-torney-General of tho United States, head of the Department of Justice, and as the superior of the United States Marshal Franks, ordered the latter to take whatover measures were necessary to protect the persons of Justice Field and Judge Sawyer from assault by Judge Terry. On his arrival in California to hold court in this part of his circuit, Justice Field objected to being put under the protection of the marshal's officers. When asked if he intended to carry arms to defend himself, he said: "No I do not and will not carry arms, for when it is known that judges of tho courts are compelled to arm themselves for defense of assaults offered in consequence of their judicial action, it will be time to dissolve the courts, consider the government as a failure and let society lapse into barbarism." Notwithstanding his objection to protection, the marshal declared himself subject to the order of his superior officer, Attorney-general Miller, andj deputized Mr. Nagle to keep within reach of Justice Field, ready to carry out the orders of the Department of Justice.

In an interview in the Indianapolis Sentinel, Attorney-general Miller confirms the statement that Nagle was actingunder federal authority. Nagle was arrested by tho State authorities and placed in jail. The shooting is considered justifiable.

An attack had been deemed probable, owing to frequent threats attributed to Judge Terry and owing to the latter's known temper and the flerco quarrels which had marked his public career in California. He was known to entertain a deadly hatred toward Justice Field, which feeling was supposed to have been spurred by bis wife, Sarah Althea Terry, who claims to be the widow of the late U. S. Senator Sharon and who has been en fteavoring to prosecute her claim to his estate in State and Federal courts. A

decision rendered by Justice Field, sitting in banc with two other federal judges last September, was adverse to her interests, and she was the means of creating a scene in the U. S. court room on that occasion, which threatened to terminate in a tragedy. She was ordered into custody by the court for contempt, after interrupting Judge Field when delivering his decision, charging him with being corrupt. She straggled with the bailiffs when they attempted to remove her by force, and had an active ally in Judge Terry, who drew a dagger, but was disarmed by the same deputy at whose hands he met his death. For this act Judge Terry was sent I to Jail for six months for contempt. When this occurred statements were publicly atfaibuted to Judge Terry, declaring that he would have a personal settlement with Judge Field if he ever had occasion to meet him when released from arrest. These statements coming from the man who had I killed U. S. Senator Broderick in a duel, I who was popularly supposed to be constantly armed and marvelously proficient in the use of weapons, was regarded as no light statement. The remark was certainly current throughout California that if Judge

Terry met Justice Field in public a tragic scene would undoubtedly follow. Whether Judge Terry was aware of the presence of the deputy is not known. Although warned to not strike again by Nagle, he had aimed a second powerful blow at Justice Field, who was still sitting in his chair but before the blow could be delivered he fell to the floor a dead man.

A warrant was issued, Thursday, for the arrest of Justice Field, on complaint of Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry, who charges him with complicity in the killing of her husband, David S. Terry, at Lathrop. Sheriff Cunningham will arrest Justice Field. The attorneys who have been engaged to conduct the defense of Deputy Marshal Nagle, who shot Terry, promised that Justice Field would appear when wanted, but Mrs. Terry's complaint was made against both. The warrant was issued by a justice of the peace of Stockton, and is addressed to the sheriff of the county in the following words: "Information, on oath, having been this day laid before me by Sarah A. Terry that the crime of murder, a felony, has been committed within said county of San Joaquin, on the 14th day of August, 1889, in this that one David S. Terry, a human being, then and there was wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and with malice aforthought shot, lulled and murdered, and accused Stephen J. Field and David Nagle therefore. You are commanded forthwith to arrest the above named Stephen J. Field, and David Nagle and bring them before me at my office in the city df Stockton."

Justice Field was arrested, Friday, on a warrant sworn out by Sarah Althea Terry before a Sacramento Justice of the Peace. He was immediately released by Judge Sawyer on a writ of habeas corpus.

LEAGUEOF REPUBLICAN CLUBS New and Original Plan of Invading the South.

The last official session of the executive jommission of the National League of Republican Clubs was held Wednesday at Saratoga. The principal topic of discussion was the place of holding the next convention. It was proposed to get up excursions for the delegates, and make a tour of the South, stopping at the towns along the route, and have prominent Republican speakers addi*ess the people. Gov. Foraker and Maj. McKinley, Gen. Woodford and others have already consented to speak, should this plan be carried Dut. The New York Tribune was made the official organ of the league. Messrs. Hudson of Indiana, Byrnes of Minnesota, and Humphrey of New York were appointed a special committee with power to confer with a sub-committee of the Republican national committee in mapping out general political work and conferring together for the good of the party. The rest of the work of the committee was detailed to various committees.

if WASHINGTON NOTES.

Through the bureau of international exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution, Tuesday morning, Dr. St. Clair, chief of the consular division, State Department, received from Lieut. Taunt, United States commercial agent in the Congo country, the war outfit of a Byanzi warrior sent from a point nine hundred miles from tho coast. It consists of a bamboo shield six feet long- and one foot wide, a spear four feet long, a knife shaped someting like an exaggerated pruning knife and sharp on both edges, a bow with bamboo string and two iron-tipped arrows and three coils of Bniall brass wire. The weapons of offense are murderous looking implements but the shield seems woefully deficient in size and texture to protect the wearer. Before handling the weapons Dr. St. Clair will wash their points and edges in carbolic acid to remove the poison with which Con go warriors of ante-civilization days at least, were wont to tip them in order to add to their effectiveness.

A letter from

A Little Rock (Ark.) special says: Responding to the announcement of the organization of ex-Confederate veterans at Pine Bluff, Jefferson Davis writes to Colonel Charles Newman, of that town, saying among other things:

It is gratifying to mo to see the brave men who sustained our rights and causo preserving the memories of their service and cultivating the fraternity which was generated in the severe trials they endured. Please give me cordial greeting to your associates, who I feel may be consoled for loss of much else in the remembrance that their honor remains sustained and the truth for which they suffered is imperishable.

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Will Appenl to America.

Mrs. Maybrick, the woman cf Ameriiian nativity, who was recently sentenced to death for poisoning her husband that sh» might join her illicit lover, will appeal t« Secretary Blaine for American interference. It is stated in a letter written by chemist of Glasgow, whose testimony was excluded from the trial, that Maybrick's death resulted from his secret habit of daily drinking small quantities ofnarsenic.

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington will have natural gas. Peru will have a paid fire department. Typhoid fever prevails at Ft. Wayne. Glanders are reported from Parke county. Cass county adopted the standard books. Noblesville is enjoying a building boom. Conncrsville will have a new $12,000 church.

The remains of a mastodon have been found near Fort Wayne. Typhoid is almost epidcmic and causing great alarm at Connersville.

Hendricks county has the largest number of Sons of Veterans camps in the State. Harrison and adjoinining counties report good crop prospects, far above the average.

The Grant county White Caps are being brought to justice. Four arrests havebeen made.

Stephen Harris, a colored convict in the Jeffersonville pen, hung himself in his cell, Tuesday.

Eighteen prisoners are in the Greensburg jail awaiting the September term of the Circuit Court.

Nicholas Hirshour, of Fort Wayne, accilentally shot and killed himself with his revolver, Sunday.

Claude F. Baker, postoffice clerk at Warsaw, charged with stealing letters, has adnitted liis guilt and has given bond.

An egg, S). inches in diameter lengthvvise, and 6)4 inches the other way, is a product of an industrious Columbus hen.

George Allen, of Beechwood, was shipped by "White Caps," Friday night, 5he alleged reason being that he maltreatjd his wife.

A banana snake was found coiled round bunch of bananas offered for sale at Fort Wayne, and it was captured and placed%in glass case. It looks like a young anaconia in shape and markings.

Emma Hall, little daughter of Thomas Hall, living near Danville, died Saturday )f lock-jaw. The suffering of the little jirl is described by the physicians to have oeen horrible in the extreme.

Alfred Corbin, a prominent farmer of Lafayette, was assaulted and robbed of |£20 within a 'short distance of his own nome, Monday. Suspicion attaches to a young man of the neighborhood.

The walls of the Centilever brewery (burned recently) at Ft. Wayne, fell, Mon3ay, while workmen were cleaning away the debris. Three of the workmen were fatally injured and two others seriously.

Rev. Dr. W. H. Boydins, a distinguished livino, well known in the west, and especially in Indiana, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednesday, whither he had gone for his health. His church is in Cincinnati.

A. J. Bassett, alias "Dr." Hammond, who posed as a veterinary surgeon at South Bend, and who was arrested as a harness hief, in which his accomplice was a colwed man, commited suicide by hanging in ihe St. Joe county jail on Saturday.

A "mob" of pickpockets, numbering •wentj7-four, swarmed on the grounds at the lime of the soldiers' reunion at Denver, on Saturday, which was attended by several ihousand people. Men were boldly robbed, some instances being held up on the itreets and forcibly dispossessed of their noney.

Wednesday evening fire flashed from the arn of James Davis, near Brown Valley, Montgomery county, and the structure was loon destroyed. The loss was $4,000 insurance $1,600. Nineteen tons of hay, 1,500 jushels of corn, a binder and other implenents were b*rned. Supposed cause, insendiarism.

John W. Shepherd, of New Washington, juror in the Benson-Motweiler murder !ase, according to the New Albany Ledger, leserted his family and fled to St. Louis with mother companion. Last week he returned md was reconciled to his family, but his leighbors assembled and bombarded his •esidence with bad eggs.

These patents to Indiana inventors were ssued Tuesday. Chas. A. Bertsch, Camridge City, bending roll Geo. W. Crozier, Muncie, gas pressure regulator Abram DeWitt, Bluffton, measuring vessel Theo. Doup, jr., Columbus, road gate Wesley T. Finney, Bentonville, suspender buckle Leander W. Freeman, Liberty, hay rake Hiram H. Gibbs, Indianapolis, road cart WickliffB. Mitchell, Owensburg, matchsafe Simon Shoup, Fish Lake, saw set.

An atrocious attempt at train-wrecking is reported on the new Evansville & Richmond railway, just in course of building ihrough Elnora. About four miles out of Ddon. near Vincennes, some miscreant had placed a lot ox rails upon the track, with ihe intention of wrecking the first train that came along. Several persons of the town of Odon borrowed a hand car to go to Elnora on a visit, and wore pumping along Dver the rails at a terrific rate when the jar struck the obstruction, knocking the light structure into the air, and throwing the passengers about in every direction. William O'Dell was badly bruised and had leg broken. Evans Dunlap was cut and braised about the face and head, and Fred Folle was fearfully lacerated about the back and hips. The attempted trainwrecking was thus averted, but an attempt Will be made to apprehend the perpetrators. "Split Back," a Commanche Indian, traveling with the show of Stowe Brothers, was dangerously shot by a Vincennes policeman, Tuesday. The Indian had thrown the officer down and beat him savagely with his own mace. The Mayor succeeded in releasing thetpolicaman, who then drew his revolver and fired. The Indians, of whom Split Back was one, were dissipating.

Wm. Davenport was arrested on the train en route to Cincinnati from Fort Wayne Wednesday afternoon, by Marshal Robinson, on a telegram from Paymaster Coffeenberry, of theB. & O. Railway, from Garrett. It is claimed he stole $900 from tho pay car Wednesday night. When caught, Davenport denied his name, but his clothing and positive description gave him away. Late^ Wednesday $630 was found on Davenport's person and ho acknowledged the theft.

S. T. Yancy Monday afternoon began quo warranto proceedings in the Marion Circuit Court for the possession of the Office of State Oil Inspector now held by Nelson J. Hyde. Yancy was appointed Inspector by Professor Collett, Governor Hovey's appointee to the office of Chief of the Bureau of Geology and Natural Science, and Hyde received his commission from S.

S. Gorby, who claims to be State Geologisj |by virtue of election by the last Legislas ,ture. The real object of the present suit il to determine who is entitled to the office

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State Geologist. Both Hyde and YancJ have been officiating as oil inspectors, and the result has been groat confusion. Oil manufacturers and dealers have not known which of the two inspectors they should recognize, and there has been a general demand from them that the question should be determined. Mr. Yancy says he thinks the oil dealers have a right to know to whom they should pay their fee, and he, therefore, brings the present suit.

One of the most peculiar cases of boy. cotting ever indulged in occurred in Pike county, south of Vincennes. The new agricultural association, called the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, which is spreading out in southern Indiana and Illinois, comprises over a thousand members in Pike county. Owing to violent criticisms of the organization by the coun. ty press of that county, the farmers, at a recent meeting, passed the following: "Resolved, That the delegates to the county assembly of the F. M. B. A. consider that it is the duty of every member of the order to withhold his patronage from any county paper that opposes us." The resolution was adopted and the secretary requested to furnish each of the county papers '.vith a copy of it. The resolution angered the three newspapers of the county, and a red-hot wrangle has resulted. In the Petersburg News the editor declares "They can boycott the News and be The first member of the alliance in Pike county that withdraws his patronage from this office, and docs not first pay up his account in full, we will make it warm for him. We are carrying accounts on not less than six hundred members of the alliance, and whenever such members withdraw their patronage from this paper payments must first be made. Go on with your boycott."

FORESTAND PRAIRIE FIRES.

Destroying Numerous Cattle Ranches and Threatening Towns in Montana,

Forest fires, which have been raging all over Montana for three weeks, have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of timber, and have reached most alarming '-proportions. A gentleman in from northern Montana reports that rangos in Choteau county which heretofore have escaped, and on which cattle men were depending to keep this winter thousands of head of cattle, arc on fire, aud all the big companies have their men out trying to suppress the fiamos. In two days the fire traveled over a section sixty miles wide and one hundred miles in lemrth. In Deer Lodge county the town of Georgetown is surrounded by fire, and a strong wind brought the flames within five miles of Phillipsburg. The mill of the Bimetallic Milling Company, near that town, is in great danger, and the fire is traveling toward it with great rapidity. Couriers who arrived at Phillipsburg from Georgetown, at midnight, reported that the utmost consternation prevailed in the town, and a large force was organized to go to the rescue. In the Yellowstone country the pineries fires covers an area of eight miles, and is spreading rapidly. Raiiges in that section have been almost entirely destroyed^ the fire extending nearly from Miles City to Galendive. A letter received Monday from Forsythe says that Henry Casey, J. P. Harrison, and two cowboys recently from Texas, who were out fighting the fire in the vicinity, are missing, and it is feared they have perished.

Do Men Fear I)!ath.

Who said that men fear death? Who conooetcd that fable for old wives? He should have stood that night with Philip in the midst of a host OL 125,000 men in the full flush and vigor of life, calmly and deliberately making ready at clawn to receive death in its most horrid forms at one another's hands. It is in vain that Religion invests tha tomb with terror, and Philosophy, shuddeHng, averts her face the nations turn from these gloomy teachers to storm its portals in exultant hosts, battering them wide enough for thou-i sands to charge through abreast. The heroic instinct of humanily with its high contempt of deatli is wiser and truer, never let us doubt,, than superstitious terrors of philosophic doubts. It testifies to a conviction, deeper than reason, that man is greater than his seeming lf to an underlying corn seiousn.'ss that his mortal life is but an accident of his real existence, tho fashion of a day, to be lightly worn and gaily dolled at duty's ill.

What a pity it truly is that the tonic air of battlefields—the air thit Philip breathed that night before Aiuietain—: cannot be gathered up and preserved as a precious elixir to re invigorate thq atmosphere in times of peace when men grow faint of heart- and cowardly and q-.uike at thought of death.—From "An Echo of Antietam." by fid ward Bellamy in the July Century.

E A E S

INDIANAPOLIS, August 21, 1889. GRAIN. Wheat— CornNo. 2 Red 74$ I No. 1 White 38$ No.3 Red 70 No. 2 Yellow...37$

OATS, White....19$

LIVE STOCK.

CATTLB —Export grades $ 1. 2004.55 Good to choice shippers 3.7504.10 Common te medium shippers 2.7503.40 Stockers, 500 to 8501b 2.2502.75 Good to choice heifers 2,6503.00 Common to medium heifers... 1.7502.40 Good to choice cows 2.50(a),2.75 Fair to medium cows 2.0002.35 HOGS—Heavy 4.1004.25 Light 4.5504.70 Mixed Heavy roughs 3 2 03,75 SEES?—Good to choice 4.1504.50 Fair to medium 3.5004.00 Common 2 [email protected] liambs, good to choice 5.0005.75 Common to medium 3.5004.50 Bucks, per head 2.0003.00

MISCELLANEOUS.

WOOL—Fine merino, washed.33025 unwashed med 20022 very coarse 17@11

EGGS, BUTTKK. POULTRY.

Eggs../:.- He Hens per lb 8c Butter,creamery 20c I Roosters 3c Fancy dairy 12c Turkey* 7$c Choice country...9c I Feathers 36c