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A ten days temperance jubilee will begin at Peru, Oct. 13. The Terre Haute Rifles are taking rank as expert marksmen.

The annual reunion of the Sixty-third Indiana and other regiments will be held at Waynetown Sept. 25 and 2(5.

James Hill, a boy of sixteen, fell inuler the wheels of a gravel wagon at Shelbyville and was crushed to death.

The shortage of Michael Posz, ex Treasurer of Shelby county, has been fixed at 613.0S0.11, and on this basis settlement was made by his bondsmen Posz turning over property valued at §7,500.

Mrs. Delia Allman, wife of John Allman, near Romney, obtained a divorce from her husband and returned home only to find her house in ashes, it having been burned by an incendiary while she was attending court.

Kokorno druggists have entered into an agreement by which only one drug store will be kept open of Sundays, each taking its turn. A similar plan is mooted at Logansport, and ought to become popular everywhere.

Monday, two young men named John Burnett and Omer Briscoe, near Salem, hitched a young horse to a farm wagon, with an old one, to break the colt A runaway followed and Barnett, aged 10, was killed, and Briscoe's legs were broken.

A dispatch from Milwaukee says the American brewers have projected a gigan tic trust to protect themselves from the encroachments of the English syndicate. There is said to be §100,000,000 ready for the undertaking.

Suicides are prevalent throughout the State. At Plymouth, Monday morning, A. L. McDonald, a barber, killed himself by shooting a bullet into his heart. A wife and two small children survive him. Near

Five saloon keepers of Shelbyville have !be repealed must be incorporated in the each been fined $100 for selling liquor without license.

Indianapolis Republicans have nominated Gen. John Coburn for Mayor and Al. W. Taffe for Clerk.

Terre Haute railroad went through a! Morgan and Cole. They told Mr. Howell bridge near Patoka, Monday evening. No one hurt.

A child has been born to the family oi John Praugh, near Goshen, and the father is said to be aged eighty-four, while the mother is seventy-six.

The Frankfort School Board, which is entirely Republican, refuses to adopt or use the new school books, and legal proceedings arc talked of to compel it to do so.

Charles Bowers, of Crawfordsville, ambitious to become a West Point cadet, failed in physical examinations because he

had an ingrowing toe nail and a decayed

tooth. The Terre Haute iron and nail-works has been purchased by the Terre Haute Iron and Steel Company, recently organized with a capital of £00.000. The purchase price is said to have been §50,000.

Crawfordsville, Sunday, Mrs. Mary Goff, a hideous din on tin pans and other utensils wealthy widow, hanged herself. Peter Donnelly, of Michigan City, engineer on the Michigan Central Road, stepped from his engine to see if the journals were all right and while his arm was thrust through the driving wheel, steam

A gang of cloth swindlers have been do-

Mrs. Angelo Rusconi, said to be one oi the richest women in Kentucky, was frightened to death by a "ghost" that walked nightly in a store at Bellevue, Ky. Mrs. Rusconi went to see the specter, and when it appeared she dropped dead. A thorough investigation proved the ghostly visitor to be the reflection from an electric light some distance away.

were badly stunned, but not seriously injured. The names of the children killed

Robbers are ov^unning Crawfords-j were Mary Bockmier and Agnes Freyer.

New Albany is talking of lighting by KaUway, claims tohave found a vein oi electricity, Vanderburg county is erecting a handsome court house.

Thieves operated extensively at Craw- Acting upon the opinion of the city atfordsville during the fair.

Captain A. A. Johnson, of the Elkhart

silver ore near Anderson, but the exact lo cation he keeps to himself. Specimens of the ore were forwarded to New York, and an analysis showed the presence of silver in paying quantities. Johnson is organizing a syndicate to purchase the land and opei*ate tne mine.

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Clark county is proposing to have sport constitutional, the City Council, at Terre in fox chasing the coming winter. I

The woods and fields of Floyd county two hundred and fifty aollar ordinance. The are said to be swarming with quails.

A gas well with a capacity of 9,000,000

the saloon license law is

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frjet daily was struck in Jay county, Satur- dollar law by implication only, whereas the Constitution requires that the law to day,

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repealing act, Two confidence and three-card-monte men came near making a rich haul at Laporte, Monday, the victim being an octogenarian named Jacob Stoner, worth a quarter of a million dollars. He went so far as to go to his banker for 66,000, but the cashier was suspicious, and after questioning the old man learned the whole plot. Stoner thereupon saw what a sucker he had been and informed the sheriff. The

The corner-stone of a new Methodist, sharpers fled, with the officers in hot purchurch, the structure to cost $35,000, was

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laid at Connersville on Sunday. Isaac C. Howell, a farmer residing six The Democrats at Indianapolis have

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nominated Judge Thomas L. Sullivan for lightning rod sharpers. The parties who Mayor and C. B. Swift for Clerk. worked this ancient racket claimed to be A freight train on the Evansville &

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southeast of Liberty, iS the victim °f

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Dayton, O., and gave the names of

that they wished to rod his house "merely as an advertisement in the neighborhood," and, on that account, would do it at a trifling expense. He gave them his order with $20 in advance. The "order" now turns up in the shape of a note for $2S0.

Lycurgus Dalton, postmaster of the House of Representatives, will remove with his family back to his old home, at Bedford, Ind., as soon as a Republican or ganization relieves him of his official duties. Mr. Dalton has been postmaster oi the House during the past three Congresses. Prior to that time, for some years, he

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of the Senate. He has conducted his official positions and social stations in such away as to win friends among Republi cans and Democrats alike.

Monday morning Henry Heckelman. a brakeman on the Lake Shore road, fell between the cars of the train, near Burdick, and was run over and instantly killed. He leaves a wife and children at Elkhart, their home. At the time he was killed he had a railroad torpedo in his pocket which was exploded by the weight of the car wheels as they passed over his body. Hearing the explosion and afterwards finding the body, the train men thought Heckelman had been shot and murdered by tramps, and knew no better until they found the shell of the torpedo.

Bids for the last loan of §700,000 authorized by the Legislature, were opened Saturday afternoon by the State officers. The entire amount was awarded to Lake Bros. & Co., of New York, who offered a prem-. ium of $2.75 on the 61,000. Including the loan made for refunding the school funds, the State has now borrowed the sum of §5,675,000. The State now pays an enormous amount annually in interest. The rate on different loans is 5, 3and 3 per cent, respectively. The income of the State now falls over §500.000 short annually of paying running expenses. The officers hope to keep things going until the next Legislature meets, but say it will require vei-y close figuring.

Henry Wallace and Laura Davis, of Richmond, were married at thercsidenc of the bride's mother, a Justice of the Peace officiating. After the wedding a crowd of hoodlums gathered and began a most

They also assailed the house with stones. The wedded pair then attempted to seek shelter in a hotel, the annoyance having become unendurable, but upon appearing on the street they were assailed with stones, and both were badly injured.

was applied by the fireman. Instantly the Eventually the police interferred. It is a wheel slipped, catching his arm and crush coincidence that in the gouly city of Riching it in several places. mond, while this outrage was occuning,

Hiram E. Atkinson, near Rockville, has there was a public meeting in progress to been pronounced insane, and will be taken protest against outrages in the South, to the asylum. Two year? ago his mind Indianapolis News. was affected by religious excitement. He apparently recovered, but has lately become violent, and attempted to kill his brother anu do himself bodily harm. He is only twenty-two years old.

Patents were granted Indiana Inventors Tuesday as follows: James A. Becher, Mishawaka, bolt threading machine: Chas. E. Blosfeld and C. Schnur, Mount Vernon, assignors by mesne assignments to said Schnur, foot-warmer Gharles A. Blume

ing the merchants of Angola with surpris- and F. N. Armstrong, said Armstrong asing success. Their mode of operation is to signor to D. Lanum, Colfax, running-gear take orders for certain dry goods at very low prices, providing the merchants buy a specified amount of their patent cloaking material. The latter article proves to be a very excellent imitation, wherein lies the fraud.

for vehicles Alvin B. Clark, assignor of one-half to O. T. Ivnode, Richmond, har monica holder Andrew J. Forsythe and G. L. Gwinn, Kokomo, tension device for fence machines William B. Heindel, Majcnica, clayj fencc post William F.

While some laborers were engaged in Judy, Indianapolis, type writing machine chopping timber in a big woods, thi'ee Samuel J. Seigfred, Chicago, assignor of miles south of Decatur, they accidentally two-thirds to F. W. Munson. Logansyort, discovered what is supposed to have been and L. L. Munson, Chicago, type writing

a counterfeiters' rendezvous. Beneath the earth surface were found a brick furnace, several half dollars dated 1845 and some of the metal from which the spurious coins were made.

machine William Tennison, Mt. Vernon, mosquito net frame and sham pillow holder. The mystery of the Robert Macltie disappearance of Ft. Wayne, has been entirely cleared up, and the disgraceful revelations will be a sad blow to the bride-to-have-been, at Cooperstown, and to the relatives of Mackie, who are prominent people in Maryland. Mrs. Frank Falker, of Ft. Wayne, the young wife of a well-known business man, and former city marshal, with whom Mackie had been carrying OD a secret liason, followed her paramour on his trip East, arranged a meeting last

Tuesday morning while Everett Bailey,of Monday, by telegraph, at Albany, and Monrovia, was unloading some empty bar- thence the guilty pair fled to Montreal. It rels at the I. & V. depot, he unthoughtedly is said they are now on their way to Euknocked the hot ashes out of his pipe into rope. The affair has caused a great uensathe bung-hole of a gasoline barrel, which tion. The mother of the woman, who is caused an explosion that was heard for two prostrated with grief and likely to die, and miles around, blowing the barrel to atoms and the young man about fifteen feet, fortunately doing him very little injury.

While Sunday school services were be-

'ing held in a small frame church five miles Mrs. Falker followed him, his infatuation south of Columbia City, Sunday, lightning struck the spire and coursed down through the roof, striking and instantly killing two girls, both aged seventeen, who were sitting together in the center of their class. The other ten children in the class

the wronged husband, have the sympathj of the community. It appears that Mackie went to Cooperstown with the honest intention to marry Miss Steere, but whet

for the woman proved stronger than th duty he owed his financee, and the elope ment was the result. Mr. Mackie. should he return, will not be allowed to resum his position as superintendent with th Electric-light Company.

THE NEWS 0FTHE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

A heavy snow storm visited W yoming Saturday. Hon. Carl Schurz arrived in New York, Friday, from Hamburg.

Race troubles are new reported in Newton county, Mississippi. A monument to Gen. Grant was unveiled at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Saturday.

McGregor Boy, an $8,000 trotter, collided with another horse, Saturday, at Moynoka, Iowa, and was killed.

Isaao Friend, a prominent Milwaukee merchant, fell down an elevator shaft, Saturday, and was killed.

Much dissatisfaction exists among the miners in the Tuscarawas Valley, Ohio, and a strike is threatened.

A valuable find of silver ore is said to have been found in the Allegheny Mount, ains near Connellsville, Pa.

The Civil Service Commission is exam ining alleged irregular appointments of the Minneapolis postmaster.

Two weeks have passed since the Cronin case at Chicago was called, and as yet not a single juror has been secured.

Eighty thousand people, Thursday, witnessed the sham battle of North Point (1814) at Pimlico, a suburb, of Baltimore.

A cconsolidated paking-house at Des Moines will have a capacity of 2,000 hogs a day. It will sell directly in Liverpool.

Luther Wallace shot his sweetheart at California, Mo., and then shot himself. The girl is dead, and he can not recover.

H. S. Belknap, general manager of the Georgia Central railroad, has resigned to become manager of a bank in the City of Mexico.

On the steamer Adam, which arrived at New York Monday, were 100 Arabs from Seria. They are locked up pending action as to their admission.

Arrangements have just been made with the Indians whereby 4,000,000 acres of land in Northern and Central Dakota will soon be opened up for settlement.

August E. Anderson and H. D. Austin, two of the most prominent citizens of Kasson, Minn., are -under arrest on the charge of sending obscene letters through the mails.

Hon. Chas. F. Griffin, Secretary of State (Indiana) was Thursday elected Commander in Chief of the Sons of Veterans at the National Encampment at Paterson, New Jersey.

The Indians at Hackberry, A. T., are holding pow-wows and war-dances dailyTrouble is feared, and the citizens are fortifying their houses and sending their families away.

Miss Clara Boll, of Canton,O., Thursday, had two buttons removed from her nostrils which had found lodgment there since in fancy. She labored under the delusion that she had catarrh.

Bob Younger, the youngest of the noted Dutlaw Younger brothers, died, Monday night, in the State Prison at Stillwater, Minn. He had been sick for several months of consumption.

B. P. Hutchinson, better known as "Old Hutch," who made a million or two out grain corner on the Chicago 3oard o^ Trade last winter, was held up by foot pads in that city, Monday night. They did not get anything.

Two car loads of Mormon emigrants were thrown into a creek by a bridge breaking down on the Norfolk & Western railroad, near Lynchburg, Va. The emigrants numbered 160 no one was killed and only twenty slightly injured.

Governor 13uckner,of Kentucky, Monday, issued a proclamation to the people of Hariau county,informing them why it was nec?ssary to send State troops in their midst. Trie troops will leave shortly to protect the courts in trying criminals arrested for lawlessness.

Bamburger, Bloom & Main's six-story building, the largest wholesale dry goods house at Louisville. Ky., burned to the ground, Sunday night. Loss, $700,000 fully insured. By the falling of one of the walls five men were instantly killed and two seriously injured.

Great excitement was caused at St. Paul by the appearance on the streets of An3rew Olson, a Norwegian, from Anoka, suffering from leprosy. A couple of thickleaded physicians who examined the patient allowed him to escape. Officers are now scouring the city for him.

A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., says: The stage between Forest Hill and Auburn was stopped, Monday morning, by one masked man, who demanded the WellsFargo Company's treasure box. The box was given him and he escaped with it. It is not known how much money he secured.

It is rumored that Walter J. Damrosch, musical director, a son of the late Dr. Leopold Damrosch, is engaged to Margaret Blaine, the second daughter of Secretary Blaine. Mr. Damrosch has been on intimate terms with the Blaine family and has visited them this season at their Bar Harbor cottage.

At Philadelphia, on the lGth, Isaac A. Sweigard, General Superintendent of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, was sentenced by Judge Finletter to pay a fine of .$1,000 and to undergo an imprisonment oi six months for maintaining a nuisance in erecting a fence along the line of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad, of which he was convicted last May.

The Food Relief Committe met at Har risburg and decided to give Johnstown $1,000,COO at this time. Up to this time the commission has received $2,605,114, and has on hand to-day $1,600,456, subject to contracts not yet completed, amounting to $43.(500, and appropriations to other parts of the State, $84,190. In the Conemaugh Valley §769,332 has been expended, and in other parts of the State, $169,275. The Lord Mayor of Dublin forwarded $1,000 Saturday.

FOREIGN.

Mrs. Langtry, the "Jersey Lily," has at last secured a divorce from her husband. It is believed that she will soon become the wife of Freddie Gebhardt.

The London dock laborers' strike is over and work was resumed on the 16th. The laborers' terms were conceded except that they do not go into effect until Nov. 4.

The latest advices from Samoa are that Malietoa was quietly restored to power, and that he and Mataafa have gone to the

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island of Manono, where they •will remain until the decisions of the Berlin conference have been confirmed. The German consul at Apia notified Tamasese that Germany was precluded from giving support to any party on the island.

During the past few days twelve persons have died from trichinosis in the town of Eislcben, Prussian Saxony. Eighteen others are reported to be dying from the same disease.

A letter signed "Jack the Ripper" has been received at a London news agency, in which the writer states that in about a week another murder will be added to the list of Whitechapel horrors.

An Auckland dispatch of the 16th says: The Tonga steamer Wainui has brought to this port the Captain and crew of the British ship Garston, Captain Davies, from Sidney, N. S. W., for San Francisco,which foundered in mid-ocean. The shipwrecked sailors were twenty-two days in open boats without food or water. On the 22d day the men, driven to desperation by hunger and thirst, decided that one of their number must be sacrificed to save the lives of the others. They were casting lots to see who should be the victim, when they sighted Wallis island. The natives of the island assisted the exhausted men to land, and treated them in the kindest manner. A mission boat took them to Tonga.

KILLED IN A PRIZE FIGHT.

A Shocking Story From St-. Louis—A Boy Killed.

A brutal prize-fight occurred at St. Louis Monday night in the saloon of the Daly Brothers, local bruisers of considerable note, which has resulted in the death of one of the participants. Thomas E. Jack son, aged eighteen years, is the victim. He fought Ed. Ahearn, local light-weight champion, eleven bloody rounds, and at the opening of the twelfth fell fainting in his second's arms.

Blood was brought in the first round, more of it in the second, and by the time half a dozen rounds had been fought the men and their seconds were covered with blood, as was the sawdust on the floor of the ring, while the water with which the fighters were sponged was as red as blood itself. When Jackson fell unconscious in his second's arms he was carried to a room above the Dalys' saloon and three physicians called in. They worked vigorously but without avail, and at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning Jackson died.

The affair has created intense excitement, as prominent people will likely become involved. The referee was the sporting editor of a leading morning paper. The spectators were principally pool-alley sports, who made up a purse of §30, for which the men, or rather boys, contested. Twoounce hard gloves were used. Bob Farrell and Charley Daley seconded Ahearn and Steve Burns and Mike Mooncy looked after Jackson. The fight started at midnight and the eleven bloody rounds can be described as wholly without science, and give and take, with blood everywhere about the ring, until Jackson succumbed.

Chief Huebler has ordered the arrest of all parties Concerned in the affair.

WOOL MANUFACTURERS.

UongresH to Be Asked to Afford Relief by Remedying Delects in the Tariff on Raw Materials.

Pursuant to a circular of Aug. 16, the executive committee of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers met at Boston, Tuesday, to take some action toward seeking relief from the present trade and tariff restrictions through Congressional action. Among those present who were invited to confer with the committee was George Merritt, of Indianapolis. The meeting was originally intended to be secret, but, having become public, freedom of speech was greatly hampered by the denunciations of the wool growers of the West—protectionists who suspected that the association might favor a reduction of the tariff on raw wool. In fact the remarks showed to the meeting that the high tariff on wool kept figures on the domestic clip up to the highest notch, which, to purchase it, rendered any chance of profit hopeless in competing with foreign cloth,which had a much lower corresponding tariff. It was either an issue of lower tariff on wool or higher on cloth, and the meeting decided on the latter, appointing a sub-committee to prepare suitable resolutions to Congress, praying for the relief needed and to solicit the aid of wool growers' associations in persuading Congress to the effect desired. Mr. Merritt favored this policy.'

FEARFUL RAILWAY WRECK.

Passenger Train Smashed Into Picces and the liuins Destroyed by Fire.

At Tioga Junction,Pa ,on the 10th, about 7:05 p. m. the train from Elmira, south, carrying seven coaches, ran into a Fallbrook engine at this station, causing a fearful wreck, killing and injuring in all about twenty-five persons. The train was coming down a heavy grade, and, owing to the slippery track and the refusal of the airbrakes to work, the engineer was unable to stop at the station, and it rushed by, crushing into one of the Fallbrook heavy jumbo engines, completely demolishing both. The engineer and fireman jumped for their lives and escaped with slight injuries. The smoker and three passenger cars were smashed into kindling-wood.

The wreck caught fire, and it was with difficulty that some of the passengers were rescued from the burning wreck.

NAGLE IS RELEASED.

Judge Sawyer, in the U. S. Circuit Court at San Francisco Monday, morning, rendered a decision in the habeas corpus case of Deputy Marshal David Nagle, ar.d discharged Negle from custody. A bill of ex coptions, filed by the counsel for the State, was allowed by the court, and pending an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, Nagle was ordered released on his own recognizance with bonds fixed at $5,000.

"Tho difference between the elevator and the toiling sufferer who pulls the rope is that one lifts the worker and the other works the lifter.

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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The new cruiser Baltimore is said to be the fastest man-of-war afloat. Lewis A. Goff, of Omaha, has been appointed Commissioner for the General Land Office, vice S. M. Stockslacgev, resigned.

Major Warner, of Kansas City, has declined to accept the Commissionership of Pensions. Pressure of private affairs in the alleged caue.

Minister Ryan transmits for the information of the State Department statistics of the value of American machinery imported annually from the United States to Mexico from 18S0 to 1887, inclusive, which shows that the exportation grew in value from §462,384, in 1880, to §4,000,000 in 18S7.

The estimated requirements of the sinking fund for the present year are §48,000, 000. The total amount already applied to this purpose since the beginning of the fis" cal year, by the purchase of bonds, is §32,940,573. The principal of these bonds was §27,237,600, and the premium paid §5,702,973. The es penditures on account of the bonds included §24,257,541 for §19,053,350 four-per-cents. and §8,6S3,032 for §3,184,250 four-and-a-halfs. There is yot about §15,000,000 required for sinking-fund purposes.

Secretary Windom Tuesday appointed Robert H. Terrell, of Massachusetts, chief of the navy pay division of the Fourth Auditor's office, vice Mr. Martin, of Alabama, resigned. The new appointee is a colored man. He is a graduate of Howard University and is at present engaged as a teacher in the colored normal school at Washington. Ten-ell is the son of Harrison Terrell, the faithful servant of General Grant, who was with him during his last illness, and who is now a messenger in the War Department.

Army and navy men expect Congress, this •winter, to take very forward steps toward rebuilding their respective arms of the government service up to a point which will make them compare favorably with the armies and navies of Europe Democratic members of Congress now here, says a Washington special, say that there will be no objection from their side of Congress toward a decided enlargement of our fleet of men-of-war that they will be willing to vote as large appropriations as the Republicans for the purpose of se curing new ships, and that whatever the progress of the country demands in the way of the reorganization and enlargement of the army, and whatever will be required for the mobilization of the army in some of the large cities, as proposed by General Schofield, the Democrats will accede to as readily as the friends of President Harrison's administration.

Statements prepared at the Treasury De partment show that the total amount of bonds purchased to date, since August 3, 1887, is §199,253,800, of which §80.497,250 were four per cents, and §118,177,556 were four and a half per cents. The cost of these bonds was §231,538,366, of which §103,075,394 was paid for the four per cents, and $128,'462,972 was paid for the four and a half per cents. The cost of these bonds if allowed to run to maturity, would have been §275,825,082, or §140,975,135 for the four per cents, and §135,849,657 for the four and a halfs. The saving by the purchase is $44,3S6,926 or §73,899,741 on the four per cent.and§6,386,985 on the four and a halfs. The total amount of bonds purchased under the circular of April 17, 1888 (included in the above statement), is §174,90S,000, of which $75,370,050 were four per cents, and §99,517,950 were four and a halfs. Their cost was §204,334.642, or $96,726,710 for the four per cents, and §107,570,932 for the four and a halfs.

There was a time when very few businesses at the national capital were as lucrative as that of representing the claims of soldiers before the Pension Department. During the past six or eight years there has been a steady decline of this business, until at jjresent it is said that there is not more than one-qnarter as much made out of pension claims as there was six years ago. This fact is largely due, men at the Pension Office say, to the work of men in Congress. Applicants for pensions have come to understand that their Senator or member of Congress can and will push pension claims with much more vigor and

success

than a pension agent, and it will*

cost them nothing to have it done. Much of the money made by agents in securing pensions during the past three or four years has been the result of the labor of Senators and Representatives. Pension agents secure the clientage of applicants, and take the preliminary steps, but the work of pushing the claims, filing additional testimony, and all that sort of thing is, in more than two-thirds of the instances, done by men in Congress. When the pensions are

allOAved

the agents rep

resent that the success was due to their efforts, and proceed to collect their fees. Nine-tenths of the claims before the Pension Bureau are represented by attorneys, and four-fifths of the pensions allowed come through the efforts of men in Congress, or friends who have no financial interest involved.

POLITICAL.

The National Greenback Party met at Cincinnati Thursday, in masse convention. Geo. A. Jones of New York,made a lengthy address from which wore gathered the fact that the Greenback party believes in the payment of the public debts according to the original contracts under which they were contracted, carrying on needed public improvements, encouraging an American merchant marine, aiding the manufac ture of American cotton and the material at home and their export abroad lim iti

the debts of railroads, telegraphs and other public corporations the owning of all by the American government, by Ameri can citizens, or by those who declare tfceii intention to become such private land ownership to be limited to occupation and use, and corporate ownership to be a sufficient amount only for the convenient, operation of its property restoring a true spirit of fraternity and nationality among the whole American people through a currency that would make all alike loyal to the government by being all alike inter ested in its money, and in keeping its vol ume at such an amount as would always secure good wages for labor, good prices for its products, and uniform business prosperity. O. Thomas of Kentucky was

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made temporary chairman, and T. J. Sharp of Indiana, Secretary. The attendance was small.

The platform reaffirms the third and fourth resolutions of the Democratic National Convention of 1868, pertaining to the method and time of payment of the National debt, and to equal taxation of property. It also declares that all laws changing the time or manner of the payment of the public debt since 1865 are expost facto laws, and should be repealed that all legal-tender notes now outstanding should be immediately exchanged for others of like denomination, to be issued with the words "Promise to pay" stricken from their face, one an additional amount issued to reclaim arid lands, subsidize an American merchant marine, to build an American navy, to erect public buildings, etc., until their volume in circulation shall amount to at least §50 per capita of the entire population that indications point to a greater financial panic in the near future than this country, or the world, ever before saw, unless wise and immediate provision be made for a vast amount of money to sustain the people's tottering confidence that the time has come when all sectional prejudice between the people of the north and south should end. The committee organized as follows: Col. Geo. O. Jones, Chairman Lee Cran hall, vice-Chairman T. J. Sharp and Wm. Richards, Secretaries. The Chairman and vice-Chairman are authorized to formulate a plan of operations.

The Herald says that Carl Schurz is the audidate of the County Democracy for the late Congressman Cox's seat. Many Candidates arc in the field, however.

Senator Sherman was welcomed home from his European trip by his Ohio Republican friends at Washington, Friday night.

New Jersey Republicans, Tuesday, nominated Gen. C. B. Grubb for Governor.

SUPPOSED TO BE IN DANGER.

The President's Friends Fearful of Hit Safety—Detectives Guarding Him.

A special from Washington on the 17th says: For several days the intimate friends of Mr. Harrison have been much agitated on account of bad feelings manifested in certain quarters over the Tanner case. Several very ugly anonymous letters were found in the President's mail, and threatening remarks by "desperate and injudicious friends of ex-L'omissioner Tanner have reached their ears. This matter assumed so serious an aspect that it was thought best to take action to prevent such a calamity as had been hinted at. Accordingly, after conference among the close friends of the President, it was decided to summon Russell Harrison and make him acquainted with the grave apprehensions. On the arrival of the President's son, a consultation was held, the situation thoroughly discussed, and young Harrison made known to his lather the appr^hen sions of his friends.

At first tho President refused to entertain the proposition to engage the services of tho detectives, holding that it would be doing the soldier element of the ooun!r a I irreparable in justice to cast such a reproach on them. But after the gravity of the situation was pointed out to him. and th 3 possibility of some half demented individual,excited over the Tanner case,creating a scene, he agreed that his friends might take such action, but cautioned them to avoid publicity in their movements. This decision was reached Friday morning and those in this secret were confirmed as to their judgment by an incident which happened at the White House at noon.

A half drunken man, wearing a faded blue blouse with brass buttons, made his way to the entrance of the Executive Mansion and began to abuse the President in loud tones, saying, among other things, that the Grand Army would got even with Harrison for his treatment of Tanner. He was hustied out of the grounds, and the visitors about the building who were of an inquiring turn of mind, were given to understand that it was "only a drunken man." The detectives were placed on duty Saturday morning, and while they were not engaged directly by the President or by any member of his official family, ho was aware of the steps that had been taken to protect him. Every effort is being made to keep the circumstances from the public.

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 19, lbS9.

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Indianapolis.. 2 r'd 75 lw 35 2 iv 23 Indianapolis.. 3 r'd 71 2J'L 31 19£ Chicago •2 r'd 77 19£

Cincinnati 2 r'd 7612 35^ 46 St. Louis 3 r'd 76} 30 18 33 New York 2 r'd 83* 43 26 Baltimore 40K 26 r.o Philadelphia. 2 r'd 7!}4 42

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Detroit 1 \vh 81 3-1M 22

Minneapolis 77

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LIVE STOCK.

CATTLE—Export trades ..$4.15(oD4.'0 Good to choice shippers 3.50(^4.00 Common to medium shippers 2.50yi3.25 Stockers, 500 to 850 tt 1.75(0)2.50 Good to choice heifers [email protected] Common to medium heifers [email protected] Goods to choice cows 2.20(3)2.50 Fair to medium cows l.60(®2.00 Hoos—Heavy 3.90(^4.15 Light 4.30(&4.4fi Mixed 4.15(2)4.3o Heavy roughs 3.25(^3.75 SHEEP—Good to choice [email protected] Fair to medium 3.65(^4.10 Common 3.25(®3.75 Lambs, good to choice [email protected] Common to medium 3.50(^5.50 Bucks, per head 3.00^53.50

MISCELLANEOUS.

Indianapolis Chicago 11 30 6 50 5 12

Pork... Lard... Kibs...

Cincinnati iTST" 5 5

11 40 5 87 4 90

BGOS BUTTEIL, POCILTKY.

Eggs 14cButter, creameryl8c Fancy dairy 12c Choice country.. .10c

Hens per lb... Roosters Turkeys Feathers

... 3c 9o ....35c