Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 October 1889 — Page 3

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A horse kicked John R. Porter to death at Shoals Friday. Charles Fish was killed in a hay press at Lebanon, Friday.

Policy-playing continues a dangerous mania at Evansville. Oil well Mo. 4, at Royal Center, Cass county, is a gusher.

Several cases of yellow fever are reported at Key West, Fla. Ft. Wayne commission merchants are trying to corner apples.

Lew Wallace has become a favorite name of Hoosier literary clubs. Good progress is being made on the new Odd Fellows' building at Laporte.

Cholera has become prevalent among the hogs in Steuben county, and they are dying by the hundreds.

One of the Midland engines has been levied on by creditors at Lebanon and it is now chained and locked to the track.

Professor W. T. Giffe, the well-known musical composei', and Miss Nannie Booth were married at Logansport Thursday night.

Fifteen thousand bushels of apples have already been shipped from Steuben county. The apple and potato crop there is enormous.

MonroeSieberling, general manager of the Diamond Plate Glass Company, of Kokomo, is building a £15,000 residence in that city.

The Washington county teachers have determined to erect a monument to the late Prof. James G. May, the famous old schoolmaster, of Salem.

John Schultz. in Morgan township, Porter county, recently dx-ained a large pond. Hundreds of fish were caught and sold on the ground at 8 cents a pound.

Thursday, four boys of Ladoga were riding a horse, when all of them fell oft. Three of them fell on Everett Gibbon, injuring him so that he died in a short time.

There is a school district in Union township, Montgomery county, in which there are only two girls ofjschool'age, and neither one of them attend school, which is composed of about thirty boys.

Acow belonging to Mrs. Brown, of Scott township, Harrison county, gave birth to a calf Thursday which had four eyes, four nostrils and four ears, and a mouth like a fish. The monstrosity is yet alive.

Thursday afternoon, as the train was going to Harris City from Greensburg, Robert Lavender, yard-master at the latter place, was caught by a telegraph wire and thrown from the top of a box car down on a flat car and very seriously injured.

The drug store of Dr. J. F. Finch, at Ewing was burned by an incendiary fire early Friday morning together with all its contents, including the doctor's valuable collection of instruments, his library and all of his private papers. The loss will exceed $4,000.

Mrs. John Stonecifer has returned to the ilnmeofher parents in Fort Wayne. A year ago she and her husband moved to Lima, O. A few evenings ago he found a Fort Wayne merchant at his house and lhandled him roughly. A separation followed and Stonecifer left for parts unknown.

Wm. Randolph, who lives three miles southeast of Montpelier, lost his barn by fire Tuesday. The family were visiting at the time, and when they came home they found a pile of straw under the house which was on fire, but they succeeded in putting it out and saving the house. There is no insurance.

A curiosity in the shape of a milk pumpkin can be seen on the farm of O. N. Tran larger, a few miles southwest of Anderson. The vine upon which the pumpkin grew was partly covered with loose dirt when in bloom. At therpoints where the dirt covered the vine small roots grew out. .'The vine was lifted up and the roots care fully placed in a pan of milk, which was trapidly absorbed. The pumpkins on the ivine grew to enormous size, and on weighs 125 pounds.

Prof. Walter Isanogle, of the Anderson icity schools, was secretly married on the !Fourth of July to the daughter of farmer iSamuel Brennenberg. The parents, for :some unknown reason, objected to the Professor paying attention to their daughter, and finally forbid him their house 'How they will receive their son- in-law has mot been stated.

Wednesday evening, Charles Jacobs, an employe of Lewis Postal, a farmer south of Muncie, was sent to the city _\nth 97J. bushels of oats, to leave at a feed stoie and collect the money for tliem, which was §19.50. After the money was paid, the young man put the team of horses up in •Franklin's livery barn and left for parts unknown wita the money.

In the 2:32 trot at Tei're Hante for $1,000 Middleway won. Time—2:25, 2:24, 2:25j^. Maud took the 2:22 trot in three heats. Time 2:19 2:1954", 2:19}^. Axtell, driven by C. W. Williams, and accompanied by George Starr behind Father John, as a helper, gave an exhibition mile in 2:14 1-4. This is the fastest mile in harness ever made in Indiana. Axtell will start Friday to beat the three-year-old record—2:13 3-4.

The most wonderful freak yet developed in the gas field is located four miles east of Kokomo. Gas and water were reached simultaneously, Friday, and the water is spouting constantly in a six-inch stream 150 feet high. The water is flooding the country and ditches are being plowed to carry the water away. The well sec-ms uncontrollable and the farmers in the vicinity ate alarmed at the px-ospects of seeing their fields deluged with salt water.

A young farmer named William Null, of Wabash county, was aiTCstcd Friday, charged by his neighbor, Levi Hummel, with highway robbery. Hummel was accosted by Null late at night, when Null presented a revolver, in border fashion, and demanded Hummel's cash. The latter promptly complied, turning over alltho valuables in his possession. Null admits Ihe crime, but says in explanation that Hummel shot at his dog. Null was placed under bond in the sum of SI,000.

Mrs. Eliza J. Watkins, widow of the late 'sj. H. Watkins, a prominent miller of Crawfordsville, committed suicide Wednesday morning by throwiifgherself in front of an

Ohio, Indiana & Western train. The body kras not mangled. Insanity was the cause, lthough the general public has not been are of the fact, Mrs. Watkins has been

insane for the last ten years, and has

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and leaves six children, moBt of them grown. While at dinner Thursday at their home in Logansport,ex-Attorney-General Daniel P. Baldwin and wife were discussing the Studebaker fire at South Bend. Mrs. Baldwin was much concerned about the fire, and fearful lest such a disaster might befall her own home. She told Mr. Bald win that she would go up stairs and ascertain if all \vas secure in the upper chambers. Upon reaching the second floor she was appalled to find the house filled with smoke. The fire had originated from the gas pipes, but was extinguished after considerable effort.

The convention for the consolidation of the Indiana Woman Suffrage Association, organized by the late Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Richmond, and others in 1861, and the National Bx'anch, organized in 1S87, opened Thursday at Rushville with a representative delegation fi-om different sections of the State. Susan B. Anthony, May Wright Scwall, Helen M. Gougar, Mary E. Cardwill, L. May Wheeler, Julietta K. Wood were present. Mrs. Sewall, B. Anthonv and Mrs. Gougar were the principal speakers for the afternoon and evening.

The Chicago, Muncie, Richmoqjd & Cincinnati Raili-oad has been organized in Evansville. It is the intention of the new company to build a line fi'om a point on the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan between Jonesboro and Fairmont, in Grant county to Cincinnati, making by more than thirty miles the shortest route between Cincinnati and Chicago, and by the extension of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis road, to Harrison or Cincinnati, the shortest line between St. Louis and Cincinnati. The capital stock is $1,000,000. The directors are D. J. Mackey, Wm. Heilman, James L. Mackey. E. B. Morgan, W. J. Lewis, J. G. Grammer and Edwin Taylor.

ROASTED BY NATURAL GAS.

Mother and Three Sons Meet Death in a Horrible Form—Father Badly Burned.

At Dave's Switch, Pa., Friday night,the dwelling of Patrick Daily was burned and his wife and three sons, aged thirteen, eleven and nine, respectively,were roasted in the flames. While the Daily family were at supper, the father stepped to the cook stove to turn off part of the gas. He unintentionally shut the throttle tight and on turning it on again the house was filled with gas. An explosion followed, and in an instant the entire house was in flames. The three boys and the mother fell prostrate on the floor, overcome by the heat and flames. Mr. Daily rushed out of the house to call assistance, but all his efforts to save the unfortunate inmates were futile. The house was consumed in a few moments. The charred and blackened bodies of the four victims presented a sickening sight. Mrs. Daily's limbs wero burned from her body, and her flesh was cooked to the bone. The three sons were not as horribly burned as the mother, but their blackened bodies could not be identified until placed side by side. The gas pressure was very strong,the pipe running direct from a neighboring well to the stove. Mr. Daily is severely but not fatally burned about the head and face, and is almost crazed with grief.

A Kansas Mayor.

A pretty good story is told on Bill Ilackney while he was mayor of Winlleld, says the New York Ledger. For some reason Bill's action as mayor terribly angered the pastor of the Methodist church, and that divine announced from his pulpit on prayermeeting evening that on the following Sunday evening he wouM proach from the text "The Mayor of Winlield."' One of the brethren informed Bill of the intended onslaught, and when Sunday night rolled around that gentlemen walked up the center aisle with bible in hand, wearing a stove-pipe hat and a claw-hammer coat. He thought he would do a little preaching himself and was prepared for business, having chosen for his text, "O Ye Hypocrites." The pastor came in and found Bill occupying a seat in the front pew, but he changed his text and inflicted his congregation with i. sermon about the prodigal son, never mentioning "The Mayor of Winfield."

A little later this divine shook up his audience for desecrating the holy Sabtath by going to the postoSice. Bill hadn't been to church for several weeks, but he quietly walked up-town, got an armful of mail from the postoffice, carried it down to the church, laid it beside him in the pew, and worshiped with the brethren. He repeated this the next Sunday, and it is said that nothing more has been heard from that pulpit on receiving mail on Sunday.

A friend of Bill tells another one on him which is characteristic of the man-'. This same divine went after several fellows for fishing on Sunday, denouncing them as infamously low and degraded. Hackney heard of it, and on the following Sunday morning he was seen walking up the main street at church hour carrying a pole and a line and an old tin can supposed to contain bait. He did this to give the evangelist who was running a protracted meeting an opportunity to continue his tirade on fishing. Bill went out to the edge of town and threw away his fishing outfit and came back home, but he accomplished his object.

By the use of coal-mining machines 1G0 miners in a month can mine as much coal in the same time as 500 miners by the old methods.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

St. Cloud, Miun., is threatened by prairie fires. The Pan-American delegates $re making the cii'cle of the country.

St. Paul will build another ice palace this fall at a cost of $50,000. All the business houses in Junction, O., were destroyed by an incendiary fii'e.

The United Typothetas in session at St. Louis approved the international copyright law.

Property valued at $400,000 was destroyed by fire at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday.

Three men were killed by the falling of a derrick of a wrecking crew at Lansing, Mich., Sunday.

Chicago workingmen have subscribed about $300,000 towards securing the World's fair to that city.

The Milwaukee Road has been indicted by a United States Grand Jury for violations of the interstate commerce law.

A mail pouch weighing 250 pounds was stolen irom a trunk in the Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati Thursday night.

The feasibility of constructing a ship canal to connect the water of Lake Erie and the Ohio River is under consideration.

Some vandal made an attempt tc poison Father James Kelly, a Catholic priest, of Oneida, N. Y. Arsenic was putin his wine.

A wheel has been made for the Calamut & Hecla mines which will lift 3,000,000 gallons of water and 2,000 tons of sand in a day.

George W. Moss, a machinist, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., shot and killed his wife Thursday night. He then shot himself, but not fatally.

It was rumored Saturday that important depositions in the Cronin case are missing. The announcement of the fact created a sensation.

J. A. Berman, Treasurer of Osbourne county, Kansas, is short $8,000 or §9,000 in his accounts and claims to have been x'obbed of it by his employes.

Judge Barrett, of New York, granted Mrs. George Francis Train, Jr., an absolute divorce from her husband, the son of cf George Francis Train.

The sentence of death passed on "Handsome Harry" Carlton, who shot a New York policeman, has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals. He will hang.

The American schooner Annie G., from San Francisco, has been confiscated by the Mexican authorities at Altata, for trying to evade paying dut5r on a portion of her cargo.

Sei"vices in memory of the late Samuel Sullivan Cox were held at New York Thursday night. Addresses were made by ex-President Cleveland, Proctor Knott, and others.

Twenty years ago A.M. Litch,a drug clerk, ran away from his home at Woodbury, N. J., and has just now been found in Kansas City. A large fortune awaits him from his father's estate.

Chax'les Sanders, a negro, who murdered a white man named Harr, in Clear Spring. Md., near Hagerstown, in a political quarrel two years ago, was captured at Pittsburg Thux-sday.

By the breaking in two of a freight train

near Danville, \a., and the subsequent

Owen badly injured.

collision of the broken sections, brakeman gUes iength in vindication of himself. Manchester was killed and brakeman

A young girl named Lizzie Williams,

Geo. C. Harewell, who six months ago robbed his father at Hartford, Conn., of $90,000 worth of unregistered U.S. bonds, was captured Saturday at Portland, Ore gon. Nearly the whole amount of the amount stolen was recovered.

The earnings of Michigan railroads for July, 1S89, were §7,303,206.34, an increase over the same month in 1SSS of §634,715.20: total earnings from January 1 to August 1, 18S9, §44,998,055.23, an increase over the same period in 1SS8 of §1,558,604.13.

Miss Henrietta Snell, widow of the Chicago millionaire whom Tascott is supposed to have murdered, declared emphatically Thursday that she never authorized architect Thomas Hawkes to erect a §25,000 memorial to her husband in Union Park.

Customs Inspector Blanchley saw a Mex ican smuggler crossing the bridge at El Paso, Texas, the other night, and ordered him to stop. The Mexican turned and fired at the officer,but missed him. Blanchley returned the fire and fatally wounded the smuggler. The Mexican authorities have ordered an investigation.

A wreck-train and a freight train collided at Rapid Run,near Cincinnati, on the Big Four road,Saturday night, a«d fireman Ed Morris, and Hank Daniels, both of Indianapolis,were killed. Engineer York and fireman Jake Whitstine were badly injured. The accident was due to an error on the part of the train dispatcher.

A dispatch fx-om Waycross, Ga., says: William Gray, a track hand on the Colorado & Western Road, was taken from the train at Jessup by a posse of citizen Thursday and ljnched. While passing that place Wednesday he had some wox-ds with a citizen, and as the train pulled out he threw a stone, which struck a bystander.

The wheat growers of the Mississippi Valley will hold a convention at St. Lonis, beginning on the 23d inst. The chief ab-

The Terre Haute races, last week, were a success in all respects. Axtell lowered the three-year-old stallion trotting record to 2:12, beating all records for stallions. Axtell was then purchased by Colonel Con-

Jley, of Chicago, for $105,000, the highest price ever paid in the world for any horse of any description. Conley represented a syndicate.

Four successful tests were made Friday at the furnaces in Birmingham, Ala., of a chemical process for removing all prosphorus from iron and converting it into Bessemer pig. Every test was pronounced a complete success by chemists and practical steel men engaged to witness them. The process has just been discovered by a Scotch chemist named Archioald, who is in the employ of the Tennessee Coal. Ii*on and Railroad Company. By this process the extra cost of converting the oi*es of this section into Bessemer pig will be only fifty cents a ton.

The Grand Encampment of Knights Templars, in its session at Washington,last week, elected the following officers: Very Eminent Sir J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, Most Eminent Grand Master Very Eminent Sir Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, Deputy Grand Master Very Eminent Sir Warren Larue Thomas,of Kentucky,Grand Generalissimo Very Eminent Sir Reuben Hedley Lloyd, of California, Grand Captain General Very Eminent Sir Henry Bates Stoddard, of Texas,Grand Senior Warden Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Slick,of Rhode Island, Grand Junior Warden Very Eminent Sir H. Wales Lines, of Connecticut, Grand Treasurer Very Eminent Sir William B. Isaacs, of Virginia, Grand Recorder. The next session will be held at Denver. The National Masonic Veterans' Association, to be composed of Masons of 21 years standing, was formed, with the following officers: President, William Meyer, of Philadelphia Vice Presidents, Theophilus Pratt, of New York Lafayette Vancleave, of Cincinnati Theodore Parvin, of Iowa, and E. A. Sherman, of California. Secretary, George H. Fish, of New York. Treasurer, A. T. Longley, of District of Columbia.

FOREIGN.

The Czar visited Emperor William at Berlin, Friday. Their greetings were cordial.

The town of Serpent River, Ontario, consisting of thirty-six houses, was totally destroyed by fire, Sunday, together with 50,000,000 feet of lumber. Loss, $5300,000.

The Regents offex'ed es-Queen Natalia of Servia a large sum of money, px*ovided she would accept their proposed conditions and depart from Servia. The exQueen indignantly refused the offer, saying that she considered the proposal an insult.

Advices from Mexico say the' bill to grant a concession to Henry C. Fei'guson and Wm. H. Ellis, the two colored men from Texas who propose to colonize lands in the States of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Vera Cruz, Michoacan and San Luis Potosi with negroes from Texas and other American States, has passed the Lower House of Congress with but one dissenting vote, and has gone to the Senate.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Land Commissioner Goff decides that husband and wife can not obtain two homesteads by living in separate houses.

Senator Manderson, of Nebraska, has returned to the government the money paid li? him under a re-rating of pensions. He wrote along letter stating that the re-

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unsolicited on his part and ar-

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Addison Rice, the Buffalo juror who was j^iver Thursday. The projectiles were fined $50 and sent to jail for thirty days for trying to secure a bribe from the Ontario Canning Company, was declared insane, and released from jail, Thursday.

daughter of a faimei living neai South pounds each, were fired in seven min "Nfr»V was fntnllv shot, Thursday rrvu_ .. ...— Omaha, Neb., was fatally shot Thursday evening by Samuel Peterson, a neighbor. Peterson says the girl was stealing cabbage from his garden.

The great Italian tragedian, Salvini, made his reappearance in America. Thursday evening, with his famous impersonation of Samson, ac a New York theater. He received an ovation from a crowded and brilliant audience.

the cruiser Vesu-

-\yere officially tested on the Delawax'e

thrown from one hundred to three hundred and fifty yards beyond the required mile. The contract required that fifteen shots be fired in thirty minutes, five shots from each gun. Fifteen iron plugs, weighing

utes and a fraction. The air compressors wex-e not woi'king dui'ing the time,although it would have been allowable, and yet at the end of the firing the reservoir contained enough air to fii'e eight more shots at mile l'ange.

A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that the total amount of standard silver dollai's in the Treasury, against which certificates may be issued,is §5,076,171. Of the total coinage of $341,199,650 silver dollars there is in the Treas ury §282,829,333, against which there is in cii'culation §277,733,162 of certificates. The amount of standard dollars in circulation is $58,370,317, and the amount of silver certificates in the Treasury is $2,582,205. The gradual deci'ease of the silver balance is being urged upon the administration as an argument in favor of an increase in the coinage of silver dollars to the maximum limit of $4,000,000 per month. Under the present system the minimum limit of $2,000,000 only is coined.

THE OFFICIAL COUNT.

A special dispatch from Sioux !Falls, S. Dak., says: According to the returns received from all the Legislative districts in the State the Republicans have 135 of the 169 members. The Republican majority on joint ballot will be 125.

A special dispatch from Helena,' Mont., Friday says: The vote of Jefferson county was canvaSssed Thursday, the result being that the Democi'ats lose a State Senator. This leaves the Upper House of the Legislature a tie, but the Democrats will have a Majority of seven on joint ballot.

The full official returns of the recent election in North Dakota show a total vote of 39,590. Hansbrough, Republican candidate for Congress, received a majority of 15,090, while Miller, Republican candidate for Governor, has 12,600. The majority in favor of prohibition is 1,100. Eighty per cent, of the total vote was in favor of the Consitution, and 70 per cent was the average Republican vote.

The canvassers in Silver Bow county, Montana, Monday, threw out the vote in what is known as the railroad precinct, which gave the Democratic majority of 174. This action, if it is upheld by the

ject of the convention is the formation of courts, will seat the entire Republican a Wheat Growers' Association and the devising of sucti means as will insure to the farmers of the Valley a better control of prices and business methods than" now exist.

delegation from that county (eleveu mem bers) and overcome the Democratic majority in the legislature, and give the Republicans control of the legislature. The Democratic managers will ask Judge DeWolfe for a writof mandamus to compel the canvassers to count the rejected pre cinct. The throwing out of this vote, while reducing Toole's vote for governor, does not overcome his majority.

TALMAGE'S MISFORTUNE.

THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

I.OB8 Estimated at #150,000, Which is Covered ly Insurance—Cause of the ITireUuknown. Au Appeal for Aid.

The famous Brooklyn Tabei'nacle, of which the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage is pastor, has, for the second time in its history, received its baptism of fire, and for a second time has been destroyed. The fire was discovered at 2:45 Sunday morning, by a policeman, who turned in an alarm. The fiames had gained much headway, however. The firemen found the fire had assumed large proportions, and additional alarms were sent in. It becamo evident that the edifice was doomed to destruction. It burned like a tinder-box, and the firempn, despairing of saving it, directed their efforts to the adjoining property. Many of the occupants of the neighboring dwellings were already awake, and the police proceeded to arouse those who were sleeping.

The residents of the neighborhood, awakened either by the roar of the flames or by the pounding of the police on their doors, became frightened, and rushed out, half-dressed or in their night-clothes, and the police had great difficulty in assuring them that they were in no danger. Fortunately there was no loss of life or limb. While the firemen and police worked for the salvation of property and persons, the church building was rapidly being consumed, and in an hour's time only tottering walls remained. Dr. Talmage was on the scene soon after the first alarm, and did not leave until he had seen the edifice which had been his pride laid in ashes. Then he returned sorrowfully home. All day Sunday crowds visited the spot and gazed upon the ruins. Nearly all the members of the Tabernacle congregation received their first intimation of the fire upon rounding the adjacent corners and being confronted by the ^blackened walls and smouldering ruins.

The origin of the fire is not known. The sexton denies the rumor that fires had been lighted Saturday in the furnaces, and this explodes the defective-flue theory. Edison's men were in the building until 5:30 p. m., Saturday, arranging a new electric plant, and it is thought that during the thunder-shower which prevailed during the night, lightning had been carried into the building on the wires, which run around the gallery on a level with where the flames were first seen. The loss on the church building, including the organ, which was one of the finest in the country, is $150,000. It is said to be covered by insurance in a number of companies.

The building was of fourteenth-century Gothic ai-chitecture, and was dedicated Feb. 22, 1874. It was of brick, with stone trimmings, with a frontage of 130 feet, and a depth of 113 feet, to which had recently been added an extension sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep. The seating capacity was 2,800, and it was always fully taxed at the Sunday services. The previous structure, which was built of cox'rugated iron, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning, Dec. 22, 1872. That fire was also of unexplained origin.

The trustees were in session at the house of Dr.oTalmage, Sunday night, and stated the insurance to amount to $129,450. The building originally cost $118,000, to which impi'ovements costing $85,000 have been added. The organ cost $20,000 church fui'niture, $26,800 new carpets, etc.,$5,800.

Dr. Talmage has issued an appeal to the public for help, saying that the chux'ch has never co.ifined its work to its own locality. The church, he says, has never been large enough for the people who came, and he wants §100,000 besides the insurance to build a larger and more suitable structure. "I make appeal," he says, "to all our friends throughout Christendom, to all denominations, to all ci'eeds, and those of no croed at all, to come to our assistance. I ask all readers of my sermons the world over, to conti-ibute as far as their means will allow." The fire forces Dr. Talmage to postpone a tr'.p to the Holy Land.

The advisory board adopted resolutions expressing submission to Providence and a determination toi'ebuild, the locality and style of building to be indicated by the amount of contributions made. Services will be held hereafter in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A letter was received from Dr. Abbott offering Plymouth Church for Sunday evening service.

HISSED THE STARS AND STftlPES.

The National Banner Insulted and the lted Flag Cheer, d—A Fiery Socialist.

When the stai's and stripes were x-aised at the Socialist mass meeting in Vorwajrts Turner Hall,Chicago,Sunday afternoon,the flag was greeted with hisses. There were probably a thousand men and women in the room at the time, all the seats on the floor and most of the seats in the galleries being filled. The banner was brought out by the janitor, and when he unfurled it so that the red, white and blue could be seen this hissing commenced. He fastenod the pole so that the folds of the flag fell on the stage at the feet of those who were to be speakers, and as he did so the hissing increased in volume. Probably half of those in the hall joined in it. The red flag was then unfurled and fastened on the opposite side of the platform. Immediately the hissing ceased and was succeeded by a burst of applause. Men cried "Bravo," and women clapped their hands and waved their handkerchiefs.

After this demonstration Martin Schmiedinger was chosen chairman of the meeting. He introduced Sergius E. Shev itch, of New York, as the first speaker. Shevitch spoke in German, and began by declaring the hanging of the Anarchists to bt. the gravest crime ever perpetrated in America. This statement and every statement of the sort he uttered was loudly applauded. He said he was proud of the city in which that execution occuxTed, because he felt^ that one day it would be the Paris—the city of revolu tions—of America. An awful discontent was smoldering in the heax'ts of the labox1ex*s, and would soon bux-st forth in fiery revolution. He said it was useless and idle to think thd the revolution would be a peaceful one.

POLITICAL NOTES.

Murat Halstead charged in his paper that James F. Campbell the Democratic candidate for Governor, had secured a monied interest in a ballot-box, on behalf of which, as a member of Congress, he had introduced a bill. He denied the charge but Halstead published a facsimihe of what pui'ported to be Mr. Campbell's signature to a papor subscribing for threetwentieths interest in the scheme. Friday Halstead instructed in the following words: "Testimony was placed before me last night that the names, including that of Mr. Campbell, are, with two exceptions, traced from detached signatures and are substantially forgeries. The exceptions wero written without a copy. That there may be no shade of doubt upon my exact meaning, I have to say that Mr. Campbell's signature as it has been used, is fraudulent. The px-oof of this came to me in conclusive form at a late hour, and it is my duty at once to declare the truth.

The Indian as a political factor is a feature of politics which is likely, in the near future, to attract public attention. By recent acts of Congi'oss, every Indian over twenty-one years of age who receives an allotment of land in severalty becomes a voter, clothed with every attribute that attaches to citizenship. The successful termination of the negotiations with, the Sioux Indians, by which they surreuder a large part of their reservation in Dakota, will, it is estimated, by next year throw into the politics of the State the uncertain quantity of 4,937 voters. This vote, thrown solidly, as it probably will be, in both State and national elections, is likely to become an important factor in that State. Negotiations now in progress with other Indian tribes will soon make many thousand more Indian voters. At the Interior Department it is thought that upward of 20,000 Indians will be entitled to vote in the next presidential election.

Senator Sherman began his canvass at Orrville, O., Thursday, in the interest of Foraker.

A LINEMAN'S HORRIBLE FATE.

Suspended In Mid-Air on a Net-AVork of Wires and Burned to Death by .Electricity.

An electric lineman met with a horrible death at the corner of Center and Chambers streets, New York, at 1 o'clock Friday from contact with an electric-light wire. He was employed by the Western Union Company, and presented a terrible sight as he died on the net-work of wires in mid-air, while the deadly fluid actually made his body sizzle and the blood pour out on the sidewalk and over the clothes of the horrified spectators. The accident occurx'ing in the middle of the day in one of the business parts of the city, was witnessed by a large crowd of people. The man's body lay limp and motionless over the mass of wires attached to the cross tx-ees of the pole. The firemen brought out a ladder and one went up with a pair of shears to cut the wires. The man was found to be dead. The wire, in fifteen minutes, had bunxed off half the face of the victim. The left arm was also seen to be burning and every few seconds the blue flames'spurted out from various parts of the body. Hundreds of people stood shivering as they looked at the awful sight overhead. No one dared to go uear. Even the firemen's faces blanched with horror. Lineman Benson, the dead man's companion, was asked why lie did not go up. He simply said: "It's no use he's dead. I don't know the electric light wires. 1

can't

help him. I was on the other pole, anddon't know anything about it." All this was said in a catching, halting voice as if the man was completely overcome with horror ami emotion. The body ol' the lineman was left on the wires for more than a haf hour, when it was taken down, after the current had been turned off.

THE CRONIN JURY.

A special grand jury appointed to investigate alleged attempts at bribery of the Cronin jury at Chicago, promptly returned indictments against Thomas Caveiiaugh, L. Hanks, M. L. Solomon, F. W. Smith, J. O'Donnell and Joseph Koncn. All are in jail.

BASE BALL AFFAIRS.

In an interview at Boston,Pitcher Keefe, of the New York Ball Ciub, virtually admitted Friday that the Brotherhood scheme to break the League would be attempted.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago...

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 10, 1SS9. OKAIN.

Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye

Indianapolis..

2 r'd 78 3 r'd 7* 2 r'd 80

1 3 2ye i\% 31

2 2 a

19

Cincinnati 2 r'd 80 34

St. Louis 2 r'd 78M 28

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