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THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by W. 8. MONTGOMERY.

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KEi'UBLlCiVN FRESHET. Monotonous Returns from Indiana Municipal Elections.

Democratic Stronghold* Fall Into Repubolicnn Hands—A Ileiiiarkablo Sliowlug.

The Republicans of Indiana hold elections in the various towns and cities of the State, Tuesday. If the Democrats voted to any extent the fact was not announced. Republican expectations had been raised to a h'.gh pitch and the returns confirmed their hopes in an overwhelming manner.

Republicans carried Ft. Wayne by 4CG majority, being a Rain of 1,900 votes. At Hammond a gain of 000 votes over the last election was made for the Republican ticket, every candidate being elected.

At Voorhees home, Terre llaute, Mayor Ross, was re-elected by 1,000 majority. Two years ago he was elected by only 120 plurality.

New Albany, Seymour, Lafayette.Logansport, Shelbyville. Wabash. Columbus, Greenfield. Crawfordsville. Laporte. Anderson. Goshen. Mt. Vernon, Frankfort, Elwood. Winchester, Alexandria, Plymouth, Valparaiso, Richmond, .Union City, Elkhart, Brazil, Michigan City, Huntington (first time in twenty years), South I.end, Bedford, Lawrenceburg, Tipton, and so on down the list, elected the entire Republican ticket, showing tremendous gains over the last election. Democrats were successful in only a few unimportant place.?. It is a great victory for the Republican party of Indiana.

FRANCIS B. 8TOCKBBIDGK,

United States Senator from Michigan* died suddenly at the residence of Mr. Houghteling, his nephew, at Chicago, Monday evening. Mr. Stockbridge. some weeks since, started on a California trip accompanied by his wife, and stopped en route for a short visit with his relatives at Chicago. He was taken sick with stomach trouble, but apparently was recovering rapidly, being able to sit up, and was left in charge of the nurse for a short time while the family went to supper. He attempted to walk across the room, but. was seized with pains in the region of the Ijeart and was dead in a few minutes. The heart failure is attributed to injuries sceived by the Senator, last summer, while attending the World's Fair. Ho fas at that time knocked down by a cable car and dragged some distance. His injuries were not thought to be serious at the time, but physicians attribute his sud4en death to that accident. Mr. Stockb/idge was born in 1S26. He was serving His second term in the Senate. Senator Stockbridge was worth several millions, and it is stated that he gave his salary as Senator to his private secretary.

FRANK ITATTON,

Ex-Postmaster-General, who was stricken with paralysis at Washington, April 24, died. Monday, April 30. Mr. Hatton was born April 28. 1845. He had long been prominent in the politics of Iowa previous to his appointment, as First Assistant Postmaster-General by President Arthur. On the retirement of Mr, Gresliam, Mr. Hatton succeeded to the Cabinet Portfolio of Postmaster-General, and was proud of the fact that with the exception of Alexander Hamilton he was the youngest Cabinet officer in the history of the government. Since retiring from ofiice Mr. Hatton has been identified with various newspapers. being editor-in-chief of the Washington Post at the time of his death.

THE VARIOUS COKEY ARMIES.

From special dispatches received by the New York World it appears that the Commonweal armies in the field aggregate 7,054 men, distributed as follows: Maryland Gen. Coxey .. 311) Maryland ('cm. Join's 52 Iowa Gen. Kelly 1,(5(0 Chicago I Jr. Randal) l,o:.»S, Indiana Gin. Fry ^0i' ••Ohio Col. Galvin 2 0 Washinston Gen. Cantwell 1.000 Washington (Jen. Shepard 700 California Grn. Barker 810 ..Oregon (Jen. Wayne 507 Montana Gdi. Hngan 350 Colorado apt. Groyson l.'O Colorado G«n. Nolan 75 Neb:a a Com. Duff 53 Missouri (Jen. Meyer 110

Missouri I'. Beau men K.'O Rhode Island (Jen. Fitzgerald 150 •Rhode Isiand apt. Murray 21 Connecticut Capt. Swcctland.... 29

Total 7,654 Colorado (Denver Home Reserves)... .2.(00

Total organized Coxeyites... 9,654 Mamma—"And how did my darling like bein* at church?" Maud (whe had been at church for tho first time, and put a penny in the collection pinte)—"Very much, mamma, and

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MEETING OP THE STATE CONVENTION AT INDIANAPOLIS.

Seventeen Hundred Enthusiastic Delegates "Wake the Echoes.

"Unci® Dick" Thompson Presides ExPreildent Harrison Speaks—Tlio Platform—The Ticket—Notes.

BEPUBI.ICAX STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State—W. D. Owen. Auditor of State—A. C. Dailey. Treasurer of State—F. J. Scliolz. Attorney-General—W. A. Ketcham. Supremo Court Reporter—Alexander Hess.

Superintendent of Public Instruction— D. M. Geeting. State Statistician—S. J. Thompson.

State Geologist—W. S. Blatchley. Judge Supreme Court, First District— J. H. Jordan.

Judge Supreme Court, Fourth District —L. J. Monks.

The Republicans of Indiaua assembled atTomlinson Ilall, Indianapolis, Wednesday, April 25, to nominate caniidatcs for State offices. Richard W. Thompson, tho chairman-elect, appeared on the stage at 9:50 accompanied by Hon. Chas. W. Fairbanks, and was given an enthusiastic greeting. John K. Gowdy, chairman of the State central committee, called the convention to order. Rev. Dr. Coultas offered the opening prayer. The committee on organization submitted its report, which was agreed to. The committee designated Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Vigo county, as permanent chairman, and Charles E. Wilson, of Tippecanoe, as Secretary, Mr. Thompson, on taking the chair, spoke briefly with all his old-time tire and eloquence,

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and was given almost breathless attention. The cheers for Mr. Thompson's speech had barely died out when ExPresident Harrison appeared on the stage. The demonstration that ensued has seldom been equaled in the history of such occasions. When quiet had been restored Chairman Thompson presented the exPresident to the audience. Mr. Harrison spoke in a voice that reached every nook in the hall. He said:

Mr. President—My venerable and honored friend, I congratulate you. I congratulate the Republicans of Indiana that you are permitted again, on this hopeful day, to preside over a gathering of the Republicans of this great State, [Applause.] You have battled for the princi pies of the party for many years you have teen the able, dauntless champion of those great principles which called the party iuto existence, and which have won for it so often and through a series of such brilliant admin.stration the confidence of the people of the United States. [Applause.] As you have been faithful to the party in the hours of weakness and darkness, we are glad that you are here this morning, when the country is awakened to the fact that a restoration of Republican principles in administration is essential to the prosperity and happiness of the people. [Great applause.]

Our people became so prosperous, so rich, labor was so universally employed at good wages, that men ceased to appreciate the danger and the disaster that was involved in an abandonment of tiie protection principle. [Applause.] No orator was equal to the task of maintaining their interest. But events have stirred that interest to the Drofoundest depths of our society. [Applause.] What the orator and the pamphleteer could not do, a bitter experience that has intruded itself into every home and into many brought starvation, has done and is doing to-day. Our friends may endeavor to persuade the American people that this period of depression is only one of those periodic panics that they say at intervals more or less certain necessarily fall upon us. Some may endeavor to persuade you that the influences that have brought it about were climatic or seismic. Rut I believe I do not state it too strongly when I say that the common mind—the close observation of those who are educated and instructed by facts rather than given to refined theories has settled upon the cause of this present disastrous depression. They find that cause in the attempt to wipe out protective legislation and to substitute for it the doctrines of a revenue tariff. They find it in that uncertainty which has introduced itself into every man's business enterprises, which has paralyzed his energy and which has compelled the wheels to stop while this great issue was being concluded. The American workman is realizing to-day that it is not possible for him to separate himself in interests from the manufacturer who employs him that he cannot, listening to the wild and vicious appeals which have been made to him, strike at the men who give employment to labor without bringing the blow back in recoil upon himself and upon his family. [Applause.] The times arc full of unrest, disaster and apprehension. I believe to-dav that all the tumult of this sea w6uld be stilled as by a voice of omnipotence if tho great industrial and commercial classes of this country could know to-day that there would be no attempt to striKe down protection in American legislation. [Applause.]

My Republican friends, I congratulate you upon the hopeful and auspicious incidents that surround your meeting today. We enter upon this campaign with better heart and higher courage than upon any for many years. So great is the confidence that I hear expressed that I would drop a word of caution for there is danger in overconfidence. I beg to say to you that, in my opinion, as a citizen, having absolutely no interest, except those that you have, that every one of you here and all those whom you represent have never had an opportunity in their lives to servo their country more efficiently than by devoting themselves industriously from nor- until November to tho support of that 'ticket which will here be nominated, l.Applause.j

But now your kindness has betrayed me into further speech that I had contemplated. There is here active competition for office. That is wholesome not to «e deprecated. Every man, have always contended, had a right honorably to seek office, and that a President had no right Mi complain that his time was somewhat.

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occupied in attending to them. [Laughter and applause.] I thank vou. gentlemen, for your kind welcome. I hope you may succeed today in announcing a platform that will win the approbation, that will satisfy the intelligence and tho conscience of bur people, and that you may nominate a ticket worthily representative of the great principles that you will declare. [Applause.]

The committee on credentials then submitted its report which was approved. Ex-State Senator O. Z. Hubbell, of Elkhart, read the report of the committee on resolutions, as follows:

We, the Republicans of Indiana, in delegate convention assemblad, reaffirm our faith in the progressive principles of the Republican party We believe its policies, past and present, best calculated to promote the happiness and prosperity of the people.

The administration of President Harrison and the Congressional legislation of that period were wise, pure and patriotic,and we point to the marked contrast between the home and foreign policies of that administration and the present travesty on government inflicted upon the American people,

We believe in the Republican doctrine of protection and reciprocity, which furnishes a home market for the products of our factories and our farms and protects the American laborer against the competition of the pauper labor of Europe. We denounce the unwise and unpatriotic action of the Democratic party in attempting to eliminate the reciprocity principle from our tariff system, thereby closing a large foreign market to the products of American farms and depressing agricultural interests. We denounce the present attempt of a Democratic Coneress to overthrow and destroy the American industrial svstem, a course that, with a general fear of a violent readjustment of the country's business to a free trade basis, has increased the National debt, has plunged tho country into the most disastrous' business depression of its history, has closed large numbers of banks and factories throughout, the country, has thrown an unprecedented number of American citizens out of employment, has compelled thousands of able-bodied and industrious men to humiliate themselves by asking for charity and has filled our broad land with free soup houses and food markets.

We believe in a currency composed of gold, silver and paper, readily convertible at a fixed standard of value and entirely under national control and we favor the imposition of increased tariff duties upon the imports from all foreign countries whieh oppose the coinage of silver on a basis to be determined by an international congress for such purpose. We denounce the avowed purpose of the Democratic party to restore tho era of '"wild-cat" money.

We believe in a liberal construction of the pension laws, and we condemn the unjust policy of the present administration in depriving ex-soldiers of their pensions without a hearing, a policy intended to cast odium upon loyalty and patriotism. We believe it to be tho duty of the State, as well as thp Nation, to make suitable provision for the care and maintenance of all indicent soldiers, their wives and widows we therefore favor the establishment by the State of a suitable soldiers' home for the reception of such soldiers, their wives and widows, as may be overtaken by adversity,

We demand a rigid enforcement of all existing immigration laws by the National Government, and demand such further legislation as will protect our people and institutions against the influx of tho criminal and vicious classes.

We denounce tho unpatriotic action of the Cleveland administration in hauling down the American flag at Hawaii, and condemn the arrogant assumption of power displayed in the effort to restore a tyrannical queen over a free people who had thrown off the yoke of despotism.

We condemn the outrageous bareain and sale of federal patronage by the Cleveland administration in its unblushing efforts to usurp tho prerogatives of the legislative branch of tho Government, to enforce favorite measures through Congress and compel the confirmation of Presfdential appointments by the Senate.

We condemn the reckless and extravagrant administration of tho financial affairs of this State, whereby the people are subjected to unjust and unnecessary burdens of taxation, by an increased assessment of property .and an increased rate of taxation, and by a multiplication of offices to be supported by the tax-payers of tho State.

Wo believe that the benevolent, educational and correctional institutions of the State should be placed under nonpartisan control.

We believe in such legislation, State and National, as will protect the lives and limbs of employes of railroads, mines and factories.

We condemn the policy steadily pursued by Democratic Legislatures of Indiana, in so gerrymandering the State as to deny the people a fair representation of their views in the State Legislature and National Congress, thus imperiling the foundations of our institutions.

The platform was adopted by a rising vote. Without delay the convention proceeded to the nomination of a candidate for Secretary of State. Tho candidates announced were: Aaron Jones, of South Bend William D. Owon, of Logansport J. E. Watson, of Rusliville M, R. Sulzer, of Madison, and Jasper Packard, of New

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Albany. Mr. Owen was nominated on the fourth ballot, receiving 886^ votes out of of 1,705cast. Mr, Watson recoived CSDJ4 Packard, CO Jones, 69. Mr. Sulzer's name was withdrawn on the third ballot.

The convention passed quickly to tho contest for Auditor. The following candidates were announced: Webster S. Richey, Muncie John W. Coons, Indianapolis A. C. Daily, Lebanon W. W. Hauck, Terre Haute W. H. Liggett, Columbia City George W. Wilson, Ft. Wayne. Mr. Daily received 878X votes on tho fourth ballot, and his nomination was made unanimous.

The nomination of a candidate for Treasurer of State was next in order. The following names were announced: F. S. Scholz, Vanderburg Leonard Wild, Hamilton, and Leopold Levy, Huntington. Mr. Scholz received 865X votes on the first ballot and was declared the nominee.

For Attorney-Genoral the candidates were: Robert J. Loveland, of Peru John W. Lovett., of Anderson William M. Taylor, of Indianapolis Thomas Hanna. of Indianapolis, and W. A. Ketcham, of Indianapolis. Mr. Kntehain received^ 859' votes on the third ballot, and the uwial courtesy of making the nomination unan

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imous was extended to him on motion of Mr. Lovett. For Supreme Court reporter the following names went beftye the convention: Robert A. Brown, of Franklin W. R. McClelland, of Danville O. M. Tichenor, of Princeton H. B. Tuthill, of Michigan City Oliver P. Ensley, of Auburn Alex Hess, of Wabash R. A. Black, of Greenfield. Six ballots were necessary to settle the contest. The other candidates having been withdrawn, on the sixth inning Mr. Hess received 873K votes to 832£ for Brown. Mr. Hess was declared the party's candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court.

The contest for Superintendent of Public Instruction lay between D. M. Geeting, of Madison, and J. H. Henry, of Warsaw. When Pulaski couty was reached on the roll call Mr. Geeting had received several hundred more votes than were necessary to a choice. Henry secured the floor and withdrawing his name moved to make the nomination of Geeting unanimous. The motion carried with a hurrah.

John Worrell, Hendricks county, W. F. Axtell, Daviess S. J. Thompson, Shelby, and Hiram Hines, Hamilton, were the candidates for State Statistician, J. W. Agnetv's 'name being withdiawn before the balloting begun. On the second ballot Mr. Axtell moved that the nomination of Mr. Thompson be made unanimous. Tho motion carried, it being evident that no one else was "in it." Four names were before the convention for State Geologist. They were M. L. Elrod, of Hartsville, W. S. Blatchley, of Terre Haute, A. II. Purdue, of Yankeetown, and John Andrews, of Woodside. Mr. Blatchley was declared the nominee before the second ballot was completed.

The candidates for Judgo of tho Supreme Court, First district, were S. D. Coffey, of Clay, and J. II. Jordan, of Morgan. Mr. Jordan received 859% votes on the first ballot and was declared nominated after an excited debate over alleged fraudulent voting.

The candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court, Fourth District, were: M. E. Forkner, of New Castle L. L. Monks, of Winchester, and D. W. Comstock, of Richmond. Mr. Monks was nominated on tho second ballot, receiving 926 votes.

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The speech of the ex-President was punctuated at one point by some one calling out, "O, Lord!" This was at a time when the speaker had made a point, showing the bad effects of Democratic control.

When the hard work of the convention began the venerable, silver-haired and silver-tongued Thompson retired, handing the gavel to Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash. He has a stern face in time of duty, and a penetrating voice, The convention proceeded with unusual expedition through the first ballot. Mr. Thompson remained in attendance, but a quiet listener.

An incident of Chairman Thompson's remarks caused a sympathetic emotion. When he said, "I come not here to do battle, for the day of battle with me is wellnigh ended," the tears streamed slowly down either cheek. It was evident that the old political war-horse experienced a thrill of sorrow that ago would soon obstruct effectually the force of habit to which he referred in his speech.

At tho conclusion of the prayer by Dr. Coultas, some one in the right gallery raised a smile that was audible by crying out "Hurrah for Ben Harrison."

Judge Monks was nominated at 3:25 a. m., Thursday. The convention then adjourned, after being in session 17K hours.

Governor Matthews was an interested on-looker. Ho occupied a seat on the stage.

A resolution adopting the eagle as tho emblem of the party, was passed. Xlong toward morning an old farmer from the first district said ho thought ho heard tho roosters crowing. Ho was hissed down for his ignorance in supposing that a rooster would crow within hearing of that convention.

Decorative AVives.

Harper's Bazar.

Men ixarry from different motives. Most of them, doubtless, from affection, from affinity, from desire to increase their comfort or content. Others again are impelled to matrimony rather by external than by internal considerations. Among these are men of copious means, to whom home signifies a handsome, complete establishment, and a wife a superb, harmonious figure to preside over it. They set out, therefore, on their quest in a calm mood, with definite aim, little liable to be turned aside from their one purpose. As they are clear headed, energetic, practical, not easily discouraged or frustrated, they invariably succeed.

The woman they have secured has instinct and perception enough to know for what she is wanted, however much the chief want may have been concealed. The implied contract between her husband and herself is that he will furnish all that is needed to make his home luxurious, elegant, materially attractive, and she is to be its social high priestess. And the contract is usually well carried out. For with a large income this is not difficult.

The pair are for the most part admirably and mutually adapted. He is socially ambitious so is she. They supplement one another excellently. What he wishes she can fully and most becomingly execute. She entirely understands what he can only suggest. Her sixth and seventh senses, which women alone possess, her tact, her management, her subtle insight, are invaluable. They yield a usurious though intangible interest on every dollar of his many investments. They enrich him where he^s most eager to be rich, far beyond the accumulation of his millions, and he is so grateful that at times he almost loves, her.

The Shah of Persia is superstitious. He always carries with him when he travels a circle of amber, which is said to have fallen from heaven in Mohammed's time and renders the wearer invulnerable a casket of gold, which makes him .invisible at will, and a star, which is potent to make conspirators instantly confess thetr crime.

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IMA STATE NEWS.

A mysterious disease is killing sheep near Hope. Dynamite is being used in White river near Columbus.

The estimated population of Terre Haute is

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Hobart will build a $0,030 audition to its school building. Greencastle will have a new $12,000 Christian church.

A train load of fruit jars has been sent from Marion to California. Corner stone of the Odd Fellows temple at Redkey was laid. Thursday.

A Lincoln League Club has been organized at Muncie with seventy-five charter members.

South Bend Anglo-maniacs will endeavor to popularize the game of cricket there this season.

A Michigan City man wants to build a sandpaper factory at tho foot of Hoosier slide in that city.

The business portion of Cadiz, a small village near New Castle, was wiped out by fire, Friday. Loss. £30.030.

Representative Conn has introduced a bill in Congress appropriating money for a fog whistle in the harbor of Michigan City.

Tho crazy antics of an ouija board caused a Winamac young lady to temporporarily lose her mental balance, last week..

Vermillion county does not owe a dollar it is able to pay on demand, and the county tax is but 30 cents on the ?100 valuation.

A North Manchester husband has been granted a divorce bocause his wife, during the past year, struck him with pokers and flatirons.

A revolver fell from Willis McCoy's pocket at Rensselaer, Friday, and was discharged, the bullet entering hi3 abdomen. Will die.

During a friendly fencing bout between two young Hammond nun, the other night, one of them had his eyo poked out. ad coxeY notes.

The Democracy of Monticello, nominated a city ticket, and then forgot to serve legal notice with the clerk. If the ticket is voted, it must be by pasters.

John II. Scott, of White River township, Johnson county, has a severe case of varioloid, contracted ho knows not how. There is considerable alarm in the neighborhood.

There is a movement among Republicans in the South Bend district to nornfnate Aaron Jones, defeated in the State convention in his race for Secretary, as a candidate for Congress.

Over two hundred tramps are camping a few miles east of l'ort Wayne along the line of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railway. They act mysteriously, and the railway company is keeping a sharp watch.

A South Bend glutton, who is said to have eaten an eleven-pound roast at one sitting, has made a novel wager that he will suck eleven dozen eggs in thirty-two minutes if his candidate for Mayor is defeated.

A number of well-to-do people of Anderson, styling themselves tho "Coxey Contingent," are negotiating for a special train to Washington, leaving Anderson on May 10 and "remaining during the fun." Tho train will be first-class.

During the temporary absence of tho paymaster of the Kelly Axe Works at Alexandria a thief broke open a window and escaped with the greater part of $800, which had been placed in envelopes ready for distribution to employes.

Frank Benadum, proprietor of the saloon in Muncie in which Lawyer Bailey was murdered. Saturday night, made a confession, Monday, that his barkeeper, Michael Gorman, had killed Bailey by hitting him with a pair of brass "knucks."

A hen belonging to Henry Otto, of Indianapolis, was so badly "rattled", presumably because of the arrival of Frve's Commonweal army, on the 26th, that she laid "twin" eggs—one weighing three and three-fourths ounces, the other one-third of an ounce.

Eighty acrcs of beautiful ground between Clarksville and New Albany, will be donated by the citizens of New Albany provided the Government will establish a military post thereon, A bill has been introduced in Congress looking to tho appropriation of $50,000 in aid of the propposition.

Sherman Waggoner, of Martin county, who deliberately murdered his young wife, some four months ago, and who took his time leaving his old neighborhood, is still at large. Recently tho authorities began making some stir for his arrest, but it is the supposition that ho is hiding in Texas.

A mob destroyed theonly saloon at Burlington, Thursday night. A crowd of 100 men battered in the front doors, emptied the liquors into the gutter, and burned the furniture in the street. The proprietor, Bert Willis, and his bartender, were held, bound and blindfolded, while tho work was done.

Robert Carr. a colored man, went to the rescue of a white boy drowning in Fall creek, near Indianapolis, Friday, but failed to remove his clothing. His movements were so impeded that he sank. Matthews, another colored man, plunged into tho stream and succeeded in saving the boy, but Carr was drowned.

Dr. Metcalf, secretary of tho State Board of Health, has decided that the daughter of Frank Jones, near Kewanna. died of smallpox. Three other members of the family are now dangerously low wtih the same disease. Over a hundred people were exposed to the contagion at the funeral of the first victim.

As a result of the preliminary trial of Frank Benadum, Michael Gorman and William Watson, of Muncie, arrested for the murder of Lemuel Bailey, tho magistrate discharged Watson and committed Benadum and Gorman without bail. Benadum and Gorman mutually accuse one another of the crime. Bailey was beaten to death bjj "knucks

Charles L. Henry, of Anderson, whom the Republicans of the Seventh Congressional district have nominated for Congress, received a great ovation upon his return home, the members of both parties uniting in a demonstration in his honor. A similar demonstration marked the return of tho Hon. Leander J. Monks to Winchester, in recognition of his nomination by tho Republican State convention for one of the judges of tho Supreme bench.

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fersonville sinco 1S73. There is but one other person in the United States occupying the position of military store-keeper, and upon the death of Captain Barrett and this man no successors will be named, as the office expires with thein. Captain Barrett was formerly stationed at San Francisco. He will be succeeded at Jeffersonville by Capt. Frederick Von Schrader. of Schuylkill Barracks, Pa.

The rules of Ilanover College prohibit dancing. Recent infractions have led to serious trouble and sixty-five students threaten to leave the institution unless the faculty recedos from its position and reinstates several young lady students expelled and suspended for alleged violation of the dancing prohibitory law.

The New Albany Ledger says that the seventeen-year locusts are appearing above ground by the thousands in that section of the State, coming up through holes looking as if made by a cane, and varying from one to three feet in depth. Most of the grubs that have come out are very lively, and they aro precisely tho same in appearance as those of 1S77.

A BAD LOT.

Juror Armstrong Pleads G-uilty and Goes to Prison for Eighteen Months.

Go-Between Stannard Waives Examleatlon and Is Released ou Bond.

Alvin Armstrong, the juror charged with contempt and conspiracy in tho trial of the alleged wreckers of tho Haughcy Indianapolis National Bank, in making overtures to Francis Coffin, one of the defendants, in which he proposed to hang the jury or procure a verdict of acquittal, for a money consideration, was arraigned before Judge Baker, Monday, in the United States District Court, at Indianapolis. After the evidence had been submitted clearly establishing the cuilt of the accused, which also implicated Frank O. Stannard, already under arrest, and Juror Baker, not heretofore implicated* Armstrong's attorneys, by Mr. Duncan* entered a plea of "guilty," stating that they had no defense to make. Mr. Dun. can asked the consideration of the Court because of the previous good character of Armstrong, and begged for leniency, because of his wife and child. Judge Baker then delivered a scathing rebuke and sensentenced Armstrong to eighteen months in the Northern Prison. Armstrong was taken to Michigan City, Tuesday. On the charge of conspiracy, on which Armstrong and Stannard are still held, they can both be sent to tho penitentiary and lined in any sura between £2,000 and 810,OCO. The grand jury meets in a short time, and on account of the strength of the evidence it seems to be an assured fact that both will bo indicted, tried, found guilty and punished. This will give Armstrong a term in the prison of three and a half years altogether.

INDIANA LEADS.

It Has the Most Important Gas Field In the Country,

The growing confinement of the consumption of natural gas to domestic use is noted in the annual report of Special Agent J. D. Weeks, of the United States Geological Survey. The only place in which its use for manufacturing purposes increased in 1833 is Indiana. The total value of natural gas cons umed in the country in the year was £14.346,220, against §14.803,714 in 1802. Higher prices charged for the gas in lriOl was the cause of the decrease. Tho greatest value of the gas consumed in any one year was §23,02'.),873 in IS*?. Since that time there has been a gradual decline, with an aggregate of about 83,3(50.03J less for the last year than 1833. All States show a falling off in the value of coal or wood displaced by the use of gas. The amount of this production in Pennsylvania was $420.0 )0 in Ohio, £48.030, and in Indiana, about §1,300. The report shows the number of feet of pipe laid increased during the year to 1.1,999,657 in Pennsylvania, 5 733,373 in Indiana and 1,401.0.)8 in Ohio. The largest production of gas in Pennsylvania was 519.282.375 in 1883, since which it has fallen to 50.488,000. Ohio showed the largest falling olf in production for the year. For 1892 the amount was £2.136.000, while in 1331 it went down to £1,510,030.

The most important gas field in any State is shown to be Indiana, whose estimated area of productive gas territory is about 2.500 square miles. While tho supply is falling far below tho demand in other large gas fields, it is declare 1 to bo well sustained in Indiana, and supplies are being obtained from the State by factories located in other gas territories. The value of the product consumed in the Stato in 1893 was £5,718.0.10, against £4,716,003 in 1832. Gas consumed in Kentucky was valued at S6S.530, and in California £62,030. The report shows that, in addition to tho three States mentioned, gas is found in commercial quantities in New York, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, West Virginia. Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Utah, South Dakota. Tonnessee and Wisconsin.

INDIANA LAW SCHOOL

Articles of Incorporation Prepared—' Incorporators anil Faculty.

Articles of incorporation for the Indiana Law School, at Indianapolis, have been prepared and signed by the incorporators, Charles W. Fairbanks, Addison C. Harris, Byron K. Elliott, John R. Wilson, Win. P. Fisliback and William C. Bobbs, and these gentlemen are named as tho directors te manage the affairs of the incorporation for tho first year. In addition to tho Board of Directors there will be an Advisory Board of Trustees, consisting of tho members, the Governor, Judges of the Supreme an I Ape.Ute Courts, of tho United States Circuit and District Courts of Indiana, and other prominent citizens who have not yet been designated. The faculty proper will consist, of the following persons: Tlus Hon. Byron K. Elliott, President of the faculty William P. Fishback, de, in Addison O. Harris, C. W. Fairbanks and .John it. Wilson, professors. In addition to thso t/h re will bo a stall of lecturers upon special subjects, covering tho entire field of lejral study. Tht school year will begin on th? first Tuesday in October and continue until the last Wednesday of the ensuing May. with a vacation covering the Christmas and New Years'* holidays.... life