Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 20 September 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN.

PvMlikad by W. S. MoNTaoMMT.

MERNFIELD INDIANA

''UNTO the pure all- tSnngs are pure but unto them that are defiled And unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled." I NEW YORK saloon keepers bait their customers with free lunches^irn which radishes hold a, prominent |)lace on the bill of fare. If they! can persuade a man to eat a few. radishes they feel sure of his custom for all the freer he can buy that day. As a thirst-compeller it is alleged' that fiery radishes have no equal.

I GERMAN soldiers are trying a new shoe sole, or rather a preparation for increasing the durability of the ordinary leather sole. It consists of a paste composed of linseed oij, var-J nish and iron filings with which the' soles of new shoes are painted. It as said to keep the soles of shoes flexible and gives a resistance great-\ er than the best steel nails.

E. E. GRIFFITHS, Superintendent of the State Asylum for the Blind atj Indianapolis, who recently resigned, deserves a passing word of recognition for disproving the old adage concerning holders of good official (positions, i. e., "Few die and none resign." Such actions on the part of office holders are extremely rare, and are worthy of emulation.

FROM Martinsville, Ind., comcs the story that David, a poor man, was recently overjo\red to receive a check for $2,000 on the First Na" tional Bank of Denver, Colo., from bis sister-in-law, who wrote that she was a millionaire and was soon to tnarry a wealthy second husband. The check has just been returned marked not paid for want of funds. The woman has been declared insane.

THE Count of. Pans is dead of: cancer of the stomach. His mal-. edy was diagnosed at Paris, last, year, to a certainty by means of aj small electric light introduced into1 the stomach. The room being darkened the surgeons were enabled to detect an incipient ulcer, whiclv failed to respond to thfe usual reme-( dies. It was proposed to remove the entire stomach and substitute the stomach of a lamb, an operation once successful in French surgery, but it was finally determined that the risk was too great.

INDIANAPOLIS has a "Neighborhood Magazine Club." The members jointly subscribe for all the leading magazines, the cost to each not being over $4 per year. The magazines are listed, and each member may keep a copy three days, when it is to be passed to the next on the list. If a second reading *is desired it is so marked on the succeeding list, and after the round has been made the book again comes back to the person first expressing a desire for the second reading. All the most prominent American and foreign reviews are by this method placed at the disposal of the members. The idea is worthy of imitation. Almost any town or small community may profit by the example and keep abreast of the currenii literature of the day at a very small outlay.

THE National Irrigation Congress will assemble in Denver, next month, in its third annual session. The proceedings of this body will be awaited with interest by the Nation at large. The unparalleled exodus from the arid lands of the West has brought home to the people the urgent necessity of relief in this direction if our uncultivated Western domain is to become civilized—to be reclaimed from the desert waste it is today and made a fertile land of blooming fields and lowing herds and: peaceful homes anJ firesides. Water, water alone can bring thp transformation. That it will certainly bring, the ends so ardently desired and' longed fordoes not admit of a doubt.' To devise a practical solution of the problem will be the duty of this Congress. That it may successfully rise to the emergency will be the hope of every good citizen.

As is well known, the sale of baking powders containing alum and other injurious substances is absolutely pro hibited in all the foriegn countries thfet have food adulteration laws. There is no economy from any poinof view in using an adultered baking powder. At least 75 per cent of the powdgrs on the market are adulterated. Manufacturers of baking powden should be required to publish on every package the^ingredients of t'no powder, so that the consumer may bo protect ed. J/l

A highly oloctrical young man in Alliance, Ohio, h&3 only.to rub his lingers, when small coin and other metallic valuables stick to tlieui as if by magic.

There are nineteen millionaires in the i.A.R. Chicago police are having trouble with thoroughly organized band of thieves.

Gov. Altgeld, of Illliiois, visited New York city last week for the first time in a is life.

Secretary Carlisle has made a ruling that salt imported for fisheries shall be idmitted free of duty.

The Campbell Bank at Rossville, 111., was robbed of $10,0C0, Wednesday, while the officers-were at dinner.

A fight'between a bull-dog and a monkey was used to attract attention to a political meeting near Louisville. ""Mrs. Robert Kinzie, with one exception the oldest settler of Chicago, died in Omaha, where she was visiting a son. If

It is said that Senator Brice will resign if the Ohio Democratic convention condemns his opposition to the Wilson bill.

All the Christian churchcs at Paris, 111., have joined in a. revival service in a tent accommodating three thousand persons.

Thirteen indictments for murder were returned by the grand jury which investigated the negro killing near Kerrvillc, li'enn.

Mrs. Anna E. Grubb, treasurer of the W. R. C„ of the G. A. R., is officially charged with misappropriating $5(J0 of the order's money.

It is said ths,t' Madeline Pollard has about abandoned her plan of going on the stage, as sho is not recciyidg much encouragement in it. "i

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The iloo Hoos, in' their convention at Kansas City^decided by a vote of 89 to 90, that actors should hereafter be barred Irom the order of the Black Cat.

The Nevada Republican State Committee has requested Senator Jones, who recently abandoned the Republican party and joined the Populists, to resign

The New York Populists, have nominated Charles B. Matthews, a member of the Farmers' Alliance and a Knight, pf. Labor, for Governor, and a full State ticket. ,,

At Newark, O., an unknown tramp called at the home occupied by thVee girls, named Rank, and at the point of a re-" volver compelled JFlorenc^ the youngest, to hand over 590. "I.T" t"*',."'.''

At Muruhysboro, 111., Mrs. Anil Rogersj sister to the late Gen. John* A/'I/o'g&n, took morphine with suicidal intent." It is thought her life will be saved. Despondency is supposed to be the cause

Gov. Altgeld's visit to New York was for the purpose of consulting eminent specialists in nervous diseases. The Governor is threatened with locomotor ataxia, but is hopeful of complete rqcovery.

Ex-Senator J. R. Doolittle, of Racine, Wis., has been nominated by the Deihojrats of the First district for Congress. It is thought he will not accept. Senator Doolittle is now serving as Circuit Judge.

Bill Dalton is alive again. A personal friend of the outlaw, in an interview at Perry, O. Tv states that Dalton has temporarily retired from public life, but is tvell and has not been hit with a bullet for over a year.

One hundred monkeys escaped from the hold of the Liberia at the wharf at New Xork, Sept. 12, and a lively time was experienced before they were recaptured. The Liberia had just arrived from Africa with its peculiar cargo.

Gen. Harrison left Elkins, W. Va., Wednesday, for his home at Indianapolis. En route he made brief speeehes in Chairman Wilson's district at Phillipi and I iiraftoi). He expressed the belief that

Mr. Wilson would be defeated, and urged Republicans to make an aggressive light. Wiley J. Bronson, a reputable farmer af Coal Creek township, Montgomery ounty, reports that there was a fall of 5sh from the clouds on Sunday lastduring & storm. Some of the fish were four and five inches in length and several families ite of them.. They were mostly of two irarieties, bass and suckers.

The Chicago Board of Education, after tsomewhat tempestuousdiscussion, voted io abandon the old slanting system of penmanship and to introduce into Chicago schools the vertical system. The Board introduced another innovation, the bath bub, as a factor in education, and dirty ihildren will be given a bath before being permitted to attend school sessions,

The whole plot of the lynching of six illeged negro incendiaries near Millington, Tenn., on the night of Aug. 31 has been laid bare by Robert McCarver, a son jf Sheriff McCarver, of Shelby county. Foung McCarver was invited to join the mob but refused. The guilty parties will be arrested.

At Selma, Ala., Sept. 17, Sam Johnston, ft negro, about twenty-one years old. sold himself to Col. Starke Oliver for $00. As loon as the trade was made the Colonel bought a plow line and tied the, negro to Dne of the columns of the Southern Hotel until he got ready to leave for home. When the Colonel left he led the negro home in old ante bellum style. The negroes looked on to a matter-of-fact way ind did not object in the least.

The celebrated suit for $25,000 brought against Congressman & A, Morse, of Danton.'Mass., by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, the temperance and woman suffrage advocate of Lafayette, Ind., terminated at Boston, Sept. 14, in a victory for the defendant. The jury, after being out an hour and forty-five minutes, tendered a verdict of acquittal. Hon. Harvey N. Sheppard, Mrs. Gougar's counsel, immediately made application for a. new-trial.

Eugene Debs addressed a mass meeting it Harrisburg, Pa., Friday night, on the strikes of last summer. Debs said he was apposed to strikes, but that they are the anly weapons which labor has to defend itself against the encroachments of capital. He claimed that the Pullman employes were unjustly treated by the cornoany and that he admired them for striking. If he had been an employe he would have struck regardless of consequences. Debs contended that the sympathy strike was forced by the General Managers' Association offering to make the tight for the Pullman company. He had no more to do with ordering the strike than if he had not been in the country. It was oriered by the unanimous action of 350 delegates to the American Union convention after all subordinate lodges had been consulted. The 'strike was won five days after it Was inaugurated, and then the injunction was Issued against the leaders, afid'."they were enjoined from directing fch^irfforces. He advocated unification of all branch** of labor and claimed that

class brotherhoods had never won sue-, cessful strikes themselves. The Chicago) strike was not defeated, because it had advanced the cause.of labor fifty years. "I believe in law and order," he said,, "and am not a disciple of the red flaitj of anarchy."

The sugar planters', convention at New Orleans, Sept. 17, was a large and enthusiastic assemblage. The convention, beaded by the Democratic bolters, went over to the Republican party in a body. The resolutions express belief in the doctrine of protection to all American industries declare that the people had never asked Congress for a bounty, but that when the bounty law was passed it was regarded as a pledge for fifteen years, and caused the mortgaging of plantations and the expenditure of immense sums of money in the purchase of modern machinery and in the making of elaborate improvements for the manufacture of sugar urge the organization of clubs, committees "and. conventions throughout the State with a view of electing members to Congress who will stand by the national Republican party in the organization of the House, and finally declaring that "the causes which have led to the inauguration of this movement are of a financial and industrial nature, and that the character and standing of its leaders be a sufficient guarantee that they will ever advocate good government for the whole people of this State."

FOREIGN,

The Sultan of Morocco has the mumps. Forest fires are raging in parts of Ontario.

Serious rioting occurred at Bombay. One was killed. 2 It is said the czar is suffering from Bright's disease and that death is not unlikely at any time.

The chief leaders of the insurgent Kaffirs in South Africa, after continued fighting, "have surrendreed to the Boer commanders.

Two hundred Chinese soldiers are now said 40 have lost their lives by the stranding of: the transport Chean in the Clio •Tung pass.

The officials have discovered in Sicily a vast association of'Sheep stealers, having branches all over the island. Seventeen arrests have already been made.

L'Atorlie, of Parjs, says the Emperor of Germany is trying to organize a conference of the powers with a view of ..bringing about a general disarmament.

Three hundred feet of track on the Mexican national railroad west of Behiveres and west of Alidor have been washed away by the floods.' All trains are tied up.

Rumors of the death of ex-Sultan Murad V, who was deposed Aug. 31,187G, in favor of his younger brother, the present Sultan,Abtful Hamid II, are in circulation at Constantinople.

The Canadian Government has decided to become a party to tlio convention agreed upon to meet at Dresden in 1S9." to consider measures to prevent the introduction and spread of cholera.

A dispatch to the London Times from Tien Tsin, Sept. 14. says that news has reached therefrom Ping Yang that the Japanese, on the night of Sjept. 12, made an attempt to surprise the Chinese camp, but were repulsed with great loss. The movements of the Japanese troops were impeded by the standing crops, which also hid the enemy from them.

The Sultan of Turkey, through the Turkish Minister at Washington, has contributed 300 Turkish pounds to Mayor Gil— roy's fund at New York for the relief of the forest fire sufferers. The value of the Turkish pound is about S4.38. The contribution was accompanied by an extremely sympathetic note stating that the gift was by the command of the Sultan.

SENATOR HILL CENSURED.

The county committee of the New York State Democracy, at New York city, Wednesday night, passed resolutions applauding the course of President Cleveland and Chairman Wilson and condemning the action of Congressmen who opposed the Wilson bill. The resolution also especially condemned "the attitude of that Senator from New York, Mho in the last National convention earnestly and successfully supported a radical amendment to the tariff plank of the platform and was subsequently elected to the Senate by a Democratic legislature, and who, notwithstanding his responsibility for tha party's pledge to the people, has with cynical indifference to his own obligations and of the wishes of the party, betrayed the trust he so willingly assumed when'he sought and secured an election to the Senate of the United States. We call attention to the persistent and successful efforts of the so-called sugar trust to shape and control tariff legislation in its own favor as a striking and conclusive evidence of the truth of the Democratic contention regarding trusts,"

mum IN OKLAHOMA.

Fifty Houses Wrecked and Several Killed and Injured.

A Perry, Ok. T., special, Sept. 17, says: A terrible tornado passed through Jennings and Mining and blew fifty houses to atoms. A young lady and two children were killed and several people injured. Several houses caught fire at Mining and a conflagration followed.

The town of Mining is forty miles from the nearest railroad, and particulars of the cyclone and tiro cannot be learned here tonight. Mining is a small town oi sixty houses in Osage county.

SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE I. O. O. F.

The Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F, convened at Chattanooga, Tenn., Monday, Sept. 17, with a very light attendance. Only about 5C0 visitors were registered, but it was expected that by Tuesday at least 2,000 would have arrived. The address of welcome was made by Gov. Turney. In the afternoon the visitors visited Chickamauga National Park.

Dr. Lewis Meeks, who was running a saloon at Marietta, was visited by a praying band of women recently, and upon their agreement to pay costs of stock he consented to close out the business. The saloon was established only to do business until after the coming election.

By the burning of a mattress factory a1 Washington, .Sept, 17, five persons were killed, four are missing and ure supposed to have perished in the bdilding, and font are in the hospital suffering from injuries that will probably prove fatal.

I MM STATU SEWS.

A hew cornet band'is imminent at Washington. A great scarcity of dwellings is reported at Gijman

The White House is undergoing extensive repairs. Hog cholera prevails in some portions of Montgomery county.

Pcrtland has contracted for a system of waterworks to cost 345,000. The Democracy of Cass county are arranging for an old-fashioned barbecue.

Drug stores at Valparaiso are allowed on* hour on Sunday in which to do business.

One man at Anderson is sure that an earthqake shook up that, place, Saturday night.

Harris W. Stein, of Vincennes, thinks he has solved the problem or perpetual motion. 'The Western yearly meeting of the Friends' church began at Plainfield, Sept. 15.

Track laying has begun on the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa line between Knox and Scuth Bend.

A colony is being formed in Crawford county to emigrate to Bastidas, Columbia, South America.

A perfect^pearl, five and one-half carats in weight, was found in the Wabash river near Logansport.

The smallpox situation at Walkerton has become serious. Three new cases developed on the 14th.

The grand jury of Kosciusko county has just returned 239 indictments against dog owners in that county who failed to list their canines for taxation.

Htnry Zimmerman, of Vigo county, exhibited corn stalks at Terre Haute, which measured1fourteen feetin hight, with good ears eight feet from the ground.

A contract has been let for building a hospital at Anderson under the direction of.the Sisters of thje Holy Cross. The bequests and donations amount to $103,000.

Fort Wayne is seriously considering the advisability of selling the' present courthouse buildings and grounds, and locating anew building in another quarter of the city.

William Scott, forty years old, while engaged in loadine sand at the "Iioosier Slide," Michigan City, was caught by a falling bank and smothered. He was a man'of family.

Sheriff Simmons, of Howard county, has forwarded his resignation to Gov. Matthews. He claims he has lost money every day he has served^ because of the present fee and salary lasv.

Henry Zimmerman, who owns a farm ten miles south of here,-brought to Bell &.McCain's store stalks of corn raised on his farm which measures fourteen feet, with good ears eight feet from the ground. —Terre llaute Gazette.

The sheriff of Bartholomew county made an examination of the prisoners in the jail at Columbus, finding eight of them armed with short iron bars, which they had wrenched from the window fastenings. A general delivery was contemplated.

One of the hardest drinkers of Anderson is an oid woman—a grandmother. She is an all-around drinker, and a3 a rule goes to the back door of certain saloons where they give her good measure and calls for the liquor herself.—Anderson Democrat.

Near Hartford City, Thursday night, Jacob Pursely, drunk and abusive, was shot, and instantly killed by Frank Bell at the lattcr's house. Pursely- had called at the house in an intoxicated condition, and provoked the trouble which resulted in his own death. .,

In the trial of ex-Sheriff Lemuel "Willis, of Sullivan, for the assassination of Prosecuting Attorney Hulz, of Sullivan county, taken to Vincennes on change of venue, the defendant has pleaded not guilty. There is also a plea that the defendant was insane at the time of the killing.

Leroy Teinplotyn and the other Populist leaders arrested at West Indianapolis, Aug. 12, for Sabbath desecration, while holding a political meeting, and subsequently discharged without prejudice, have sued the constabulary and justice of the peace implicated in their arrest for 110,000 damages.

At Indianapolis, Friday, George Scholt.z president of the Terre Haute branch of the American Railway Union, and A. II. Daniels, who was chief of the grievance committee of the Union at Terre Haute during the recent railroad strike, were found guilty of contempt of court by Judge Baker, of the United States Court. The court released the men on their good behavior.

J. N. Madden, employed by the local gas company, and Charles Rossington, clerk at the Randall hotel, Ft. Wayne, undertook to locate a leak in one of the rooms of the hotel, and Madden lighted a match to facilitate the search. Instantly there was an explosion, doing considerable damage to the room, and .severely burning both gentlemen.

Walter Walling, an expert young bicyclist, youngest son of D. C. WaUimr, president of the FlintA Wailing company, while riding his wheel after dark in the stree.s of Kendallville colli led with a buggy, his machine passing between the in heels and thills. The righl handle bar was forced Into Waiting's abdomen, tearing out his bowels and killing him almost instantly. Walter was sixteen years old and an enthusiastic wheelman.

A natural gas explosion at Alexandria, Wednesday morning, wrecked one business block, damaged others and burled four people in the debris. They were Samuel Myers and wife and ono child and his sister-in-law. All wore taken from the debris after being confined for three hours. Strange as it may seem, all were living and may recover, with the exception of Mrs. Myers, who was crushed about the body. The baby, four days old, did not get a scratch. The loss is estimated at *12,000 partially insured.

The Department of Agriculture prints this statement of the condition of the crops in Indiana: The condition of the corn crop varies greatly in different counties. The drought of the past sixty days almost ruined the crops in spme counties, while in others there has been sufficient rain to mature a good average crop. Rains have been local and light during the corn growing season. Wheat is an excellent crop. Conditions were favorable for maturing and harvesting the crop in first«lasa order. The oats crop Is of good quality and nearly up to the Average in

yield. Oats are being sold at one cent por pound in the local markets throughout the State.

Ike Levig, aged seventy-five, a notorious outlaw, was captured by Cincinnati officers at Osgood, Sept. 14, in the act of turning out spurious coin in the shape of silver quarters and halves, A peck of thoi "queer" was captured, together with a quantity of tools and dies. Levi has been known as a horse thief and counterfeiter for fifty years, having "done time" in Ohio and Kentucky for these offenses, and it'has been an open secret at Osgood for some time that he was up to his old tricks because of his local purchases of plaster of paris and silver polishers. He has been an active participant in many of the daring deeds that startled and terrorized southern Indiana years ago.

A serious riot occurred at Muncie. Sept. 15, between the Street Railway Company and the forces of the Wanvn-Seharf Asphalt Paving Company. The Street Car Company's property was damased to the extent of several hundred dollars and a birj legal contest has been commenced. The trouble was caused from the failure of the railway company to get its new rails in placo in time for the paving. The paving company were determined to proceed with their work. The street car people were determined they sluuld not. Hence the riot. Walnut street was fenced up by the paving company. The street cars were run in full speed against the fence. Fifteen motor cars were wrecked in the melee. The police intenered and the trouble will be settled in the courts.

The new religious denomination which has been proselyting in southern Indiana for months, and which is known as the "Saints," and again as the "Evening Light," continues to increase in membership, particularly in Washington and contiguous counties. The new sect professes to be guide entirely by the Bible. No controversies are indulged in with non-be lievers, and communion, feet-washing and baptism are among the cardinal points of the new theology. In simplicity of dress, frugality of life, honesty in business affairs, and the non-consideration of self, the sect somewhat patterns after the Mennonites. All converts are annointed with oil, and every convert is urged first to make restitution if he has wronged anyone in a business transaction in times past.

Francis M. Bray, of Madison county, a prosperous farmer at one time, became a convert to the faith-cure doctrine, and ho was known as a faith-cure minister. This led him to neglect his financial affairs and disaster overtook him. Recently he became ill, and he steadily refused all remedies, stating that a revelation had been made to him that there was no possibility of recovery. Tuesday he died.

Newell Gastineau, twenty-one vears old, of Ladoga, went to the barn of Irank Frantz to steal a horse, lie made a selection, after lighting a match, but in throwing down the match the Jlame set (ire to the barn and two mules were cremated. Gastincau sold the stoHn horse at Veedersburg, intending t.o use the money in getting married, but he was caught too soon by the law. He io under sentence to the Prison North.

•BRECKINRIDGE BEATEN.5'

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Clo«9 of the Contest In the Lexington, Ky., District.

The Brcckinridge Owens campaign for the Democratic Congressional nomination in the Lexington (Ky.) district, which has attracted national attention because of the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, closed Friday night, Sept. M. The primaries to decide the contest were held on Saturday Sept. 15, and the scenes of excitement and disorder throughout the district were unparalleled, At Faywood a pitched battle between Breckinridge and Owens men occurred. No lcSi than twenty men were implicated. One man received wounds that may prove fatal. Unofficial returns from the primaries received by a Cincinnati paper late Sunday night, give totals for candidates as follows: Owens, 7,91)0 Breckinridge, 7.070 Settle, 3,40.5 Owons's plurality, 320. Corrected returns will probably vary butlittle from these figures.

Charges of fraud are freely made by the supporters of Breckinridge. They figure out a plurality for Owens, on the returns, of but 1C8. Their detectives are at work and a contest may result. Col. Brekinridge was seen by a reporter but absolutely refused to talk. The Owens people held a great ratification meeting at Georgetown, Ky. Mr. Owens addressed the people briefly, saying that ''the work of the men and the tears and prayers ol the women" had brought the victory.

THE MARKETS.

Sept 18, 189-1.

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Oil AIX AA'U HAY.

WifrtAT—19M'c corn, 56c oats, 32^c rye, 40c hay, choice timothy. S9.0J. I.IVK STOCK.

CATTr.K Shippers, $2.50.rt4.40: stockers. 5?2.0U(a2.7f heirers. §l.f)0(«:$.25 cows. #l(a)3.35 bulls, $1.75(^3 milkers, ^15.00^ 33.00 11OG s—$5.00(5?().0.'.

SllKlCI'—$1.00(tt'3.00. 1'OUX.TIIV A.VI) orriKH pnonuoic. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) Pori.THV-llens. 7c per ft: spring chickens, 8c cocks, 3c turkeys, toms,3c per lt: liens, 5c per lb: diic-u's, 5c per Ji geese. ?4.S0 per doz. for choice. j"

EGGS—Shippers paynnr 13c.

calf hides, 5c.

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BicKSWAX—2()c for yellow IDC for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 12c Cottswold and coarse combing, ll@12c tubwashed. lG(Vi18e burry and unmerchantable. 5@ 10c less.

HIDES—No. 1 G. S. hid«s,4Kc: No. 2 G. S. hides, 3M'c No. 1 calf hides,

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Cincinnati.

WHEAT—52J^c corn, 59)^c: oat9,32Xc. Detroit. WHEAT—55c corn 58c oats, 33^c.

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TERRIBLE S AUGHTER.

A. Great Battle at Ping Yang in Korea.

Sixteen Thousand Chinese Killed—Superior Strategy of tho Japanese.

A London cable of Sept. 17 gives exhaustive details of the military movements ^f Japanese and Chinese troops in Korea* Reconnoissances began on Tuesday, Sept11, and several skirmishes resulted. Friday night the Japs fell back in good order. The battle began Saturday morning. So well was the Japanese attack directed that the Chinese were surrounded at ^. every point, and eventually sought safety in flight. Defending the intrenchments, however, were some of the Viceroy LI llung Chang's picked Chinese troops, drilled by Europeans. These soldiers made a determined stand to the last and were cut down to a man. The Pong San column, swarming over the trenches of the Chinese front, completed the rout of the Chinese and the whole of the latter's position was captured by tho troops of the Mikado. Some idea of the manner in which the Japanese attack was delivered may be judged from the fact that onehalf an hour after the early morning at- mi tack commenced the -strongly defended, position of Ping Yang was in the hands nf the Japanese troops. It is believed that the Chinese position at Ping Yang was defended by twenty thousand Chineso, of whom only a few succeeded in escaping. The Japanese victory was brilliant and complete. An immense amount of provisions, arms ammunition and other stores, in addition to hundreds of flags, were captured by the Japanese in the Chinese camps and intrenchments. It :s VM estimated that the Chinese lost sixteen thousand men in killed. Among the cap- es tured Chinese are several of the most prominent commanding officers in the K? Chinese troops in Korea, and only a few -mChinese commanders succeeding in escaping, and these got away almost imraediately after the Japanese made their attack upon the Chinese rear. A telegram received by the Japanese legation at Washington confirms the news received via London.

COUiYliiRFElTEllS CAUGHT.

Important Arrests nni! Astounding Rev-- sis lations.

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Several days ago United States secret service officers arrested Phil Coup, formerly one of the proprietors of Coup's circus, at Indianapolis, on a charge of passing counterfet money. A large amount of "''queer' was found in his possession, and the stuff was believed to be the work of "Buck" Harlan. Coup's arrest was kept secret, and Major Carter at once set about to procure the arrest of Harlan, -f~ whose home is on a farm near Norristown, Shelby county. Harlan was known to be a desperate character and caution was deemed necessary. Thursday, In company with Deputy 'laylor, ^lajor Carter went to Shebyville. secured a livery rig and drove to Harlan's home, where he surprised Harlan, who is quite deaf, at work in his back yard with an ax. By a little trickery Ilarlan was made to believe he was wanted at Shelbyville to answer a charge of having passed counterfeit money at the Shelby county fair. He was willing to face his supposed accuser and roadily agreed to accompany Carter to the carriage, where he was handcuffed "too quick." Carter then returned to the the house and began a search. In the cellar he found a completely equipped laboratory and work room litted out with a dynamo, electric vths. plaster and metal molds, delicate chisels and tools of all descriptions used in the work of making ^old and silver counterfeit money. He 3onliscated'the entire outfit, together with a lot of shafting and rubber belting. The stepson of the proprietor assisted the Major to gather up tjie property, and for lifty cents in "good money" helped to carry tiie contraband stuff over to the carriage. The arrest of Buck Harlan created a large amount of excitement in and around Shelbyville and several hundreds of people ivere at the depot when the train left for

Indianapolis. Harlan and Coup are both in jail at Indianapolis and are not likely to swindle the public for some time to :ome.

THE COINAGE OF SILVER.

still going on daily.

It was supposed that the garret of the residence of Thomas C. Burgess, of Columbus, was haunted until some daring spirit lay in wait and captured a raccoon weigh* tog twenty-three pounds.

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Secretary Carlisle'* Letter to KpprMSU utive Iie»rl of Missouri. 7V'*

Secretary Carlisle has written the follpwing letter explaining the law under which the mints are coining silver: "TKKASUKY DEPARTMENT, 1 J, "OrKICK OK THE SKCKEL'AKV, "WASHINGTON, D. C., sept. 10,1894.) Tlie Hon. John T. Heard, House of Representatives: "DEAR Sin—Referring to our persona! interview, this morning, 1 have tho honor to say that the mints at New Orleans. Philadelphia and San Francisco are engaged in coining standard silver dollars from the bullion purchased under the act of Juiv 14, 1890, commonly known as the Sherman act. During the month of July S-J30.C00 was coined, and during the month of August $r23.009. About the same amount will be coined during the present month, September, and thereafter such amount will bo coined as the Secretary may consider advisable under the circumstances. The third section of tho act of July 14,1890, provided that tho Secretary of "the Treasury should coin each month Into standard dollars 2,000,000 ounces of the, bullion purchased under the provision of that act until the first day of July, 1891, and thereafter he should coin of'tho silver bullion purchased under the provisions of the act as much as might be necessary to provide .fo'r the redemption of the treasury notes issued in payment for the bullion, and that any gain or seigniorage arisjng from such coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury. "The coinage now going on ia done under the authority conferred by this section of the law, and the seigniorage derived from it is paid into tho public treasury, as required by law, and used for the ordinary purposes of the government, but the remainder of the coins are held iu the treasury in order to provide for the redemption of the treasury notes issued inpayment for the bullion. During the last eleven months 3,970,727 standard silver dollars, coined from the bullion purchased under the act of July 14, 1890, havobeea paid out in the redemption of treasury iiotes, and tho notes so redeemed have been retired and cancelled. The process fs