Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 45, Hope, Bartholomew County, 2 March 1893 — Page 6

INDIANA STATE OVS. Fortvllle has a boom. Iceaml snow have injured the Hamilton county wheat. ■l An electric road from Marion to Indianapolis is projected. The Thorntown revival claims to have resulted in 207 conversions. Felix Hunter, of Jasper, was killed while coon hunting, Monday night. Osgood Is preparing to build a jail, town hall and engine house all in one. Muncie has a new electric light manufacturing plant with a capital of 8500,000. The VVanamaker-Steelo syndicate have began real estate operations at Marlon. The Wabash hatters engaged in a, fraternal fracas, Saturday. Several were stabbed and shot.

A party of young men at Madison formed a syndicate and have sent to California for eight kegs of wine. Fully a half dozen stores and business places in New Castle wore raided by burglars one night last week. Bruce Carr left an estate of about $10.000, which is disposed of by will, the bulk of the legacy going to his daughter. A kettle of hot lard exploded in George Robinson’s butcher shop at Hazlewood, and Robinson was horribly burned about the face and head. 3 As the result of a feud in the wilds of Brown county, Dauphin Moore shot his uncle, William Moore, fatally wounding him in the abdomen. A Martinsville creamery is making on an average of 4,000 pounds of butter a month. During the summer this amount is increased to 8,000 pounds. The citizens of Royal Center Jhave subscribed the $6,800 necessary for the erection of a new canning factory, and the building will be constructed soon. Dr. Edward Hawkins has been convicted and sent to the Prison South from Cannelton on the charge of outraging* colored girl. His friends believe him innocent.

Prof. John M. Coulter, of the Indiana State University, has been offered the chair of botany In the new Chicago University at a salary of $7,000 per year, and will probably accept. There is a tremendous ice gorge in the Wabash extending from Lafayette nearly to Logansport. Wagon loads of fish have been killed as a result. Great anxiety is felt on account of bridges. The preliminary survey of the new town of Ingalls is being made. It will be located two miles south of Pendleton, and the projectors are negotiating for seven factories and have booked a brick factory. Congressman Shively has secured a favorable report from the committee on public buildings and grounds, extending the limit of appropriation for the South Bend public building from $75,000 to *125,000. Dr. Benjamin White, a well known physician of Sardlna, remarked to some of his friends that his married life was unpleasant. Soon after he was seen walking away, and he has since been on the missing list. Curtis Bass and Lawson Moore were sentenced to the Prison South at JBodford, Saturday, for four and seven years respectively for crimes in connection with old Tow-Bass feud. It is believed that this old vendetta is now at an end. The Republican and Sentinel newspapers of Peru brought suit against the Miami coiyity commissioners to enforce payment of full rates, as prescribed by law, for printing State and county samples of ballots, and the court has ruled in their favor. E. J. Duffy, a retired English officer, while looking after investments in Gas City, gave evidence that his mind was un balanced and went to Marion where he might place himself under protection. He claimed that parties wore seeking his life. Jack Owens, of Terre Haute, stood at a bar and drank seven large glasses of whisky, one following the other in quick succession, and then he dropped in an unconscious condition. With great difficulty he was pumped out, after which ho resumed his drunk. Six heirs of the late Henry L. Ycsler, of Seattle, VVash., reside in Wabash, and they will make a fight for a share of the estate, which is valued at over 81,000,000. The property consists of business and tenement houses in Seattle, several miles of wharves on Puget Sound, and seven saw mills. Frank Nowkam, a farmer living near Brookville, reports an unusual freak of nature, a calf having one head, shoulders and breast, two hind quarters and eight legs, all symmetrically and fully developed, and arranged as though two calves were standing side by side, which were born on his place last week. The freak lived until accidentally killed. Mrs. Rhoda Shortridge was arrested at New Castle, Tuesday, on the charge of the murder of her husband by poisoning. Stephen Tullis, a music dealer of Richmond, was arrested as her accomplice. The grand jury indicted Mrs. Shortridge and Tullis for murder in the first degree. The body of Shortridge was exhumed and enough arsenic found in his stomach to kill four men.

The result of the inquiry into the attempted assassination of J. W. Payne, of Fowler, who was shot while in bed asleep, has resulted in his wife being held for grand jury action under bonds of $5,COO. She is charged with shooting with intent to kill. Circumstantial evidence points very strongly to Mrs. Payne. She attempted no defense. James E. Campbell, who recently died at Gosport, owned a hickory cane originally cut from the Tippecanoe battle-field, and which was the property of President William Henry Harrison. The several knots on the cane are silver-tipped, and on each is a letter, the whole spoiling Harrison. General Harrison offered Mr. Campbell $100for the cane several years ago. John Minton Booher, of Brown comity,

lives In a log-house, of limited dimension 4 and accommodations, but in a northern' county ho succeeded in persuading Mrs. I. N. Know, widow, that It was a mansion, and she shipped her household effects to Edinburg and started overland for her new home. Six miles on a mud road, which she had been told was a pike, was sufficient to open the lady’s eyes as to the possibilities of Brown county, and she returned to Edinburg, and will go back to her old home. The trial of Sherman Mentor, at Monti cello, for the murder of Nelson Hyland, in Carroll county, last October, resulted in a ten-years’ sentence for Mentor. An imposing array of legal talent was provided for both sides by Judge Reynolds on petitions from State’s attorneys and counsel for the pauper prisoner. The case was one of self-confessed murder of the most brutal character, and the people who foot the bill are showing an inclination to call the court to account for saddling such a load upon them.

The late Josephus Collett bequeathed 875,000 to the Rose Polytechnic Institute, of Terre Haute; $10,000 to his brother, John Collett, of Indianapolis, $5,000 to his niece, the wife of Lieutenant May, of Chicago, and $2,(XX) to Vanvllet, a lifelong tenant on his farm. Ho also bequeathed $75,000 to the Collett Orphan Home, to be located in Vermillion county, and the remainder of the estate Is equally divided between his brother, Stephen S. Collett, and a number of sisters and nieces. The estate is valued at $500,000, but is subject to increase by development of investments made. following patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday: J. H. Beck and E. E. Reilley, Peru, meat cooler; F. P. Brewer, Angola, pruning saw; F. E. Herd man, Indianapolis, electric elevator; A. R. Hay, Indianapolis, lubricator; M. Minor, Colfiyx, dust pan; M. Powers, Lexington, garden tool; F. M. Reed, Anderson, generator; El wood & Stephenson, Cartersburg, brick or tile kiln; J. L. Ulsh, assignor of one-half to W. H. Jones, Wabash, belt tightener; A. M. Vaught. Portland, feed roller; D. Wheat, Kent, incubator; G. W. Zeiglcr, Anderson, burner for lighting or heating with artificial gas.

TAX CASE APPEALED. The Railroads Carry Their Cause to the United States Supremo Court. Attorneys for the railroad companies, in the case recently lost by them before the Indiana Supreme Court, appeared before that tribunal, Tuesday, and asked a stay of proceedings until the case could be passed upon by the United States Supremo Court. The petition was granted and the railroads filed the required bond. In effect the grant of stay of proceedings will prevent tlje collection of *1,000,000 taxes now duo until a final decision, which can not be hoped for before next fall, even if the case is advanced on the docket, and if not advanced a final decision may not be reached for years. THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, Peb 27. 18J3, Quotatkms'for Indianapolis when not specified GRAIN. Wheat—No. 3 3 rod, 65c; wagon wheat, 67c. Corn Ho. 1 white, 42c; No. 2 white, 43c; white mixed, lOjifc; No. 3 white, 40c; No. 2 yellow, 40>£c; Ho. 3 yellow, 40c; No. 2 mixed, 40c; No. 3 mixed, ear, 40c. Oats—I!o. 2 white, 35c; No. 3 white, 34140; No. 2 mixed, 33}/e; rejected, 31c. Hay—Timothy, choice, *13.00; No. 1, *12.50; No. 2, *10.00; No. 1 prairie, *7.75; No. 2, *5.50; mixed hay , *7.50. Bran *11.00 per ton. 0 i Wheat. | Corn. | Oats, i Rye. Chicago 2r’d7H 4)%\ 89 I Cincinnati...: 2 r’d 73 13'/,' 34 I 57 St. Louis 2 r'd 6714 8a I 31 5714 New York 2 r’d « 52Hi 38 Baltimore....! 75 48 j 41 | 82 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 70 4Mli! 4U i Clover i i ' Seed, Toledo 73% 4 y, I 38 ; « ,5 Detroit 1 wh 72 j 4834" 38 i Minneapolis.. 1 18_: CATTLE. Export grades *5 00@5 75 Good to ehoicoshippers 4 5i«55 0J Fair to medium shippers 3 SO/e 1 35 Common shippers 3 25f<g3 70 Stockers, common to good 3 75(44 25 Good to choice heifers 3 50 Fair to medium heifers. 3 25@3 00 Common, thin heifers 2 50q3 03 Good to choice cows 3 25,«!3 75 Fair to medium cows 2 5043 03 Common old cows 1 SlfnJS 25 Veals, good to choice 3 50 46 50 Bulls, common to medium 2 50rf£3 00 Milkers, good to choice 3000(^4000 Milkers, common to medium... 15o0@250o HOGS, Heavy packing [email protected] Mixed 7.85(48.35 Light 7.5048.15 Heavy roughs 6.50@7.£0 SHEEP, Good to choice sheep *[email protected] Fair to medium sheep 3.50^4.25 Common sheep 3,50^3.(X» Good to choice lambs 4.75^05.50 Common to medium lambs 3.75(34.35 Bucks, per head [email protected]

POULTRY A.N'I) OTHER PRODUCE, r Poultry-Hens, 10c* lb : young chickens I 10c y lb; turkeys, lo.«)lic lb. ducks, 7c $ , & ;geose, #5.40 for choice. I Eggs—Shippers paying 3 1 c. Hatter—Choice country butter. I3@l7c; common, 8@l0c; creamery, retailing from store at 30c. Cheese—Now York full cream, l3@J4c; akims, 5@7c <9 lb. (Jobbingprices.) Feathers—Prims geese 40c W lb; mixed duck, 20c V lb. Beeswax—Dark, I5c; yellow,20c (selling) Wool —Finn merino. unwashed combing, 2lc; tub washed, 3l@33e. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. I green hides, 3c; No. 2 green hides, 3>t c; No. I G. S. hides, iike: No. 3 G. S. hides, No. I ,Hallow, - k; No. 2 tallow, 3Xc. Horse Hides—$2@$3.2. r ). Tallow—No. I, 4c; No. 2.3Ji'c. Grease—White, 4c; yollw, 3%c; brown, 3c. FRUITS ANn VEGETABLES. Potatoes—*[email protected] ?? bu. Lemons—Choice, $3.50 $ box; fancy, 54.0 . Onions— $404.52$ bri; tipaoish.tt.50 pat crate.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. ( Tuesday's Senate session was opened with prayer by Dr. Cleveland. Magee’s convict labor bill, providing that prison labor shall be lot at not less that nine-five cents per day for each convict employed, passed. Bill relating to orphan’s homes passed. Bill requiring supervisors to cut weeds passed. Motion to correct journal, in regard to giving the minority parties representation on election boards, was agreed to. Bill providing for qualifications of county superintendents passed. Bill providing for the formation of trust and loan companies, to act as administrators, take charge of estates of counties, drunkards and irresponsible persons, act as attorneys in fact, etc., passed. Bill to abolish road supervisors was defeated. The House sat as a committee of the whole, Tuesday, and the day was devoted to a consideration of the general appropriation bill.

Prayer was considered unnecessary in the Senate Wednesday. Constitutional amendments were reported and made special order for Thursday. Resolution giving Secretary $450 and Assistant Secretary $500 for Indexing record was adopted. More new bills were introduced, among which were: Prohibiting county commissioners from granting liquor licenses under certain conditions; defining fourth judicial district and abolishing the fifth; providing for the publication of insurance reports in one pai>er in each county. Bill providing that ninety days shall bo the minimum sentence to penitentiary for petit larceny passed. Bill repealing sec. 4 of Australian ballot law passed to second reading. Also bill making trainwreckers’ sentence life imprisonment. A number of minor bills were passed by common consent. Bill increasing salary of judges in certain cases was engrossed. The Senate adjourned in honor of the memory of George Washington. In the House, Wednesday, the bill restoring the appointing power to the Governor passed—yeas 63, nays 29. Twentynine Democrats voted with the Republicans for the bill. Bill to amend the general tax law failed—yeas9, nays 78. House again went into committee of the whole on general appropriation bill. Resolution to pay clerk $500 and assistant clerk $550 for making House calendar adopted. Majority report favoring abolition of capital punishment was almost , unanimously adopted. Balance of day was consumed in consideration of the general appropriation bill.

In the Senate, Thursday, a resolution authorizing investigation into feasibility of sending ballots to county clerks by express was adopted. Resolution directing that a warrant for $1,755.50 bo drawn to pay expenses of the Prison South investigation was adopted. Bill relating to employment of child labor In factories passed. Bill providing that quail may be killed from November 10 to January 1 passed. Bill authorizing corporations to issue preferred stock passed. H. B. No. 43 providing penalties for the discharge of employes because of membership in labor organizations was discussed without action. Constitutional amendments came up as a special order, and labor bill postponed till 3 p. ra First amendment, as a resolution, increasing regular legislative session to one hundred days and special sessions to forty days passed .Second amendment, as a resolution, to tax corporations on gross receipts, was defeated. Bill to correct fee and salary law passed. After discussion of train wrecking bill Senate adjourned. In the House, Thursday, action on the proposed Ft. Wayne charter was postponed. Bill to appropriate 650.000 to G. A. R. encampment was considered, a favorable report having been made, but report was defeated—42, to 50 against the measure. Bill for relief of town of Washington passed. House then wont into committee of the whole on the general appropriation bill. At afternoon session the Haggard natural gas bill was defeated. Bill to require an accounting from the State Board of Agriculture was killed. Bill requiring toll roads to be kept in firstclass condition passed. Bill relating to railway insurance passed. Bill regulating number of days for county assessors passed. Senate bill fixing price of convict labor at 95 cents per day was engrossed. Bill authorizing Governor to appoint a Democrat on Monument Commission to succeed the late Gen. Tom. Rennet passed. In the Senate, Friday, bill making trainwrecking, not attended with loss of life, punishable with death was defeated. The House bill for printing sample ballots in newspapers passed. A motion to reconsider and to lay on the table carried. Bill increasing salaries of judges in certain counties carried. Bill fixing salaries of prison physicians and chaplains was engrossed. Bill extending provisions of the Metropolitan police law to cities of 10,000 was read a second time. An amendment was adopted so as to exclude Ft. Wayne. Bill regulating prison punishment was engrossed. Bill providing special charter .'or Evansville passed. Bill for protection rf minors passed. Bill providing for a Stale board of conciliation was engrossed.

Friday’s House session opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. McIntosh. Cull op bill to amend the general tax law was passed. Bill for relief of firemen passed. Bill to suppress Roby race track was introduced and ordered printed. Bill pro viding thatschool supplies may be handled same as text books are now handled passed. Bill to prohibit railroad companies from charging 10 cents extra when tickets are not purchased passed. Bill to protect boarding house keepers, failed. Resolution for holding night sessions after Monday carried. House adjourned. Rev. Mr. Ranger prayed with the Senate, Saturday morning. A lengthy discussion ensued on the constitutional amendment extending legislative session to one hundred days, previously passed and afterward reconsidered, A vote to concur failed, lacking constitutional majority—yeas 20, nays 18. Several bills were passed under

suspension of the rules, At noon Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House, Saturday, Rev. Mr. Bryan prayed. No.quorum present. Bill to allow W. H. Drapier $13,000 for stenographic reports was engrossed. Bill providing fox vacation of Grcenlawn cemetery, at Indianapolis, was engrossed. Bill to abolish capital punishment was engrossed. Bill to allow George W. Julian and W. A. Malloy $8,000 for legal services was engrossed. Bill to repeal law extending terms of city officers was introduced. TEOISLATIVE NOTES. A new township library bill has been introduced in the House. !i The McHugh bill extending terms of city offices became a law, Tuesday, without action by the Governor. The Democratic House caucus, Tuesday night, over the bill to restore appointing • power to the Governor, resulted in a row The Governor’s friends declared they had tied tho caucus. There were fifty-nine votes cast. Sixty members were present when the call was made. The tellers an nounccd twenty-nine votes for each side, not counting Mr. McMullen. Mr. McMullen afterward voted against tho bill, ma king thirty against it. Mr. Cullop disputed tho count, and, with his followers, ■withdrew. In tho vote in the House, Wednesday, tho twenty-nine Democrats who withdrew from the caucus voted with the Republicans for tho bill, which now goes to the Senate, where it is assured of passage, and Matthews wins. Tho joint legislative committee, accompanied by many members of tho House and Senate, went to the residence of Richard Henry Neff, the hero of the Rem wreck, Wednesday afternoon, and presented him with the $100 gold medal voted him by tho Assembly for his bravery. Senator Newby made the presentation speech, and Mr. Neff was warmly congratulated by many legislators. 0 Every Senator who voted to repeal the ballot publication section upon the ground of “economy,” voted for the resolution allowing two bookkeepers $35 cash per day, i for sixteen days, to discover tnat the Stat owed Warden Patten $1,500. The Governor gave a reception to the Legislature, Thursday night. Lieutenant Governor Nye was not invited, and a social rumpus was tho result. Governor Marthews claims that the supposed slight was duo to bad mail service, and his stenographer testifies that an invitation was mailed to Mr. Nye. The Lieutenant Governor is very popular in tho Senate.

ON THE MOVE. KaufiHM Populists Will Try to Komove tlio Capital from Topeka to Kanapolis. In the Populist House at. Topeka, Thursday, a resolution to remove the State capital to Kanapolis was carried with a rush. The resolution recites that the capital is now located near the eastern border; that western counties have been disfranchised by Republican rule, for the purpose of holding the capital at Topeka; that the conduct of the citizens of Topeka recently has been In defiance of the wishes of the people of the State, and that the Kanapolis people have offered to duplicate the present State House, without expense to the State, and declare that, as soon as practicable, lawful steps shall be taken to remove the capital to that city. The Senate adopted a resolution declaring that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction in the House muddle. This action partially confirms the general belief that the Populists will ignore the decision of the Supreme Court should it be adverse to the Populist House. BULLET FOR A BONANZA KING. J. W. Maekay Shot by u Rained Speculator. John W. Maekay, the famous bonanza mining man, financier and speculator, was shot in the hack at San Francisco, Friday, by a man giving the name of W, C. Rippey and narrowly escaped death. Rippey, after firing one shot at Maekay, shot himself through the left breast and will die. Mackay's wound Is not necessarily fatal, although dangerous. Great excitement prevailed for a time. Rippey at one time was worth 8150,000,.which he lost through speculation, and his misfortunes arc believed to have rendered him partially Insane. Maekay is not known to have boon in any way responsible for Rippoy’s troubles, or to have had any difficulty with him. BAD CONDITION O.- WHEAT. The Chicago Farmer's Review, of the 33d, said: “Reports on winter wheat show that inmost of the States a critical point has been reached, and on the next few weeks will depend the future, of the crop. In Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky there ' has been so much freezing and thawing, alternating with ice, and snow, that many of the correspondents confess themselves at this time unable to toil the exact condition of the plant. In some sections the snow melted and formed ice over the wheat, and this ice was in turn covered with a heavy blanket of snow, which still remains. In such cases it can only be conjectured as to the condition. In other places the ice and snow have melted and the top of the plant seems to be in bad shape, but the roots are apparently all right. In yet other local! ties the plant has been frozen out." ONLY FOUR. NO MORE. Mrs. Thomas BchUsher, wifoof a motorman on the electric road at Allentown, Pa., gave birth to four children, Mondayone boy and three girls. All died shortly after birth. Sicilian brigands are unusually active and the government Is unable to afford protection against their lawless depredations. i

OUR PLEASURE CLUB. Jack—Would you elope with anybody? Rosalie (coyly)—No, not with anybody, but I might with somebody. Thieves dread the light, and so does the man who falls out of a balloon. —

An Agreeable Doff* Prom the German, *

Friend—“How do you like your now dog, Tom. Tom—“Oh, pretty well. He lets me sit on the sofa with him now.”

He Smiles*

The fields lie hidden ’neath tho snow. And It Is cold in town. I The mercury ia at one below, , And sometimes lower down. Yet in the face of one we meet There la no lack of cheer; The plumber goes bout the street And smiles from ear to ear. —New York Press.

“Call up my wife,” said the absentminded Chicago man. “What number, please?” was tho telephone girl’s reply. Vour tongue may cleave to the roof of your mouth In a strong and vise-like clamp, But it isn’t a patching to the way It cleaves To the back of a Columbian stamp. “Say, Chimmie,” said the boy who had a white pink, “de blokie dat named dis flow’r must ov been color blind.” — Mr. Gotrox — That confounded rheumatism is making my leg ache awfully. His nephew—Er—you better have it pulled. Lawyer—Weren’t you indicted once for breaking a man’s skull with in ax-handle? Witness — I wasn’t convicted, though. My lawyer proved that as the stick had never been in an ax, it wasn’t an ax-handle.

A Problem* Puck.

Mr. Daddy—I wish our baby could talk more plainly; Brown’s baby is a month younger, and one can under stand almost every word it says. 1 wonder why it is? Mrs. Daddy (offended) —I’m sure I don’t know. (To the baby),Comesey tooty mommy itte sweety. Does ’oc wicked popper scold ’oo dear ittU popsy wopsy dodkins?

I — Comparative Nuisances*

Mrs. Tremlow—“Dick writes from Constantinople that he’s sent us a real old Damascus blade for a Christmas reminder.” Grandma Tremlow—I hope he’ll behave better than that young Baltimore one he brought from YaU last summer. I didn’t get a wink ol sleep for a week while he,was here.”

“Did you hear of Madge’s splendid luck with her wedding presents?’' “No; were they handsome?” “Hand some! I should say so! You know Madge has a great many wealth} jfriends, and each one sent her a toe of coal.”