Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 49, Hope, Bartholomew County, 30 March 1893 — Page 8

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK . A solo leather trust has boon formed. Two more bridges may bo built between New York and Brooklyn. Ex-.SenatorSaulsbury, of Delaware, died at Wilmington, Wednesday. The Minnesota Senate has passed a bill extending suffrage to women. The Cumberland (Md.) tin-plate mill has gone into the hands of a receiver. The Now Y’ork Legislature has appropriated $300,000 for the World’s Fair. The original Constitution of the United States will bo taken to the World’s Fair. Four men and a child were burned to death in an apartment house lire at Cleveland, O., Thursday. The Southern Oregon nickel mines have been sold to an English syndicate which is capitalized at $8,000,000. Corbett, the pugilist, and party, Wed nesday, were refused entertainment at a leading Pittsburg hotel. Revenue officers seized an Illicit distillery In Moore county, North Carolina, in the middle of Tuckahoo pond. Advices from Bering sea show that the steamer Alexander, from San Francisco, Is already in forbidden waters. 1 W. W. Stout, postmaster at Morrilton. Ark., has disappeared, a defaulter to the extent of several thousand dollars. The imports of specie at the port of Now Y'ork, last week, were 81,120,820, of which 81,475,033 was gold and 8410,775 stiver, There were 1,100 deaths in Now Y'ork last week. The percentage has been exceeded but a few times in tho history of the city. The Chinese Six Companies at San Francisco are preparing to make a stubborn light on the Geary law when it comes before the Supreme Court. 4 Jacob Schaefer, tho billiard player, fell and broke his wrist at Chicago, Tuesday, consequently his match with Slosson Is off, for tho present at least. Cincinnati and Covington ice manufacturers and daalers have formed a combine capitalized at 83,000,000, to control the trade of tho two cities. Smallpox has broken out In the old men’s pavilion of the almshouse at Snake Hill, N. J. There are over one hundred eases In the pest hospital. 1 Joseph Kiorsy, a Brooklyn man, while suffering from tho grip, saturated his clothes with coal oil and sot firo to them, and died from tho burns received. A monster homo rule meeting was held at Now York, Sunday night. A message of congratulation was cabled to Mr. Gladstone. Bourke Cockran delivered an eloquent address. The little town of Purvis. Miss., was almost totally destroyed by fire, Tuesday night. It is said that negroes, who had been worsted in a contest with white men, set the town on fire. Near St. Joseph,Mo.,Wednesday,a farmer found a box on a sandbar In the river, containing the decomposed remains of four men and a woman, who are supposed to have been murdered. Marsha! Shooloy, chief of police of the Osage Nation, ran upon a band of outlaws who had been peddling whisky In tho territory for a long time, and succeeded in killing two and seriously wounding a third. It Is said that Baird, tho sporting man known as ‘ Squire Abingdon" has left Mrs. Langtry an income of 8200,000 per year from his property, with the whole of his racing stud and his establishment at Newmarket. The United States consul at Rotterdam informs the State Department that there •has not tieen a case of cholera In Rotterdam since November 17, 1892, or In the whole Netherlands sineo January 12, 1893. Ex-Secretary Whltnoy, who has gone to Cuba an a pleasure trip, stated to tho press at Brunswick, Oa., Sunday, that he had no Intention of accepting office under Cleveland's administration, as his private affairs occupied all of his time. The Allerton Library Association, of Montlccllo, Piatt county. Illinois, has been Incorporated and will proceed to erect a ! building for the fine public library to be i presented to tho city of Montlcello by Mrs. ! Samuel W. Allerton and daughter, of Chi- j cago. The Chicago A Eastern Illinois railway claims to bo blocked, and it will receive no j more coal for the Chicago market. Near- j iy one thousand miners are thrown out of | employment in Vermillion county in con.sequence, and mining in Clay county is seriously sol back. Wm. Waldorf Astor, who recently embarked In journalism in London, will start a literary magazine to be published simultaneously in London and New Y’ork, May 1. It will be known as the Pall Mull Magazine, and will be sold for one shilling, or 25 cents in American money. The relations between Rev. Sam Jones and Rov. Mr, Dobbs, at Cartersvillo, Ga., are very much strained. It is alleged that both ministers carry pistols and a bloody encounter is confidently expected. Tho lie has passed, and tho community is divided on denominational lines. Chief Murray, of the Otoes, arrived at Tahiequah. I. T., Friday, from the Kiowa nation with the information that the Klowas, Otoes and Missourls are dancing and predicting tho coming of the Messiah. He *ays that the oMej- ones are frantic, and that imless-tho careless Indian agents do something trouble will result. The great annual boat race between Oxford anil Cambridge crews took place on the course from Putney to Mortlake, Wednesday. Tho distanco Is four miles. The Oxford crow won by half a boat length. The finish was one of tho most exciting in the history of these and was witnessed by tnousands of spectators. At an auction sale of Washington relics at Philadelphia, Wednesday, an autograph letter by the Father of his country, dated Mt. Vernon, Dec. 13, 1790, one day before his death, and the last letter he

ever wrote, was sold to the Historical Society for $850. Washington's secretary and book-caso was sold for 82,000. < offer relics brought high prices. FOREIGN. Po Leo receive 1 tho princess of Wales and party, Thursday. Mayor Alexjeff, who was shot by a nihilist. died at Moscow, Thursday. George William Francis Sackville Russell, tenth Duke of Bedford, died at London, Thursday. Another small planet has been discovered by Prof, Wolff, of Heidelberg, by means of photography. Tho Russian Government has suspended tho coinage of silver on private account for the reason that tho silver ruble is now cheaper than paper. The Mexican volcano, San Martin, that has been dormant for a century, has been belching forth flame, lava and ashes for tho past two weeks. There is a bili before the Canadian Parliament to incorporate tho North American Canal Company. The proposed line is between Lake Eric and the seaboard. The Siamese government lias rejected tho proposal of the French government for the settlement of the Mekong frontier question. Serious trouble is apprehended, 4 In the Panama cascsYVednesday at Paris, after tho jury had returned verdicts of of guilty, the Court sentenced M. Baihut to imprisonment for five years, to pay a fine of 75,(XX) francs, and to tho loss of civil rights. M. Biondin was sentenced to Imprisonment for two years, and De Lesseps to imprisonment for one year, the time to run currently with the five years’ sentence already imposed upon him. A correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, who is traveling in Ulster, writes that preparations have now gone so far that nothing can prevent bloodshed if the homo-rule bill be passed. Despite the denials of Mr. Morley, Chief Secretary tor Ireland, tho correspondent says it is certain that the military authorities arc seeking barrack accommodations in Belfast. for a considerable body of troops. WASHINGTON. The Senate, Thursday, confirmed a long list of Presidential nominations. No new names were sent in. Tho Republican Senators will endeavor to defeat the reorganization of tho Sonata as proposed by the Democratic caucus. The Blaine family will leave Washington in May and go abroad for a year’s res idenco. Tho Senate, Wednesday, confirmed the nominations of Frank Burke, as District Attorney, and W. H. Hawkins, as Marshal, for Indiana. Ex-Congressman Wheeler, of Michigan, was offered the. Commissionership of Pensions, Wednesday, but declined the office on account of ill-health. Secretary Morton announced the name of the new statistical agent for Indiana Friday. He is W. E. Argo, of Fort Wayne, and tho appointment is put down to tho credit of Congressman The salary is 8900. Tho Democratic Senate caucus, Tuesday, selected Wm. B. Cox. of North Carolina, for Secretary; R. J. Bright, of Indiana, for Sergeant-at-arms, and Rev. W. II. Milburn, at present chaplain of the House of Representatives, for Chaplain. PRESIDENTIAL FAVORITES. Tho President, Wednesday, sent the following nominations to the Senate: John S. Seymour, of Connecticut, to bo Commissioner of Patents. Silas W. Lamoreoux, of Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of tho General Land Office. William 11. Sims, of Mississippi, to be First Assistant Secretary of Interior. Edward A. Bowers, of Washington, D. C., to be Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office. Justice Horace H. Lurton, of Tennessee, to bo United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth judicial circuit. Philip Zoercher. to be postmaster at Toll City, Ind. Mr. Zoercher Is editor of a German newspaper at. Tell City and has represented his county In the Legislature, MORE’SIBERIAN CRUELTY. Horrible Story of an American Bailoreighteen Hundred Convict* Wearing Ball and Chain. The Ganllo which arrived at San Francisco from China, Friday, brought A, Paradise, a sailor, who with another sailor named Wilson went ashore on the coast of ICamschatka to fill water casks. A hurricane drove their vessel off, and the men traveled Inland, until they were seized by Russian soldiers, and sent to Caradock as spies. Paradise tells of horrible cruelty Inflicted on the prisoners there. Although Wilson and himself were roughly treated, they were not flogged as other prisoners. There were about six thousand convicts at thestatlon.and every YVednesdav those who had disobeyed the rules during the week were given fifty lashes with tho knout. A woman about to become a mother was knoutod, and three hours later gave birth to a dead child. Of the six thousand convicts in camp eighteen hundred wore a ball and chain. Many men were loo feeble to walk, and were, dragged along by their companions. Soldiers would prod them with bayonets to make them move more quickly. The convicts were fed with black bread and raw salt meat. Finally Paradise and Wilson were taken to Vladlovstock. From there they were sent to the Kara gold fields, a fifteen days’ journey. They suffered frightfully from hunger and fatigue. YVilson gave out and had to becarrled In a wagon. Tho United States ship Marion arrived at Vladlovstock, and tho commander, hearing of the fate of his countrymen, demanded their release. After some delay the men were given up and taken to Shanghai. As soon as Paradise was able to travel hu embarked on the Gaelic for America.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Anderson races begin July 13. Christian church circles are a!! torn up at Muncio. Leo Neal, of Hartford City, is mysteriously missing. Ft. Wayne is agitating an incroaseof saloon licenses to *250. Blackford county will build a new courthouse, costing *85,000. Six otters were caught recently in White river, near Petersburg. Over 1,000 Bedford people have signed the total abstinence pledge. The Crawfordsville creamery has been sold to satisfy claims of creditors. The Methodist church at Atlanta was badly wrecked by Thursday night's storm. William Finch, of Fayette county, a farm hand, committed suicide by hanging. Eastern capitalists are reported as having purchased the Terre Haute street railway. Ashley now claims 500 population. Five months ago there were not ton people in the town. Postoffico wrangles are occupying the attention of a number of the larger towhs in the State. A company has been organized in Crawfordsville for manufacturing a medicalelectric battery. The annual reunion of the Thirtieth Indiana Regimental Association will bo held at Monroeville, April 30. i Enoch Mow, a Republican, was declared guilty at Plymouth of bribery at the Presidential-election. The new court house at Richmond is claimed to bo the most beautiful structure of the kind in the State. . Mrs. Minnie Cramer, of Wabash, has has begun suit against Florence Ransey for *6,000 for defamation of character. ' Mrs. Elmina Louisa Johnson, former superintendent of- the Woman’s Reformatory, died at Indianapolis, Wednesday. The Allen county commissioners have raised the salaries of the judges of the Superior and Circuit Courts to *3,500 annually. - Auburn's marshal has a neatly cushioned wheelbarrow for taking bums to the “calaboose” when the “jag” is a little heavy. Several persons are searching the country near Yountsvillo for an lerolito which is supposed to have fallen there Thursday night. John Rouse, formerly of Milwaukee, while asleep on a pile of cinders in the round-house at North Vernon, was crushed to death by an engine. The Westfield furniture factory, which has been controlled by a receiver for the past year, has been sold to a companyheaded by Levi White. Cyrus Mock, the young man who was taken from his sick bed and baptized in a tank of water at Knox recently, died Friday, as a result of exposure to cold water. At Tipton the roof of the county poor house was taken oil Thursday night in the storm, and the bridge across White river at Mitchell was blown from its abutments. Business men and progressive farmers of Shoals and vicinity have leased beautiful grounds with a half mile of river frontage, and will give industrial exhibits, races, etc. Postmaster Tindelph, of Vincennes, moved the postoffice Into a building owned by himself, and Thursday a telegram from Washington ordered him to return to the old quarters. A female hugger is the latest sensation at Newport. She catches the men at night and hugs them and of course every man now has business down town after dark. Tho wives arc going a gunning fer the “hugger.” Eleven well-known farmers of Perry and Crawford counties arc under indictment for the murder of John Davidson. Six years ago these men, it Is alleged,were members of a gang of -‘White caps” that lynched Davidson because he was believed to have assaulted a young girl. Sylvester Teany, a Big Four brakeman, while coupling cars at Columbus, was crushed »o death. The deceased recently married tho widow Hemphill, ci Indianapolis, whose first husband, a Big Four employe, also met his death by accident. Dan Reese, a young farmer residing on James Ross’s farm, west of Muncio, is the possessor of a young pig that has five distinct ears. There are two ears on one side of the head and three on tho other. The pig is a great curiosity and seems happy. Miss Sarah Smith and Mr, Unvcrzaght, of Richmond, were betrothed in marriage. The bride was a Protestant and tho groom a Catholic, and neither would consent to be married by a minister of opposite faith. Thereupon they compromised by going to an adjoining State and calling upon a magistrate. A syndicate, which Is understood to bo headed by Senator Brice, has secured option on several hundred acres of land ten miles west of Muncio. on Killbuck creek, near Reed’s Station, and ten manufacturing concerns will bo located there. Tho new town will be known as Brice City or Brlceton. The Delaware county commissioners have ordered elections in several townships April 29, for the purpose of voting on tho question of giving a subsidy to two railroads now seeking admission to Muncle. One road Is an extension of the Midland from Anderson. The other Is a line running from Chicago to Columbus. During a theatrical performance at Warsaw, Wednesday night, a fly-wheel used In producing tho saw mill scene In tho comedy of “Josh Spruceby” burst, and a fragment struck Edward Smith, who was assisting behind the scenes, fracturing hfs skull. Physicians pronounce the Injury serious. There was serious trouble at Ellwood, Friday night, between Pan Handle employes and tho employes of tho street rail-

way company, while the latter were trying to put In a crossing over tho Pan Handle road. Citizens rallied to the aid of the street car men and a riot seemed imminent, but a conference was hold and tho fight was declared off. Grading has begun on tho “Mooney Latteral railway" at Columbus. The officers and stockholders are owners and employes of the large tanning plant of W. W. Mooney & Sons, tho largest tannery in the world. Tho railway will be less than one-quarter of a mile in length, and Is being constructed for connection with tho Big Pour. A dispatch from Jeffersonville to tho Indianapolis News, Thursday, says: The prospects of crops were never better at this season, in fact the farmers declare tho wheat looks too well, and they fear that they will not be able to obtain a price for It when tho selling time comes. Tho peaches and early fruits are budding rapidly and the indications are for a great fruit crop. Christian Snyder, a German residing near Roanoke, claims to have hold office longer than any one in the State. He has been tho supervisor of the roads In Jackson township for over thirty-three years, and, with the exception of one year, those have all been successive. Snyder is about seventy years old and is a bachelor. Ho is a candidate for re-election this year. Gabriel Godfrey, tho last of the Miami Indian chiefs, has sued Miami county to recover taxes paid by him on Indian lands for tho last twenty years. Tho suit involves many thousand dollars. Godfrey has always maintained that tho assessment and collection of taxes from Indians was illegal, and has paid them under protest. While an Inspection was being made ol the now DoPauw window-glass factory at Alexandria, a natural gas leak was discovered in the regulator building, and an attempt to locate it with a lighted match was in every sense successful. In the explosion which followed tho building was badly wrecked, and George B. Shaw and E. B. Johnson wore frightfully burned. Shaw is not likely to recover. Michael Cadden, of Terre Haute, hailed a motor car, which failed to stop, and he fired two shots at tho motorman and tho conductor, hitting the car but missing tho men. Cadden followed until ho found another motor at rest, and he revenged himself by driving the employes from their post. Still later he took two shots at another passing car, with equally as unsuccessful results. There was a peculiar accident in James Kintncr's saw mill, in Boone township, Harrison county. The belt runnlug tho fly-wheel broke and the engineer shut off thesteam and jumped out of the way. The moving belt, however, struck a lover, turning on the steam and again setting i the engine in motion. Then the fly-wheel burst, scattering tho fragments in every direction and seriously injuring Joseph Edmondson. Old residents at Brownsburg say that the Asiatic cholera is preceded by what is know as “cat cholera.” The people there arc becoming seriously alarmed, owing to tho fact, that the feline race has been dying at an alarming rate there during the recent warm weather. The chol- | era acts upon the cats the same as upon | persons. The Evansville Tribune Is authority for 1 the statement that a syndicate of local . politicians have made the Shanklins an offer of *50,000 for the Courier plant, and that tho Shanklins are asking *55,000. I The Tribune also says that Mr. Shanklin ] and his friends arc determined to establish | a daily evening paper at Indianapolis as ! the organ of that wing of tho State Dem- j ocracy of which ho is the acknowledged ( leader. On the night of Feb. 21. two Indlanapo- i lis young men, named Van Guysling and j Morrison, hired a livery rig and drove in- j to the country six miles to the farm of Peter Poland, where they made a dean J sweep of the chicken roost, taking away ! with them six dozen fowls. The thieves were arrested the next day, and in the Marlon Criminal Court, March 22, were sentenced to eighteen months In the Prison North and fined *50 each.

W. II, HAWKINS, UNITED STATES MARSHAL EC* INDIANA.

“Oil, MOTHER, I’M DRCNK!” A Fire-Year-Old Child Drinks Whisky and Dies. Blanche Bulger, aged five years.fcllllmn at her mother's feet, Saturday, at Maysville, Ky., exclaiming, “Oh, mother, I’m drunk.” It is not known how much whisky tho child drank, but physicians think it must have been nearly a half pint. The child died of passive congestion of the brain, caused by the effects of tho whisky. Over 80 'errors were made by careless clerks in the naval appropriation bill alone.

m IN THE GEOGRAPHY. Discovery of a Mysterious Underground lUvor. A mysterious underground river has been discovered about four and a half miles northwest of Angusta, III. A few days ago William Allen dug a well cm hi* farm in that locality, going to a depth of thirty-three feet. Not finding as much water as he wished, he dug forty-four feet further, and suddenly the augur dropped through the bottom of the well. What water had accumulated also went through the hole. The hole was plugged up with clay and debris and the well again filled with water, but suddenly the entire bottom fell out, carrying all but about five feet of tho w r alls with it. Nothing was then left but a deep hole in the ground, at the bottom of which could.be seen a swift, rushing stream. Rubbish, stones, logs and other debris have been cast into it, but tho rushing current carries it away almost Instantly. Efforts have been made to sound the depth of the subterranean river, but they are futile. The find is a deep mystery and is occasioning no little interest. LE GRAND TOUR. A Novel Bet—Miss Doolittle's Swing Around tho Circle. As the result of a bet among Chicago railroad men that a lady could leave Chicago and travel via Portland, Ore., San B'ranclsco, El Paso, City of Mexico, New York and Boston, and then back to Chicago without putting her foot upon tho ground, such being the perfect connecting facilities that she would never bo obliged to go outside of railroad stations, Miss Bessie Mitchell Doolittle, of that city, having been selected as the person to decide the bet, left Chicago at 10:30 p. m„ March 23. via the Chicago & Northwestern. By the terms of tho bet tho lady is permitted to leave tho railway depot at tho City of Mexico to call on President Diaz. The whole ride will be on standard guago railways except from the City of Mexico to Laredo, Tex. Miss Doolittle expects to rctur 1 to Chicago April 10. NEW STAKE RACE PROGRAM. Tho Terre Hate trotting association has decided to offer the following nomination, two thousand-dollar, stakes: Froc-for-all trot, free-for-all pacer 2:15 trot, 2:19 trot. 2:23 trot, 2:23 trot, 2:14 pace, 2:17 pace, and 3:25 pace. The conditions are; First payment. May 0, $37.50; second payment, Juno 7, $37.50; third payment, August 15. $25, at which time ail entries must be named. The horses must bo eligible to classes May 6, entries to close on that date. The program of the stake races is designed to supply the place of the (ivo stakes, including tho ten-thoasand-dollar free-for-all stallion race, which failed to fill. Tho regular purse races will be announced shortly before race week. THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, March 27. 1S93. Quotations for Indianapolis whoa ace.spaoUlod GRAIN. Wheat—No. 2 rod, 61c; No. 3 red, 63o; wagou wheat, 60c. (lorn No, 1 white, 41c; No. 2 white, 41V£c; white mixed, 4i>ic; No. 3 while, 40c; No. 2 yellow. ;t9c; No. 3 yellow, 33><c; No 2 mixed, No.3 mixed. 3'Jc, car,. MX& Oats—No. 2 while, 35>4c; No. 3 while, 35c; No. 2 mixed, rejected, 30c, Hay—Timothy. choice, $13.00; No. 1, $12.00; No. 2, $10.00; No. 1 prairie, »7.S0; No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay,$7.50. Bran $1.'.5Q per tou. i Wheat. . Corn. ; Oats, i tty*. Chicago a r'd 7J 1 41 31,'H Cincinnati...- 8 r’d os i 4114 .Si 1 * M St. Louis * r'd rtS’ii 1754 10 V» Ml* New York 3 r'd T*' 53* as I Baltimore.,..! 7.14- 4i i 41:4 62 Philadelphia. 2 r'd 73 | 40 1 41 Clover I : Seed. Toledo ; 63 41 : 3 > 8 19 Detroit 1 wb«J i 41* S3 1 Mlnnaapotls-.J 00 CATTLE. Export grades $5 5D Good to cholceshinpers 4 Shiga 0J Fair to medium shippers 3 90g4 Hi Common shippers 3 7J Stockers, common to good 3 75uC4 21 Good to choice heifers 3 71(34 23 Fair to medium heifers 3 35@3 6) Common, thin heifers 2 50rt>3 O) Good to choice cows 3 S5«3 7i Fair to medium cows 2 50,43 oi Common old cows 1 5T@2 2'i Veals, good to cholco 3 50<dfl 0) Bulls, common to medium.... 2 503i3 0) Milkers, good to cholco 3000^40,>.) Milkers, common to medium... I5o0,g250) uoos. Heavy packing T.503S.'.3 Mixed 7.15.#7.7) Light 7.0J357.55 JUoavy roughs 6.50&7.20 SHEEP. Good to choice sheep $1.255?5,05 Fair to medium sheep 3.50^4.2* Common sheep. 2.50(*3.0M Good to choice lambs 4.7j;«5.51 Common to medium lambs 3 73,^4.25 Bucks, per head S.S0&S.90 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—Hens.' Jacyl lb:young chickens ]0e V 1*>; turkeys, U<rl!c It., ducks, 7e V ttjgeoso, f5.40 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 13c. Butter—Choice country butler, 14j3!l6e; common, (K310c; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. Cheese—New York fall cream, 13@l!c; skims, 5@7c V 56, (Jobbing prices.) Feathers— Prime geese 40c V tt>; mixed duck, 20c V tt>. Beeswax—Dark, 13c; yellow, 20c (selling) Wool—Fine merino, IfiiJlSe; unwashed combing, 2lc; tub washed, 31@33c. BIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides —No. 1 green hides, 3c; No. 2 green hides, 2i{c; No. 1 G. S. hides, 4,Wc; No. 2 G. S. hides. 3Xc: No. 1 Hallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, 3>£c. Horse Hides—$2@$2.35. Tallow—No. 1, 4c; No. 2, 3Jfc. Grease—White, 4c; yellow, brown, Sc. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Potatoes— S'@95ciS) bu. Lemons— Choice, 13.50 It box; fancy, $4.0 Onious—$3.75@4J|) bri;Spaalsb,$L50 per crate. Maple syrup, $1 per gallon; maple suar IDs per pound.