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is a congressional office—that is to say, an otSce in which Congress is more directly interested than any office under the government—it is within the probabilities that the President may allow Mr. Rounds to continue iu his present position indefinitely. One of the great drawbacks which the President will experience in filling this position is the fact that the law requires that the person bolding the office of Public Printer must be a practical printer as well as a practical binder. Os course there are plenty of practical printers and binders in the country, but there aro not many who are in a position to accept an office paying $4,500 a year, which requires them to dispose entirely of all their outside interests; while men who have no outside interest, who are applicants for this position, are, as a rule, not the men who would be likely to be selected to carry on so important a government work. GOVERNMENT PRINTERS. Their Wages Will Be Left to the Discretion of the Public Printer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. * Washington, Jan 28. —There has been a grcatdeal of pressure brought before the labor committee of the House to induce that body to report a bill directing the Public Printer to increase the compensation of type-setters in his office from 50 to 60 cents a thousand ems, and from 40 to 50 cents an hour for time-work. If such a bill as this should be reported there would not be enough members against it to raise the necessary objection against its unanimous consideration, but the chairman of the committee said to yoor correspondent that his committee would not go so far as this, even to please the powerful Columbia Typographical Union, which controls all labor organizations in the District of Columbia. “What we propose to do,” said Chairman O'Neill, “is, not to fix the wages that the Public Printer shall pay, but we will probably report in favor of abolishing the limit which he may pay. Before the change in the law, it was customary to pay the prices which the Public Printer asked us to fix as a scale. The act referred to limited the price to 50 cents a thousand ems. and 40 cents an hour. The committee will undoubtedly give the Publie Printer discretion in the matter of fixing compensation for the work in his office, when, if he deems it for the best interest of the government and justice to the printers, he can increase the pay to the figure they ask, or even to a higher rate if he sees fit. It would be simply nonsense for Congress to fix wages this year and have to change the law again a year hence to meet some contingency which may arise in the meantime.” MINOR MATTERS. Annoyances to Which Republican Senators are Subjected by Office-Seekers. Special to tho ludianaooUH Journal. Washington, Jan. 28.—“ You would be surprised at the pressure which has been brought to bear upon the Sergeant at-arrns of the Senate for the places under him,” said a Republican Senator to your correspondent to-day. “There are, perhaps, 20,000 displaced Republican officials in the country, and it would seem from the Applications which I and my associates receive that at least 19,000 of them are candidates for minor positions in the Senate. The whole horde of office-seekers have cow directed their guns upon the Senate, as that is the last stronghold ■which the Republicans possess. Scarcely a day passes that a Republican Senator does not receive from one to fifty applications from men for positions as door-keepers, laborers, folders or messengers on the Senate floors, and we are overrun with these applications to-day almost as badly as we were when the departments were open to us, with this difference, however—before the passage of the civil-service law it was possible to comply with some of the requests sent us. Now. however, it is utterly impossible to do so. Still, the office-seeker cannot appreciate our position.

The Alleged Signal-Service Irregularities. Washington. Jan. 28.. — Gen. W. B. Hazen to-day furnished the following statement in regard to Comptroller Maynard's report on the accounts of disbursing officers of the Signal Service: “In the matter of the Signal-service accounts, alleged in the newspapers to have been reported upon by the Second Comptroller, and of which this office has no other knowledge,, there is nothing of any nature or kind but what is always found in an ordinary statement of differences in an officer’s public accounts, or calling for more full or clear explanations or statements. I have been told, for the past two months, that the case was being prenared by clerks who have been discharged from the Signal Service, and it has been made purposely hostile and sensational. There is not an act of wrong doing in these matters, and the framing and publishing, just now (with which the Comptroller had nothing to do) is purposely hostile, and intended to affect the investigation going on in Congress.” Mr. Sparks Explains a Ruling Washington, Jan. 28. — 1n reply to.various uestions in respect to rulings of the General .and Office, Commissioner Sparks has made pubc a letter in which he says: “My decision holding that a person who has made and perfected pre emtion entry cannot afterward commute a homestead, since that would be equivalent to two pre-emptions, is not expected, should it be affirmed (it is now on appeal), to affect cases finally settled under previous rulings. Conveyance after final entry and before patent are held to be legal and allowable as botween the parties, but their effect as to the claim against the United *States depends upon the validity of the entry. The only questions before this office in any case are whether the entry was made in good faith by a qualified party, and if the law has been complied with. A Postal-Note Currency Proposed. Washington Special. General Binghafcn has introduced a bill providing for a postal note, which can be cashed at any money-order office. The General says the present law, which requires the cashing of a postal note only at the office on which drawn, works an unnecessary hardship. A postal order ought to be good anywhere. Should his bill become a law, it would seem to have the effect of a Treasury rote, redeemable at the pleasure of the holder, aud really form no small addition to the circulating medium. A Thrifty Comptroller. Washington Special. First Auditor Chenoweth hastened his confirmation by the Senate in a peculiar manner. Among other things, he compelled—under the circumstances no other word can be used—the clerks in his bureau, Democrats and Republicans alike, to sign a paper eulogistic of himself and the work performed by him while in office, which I am told, was forwarded to the Senate committee before which his nomination was then pending. The Democrats whom Chenoweth had put into fat places were glad enough, of course, to sign the document, and Republicans were afraid they would lose their positions if they disobeyed. The Next Step in the Contest. Washington Sprcial. If the President refuses the papers, it is now pretty well settled that the further steps in the matter will be conducted by the Republican Senators in public. They feel that if they want to rtrry their point—the protection of their own people removed from office—they must do this openly, before the public, as General Logan the other day expressed his belief all public business •tight to be conducted. Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin. Washington Special. There is nothing specially prepossesing in Mr. Spooner’s personal appearance. He is apparently a young man of scarcely forty, not much above medium height and rather slender, of the blonde type, and with a smoothly shaven face. £ut he has a strong voice, well under control, a

most graceful delivery and a wonderful command of language, which he used to express his brilliant thought with great impressiveness. His speech was highly commended, and among those who spoke of it most highly was Senator Evarts, wko said that he knew Mr. Spooner very well and was not at all surprised at his eloquence. Mr. Evarts added that Mr. Spooner stood very high In his profession and has been offered very lucrative positions, but declined them all to become a United States Senator. 9 General and Personal. special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 28. Ex-Representative Thomas J. Wood, of Crown Point, who has been here several days, mingling with his many friends, has left for home. Hoosiers generally concede to him a renomination for Congress against Representative Owen, of Logansport. They consider Mr. Wood and Judge Dykeman the strongest Democrats in the district C. H. Hubbard and H. B. Smith, of Hartford City, arrived here to-day from New York, where they have been on business. They will start home to-morrow night. This afternoon they visited the Capitol, and were shown around by Representative Steele. An increase of pension has been granted Dr. Rooker, of Castleton. J. P. Evans, of Fort Wayne, is at the Ebbitt. Treasurer Jordan returned to Washington this morning. Mr. Jordan says that Mr. C'anda, the new assistant treasurer at New York, was sworn in last night and took formal possession of the office. The count of the moneys and securities began at once and will be pushed to completion. It will take about three week3 to complete the count Noah E. Fiery has been commissioned postmaster at Tulip, Greene county, and John R, Smith at Kendailville. AN EXCITING CONTEST. Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling Between the Japanese Champion and a Wisconsin Man. Chicago, Jan. 28. —An exciting contest, with incidents bordering on the sensational, was witnessed to-night by a large audience at the Central Music Hall, in the wrestling match between Matsada Sorokatchi, the Japanese athlethe, and Evan Lewis, of Madison. The term3 were $250 and 75 per cent, of the gate reqgipts, best three in five falls, catch-as-cateh-can. Frank Cover, the pugilist, acted as referee. Sorokatchi was hardly a match for Lewis in point of strength, but as to quickness and agility there could be no choice, and in skill the Jap was a trifle the superior man. The first fall was won by Lewis iu exactly 2\ minutes. There had been a couple of minutes' preliminary skirmish, in which Sorokatchi appeared to decided advantage. With a rush, Lewis secured a hold on his opponent's legs, and lifting him high in air, threw him squarely on his back. > In the second bout, Lewis got a terrific neck hold on the Jap, and was choking him with a dgath-like grip, when the referee interfered. A moment later Sorokatchi, with a sudden jerk, pitched Lewis head foremost off the stage. The Jap profusely apologized, and Lewis and he shook hands. Again they grasped each other. Quick as a flash the form of Sorokatchi went straight over the footlights and sprawling below on the reporters’ chairs. The referee, without hesitation, declared this action by Lewis willful, and gave the fall to Sorokatchi. Both wrestlers eyed each other wickedly, and in the third round Lewis lost no time in getting his favorite neck hold, and pressing the -Jap's neck till ho was too feeble to resist. Sorokatchi at once declined to wrestle the remaining bouts, declaring the choke process unfair. Lewis thou offered to loave it out, but the JaD feared to trust the Wisconsin man, and firmly refused to proceed. At 9:45 p. m. Lewis was declared the victor.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. There is not a smallpox-infected house in Montreal, and the few patients in the hospitals are rapidly convalescing. Joseph Simmon, advance agent for Signor Boseo, was knocked down by footpads at Cleveland last night and robbed of $165 and a gold watch. He was taken to a hospital. The body of Jacob W. Thowan, the actor, who died at the Forest Home for Actors, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday night, was taken to Lancaster, Pa., yesterday afternoon, and cremated. N. S. Glore, proprietor of the Brunswick restaurant, Louisville, Ky.. assigned yesterday. Liabilities, $4,000. Glore has been the proprietor of several well-known hotels there. He has left the city, and is supposed to be in New York. On Wednesday night Antonio Block, an old merchant on the Texas frontier, was attacked in his store by two men. His head was chopped to pieces with an ax, and his safe was robbed of $4,000. Suspicion points to employes in his store. The man who was found murdered at Jackson and Gray streets, Louisville, yesterday morning, with a bullet hole through his head aud a forehead wound from a bludgeon or stone, has been identified as John B. McCoy, a gambler and sport. The theory is that he was followed and murdered for money by unknown parties. Russellville, Ky., is excited over awritten threat by unknown parties to kill R. H. Caldwell and burn his residence. Mr. Caldwell is a wealthy citizen, brother to ex-Congressman Caldwell. The letter stated that these throats would be executed if ho did not send SSOO to a designated spot by Saturday. Black-mail is suspected. John McMahon was tax collector in Hoboken, N. J., for ten years. Two years ago, when a shortage of $51,000 was discovered in his accounts, he disappeared. He was arrested last night, in New York, and taken to Jersey City. There are several indictments for embezzlement against him. Johnston Morrison, a wealthy and well-known contractor, doing business at 612 Chestnut street, St Louis, is reported to the police as having disappeared on Jan. 25, and has since not been located by his friends. At the time he disappeared he was supposed to have a large amount of money on his person, and it is feared that he has met with foul play. George Finch, the desperado, who was reported ambushed and shot near Adairville, Ky., by John Blair, was not shot, but was beaten to death with a chair while asleep. Blair says he killed Finch because he had slandered his wife. A sheriff’s posse is in pursuit of Blair, who has gone over into Tennessee. Blair, who was in the employ of Finch, fled from Alabama two years ago, after killing his wife’s paramour.

The Townley Ileirs. Detroit, Jan. 28.—The Lawrence Townley heirs continued their meeting to day. Hon. S. H. Blanko, of Toronto, will act as attorney for the two or throe hundred heirs nowhere, and go to England to investigate the estate and see what the chances are for securing anything. An organization has been formed similar to that in Toronto, and the members divide the expenses and promise to share equally whatever may be secured from the estate. It was not definitely decided to press the claims immediately, although the general sentiment favors that project. How the Kill-Von-Kiill Will Be Crossed. New York, Jan. 28.—According to Mr. Erastus Wiman, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will not be prevented from crossing the Kill-von-Kull and reaching New York harbor, even if the New Jersey Legislature has refused permission to bridge that strip of water. He says piers will be built out into the water one hundred feet on either side, and that a boat four hundred feet long will be constructed to fill the gap, furnishing a continuous track across. Whenever a vessel approaches the boat will put on steam and paddie out of the way. Scott's Emulsion of Pure COD LIVER OIL, WITH HYPOPHOSPHITES, Very Palatable and F/fi carton* in Watting 1 titrate*. Dr. C. T. Bromser, Rochester, N. Y., says: “After having used Scott's Emulsion with decided benefit upon myself, I have taken great pleasure in recommending it sinco in the various conditions of wasting in which it is indicated.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1886.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. Abuse of Confidence by an Alleged Editor —What Came of a Runaway Marriage —The Illinois Habitual-Criminals Act. INDIANA. An Alleged Editor Abases the Kindness of A Fort Wayne Business Man. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Fokt Wayne, Jan. 28.—A few months since a Mr. J. B. Buergler, a German Catholic, came to this city from Chicago and started a German Catholic weekly called Der Weltberger. Through the kind assistance lent him by the Catholic clergy and others, the paper obtained a fair circulation. The editor, when here, made his headquarters in the office of K J. Bauer, real estate and insurance agent, who obligingly backed his credit in bank. A few days ago Buergler was given by Bauer a considerable sum of money with which to meet a maturing obligation iu Chicago, and visited that city, returning with a receipt which it is since learned was forged. On Sunday last, he received from Bauer another sum, and left again, ostensibly for Chicago, to pay the balance of his indebtedness. Bauer went to Chicago on the next day, but could learn nothing of Buergler there. Since then, Chief of Police Diehl, of this city, has traced the man west as far as Danville, 111., and at last accounts he was traveling over the Wabash system on a pass. Bauer is out of pocket over SI,OOO and has left, by way of recompense for his kindness, Der Weltberger, some love letters written to Buergler by a Chicago woman and the photograph of the two. The suddenlymade editor will continue the publication of the paper. What Came of a Runaway Match. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greensburg, Jan. 28.—About Dec. 10, 1883, two young people —Harry Edwards and Alice Randall —created quite a furore here by a highlysensational elopement, going South and marrying in Tennessee. They continued their trip, visiting the principal cities South, until the money which he had borrowed of an uncle was all expended. They then appealed to her father for means to return, and soon went to Cincinnati, whero they secured a precarious subsistence until the following March, when, on account of his failure to support her, she returned to her parents. To-day she filed her petition asking a divorce, and that she be restored to her maiden name. She is a very handsome brunettee, now nineteen years old. Kuightstown Republicans. to tlie luJian&colis Journal. Knightstown, Jan. 28.—The Republicans of Wayne township met in convention in G. A. R. Hall, to-day, and nominated the following delegates to the congressional convention to be held at New Castle, Feb. 11: J. M. Wink, E. G. Mostler and W. M. The central committeemen chosen were: A. \v. Saint, J. L. Shelton, T. B. Deem. The convention expressed a preference for popular mode of nominating county officers. Charged with Forgery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Jan. 28.—Sheriff Nelson last night arrested, six miles from the city, a young man named James Cahill, son of a respectable farmer, for forging hia father’s name to a note for $175. With the spurious note he purchased a horse, which he soon afterwards sold for SIOO, creating suspicion in the mind of the purchaser of the honesty of his ownership. A bench warrant has been out for Cahill’s for three months past. A Fight That May Result iu Murder, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shel.byvil.le, Jan. 28.—Lewis Richardson and Harry Sullivan engaged in a bitter fight, near the J., M. & I. depot, to-night, and Richardson hit Sullivan over the head with a coupling-pin, inflicting probably fatal injuries. Sullivan was taken to his home at Lewis Creek. Officers are after Richardson.

Minor Notes. Os the five prisoners in the Sullivan jail, three are held for rape. A fire at At herton burned the house of Charles Anstead. Loss, $1,600. The houße of Daniel Hosea, near Henryville, has burned. Loss, S6OO. James Rector, an enterprising merchant at New Salisbury, Harrison county, died on Wednesday. Jame3 D. English, aged eighty-three years, a well known citizen of Dearborn county, has died at Moore's Hill. Dr. D. Rogers, of Greencnstle, has bought the Walnut street House of that place, aud leased it to James Owens. Henry Murley, a farmer, whoresided five miles north of Monon, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. Over one hundred witnesses in the Henning murder trial, at Crawfordsville, have been summoned from Parke county. William Bridges, a well-known citizen of Greencastle, has suffered a paralytic stroke. His entire right side is paralyzed. Michael Zacharas, an Evansville plasterer, fell from a scaffold and broke bis left leg. Owing to his age his condition is critical. Elijah Lincoln, of Princeton, a soldier of Company B, Fifty-eighth Indiana, has received a check for $1,057 back pension. Rev. T. D. Fyffe, of Ladoga, is holding a protracted meeting in the Alamo Presbyterian Church, in Montgomery county. Anew weekly paper, to be called the Labor Lance, will be started in Terre Haute next month by McLaughlin & Demarest. Jeremiah Hankie, a Mexican war soldier, living in Montgomery county, has been declared to be insane, and taken to the asylum. William Strain has been put in jail at Terre Haute, charged with stealing $45 worth of silverware from the steamer Rosedale Mrs. W. Barnett, a highly-esteemed lady of Charlestown, while attending a revival, has become deranged through religious excitement. Clinton Saylor, a twelve-year-old boy at Laurel, while playing shinny was struck upon the head. His skull is thought to have been fractured. Wm. Wharton, deputy recorder of Yanderburg county, died at Evansville on Wednesday, aged thirty-four years. lie leaves a wife and child. Capt. J. B. White, of Fort Wayne, has given two acres of eligible property in that city on which to erect a home for disabled Baptist ministers. A Greeucastle statistician has made the awful discovery that of 759 female graduates of DePauw (Asbury) University, only 196 have since married. The Lebanon Patriot, in the hands of its new proprietors, S. J. Thomson & Son, is one of the cleanest and best edited county papers that come to this office. At Locknort. the shoe house of J. R. Tryon, Collins & Hixon's drug store, and Fox’s saloon were burglarized and goods and small amounts of money taken. E. E. Williamson, a farmer, living east of Princeton, at a depth of 200 feet, has found a superior quality of coal, the vein being three and a half feet thick. The dwelling-house of Isaac Chick, in Clark township, Montgomery county, was burned during the absence of the family. All the household goods were lost Mrs. Clara McPheeters, wife of Dr. Joseph G. > McPheeters, of Bloomington, died in that city.

on Tuesday, in the seventy-second year of her ape. She leaves a husband, two sons and two daughters. Two children in the family of Chas. Wilson, near Sugar Grove, Tippecanoe eonnty, have died with typhoid fever, and two more are very low with the same disease. Christiana Pfaeffle, of Evansville, widow of John Pfaaffle, has brought suit against the Ancient Order of United Workmen for failure to pay death benefit on her husband's life. Jacob Smiley, a deranged Tippecanoe eonnty farmer, who escaped from the Hospital for the Insane a few days ago, has been captured near his former home, and returned to the hospital. John Shields, for sixty years a resident of Washington county, near Salem, and for fifty years a member of the Baptist Church, died suddenly ut the residence of his son, Green B. Shields, at Salem. The trustees of Walnut Hill Cemetery, at Jeffersonville, have recently spent SI,OOO in improving and beautifying that city of the dead. It is one of the most beautiful burial places iu southern Indiana. Gibson county has a female school-teacher who has been engaged in school teaching for about thirty years, and for about fourteen years of that time has been employed in one school, where she is still engaged. John R. and George N. Truesdale and associates have been granted the privilege to erect and maintain gas-works at Greencastle. They propose to supply gas at a price not to exceed two dollars per 1,000 feet Mrs. Elias Heustis. mother of Benjamin Heustis, of Lawrenceburg, and one of the oldest and best-known residents of Dearborn county, died on Monday, at her home, on Manchester Heights, aged eighty-seven years. A man about forty years of age, eiving his name as George Ennis, of Winchester, Randolph county, where, he says, his brother is janitor of the court house, was arrested at Richmond last night for passing a S2O counterfeit bill. John Bryant was brought into the Mayor’s Court, at Terre Haute, as a vagrant. He claimed to be a contortionist. Upon giving quite a remarkable exhibition of athletic skill in the presence of the court, he was told to go. At a meeting of the church membership yesterday afternoon a unanimous call wa3 extended to Rev. William Torrence, of Franklin, Ind., to become the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Greeiißburg, at a salary of $1,500 and a parsonage. Louisville Courier-Journal: The cantilever span of the Kentucky and Indiana bridge, over the Indiana channel, is neariftg completion. Work on the Kentucky end of the cantilever span over the Kentucky chanuel will be commenced this week. David Sbrum, the contractor for building the Salem water works, failed to fill his bond and the enterprise is suspended. Mr. Sbrum could have given his bond but for the reason that the moneyed men of Salem did not want the waterworks, and only for this reason declined to go on the bond. Michael Dunn, a Richmond machinist, while making repairs on a locomotive, in which the fire had been nearly extinguished for three hours, removed the “dome cap,” when the steam rushed out, comDletely enveloping him. He was at first supposed to be fatally hurt He is badly scalded, but will recover, A child of John Mercer, near Jeffersonville, was badly burned, and may die from its injuries. The mother had gone to a neighbor’s, and while absent the child got hold of a piece of paper, which was lighted by the tire. The fire communicated to the child's clothing, and the lower limbs and lower part of the body were seriously burned. A theatrical manager at Terre Haute has produced a novelty in the way of advertising. Ho advertised for 500 cats. Nearly that number of boys, each with one or more cats, appeared. Each boy was given a complimentary to the show, and each cat. with a tag tied round its neck, advertising the performance, was turned loose. Col. Charles A. Zollinger, of Fort Wayne, State pension agent, haa completed bis new bond of $150,000, the sureties qualifying in double the amount, and the bond will be forwarded to the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Treasury for approval. Among the list of sureties are the presidents of the three national banks of Fort Wayne. Mr. Swaar, formerly attorney of the New Albany & Salem.railroad, at a salary of $4,000 a year, came to Sullivan, on Tuesday, in destitute circumstances and a physical wreck, being paralyzed from his hips down. The Sullivan bar made up a purse for him. Mr. Swaar is the father-in-law of James R, Fritts, lately appointed pension examiner. The remonstrance of Rockville tax payers asking the town board to rescind an fore made, appropriating $2,500 to the Terre Haute & Logansport railroad, to assist in removing their track from the present location to anew line now surveyed and help pay for the right of way of said proposed line, was laid on the table, and the appropriation will hold. Miss Nellie Cravens, seventeen years old, daughter of J. R. Cravens, attended a ball at the Bissell Hotel, Columbus, during the Christmas holidays. She fell while dancing a cotillion, striking the back of her head on the floor. She danced on as if nothing had happened, saying she was not hurt. Three days after going home she was taken suddenly ill with a sharp pain in her head, and became unconscious. She remained in this condition till Saturday night, when she died at her home in Franklin. *

ILLINOIS. The Wabitnal-Crluilnals Act Declared Const! utional by the Snpreuie Court. Chicago, Jan. 28.—A telegram was received this afternoon from the Clerk of the Supreme Court, saying that the court had declared the ha-bitual-criminals act constitutional. A year ago, Jame3 Kelly was convicted of burglary in the Criminal Court. He was indicted under the habitual-criminals act. The jury was charged to giv9 the full extent of the penalty—fourteen years—as he had served a term previously for robbery. Kelly’s attorney appealed on the ground that the punishment was excessive. The higher court now rules that it was not, and also declares the act constitutional. Brief Mention. Joseph 'Mosse was found guilty at Dixon, of the murder of Frank C. Thiel, the jury fixing the penalty at life imprisonment Daniel Frank Shirk, of Freeport, is wanted on a charge of forgery. A warrant has been issued, but the accused has evaded arrest. The Mississippi river is gorged with ice seventeen inches in thickness from the mouth of the Illinois to St. Genevieve—a distance of sixty-five miles. Alexander Mitchell, of Chicago, serving a term in Joliet for robbery, was released on Wednesday. His mother brought the pardon to the prison. At Decatur Charles Brown, a peddler of notions, committed suicide by shooting. He alleged that “his wife made life a burden to him by following him about from place to place.” The Republicans of Jacksonville have nominated W. D. Mathers to fill the unexpired term of tho late John Hopper, mayor of that place. The Democrats have nominated E. L. McDonald. William Powell, boss of the Tracy coal shaft, has mysteriously disappeared. His cap, covered with blood, was found near the shaft. It is believed that he has been murdered. The miners are hunting for him. * Trespassers Resisted. Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 28.—A Newaygo special to the Democrat says: “A large and enthusiastic meeting of citizens, held at the courthouse to-night, adopted resolutions condemning the action of the Chicago & West Michigan railroad in attempting to invade the rights of prop-erty-holders here. A railroad gang to-day tried to drive poles in the canal of the Newaygo Manufacturing Company, preparatory to building a bridge, but the rope was cut and they had to desist. If another attempt is made tho citizens are determined to stand by those chiefly interested and resist by whatever forte is necessary. Seven railroad men were arrested to day for violation of the Baker conspiracy law in this case. The railroad people had attempted to bridge the canal without asking leave. Ex-Mayor Latrobe, of Baltimore, says the best cough medicine is Red Star Cough Cure.

WILBUR F. STOREY S ESTATE. The Heirs Engr&ge in a Legal Fight for Possession of the Dead Man’s Property. Chicago, Jan. 23.—The contest over the will of Wilbur F. Storey, which has been in progress in the courts at various times since his death, has occasioned much interest. The hearing is on appeal from a decision of the Probate Court, and has been in progress in the Circuit Court this week. Mr. Storey left two wills, one executed in February, 1881, which left the Times newspaper and nearly all the remainder of his estate to his widow. Another will, executed in 1879, was almost identical in form, save that it contained a provision preventing Mrs. Storey from again marrying; otherwise, the estate was t,o go to the blood heirs. When the will of 1881 was offered for probate the three witnesses to the instrument testified that Mr. Storey was not a responsible person when it was executed. The blood relatives, Mrs. Farraud, a sister of the testator, and Anson L. Storey, a brother, also contested the probating of the will on that ground. The Probate Court refused to admit the will of 1881 to probate. The widow thereupon offered the 1879 will for probate. In the meantime, Mrs. Farraud took an appeal from the decision of the Probate Court This was characterized by the counsel for Mrs. Storey as a move to obstruct the speedy settlement of the estate. The attorneys for Mrs. Storey accepted the issue as to the insanity of her husband, and, yesterday and to day, called a large number of witnesses, including Hon. B. Washburne, J. H. McVicker, Dr. Moses Gunn, Judge Lucius B.Otis, and former attaches of the Times, who testified that Mr. Storey thoueh weak in body, was sound in mind and memory during the year In which he executed the will. This afternoon the attorney for Mrs. Farraud asked leave to dismiss her appeal, stating that he advised his client that he was convinced the will could not be admitted to probate. The counsel for Mrs. Storey opposed this. The court said he would hear arguments and decide the motion to-morrow. BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH. An Enormous Increase in the Value of Property in that Section Since 1579. Baltimore, Jan. 28.—The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record publishes, to-day, its annual review of the industrial growth of the South, and the progress made in the development of the manufacturing and mining interests of that section during 1885. Notwithstanding the general depression in business throughout the country, a noticeable feature is the wide diversity of Dew enterprises, which includes almost every industry known in the country. The amount of capital, including capital stock of incorporated companies organized during the year, and capital engaged in enlarging and rebuilding those destroyed by fire, aggregates $56,812,000, divided among the fourteen Southern States as follows: Alabama, $7,841,000; Arkansas, $12,220,000; Florida, $2,019,000; Georgia, $2,500,100; Kentucky, $18,304,200; Louisiana, $2,118,500; Maryland. $6,G 65.800; Mississippi, $761,500; North Carolina, $3,230,000; South Carolina, SSSG,OOO; Tennessee, $2.61*2,000; Texas. $3,232,000; Virginia. $3,314,000; West Virginia, $12,056,000 —total, $66,812,000. Summing up some statistics of the South’s progress since 1880, the Record shows that since then 10,400 miles have been added to the South’s railroad mileage, the building of which, added to the investments in old roads and their improvement, foots up $571,000,000, the actual cost of the railroads of the South and their equipment, according to statistics, being over $1,250,000,000, against $679,800,000 iu 1880. Tfie assessed value of property in the South has increased nearly $1,000,000,000 since 1879.

THE FIRE RECORD. Burning of the Opera-House at Franklin, Pa., Involving a Heavy Loss. Franklin, Pa., Jan. 28.—The most serious conflagration this city has sustained for years occurred this morning about 2 o’clock. It broke out in what is known as the Opera-house Block, owned by Hanna & Duffield. The fire seems to have originated about the stage of the operahouse, which generally consists of very inflammable material. Before the fire department could reach the place the operahouse was a solid blaze. The firemen worked faithfully, but were unable to save the building. The block was built twenty years ago by the owners, and was one of the most substantial buildings in the city, and originally cost about $135,000. Tho insurance on the building is $38,000. It was occupied on the first floor as follows: Henry Cohn, clothing-store; Karris, Marfflin & Cos., wholesale notions; Reamer & Cos., druggists; reading-room and library; Miss Criley’s millinery; Franklin Oil Exchange; Dewoody's five-and-ten-cent notion-Rtore—all partially insured. On the second floor were numerous families, the Opera-house Spectator printing office, Franklin silver cornet band, Law yer Breene’s office and Mr. Baker’s office. The third floor was occupied by two or three families and lodge-rooms elegantly fitted up. being the meeting-place for United Workmen, Odd-fellows, and others. From this room nothing was saved. The block is a wreck, nothing but the walls standing. A Malt-llouso Seriously Damaged. Albany, N. Y m Jan. 28.—A fire broke out this evening in the fifth story of the seven-story malt-house of the Albany Brewing Company. By hard work the flames were confined to the middle section of the fifth and sixth stories, in which were 100,000 bushels of barley. The loss is $125,000; insurance, SBO,OOO. Other Fires. Potsdam, N. Y., Jan. 28 —Sherman & Johnson’s saw mill, planing-mill, box factory, and other small buildings, together with the machinery, were burned at an early hour this morning. The origin of tho fire is unknown. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $12,000. Onkonta, N. Y., Jan. 28. —Six blocks of buildings were burned here to-day. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $14,000. Threatened Transcontinental Railway War. Chicago, Jan. 28.—News was received to-day by interested railway managers that the Canadian Pacificroad would make a demand upon the transcontinental association for admission and a percentage of not less than 50 per cent, accompanied by a threat that, if not granted, it would cut the rates on transcontinental business 20 per cent or more. It is said by some that the claim will not be listened to. and that an active war will be the outcome. The lines running through tho middle belt are said to bo indifferent whether the association is continued or goes to pieces, as it is asserted that the Southern route has in the past carried 70 per cent, of the traffic from the Atlantic seaboard, and what is left is not worth fighting for. It is stated that, in the event of a contest, the Southern Pacific will turn its overland trade from the New Orleans & Galveston route, and sent it via Newport News, over the Chesapeake & Ohio system. Another Man Plnudered in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Jan. 29.—Early this morning, D. E. Dinsmore, a prominent contractor of Washington, D. C., who is here in the interest of the granite-block-pavement scheme, entered a sport-ing-house at No. 152 Longworth street. He had $4,000 in his pocket when he entered the house. After he left be discovered that he had been robbed of the entire roll Inquest on the Oriel Mine Victims. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 28.—The coroner’s investigation into the cause of death of the thirty-nine miners killed in the explosion in the Oriel mine began to-day. Superintendent Saxton admitted that the State Mine Inspector had ordered him to put weights on the air-doors toiprevent them be-

ing wicidentally left open, which was not done. Mining-boss John Bratt testified that Saxton was rendered unfit for duty several times by intoxication. The inquest will not be concluded be'ore Saturday. The destitute families need assistance. Steamship News. Bcymocth, Jan. 28.— Arrived: Fulda, from New York. Glasgow, Jmi. 28.—Arrived; State of Ne* vada, from New York. Moville, Jan. 28.—Arrived; Ethiopia, from New York, for Glasgow. New York, Jan. 28.—Arrived: Polynesia, from Hamburg: State of Nebraska, Devonia* from Glasgow; Belgenland, from Antwerp. Mr. Cleveland’s Absence on Wednesday. Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. The absence of President Cleveland at the neraorial exercises in the Senate, yesterday, ia a subject of much comment. Not only was the President conspicuous in his absence, but not a member of his Cabinet was present. The eulogies on Mr. Hendricks which were pronounced were not at all marred by this neglect, but it was thought that the President, who had attended a ball in Baltimore the aight before, would have shown the memory of the dead Vicepresident some little respect Loss of Life by Snow-Slides. Salt Lake. Jan. 28.—A snow-slide in Thane’s canyon, near Park City, Utah, buried four men, with their teams. Four men were buried in a snow-slide on Lake creek, near Ketchum, Idaho, in their cabin. They were dug out in six or seven hours. One man is reported buried under sixteen feet of snow on Thompson creek, not far from the scene of the last reported disaster. Don’t delay, always be on time, sot prevention is better than cure. All coughs and colds ana. such affections of the throat" and lungs as lead to consumption are cured by Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.

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