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taken by the committee in Ohio has been referred to us, and onr attention has also been called to evidence pointing to a large mass of additional testimony. The committee of the Ohio House has power only to inquire into the conduct of four members of that body. They report that *a number of clews furnished were noi followed, because we were convinced that they could lead only to points at which furtner pursuit would become necessary, but which could not be passed without authority to reach beyond the limits of the State for witnesses, and much anonymous information was ignored bv the committee, chiefly for the same reason.’ We have examined the evidence taken by that committee. It does not support this charge as to the four members implicated. It doe* not connect Sir. Payne with the transactions: it does not Bhow that the result was chanced or effected by corrupt means, but it does show that Mr. Payne s name was not publicly suggested as a.candidatefor .Senator until after the State elections; that it was not very prominently suggested until shortly before his election in January; that many persons who had been supposed to favor Peiiaieton voted for Payne; that one member was offered a large sum of money by another member to rote for Payne; that there were hearsay statements charging corruption as to several others: that two members of the Legislature received large sums of money about the time of the election, of which they, being called as witnesses, gave no satisfactory account; that the prominent managers of Mr. Payne’s canvass, viz. Paige, McLean, Huntington and others, did not testify before the committee.* There was no evidence tending to show the bribery of any particular member except as above stated. When we say it was not ahown that the result was changed or effected by corrupt means, we are speaking of direct tes lirnony. But the consideration should not be forgotten that persons familiar with the whole case would be quite sure to know whether such means were needful to change the result, or whether their candidate would be elected without it: if they were found expending large sums of money the fact alone affords strong reason for the inference that the result was thereby controlled. But the result of the investigation in Ohio seems to the undersigned absolately unimportant That committee, while they took a wider range of inquiry than the matter committed to thc-m, neither said nor conceived they had any power to inquire into Mr. Payne’s title to his seat. They issued no process exending beyond the limits of Ohio; they reported bo conclusions except as to the four members. When witnesses refused to answer they did not press them. The Ohio Senate of 1883-84 contained thirty-three members. Os these twpntyIwo were Democrats and eleven Republicans. The House contained 105 members, of whom Sixty were Democrats and forty-five Republicans. The members entitled to vote on joint ballot were 138 in all, eighty-two Democrats and .fifty-six Republicans. Eiehty-two persons were entitled to vote in the Democratic caucus, of whom forty-two were a majority. Seventy-nine persons actually attended that caucus, of which forty were a majority. Is there fair reason for instituting an inquiry whether the result of the election was procured by bribery? "We think that the character of the persons making the charge is of itself sufficient to require the SeDate to listen to it: but they produce a great body of evidence, all pointing in the same direction. We are not now to consider whether the caso is proved, or whether there be a prima facio case. There ha?, as yet. been no •vldence laid before us leading to either of these considerations. Messrs. Little and Butterworth now offer, on their personal responsibility, to establish, to the satisfaction of the Senate, largely by witnesses who were not within reach of the Ohio committee, and partly by evidence which supplements and confirms that, the following, among other propositions: "First—That of the Democratic members elected to the Sixty-sixth General Assembly more than three-fourths were positively pledged to Mr. Pendleton and General Ward, and more than a majority pledged to Mr. Pendleton. This they offer to prove by Mr. Pendleton himself, by Col. W. A. Taylor, and others. “Second —That in these pledges these members represented the opinion and desire of their constituents. "Third—That Mr. Payne was nowhere spoken ofprkuownas a candidate during the popular •lection, or until a very short time before the appointment of a Senator. “Fourth—That just before the legislative caucus, when the nomination was made, which was one week before the election, large sums of money were placed by Mr. Payne’s son and other near friends of his at the control of the active members of his canvass in Columbus. This, they allege, can be shown by the hooks of one or more bunks. “Fisth —Mr. Payne’s near friends declared that his election cost very large sums. A gentleman whose Dame is offered to be given will testify that David R. Paige declared to him that he had handled SG3.OCO; Oliver B. Payne stated to the same person that it had cost him SIOO,OOO to elect bis father. “Sixth —That the members of the Legislature trho changed from Pendleton to Payne did so after secret and confidential interviews with ttw agents who had the disbursement of the moneys. "Seventh—That members of the Legislature who so suddenly changed their attitude can be proved to have, at about the time of the change, acquired large sums of money, of which they give no satisfactory account. "Eighth—Respectable Ohio Democrats affirm ihat just before the caucus the room of Mr. Payne's manager, Paige, ‘was like a banking house;’ that ‘the evidence of large sums of money there was abundant and conclusive;’ that Paige’s clerk declared, in the presence of a gentleman of integrity, that ‘he had never 6een so much money handled in his life.’ “Ninth —That the public belief that the choice of Senator was procured by the corrupt use of money prevails almost universally in Ohio among persons of both parties, which finds very general expression in the press. "The Senate has also recently referred to the committee certain resolutions adopted by a convention of the Republican editors of Ohio, held at Columbus July 8, 1886, praying the Senate to investigate these charges. The newspaper reports of the convention show that the Governor of the State was present at the convention, and declared his concurrence in said prayer. There have also been communicated to us extracts from the Democratic newspapers of Ohio, showing that a majority of those papers have deciared their opinion that the election was procurred by corruption. Copies of these extracts are appended. “WTiat is the effect upon an election of Senator of bribery of voters in a caucus of the Legislatures which are to make the choice, is a ques tion upon which we prefer not to express an opinion until the evidence is before us. The members of a caucus ordinarily deem themselves bound in honor to vote in the election for the person whom it nominates by the vote of a majority. on condition that such person belong to their party and is fit for the office in point of character and ability. Bribery, therefore, which changes the result in the caucus, would ordinarily determine the election. If B, C and D have promised to vote as ‘A shall vote,’ if Abe corrupted four votes are gained by the process, although B, C and D are innocent In kioking, therefore, to see whether an election by ihe Legislature was procured or affected by eribery, it may be very important to discover whether that bribery procured the nomination of a caucus whose action a majority of the legislature were bound in honor to support Sev-ontv-nine persons attended the senatorial caucus find voted on the first ballot Os these Mr. Payne had the votes of 46, Ward 17. Pendleton 15, Booth 1. If six only of Mr. Payne’s votes in the caucus were proenred by bribery, the result of the election of Senator was clearly brought about by that means. Now Messrs Little and Butterworth tender specific proof, part of which was before the Ohio committee, and part here offered for the first time, directly and very strongiy tending to create the belief as to each of ten of the members of the Ohio Legislature, that his vote for Mr. Payne was purchased, and that proper process and inquiry will establish the fact by competent and sufficient evidence. One member, after thecancns, deposited $250. in two amounts, and being charged that it was the price of his vote, did not persist in a denial. Another man, who changed to Payne just before the caucus, stated to a colleague that he wa3 offered $5,000 to vote for Payne, and intended to accept it, and tried to induce his colleague to do the game. That person’s wife, just afterwards, deposited $2,500 in a bank in Tole Jo, and took a certificate therefor, which she transferred to her husband. Another, who is claimed to have changed suddenly from Pendleton to Payue, is found making, soon after, expenditures amounting lo $1,600. with hU own money, on land the title to which was taken in the name f Us father, who paid $2,000 for it about

the same time. The father and son lived together in the same house. The son testified that he did not know where the father got the money to pay the $2,000: the father refused to stato where he got his $2,000, and said he did not know where tbe son got the SI,OOO, and if he did he would not tell. The same member also made other large payments of money about the same time. Another, who had to borrow money when he went to Columbus, and changed suddenly from Pendleton to Payne, was shown, just after the election, to be in possession of some money to . purchase property, refurnish his house, etc. He was denounced by another member as having sold bis vote. He turned exceedingly sick, made no denial, and was taken away. Two others, elected a9 anti-monopolists, became supporters of Mr. Payne, and were heard discussiug together the amount of money each had received. Another, who had before been for another candidate, but voted for Mr. Payne, received from Oliver B. Payne, $3,500, which he said was enough. Another, who had been very earnest in support of Pendleton, visited the room of Mr. Payne’s managers, where the laree sums of money are alleged to have been Been, and immediately afterwards voted for Mr. Payne.” [The report here inserts the letter from Messrs. Butterworth and Little, supplemental to their statement before the committee, which has already been published in fulL ] "It is said that much of this is hearsay, and that, taken together, it is insufficient to establish a case which wiil overcome the presumption arising from the of election. We are not dealing with that question. The Senate is to determine whether there is probable cause for an inquiry. Any man who lays claim to any property, real or personal, may institute his process at pleasure, and compel the courts to hear and try the case. Even a criminal accusation requires only the oath of the accuser, who is justified, if he have probable cause. It will not be questioned that in every one of these casos there is abundant probable cause which would justify a complaint and compel a grand jnry or magistrate to issue process and make an investigation. Is the Senate to deuy to the people of a great State, speaking throueb their Legislature and their representative citizens, the only opportunity for a hearing of this momentous case which can exist under the Constitution? We have not prejudiced the case; nor do we mean to prejudice it. We sincerely trust that the investigation which is asked is as much to defend the honor of the sitting member as that of the State. But we caunot consent to be accomplices in denying justice to either. We do not beliefs the American people will be satisfied that the Senate should refuse to hear case, either on the ground that some tribunal has tried some other case, or on the ground that it has already been decided, without hearing or evidence, or on the ground that a bribe paid for a vote in a legislative caucus is not understood by both parties to include a vote in t.he Legislature for the candidate of that oaucus. How can a question of bribery ever be raised, or ever be investigated. if the arguments against this investigation prevail? You do not suppose that the men who bribe, or tbe men who are bribed, will volunteer to furnish evidence against, themselves. You do not expect that impartial and unimpeachable witnesses will testify to the transaction. From the nature of the case, the process of the Senate must compel the persons who conducted the canvass, and the persons who made the election, to appear and disclose what they know; and. until that process issue, you must act upon such information only as is enough to cause inquiry in the ordinary affairs of life. The question now is not whether thfc case is proved; it i6 only whether it shall be inquired into. That has never yet been done. It cannot be done until the Senate issues its process. No uuwiiling witness has ever yet been compelled to testify: no process has gone out which could cross StAta lines. The Senate is now to determine, as the law of the present case and as tho precedent for all future cases, as to the great crime of bribery, a crime which poisons the waters of republican liberty in the fountain, that tho circumstances which here appear are not enough to demand its attention. It will hardly be doubted that cases of purchase of seats in the Senate will multiply rapidly under the decision proposed by the majority of the committee. The first great precedent to constitute the rule under this branch of law is to be this: Held by the Senate of the United States, that a charge made by the Legislature of a State, and by the committee of the political party to which the larger number of its citizens belong, and by ten of its representatives in Coneress, that an election of Senator was procured by bribery, does not deserve tbe attention of the Senate, and this, although it also appears that there is a general and widespread public belief in the truth of the charge; that there was a sudden, and unexpected, and unaccountable change to the sitting member from another candidate, to whom a majority of the electing body had been previously pledged: that large sums of money were .brought to the place of election just before the choice by the managers of tbe canvass for the person elected; that there is evidence tending to show the bribery of several members and the acquisition by others, who so changed their support, of considerable sums of money immediately after such change, affecting at least ten members of said Legislature; that a change by corrupt means of the votes of six persons would have changed the result in a legislative caucus, and thereby bound and committed tbe vote, in the Legislature, of eighty-two persons, who were a large majority of such Legis lature; provided it also appear that one branch of a subsequent Legislature of tho same State have, in investigating charges against four of their members, incidentally inquired into charges against other persons so far as they could without compelling unwilling witnesses to answer questions, and without following out many clews which they did not follow because they were convinced that they would lead only to points at which further pursuit would become necessary. We recommend tho adoption of the accorapaning resolution: “Resolved, That the committee on privileges and elections, or of any sub committee thereof, be authorized to investigate the charges affecting the title of the seat of the Hon. Henry B. Payne, and to send for persons and papers, administer oaths, and employ a clerk and a stenographer, and to sit during the recess of the Senate, and that the expenses of the investigation be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate.

THIS OTHER REPORTS* Finding of the Democrats, and of Senators Teller, Evarts and Logan. Washington, July 15.—The report signed by Senators Pugh, Saulsbury, Vance and Eustis, the Democratic members ot the committee, sets forth at length the public history of the Payne case, recognizes the transcendent importance of throwing around the Senate of the United States the highest safeguards against seating a member whose title was procured by bribery, fraud or corruption, and describes tbe process by which the signers reach the conclusion that there is no ground for further proceedings against Mr. Payne. The report says the committee’s first act was to comply fully with the first request of the Ohio House of Representatives, to make an examination of the testimony taken .by the select committee at Columbus. Upon this testimony Mr. Hoar made a report to the committee that, after careful reading, no evidence, opinion, or statement whatever was found personally inculpating Mr. Payne in any way with the corrupt use of money in connection with his election; neither did snch examination show that enough had been found to justify the charge that the election was procured by the corrupt use of money. About this time the supplemental resolutions of the two houses of the Ohio Legislature. and of the Republican State central committee, made their appearance, and soon after Congressmen Little and Butterworth were heard at length. The siguers of the report declare that no new evidence not contained in the original matter submitted was brought to their attention, which any court would not hold to be merely cumulative, and speculative, and insufficient by itself, or, in connection with the original, to justify a report in favor of a trial by the Senate of Mr. Payne’s right to bis seat. They conclude that Henry B. Payne has not been charged with having anything to do, personally, or with having any personal knowledge of. or connection with, or participation in, any act or anything that may have been done, or charged as having been done, that was wrong, criminal, immoral or reprehensible in bis election; that no member ot tbe committee, and nu witness, rep-

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resentative or other person, has expressed the opinion, or intimated any belief or suspicion, that Henry B. Payne is or wag connected in the remotest degree, by act or knowledge, with anything that was or may have been wroug, criminal or immoral in his election: and on the whole case, as presented to them, they recommend that the Senate make no further investigation of tbe charge involving the right of Henry B. Payne to his seat. This report asks that the committee be discharged from farther consideration of the subject, and that it be indefinitely postponed. The report of Messrs. Teller, Evarts and Logan gives a full resume of the proceedings bad in the Ohio Legislature, and predicates any action by the Senate upon the constitutional provisions for judging of the elections of its members or providing for their expulsion. They examine the the evidence presented in the two reports of the Ohio committees, and reach the conclusion that there is no evidence or likelihood of evidence that will involve Mr. Payne in personal moral delinquency justifying his expulsion. and that there is no evidence to show that a sufficient number of votes were corrupted to change the result of the election. The report continues: “Upon the whole matter, as presented, in evidence and argument, to the committee on privileges and elections, we are of opinion that there is no evidence which purports to prove that fraud, corruption or bribery was employed in the election of Mr. Payne affecting the vo' s, given either in the caucus or in the Legislature, whereby the election was carried by corrupt votes to the effect of his election. Nor, in our opinion, is there any allegation that proof exists, or would be forthcoming, to the extent that would vitiate the election of Mr. Payne by reason of tbe necessary votes, in caucus or in the Legislature, for his election having been obtained by fraud, corruption or bribery. We are of opinion, therefore, that under the first clause of the fifth section of Article 1 of tbe Constitution the testimony and other considerations placed before tbe Senate do not warrant the Senate in constituting by itself an investigation looking to the unseating of Mr. Payne as a memoer of the Senate. We have, in our conclusions, made no distinction between the use of fraud, corruption or bribery in a caucus vote or in the legislative vote for a Senator. Although & caucus, or what proceeds in it, has no constitutional or legal relation to the election of a Senator, yet, by the babit of political parties, the stage of determination as to who is to be elected Senator, and tbe influence, proper or improper, that produces that determination, is that which precedes and is concluded in the caucus. So far as the question of personal delinquency or turpitude is concerned, no moral distinction should bo taken between corrupt proceedings in caucus and those in tbe Legislature. llow far auv such distinction would need to be insisted upon, in any case, on the question of unseating a Senator, who was himself not affected with any personal misconduct or complicity with the misconduct of others, we have no occasion, in tbe immediate case or present attitude of the subject to consider or suggest. At the outset of our observations we stated the limits which the indictment and conviction of a single person who bribes, or is bribed, whether the election is affected or not. The Stato should investigate as well to the end of better laws and surer execution of the laws. The State, too, is charged with the maintenance of the honor of Ohio, and its vindication rests with its own Legislature, its own judiciary and its own people, but it cannot demand this vindication at the hands of tbe United States Senate, except as they may flow from investigations by that body within the limits of its constitutional powers and duties. That State has conducted and concluded its investigations into the election of Mr Payne, and has placed the results before the Senate of the United States. It bas attempted no further investigations either by the plenary power of its Legislature, or through the functions of the courts of law. If upon further examinations made by the State, through its Legislature or its courts, a caso should be presented for renewed consideration by the Senate within the rules and principles we have stated as governing the action of the Senace, the further action of the Senate will be governed by what may then appear. As the whole matter now stands before the committee, we concur in its judgment’ that an investigation should not be instituted by tho Senate, and the comrnitee be discharge from ths further consideration of the subject, and for tbe reasons which we have thus given.” _ 'W'

FISHINO FOR GUDGEONS. Too Anxious for a Husband, but She Had Plenty of Money. Boston Special. Amos F. Hinkley publishes tho Riverside Echo at Bath, Me. It is not a very valuable publication to tho owner or the public, and its editor sought other methods to replenish his exchequer. He inserted in a Boston paper the following advertisement: All gentleipen who would like a loving and affectionate partner for life please look this way and they say, “Vos, they do, too.”—she’s the handsomest girl out and just so, and has lots of money at my disposal when twenty-one. Ada M. Hinkley. This caught the eye of a resident of Boston who seems to be sadly in need of a wife with money. Charles J. Burgraff, a German, the proprietor of a small stationery store in Hariison avenue, answered the invitation. Hinkloy’s motive appears to have been to pet money out of some simpleton. Burgraff gives the following version of the affair: “You see, I am a single man and am not at all disinclined to marriage, provided, of course, I should meet a worthy woman whom I could take for a life partner. I came to this country from Germany some seven years ago, and since then have been in the woods of Michigan and three times to California, as well as having been whaling in the Arctic, beside rounding the Horn a few times. Well, last Jnne I looked over thi3 matrimonial paper and was attracted to the advertisement of Ada Hinkley, who claimed to have lots of money and wanted a husband. 1 had heard of happy matches coming about in that way so I answered the advertisement, care of Box 248, Portland. "I soon got an answer written in aft’peiionate language. Ada told how her guardian watched over her financial interests. He was bard and severe, but she must endure his domineering methods until she was twenty-one, unless she should happen to marry, in which case, under her father’s will, she would come into possession of all her wealth and be independent of her guardian. She told how her money was invested. She had $50,000 in real estate in Portland, SBOO,OOO in shipping and $300,000 in government boads. I looked upon her as a lucky girl, but when she asked that. I send her $5. so that I could meet her at Townsend, this State, I began to smell a rat. I wrote back, and was cautiously affectionate, but didn’t send her any money. "Another letter soon came from Ada more affectionate than before. She called me ‘her own darling,’ and as I was her’s, she had assumed to ask her guardian for $lO. She told how we could be married at once and that she wanted tbe money to reach me to be married. She was in an awful hurry to have the ceremony performed, as she was anxious to have someone look after another windfall of $875,000, which had suddenly dropped to her by the death of an old uncle, her father’* brother, in California. Ada proposed that upon our marriage we should go straight to ‘Frisco’ on our wedding tour, which, she said, would ‘be so lovely, yon know.’ However, I was suspicious. I had drawn some little money from the bank and didn’t care to draw a second time in a week. I wrote back pretending 1 hadn’t received the second letter, and was, of course, affectionate. I told how I couldn’t leave my store on account of business, although dying to meet my love. "Ada wrote me again, tills time demanding $23, but would consent to accept S2O. I made up my mind that Ada was a fraud, and so acquainted the detective at the postoffice to whom I gave all the correspondence in the Affair. The result has been the arrest of Amos F. Hinkley, of Bath, but whether or not he had a woman confidante 1 don’t know, but I think not.” ' Hinkley was taliennefore United States Commissioner Rand, at Portland, on Monday, pleaded cuitty of using the uuiils for a fraudulent purpose, and was held in SSOO bail for trial. The President's Vetoes. Washiugtou Critic. Is it really worth the President’s while, or consistent with the duty of a wise aud just magistrate. to take so many chances of wronging meritorious claimants for the sake of detecting some poor devil now and then m the act of robbing of the Treasury of a handful of small change? It were far better that every bill which the President has disapproved should have become a law than that even one honest man’s name should be besmirched by a veto messago.

INDIANA AN D ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Two Little Girls Drowned in the Maumee— Brakemau Crushed to Death—Burglars Arrested—Corn Prospect in Illinois. INDIANA. Two Little Girls Found Dead In the Waters of the Maumee River. Special to the IndianaDolis Journal. Fort Wayne, July 15.— 0n Tuesday Dora Johnson and Della Mapes, aged seven and eight years, daughters of farmers who are near neighbors in Maumee township, this county, went into the woods to play, as was their wont Not returning on time, their parents became alarmed and the neighborhood was roused and a search instituted* Yesterday the bodies of the children were found in the Maumee river, in shallow water, the arms of the little girls entwined about each other's necks. Their clothing lay in two heaps on the bank above. It is supposed they were playing in the river, hand in handt when, venturing out too far, the swift current carried fhem down to death. Crawford County’s Silver Mine. New Albany, July 15.—A silver mine has been discovered, it is alleged, about four miles southeast of Bird’s eye, Crawford coauty, on the line of the L., E. & St. L., and not a very great distance from this city. The first indication of silver was discovered three years ago, while a saw mill company was boring for water, a vein of white metal having been struck at a distance of forty feet below the surface, the vein being only three-eighths of an inch in thickness. Nothing was thought of tho find at the time, and the circumstance was nearly forgotten, when Mr. Sigler, only a short time since, sunk a shaft six feet square, and at a depth of thirty feet struck a vein of quartz containing silver. The quartz has been analyzed by experts at Indianapolis. who declare that the precious metal exists in paying quantities. Mr. Sigler and his partners, Messrs. Bower & Uo., have leased about 2,500 acres of land in the vicinity of the shaft, and propose to dovelop it. Burglars Arrested. Bpecial to tlio Indianapolis Journal. Warsaw, July 15.—0n the night of the 11th inst. the store of S. L. Kettring & Cos., at Syracuse, a small town in the northern part of this county, was burglarized, and goods and money to the amount of S3OO taken. Information was received here yesterday morning from the chief of police at Chicago announcing the arrest of Marius and Willie Bancker, James McCauley and Peter Seigler, on suspicion of being the perpetrators of the crime. Sheriff Stephenson, in company with Mr. Kettring, immediaiely left for Chicago, returning to-day with the men in charge. Most of the property stolen has been recovered, and was readily identified by Mr. Kettring. The erang is a bad one, and it is thought that a number of small robberies in this and adjoining towns can be traced to them. They were lodged in jail to await the action of the Circuit Court. Burglars at Green castle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greencastlk, July 15. —The grocery store of Jackson & Mathews and the Model clothing store were burglarized last night. The thieves entered tho grocery store by cutting a pane of glass out o's a rear window, aud, after helping themselves to what cash was in the moneydrawer, and taking a lot of cutlery, they cut through a wooden partition into the clothing store. Here they plundered a large show case of valuable jewelry, and took shirts, collars, clothing, etc., to the value of several hundred dollars.

Brakemnn Crushed to Death. Special to the ludianapolis Journal. Cbawfordsville, July 15.—Charles Stewart, an 1., B. & W. freight brakemau, while making a running switch with two cars at Crawfordsville Junction, yesterday morning, was caught between a car of lumber which stood too near on Another side-track, and crushed so that death ensued in an hour afterward: Stewart was making his fifth trip over the road, and was for a number of years a brakeman on the L , N. A. & C. His home was at Lafayette, where his wife resides. Minor Notes. The Bluffton well is over 1,100 feet deep—no gas yet. The Terre Haute blast furnace has shut down for repairs. A. Limenßtalt, of Decatur, was thrown from his wagon by a runaway horse and seriously hurt. Black diphtheria is prevalent in Madison township. St. Joseph county, several pereons having died from the disease. Prof. John W. Storrs will leave Mitchel in a few weeks to accept a professorship in the Indiana Normal School at Covington. The Vincennes district conference of the M. E. Church will meet in New Lebanon, Monday, July 26, and continue for two days. William Spear Post, No. 189, G. A. R., has adopted resolutions condemning the recent treasonable utterances of Jeff Davis & Cos. Mrs. Sarah Knapp, aged about forty, living near Osgood, while in a fit ran into Sugar creek and was drowned. The body was recovered. A. C. Kilgore, a farmer living jnst back of West Wheeling, has terv cherry trees, from which he picked eighty-two bushels of cherries. Isaac Unrue, who lived with his son, Andrew Unrue. about three miles south of Baiutertown, Elkhart county, died recently. He was eightysix years old. Rev. R. S. Martin, of Lafayette, who was charged by Mrs. Frazier with a serious offense, after a two days' ministeriai trial, has been unanimously acquitted. By direction of Bi3hop Andrews the Southeast Indiana Conference will meet on Sept. 16 instead of Sent. 9, and the Erie Conference will meet Sept. 9 instead of Sept. 16. Tbe A. M. E. Church of Fort Wayne (colored) camp-meeting will be held in Capt. P. Stadabaker’s grove at Bluffton, commencing July 17, and will be in session ten days. Tbe Gibson county normal institute will open at Princeton July 25. Among those who will deliver lectures are Professors Coulter, Atwater, Parsons, Smith and Bryan. Rev. H. J. Talbott, of Rockport, baleen tendered tho pastorate of New Albany M. E. Church for the ensuing year. Rev. Talbott is now the presiding elder of Rockport district. Samuel Marshall, a young married man of Shelbyvilie, attempted aaieide by taking rat poison. Before lie got enough down to do the work he was overpowered aud the poison taken frot. him. A enrions thief has made his appearance in Madison and suburbs. He only robs churches and school-houses, having broken into three Catholie churches and one public school-house during the past week. The barn of George W. Howe, situated ten miles south of Shelbyville, was struck by lightning. on Tuesday night, and burned, with all its contents, and a straw stack adjacent, valued at SSO. Total loss, $700; no insurance. Last night a tramp who had fallen from a train was found on the Wabash railway, four miles west of Wabash, with an arm and both legs broken. His injuries will prove fatal He was taken to Wabash for treatment. An investigation by the coroner proves that Gottlieb Hcehrer, living near Evansville, was Dot murdered, as at first supposed, but was killed by being thrown from his wagon, the wheels passing over his head and chest. Bill Morris, a worthless loafer of Terre Ilkute, has been arrested for outraging the ten-year-old child of John Baldwin. He also communicated to her a loathsome disease, and threatened to kill

the child if she told any one of the liberties he had taken with her person. The story of the crime is too filthy for publication. Morris was sent to jail in default of SI,OOO bail. William Means, of Jackson township, DsKalb county, has a novelty—a five-footed colt Its fifth foot is on cue of its fore legs, the odd log beginning jast below the knee and dividing st the foot The odd foot is perfectly formed. Lightning struck the large barn of J. Kizer, near Rising Sun, on Tuesday night, burning it to the ground, together with a valuable horse, a number of farming implements and a large Quantity of hay and grain. No insurance. The barn of Fred Schuter, in Adams township, Ripley county, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. All the contents, including his wheat crop, fifty head of sheep and a cow perished. Insured in the German Mutual. Yesterday afternoon a fire, which originated from a saw-mill, destroyed two frame dwellings located two miles northwest of Wabash. The buildings were owned by John Green. The contents were saved. Loss, $1,000; no insurance. Elijah Sinkhorn, residing near Henryville. was placed in jail at Salem on the charge of seducing a daughter of John Day, a prominent farmer. The young lady claimed that her downfall was effected by the administration of drugs. .John Childs has brought suit at Nashville azainst John Condon, claiming SIO,OOO damages, alleging that Condon made affidavit that Childs had been guilty of a revolting crime, which charge the grand jury of Brown county refused to consider. Democratic joint conventions at Madison,last evening, nominated David McClure, of Clark county, for joint Senator for Clark and Jefferson, and John R Cushman, editor of the Madison Herald, for joint Representative for Jefferson, Clark and Floyd counties. W. F. Baylor, of Chicago, was found lying In the yards of th* P., Ft. W. & C. railroad, at Fort Wayne, on Wednesday night, fatally hurt. He bad an order to ride on a freight train, and it is supposed that in gomg in among the cars to find his tram he was bit and knocked nuder the wheels. William C. Kiser, a prominent merchant of West Poiaf, twelve miles south of Lafayette, was arrested and brought to that city on Tuesday night to answer the charge of an attempted outrage upon Lottie M., the twelve-year old daughter of John M. Haggard, postmaster at West Point The annual meeting of the colored citizens of Howard and adjoining counties was held at the fair grounds near Kokomo on Wednesday. The meeting was addressed by Rev. J. M. Harper, D. D., of Richmond, and ltev. Samuel Buri'ell, of Kokomo. Several hundred colored people were present The Richmond Humane Society has organized with the following officers: President. Joseph Doan; vice presidents, Mrs. Edgar Henley, Mrs. W. P. Buell, W. H. Ogborn; secretary, W. C. Shoemaker; assistant secretary, Dr. Ferling; treasurer, Everett Eckel. The society starts out with twenty-seven members. The remains of a girl seven years old were picked up in the lake, near Michigan City, on Wednesday afternoon. The child was clothed in a red-checked calico dress apd checked gingham apron. The hair was gone from the head, and the body gave every indication of having been in the water many days. It is thought the corpse is that of Eunice Blanche Bennett, who has been missing from St. Joseph, Mich., for a month past. On Tuesday, R, F. and Adaline McKee, of Bethlehem township, Cass county, celebrated their golden wedding. There were nearly five hundred guests in attendance, among whom were their ten children, namely: W. H. McKee, of Independence, Pa.; Basil and James McKee, Newton, Kan.; T. H. McKee, Washington, D. C.; J. P. and Geo. P. *McKee, Homestead, Pa; Mary A. McDowell, Logansport; L. P. McKee, Denver, Col.; A. H. McKee, Silver Lake, Ind., and B. C. McKee, Pine, Ind. An address of welcome was delivered by Hon. B. F. Campbell, which was responded to, on behalf of his father aud mother, by T. H. McKee, of Washington. In Hendricks county, during the recent storm, a great deal of damage was done. Three miles northwest of Danville a large new bam was blown down, killing five cows and three horses, and fragments of the barn found half a mile away. The barn of John Russell was scattered to the four winds, killing two horses. The new barn of James Hughes, four miles north, was destroyed, killing three blooded horses. At Danville, the metal roof that whs torn off the Watts Block, was carried some fifty feet and lodged upon the office of a lawyer, who, the day before, had begun a foreclosure upon the block. The metal roof was torn from off the two-story dwelling owned by Wm. Linu, of Indianapolis.

ILLINOIS. The Present Condition and Prospects of the Corn Crop. Spkixufikld, July 15.—The State Board of Agriculture makes public to-day the statistics of its correspondents regarding the growing crop of corn. It says the area of corn is about as large as last season in the northern division of the State, some larger than 1885 in the southern division, and not quite so large in the central portion of the State. The average condition of corn in the northern division is not quite so promising as on tho Ist of June, and gives encouragement for an average yield per acre in only nine northern counties. The area of corn in the central division averages 3 per cent, less than last season, and all counties in this section of the State report a decrease of the growing crop, as compared with that of 1885, except eighteen. The July condition of corn is more promising in the central division than at any corresponding date for several years past, and, with the exception of thirteen contral counties, the prospects are favorable for an average or better yield. There is a slight increase in the average area in the southern division, compared with 1885. The average condition is not so promising as on the Ist of last month, and from present prospects! will be about 90 per cent, of an average yield per acre. lirlef Mention. Bridget Connelly, of Woodstock, aged 103 years, was found dead in her doorv&rd on Wednesday. In Jo Daviess county the tobacco plants are dying of drought, and unless heavy rains speedily fall less than one-third of a crop will be raised. Charles W. Butt, for seven years foreman of the Chicago, Burlington & Qnincy machine-shop at Galesbure, died suddenly, on Wednesday morning, of heart disease. A boy named Sherman was smothered in an elevator at Decatur on Wednesday. He had fallen asleep in a corn-bin, and when the spout was opened was drawn under the corn. Ferris Ruthroff, twelve years of age, son of Henry Ruthroff, was drowned while bathing in the Sangamon, near Decatur, on Wednesday. This is the third case of drowning there within ten days. George Rust, of Danville, died at his residence on Tuesday night. He bad been supervisor, highway commissioner, and had held other local offices. He was buried yesterday by the Danville Turnverein and the German aid societies. A petition, signed by 2.000 people, asking for the commutation of the death sentence of Jim Dacey, was presented to Governor Oglesby yesterday, If no action is taken in the matter, Dacey will be hanged at Woodstock to-day. Rev. O. M. Todd, a. Presbyterian minister of Tuscola, while m his field, a day or two ago, was bitten on tho right hand by & rattlesnake. His band is badly swollen, gangrene has set in, and it may be necessary to amputate tho member. Wind ami hailstorms in Shelby, Champaign and other counties, Tuesday night, caused heavy losses in crops and grass. At Mayview a church was partially wrecked* by the wind, and trees and fences wt*re blown down. Some of the counties report damage to theextentof $100,090. For many weeks the hog cholera has been raging among the swine in Montgomery county, many farmers having lost all their bogs. Various reraodies have Vieen tried, hut they have failed to cure the afflicted animals or to check the progress of the disease. Coles county also reports nogs dying by hundreds from the same disease. A € Jacksonville, eonie time last year, a worthless m *u, named Fred Hollar, was arrested on a charge of stubbing Mrs. William McLaughlin and her sister so severely that they nearly lost their lives. A party of disguised men broke open

the jail and shot Hollar through the abdomen. Before Hollar died he insisted that he did not commit the foul deed. William McLaughlin, who bad basely deserted his wife for auothef woman, died recently, confessing in his last mo* meals that be wns the author of the terrible crime for which Hollar lost bis life. The State assembly of the Knights of Labor if in session at Streator. The secretary in his re* port showed a membership of 22,034, divided aa follows: Laborers, 3,531; brick-makers, 1,408; packing-house employes. 1,385: lake seamen, 1,225; tailors, 883; shoemakers, 726; clothing-ent 4 ters, 600; box-makers. 509; blacksmiths and help* ers, 525; iron molders, 730; machinists. 569; miners, 1,282; barrel-makers and coopers. 677; clerks, 366; marble-workers, 301; wood workers, 344; painters, 449; printers, 43; journalists. 8; number of members working eight hours, 2,879; cine hours. 1,916; ten hours, 12,090; twelve hour! and over, 4,564. _ , ' Will He Veto This Bill? Philadelphia Press. The bill gives $8 a month to every Mexican veteran or his widow, without any regard to tht fact whether they need any such bounty or not. The government long ago provided for the die: abled soldiers of the Mexican war. This bill makes pensioners of the stroug and healthy. There is quite as much reason for giving pen* sions to all the soldiers of the late war. Let thd government provide for its disabled and destl* tute soldiers of whatever war, but this giving rich and poor, sick and well, $8 a month all around is a wasteful and indiscriminate expenditure which a President more partial to pensions than Mr. Cleveland has shown himself to ba would have hard work to justify. We will be agreeably surprised, however, if the President vetoes ihis bill. Its prospective beneficiaries come, in very large part, from tht South, and belong to the President’s own party. Mr. Cleveland has shown that he is not ungrate* ful, but believes that Democrats should be pro* vided for, and a bill which gives so many of them $8 a month is not one which is likely stimulate his zeal and iuvite his skill as 4 vetoist. A New Party To Be Formed. Special to Pittsburg Ihspatch, It is learned here that a cull will soon be issued for a national convention of the farming and la* boring interests generally, to be held at St. Paul on the 25th of August. Circulars are being pre* pared now in this city witb instructions as ts the election of delegates. Delegates will bj elected from every congressional district Th 4 movement looks to a permanent organization and has a political object. It is proposed ts make a representative congress of farm and 14* bor delegates with headquarters in Washington. The avowed purpose is to concentrate these in* flueoces upon the Congress of the United States, and also to elect representative labor men ao4 counteract monopolies. Going to Watch Hill. Washington Critic. “Daniel,” remarked the President, this morn* ing, in a thoughtful tone. “Yes. sire,” responded Daniel. “Where has Secretary Manning gone for tht summer?” “He has gone to Watch Hill, sire.”. “Where, Daniel?” queried the President, rou* ing from his reverie for a moment, only to ra lapse again. “To Watch Hill, sire.” “Urn-urn,” soliloquized the President, in aj almost inaudible voice, “that’s kind of Mail* ning. I’m going to watch Hill myself this sum* mer, and next winter, and next summer, too.” What Graham Will Do. Now York Sun. Well, U D. Graham has safely sailed througl the Niagara rapids in a stout cask of his own coif 3truction. What of it? What does it demon* strata? What, is the use of it? Does he intend to start a tub line down the rapids? It wpul( never pay. P. !S.—We have the answer. Ra ii going to open a saloon. The best thing for the complexion is Ayer*! Sarsaparilla. It brings the bloom of health to the wan cheek.

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