Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1892 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1892.

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INDIANA AKD ILLINOISNEWS

Startling Clew to the Murder of Lncebra Marsh Developed at Seymour. TC511iam McKee, Oris of the Fire Colored Suspects, Identifies a Knife Left by the Mnrderert u the rroprtj cf McGoiern. INDIANA. DetectlTes Hot on the Trail of the Right Man in the Marsh Murder Case. EVclal to tfte Indianapolis Journal. Seymour, Jan. 6. Some highly sensational and important testimony was elicited to-day in the inyeatifcation into them ysterioas murder of Lucebra Marsh. There were no less than five colored suspects under arrest and it was generally believed that in the case of at least one, William McKee, the officers had a nan who, if not directly implicated in the murder, could give a clew that would lead to tbedetection of that xrlncL-songht-af ter individual, McKoe was - charged with being the owner of the peculiarly-shaped knife found sticking in Marsh's window the morning after the murder. On his examination the negro denied that he had ever possessed the knife.bat after examining the blade lie produced a sensation by identifying it as the property of Frank McGovern. All live colored men were released after this testimony, and the officers are working the McGovern clew. Tbey hare now something tangible, and startling developments may be expected. Instead of no new developments, as some are trying to make it appear, there seems to be plenty of developments. Death of m Globe-Trotter, freclal to the Indianapolis JoanuL Danville. Dec Thomas Evans, a prominent physician of PlainSeld, died last night lie has an interesting history. He was born in north Wales, Great Britain, in 1S2U When f onrteen years old ho 'was apprenticed as a tailor and served six years. In 1841 he went to Australia, and the following year came to the United States, arriving at Boston, touching at 'ew Zealand and South American ports en route. Br hard work he was able to graduate from Hamilton College in 1S61. Ho then taught school and attended medical college. While in the midst of his college course he returned to Wales to visit hit mother. On his return to this country the ship he was on was wrecked off Newfoundland, but he was rescued and reached New York city in safety, lie graduated in medicine in l&S. In 1654 he settled in Plainrield Dnring the war he was a Burgeon in the Union army. Committed Suicide with Chloroform. &pclal to the Iodlacapoll JoirnaL Greencastle, Jan. 61 The village of Barnard, fifteen miles north of this city on the Indianapolis, Decatur fc Western road, vras the scene of a domestio tragedy, yesterday, that gave rise to an unusual sensation. Mrs. Ida Wilson, wife of John Wilson, committed suicide, as is snpposed. She visited the store where her husband, John 'Wilson, is employed and complained of sickness, from which she sought relief in chloroform. She took a small vial of the potion home with her, and when her busLand went home at the close of business he found her lifeless body on the bed, partially disrobed. No cause is assigned for the act, but the theory of -suicide is generally accepted as the true solution of .the mystery. The coroner was summoned at a late hour last night, and is now investigating the case. Sodden Death of a Night Watchman, special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muxcn; Jan. 6. Much surprise was .caused this evening by the finding of the dead body of Joseph Edmunds in bed.. lie was sixty-two years old, and ' was forty years a resident here. For over thirty jears he was connected with the Wysor flouring milL Kecently he has acted as night watchman at the Muncie artificial ice factory, boarding at the home of Wm. Vickery, where he retired this morning, eemingy in good health. lie had a alicrht paralytic stroke Saturday, bat soon recovered from it. It is generally supposed the second attack affected his heart and caused instant death. Plenty of La Grippe at Fowler, fractal to the Indianapolis Journal. Fowler, Jan. 6. Henry Jacobs, an old resident and retired merchant ot Fowler, died with the grip to-day at Oxford. Mrs. Thomas Atkinson dropped dead yesterday, ani her husband is at the point of death from the same disease, near Bos well. Harry Keis and James Goodwin, two of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of the county, have died in the past two days. Hundreds are sick throughout Benton county, and many have already died from the grip. Fatal Ending of m Spree. recitl to the InrilanapoUa Journal. New Albany. Jan. tVV. Hauck. a printer, claiming Jacksonville. Fla., as his home, walked into the Ohio river in front of the city to-day and was drowned. The suicide was witnessed by several dockmen, who dragged Hauck out of the water with a boat-hook. He was too much exhausted for them to save his life. Hauck was about sixty years old, and had been en a spree ior a week. Sale of the Elwood Leader. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Elwood. Jan. C The Elwood Leader -was sold to-day to E. . Fornshell, junior partner of the former publishers. By this sale one of the most promising Republican weekly papers in the gas belt falls into young Fornsheirs hands. An Inhuman Husband Sentenced. Special to the Inrtlanapolia Journal. SrEXCER, Jan. 6. King Townsend. who in a jealous frenzy maliciously maimed his wife with a Lutcher-knife. was to-night sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary and fined 1,000. Minor Notes. It !s estimated that there are 1,000 cases of gTippe in Brazil. Mrs. Mary A. Bard, mother of postmaster Bard, of Brazil, died of old age. Arrangement are being made for a grand time at the pnblio installationof officers of "Wadsworth Post G. A. K. , Jan.ll. William Hitching' aged seventy-three, a pioneer of Delaware county, died at his home northeast of Muncie yesterday. A large, powerfully built man was killed at a bridge in Shelbyville by a Big Four train. His name and address are unknown. Pvdner D. Cottingham.an old citizen and native oMiamilton county.died at his home in Noblesville, last night, aged sixty-six. Mrs. Rhoda Caslin, of Indianapolis, was his Always "Good Luck" with - Cleveland's Baking Powder, and the last spoonful does as good work as the first, are good reasons why Cleveland's has been a growing success for 22 years.

sister. Two daughters Mr. George E. Springer and Mrs. James E. Killcn and a wiaow survive him. The Democrats of Decatur county demanded that the next campaign be waned on the tar rill planks of the platforms of li$Q and 1890. Francis Dronenberger has sued Iorris Cohn, of Edinburg, for alienating the affections of the former's wife and then marrying her. Charles Bailey, a 'Panhandle brakeman. wan knocked from his train by a bridge at Knightstown and instantly killed. His body was forwarded to outhporL La grippe is raging in the northwestern part of Orange county. Thomas B. Ware, an old farmer, and James P. Campbell, aged feveuty-six, a wealthy citizen, also a farmer, both died yesterday. Edgar Brown and James Kiger, two Loung men of Greenfield, were arrested by 'etective Gorman, of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Louis railroad, at Knightstown, for robbing the railroad ticket office in Greenfield of $13.43. Steward John S. Montgomery, of the Prison South, and Guard John Gailbrath engaged in a wrestling match at that institution which resulted seriously to Montgomery. In tbs scuttle Gailbrath encircled the waist of Montgomery with such force that one of the tatter's ribs snapped. John Hamilton, a resident of Bowers station, died yesterday afternoon from astroko of paralysis. He was sixty-eight years old and one of the prominent farmers of Montgomery county, lie was the father of G. 11. Hamilton, editor of the Thorn town Argus. Deceased leaves considerable property. Mayor Northern, of Greensburg, says that the statement that residents of that city are annoyed by street hoodlums is incorrect. Only one case of the kind has occurred, and that in the outskirts of the city, t$uch things," adds the Mayor, "never have and do not occur on our publio streets, and I am sure that Greensburg stands among the first towns in the State as to good order, peace and quietude. The city marshal, instead of being derelict, is the most faithful officer Gretmsburg ever had." ILLINOIS.

Death of Robert Johneon, Who Was One of General Lafayette's Dody Guard. Fffclal totne Indlanapona Journal. Marshall, Jan. 6. News was received to-day from Johnson township of the death of Robert Johnson, one of the pioneer residents of the county. He was eighty-eight years old, and was born in Norwich, Conn. At twenty he went to work on a farm near Norfolk, Va., but, in a moment of impulse, joined the United States army at the Norfolk recruiting-station. He was in Charleston, N. C, in 1825, when Marquis De Lafayette landed there on his tour of the United States, and bis company was selected to escort Lafayette from that c?ty to New York. Mr. Johnson remembered perfectly all the details of the trip, and loved to talk of the appearance of .Lafayette, his genial manners and his oversowing kindness and good cheer. Brief Mention. The heaviest snow fall of the season fell Tuesday at Sunn'er and Benton. An unprecedented epidemic of grip is sweeping over southern Illinois. At the Lexington horse fair, near Bloomin gton, 150 horses brought $18,750. There aro four hundred cases of the grip at Carlyle, and a number of old people have died. At the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture at Springfield it was decided to hold the next State fair at Peoria, Sept. 26 to Z'J. At Waynesville Mrs. Headly Short administered to her infant daughter a dose of medicine containing morphine. It proved to be an overaose and the child died. Rev. Hyde, of Carthage, preached a scathing 6ermon against theater-going Sunday, because the little play-houso of that town was reopened during the holidays. Samuel Willett. aged eighty-five, Casper H. Heroft. aaed eighty-nine, aud Mrs. Ellen Clark, aged eighty-five, all died within twenty-four hours from the grip at Virginia. A stock company, with capital stock of $5,000,000. has been formed at Aurora, to manufacture the Todd cotton-picking machine. It is estimated from recent trials that one machino will do the work of fifty negroes. At the order of the Mayor of Effingham the city marshal had bill posters cover up the "leg'' display on some show-bills with plain, pictureles paper. The performance given there New leer's night was a plain variety show and the house couldn't hold all who bought tickets. The W. C. T. U, and several church societies petitioned the Mayor not to permit the performance, but he sympathized with the manager, and now a crusade is being started against all shows. PAIR OP RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. Two Engineers and a Fireman Lose Their Lives in a llead-End Collision. UriCA, N. Y., Jan. 6. A head-end collision occurred between a freight and accommodation train and a light engine on the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad, half a mile north of Smyrna, Chenango oonnty, at an early hour this morning. The accident resulted in the killing of three men engineer Young, of Utica. engineer Martin Sbeedy, of Oswego, and fireman Albert Cady, of Norwich. The passengers were transferred to the New York train at Randallsville, and only railroad men were on the train at the time of the accident The front ends of the locomotives were raised from the track at a considerable angle by the force of the blow. and stood in that position a moment, when an explosion took place that shook the ground like an earthquake. The firemen and brakemen, who had jumped, were struck by flying debris and hnrled against the fence. The explosion shook the windows of houses at some distance and people were awakened by the report In a few moments the train men began to search for those of their crews who wero missing. Engineer Young was discovered standing on his feet among the broken parts of his engine, tightly pinioned against tho heavy bars. lie was alive, but could not speak, and died later. Firemen Cady was found crushed and lifeless in the wreck. Engineer Sbeedy, of the light engine, could not be found, as he waa covered with the wreck. Narrow Escape for Passengers. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 6. A wreck occurred 00 the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, one mile east of Fairmont, W. Va., at 5:15 o'clock this morning. The Chicago limited express, consisting of baggage, exDress and smoking cars, two coaches and two sleepers, were crossing the bridge, which spans theMonongahela river at that point, at the usual rate of speed. The rear truck of the baggage car suddenly lef' the track, but was held in place by the stay chains and the Janny coupler until the end of the bridge was reached, when it swerved in crossing a switch and struck a coal tipple. The end of the smoking car struck the tio?le, tearing it down, the entire structure ailing on the coach, tearing otf tho roof and sides. Some of the passengers were slightly injured, but no one was killed. Conductor Sbeehan was badly injured, and Chief painter Moriarty, of Newark, had his right arm torn from its socket. Canada Should De Careful. Montreal, Jan. C Charles J. Goff, United States special agent in Canada for the detection of violators of the alien contract-labor law, in an interview, said: "If your Ottawa government will not make amicable arrangements with the United States government respecting this immigration Question, thsn the department at Washington is prepared to erect sheds at all points in the United States at which your emigrant trains stop, to make an examination, and to send thonsands of the class that are now allowed to pass through your country to the United States right back again to Canada. 1 tell you that is what the department is preparing to do." The Araoiat Paaa Strike. Yoakum. Tex. Jan. (x Both passenger trains passed through on the main line today, both well guarded and one and two hours late, respectively. A passenger train was also sent out towards Waco at ll:SO. All disabled engines are being repaired at the round-boose and everything generally has an air "of getting ready for business.

BLACK AND FUNNEL-SHAPED

Clond Fringed with Electric Fire Deals Death and Destruction in Georgia. Its Center Was a Roaring, Seething Mass, and Kcthintr Stood in Its Tath Several Perseus Killed and a Number Injured. Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. C At 6 o'clock last evening a great black lunnel-shaped cloud, fringed with electric fire, in the center of which was a roaring, seething mass, struck Fayetteville, and dwellings, churches and publio buildings were swept away, and several persons killed. At the home of Mrs. A. J. Henderson the family were gathered. Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Travis, her daughter, Mr. Will Travis and his two children, formed the group. The building shook a little, and Mr. Travis stepped to the door to see what it all meant Just as he stepped upon the porch the cloud came down upon the house. The roof was taken off, and then the floor of the house was wrenched away, and the inmates and household goods were left within the walla upon the bare ground. Mrs. Henderson was badly hurt. Mrs. Travis and the children were seriously injured. Search was made for Mr. Travis, but he was not found until 9 o'clock. His remains were picked up in a field 100 yards from the residence. Both legs and arms were broken and his ribs crushed in. Twelve people were sitting together at the residence of Mr. J. W. Graham. The cloud struck the houso, and the walls were crushed and the roof and ceiling torn away. The chimney fell. Beneath the pile of debris one member of the family group was buried Sallie Kate Graham, a trod nine. All the other members of the family were injured. After the storm had passed away somebody picked up a little dead negro child. Whose it was or where it came from nobody knows. Thirty residences, the publio academy and the Alliance warehouse were destroyed. Many other buildings were seriously damaged. The residence of Mr. Knox was destroyed, and he and Mrs. Knox were injured. The residence and barn of Mr. J. P. Peevy, three miles east of Fayetteville, were blown away. In the same neighborhood Mr. John English, 1 whose residence wasdestroyed. was badly injured. His wife bad her ankle broken, and their two children were hurt. As the track of the storm lay through the back-woods district further particulars are not obtainable to-night. A dispatch from Millen, Ga., says: A terrific storm passed near here late yesterday afternoon, causing great loss of property. It struck the plantation of J. 11. Daniel and wrecked five dwelling-houses and two stables. Tho next damage done was on tho Elantation of Elias Daniel, where the ginouse and barns were unrooted. One of thedwellings blown down contained thirteen people, none of whom was seriously injured. The Infant Escapes Again. Oakland, Fla., Jan. 6. A destructive wind-storm passed over this town about 10 o'clock this forenoon, doing great damage to property and causing one death. The t path of the tornado was one mile in width. Nearly everything in its track was leveled to the ground. At the east end of the town it struck the two-story house of P. II. Roper, lifted it from its foundations, breaking the brick chimney and gable and turned the house upside down, completely crushing it and its contents and killing Mrs. Roper and injuring her daughter. A man passing by. who saw the dreanful work of the hurricane, ran over to the Roper house and found a four-months-old baby, unhurt, lying on the top of the ceiling of one of the rooms which was upside down, showing the house to have been completelv turned over. Mrs. Roper was found crnshed and jammed in between timbers and already dead. The injuries to her son and daughter are slight. The tornado also struck tbe house of a negro named Perry, near Ocoee, lifting it from its foundations. The damage was general through the east end of the town. Twelve Colored Feople Ilnrt Charleston, S. C, Jan. 6. Darlington county has been visited by a destructive tornado. At Cash's Depot roofs were blown from large residences, but no one was hurt. In tbe northeastern part of the county houses and trees were blown down, and twelve colored people badly hurt Thetrack of the storm was about sixty yards wide, and it did not swerve from its course through forests of oak, hickory and pine, but cut out an avenue through the woods. The storm came from the northwest, and moved in a southeasterly direction, and was accompanied by lightning. ErldeLces of an Earthquake. Rochester, N. Y.; Jan. C Evidences of earthquake were noted here to-day at 1 o'clock and at intervals during the afternoon. A large suspended magnet swnng like a pendulum and was also greatly agitated magnetically, moving over an aro of at least sixteen degrees at 1 o'clock. GENERAL WASHINGTON NEWS. fConclnded from First Page. principal cereals of the United States for 1S91 made by the statistican of tbe Department of Agriculture are given to the press to-night. The total for corn has only been exceeded once. The wheat product is the largest ever known in any country, and the yield per acre in the United States is the largest ever reported by the Department of Agriculture, The total for oats was slightly exceeded in 1880. The aggregates are as follows: Atrts. Product (bu.) Value. Corn .... 76,204,51 JV2,0G0,154,OO0 Wheat. .30,916.807 6ll,7S0,C0O Oats 25,531,801 730,394,000 f836.439.220 ol3.472.711 232.312,207 The aggregate of all cereals is the largest ever produced, and will supply fifty-four to fifty-five bushels per unit of population. The wheat supply is the largest ever reported in proportion to population, averaging 9.4 bushels to each person, against 9.2 for the largest previous crop, in 1884. Tho average value to tbe farmer is 40.6 cents for corn. 83.93 for wheat and 31.46 cents for oats. The value of wheat is greater than in any year since 1863. that of the crop of 1SS3 alone excepted. The products are, of course, In measured bushels. MIXOU MATTERS. Deets Grown In Utah Converted Into Sugar by American Machinery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington. Jan. C Samples of choice beet-sugar manufactured by the Utah Sugar Company have beon sent to a number of prominent men in Congress, who have interested themselves in the beetsugar problem It was produced from beet grown in Utah, upon irrigated land, and was manufactured by machinery made in the United States. Senator Manderson, who has a bag of the sugar, to-day wrote a letter to tbe company, congratulating it upon tbe success of its works, and saying that it hasbesn fully demonstrated that this country will within a short time be manufacturing all the sugar it can consume, and. before many years, will make heavy exports. He regsrds the Utah product as significant in more respects than one. It shows that irrigated laud is best for the production of the sugar-beet and that we can now make our own beet-sugar machinery. Proposed Legislation. Washington, Jan. 6. Senators Dolph and Morgan to-day reported from the Senate committee on foreign relations two bills providing for an investigation of the Weil and La Abra awards made under the terms of the convention between the United State and Mexioo in lStJSw Preambles to

the bills recit e the declaration of the Secretary of State that tbe honor of the United States reauires an investigation to be made by the United States to determine whether Mexico has been obliged to pair these awards through the production of false testimony. The bills propose to refer the cases to the Court of Claims for examination and report, with provision for an appeal to the United States Supreme Court Representative Lane of Illinois introduced a bill declaring all agreements and combinations having for their object the prevention of tali and free competition in tho importation, manufacture, transportation or sale of and commodity to be trusts, and r.ibjectinsc tbem to tax of 25 percent on tleir capital and assets. The President is altD authorized to suspend import duties on articles atlected by trusts. Representative Pattison of Ohio introduced a joint resolution amending tbe Constitution by making the presidential term live years, and declaring the incumbent ineligible lor re-election. i Nominations and Confirmations. Washington, Jan, 7. Tho President today sent to the Senate the following nominations: , Walter Wyman, of Missouri, to be supervising surgeon-general of the marine hospital service of tho United States. John B. Hamilton, of Illinois, to be surgeon in the marine hospital of the United

States. Arthur Carter, of Maryland, to 'be collector of customs for the district of Annapolis. Md. Postmasters John J. Wheeler at Crown Point, Ind., vice J. P. Morrill, commission expired; Benjamin F. Lantz, at Taylorsvi He, 111., vice Arthur Crocker, deceased. The Senate to-day confirmed . the following nominations: u.:.-t Interstate - commerce Commissi onersJames W. McDill, of Iowa; William R. Morrison, of Illinois, and William M. Lmdsey. of Kentucky. E. G. Rathbone, of Ohio, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-general; Charles Wear, of Iowa, United States consul at Aix la Cbapelle. Postmasters Illinois: Acnes Ross, Ravenswood; B. F. Lantz, Taylorsville; Walter Colyer, Albion; L. D. Carter, Oakland; W. E. Brand. Highland Park: J. M. Boycourt. Golconda; Thomas Blair. Staunton. Indiana: J. J. Wheeler. Crown Point Speaker CrUp's Condition. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 6. It is believed that the condition of Speaker Crisp is much more serious than tho public have been led to believe. A doctor is in almost constant attendance upon him, and he is said to have developed the incipient symptoms of pneumonia. Last night and early this morning it became impossible for him to cough, and thus relieve tbe congested condition of bis throat and lnngs. The statements which are sent ont by the doctors for publication made it appear that the Speaker is improving slowly and is only- temporarily indisposed, but those intimate with tbe family say the Speaker - -is a very sick man, although not in a, condition to excite immediate alarm. ;- Read Out of the Democratic Parjy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan a It is ascertained that the reason Martin Morrison, of Frankfort, was not appointed a reading clerk of the House, for which position he showed splendid ability. - was , becauso charges against his sound Democracy were preferred against him by members of the party in Indiana. Morrison has, in short, been read out of the party by the delegation from the State in the House. All Are Opposed to Clereland. Precis! to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 6. Hon. Garrett A. Hobart, the New Jersey member of the Republican national committee, is here, and says Senator David 13. Hill will certainly be tbe next Democratic nominee for the presidency. He says the leading Democrats of the East and South are all opposed to Cleveland's nomination. The same is said by ex-Congressman Phil Thompson, of Kentucky, a Democrat , Failed to Pais the Examination. f rcclftl to tlie Indlanapoliso'uxaaC.V. - , - T Washington, Jan. 6,-i-To-day Secretary Foster was officially notified, by Inspectorgeneral Dumont, that Frank Hopkins, who was recommended for appointment as Inspector of steamboats at Evansville, had failed to pass tho necessary examination. He had not commanded: a steamboat for three years, as required. It is probable that Mr. Cole, who was first recommended, will be appointed. General .Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 6. WH. Dayton was to-day appointed postmaster at Griffith, Lake county, vice F. C. Gardner, resigned. Representative Holman has fnlly recovered from his illness-., JIe occupies his seat in the House and takes a fall part in the debates. ' Lingen Kenys, of1 Danville, has been appointed a messenger under the Doorkeeper of the House, and Joel Hiatt, of New Harmony, has been appointed to his old position in the House, as chief of the clerk's document-room. Frank Dice and wife will arrive at Crawfordsvilleon Friday after a most delightful visit to the family, of Treasurer Nebeker. ' . , ' ' ' Representative Bynum's ' colleagues on the iloorof the House say he is now an open and avowed candidate for. tbe Democratic nomination for, Governor hf Indiana. Postmaster-general Wanamaker to-day had a long interview with Mr. C. P. Huntington and Mr. J. B. Houston, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, on the subject of increasing the size of the vessels to be put into tbe China trade under the postal aid bilL Thecompanynow propose to build first-class, 10,000-ton ships, instead of second and third-class ships under the terms of the present contract. The otlers of silver to the Treasury Department to-day aggregated 2.120,000 ounces. The amount purchased was 1,120,000 ounces at 04.85 and P4.&5 cents. . Five thousand dollars in silver coins of the new design have been forwarded from the Philadelphia mint to the treasury at Washington and the sub-treasuries at New York and Chicago. , The acting Secretary of the Treasury today sent to Congress a letter from Mr. Robert Porter, the Superintendent of the Census, accompanied by a deficiency estimate of $1,000,000 forcontining the work of the census, which appropriation is asked to be made in the urgency deficiency bill. Tbe Vice-president laid before the Senate to-day three messages from the President, transmitting, agree'raents . made by commissioners with the Indians of Colville reservation in Washington, with the Wichita and assimilated bands of Indians in Oklahoma, and with the Tonkawa Indians in Oklahoma. Uualneas Embarrassments. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 6. The Washington Stock-raisers' Liye-stock Insurance and Guarantee Company, of Washington. Pa., has decided to make a settlement of its affairs and retire from business. The comCany began business less than a year ago. ut mismanagement, it is claimed, has wrecked it The capital stoek is $100,000, of which the stockholders will lose about 40percent Dkcatur. 111., Jan. 6. D. R. Alexander &. Co., knit-goods manufacturers, confessed jadgments to-day, aggregating $23,000. Assets of double that amount are claimed by the firm. Unfavorable weather is given as the causo of the failure. The company failed a year ago for $05,000, and effected a compromise. San Francisco, Jan. 6. The firm of Lowenthal, Livingston & Co., grain and commission dealers, hied a petition of insolvency to-day. Liabilities, fcSOS.OCO; assets, clt3.000. Montrkal, Jan. 6. John A. Paterson & Co., wholesale milliners, have made an assignment Liabilities, $58,000: assets nominally the same. , Philadelphia, Jan. C. Executions and attachments aggregating $20,000 have been issued against P. A. Brauss, trading as P. A. BrausB & Co., tobacconists. Hill's Housekeeping. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mrs. Flower, the wife of the new Governor of New York, was horrified At the condition in which Governor Hill left the executive mansion. She says "there wasn't a whole set of anything in the houso." The bachelor Governor's housekeeping must have been on a par with his politics-slight-ly irregular, but highly energetic

WHERE LIFE IS HELD CHEAP

Mob of Kansas Cut-Throats Intrenched in a Conrt-House Ready to Kill The State Adjutant-General and His Men Will To-Djij Conduct Jodge Botkin to Springfield and Much Bloodshed Hay Resnlt Arkalon, Kan., Jan. 6. Forty as determined and desperate men as can bo found on tbe border are armed to tho teeth and barricaded behind the walls of the courthouse at Spnnglield, Seward county, tonight. Forty soldiers as determined to dislodge them and bring them to justice'stand guard at every avenue of escape. At this point soldiers are guarding three of the murderous mob arrested to-day, under orders to shoot rather than surrender to their companions, who will probably endeavor to release them before day dawns. Still another detachment surrounds the house of Judge Botkin to guard against an attack of the enemies bent on taking his life. Such is the situation to-night at the scene of the atrocious killing ot Sheriff Dunn yesterday. At2:4o o'clock this afternoon Adjutantgeneral Roberts reached here with seventyfive troops under the immediate command of Colonel Ricksecker, of Sterling. The company was formed of part of Company , of Hutchinson, and Company II, of Sterling, of tho Kansas National Guards, and met General Roberts at the former place this morning. The intention of General Roberts is to assist the only constituted authorities in the execution of the law. He is not here, he says, to take sides with either belicose faction. Judge Botkin is here at Arkalon waiting for reinforcements to help him open court Botkin asked for help chiefly in the way of arms. It will be remembered that his first telegram to the Governor was not for troops, but for arras. He thinks that there are men enough here, but they are not sufficiently equipped for the emergency. Judge Ellis, of Pratt where the family of the dead Sheriff Dunn resides, came in on the train with the intention of taking the body home. He was accompanied by the late Sheriffs oldest son. Judge Botkin and his followers, all armed with Winchesters, awaited the arrival of the train. The Judge himself, in addition to his rifle, carried a big six-shooter in his cartridge belt. Many others .were similarly armed. His vest was unbuttoned to the cutting wind, and not one in the town wore any covering on the hands, in order that greater freedom might bo preserved and the quickest action admitted of in case of an emergency. Uotkin's first speech to Adjutant-general Roberts was that he wanted arms. He would rather have fifty armed and mounted deputies than all the militiamen in Kansas. To-day Botkin wired the Governor again to send one hundred stand of arms. He also wanted the troops kept here three weeks and the county placed under martial law. General Roberts has telegraphed the Governor for instructions on this point Charles Orner and a man by the name of Zandt, both of Springfield, were arrested this morning by three deputy sheriffs from here. They were in hiding in a canyon near Judge Botkin's house, three miles this sify of Springfield. Yesterday afternoon Beakin himself arrested Bay Robinson, of Fargo Springs, on the streets of Arkalon and placed him under guard. The three men are kept under separate guards to prevent them from talking. Word has been received here that an attempt will be made to rescue the prisoners to-night - On -the receipt of that report Botkin gave orders that they be shot if the guards found that their prisoners would bo taken away from them. About 4 o'clock Company H. in charge of Colonel Ricksecker, started for Springfield in wagons to aid Deputy Sheriff H. P. Larrabee, if necessary, in serving thirty warrants for arrests. Company E, the regimental band and General Roberts remained here to assist the deputies in guarding the prisoners and to be ready to repel any attack which may be made on Arkalon. CompanyiH took plenty of provisions and the;reinaining company establishedquarters in a vacant store building. Part of Company 11 was dropped at the residence of Judge Botkin to do guard duty to-night. At sundown tbe Judge started from here for his home, carrying enough arms to right a dozen men. To-morrow morning the military will escort Judge Botkin across the country to Springfield, the county-seat of Seward county, a distance of twelve miles, where he will open court. The troops will remain there during the term, and also assist tbe local authorities in serving warrants for the arrest of the criminals. There is every probability that a bloody encounter will take place to-morrow at Springfield . on Judge Botkin's arrival. The Judge's enemies, recognizing the fact that yesterday's murder cannot be allowed to pass unpunished, are now more than ever determined to make away with tho Jndge. His honor, however, declares that he will hold court to-morrow in spite of all tbe Wood gang. It is believed by many that when the troops arrive at Springfield to-morrow these men will see the advisability of withdrawing from the building where they are intrenched to-night, but that a conflict between them and Judge Botkin's friends oan be avoiaed is hardly among the possibilities. The Desperadoes to De Punished. Topeka, Kan., Jan. C Governor Humphrey thoroughly appreciates the condition of lawlessness which exists in the southwest and states that he intends to bring the guilty parties in this . affair to an account if he exhausts the military power of tbe State. Governor Humphrey received a message this evening from Judae Botkin asking him to send arms to the lawabiding citizens of Seward county for selfproteotion. that they might be prepared for an outbreak from the mob who killed Sheriff Dunn. Governor Humphrey replied that Adjutant-general Roberts would protect the officers of the county and courts if the civil authorities were unable to do so, and would assist the sheriff in serving warrants, if necessary. Attorney-general Ives, in speaking of the lawlessness in tbe southwest, said: "The trouble in Seward county adds one more chapter to tbe already checkered history of the extreme southwest The trouble, as near as 1 can ascertain, first commenced by an attempt upon the part of Sam Wood to resist what he claimed was a fraudulent organization of Stevens county, which organization was subsequently legalized by the Legislature of the State. The trouble is usually attributed to a county-seat contest between Woodsdale and Hugoton. No 6uch contest has ever existed. After the troubles resulting from an attempt to prevent the organization of Stevens county, rival propositions for bonding the county in favor of railroads intensified the feeling already started between the different factions of the county. This fiually culminated in the murder of Sheriff Cross and others in the neutral strip, and the attempt to bring tbe alleged perpetrators of that crime to justice in the United States Courts at Paris, Tex. Suoeeqnently personal troubles arising between Judge Botkin and Sam Wood had a tendency to spread the ill-feeling existing in Stevens county over the whole district, and the impeachment proceedings in which Wood was alleged to have taken a lively interest to a certain extent involved the whole State in the difficulty." Gambler Hathaway Let Off Easy. Chicago," Jan. ft George Hathaway, who shot and killed ex-Alderman W he lan Oct 26. 1KO, was sentenced by Jndge Tutbill to-day to three years' imprisonment in tbe penitentiary. Hathaway has been in the county jail nearly two years and this sentence indicts upon him a punishment equivalent to live years' imprisonment Everybody Disfranchised. Concord, N. II.. Jan. ft New Hampshire politics are in a most peculiar muddle, and In all probability an extra session of the Legislature will be required to set matters

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right. Tbe trouble comes from a discovery, recently made, mat the Australian ballot law, passed by the last Legislature, is practically a dead letter, and that the State is now without a legal system of Toting. If it Is attempted to put into movement the machinery of the Australian ballot law, it will be necessary either to disfranchise all the towns of the State, or permit a dual system of voting under it. HEIRESS SECRETLY HARRIED. Clerk Weds a Daughter of the Late Biship Eingsley, but Is Not Allowed U See Her. Pittsbueo, Jan. G. Miss Martha Kingsley, youngest daughter of the late Bishop Calrin Eingsley, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Samuel McComb, a young clerk in the office of the Pennsylvania Company, were secretly married Monday. Miss Kingsley'a relatives learned of tho wedding soon after the words had been spoken which made the young woman Mrs. McComb, and when the former called on his wife this evening be was not permitted to tee her. Ho declines to talk about the matter further than to say that the young woman is hi3 wife, and that she cannot bo taken from him. Miss Kingsley is twentythree years old, an heiress, ana has moved in the best society. Her homo is with her brother-in-law, William Earl, a leading business man. Mr. Earl to-night denounced MeComb as an advonturer. Little is known of the young man save that he is a native of Ireland and has attended faithfully to his duties in the Pennsylyania Com'pany's office. He has only been a resident of Pittsburg a few months. Mrs. Kooni Suspended. Canton, O., Jan. 6. The verdict in the case of Ada F. Clarke, past department president of the Woman's Kelief Corps of Ohio, against Emma L. Koons, past department treasurer, ou charges of improper conduct, was announced at the regular meeting this evening. Mrs. Koons was suspended from the corns for five years, but the local president modified this toone year. An appeal was taken, and the iooal president has asked for a certificate. progIoess in cmxA. The Wheels Tlore Slovrly In the Dragon's Empire riis Majesty tho Emperor of China and the 41 Son of Heaven n is enjoying a train of miniature railroad cars, presented to him by tho French syndicate of capitalists who wiih to get contracts for building railways. In China- they will wonder at its staam engine ; and the six thousand electric lights, which are now being introduced into the holiest of Chinese sanctuaries, cannot but turn their eyes to our civilization. It will not be long cro a material advancement will be made la tho rcience of medicine, which has for so many centuries remained a Llot upon their civilization. Tho missionaries are doing much to dispel the mysticism and reverent awe which tbe Chinaman holds for the concoctions of snakes, toads, linrdX eta, prepared by tho native doctors. They recommend standard remedies which have lonj been favorably known in America and Europe, such as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, a remrdy for all casca of Hood-taints or humors, which hav had vears of unmterrupted success in the United State, and numbers it cures by tho tens of thousands. This is a point gained for tho futuro Welfare of tho progomen Emnira.

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