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South Carolina's Anti-Liquor-Spy War Assumes a Serious Phase, Citizens in Arms Against Enforcement of What They Deem Odious Features of tlie Stato Dispensary Law. MILITIA IX OPEN REVOLT Many Companies Refuse to Obey the Governor's Instructions. Some Bluntly Disregard the Orders to Turn Out and Others Withdraw from the State's Service. TILLMAN GROWS DESPERATE He Places Two Rebellious Counties Under Martial Law, Attempts to Control the Railways and Telegraph and Seeks Assistance from His Political Faction. CITIZENS RAID DISPENSARIES And Vent Their Hatred of the Law by Wasting the Liquors. Fruitless Search for the Spies, Who Kludo tho Viff Hants Tho State in a Ferment of Excitement. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 31. The war against Governor Tillman's liquor spies is still on, and anarchy in a mild form reigiis over part of the State. Following is the situation to-night as summed up by a friend of the Governor: The Governor has declared Darlington and Florence counties in a state of insurrection. A report that ho has declared martial law over the whole State is untnio. He has also ordered the railroad authorities not to transport any bodies of men unless authorized by him. The l-ailroafls have thus far refused, compliance. The Governor has also ordered the telegraph companies not to transmit any news of a. warlike tendency. This order has likewise been refused compliance. The Lally Itifles, of Oranjfetaurtf. anl a company from Aiken will reach here to-nisnt. The ten Greenville county companies are under arms awaiting orders to move. The situation is very grave.- Ir Is imder-" stood five hundred citizens cf Columbia have signed a paper agreeing to g to Darlington to assist the citizens who are after the constables. It is reported that an attempt will bo made here on the arrival of the Newberry Rifles to force them to return or prevent the train from i rocoeding. The city and State dispensaries were closed to-day by order of the Governor, and their contents are now being hauled to the penitentiary for safe keeping. The Governor's proclamation declaring Lmrlingtrn and Florence counties in an insurrection is as follows: '.Whereas, certain persons have assembled in the counties of Darlington and Florence, and are now in open rebellion auainst tho authority of the government of this State, and it has become impracticable to ci.fcice, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the Statu within fcail counties: "Now, therefore, I, B. K. Tillmnn, Governor of the State of South Caiclina, do declare such persons so as.mbl-i to be in often rebellion; against th 1 tws of the State, and I do hereby comman 1 ail suet, assemblages of insurgents to disperse and ret 're peaceably to :h-?tr rsponive abodes within twenty-four houis." Judge Walls, of the State courts, on request of Governor Tillman, has granted nn Injunction against the Western Union Telegraph Company ir.ai.afer. Gray, restraining him from accepting messages fcr transmission on the Darlington trouble, urdess sent by State authorities. The injunction v. as served at 7 o'clock. Man.Jtr Gray has referred the matter to the .Vow York authorities, which will probably instruct him to receive and se.id all messages. The Governor, it is tleclarod, will take possession of the office if th? order of Judge Walls is not complied with. SITUATION LAST NIGHT. The situation, as it stands to-night, Is thus summed up by the Associated Press correspondent: South Carolina is really in a state of Incipient rebellion. Fortunately, to-day passed without anj' further bloodshed, but the situation is regarded by cool heads as of the gravest character. Here, in the capital of the State, everything is in a condition of suppressed excitement, and thousands throng the street eagerly awaiting every development in the dispensary troubles. Governor Tillman is very much worried, and has telegraphed orders to nearly every military company in the State to proceed here at once, the intention being to mass all the troops possible together to go to Darlington. Already several companies have arrived, but if the action of these companies is a safe guide the Governor Is depending on a forlorn hope. The company from Newberry has already disbanded, and the troops from the Governor's own county say that they have merely come In obedience to military orders to be on the scene, and that they will refuse to go to Darlington. All day long the Governor has been telegraphing orders to militia organizations In various parts cf the State to go to Darlington, but met with many absolute refusals on the part of the troops, and other companies will not aid' the Governor to enforce the obnoxious liquor law. Last night three companies cf Columbia refused to obey the Governor's orders and disbanded. To-day the Gordon Light Infantry declined to go and sent Governor Tillman a dispatch, saying: "We are in sympathy with the citizens of Darlington In their purpose to defend their homes." The Sumter Infantry has refused to obey the orders. The Bishopville company of Sumter went to Darlington to-day, but at once returned home and would not perform the work expected of them. The Fourth Brigade, of Charleston, the largest and best equipped troop in the State, has been ordered to the front and will not go. Several companies, however, have been more faithful to the Governor, and are now en route to that place. A company from Aiken county, the Arlon Itifles, of Orangeburg, a company from Charendou county and prhap3 several other companiea from adjoining coun-

ties will reach the seat of war to-night or to-morrow. At Orangeburg to-3ay Dr. J. M. Stokes, who waa defeated for Congresa at the recent election, made a passionate harangue and organized a company of one hundred men, with a farmer as captain, to go to the suport of Tillman. It Is the Governor's purpose and hope to mobilize at least one thousand, men at Darlington, but he finds the task difficult in the extreme. He will exhaust all hU rower to suppress the trouble. In the meantime the citizens of Darlington, Florence and vicinity are not Idle, and all go armed and preparecf .or trouble. Local dispensaries at perhaps a dozen points have been raided and their contents run out. Scouting parties have been after. the constables who escaped yesterday, and while some of them are now safe from capture, others are liable to be taken, and in the mood of the people In and around Darlington may meet death speedily If their capture is effected by the enraged populace. The affair has Intensified the bitter feeling in this State, and not In thirty yeard has there been such estrangement between different factions and elements of South Carolina. The Western Union telegraph manager Is receiving anything offered him for transmission, regardless of Juds Watt's Injunction. He is acting under instruction of his superior officers and will accept everything oifcred as long as ho remains In con trol In his office. SEARCHING FOIl SriES.

Sccnea nnd Incidents nt nnd "Scar Florence Work of Viilnniii. COLUMBIA, S. C, March Sl.-Dlspatches from Florence this evening give the following particulars: The bands of vigllants which started out last night In pursuit of the whisky spies returned this afternoon, having thoroughly beaten the bush for the Governor's agents. They passed and repassed during the night within hailing distance of their game, as the beaten tracks found in the morning showed, but all to no purpose. The ppies are still at large, and probably ?afe. All night, on horseback and on foot, the search proceeded, until, overcome by wearlners, the pursuers were compelled to call off the chase. At Muldrow's Mill, about seven miles west of here, definite Information of the whereabouts of the spies wa3 obtained. A citizen named Williams met nine spies and one white man, supposed to be their guide, in a swamp there. He brought an offer of surrender of the spies to the vigllants, who, at the time, were at the mill. The pursued men offered to surrender their arms if given a guarantee of safe conduct for their persons and also their liberty. The spies, Williams said, were to wait until 10 o'clock for a reply, to be brought by him alone. Williams returned with an agreement from the pursuers, but found that the truce was to gain time to escape. The pursued men had all gone. Pursuit of them was delayed by lack of organization and discipline In the band of pursuers. Every man wanted to have h!3 way, so much time was lost. Finally, a cordon was thrown around the swamp and men sent to beat up the game, but daylight showed that the spies bad slipped by the guard at a bridge and had made off. The remainder of the night was spent by the vigllants In near-by towns, where they smashed the State- barrooms. The dispensary at Timmonsvllle was blown up with powder. At Florence. Darlington and other places, numbering seven in all, the vigllants were content to smash every-thinc" breakable. They made a ruin of-the State dram shop.- Ti.e lioors of Tillman's barrooms when they got through were knee deep in broken vessels, and liquor was flowing in streams. In Florence loday there was much excitement, but no trouble occurred, and the hours passed quietly. Some apprehension was felt when the Governor ordered Clerk of Court McGowan to go into the country to sound the slogan and arm the faithful, but McGowan, after two or thre-e attempts to get some other person to carry out the Governor's order gave it up. Poth political factions, for the whole thing is the outgrowth of the factional tifrhts and political differences of the past few years, have been mixing on the streets to-day and discussing yesterday's affairs excitedly at times, but in only two cases with an approach to a flght. About 4 o'clock the Governor's proclamation declaring Florence and Darlington in open rebellion was received here. For such a grave subject this is regarded as the best joke of the season, and the Governor's enemies compared it to papal bulls issued after the reformation, excommunicating Christendom. The Governor found twenty-three militia in Bishopsville willing to obey his orders to go to Darlington, and rushed them through here on a special train to Darlington, livery thin being quiet there, they returned Immediately to Dlshopville, but in no other way did he interfere with the business. Before ha acted, however, a special tra!n had brought about forty vlgilants from Marysvllle. The Governor ordered Sheriff McLenrlon to send deputies into the county to command peace and bring In armed bands. The sheriff did not consider thi3 necessary. He thinks all the trouble is over. A telegram dated In Florence at 8:20 tonight says that several spies have besn located at Elliotts, on the Charleston, Sumter fc Northern raid, near Florence. Dr. J. O. Hyrd. a Tillmanite legislator. Is rousing the faithful of Timmonsville to defend the spies. Florence and Darlington will send fresh men, armed, riding horses through the country to capture the spies if possible. A committee waited on the landlord of the house where liquor constables usually stop In Florence. They went seeking spiss, but found none. The landlord assured them that he would not hereafter knowingly entertain any spies. The Governor has taken military control of the Wilmington, Columbia fc Augusta road to prevent the vigllants from using it, but not before a special came from Marion with thirty vigilants, anned and equipped. Three spies have been caught near Sumter, taken by vigilants and put under guard until a decision can be reached as to what to do with them. Darlington Is quiet, and there is nothing there to stir up a row just now. Interest centers chiefly in Florence, where men are using Winchesters for walking sticks. TUB SEAT OK TIIOVI1L.E. Situation nt Darlington I.nMt Mght Spien Captured. DARLINGTON, P. C, March 31-9 p. m. The situation remains about the same. No further outbreak has occurred since last night. The posse continues to scour the woods for the escaped constables who were responsible for the killing of Darlington's citizens last night. The center of operations for the citizen soldiery seems to be Timmonsvllle, a small town about thirty miles from here, as the spies are supposed to be lurking around there in the swamp. Posses are guarding every railroad, and it is believed that these spies are all In the county except two that boarded a work train on the C, S. & N. railway and made for North Carolina. The watchers say they will kill any of the spies on sight Telegrams were sent to Charleston asking for bloodhounds to aid in the search, but they could not be secured. The Governor has had a train out twenty-four hours trying to get men to assist him and protect his constables. The Bishopville Guards were sent here about 2 o'clock today on a special. The sheriff was notified to meet them at the depot, which he did. The captain told him he was Instructed to report to a State constable here. The sheriff replied that he thought it doubtful about finding one here except the wounded man, who is In Jail. This company remained here five minutes and departed. No one knows why it left. The sheriff asked the men to stay and protect the wounded constable, but it seems they did not relish the undertaking. Mobs have destroyed the dispensaries at Timmonsvllle and other places in the northern part of South Carolina near here, and the one in Darlington will shar a like fata to-night. Dispenser Floyd was ordered by Governor Tillman to keep the pLice hare

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K EW POLITICAL PARTY

Threatened Democratic Split on Financial Questions. Supporters of the Bland Bill at tho Head of a 3Iovement to Array theSouth and West Agrainst tlio East. PEOTEST AGAINST A REFORM Dockery's Retrenchment Scheme Opposed by Other Democrats. If Put Into Effect It Would Displace Sixty Officeholders, Including Ono of Yoorliees's Protege. WASHINGTON, March 3L President Cleveland's veto of the Bland bill has resulted in a proposition for a national convention of the West and South to form a new political party, based on the demand for the free coinage of silver. The proposition comes from certain radical Democratic Congressmen who believe that the time has arrived when the party's salvation in the West and South demands that it should repudiate once and forever Eastern domination on financial policies. Western and Southern Democrats, who are at the head of the movement, declare that the veto of the Bland bill shows that the administration has set Its face toward the single gold standard. Representative McLaurin, of South Carolina, has taken the bold initiative in this step. He has prepared the proposition and it will be followed, he says, by a call signed by Democratic silver Congressmen. Mr. McLaurin says he has talked with many of the Southern and Western members of Congress, and he has yet to find a single Democrat who has not agreed with him that the time has come when the Eastern financial ideas must be repudiated. At first, he said, it was thought that this movement should take the form of a convention of the Governors of the States interested, but they were so widely separated geographically it was feared that united action could not be obtained. It was, therefore, decided to call a national eonvenvention. He said that in the fight which he believed was to follow the dividing line would be the Allegheny mountains and the Potomac river the South and West against the East.. Party lines would not necessarily be drawn. Members of all parties would be invited. The issue would be solely a monetary one. Representative Tracey, of New York, the anti-silver leader of the House, says of the proposed national convention of the South and West to form a new party. "It is a rule or ruin proposition which cannot prove effective. It will simply strengthen the administration. It would be a. queer spectacle to see the South reject the alliance of New York. Even if such a movement proved effective It could only result in dividing- the Democratic vote in the North and giving the Northern States to the rj.epublica.ns. The South win not jeopardize its 'own interests by carrying such a movement very far." Representative Bland said that the plan had not yet been submitted to him. He was inclined to regard it as chimerical, but said that the Democrats of the South and West would never again b2 fooled. They would put none but tried and true silver men on guard hereafter. A careful inquiry among other Democratic Congressmen indicates that very few are now prepared to join Mr. McLaurin's new party. Most of them say the movement will result In nothing Important. REFORM XOT WANTED. Democratic Spoilsmen Opposed to Alolihlng; Fat Positions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, March 31.-There is reason to believe that the great work of the Dockery commission of experts, who spent months at $13 a day each in investigating the workings of the treasury, will come to naught. As the result of their long investigation a system was formulated which would have abolished much of the red tape that has grown into the practice of bookkeeping by the government, and this system has been embodied in a bill recently reported to Congress. Unfortunately for the success of the bill In the House, it involved the abolition of some sixty ofllce3 held by faithful and earnest Democrats, most of whom have lately been appointed as the result of Incessant Importuning on the part of Democratic Senators and Representatives. Foremost among them is S?cond Controller Mansur, of Missouri, an ex-Congressman, whom Senator Cockrell succeeded in locating. Next came the Deputy Controller, Joseph W. Nichol, of Indiana, a brother-in-law of Sergeant-at-arms Bright, of the Senate, and special protege of Senator Voorhees. Among the employes is T. O. W. Roberts, the champion oiliceholder under all administrations, a Maryland Democrat, whose Democratic and Republican Indorsements were so strong that he successfully defied every effort of ex-Secretary Foster to reach him with the oincial ax. It was this man Roberts that caused Secretary Foster to exclaim in despair one day: "The two hardest things in tne world for me are to get money out of a national bank and to get a Democrat out of oflice." Those gentlemen have brought about a combination of their "influence" in the Senate, and, though the experts state that the passage of this bill would save the government an annual expenditure of $13J,000 in salaries, besides vastly expediting public business, the probabilities are that the reform will be defeated in the Senate. It is an axiom in political life that an oflice once created is never abolished. The special resentment of Mr. Nichol, Senator Voorhees' s protege, lien in the fact that while promises have been made to take care of Mr. Mansur, he himself is left out in the cold. REINDEER I. ALASKA. Agrent Jnolinon'n Report on the Introduction of the AnlmnlM. WASHINGTON. March 3L General Agent Sheldon Jackson has made a special report to the President concerning the Introduction of Siberian reindeer Into Alaska by the government. The plan is pronounced thoroughly successful, though slow progress has been made, owing to lack of sufficient appropriations. During last summer 127 reindeer were purchased in Siberia, 124 of which were safely landed at the station. Thi3 made a total of 315 In September. Herds of one hundred reindeer each have been given to four mission stations, and distribution to various other stations will follow as the herd Increases. The statements that the superstition of the Siberian natives would prevent the purchase of live reindeer, that deer could not survive transportation, that it is Impossible for them to thrive in Alaska and that the Alaskan dogs would scatter and destroy the herd have been disproved by experience. The whole subject, says the report, is resolve! into a question of time and money. Continuation of the small appropriation thus far made by Congress will result in slow progress, though having little effect on the success of the scheme. The scarcity cf the food Pupply of the region is urged as an Important reason why the work should be pushed as rapidly as la consUUnt with ths thorough

ness. Action to prohibit private parties, except the Eskimo, from trading for reindeer for a term of years and until the government undertaking is well established is suggested. General permission for private parties to purchase will. It Is claimed, advance the price three or four times the actual value, and, by keeping the herds from the natives, as. would be done if private parties were allowed to purchase, would defeat the main purpose of th nterprlse. It is declared desirable that the larger Island of the Aleutian group be Btocked with reindeer. To accomplish thl3 Dr. Jackson recommends legislation for the protection of the reindeer for a designated number of years and for placing them under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury. WITHDRAWING StIISIDIES.

Contract with the Tactile Mnll Company Canceled li Mr. lUcll. WASHINGTON, March 31. The contract made by the Postoffice Department with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company expired to-day. It was ordered cancelel by the Postmaster-general In the beginning of the month, owing to noncompliance of the company with the provisions of the contract, which provided for the transportation of malls between New York and Colon and San Francisco and Hong ICcng under the provisions of the recent subsidy law. The contract went into operation Feb. 1, 1892, and was for ten years' service. Three trips a month for the first two years and once a week the remaining period were required between New York and Colon. The San Francisco and Hong Kong schedule provided for thirteen J rips a year, during the first two years and thirty-six each lor the remaining eight years. The cancellation will result in payment to the company according to the weight of mails carried instead of on the mileage basis. Heretofore the company has been paid fl a mile for outward trips, with no compensation for mails brought on the return trips. Only two American companies now remain in operation under the subsidy act. These are. the Red D line between New York and Venezuela and other iKints In South America and the Ward line between New York, Cuba and Mexico. The American line between New York and Southampton- will commence to operate under the subsidy act on Oct. 12, 1S35. SEALING REGULATIONS. Xetv Menmure Submitted to the Senate hy Secretary (ireshnm. WASHINGTON, March 31. Secretary Gresham ha3 submitted to the Senate committee on foreign relations the draft of a bill intended to carry out the regulations of the arbitrators as to the conduct of the seal fisheries in the Northern Pacific and Bering sea. It shows substantial changes from the McCreary bill, introduced in the House about two weeks ago, and these changes have been made necessary by the advancement of the negotiations which have been in progress almost dally since that time. The bill prohibits sealing within a zone of sixty miles around the Pribyloff islands, and prohibits sealing outside of that zone and including Bering sea north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude and east of the ISOth degree of longitude, between May 1 and July 31. The use of steam vessels In Fealing Is forbidden, and masters of vessels are required to render an oihcial statement of seals taken, with penalties for false statements. Nets, firearms, airguns or explosives shall not be used, but shotguns are allowed. United States Indians not employed by other persons t..d r.ho do not contract with other persons to deliver skins are exempted from the provisions of the act. 'V lues cf not ltcs than $200 or imprisonment not itss- than Mix months, or both, and the conilscation of vessels, cargo, tackle, etc.. are prescribed an the penalties for violation of this act. and prosecutions may be instituted in anv United States District Court of Alaska, Californla. Orfpon or Va?hini;ton. It i made the duty of the President to provide for the enforcement of the act by a sufficient naval force In the sealing- waters. -rVny vessel or.citizea of 'he United States offending against the prohibitions of this act or the regulations thereunder nwv be seized and detained by the naval or other duly commissioned oilieera cf her Majesty, the Queen of Great Rrltain, but when so seized and detained they snail be handed over as soon as practicable, with any witnesses and proofs on board, to any naval or revenue officer or other authorities of th? United States, whose court alor.e shall have Jurisdiction to try the offense and impose the penalties for the same: proviled. however, that Rrltlsh olhcers shall arrest and detain vessels and any persons as in this section specified onlv aftr, 1 y a; propriate legislation. Great Ilrltain shall have authorized oilicers of the United Stat, duly commissioned and instructed by tho President to that end, to arrest, d.-tiin and hand over to the authorities of Gre.n Iirltain vessels and subjects of that government offending against any statutes or regulations of Great Britain enacted or made to enforc3 the award of the treaty mentioned in the title of this act. Although the submission of the above bill would seem to indicate an understanding that the British authorities- are ready to make their own measures conform to cur plan. It appears that there are yet stumbling blocks in the way. These are probably du2 to urgent remonstrances of the Canadians, anl they have had the effect to cause the lirltish government to doubt its ability to secure the passage cf Its bill in time to be of servic? this season, ir Julian Pauncefote has again coma forward with a proposition to renew the modus Vivendi for this year, promising that in case this is done the Jlrltlsh act will be passed in tims to go In operation nixt year. He also requests iermIs5ion to station a lirltish agent on the seal islands to s-s that our catch docs not exceed the maximum cf 7,.r skins. If this Is accepted it is believed that the closed zone will extend down to the forty-second parallel fit the northern boundary of California, So far as can he learned no cause is assigned for the failure to pass the bill this season, and the fate of Sir Julian's last proiK)ltIon is extremely doubtful. THE SAMOAX riItISI.G. Confirnmlory Dfwjmtfh Received from Con mil -General IMacklofk. WASHINGTON, March 31. The State Department has received a cablegram from Mr. DIacklock, at Apia, Samoa, fully confirming the news brought by the exclusive Associated Press cabl message from Auckland, yesterday, of a native uprising. Mr. Blacklock has been the United States consul-general at Apia for many year3 part, but his successor was recently appointed and confirmed, and Mr. DIacklock 13 simply acting as consul-general until relieved. The absence of a war vessel at Apia at this juncture is a matter cf regret at th State Department, but it is difficult tQ t-ce how one of our own ships can be sent there without serious interference with the plars of the Navy Department. If, however, it is decided to ser.d a sni-j the choice would probably fall uin the Charleston. .Shj lft Itio harbor about two weeks ago to go by easy stages around Cape Horn and th -u northward to Sin Francisco, and H now at Montevideo. If she receives orders rr Samoa she must first go to Valparaiso, Chile, to take on coal, and it will require a good deal of this to carry the ship 5.J"J miles across the south Pacliie ocean t Samoa. About a month would be consumed In this voyage from Valparaiso, anl no cn can tell what may happvn at Samoa in the meantime unless one of the Rriti.-a or German vessels in the south I'acilic comes to the rescue of the foreign colony. Consul-general Uiacklock's dispatch state that the rebels are under the command cf the old leader, Tamasse, who gave so much trouble to Mall: tea, the King. h.st year. A number of battles have taktn place on the Island west of Apia, Hi far tLe government forces have b:en succt 'ul. 1'lnally, a general armistice was effected, t ut upon wnat terms the consul does r.ot Siy, but he. does express the opinion tnat there is no hope oi iMrrnanerit qcace, as the natives are in. a hostile mood and cannot be restrained. Chicago Get but Half the Caltc. WASHINGTON, March 31. Warehouses for supplies for the Indian service will hereafter be located in both New. York and Chicago. This is in accordance with the actijn this afternoon by Scerstary Hoke Smith. who decided not to abolish the New York warehouse, tut to maintain two. with locations convenient to both Western and Hi-stern bidders. The competition raised in this way will undoubtedly result In a mitrrlal reduction in the amount of disburse menta made by the department for tho ru.v:-he. A protest against the proposed c lor. rig cf the warehouse was recently bkd ut the department bv a dIeg-itlon fruin the Xev York Chamber cf ' Co:mr.erce. aiid a Iar.re number of papers relating to the matter haveislnce been filed. The dls'.or. Is ru.Mj iCoatluucd ou Vliird i'a;

NATURAL CAS lid

Alexandria Business Block I Up and Seven Men Buric Three Victims Dnsr Oat and Save the Kemainim: Four Unfortnm Burned to Death in the llu AUGUSTA SCHMIDT JU End of the Trial of the M of Younsr Oscar Wal Grant County Auditor Again', in a "Hake-OfT to Green I Blue Prospect for Jason; Special to tho Indianapolis Jour" ALEXANDRIA. Ind., April Shortly before midnight the b tlon of Alexandria was shaken t gas explosion under the WhI that raised the bulldlrj as if l quake and then let it drop wp crash that aroused nearly ever city. William Pylcs's tonrcrta the first floor had seven custo.In chairs cr waiting1 at the tlm out nn Instant's warning all tho ruins. The building took and, fed by the escaping gai. rolled up through, the fallen s a Are in a brush heap. Roth J firemen dashed In among the fia, b?rs to rescue the imprisoned of whom could be heard cry The first man found was the ; the barber shop, William P brui?ed and etunned, but not' William Heard and James Sc soon found, but the fire had some and they also suffered of bruises, which are, how not fatal. The work of res! stopped by the mass of fla spread through the ruins, and four men were burned to Cleat JESSE HAUnET.Lu IlAKIiY P.OWYUR. CHARLES HOOVER. OKA DALL. At 1 o'clock the fire had sufilcicntly in the front part c to permit a search for the; Two charred bodies were ff top of the pile, but they v mass of blackened flesh ai identification. At this hour J rescue is going on with the two remaining victims will before morning. The Fcene about the burnir, night la one of unparullelf sadness in the history of thi! belt citj'. Wives, children. , fathers were quickly path street in front of the Mock a' l"renzlel Ixrlns to -a.ssLt the cries anl lamentations . p.ni made trn strongest Tlifd-'uildlng whs a simple L. ture. oh-vUie nrst floor were' shop, the American cxpns Whltfld clothing establish nothing f Uif eiitents ws the front wall remains ptaa plosion Is thoucht to have r n It'Jc In th oo!hr. The not reach over yyw, x Totvii of Ilorilcn Pnr! NEW ALU ANY, Ind., Marj tie town of Rorden was vh this morning and the lo.s nearly J75.r Tho fire orJ.f ers flour mill and spread r of frame stores and dwelt reduced to ,'islvs and but 11 i tents saved. The citizen?, bucktt brigade and fm;ght tie success. Chief Merktn, Albany lire department, by a special train, but arri be of service. Tne burned ly two hundred yards lnr. losers were Jenkins's penrstore and Shoemaker's dr. The names of the others could not be learned. JlXtY HAS II Ell I'nte of A h Kit nt it Sflimli ONcnr Walton, ln Special to the Indlanajolls J KOKOMO, Ind.. March 3: the Augusta FchmMt mu; given the case at noon -", out. Contrary to cxpo.tati ment was not finished in Schmidt murd.T trial Friday court adjourned until this m CUtor Wolf and Miitan. lull r State Thursday, and Friday man and Judge Win IK 1 1 ?ix the prisoner. ( Prosecutor K," port, closed this morning ing the cnti'.re trial th'V packed to suffocation, r; ing. It has (furnish d r- .' witnessed ln this court. ( The derYn-lmt. Mrr: Au. a wealthy German V.ornai!. : old. with a huFlmnd and the voungest thive years daughter of th ? 1M lUron Hoc per, a native of Saxony, inherited a lo.tur.c of ?" of which has been wasted : the part f:ve ytars. Lart U t an qr.-irrtled with one of k-e-.r W.-lton. an l shot him for munlcr I" t,lf brst d able offense, she has beep. In the Supreme Court, to v.hkl sustaining the action of th in denying her Lall. .sTOCKsi..;i:it lead Stormy Prlmnrio In County byIio Tito 1 Special to the Indianapolis Jou' SAL.EM. IiiJ., March CI. Y. j one of the most disgraceful izing campaigns that has cv ducte-l Ly the Denwraxy c: The factions w.re divilod int Stoekslaper factions cn the i light, and subdivided by th' pirants. I-ast night the tow hIJ..:u by .the howling cf a of iJemoorats as pre incts I in their returns. All ovtr U noating Republicans who cou; Ll vote were i-.'iKe-i in. r-.m. nan, of Seymour, ret-ivej for district pre s ecu tor. present sheriff, is renom Hroim Dffcntct! Special to the Indianapolf SCOTTSnUUG. Ind.. M) ocratle primary to-day ; suited In Stockslagrr caj ship of the county ov?r J gives Stockslager the ev of Scott county. Stock-' debMtc3 from Floyd Warrington, i from Sct more frni Harrison, hit Ir.g him II! ty out of a nef nate. Drown has in ? Ket 17 in Jackson, hln.ox in Jennlntrs and Jeffciv Half of tries-i are pretty tdjLgcr. Owen County TIcL Special to the Iniiarcp SPENCER. Ind.. M licar.s of Owen cc-nr1 venticn to-day an county ticket in C. J. H. RheRj; au.H Harvey llllkr: j treasurer, J. W. Coble: furve 7 carcwr. Tii vuoi. .

re.TcctJUe ivmoerais f'J. th. poll-, and will nr.J su;t ticket ps nominated. Pri-wn. " fr.t ! i.'ir snowed undf,rJ tcc .