Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1885 — Page 4

4 THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL, THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 22 188ö .

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22.

OrriCTZ: 71 and 73 Weit Market Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. laaimapcii Sentinel for IBXtDaily, Sun. day and TYeek! j XJlrtooJ. SUIT. !UT3rM t7 carrier, per wtw ? 25 Dally, Including aaij, par xiM 83 Dally, per Müsc, by mal.. V) 00 Dany.per anaa, by villi, laclualrg Suaday, by nili.. 12 CO Dally, delivered by carrier, per annua-.. 12 00 Dally, flfcllTered try carrJarpe aaaon.lacldlnz nf - ... , , , ii CO DUy, to ucadzalert, per cory ........ f :aaiy edition 0! elshtj-four tMluraus. ,u cc Biai-y ben tin el, by carriei. .. 2 &0 Ti sewvietlcn, per copy i. WXJCK17. vdJtly, per man ... ....... 1 1 CO The port?? on rescript! ens by nail li prepaid tf the pnbliste newsdealers supplied at throa cceU per copy, Poitasa cr other caarjoa prevail, fctorad u second-clan x&atter at the FoatoSce at l-cU-nipoila, Inä. 'The ball of the doll thud" 13 the other Chicago name for the skating rink. Cattle and sheep in the Indian Terrrtory have perished in large numbers from cold. In the Senate William M.Evarts will have his first experience in any hall of legislation. Gp.ovxr Cleveland's address is No. 43 Willst street, Albany. Officeseekers should commit this to memory. Mr. Rakdall will probably not baa candidate for the next Speakership. This will give Mr. Carlisle in open field. The London Record says General Cleveland is the first Confederate President since the war. The Irish ought to dynamite that fellow. What a dismal day it will be far the bkedy shirt organs when poor old Jeff Davis dies. What will they have left to "fire the .Northern heait?" Sad thought. It is suggested that proofs of St. John's duplicity will be supplied as soon as the Republican National Committee can secure a competent forger to do the work. --, Tue Pennsylvania iron trade is picking np. Perhaps this may be traced to the recsnt election (?) of Mr. Blaine. It was prophesied by the Republican organs. Caktep. Harrison has withdrawn from the contest for the Illinois Senatorship. There will probably be another Harrison in the fame lice of business in Indiana two years hence. A Sax Francisco Judge has decided that by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Chinese children born in this country are entitled to admission to the public school. "DiNir," a new play by Alexander Dawas produced at the Theater Francalse, in Paris, Monday night. It was a brilliant tuccees. President Gravy was in the .audience. A Michigan legislator has introduced a till to prevent any board, commission, commen council cr public corporation from hiring any person holding office under the laws of the State to draw a bill to be presented to the Legislature. What frantic attempts the Republican organs of the city are making to have the old police system re-established. They care nothing about the saloons. It is the old ballot-box stuffing and those bogus 2,030 Rspublican majorities in Marion County that ti:tfj hanker after. A small Sffiss village at the foot of the S.ruplon Mountain ha been buried under ten feet of snow by an avalanche. An avalanche at Klagenfart, Southern Austria, Jnr,day, wrecked several buildings and killed twenty persors. Many others were injured and rendered homeless. Wnns the organs find out that they eta not break up the Metropolitan police system, they will begin one of their periodic! raids on the State Benevolent Institutions orithe State Penitentiaries. Perhaps they msy find something in the educational Institutions to take a tilt at the Normal School, or Pardue, perhaps. Anything fcr party capital. Tbk local Republican organs continue to assail the State officers because they requested the withdrawal of the resignation of John P. Frenzel as Police Commissioner. The letter of request is simply an expression of a desire to have Mr. Frenzel continue his eei7ice on the beard and submit to its action, as the same might be determined by a majority thereof. If als resignation had been promp;ly accepted trie organs would jest as vehemently charged that the acceptance meant an indorsement of Mr. Frenzel's course. This condemna tion of the State officers comes with poor grace from the Republicm press, in the face of the fact that when the Republican party had full control of the police of the city saloons and gambling bouses were kspt open all Eight That Mr. Frenzel and h!a asso elates on the board have rendered valuable service to the city will be generally admitted. That the Metropolitan Police system has been a great improvement on the former iytem, and that Mr. Frenzel has been an effclent member, will be generally conceded. The aim of the Republican press is well understood. It is to break down the present system acd substitute therefor the old corrupt Republican rule, under which they carried the city by majorities ranging from 1.2C0 to 2,000 by pandering to the very worst -elements. If that state of affairs could be

again brought about, the Republican press would haye no complaints to make. ThLj atuieand misrereeaentation of the News and Journal is but a repetition of the course they pursued during the Late campaign, and upon which the people of this city passed their disapproval and condemnation, and will do so again. ' THE TREASURY AGAIN. Tbe Sentinel hopes that within a day or two it can publish to the State that the committee from the Legislature has investigated affairs at the State Treasury this in the interest of the Treasurer himself and of the party that has elected and re elected him. In the late campaign the Sentinel has made special championship of Mr. Cooper's canvass. Its argument in his behalf was his reccgnized Integrity. Its opposition to his Republican competitor was largely because of its own and the general distrust that the latters administration of the Treasury might not be such as that be would be ready at ail times to court an investigation of its condition. Had h9 been elected there were plenty who would Lot have been surprised at his shrinking from the visit of a legislative committee. It was this distinction drawn by the Sentinel between the two candidates that caused it to advocate Mr. Cooper'a candidacy with exceptional earnestness. It was because of the same discrimination by the voters of tha State that Mr. Cooper ran ahead of his ticket. Mr. Cooper thus occupied the front place among the Democratic 1 favor Iter. Less than any other can the party now afford to have him rest under aspersion. Mr. Coope owes it to his friends and bis party that he refute the implied charges of irregularity In his office by demonstrating to the Investigating Committee what from the first the Sentinel has held to be true, that there is net, and has not been, any laches iu his trust needing investigation. The Republicans have been pleased to draw inferences against Treasurer Cooper because he bas not challenged and invited investigation. There can be no question bat that such a step by Mr. Cooper would have placed him on the very highest ground. But that was a matter for his own determination, and so that his official affairs are in proper shape bis failure to make sucn challenge wa3 his right. From remarks made by Mr. Coopar cn yesterday to a reporter of the Indianapolis News we infer that his reasons for not challenging were entirely personal. We copy irom the News: "State Treasurer Cooper is understood now to be willing for an investigation of his office to be had. It is said that he based objection to Foulfce's bill on the ground that it was inspired by Governor Porter's recommendation, and that he did not propo30 to have it said that Porter had had hi3 (Cooper's) rfficial affairs investigated. Mr. Coopsr today said to a News reporter: 'I don't care whether there ia an investigation or not, The committee would find every dollar, or a mighty good substitute. Of course, I don't cany all of it here in this safe, and I'm afraid that what's here is not secure; but I have the money on special deposit in the banks. It is my money, and can not ba used by tbe banks or jeopardized by a panic.' " Mr. Cooper says: "I den'k care whether there is an investigation or not." We construe this remark aa relating to hi3 personal feelings in the matter. But looking at it from a party standpoint, the be3t service he can possibly render ths Stale Democracy at this time is by showing, as no doubt hs cm do, that the Republican call for an investigation was gratuitous and unnesdeJ.

A PLEA FOR PUBLISHERS. Tbe newspaper press, like some very charitable persons, is giyen to making many appeals for others, but seldom in behalf of itself. It will be accredited by the public with contributing a goodly share toward the betterment of social, political and industrial life. The "fourth estate of the realm" is to-day the most potential in its influence. From it is ths greatest amonnt of intelligence dissemiLated; by it is evil most effectually disarmed, and goodctrengthened; through it statesmen, philosophers and moralists reach the world-wide audience. Viewed in this light, the newspaper press Is deserving of the encouragement of civilized government?. Particularly is this true in a Government such as our, whose palladium is enlightened and virtuous citizenship. That would be deemed a narrow spirited act of legislation which sought (were such possible) to levy tribute upon the snn'3 rays that light the earth and warm the soil to generous production. But is not the press, in a sense, like the sun in its universal spreading ot enlightenment and its inspiring of the people to atriotism. The soldier who stands sentry, marches or fights for his country is never taxed for such services as if It were a privilege, but is rather rewarded therefor. And jet the press which is, in a sense, a soldier steadily warring in the cause of intelligence, observance of law and for the thrift of the people is onerously taxed by our Government for tne privilege cf performing this service. In 1S74 Congress, by a voluntary, special act, transferred the payment of postage from readers to publishers. This legislation has proven an oppressive burdsn upon the makers cf newspapers. The public, accustomed fcr years to a given subscription to their favorite publication?, were f jund disinclined to add the postage toll to subscription bills. Singularly, the sum readers had not objected to paying as postage at cfüccs of delivery was objected to when payment wa.3 required at the cilices of publication. The universal experience of newspaper publishers wa3 toat an increas8 of subscription for covering prepayment of postage was inexpedient, because unsatisfactory to their patrons. Thus it came aboit that for ten years the Unite i States Government hai been imposing upon and collecting from the press a direct tax of about $l,5G0,CtO per annum, which prior to 1874 they had never had to pay. It follows as a se juiicr that publishers have besn Ioser3 to the amount of this taxation. Had the newspaper makers been so In

clined, they might have reimbursed themselves at the ex pen Be", to their patrons, of a redaction of the reading matter furnished prior to 1374. But, instead of restricting the spread of intelligence, very many papers bavs been materially enlarged, so as to furnish enlarged reading. The postage tax today is, in instances, even on the same circulation, double that in 1374, owing to sheets being doubled in size. The arbitrary rate of two cents per pound has not only been burdensome, bat unjustly discriminating agakst newipaper publishers. The bulk of subscriptions of a newspaper is within a territory near the placs of publication. Yet f jr but a few milea of transportation, from ono county into another, a publisher pays upon his circulation the same rate per poucd as the Boston or New York merchant pays upon merchandise going by mail to Sai FrAncisco. The rats of postage is so high for short distances it is cheaper to send packages of newspapers Dy express than by mail. The Sentinel joins its cotemporaries throughout the United Btates in asking t Ccngres9 a prompt removal of the excesjive and oppressive postage oa their publicities. The levy wada upon the pre?3 is not needed by the Poatoffice Dspartmeat. During the three years last past that department has been more than telf snpportiag. The direct tax of fl.ö'X OOO collected froai tie press will not bs missed frc.u tho aggregate revenues cf th (overpne:it, but it will griatiy a.'d tho publishers of. the United Staits by being isf; in their enterprises, j An) it does appear that the prepj, the mo.t ' effective educator of the people, is tbe very last source from which roveunes should be col?ectod. THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN SPAIN. Some' of the detaih of the recent earthquake in Spain are horrible and intensely interesting. We leather some of the more recent happenings irom the New York Herald'd cable of the 19th. The corrsepondsnt had spent ten days in the ruined vlllag?s and states that the clearest idea of the horrors of the terrible aflV.r wa3 given him by an officer m the army. He had a brief leave of absence and spent it with his family. After dinner one day he sat talking with his wife and children, five in numt er, when suddenly one end of the room rose up three j feet. The shock threw the whole family to the floor, with the lamps and other articles on the tables and shelves. They remained in total darkness, dazed and wondering what had happened. Presently he supposed it w:vj an earthquake and called to his wife and children to come into the street. He reached the street door and the street was in total darkness. The air was filled with the dust of crumbling buildings. Afraid to go out be stood shivering and undecided, when a second shock came aud the kitchen fell in, killing two servants. A piece of wood fell upon his wife, breaking her leg. He then carried h's wife out over piles of ruins. The narrow, dark streets were so changed by the debris that it was hard to recognize tbem. He reached the open fieldswhere he found that many had preceded him. He left his wife with friends and returned for his children. He brought three the next trip, and then the other two. All the way, while crawltrg over piles cf ruin, he hetrd the cries of those who bad been caught and could not extricate themselves. Every voice was familiar. He met neighbors telling each other of the loss of relatives and friend?. Tbe horror of ssch an experience ws unparalleled. The correspondent gives his exprienc with a guide over the desolated region. He was regaled with, "Here two bodies were dog out," "A man aud wife ever there." "Four children on this side," "One man caught m the doorway and could not get out he died shortly after being removed," until the tale became too harrowing to listsn to. Arrived at the outskirts of one part of the town, where the houses are bnilfc on the edge of a cliff and almost perpend'euiar and forty-lire feet to the fir3t plateau, the efficer pointed to one of which the gable end has disappeared. "There," said he, "two girls were in the kitchen when it wa3 shaken down. Both rolled with the debris to the bottom of the c'itf. Where you see that pile one w&s killed; the other, thank God, eacapei without injury," cud taking 01T his hat he piously crossed himteif. "This girl has since become a heroine, and all visitors to the ruined city are constantly importuned to allow themselves to be introduced." This correspondent saw a numbtr cf houses buried almost out of sight, with all their inmates. The odor of the decaying bodies is described as "sickening" to the passer by. Slight shocks are yet of daily occurrence, end at intervals of a few hour3. The Inhabitants have not slept in their oeds for several weeks, and the entire community is demoralized and panic-stricken. The Louisville Courier-Journal gets it down about right when saying that a Democrat is one who believes in a strict construction of the Constitution; in the divorcement of church and State; in a sound currency, expressed in goM and silver, and paper convertible into gold cn demand; ia a clear division ot the powers 0! Government, State and National; in taxation exclusively for public purposes, and, as to imports laid in a low scale of duties; and opposed to subsidies, bounties, euraptuary as, excessive accumulations and expenditure, preferring a simple and frugal to a splendid Government. KKD1STRICTING TUE STATE. mm 1, A riea forjudge Ward and Protest Againft Chaise. Ncflesville. led., Jan. 20 A bill has been introduced m the Senate to change the present Cor gressi oral district. A word cf warning from the Sentinal abcut this bill would certainly be appropriate. The Democratic party having beexi in the minority for nearly a quarter of a century should have scrxerespect for minorities. This bill not enly

attempts to disfranchise nearly all the Republicans, but does great injustice to many of tbe best Democrat of the State. The Congressional Districts as they now stand are conceded by both Republicans and Democrats to be fair. They were made by a Demccratic Legislature, and no good reason can be given why they should be changed. The bill that has been introduced, like all gerrymandering bills, secures its author a district of his own political complexion. It being contrary to the ler parliavu.,ti to impugn the motives of a representotive we will suppose in this case that it is a mere accident that the Senator is placed In a Democratic district One would suppose that so popular a gentleman could, if he bad Congressional aspirations, overcome the small Republican majority in the d'strict as it now stands. Now, if the Honorable Senator ianot trying to legislate him self into Congress, he ehould at once change tho unfair and unju?t provisions of his bill, es pecfally as applied to the present Ninth Congressional D strict. It is true that this district as it now stands is Republican, but its present reprepentativo, Judge Ward, is a Democrat, who has carried it twice, once over the late God.love Orth, and once over ?00,000in money, that was used in the eflbrt to defeat him, and no Democrat in the district doubts but that fce can continue to carry it if he remains as faithful to his constituents in the future as he has been in th past, and to stab him in the back, as the bill proposes, while he is in Washington attending to his duties, is not onlv unfair but is infamous. There was a Democratic pain at the last election of over l.'OO in this district; this great chance wa3 in a great measure brought abgilt by the megnicent ramvnss of Jndee Ward, who mode tariil" reform the prominent and distinctive feature in his discussion?, and having Euccfeded upon that isiue ba TepiCPfift.H tomething in Congtes and is worsh a dezen clpl.erä who haye tbsir di.tricta made to crier. To ma?e th: cLane and legislate Judge Wa-d out of Concres?, would man much more Urn th mere triumph of a uolittcal trick. It i-cld mean, by repudiating tho repre-fir-'Ativp, a repudiation of the principles of taritf reform bv a Democratic Legislature; it would mean that the personal worth and political merit represented by Judge Ward have no value in Democratic estimation; it waald mean thit th? etrorgest vital force in the Democratic charp.ccr is place and plunder; and as an humble cros3-road3 Democratic politician, the writer wishe3 t- enter his pioten against such an injuatica to the JJenocratic party and its Congressional Representatives of the Ninth District.

HOW TO ;1H' ASLEEP. Hair I'illou to be Treferred Various Methods of Coolio- tho Itraia. I New Ykrk Sun. j When I was a student I suffered much from sleeplessness, and after trying many remedies I hit upon this one: I discarded my feather pillow for ono of hair. Tae etfect wa3 wonderful. I slept soundly tho whole of th9 ßr3t night, and have never since, except when feverish, been ko wakeful as I usually was before. Although feathers are excellent for preventing the dispersion of the heat cf the body, so much fault has been found with feather beds that they have quite generally gone out of use, und it is strange that feather piüows have not been fent after them. Feathers in pillows are open to the same objections as feathers in beds, and even their chief virtue, that cf keeping np a high terurerature, is a defect in a pillow; cerHicly when one-half of the head is kept at blocd heat by being buried in feathers, and tb other half is exposed to the air, b"th halyes can cot be at tho most favoraole temperature. A hair pillow does not get warmed up to an uncomfortable degree, because it rapidly conducts away the heat imparted to it by the head, bince hair pillows are not yet in common use, it mißht ba supposed that a person accustomed to the U"e of one would cither have to take it with him every time he was to be away from home for a fe,v r.5ght3 or suffer considerable inconvenience. But fortunately hair bo'stera are mor common, and if the pll'.ow is thrown aside the bo'.feter wll raise the head probably as high a3 is gc3d for the sleeper. Jf a hair bolster is ?aCKinr, the end of the mattreaa maybe raiffrd hiah enough to rcake a comfortable ter.d re;t by tuning tbe piliow under it. According to mos', but net all, medical writers, wats fulcess end mental activity depend cn the circulation cf a large quantity of blood through the brain, and the flow of bli cd mut be lessened before sleep cm come cu. 1 hare obtained especial bereüt from dmwirg the blood into the muscl-s by rues 1 3 cf a bri?k walk or a quarter to half an hours vigorous penormance of liph: cvmna.st:cs jost before going to bed. The majority of cases of sleeplessness occur BTicrg persons who use tbur muscles but l'ttle, asd for very many taking rxore exercise is tbe bst remedy, bleep can eometiraes be brought on by sin. ply warming the body, especially the feet; the drowsiness ciu:ed bv sitting in a warm room i3 a familiar instance. The bleed irav be drawn to the ein by a cold shower cr sponge batb, followed by rubbing with a coarse tows!. Getting out "of bed a few minutfs whn the cir is coo!, will often bring relief. I Lave lain awake half the niht, and thn, after being up long eiiougli to mix and drink a lemoriide, have fallen asleep at ones on goirt, b?.ck to bed. Perhaps tie lemonade should have part of the" credit. Oa hot summer n'goh a cold bth will reduca the bodily temperature so as to admit of elep. If the s.V.in is not wired quit's dry, the evoporatirg moisture will increase the cooling effect. Aiihtlnnch jn-t before gsing to bed relieves the brain by drawing the b'cod to the stomach, and the inclination to dcze after a meal is explainable in this v.;iv. Diminishirg tba cerebral circulation bv com pr-8siou of carotid arteries is advi?4d by eorie physician. Lying on the back wiih a Joubie pillow piacad against the back of the ccck so as to tip tho head forward will effect this, er.d Dr. J. L. Corning hss invented an instrument in the form of a cellar for this same purpose. In view of what has been said about the circulation of the blood, coldness of the feet is a natural Rccompaniment of sleeplessness, and one means cf cure may be made to serve both ends. Bathing the feet in tot water is such a means, but after a few hours a reaction is liable to sat in, which will send the blood from the feet to the head and cause the sleeper to awake. It is better to take advantage of tho reaction which follows a Cold foot bath with vigorous rubbing of the feet, both in tae water and with the towel. The stimulus thus given lo the circulation in the feet will be more permanent. I have found walking just before bedtime beceScial, and when I co not want to go out dcor3 I ra:?c myself sharply on my tees to the full stretch fifty or ruor- times. A paragraph ha3 already been in circulation to the eflecttbat a continuous low noise favors sleep; the sound of water dropping on a brass pan has been prescribed by a physician with pood effect. The explanation seems to be that a simple monotonous impression quiets the brain by cccupying it, to the exclusion of more varied and interesting, and therefore stimulating, impressions. "On the same principle are the devices of counting forward or backward, imagining ehcep jumping one by one through a gap, etc. ; bat they are cpen to the objection of causing oae portion

of the brain to be exerted in order to control the rest of it. If the hygienic measures which have been described fail to induce sleep, probably some form of disease stands in tne way, and a physician should be employed to discover and remove it. Sopcrific drugs should be regarded as a last resort, for, unless skillfully used, they produce a stupor rather than a refreshing sleepy. Do net take a narcotic or nostrum at random because somebody says it is good to make you sleep; one narcotic is injurious where another is beneficial, end the chances are that you will choose one which will do you more harm than good, Tall Down the IHInds. Detroit Free Press. The controversy between General Sherman and Jeff Davis is another Illustration of the already well demonstrated truth that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Both that i3, Sherman and Davis, not Satan are retired from active life without anything to do but to rake up the past and get into a quarrel over it. Oid men who have taken a back seat are very much inclined to do this, and it is all well enough so far as they are personally concerned; but when it sets the neighborhood also by the ears ii is far from well. If these two old genilemen enjoy a scolding match let them indulge it inccors.

INDIANA NEWS. Seymour's ISadget of News. Special to the Sentinel. Eeymour, Ind., Jan. 21. Simpson Adams, aced Ecme seventy-four years, and living near Medora, this county, met with a very serious accident that will probably cost him his life. He has been subject to periodical sprees. On Friday he went to Medora and got on a terribls bust, and while drunk started home and drove his wife and six small children away frcm the house and then returned to town, where he remained till about 0 o'clock at nieht, and again started home drunk. Nothing more was seen of him till late next evening, when several members of the family returned home and found him lying on the bed with his clothes cn and only slightly conscious. They discovered a bad wound in the corner of his right eye. Dr. Marshall Wilson w.ts at once summoned, and on examination found a hard substance protruding from tbe rah. With a pair of forceps h! drew the subitanc out, which was found to he a straight, hard and sharp-pointed weed, measuring four and one half inches long and cne-fourth of an inch in diameter. It bad entered at the point described, and pai-siüg through a portion cf the ootic nerves, entered the br3ia to tho depth of rear four inches. It is thought that in'going horue he fell on the stub ot a hard weed that had been cut when green, and finally found his way to the house, being unable to call for help. Tbe Doctor is of the opinion thsi the wound will prove fatal. A great many farmers in this county are losing their bf es from cold and starvation. Mr. Isaac Pew, residing in the western paitof this county, was met a few nichts ago on his way h-ime and robbed of ?15 in money. Not being satisfied with thl, tha thieves compelled him to pull off hia coat and ehirt, which they took and left. No clue. , Mrs. Margaret Fagan, aged sixty-one years, acd a highly respected lady, died suddenly yesterday. TFertener Sentenced to flang. Special to the Sentinel. Rkxsselakr, Ind., Jan. 21. On or about the 27th day of October, 1S34. the people of Keener Township, Jasper County, Indiana, were startled by the statement that John Dre?gar, a German citizen of said township, had been found in the Kankakee River with two iron pumps tied to his body, and at the Coroof r inquest suspicion pointed to. oae Artena Werterner, a German of said township, and he was arrested by the Sheriff, John W. Powell, and lodged in jail at Rensselaer. Powell then set himself to work on the cf se, and succeeded in weaving a very strcrg net of circumstantial evidence azalnst him, which would undoubtedly have secured h;3 conviction. About ths 1st day of December Werterner made a f nil and complete confession of the crime. To-day His Honor Peter H. Ward sentenced him to hacg on the- löth day of May, 1SS3, and no'.v the people are satiätied. If aoy other esntence bed been given him it is the prevailing opinion that Judge Lynch would have taen the matter in hand and punished the murderer. 4 Another Man Arrested on Coffee' Confertion of aiartlerlng tlie McSIallec. Special :o the Sentinel. C?.AWFor.rsviLLE, Jan. 21. Yesterday afternoon John Coffee, who is now in jail awaiting a trial for the murder cf John McMullen and Lis wife, made statements to his attorney implicating one James Dennis, who resides In the neighborhood where the murder wa3 committed. Upon the strength cf this information Marshal Rnsminper and others went out and arrested Dennis and brought him to the city ar.d lodged him in jail. Coffee identities him as the man who assisted in the terrible work, and ssy3 that he (Dennis) took tbe mcney. This, together with other suspicions actions, is Uken by roauy to ba conclusive evidence of Dennis' guilt. Many, towevtr, think him innocent, and believe Coffee i3 tryirg to throw the blame on others. Peniiis was taken before Squire Ramsay this afternoon and pleaded not guilty to the charge, and his preliminary trial was set for 9 o'clock Friday morning. New It&üking Arraugemeuts. Special to the Sentinel. Mcscie, Ind., Jan. 21. A3 stated in thesa columns recently, tho Muncis National Bank will, on the2-srh inst., go into voluntary liquidation, the charier expiring on that, date. Arrangsments have been perfected,' however, by tho active managers of that inEtitution to stert a private bank, and to continue business from that date at the oid stand. The new bank is to start witb a capital stock cf $100,000. and manazd bv the f oil owicg officers : resient, S.A. Wilson; cashier, J. E. EurOL. The firm is ta bs known as the I3urson Banking Company. The record for straiahtforwsrd and reliable businf ss established by the Muncie National liani: insures 10 its successors continued prc?reiity, zrA to their patrons satisfactory hardiiL'and safe keeping of their funds. Death cf a Promiuent Citizen. Special to the Sentinel. Geeen Fii Lt, lud,, Jan. 21. Benjamin Freeman, cf Sogar Creek Township, died this evening of paralysis. Ho wa3 a large stock dealer r.r.d trader, and owns a larga amount ot property. He has long been prominent in current affdir3. Killed by a Fatting: Tree. Special to the Sentinel. Winchester, Ind., Jan. 21, John Paget formerly of this place, but recently living in Ridge viile, was kill;d yesterday whils cat-

ticg timber near that Vacs, limb of a fallin -tree striking him on the head. He linged in an unconscious state for four hours, when death relieved his suffering. He leaves n wife and one little boy to mourn bis loss. Jack, as he was usually called by the boy; had many warm friends here, who will re gret his untimely death. Peace to his ashes-

Death of a Colambas Ex-Clerk. Special to the Sentinel. Columbi's, Ind., Jan. 21. Ben. L. Smith, ex-City Clerk of Columbus and for some years an employe of the County Auditor's oftce, died here last night, after a lingering illness, of consumption. Mills Destroyed by Fire. KvAxsyiLLE, Ind., Jan. 21. The Imperial Star Mills at Ocvensville, Ind.. were destroyed by fire this inornins between G and 7 o'clock. Los3, $,Tj00 to $5,000; no insurance. An Indian Territory Tragedy. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 21 Advices from the Indian Territory note a bloody tragedy which occurred a few days ago near Webber's Falls. Colson Baldridge had been married, and the event was being celebrated with a dance at the house of a man named Davis. Whisky was freely U3ed, and shortly after midnight Baldridge was shot by an unknown person from the outside of the house. Baldridge rushed to tho dojr and fired thrta shots at the fleeine assassin, and then dropped deed. A general mellee followed, during which over; fifty shots were fired, and when matters quiated down it was discovered that Jennie Butler and Jennie Smith, two Indian women, and Jce Muszrat, an Indian, were wounded, oae of them seriouslv. It ia supposed Baidridfe was killed bv friends of Jesse ;Fcreman, whom Ealdridga klllei eorue years ago, while attempting to arrest him. Terrilic Stabbing and Cuttinff Affair. Louisville, Jan. 21. 1 bloody cutting affray occurred in a down-town coalesce this afternoon, in which John King, white, was fatally stabbed and John Neal and Hiram Fields, both colored, seriouslv wounded. Fields and King, rival coal peddlers, had a quarrel and were fighting, when Neal ran in and stabbed King in the back. Butch Banders, white, came to King's assistance and together they put the negroes to flight. Knives were nscd freely. King was cut In the back and shoulders and will die. Fielis hes a dangerous cut in the neck and head. Neal received a serious stab just over the heart. Arrests for Murder. RocKror.K, III., Jan. 21. A sensation was produced to-day by the arrest of Gideon Cooper and William Larson cn a charge of co aplirty In the murder of Marshall 8. Pr tchard, Collector of Taxes, in January, IS" -X Th arrests were made on Information famished by James Beant, a forcer, in the fir ite Penitentiary, who confessed to the Ji dge of the Circuit Court here, and claims to fcave been an eye-witness to the murder. His testimony implicates two other persans, and is very explicit. The murder wa3 for money, and heretofore there has been no clue. Counterfeiters Sentenced. Chicago, Jan. 21. Ferdinand Ditman, quite a wealthy farmer, was sentenced in the United States Court here, to-day, to one year in the Penitentiary, for making a number of counterfeit 10 Bilver certificates, at his home, Saylesville, Wis., and passing tbem in Chicago. Albert Schmidt and Dr. "WiJIlnm Loudon, about whom little i known, were riven two years a3 principals in the enterprise. Death From Smallpox In the Ouarantlne Car. Portland, Ore., Jan. 21. The second fatal case ef smallpox occurred in the quarantined car on the Oregon Short Line yesterday, ths victim being John Haagin, the father of the j cung man who died of tho same disease on the th inst. The father had nurted the son during tue lalter'a illriese. The car is now in strict quarantine. No new cases are reported. Youth fal Suicide. Sterling, 111., Jan. 21. The body of a boy, fourteen years old, named Robes, wa3 foond yesterday frczen stiff and hanging from a tree, forty rods Irom hi? mother's hous, at Kaglepcint, eighteen miles nortn of Sterling. The mother ted whipped him for some misdemeanor. He went to the barn and toll a hired rran that he would hang hinnelf. He had tied tbe rope about his neck, climbed a tree in a grove, fastened the rope to a lioib, snd sprang o, Defalcation of H,noO. Javktown, Pa., Jan. 21. The Jamestown Savings Bank closed its doors yesterday, and officers are making a thorough examination of tbe bocks of the concern to determine tbe exact amount of the alleged defalcation, which, it is said, will exceid $10,000. One of the cfiicers has been mysteriously missing for several days, and tbe citizens are much exercised, as many of them had all then savings on deposits. Tlncko Meeter Acquitted. I.OGAysPOEA lad., Jan. 20. William Barcelhy, one of the bunko steerers, was tried in tho Circuit Ccurt yesterday, and acqittod on a failure to prove thit any force had teen used in ilescing kis victims. William Allen to Have m Statue. CcLCMErs, O., Jan. 21. The Legislature adop'ed a joint resolution to-day to plae a statue of tbe Hon. Will'am Allen in tbe hall of the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C. A Row at a Dance. Joreph Eclen, colored, was arrested last night by Captain Colb?rt cn a charge of assault and battery with intent to kl'J. It appears that kobecsrr.e involved in a war ot words with Annie Carter, el-o colored, at a dance given by an old nan LsmedOmmenj, at No. 12Ö We;t Fear! street, and finally -siezed a tumbler, which he threw at her head, cutting a deep, Ion? gh above ths left eye, from which thg blod cozed profuselv. Mr. Bolen t'.en sklprd out. elnding the efforts of th other dancers to capture him. Meicüatl Policeman Taylor, who hard of the at?sir, at once notified the Turnkey of the Central fetation and Police Surceon Hedges was summoned to look after the injuries of the Carter girl, while Captain Colbrt went out in search cf Bolen and toon found him, placing him under arrest as above stated. Bolen claims that he did not intend to hit tbe girl, but threw tha glas at a man who had struck him a few minuts before. The Carter girl was in a bad condition at a late hour last night, although it is not thoucht that her injuries will result fatally.