Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1891 — Page 2

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2 THE INT) I AX A STATE '.SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

BEATEN BHffi LAWS. The Harvester Trust Plan Abandoned.

Refreshing News For the Poor Farmer. The Barb Wire Monopoly Gets a Firmer Hold. Dun Regards the Business Outlook as Unfavorable. Vfallace's Estate to be SoldOther Business News. , Chicago, Jan. 9. At a meeting in this city today of the directors of the American harvester company which, a month or two ago was organized with the enormous capital of $35,000,000, it was decided to discontinue the project and the directors representing the organization in the different states were instructed to see that the charters obtained in their respective states be surrendered. President McCormick said at the close of the meeting: "This step has been decided on only after we were assured that we could not carry out the objects of the association. Able lawyers were consulted, and they were unanimously of the opinion that under the laws of these states, the company could not continue in the form in which it had been started. Therefore, like sensible men, we concluded to abandon the whole affair." The dissolution of the company will have no effect on the different companies or firms which were merged in it. No change had been made in the business arrangement of any one of them, and hence the action of the new company will not effect them. President McCormick thinks there will be no effort to reorganize the defunct company. It was only after long deliberation that the gentlemen composing the Havester trust decided to abandon it. For more than a week the board of directors has been holding daily sessions in Chicago. The whole field of the trust's possibilities was thoroughly canvassed and thoughtfully discussed, and the decision was the abandonment of the present form of organization. The hard strokes against the trust were the decisions of the supreme courts of Illinois and New York the former in the gas trust and the latter in the sugar case that one corporation may not legally hold stock in another corporation for the purpose ofcontroling it. The interests involved were so great that it was agreed that $50,000,CHX) capital would be necessary to put the combination upon its feet. Of this sum $3o,000,000, representing the capital stock of the concern, was to be apportioned among the several constituent institutions and $15,000,000 in bonus were to be issued for working capital. 'When the company attempted to float these bonds, the U. S. trust company of New York, through which the negotiations were conducted, instituted a cari ful legal inquiry into the statues of the American harvester company, and as the result of this investigation "declined to make the loan upon the ground that the comoany had been organized in such a way as to vidlate the statutes prohibiting trusts and similar combinations of capital to limit production and to control trade. Other financial institutions were appealed to but with the same result. Then it w as proposed to raise the necessary funds within the company itself, but the various concerns in the deal, becoming frightened at the legal aspect of a ! airs, refused to tie up their individual establishments where they wou'd be handicapDed by the heaviest legal and financial liabilities. Hence, nothing but dissolution of the American harvester company remained. Practically this has already been accomplished, but a good deal of red tape formality must be gone through in winding up the last earthly affairs of the concern. The board of directors today took the initiatory steps in this direction. An evening paper says: "The collapse of this gigantic business, so far as can be learned, is to be attributed to the secession of the McCormick harvesting machine company, the Deering company, the Whitman-Barnes manufacturing company, and the firm of Warden, Bushnell fc (ilessner. These individual companies were not satisfied with the line of policy mapped out by the majority of the directors in the matter of raisin prices on the farmers and the consolidation of the interests ot the supply houses to the disadvantage of their customers, and they were so rebellious at yesterday's meeting of the directory that before the night had' closed they had determined to withdraw from the co'nbine, cut prices and annihilate those w ho remain steadfast in the purpose to bleed the farmers. A merry war la now in prospect.- It is each firm for itself, cut, slash and let die those whocanoot help themselves." LESS HOPEFUL. Pain Regards the Ua.inesa Outlook With Some ApprchcntloB. New Yoke, Jan. 0. R. C. Dunn cc Co's weekly review of trade says: "The year opens with the expected improvement in the money market and in collections resulting from annual disbursements which have been larger than usual. The hopeful feelinz in most branches ot trade continues also and the railroad ourlook is improved. It is becoming clearer every day that one great obstacle to prosperity, is the fear that debasement of the dollar may produce violent contraction, with drawal of foreign investment, collapse of credits and a disaster which will -be felt by every branch of trade and Industry. The iron and steel manufacture haa been eo rapidly extended that shrinkage of credits has forced sales, in many cases, at prices below cost. On the whole, the prospect is considered less bright than it has been for many years in this industry. In the cotton manufacture, also, the shrinkage of credits has severely strained many concerns, and prices of goods have been very low, but further reductions fcaye been made during the past week in the bleached cottons. The woolen manufacture is doing fairly, though extending but moderately, and baying wool with caution. In the boot and shoe manufacture the outlook is regarded as especially favorable. "Reports of trade from different cities are still much influenced by reviews of last year's great business, but generally indicate a larire volume of traffic in progress for the season, with marked improvements since the monetary pressure abated. Boston notes lager sales of boots and hoes and of leather and strong for hides, firm

for wool and quiet for lumber. At Philadelphia the leather and 6hoe trade are dull; wool is in little demand; some uneasiness is seen regarding obligations in tobacco but better collections in paints. At Chicago receipts in grain equal last year's, an increase is seen in butter and cheese, hides and woo!, but a decrease in dressed beef, cured meats and lard; drv goods and clothing sales exceed laat year's with excellent payments and the shoe trade increases. St. Louis and Cincinnati note better trade, at Denver trade is good and at Salt Lake decidedly improved, while at other Northwestern points business is unchanged or comparatively quiet. Higher cotton produces greater activity throughout the South; sugar and rice receipts at New Or eans are irood. The money markets throughout the country are less stringent and reports of collections more favorable. "Speculative operations continue wholesomely inactive. Wheat is lie lower with sales of only 11,000,000 bu. ;" corn, cotton and pork unchanged; oats and hogs higher and oil 2ic, but coffee a quarter lower. The most active center of speculation at present is the stock exchange. Foreign trade continues favorable, exports showing a large gain over last year, while there is some decrease in imports. The merchandise movement supplies no reason for the advance in foreiurn exchange nor does the local money market, and the treasury has put out during the week Sl,500,000 more cash than it has taken in. For some w eeks to come at least comparatively easy money mijht be expected if there should be no disturbance arising fro'" legislation. "The business failures occurring throughout the country during the past Beven days number 4)o as compared with a total of 348 last week. For the corresponding week of last vear the figures were . WHEAT IS LOOKING WELL.

Better Thn For Two Yrri Past, Though Lnitt Year' Crop ffm Poor. Washington", Jan. 10. The estimates of the products of corn, wheat and oats of 1S90 as compiled by the statistician of the department of agriculture, makes corn aggregate 1,489,970,000 bushels; wheat, 399,202.000 bushels; oats, 523,021.000 bushels. The area of corn, which was slighly increased in planting, was reduced by the utter failure and abandonment of more than six million acres. The area harvested was 71,970,703 acres. The average yield per acre was 20.7 bushels and the supply for consumption per head of population is 23 bushels, or 11 bushels less than last year. The rate of yield was lower in lSS7and 1881, years of very severe drought The aggregate wheat acreage is 36.0S7,154, nearly the same as in 1579, and the yield per acre 11.1 bushels. These are measured bushels of a quality grading somewhatlo er than usual, the weight of which wili be given in the March report Past record have shown that the annual difference in weight of the crop is not often more than a pound above or below the average weight for a series of years, the lowest for seven years being 56.5 in 1883 and the highest 58.5 in 1887. The yield per acre is the same ain 1SSS, when the product was nearly 410,000,000 bushels, with two exceptions the lowest rate during the past decade. The area in oats was 26,41 1,39 acres, and the yield per acre wan 19.3 bushels. This is only 74 per cent, of the average of ten years past, which wa- 215.6 bushels and the smallest rate of yield ever reported bv this office. The December condition of growing w heat is reported at 98.4, and of rye 99. This is better than December returns for two years past. Along the Atlantic coast a slight depreciation is noted as the resuh of the excess of moisture in some localities, making planting late and giving rather small growth before the advent of freezing weather. Iu the Ohio valley the season was generally favorable for seeding and early growth, and the plant entered winter quarters in a promising condition. Home damage was done bv the Hessian fly, especially in early sown fields. Condition in Missouri and Kansas was variable, local injury from drought and fly combining to somewhat reduce state averages. THE IRON SCHEDULE. An Important Mo't nn to Settle Upon n Basis. Pittsburg, Jan. 10. A committee of the Amalgamated association of iron and steel workers to inquire into the advisability of changing the basis of the scale from bar iron to some other grade or quality, met at the association headquarters in this city at 10 o'clock this morning. Bar iron has been the basis for a good many years, and the question of changing from that specialty to some other form, though formally discussed, had not be-n acted upon by any convention until last year. Bar iron is not a circumstance in the volume of iron and steel made in other shapes and the basis is not regarded as an average one. Skelp iron is made in large quantities and by some is regarded as a fair basis. Sheet iron is another specialty upon which many would like to see the scale based. The committee has been engaged for the last two or three weeks gathering information on the actual eelliug price of the various kinds of iron and steel and comparison will be made of these figures, and it will be ascertained if the present calculation permits of any manipulation in favor of the firms. Prices in all branches of the market have been shoved down to almost cost, and it is thought by the most conservative members of the association that no advantage would be gained by making the change. The latest market report shows iron to be selling at from 527.50 to $28, which is about as healthy a condition as that product has been in for some time, while the market for manufactured iron is in an uneasy state. The price of steel billets is the lowest on record at present, and the steel rail business is in an unsatisfacSCROFULA Is that impurity of the blood which produces unsightly lumps or s wettings la the neckj which causes running sores on the arms, lfgs, or feet; which develops ulcers in the eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or deafness; which Is the origin of pimples, cancerous growths, or "humors;" which, fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption and death. It Is the most ancient of all diseases, and very few persons are entirely free from It. How Can It Do CURED

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tory condition. There has Deen no improvement in the pig-iron market, while the manufactured iron and steel market is pimply dull. Some of the men recognize these facts, and upon their authority it is stated there will be no effort made to secure an increase in wazes next year. saved By the Citizens. Caxtox, O., Jan. 10. The Hampden watch works, employing 1,200 men, will resume work Monday or a few days after. Twenty citizens of Canton have guaranteed the payment of $98,000, balance due from Mr. Dueber, on a total of $350,000 which he contracted to pay for a controlling interest in that company. The Hampden company, it is stated, is amply able, with ?6 of assets to $1 of liabilities, to meet all obligations. It wiil be under financial management of Mr. W. W. Clark of the Piebold safe and lock company, with Mr. Dueber's stock in th hands of 'Judge Pay, as trustee for the citizens' committee who guarantee its payment. This arrangement relieves the Dueber watch case company, which assigned Monday, of $213,000 claims, which led to its temporary embarrassment. Assignee Howard Doutrlass and Manager W. A. Moore of the Dueber watch case manufacturin g company have left for Cleveland and Cincinnati to arrange with the creditors for whom preferences of 217,000 wer. secured by mortgage on $000,000 worth of real estate. Assignee Douglass felt confident that matters would bequickly arranged for resuming business in a short time. Consumer Will Suffer, of Coarse. Chicago, Jan. 9. All the big barbed wire manufacturers of the United States are said to have been represented at today's session of the private conference in progress at the Wellington hotel. For a long time a number of the firms that make barb wire have been in litigation with the Washburn-Moen company which controls nearly all the patents covering the barb wire devices. This continued and costly litigation, it is reported, has at last resulted in the surrender of the individual companies, and the present meeting is to make a combination of all the firms, including the Wa-h-burn-Moen company. It i expected that the terms of agreement will be concluded tomorrow and that under them the suits instituted for the infringement of patents and for royalties will cea-e. The Washburn-Moen company, with its monopoly of patents will dictate the terms, and the increased expense to the mills will, it is said, come out of the consumers. The B rbed-WIre Traat. Worcester, Mass., Jan. 10. The Washburn & Moen company say with reference to the Chicago despatch of yesterday in regard to a barbed-wire trust: "Some of our licensees have been strongly inclined to make an arrangement under which they could control our patents, having reference to barbed wire and the meeting in Chicago referred to was undoubtedly for the purpose of consulting upou the best means for accomplishing that end. We don't understand that the arrangement implies that we are to be associated with them nor that thev contemplate a substantial advance in the price of barbed wire. In our judgment, if what they have attempted is accomplished, it will tend to steady the market for this particular article so that dealers and consumers will feel that there is les risk in investing their money in it and carrying it in stock like other staple goods, which they lately have not felt like doing in view of the constant liability of change in the price put upon this article." ' New Corporation. Chicago, Jan. 10. The U. S. corporation bureau of Chicago reports the weekly list of new corporations in the United States for the week ending Jan. 9, 1891, as follows: Total corporations, 242; total capitalizations, $100,70o,22o; distributed thus: Mercantile and manufacturing companies 123, $18,375,700; gold and silver and other mining and smelting companies 17, $,041,000; coal and iron companies 10, $1,905,000; banks and investment companies?; $145,000; municipal light, heat, power and tranportation companies 17, $5,429,500; building and loan associations 5, SOT., 100,000 ; miscellaneous 61, $9,859,525. Tho Dolamttars T Tie Arrested. Meadville, Pa., Jan. 9. This morning a warrant was issued by Alderman W. A. Dugan for the arrest of G. R. Delamater and T. A. Delamater, members of the late banking firm of Delamater & Co. A DOZEN KILLED

By the Dropping of ft Cage In a California Mine. San Andreas, Cal., J an. 6. An accident occurred about noon in the north shaft of the Utica mine at Angels camp, which resulted in the death of ten or twelve men. The "skip" with the miners aboard was coining up for dinner. Then within 150 feet of the top of the shaft the cable parted at the reel, letting the men, "skip" and 100 feet of cable fall into the sump at the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 400 feet. The names of the killed are: JOE CARTER. WILLIAM CASE, DANIEL D EN N I SON, THOMAS CONOV1CTI, JOHN DEMAR1S. DAVID McCANN, P. TRUPEt H, J. BllItiTAKO. Four of these are married and have families. The bodies presented a sickening sight, being fearfully mutilated, one being found without any head and another with half the body and lower limbs. The Mirap contained fourteen feet of watr. Three bo lies have already been recovered, and are recognized as those of Joe Carter, William Case and Daniel Dennison. It is but little over a year aeo that a cave-in occurred in the same mine, burying sixteen men, and the slow work of recovering their bodies had neardy been accomplished when this second disaster took pace. WITH MATCHES AND SUCH An Ohio Minister Murdered His first Wife. Springfield. 0., Jan. 7. In 1880 Elder J. M. Clark, colored, pastor of the baptist church in Dayton, and Carrie Moss (now bis wife), murdered Clark's first wife at Yellow Springs, O. She was given soaked parlor matches, rough on rats, and, these failing, arsenic and quicksilver in a pie. from which the woman died. The body was 60 sweiled that it was with difficulty placed in a coffin; but as the husband was a minister, no suspicion was aroused. The woman Moss w as then living in criminal intimacy with one Taylor (white), and the latter's daughter, F.me, assisted in the murder. The girl .Kffie became too intimate ..-with one Dr. Steinberger, who got her money, tome $2,500, away from her by worrying her. Monday she com'i itted suicide after telling thestory of the Clark-Moss crime. She said she was afraid to tell before, for fear site "would be hung between two negroes, but had been in hell ever since." Steinberger swore out a warrant airainst Klder Clark and his present wife and they were arrested this morning. There is great excitement at Yellow Springs. . For a disordered liver try Beecham's PillS. :

THE NEWS OF THE WOULD.

ALL THE CONTINENTS REPRESENTED. Minor Occurrences ef the Past Week Briefly Paragraphed For "The Weekly Sentinel" Look Sharp or Miss Neay Item. Emma Abbott's funeral occurred at Chicago. The Linseed oil association is meeting at Buffalo. The projected harvester trust has been abandoned. The Indians are preparing to attack Tine Ridge. Wheat in southwestern Kansas never looked better. The business part of Springfield Center, N. Y burned. Free coinage is expected to pass the senate next week. A strong earthquake shock was felt around Toledo. The great Rochester shoe 6trike has been declared ofT. Three men are now claiming to be governor of Nebraska. The business portion of the town of Roca, Neb., burned. The Red river in Texas is very high and doing much damage. Almost the entire business portion of Armour, S. D., burned. Small pox is raging in many towns around Gai-sville, Tex. The government crop report will be made today at 4 o'clock. The Rugby mines at Caseyville, 111., are Etill closed by the strike. The Bank of England reduced the rate of discount to 4 per cent. Senator Hoar will make another attempt to pass the force bill. A new compulsory education law is proposed by Illinois democrats. Twenty-three furnaces in the Mahoning valley drew their fires Saturday. Anna Parnell writes a letter vigorously attacking her brother's opponents. Col. Henry Casson has been appointed private secretary to Secretary Rusk. E. A. Taylor's son, jewelrv. New Orleans, failed, with ?25,000 liabilities. Representative Morrill (Kas.) has been called home by the death of his mother. The wife of Perry McDowell was shot on her husband's ranch near Newman, Cal. Bradford McGregor of Cincinnati has succeeded in uniting aluminium and glass. The American glass company (trust) has been abandoned, at least for this year. Fourteen houses were burned at Owingsville, Kv.f incendiary. Loss, $50,000. William Ewan & Son, wholesale clothing, Montreal, failed with $125,000 liabilities. Daniel V. Arguimbau.a wealthy French importer, blew out his brains at New York. Fire destroyed $37,000 worth of property in the business portion of Winchester, Ky. Marcus Bernheiraer was elected president of the St. Louis merchants exchange. The master recommends that the Lake6t. elevated railway be not enjoined from building. Central Illinois is suffering from a water famine which is hurting crops and injuring trade. TheJoliet branch of the Illinois steel works and its men agreed on a scale for next year. It is believed the Canton board of trade will soon start up the Dueber wabjh works again. Proprietors of Rugby coal mines at Caseyville, 111., are having trouble with their miners. James Gunter Arnold of Kosciusko, Miss., was killed with a hammer by his demented son. R. G. Hudson, merchant of Yazoo City, Miss., assigned. Liabilities, $55,000; assets about the same. The Hope River warp companv of Willimantic, Conn., has closed its mill and will probably assign. The opposition to the Washburn-Moen barb wire fence monopoly has ceased and prices will go up. Michael Coyle was burned to death by the burning of a boarding-hoiiBe at Lizard Creek Junction, Ta. The Clarkson house burned at Midland, Ont., and Daniel McGillingray, a printer, lost his life. Two newspaper offices, a bank and fifteen dweliintfs at Mt. Vernon, Mo., burned ; loss $50,000. One hundred employes of the Scherpe fc Kohen architectural iron company of St Louis have struck. A market, a public resort, Chinese laundry and a barber shop at Brewster, X. Y., burned. Loss, $:V),0W. Mr. French of Warren and Mr. Stout of Peoria, stockmen, were killed by a C, B. & Q. collision at Chicago. Robert De Rose shot and killed his wife, a chorus girl, in San Francisco for alleged intimacy with another man. A receiver has been asked for by New York bond-holders for the International cotton press of New Orleans. The family of Samuel Ward, of Saginaw, Mich., was dosed with "Rough on Rats" in pie. No deaths yet. L. II. Corse, the farmers' alliance exchange agent at Lawrence, Kas., is said to be short in his accounts $4,000. In the dispute at San Joccinto. Tex., Mr. Korro, a railroad contractor, was killed by a negro named Tom Gwynn. The powder pool, recently organized in California, has iecn abandoned and powder has dropped 3 cents per pound. E. S. Peck of Frankfort, Kas., has been appointed receiver of the Farmers' and merchants' bank of Clarksville, Tenn. Nineteen of the leading glass tableware manufacturers of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia have formed a combine. During a slight tiro in the Crawford house at Boston, A. E. Meek of Denver jumped from a window and was bad y hurt. The Ohio river leached forty-eight feet eight inches at Cincinnati and is now falling. No material damage has been done. Samuel McClennan was dran between two hot ro.lera ia West's mill at Ballston Spa, N. Y., and crushed and roasted to death. In a collision between freight trains at Bern, Kas., Engineer Thomas Halsey was kihed and the members of both crews injured. A meeting will be held at Chicago next Tuesday to organize an oatmeal trust, with Frederick Shumaker of Akron, O., as president. Retiring County Treasurer Sever Serley. of Chippewa Falls, Wis., has been arrested, charged with a $19,000 shortage in bis accounts. At Monroeville, Ala., John Ross was killed and Dan Ross and Frank Hixon seriously injured in a fight resulting from an old grudge. ' The crew of the British 6teamer Pollaix have arrived at New York. They abandoned their vessel when two days out troiu Glasgow. At Mexico, Mo., F. Y. Byrns, a farmer twenty-four years of age, cut his young

wife's throat early this morning and then killed himself. Insanity is supposed to be the cause. A cyclone did great damage at Sherman, Goakum, Shriner and other points in Texas. One child was killed and many people injured. The process of making cheap aluminum from common clay, which Prof. Hirst of Chicago claims to have discovered, is considered a "fake." The American cotton-seed oil eompany has brought suit atrain6t Armour & Co. of Chicago for $350,000 damages, alleging violation of contract. An attempt was made to rob a Southern Pacific train near Flatonia, Tez., but the robbers were frightened od by U. S. marshals on the train. John Duffy, who attempted to shoot one of the Italian murderers of Chief Hennessy of New Orleans, was sentenced to six months in jail. Robert Bruce, a Chicago lodging-house keejer, was assaulted and fatally injured by Abraham Bailry, Billy Wann and Gus Birdie Tuesday night. A Chinaman. was blown to atoms and a white man badly hurt by the explosion of one of the California powder company's mills at San Francisco. The twenty-seven prisoners who revolted and refused to enter their cells at the Chattanooga, Tenn., jail have been starved into submission. The Stinson family, numbering seven persons, who have been engaged in counterfeiting the Ameriean silver dollar, were captured near Windsor. Canada. Thomas O'Brien alias "Paddy the Pig' and George Evans, "green goods" men, who have ben doing an extensive business, were captured at New York. The explosion of a lamp fatally injured Frank Eichnor and caosed $30000 (lamages by fire to the building occupied by the St. Louis toy company, St. Louis. The house committee wili favorably report the consular and diplomatic "bill, which carries an appropriation of $1,6 J5,925 $39,890 less than the year before. A safe full of counterfeit silver dollars has been found under the rocks near Gray ClilT, Mont., near the cabin where Elite, the counterfeiter, was recently arrested. The window-ijlass works of Zanesville, O., controlled by the United glass company, has phut down for an indefinite period, throwing 100 men out of employment. Chris Oelschlager of Dayton, O., stabbed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Charlotte Reese, twenty-six times through the heart because she wouldn't deed property to him. W. D. Schrieder, an employe of the U. S. express company, was found dead with a bulkst hole in his forehead, in a deserted barn in Peoria. Supposed suicide. A passenger train ran into a hand-car, near Coshocton, O., killing John Corran and Robert Davis, of Steubenville, and fatally injuring Captain Burgess, of Allegheny. Director Lewis Miller of the late American harvester association declares there is no truth in the assertion that its abandonment was the result of dissension or withdrawals. Charley Rose, a young farmer of Bay City, III., shot and fatally injured Miss Mo! he Welsh, then blew out his own brains, because her parents had forbidden his suit. Charles F. Yeager and B. F. Nicholson were yesterday appointed receivers of the Laredo (Tex.) improvement company. Assets said to be $395,000 and liabilities $355,000. The U. 51 circuit court at New Orleans refused an injunction to the American biscuit company against Bernbard Klotz, because the former seeks to establish a monopoly. The American harvester company of Chicago is still meeting behind closed doors, but Secretary A. L. Conger denies that an advance in prices has been decided upon. The Yellow pine lumber company of Collinsville, Tex., one of the wealthiest lumber firms in the South, passed into the hands of a receiver. Liabilities, $46,000; assets, $1S7,000. The dead bodies of three small children of a farmer named M. G. Bell, living in Barbour county, Kas., who strayed from home on New Year's day, have been found frozen to death. In 1890 New York city received 77,702,156 bushels of grain, and 20,082,900 boshels of wheat wete delivered by canal. The canal tonnage for 1890 was 5,246,102 tons, being a decrease from 1889. William D. Hughes and William Butner, 'the bogus divorce lawyers, were indicted at New York by the grand jury. Hughes is indicted for forgery and Butner for forgery and grand larceny. A resolution has been introduced in the house permitting officers and crew of the U. S. s. Baltimore to receive medals from the king of Sweden in connection with the removal of Ericcsson's remains. S. A. Kean, the Chicago banker who failed with liabilities amounting to $1,500 ,- 000, was heid to the grand jury yesterday in bonds of $3,000. He was mercilessly scored by Attorney Charles Hughes. Three boys, aged fifteen, seventeen and nineteen, were caught at Springfield, Mass., and confessed to having committed a series of twenty-three burglaries in and about that citv between Nov. S and Jan. 2. Four piano-movers, Geisley, Genewiser, Raab and Immer, driving an unmanae-

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able horse at Chicazo, were struck by an Illinois Central train. Genewiser was instantly killed and the three others fatally injured. James Dayton, manager of the Arlington Heights electric railway, Ft. Worth, Tex., was shot this morning by James Brotherton, engineer at the ower house. It appears that Brotherton acted in self-defense. Dayton will die. There are now three colonels, one brisra-dier-general and Admiral Porter drawing pensions of $8 per month under the act of congress of 1887. There are also thirtytwo non-commissioned officers drawing the same amount. The Meamship Conefaugh has been cleared by A. K. Miller, Mellette & Co. for New York with a cargo of 17,000 barrels of Louisiana sugar, which is the largest cargo of suear ever cleared from New Orleans in any one vessel. A sensation has been created by the discovery of extensive wheat stetls from the elevators at Clark, S. D. Frank Russell, Fred Bradley and Wilson Diehl, all prominent couimission men, have been arrested, and more arrests are to follow. The house committee referred the Cummings resolution regarding the treatment of Jews in Russii to a subcommittee. It was the general sentiment of the committee that the resolution do no more than express the sympathy of the United States with the Jews. Ferdinand Schlesinger, president of the Chapin iron mine of Michigan and other mining companies has retired. He is succeeded by John Scott, who becomes president of "the York iron company, and M. A. Hanna of Cleveland, who becomes president of the Chapin mine. Two men with masks on entered the saloon of James Murphy at the corner of Winter and Root-sts., Chicago, and tortured the proprietor into revealing to them the combination of the safe. That secured, they took 1,500 and left Murphy bound hand and foot and tied to a post. The steam-fitters of Chicago, who, with their helpers number about one thousand, have been on 6trike for three months, returned to work Saturday. They asked for an advance in wages, the recognition of their union, etc. They failed at all points and went back to work unconditionally. The strike among the shoemakers in Rochester is evidently on its last legs. The manufacturers w ho declared the lockout are gettin? their shops into running order very rapidly. About all the girls who were locked out have gone back as nonunion hands and a great many of the men have gone back. Andrew Comstock of Providence, R. I., has been elected president of the great Hammond packing company, in place of G. W. Simpson. The latter retains the position of general manager. Mr. Cornstock was formerly president of the company. Secretary J. D. Standish and Assistant Treasurer Nimmo were also reelected. Barbed wire men are meeting at Chicago. The purpose is to either organize a general revolt of the manufacturers from the control of the Washburn-Moen patent monopoly or toorganizeatrust including all the wire factories in the West, the idea of the latter plan being to continue the tribute to the monopoly and get even by raising the price of the product. The Hon. William A. Wallace's assignees at CI earlield, Pa., have fai ed to furnish the bond required in the sum of $1,000,000 and as a result a settlement with the creditors through the assignees has practically been abandoned. The property will probably be sacrificed and the jugdment creditors will receive but a small percentage of their claims whi'e those who are unsecured will fare much worse. A FURNACE EXPLOSION By AThlcb. One Mao Is Killed and Many Injured. Newberry, Mich., Jan. 8. The Newberry furnace company plant located here, was the scene of aterrifiic explosion this morning supposed to have resulted from an accumulation of gas. A number of men were at work when it occurred. One man was killed outright and seven others more or less dangerously hurt. The entire roof of the stack-house was blown oir. JOHN LABOMBARD wu literally cooked to death before he could be rescued. Henry Woolser was in the wreck half an hour, lie is tadly cut about the head and his body and limbs are badly burne i. Alexander Terrace has a badly sprained back and is burned. Chaki.es LlNDlUfST had his face and head badly cut and body bruised. Lous Liberty had his feet burned badly by hot iron. Claudk W. Cask, secretary and manager, was carried down under the falling roof, but escaped with a few scalp wounds. DR. TV. H. WATT'S Marnt'o Treatment Instant Relief to All S"ff-rlnc Special Announcements. During the last six vears I have been lo cate! at Indianapolis treating chronic and J acute diseases by this new principle Animal Magnetism. I wish to say that during that stay here I have cured hundreds of the very worst cases of Paralysis, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lung Troubles, Spinal Troubles, Epilepsy, tomach Troubles of every character, Dyspepsia in its worst conditions, Kidneyand Liver Troubles, Lumbago and nil nervous conditions. Female afflictions of everv character, in cluding Ovarian Troubles of the most violent character and all chronic troubles. I diagnose all diseases without asking a single question; can give instant relief to all sufierings of whatever character by this new principle. Send for Watt's journal, giving testimonials of manv of our best-known citizens of these cures after they had been'given up as incurable by the best medical physicians in the state. Please do not allow j-our prejudices to deceive vou, but investigate for yoursehes. Everybody invited. Consultation free. Office houns 9 to 12 a. m. : 2 to 5 p. in. Dk. W. H. Watt, bOi N. Pennsylvania-st., Indianapolis, Ind. Th) McCormick Dirresling Marine Company The headquarters of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company will not be changed as has been reported, but will remain in their spacious and fine y appointed new bui ding, at 67 and 69 S. Pennsylvania-st., Indianapolis, underthe management of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, as heretofore. Our agents a' '1 customers will be treated with the ssuje liberality and fairness that has characterized the management of the business for nearly half a c ntury. J. R Hey wood, (leneral Agent for Indiana. . Children Cry for

U. S. Gor't Report, Aug. 17, XSS9.

Powder FREE COINAGE IS CERTAIN UNLESS HARRISON'S VETO PREVEN18. The BUI Will Surely De Paa.ert I p to IT in Sherman Is D omed to Defeat Th ubld7 Bill U der Diieuition In the Home Xolti, Wahingtox, Jan. 8. Tho Star pays there seems to be littlv? doubt that the free coinage bill will pass the senate when the vote is reached, and it is gaining friends in the house. Mr. Peed is opposed to the bill but may not a lopt a radical course to prevent its coming to a vote when it reaches the house. When duriuir 'ast session he yielded to the will of the house on the question of his nght to refer a bill then, too, a silver bill to a committee without laying it before the house, he was stopped from following a course now that would deprive the bouse, if a majority desire it, from voting on cny bill coming from the senate. When the silver bill came to the house from the senate last session Mr. Heed referred it to the committee on coinage without fir.-t gettii.g the consent of the house. There was then siii h a fuss made about it that the bill was brought back into the house again ami then formally received. By this action was established the right of the bouse to decide whether a senate bill shall be sent to committee or be acted on at once. It would be difScult, therefore, for Mr. Reed now to refuse to let the house have possession of the silver bill when it comes from the senate and it is not certain that it would be referred to the committee. It, therefore! arpears possible that President Harrison may be called upon to pass judgment upon a free coinage bill. THE WORK OF CONGRESS A Vote to be Taken on the Finauclal BUI lt Wednesday. The senate wa9 dull at the opening. Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution calling on the treasury department for information as to what Confederate documents it has in its possession. Mr. Piatt gave notice that he would call up the copyright bill at the first opportunity and Mr. Allison gave the game notice on the Conger lard bill. General building bills passed and then Mr. Stewart asked that a vote be taken on the financial bill at 4 o'clock, Saturday. Mr. Gorman opposed the proposition and Mr. Sherman spoke against free coinage. After a tedious discussion, Mr Ingalls said: "I realize fully and to the utmost the force of the suggestions of the senator from Maryland that on a subject of the gravity and importance of this measure, action should not be precipitate or improvident and that debate should be deliberate and 6UtIiciently protracted to permit all aspects of the measure to be considered. I will venture to ask unanimous consent that general debate on the bill shall close with the adjournment on Tuesday next and that on Wednesday debate shall be resumed on the bill and amendments under the ten-minute rule the final vote to be taken on the passage of the bill before adjournment on Wednesday." The proposition was asrreed to. Mr. Turpie addressed the senate in supiortof Mr. Stewarts amendment for the free coinage of silver, and in the course of his remarks, declared that it was impossible that the senator from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) could take a fair, impartial, judicial view of that amendment. Mr. Call next addressed the senate, and the bill was then laid aside. Mr. Coke, from the committee on commerce, reported back the house bill, to promote the construction of a safe deepwater harbor on the coast of Texas driving authority for that purpose to the Corpus Christi Padre Island companv), with an amendment, and it was placed on the calendar. After a brief executive session, the senate adjourned. In tha tloue. A bi'l was passed authorizing the issuance of certificates of service to telegraph operators who were with the Union army during the war. The house refused to take up the military appropriation bill ia committee of the whole. It also refused, after much debate to limit the debate on the shipping subsidy bill, and the speaker refused to entertain a motion to adjourn out of respect for St Jackson's day. Mr. Spinola tried to get up his bill for a monument to the victims of prison 6hips, but fai'ed. The subsidy bill was then debated at some length and the house adjourned. Joti Brown a"d the Cbbr. Representative J. B. Brown came from a rural district in Indiana but be has no hayseed in his hair. A few days ago he hired a cab in front of the Rigs house and drove around to the Sun building where he expected to meet a friend to accompany him on a visit; but his friend was not there and he drove back to the hotel around the corner. The . trip occupied just six minntes "How much?" he aked the cabman. "Seventv-five cents." "Oh no," s.-dd Mr. Brown, "you can only charge 75 cents an hour." " t's just the same for a portion of an hour." said cabby. "If that is the "case," said Mr. Brown, "you can wait here for the balance of the hour. 1 will be in the hotel when youi hour is up." Therw he disappeared through the doorway. In less than fifteen minutes the cabby capitulated. "Give me twenty-five cents end I will go away," he said. He got his money and df parted. More Than Welcome. rstrtet A Smith's Good News Mrs. Downton "Who is that horrible looking creature at the door? Send her away." Maid "She says she heard y'r husband was in want of "a typewriter and she'd like the place." Mr. Downton "Ask her in." Pitcher's Castorla.