Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 31, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 April 1889 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER, C. DOAXK, XublilnM ixuiaxa CURRENT TOPICS. the kews(dt Bimr. Kx-Skxatok Pi.att' oa ha etrd learal Tracy' law r Ywrk City. A iinnkk in honor of Secretary Tracy will be siven by the Brooklyn Club ou th veulttg of the Wh. Thr American refinery at San Francisco has boeu sold to the Sugar Trust. It had worked in harmony with the trust for some time. I'KXMikK Tihahd of tb French Cabinet delivered au oration on the occasion of the inauguration of "the Klffel tower ou the 3tst. It m estimated at the Treasury Department, ou the &Xh, that tho reduction la the public debt for the mouth of March was 112,500.000. PKNSION COHHISSIOSKX Tasskr announces that the preparation for publication of the list of pensions granted will not be resumed. n vn Miwi. HAM'tY Linbslky have leased Oakvicw, the famous country home of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, and will occupy it this summer. At Tipton, la., Rev JL F, PmmI, pastor of the Congregational Church, has been charged with plagiarism, ami requested to resign, which he declines do. 1'nitsiDENT Harkisos intends to recommend in his message next fall that a large appropriation be made for the construction of new cruisers and men-of-war. It is stated that im English syndicate with a capital of W.OJO.000 franc ha ffered to buy the conce I'stou for the construction of the Slniplon tunnel under the Alps. Mas. HARKlsOXha been advised by her physician to go to the .sea shore as soon as her health will permit. She will take her daughter, Mr.-. McKee, and her two grandchildren. llYthe recent election in Melbottr&e, Australia, sixty-five government supporters and thirty-two members of the Opposition were returned to the Victoria Legislative Assembly. MissMaky Andkbsox, accompanied by her brother and bis wife and maid, sailed ' front New York for Europe, ou the 3d, on tho City of Chester, Miss Anderson was witch improved in health. Whkx tho "loss of the German mud American war veelf was reported to Emperor William, he could not conceal hU'ewotiou at the disaster, aud was visibly affected for some time. Thr German Government has ordered the cruir Speer and the corvette Aloxandrine to sail for Samoa immediately, to replace the two German war vessel lt la the recent disaster at Apia. Thr Emperor of Germany visited Posen, on the 81st, and inspected the condition of the people rendered homeless ' floods. Sulweautntly. he gave a large sum of money to the relief committee. ' Chas. D. Smith, Re publican candidate for Congress in the 1'arkersbnrK OV. Va.) district, bM served notice of a contest oa J. M. Jackson, who holds th Governor' certificate. Smith makes out a strong case. T . Thr British Hon'se of Commons has athoriaed the naval expenditur- proposed by Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admlrality, by a vote of All to The e-dimatea involve an expenditure of S1,ft,. Leboy Baxos, k Michlgaa boy of seventeen years, shot himself in the rigid breast at Detroit, oa th 1st, and was removed to the hoptal tn a dying condition. He said the devil had called him and he must go. Qunr.x Victoria expressed great sorrow that owing to the bad roadi she was unable, during her stay at Han Sebastian, to visit tfaa graves of the British soldiers who fell in Wellington'' successful siege of the fortress In m Thr Russian papers are indignant over the iroclamVb" f I'nnce erumanu, netvhew of King Clinrle. an Crown Prince of llouumnta. The piers wars Uoumanlani to le careful how they exil Russians front their country. Thr President ha- nppotnteil .Isdga Wilson, of Arkansas: J. II. Otis, of Illinois, and ex-Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts, comntisslouers to assess the valuo of tho Oklahoma land which will revert to the United States. It is reported from Cairo, Egypt, that Bhiekh Kl .ScuoumI, with large tollowingof trcjops, has approached within a few hundred miles of Khartoum, ion ' which city he in advancing with the inden tion of overthrowing the aew Mabdli Knllfa AUIullah. Hox. Cakhoi.1. D. WatHHT, C orainl eioner of Lalwr. ha been de.Hignate! aa a Tice-prCshlent of honor ad also a a " member of the committee or patronage of the International Congress on profitrharhig to be h-ld in Pariil iu Jaly next, during the exposition. As aent. with a force of emergency mea. evicted twelve families from their holdinsra at Clonirorey. Ireland, on the atth, and NtilHeqtteutly burned all hut one or the twelve building-. The house spared wa reserved to f urniHlt quarters for the police aiding the evictors. The followinic nomlnatious were left unconftrmed by the enat0 when it adjourned on the 'id: Wm. II. Whiteman, to hv AKoolate Justicw of tb Kupreiae Court of New Mexico Edwin I. Kurfcheeut, to lie marahtil for the t'istrlct of Louisiana, aud a numlMjr of postmasters. Ox tho 1st Prince Itistnarch celebrated tho uveuty-fonw nnnlverry of his birthday. He received numerous cwiNf.ar lm Atucelcs, Cal., ou the 1st, a etuge from Mmphy's to Milton, Cal., was held Up by a single highwayman. Th iliin.f u'ttii ,v,ii.r,i I., tiiru il vriii Fargo & Co.'s Intouro box atul tlw wall bax, which he did. Th? were rifled by th robber, but only a trntall atmoual of money wm secured.

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lauer wa R inaghificent honnd Resented f ZJXniS ?lu? aLK cKSSUtf.moutW ! SvZSa rZS Rome of the death wh'eh was kHh 1 tun t?.nc a"o at i fl e 'rfKinirJohu of Abyssinia frutt. wounds u 11 m ' ftn!ulUl"c at Sire received in a tmttte with the dcrvh'h Mel-

oh ine i;naaceiot's estate. i

FIFTY-FIRST OONQRtSS. IX the aeaate. oa ta ma, the m!!toa el lwt by Mr. Sherman for the wliin?iit at tutlHi- tu Mt cm. the Pret.tsis'sit ami Iwjulrc M hm a4 aay other bs! U Jay at, wa lata oa the taMe, utirt W eall. Mr. Mwurm'i wmmWmw looking to the bet ter ventilation of th wu ot the Capitol wm atM'ei aa agreed to. Senator Mtrwiui, lwe. All tens, ChIWum, tMftm, Kiiotit, Colquitt d IH were tlid a committee Utwa the New York eoatewaUl r!elirt en. All: P. . Sswaut wwit lata tceret Moa aa4 mnw utter adjournal In the Senate, on the th, oa wsK'smi of Mr. Sherman, eoaMderalioii of executive 4in w Mt oc taken up, tout the nom atia of Murat HUtat to lw M alsterat Merita w naally rejected. When the aoors wtnr Mr. AUltoa oflereU a reolutipa, whwh w. smtv-eil u calling on the Secretary ef the Trca-ury for information a W traJ betweea ta Uiiitetl St4t a4 Mf xfe, The molatJon heretfri offered by Mr, Mtlehell, atrattait the etMarautv on mitt and mlnlos to eon tlaue H4 laqulry into the caut of delay tn tettllUK contftev) claim in th mineral tUixt of the Central Laud Oatce, was takta up and agreed ie. IN the Senate, en thelH, Mr. Teller offerea areeolutloa proposing open ioa Jn!osImk ( aowmatloB. He watte a brief petc h. In .which he KlvooateO oie beftt.loas except im qut'tltonft of an lateraatloual character. The reiolttttoa wm ref erred. Mr. Sherwaa anKwtneed that the I're!deat had stated that hereafter he would aot scad any wessajfes ttheSenal except of a formal en a racier to all vacancies a they arise. The eowmlttee on epiclemlc dlneawrS were authorlaed U sit duriair rece. The Senate then went into secret session, and at 3,05 u. in. adjourned. Is the Senate, oa the 3d, Mr. Stewart's resolution cxpreMin the torrow of the Senate at the deatn of John ItriRht, a dicud ami re ferred to the eowmittee on foreign relattoa, Aftera short executive wlon, In which ataay Rowlnation". were couHrmeJ, the Senat, at three o'cloefc, adjourned sin die. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Losp KAXBOLrH Churchill has declined to be tho Conservative candidate for the Central district of Birmingham, against the son of Jobu Bright, la th coming electionThk British cruiser Rapid, of l.LD tons, and mounting twelve guns, sailed from Auckland for Samoa on the Sd. A i.ahok number of arrests of Russian Nihilists have been mado at Vilua. A Meat syndicate, -to be known as the American Meat Couipauy, hn been organized in the Quaker City with a capital oAW.OQO, Philadelphia and New Vorfc capitalists! are largely interested in tho undertaking. Tmk eofiin of tho late Crown Prince. Rudolph of AtMtri will shortly, bo placed between tho tombs of Empress Maria Theresa aud Kuiperor Maximilian of Mexico. The King of tho Netherlands is mad. Thr Paruell Coiuml--Iom resumed tu sitting, on the 2d. after an adjournment of three week. Sir Charles Russell, of the Parnellite counsel, opened the Case for tlw def euse. Ale.vanobr McCvk, of Brooklyn. .. ex-Assistaut Treuxiin'r of the UnittHl .State, who recentlv suffered a stroke of apVplexv, died on the 2 J. It transpires that the bombs, in the manufacture of which the Zurich students were Implicated, were intended to bensed on the occasion of the Czar' viit to Berin. Thirteen more ar.ests have beenmade in Zurich, ad thre of the leaslers among tho boinh mauufactiirer.s have caH'd. Pnor. Swirr, oc Warner uoervatory, Rochester, N. Y., lias received notice from tho Ltck Obrvstory, at San Franeteco. of the discovery, by Pro:, uaraaru, of a new comet. Orkex Victoria, left Biarrits, France, on the 2d, on her homeward journey. It.vi.vs, which have ln of great benefit to the crop, have fallen throughout New South W ale.s. ! Thr handicap for Earl Spencer's plate of 'M soverel,'U for tht ee-year-ojds was won by Poemi on the 3d, at the Northampton spring meeting. A tkjkrt composed entirely of ladles, placed in the field at Cottonwood, Kjus., on the 1st, by the disreputable classes as an insult to the aex, was taken up by the better class of citizens and triumphantly elected. It was an All Fool's Day joke, but the "other fellows" furnished the victims. It has now been definitely nettled that the visit of the German Emperor to his maternal grandmother is to take- place at th end of June, when Queen Victoria is at Cowe. A fleet of eight German Ironclads will accompany him. I.n replying to the birthday congratulations offered hiiu byth Manufacturers' Association, on the 1st, Prlncw Hlsmarck ald he believed neace Would continue, and that in eonJKUuence German tratle would Increase. A TRRMKNimcsi slide of earth and rock occurred on Kfcoad avenue, near Tenth street, in Pittsburgh, Pa., on tho 2d. The Klip carried away a large portion or Blnff street at the top ot tne mm, rentierlug the street Impassable and oamagmg someof the property aloitj? that thoroughfare. HRFRRMK.NTAT1VK CAMfRRLL has intro duced iuto the Pennsylvania Legislature an act which provides that all person, Arms, associations or corporations employing forclga-born, unnaturaliied rsons hall be taxed at the rate of fifteen cents a day for each day each sack person may be employed. Thk letter from Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, to Sir Francis de Winton, relates a terrible tale of suffering and death, with gaunt famine for a daily companion and native tribes for constant assailants. Much the larger part of the complement of (Ml men perished on the route. Two colossai, hints of Prince Hismsrcl and Count voit Moltko were unvalled Stuttgart, on the 1st, on the occasion ui the birthday of the German Chancelor, Enormous crowds of people filled the streets, aud the utmost enthusiasm prevailed. Thk Government of New Zealand has placed the steamship Hinentor, a vessel of 512 tons, at the disposal of Admiral Kitiilierly In cottscq'Jence of the loss of the American men-of-war at Samoa during the roo 'Ht hurricane there. Cham. Hakkrauer, h Davenport (la.) aaloon-koejmr, against whom a temporary injunction prohibitinghlm from Selling liquor was issued a few months ago, ban bo$n Used ror violating tho injunction. Thk village of VoUu. nine miles east of Ynnkton, Iiak,, was almost entirely wiped tenia, Mrs. McKkr, the IVcsld-ntl1;! JaUithler, left Washington, on the 3d, tu com w'llh Seuator Davis' family, for a week's 7 Visit in r lorlda. ! mai. Bom.AXtiKR'M selMmpwed exile iu Holgium will not put n stO to tho proceeds a.alait hlw by the French Government.

'i'aic trial f Mia LUaie Keechler for th fttsrdvr of It, U Kin f t!hko, waa beitun nt Omaha on the U Th defendant wan in eonrt. dressed in litp tuouruUtK, She appeared to he urvou. l$tH for the wmiMrttcthan of the arnrod oast vejwl provided for by COttlfrt4SK wcro iwd at tho Xavjr Depart went ok tho Cramp & Son, of Philadelphia, wro th lowest bidder, their bid beiU'.l,Hl,)). Tmk central committee fornil in erHu for tlw relief tl anlferafa by tlw iiHMU lu K Prussia lat year haa disbursed thw unexMMukd i&rtiou of the funds raitwi for that purpose in relieving the Mi of the Yictlmi of th receut nootl. and a call for additional contribution ban 'eeu issued. Wm. J. Arkkm. aold tlw Albany (X. V.) Kveuiuif Jurnal. ou tho 2l, to Wtu.

KartteK, proprietor of the Albany Kxpre. Mr. Itartiex U a dicedant of Thurlow Vevd, the founder of the Journal, and by j thU ale tl projwrty revwrt to the fam ily of llieorixiual owner. 0. the 2d. the police or Warsaw, unwa. dNcovered and seized a lanre establish- ... 1 ...... a ..1 A.. U i .kul.tilii. uu,l alt f meat devoted to thd printing and dis semination of Nihilist literature, and made numerous arrests iu connection therewith. It is reported that an early restoration of twaco iu llavti is orobable. Thr mounted kln of the celebrated ele. pliant "Jumbo,?' presented by P. T. Rarmun to the Museum of Natural, History at Tuft's College, llostou, ha been placed iu position. Thk American plan of monopolizing the production and sale of marketable commodities has spread to Ireland, an enormous whisky trust having been formed la Dublin. It is understood that the capital involved iu tho pool is all Irish. Uorkrt Gaurktt ridicules the story that he gave np his proposed Mexican trip for fear of boinic kidunped. Witu.it playing iu.the Mjooad act of "Othello" at Rochester, N. Y., on the night of the n.l, Edwin Hooth was stricken with paralysis;, and Lawrence Bartvtt nnnouucod tliat the audience had "probably witnessed the last appearance of tho greatest English-speaking Tctor." All of the Erie switchmen at Buffalo, N. Y., went ou ftrike, tn the ?U, on account of tho dlschnrw of a couple of union mn aud the placing of non-union men in their po-ition. Prairie tires coutiuue to lay wate larg'i areas of country in Dakota Territory. Oa tho " John L. West, the New Orleans elnbezzW, agreed to Rive up the money stolen from his employer, Charles Tewlmey, aud the charge of "having brought stolen money into Canada" was withdrawn aud We-st was released. Colonkl (5UOKOK A. Williams a retired United States rmy officer, died at his homo in Newburgh. N. Y., on the night of the 2l, He was with Grant at Vicksbnrg, ami received wounds there that oontributed to his death. Ukv, 1)k. Edward P.ekchkr, aged elghty-five, a brother of the late Henry Ward lieecher, fell beneath a train in Brooklyn, on the eveulug of tho;l.L his left leir beinz ruu over and crttho. Owing to his advanced age the Injury may j have serious consequences. , Thk recent hurricane in-the South Pa- j cific ocean s wept over 1,90) geographical miles, embracing in its track tle Hervey aud Society groups of islands. The American ship Red Cro?s, from New ! South Wales for San Francisco, was , driven ashore at Raratonga and wrecked. , Tl crew were saved. WttKCKAttx from the British ship Kna,H j 1 i kim. from New South Wale-, for Francisco, has been seen at AitnUki Is suitUHMl that the crew lierUhed. G. W. GKimx. Consul at Sydney, N. S. W.. and formerly United States Commissioner to Samoa, says whichever party the United States .supports will hs, kupreme In the Satuoau 1-ilands. The tsantoans like the people of this country, because tho United States has never oppressed nor extorted money from them, as other nations have done. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thr Marquis of Ely died on the night of be J, v?hilo traveling in Italy, lie was Wrn in Mrs. Tvkxkr Saroext, daughter ot Dr. Oliver Wviulell Holmes, who had been III for nearly two months' died at her. father's home in Boston, on the 81. Thk French ministry has asked the Chamber of Deputies to sanction the prosecution of Itoulattger, and has submitted a statement reviewing the General's career since tin Comttmtii', and ch'irgmg him with attempting to destroy .!) republic. TJ. C. Gkkrx aud M. L. Ely. brakemon ou tho Decatur division of the Louisville & NashvtHe railway, were killed, on tho Itb, iu a cjollison at Brown's cross-ro;uls, ucar Nashville. Albert Finch, firenmu, was severely injured. A "misunderstanding of orders caused the accident. Tiie two engines and sixteen cars were dot'lolMied. Arabs arriving at Stanley Falls report that Stanley nnd Kmtn Pasha wi-re s'en in February of this year marching lit company toward Zanzibar. Their forcfl consisted of several thousand men, women and children, and they carried with them tl,tXl tuskN of ivory. I x tho Dauphin County (Pa.) Court, on the lib, the llalttmore & Ohio Telegraph Company filed an answer to the claims o the Attorney-General of Pennsylvania in the case brought to prevent a consolidation with tlie Western Union. They deny that the latfr company has acquired tlie whole or any part of the capital stock, ... .1,. .!..... 1... 1.1 ..!..,., ..). I.. fl. .!, State of Pennsylvania. SknatoK Davis and party. Including Mrs. MrKoo, reached Charleston, S. C. in the Ith, aud ieht the day iu driviu around the city. At night they left fot Florida. Thk Navy Department is considering tlie expediency of attempting the recovery of the tine modern rilled guns carried down with the Trenton. Mikmahck is said to lie deeply interested Jn the measure to ha taken by tho United Status to replace the vessels lost at Samoa. A mmkxr of the victims evicted from the Dos Moines River lands, lu Iow, have rfltwriied and planted croH. Warrants for their arrest have lieen Issued. Two tmoi'saxi bricklayers tit Her lit) struck work, on the Ith, on Recount of low wages. Tw'o MTUiiKNT.s of MatlhcltH University have lieen yeutuncud to four mouths inipiiwinnieut In a fortress for fighting a tluel wUh a Lieutenant of the Mayenct garrison. Thr decree of fornelnsnro of mortagt against the Wabash Hallway Company for Kunis aeif reKating SJ,,O00 in f avoi of James It. Jessup ho ollters, trustee for the bondholders of the vashmi , branches of the Wabash yst.-m, has Iwet entered in the United States Court at InI utanspoiis.

STATJC INTELLIGENCE.

THW apring terw ul tlte DaL'auw UhITweity will open with a larser attHdane tn uhhI. William HcMw-ntn, al sixteen, aad Mary MoehM, agatl Mflaew, lopd at Kvativvllle. Ai.moxi) II o JIX.S IwakewaH, fall froma train and wa kd mI, near Luf tyett. Ui Dyk, of XumavlUe, wa iHtantly ki led Uy I1h ktrwek en the head by fts.uue hurled by a Want, Ax eatlro coutdrfeltr'i otitflt was found In h frame dwelliHK at Alex mdria. Wmu.k Frank UUlay waa loadlnx caw with corn at Kyatone, thr ihIIh north of Montjiellwr, the other evening, bin boy waa ntstsHtly killed by hi head IuIhic caught Itetween the lminiers of th enrs. He was tan yeara old. Kmanoim .V.chthv hat caiumenwl a mrhn of teuiraiic nieetlnga at llreeneatle. Dl'kixo a jollincMtloii at Mlahawaka, lat fall, the building o th I'erfcln Wmiljj, company and the Miiiiawaka Knit 4 boot Manufacturing Company were set on tire an. I destroyed, at a lost of ti.t.W. I The other day Peter Krmiue, Lo.tey j Yovkey Hitd Frel Kinter, all sons of rej Kpectable familias, were arrest id on the 1 charge of nrlng.the building. J. H. lii'Kionn, of Crawfordsvllle, h been tendered a podtlon in the otlice of Attorney-General at Washington D, C, ; but he ha declined the honor. The salary Is only ?2,XM a year, which would not pay him to give up his law practice wharo he lives. At the tlm of his death, Alfred Major, of Shelbyville, was erecting the llnest stone mansion in the State, fashioned" aft.r an old English castle. Work is now stopped, and it U prolaldv the Uiildlng will mo unfinUhed. Mr. Majcri left an estate valued at STC0.(U), divided between his widow, four children and a nlese. John Douohkrty was killed at a railroad crowing near In lUnapoli. A a result of a revival at Westfteld, nearly two hundred persons have joined , tue church in n ft v weeks past. Major Wm. Nklson; of Kvansville. a retired regular army oltlcer, has been npj.ointe I by Judge ShacMpford as clerk of the United States Court for Indian Territory. I'a. Jas. Fojip, of Waltash County, has I'xhmu-ii the remains of an Indian ou Ida larm who wa- buried over eighty years ago. The bones were found incom pact clay noil. m Wm, Joh.nso.v, of Ckes.tTtoti, got on a drunk and till into n abandoned well, which was tilled to within live foot of tho top, and was smoth.ne! to death. He Ml , in" Head firs'. andeould uot extricate himself, " Gkorok Gavix, aged eighteen, an em- ) ploj'e of th Niukle-plate railway, whiU handling a revolver at his home In Ft. Wayhe, ac 'Mentally shot hlmsslf, causing death in a f-?w minute alters rd. Thr White Caps on trla. at Iieavemvorth are all trying to pn-vo alilds. '1 1 R remains of a mastodon have been discovered on the farm of Thomas Rjyuarl, near Winchester. The tusks each measure nine and ene-half feet in length and twenty-eight Inches in circumference two feet fiomthtf base, and each weighs over three hundred pounds. It is the intention to exhunt the entire skelotou and place it on exhibition Thk people in the vicinity of French I Lick, Ursni County, are excited ovir an out''rek f hydtophobia among dogs and stock, and in order to pntvent a spreid of the malady, the dogs are being killed by the doen. Twenty-five were slain in one day. Horses, cows aud hogs have been attacked, alo a ram. The antic of this animal were very peculiar. It finally lintled out its brains. Citherns carry arms for fear ot encountering a mid animal of some kind. t Makiox A. Hakii, of Evansvlll, serving a sentence in the Prison Ssuth fjr highway rlbery, ha been pardoned by the Governor. A sriT of ejetm?nt was Hied in tha elrcit nirt at Ft. Wayne by Frederick S. Olcott, repreicntlng a syndicate owning a portion of the bed and banks of Ue old Wabash and Erie Canal, against a number of squatters on the projierty. The property Is to b med (or a road-bed of the 'Towpath" railroad, running from Fort Wayne to Kvansville. 1 hkhr are a great many jieople In Hazletoi wlto don't believe in saloons, nnd on? in particular has been a flench iu their n!trlls. With a view to turn the tildes on the frequenters ot this plae?, a s'oftfooel P.ohib., white the saloon was crowded, the other night, stealthily crept up to the back door ami liberated a ceupis of kuuk. Presently the room and inmatoi weie copioudy sprinkled w'lth skunk dl. In about one minute and thirty seconds tho back fence was pre-empted by the pale-faced patrons, and "standing rout) only" was at a premium. In fact, they "threw up the eKnge," atsO almost evwv thing in their "uianK" and slhiitly wended their way home. Tha proprietor (Hidden ' v out tin th3 slhitters and vainoed. Disinftct nts Mini fumigation has failed ta V)inov the lingering odor. Wiiii.k felling a tree near Washington, Jop Colbert, a farmer, age I forty years, was imtantly killed. When the trej fell a portl'si of It fell from the stump and literally tore Colli -rt to pieces. Amkrsoa Thatchkr, who sued the city of Frankforv for tUinages lor injur. re-c-lved In a fall on a defective sidewalk, got a verdict for l,W0O. N. Ci.ot'D. a rsltroad agent at Adanee, Is eharRcd with perjury. Jons 8nyKK was struck by a freight train at Indianapolis and Insti itly killeiL Two masked men entered tha residence ot William Huntington, near Anderson, and took 3l W and a Mlver watch. Tom Hohhmax vvai aires.ed at V'inceilnes on fctispiclon of burglarizing a store. The tolen property was found on hU premUes. Joux Flemish, who mnrdere l t!ieslnriff ot Grant County, has lieen taken to Kokomo for trial. 'Tliare Is strong feeling ftjtHMid h'm. Lons Harlkv cimmltted suicide, near Metamora, by lmnging. LI -health Is sup. posed to hava caiiK'd the deed. KoRKRT McCokkrkt and Delia Love were killesl at a railroad crossing, near GO1 hen. TrtR iKilicj forw organized at IndianHMtis under the recent law has collapsed NlNR in "U were arrested at LogasKrt, for gambling. Chari.kv Hakixno, aged twelve years, who llvei near Crawlordsvllle, has just rpaed a successful examinatiou in all the braneltos of the public school system. IxMAXAroi.iH talks of celebrating the Washington Centennial anniversary. Kiaix and Melvin Light, twins, were ar reited Hhsldon. fer Illegal votiHr.

FOR VAMOAN WATERS. Thr Vfwwl tttHt Will IVHhahly Rk(I e ThixH KernHtlr I.wt Uy l lie Swhih TvphiwH I'he KliihaiHHil, Alrt hhJ ,dama pliltttl ltH 'I hjr CMi'iutr iHtl Armamttal awtt lhn IUh Wh -"m-himm.I i hm. WAXHixurow, April It-The thri vessels that will take the phvuisof tho American war-ships that were destroye I at Apia, do not compare iu wise, Npeed and strength with the latter. The Rlobntond Uthe largest of the ships that will ho gent to the islands, She was built nt Norfolk by the Government in l. Her displacement is 2,70ft tons. While her pp.'ed Is et dowi as tf.fi knots jr hour, H Is prolmbla that she will not realist's that rate. Her batteries consist of twelve Inch niioth-b ire guns; ou" 8-ltich mus-stle-loadiug rini; one fiil-pound breechloader ritle; twoai-iMHinil breech-biading rinen; four rifled cannon; ouw 3-lHch breevh-haullng ritle; ono CiatUn mid two ia-pound smooth-bore rules. She carries 1J5 tons of coal aud has cimiplewent of twenty-nine, officers and 321 men. She is commanded by Captain A lieu V. Rood. The Alert I commanded by Commander James D. Graham. She is one of John Roach's shijus, and was built by him at Chester. Pa., between 1S7.1 and 1T., Her Hg is that of a bark; her length 17. feet, and ihe has n displacement of 1,02) tons. Her hpeed is estimated at ten knots an hour, and her indicated horse-power is Her hattery consists of one 11 -inch smooth-bor gnu; two H-ineh smoothbores; one tW-pound breech -loading rifle; one X-Inch breech-loading riHu; one 12nound smooth-lmro howitzer; :io G.it-

Ilng and two ritietl cannon. She carries 1.11 tons of coal, nnd has twelve officer: aud 111 men. The detail of officers for the Adams has not yet been made, and tho detail clerks of the Navy Department are busily engaged in selecting the men. A number of shipwrecked blue-jackets from the illfated vessels will probah!y compose part of her crew. Tio Adams is a wooden vessel of tho third rate. She was built between FT I aud 175, at Huston, by MKay and tho Government. She is 1S" feet long, and draws I t foet. Her displacement is 1JI75 tons. Her indicated liorsepowvr is tW), and hr spoeil D.s knots per hour. The Adams carries twenty officers aud J 16 men. Her armament is composed of fourtMnoh .smooth-bores, oue s-lueh tmuvile-lnadiug, rifle, one W-p'imud muzzle-loading rlrl, oue .'Much breceh-loid-iue rifle, ten 12-pouutl smooth-bore howJ itzers, six rilled cannon atidouo Gatling gun. m Thrt los of the Trenton and the Vnidttliii will, it Is expected, be toilowed by a long and eireutnitnntinl report from RearAdmiral Kimln'rlr, wliicli will undoubt edly make clear all tho details of tho storm and wreck about which there k just now n groat deal of conjecture. FEARFUL DISASTER. l.fl t li ItHltiiimrs & Olt!" Tram TlirtiHcli it I'.MrHiiist UrniKH v'ts,,ii Cars 1'nrHt.li Mitl.Tls! In IVii.I III.. r.:Hllr". ttHil TwiTnsiMjw who Wen Ste.ilm- a Mils' Ki li-il tst uti ! tlie rir Wrwk. Raltimork, Md April 2.-Tiio Snu'.s siwcial from Wheeling, W. 'a sr.ys: Oue of tho most disastrous Rccidents that has occurred oa the ltaltiiaoro As Ghio railroad for a long tittle was reported from Cameron,MarshalConnty,at an sarly hour yesterday morning. Two men were roasted to death and a third badly wounded, and seventeen freight cars were demolished and bun.e.1. Tlie accident occurred at the bridge crossing Hart's Run, five miles st of Cameron. Fast freight No. la charge of conductor Wm. Dean, east-bound, rounded the curre just eaet of the brhlg at half-past two o'clock. The engineer, Dominick Kelly, saw that the bridge whs in name j. Efforts to chee:: the train being h ipelestf, Kelly jutt oh all steam In the hope tif dashing acres. His engine reached the other Kid iu safety, but just as It did so the bridge collapsed, and tho train was piled np lu the bed of the stream, where the wreck caught lire and was consumed. Kelly and his firemin, John Chaddoek.wcre uninjured. Brakeman Hud Wcy was severely woundo.l by jumping off. In a box car three tramps had taken up their quarters, nod w,nit down with the wreck. One of them was rescued, but the other two were roasted to death, Wing pinned down iritis car bv freight and timbers in such e war MR to make their rescue impossible. Their names are Htikuowu, but they belong in Philadelphia. The main lino of ..... ,i u i.HiiHssable. and all tram' is going around by way of l'lltauitrsli & OonmdlsVllIe division. FISCAL MATTERS. Uioitnly TrsMissry stists-iiifHt. Shnwlnc the CiiHilltlnHid 1,'nrlr Saa-'s I'IhumisA Iti'ilHS'tlo" III ln l-lit fur .tt:sr-h s OverThlrtiM'ii isml Iliitf Mllliim. WAMtstTo. April 2. The reduetlr!i in the debt during Marcb past umouuted to W,nrfii and for tan tlrst nine months of the current fiscal year. j.'itl.tt'Wl.lWl. The total debt, lcsi tuU iu the treasury yesterday, autoilted t jl.lU,Ht,tl'l2. The net cash sm- surplu iu the treasury is jj5l,Wfi,:r.., against 0tHj,l58aniouthago. The gold fund liaansre In the treasury has Increased about one million aud a hair during the past month, and amounts to :jls7,s7,12l, nml the silver fund balance, exclusive of six million trade dollars bullion, has decreased about three-quarters of a million, and now amounts to ?30,7 lu,2H. Government receiptsdlirlngMarch were SXl,0i:i,HU. against ?2S,Mi7,t7.l in March, !!. Receipts from all sources for the first niue months of the current year ag gregate $kV-3Mii )r thtes! millions more tliati for tho eorresiH)Hilhi.r months of the preceding fiscal year. Customs revenue and internal revenue receipts were each about- three millions heavier during the past nino months thau during the nm three quarters of the preceding fiscal year, while the receipts from miscellaneous sources were three millIons less. Expenditures during the past mouth were 17,:KI((KKJ, or alsmt three-quarters of a million more than in March, is. Expenditures for the past Mlno months werHSt.lA82l, or nearly forty million more than during the three quarters of the prccediilg fiscal year. Cincinnati TOtk It Ml' CixctxXATi. Auril 2.-The Interest lu yfhterdny'S election wok occastoneu uy the reform movement, led by Danlol Stone, 0 atrlotly enforce tho la regarding the sale of beer oil Sunday. The co.iist resulteil lu the election of a mixed Hekot, four Republican and four Dt'titocrats. Mosby, Hop., for mayor has a plurality of about M. Xoyes, fo judge of the Superior Court: Hor.slmati, for city solicitor, ami Splogler, fot' treasurer, were elected. The Democrats who won were Stevens, for eomptroler; Krais tou, for police JmUe! Corcoran, fot lirosocntlng-attortioy of the police court, aud Hoeker. for infirmary director.

EDWIN BOOTH STRICKEN. This ifiatHit KaRUshSMkhsK Alr ChhshsIs1 Is Halt t HU H'ssi k hr lsr. tisl Ntrsikt l taraljri4n I.wrHw Mar. rKl AhhhmhiiihnI Hi hn PmImihI KVS-Ht - All I'TMHHt KHKMKtH4WHt CHHentrsl I hi futHrss fjHrlalH. RsX'HKSTKR, Si, V AjM-il 4. The large audieuce nssemhled nt the Lyceum Theater last night to see RsMith aud HotmU Is Othello, exMrlenss-d a sad ahoek.Sud bitter diwaopulutment. Hooth went ou In th nrttt act as lago, and spoke, his lines without apimreut difficulty and tlw audieuce did not suspect any thing wrong. At the end of the r:otil net, wheil It ws time for him to go on again, a sligiit slii. ilueas. with which he had 1nen tioubled for two or throe, days, liegau to ! serious, ausl a idiymieiUH wa ealled in, wlio exnminesl the actor and pronouncu I his illness tsi serisms to permit him o attempt logo on with the performance. The doctor expressed fear that h had stalid a shock of partial imratysi, which so alarmed Mr. Rarrett that he determined, to dismiss the audience. Mr. Harrett was greatly overcome by what ho consitlored tlw duugrou illness of his cojlpngn, ausl when he stepped lieforo the cunaitl It was evident that he was deeply excited, Mr. Harrett spoke as follows, his utterance living interrupted by his muiiut: I. tOIKS AMI tiKXTI.KMKX: I DM callcil WfMA to perform the niot palafut duty ot mv Itte. My polleairusi has shown symirtono. f bn-sk-iHK down tor three or four tlay.s pat. unit hi condition to-night f so wrkms that it ilwposslhle for him to act. We had net that he would mlljr trow this attack ami that lie woaht tw able to play his pari to night, hut one ot your )ihjrh'lsns. llr.SuNinrr, says that it woeW W: perilous for him to attempt it. Mr. IJooth hus Htainetl a partial srtro" if p.iRilys's, and we fear that this is the befjitiin if thread. 1 ean not exprens to jroo the ritrp sorrow with which I make I his sad announcement. The world has probably tteanl for tla? hist time th" greatest .ictor who spealt

I the UtiKiish i-.itisu.isi. j We shall, of course, enneel nil ensicemcnt". ! ami 1 hope that wjl snail he able to rcraov Mr. IDnth to his home. U nalns m ts p,'ak ths'so wod. I am s-w-Iryto itiaiiitiint this grfat audlenet. hut the ) t'lny can nilo on, It would he premmjituous forme to umlurtakc to till the place of thl great man, whom j'ou have romp to -e; oiot hear. am it would ho wnr&u than usti(s to nttPinpt to proceed further. I know you wilt he . indulgent, and that you will fully wrce'ate the sua pltght m which wears plafiM. The nosnasemont will tnuko such :rrHicHnts way cem Dcst for refuMdiwjtyour mosnj." Tlw cotidUiua of Mr. Booth did not fully : justify this speech. There had Won no , attack of paralysis, and the actor was 'suffering no pain, lie walked from tho . theater to his carriage, aud was driven t ! Iifs hotel, wht'ti he walked without upparent dlfiloulty front the carriage to iu? elevator and to his ro. Tlio Lyceum Tlieatt-r management bwes j2,(MtO, whit-1. will have M be ntndfg'Md by the company. The nale oJ seats nmoUiitpd to over n.o', aud was the largest sale the comiauy has had thiJ season. DAKOTA PRAIRIE FIRhS. rcrrllile IlistriPtioH r lroiprtyaHl Son I.siss of Hhiiiiih hv rtr- I'ruririrps. I'aMHCst by.MxlyJIilp Wlmts In lOltH. ScOTLAXtt. Dak., April 3. A nolhor terrible oralrie fire swept over the country ! ?iith sf Sciulahil ycsir-rday afternoon, .ind its path is marked b' the smuuld-r-lug embers of many homes, ih- wmo was blowing at th rate sif fully sixty milen an hour, ond with the hlgtcrass as Jrv as tinder the terrific firc of tin tire was liyond descrlpthm. At three o'clock word was brought fo town that the prairie was afiro uorthwe-t of town, and immediately a hundretl mc started In teams toward the approaching fire, armed with brooms and acks. Arriving at Alfred Krown's farm, two miles north, aft hi bams, siairies and cattle-Sheds were one biasing mass, and the efforts sit tlie crowd were dirswred to saving his residence, and beating the tire, out that would in a short time hare awept down upon the town. Mr. Brown's reddens was rsaved. but all his household good, that hasl been carried out by the family, were hunted. Qas mile worth of Brown's the nre bitrnvsl out Henry Haelfry, and he Imrely escapes! with his family. Across from Hagelfry lived D. K. ToMilinsoM. a prHenms farmer, and evry thing abont hi place except his house was swept away. Fiv hordes aud several headef live-stwk were among Id1 losses. Bv neVen o'clock lat evening the fire in the west had liessn s;xtiugnlshesl. but the fire was still ragitiglw tlie noittlieast. The town of Olivet, the csmnty seat of Hutchinson County, eight mile north. Is rejMrted to be mor than half burned up. Th bridge oa tho railroad west of town were burned. The losses for the last two days will be fully mm. Yaxkto.v, Dak., April 3. Tho villager VoUu. nine miles east of Yankton, was entirely wi ed outlast night with thsvception of throe buildings. Among the buildings destroyed wvre tho Chicago & j Northwestern uepot, ine acnom i'". I and all tin dwelling houses in th town. Two thousand tons sf hay ami a raw grist mill were also destroyed. 1 he loss will foot up ?1V. . . , It is reported here that the village of Lesterville was alss destroyed and that Klk Point was partially destroyed. :V WiimtHT of bridges on the Chicago .t Northwestern road were partially burned. Tlie prairie fires, which caused the losses, raged all any. iane j .o. v-Uwdtv of fifty miles an hour. Tho fire swept over the hills north of town and raged Mil the afternoon. Throo resldonees, v iwrns nnd a loa"n head of Hve-stiM-k were dewtniyesl, aggregating SW in value. Five hundred Hssiple fought the fire for threu lm-ttrs anl f-ac-cecded in saving sstM' Valuable property. RAit City, Dak., April X-A iralrle IUH Hortheft&t of KhiiUI City at boon yesterday, and was driven lit n southeasterly csttire by n gale sf wind sixty miles an hour. Three houses were burned. Tho second was occupied ly Mrs. G. K. Hailey. Ktoise Midlson and a hired mau named A-stoit. Tle thrJ Wt the house anl ran through the flam'ss, Mrs. Hailey tout, Aston escaping with K0m severe burns. Mis- MadHon fell, aud the fire catching bur clothing, humeri It omplelely from her body. She was taken to a neighbor's, and lies at the point of death. Tsiok Ttilrls'S"" "Unit to Srttln lllm. nnxmt.ii, X. J., April 4. Delect ive W. G. Bahlwin, of the Kureka Agehcy, Charleston. W. Va., ami two nssiHtants Ktlgcne Robinson and Jim Wallace, shot and killed IVm. MorM, lr moon.sh!mr, Tussslay night, on Teg river, near th county lltto-r of McDowell and Moom'. They had been after Mm for two weeks. Thv oflWns fired fifteen Khots liefore Moratl fell. tMrtf of thorn taking effect In his body. RobltHnh Was shot in tho baud, HltSdwln was woanded in the wrlt and Waltacii shot n thj ehtu. WnllacV I" Mkt to be seriously iajttred. Mrau's wife assisted him, shooting at the officers. Sbo wa? bandcitHedaud et toll cmtty jail.