Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 December 1890 — Page 6

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WEEKLY COURIER JASPER. IXDIAXA. Two mu.i m provide for their coinage of silver wm introduced In tke Venal, oh th l, oe by Senator Teller and the other by Senator Plumb, Tmc Honorable Artillery Company ef the city ef l.ndon ha secured tb coif seat of the Prince of Wales to resume eouituand ef that famous OTgnuiautkHt. Twk Wlr of ft young peasant girl, e horribly mutilated as to sagge-st the handiwork of a "Jack the Kipper." kw been found in the vicinity of Moras, SwiUerlaad. BurroR Sihnkv Cottmrrr, of tl IVtmt (Mich.1 Critic, ft society journal, was, hi the Sd, severely caned by ex Mayer Thompson, of whe ilaufrhier, MUm Lillixit, he had written In a lifthtig HMtHIIW. Mk. R. T. RKim M. P.. has declared himself in favor of horn rule for Scotland. He says that the United Kingdom stand unique in endeavoring M legislate through one Parliament tor four countries. Tmk thermometer, os the morning ef tfce'Jd. registered 14 degrees below aero at the Signal -Service station at Am per Hi ml, Saranac Lake, X. Y., being the lowest' mercury ever recorded at that station at this time of tie year. C W. M.vrrNR. chairman of the National Alliance executive committee, I under charges of illegal dealing ia reference to tho Georgia State Senatorship, and of perverting the purity ami dignity of his ollice ia half a dozen way. Mr. Mary Ti'ihmk, mother ef Senator David Turple. was burned to uWath, at her lioiw wear Delphi, Ind., m the Sd. She wt arranin:f the Are inau old-fash leaned ri re-place when her clothing ignited. She was nearly ninety years of age. Wjl, LYTI.KTON LONG, who is UHlltT indictment in Xow York for forgeries amounting to nearly 5RtN. has diappesredf 11 was aroested and indicted last May, and a month later was released by Judge Filagerald on hteewa recognisance. Tmk condition of Admiral David IX Porter, who has Wen wriously ill for sver.nl months lias not improved! He is sufferinjr from fatty desenfration of tka lieart. and thi,. in connection with hl-3 extreme ape, mke his eondltkm very precarious. Thk international round-up of cattle in the Cherokee Strip is finKhitl. and lite stxrtlins discovery made that over 2,N liead of cattle hare Iteea stolen and driven to the Southwest . Tke ArkanKS company are the heaviest lexers, 703 head havinir been cut owtef tkair hrd Wy the thieves. Woo, tk colored wife-wordcrer sentenced to electrMiUtlon in New York, and In whoe behalf Gorerner Hill refused to interfere, has been granU'dl an appeal to the 14 ted States .Sx-weme Ctwrt. whfcli wjll op,Tate x stav until that court either dihtnivw the. appeal or disposes of it upon its meribi. mi F.vTHKR Ci:.rr, th well-known Catlielk; missionary w!m had boon with t1;i Sioux Indians for yesrst hut for tho Xmat four month ha been in New York City, has returned tto the Koslud Agency. Ho Is well known thrown liout tke whole Siottx N":itin, awl will probably exert a pood itiiluonce ataonfr tke trikwDk. Mary Wai.kkk was rerortel. o tke 1st, m rtylnjr at ker farm, near Hunker Hill, five miles west of Otwefo, K. Y. Her condition Was not considered serious until a few days previously, when a MrioU' cbanjc" took place, and her physician had no hope of her rceevery. The trouble is tald to le heart failure, Tjik indictment ajealnst Mrs. Eva Hamilton, charj-lnK her with conspiracy, h recommended for disnrlttal by the district attorney of Xew York en the 'id, He claim tkat the charge could not be proven now that Mr. Hamilton is dead. Judo Martine refused to entertain the nvotloH until he feed evidence to show thin ytate of facte. Hi i n -KMlmii Tin, rerent trials at Tinrary brought out tl fact that a cmwMerakle numlier of thu tenants had hesitated in jelnlnx in the 1'lan of Campairn and glvint; up tholr property, in which many of them had Invested much money, one tenant, for instance, payln a f-rotind rent of iNJ0 a year for an estate which lie and his father had improved at an expense of 3,060. Tim sub-CongresSonal committee on Immigration and naturalization of which Senator .Squire, of Washington, is ehairman. held a meeting at Tacoma, Waeh., at which the mayor and officials gOt the chamber of commerce, labor orjraniaatlons, and Imslness citiicns were examined in relation to Chinese immigration. All were unanimous for tke exclusion of Chlnete. Tmk National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union mot at Ocala, Fla., on tke Ud, with a large attendance. The proceedings were opened by the reading of President Polk's address, In which he congratulates the AUlanee on Its achievements since the lastmeetlng, and reviews the causes of agricultural detressltH, which He declares Is an anomaly to tke student of industrial progress. Tire American Wlndow-Olass Work ers' Association, proposes to build glass facewy of its own at Pittsburgh, l'a., The factory will 1ms run as a co-opera tive concern, but tlx? pronu will fro into the treasury ef the organixntiun The object in establishing tke factory is to ascertain exactly bow much profit there is in the h wetness, that th Men may net -intelligently in fernittUting their wage seals.

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CURRENT TOPICS. FIFTY-FIRST OONQRISS. TNR (hknmhI Pernio tt the Klfty nr Oea rM aMnMet ! M. In Um-simM Wttmi, rf H'yomla. wte rr4 MK mh 4m'iUtsX. iHt the draw Mr. H rv mtrd tb nK trm d .Mr. Vlry Umg, TtH! HMUlt WIWMIH- WIW PMMM' m4 hi wmU upon th' 'ill.t, ia wmtumtUm with a lik" " ' ,row cb lUnu. ant tfrw bin t Oot, yrtMi w in s-Um, d t M J, m. l'mOdont'o wraiee u rvtvit and read .... In the HoO' tle m4r t before ttutlxniy tlw rr-4eAUal f lvM A. tlarvy, IM'kital' fn.ru (kUhwiut, rnid tlx M(ii wa 4u4lI-d to biiu. At 1 ) , w. Ut,! lVwiamtV wtmtt ret-eh-M and rvftd, m4 Jm rtMMiinir ta llti ad-JoaMMl-l. th-Afw, on tb id, reHletUn ww adopted akuy th- ertry of War fr la. fn-MuttUMi lMut th trp taken to dlfwrn; IiMtlMn m Nebrtn, outn Itakotu and North ItLXit; m!m tt riMdutIH inrtMHii th foreiftn rrlation eoMtrntttee to imjulr Into ttof iMlvtMtbUUy of nutkrlInit i'alit lUwitli. frvernl winoc' nwi:rtM wpnw tl, and thrn th Sn-y h party vote, 41 Ut k up the Klvrl Klwtion UIM. At tlte r.4MUM f tttervatdlmc of the bid th fnM'h-adjtmmed it tlifllmiM-theblU ri rrlnK th- Uim f the CtttVHH-kt Mid CIkKi Ut tn Court ut ClMiin u MM4Mt. Th Copyrlnht bill w oalU-J up, MMd.Mftfr nhuioImt of dilatory motions hud lnnUlf-df, the prt vku jM!i,H w oriVrfU Jo. ty 7 and ttw Huum tlRH aduuroL Is the Senate, on the M, Mr!. VMorheea, Xlnwf aiut 1'iVrct? had a lively d-ltu on h Imltitn uetloa ovfra joint rts-olutlon to i' sut' arm hi tin- MsttM of North and South Ihikota aiwt NrbntVka. TheKlertton hill w takn P. and Mr. Turpie ntad- a lonKpefh iMtaint it In thelloithflHtt-MiBtfowwl Copyright hill w dVOtiti'd and i;iwt Uf to !. A bill to Mink any prrMn, acting In a Hducrary opUy, repoHiMe for tit pn sioH nM-y of minors tlfltatvd wltltoui Hnl tfi)ti, U motion to r, fTit to tU iittt Ueiug lo ft to JL iN th- SM-Matt, iIk,' 4th, Mr. Call' rcoluHon dirwtlHK tlx' SniMrlnti'ndeiitMof thv Iji. lMirRtir-' ti t'vnminv the phoph:t" ttulutry of Knrldit ww pafr.d, alo tlt'ltit -- oliltlon for l-.uUtr aruw to -ttr- In North ami .-outli Dakota ami NVbra-ka. Mr. luh H:llt "itt nilt"l urfftlHH'ilt WKMlK-t tli Kvihral Khftion bill, .-voral minor me nrv wore takin from the eab-ndar and pa'd... . In ttie IIoii!e tb liill utnkinir iruuriiluiM rponltil lor the pension tuoiu-y of tuiitors wa pM4'd. The lVnlon Appropriation bill a dtM-ut'd without action. PERSONAL ANDGENERAU I'ltKNcit Republican newspapers comment unfavorably upon ci the special Marks of good will shown by the I'ope to the I'rinces Helena of Orleans, who was invited to breakfast at the Pope's own table. This action of His Holiness Is considered" as indicating friendliness to the monarchical pre tensions of the house of Orleans. Thk famous trotter Electioneer died at the Palo Alto (Cat.) stock farm, on the 1th. of rheumati m. He was twenty-five years of age and had eleven sons and daughters, all of whom bad records of '2::M and better. Ai-T.vtT Skcrktahy Spai.pi.vu f the Treasury Department has rendered a decision holding that the bondsmen of the famous painUnsr "The AiiKelu-,' are liable fori,5e) duty on the painting TMRbedyef the late Kinjr William III. of Holland was interred at Del ft, on the Atn, with iaprelre cere monies. HlIHTH:jt.v im epldemH at India-tap-olis, lad. Two mk.v were horribly burned by an explosion of a tank of potash in the Cincinnati Chemical Works at three o'clock on tho morning of the 4th. , .SniTCitMA.v lsooiMA.r, of Attoona, i'a.. was .struckr and instantly killed by a train, on tho 1th. while rescuing his .youngest son David from the track. LATE NEWS ITEMS. l.v the Senate, on the Mn. important bridge bills were pas-ed and the Federal Kleptien bill Was discussed farther In the House the Senate joint resolution to issue arms to .North and .Son lit Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska was passed, with an amendment includintr Montana. The Pension Appropriation bill wan debated farther and pad. At the meeting of the National Colored Alliance at Ocala. Fla., on the 5th, a resolution was offered condemning the act on of the white alliance In passing a resolution In opposition to the Federal Klecajon bill, because such action has no reference whatever to the aims and purposes of tho organization, and wan calculated to check the growth of the Alliance. Am. the larsre mine operators of Alabama held a meeting at lllrmingham, on the. th, and adopted a resolution setting-forth that they positively declined to advance the price of mining, and that tkey would under no consideration confer with the executive committee of the United Workers of Amer ica. Tmtr.K men were crushed to death and two others were badly injured, on tho 5th, by a rapidly passing coal train, while standing in front of the office of the Heading Jiallroatl company in Philadelphia, waiting to bo paid off. Many others had narrow escapes. Tint news of the formal repudlntlon of l'arnell by the Catholic Episcopacy of Ireland was received at the Vatican with the greatest satisfaction, and His Holiness for the first time In years ex m-essed himself onenly in approval of the course of the Irish lllshops. St. Mary's Catholic Chnrcli at Home stead, Pa., was destroyed by Hre. on the 5th, together with the parochial rest dence, a building occupied by Sisters of Mercy, and the dwclling-honsc of If, Jt. Keleeon awl a man naitHid Veil keimer. Total loss, ,WK. J. C Ginks, district attorney for the Fourteenth Judicial district of Louisiana was killed in Cameron Parish, by --..M..., 1 .1 !.l. ....... t t.t ...... while hunting on the Mh. THK Honse committee on the eleventh census gave a hearing, on the .Mh, to a delegation from New York City, whe appeared to urge a new census enumer alien of that city. Thk fund for Oeneral llooth's work ol improving the condition of the poor o! I.nrlawl new amount to T5,ew. It is reported that Archbishop Walsh of Ireland will Mten be smmeiied tc IttHne te retelve a CardlHal's hat

8TATB INTKLLIGBNCR

Mm. Et.lXAMKTK MtlHfMKY, wWew of the late Colonel Mllee Murphey, for nearly half a rentwry the leading wrehant in Keweaatle, and on ef the pioneer of Henry Conwty, wn found dead in her bed at I4 home f her daughter, Mm. O, W. Goodwin, early the other morning, ag-d S3 years. Cau ef death, heart failure. " Sam Lix. Chinee, tlrend Maater of the Celestial Freewaeon. established a lodge ef his ooh try men in Indianapolis. Mm. K. Mi'fSlJrTY. of .leKess-onville, went to bed srHknir aelgar, fell aalfep, set tire to the bed and www nearly suffocated that he was saved with dittteulty, Jo-r.rii ItoWK, ef Hrnall. ha sud Henry ltrinkman, of Terre Haute, for &V l MX) because the latter llred a hunl of bhot Into his back in the course of a quarret Thk President has appointed John C KobinMm, of Indiana, a special agent to make allotment of lands in severalty to Indians. Thk new eleetric fire-alarm system Is being put up at Crawfordsville, lX the legal fight between the disputed 1'nlted Hretbren. Judfe Hundy, of Henry County, decides in favor of tho Liberals, who wish to let members of secret societies into tho church fold. A xi'mhur of people at Greenwood were seriously poisoned the other day by eating, prepared meat, purchased of a local grocer, which had V'en cooked in a conner kettle. Two members of P. D. Hush's family suffered most. All are j now believed to be out of damer. ' At lgftnport the three-year-old , daughter of Wesley Penny was burnod to death the other evening. The father and mother were out milking, when the child complained of Iteing cold, and i went into the house to get warm. Thoy , were alarmed at her cries a few moments 1 afterwards, and, rushing to the house, j found her clothing In flames. Slwj dU'tl from her injuries after living aljout two hours in an unconscious condition. It is supposed herclothin? caught from the stove, which she had opened. ClUKfor PoMCK Hahn hala desperate encounter the other afternoon with a river pirate, a mile above Vincennes, which nearly cost him his life. The officer bad jriven chase to the pirate, and was rapidly oertaking him, when be mired in the mud on the river bankr fleer's predicament, jumped into a skiff j near by, and rowed out into the river, . from which vantage he opened 'fire on the Chief with a Colt' revolver, flrinjc eight shot, at the helpless custodian. . whose gun. as well as himself, was buried in tho mud. One of the shots passed through the Chief's coat, another barely 1 missed his left ear, while theremalning j six were too cloo for comfort. Subee-' quently the fugitive, whose name is 1 Itlack. returnetl to shore, and, after an exciting chase on both land and water, j was compelled to surrender to uaiin while astride a log in the "twiddle of the Wabash. A kaxpsomi;, well-dressed gentleman, registering as S. G. In-own, city, stopped at the Planters' Hotel. Indianapolis, the Other night, and next morninjr be was found dead in bed. Ther is nothing indicating the cause of death. The man is a stranger. Skvkrai, weeks aco Mrs. Jennie Withrow. the divorced wife of Edward Dalrymple. of Elkhart, to whom the court awarded tin custody of the children, kidnaped her daughter, aged ten, and after a long and coMly .search Dalrymple located the woman ar.d girl at Indianapolis, and recovered his daughter, a few days ago. by habeas corpus proceedings. After separating from Dalrymple tho woman married a man named Withrow, from whom she afterward procured a divorce, Marion Hokkktso.v, a Wnll-knewn farmer, was fatally shot at Moomington by the premature discharge- of a jrun while hunting. One hand was shot otf, and the load lodged in his face, one ol his eyes falling out. He will die. ATllushville Will Hamilton, need Ofl years, got very drunk and was jailed. In the night he took off all bin clothes, burned them and was found by thu jailer in the morning stark naked, He Is now crazy from the effects of whisk y. Ho has drunk up S 15.000 in ten months. Ho will probably bo sent to tho asylum. Tin: other morning, about a mile east of Splceland, an old man aliout 70 years old was found in the edge of the woods dead. He was pretty well dresHl, wearing a Derby stilt hat and had a ticket dated Novomln'r 'ii from Ft. Wayne, via Cambridge City, to Indianapolis, and.W in money was found upon bis person. Xo evidence of who lie was can bo ascertained. Tint supposition is he got off tho train at Now Castle and wandered away, being slightly doment ed. Hr.NRV L.vmr married Widow Winkley at Lawrenceburg. the other day. They wore engaged Mfty years ago when Henry was twenty-one ami tho preeent bride twenty. Tin: other night James II. ICennor, a prominent lawyer and county attorney, was stopped upon tho street in Huntington by a man. who demanded that ho pay tho money which ho owed him. ICennor dented owing the man any thing, and was knocked down with a large stone. 11 Is cries for help brought aid to him, anl the assailant tied. Ken nor idt'JitiRetl the man as Oh as. Ashley, a barber, living there, who ivea arrested and held in Sl.iKW ball, which, f.o far. he has failed to give. It has been discovered that John Isenhaft, a farmer livlngn'ar Portland, who was supposed to have de.Mjrted his family in tn)'. was murdered at that time by one John Hindman. His re mains have been discovered under Hindman's stable. Mii.ton I), Ff.KTrtinu, brotiKkt back from Colorado, sonio tfmo ago, to answer tho chargo of emlezr.ling penslon funds, pleaded gnllty liefore Judge Woods at Indianapolis, ihe other morning, and was sentenced to tke penitentiary for a year and a day, Thk Farmers' Alliance of Iloone County will hold an Institute In Lebanon Dumber M and 47.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSl .0.

AmmmI K eT AtlHrnr-H-rt 1ww4h4I MeelMMHl t Im U4tri4l Im Msar tU, iHMetwa asd WltHe AiMWlHatrd surf the iK4wra I'rx-tr--M4 t'M4r (State 4JiHrU-TI- Wrk tf thu VeewWahMIXOtox. Ilea. ft. Tho annual report of Attorney-Denem! MHIr tor the last ftecal year shew that tho duties wt th Dtartmfnt of Jutl hav been exteslve and varied. The enforcement of the laws and the di faculties therein encountered are set forth. The report sars: In some part of f h country tb lawteines to which attention wa ralU'dl In the uut anausl rport of this dVparttmnit mllnuea, The .sforiM-iwnt f the lnternel venue laws and of the raited iUir Kh-e-tton law In partlcuUrly rvlati-d, and onlwrs of the Internal wvrnue, assfila 1'nhVd Wate-i HiarflmU are fruaitly iwt with viIfwe", and r orcaMfonally the victim of salnatkHi at tlot UnutU of tho- auilty of violation of thwe and other law, and their and wltnesss, with th arpo of Imp-Mis Inn tliir .attention irf laws anil rder" k tne rnttedtatvs rourta hv oeeurml durlna" the past year. Within the lat ten day, h deputy marshal, attemptlujc to rn a warmot for the arwt of a man for violathm of the postal laws, was tthot awU InHantly klll-il l.y the man tMHutht to 1m arr4d, and, at a preliminary jiHiiiini.ton Ix-foro a matl-trate of thstait-, thprliurwa- proiuirtly dlsohawl. It is crrtainly an anonmly In jravt-roment, tliat thos who have Kimwiitted mtirtlrr- for tw pitrporHs o(topping prsHeentUms In tte IVderal courts should mt only wt be Hinlotted, hut not even la, put upon trial, although In nt leaat two cae'! In dial He t ilurliiK 1SW. well known, Yet such I the f set. It Is needle lossy that the Federal court have no adequate, jurf-dicti-m of th4"-' of-fenr-ee. Section WW of tin Mwl-ed .--utHtvs provides tltat If any is-r-on attempts hy In tiuiitlatlon, threats, etc., to prevent any elilaen frol cxercIoinK the riht if sur.irv, and in i doln rommhs a felony, or If two vr more persons conspire to drhar any p"rson from the enhiymvnt of any of bl" ' H riichts and In so dIK commit a felony, such felony chalt be ptutiphed a-cordltuc to the law ! of the tate wherein tho Mine 1 committed. If ireetton m Were !- bniadened a- to ntakv any fehrny, committed while In tbeet of vfohttiiuc any t4atuteof th- l"IUd Stat , triable In tho Ifnlte! s-tates courts, and punfriable ue-or,l!ii)t to the lawn of the Ht wherein tbj aiue 1s K.mmittcl, It wonltl Kreatly help in the administration of !. So long as !- who kill oaleer, witnetesor Jurr, for the purinweof laip'linK the adminl-tratlon of jutk, ran only Ih tried anil punched In a Federal Court as for a minor offense, the admdnl-tratton of the United State- laws and the law theum-tve In many dl-trleW will have little re pect. Tho Supreme Court has recently dwlded that there Is a "! of tho Cnltesl States." Is It not the duty of ConirrefV. to provide by law for the preservation ol twa "peaee everywhere and at all times. No'twIthst.tndfnK tbedltneiiltles of thsit nation, the 'MHcers of thl ilfpartment have been dlllKnt In executlna tae laws. In prosecutions for violations of tUm Kleetkm laws, in st.-eral dlstrfrt, convictions and pleas of guilty have; been oitalnel In a nt HMHitH-ror c as llliitrattngon i tni illrtkMiltles mot In such pteentIon-i, the district altomey for one dIMrict. reports that. In a certain county, a number of whose eltlx-ns were convicted of violations of the Kiectlon laws, the pountr court ordered all Une and eostt -wwert aeMinst them In the Cnltcil States Court to be paid out of the county treaeury ; ami that in another county, a nura her of wboee cltlaens were In like Miamier oonvirtedor luul pleaded jrullty to Indict ments for such o-nses In tbet'nlted States court, was actually paid out of toe eoonty treasury upon teh ! aiwl cutt in ene uay. Tltee facta speak for tbemelvM. The crowded eondltkm of the Supreme Court docket w hrooarht to public attention The docket of the court, at the elot-e ef the btt term, as compared with the condition nt the close of the term ne.tt nrece'lin smws an Increase of thirty-two ra-cs nndl?ixed of, appellate and original. Five- thousand, live hunzted and sixty-nine p--tltIoiiP, repn'-nt-in 3,5 yerrSS'l", and clsim of admit M-.',W0,-m, hare ben tiled in tb- Court of Claims under the French SnoIUtbrn wS.antl ilrln tbepa-t year ivrenty-frrtir es' have len decided farornwy tor toe eiaimauts, tnvoiv inx an allowance of fPK,. IHtrinx the part tW-al year i,T civil suits. to which tlio rnlt?l state wa party t rmlnated. There were t riIoti l during lite year W,iaS criminal proecutlonii, 1S7 und-r the Cot-tow lw-; f,7ti under the Internal Revenue lawsjWt undtr l'o-tt otnc lawj3fM under KIecltn laws; J under the Civil Rljthts act,CjlundTthIntereowr!e act; iK utMter tlw Pension laws; S6 for vmh 'Exb-ment ; 'i Hndr the Inter-State Commerce laws; 72 Hid'r the Xaturallaatlon laws, and ,t mieellatteous ir0iecntton. The ajtaTea-ale of ne-,forf'Ilurc andp-n altiis IipoHMt during Ihe yer in criminal proeecution! wa fKll.-si, and the amouitt f these iftie, forfeiture, and inulties esllectcd durinK the year was $lfi: A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Awful f.o ofl.lfe tinier Filllnr ';ill The IH(I, Injured and MImIhit. Jomrt, 111., Dec t.A terrible accident, with loss of life, occurred at ihe blast-furnace department of the Ilinois Iron and Steel Company's works to-day. The blast furnace, which was blown out for rellning and repair, made necessary since tho recent explosion, which was also attended with loss of life, fell to the ground to-day, when about twenty men wore engaged at work on it. Eleven men were working on the Inside at the bottom and about six on the top when the accident happened. Eight IkhIIcs have been recovered from lenoath the mas of ruin. They were matilatod beyond a semblance ef humanity. The dead are: Xes Larson. John Peter-on.1 Gus boona. Thompson Swansea. Slaus Fasmeck. Frank Miller. John Mulutstady. Tboo most serlonsly Injured are: 0cr.r Llnil, Joseph Mason, John Ole son, August Weiiborg. A. Seissenair, Peter Erlckson, John Larson and Patrick Kllctillen, The accident was camaed by the giving way of one of tke heavy columns on which tha huge Wast furnace rests. The loss to the company Is estimated at 7S,W. JohhIr AHkrlm WbhI, Salve fur "rlHnd4 . AHV-illoH. PARKntsmnto, W, Va., Dec. 5. At Cadiz, on the Ohio side of the river, suit was brought by Jennie Ankrim against Wm. Morris for lo.oou damages for wounded affections. Morris was jmylng attentions to Miss Ankrim last snmmer and at tke name time to a Mist Coventry, who lives) some miles away. He recently eloped with Mis Coventry, but still kept up hta atten tions to Miss Ankrim, tke latter net being aware of his marriage. When she learnVid ef if she brought stilt for daw affix.

MONEY ANO BU4INES.

Tm Ha4 -f rhMMHM nnd Teade Thrthwwt the -Mmtry m Ia44atfd . Haw IV ttWIily K-vkw-Th M SlrlHaeHey ('MimHe,HH lh " It ISraduaMy I-,! Avray-Tr4e 41fHrMHy HrUk wad Ulwr TrwuWw- few Hii1iiw KllMr-. hti Xttw Youk, Dee. . K. tl. Du Co.' weekly review of tirade aays: Mrinaeuev in isnMmerclal Imi. -tIel hut wes a the chivf rauee uf iH pn x ni dieturbaucf. Is now atUMwrt the otdy remain Iraai rauae. The iMfltieue of liuropeaa trMibim ha paaae-t. r'rel-n e4,uaene tneavdy in favor ot tnta wmntry. in -meetbs affairs there has leen a dMlaet Improvement in the dis-MMitHm of banks and money lenders to k Ive necewaarj" pprt to lecitimale buainew. curtailing spes-ulatlve advances as far as polble. This wl-er dtpotltiua h abown d uuly in iouh lraer bmuea of elearlnjt hoe -ertln-rates and larger loaaa here, but la dinalebei fiwu maar rther nlaee. Very numeruna and full report from tlHr cities this week show- that the cbeape!a K "sww at the Stutb and delay of winter weather at the North, have sotnew hat reduced trawa'tloti, and canesl more tardineas in'lleetloaa than heretofore: but eoltler weather and the approach of the holiday already beirtti to have a favorable effect at many point. Thus, at St. Utah), trade Is Improved in all seaaonable lines ; exeelewt at Italtlaiore Mitd bt tter at Detroit and Ro-Mu. At mt Sstutheru polnta the slower movement of eHtin on aeeount f hw price Is named ax tb principal cause, of delay In collection. There h itreater eaet ITpelnnail and one or two other lMrfnts. and at Chleaao nectsarr advam- fr h-Kiltuate hilneH Mrts made to the eselion or loua-drawH or iteealative demand. Thu country trade I healthy, and no fear for the future are expressed. At noaton inere it a bHter feellnir, colder weather aivla more life to tho woiden tntdo and .-ale of wd reaehin'i.l iHtund. PntVidvm-e notes ijnlet trade, print cloth weak and money ttKht. I'hMNdelphia reports Mime activity tn holiday trade, tnouKh retail dry ol laI-ne.-is Im-Iow expectatloiu and the jtroeery trade Is only fair, Wool In estremely dull. In KeiKr.il, the volume of trade thr,UKlut the country I hi heavy that, with the advance of"' iter rent. In prices since a year axo, larger upplu of money are abrtirbed. S'lte amount of eurrericv in ein-Utim i now overLVM,wi,(., Win i-7W's laracr than a year ao. There I no -eieclttl ehaaee note! In tho great indu4riei thooah plr iron I weaker In lone, liemand for finished nnlnrt of- Iron ami teel an" rt-lll lurKe, iIioukIi distinctly les than a month aao, anil rails are weak with -canty salea. The wiMden manufaetMre Is much more howful and emildent than it wa lx month- or a year ao, but manufacturer are nmvint wlthcaHtii-t. Labor trouble are very few, and the industry of the country b remarKaWy w-ll employed at fair Wae. The failures durinK the Iat --ven daynumtaT, for the I'aiied State Kf and for Canada 3. or a tidal of J12. a compare.! with a total of lart wwk, For the eorre-pood-Inn" w eek of lart year the HxHre were 31, repre-H ntinaJTl la the United States atwl iaCanala. A BIG BLAZE. rtly rire at I'ltt.OHrrh, l'a. Vanlc Amwar the inet of the Seventh AveHHe HoteltlHe rlremnH Killed and Sever.il lojHre,! by r.ilOHX Wall The wilt Kteeed Half M .Million llollir. PirT!"Bi'i:it. Pa.. Dec An earlymorning fin, which originated in the third story of No. 917 Liberty street, burned until after .ree o'clock. The big six-story building f 17 and VIW Liberty street, occupied by E. M. Gannon as wholesale storage for pyrotechnics and confections, wan burned to the ground; No. HIS and HIS, occupied by the Harris Drug Company, and Nos. 18. 9il and 98, were partly destroyed. Losses and insurance: Harris' drug store, buillinr helonced to the Hays estate, loss flS.OOfc Harris' lose, contents, 81 ,); insu ranee. Seo.oott. Maginn building, owne-.l by the King estate, 2O,00: Magma's los. fully insured. Jenklnaosa building and contnt, Se5,w: ftjlly Insured. Young, Mahod ,t Co., oils. paints, etc, loss SSe.&M. The Seventh Avenue Hotel is directly opposite the scene of the Are. At the scond alarm. the guest in the hotel were aroused. Notwithstanding the efforts sf the hot! management the g rentes' excitement prevailed. Halftlresaed men and women. carryinc sacbels and wearing apparel crowded and, fought their way down to the stairs. Several moments elapsed before the guests could lie made to understand there was no immediate dan ger. Fireman Elmer F, Isley. of engine company No. 11, was killed by falling -.vail; body rerovered. The . following were Injured by the same wall: Chief Evans, badly bruised; two ribs broken. August Winter, of No. 7, and John Shefferton. of No. 11, badly bruised. John Sellem, of Xo. 11, badly bruised and one. arm broken. Edward Adolph, foreman, one arm broken, and badly bruised. Several other firemen were severely bruised, but continued at work. VERGING ON A CRISIS. Tile IloHilnloa Ileel red lo hp oh the Verge of a Commerrlal CrMa The K port ami Import Trade Show hm I mi HtrMHfl F.iIIIhc Off. Ottawa, Ont., Dec The Official Gazette of the Government to-day shows that there is a dencit of neanv ft.WW.vtK) in the treasury for fi months ending December 1 Importa tions are steadily falling off anil the revenue from customs .duties shows a shrinkage of over S.VXJ.IHXI for November as eomtiared with, the corresponding month of last year. A leading politician said last night that however much he regretted to make the admission, Canada, he believed, was on the verge of a commercial crisis. The export trade shows an enormous shrinkage, more especially to the United States, which last year toolf forty-Bv per cent, of all Canada had to sell." The Governmentis exerting every means to secure new markets but with little eneoeragmewt t shipper-, as yet, VhT, Jfeverr LomhiN. Dec 6. The overliearing tone of the President of the United Stains in regard U the Itohring Sea question has aroused much surprise in official circles here, it having been believed that the United States would not InslU upon its claim to exclusive jurisdiction. The Foreign Office is reticent, but seml-ofncial intimations are given currency to ite effect that England will never consent to recognise American control of tke waters in question beyond the usual limit, and that the ItriUsh will be prepare! next season to defend British vesek against seizure.

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KmraM ( te CbWe Swaltaa; tr.h.,MM.,. im Vet rudridded WMeh W yn, Tl They Relieve Ihe Mber llulm,.n -i Tltey HM4eve Ihe hher (idm.., ,7711 Amerleaa U with Thi w -ttbk ?fl IreluHd'a 'hut M ISHMftt , M, , Mlltw-iHee, Chk Aiui, Dee. .--Tho Irjsb t atorvJ alt of them, are still InChu-ao, ..t?M iiulleatliui huv ua tliu, ,..... . ... mat they .u m wain here until the Parlian;' ntary urul ia London has decided one v,(ly or Uwl other im the question of Vl'Tdlf4.l iney art now aopetui mat the llihJ ened troubles ran be avert I. aud uZI they will be able to resume t,.,r jJI motto "Peaee with Honor" inu-nS upon their banner. Ihe moatlmportantof thocnbv.f,-,. received hy the envoys yesterday that from Alderman ll(si-r iirowi!-. mi mir v iiiij iier.m, anil a mu. ful element in Nationalist In substance it was to the t!en vne uniegation noeu not in tlm fear the opinion of Ireland on 0x.iM, m a t ... i . s . . . a B nous at issue, but that it was emineailJ desirable that the delegation dioj maxe some lurtner expression of ion, additional to Its manifesto of w day lat, for the guidance of the r-oplJ of Ireland. This distat'-)i i.eni tZl lowesl soon afterwards by another Ne ttie same source emphasising tim tleu,l ability, not to say necessity, of anotkat At..-. l. . .. s a a uon, uarringion ineiuucu. we;o htp riedly -ummonod ticonfvr Tltctri. lilieratlons occupieil the )otter pu-tae of an hour, ami a the outco'no VWlhaj O'ltrien wa authorised to n-x'.f. V did so tn tbese words: "We have kept silence ottt of rer. J ... 1 1.. .; w mi ins Hi'iiiierauun- ui our roui'.ij-Qgt relying with confidence upon the t tured tuugmentol tlio Irish party m the Irish pcoplo. We ak you not th misled by any hasty or Ilbinfonsa American telegram. It is our julsaieal that sober opinion here is ovf-ralte! ingly with us, and we are satisfied it the dally papers of the I'nitol Stat without exceptioo,supfMrt u- tn tlieW lief that Gladstone's bona fide are Impeachable and that the disruption f the Liberal Alliance means dciirurtM t the coming general election. If ib Irish Parliamentary party come to i I rompt de-ciion, it is our convict;i t int the Irish cause will ocnmy a mm impregnable position than ever." HarriniftOR. it is understood. & sen led from one ef the e,lr:e.; f this dispatch, and it was thero'oro Mm as the ex ores ion of opinion of Ihlle O'Hricn. Gill, O'Connor and O'Sullivaa Next in in'.rortnnee to this emrespondence, or perhaps exceeding n was the hurried visit to Chicago o Archbishop Ireland, of St Paul, ast his eoua'ly hurried eonferenre with uV deiejrat on. He said, just before lea ln tha the visit was a purely oci one. and the delegateweclH'! the ta ment with singular unau unity. TV fact remain, however, that, freqnei visitor as the not-d pro la is to Chicago, he lias sen been known before to arriv" at no and fen depart four beers later a he aW yesterday. Equally &iaiaVeaat Is i that be W a close and Intitoate frtead Arvhbtahops Wakh of Dublin, as froke of Caabet, two of the miHt pe trfulof Irish prelates who an-arraigns on the side of the Nationalist part; Tint wbo signature nevertheless wer attached to the manifesto of the lr p-elates issued on ThursUy, Arrl bbop Ireland ami all the member r ITir delegation were behind clo-eJ liw nntil within, a half hour trf the ti frr the departure of his train for ti Northwest, and despite their tcticcnc If was noticeable that, at the con-'lu' .' the conference the delegates wore ; nore buoyant spirit than at any t; ftace their arrival la Chicvo. r.eporthad It that the CathoLe l -chv of the United Siafs ha I in c ,tSmplatlon the issue of an address the faithful supplementary to Mt their Irish col league, but not me 4 the delegation would admit this teki fact, although one of their nitmli'r : later that the mission of the An'hbHh a-hatever it was might prove pt naat with good. Another said at a 1 hour last night; "From every portion of this coiis strong evidences of approval of t position are pouring In. The peoplf beginning to see things a we see the Through the medium of the cable w delegates were kept well sdvind garding tho conference " between t Grand Old Man and the renrenuv-v of the Nationalists Following lines of their dispatch to Hoop"-. ho ever, they refrained from making communication which might be rw strued as an interference bos'' justifiable, in the negotiation Their present position can summed up thnsly: If an amicable ttement or tke present trottblreachesl they will resume their the country. If, however, Parnell. ',dte or his heroic stand. Is deposed if the majority, they will, in vie o. evident temper or the Irish eietncal the United States, go no further Following this policy. Dillon O'Drien replying last night to a i patch from St Louts urging the ' voys to keep their engagement for M day night, on the ground that the committee had gone to con derabie pesMj and relied with eonfl b-nre er their appearance, said that in vi"" In!. ar.i. alwoad. they did mt consider it de-J ble r politic to participate Sn any lie gatherings, and asked, for the of the cause, that the mcetinff in tion lie indefinitely postponed. The OHMtrt at M infra, 1aui IW. The belief H'1 ;ugtiee-ofclals fomented th" filf-t Ih order Ui hamper the MiBi1 V'n V W S r-,mm.a w " I "wyj the Delago arbitrators was t-J" pressed at a private meeting W-tt r tenlar. st which Mr. Terhune.eo or liehalf of the American - j er In the Delagoa Hay. rai wr n the American ai mister T.lutuu. atani KfnL It was allege! that In eventof clslon adverse to Portugal. ScfJ lllaine would Insist upon Tf j proper damages and the rsw.the soHisoated prevertr.