Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 February 1891 — Page 2
WEEKLY COUBIER.1 CUBBENT TOPICS.
JASFBR. .
DJDIAXA.
TIE mSWl XV 1UEF.
Krsei.v wtU mm! Uw )hW o(,IIm,
Was nmtouv Iwcltule hard labor, in
Mw WHtMtnwtKMi of the Siberian mil way.
Chami.ks Pjcatt, an F..Hrlid.iHan who
iweatly exmwHitU! teMseide Mi Aaueey,
yrww, prove to have been ociied
or a fortune, of iW,(Ktt, to which he re-
oently fell heir.
Hon. a. 11. II. Stkwart, of Staun
ton, V., .Secretary of the Interior an
tWr l'reehlent Kilmore, wa, tm the lth,
reported U) be eritiestlly ill ami liable
to t!it! lit Mliy IHOlHCtlt, ii
Thk French police have trawl the
individual who "sent h falkse telcjcram
about h flairs in Kio tie Janeiro, for
the purpose of creating a panic in lira-
suian bonds, and hope soon to secure
his arrest.
Fohrkd certificates of stock in the
American Sugar Tmst have recently ha en soki on the floor of the New York Stock K.xchane. The price realised was $c?f per share, and it is believed the
Miles made were extensive. Xka ri.y 450 of the men who were em
ployed at the Lorillard llrick Works, at
keyport, . J., which recently assigned, are out of work ami in destitute eircumstaiices. Money i due to the men f roai the works, but they can not get it. Coloxri. II. M. IU.ack. commander of tke Twenty-third Infantry and of Fort Sam Houston, Tex., was retired Irons active service at noon on the 15th. Tlie period of hi active service was the longest of any officer serving1 in the line. llv direction of the President, Colonel
T. W. Forsvthe. who was suspended by
ftCBcral Miles for his conduct of the
fight at Wounded Knee, has lecn re
stored to his command. I his action
was taken as a result of the investba lion of the Wounded Knee fight;
TiiK official statistics of loss of life
and limb in the Third 1'cnnt.ylvatt.a an
tlirMcite coal-mining district for the
year ISaX) show that it wat the mont ditiMrou year in the history of the re-
jrion. One hundred men were killed,
lif ty-five of whom left widows. t ,i,i Joskph Thomas', one of the best
known, most influential and wealthy
colored eiuwns of Daltiinore, Md., who was bora a slave, died, on the 6th, aed
seventy years. He leaves considerable
rl estate, and is said to have been
worth between $:&,m and f7.'.,000.
Jamks Rkiifath, the famous Ir:4.h Nationalist, journalist and lecturer, and vice-president of the Anti-Poverty Society, who was run down by a horse-car
opposite the New York City post-oMee oae day recently, died at St. Luke's
Hospital, on the lttth, from the effect of
Jim mjuries. Hox. Hannibal Ham u. of 'Maine, the aged statesman who was Vice-President durimr President Lincoln's first term, arrived in New York, on the 11th, to attend the fifth annual dinner of the Republican Club commemorative of the eighty-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
JIhs. Silas C6vai.t, Df Muncte, Ind., has been notified that she is one of the heirs to the Anneke dans estate, in the heart of New York City, valued atftXfrO,000.000. ami she ami 'other heirs will meet at Indianapolianext month, where definite arrangements will be made to settle the vast inheritance.
Ax important feature of the programme for the treatment of the Indian question is the scheme now being prepared by the War Department for the enlistment of a number of young1 bucks for service in the ranks of the army. It is proposed to enlist about 2,0, including ttOO or TOO scouts.
FIFTY-FIRST OONQRCM. Is taw emte, cmi the "th, an owb-r w.i: aeed tai that during tint remslniWtr of tin aewatoM (he aeaate a hall meet Ml 11 a. m., d aotil a p. m., and tfaea take a r '. null wiKM VtMl;. The Kigbt Hour Iiwmm tlv Itt4-l alt day unit a aumbwr f auM-nments to It w't'aiYcl U The Ueatli if Hrp Mu(atlv I'hflitn, ( Tena, wa i utMMNl, auU th utMt r!uthn wtr. ffrHl, Itr whk h, a mark i r"Mvt, tfcr StNai adjuuriHHt . ...la tUm llousw tit m)Mrt on ttof Umiiiii Invvvtltfatlau wax ulull uit and urtlmi priutcd muU reeotninltitHt. In eufMHtUtet' of iht wbli on tn SttuUry Oh il Aroprl4tioan bill mu nif nluunt to th Wurld'i Fair iMtraxrHnli, nslaK Ums sat aritiiir oittera f the World' ColuMtblau A4M'iMtioM, wa HtioptHl. Th Hfpr)rUtlon if t:w,ti for titv xpn ( vt-ruln mw(lHM was truek out. and the Worid'ft KatrrWtu waa then imiwt'd. Without llpwltiCf thu bill tHti couiuillte nKM, and tlt UuMtli of kprttHttitlv I'hf !mi. of Teaiivs?, UflitK nhhuuhcihI, til llouu as a mark of respect, adjourned. Is tUv jH uate, on tlie h,,th ertMlwntluU u Danh'l W. VMrtitMi and Henry 0. Han b ufh. hm .Senators from the States of In diana and North Dakota, rt)tlvly, were irern!ed and Mlttd. A rt(tliiilnt wj Hdoittctl chIIIhk ii)khi tli l'reildtnt for eor reK)ii4iieertlHttveto the importation ut prHla-ti of the United States Into Krazll. Mr. Illalr'n toot Ion to rteousUU-r the vote re. coinmlttlHK the Klxht-llour law wast re K'tel. and the bill vim nHt back to the (MMuilttro on Hlueatkn aud labor. Tlw Hoe Copyright hill wast then taken up aitd dlcu.ed until p. mi., when thu Seiiut
t4Kikarreeitsuntll el)lit o'eloek , ...In the House, after an misuweiMful effort to
enter bilta perUlnina: tu the DlMtrler of Cob amlila, the Sundry Civil Appropriation hilt wa taken up In roinmittre of the whole.
ht oiue uimcumioh it wa passed. The Legislative Appropriation bill was then taken'lip. but without disposing of It, the
nvut uitjuurneu.
In the senate, on the loth, wjverat bills of
minor luiportancu were PMted. The Navul
Appropriation bill wa considered and after
a number of committee anieiiduievta were
adopted the bill went over. A iiie..ixe
from the rrenHIent In reference to the ltar
ritndla affair wh received and referred.
Culogte on the late llepresentative Walker.
oi .Missouri, were ueuverea. anil the Seuutu
a a mark of respect adjournetl .... In the Hone tlm eouimlttee on eolimae, weight
una measures was jrrmil leave to stlt dur-
Inn theMf3ion4 of the House. The bill (or a puhlfe building at J)alla, Tex., which wais
vetoed by the rreUlent, was reported hack and the bill paed over the veto. The I.ex IfUtlva Approprlutlou bill wa eoneltlered in cotnniittee of the whole but without Ulspot In of the bill the Huuse adjourned. In the eiiHte, oh tne 11th, the conference report on the Konnoke (Va.) public bttlldlntr, reduelioc the eot from J KM, (Ml to $;5,(W0, wai aifreed to. Several small billn were paed, after which constderatloH of the Naval Appropriation bill wn resumed. Atterome hiiur' (liwcnIon the amendment offered by Mr. Allen, Hxlntf Tort Orchard on I'ujcet Sound as the "He for a dry-dock was a(red to. It appropriates iZ,A for a site and f70,Qri for the building of a drj -doek. Several committee amendment were adopter! and the bill paed. The Histrlet of Columbia bill wae reported and placed on the elendar. The Copyrttrht bill ws taken up, but Ink! aside Informally. A number of hill were taken from the etdendarand passed. In thellouae the Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of thu whole, but no notion was taken on the bill. Ijf the Senate, on the mil, the credential of Mr. Teller, for the Senatorial term begin alna March 4, next, were Hied. The Copyrhtht bill was tnken up, the pending uetionbuhiKon an ameudinent by Mr. Sherman; but owing to his Hbwnce. the bill wao tahl anlde and the District of Colninbia ApprojpriHtkm bill wa eoneidered and paed. A HUMbcr of blllif on the calendar were pasoedHnd ttn Senate ailfonrned..., .lathe. Iioone, after mutlne buines. the I.ejflsla tive Appropriation bill wan taken np In coin' mltteeof the whole. M'ithont dittos I uf of
the bill the House adjournal.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Thk 1'rench Leainie for opposition to
Uhelsm has been reorganised with new
c ami vigw, Thk neihlwrluKxl of Seymour, Ind..
is jrreatly excited over the discovery of what is supposed to be a very larc and valuable deposit of anthracite ooal in the hills near Seymour, and within six
miles of the Ohio -& Mississippi railroad.
company is organizing- to develon the
nmu
A Mi utfto apnMitioti has mm mwt in tliuuusial eiruk'a In tark by th dl appMimuee of M. Mim, a wclbknowu C-ivau baaker, who in known b have ft debt h tha amount of ,WM,WW behind him. nml who may have oowiMittcd suieldkN 'HtK entire phwit of the Trt-Uti Can Couajmay at Keokakv la., wa cowpleU"ly destroyed jr lira on the 10th. How tlu- lire oririnatl w M ntysUry. The low to the conipaay Ik placed at about frt.10, but the j.la nt was fully insured. The Hre will bei a severe blow to the 4M) IM'rsons wly were empbyl by the uowjmy. Xki.sox.I'kcok, of Ihibuque. la., took out a license to marry Miss Ktisa We-bcr, who Hve in tint country. The niMri-iajfe wns to have tahen place on the lOtli, but did not because of a dispatch received by the chief of polke, from Mrs.
recorintuc East, inquiring' about her husliaiid. HoKKuii.K rciHirtsof depredations by wolves have Wen reeeivetl from Szaudu, llunirary. On Karon Wiwallaur's estate
alone twenty peasants have been devoured by the ravenous lxasts. The
government authorities arc organising a party of hunters which will undertake the extermination of the wolves.
N. l' Wharton, Assistant SccreUirv
of State, ami Miss Suhui Lay were quietly married in Washington on the
10th. Rev. Ur.Mok'im, rector of Epiph
any Episcopal Church of that city. per-.
formed the ceremony.
i UK commission of experts appointed
by the court to examine into the ques
tion ot the sanity of .lames M. Dougherty, who imagines that Mary Anderson is in love with him, and who shot and killed Dr. Lloyd at the Flatbush
(N. Y.) Insane Asylum last fall, reIKirted, on the 11th, that Dougherty Is a monomaniac, and is -as dangerous a lunatic as it ha ever lxen the lot of thecomtniskm to encounter." Dougherty will bo sent to the asylum for hisane criminals. JiASIi.lo Komero, a citizen of (lalisteo, N. M whs shot and killed, on the night of the Uth, in his Iwd-rooin by some unknown assassin. It is claimed by many that it is another political murder,. Homero having' been it strong Republican. A favokaw.k report has been ordered on the bill for the erection of a new custom-house in New York City, at a cost not to exceed $1,000,000. Thk Iowa Assembly of the Kniirhts
of Labor convened in annual session at
Ihm Moines on the Uth.
Wn.MAM Ma new Moktox. ex-Chief
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A mono the queer things which gc through the mails, one of the queerest was the shipment a few days ago of a little puppy from Lnporte to a lady in Mishawaka. It went through safely in a perforated box, and, strange to say, its presence was not suspected by the postal clerks and others through whose hands it passed. Ciiaxi.ks Mowxv, a farmer living near Columbus, was arrested and placed in jail on a charge of forgery. While being taken out for trial he attempted to escape, and was fatally shot by Sheriff Smith. William M. Hkatox, of Walcsuoro, was arrested near Seymour in his tent
on White river, the other afternoon, for
dynamite
using dynamite to kill fish in the biir
drift, a well-known and much freouent-
lustice of the Massachusetts Supreme "el fisl,in resort, was tried, coiwricted.
court, die! at Andover. on the loth. ""wu B,m ,u "ctauiioi iao nauwas
after a lingering illness. He was sev-
cnty-tvvo years old,
A scokk of lives were lost, on the
I'-'th, by the explosion of the boiler in the (hie bee (Can.! worsteds faetorv-.
For some cuuse. the maehinerv was not
startel that morning, and most of the
im employes had lieen dismissed and
hat departed for their homes.
c.KXKKAr. K. E. IIraoo, of Fonddu
Lac. Wis., has received oMK) from the
SL I'aid Hailrosl Company for injuries reeeivetl by .Mrs. Bragg in a railroad aechlent about Ave years ago. W. II. A HAMS, a former janitor, perpetrated a bokl robbery of the Citizens' Hank of Muinea-polis, Minn., on the lS!th, but was pursued, overtakes.
knocked down and jailed.
FlYK persons wertiserionslr some oi
them faintlyburned, at four o'clock on the morning of the 12th, at West La Fayette, Ind., by a terrific natural gas
explosion, which completely wrecked
taken to the county jail to lay it out,
Thk Lafayette Natural Gss Company drilled a well seven mile west of 'Tipton, and a huge vein of water was "struck at a depth of 1.0S0 feet The water spurted out of the pipe, reaching the top of the derrick, a height of fortyfive feet. During the cold wave a few days ago the water was froaen, completely enveloping the derrick, and
making a huge ice stalagmite. It was
festooned with fantastic ligiires, ami presented a moat gorgeous appearance. Tick body of Miss Wilson was buried nt Crawfonlsville a few days ago, it
navmg been fully demonstrated that
she was dead. A doctor opened several veins, and as no blood came out, he was positive that she. was dead. Yet the case has lieen a remarkable one, from the fact that she appeared to be asleep, and the muscles not rigid. A post mortem examination was made, and it was evident that she had lieen dead all the
the building in which it occurred, which, time, and her remarkable appearauoe together with an adjoining building, is what deceived the people, was destroyed by lire. Fakmkk Jas. McCorii, of Mnuaon.
LATE NEWS ITEM A
O.N the 11th, the First National and North Middlesex savings banks of Ayer, Mass., closed their doors, and ugly rumors are afloat conccrning-them. H. E. Spaulding, cashier of the National institution, is missing. The officers are reticent, but claim that the tanks arc all right An investigation is in progThk Supreme Court of New York, upon application of counsel for Matt Allen, the well-known horse-trainer, has granted an attachment against the
the property in that State of Senator'
George Hearst Allen is suing the Senator for 90..WS for services in training his running horses and commissions on winnings. It is estimated that during the past yoar damage aggregating 5,000 lias leen done to buildings in Ashland, Pa,, by the settling of the ground. Some of them have been wrecked so Imdly that they had to lie torn down and rebuilt The cause is supposed to 1 the removal of the pillars of coal in tins Tunnel colliery, which runs under the southern end of the town.
Sta.ni.KY, the African explorer, has decided to donate all gifts which ho lia received from the crowned heads of Europe ami other admirers to General Hooth of the Salvation Army, for the cause of relieving the poor of London. These gifts arc valcd at nearly 600,000. They consist of pearls of rare value, gold cups and kindred articles. A number of them were received from Queen Victoria. Thk Sioux Indiana visiting Washington were finally admitted to the presence of the "Orent Father," on the 12th, and listened to a short speech, delivered through an interpreter, in which the President gave them much good advice for their own guidance and kindly assurances that the Government would in future faithfully carry out its treaty agreements with the Indians and take meaMircs for their protection from the wiles of bad men. The delegation left for the West on the IStlt.
IIkkr IJckttk. a director of the Ma-
leburg railroad, in Germany, has lieen
nstmcted by the German Government
to proceed to the Cuitcd States in order
to make a careful study of and to draw
up a report upon the railroad systems
..t .i
in Linn uoiimry. Tint surplus in the Treasury is gradually creeping up, and at the end of business on the th was 980,000,000. As this
will lie required to meet pension payments the latter prt of this month and
uiu nrsv oi next monui no bonds, in
addition to those now being daily purchased (4!-per-eentK.), will lie boiiifht
A kka no km KXT8 have been effected at
Minneapolis, Minn., for a joint deliate
the last of March between Ignatius
imnneiiy ami Kpbert Ingei-soll Don
nelly to defend his cryptogram and ln-
gersoll to uphold the Shakespearean end of the controversy. In his annual report, made public on the 10th, State Examiner P.isbee, of Maine, gives the nutnlier of savings tanks in the State as 51. Total deposits JM7,7iil,lo, a gain of ,S04,(KK) during the year; the numlier of dejiositors is H0..VJ1, a gain of 8.80; reserve fund, Sl.JHl.lfW, a gain of $l'i,,4. Aggreifate reserves, &V0,W)1,M7; surplus, 085,OtH), The ten trust companies have deposits of WJa-si, and assets of Thk foreclosure sale of the Central Trust Company on the property of John E. lturton, the man who first got possession of the Gogsbie mines, and at one time owned &r,000,O0O of mining property, was held at Lake Geneva, Wis., on the 10th, and the property sold for 5138,1. Thk Alabama State Senate, on the 10th, passed a bill appropriating $30,000 to represent that State at the World's Fair. Thk corresjioiident of the London Chronicle at St Petersburg telegraph's that paper that the only effect of the memorial sent by the Guild Hall meeting to the Czar, asking him to extend protection to the persecuted .lews of Kussia, has been to redouble those persecutions. Mr. Stani.kv denies the story that he proposes giving away the many presents he has rece) ml from the crowned heads of Europe and others. ! Govuhnok IlVKti of the Chickasaw
Nation Is organizing the militia to eject all intruders. The tlovernment will assist. It is estimated that there af at least 10,000 intruders.,.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was reported and placed on the ealen Jar. The resolution authorizing the select committee on relations with Canada to continue its investigations during the recess was objected to and placed on the calendar, The Copyright bill wa then considered, amended and laid aside. The President's message announcing the death of Admiral Porter was received and the Senate soon after adjourned In the House the Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole and its consideration occupied nearly the entire day. It was then reported to the House and passed, after which the House, having received notice of Admiral Porter's death, adjourned. An examination of the contents of i Ixittlc found in the satchel of Secretary (!ilwn of the Whisky Trust, which was intended for use in the destruction of Schnfeldt's antitrust distillery in Chicago, .prove it to have been a literal liquid lire, which immediately ignited ujmjii coining in
contact with the atmosphere, and which, used as intended, would have caused the death of the agent and the more than one hundred employes of the establishment.
J. F. Fi.ktt, agent of the Northwest arn Elevator Company at Arthur, N.
I),, was found murdered in thehay-mow
of the elevator on the 18th, A bullet
hole in the lmck of his head showed that he had lieen shot from . behind.
The crime is supposed to have lieen committed by a man who is said tohave sold a load of stolen wheat to Flett the day lie fore.
Fhank Smith, the nineteen-year-old
train robWr who hold up a train in Ohio and robbed the Adams Express
car last Uetolier, confessed his crime and pleaded guilty at Trlmim, O., on
the 1.1th. . Smith has agreed to reveal the names of his accomplices, and his
sentence will be made lighter in consequence.
Admiral David D. Poktkk, who had
lieen in falling health for some years.
died suddenly, on the 13th, at his residence In Washington, of fatty degeneration of the heart.
Haoul, better known as "Diok"
Mandeltaum, of San Francisco, has
Med to Australia, leaving the liquor firm of Mandclbaum ft. Sns, 3M0L0OO
short
M. I)k Lkkskvn announce the Issue of sixty thousand three per cent delienture bonds for Suez canal improvewent at 490 pur KOO-franc shares.
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maui:,. ... jr.H iir a patent, rigiii to a washing machine, found it wouldn't wash, and hung himself. At Muncie Walter Lyncr. on a wager, swallowed seventeen raw eggs in thirty seconds. A LITTLR daughter of C. L. Fmhmadcr, of South Hend, was killed in a runaway. Tiikkk is a child at Waynetown who when two weeks old weighed only one; and a half pounds. John Allkn, of Lafayette, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary, the other day, for a theft committed only three days before. John Fkawlkv, the alleged leader of the mob that tried to lyneh George llennett at Lafayette, has been indicted for riotous conspiracy. Thk Vigo Agricultural Association of Torre Haute, has opened a new trotting stake, guaranteed to be worth $10,000. Thk heirs of the Fowler estate, val-
vcu at ,uw,wo, nave agreed on a settlement The widow had brought suit
ai, i.aiayciie.
Max Glaus, a jeweler of Indianapolis, whs arrested upon landing in "New York from Kurope, and JU.SOO worth of
jewelry taken from his pockets and
"seised." SKVMoirK is enthused over the discov
v.j ui mimm mippuacu to ue a very large and valuable deposit of anthracite coal in the hills six miles south of
that city. The nd,, will be Inv.
gated and developed. John T. Kaxkix, of Decatur County, a prominent farmer, made an assignment a few days ago. His liabilities are SS.OOO; assets $1,500. Mr. Itatikin was the Kt;publican candidate for Congress in the last campaign in the Third district against Judge Dolman. Fakmkk's Alliance met at Indianapolis and organized an Inter-State co-operative busincs committee. Ashkk Whktman, of Crawfonlsville, found twenty-one fine geese froaen into his Msh pond the other morning. JoiiXTnoMiwiNwas almost instantly killed the other afternoon, by Win. llunyan, at Huntertown, Allen County. They were examining Dtmyan's revolvcr, not knowing it was loaded, whea the trigger accidentally exploded it Thompson was a young man, unmarried. GkoR8K W. Kimoxdh, aged eyentyve years, fell from a inert of hay at Logansport and broke his neck. Ihwth Was instantaneous. TJiHOtMit the exertions of llishon Dwenger, of Ft Wayne, ,0M have beea collected In the Ft. Wayne Catholic Diocese and forwarded to 'the suffer leg poor of Ireland;
INDIANA LEOjaLATWRE. lNUN4tlHII4 Fed. 4. MVNATR -HlUS MUH e4t KalergUtg the pnvlloi of il law dettntiur arton, ai.d rcnblmr priiMltiee; autborfi iac cituie ami town to ley nut aud roualrurt publk' perk; preeeiitang the mode of Muoeting real wetate tu 'owue r two Inuuaad aud leu ior the raiei u of rase fer the iMipruvrtocnl of st iwU, The iui oh iat bill were m-oaiMMiaded fer paMNi: To encourage the brt-eding of IMCltif and troui&ir here; iiroridiug neeaiitce for lalee calrie. ete. ; to nmieet birds, their Mt and their en, providing for the dluoll lou of surplus fund avpropriatod for the eon ki ruction of free trrerel rtuuis; abolUhiue um oWee of SUte CHI Inspector and cwatlng iheofHou of State 8upr-itor of Oil Iue iion, Movtuc A Mil ww peeked reouiriait forei-a toeurance eumiianlee dolnv liueineM la Indiana to detKMit with Auditor of Slate not Uhs than fto.Owl in oaeh or eeruritiet, surh deioeiia lube kubj-ot to UtxtHn. Hills latroduoed; UwrivliMt the Merorter of the iturenie Court of his feet sad axing hie salary at H.IK4; irovidlnK for the taxation of all valuee of rorouralhinn in excess of their tangible property, Mr, MrC'dliough let rod u cod a iaiimrtant bill looking to the plMliiK of the benevolf nt and penal ieslhulloae of the State on a non-partitaa baele. Ixdianai'ouh, Feu. l-SsNATK-Seaater Hubbell latrodueed a bill la the KenaVe to Oejr giving women the right to vote, to be voted (r at Municipal eleollone: Senator Kreneh's usury and lalrt lull, makiag six pr eoet the legal rule and voiding all eoatraeu la exoeea, wu kilktdaftor a two hours' dlseuesioa; Seaaler MeOregor introduced a memorial from tbe tadlie tree manufi.eturrs ami employes of MmMson, aklng relief from the ruinous eoniMtiUoa
of convict labor at the Southern Prison.
Hoirsa.-IMIN passed: Prohibiting the aa-
peal to the Supreme Court of suite in which the amount involved is leee than fltiO: rvduelair the
charges of stenographers for Supreme Court
transcripts from ten to six eente tier hundred
words, and roviding that where litlgauta are too jKW to irny for such trBerip;a the same shall be paid out of the county treasury; providing fur changes ot venue In ocrtaln eases :
regulating the weighing of eoni. uniformity ot screens, non-employment of boys end females, and provldisg for the better protection of miners; rf pealing the statue that exemnts from
oily taxation tracts of live acres ami on r with
in the corporate limits of oities. alleged to be
used for farming purposes.
IS'liiANArOUS, Feb 0 Msatjl The Sea-
ate sent through the form of a session this
morning with scarce a handful of members, after the first hour had elapsed. Severs I visiting committees asked and were granted leave of ab-
scenee, and a number of members who wanted
to get home over Sunday were excused to catch outgoing tra ns. Senator -Vaeee's MIL nnra
priailng UC.fiP to reimburse the Superintendent of the Northern Insane Asylum for money expended, was the only measure passed. After
iiovsb-HUIs Introduced: To amend the act
regarding the incorporation of msntifBCturftig and mining companies so as to provide thst their stock shall be deemed personal estate, and that no sueh companies shall nurchnse
stock in any other company without t lit? written eeusent of all the stock-holders. Making It unlawful lo sell poisons, except upon the wri ten prescription of a physician or surgeon leeallv
authorized to practice. Amending the elections
nw y provitUng that in cases where perons
ean not read, or aw not able to prepare their ballot, tbeu they shall be lire na red br tho noli
chjvk, with the rest of the board and that any such officer falsifying a vote of this kind shall
no gut ty of felony and seat to State's nrisoa.
Providing for the employment of physkstiwis aed sergeoAs for township poor, anil granting
airou poor me nan i to soteot their own ohvl-
elans. Authorising county commissioners to make donations and receive subscriptions for the erection ot soldiers' monuments and menu nisi halt.
I.XUIA.NAPOMH. Feb. 7. Senate N'otln ms.
slon.
IIowk-Bills latroduoed: Providing for the
appointment of Indiana Commissioners for the
omra Flr, and appropriating J.O ,0UQ for the Indiana exhibit for such Fair; providing that savings banks shall only liwest their moneyID In U. S. stocks or ootids, (f) In Indiana stocks and bonds. ( In stocks and tonde of other States, that for tea years pest have regularly pnid the interest. W la mortgages o property la the eounty. (fti In pretulnm notes, to run not longer than twelve months ami adequately secured; providing lor disinfecting alt cars used in the transportation of live stock, and to prevent th.i spread of infectious diseeaes among such stock; providing for township school institutes at least once a month; providing Hint In cases where damages are recovered against coriwratlons for violations of the law of the State, they shall also Include attorney's Ijjiiaxapo.w. Feb. 9, Sckatk. Some Mm ago Senator Kolej Introduced a bill to ex. ten5 Ike provisions of the metropolitan police act to -iUes of .. The bill came up fer ond rea.tlng to-day. An amendment was offered to apply the metroiolitan police act Ih elites showing an enumeration of school child ran of
ever H.0OJ, Senator Shockney's amendment to make the number of school children 12,000 Instead of 11,0 JO was defeated. Senator Howard's amendmcat applying the bill to cUles or SO OM) was defeated. Senator Shockney'a amendmeni, providing that the question of applying the provisions of the bill may lie left to a vote of the people, was hIho defeated, and the bill Pi to engrossment. IIOL'Sk. The Mouse made a desperate effort to do something this morn In jr. but cdling of the rdt on the Kmployers UaLlllty bill showed bet fifty-seven members present. The Hneakar
dlreeted that the doors he locked and the absentees be gathered, bet thla failed of results, and an adjournment fo lowed until afternoon. Xlghty-three member reported at S it. m.. and
consideration of the Liability lit I was resumed. An amendment, making Its provisions apply to all classes of emp!oyer, aa well as corporatlees, was voted down after a heated struggle. So. also, were proposed recommitm-rsi t ttia
Judiciary Committee to pass upon Its legality. The Wit finally passed under a suspension of the rales in the ortginxl shape in which It had come from tepresenutlves of the labor organization. It makes alt corporations liable for inJanes sustained by employes, and Is aimed at
tne railways.
iMHANArOU, Feb. KI.-Skxatk-IIUI- I passed S AUtlmrirJng city councils and bin's
boards to pass and enforce ordlnunces for the abatement of nuisances; giving to the husband one-third of Die property of a deceased wjfe who dies Intestate, nil permitting, the liHsbumt to select his property ; iwovidf ii for the construetlon or work-houses In alt ei'les and incorporated tonn; prohibiting officers of banks or corporatlens from pxcrcislng the (unctions or no-tari'-s public In eases where suck banks or em, poratlons are Interested; aethorklng county commissioners to isue drainage bonds, which are to be a lien on the property affected: to en eeurage the breeding of trotting and paclmr horses. Iloustc.-ll Us passed: lrovWlaf that mllh-rs shall not charge more than one-eighth toll for grinding grain; providing penalties for dealing in margins, and to suppress bucket shops: authorlxing commissioners, or other officers or border counties tounlto with officorsot other States in tho Wmstruction of ditches and watr coiirscs; prohibiting railroad eompani from wllhholdmg any part of the wages of employes for tasHiance or other purposes; ligalizltig the acts or notaries public whose commlsslimshave expired; making It nnlawful to kilt dnck, quai! oreock between snnset or sunrise, or between April IS, and Feplember 1; also muKos it unlawful lor express eompeales te earry game out of the Slate.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL
xae mmusw CHMeal Vmm tu u miy Vohm ssf Mia Llfr l Ltrl rzjr" ats WAaiiNimiw, Feb. 14. Adntiud n. (l, IWter, win. haa " ft I W halth for aotstc vean. ... u ,
m.,mi hi rvalue,,: of fatty ilegMueratiou of tin luit ! r. Walea, the tiyaWttn attctidin. Admiral Porter, was huatily U. hk lMMlakk, bwt the LuS T itoml before h arrival. All of uH ber of th fa mil v u . ",r lu'Hi
tunc of hit death. No su-h..
have yet been uutde for Ui funeral Z they will 1 nrobably 1h ,Uml hS thmth mm atuldeiUy, it wah not UZ peetwl to the family.
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Ailutnutl Jhwid .1), iWtvf. fllavid DlxonU'orler was the son of Comies dore David 1'orler. V. K. N. lt,t W,H bru.
riiiiaifi)inia in .mac. JM3, entered the nav aa midshipman in tm, and Iwcame j. t enant In UMl, In the lirat eightei n v ar hla service he la accrtdlteil with ten yen. aea serA lo. in the Mediterranean, and the. n maliidcr of the time with duty iu tlii-ioa, survey and nt the nnval olwervutarv . nerved In the Xexlcnn war, and ilx'-n u t urn m to the coast survey. On the d.aeot cry of gold lit California he obtained Uw, from ti .vvy Department, and fortltm years coiiimaiuled a aiail steamer hit wvi .Vi w Vork and the Isthmus of I'aimum. afterward returned to tbu navy, ami n 1ft. iM-eaklag out of the civil war in ir,t was .,r doredto aopenede a poet (Uptjm in cm niaiid of the steam frigate I'oH hatan, wti.ci wan dbtiMtched to aid in the reerfori-eme of Fort I'lckenn, for the expedition again New Orleana In 13. Comniaudcr Porter or XHiiled ami coiiiinanded a mortar DotllU and In lmg he wan appobiteil at-ting Ker Admiral and aaalgnod to command the .M. alMlppI Htiuudroii, comprising in all 123 vc aels with iiwrt? than l.gtO officers. Korlil service in reducing Vickabura. he receiveaooiumliiloii aa Hear-Admiral, dated Jul4, 1WW. In the spring of mi he co iper.ml with Uencral hanks III the unsuccessful lte Klver expedition. In IH-Ull.er hownstran frrel from the Ml.wl-nlppl to the North At lantlc bloiikadlng squadron, and directed ti attack the defnnaes of WIlmlnKton, Hep peared before l'ort Fisher on OeceniherJ w-ith thirty. live regular cruiser, live iron clads, and a reserve of nineteen vcnstU The bouibarduifnt continued tbroug, th next day, and waa reesintd on 4w$.iTv t? la. by au Hiigmeiited naval forv", fn hep up until the evening of J the 1Mb, L th Hrlng was atopped and thn workn Xwr C;t rled by a tombinel body of soldier A and marines. Kear.AdwIralhirterwHx w
" 1 " HT3-,Hlimi SWy JO, lS, MIDI us eame uiMrinteiident ot tn Xnvnl Aodem at Annapolis; and on Uie 4eah of Farriiaxu he succeeded him as Admiral, hit soiumiU noa dating from August 1. Mm.; OMclat AMMounnuwieHt of the Wewlh nftk Hlwheet ONleer Ih the Xavy. AVashixhtost, Feb. 14.Tho follow ing order wms iaewetl by Secretary Trrcvi yeatenlay afternoon: AVV liKrARTMXXT, Vrb. Ii, IWI. The Secretary of the Xuvy has the painful dnty of announcing tu the 'vy of the country the denth of the highest uttieur iu the service. David Dixon I'orter, Ad iiiirul of the navy, died at Washington at a narter-pat ela!rt o'clock thla morning. In the seventy eighth year of bin age. Sixty years of Admiral rortert, life wa actively devoted to th ncrvlce of his country. The record of liin deelH forms oho of the brlhtet pages of its hletory. Ills achievements while In command uf the mortar flotilla nt the attack on the Xew OrleaiiH forts; f the ,M1I.-Ippi squadron at the fall of Viekahurg. and of 'the North Atlaiillc nquadron at Hie capture oi Fort Fisher, hiive given him a place among the foiemwt of the world' naval commandera. Hi dies lamcnteil by the WMolecoun try aud Ilia memory will forever h( i-her-Inhed and held in honor by Ihe nervlce. On the dny of the futtcr.il the Navy Department will he closed, the Hag wjll be dl. played at hair-ninet at all navy-yards rtml stations, and on board all hlp in comml"nion, and nevonteeii iMbiule-giinn will 1k II red at noon from each navy-yard. The Navy Department will ho draped, nt all of Heern of the navy and Marbie Corp will wear the badge of mourning fur tidru day CORRUPTION FUN D.
The CaMHtllHH rn riles ftpttinr Tor el tier
tb Hi news of War for the ffomlng Camtmlgn. Montukai., Can., Feb. 1-1. A millionaire miller lias further atigtueittcd the MaiiMfactnnuV A)otdatum election fund by a chuck for f3,WMI. .Many other National pultjiy maiiufactnrers have aitbacrilied nil the way frt-Mii .1,000 U smotM). It i said tlmt thu CanuiHun I'auilic ItailrtHMl Comtmny hast and that thciiuml now reaches aland KK),(KK). Why it should be ncccssnry to sjK'iid snch aiuna of money i ortler to carry the election for the Dominion Government k not clear if protection and the National tKitkiy are, aa declared by Sir John MacDntiald, ttellevcd in and attpportud hy the farm' crs aa well as the matmfactiircrK Premier Mereier hat lKirrowetl a, niillhH and a half to aid the Mtorals,, wi thitt comijition will Imj rampant until lifter the elections. Mr. larnelTart, the editor of Let'nndien, one of the moat otalnent French writers, anil a lifc-lonfr fimrvntive, haa definitely abantl(M2 hk mviy. awl will run an a Liberal oaadhlnto for Montmoiviicy.
A Mall Kobbery Keveeteal . ay Hie riadlng or Kilted sWtt&ets, Cf.iiVKt.ANH. O., VMt, i4.-A special
from Fostoria, 0., mam A large ""
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Thk wall on otic side of onu of the Diamond Match Company's, la rjfe build inics, at Wabaah, fell outward the other day without a moment's warnimr. 1i.mv.
;5 ." , tVY!,t ft'ut ,wn Hn4 Intr of rlrlml lettem wire dit?orcrv two htories hijfh. .Several tliotnmnd l,nf the Haltimore Ohio roail yc--
imuiiun tu impcr puip waa mined, ao Uvea were lout, but several people very narrowly cleaned. The fall wttwnb.
Hbly eaMned by uneven settlinir of th
foundation.
Thk Kokomo Hoard of Tratlehaa been
reorganised, and is prepared to offer hi lartHoementa for the location of fmin
rkiH. Sites and free pta are open for all
avOtta lSc
IhiiIuv moriiliiir. Hboui. a mtb out of
town. The letter jMH jamtmnrkcil Delaware, and were ifrr Chlcnfr ttml jMilntuweat. The ponel k stippom.il to liave Iwen atolen sit ChhmM ,1 unction. A lot of letters were ab-o found In an
cinntv Ikjx ear. where ther hiwl cy
neatly lieen exuaaJwed
The (Sovernmewl
Hr
lli,. thieves.
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