Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 March 1893 — Page 2
"WEEKLY COUIilER.
C. DOAJXK, Puhltnlior. JASPER. . . - INDIANA.
Lot? an Cakmslk, son of the ex-senator, will lie his father's chief clerk in the treasury department Tun Mehring sen tribunal ot arbitration met at Paris, on the2.1d. in accord
nncewith tlio terms of the treaty, and adjourned until March 28. Ca it. Jamks C. Ci'.AwrouD and his son William, aged 17, were run down and instantly killed while crossing the track of the Ohio Southern railroad at Fruitdale, 0., on the 20th.
CURRENT TOPTDS K.T.i,u-xi,,n,iHnn.lcMrcsXaac V UJ.lJ.lrlJ.Ll J. 1WI 1jO. on the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne .t Chi-
i caguroad, was wrecked two miles east of Columbia City, link, on the 22d. by a broken rail. Kive persons were kill.l ami several wer- dangerously injured. Tin: commute of arrangements for ; the reception to be tendered ex-lYest-dent Harrison on his return to Indianapolis, Ind., has decided, in deference
THE NEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-SECOND' CONGRESS. In the senate on tho lth, live or six hour were consumed in the debate on the 3 per cent U-w amendment to the sundry civil approprla-
Tun Kansas state senate adopted a resolution, on the 23d, declaring that the supreme court had no jurisdiction in the house muddle, and tli.T..f.ir..
.in. rnerman amendment a airreed to and the bill went m-,. wlis.mt i..i
action in the house consideration of the 1 tw "''piests from the president, to make Iw oce appropriation rM progressed quietlv , the affair as informal as possible, until the item of fiM.ou for special facilities on , Tin: directors of the (Sate Cite nnthe trunk lines from Springfield. Man. to N'evr ' t!on, !.,,,UI-U na' Orleans was reached, and the debate on thU i naI V . of Atm,,ta 'a" ' anItem was Interrupted, the houc proceeding to 1 nol,nml that Assistant Cashier Lewis pay tribute of respect to the memory of Kepre-, Redwine is a defaulter. cThe amount is TvUr Jh.n Warw,rtt- ot 0hl I sahl to l t the capital of the ins the limit of cost of public fculldlmrs "ere In Southern express on the IVnnadopted. The sundry civil annronriattons i.m ! K.vlvatiia road which left Uroad-street
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
and agricultural appropriation bills were called up under suspension of the rules and rvis-ed.
ght to decide as to the legality of the Kentucky. Mr. Carlisle's successor, took the
u men iaen up and occupied the remainder station, in Philadelphia, at 10:20 a. in. the deposition of some nrlvate hiiu oJ A, ! 11 y vania) accommodation tnii n
rival houses.
Tin: second trial, at Denver, Col., of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves for the alleged murder ofMrs. Harnaby, has been .set for May 22. .Meanwhile the nrisnntr
will remain in jail, having refused all th s-"ion continued far Into the night, no .v.. .:, I action was taken.
ujib ami enierea upon his duties The sundry civil appropriation bill kein under ronstdcration. tfO.OU in addition to the tl.KW.uw already provided for vezi appropriated for the site of the New York custon house . In the house most of the dav wn wastpii In Ulfs.....-.
Ins aralnt the car-coupler bill, and although
near South-street station. West Thihi
delphia. Three cars of the nccommodatitm train were wrecked. Four per-
IA" the senate, on the M Wmhin.-tnt,-. vs.,-.
eil Address was read tiv Pm-Iilt nt I'm tv
Manderson. Consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was concluded, after which the conference report oa the arniv appropriation bill was airreed to and ihprnnwni.i..,n,i
diplomatic Mil was taken up .in the hou-e the post offlce bill was passed, and the Indian
appropriation bill was taken under consideration and dicu-.-,ed languidly for three hours.
i.s the senate, on the 23d. rood
, made ia d!poinp or the nvesary work of the
cütoa. The diplomatic anil consular ana the TTllltftpf . f t . . ...
- vaut-Mij apimpriaixon mm were
philus Davies. wife and daughter, and ii nt Zf?'s!fA'
by Miss hartoft. (i was taken under consideration in ,..
houae consideration of ih- imiin n
Ox the 2:kl the president sent in the tlon MH W""JS re-umed.
name of Kenton Hanehett, of .Michigan, to be United States circuit judge
lor tue sixth judicial circuit, to .succeed The Reading railroad interests were.
.lucK.son, recently appotnte.1 to on the 20th, as the result of a suit bv
Depitv Zkrkm. whose name had Inren prominently connected with the
bank of Rome scandal, died on the 20th.
llts death excites surprise similar to that caused in France by the death of
liarou Kemach.
1 UK Princess Kaiulani, heiress to the
throne of Hawaii, sailed from England for New York on the steamer Teutonic.
on the 22d, accompanied bv Mr. 1!ieo-
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
the supreme bench.
Mr. Taktk caused a stir in the Canadian parliament, on the 23d. by stating that two-thirds of the comities of Quebec would declare in favor of political union with the United States if the vote was taken now.
The election of William X. Hoach, democrat, to be United States senator from North Dakota, definitely fixes the control of the next senate in democratic hands, and completes the November victory of the democracy. Ox the day of the death of Gen. II. F. Ihitlcr, Gen. I tea u regard, who died in New Orleans, on the 20th, when the
news was communicated to him.
marked: "Another of us has soon none of us will be left"
re-
gone:
J. J. Owkx.s, a well-known scientist of LewUburg, Pa., died recently of
yellow fever m Honduras while making
excavations ior Harvard university and collecting exhibits for the archaeologi
cal display at the World's fair.
I.vvitations to a reception to meet the vice-president-elect and Mrs. Stevenson on Wednesday evening, March . have Wen issued by Vice-President and rs. Morton. The vice-president-elect will arrive in Washington on the 2Sth. The Farmers bank of Harrisburg, Pa., closed its doors, on the 20th, pending an investigation by the state banking superintendent It is expected that the depositors will be paid in full, bnt the stockholders may lose 40 per cent of their stock.
the third mortgage bondholders, represented by ex-Senator IMatt nlaced in
the hands of receivers. Chief-Justice Paxson of Pennsylvania. President McLcod of the corporation, and Elisha P. Wilbur, president of the Lehigh Vallev Railroad Co.. are the receivers.
Joseph ItEjrso.v. employed as hooker
on at the Kankin wireworks in Pitts
burgh, Pa., was working near a set of
rolls, on the. lsth, when a red-hot bar
of iron, half an inch in thickness. Hew
mit and struck him under the left car.
It passed entirely through his neck
protruding several feet on the opposite
sine a fellow workman succeeded in
pulling the bar out after Itenson had
sunic to the ground unconscious, but
physicians pronounced the injnrv fatal
I hi: government of the republic of
UMointua lias granted a temporary ex ...... i, . .
"" me i anama canal conces
sion. The extension is until March A.
O.v the 22d. the whisky trust invest!-
gaiion, wnicn nad oeen delayed several
days owing to the absence of witnesses from Washington, was resumed.
Jose .M. Rasson, Mexican minister to
dapan, died at San Francisco, on tin
.......I.. . t . uii.i.iii.t il, on me direction of the attorney-general United States, entered a nolle pr
O.v the 22d Mr. Cleveland officially announced the completion of his cabinet by the appointment and acceptance of Mr. Hillary A. Herbert, of Alabama, as secretary of the navy, and Richard cOIney, of Massachusetts, as attorney-general.
Roi.i.n RoniNws, of Palmyra, Mich., died at Adrian.Mich.. on the 20th. aged SX When a loy he worked in the Wnvne SentinJ ofliee at Palmyra. X, Y änd assisted in printing the first edition of the 'Hook of Mormon," or gold lliblc for Prophet Joseph Smith. Tub funeral of Gen. I leau regard, which took place in New Orleans, on the 2nd, was one of the largest and
most imKsing ever -witnessed in that city. Itusiness was suspended, and the leading representatives from all walks of life were seen in the cortege.
Ministeii Lincoln- presented William Waldorf Astor and Lieutenant-Commander Wm. S. Co wies, the recently-:
appointed naval attache at the American legation in London, to the prince of Wales at the levee held at St. James' palace, on the 20th, by the prince It 5 confidently asserted that Presl.1 1 A St t . . .
ucui-i-icct i'ievciann lias decided not to
make the lute House his private res!-
oence tuning his official term, but will lease a private residence. He is negoti
ating for the old Admiral Porter residence, which has been closed since the
ticatii ol the admiral.
19th. from dropsy.
The czarowiu telegraphed his congratulations to the pope on the occasion of the pontiirs jubilee. The National Wall Paper Co.s factory in New York, consisting of six floors, packed with stock, was burned to the ground on the 'iOth. Loss on stock estimated at 1150.000: on lmihi.
ing f.0,000.. W. N. Roach, a democrat, of Grand l1. .MM.' 1 . - 1 T . , ...
..i rivcicu unncu states senator from North Dakota, on the sixtyfirst ballot, on the 20th. Roach was the regular caucus nominee as per pngramme, and all the democrats and populists went to him. Owino to the failure of the cortes to approve the financial schemes of the ministry, the Portuguese cabinet resigned on the 20th. A.v explosion in the Skalis mine, in Styria, on the 21st, caused the death of fifteen miners and more or less serious injury to twenty others. The value of the gold product from the mines of the United States for 1S02 was approximately f:5.000.000, alnnit corresponding to the average product
ui receiu years.
Mit Ci.kvm.an will ride to his inaugural in President Harrison's carriage, as the latter diJ in his (Cleveland's) four years ago. The result of the conference in the cabinet meeting on the 21st Is stated on good authority to have been a decision not to issue any bonds at this time. O.v the 21st George II. Jenks f Itrookville, Pa., was offered and accepted the appointment of attorneygeneral in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet Gov. McKjni.ev is said to Im on Walker's paper to the amount of 5S.-,,. 000 to f 100.000. A friend in New York telegraphed the governor on the 21st: "Draw on me to any amount up to i2.'.0,0OO. Do not hesitate to accept this offer. I make k in good faith and will
be glad to help you.
sons were killed and a dozen injured. The family of F. V. Rockafellow,
wnose private bank at Wilkesbarre, Pa., failed recently, will, if any more suits are instituted, make an effort to have a commission in lunacy appointed to adjudge him insanc.I)r. Crawford, his physician, stands rewly to swear lie is insane. While Judge Carll was trying a liquor-license violation case at Itridgewater. Nova Scotia, on the 22d. two constables from Luenbiirg entered the courthouse with a warrant for Judge, Carll's arrest on a charge of forgerv eoinmittcd in ls$H. The judge fainted when the papers were produced.
At 4 o'clock on the morning of the 22d an armed man went into the waiting room of the Santa Fe depot at lola. Kas. Walking up to the ticket agent's window, he smished in the glass and said to the night operator.
Win. I-, Tyler: "Throw up your hands." The operator, who was at his instrument, jumped for a revolver, got the drop on the man and shot him in the head, indicting a mortal wound. Uxitup States DisTitirr Attohnev IIeuko.v at Cincinnati, on the 22.1. In-
of the
rosea til
io me indictment against K. II. Horner, banker of New York, which was found by the United States grand jury
.ipru jssy. Me was cjlarfre,i w,tJ, violating the anti-lottery law by selling European premium 'bonds on the lottery plan. Dil J. W. Ovekto.v. dean of Drake
university medical department; John W. Shafer. of the United States signal office: John K. Sloan, son of Liveryman Sloan, and J. W. Martin and W. E. Iturris, laborers, were caught in Woodlawn cemetery, at Des Moines, la., early on the morning of the 23d, wiJi the corps of William Casein their
possession, and were arrested.
Reoattas, balls, pyrotechnic dis
plays trades parados and numerous other attractions are beinir nrrnnm!
for at Norfolk, Va., in honor of pro
posed naval display by ships of war from all nations to take place in Hamp
ton Roads in April and May.
iHE llaytian revolutionary party is
taking advantage of the Hawaiian "an
nexation proceedings now going on at Washington to urge the people of the
black republic to arise and overthrow President Hippolyte.
1 he governor of New Jersey has ve
toed the nice-track bill, which passed the legislature on the 22d.
UlM.IAM IL A.NKEX.NV. the well-
known linseed oil maniif.-u-tiirnt- i
De.s Moines, la., dropped dead in thai
city on the 23d.
J unfit: James S. Fiiaeu died at his home in Warsaw, the other evening, of pneumonia, aged sixty-nine years, .ludge l'razer was the best known jurist in Indiana, and his decisions made upon the supreme bench gained for him
a national reputation.
A pirruu'i.TV occurred near Nash
ville, lirown county, the other after
noon, in which Douglass Moore shot
Wm. Moore. The wound is said to be
mortal.
Arm-sTis Kieheck, do, a well-to-do rural resident of Lafayette, committed suicide in the city jail because of a few
hours' dissipation ami tiie loss of cT. .vhieh was stolen from him in a saloon.
At Mt. Mendau. tottth of Greencas-
tle, the other morning, before daylight, Hurst liros." general store was robbed by burglars. Their safe was blown open and f ICO in silver and six elegant
gold watches were stolen. A reward of Sioa is oirered for the arrest of the parties. (SHAN'T Rva.v, an Anderson merchant, disappeared recently, taking with him fli.OUO. M.000 of which was secured on a farm and j:,000 on forged notes. Ho went to Kansas City, and was arrested a few days ago. lie made a clean breast of his transactions. Miss I'an.me Eiwaiii. aged U. died at Martinsville. She was one of the most successful evangelists in Indiana. Her home was in Jctfcrsonville. Much surprise was caused at Huntington by the announcement of the remarriage of .Mr. and Mrs. Chas. II. Immell. Three weeks ago before Mrs. 1m-
mell, was granted a divorce upon grounds of abuse. In a few days a new courtship was begun winch resulted in the second wedding. At Columbus, while re.sistii.,' arrest for intoxication, Henry Schoonover. a contractor, seriously cut Policeman R tictree in the throat. The officer fired at his I
man, but missed him ami struck a bv Stander in the hip.
While a colored man named Johnson was dancing in a saloon, at Rrazil. a
revolver fell from his pocket, exploded and killed Joe Smith, also colored The foundryinen at Evansville have united under the name of Manufacturers" Union, and have locked out the
movers, wno struck .'everal times before. Hexiiv Schponovei:. who cut Policeman Hücker who was attempting to arrest him. has deeded to the ol'ieer a houe and lot f Finn destroyed the big handle factory of Surpless, Dunn A Ca, at Lafuvette. Loss, $2.-,.000; fully insured The body of an unknown man. evidently murdered, was found on the highway near Greenfield Owen- P. Sc.un r. o' Madison Citv
has been appointed ginoacimcnt gaugcr and assigned to duty a. Hntrmniid.
C. & Ci
service
torrixoi.'AK, after fifteen years'
as assistant postmaster nt K'n.
komo, has resigned. M. S. Hol.nan takes his place. During the funeral of Joscp'i Weaver, at the Christian church in Noblcsv.Sle, the bu:!d?rifr w-.s discovered to le on fire, and the alarm came nea- causing a panic. The fire department w.-s called out and the fire was extinguished without material loss. . . ....
mfciiunave been introduced in the
Indiana legislature up to Februarv tn :i
total of S. bills and less than fifty of a,Blcs" indescribable turmoil and confusion.
INDIANA LEGISLATURE.
lMt!.N.U!l.H, KeU Id SlNATK-TllO SCBr.te t .wesday enitrosMsl the bill luiorimrailtiR lain. riii and safety dejio-dt companies mid cn.vl!tur them toae. as trusteet of the estates of deuuseu ir-ottH and r..i (;u;irdl:ms of perer. of ucxi'uml 'ml. etc. The xenute also Km u appruvm: action on the Mil giving minority parties d:e rurht of lepresentatloii iu election boards, l';sii prniul wa had in the senate of ilic Jadietal upivr.l.mruent bill, and It muh referred loa rdtituittteeouurganlzatltinof tourtH. to report at an early date. The bill amending the Kangaroo election .ttC o us to provide for the preservation of uncouatcd ballots was UrfiT.teil-2.lu2l. HofsE -The genetal appropriation bill was introduced to ilie house bv the way.s and means committee, and was made by Meeial order for Friday at 2 p in. Serious reductloiM were mudo all along ihn lln. The seiute bill providing for elections tut once everv four years in clttes and ton us and inaVine present ofllcer holding over till IsW äs encnis-ed. The house culled up the majority and minority report of the committee on the b.ll tipjiropriating IMI.0CO in aid of the National i'iicaiti(.iurnt, G. A. It., an t the majority repjrt recomm'ndin'; an iud'i nite iKttsuf rnent. va approved'liy a vote of M to IS. a bill has passed ihe house, however empowering the eilv eouneil to levy a special tax of ;7.',X) in aid of the proposed encampment. 1 ho bill creating tu office of boiler Inpector arid i-allinf fur the insitectlon of all steam boiler in tie state pussed. Indiana rous. KeU 17 Sknatk. The llrat step tow aril raving a hole in Ihe general appropriation hill. reirted In Ihe house Wcndcsday. was taken up '1 hurday. vvhea the renale passed a bill nprropriattm: SS.n0 lor the Indiana exhibit at t e World's Fair. The general bill contained aw Hera of (.,IM). The bill came liefere the senate with three reI oris recommending nn appropriation of tloO..
lOJ. another ruvnuncntiiug iCS.W, and another
recommending tw.tXU '1 he first report, bclnc
voted upon, was not adopted. The second re
port was adopfed. and. under usptti8 on of the
rules, tne Mil was putd.
Ilorsi: Senator Mcllugh's bill oxtentMtur the
t'Tins ot all i lly onleers to four year, passed tnd now awaits the governor signature. The natural ga bill was Ordered to engrosi mcnt Thursday, after It had been shorn of Its incst objectionable feature The elntue legalizing meter measurement via strickt u out, a was also that authorizing gas companies to shut nil whole districts unli -. it was tlrst proven Um th supply of gas is Inadequate. The majorin- report of the special commtttee appointed to iavesMsat' tho Hcbv race
track, prcsrnttst Tliumday. was to the effect that existing ;avv are sufficient to meet the cases if they are enforced, and the repjrt w as Adopted. l.MiiANAPOMs. Fell. lA-Sr.KATn-The Jjenate had an anlmatcl time Friday morning over the house bill extending th saloon closing law from II o'clock p. ra. to midnight In this city
uu r.iunsi.ue. itero were majoritv and minority reports. Oa a motion to substitute the minority report, which oppoicd ar.v change, fully twenty senators voted affirmatively, while but ihree or four voted no These three or four shouted with the lull vigor of lung power and tt.- president of ihe senate ruled In ihe.r favor. lntantly there was a row with the .liveli
est kind of nrolestlne niralnit hr riillnt. tmi
the chairman claiminl to have erred Iniinc-ntH-.
Senator lioord introduceil a bill to prevent the manufacture and sale of "hoop-skirts" In the
state. The penalty for vlolatl 111? the hur wn
tljed at a maximum of tl.ou) rine with thirtv
davs" imprisonment
HOCKK The house took another whack .it tho
bill wlplncout the I'ewnvlvania fentraHnsur.
ance buvne. and It undid the work of Thursday by which the question of insuring w.th the
coiniuny wns lett optional with the employe. This 1 ihe second time the blil has been reconsidered, euch time with different results. Th co-emp!ores liability bill was passed by tho house. Ot to 17. wlthoat dbu-usiion. Conlderatios of the rrnrral appropriations has gone over until Slon tay. lNOiANAPoi.ts. Felt.21. The scenes enacted la the houo Monday afternoon while tho governor' patronage till was under discussion exceeded anything that ha occurred thus far this
t-casou. l no .McLean bill, which restores the appointing power and which is rcadvforengrommcat. was handed down the last thing before adjournment. The fact was like the explcslon a bomb in the democratic camp. A score of democrat were on their feet Instantly demanding recognition. The feöuc, durinir the debate, was at times in
d. W.
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who
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was aUcmpn-d vesKipley, ii it old ,',
novas ndoubtetll.yinsa,,,.,.,,,,!;: , "f or attempting Mr. MnetaVsnÄ ation ttlvned the weapon , ., fif.. inflicted a mortal won
Shortly after llOOll t ivn
it . .
i in-ill no out man.
Miw. J. Cit.T.MA.v Adams, of Newbury Park, .Mass., who was badly burned a
Jim tnuett states flag was formally , , . . to a raised over the steamer New York M norc la,ntl '"'"P'j ucccssful surgical
Jd. The
oi tne Intnan line, on the
ceremony was jicrformcd by President Harrison amid the booming of cannon from war ships and forts in New York harbor. The vessel will henceforth boast American registry. Tiik product of American silver in lfcfci is placed by the director of the mint at 58,000.000 ounces, of the commercial value, at the average price of silver during the year, of 170.750.000, and the coining value in silver dollars of f 7t,9S'J,Do0. This in a falling off of 330.000 ounces from the product of the preceding year. Ilr.PHF.SK.VTATivr.w of the various foreign governments in Washington have received from the managers of the Chicago World's fair a request to severally select some day in the course of the exposition which shall be recognized as the especial day of the nation from which he comes, and for which approifrkl Brmwe will to arranged.
operation, ine wound was so lai-.ro
that it was impossible to obtain human skin for the purpose of grafting, so the skins of frogs were used. Nearly S00 grafts were put on. The frogs 'were chloroformed before the skin was taken from them. Wim.: V, Lorillard's steam yacht wns towing his house boat, Farmen, down the St. liticias river, in i'lorida, on the 21st. for supplies it caught fire from a taiirf of naphtha on Umrd and was burned. The house loat was saved by the ue of a long tow-line. Tin: president lias issued a proclamation revoking the lolls levied on S.
dmn ve.vsels and cargoes in the S.mlt Me. M.lrie canal, in consequence of the Dominion government adopting an order In council removing the discritniii?tion against American vessels passing through the Canadian canals. Tiik Indiana commandery of the Loyal Legion held a memorial mcctinr in Indianapolis, on the 21, in honor of the late ei-Prenident Heye.
LATE NEWS ITEMS. I.v the senate, on the -'4th, the legislative appropriation bill being under eonskleration, the debate turned on the continuance in eA-istence of the Ttah commission, as recommended by the senate committee on appropriations, or
its abolishment, as proposed by tho house. The question was decided in favor of continuing the commission In the' house the nnti-optiou bill was
again crowded out, tho Indian appropriation bill being taken up and considered, but without final disposition. The .sundry civil appropriations bill was referred to committee of the whole. That Lieut. Peary will undertake another expedition to the Arctic regions, this time under the auspices of the'tleogniphical club of Philadelphia, is almost assured. The legislative committee of the club has considered the proposition of Lieut. IVary favorably, but the final decision w'ill not be made for some time.
th
seven
for
ada
with a total of 234 the previous week.
i or tne corresponding week of last year the figures were 270. Tiik headquarters of the sovereign grand lodge I. ). (). l have Iwen transferred from Columbus. 0., to Ilaltimore, .Mil. Temporary tniarters have 1u.mi
tlw.... . i ... .
Uv.n; iiiuu uwn enacicu into laws.
A mail pouch thrown off at Orlear.c
was cut open and robbed. Tn- t.-;..i.v; ,. .
. oisiens, evangelists, are doing good work in the vicinity of West
rorK. Tiik people of Dublin arc up in arma
uuoui tne starting of a saloon there.
Tiik Indiana house of representatives passed a bill taxing the receipts of for
eign uutlditig and loan associations.
.uo subjecting them to inspection arid requiring them to deposit KiO.000 with the auditor to protect local shareholders. Tiik new city directory will give Mnn-
cie a population of 15,T0:J. The census report of '0 gave Muncie .",211. In ''J!)
the population was 11.34.",: eighteen
months ago the Emerson directory jK-tv
The previous question on the motion to engross
s tinauy ocraanueu anu trio bill was ordered caioscd bv a vote oi .VI to Ä The nn'i-.Matthew democrats caucused immediately after adjournment and resolved to continue the right. The most Important bill introduced Monday was by Representative Ilarnex. to change the method of electing presidential elector HI bill H lanterned after the Miner law of Michigan. It pro-
luiÄ iiBHi-Bcn congressional district, n now constituted or ns constituted hereafter, shall elect a presidential elector, and that two elect
um .iimi w eiecieu by the state at large Th '
um 1 reierreu to Ihe committee
ciary.
on Judl-
Tiik jury in the case of tho state against John Donovan, who, a month ago, asviu'ted and brutally beat Fisher I-'erry, city editor of the Wabash Times, who had "written him tin." the ntlior
night rendered a verdict of ruiltv. and
t .Ti,ani0ok thU frave t,,e viiy lined '0nvan 55., and cosLs amounting
about 14,00X Tiie growth is wonderful.
auiiA.s. is a Don i to oegin a bank. At a meeting held recently to inaugurate
enterprise ninety-one shares of
th
.mock were subscribed. Milan is a vil
tage ot öto to 403 inhabitants. There
are hanks at ersaiUes, Osgood and
i.aicsviue, in tiie same county. Tin ..r t:..i. ...
-... nM gi .imum.si Kooinsoti was
lotiml in a gravel pit poad at Anderson.
ouicitie. John P. .lon.vso.v and A. S. HtiL-hrs
to iuu. .itulge t'owgill increased the bontl to .?I.",0, and, in default, Donovan went to jail, .lohn Ivory, who assisto.l
in whipping the editor, got f JO and costs.
Miss Catiii:i:i.m: Ovi.ku. of h'ol imnn.
is the owner of what is probably tb.
outest wooden clock in tin. Pnit..,!
States, It has been in the possession
of her family for several generations. i-t... ..i i ... - . , .
hu Kiucu was ocqueainen to Mrs. C)vler by her father. John Woodring, of
i retilc county, Ohio, who died a short
lilei . one nf
II I'l l! Wilitll
ti....,....t. tit .. ' HiKin
m i , iU(-V' U l)ass:'W 'l.roug tl Lick house from .stter t ., ' streets. Those who noticed the YS paid no particular attento them umil suddenly tw., shots in ritpitl Mieeession were fired and tho man who had fired them, the elder, was mv to fall near the end of the alley 1 he other, who seemed to l,e wounded U'ml n ......... 1. t .
...., uiit-c uuipeti into a lmggy and driven rapidly away, while the other lay bleeding nnd unconscious on the street. An immense crowd at once assembled and the police soon arrived 'Hie patrol wagon was called and thu wounded man was hurried to the receiving hospital, where the doctor found thnt tho bullet had penetrated above the heart and passed through to the bade under the skin, when-c it was extracted. At the time of the operation the man was unconscious jUi pulseless. The wound was pronounced fatal. There was little on tin dving man's person to indicate v.'hne aC Ho had in his pocket a letter addressed to a morning paper in uh,eh fie writer stated that he was 7:1 years of age and signed W. C. Ripley. There was also founti'upt.n 5, envelope bearing the name of l)r Lincoln. On the back of theenv were the words, "tho end is m t I'pon a sheet of p -per umler toe ing "Food for Itelleelion," were wortldi "raid hundred lift I i dollars rr one sapphire to p' i i forehead nsisvifc, a Miflie.ent am to have saved aJciist ."00 of his vifrom suicidal graveftv ''t think Inscribe it upon Ids torh." When .Mr. .Mack av röaefhi his r at the hotel he removed his auents ...III r "
it,.,IL ussistanco and awaited fTVH
physician. Dr. ICeiiny and Dr John lO
.t.orse arnve.1 about the same time. After a brief examination they stated that the wound was not fatal. Tiie bullet had entered under the right shoulder blade, and glanced toward the right. It was suggested that the physicians should delay probimfor tiie bullet until .Mr. .Mackay became more composed, but the wounded man insisted that the operation should be proceeded with immediately. Soon after 2 o'clock the physicians extracted the bullet. Dr. Morse said that the wound was not necessarily fatal, but that his patient was by no
.ins out ot uanger. He added that in case of gunshot wounds there was always fear of blood poisoning or lockjaw. When closely questioned Dr. .Mtir.se said that It was too soon after extraction to foretell the termination of the wound, but that Mr. Mackay was resting quietly. Shortly before i; o'clock Dr. August A. Drossel called at the receiving hospital and fully identified tliting man as W. C, Kipley. He siud: "I know Ripley very well. He used to come to my place every day to read the papers before he went down town. He did not come in this morning as usual, and he seemed very Hindi distresseu over something as he passet!, about . o'clock. He was Wn in Cincinnati, and leaves a wife a:nlfamily there. At one time he was wo til over flOO.000, and made about f.i.0'J() out ot the Comstook. He came to San Francisco and lM.'gan gambling in stocks. His money soon began to go. and then he opened a cash irrnoerv stm-v Tin
venture failed, and about four years ago he was running a bar anil diningroom on a steamer which plied between San Frane'sco and .Stockton. The .aa.ii'n Identity. Dnxyr.is, Col.. Feb. 2.,. W. ('. Ripley, the assailant of Mr. .Mackay wnsweflknovvn in tins city in the 'TO's. In IST." he was proprietor of the Treinont house. Later he was in tiie commission business, and" was also a stockholder, in the Kxchangc bank which failed in ISS0. He had considerable property whUc here and engaged in speculation n good deal. He lost considerable money, but was supposed to have sonic when ho
went away. He stoo well in !hu cohi-
i
Jin: business failures occurring p., , , , -v a t:,Ty m-' a?o. aged ninety-three. The clock '"nnity, and nsule from his tendencies roughout the country during the , J.1" ",ars"r1 io1' violation uf is of F.nglish manufacture, of the stylo to speculation was looked upon as a rc-
en tlays ended on the 24th. number, ' . ''" -cente laws. known as the "wall sweeper." made by Uabl(5 business man. the United States 1JW. and for Can- . .l",'KK.N,.iT...' upon a charge Reed .t Ward in the year 1711. Tl. iVTiTiTiT 7- TTT . .
. -TT; or a total of 2.10. as compared ?' a.ssailt...g John rndcrhili in the case is of English black walnut. .l nil nü"mßLC UCA
secured, but a handsome fireproof building will shortly be erected near Odd Fellows ull. Poiitkr I.. K. Smith, paying teller of the First National bank" of Wllmin..
ton. Del., who confessed to the defalcation of $.V,,00. waived a hearing in the United States court at Wilmington, on the 24th, and was held under 120.000 bail. ' (Joy. 1 attiso.v of Pennsylvania has appointed Judge Haydrick, of Franklin, to till the vacancy tin the supreme IhmicIi of the state caused by the resignation of Cbief-Jiiistce Paxson to accept the Reading receivership. Joitx W. Mackav, the bonanza king, was shot In the back at San Francisco, on the 24th. by an old man named W. C. Ripley, who then shot and fat.nllv
wounded himself. Mr. .M ickay's wound was not thought to b mortal.
.Mr. Harter, of Ohio.
iorm oi wnite-cappinir near lbmli.
vine on I cbruary .1."., ls., .,lcadcd guilty the other morning in court. He implicates four others, including Marsh Land, a local lawyer, as well as two
cousins nntl a brother-in-law. The evi
uence ol Mntou Carr. the def..n.l-.f.
orotiicr-in-law, agreed with Km.erhill and the state's witnesses that Faulken-
ourg was the leader. Underbill displayed his arm in which a shot is still lodged. The defendant was sentenced
to live years in the state's prison.
parts of the rutinintr tear are construct
ed of wood. It is seven f.-et mil -mil
weighs 115 pounds.
i in: other night indd robbers drove a
wagon to Farmer Jchn Lindsay's barn.
near AinntMe. and filled it with moo
worth of clover and timothy seed. As
they were driving off the hind axle of
tne wagon broke. The men then
mounted their horses nnd left at a
breakneck speed. Lindsay is a wason
nnead.
Miw. W. C
iir,eiilcr.
seriploir
-Ot'trgo
life in a ruing at
tit, was
Hauto.v. wife of the
t-iiAiti.i.s Kom..Mf.vi;i:, n young farmer prominent carpenter nntl contractor of ult IT Tnty "a. i"1 1 'V hi'in E"c. attempted tocomn.it suicide kicked in the breast by a Texas pony. by jumping into the swollen Ohio at sHaiu.i.s h. Oiiavks has been appoint- the foot of Hayless street She was ed receiver of the New Avelino house at rescued by a .egro named Jim Hlack, i ort Wayne, by consent of all
1 j ..... ...w 'MIlVl
concerned; and has taken charge of thu hotel. Kimi.v Stcaht, manager of the opera house, a prominent Klk nnd a ueli-
Known actor, died hl '
,'ansivort, of paresis. Chicago.
Hkmiv INias-o.v. a workman at tho Miner chilled plow works, in South Hend, was fatally injured by the fr.i-'-
Itiine in Lo
ll c was buried in
Mr. Harter, of Ohio, introduced -in I"cnM ol a broken vinery wheel. One the house, the 24th, a bill to provide for chcek "as crushed, and the right eve the free coinage of silver and gold at w"1 ,avu to lie removed, the present ratio and upon equal terms. At a contest the other evening K. (L
tne tvM uirtlulav aim ivcrsnr,- uavis oi t ravvfort sv lie. ven M.n.... .
O.V
flin.m. I. . I . . -. t
" vapnvi r.mperor Wil- I "- aoasn college in the state Ham waa the first to call and extend "or-cal wntcst IllstnbWt u.
congratulations and good wlahea. "The Conflict of the Closing Centu-v
Canital and Labor."
and who hurried to her aid in a skiiT.
Mrs. Rat ion says she wits despondent
'Jin: dwelling of Flcm McCniv. near
llrick Chapel, Putnam county, burned
the other night, with nearly all its contents. The wife of Ivllburv O'llnir n
running to the fire, fell uport the ice nnd broke her leg. AtTch-c Haute, IJrnst Lang, aged 13 years, and his brother, played with n pistol thought to be unloaded. It went off anil killetl the boy Instantly. Oko. A. Kaski.v, died at Sevi.our
after a brief illness of piiuiitnonia, aged TO. For years he has represented different wholesale notion firms of Cincinnati lie was a member of th
Masonic frate-city und leading Alctho-
iv,rf: Hrinrr, n ISitnUli,
rnoliril to Hi-nth ,i ,i H,,.
ni in n Muinjiitrr IIoue.
HlTi-At.o, X. Y.. Feb. 2."..
Heiutz. a carpenter, lost his t M.I.. .
inn ri mi; iiiuuner yesterday uu
Hold's slaughter house. He
called upon to mend a leak in a lugscraping vat.n monster tub HIKm',1 with a splasher with six arms equipped with sharp blades, which, when in inoti( n, are designed to scrape the ht.tr from the bodies of hogs. Wvhx'u concluded Ills work, and t lie engineer, supposinghe had left the vat. started the inafhinery. Hardly hud the anus begun to revolve when a terrible shriek issued from the vat. The machinery was quickly stopped, and Heintz ivns found at the bottom of the va vyith his head crushed and mangled until his
neck broken, He died almost iiisti'iAtly. Crnrj- KiioiirIi to lit- mi Amu rlil J, Xl:w Yoiik. Feb. 2-,.- S'ophi-Halpern, the young Polish woman wi,o was arrested on the strectTliursduy hi usemt'hnde condition, and screaming that sho had been poisoned, was examined in the Rellevne hospital yesterday morning nnd officially tl eel a red by tho physicians to be insane. Miss Jlulpeni is said to have come from Warsaw, whero her father is a wealtlty merchant, sotno six months ago. Since her nrr'vnl in this ctty she 1ms lived among ,he anarchists, nnil it 5s said she has piv.tchotl , piritetlly tiie doctrine of amrcliy. When arrested she had nearly t'lOOa.
a.