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C. DOAX13, l'ubliwhor. JASPER. INDIANA. Gov. -Lt'.wm.i.iNO of Kunsas Avas taken suddenly ill on the CU. IN the highest and most reserved ' circles of Konus It is said to be well J known that the present dream of the vntteua is tlie estuiuisnment. tu a federal Italian republic. Thk Imports exclusive of specie, nt the port uf New York, for the week mied ou the 25th, were SO.O.sr, of which were dry goods and ?7,.0ü,"ß5 general merchandise. 1-Tiv III" MBKitT of Italy hail-.i long conference, on the 2Sth, with Signer Zunardalli, who wis summoned, ou the 127th, To foTn a cabinet, Tbc confervnce turned upon 'the reduction of the winy by two corr-.. A order for retrenchment was sent out by the otlleinls of the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago nwlroad on the 30th; The order was issued along the whole line from Pittsburgh to Chicago, and affects. more than S.Ol'O men. Lnrrnits found upon the hotly of Augustus ,M. Seriba, ex-United States Im enmmittcd suicide m v v - - - - j in San "Francisco, on the tilth, set up ( Alfred the Great, the first Saxon lciny of England. Mns. Sn.VAxr Mru.Kit. of Alliance, O., has gone insane as a result of visitingthe World's fair. It is said the sights in the art gallery turned her head. Mrs. Miller is the second victim in Alliance of the same unhappy result of vihitinp the great Columbian exposition. Ton fnneral of Congressman Clmrlcs O'Neill, the "father of the house of representatives,' who died at his home in Philadelphia, on the2öth, took place, on the 27th. from the Arch-street Presbyterian church, of which Mr. O'Neill was a member, to West Laurel Hill cejaetery. Aukangkmbxts were completed, on the 2Sth, whereby Schaefer and Ives will play a match of 14-inch balk-line billiards next January for $2.500 a side. The event will take place in Chicago and will Inst six nights 500 points to be played each night. The anchor shot will be barred. Thk eredit mobilier of Home has suspended payment. The news of the suspension created a deep impression, owing to the various branches the eon- I cern had in different parts of Italy, all the depositors in which will suffer severely. The failure is attributed to the fail in rentes. Schkio and Floyd, the two Americans arrested in London on the charge of having robbed the bank of Minneapolis, Minn., of 00,000, were on the 2Jjth, arraigned In the How-street cxtradition court and again remanded to" allow the magistrate time to examine the extradition papers. Timm: is the highest authority lor the statement that shortly after his arrival in the United States from lirazil Admiral Stanton will be given another command, equal in dignity and Importance to that from which he was removed recently for saluting the rebel Admiral Mello's tlag. Thk weekly statement of the New York associated banks for the week ended on the 25th showed the following changes: Heserve, increase, ?..:5."4,700; loans, increase, 63,4ßS,000; specie, increase,$l,0G9,300; legal tender.s.incrensc, S5.H.V2..!00: deposits, increase, $10,027,C00; circulation, decrease, $21 1,700. In the ISritish house of lords, on the r.Oth, the marquis of llipon, secretary of state for the colonies, moved the second rending of the employers' Ihibility bill. He argued that a settlement would be impossible if workmen were allowed to contract themselves out of the benefits of compensation for injuries. Tin: Spanish government has appointed a commission tq visit the United States with a view to increasing the export of Spanish wines to this country. The commission is charged to study the native American wines, in the belief that the Spanish wines are adapted for blending with California wiiies. Tin: Indiana law compelling railroad companies to keep flagmen at all street crossings of two or more tracks, was declared unconstitutional and void in the Hluckford county circuit court, on the 24th, by reason of a technical error in the statute that falls to require notice to be served on the railroad company. Thk governor of llarcelona stated, on the 2Sth, that fifteen anarchists, eleven of whom are Spaniards, would be charged with complicity in the recent dynamite outrage at the Lyceum theater. One hundred and eighteen persons were detained on suspicion of having been in some manner concerned in the 'outrage. It was agreed by a caucus of delegates to the Knights of Labor convention in Philadelphia, on the 20th, that a resolution declaring the ollico of general master workman vacant should tie pushed through the convention, the object being to further humiliate Mr. Powderly, whose resignation was already in the hands of the convention. Joski'H Diox, the once-celebrated billiard player, ex-champion of America, has been removed to the Ward's Island (N. Y.) asylum for pauper insane from the Hellevue hospital reception pavilion, whlther.'he had been conveyed from a private sanitarium In Connecticut by his wife. The fraternity of which he was once the acknowledged leader Is to be called upon to raise a fund for his benctlt

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. (luv. SciioriKi n. while in Washing ton on nrmv business recently, talked j enthusiastically of the new defense fortifications ut Sandy Hook which are. soon to be put to a practical test to determine their adaptability for onoral use along the coasts of the Ignited States Twki.vk TiioiTSAND perstans wore killed In Kuchan, northeast Persia, by recent earthquakes. Tin thousand bodies have Wen recovered from the ruins. Fifty thousand cattle were killed. Thk closing down of the iron mines in the upper peninsula of Michigan has thrown thousands of men out of employment estimates range all the way from 10.000 to 1.1,000 and caused great destitution. Gov. Hlch invited the mayor of all the principal cities in Michigan and leading men, from the upper peninsula to meet !n Detroit and take some action toward relieving the distress. A i.AitoK lilacs meeting was held at the opera house in Ter re Haute, Ind., on the nightof thc2Cth, for the purpose of raising funds to relieve the great distress prevailing among the unemployed. Senator Voorhee.s and ex-Secretary of the Navy Thompson addressed the meeting. Senator Voorhees prophesied that within ninety days the greater part of the present industrial depression would be over. M.utv TowKit, aged 100 years and 4 months, died, on the 25th, at Lorraine, a suburb of Elizabeth, N. J. When her one hundredth birthday anniversary was celebrated she was in good health. Tin: banks of New York held $70,S;j5,l7t5 in excels of the requirements of the 25-per-ceut. rule on the 25th. Wn.i.iAii W. Maiimon was found dead in hLs bed at his home in Hloomington, 111., on the morning of the 20th. It is belieyed he died from apoplexy early in the night He was 01 years old, and had been engaged in the wholesale drug business at llloomingtou for more than fort- years. Thk tarilt bill of 1SIW, prepared by the democratic majority of the ways and means committee, was submitted to the minority, on the 27th", for their information ami consideration. The republicans, under the rules, have ten days in which to prepare their report, at which time the majority report will be finished, and the bill will then be presented to the house. A heavy shock of earthquake was felt, on the 27th, at Montreal and many other places in Canada. Hi'ltiiKUT Skit.ks, colored, of Louisville, Ky., is ill of varioloid, which he and his physician say he contracted in a laundry where Pullman Car Co. Hullen was washed. Tin: United States supreme court, in an opinion read by Chief Justice Fuller on the 27th, dismissed the appeal of .lames Lennon from the judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Ohio. This is the case growing out of the famous strike last spring on the Toledo fc Ann Arbor railroad, in which Lennon, a Lake Shore engineer, was fined $50 for contempt of court in refusing to haul his train because it contained some Ann Arbor cars. Inimctmknts charging perjury, fraudulent insolvency and misdeameanor in receiving deposits after the institution was known to be insolvent, were found, on the 27th, against the oilicers and directors of the Madison Square (New York) bank, president, was loseph F. Plaut, the indicted on two counts for perjury. Thk trial of Ed Markley, the bogus foot-nicer, at Fairfield, la., resulted in a verdict of guilty, and he Was sentenced to the Fort Madison penitentiary for three years. This case was one that attracted much attention on account of the prominence of parties connected with it. Phk.vdkiwia.st, the murderer of Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago, was locked up at Kinsley. Kas., for six weeks last February, as a dangerous lunatic. Thk American bark Helen W. Olm reached San Francisco, on the 20th, from Apia, Samoa, bringing news that the schooner Fleur-de-Lis foundered during the gale off Hutaritari. Tlie crew escaped in small boats. It wns learned, on the 2Uh, that Mrs. Halfour and her daughter had sailed from London for ltuenos Ayres to join her husband.Jnbez Spencer Hal four.late member of parliament, who is a fugitive from English justice. He became mixed up in the fraudulent transactions of several building societies, and when the crash came lied to the Argentine republic, where he is living in style about 25 miles from HuenoiAyres. Ca it. Mausiiau. Pkhuv Wii.n.known to almost every actor of note in America, died at Portland, Me., on the 2bth, very suddenly, aged 02 3ears. He was the intimate friend and advertising agent of Artemus Ward. He was also the manager for Charles Dickens when he mnde his tour of this country reading from his own work. Tin: general assembly of the Knights of Labor at Philadelphia adjourned, on the 2Sth, after passing a vote of thanks to ex-General Master Workman Powderly for services rendered to the order during the past seventeen years and of kindly wishes for his future, to meet in New Orleans next year. It is rumored that starving miners at Iroiuvood, Mich., areeatingdogs. Gov. Peck of Wisconsin, on the2Sth, ordered an investigation and gave instruction."-, that relief he forwarded from Hurley, if the report should be found to be true, until relief arrived from the Michigan authoreties. Hahon Maniikiiodk, chief of the Herlin political police, was, on the 2Hh, charged to investigate the attempt to usKissinate Chancellor von Caprivi by an Infernal machine sent from Orleans, France, Thk president has appointed Col. K. D. Otis, Twentieth infantry, to be u brigadier-general in ihe army, to sueJ ceed Gen. Carlin, recently retired.

Sk.voi; Guv . v ah a ha. formerly ltrazilfun deputy,, r,.t.0lved jn Paris, from Mo de .lanelr Jt ,, the20th, a dispatch denying that, port iUKu at Uio had been captnr t v the 27th King Humbert charged -'1,r .ai-dolli, president of the chamber f deputies, with the formation of u 'jahiuct. It was reported at litulalo, N. ., on the 27th, that the strike on the Lehigh Vallev railroad would he extended to I the Nickel Plate, Erie, Lake Shore and West Shore roads. Mits. Thomas Wii.kins, whose stage name is Dollie Emerson, was held up in front of her residence in llenver, Col., on returning from the theater, on night of the 27th, by three masked men, who took a diamond necklace and other jewelry amounting in value to f 1.700. Her husband was with her at the time. Tin: people of Ilhode Island, on the 2Sth. voted on an amendment to the constitution in favor of plurality elections in place of majority elections, as at present. The eiianje has been demanded for years, and the proposed amendment was introduced into the last senate and received the support of all parties and the people, by an overwhelming majority, decided in its favor.' Dkath dissolved the firm of 11. Kennedy ,t Son, architects and builders, St. Louis, on tlte 28th. Henry Kennedy, aged 5S the senior member, died at noon, from old age. Herbert F. Kennedy, aged 45, the junior member, passed away at 7 p. m., a victim of pneumonia. Aktku a consultation between the attorneys in the Couglilin case at Chicairo, .on the 2Hth. State's Attorney Kearn said that .lurnrs Gates and Wilson, who were charged with securing their places on the jury by fraud, would be dismissed by consent of the lawyers for the defense. At Eau Claire, Wis., a negro tramp crawled into a car of lumber bound for Hurlin'ton, la., and lay down ou top of the pile. He fell uslcup, and the lumber being wet swelled up, crushing him against the roof of tin car. When the car arrived at its destination, on tlie 2bth, the dead body was found. Mkmiikus of the New York cotton exchange had their annual guessing match, on the 2Sth, on tlie cotton crop for the year ending next September. Estimates were submitted by 140 members. They ranged from 0,750,000 bales to 7,SO5,O0O bale!,. The average was 7,2S4,70:l bales. Firry millions of dollars, in round numbers, represent the, capital employed in tlie lumber industry of the Pacific coast, which, it is claimed, will suiter serious loss if lumber is placed upon the free list. Ox the 20th Henry Disston's Sons, saw, file and tool makers of Philadelphia, announced a reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of their employes. Their works are the largest in the world. Uxitkii Statks Mixistkk ISakkh has requested the government of San Salvador to arrest Louis F- Menage, the Minneapolis (Minn.) embezzler. O.v an average there are fifty cases of cholera and fifteen deaths daily in Pcra, Turkey. The disease is still more severe in Constantinople. Tin: great ship canal connecting Manchester, England, with the sea, will be opened to tratllc on the 7th. Tin: quarantine at Constantinople against western arrivals has been reduced to twenty-four hours. Tin: situation in Madagascar is reported to be serious. France has sent an inspector to Tamatave to watch t rench interests. LATE NEWS ITEMS. O.v tlie 1st tlie Hra.ilian rebel admlra. Melloran his llagship, the Aquidaban, out of the bay of Ilio .laneiro, where he had been hemmed in by the flro from the federal forts ever since proclaiming the insurrection. The passage was not made without receiving and indicting considerable damage. Sr.citKT.vuv Caih.isi.k has selected F. P. Johnson, of Frankfort, Ky.. to succeed J. .1. Crowley as special agent in charge of the Chicago division of the treasury agents. Mr. Johnson is one of tlie most widely-known newspaper men in the west. Tnn forty-ninth birthday anniversary of the princess of Wales, was celebrated in London, on the 1st, in the customary manner. Tlie queen gave a dinner at Windsor castle in tlie evening in honor of the princess. Thk indicted ofllcers of the wrecked Madison Square bank of New York appeared before Recorder Smythe, on the 1st, and pleaded not guilty, with the privilege to withdraw or put in a demurrer within a week. Tin: duchess of Waxe-Coburg-Gotha (duchess of Edinburgh) has ordered that her share of the income from the ducl domains ho devoted to charity, mainly in the form of Christmas gifts to the poor. I t'noK EnwAitn Coke Hn.uvos, of the United States court for the Eastern district of Louisiana, died, on the 1st, at his summer residence in New Haven, Conn, aged 01. Thk llotchkiss Ordnance Co. started up Its two factories at Providence, It. j I., on the 20th, on 21-hour time, the orders for torpedoes having been largely increased, j Thk Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe I Itailroad Co. has contracted with the Haldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia for the building of seventy-one locomotives. Tm: public debt statement issued on j the 1st shows a net increase in the pubI liedfibt, less cash in the treasury, during November of fti.71.irs..7. j Tijk Erie Itailroad Co. defaulted on its second consolidated mortgages, on the 1st, but paid the Interest on its funded lives. Thk duke of Loin.stcr died at Carton, county Kildare, Ireland, on the 1st, of typhoid fever, Ho was born August 10, 1851. Tin: American Crayon Co. 's extensive works at Tiflln, 0., were destroyed by fire on the 1st; loss, $40,000, An earthquake shock was felt at Hirer Molsle, Quebec, at 5 o'clock on the morning of the Int.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Two mtti.k daughters of Davis Davift Veedcrsburg.were burned to death in u fire caused by an overturned lamp. Mrs. Davis was also fatally burned. A l.AHOKl.v attended mass meeting was held at the opera house for the, purpose of raising funds to relieve the great distress prevailing hero among the unemployed. Senator Yoorhees and ex-Secretary of the Navy ThomjH bon addressed the meeting. Senator Voorheos prophesied that within ninety days the greater part of the present industrial depression would be over. U.vio.vrowN, near Seymour, the other night, furnislu-1 a quadruple murder, followed by suicide. It is stated that .lohn Foster, a well, to do, but erratic farmer of Unlontown, in a lit of temporary insanity, killed Ids wife and their three children with a revolver, and then blew out his own brains. Foster has always been regarded by his fellow-villagers as a little weak-minded and queer. He has frequently had trouble with his wife, and several years ago they separated. Itecently a reconciliation was affected and Foster returned to his family. There was no witness to the terrible a If air, but the position of the bodies point to the fact that the wife was the llrst one killed, and the slaughter of the three children followed, then his Miicide. Ekiht tramps attempted to overpower the crew of a freight -train on the Lake Shore railroad, near Goshen, late the other night, intending to uncouple several of the cars and leave them standing on the track so that the fast express could dash into them, leaving the dead and wreckage to be plundered. Owing to the plucky behavior of the erow, however, they were foiled. John Mkssick, a brakeman in the Motion yards at Hedford, fell under the wheels from the top of a box car, and both his legs were cut off above the knees. He was also severely injured internally and can not possibly live. At Marion Win. .Mendenhall was thrown upon his head from a wagon in a runaway, and has since been lying unconscious, with but slight prospects of recovery, lie is a well-known citizen of Marion. He is being cared for at the home of David Overman. Gkoiiok Joudax, a well-known and wealthy farmer, was found lying in his yard, west of Richmond, the other morning,with a bullet hole in his head and a loaded revolver at his side. It is thought that he suicided, but as no cause can be assigned for such a deed a theor' of murder exists. At Indianapolis the U. S. grand jury, before it adjourned the otherday, voted t indict the five men who are under bond for the wrecking of the Indianapolis National bank. These are Theodore I'. Huughey, president of the Indianapolis National bank: Schyler C. Huughey, president of tlie Indianapolis Glue Co. and of the Indianapolis curled hair works: Francis A. Collin, president of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co.; Percival H. Collin, secretary of the Indianapolis "Cabinet Co.; A. S. 1'eed, treasurer of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co. Thk other forenoon, while John Grondahl and family, living east of Chesterton, were attending church, parties entered the house, taking every thing of value they could carry away with them, together with a pocketbook containing a sum of money and several valuable notes, and two revolvers. Upon the return of the family the above discovery was made, and search was made, and tracks leading toward Chesterton were found. A stranger visited the saloons of Chesterton in the afternoon, and was spending considerable money. When the robbery was reported in Chesterton he was hunted up. and fou ml on the street in company with another man. When an attempt was made to arrest them they showed fight, one of them being knocked down and severely injured. He broke away, and in his efFort to escape shot at the crowd. He was followed through the park, and captured. lie gave his name as John Wolf, of Cleveland, O. His injuries are considered serious, as he was kicked in the head and side several times. En McGniiK, a cattle thief, of Illoomfield, was taken to the penitentiary to serve out a five-year sentence. He had pleaded guilty ltKHFn:i.ii Nklpo.v, a farmer living about eight miles above Petersburg, was killed by a falling tree, his body being frightfully mangled. At. McPhkhso.v, who walked out of the courthouse at Indianapolis, where he was being tried for criminal assault, went straight to the house of John Haviland and robbed it of $25. A dktkh.mi.vki) gang of thieves looted the town of Linwood, just north of Anderson, robbing tho post oflicc, railway otllce and two stores. Tin: Martinsville lectrlc light and power plant was sold at auction for $70,000 to the Central Thomson-Houston Co., of Cincinnati. Mits. PHHitv Lav.max, who lives in the oil Hold, eight miles north of Portland, while building a tire in the cool: stove was literally roasted from head to foot Slie can not recover. W.u. Wi.vv and his son IJord, managers of the Nutt house, Crawfordsvillc, have disappeared. Ax Anderson firm has patented a now balloting machine, built after t,ic order of a cash register.cach key bearing the namo of a candidate. Kach vote is numbered as east, tho result being that in twentj' minutes after the polls close the result is known. Aftkh a chase, during which the fugitive dodged three shots from a policeman's revolver, at Lafayette tho other night, Peter Early was captured witli an arm-load of canned goods that had been stolen from a Monon car. Tin: Citizens' Street Hallway Co., of Indianapolis, was informed tho other day of a plot to blow up its powerhouse. It is supposed the scheine was gotten up by discharged employes. Laxham'm road house, cast of Indianapolis, was burned to the ground the other morning. It was a well known sporting resort Tho suburban residents objected to it, und incendiarism U charged. Loss, f 7,000

DUN'S REVIEW.

Tho (inu-rul Ciiliilltloii r Trillin Hint Flin nix TlirmiKlioiit Country t !( Ili-ctcil by l(. (1. linn ii (Ni.'h Weekly lit'tlew Tiu-lfT l!iirirlnliille'lliiiii;lil lobe AITerlliiK Some l.lneit .Mutiny Aliiiiuliint mill liuleit l.uvver, Hut Imlinlrli K WultUK lor ii Mum St ltli il Sliit of AlTulr Jliiklni'Ns 1'ullurcM, i:ti Nkw Yuiuc, Dee. 2. IL G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade, issued today, says: It cannot Ihj Hidil that IhihIbcss darin tho past ueek luw grown belter r worse. For some iliiys tho imlft In iloniiuut unit in tmiisiieuetlons watch luul tieea previously iiotlml contmuuit. Hut ntterwanlH tariff maurtaltitles wcru thought to tiffuct stunt) hnuiches of liunlitcxn, umt whatever tho causes, tho Htato of trado was lefts clear. Money was every wheio uuuuihuit, with rates comparatively lower, ami couuuereliU ileinuiiil wu.i remarkably small, while the iteninntt for maculatlvo uses appearoit to Iw Ineroasltu.'. When these uro symptoms of a transition Btate, onllnnry liultiatlotm huseil upon tho course of business down to a tew ilays utfo are not as valuable us usunl, hut on this whole such sinus nre, however, less eneouraslii than they were a wcoh uko. lteports of tiifi'eront lirauehes of traile anil from different cities frequently mention th tariff uncertainties us a cause of natural hesitancy, hut it will take some time to deiermtuu whether tho general tendency toward improvement has been chocked, or to what extent. The volume, of trade has been somewhat hicreasing, and yet not as much us expected, the exchanges for last week showing, a decrease of E&fi per cent, compared with last year, in part beeauoc tho week covers only llvo business days against six last year. Kor two weeks, covering tho same working days, the decrease has been '-.til percent. Tho railroad earnings for the last wick of November show u larger decrease than for cither of tho precedlm; weeks, but In freight alone the business was about the same as for the llrst half of the month. In general tlie statement shows a slight Increase in eastern trulucand a heavy decrease on western und l'acllle co.ist husltics-i. Hat tho report covers a period ending more than a week ago, nud casts only an uncertain light ou tho present Situation. Speculatlvo markets have shown but llttlo change except for trust stocks, which average fi per share lower, with railroad stocks but a shade lower. Wheat Is slightly stronger, roeelpts behur considerably smaller than In recent weeks, though exports are also remarkably small, f'ora Is unchanged In price, with heavy western receipts und largo exports. Pork ni'd hog products arc practically unchanged as well as oil. Cotton is a sha le lower, as receipts from the plantations continue to exceed those of last year, in spite of tho very positive estimates of a short yield, and the average of guesses by operators on tho New Orleans cotton exchange Is over "OJ.C'J bales greater than tho government estimate. The stocks of American cotton in sight aro again so large that they retard any rise In prices. The Industries aro waiting with visible uncertainty regunllng tho outcome of legislation, and beliefs that th pending tariff bill will or will not bo pas?ed. nlfjct action as much as tho varying judgments in regard to its effect If passed. At 'present th? Iron Industry shows no gain, on the whole, with the demand for pig Iron not urgent, and bessemer Iron a little lower at Pittsburgh with no sales of rails at the combination price, and with slightly lower prices for some finished products, and a rather scanty demand for any. It Is questionable whether the working force employ eil Is larger than It was a week ago. Tho eottou ma nufactures show u decided Improvement because the market Is In urgent need of more goods, but there is no chango in prices. Tho sales of wool uro nn!n larger than for tho same week-last year, amounting to G.GIIUsj) pounds, against I.Xl,.Vn) pounds hist year, but that part of the transactions uro said to bo speculative in their nature, lelng based on the tneory that whatever may happen later, the necessities of tho country will compel a larger consumption of wool within the. next few month. Nevertheless, dispatches show that several woolen works have been closed within tho past woslc for lack of orders, ami the Increase in demand for goods, which appeared to somo extent u week or two ugo. cannot he said to cnntlnuo. In boots and shoes no Increase in tho working force Is seen, und while eastern shipments uro cnly about 1 per cent.less than a year ugo, the greater portion of tho works havo orders only for part of their capacity. The vast accumulation of Idlo money tends tc stimulate speculation, but it is not a good symptom. It shows a remarkable shrinkage In tho volume of trade, and the rejwrts from all quarters make It clear that the demand for money Is. unusually light for the season. Kates uro exceptionally low here, mid this helps to prevent the movement of gold which the stale of foreign trade might now usually cause. Tho domestic exitorts for four weeks from New York amount in value to f'tO.ll'.'.iVK), nifalnst f:p7l.in, while tho decrease in Imports Is over ilP.noo.ooo. or 18 per cent, for tho four weeks, so that tho excess of cxjortsfor the whole country must be large. Hut exchange bills against productions uro exceptionally scarce; no gold comes this week, und heavy shipments of silver are made to London, the price ilodliiln, although India Is taking more than last year. Apparently tho country Is paying off with its surplus, loans amounting to many millions which were effected In Kuropo to avoid very great disaster lust summer. Tho failures this week manlier in tho United States, against Slfl last year; and 18 In Canada, agulnst X last year. TOO MUCH MARRYING It Likely to Hot n Sootli Diikot Merrhunt Into Serious Troinde. KiMitAtt, S. D., Dec. 2.Soinething of a sensation has been created hero by the action of the supreme court in nllirming the decision of the lower court requiring Ij. I). Hardin to pay temporary nliinony and attorneys' fees to his second wife, who is suing for a divorce. .Mr. Hardin is one of the leading merchants of this place, and is prominent in social a If airs. His llrst wife died four years ago and about a yent later he ma cried a Mrs. Osborne, of Troy, N. Y. Ho brought her hero with him and introduced her as his wife. They lived together almost a year, linallj quarrelling and separating, whereupon she begun suit for divorce. Soon after the suit was begun Mr. Hardin went to New York and married a Miss Hnttie O. Gilo, and is now living with her. Mr. Hardin's defense in the stilt is that he was never legally married to No. 2, as she hail a husband living at the time from whom she hail never been divorced. Hho claimed that while this was true, sho did not know his whereabouts, and under tlie New York law needed no divorce. The action of the supreme court. Indicates her position was well taken, end also Indicates that she will obtain a divorce when the case conies to trial. Soldler Srnt A;ilnt IteheU Kill Their (lilleer unit .loin the Km-my. El. Paso, Tex., Dec. 2. Some exciting news is given out from Mexican revolutionary sources here. It is to the effect that the cavalry force which ly.tl !iii Oose two weeks ago for tins se.tof tho disturbance, on the fourth da out murdered the most of their ofllcers and joined tlie revolutionary con hn gent, now under tho command of Hutta Ana Pere?. in person. This became known to President Dia n week ago. and is given as a rearfon for the lacKjJtif aggressiveness by the government.

RUNS THE GAUNTLET. Admiral Mello I orte n ruHiit-e I'm tho I'ortM 41imrilliic Klo .liini lni lliu Mlr Hint the Aqnlibihiui I Now on (ln ,.' Kens, I'robiililv In Quest of tlie Nl( n,,.r ' nml the America. ' Ln.s'pu.v, Dec. 2. A dispatch to th Kxchange Telegraph Co. frnn ij Janeiro states that the insurgent ad, niirol, Mello, has finally succeeded jtl forcing a passage past the forts guar., ing the entrance of tho bay of nj() Janeiro and that his Hag ship, Uio Aquidahan, is now on the high seas. Tho passage was not etfected unuj borne desperate lightinghud been done. The entrance is guarded by Port, Sao Joan und a water battery on the strip of land extending northeast from the sugar loaf, Kort Lage, Port Nuuta, Cruz, and Port Pico. Advices front another source stata that when the Aquidaban was seen approaching the forts a heavy lire was directed against her. She replied briskly and the light was kept up u. til sho ran past the forts and was out of range. It was seen that sonic of the shots from the forts tool; etTect, and it is believed the Aquidaban susl tained considerable damage. The government forces, particular!" the troops manning the water battery, Miti'cred severely from the effects of the rapid-fire guns on board the war ship. Considerable damage is said to havo been done to tlie forts by tin- r guns of the Aquidaban. which appear to have been well served. The government forces generally suffered severelv. After the Aquidaban was out of range she stood away for the south. It is conjectured at Uio de Janeiro that she will effect repairs as rapidly as possible at sea and then cruise in the vicinity of Cape Struro to intercept Hie Nietheroy and America, tlie improvis. d war ships now on their wny from New York to reinforce President PciNoto. In the house of commons last evening a member said lie. had heard a report that President Peixoto had beta assassinated and asked if the government had any such information. Sir IM ward Grey, parliamentary seeretaiy of the foreign oflice, replied that the government had received nc word concerning any attempt or Pei.xoto's life. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.

A Large liuliuice on the Wrong Sldn of I he Sheet. VASlll.OTo, Dee. 2. The public debt statement issued yesterday afternoon shows a net increase in. the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during November of ?(5,71(,ms.47. The interest-bearing debt increase is $180,000, tlie noninterest-bearing debt decreased ?:i7,s,:i:.0..ri0 and the cash ia the treasury decreased $7.0'.M,o7l.!i7. Tlie balances of tho several classes of debt at the close of business on November !10 were: Interest-bearing debts Xi,ax... (0 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity 1 KXi :wi ;c Debt bearing no Interest 3TI..W.7I5 !7 Totnl i'.tH.r.rts.nitS 13 The certificates and treasury notes, offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, outstanding at the end of the month, were ?5yyf22,yO'J,0, an increase of $11,(51.', 44 1.00. The total cash in the treasury was $7:M,S20,4:i5..i. The gold reserve was tS2,'.).V.l,01S. Net cash balance ? 12.24 0,.VJ7,7S. During the month theie was a dicrease in gold coin and bars of S2.I.V.',04:5.2(5, the total at the close beim: $1(51,122,120. Of silver there was an increase of $52,122.(57. Of the surplus there was in national bank deposits $11.220,y2, against $20,421. S70.S7 at tho cud of the previous month. ON WAITING ORDERS. Admiral Stnntou Hrport Iii Arrlvnt to tin Navy Ilrpitrtnielit. Wasiiixotox, Dee. 2. Admiral Stanton, late in command of tlie I'niteil States squadron in the Hrazilian waters, has made known bis return to the navy department Considering tho rather peculiar status of the admiral, who was relieved from his command because of his recognition of Mello, the rebellious Hra.ilian naval commander, it might be supposed that lie would avail himself of the opportunity afforded by his communication to s;iy something in the nature of an explnna tion. Hut as a matter of fact the admiral's letters, of which there are two, are models of brevity, so .short indeed as to convey, perhaps, a sense of wounded dignity. In his llrst letter tlie admiral reports his arrival at New York in conformity with the requirement of the naval regulation: in the second he simply states Iiis address ia New London. Technically the officer is on waiting" orders, nnd probably he will remain at his home In New London until ho recuves further orders from the secrcttry of the navy. ol ii llou MntidlliK In Knehiui. lVr-li, Iteeently Vh.ltei! Iiy Kurt liqiiiihe. London, Dee. 2. A special dispatch tft thu Times from Neslied says that the town of Kuchan, in northern Persia, a brief story of the destruction 'f which by earthquake has been told in those dispatches, is a heap of ruin Kot a house is standing in tlie place. The recovery of tho Ixxliesof those who perished in tho disaster Is proceeding The odor from the putrefying remains is horrible. The dispatch adds that the .shock1were preceded by loud reports in the hills west of the town. The shoelo continue in the place where the town stood and the vicinity. AsM'useil Viilimtloii of Kentucky It"" road I.Udi- Ilieroaneil MlleiiK FiiaNkkoiit, Ky., Dee, 2. The railroad commissioner.. yesterday submitted an abstract of their report to tin governor, from which CoininissioiK'i Woodson furnishes the statement that the total assessment of all the rail roads in the state has Wen fixed nt $57,:uy,fM5, Which is an incrcas" nf a little more than $5.000,000 over that o. last year, nnd more, than fW.OOOJKKJ over ihe valuation placed upon theso railroads by the compaaicH themselvesTho Increased mileage was only 3.0(17 tratles.