Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 August 1895 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER. CUllBBXT TOPICS.

JASPER.

O. DOAXK, Publihhor.

. . - INDIANA.

Tub New York democratic Mute committee, on the lath, selected Syracuse us the place, and September 24 as the time for holding the democratic htate convention.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Skvkxtv alleged nihilists were arrested in u restaurant at Odessa on the night of the 12th. After the police had raided the place the keeper of the res taurant committed suicide. Tub steamship China, which sailed from San Francisco for the orient, on the Kith, carried in the cabin ten Presbyterian missionaries, undaunted by the reported massacre of their compatriots in the cast. i Tin: Paris Figaro says that in consequence of advice received from certain French prelates, the pope has definitely abandoned his policy of advising the Catholics of France to rally to the support of the republic, Oes. Mautinez Campos was, on the 18th, currently reported to have resigned the captain-geuernlship of Cuba. It was said that he will strongly urge the home government to grant autonomy for the island. Tin: supreme court of South Dakota rendered a decision, on the l."th, that the governor has no absolute power to remove state officers for cause, and the long-contested regent case is settled against Gov. Sheldon. Hon. John C New, of Indianapolis, ex-Cnited States treasurer and personal friend of ex-President Harrison, arrived in New York, on the 12th, on the American line steamer ISerlin. He declined to be interviewed. Tub picture of ex-President Harrison, painted by Eastman Johnson, was hung in the White House on the 13th. It is considered to be an excellent likeness, and is a work of art to satisfy the most critical judges. The report of Indian Agent Teter, of the Fort Hall reservation, upon the recent Rnnnock trouble was received at the Indian bureau on the 13th. It confirms the published accounts of the killing of the Hannock Indians. No decision is expected from Comptroller Howler in regard to the pay

ment of the sugar bounty claims for some time, probably not before the re

turn to Washington of Secretary v.arlisle, about the 1st of September. It was announced, on the 12th, that the national convention of the Universal Peace union will le held near Mvstic, Conn., on the 20th, 21st and 52cl. It is expected that 10.000 persons from different parts of the world will be present. The St. Petersburg Novosti recommends that Russia, France and Germany act jointly with Great Rritain

and the United States to oniam satisfaction for the Chinese outrages on missionaries. ArntEiiBNSio.v at the state and navy department over the safety of American missionaries in China was greatly allayed, on the 12th. by reassuring information that native outbreaks gainst foreigners had ceased, for the present at least. An imperial edict was issued at Pekin. on the 13th, at the instance of Ir. X. U. O'Connor, the Hrltish minister, calling on the governors of all provinces to take every precaution that the peonlc are not misled by rumors

exciting tliem against, tue missionaries. . The London Chronicle's Constantinople advices say that an American missionary named llriggs and another American missionary, whose name is not given, are reported to have come to grief during the riots at Marsovnn. It is not clear whether they were killed

or only wounded. It was reported in Paris, on the 14th, that Cardinal Kremcntz. archbishop of Cologne, had, at the instance of the government, forbidden the annual pilgrimage from Aachen to Lounles, owing to the animosity engendered by the war celebrations in progress in Germany. The conference hi Washington of democrats favorable to the free coinage of silver began on the lUh. The object being to effect an organization

within the party strong enough to dominate the next national democratic convention, and commit the party to free coinage in the next national platform. The most distinguished visitor at the Dubuque county barbecue, held at

Dycrsvillc, la., on the 15th, was tue old veteran, Christian Conrad, who lives near Manchester. It is claimed that lie Is the oldest man in America, his age being 11.1 years, lie is a mere fekcleton. talks in a whisper and walks ivitli two sticks. Phi.mi: Minister Ito Hiitonmi, who recently left Tokio, after refusing to accept the marqulsatc proffered him liv ihn mikado because all his col

leagues in the ministry were not similarly honored, has returned to the capital and formally accepted the honors offered him for his services during thu war with China. ATthe faith-healing camp-meeting at De llodiainont, a suburb of St. Louis, on the 14th, Miss .Jennie Glussey, aged 18. who was reared near Cuba, Mo., and enjoyed the most meager educational advantages, read numerous Scripture lessons and translated them into two African dialects before the audience under the big tent, and spoke fluently in German, French, Latin. Greek and some other languages, all of which she said had been miraculously revealed to her In n trance recently. Others who know her history testified to the genuineness of Iter pretensions.

It is said that in the past four mmittis the Snamsh trop in IVba

have lost by disease, drunkenness and killed in battle fully l.l.uOJ m -n Spanish reserves drafted for service in Cuba are vigorously protesting against being sent out to be made tar-

' gets for rebels and l ellow Jack. ' Tin: amount collected under the income tax lav aggregated in toitnd I numbcrsSTT.oiKi. Of this amount onehalf has been returned to those who i paid it. The remainder nwaitu the , pleasure of those who have not vet tipI plied for a refund. Itlauks for this purpose are furnished either at the treasury department or at the otlices of deputy collectors of internal rcvenue. I Rodert Hrnsos, n young and highly- ! ...1 ...... i ...1 ,!,, it-iin litul run throuirll

workhouse, was arrrested, on the . . , . . ,f . fortune.s. was

An engine and twenty loaded coal ears on the Ohio Southern railroad went through a bridge over the Paint river, near Haiubrldge, O., ou the Utli, falling 25 feet to the water below, which at that point is J'O feet deep. The engineer, tircman and a brakeiuan were buried under UK) tons of coal, and it is thought that the remains of four tramps who were stealing a ride are also at the bottom of the river. Gboeob W. Loeiimbu, for several

years bookkeeper at the Cleveland (O.)

eitv

morning of the 11th, ou the charge of

embezzlement of city money. At 7 J o'clock in the eveuiug he was found I

i i

dead in his cell at the Central police

station under circumstances which indicated suicide. New Youu city made a record, on the 11th, of nine persons drowned by bathing and boating casualties, and fourteen others were rescued when in imminent peril.

Owing to the recent death of Ids wife, f

Rev. T. DeWitt Taluiage ditl not preach on the 11th, the tirst time he has failed to do so on the Sabbath In many years. An Americau woman, booked as Mrs. Stanley, was arrested on board the steamship Et-uria at Liverpool, on the 10th. charged with the theft of jewelry valued at SlO.000 from Mrs. Gibbons, whose guest she had been in London. The jewelry was recovered. Apommi Srrno, mayor of San Francisco.has offered to the California state university real estate to the value of 81. SOO.OOO ou which to erect buildings for collegiate and library purposes. The Central Stamping Co., at Newark, X. .1.. sustained a loss of S.100,000, on the 11th, by tire, with insurance of about half that amount. Other losses incident to the contlagration will foot up 830,000. Twenty-one Italians, part of a body of 100 armed strikers, who made an attack upon a party of laborers in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 12th, were taken in by the police. The others lied upon the approach of the officers. The tsung H yamen or Chinese board of foreign affairs has promised Minister Den by redress for damages done to American missionary property at Yung Fuh and future protection. The forty-fifth annual session of the American Protestant association

convened in Cincinnati on the 12th. The grand session began on the 11th. The cruiser Detroit arrived at Pa

goda, on her way from Shanghai to Foo-Chow. the nearest point to the scene of the Chinese riots, on the 12th. LrciB.v Napoleon Ronapabte Wvse, the celebrated French engineer and explorer, died in Paris, on the 12th, aged 50. TrFBKTCiUKFF, the only person arrested in Sofia on suspicion of having murdered ex-Prime Minister StainbulotT. was liberated on bail on the 12th. A FliiB, which did damage amountinir to between S330.0O0 and S400.O00,

INDIANA STATE NEU

hanged at York. England, on the laih, for the murder of his wife and child on Hcinsly moor, Yorkshire, in dune last. lledecoyed his victims to the moor, cut their throats, shot them with a revolver and burled them on the moor. Mus. Emii.ine Roach, widow of .lohn Roach the shin ouilder, dieil at her summer home. Larehmont Manor, X. Y., on the lath. Mrs. Roach, whose maiden name was Johnson, was 7S years old. Doth the old and the new police boards of Omaha wired the supreme court, on the 1 Ith. asking for an immediate session to determine which is the legal board, and received a prompt answer that the court would meet on the following day at Lincoln. A dispatch from Tunis, on the 14th,

stated that some barges laden with iron girders, collided near Coletta with a ferryboat crowded with passengers. Some of the passengers were killed and many drowned. Concessions have been made to an American syndicate by the government of Venezuela with a view to settling the boundary question so long in dispute between Great ISritain and Venezuela. Ex-State Tbeasit.eh Tayi.ok, of South Dakota, was, on the 14th, sentenced to five years in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls by Judge Gaffy, for the embezzlement of state funds. liv the breaking of the staging upon which they were standing nine workmen employed in the Germania dock yards at Kiel fell into the harbor, on the 14 til. and were drowned; Habon Ciihistian Hebniiahp vox Tai chNITZ. the celebrated publisher of Greek and Latin classics in Leipsie, died 011 the 14th, aged 70 years.

Ex-Mavok Van Hohn, of Denver, Col., fell from a window of the Grand Central hotel in that city, on the 14th, and was killed. A dispatch from P.crlin. on the 15th, said: "It is reported here from Katto-

wltj- that a detachment of Cossacks.

have Hogged fourteen striking colliers who were employed in the mines at Zagorse. Russia, and by this means compelled the strikers to return to worlc."

At a festival at Riley. Ind., on the night of the 14th, a stand upon which

the Corv band was playing gave way,

started in the big Jive-story building ( )iUy injuring many of the members,

occupied by P.rown & Mailcy as paper-

box manufacturers, in Philadelphia, on the 12th, and before the Harnes were gotten under control the big gas fix ture establishment of liuck & Co., adjoining, and a dozen dwellings in the vicinity were laid in ashes. Secuuities and other property valued at about 82,000,000 have been turned over by the trustees of the Tilden estate to Edward King, presidcut of the Union Trust Co.. and treasurer of the New York public library, under which name the then big library funds of the eitv. the Astor. the Lenox and the

Tilden estates, were consolidated last spring. A statement prepared by the bureau of statistics, treasury department, gives the amounts of the principal ar

ticles of export during .July as loliows: Mineral oils, 84,902.003. July last year, S2,0s5,7t2; cotton, S1.01S.179, July last year. 83,121,0.10; breadstuff's, SS..100,013.. July last year, S?,l-a5,.VJ3; provisions, 14.02 JMS. as against SI .78.1,7.1.1 last

year during July. 1 The total value of the clay products I of the United States for 1S94. excluding pottery, was over 80.1,000,000. The only comparison that can bs made is with the census of 1S00, which placed the value at S17,OJO,000. Fifty-three per cent, of this valuewus in bricks, which numbered ft, 152,000,000. There were enough of them to make a walle over

eleven feet wide all around the globe. Mini steh Ransom has asked the state department for an extension of his leave of absence. Under the regulations of the state department he will

not be able to have his present leave

extended more than thirty days, or a totul of ninety days. His physical ap

pearance does not seem to indicate that

he will be able within the time of his leave to go to Mexico. Ai.iieut Fish Kit and Oscar Dawson,

two young men who had leen robbing postoffkesin West Virginia for months, were captured, on the Rith, by United States otlicers. Their depredations amount to thousands of dollars. Tin: remains of Justice Howell E. Jackson were laid to rest in a private family cemetery at Helle Meade stock farm, ft miles from Nashville, Tenn., 011 the 12th. Mis. Roiieht E. PeahsoN, director of the mint, will leave Washington, on

the 21st, for Denver, Col., where he will remain for a week or more in

specting the several sites suggested for a new mint at that point At Wellington, Kas., on the 12th, the community was horrllied by the chance discovery at her home, 2' miles north of the town, of the decayed corpse of Mrs. Ilciijamin Haynetiworth. She was over SO years old, and lived alone. She hud been dead over a week. Mit. RtDVAitii Kipi.ino, the wellknown author, and Mine. Modjeska, the actress, sailed, on the 13th, on the North German Lloyd steamer Havre, from Southampton for New York.

Rev. Dit. W.u. Dean, distinguished us the first Haptist missionary to China

and Slam, who gave fifty years to the

work, died at San Diego, Cal., on the 13th. uged 87 year.

one of them fatally,

The men of the Princess Marie

Christina de Monteda regiment, draft

cd for service in Cuba, embarked at

Cadiz, Spain, on tiie 1.1th, for their des tination.

S. S. Wai.keb, late president of the

defunct Michigan Mortgage Co., was

arrested at his home near Traverse City, Mich., on the 1.1th, charged with larceny.

Nathan Sioykm. died at Spicelaud a frw dttvs. ago, aged 7. He was one of the pioneers of southern Henry county and one of its wealthy citizens. The trustees of the various towns'tips in Wabash county, have decided to ignore the provisions of the act of the legislature requiring them to publish a full report of the receipts and disbursements for each year immediately after their .settlement with the county commissioners. Tili: third trial of James Truelock and Edward Kirk, charged with robbing the grave of Ex-Sheriff" James Curry last Christmas eve, has begun at Franklin. A house plunged down an embankment near Decatur the other day and Mrs. Mangold, Mrs. J. C. Peterson and Mrs. Erwin, who w ere in the surrey, were fatally injured. The E. C Atkins saw works, of Indianapolis, has now on its pay roll the largest force it ever employed, and in some departments is working a night force. Us sales of hand saws, cross-cut saws, and, in fact, all lines of saws they manufacture, were never before as large. The pay roll shows nearly four hundred men employed. Miss Om.ie RlPll.E.duughterof Davy

Riddle, editor of the Anderson llulle-

tin, is dead. lifitWEi.i. Fox, charged with horse-

steaHnt has been tailed at Port

land.

Typhoid fever is on the spread at

Indianapolis.

Tub Indiana state board of charities

has announced a programme for the

ff.nrtli annual Indiana conference of

charities to be held at Ft. Wayne, Sep

tombcr 15 to 17. Circulars have been

sent to all the township trustees callirur tlmir attention to the meetintr and

requesting their attendance.

Gp.EENCAsri.E has organized a fishing

club for the enforcement of the game law. Roukkt Tayi.ok fell down a 40-foot well at Shelburn. a few days since, but was not fatally injured. Scott Pattekson aud Sidney Sullivan compelled Miss Sarah Spurliu to tell the hiding place of her father's money in her home near Shelbyville. They secured $05 and escaped. Col J. It. MEititiwEATHEit, one of the best constitutional lawyers in the state, has submitted an opinion to the Jeffcrsonvillc council claiming that the section of the Moore temperance bill passed by the city council repeals the metroitolitan police law. The Williams bicycle fretory, at Columbus, has closed because of trouble among the stockholders. The infant child of Robert Early fell from a second-story window at Wabash and was fatally injured. At Warsaw Leroy Cardiff, aged only I years, committed suicide during the nifht bv taking a heavy dose of Rough

on Rats." His mother recently obtained a divorce from her husband upon very sensational grounds, and the little boy left a note saying lie could no longer stand the taunts of his playmates about it. Ex-Mayor Maxwell G. Cardiff, the boy's father, is a very prominent attorney of the city, aud served three terms "in the state legislature. Mil. A. It. Hazen, the aged mother of Win. Hazcn-, ex-auditor of Wabash county and a candidate six years ago for the republican nomination for state auditor, died the other night.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

I bv And of Mr.

years, 111 two weetis 01 iugusi ; . . . , . 00.000. or 20 per cent., while im- Mexican mission, in view ts show a small increase of 5, per ' encw f sect,f . , ..f ..... ...tn.. It. ,....

V HrUtr.l CtiiM'.i hf I roxi Mjr Itnilur ( linsf Tmr ! '. WMI. MmhiuIhI l.trnH nr.. r-.l In Sir. lll;lll.- .Mrkrl ! Crrnl tprliriiiiii, lint l .Not rrernt s l".lr Volum if Tr.nlf. New Yhk, Aug. 17.IL G. Dun .t

Co., in their weekly review of trade issued to-day. say: .

It is a belated season; a frozen Mauset everything back. '1 he heavy business which ought to have been doneiu May and June was pushed into July.

so that the midsummer decline due in July comes in August. With this in

mind, one is not surprised to find the

shrinkage from July to August rather

more conspicuous than usual. 1-inan-

cial events are used in speculative

market.s to create apprehension. Exports of gold have continued this week, and while tbe syndicate has deposited enough in the treasury tn keep the reserve intact, the impression grows that another sale of bonds may be made. Exports are fulling lelow

last years, in two weeks of August

53,300.

port

cent. Government receipts for half of August are 7,1S1,33G Jess thaii expenses. The disappointing crop reports of last Saturday, though evidently distrusted, lessen confidence in regard to the future of trade, eveu while some speculators gain by them. Rack of all doubts is the fact that the industries are doing better than anvbo.lv could have exoeeted. The

output of pig iron August 1 was 1S0.52.1 tons weekly, or 17(5.505 by another report, in either case close to the largest output in ls03, though surpassed by 15,003 tons in the spring of 15Ü2. Unsold stocks are $$,07"? tons . smaller, the great steel companies ! having made heavy purchases in advance of needs, but the actual consumption is large, and prices rise in

the face of the increasing outpuL Ressemer iron is 814. 15 at Pittsburgh: plates have advanced SI per ton, though other prices are in some cases shaded in the east. Woolen manufacturers find in their way large sales of foreign goods at prices which cause otlicial investigations. The imjKirts were 3.r,tH),00O , pounds of cloth and dress goods in the tirst half of the year, against G,loO, 00 J j last year. The s'ales of wool, ft.;U3.00J ; domestic and 3,7l.500 foreign tills month, against 12,5570.050 domestic and J 1.C02.500 foreign last year, and 11,G9.- j slfci domestic and 4.5V1..10J foreign in ls'JJ. indicate that domestic wool is largely held for speculation at prices about a cent higher than manufacture , crs feel able to pay. ! Few strikes in woolen mills occur, hut the carpet works about Philadelphia arestill idle- Shipments of boots and shoes have fallen almost to last year's figures for August thus far, and orders are as vet scanty for the new

season, but prices are linn, and leather does not change, though tauners decline to pay current quotations, tJf to 10 cents for western buff hides. Crop reorts modified expectations 1 as to cotton and wheat, and cotton J speculators have bought, lifting the price five-sixteenths, while wheat, with more evidence of loss in yield, lias declined Ut cents. According to

WITHOUT

The IVmI of

AN OFFICE.

MlnlMfrr to Mt-ilr..

callr lli-rUrcl Vrnt -IU.svBt..r It. oh Out lit l,r Colo. ,t Trt l.nt. lty llt-lilorto tliflliitrrumrutlolhn ,,..H, of S-tlarjr lliawii Nlnrr -..unn..- tl Diplomat I. r,.-. ,d,rr.r i..,.!., Washington. Aug. 17. Hoa Mai . Ransom, of North Carolina, is n longer minister from the United State to Mexico. That office was practical: declxred vacant yesterday by a dec slon rendered by Mr. Holme's ( .nrat!

solicitor general of the Unit.

and acting

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

1 Mate

attorney sreneral. M

Ransom's incumbencv was declared t be contrary to the federal eonstiti tion, and the acting attorney gei eral sustained the action of M Thomas Holcnmb, auditor of the trea iiry for the state department, in .1 eliding to pass favorably upm M Ransom's vouchers for salary und e penses. Tht decision of the acting Ji't'.rnr , , , . .9

general was uaseu on a quesin:. raiv

Auditor Holcombas to the .egalit

tansom's appointment t itl

of the xit article

of the constitution, which 1 clares "that no senator or re resentative shall, during the t-nu t which lie was elected, be appointed any civil office under the authority the United States which shall ha been created or the cmohnner. whereof shall have been Snereas during such tune. This decision apparently fitted t case of Mr. Ransom, for he was non 11 a ted 1(3' President Cleveland an.', co firmed by tbe senate before his ir of office as senator from North ' ar Una had expired and during that ter the salary of the Mexican mission b been increased $.1,000 a year. Mr. Ransom was elected to tin se ate in 1S72, and served contmu.nu from April 24 of that year until Fe ruary 23. 1M5. when his nominal' n the Mexican mission was sent : t! senate and immediately eonfirme 1 that hotly, and until the 4th of Marc when his term expired and his co mission as minister to Mexk- m signed by the president, lie "-.as member of the senate. When tl f d lomatlc and consular appropriate

bill was passed, it contained a pro sion raising the post of minister Mexico from a mission of the s. -. class to a mission of the first -ia and increasing the salary of the fl from SI2.000 to SlT.000 a year. It is due to Mr. Ransom s occupai of a seat in the senate chamlvrat tl time that he is to-lay without ar. S and tliat he is technically a debtor the government for the amount salary he has drawn since assum his diplomatic post. Whether or 1 he voted in favor of the increase. I no consequence: tbe fact that he v a member of the senate when it pas the diplomatic and consular b'll stated, operated against him in hing in a legal manner any civil of 'which shall have been created, the emoluments whereof shall h been increased during the time which he was elected senator.

WILL BE

fur TrrmiitHrrlj- .Mäkln; -rrt. Washinoton, Aug. 17.

Teter, of the Fort Hall

CENSURED

I'ulillc Stair

-Indian Ag Indian re-

the government reports, uie crop 0 ? TaUon fn c, Qf lhe ,tannocbSt , each would be about two-thirds of the gfc sQm na, from the ,n(Ua br,

maximum, a iiuru 01 mc ,cr consumption of American cotton is still on hand, but not a third of the year's

The latest development in the Holmes murder cases is contained in a dispatch from Columbus, Miss., detailing how Mrs. Holmes visited that city in January last, and. going before a justice of the peace, charged her husband, on his written confession, with the murder of one George H. Thomas on the Tombigbce river, 0 miles below Columbus on or about June 20, Is'.' I. Requisition pap?rs were

promptly issued by Gov. Stone, but in the meantime the woman, probably repenting of the action taken, had quietly left the city.

The steamer Mascotte arrived at

Tampa. Fla., from Cuba, on the night

of the 1.1th, the passengers bringing

news of the destruction of a train

bearing soldiers and engineers of IIa

vaua and some volunteers on the 11th.

The insurgents placed dynamite on the railroad track at Ilolandron bridge. The entire train was destroyed, and only a few volunteers escajK-d death. The committee appointed by the Rosebery government to consider and report on the subject, issued a report, 011 the Kith, recommending that the metric system of weights and meas

ures De immediately legalized in ivngland, and that the use of the S3stem be made compulsory after two years. CtiAttt.KS Hahiieu was carried several hundred feet into the nir at Winona. Minn., on the 1.1th, by a huge kite, the rope to which he had tied around his waist. He was let down in the river uninjured but greatly frightened. A KAitM hand named Wilhelm was assisting in feeding a thresher, near East Prospect, Pa., on the 10th, when he fell feet foremost Into the machine, the lower portion of Ids body being literally ground to pieces.

Rr.coitiiEH (iofe of cw tont city,

on the 10111, sentenced I'cnnis .MulHns, the owner of four saloons, to thirty days in the city prison and to

pay a fine of 52.10 for violating the ex eise law.

At Tipton, Ind., on the 10th, Mrs.

Jesse Hamlcr gave birth to a female

child witli two perfectly-formed heads.

The child was healthy, and cried just

as easily with one head as with the

other.

ON the 10th the St Petersburg Novoc

Vremya published ndviccs from vindi vostock, showing that the outbreak o

cholera in China, Corca and Formosa

is Incoming serious.

The Pall Mall Gazette, in an article

on the situation in Cuba, says that

though Capt.-Geti. Campos gets his

100.000 men, Cuba will get autonomy.

the week were better, but not hall

last year's, and in three weeks ß,50S.-

.131 bushels, against 17,211.: bushels last year. Autrust earnings of railroads thus

far vhow.5 per cent, liehind last year's, j

with loss on nearly all classes, in July the full returns were 10 per cent.. I and in June 15.2 percent, below those of lS'X. East-bound shipments from

Chicago for two weeks of August have been 50,74.-, tons, against 07,0:55 last year and 100, ICO in lslri. The stock market has been quite inactive with a trilling decline both in railroad and trust stock as a whole,

largely inlluet.ced from day today by financial rumors.

Failures for the week were 1W in the agriculture without water, aud

United States, against 220 last year. . almost impossible for the Indian and 35 in Canada, against 4.1 last year. make a living by farming until 1 - - .,. ! can secure the water for irrigation IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. Hoccntlv a contract was made Two T..,..w a7,. ,:ss. in . the Idaho Canal Co. to exten I KH.Tk.Hit uurlns u irui. : ditches into the n'1- . , . .t ' company was to receive SW.w Athens lenn.. Aug. 1..-A sensa- , c n(1fans were to ,lo the work tional episode, bare y escaping the approved bv magnitude of a tragedy, xvas witnessed, interior compla

resxertiav in wie circuit cuuru woi. t.

, . - t . A . -I 1 ..... .. 1 ..-.ml . . .

iL. i... if. .. n of I consumption of wheat. Receipts for

cr.11 WIHOS. .' ..-.-" ...w -

the early settlers of Wabash county. Ei.iAsNoriAiX. M years of age, one of the most prominent pioneer citizens of Clarke county, died the other day in Charlestown. Mr. Noudain was one of the wealthiest men in the county. He made his start in life by hauling barrels between Jcffersonvilleand Charlestown. He leaves two children. The First National bank of South

Dend suspended payment the other morning. The officers say depositors will be paid in full. The state swine breeders elected Thos. li. Anders, of Shelbyville. president, and E. N. Morris, of Indianapolis, secretary. They selected Frankfort as the place for hold the next convention. t Looansi'Okt spoke factory damaged S2.500 by fire. Tnr.p.B will be a. baby show at Shelbyville fair. " So ITH Henh will hold a fall trotting

meet instead of a fair.

Pension examiners are running down

swindlers in Wayne county.

Et.i.AKD Simmons attempted suicide

at Tipton, but the doctors saved him.

JCPOB DlVEN, of the superior court,

issued an order to Receiver Lewis to

advertise and cell the Pendleton

Window Glass factory, stock, real es

tate, etc.

It is estimated that 150 tramps could be counted in one gang at Elkhart the other day. The feasibility of piping water from Fish lake to Goshen being considered. It can be done for S30.000. At Rrooklyn, the other night, after Earl Gregory and Wallace Hard wick had gone to their room. Hard wick was accidentally shot in the leg, making a painful wound. They were fooling with an old pistol and didn't know it was loaded. Youug Hardwick is a son

of John Hardwick. of Martinsville. Maihon trees arc being killed by a small worm which works under the baric. A coi.oxv of Montgomery county Dunkards will soon go to South Dakota. Rev. G. P. Fl'son has resigned his pastorate of the liaptist church at Crawfordsville, where he has been for sight years. Miis. FltEPEltlCK Coniiad, of Preble township, Adams county, is dead. She had resided in the same house over sixt' years, being one of the first settlers of Adams county. She was US years old. Extensive arrangements arc being made at Mitchell for the old soldiers' and old settlers' meeting, August H, Is and 10. Many able speakers havu promised to be present and the committee haa made arrangements to feed all old toldicrs free of charge

at Washington can reach him. greeted with an unpleasant surp: In the shape of a reprimand from he quarters for giving out otlicial e munications in advance of their

' ceiptat the Indian bureau.

A few days ago he gave out h s port on the recent troubles with

1 tan nocks and the whites Itefote

reached the officials at Uaslwngand he has since made public an ficial dispatch that the btirt" especialy anxious to keep secret f time. This is why he may receiv unpleasant communication in a days. The dispatch in question was al a ditch which Agent Teter wants Indians to work on. It is an ex ion of the Idaho Canal Co.s irrlga

ditch. The land of the reserva f are to a large extent worthless

eniay in wie

M. lt..rkett and W. L. Kinser, opposing counsel in a will contest case, engaged in a knockout tight in open court, and as a result Col. liurkctt will be disfigured for life. The case under contest dates buck to April last when M. D. Cone died and lequeathcd his entire property, valued at $0.000, to Zesta Ware, a niece, who had a home in his family. Mrs. Jane Cone, his wife, was disinherited. She at once began suit to set aside the will and it was during the progress of this case yesterday that Col. IturketL attorney for Mrs, Cone, in his address to the court, violently arraigned the character of the defendant

Since coming into possession of the

property left her. Miss are lias mar

ried W. L. Einser, while engaged as

altorne3 in deiending licr. At tne close of Hurketf s speech, Kinser ad

vanced on Iiis wife's accuser and sav

agely assaulted him. llurkett was

carried helpless out of the court room.

PLEADED NOT

GUILTY

In Knter

fVltli tt to Wltliilfnw anil

Drmurrrr. Nuw Yohk, Aug. 17. Henry Raabe, former warden of the Ludlow Street jail, ex -Keepers Edward Schneerand Charles Schocu. who were indicted for their connection with the escape of the three post office robbers from the jail on July 4, were arraigned for pleading before Recorder ('off in general

sessions. Their couusel pleaded not guilty for them, and asked the privilege of withdrawing th pica and entering a demurrer on some future day.

secretary

were made by other canal compa

that the Idaho company was recei too high a jmyinent, und the ma was suspended until the sccrctar the interior could investigate the ' ter. A contract will be made wi a month or six weeks with one pany or another which will put Indians to work and enable the: earn a living during the winter. Tht CrnUf r Colnmbl AH KlsWaMUNOTov. Aug. 17. The n

of the board appointed to cxamini

cruiser Columbia, in drydock at

York, to ascertain the extent of injuries received by her while n dock at Southampton, shows that damage sustained by the vessel trivial. She was not injured s turally, and the defects noted b board were merely local, and ca remedied at small expense. Tht poses of the sensational stories the Columbia was weakened turally. A TOUR OF INSPECTIO F.itrndr! Trip Cotrwipttl tr 11 tHIhc Arenllecl ,Alken. Washington. Aug. 17. Win Aiken, supervising architect qf treasury, will make an extended of the northwest and west for the foc of inspecting public buih now in process of construction. I ing Washington alwnt the 2: atanL he will visii Omaha. K:

City, Portland. Ore; Port lown Wash.; Hoise City, Idaho, and Francisco, for the purpose of ex." Ing tk aitcs for the aew post offi