Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 January 1896 — Page 6

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MlililVL,! t-'UUKlJSK. DUltliEA'T TOPTPSI ' T"B Iw"n convention of the

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JASPER,

C. DOAXK, Publisher.

- INDIANA.

1 UK Moskowski Viedeinoste (Moscow jjazctto) urges Germany to curb Great Hritr.in's ag-gressive poller in Africa.

The Pall Mall Gazette Is authority for the statement that Cecil J. Khodes, ex-premier of Capo Colouy, , sailed from Upe Town for England on the 15th.

THE NEWS IN BELLT. LIV. CONGRESS. (Flrt Setmlon.) Tnr senate was riot In session on the nth. - ..In inehous urth.T Mn.;,i..i-ii.in .....

,. . . . . , - . .. ... V my code of rule rtn,m.i r... m -.i..

, -'j .... .uutiutut'U i'-l rule oecupltsl the session. With one exception every eham-o rtsvtnm..n,i...i !...,..

mlttee was mrretM to, mut no proportion oriirlnat Intr on the Moor w at accepted. The rule reItttlDS U the cnuntlm I....... . .. ..

,i ' (r- !' wrnt ov'r tbe tlrst

..uiv uuunK me scssioa tlie sneaker h.a,l n

a polls on the 15th. A......i.t... ......

-ienoison, author of the famous unti

BH ,VU uu iH-nr ms name, pre-

OIUCU, . m a, .1.

ir. m mix Uitliolie church t A..

derson, Ind.. which cost S.,o,000 and is

ni intest in the .state, was dam

aged by lire to the amoutit of SVhK) on

Kov. I!i:i.i.vi.!i Vixiisms

seventh earl IVlawarr, died in London, on the 15th. He was to v..,.-. r

,. , .s. KV. MTKn STATES C0XSfl..l!B.VKIt.u. IK-

rw v, .ii iiorim, reports to the .state de

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HB Hrazilian government has con- opportunity to count a "quo under he r ! mrtinent th i t J, i U thf StUtt' dc' eluded a contract for the immigration -A,,JU"" w the 13th. Iura,-'t that he has secured an allotof 100,XX foreigners, Italians beim senate, oa the 13th. Senator M.,r. ! "W I riKnu ln t.he international art

excluded from the provisions ol the contract.

l. Emilk Loin et, formerly prime minister of France, minister of the interior and minister of publie works, was, on the loth, elected president of

mi- reue senate. A dispatch from Portsmouth, Kurland, on the 13th. said that the Itrit-

isn enaunel .squadron wns reudy for sea, with provisions on board sutlicicnt to last six months.

WniLF. a party of young- ladies were

sKaung on the river near Decatur, Ind., on the nth, the ice give war and Miss Elva Rex went under. A träum

fuu,vu iu uuu rescueu ner. A Cape Towx dispatch says that

i. resmeni Kmper will demand 5,000

iuucianuj on oenau of the relatives of

eacn Jker kaied in the recent ficht

-. jamicson s rauiers. Thk leading Russian newspapers are unanimous in protesting against the establishment of an entente between Kngland and Russia, in rejrard to the Transvaal or any other question.

;aa m A'a J Ioe two hours on the tree Hirer substitute for the houe bona miu A concurrent roolutloa emiHiwerlne and llrectlntf the prolücnt of the Unite.! State to rccclre a deputation from the Cuban revoIutlonUt nml to .Tr,..i .m ...

coKnltlon to them, offorfd hv xtr .

D.) was referred to ill. rnmmfitM in t

eltrn relations m the hou.e. it belnfc-the second Monday In tho month. District of Col-

TV ,DU.sl0ss was taken up and two bills or local Interest were juscd. The pension appropriation bill carrying M.3SS.S. JM.tM) less than the last bill, was Uken up in committee of the whole. In the senate, on the !h. two bills, a rall-

a pirate pension bill, were passej. The latter bill provoked an unusually Interesting debate, which was followed byaprepared speech on the house bond bill and the j free Mlver substitute by Mr. utler (hP.. .V. ! ....in the house four hours was occupied i L ff, tC,n Äe fc"eaeral PPWprlatton bill, j the feature nf trhih .. . l.., . .. "

rs.m.i. . :V " ku siuiuppic or Mr. "ec cumuli' Ä ? Y 'L ' hoffend ranehm

toe pension bureau. The military academy aonrnnrhuins hin .. . . . -

thecäleüdä;. r;.oricu anu pzacedon ix the senate, on the 15th. two lonK speeches were delivered airatnst the further Issue of Lnited Mates bK and la favor of the Tex.) an l Pe2cr (pop. Kus ). a joint resoJUtlOn Was intnvlm

. j .11, i'ujia mem..

exmoition. to be hM !.. ....

' si.. . . mm

siy -to uotouer next, fur American artists and a promise from the presi- , dent of the exhibition committee thnt

American artists shall have the samo privileges as artists in London and

I ans

ist'lT. Cn.vi:i.KTO.v of the reform school

.7x y? r 1 lftIIneW. Ind.. on the 15th, iiotiiied secretary Metcalf of the statu

,";1,'u "l neaiui, asking that the insti ttttion be maeeil nml..r s.

mediately, as scarlet ferer had brokfcn

out among the boys. The disease, he

". s. ...is eommuniented through a let

ter received by one of the boys.

Jucque.V store, south of Fort

uoimes. so miles southeast of Okla homa City. Okla.. on tli.i-.M. n

lance committee, composed of farmers

jo-ii, captured and hanged

, 1 1 ... . i . . . . ...

u.niii'i.iuiKVN i n n hi) UV n .......

known iw Wild ilc.se and c hilf-breed t hoctaw named Marina. John .1. as.m.oax, general manager

it.u cuueu .-stales ICubberCo.. ravi

orders, on the 13th. fnr tl... ;,......:...

(.vitii ill;

j osing oi tlie United Slates

to. s works at .MilMUe, lt. I.

Rubber

The or

Tue Salvation Army in New York is angry over the reenll to England of Commander Dallington Uooth. who for nine years has been in supreme command of the Salvation Annv in the

jnnea states.

flHni, n.l....l I.. . . .. ( , 1

government. In standard surer del a 7 ,,,tü ae.liate effect, and

venerable ex-sjH'aker. Galusha ' , . . ,l" wirowu out of work. ... i . I I'miL 1 ...... i. .

- -...r. ...vjir. i.jiu-E, who lias just re

Fruxcis .M.vRio.v Drakk was inauguratei covernor of Inwn In tv.

of the capitol building in Des Mbines, on the ICth. in the

sands of spectators and both branches of the general assembly.

Thk London Times savs that the admiralty has invited the principal private ship-building firms to tender bids

w . uiiru-eiass cruisers, to be completed in one year, the armament tobe

uvuy i quicK-nnng- guns. At the polls, on the 35th, the electors of .Manitoba declared almost unanimously against interference by the Dominion with her school law's, and ex-Premier Green way's administration was indorsed by a good majority.

the house the

uro.ueiiveredan earnest protest apalnst

.-...uniraH oi me nea.iof the executive department upon the prerogatives of the house. Most of the session was devoted to a Uscussion of the pension appropriation bill, the administration of the pension bureau lelcir

I.v the senate, on the 16th. a resolution was offered by Mr. Sewall irep . X J.) condemning the course of th n.i.un. t .w. .

- V.....VM. u enezucian boundary dispute, and declaring that the Monroe doctrine, as originally Intended, was not involved in the dispute. A resolution was agreed to calltmt on the secretary of state for ÄnX,0?.rSwrdlnK th0 aneced entloa bj the Turkish coremment of American clti-

3.U-.) copies of a compilation of the customs

iaw, ami authorizin the leasing of school and educational lands in - V 'V

on the pension appropriation bill was cnneluded. The death of. ex-Consr,maa Cocrswell. of .Massachusetts. wttN aonounce-1. the usual resolutions adopted, and. as- a further mark of respect the house ad;ournei

lu.iieu lrum m tri. t-

, . . , sum .irica, in addressing the Kdinburgh chamber of commerce, on the 15th. said that there was no doubt that Mashoiialaud and Matabeleland would prove to be wealthy, but raihvaes worn .,....., ....

( to develop them. I It i.s learned that tli. n......,..

. will grant nmiiesty to a large number of political offenders now serving sentence in German prisons. It is believed that nearly all the editors and socialIStC WH.. 1. ...... ,

. . ..v, ,i. juiviy uecn convicted i l and sentenced for les..

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

i ait. John Ai u:.v, of Manchester ' 1 1 Mass.. a retired s.,n ...w-.; "j hnt 'ere disarmed.

s , I.U.SIVI; oi

u lvrnuii oi tue estate of II

released at the quarter centennial of the birth of the empire. A OA.voof Italian counterfeiters were arrested in New York city on t!,e 15th. Among them were Nieolo Toranto, the alleged chief of the mafia in the m,twi -ntes. and Frank Uigeroglia, said to have been born in the king's palace iu staly. They showed fiVht

AT btlbhville. John !..-.. l--..tu .

large land owner, made an assignment

hi i. silier irvin. f th. i,'n,. i.

. , - "vi n ixillli,

v.. uuier nay. uiabiUtics, 813,000: as-

Ho.v, John-P. Caiiu i i..

ton of heart failnr u?Mi s-t.

. . , - - - - .i. (..kV!!!: .s 1111 his fanuly in tho jKirlor- Ho was aged 0. lie served two tormi In i... i.n

ana legislature. Thk cxnlosion nf n .

the barber shop of Thompson Ä Stansberry. 1-raniclin, destroyed the .iiop and bndlv bum...! 'ri,.

C.0...1 , uiuu nu fttansbcrrv. tho npnt.fi....... i .

. - j-.w.-vtuiJ, Uli 11lard Matthewsand Geori Vnii

tomers.

WABASH COilntv lr. rnnMI. 1

j ... . j,.,, Lccuiainir an inriting field for oil rosntn

1 wo or three thousand acres of land in

mueny loirnMun hin. i.., !......

, , - itiwcu iur

-uu israuc, in Layro township.

Vi A cw operator named Craig.

vraur is attor- nth.. .1.

. , . - ima in me

iciimv.

LlKHKI.T RliOi. Kt.ntinn c n.

Uend, confessed -iinlr-m.s,,

Sj.000 in fnror of .In).., t. t.-.....,

Matters were adiiiKtnd

... .uu aiurc reopened, but t h

suit"0'"10"' Wh haVC beffUn ruPlevin

MUS. WlLLlAMSO.V. nt Pl-nvl ...1

went there from Kokomo r.m..

ago, attempted to commit suicide by takmg poison the other night. The fact was discorered in time to save her

..s. cub rare no reason for tl...

tempt She has one child and her relatires reside in Howard county. Thk Kokomo nl.mt nf tv. 1

combine resumed operations in all dc-

r-iiuicuis me oiner morning after a

yUv-UUt.u oi uiree weeks on the order of General Superintendent George b. Sonl u-)in it i. ..... . .

i - "sTieirom rutsourffli. Mr. jseal has resign p,I I.; ct.:

, " i-uu, iu

vu.:i, reoruaryi It is under

sioou tnat each of the nine factories will be controlled by local managers

Joiix Meimevkis, a gardener, was in-

niueu oya street carar Terre Haute, lie stnrtdl tn .1 . .u.

, . . u.i.u owujj me track near tne fair grounds, when the car struck the horse and bupgy. He was thrown a coasiderable distance, and his neck broken. The horse wa also killed. At Franklin .Miss Mary Jones tva badly burned while lighting- a fire with wLmLsJhe ""IP"'' recover,

..... acurreu lor Hie.

O.v the charge that he traveled on a pass and collected mileage from the territory. Gov. Thornton of New Mexico, on the 14th. summarilv removed Col. Richard Hudson, of Silver Citv. as a member of the penitentiary board. REntESKXTATivE Isaac Wilso.v, democrat, of Xelson conn t-c KV li.i

the 11th, thus breakinß- the tie in the legislature.Senator Ulackburn's friends Ray there shall be no election of sen-

iw uu nsons successor is elected. Tire senate committee on naval affairs has decided to hold the hearings on the Chandler resolution to investiirate certain matters in connection with armor plate and other alleged frauds in the

J I w.a.uvft li(JT;il doors.

k UKfimtusT Cnssvo has appointed

utrijus, L.aureano villa. Neuva

Julien, iso March and Antonio Salzo

a commission to search the libraries in Venezuela for old data regarding the Guiana boundary, in order to assist the

Liniteu states commission.

IfoTii branches of the New Jersey legislature convened at Trenton on the 1 Ith. Organization was smoothlr effected by the election of Lewis Ä. Thompson president of the senate, and Louis T. Dcron.su rv'ibo

house, all the other officers selected in caucus being installed.

e estriri of IJ..., .... i.i.

.tviii . ll'JU

ens. admits having lost over S7O.000 of the amount placed in his care in stock specnlation. His bondsmen wl be required to make up the lots. A i.AitGE committee of representative St. Louisans, irrespective of polities, left that city, on the morning of

wie um. .for Washington, intent on capturing the Democratic national con-

teiiuon ior tne r uture Great. The Danish steamer Dania arrived at Copenhairen. nn tin. i?i, tr. s-

- . iiuui ..CIV Orleans, after a fearfully rough passage, in the course nf wH.M, ti, ......

tained extensive damages, and three of

uer crew were washed overboard and drowned.

Thomas C. Dc.v.v. ex-justice of the peace and defaulting secretary of the orth Side Uuilding and Loan association of lindlay, O., who disappeared last August with a defalcation of Si?,. OJK) in his accounts, was returned to Findlay, under arrest, on the 13th. Thk Memphis and Cincinnati steamboat Congo sank, on the night of the 12th, at Caruthersvil!.-. Mo., Memphis-

"""" -so lives were .osu A msi-ATtit from Johannesburg savs that atnomr thu momi

, , -'V, ,7 KJA. till" Jkl.

The dispatch boat Dolphin is do ing good service in making an accurate survey of the gulf of Amatique. where some uncharted sand bars had

ueen toueiied during the past year by

uviiLiin steamers run

to Puerto Kirrios. th

minal of the Guatemala railwav.

The announcement unc ..,.1..

tne H.th. that the liabilities of Kenn öutterlee .t Co., leather dealers and importers, of Philadelphia, who failed recently, will reach, if thv

..,1 ci An '

vvvn sn.WV.UIJU. A SEXHATio.v was created in St.

uuiins, 1., on the lGth, bv a statement in the official organ of the government that 1,000 families in St. Johns were without food, fuel or clothing.

I.v the joint session of the Ohio legislature, on the 13th, the minutes of the two houses were read showing that ex-Gov. Foraker had received c majority of the votes in each branch, and he was declared Wt...i r- 1

btates senator to succeed Calvin S. Urice. His term begins March 4, 1597. The establishment of a national military park on the battlefields in and around Vtcksburg, is the pur pose of a bill soon to lie introduced in the house of representatives. The proposed park will cover an extent of territory one-eighth of a mile wide by six mies in 1 length, lying to the east and north of the citv.

u rs hot,ycon tested fight before the Democratic national committee in Washington, on the ICth, Chicago won the prize of the national convention, which it was decided to hold in that city on July 7 next. The decision was reached on the twenty-ninth ballot, which resulted: Chfoatrn. sif r i

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i, um -inemnatt, 1.

"WiTiiix five days you may look for Aotne very important action by this

Koternment respecting Cuba," said a

jenueman who was at the White

uouse. on tne 15th. He added that the president and Secretary Olney were

K'vmg consideration to this matter.

- vuui, uotn uu the time for recognition of the revolutionists va.s close at hand. A tJisPATcu from Havana to Madrid, n the ICth, said that the reWs had ? ux Jff a,U ,a.cans üf '"'inieation ith the interior except by the short railroad from Havana to Tarianas Jhe telegraph wires wens all cut and the railway tracks torn up, and the

ith theoutlyinjr provinces was by means of steamship. r

1.. . .

mrni union arrested upon charges of l,ghItreason are Charles Utters, T.

. ivingana tapt. Mein, all American citizens. Mas. Charles Deax, of Topeka, Kas., left her small children alone In a rtKim while she went to visit a neighbor, nnd when she returned she found that some unknown fiend had removed the clothing from the youngest, an infant, put it on the ton nf r. w

ami lied. The flesh of the baity was cooked to the bone, and it was not

tsougni 11 could Jive. The sixth annual convention of the Stone Masons' International union 1mgan its sessions in Chicago on the 13th. Xa.ncv Davis, aged loa vears, died, on the 12th, at her home, two miles east

o, uaKiana uty, Ind. She had been blind for 1C years. Li Ycxo Yew, than whom none was

aUijuM:ii 10 oe closer to the powers that be at Pekin, has been peremptorily dismissed as Chinese consul-general in San Francisco, and his former Recretnry, Fung Yung Hun, temporarily appointed in his place. Speculation is rife in Chinatown as to the cause of the removal. The two branches of the general assembly of Ohio voted separately, on the 14th, for a United States senator to succeed Senator Urica. The votes indicated the election of ex.-Gov. For-

alter on the first joint ballot. 1 The battleship Indiana sailed from Jscwnort, It. I., on the 1411. f. ir.

ton Itoads, Va., where Admiral Dunce's squadron of evolution was still waiting orders. Chief-Justice Johv m v-u,.-

the Maryland court of appeals died suddenly of hca-t disease, at Annapolis on the 14th. He had lieen judge for 35 years. The Spanish isinmm. r.v..-

Hamburg forSpanlsh pwts, was sunk, on the 13th. near Csilnti v .. 1...

collision with an unkm.u'i. i.t ' ah

on hoard the Cise 711 U'uri. t.i,...f .........

the captain, mate and one passenger. The ship proceeded on her war. Chaxckm.oii Vox 11 flllLVt.h . .... 1...

1, , , , " r'. ' "behalf of the knur, oncn.xl 11,..

landtag, on the 15th, without any siw cial ceremony. Two huiHlrs-J ..nbera of the body were prcient.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The senate was not in session on the 1,tIl In the house the rum.

sion appronriation hill ..

. " ui uiu year endmg June 30, 1SK, was considered under the five

. uuu ifaaacu.

.. .-.s.d4 received trom the president asking prompt legislation to enable the attorney general to prosecute litigation in reference to the granting of patents to land lying within for-

ieuei nuiroad grants. The invocation m the chaplain's prayer that this government do what it can to aid in securing liberty to the Cubans was followed by a wave of applause. Ex-COXGHESSMAN- FltAXK LaWI.EU, Ol Chicago, died suddenly of heart disease

v,.. mcmii. no nan spent the night

oeiorc at a ball given for the benefit of the poor of his ward, in which he was a leading spirit. At the time of his death he was a member of the Chicago common council. Whkx Chaplain Coti-len of the house of. representatives iu his opening prayer, on the 17th, asked for the success of the Cubans in their struggle for liberty, there was a livelv outburst of handclapping all over the Uoor-an unusual if not unprecedented occur-

1 VIllU. Mis.es Minnie and Flora, aired li

.vuurs, Lwm oaugntersof .James Davenport, of Lafayette, Ind., died, on the

jowi, near nie same hour, of typhoid fiVlr. Hnt-ifor tl,..t is .

......0 kJlv;il mc!) iney nau never been separated from each other

over nignt.

im: Loudon Graphic editorially

usus; -ny not make the Monroe

.u-v-inue tne suujeet of a formal treaty

ucivieen England and America? Such

u ireuiy woum laeilitate the settle

menv 01 ltuure disputes, ' XlT f rLtr..,. sr I. .

K"'"g to make a

; touroi Australiaand India. Contracts

im oeen signed which bind him to

saw irom öan Francisco on June 21

next, at, tne conclusion of his engasre meiit in that city.

Faii.uhes for the week ended on the Kth, as reported bv It. G. n., u 0

were: tor the United States, 395, n.s

tiguiiisi, o..i ior wiecorrespondiiig week last year; and for Canada, SI, against

ri . .

issued an order disbarring from nrac-

sv. w.UiU luv "epariment, for viola

.u 1 uiu pension laws, David II

javis, 01 j norntown, Ind. fr .... . . .

xuK Army 01 u,c Tennessee hau taken up the matter of the erection of

some son, 01 a monument in Washing

,u" -"j tuiuiufmoraie tne life and

'je 01 uen. u. Urant.

The Terre Hauto Pno nt i, t .

ers I rotective association and business men of that city, are beginning to organize for the work of entertaining the national convention of the T P A., which will be held there in'tbe spring. LKAjfnnu S. Joxes, a farmer, near

ocisonrir, tiled deeds of assignment to Wm. M. Comer. Liabilities about s-,000; assets Sl,50a

he past year bv j . -,'A,ir i"A,!". of South Itend, tining regularly j ,as J"St ccn reunited with her sister, e Atlantic ter- I r- of Kansas City, :Mo., whom

. , ' Bill. IIHM T. f T . .

mm lur many years.

capt. J. D. Flakes, of Grccncastlt

attempted to kindle a fire with kero

sene tne other day and was badlv bHrned on bis handiand face. He

iut a nowinrr set nf wh UU ...u:.l

r ...j-u, j, mwcu jib had worn for 30 years in memory of an oath taken during the Lfncoln-Douglas campaign, in 1SG0. The firm of A. H. Gillespie & Co, Elwood. dealers in fruit of all kinds, has failed and closed iu doors the other daj-. What is thought to be the strongest gas well in the state was struck east of Tipton. It is the nronertv of th.

Eastern Oil Co. Thn

t pounds to the inch, and it is so strong j that the men hare been unable so con-

Abxeb Kooxz, aged 70, died the other mornintr at his home, near Wabash. Mr. Koonz was one of the oldest and most prominent residents of Wabash countv. barinr r-nn tn tu

r r k v.

cuuniy neany a nan century ago.

WATCHED THEM DIE.

ru. Itorrll.lr TmK.-dy ut Maryllle, K,. Wliirrlu Mr: Jim. Illlilil.rnmlt oned Iter i:iKht l lill.lrrn hik IUhkciI Jl'relf after l)rlnl.liiK Koni of tin. I-ndly Druuu-lit -Oii.. tif Ihn I. II. Iren SHrrlrr tu Tell the Story of tlu Tri. Maiivsvili.e. Iv!is...l.'. ir. sivmii.

F ! --.... v '. itaiav..

."uwieasL 01 tins eity, ns the crow Hies, 1 mother cnrefullr nr.i.-.r,wi ...i..i..

ner clijlit cliildron uui tlu ät

herself.

VICTIMS OP AllVWKsiTV 1 vi. ......

....... ar-(. -Mrs. llildebramlt WIK tri itik r$

0sepl1Hihlebra11dt.il C..rn... f,.r,..w

to whom adversitv nml innr.. ,...,ti,.

find come hand in hand. T,.,,.i.i i.ia

troubles, he bi

iml for tili sdioni1 Km,.. 1

from home, in Kansas City, for treatment. The famlle

with the rent of their farm, "id abject poverty stared them In the fi( iin,i..i.....i

.. wt.v; ui .111,4 i, mi) short of money to pay his expenses at Kansas City, and wrote home for more. His wife scraped together what money she could get and sent it to him. A wond request came for funds, and .Mrs. Ilildebrandt sold mi., nf ti... ,.,.,i.u

nnd sent her husband the proceeds. In Hie meantime, it is snf.l ti. i...,.n....i

began to press Mrs. Hildebrandt for bis rent money. It is mmmwi i...

- -------- v 1 t,stv streets here that last .Monday Mrs. Hil-

ueorama went to see John Tanireman.

a neiirhbor. nm ;...i

oan. When she iKf,n,.,i u 1

she turned away, complaining bitterly on1 un. ....... 0

..j.K uiat mere seemed to be nothing for her except death. Late Monday afternoon .Mrs. Hihlebrandt called her children about her.

"llPl Vie uau.v 1,1 u,e "nidle. and told tliem that their father was coming home that night, and she wanted them to all be in bed asleep when he arrived, so as not to disturb or annoy him. She said she had something that would make them sleep better, and she brought out a bottle filled with whisky.

one naiiued it to the first-born and he took u loiltr drinlr. n...... i i.s.

1 , "v ... mi; vimdrei, demurred, but she insisted upon their drinkiiiir. Afi.. 11 ....1

. -;r- --..v. .4iti Uli UHU dwnk of It she touched the bottle to tncbahvM lins. .....i i. it

d . -j - . .uav,4 111c liiiuur own it 1

MORE EXCITEMENT

WlHlrtwl Mllt...t

for ll,r.,u. Fri!, " Ä tlt Country. 1 u ,u"'i4t 1,

WATCHED 7 II EM DIE. She undressed nil ti... ..l.n.i

, , -"urn i;u illlll placed four of them !.. .1

in another bed, in one of the two downstairs rooms. She went fr.

a moment, and while she was absent the eldest lov whUm.Nui .1

oldest, Charlie, that thev had all been

poisoneil. 1 he mother returned to the

room walking- slowly. She sat down beside the bed. Soon the onlv sound tolns heard was the heavy breathing of her children or the moaning of the wind through the leafless branches of the many trees nliout the house. The brer.tb.inir of tin? ..;ii

........ 1 '..--! mu heavier and more measured. One bv " ry 1 r Ii k mi

.....1,.. j.nc nignt passed and the clock on the mantel struckflie hour of SIX.

Little Charlie, suffering agony untold, opened his eves nml 1

mother as she sat" by the bedside. She arose and. walking to him. stopped and asked him how he felt. "Worse," said Charlie, tears bursting from his eyes in that horrid chamber of death. The mother moved across the room and proceeded to eet

the whisky bottle. Sobbing and writhing little Charlie nlnmlixl n-lti. t.t.

mother not to ein him t .

whisky. Three IhkIIps rtrr?,i in ..1.

lay on the lieil beside him. In the crib

Jay seven-months-nlil VjIIii. 1,..

. - ......... ..v, unip doubled and her face ghastly in the gray, dull light that stole in at the window.

"Please, mamma, don't give methat " plended Charlie. "It won't hurt yon," nnd the mother took a deep draught. She smacked her hps after it, and handed the bottle to him. While the tears streamed down his face and unsivn immiu ............1

1,. , . r-sm.'ii iu if rasp I ns heart-strings and tug at them, he

VHICAdO. .Inn ic 4 ..

IH.eialsays: - " 0n "The report that the Hritkh .1 luatlro,, is to W Sl.nt ""J ' caused much .si.r,.,ic..,i .... l"r'l4

JhJ there is talk oiln llution in th0 ,lollsl) iusln oomnnttee on foreign affairs t, r " on -Mr. Livingston Vene , tions without more delay v 'ia" ""ti.m or denial of the Vr fTr' .squadrotrs movement is oht . , 'rou, authentic sources at l ! pat t.nent, but belief exists th ,' V'' nroli.il.K. 1 U1,lt t is

, . w. v. 1, ,1, proves trr., . the satisfaction of the department thought probable that' "i waters." " to VencS "I nave no doubt of theaecura. v the rep,rt that that Drlt.sh ti f, ; Miuadron is ordered to D,, ,lllllK -fc. id Congressman Living,,,, oflu-,.-. ,'. yesterday. Ho added; Mr

! 'ur(ii will gotheiu! lo Aenezuela. I knew it the other d, ? hen I offered my lesolutiou direet , it the president to check the Hritisi, advance and to compel them to w,tMiruW their reinforcements at their m.. zuela outposts. I tried so to mf .-rathe house but ltoutelle objected 1 -Mpiadrou will, I understand. cli..ke 1 payment of theS7,5(0 damage bili or (. resno ami tli

five millions in gold for the dispuu d tomtory. My information is rc.J

"How ahont the Venezuela tion prohibiting the transfer tory to another nation?''

, vivi- 1,11 hoius of dollars in p.:j, oaeked up by a crack Hritisi, squad! uoiuh American constitution." ,t.".V,hilt arc youifulnjf to do ab. at

I can do nothing till the forcer affairs committee makes its report, I Imt done I shall push my resolution direct,,, the president to stop ,i,is hostile action of Great Hritain. and I have no doubt it will go through the house like a Hash through a train f

"We have got to act. This nation cannot afford to permit the Vtne-

'ukhi ipiesuon to be settled

fonstitu. of terri-

Tiiebe occurred in IInr.w lt??'1 tu tlt them, he

other day the funeral of t 1 Z u "1. " ie lran UioUlvr

county's most famous cities. Cob "ji ! on U,e u i t Z " K "U M

I. A. Thompson. He died recently at his country home after a short illness of pneumonia. Col. Thompson, at the time nf his death, was paving- ltrger taxes than any other citizen in the county, with tho neat sum of gonon

securely invested. He was a prominent mason and tho fu Hfml ts....... .

conducted by that body. The following is the new democratic state central committee: First district, t. ll fcpweer, Evansvillc; Second, Iu wMlart,n' SPencen Third, Hichara 11. mllett. Lp.ivpi..-.i.. t.-

ti f.i,. urin,

-v -miucK, iirownstown: Fifth, trank A. Horner, Uraril: Sixth. K. M

llord, Shelbyrille; Seventh, Tom Tair-

tZ in V "l s; 'Jf ntn, J. J. Xetterville. Anderson- ViV. iv ir t..

ston Crawfordsville: Tenth, Wm, II Wackstock . Lafayette; Eleventh, Ruius .Macrce. Loirnnannrf T....i.i. n....

IL Marshall, Columbia City; Thirteenth, Peter T. Kruycr. Tlymouth. Chaiii,es Hixka. a v

' - tariiirr OI Uoonc countv. wan rilf-i,

h, , iu m cornusker and his arm badly crushed.

AJuisA 17H.L, 01 Knightstown, who took concentrated lye the othr

with suicidal intent, died t,

CTening.

At Plainfield. Calvin n...u

. .. unu, mine leedintr a corn.huKlrln ut

t ... . k luiiiiic jor Isaac Palmer, had hlalf . .

and it was so hdlv u .-.1 1 r

tt.. i 1 1. . u" torn t.iat it is believed amnutatfm. -511

. . '

Mips Lt'cv PuuriAwn- nt rri

ton, accidentally thm.t . .,..11

into her eve. destroying the sight. James Kediion-h. riiu. .

cui v-nanceticr. an nf virw..

, --- .vuiici.,ncnj

in Hrrcsteu thern nnon

returned bv the

,. , t r coinlast May murder Jn thatjclty

Tavloh Case, a T.n.i,r-.... r.i.

01 Matthews, is ennttnnti. ...1

veillanee to pr.vent him from injurinir himself and others. ir w. i .

lent hea 1 1, until a few day.; ago, ,vhen ins mind became mnalM.) t

ject of religion. sinM then he has poriods of frenzv.

CHAMHEIt OK DEATH. 11 was J2 o'clock noon Tuesday.whcD

vuaruc iiimeoratidt opened his eves. He was in dreadful pain. He weakly called for help, but there was no answer. Around him were the bodies of his dead brothers and sisters. His mother had disappeared. Uiarhc was too weak to rise, so he rolled to the floor from the bed and crawled to a bucket of water. He

T.111K to quench a burning sensation

... um mroai. ftoon

with nausea, and fell

lloor. Ior a long while he lay there nml when he recovered he arose unsteadily and staggered to the home of

. ciresi. neignuor, Krnest (ienjorlc

iiijorK was aione in the house

u nc quick, come quick." gasped

. "" orouiers and sisters

rouse.1, and lute m the afternoon the

IIUHMi WaS lllV.llIlMl. Till. .I.....1 l.,1!..

, ' v.... KiMIU.S

were placed on the flfnirin n e

of the children had died wltU

, Villi 1

arms ciasjKid about each pther. Mr.

oeiiwart went to tho stable to feed the

uorses. it was larlc in the stable, ami he struck a match. Ily its' feeble Hid, hcbeheldtheborlyof Mrs. llildebramlt.

ip.- biiih nur inroat held her to a

eross-oeam. Her toes resU-d on the

munter nooring ana ner knees almost touched the board. If

ditated that strangulation had come to

me um 01 poison.

... .. ... i.

t,. ... : . ...... ... .-.,,

ss...,. iKiiuminious manner. The auininistration may think it all right and in conformity with the Monroe d.,,trine to have Kur ...., : ,

1..-1 ... .. i..wiii.- imy land on this side of the water, but t,,n. gress does not, neither do the people, as will .shortly be proved to the sat.stionofcverylKHly.on this side and on the other side of the globe, as soon as Wl fri.f ..),........ ... . .

tion.'' v"""tv lu vulu ou the quesTHREE MPORTANT"mATTERS Con.lilrred by the llo.ue .luUlclnry Com. lulttei- Vet?nUy. WaSHIXOTOX. Jan. N Ti. t .

judiciary committee yesterday discussed the resolution of .Mr. Hoatncr. of Louisiana, looking to the Impeach-meut-of Comptroller Howler for his action in stopping payment of sugar bounties authorized by congress. nne not nnallv acted 11 ruin Si -

agreed to report the matter back to the house with a request that the committee be authorized to inquire into the powers of the comptroller and to report upon the status of laws under which he acts. The committee ordered favorably reported the bill of Mr. Curtis, of Xew

j "nt, 10 rctiuce the cases n u hich the penalty of death may Ih: indicted. Instead of death the measure provides for imprisonment at hard labor for The bill of Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee incorporating the supreme council of the thirty-third degree COttl.NU Kite illMSMMri' rW I.

ern jurisdiction, was also favorably acted upon. J HARRISON-DIMMICK. The Kz-rrrnlilrnt Formally Annoaure Ills Kiicm-rment to Mn. IMmmlck. XEW YOHK. .Inn 1 t'...n... !.i ....

,, . -----, - - k.x-i icaniL'lll) Harrison last night formally announced his engagement to Mrs. Dimmick at the Fifth-avenue hotel. There was a crowd of newspaper men and others about the hotel shortly before 0 o'clock when Secretary Tibbits appeared and handed them the .'ol-

"Gen. Harrison authorizes the announceiuent that he and Mrs. DimIllU'lf Jin. i,nfn I ... 1 , T

, " "-"i'n ! vj uv marrieti, anil 1 he was overcome that the marriage will not take nluce ill fainting on the u,,t,, aftt'r Lnt." 1 ..1.S1.. . .. I fV.1 Ttl.l.ti .

rciuseu to mrtlier discuss the announcement, and although the ex-president was un-sinl

at the time, he denied himself to all

newspaper men.

Col. Tibbits said t)mt Cm

would remain in tlm .!,.

öunilay, when be wnulil

aiHjlis, and from there to Washington.

CUBA HIS WATERLOO.

Gen.

Campt to Iitlr from Command of the SintiiUli Korrr.

New York. Jan. is ti... toii

Express prints the following dispatch from its Havana correspondent: "I am informed on miihiiritt- wlnVh

I cannot nuestlon thnt riintMin.Gi.ii-

tral Martinez Campos yesterday decided to retire frn tu tin !nrii tiim.il tf

the Spanish forces In Cuba and from the direction of th

" 0 the insurgents.

HAVANA NEARLY ISOLATED.

Communication with the Interior Cat Off

ny tne lnnurKrntii. , r .

.uAintiii. ,ian. it. A ,iu.,,i..t.

Havana says that the rebels have shut

uu mi menus 01 ciinmiin.rnif

.uiJll Willi

nie ulterior except liy the short rail

.in irum 1 invaim tu 'r.i.,M,. ...

...i , . " 1 no

icieerann wires are nil ,... 1 ....

. , -- - ,uuil 1110

-miwiiy iraciis torn up. and II... 1,.

means of ulllcial communication with tho outlying provinces 1..

, . " -. . . t..llUl

A NATIONAL BANK.

Stopped I'armrnt liy Order of the Comp

troller er tho Currency. Coi.UMltt'fl. O.. Jan. IS A n....al

from Portsmouth, O., saj-s that tho Farmer's national bank flf flint. ..If.f

stoimed navinentnt nnon v..wi..n.i..,. 1.,.

order of the comptroller of the curren

cy. 1 he only explanation that has

been given out is that the hank has oeen unable to realize on its securities in time to meet, obliimthm iximftur

steamship. The principal insurgent "-' The depositors will be paid la lea. ers are said to be going westward, I tnl as the assets far exceed the UublUwith eonrui's of mtmtt ions. ties.