Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 21 February 1896 — Page 6
WEEKLY COURIER.
C. X3QA2CK, lubllher.
JASPKU. .... INDIANA.
The regular session of the Hritlsh sarliaraont was opened on the nth. Rev. Dr. Sax ford IIcxt, agent o the Methodist publishing- house, NewYork, dropped dead In the Grand hotel at Cincinnati, on the night of the 10th. WAiutAjers were served on the entire city council of Clinton, la., on the 13th,
lor contempt ol court In not obeyingan order of the district court with reference to chunging tho grade of a street.
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Tun house, in committee of the whole, on the 13th, rejected, I tolls, the proposition of Mr. Long (rep.. Kits.) to coin the output of the silver mines of the United States at the ratio of 10 to 1.
O.v the 10th the president sent to the
senate the name of Kdwin F. ."hi, of
Michigan, to be ambassador cxtrnorIF. . . m ,
innary ana plenipotentiary ot mo
Unitetl States to Germany. The nom iuatlon was con tinned.
Repiseskxtativk William II. Cr. a is, of the Eleventh district of Texas, died in Washington city, on the 10th, of pneumonia, contracted at a ball, lie was in his seat on the lloor of the house as late as the Gth.
Tin: house committee on military affairs ordered a favorable report on a bill appropriating 15. s.) for the payment of damages resulting to property from the explosion of a caisson at Chicago during the riots in lslM. Sevkral socialists, including Herr Fisher, one of the socialist leaders in the reiehstag, were arrested in Herlin. on the 11th. up.m suspicion of having continued tho existence of socialist electoral unions, which the authorities
bad suppressed.
Bv tho bursting1 of a water pipe o Franklin Avenue hill, in Cleveland, 0., ! early on the morning of the 11th, scv. eral hundred feet of tho hill was ...... I..., ... MM... ......
ii.n.-iivn nut, i j. m; ono-siory fnune house of .Mrs. Mary Ravev. need
00, was washed into the river ami Mr. Ravey was drowned. Sti ni.l.vo Elliott, of Massachusetts, was elided president of the League of American Wheelmen at Ualtimore, Md., on the 11th, and Louisville, K'y., was chosen as the place for holding the next annual meet. Timm: men were killed and three scriouslydnjurcd in a collision between nu east-bound stock train and a west- ',
bound freight, four miles east of Fair- I
port, N. ., on tho 12th. Several horses were also killed. Tm: town of Waterloo, Ind., on tho Lake Shore railroad, was nearly de.
stroyed by tire on the 12th. loss was placed at SMl.oYO.
tor.VT niLUKi.il vox Hijiauck. governor of the province of East Prussia, and youtieest son of the aged ex-ehan-eellor. va, on the 12th, reported to be dying at Koenigsburg. Tin: tr.-asury gold reserve at the close of business, on the 12th, sto-xl a M.3T. a train fr th ot.-
second day's re-
CUBBEXT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IS BRIEF.
LIV. CONGRESS. (I"lrt Selon.) Tn k senate was not in vnin h e.s
In the hoim Mr. Tow no. a now mem tier Irnin Minnesota, nahe for
-rw cwimjrp. ana uroucht new anru-' nwms tottau;l of his contention, presents! In n etoqupitm inner that vecirnl for aim.
tiot been equallcst la the houic tor a l-8 tttuo. - ?lS.!Jl.:fi. Iwing the Air. CriHiniir . ...... t . ... ..I.. . .... - . .
' . , .. v.. f ..muv I. liCHrilti JÄM Iii oal spevh. atnl the .-cnuu fn-roiirat;o substi-' tute was iIUounn! until : Up is. w lieu .1 re-: cess wa taftn until eicht oV.o.-k ji m . ils I SMO bill OCCUDflaz the hour of th.
session. i
1 lx the senate, on tho !0ih. Mr. ;mift fv jü
raittlra lone rtvh r.n iho 'nnr.w.),np n 1
k U ich h look uitii
botft .10e ot tat ncisiloi r.nl tet-lavl there j
uu eTj-.Miv zur arm n 1 any I; in loo tu. , subject. Thi romsitul r nf ihn tikv hü uni 1
in niNcusfcittj; me joint r.ilutioa tllrrtln the serreuirj- of acricultarc to purchase ana illstribute MeK lor the year l'. ...'la the house th toail-frec-ctlnaL-. hill
eusHtMl until the announcement o: th tleaih ot Kojin .enutire Crata. of Ttsa. oui ot respect to wUoe racMory the hous? adjourned. In the keaate. on the llth. the urn fr ?..
purcha am! distribution of Us for the yent
was nBsi-fiJ. The urtrent A-tmnarv
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
Tm: national board of directors of the Travelers, Protective Association nf America has decided to hold the national convention at Terre Haute, on Tuesday, dune, 2, next. Mont SiiKnsr.l, a Huy laborer at tho mine, Jackson Hill, was caught in the chain pear of a revolving- coal screen and one arm was torn to pieces, and the other arm broken and badly lacerated. His clothes were torn from his bodj. lie 5s not expected to live. John I)ii:kox, ex-county treasurer, atred S3, and pioneer of Decatur county. dropied dead the other day. He was a member of the petit jury now in session. .-.-I.......'. ...... .f . 1 V . . a
.iri.i.i.it..ii,.r 1. it. .OlTT, Ol the Ft. Wayne Klectric -street railway, died a few days :-'o of obstruction of
He had been ill only one
DUN'S TRADE REVIEW,
A DESPERATE LOVER
The total . tle bowels.
week.
ce.pts of ohl from the new bond "issue
1 UK tHwirtt ol directors of the National Association of (Jeneral Secretaries of the V. M. C. A. decided, on the li'th. to call the annual convention of the organization to meet in Cleveland., 0..,h.ue ;, to '.. About five hundred freneral secretaries, representing the Tailed .States and Canada, will attend. At 12:30 p. m.. on the 12th, the calendar of the New York state assembly was suspended in order that the clerk mijrht read to the house the memorable speech of Abraham Lincoln on the battle field of Cettyvbur. and the house th-n took a recess out of resoci 1 .1... ... . . ... a. 1
in iut- ttiviii iiiszinirc s iiiriH.i-i.-
va tal.-eft up. nml its dLscussioa ocrup.eJ th anniverserv.
calif nJarw-rlemrelo: measure rtm A . . 1 famo'' "effro jockey, Isaa,
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Thomas McC.vrsLix. acred 7:, one of
the most prominent members of the bar
in eastern unio, elicit at his home in Stctibenville on the 10th, He was a law student of Edwin M. Stanton, and
bad filled the ollices of state's attorney and state senator.
Lor.n SAi.isnt-RV. in the house of
lord, and lit. Hon. Georpre N. Cnrzon,
parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, in the house of commons, on the
12th, presentetl concurrent statements
liueuoeu 10 Celine the procedure of a settlement of the Venezuelan dilliculty. Tiik birthday of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated as a lecal holiday in Xew York state, for the first time, on the 12th. The public institutions, schools, stores and nlaii4 nf Imsinnu
were closed, and many patriotic socie
ties met to tio honor to the memory of the martyred president. Tiik porte notified the foreipn diplomats, on the 11th, that the Turkish government had agreed to prrant amnesty to the Armenians who are in possession of Zeitoun, but demanded that those amon them who are members of the Armenian revolutionary committee shall be expelled.
the District of Colttaibia ooacltioo. oo-uk's-Ins a Jai-s number of bills. Tlit? rema:svler of the M's-ioti was devoted to the furtber discus-si)-, of the bwd-sil'cr-coinpce bill.
IS the senate, on the l.'th. Mr. Ilinshroarh s bill mäkln MseoInN birthday. February I.. a national lejfal holidar. was Jim on th point of passaKe by unanimous coavent when Mr. Han-ley (Conn.) Interposed aa objection, on th" rround that there was danger of runtiine toaa extreme In the niAtter of xraWic holidays, and the matter was rtropjed. A bill tor a memorial brldcc across tho Potomac froa the naval observatory p round. WashJn;tan.to the Arliiifton fstat. vn pas-s -d. Tüenn-eat deUrlency bill tias tuea talcea up .. In the amuse.
senate joint resultuiua approqrlatlns ;;. kJ to pay th jolui f vjH'a-.'s th survey of the boandnry line hetw-e-i A! iska aa the Ilritish 1 sCfcsHn- was passe i. rfc,. renaatiifW ot the seHon and the ntifht session iras !e voted to this dlseussion of the sram. fri mini....
anianiiineut to the bouse Uoai bill.
lJUhe senate, on the !3th. the u-rentdofl-
eier.cv bill, carrvlac appropriatloas to the amount of it'O.9t0 was passed, and the inllit rs avpropriatiofi b!U was taken up and heran" the iunu!shfi' buuinesv 'Cht P
railroad irobletn was further cons uir red with
out material action. The renti;ilnnu na ihn
subject of Coba were taken tin. hot tv kihuui!
went over for the day . . . . In the hmise. tn committee of the whale, nnneor.curranee la the senate free odnagu amendment to tho hou.se twHlflWI was recommend 1 -t'jd -,i sn
eral protwed amendmeati Wf.ro. vn!r1 i!.il,'ri
1 n report of the committee on elections So. S. upon theontcst of Van Horn vs. Tarsnoy.
rrosi the Fifth Missouri dislrirt In fnrn- .f
Mr. Van Horn, was presented by the chairman.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,
Tun prince of Wales, the duke of York, the duke of Connaug-ht. the marquis of Salisbury, and other distinguished personages were among- those present in the üritish house of lords during the reading of the queen's speech on the 11th. The princess of Va!es v.-as in the peeresses jrallery. Ox aerolite exnloded at an estim.itil
altitude of twenty miles above tho city of Madrid, on the loth, which left a fjreat white cloud in the sky. The concession shattered hundreds of panes of pkiss in the city and pro.hieed a sensation resembling an earthquake which caused a great panic among Unpeople. Tiik American Iliscuit Co. held its annual meeting in Chicago on the 13th. The reports showed that the usual dividend of six per cent, had been earned and paid for the year. The company has 40 bakeries in 12 states, and an authorized capital S10.000.0CU The total sales for thj past year amounted to f.,000.000.
O.v the 12th the German government issued a White book, containing the letters which had passed between the government and Count von Hätzfehlt, German ambassador to Great Britain, on the subject of the troubles In the Transvaal, and also the teleUrams sent by the emperor to President Kruger at Pretoria. Tub steamer Alfonzo XIII. arrived at Havana on the 10th, having on board Gen. Valeriano Weyler, the new captain-general of Cuba; Xicolau. marquis of TenerifTe, and Generals Enrique. ISarges. I'erderico Ochando, Miguel Melquiso, Martinez. Ahumada, Luis Castelloi, Sanchez, Itcrnnl and Juan Arolos. the latter being the hero of Jolo, Philippine islands.
A dispatch from Madagascar, on the 11th, said that a force of 4,000 Horas made an ntttack upon the French soldiers stationed at Antananarivo and wi re repulsed. The French followed up their advantage sind killed .1,000 of the Hovas. Fourteen of the Hova chiefs Were taken prisoner, condemned to death and immediately shot be vera I others were transported. Wllll.K fighting fire at the residence of Mr. liollitishend. a wealthy resident living near Stroudsburg, Pa., on the Uth. desse 11. Palmer, 24 year old. lost In life by a chimney falling on him. Mr. Hollinshead. his wife and tlw.ir twoehildrcn had a narrow escape from being burned to death, nnd a fireman, wiio was going for a doctor, was thrown from his horse and fatallv in-jured
Pi'- CoitXKi.if.- Gkorok Comkovr. n
prominent physician of Cincinnati, died, on the 10th, aged SO years. His father was governor ot Delaware, and bis brother a United States senator. Tiik American line steamship St. Paul, which recently went ashore at Long Hranch, sailed for Newport News, Va., on the 10th, to be docked for examination and overhauling1. Caudixal Satoi.li left Washington, on the loth, for an extended tour of the southwest to hist nearly a mouth. Iff 1t"l t lIlWK.HlMfll.xl 1 ... f.".. t 1.
ban, librarian of the Catholic unircr-j ""M' ary sitv. I !,mi lu I,rw
Tin: one hundred and tenth annual t
meeting-of the Associated iJaily Newspapers of Ohio, was held in Columbus, on the 11th and 12th. Steps are being taken to orsanize a large cavalry brigade for immediate wrvice in Cuba. Considerable difficulty is being experienced in securing the necessary animals, as a great number of them have been corralled by the insurgents. Ix the trial of policy cases before Judge Sage, of the United States circuit curt at Cincinnati, on the Uth. It. .1. Cowan was given two 30-diys sentences in jail for contempt in refusal to answer questions, and J. C. Walker was given sentences aggregating V.H) days for the same olfeip-e. A TUAix on the Great Northern toad waswrecked nearClarissa.Minn., on the 1 1th. Two coaches went down an embankment. NoIkxI.v was killed, butnll the ?. passengers aboard were mom or less injured. Col. Isaac IL Hill, assistant ser-geant-at-anns of the house of repro sentatives, who had been reported critically ill, was very much better, on the 11th, and the indications pointed to his recovery. Tiik handsome residence of ex-Comr.-
troller of the Currency A. C. Matthews, one mile west of PitLsuVld. 111., w-asde.
stroyed by lire on the morning of the 1 11th. The house was built by Col.
koss, latiier-in-iaw of Mr. Matthews, and cost over S2.1.000. HlXKiTsr TsTo.utr. a Japanese, was arrested at Danville, Ind., on the lltli, on eight indictments, charging- him with violating the liquor law. Ho came to this country to be educated at Dopa xnv university. lttiiior.AKs went through the residence of Gov. Matthews of Indiana, on the night of the 11th. and stole 812 in money and the governor's gold witch. They entered the pantry and helped
themselves to the pastry and other edibles. At a meeting of the radical party of tho Ilritish house of commons, on thö 11th, St wis decided to support tho general principle of arbitration in any differences arising- between Great Urltain und the 'Jiiitcd Stales.
iantic to the Pacific, and who had rid
den to victory some of the most famous horses in America, died, on the 12th, at Lexington. Ky. He left about one hundred thousand dollars to his widow. Li Hl-.no Chaxo and Shas Yu Lien have been appointed delegates to represent the emperor of China at the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II. of Ilussia at Moscow. Ox the 13th. railroad employes at Topeka. Has., discovered that Josenh
i.ove, a suawnee county farmer, had. to save passenger fares, packed his three children, aged seven, tune and eleven years, in n box for shipment Infreight to Guthrie. Okla. Love pleaded poverty and a stranger advanced him money to buy ticket for his little ones. Tiik American line steamer Paris fr.mi New York, February sunk the
Wrul steamer Her Majesty while dnekinjrherat Southampton on the Kith. A, the Parts swung around her rudder struck the smaller vessel, sending her to the ltottotu. A itKiimrfrom Itri-bane, Queensland, on the Kith, sai l: "a passenger steamer capsized ia the Hrisbane river, in Queensland, and 4') of the persons v. h i
wore on ooani ot her were drowned. -AnvicEs from Corea. on the 13th, Kiid that the Corean rebels had overpowered and killed a small party of Japanese soldiers who were guarding the telegraphic lines. Jacksox and Walling, the alleged murderers of Pearl ltrvan. wer., in.
dieted by the grand jury at Newport,
ivy., on mc I3tli.
LATE NEWS ITEMS. 1 UK senate wa-. n.: in session on the Mtli. .. .In th.-house The hmg debate ovt-r the senate free-eoinagesubstitnu-fr the house bill authorizing bond sales to maintain the gold reserve; sales uf treasury certifbntes tn mw.
detiuiciic.es in the revenue.
ovide additional revenue f.ir
the treasury, uas terinit.ated, and the substitute was rejected by a vote of 2t. toll). Twenty-live republic.! :s democrats, one silverite and all the populists present voted in favor of free silver, and Is republicans und .11 democrats against it. A night session w as held for the consideration of private
pension uiiis.
Tom McMAiiox.a tool-dresser, on the Kvers lease, one mile uth of Montpelier, was caught in the cable the other morning and was whirled with lightning speed around the cablo shaftHe was killed almost instantly. WiiiLi: leading a team of blooded horses to his shop. George Dooley, a Sullivan blacksmith, was perhaps fatally injured by being kicked on top of the head. It has been discovered that a diamond and an opal ring svorn by Pearl Ilryan when she went to Cincinnati did not return to Greencastle with the corpse, and the family assert that they were taken from the dead body by the murderer for the same purpose that the head was severed, to destroy the possibility of identification. The corpse will not be buried for several days, In the hope that the missing head may be found. Tm: grand council of the P.oyal Arcanum will be held at Richmond ia April
KiciiiioxD has passed a dog ordii nance, and will dispose of every ca- ' nine that is caught without a check. Hox. E. It. IIkvxolds. of Hägers- , town, is again a candidate for the legislature from Wayne county. A LOUOK of the Improved Order ' Knights of Pythias was" instituted at Terre Haute the other day. and included in its membership many German-speaking citizens of that city. ' There are now seven lodges in the . state, four in Indianapolis, and one each in Evansville, Muncie and Terre , Haute. Ixdiaxapoi.is police were looking the other day for a prepossessing worn- ' an. who went into a cloak store there the other morning and offered a , 51,000 chcctc in payment for a SHOO seal skin cloak. She became very indig- : nant because the store delayed deiiv- I ery of the parcel on various pretexts ' until the bank could be consulted. When the messenger returned he reported that the woman had 2,000 on deposit. The woman, however, had : gone out angry. She returned in half an hour and said she had been hasty in her auger, and as she could find no other garment that suited her so well, she concluded to take the one she had looked at. She again proffered the check for S1.0J0, received "the coat and
5700 and departed. Then the checkwas sent to the bank for collection, but the woman had been there in the meantime and drawn out all of her money, Mr.s. Xaxcv Wirk died at the home of her daughter in Columbus, the other night. She was almost eighty-Sve years old, and had for many years lived in Columbus, and was one of the pioneers of the county. Wx. II. Ititowx, a shoe dealer of Logansport, made an assignment, the other day. Liabilities about 54.500. It is beWered he will be able to pay dollar for dollar. His stock is worth nnle
MiimImc 1:i-iiIi fr the l'n.t Wrrk, nnd rrHet fiir 1 he Week 11 Ciiine - MVhI Iter, t lieii-, of ."Munry and I'rolmiKrd
anuciutii ir once, CuiiiUliK' to Ketaril ICeiUul of Ilu.lur... Nkw Yoith Feb 15. U. G. Dun A Co. iay to-day: Failures for the first week of February were S4,07,fiS0, against S-WW.MK) last year: manufacturing S2.3T2.2.T.3, against S72t,3IS last year aad SL.VJI.072 in 1S1H), and trading $1.020,427, against SL931.&U last year and S2.lsT,.SSr. in 1M4. Failures for the week have. Iwen 321 in the United States against 270 last year, and 07 In Canada against 51 last year. The weather still hinders business, also continued closeness of money nnd prolonged inaction of congress; but contidence increases. There is a little demand for some manufactured tirikl-
uets. Exports imnrove with viebline-
ek, nnd Sh' lMwrt d HeruU,,r MVnth- ft"' lto ill. WM . . -lOlIliT lauil !... 1 "a
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t nxTinM, ,,; la.. IVb. 1. Mrs ' J. Mur- u uu lherdau-Hter. L--a M, . in the suburlH of this, town at ,; od. Inst ovening by Uvorgc Jones, wh afterward killcnl Inmst-lf. There inysicry surrounding the affair. J.. had iKvn for a iooff time a lover of XUv girl, both are of good fatuilin and there wa no reason for the belief tie , luul truiible. " J l-il evening Jones went out t. the home of the Martins and was last s,,-a as he left the strwt car. Half an h..r later the tntgetly ivearred. There was uolMHly in the house hen Joaes went there, but the firl rtn.l
mother. The five shots thai were fiJd
prices of staples and for the wlc from " u ", ' , Vt VWU J
New York exceed last year's .11. per , ti,, Li V . ,K"wf'wn;,.WB cent.. wliHo iuq.rts have increased 15 I Piginmat the east and at Cliicago 1 hole bnier 'oI- 'i "lrl,,1!od ? "'"!t has not advanced. .Southern compel!-! 1V" ' Wrhr'
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( tUtl cnuttnues :it nriciK snl.m- Inn ..f
eral Alabama furnace have stopK'd, but Dssemer is a shade lower at Pittsburgh. The demand for plates, sheets and wire nails continues fairly good, anil there ar. more orders for railroad ears and bar iron at Chieairo, but no further sales of rails appeared, and the
KL-jii.iuii uir iiiusiiuo nrvMiueis Keens
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"reura" aim also in the breast, awl had lioen killed instantly bv the hut t in the head. , Junes appears to have gone t.i the house, and after shooting the two u.imcn went outside, cnsinfr tho street, and shot hiniMdf Infore the neijrhbors came. He tired a ballet
Irom ins 3s-calHKT revolver int..
eionloved.
The coke output is again much re- , duced. Copjvr. is a shade firmer, while tin aud lead are nut active and unchanged. The demand for bonis and shoes is ! still disappointing. Some makers get good orders for women's light shoes, ( but others scarcely any: ami lioston shipments thus far are 21 percent, less than last year. Textile work shows little change, though the cut in print cloths and general concessions in brown anil bleached staples, averaging for the , whole list ii six per cent, siace January 1. induced more buying. v)llilt tit.. Ln.ii,t, ...., ..In t... . v
goods ahead af demaml has hindered, i s.- x . ,,, . . S
H-v lore nuns are reporting ?reat profits lastyear fmrn the rise of cot- 1 ton, but the prospect of a larger erop 1 this year does not promise n. repetition of such gains. Though goods still average 12.7 per cent, above their low-, est point a year aga, cotton is now 41 percent, higher than it was then. Sales of wool have been small fr two weeks of February, but higher prices abroad, sustained by heavy shipments of goods to this country, incline holders of wool here to make no concessions, so that manufacturers have more difficulty in meeting competi-
lu.n. Produce markets have tended downward mainly because supplies exceeded expectations. Wheat lias declined three-quarters of a cut: corn is a shade lower, and both pork ami lard a little lower. Cotton receipts, at this season never large, still indicate a supply for the current cron vear.
including stocks brou-rht over, much
was found his heart had hanllv eeavl
beating. Lea i still alive, but losing strength fast, and cannot possibly live. Every effort has been made to bring her back to consciousness, so that she might tell something of the t raged v, but it will avail nothing. W. J. Martin, husband and father o the two women, is a doctor and coroner of Appanoose county. He had no family except daughter and wife, and was a way from home when the tragedy occurred. He L prostrated by the shock aud very sick, although not in danger.
FOUR LOCOMOTIVES
uiattied In a Collision t'aael brau Opea
Switch. PlTTaFIELI. Mass.. Feb. 15. lour
engines, valued at cJ0,O1K each, were badl,- smashed in a wreck at the ioeal 3ard of th. Iterkshire division of the Consolidated road yesterday morning. TheGrcal Harrington local ran through an open switch and the train, consisting of engine, baggage ami Jwo pas. sengerear.s, plunged ahead on the sh.-rt stretch of traefc, plowing into three locomotives, one stauding- on a t:ira table aud one on wich aide. Engineer Georg-c Se.-ley, of CJreat Harrington. whowasrunningthetra:B. cscajjHfd with a few braises, ilrerna Lntih Able, of Gr.Kit P.arrintoa. hjd a hip fracture 1 and received a 2 od M'jlp w ound. Fireman Kuchlow, ho was underneath the engine on :he table, oiling it up. had several ribs broken. The forward end of the luggage car was te!eseoHl by the entire
fceiiuer, out 1 lie nag-ga reman es..-ajHL
, about S2..-.00, but Mr. Drown has turned ! in ail Iiis other property and some . stocks. ' Dksviti: the persistent efforts of his attorneys ex-Trustee Adam Forney, of ' Adams township, Madison county. will ' be held to answer to the charge of perjury in the circuit court of that county. The other afternoon Judge Ellison decided against the pica of his attorneys to quash the indictment The j case is one of almost criminal neglect ; of the business affairs of the township
in wtnea ocorge W. Kay is implicated.
A norm thousand unemnloved Poles Thc township was plunged into debts
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........ ..... vui luciiiiiiuuii', ror ' ney never rendered any connected ac- . count of his transactions and swore to
his final report as trustee, a false and
gautcreu at the sub-office of the street department in Duffi.lo. X. Y., on the 14th, and demanded work, threatening trouble if
police wore sent for, and the crowd ! ""heading statement
iiiiMMrscu. öomi! of t 1
in excess of the world's needs, so that . J m passengers were badlv shaken ls
the prospect of increased acreage has antl me slightly bruised. si! "m pTur ,to lcPrss i,r.ic's; a"'1 ! marked""Än "epoch spot cotton has declined an eighth for j wwn the week. Exports in January were Kducai Imnat lll.ior of i.rn.V S,ti.3.5r; less than last year, though Inauguration of Clutoc-lUr .Marino, prices were 45 iht cent higher. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 15. Yestrrdar Stocks were lirst a little depressed by , marked an epoch in the cd a rational heavy realizing- since the sale of ImhhIs, ' history of Nel raska, participate! in and the money market has not yet fully by leaders in that line of work and ettled. The business of railroads is prominent citizen, of the state. The large enough to justify lctter results. ; programme proper of the exerrises inEarning.s for the first week of Febril- , cident to tho inauguration of Channry were ..Ö per cent larger than last eel lor George E. Ma -Lean of the year, and January reports are the best State university and the celebration of t.ince September, showing 10.S per cent the charter day of the same htstiiaover last year. tion c-Hiimcueed yestenlav afternoon
. ui tuu .musing tJifstter, whea aa .audience that packe 1 the tem- ( pie of amusement almost to I the iHint of suffoiatioa greeted ! C. N. Morrill, president of the ban! " regents, as he aroe to deliver the ora- , tion inducting the cbaueellor into of-
lice. The theme of the cliancclkir's address was the deve:opmeiil of the American State university. At the conclusion of the inanjcural exercises a collation wa serveilatthe Hotel Lincoln, followed last evening by a reception to Chancellor and Mr. Mac Lean. MADAME FONTANE BESSON,
of them fintu.iir.'.i
later at police headquarters und state.i
uiai iiieir lamilies were starving. Mit. Sophia WiuTTL-x, a tntpezist, professionally known as Lola Silvester, died at the Massachusetts General hospital in Itoiton, on the night of the i nk. from injuries received bv a fall from the dome of Keith's theater. Mrs. Wliitten was born in England .12 years ago, and had been in the trapeze 'business for Hi years. Skcukiahv or tiik N.vvv Hkkiikut was before the house nnval cummittoi for 2'j, hours, on the Uth, in relation to the promised increase in tin tiavy Ho renewed the recfimmcudation made in his last annual report for
iwt new oaiiiesntps and 12 torpedo boats. Gi:ouon 1'Ai.MKit.of Wakarusa, Iml. disagreed with his wife to whi'the.a gnu which was lying- ' a eupboar was loaded. Mrs. Pajmerdeelareil tha' it was not. and in attempting to take it down the gun was discharged, tincontents tearing her husband's hand from his body. Pinxci: CoxsTAXTiNi; Hohhnloiii:SriiiLLtxoMTJMT, brother of Prince llolienloho, chancellor of the Gennxif.
empire, grand master of tho court of the emperor of Austria ami a general of cavalry in the Austrian arm v. died in Vienna, on the 1 Ith. at the
I Of 07. "
Mit 1 111CKr.1u.vo, of New York, from tiie committee on waterways and canals, on the 14th, reported to the house his bill providing for ascertaining the feasibility and probable cost of constructing a ship canal from tho great lakes to the Hudson river.
The annual mcctin? of the Soeietv
j of Indiana Florists was held in Itich- ! mond thc other day. Arrangements J were made for thc annual Chrysanthej mum show at Indianapolis, and officer I were elected as follows: J. S. Stuart, 1 Anderson, president; Henry Ricman, j Indianapolis, vice president; Kobcrt , McKcan, Indianapolis, secretary; F. j Huntington, Indianapolis, treasurer. ; John Connaup. for stealing- buggy robes r.t a protracted meeting at Nevada, and John lllakc, for robbing a clothing store at Tipton, were each sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. A cask has just been compromised ut Richmond tvhich has been in the courts 12 years. Samuel Iteplogle sued the Home Insurance Co. to collect a 81.300 policy on his barn, on which he had another policy without the permission of the company. The case went to the supreme court twice, and was finally settled by thc company paying Mr. Keploglc So). Loins Stahu and Perry llurrcll, arretted in Vinecnncs charged with burglary, pleaded guilty in lite circuit court, and were sentenced to two
years each in the state penitentiary Tin: condition of Hon. J. N. Hurton's health is still looked upon ns being serious by tho physician. The shock to thc business interests of Conncrsvillc catttcd by the closing of the Citizens' bank has practically subsided and the other bank aro booking new defiositors. Tin; New Albany woolen mills hare closed down, owing to the failure ol the company to effect a reorganization.
I DOUBTLESS A FILIBUSTER. j Tim Steamer CoiniiiixKirr Sill South with Amt. Aaiiiiuiililuit antl Store. WiLvixoTox, N. C, Feb. 1.-,. The steamer Commodore, the rce'Mit confer of which hascre.ited mum interest in Cuban and Spanish as well as ia American circles, steamed from out thisharbor last night with clearance papers indicating that sue was lund for Charleston. Her erirgo. wtiich is in part of arms and ammunition, with a Considerable quantity of stores, lea Is to the impression that she is elsewhere Iround. Though she left at an hour approaehing midnight, there was a small crowd on the docks to bid her bori voyage." and they cheered her as she left the port The Commodore returned the compliment with the conventional marine blasts of the whistle. The Commodore carries a crew compliment to a vessel of her class and is commanded bv Capt. Hughes, of tlte Lauradn. One of her endtieers Is A..(f
Smith, who was chief engineer of the llrazilian warship Nicthroy.
THE
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Chargcf! Mllh Kol.Wrv j.n.1 Ircrtlnc HT llusliamt. I)lcliarc-f! from Cat,t. Loxnox, Feb. IT,. Madame Fontane lesson, the wife of a manufacturer of musical instrument in New York. 1-ondon. Paris and St. Petersburg, who, in Octolmr last, was arrested in Seville, whither she had Med with a Spaniard, and extradited to England on a charge of havinir roblod her hu-
band of XtOO.OOU worth of sccuritiV-s. was discharged from custody yesterday morning. On IewuiberlMadame
STEAMSHIP ELDORADO, i ,1" Ti Wrtl iW. d the hearing of her case was consequently
ml t Itpnieu lor a montn. In t be meantime she äs placed under T.0'Ai bail,
winch was furnished by herself.
.'lorRaii I.lnr. Itoiiuil Out, Acrou
car Itedloe Ijnil.
Nr.w Yohk. Feb. 1.. The Morgan! line steam.sliip Eldorado rati aground ; just below lk'dlw's island. She is a j freighter plying lietweett tliis jxirt nnd New Orleans. She left her dck Thürsday night, and last her course in the heavy fog. The company's agent sent '
Ii; to nur ii-sisianee, nut iiothino-
THREE WORKMEN KILLED Anil Threw latallr Injiirrd an i:plloti In a Saw 111IIL
Wix.ton, N. C, Feb. 13. A
fatal
Iwiler explosion occurre! Thurs4lay evening at J. H. Plununers sawinill.
can In-done toward iln.-iim.r i,.. 1.:.. ! t..ni,lil,.L,..,ii,,v...i..r j,i,r.. Thi.
the high tide, when s workmen were killed and three fatally . -.1.1.. 1 T i 1
mightcr until the hitrh
they expect Ut lie able to pull her off.
wounded.
A TERRIBLE STORM llnr (Sreiit Ilam:i;n In thn Oil VMti ot Ohio. CLirVKLANi). 0.. Feb. I.'.. A
Hie Press from Itowlittg (in-en, O., ! bay.; For four hours a terrible storm I has been raging: in the oil JLdds, doing much damage. The heavy wind " that jirevailcd ban leveled many der-' neks to tlte ground. Ice and snow has i
uroiten oown telegraph wiro. and all comttumiejition with the Ihurkeye Line Oo.'s yump station has Wen cutoff in imiuy ytvt of the Held. The loss in Wood county alone will reach S?0.(KX.
RADICAL MEASURES
Is
Will soon im .loil-I hy tWn. IVrjIe
C'nha. Mapicih. 1'eb. 1.. The correspondent of the luiparcial lelegraphs from Havana that Gen. Weyler will shortly publish two st rongiy-f rained deer cxteiiilinff military jurisdiction to the mere knowledge "f certain offens, und delegating- judicial functions to military olllcurs. Thc correspondent expresse lnrlief tlwt as soon asHfe beennes impossible to them in the country district the neutrals and cowards will be guarded in thc towns.