Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 February 1898 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

V. DO A MC. I'ulilUh.r.

JASPER.

INDIANA

t t " w-v --v a t a r-m r i AAA

rtöKUAK X ICO.

A rrciAl. cablegram from Sun .low do (Guatemala, on the '.'tu. announce! the assassination of President Harri.. 14 a . in added that i aim prevailed. 9

, In; original IV Low letter is in

MOIMariMI of tin- administration wn tuk.n to Washington, on

bth. und turned over by a represent live of the ( ulmn junta.

the

ISyi. Hos. Tmi. ted. ThurJ Frl. ! Sit. M I , I t ! 2 3 4 5 i a I " I ! jfjj 7 8 9 "JÖ1TT2 I j 20 21 22 23 24 ( 25 26J 27 28 see J I I

OnuhMmo Moxaum, mm t j see- riiir) nuv rn rrkiiio retery of war ander O Berrioa, sod IJ 11 ii A 1 UM It O.

later hoa.l of the unMlivcwnil rcocuion against the dictator, has Inven declared

president of i iuctamaht.

TUE NEWS IN BRIEF.

FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

On the "th Senator Allen, of Nebraska, offered as an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill the Morgan resolution for recognition of the belligerency of Cuba. A MKMHKHof the reorganisation eotumittce of the I'nion Pacific road in New York city, on the Hth. said that company had luade no formal offer for the Kansas Pacific property, except tinoriginal bid. At a cabinet moot ing. on th. th.it m decided to send two eoiupani. of Failed states troops at Dye and Skaguay. Alaska, immediately, for llio puris se of preserving order and protecting life anl property. ... . ., 1 1. ,.,

OX the lot li inairutau . lhal lt W 4S tlK. rik.h, lf p,.,. of HawaU Ohii senatorial investigating commit- M,;l u-t ;i th.-ir own form of tfovernni. nl. and

ttt- issued sttbn.rnas calling Senator the Pu.t.-.l sut. oiurht m ti wive to interfere

Hanna. Maj. Dick. Maj. K. U. KathIsmo. Harry M. llaugh.rty and s. U. llolleubeck before the committee.

THUwnai r not In session on the 6th.... In th.' ho t-f at t : op .niuj of the s'Hv.on. Mr. Kou ( irop , lnJ.1. euatrui.iri of the Committee on Kivtiouv No prosonte.1 s resolution declariutf klHM inthfeont.'vt SOtVSSa Samuel Hudson an I Win M.-Al.-.-r ..f Petuisy I vauu. for a sent iu the nous. Mr McAle.-r : entitled lo the scat. Without ilivivion the revolution and report of th.' couituittee wav adopted. A bill grantln: to the .ci.f. . ' dorado A Santa I V Railroad Co.. the rU'ht to construct a branch of its railroad hi the Indian territory wu passed, also s senate bill authoruait? the Muvkuiree Coal 4 Hallway Co. to IWWI ami operate a railroad through MM Indliti territory The h.oive then went into committee of the whole snd resumed consideration of the foriincatlonii appropriation bill, which was passest Is the senate, on th''7ih. no business of Iroportance wav transacted. Mr. Morgan (Ala.) offered an uni -ndment to the n-volution previously offered by Mr. White (GsL). dftclarlag

.1 amks K. Kkkxk shipped several race horses to Kngland n the Atlantic tr.iiivjH.rt liner Minncwaska. on the 7th. Thev were: C. ,,-k BoMb, Kavt. r t;ift. Match oirl. Btoalüaf Bride, Maid of Erin and a bay filly, all throo-year-uliis. (."ait. bWBi in comiuand of the Alert, cabled the navy depart meiit, n the Mh. that ho had landed marines at .Sau .luan del Stir. Nicaragua, for the protection of the Amcri. an i-onulato. owinif to the fact that a revolution had broken out there. lUitox (.1 i vvk VBM IHM. lh itenant in Kmperor William's hussars, wav hold up by a woman on the levee in ( hioajro. on the ?th. and robU-d of Ho. The bar. .ti s identity wav revoalofl when he apin ared in the police court U pros'cutc the woman TilK political rights of employe of the post uftice depart ineut. under the civil service reulatious. are dealt with in an important communication received, on the 7th, from First As.vivtant I'ovtmavtor-O. ncral IVrry s. Heath, bv Postmaster Char lea U. (iordou, of Chicago. Thk trial of M. Emil'j Zola, who is oeing prose, tito.l by the t'renoh government av a result of the letter w hich he wrote, luvt iK-combor. to the Auroro, atrongly raflMttef upon high orticials connected with the Drey 'us case, opened in the assise court of the Seine uu the 7th.

CAR. Uknjamin K. Ya.i h. c-statc b iiat..r and hrother in-law of Congressman lilt, died at Tyndall. S. D., on the loth. apt. Wagner was Nrn in Ogle county. HI., and was a m. -tuber of the Wagner family of that county, which was represented iu the L'niou army by 40 of its young men. Till steamer Queeu left Victoria. B. C. on the t.th. with over MO miners for the Yukon, she was followed, on the 7th. by the DanuU-. with over HQ more. Ov. r 10U miners licenses for the Yukon divtrict were issued on the 5th, and alluovt aa many on the lith, by the colic, tor o customs at Victoria,

with it. The amn iment provides .nl;n.-tiy

f r ii.. .c..i. .c ..ti of the Hawaiian llaudv, and !. .ar. v that the prevent government hat the rik'ht to make wuch cession to thlv country In the h.nive the military academy appropriation bill, carrying H.vJ.ilo. was pavs.sl. uv was the bill to limit the period for n fun.liuK Si tin certitlca:ev ..f to December 31. isya. Iji the senate. n the fth three propovition for the relief of the "uban invurirents. .Iiff. rinii materially av to method- wer prev.ntcL Th.-ve convite.l of ?.iiution!i offered by Mr. Allen (Sob i Mr Cannvn (Ctahl and Mr Ma son (,111 . each raUcal In its provtafloaavi .l.maBi.iiK' the end inn of the war In Cuba, on pam of intervention by the I'nitod State. The rljfbt of Hon Henry V. Cortx-tt to a seat in the seriate from Oregon, was di-cussed t wo hour-, af'-. r which the senate went into executive se-vi..n -In the houve ibe contevtedeleetion cav of Aldrich v Plowman occupied mo-t "f Ho da - v. --...n. several apeevhes beintr made on both sides of th.' qiievti.ni. Iw the snate. on the th. the principal interest in the days proceedings centered In the prcviously-uunouuced speeches iu denur. Mat ion of the war in i uba an I in favor of rec.-nitioii of beiliK.-renl rights of the t'ubans. delivered by Mr Mason (rep.. IU. ) and Mr Cannon (rep.. Clah. Mr. Haie tr. p M. vp briefly in deprecation of a eourse u the p.irt ..f -enators calculated to embarrass the administration, which was pur-uing a settled policy which it should be permitted to carry to a conclusion. In the house the contested-election case from Alabama of Aldrich rep i vs I'.owman (dem.) was derided against the silting member, thuv increasing th.- republican majority from 4V to SO. I the senate, on the loth, almost the entire sonvion wav devoted lo consideration of the Indian appropriation bill. The reading of the t'.ll was completed and all of the committee amendments wer- adopted. Subsequently several amendiii'-nts offered on t;ie floor were also adopted .. In the house the day was frittered away in filibustering against a couple of unimportant bilU. Roll . all followed roll call, and partiv.tn feeling ran hifrh. Finally. a call of the house disclovimr the want of a Uorutu. adjournment was taken until the llth. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A utftPATi it from Madrid. n the sth. said: The Spanish ir v.-rntnont has decided to send the Spanish cruiser Altnirante Oijucndo to Havana and thence to Now 'ork." PWKM cUaiWf I entered the home of W, W. Norton, in st. Iouis. on the Tth, while the family wore at supper, and stole diamonds and jov.olrv to the

A tlilKlt has been tent to T.a.tw Henry Somerset signed by all the National V. I". T. I', officers, assuring her of their loyalty and love. -v-pressir mil h syutpatliy in her illness, and irr. mm her a mm to AMviMM K, us her health and strength will M.rmit. Aikms t n mm nt Tlu, mhtM l"n. lc sam s mail oe fmit fn,in (;,.,.,. Hay to Chica"" , g v,..irs llKr,, died in Do Here. W' th. 'itth. aired 17. lie

rojieute t)ll. ,ril, ,ri tin- World :'u''. He was born at St. Igna.o arul

served in the Itlaok Hawk war iu lHil'i. Ms the nioht of the '.itb. the jury iu the case of Adolph H. l.tiotgort.of Chicago, eharged with w ifo murder, brought in a verdict of guilty, and fixing hia punishment at iinpriv.iniuoiit for lifo. OMMUM were rocoivo.l at depart incut houditiartorv at X'nnc.tuvor barracks. 1'ortland. tre.. on the ".th. to aend four ...mpaiiics of United States tr.Hipa tc Dvea and Skaguuy us s.khi as (Vissible. This t.idc: is issued on account of threatened lawlessness at the twi points inontionod. Cos. A. It, liand H of the Fourteenth infantry, under comHWd Of OoL T. M. Anderson, will sail as s.mn aa trausportat ion can Ik' furli i shed. A I'lsTATtii from W iishino-ton. on the morning of the 10th, stated that the Spanish government had recalled Minister Do Lome and would formally disavow the sent intents contained in tin Canalejus letter. Sonor Do Lome will not present his recall in person. W i i h is BaHCBB, American consul tit Sagua La lirando. ula. writes that the alcalde had stated thnt 8,000 roo.mo. ntradoos in the city wore starving. The oongrt-svional relief fund was exhausted, and Amcri. an citi.ciis wore in the same plight as the roooiifcntra.l.H-s. A MKMoKi.vi. was prcsontcd to the prealdont. on the nth. by a delegation New York business men. representing a largo number of well-known linns in that city, asking that prompt action bo

taken by t ho government looking to ÜM r. -estaldishiiiont of pen.-.- in Cuha. I'At'l. Kiui.kk has boon rc-clccted 1

president of the Honth African republic The total Dumber of votes cast was lf4Si President KrngW roci-ivod 1.1.704; Sohalkhurgor. 1,714, and Joubcrt, l.'.43. Tmk ksa of life und destruction of ropcrty by the tiro at Thirteenth and Pine streets. Pittsburgh. Pa., on the night of the'. th. w as the greatest in t ho history of that city. At least 11 persons were killed. ?T are missing and over a eon injured and property raised at l,SOO,00U w as destroyed, The Cincinnati Price current, on the loth, said: There is u oontintiod restricted am 1 1 aw ill of hogs. Westen killings. 41Ö.0IN). compared with tsu.noo the preceding week. and. .'i7."..o,ki hist year. From NovohiIkt 1 the total is 7,040.000. against ...si:,.(K(i 11 year ago. " In the British house of .otntnons. on the 10th, Michael Davitt's amcndiuont to the ad.lr.'ss in reply to the speech from the throne, culling attention to the distress in Ireland ami the failure of the potato crop, was re joe ted by -35 to HI votes. ivii vvi'.ii RoBBBi I. Him prominent as the leader of the Addieks fa.-t ion f the ropiihiicn 11 party in Dele ware, died suddenly at his home in Holly Oak. on the 10th. Sknou .D an L. IV kutan, the president of I "ruguuy ad interim, has executed his threatened eoap d etat and. on the loth, issued a deoreo dissolving the assembly. MiHivnca Hi: Lome's resignation erat promptly accepted, 00 the unh, by the Spanish govornmont.

H0CÜUB HAPPEN IN

Told in Urlof by Disputt'hoa from Vnrioua Looulitloa.

Terrorised l euroe. Tcrre Haute. Ind., Feb. i. The! 1... 1 ,..,)...,. L :il Wash.

lias 11, 11 .in,., in , - m 1,, la-tea narlaa ta the riotous eoadaet ef aagasishar Hhowtni Home ange. .a hfl

BOOM of the negro Illinois brought

A PACK OF COWARDS. So l.ueliterl t liwraoterUen tb- Jury ttimt QaailiilsS" mm mi rid. k BeaaM Wsep t'oiuitroitiUe.l Iteeit.ised Tliej Itltln'l Hi the Narte to Kind Mini Nol t.ollly. OejOAOO, Feb. 1 1 That jury w as a pack of cow ards." said Adolph H. I.uet - irert at the oounttr lall. The big sau-

from Kentucky lo take the Biases of the locked out white minora at the Cab. I mines. Si of the ll I diiinkoii condition paradod through tht town and drove people oil the sMoots ami out of asleoas at the maaslet of their revolvers. The city marshal went to them, but ho wav ordered to stand still, ami when two policemen came up they were ordered to stand at ihr side of the marshal, which they did. A crowd congrogattd. but the SC 1 1 OSS threatened to shoot and the crowd dispersed in a hurry. The negroes moved away, each man with two revolvers in his bands. Two of these, J. C. Thesau and Walter Finch, have heon arrested.

iev crel BraasviUs, Ind., dOCSH'1 always pay bettor tt) wear a

S,-orelie,l. Feb. 'J. Footioiny It not only looks linen collar rather

than one of oelliiloid, but it is safer, During a performance in the People's theater some one threw a lighted mstfh, which .struck Kniest Winkl. y In the back of the neck and set fire to n celluloid collar which he was wearing, the blaze Hashing up and circling

about his head. Win k ley was scv . .eorohod before he could snatch foliar off.

spoke. "It tiie.V nan noon men men aerre and character," eoattavad i.n. tgert . there would huvo aSSSI MOM promise rcrdlct. "They did ao4 decide the ease oa the law and the ev idenoe ThCf simply mssprowilsild SM cither guilty or I im innocent, if I am guilty 1 deanres loath they ought to bang me as high se UUderoy's kite. If I am Inaoeeal 1 am entitled to my liberty. 1. 1ntg.1t

I is as innocent of the crime charfred sgainst him as any man who walks the streets of Chicago. There should have Wen no half way I verdict in this ease. It is said that I laughed last night when the verdict was road. That is true. 1 did

laugh und I have Laughed since. I laughed because the vcrdi. t to DM is a ridiculous farce. It is a coward's vcrlict. They did set have the seres to find eic not guilty w lien t hey snw the seidenes did nol prove my guilt, so they sompromised, The eass will goto the mpreme court. Eventually 1 will be floe.

oly the

V.nny KImIiIiik. Columbus, tad., Feb. ft, DeN Og ilen, a local genius, has invented a lislicatching sppsratns arhieh promises to excel Ml previous inventions iu that line. A very Anc arlrs extendi from a battery near the fisherman through the fishing line to the hook. The tish are electrocuted the second they toash Hie instrument. In a tost in White river several hundred pounds of tish wire caught iu a few hours. Cleeted I lllliriio.il. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. ft, liy unan ImottS vote the republican state committee elected Charles S. Hern ley, of Henry county, as chairman. Mr. Hcrnley announces as his platform that the Cam pa IgS i" Indiana must he made on the v.. und money issue and that Uen. Harrison will be invited to return to the councils of the state party and be asked to Bemad the keynote of th eossing campaign. t,i Mean es stoassm;, Indianapolis, Ind.. Fen. '.. The city DOODCil h'i passetl SI) ordinance to Iitense sparring and boxing matches and it is now in the hands of Major TsgfSrl for his signature. The ordinance provides for the issuance of a license, and the police superintendent i to be notified of every been issued and the time of the propaaed match. The ordinance limits contest to ten rounds.

GERMANY'S BACKDOWN. 111erlcHi1 Knill. I nie- Actually fTe. ted In Ihe Scale, May I nter (.eriiinn I'ortv. wsiiim.io. Feh, iL The state de pertinent yesterday Sent to the senate th irreapondenoc with Uermsay regarding exclusion of American fruit. It shows that Ambassador White and the state department both t.sik vigorous and prompt stops on learning of Oer many 's action and that Germany disavowed any intent ion to n vert coinpetition, saying it merely intended to prevent introduction of San .lose M-alo. Secretary Sherman sums it up by aajF log: "I'min the foregoing report it will be scon that the action of this governi.icnt and of its diplomatic representative at Berlla for the protection of ull legitimate sosamsrelal and exporting interest injuriously affected by the Oerman prohibition was prompt and effective, and that aa the matter now stands the admission of American fresh fruits into Hermany has boon socured in all oases save whore the actual existence of the San .lose scale insect upon the fruit or in the packings thereof is ascertained.'"

AN EXPLANATION.

I lie

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Tiik weekly statement of the Now York city associated hanks for the Week ended oil the ..th showed the fob lowing changes: surplus reserve, deerease. tv;;.v.;,: i,..tus. increase. irT.'.r.ti.ini: specie, increase . ' . too; legal tenders increase. Sl.ol .'.'hm: .i. po.sita. insasil.fll ' '' ircuiation. daoflpM, ftTti.JOO.

ted to the house the report of I OSHMU Oeaeral lee relative to the exoeutiuo of OaL Uui. by the insurgent Ilea. Ar.iuguren. which the SOasS had . ailed let by resolution, it showed that the cv. ut. loll was after eourt-mart ial and in strict compliance with orders from Uen. Ilajdmo tlomss.

In the s,-n;ito. os the 11th. considers lion of the Indian appropriation hill

value of ST. 001. the property of Mrs. was resumed, which, after amendment

.lames O. U.st. a society woman of in some particulars, was passed. Ihe N- w York, and anannt of Mr. Norton, most imsirtant amendment to the bill on the ftth Senor Knriqtie Dupuy de J WU! t,,ut offered by Mr. PoC.gr. w I.me cabled his resignation to Madrid s- restoring the free homestead as minister plenip.t. nt iarv and envoy j so filr as ' relates to Indian lands extraordinary to the 1 liited states, eeded to the Tinted States, and for D- I....I1. S action was in anticipation of which settlers have boon obliged to h recall, which he knew ta is- inevi- pay the pmrehaae priee to the ladlaaa

table after the puhlhat ion of his criti-1 me diu earries an appropriation aggrecism of President Mch'iiiUy and his gating nearly ftS.0UO,OQ0. The senate blunder in writing state secrets. adjourned until the 14th. ...The boetSS Till: depaitiu. nt at state lias received was not iu session. the rcpoct of Coaaal Us serai Lsssqsea Tax weekly statement of the assotho killing of Nestor Aranguron iu ciated banks of New York eity. 1 sailed t aha. If the r, p.irt could be made pul- on the llth. showed the following 1 lie it might bring a crisis in a hurry. change S! Snrplns reserve, doorcase. PXXetDaXT DotX of Hawaii and party ' 18,1 fttt, ."T."i: loans, iacsease, 0.000) arrived at Cleveland. O.. on the sth, 1 Speele, increase. f79,fiOO) legal toini. i s,

decreeae, 19,010,000; deposita, increase, ?l.s:,i,.:t(Ki: circulation, do. r.-aso. 7o . At a special session of the I'uitcil States curt at Pittsburgh. Pa . on t ho llth. .lodge Hulling! on decided that

Tin. president. 011 the 7th. trausimt- , here the president and his wife spent

L.i lliMn BosUnSH 1 I .-s written a letter to Lord Ueerge Hamilton. Hritish secretary of state for India, to the ffset that the letter wiiieh she wrote

him . arly in IM;, in eonneet ion with the repeal of the Indian cantonment a.-t. was widely misiin l. rstood. and she llssri farn deaired to withdraw her la

dors, went of any form or principle of Stat, regulation of vice. . m si I km years age W. B D. Stokes, of New YorK. came into possession of all the private papers of W in. M. Tweed. Aecordiiig to Ins story, more than Jll.Ooo.OUO was piid .nil iiy the "JftSSS" for bribes and buying up individuals

that other jh-. ple to this day know

the day at the home of Mr. imrles t ate. .Mrs. Dole's brother. The two bad not mat for many years. Tiik fourth session of the fourteenth parliament of QasSSI Yiotoria sad tht

twenty -sixth of the I Sited Kingdom, Chris von dor Abo. the has. -ball mags was opened, by eointnission. ntlie ata, nato. must renin in hi charge of Dot. etat I p. in., with the cusi.mtarv cere- ive Kendel, who ubdu. ted him from monies St. Louis Yon dor A he said he would Oko. Iiho. the oldest mason in the take mi apn al. I'nited states, and probebly in the Kkv, Jjutaa II. W. llAititis. a fullv

Iiiost .Iii fei low-

world, and also th

in America, died at MSS Hernardino, Cal.. on the tth. the victim of a paralytic stroke. He vas birn in NewYork city. J SSM 17, 1800, and list weut

to California in ! s p.. Thk Kansas state Kditor s ass, ciatioii.wbi. h met i n an 11 n.i 1 . . n vent ion in Kansas ity. Kits.. 011 ihe 'th. unani-

motisiy ii'iopte.i a res. 11 111 1. .11 lavormira aged .'iS years, great fair and exposition to lie held in )H.,.n seriously

Ofdained minister of the Protestant Kpiseopal church, Is going . m the vaudeville stage. Mr. Harris is IS yoeiS old. and up to a short fcime ago was pastor of the Church of the Holy Uedeeassff in Oakland. ( al. Jvnea J sax at us vu, ons f the most prominent Irish -Americas citi

zens nf St. l.ollls. illeil.011 the lltll.

Jadge Ryan had aeeer

that eity. in IfXM, to comm. -inmate the centennial anni versa ry of the Uouisiuna porchaae. Pk.ik. KiovAitn.l. .IamK.s. of the I'niversity of Chicago, has been nominated

1 1 1 . - . Alt ,.

nothing iilMiut. I he evidences of these 010 i.ureau n msmwB at rvaam navmeiits are stiil 111 evist.nc.-. with 'ngt-.n to represent the I nite.l States

the indorscinentsof the parties directly eoaoeraed.

government aa delegate to the Interna

tional osgreaa of ' oromercial laatrne tion.at Antwerp to bs held April 10. I r was denied in Vienna, oil the vth,

If, the I'nited States senate, ou the Ith, Senator Mason, of Illinois, as the

BeeeMNsSSOf h long pre imhlc. offered a that there was m.v iuestion at present resolution r.oit'iig that the president ) of restricting the Instmrtatioaoi Ainonvf the I nited states Ik-, and he is can fruits into Allst ria. hereby requested, to notify Spain and I FlVK persons are k nown to have perthe insurgents of ( ahS that the war ishod and a large aSMBshsf were injured (s.. called, must at one,- cease, ami be 1 in a tiro w bieh. on t he night of the mSSeatiaeed. and that the I nitol tth. destroyed the plant of the CtlSS Mates of Ain. riea hereby declare and 1 lauqua ÜI ' at twelfth and Pike will maintain peace on the - and of ' etrcots. ItttabttTgh, Pa, and several Cuba. ' j nesi-by buildings.

ill in bis life until last

Deesmher, when Height's disease developed. Tin. senate committee on appropriation! completed conaide ration of the fort iti. at ions appropriation bill on the llth. The committee recommended la eeesam which doubled the figures of the bill as it passetl the house. iu i Wa. C Cai rn D, D . Lla D., for '.'il years president of Ln fiiyette college, died at bis home in Philadelphia on the llth. Dr. 1 att el was one of the most dlstiagvtshsd Prosbylerinn div, in s ,11 t ho count rj Tin decree seeeptinjf Benor Dapay de Lome s resigmitii.il us minister of Spain to the I nited Stiitos was signed in Madrid, on the llth. and gazetted on the IfMt Ov the llth the aseocisted hanksof Now Vor eity hold &V.'. 4.17, 030 in SX cess of the .'. per eeits, rule.

Olaeat Ratlwai sfmeteve Drlsa. Terre Haute. Ind.. Feb. 9. William Fitgernld, the oldest employs of the Chicago & Bsstera Illinois road, both in point of service and age, is dying. He is II years old and has been with the company since the first rail was laid. Of late years he has been n legman at r street crossing. Ho was a familiar figure in the city by reason of his stature, being six feet six inches tall. l oan, I In ( lileiiK. Whiting. Ind., Feb. 0. A ni;in supposed to be I. K. Van Sick lea, of this place, ir, nt n hospital in Chicago suffering from a paralytic stroke. He was found in a railway station in a semiconscious condition and unable to give intelligible replies to piest ions. He is hoet H years old and well dressed. To Develop Staate l.nLe. Wsraaw, Ind., geh. ft, -It lastited on

authority that EsgftS Lake. Ind.. thei home of the Winona assembly, is to he madf the division headquarters of the fennsylvaats railway. The PeBBSyb j ranis soesaaay owns Utrgs tracts of 1 land near the place, upon which are al-

reedy exteailvs iwltehing yards, rieeteti Peeetdeati P.loniuington, Ind.. Feb. ft, The senate of Monmouth coli go at Monmouth, III., has sleeted Rev. Sninuel It. Lyons, of this place, as president of the college. Mr. Lyons i Monmouth graduate if the class of '77 sad is bop pastor of the I 'nited Pl e by t eria 11 Shales here. He is 4s years of age.

III. Ho In .IhII. Wabash, Ind.. Fob. .. Lcrey Sloans, the tramp who brutally assaulted the ten-year-old daughter of .lohn ILire near here and narrowly escaped a ly Ilching nt the hands of excited farmers, has been safely lodged in the Wabash jail. 1 11 111 fur Bee, Shclbyville, In I.. Feb. 9. Kxpertu li.iv.- prOBOUnOed the water supply of this eity to be unlit for use anil full of disease germs, and thus account for the epidemic of typhoid fever. A I nlqni' u.ll. ncr. Muneie, Ind., Feb. D. Kev. Z. ,T. Naftger, of the M. K. church, had a unique sndlsBee, Beery member of tki police force, bended by the chief, attended his church.

(.er in. 111 iiiIi:ih ,...r I ..l.ilim Thai

Menu, i- to Ami ri. 110 Horsca. W avium, ion. Fob. II, The f.dlowing statement was made to the secretary of state by the Qerasaa smbaa sudor: "Certain delarations of the royai Prussian minister of ngrioulturo have evident ly been distorted. The minister answered to an iti.uiry made to him in the Prussian diet that we had to wait if any evidence might be furnished of veterinary dangen from the Importation of American horses, I mly t hen. in ease inch dangers should have been proved, would there he reo . n to take energetic measures or impose it quarantine as far as we are cut it led to do.' This explanation was called forth by the cabled statemenl thai the Prussian minister of agriculture had said that American horses Infected with la BoenSB wore being imported, sad it might become necessary to forbid the further importation of horsfisoi presantlonary measure.

GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH.

The

Com mil n.ler of toe ShIvmIIoii A ript

CnHs 1 poii PrssMsaM BteKUetef, WASnXOTOV, Feb. II. Hen. William Booth, Commander in chief of the Salvation army, and his son-in-law. Commander Frederick D. Booth Tecker, of the American army, arrived here yesterday and yesterday afternoon galled on President MeKiiihynt the White House. They were accompanied by

j Mr. B. F- Mol-'arlatul, correspondent of 1 the boston Herald and member of t ho

bs-iil entertainment oounnittoe. who made the introductions The president received his callers very cordially and in t he course of the interview which lasted about l.'i ml a tlt'-s. he expressed to (ion. Booth hit grout admiration for him. and for the good work of the army, especially in the United Mates. I The General in the moraine opened the senate wit h prayer,

Unna II- 11,01 l.lKht. Auburn. Ind., Feb. It. This town 1 ow owns its electric lighting system, having purchnspd the mining eompSXf plant for $6,500. struck Pnee ftftnteei Wsehtagten, Ind., Feb. ft, fion lag well discharging pure ice-cold water lias been struck here. school" OteaeX. I'nirinontd, Ind., Feb. 0. On account of the KMSaleS epidemic the schools here have been closed ladeflaltsly, In n Receiver's Hnniln. Fort Wsyne. Ind.. Feb. 0. The Old Fort Manufacturing ftempXajf I In the band. of a receiver,

HOG PACKING STATISTICS. The Western M i-iik-ii I of IIokm Ao-oraling to til.- CtsMslaastl Pf sua ( on. m. im ins vii. Feb, 11, The Price Current says: There is a continued rostrieted more meal of hogs; western killings. tfta,000, oomparod w ith 4n.ooo the preceding week and 375. (IO( last y ear. grom Novoml.er 1 the total is 7,040,000, against (,815,000 it year ago. Prominent pi noes compare as follows:

Crrtaa it.;-'... Ca Usee MftB,sftJ Ksnsua City 1.0." J.un 1 iiiniihs ea.ooo St. Loots 4s (Ml In.tisnapiills 000 MDsrsuaee 44S.QO0 Cincinnati l.il ( todsr Uaplils 7 001 t M 1 urn m. a vim HKI Hloui 1 it v tus Ui si Jos. -i.h lAo.mm St. Paul Si.UJU

s'..e, 'it 1, 00 mo N4O.000 BS ! nu mo ::!.. no mi 000 ax ton 1X2.001 l.l OBJ 7 10 04,001 17.000

OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED. Offlrlnl New of thf A nawrnil nation of I'retMrni n.irrios ,,r (.mo esasta W AMIINOI'oN, l-'ob. It. The oflieisl continuation of the assassination of President llarrios came to the state department in the following telegram from Minister Hunter, at funtcmiila City, dated Wednesday: "President llarrios was shot and instantly killed last night at eight o'clock while walking with two military ortieors near the palace. The assassin, while attempting to escape, was linuicd lately killed.

111

sry

LET HIM DOWN EASY. Thr Psatesaeal ! Usms laeseswi it. o.le.l ms ( lose. I Ihe . . . ,.i , f His Resagaattaa lahea S Usw Uurrs nein 11 it Sum. lent Sei 1 1, 111, ni aMlu, lassei V.I Ion lie, 1 U likely ,, , ,u aaaamtead Mm siiauuii caiiitsi, M uanxarox, geh li Tht pereoaal Incident, growing owt of the asblleatlni) of Scnur Dapay Ds Lome's letter to lean? canalejus may b.- regarded .-, closed. This has Ik ou brought a I .. ,u, by the short cablegram sent by Mm , tcr W.Mi.lford from Madrid, in wh:. !, . states the minister had resigned ,ii,,j his resignation had been accepted i . fore he (Mr. Woodford) presented the reSjaSSt of the I nited Stutcs that he he reoal led. The olticials hero feel an lateresl 11 lenrnin;r the details of the happenings in Madrid Thursday, and ire wa for Mr. Wood ford'e promised lu port, lint unless this should oonta D some statement that is not now , v. pooled, there is no disposition ou the part of the govornmont to am tract the closing of this unpleasant incident

und it is not expected that any tl ,1. . a. 1 1 m

me uaiuro 01 a uemaoo im- an .1

win De maoe. If a graceful disolaiincr shoald come, that a ill be taken la the spirit in n Men it is made; otherwise the matter vv il dropped and the relations between th0 state department and the Spanish li ! lion vill run moothlj on.e wore through the iiiodiiim of Benor 1 . t 1 Juan DnbOSO, the Hrst socr. tin . .,:.,( now obarge d'affaires. It can be said for the president that he shows little personal concern in the matter as it stands, and is not disposed to pursue Mr. De Lome in any personal

spirit, and w ith this spirit in t lie in ,ul of the administration the cud ..' affair may he said to hare been res lied. Caafx4f AXalresSMsse i" 4aaa m W sSHIXOTOX, Feb. U. As the representative of Spain Senor Don Juan iMiboSS called at noon yesterday :it the stale depart inont and presented 111 writing the not itieation of the ($pan h governmeal that the resignation ,.t Henor Fiiriq-ie Dapay Da Lome had been accepted and that Senor In so a ;is suit horised to repreaeal his um, rumen t as charge d'affaires a.l Interim. The not itieat ion was purely formal, giving the fa.-ts of transfer, without mention of the incident leading up to it. Having assumed his duties Mr. DubOOO paid a call of respect to (Instate depart incut . He was not accompanied by Senor Ds Lome. The incident is regarded as closed, so far as Spain is concerned. How the United States will regard it. the location docs not know, of course. sonor Dabose, the new represents tivo of Spain, was soon at the legation. He looks more like an Englishman than 11 Spaniard. Iieing tall and of heavy build w ith no Spanish in Ins aceont. His mother was an Bnf) ' woman and he area trained at Oxford, PaT the present ho asked to lie ev . from discussing Span tab atl'airs. COSTLY FLAMES. Krven-Story Office Holl. line, t lie l'ro.erlj or Lev I P. Morl, me llslroye.l 1. 1st of tin I.OHN-. Haw Yokk. F.b. it. Leal P. Mor ton's seven-story otticc building, w ith frontage on Nassau and Ann strei -and known as the Nassau shamben building, was ooinplctoly destroyed by tiro last night. The firemen h id a hard battle, and for three hi there was every prospect of a g contlagrat ion. Tin- Darby Desk Co.. osesajded both the Nassau and Ann street Store the baseinent of the building, he the tire originated. was oocapled b Herald ( yolc ( o. From the Nassau ohamli. rs the tire sseead to the foai story ballding adjoining, and the clothing stun- f Mad uro Brothers n the ground floor was quickly in flames. The loss here, tilso. will bo practically complete. Severn 1 firemen were badly out Of flying glass and debris, but uotn erb ously injured. The Murray stationery store OCCup ed h small frontage adjoining the I lesk Co. .on Niiss;iti street, and tin 1 in cent has very little, if anything, left. The upper part of the Nassau fh S inhere Was iM-cupiod by lawyers as ' flees, and 11 number of manu fact ti

it

ssaeems also had offices there. Ml thorn su lb-red severely from the tu The lb nnett building, at the ion West corner of Nassau and Ann strcaught tiro several times, but 10 tingulahed. The loss is estimated St present

half B Billion, the larger share Of which will be born, by the Morton late rest s. although it was stated : arc w el I insured. The Derby Desk 0a,, and the lladnro Ili-others arc mentioned as the ik-x. beer lusera

A NEW MOTIVE SUGGESTED. Wax sne Wteaeseaj arhoi! taerts A r tin mid 1 111 Pefettm nr.- Bse - WojuriXAXXB, Pa., iah 1 W'hea court opened yesterday for !,i of SherilV Martin and his deputies u l" nr.- eharged with the killing 0 strikers at l.attimor. the defense Introduced a new feature la the cross . ination by endeavoring 10 shoe ' the evidence of the vvitness.-s was In flu, need by the hope of securing dsiS ages from th.- gotarnsanal ui th ert 111 of convict i D.

AN AGREEABLE SURPRISE, aaaxmry alaevdMisass tiicc.iiint eee lii Off for Port Monroe. W UNXTXatOX, Feb. It, The pr. sidc t mil the members of the cabinet Urerl agreeably surprised at the appearance of Secretary Mger at the regalar me in;. of the cabinet yesterday. This the tii-st tune in stgh! weeks thai '", has been able to attend. The Ikm imbwl mtmn Hum In, lomr ill"' ",H

..-.. . ....... - - . and did net rsiaaja long at tht 111 i.,,r l,,ii tin. irreiit nrotrress ho

" s r. mniade towards complete recovery aetfaMsahle,

ot-c