Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 October 1881 — Page 2
SA®e - ; : The Ligonier Banner. ‘ ;I. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. LIGONIER, : : ¥ INDIANA. NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, . Domestie, - . Miss KATE KANE, a lady-lawyer of Milwaukee, has instituted a suit te recover $lO,OOO damages against the keeper of the jail in that city, because he has refused her the privilege of consulting with prisoners..
" A PORTION of the Means tunnel near Grayson, Ky., caved in on the sth, Killing ten convict laborers and injuring five others. " ‘Puraskr, N. ‘Y., was visited by a disastroug fire on. the 6th, which destroyed the entire business portion of the town. The loss is over $200,000, : &
AT the session of the National Farmers’ Alliance in Chicago en the 6th John B. Jameés, of Kansas, was chosen President, and Matt. Anderson, of Wisconsin, Vice‘President.: i . THE thermometer in the suburbs of Washjington on the morning of the 6th marked thirty degrees above zero, and ice was iformed in many localities. The sudden ichange of ten‘i’perature was unprecedented in Washington. L i - A LETTER was recei'veNvlv‘ the United States Treasurer on the 6th from the Presi«dent of a bank .in South Carolina stating
ithat, the people of that State would not take !silver certificates as current money, and lagking if he could pay them out 6n checks of tthe Unitéd States disbursing officers. The "Treasurer replied that thé standard dollar, ‘which is a fulllegal tender, could be offered, ‘and the people who preferred the certificates icould take them instead, saying that, in his fexperience, he found the certificates usualily preferred to the coin. : 15 ' ' ON the 6th eighteen of George’s band of ‘hostiles surrendered at San Carlos, and iwere taken to Fort Thomas by Major Wil« 'helm. The leader was said to be in conceal‘ment with-four men. Indian runners re‘port that nine of Lieutenant Bailey’s Indian ‘scouts desérted on the preceding day. They ‘were suppesed to have gone to join Chief George. . : '~ REPORTS from about three thousand points in the wheat and ecorn regions have been summarized by Bradstreet’s, and it is
estimated that the wheat harvest in the * United States has produced 368,962,000 bushels, and the corn crop is placed at 1,193,641,000 bushels, : ' : THe Fenian dynamife plot, according to
. Philadelphia dispatch of the 7th, has been thoroughly unmveleyby the Secret-Service V;Bureau of the United States. It was said ‘to be true that the scheme was organized to
cheat the British Governent out of the re‘wards to be offered. Peter H: Foye, a sa-‘loon-keeper of Philadelphia, caused the 'manufacture of the .infernal machines and '‘turned them over ito O’Donovan Rossa.
Foye then began negotiations with the Brit{ish Consul at New ¥ork, and received $lO, - /000 for information .Jeading to the discovery made on the docks at Liverpool. Hgsome ‘weeks ago fled from the United States detectives at Philadelphia, and his .where:abouts is unknown. - L 4
THE Iron Mountain train-robbers—Cox,
,Stephens and Delaney—pleaded guilty in 'the Hemstead Circuit Court in Arkansas on
ithe 7th, and were sentenced to seventy. yeaxs each in the Penitentiary, : . GEORGE -E. STEWART, of New York, iclosed a fourtéen-year term at Sing Sing in
|September last. He has since been returned 'for nearly five years for attempting to pass :a forged check for- § 1,450 on the Metropoli. ‘tan National Bank. AHe claims to have exthausted every means of earning an honest ‘living before again resorting to ‘crime. . A LITTLE after midnight on the 6th a shock of earthquake was felt at Bristol, N. H. It passed from west to east, and xfide a noise like the rumbling of a heavy train of ‘cars, and shook buildings perceptibly. _ THE Chicago Board of Trade has voted to double the rate of commission on grain transactions, making it a quarter, and a marked decrease in thé country trade is predicted by those who opposed the change. - A CINCINNATI school-teacher named Friedlixfg has been reeéntly found guilty in the Police. Court of that city of assault and battery in punishing. a boy pupil. The ground of the decision was that the punishment was inflicted for an offense provoked by the teacher, and that the offense did not _afford reasonable grounds for the punishment. ; o
- D. H. WirLiAMs, Secretary of the Relief Committee at Pittsburgh, has recently given the Michigan burned district an exhaustive inspection. He reports that the wheat was everywhere gréen above the ground; that contributions had been rapidly and honestly distributed, - and that the farmers were deeply grateful for the aid received. o
THE attendance at the recent semi-annual conference of the Mormen Church at Salt Lake City numbered fifteen thousand, incliding delegatesfrom Arizouna, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. : P
. Personal and Political. THE Rock River (Ill.) Methodist Conference was formally opened at Sycamore on the sth, A committee of fifteen was ap- . pointed to. try Rev. Dr, Thomas on the charge of heresy, as follows: ~Revs, M. H. - Plumb, T, P, Marsh, Lewis Kurtz, H. L. . Martin, /N, ' M. Stokes, J. Roads, F.F. Farmiloe, G. W. Winslow, Charles W. .. Croll, R. Beatty, I. Linebarger, R. Congdon, J. Manly Clendening, F. A, Harding, E. M. -, Boring. Rev. Charles H. Fowler was appointed as President of this committee. - . THE. Massachusetts Democratic. Conventon assembled at Worcester on the sth and - nominated the following State ticket: For Governor, Charles P, ‘lghom_pson‘; Lieuten-ant-Governor, James H, Carleton; : Secretary of State, General M. I. Donahoe: Treas_ureér and Recelver-General, Colonel Francis " '.J. Parker; Auditor, Charles R. Field; At-torney-General, General Patrick A. Collins. ©THE Maryland Republican Convention met at Cambridge on’ the sth, and nominated Thomas Gorsuch, of Frederick Cotn~ Iy, for Copppaguier, -~ "t AL ot THE New York Republican State Convention was held in the Academy of Music, ~ New York City; on the sthy’and was largely .attended.; Senator Miiler was elected tem= poriiry Chairman'by a majority of 108; The proceedings were. unexpectedly- harmonious, The. anti-Conkling delegates from . Brooklyn and some other contested districts _ were admitted. , Chauncey M, Depew was made permanent Chairman. The following ¢ State ticket was put in nomination: General - Joseph B. Carr for Secrotary of States Ira Davenport for Comptroller; Leslie W. Russel for Attorney-General; Silas Seymour for
State Engineer, and Francis M. Finch for Judge of the Court of Appesals. . - REV. STUART ROBINSON, D. D., died at Louisville, Ky., on the sth, after a protracted illness. . L £ ;
MARVIN, the forger and bigamist, has been sentenced to the Virginia Penitentiary for ten years. i : IN his address to the Grand Jury on the 4th Justice Scudder, of the New Jersey Supreme Court, referring to Guiteau, said: ¢ ‘lt will not be advisable or necessary for you to take any action in the matter dt the present time, unless we shall be notified that the prosecution and indictment of the offense in this county are required to prevent the failure of justice, which ‘does not now appear probable, accordingto thestatement made by the proper legal authority at Washington.” 3 ‘ o
I'THE well-known commission firm of J. B. Lyon & Co., of Chicago, has suspended. They were caught on corn. | THE bail of the Star-mail-route defendants‘ was fixed by the Court at Washington ou the sth, the amounts ranging from $4,000 to $7,500. :
KING KALAKAUA, of the Sandwich Islands, passed through Chicago on the sth. A newspaper reporter secureéd an interview with him and obtained an indignant denial of the report that he contemplated selling the Islands. = |
ON the sth the’Rhode Island Legislature, in Joint Convention, elected Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich United States Senator to succeed the late General Burnside.
ONX the night of the sth the remains of the late President Garfield were transferred from the casket in which they were brought from Elberon, N. J., to an air-tight metallic case of bronze, with gold trimmings and a golden plate on top, for which Mrs. Garfield will direct an appropriate inscription. This bronze casket will not be placed in a vault, but will be exposed to view on a catafalque in.a crypt. Upon removal, in presence of Dr. Robinson and Mr. Fairfield, the remains were found to be in a good state of preservation. | - THE Minnesota Democrats met in State Convention at St. Paul on the 6th and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, General R. W. Johnson; Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, E. P. Barnum; Auditor, Rudolph Lemicke; Secretary of State, A. J. Lamberton; Treasurer, John F. Russell; Aftor-ney-General, George N. Baxter; Railroad Commissioner., R. S. Cook. The Convention indorsed Judges Clark, Dickinson and Mitchell, the present incumbents, for Supreme Court Judges. : i
IN the Dr. Thomas trial on the 6th the demurrers of defendant were overruled. Dr. Thomas arose, on a question of privilege, and complained in open Conference against Dr. M. M, Parkhurst, on account of the latter’s speech in the former investigation.. The Bishop decided that the complaint must,. be presented in the regular form. i - S
THE tobacco crop of Virginia and the cotton crop in the Carolinas were badly injured by frost on the night of the §th. ; THE Wisconsin State Democratic Central Committee has nominated Franz Falk for State Treasurer, vice Colgnel J acobs, -declined. L : :
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the sth says Mr. Scoville, Guitean’s counsel, thought that it would take him three months to prepare for trial. He would irely entirely on the plea cf insanity, and expected by producing evidence of the assassin’s peculiar conduct in years past to _pl{'ove that he was and had been irresponsible, weak' and demented. | ; REPORTS received on the 6th from 167 Connecticut towns in which elections were recently held show that the Republicans carried ninety, the Democrats fifty-two, and in twenty-five towns the officers were evenly divided. l ] WASHINGTON advices of the 6th state that President Arthur thought the extra session of the Senate would be of brief duration. The President refused tolisten toapplicants for office. ; 1
THE pastors of the various Protestant churches at Washington called on President Arthur on the 7th, and presented him with an address, in which they stated that, ¢‘as pastors of churches # the Capital, we tender you our prayers, our gympathy, and in the line of our vocation our earnest support. In a meeting of pé.stors held after your inauguration there was earnestly invoked God’s blessing on yourself'and your Administration, and we m#w xunite in the prayer that you may rule over us in the fear of the Lord, and may be the honored - instrument In| His hands of great blessing to' the whole Nation.””’ The President suitably responded to the address, and closed by saying that, ¢ in the performance of my duties as Chief Magistrate of a God-fearing and religious people, I appreci~ate my dependence upon their moral support “and approval under Divil}ne blessing and ‘guidance. I thank you cordially for the assurances of your support, ind for your kind expressions of sympathy and confidence.? THE will of James Stol:res, a New York banker, which distributes |56,000,000 worth of property, is to be contested by his daughter, Mrs. Dale. { THE will of the late Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske, of Ithaca, N. Y., gives her husband $309,000, her mother and |five cousins each $lOO,OOO, and Cornell University = $290,000 and the McGraw building. = - IN the Rock River (Ill,) M. E. Conference on the 7th Revs. R. |Congdon &nd C. W. Croll were excused, and Revs. M. E. Cody and Joseph Odgers were placed on the committee of fifteen, to ‘si't on the trial of Dr, Thomas: Dr. Thomas submitted a written complaint against Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, charging him with falsehood and calumny in asserting that he (Dr. Thomas) had been known 'to indulge in beer, theat“rical “‘amusements and :c::,?d-plziying. | The _complaint was referred to Revs. Stewart, ‘Springer, Clark, Baume and Caldwell: The ‘committee decided to fully investigate the charges. G e 2 ' 'THE Republican and Democratic Senato‘rial Caucuses assembled’ ;t the Capitol in ‘Washington at eleven a. m. ‘on 'the Bth. After remaining in sesslor} an hour or more discussing the situation, the Republicans appointed a committee to confer with the Democrats on the general subject of organization. In the Democratic caucus it was re- ; s‘gl)lrfd that James F. Bayard should be elect‘ed President pro tem. of the Senate. A coinmittee, consisting of Senators Pendleton, Garland, Voorhees, Pugh ahd Davis (W. 'Va.), was appointed to meet the Republican committee, composed of Senators Edmunds, Logan, Allison, Sherman and Mc‘Millan, and confer with them in ‘relation to '‘the organization. At the ‘eonferénce meeting the Democratic com‘mittee stated that they had no authority to ‘enter into consideration of the question of electing a President of the Senate; that their ‘caucus Insisted on the right of the Democrats to elect that officer. The Republicans then proposed to eonfer in relation to the ‘entire organization of the Senate. The
Democrats declined to consider the Presidency of the Senate as a question at issue, and the Republicans then refused to hold a conference. The committees then separated, and returned to their respective caucuses to report the failure to reach agreement. The Republicans "adjourned their caucus soon after the return of ‘their Conference . Committee. . The Demoerats, after the return of - their Conference Committee, continued toe discussion of the question (which had arisen before the appointment to confer with the ‘Republicans) whether they should admit the new Senators, or proceed to the election of Secretary immediately after the election of President pro tem. A recess was takem soon after until eight o’clock, when discussion of thé same qliestion was resumed, but without reaching any definite conclusion the caucus, at9:3o p. m., adjourned until ten a. m. on the 10th. otk : THE Garfield Monument Committee of Cleveland has requested the Governor of each State and Territory to act as General ‘Manager for his distriet in securing contributions. The public had up to the Bth sent in $7,694. ;
GENERAL JOSEPH C. ARBOTT, ex-United States Senator from North Carolina,gdied at ‘Wilmington in that State on the Bth.
‘COMMISSIONER DUDLEY says that the report of frauds in the Pension Bureau are highly colored and sensational. _ PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the Bth appointed O. P. Clarke to. be First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, and C. B. Walker to be Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, Itis said these appointments were made to carry out the intentions of President Garfield.
IN the Criminal Court in Washington on the Bth Captain Howgate was discharged from custody on his personal recognizance in the sum of $20,000.
EX-SENATOR CONKLING arrived at Washington on the Bth, and had a prolonged interview with the President. :
TagE Grand Jury’s indictment agains Guiteaun for the murder of President Garfield was formally presented to the courtin Washington on the Bth. It embraces eleven counts; and is. drawn with great minuteness. o L
Foreign,
| THE Imperial Bank of Germany has raised its discount rate ‘to five and a-half per cent., and its interest on advances to six and a-half per cent. ¢ P THE Paris Zemps says that the members of the present French Ministry will tender their resignations a 'few days before the meeting of the Chambers, and that a new Ministry may be appointed in time to meet that body. o . DIPHTHERIA is causing terrible mortality in the province of Orel, Russia, where 77 per cent. of the cases prove fatal. AN immense Liberal meéting was recently held in the German Capital, at which Bis~ marck’s foreign policy was strongly condemned. :
AN Irish landlord, named Bingham, was fired at on the 6th, in County Mayo, Ireland, by a man disguised infemale clothing, who escaped. A girl riding on a jaunting-car with the intended victim was wounded. -
THE Paris figaro of the 6th says the Pope had again threatened to ‘leave Rome, in order ‘‘toprotect the dignity and independ‘ence of the Pontificate.’?
THE Bank of England has raised the discount rate to five per cent., the objéct being to check the flow of gold to the United States. A VIENNA dispatch of the Jdwsays theer had been a continuous t,h”rs’ IS NOwW= stprm in the Alpine region of¥s'eStria. <
_ A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 7th announces the discovery of the Nihilist headquarters and the arrest of sixty persons connected therewith.,
UproN receipt of the intelligence of the death of President Garfield, the President of the State of Panama issued a decree deploring the death.and ordering the National flag to be displayed at half-mast dt the palace for the space of eight days. ©~ FIFTEEN houses were recently burned in Hochelago, the eastern suburb of Montreal, rendering twenty-four families homeless.
LATER NEWS,
A¥YTER the adjournmeént of the United States Senate on the 10th the Democratic Benators met in caucus and nominated L. Q. Washington for Secretary of the Senate. A special committee of three was appointed to investigate charges of briberyin the cases of Senators-elect Miller and Lapham. PRUSIDENT ARTHUR on the 10th accepted the resignation of Secretary Windom, the acceptance to take effect on the qualification of his successor. o Ix the Roek River Conference on the 10th Dr. Thomas presented formal charges and specifications against Dr. Parkhurst, and a committee:of fifteen was selected to try the case, the investigation closing ata late hour -at night«with a verdict of acquittal. In the Thomas heresy case Dr. Hatfield consumed the afternoon in clesing the argument for the prosecution. The jury retired and deliberated until: eleven p. m., yeaching a verdict of expulsion from the ministry and from membership in the church, thére being but four dissenters.: | : THE Mrs. Garfield fund reached $339,898 on the evening of the 10th. Announcement was made that subscriptions to the fund would be closed on the 15th. . SECRETARY WINDOM announced on the 10th that on and after the 17th he would redeem §5,000,000 of bonds embraced in the 105th call, with interest to date of payment. ON the 10th Dr. John Buchanan was gentenced by a Philadelphia court to one year’s imprisonment and to pay a fine of $l,OOO for selling bogus medical diplomas. < A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 10th says Mr. Scoville, Guiteau’s counsel, had not been able to find a lawyer willing to under‘take Guiteau’s defense without an exceptionally large retainer. THE ground was: covered with snow in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., .on the morning of the 10the .+ b
Tue United States Senate 'convened in special session at noon on the 10th. ' The desk of the late Senator Burnside was | draped in black. The three new members occupied seats on the Republican side. Mr, Harris called®the Senate to order, and thq (Clerk read the eall for the extra session. The President’s message transmitting the proclamation ecalling’ the extra session was | received and proclamation read, after which Mr. Pendleton offered a resolution that Mr. Bayard be chosen President pro tem. Mr, Edmunds presented the credentialg of the Senators-elect, and moved as an, amendment that the oath of office be administered to them by Mr. Anthony, the senior Senator. The motion was tabled, Mr. Davis voting with the Republicans. An attempt to substitute the name of Mr, Anthony as presiding officer failed, and Mr. Bayard was chosen Presis' dent pro tem. by a vote of 84 ‘to 82, David. Davis not. voting. Messrs. "Anthony and Pendleton escorted Mr. Bayard to the chair, when he returned thanks for the honor conferred upon him.. Mr. Edmimds moved to admit the Senator-elect from Rhode Island, but a motion'to adjou_m pre‘vailecg.] :
The Indictment Against Guiteaun.
a W ASHINGTON, October 8. ~ The following is a synopsis of the several ecounts of t' » indictment against Guiteau presented to the Grand Jury to-day:
. The Grand Jurors of the United States of America, in and for the county and district aforesaid. upon their oath presentthat Charles J. Guiteau, late of the eounty and district aforesaid, on the.second day of July, in the yearof our Lord one thousand eight hundied and eighty-one, with force and arms, at and in the county and district aforesaid, in and upon the bodiy of ene James A. Garfield, in the peace of God and of the United States of America then and tkere being, feloniously, wilifully, and of his inalice atorethought, did muke assault, and thatsaid Sihnrles J.Guiteau, with a certain pistol of the valué of five dollars, then and there charged with gunpowder and a leaden bullet, which said pistol, he, the said ‘Charles J. Guiteau, in his right hund, then and there had-and held, then and there teloniously, willfully, 'and of his malice aforethought, did discharge and shoot off to,against and upon said James A. Garfield; and that said Charles J. Guiteau, with a leaden bullet aforesaid, out of the pistol aforesaid, then and there, by force of the gunpowder aforesaid. by Charles J. Guiteau discharged and shot off as aforesaid, then and there feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethonght, did strike, penetrate and wound him, the said James A. Garfield, giving to him, the said James A. Garfield, then and there with a leaden bullet atoresaid, so as atoresaid d-ischa_ré;ed and shot out of the pistol aforesaid, by szid Charles J. Guiteau, in and upon the right side of the back of him, the said James A. Garfield, one mortal wound of a depth of six inches and of a breadth of one inch; of which said mortal ‘wound, he, thelsaid James A. Garfield, from the said secoud day of July in the year ‘last | aforesaid until the nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, at _and in the county and district aforesaid. did ‘languish, and languishing did live, on which said nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, at and in the county and district aforesaid. the said James A. Garfield, of the mortal wound aforesaid, died. - . The second count is precisely like the first, with the exception of the last clause, which reads: **Of which said mortal wound, he, the faig. J gmes A. Garlield, then and there instant~ y died.” : In the third count the last clause is varied as follows: *Of which said mortal wound,he, the said James A. Garfield, from the said second day of July in the year last aforesaid, until the nineteenth uay of September; in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, as well at, and in the county and district aforesaid, as at and in the county of ' Monmouth and State of New Jersey, did languish, and languishing did live, on which said 19th day of september, in the year of our Lord 1881, at and in the county of Monmouth, and the State of New Jersey aforesuid, the said James A, Gartield, of the mortal wound aforeBseid, died.” : The fourth count is identical with the third; except that it emits the last twelve words of the final clause and substitutes the following —to-wit: ** At and in the county of Washington and District ot Columbia. said James A. Gartield, of the mortal wound aforesaid.” The only variation in the fifth count is a change in the order of mention of the places where death is said te have occurred, the county of Washington and District of Columbia being put first. / : - I'he sixth count is like the third, except in Teciting that the offense charged-was committed in the Baltimore & Potomae Railroad depot in the city of Washington, which building stands, and at that time stood, on the ground belonging to and under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. The seventh count repeats the recital. of the sixth, with regard to the place where the offense was ' gomn;litted, and in all othel respects is like the ourth. »
The eighth count also repeats the recital of the sixth with regard to the place where the assault eccurred, and js in all other respects lik e the fifth. e B
The ninth count is varied by the introduetion of a recital that the district in which the offense charged was committed constitutes a Judicial Circ’g%t of the United States, and that the county Monmouth and State of New Jersey, where the said James A. Garfield died, forms part of a Judicial Circuit of the United States other than the Judicial Circuit ot the United States consisting of the District of Columbia. "In all other respects this count is like the third. - : : . The tenth count recites that the district in which the offense was committed constitutes a Judicial District of the United States, and that the State of New Jersey, within the limits of which the said James A. Garfield died, eonstitutes a Judieial District of the United States other than the Judicial District of.the United States consisting of the District’ of Columbia. In other respects this count islike the one immediately preceding. * The eleventh and last count ‘iB a repetition of the third, with the foilowing addition: * And that thereafter—to-wit: on the twenty-
first day of September, in the year of our Lord ene thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, the dead body of him, said James A. Garfield, was removed. from said county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, and brought into the county of Washington and District of Columbia, within which last-mentioned: eounty said dead body of him, the said James A. Guarfield, lay and remained from the twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, until the twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord ene thousand eight bundred and eighty-one.” : ! g 2 Each of the eleven counts closes with the following formal charge: * And so the Grand Jurors-aforesaid de. say that the said ("harles J. Guiteau, him, the gaid James A. Garfield, in the manner and by the means atoresaid, feloni ously, willfully, and of his malice ator - thought, did kill and murder, against the form of the statute in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and Government of the United States of Ameriea.”
The New Senate,
The United States Senate, which met on the 10th, is composed as, follows: {Demoerats, 87; Republicans, 37; Independ- ; ./ ents, 2] _ Term - Term ALABAMA., ~E;r.‘ MISSISSIPPI, K. J.T. Morgan, DB.. ~1:83 L. Q. C. Lamar, D.. 1883 Jd. L. Pugh. D '.....1883d. Z. George, D..... 1887 ARKANSAS, | MISSOURIL. A. H. Garland, D...1883' G. G. Vest, D...... 1885 J. D. Walker, D.... 1885 F. M. Cockrell, D.. 1837 . CALIFORNIA, ‘] NEBRASKA = — J. T. Farley, D..... 1885 Aivin Saunders, R 1863 J. F. Miller, R......1887C. H. Van Wyck, R. 18587 COLORADO. v NEVADA. H. M. Teller, R.....1883'J. P. Joncs, R...... 18% NP Hi11LbR...... 185 7. G Fair. 8,....,. .1887 CONNECTIUUT. | NEW-HAMPSHIRE. O. H. Platt, ®..... 1885!E. H. Rollins, R... 1883 J. R. Hawley, R. ..1887 H. W. Blair, R..... 1885 DEALAWARE. i NEW JERSEY. Eli Saulsbury, D... 1883 J. R. McPherson,).lBB3 T. F. Bayard. D.. ..1857;\\’. J. Sewell, R....185T . FLORIDA. NEW YORK. Wilkinson Call, D..1835\E. G. Laßiha.m, R... 1885 C. W. Jones, D..... 1887 Warner Miller, R.. 1887 GEORGTA. - NORTH CAROLINA. B. H. Hill, 8......,1883{M. W. Ransom, D.. 1883 J. E. Brown, D.....15885/Z. B. Vanee, D..... 18% L ILGINOIS. : OHIO, D, Davis, Ind. D.. 1883/G. H. Pendleton, D. 1885 J. A. Logan, R.....1885/John Sherman, R.. 1887 , INDIANA. OREGON. : D. W. Voorhees, D.lBB5|L. Grover, D....... 1883 Benj. Harrison, R.. 1887 J. H. Siater, D..... 1885 lOWA. ‘ PENNSYLVANTA, *J. W. MeDill, R...1883/J. D. Cameron, R.. 1883 W. P. Allison, R., .1885’.1. I Mitchell, R 1887 KANSAS, : RHODE ISLAND. . P. B. Plumb, R..... 1883 H. B. Anthony, R:.1883 J. J. Ingalls, R.....1885{N. W, Aldrich, R... 1587 KENTUCKY. SOUTH CAROLINA. J. B. Beck, D.......1883/M. C. Butler, D..... 1883 J. 8. Williams, Di..1885| Wgde Hampton, D, 1885 LOUISIANA. A _ _TENNESSEE. W. P Kellogg. R... 1883.1. G. Hurris, D, .... 1883 ‘B. F. Jonas, D......1885/H. E. Jackson, D... 1887, . MAINE. . i ITEXAB., W.P. Frye, R......lBB3Richard Coke, D... 1883 Eugene Hale, R....1887!5. B. Maxey, D..... 1887 3. B. Groomer .. 18857, S. Mortill, K. ....1883 v+ D. Groome ...18854J. S. Morr seeesdßH A. P.Gorman, D.. .1837/G. F. Edmunds, R.. 1857 i fi(AfiSACHESEmsim;J W‘ Jvrfia.asztx\':@b 1648 .F. Hoar, R...,.. 'J. W. Johnston, D.. H. L.‘D'awe’s. R....1387)W. Mahone, Ind. D.183¥ T W IIf‘ICHIGAN. 1883‘H f;vx-i;w \irm%mm.l 803 « W. Ferry, R..... . G. Davis, 8..... O.D. Conger, R.f..I&S?!J. N. Calndca'n, D../1887 *A, 7. dgorton R 1883/A o Oambron, 1685 *A. J. Edgerto 3 !Angus Camer 5. J.R. M%Mmgx'x,-mssfll?uuemp Sawy.er: R 1887 . *Appointed by Governor. ' —An Alba,ng,taxxdermlst is mounting a black partridge which waslately shot. It'is a very rare specimen, the second one ever captured 1n that region, so far ‘ag is known. - e b . 1 =lt is said that the average man is composed of thiee-fourths water. .fhe ‘idea staggers the man who never drinks water straight. : Gaitn ~ —No one is more ready than a forger. to wr\it;ej a wrong. ‘
INDIANA STATE NEWS.
The City Treasurer’s bcoks, -covering the time of C. A. Jones’ term of office as City Treasurer of Vincennes, are reported to be missing. It will be remembered Jones was a defaulter in the sum of $28,000 and fled to Canada. The books have been kept in a fire-proof vault in the old State Bank building. Should the rumor prove true it will release Jones from criminal prosecution.
The estimable wife of President W. R. | McKeen, of the Vandalia Line, died at Terre | Haute a few days ago. Her death. though | not unexpected, was & shock to the entire community. Mrs. McKeen was one of the founders of the Ladies’ Society in that city; and was universally beloved. . . L - Governor Porter ‘has appointed General A. P. Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, and Hon. | John 8. Williams, of Lafayette, Trustees of | Purdue University. He has also named as. Indiana representatives to the Mississippi | Valley Convention, at St. Louis next month, John W. Grubbs, of Richmond; Argus Bean, of Cass County, and James M. Rey- | nolds, of La.faye‘t.t& General A. D. Streight, of Indianapolis, *had previously .been appointed Chairman of the delegation. i * During the past few days the woods in the | vicinity of Bedford have literally swarmed with squirrels, where one month before one’ could scarcely be found. They are migrating, coming from the southwest and going | in a northeasterly direction. As there is scarcely an_)_j beech or hickory mast in ‘that - section, they subsist upon corn in the _’fie}d_:éQ,“ and, it is said, even eat black walnuts. Upon the question whether or not high’_school pupils should ¢ vmplete the entire - high-school course, or only such branches: as are to be afterward pursued in college; before they can be admitted to the State - University without examination, the Superintendent of Public Instruetion holds that in commissioning high schools to send pu'pils to the State Univérsity’ without examination it is the intention of the School Board that such pupils shall complete the" full. high-school course and regularly grad-. uate therefrom. This decision will tend toincrease the proficiency of the freshmen. ‘class at Bloomington. = . E About the 22d of September Fannie Mor-. rison, a teacher in one of the public schools. of Indianapolis, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, leaving not the slightest trail behind. When last seen, on the morning of her disappearauce, she was walking towardthe school-house in which she was em- | ployed,’ dressed in" her usual week-day garb, and carrying a small lunch -basket. The pupils waited several hours and were | dismissed. The next day her family acquainted the police authorities, and detect--tives were set to work. They have accom- | plished absolutely nothing. The missing lady is aged twenty-four, has dark brown hair and blue eyes, with face slightly marred by small-pox, and is about five feet' in height. As a teacher she ranked high. It is the bhelief ot her friends that she has
been mentally overtaxed, for in addition to her professional duties, which were very exacting, she was studying ‘¢ shortihand,’’ with a vague hope that a knowledge of -the art would relieve her from the drudgery of the school-room. Her disappearance causes a profound sensation among all classes. =
" It is said that the somewhat noted Eg,sher, case, of Shelby and Decatur Counties, has: not yet been 'satisfactorily settled between the Indiana and Kentucky authorities. = = There are at present 545 convicts in the prison at Michigan City, and the entire: number appear to be in unusually good health, only two cases of illness being reported. - - A mild type of ‘‘pink-eye’’ has made its appearance é.mioug the horses of Indianapolis, and the veterinary surgeors report over one hundred cases under treatment. There have been no fatal results, aud only .a few of the animals affected have been relieved from their accustomed service. Notasingle case is reported among the several hundred mules in use by the street-car company, ‘and horsemen pretend to think that the mule is exempt from attack. aE - Sherman Kibber, a farmer near Clinton, returning from the .State Fair .on the night of the Ist, fell off a train at Rochdale, A train going in the opposite direction ‘ran over him, fracturing hisBKull and causing death in a few minutes. The man was drunk. - At Indianapolis the ‘other evening, at the saw-works, while Max Thecklenburg; was -winding |up a windlass, his hold slipped, and the handle, . revolving rapidly, struck ‘him in the face with a force equivalent to seven hundred pounds. He was rendered unconscious, and ! the physicians think his death from compression of the brain a simple question of time.: g Gerhardt Buescher, a pfominent. resident
since 1843 of Indianapolis, died suddenly of dropsy a few nights‘ ago, aged 77. ‘He was the first brewer in Central Indiana, retiring
in 1863, and was the first to establish the order of Harugari in the State. He was also one of the projectors and the first President of the German Mutual Fire Insurance Company, serving from 1854 to 1857. - ~ Sneak thieves invaded the New Denison Hotel at Indianapolis the other afternoon,
getting $260 in-currency and a $5OO watch from E. F. Leonard, of Springfield, IIL, a diamond belonging to 8. W. Ipsel, of Detroit, and sBvo in money from Leonard Benton, of New York. : T "At Indianapolis -recently Louis Cole, a Belt Line brakeman, while attempting to jump on the ‘pilot. of ‘an’ engine, fell under the wheel and was crushed to death. -~ - - © The 164 cattle which were recently burned at the Mohr & Mohr distillery-fire in Lafayette have been paid for by the insurance companies which had 'written policies upon them. Itcostthem $7,400. e John Kleppinger,an old citizen of Logansport, was found drowned in Eel River the other morming: It'is supposed he was crossing the old canal aqueduct, dnd, being intoxicated, slipped through one of the numerous openings in a rotten floor and was drowned. , ph e - Mrs. Emma Winsor, State Librarian, was called upon the other day by a committee of old soldiers, who asked for the colors of the various regiments about to participate in a reunion at Richmond. There is nolaw in
regard to thus letting out the old flags, and Mrs. Winsor refused to let themgo. =~ . During the present low stage of water in the Ohio River—the lowest known in the past sixty years—a force of about four hun‘dred men has been employed in blasting out the channel of the Indiana chute over the falls, which is on the Indiana side of the river. ey S R
R. K. Purnell, of Connersville, father of the boy bitten a few days since by a sav= age dog owned by Ephraim J. Smith, has begun & suit against Smith, demanding $2,000, o -
" 'When Garfield’s death was.announced in Shelbyville, Mrs. E. Curgon. an aged lady confined to her bed, arose and took from the bureau drawer the crape with which she had decorated her housé when Lincoln was assassinated. This sue again used. ‘ ' After the new appropriation laws go'into effect, November 1, it is thought that the Governor’s office - will be overhauled and cleaned Up. .20 . o _ The Bureau of Statistics has had reports on agriculture and the occupation ofywomen from 477 townships outa tot‘a’ljyazll in the State. Mt e
‘The Attorney-General holds that Justices. of the Peace.can not: consider cases where imprisonment may be adjudged. - Justices have exclusive jurisdiction only where the fine does not’exceed $3, and concurrent. jurisdiction to the extent of $25 where the offense is punishable by fine only. . At Indignapolis on the 6th a stranger hired a team from Schmidt’s stables, and ‘upon returning the rig directed the foreman, Jack Garver, to charge it. Garver .objected, and -attempted ‘to. enforce pay‘ment, whereupon the stranger stabbed him i_in}the bowels and . escaped pursuit. The wound is mortal. = - P
- A little after-two o’dck on-the morning of the 6th; two men entered the residence of ‘William Kroeger, a German market-gard-ener, sixty years of age, living two miles east of Vincennes, and attacked Kroeger and his wife with ‘clubs as they lay asleep in bed. ‘The woman was knocked senseless by two blows on’ hér head, and the old man, after four blows on the head, fell back and lay perfectly still, as though unconscious. The thieves ‘then ransacked the room, securing what money ‘there was—sls,—and escaped. As soon as they were out of the room, Kroeger sprang out of the bed and fired two loads frem his gun after them, but without effect. - Two negro . hucksters were subsequently arrested for the crime, = - _The following has been issued by Grand Master Prather:. -~ - ;
7 -JEFFERSON, Ind., Oct. 6. To the T.odges of Free and Accepted Masons B g_f the Grand Jurisdietion of the state of Indiana: e i R ~ =
1 have received information from the Most Worthy ‘Grand Master of Michignn that the northeastern part of that State has been visited by a most. devastating fire, wany lodges destroyed, hundreds of our brethren made homeless and penniless. the “widows and orphans.of many. others. left to suffer without even the comiort of a shelter to protect them: from the chilling blasts of approaching:winter. Brethrén. practice that greatest of Christian and Masonic virtues, charity; give what yon can tothose who so” much need. - Remit to W. H. Smythe, Grand Secretary, Indiahapolis. v TCALBVIN 'W. PRATHER, Grand Master,
The Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat—No, 2 Red; [email protected]%. Corn— No. 2, 67@6Tc. Oats—46@49c. The Cincinnati quotations‘are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.482{@1.48%4. Corn—No. 2, 72@7i2}5¢. Oats —No. 2, 46{@46%4c. Rye—No. 2, [email protected]%. Barley—Extra Fall, [email protected]. Calvin Flétcher Appointed Fish 'Com= ‘" missioner, - ‘Governor. Porter has appointed Calvin TFletcher, of Spencer, Owen County, Fish Commissioner for the State of Indiana, pursuant to an act of the last: Legislature. The duties of the office, as defined by the statute, are that the Commissioner shall exam‘ine the various lakes, rivers, streams cnd water-courses of . the State, and ascertain whether-they can be rendered nrore productive in the supply of fish;. also, what ‘measures are desirable and expedient to, effect this object, either in propagating and protecting the fish that at present frequent the same, or in the selection Aa,ndi. propagation of other species of fish therein, or both. -SaidyCommissioner shall also inquire- into a,n(i test the best modes of artificial propagation of fish in the various watets of the State, and shall - precure and superintend the procuring of the 'fish, fish eggs or spawn necessary for such waters and.the propagation of -the fish therein. The Federal Government has an office similar to.this, and at various times has made appropriations for its support.” The National statutés give the Commissioner power and anthority in all parts of the country; and prescribe, in general terms, what sort of spawn shall be deposited in tha various waters of | the country., On the Ist day of October carp spawn was deposited by the Commissioner in such streams of the 'State as he thinks are suited to propagating _the species. - | - .
State Temperance Union
. The Grand Council of the State Temper~ ance Union met on the afternoon of the 6th in Indianapolis, ‘with about ‘3OO delegates present, T his opening address President Gerrish - said the ‘Prohibitionists want no more license laws, but are demanding absolute prohibition, The question before the. next Legislature would be, not whether the, liquor traffic = shall be _prohibited, but: whether the people shall be allowed to vote on the question. The party -that placesitself in favor of ‘the minority or against the majority will go tothe wall. = ¢‘We shall for the time forget our past relations with po-. litical parties-and for the next few ;years devote ourselves to the public good. : If wa shall not succeed- in the present crisis, wa will . continue our work till- the crack of doom:?Y s il S The Secretary’s report showed that, County Councils have been organized during the past year in thirty-seven counties, and that there dre only six counties in the State thaf have. not reported prohibitory organizations of some kind. - During the year the SBcretary received for the geéneral fund 351,450.19. The expenses of carrying on the general work and the salary exceed the receipis by . The Committee on Nominations reported tbe“follovvjng‘ list of - officers for the ensuing yeal, which was agreed to: President, Dr. G. W. ¥. Gerrish, of Seymour; First Vice~ President, W, H. Tralmet, Huntington; Sec--ond Vice-President; John W. Copier, Covington: Third Viee-President, W. M. Lord, Princeton; Corresponding Secretary, M. E. Shiel, Recording Secretary, John H. Whitson; TreasurersE. Ci Atkins, o " Rev. F. W. Simpsen, of Delaware County, was authorized to name a committee of five nunisters to wake up the Prohibition interests in the churches, and the following resolution was adopted upon recommendation of the Committee on Platform: L ‘We declare that the people of the State have a fundamental right to express themselves ‘zpon all questions, and that they have a right to be heard on the question of Prohibition. - We here declare that we will only votefor ‘such candidates for our next Legislature as will epenly pledge themseives to work and vote for the submission of the resolution passed by the last Legislature on that question, and, if there is no tfiunflidajte of that kind nominated by either of the pqiitxcal&arties, we: hereby %ledg-e ourselves to place such a can‘didate. before i,thg;ggoyles and towork and vote for the same. We further declare that the denial-of such & right by any Legislature is tyrannical, and 'augav Aa distrust of: the peo~ gle,afl,. 's_hoald'&mgge the fears of ,Fny;man for the lberties of His sountry. herefore, as: . temperance men who are willing to submit to and ablde by the decision of the voters of our _State, we pledge our sacred honor to stand by ‘the foregoing resolutions. . .~ .