Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 October 1890 — Page 6

THE NEW YOTING SYSTEM Detailed Instructions on the Law A Governing the Election. Report of a. Committee Selected by the State Chairmen of the Two Leading Parties as to How the Voting . Must Be Done. . POINTS OF THE ELECTION LAW. The committee consisting of three lawyers of each of the two leading political parties of Indiana, appointed to take cognizance of points brought forward by the new election law, have completed their work and reported the. result of their labors to the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic State committees. The gentlemen engaged in this work were James B. Black, Addison C. Harris and Roscoe O. Hawkins on behalf of the Republicans, and Judge William E. Niblack, James McCabe and and Jacob P. Dunn, Jr., for the Democrats. The first section of the report applies to the order in which the ticket shall be printed, that of State being as follows: Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Judge of the Supreme Court—Fifth District, Attor-ney-General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Public Ingtruction, Chief of Bureau of Statistics, State Geologist. On the local tickets the names of the candidates the committee advise should bein the following order, as far as applicable t the particular county: Repregentative in Congress, judge of circuit court, prosecuting attorney. judges of Buperior Court, judge of criminal eourt, Senator, joint Senator, Representative, joint Representative; clerk of circuit court, county auditor, county treasurer, recorder, sheriff, coroner, county surveyor, county commissioner. Fhe report then continues: - = 2 / L 12 H = = B . W —— ————— 2. LA W 4 w . Zae L ~ CHUTE. . A table for election board. B B B booths when ballots are marked. C challenge window, D door. E E chute through which the voter must enter. F railing separating the election board from the voters. W W windQws. In constructing the chute, and in enforcing the provision that no person shall remain within fifty feet of the challenge window, regard should be had to the purpose of the statute. Passage along the highway should not be unduly obstructed. Persons passing or being within fifty feet for manifestly necessary and lawful purposes should not be hindered or molested. - : We recommend the following instructions to voters, required by -Section 35 to be printed on the cards which are to be posted atthe polls, as sufficient to meet the requirements of the law: ; Tustructions to Voters.

First—You must get your ballots of the polling clerks in the election-room. Second—lf you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp the square to the left of the name of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket, then do not stamp the square to the left of the name of your party, but stamp the square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote on whatever list of candidates it may be. .Third—Do not mutilate ~your ballot, or mark it either by scratching a name offt or writing one on, or in any other way except by the stamping on the gquare or squares as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted.

Fourth—After stamping your ballots, and before leaving the booth, fold them separately, so that the face of them can not be seen, and so that the initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on the back thereof can be seen. Then kand your ballots to the inspector, the stamp to the polling clerk, and leave the room. : - Fifth—lf you are.physically unable to stamp your ballot or can not read English, so inform the polling ¢lerks, and tell them, how you wish to vote, and they will stamp your ballots for you. But the voter and clerks should not permit any other person to hear or see how the ballot is stamped. Sixth--If you should accidentally, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new ballot. : ' Sec. 43. Whoever shall knowingly cr willfully make a false affidavit, under any of the provisions of this act, shall be decmed guilty of perjury. . : :

Sec. 50, Any person who shall remove or attempt to remove a ballot or stamp from the election-room, or having in his possession outside the election-room any ballot or stamp, either genuine or counterfeit, during the election, shall be guilty of felony, and, on.convietion, shall be imprisonedin the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. Sec. 55, If any person not herein suthorized 80 to do shall enter or attempt to enter the election-room, or enter or attempt to enter within the railing Jeading from the challenge window to the entrance of the election-room without first having been passed by the challengers, or having been sworn in as herein before provided, or shall remain within fifty feet of the polling place, contrary to the provisions hereinbefore made, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be fined not niore than five hundred dollars. ; Section 56. If any ‘person shall induce, or attempt to induce, any elector to write, paste or otherwise place on his ballot the name of any person or any sign' or device of any kind as a distinguistiing mark by which toindicate to any other person how such elector has voted, or shall enter into or attempt to form any agreement or conspiracy with any other person to induce or attempt to induce electors, or any elector, 1o 8o place any distinguishing name or mark upon his ballot, whether or not said act be committed dr attempted to be committed, such persons so offending shall be guilty of felony, and, on conviction, be imprisoned not more than five nor less than two years id the State’s prison. >

. Section 59. Any person who shall, during the election, remove or destroy any of the supplies or other conveniences placed in the. booths as aforesaid, or delivered to the voter for the purpose of enabling the voter to prepare his ballot, wor shall, during an election, remove, tear down or deface the cards printed for the instruction of the voters, or shall, during an election, destroy or remove any booth, railing or other convenience provided for such election, or shall in. duce or attempt to induce any person to commit any of such. acts, whether or not any of such acts are committed or attempted to be . committed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor - more than one year, and be disfranchised for qnfie&‘gmfinfie period not less than ten years, . Bec. 60. No oficer of election shall disclose to ~ any person the S sy for wiees 8 W lector bas voted, No officer of election “&%mw%?uflfifiu Nopredey e M

shalldo any electibneering on ' election day. No person whatever shall do any electioneering on election day within any polling place, or withiz fifty feet of any polling place. No persoa shall apply for or receive any ballot in any polling place other than that in which he is entitled to vote. No person shall show his ballot after it is marked to any person in such a way ag Yo reveal the contents thereof, or the name of any candidate or candidates for whom he kge marked his vote; nor shall any person. examine a ballot which an elector has prepared for voting or solicit the elector to show the same. No person except the inspector of election, or judge who'may be temporarily acting for him, shall receive ‘from any voter a ballot prepared by him for voting. No voter shall re‘eeive a ballot from any person other than one of the poll clerks; nor shall any person other than a poll clerk deliver a ballot to an inspector obe voted. No voter shall deliver any ballot to an inspector to’be voted, except the one he receilves from the poll clerk. No voter shall place any mark upon his ballot or suffer or permit any other person to do so, by which it may be afterward identified as the one voted by him. Whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months. nor more than one year, and by fine of not less than one hundred dollurs nor more than five hundred doliars, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years.

Sample Ballots.

The sample State and, local ballots, provided for by section 85of the statute, acts of 1889, page 174, three of which are to be posted by the inspector in and about each polling place, should be printed in large type, each on a sheet of paper about 25x38 inches in size. The sample State ballot will be prepared by the State Board of Electiorn Commissioners. and inclosed in the package of State ballots for each precinct. They will be printed on yellow paper, and will have printed thereon the words: “Sample ballots. Genuine State bailot is on red paper.” .

The sample local ballot should be prepared by the county board of election commissioners, and inclosed im the package of local ballots for each precinet of the county. The sample local ballot should be printed on green paper, and should have printed thereon the words: ‘‘Sample ballot. Genuine local ballot is on white paper.” : : If deemed desirable, by committees of political parties or by committees for the rurpose of the instruction of voters ballots conforming to the above description of sample ballots may be printedsof any size, on yellow and green paper,, respectively, and posted up or circulated by such committee or candidates at any time during the political canvass.

Ballots.

As there are two ballots and two bal-lot-boxes, inspectors should bhe extremely careful to put the red ticket in the red box and the white ticket in the white box. i "

The initials of the poll clerks on the back of each ballot should be secrutinized before the ballot is deposited in the box, as a safeguard against possible forgery of ballots. In case a voter offers a ballot that is not folded so as to show the initials of the poll clerks it should be returned to him, with instructions to go into the booth and fold it so that they wiil be shown. If a voter offers a ballot so folded that the name of any candidate voted for is disclosed it can not be placed in the box, and he can not thereafter be allowed to vote. This ballot should be surrendered and destroyed, and a minute of the occurrence, with the statement of the destruction of the ballot, should be entered upon the poll-list, opposite the name of the person. : Challengers and Poll-Book Holders. Section 41 of the Act of March 6, 1889, provided ‘‘One challenger and one pollbook holder appointed and designated by each party organization shall be entitled to stand at the side of the chute near the challenge window.” The county chairman should provide a written appointment for such persons, which should be recognized hy the election board, unless revoked and a substitute appointed over the same signature.

The judges of the Marion Superior Court have constreed Section 2 of the Political Purity Act of March 9, 1889, (Chapter 130, Acts 1889), to prohibit the payment of challengers, goll-book holders, drivers or any other party-workers on election day. We acquiesce in their construction of that act. . Election Sheriffs.. Blection sheriffs will preserve order at the polls, make arrests on the demand of a member of the election board, or on affidavits. ' They should conduct blind voters or others needing physical assistance through the chute and to and from the voting-room. They should attend from the opening of the polls to the conclusion of the count. § ‘Counting Out. e . When the polls are closed the election board must first count the ballots remaining and unvoted, and the clerks must record the number of unvoted ballots on the tally-sheets. Thereupon these unvoted tickets must be totally consumed by fire. The board must then count the State ballots before counting the local ballots, by laying each ballot upon the table in the order in which it is taken from the ballot-box, and the inspeetor and the judge of the election differing in.polatics from the inspector, shall view the ballots as the names of the persons voted for are read therefrom. If a ballot is not stamped on one ‘of the squares at the left of the titles of the tickets it will be counted for the names with stamps on the squares to the left of them, and no others. If two or more names of oppcsing candidates for the same office are stamped neither can be counted. g

It the title of a ticket is stamped and no names are stamped, the ballot will be counted for all the names on the ticket whose title is stamped. If two or more titles are stamped, the ballot -must be treated as if neither title were stamped. If the title of one ticket is stamped .and also names on other tickets, the ballot must be counted for the names 80 stamped and also for all the names under the title stamped, except the opponents of names stamped. This is subject to the following exception: In case there are two or more candidates for the same office on the same ticket, as in case of candidates for the Legislature, Judges of the Superior Court, justices of the peace, etc., in some counties, if the title of one ticket and the names of one or more, but less than all, of such candidates on another ticket -are stamped, such ballots can mnot be counted for any of the candidates for such offices, for the reason that the intention of the voter is not apparent. If a voter desires to vote a mixed ticket, a 8 to suck offices, he must stamp the 'name of each candidate for whom he de!sires -to vote whether he stamps the title of a ticket or not. To avoid possibility of mistake; in such cases, election ~officers should advise voters, if they vote a mixed ticket, to stamp the name ~of each person voted for. L If any ticket is found not indorsed with tbe initials. of the poll clerks, or if any ticket bears any distinguishing

mark or mutilation, it shall not be counted; so if any ticket properly indorsed and not mutilated is so made up that it is impossible to determine from the ballot the elector’s choice of candidates, such ballots shall not be counted, as to the candidate ‘or candidates affected thereby, but should be counted as to the candidates not thereby affected. In making the count, if any member of the board shall protest or object te the decision of a majority thereof, as to counting or not counting trhfi? ticket, such ballots must be preserved by the inspector, and the poll clerks must record on the tally-sheets a memorandum stating how the tickets were stamped and counted, describing them for identification.

On completing the count of the State ballots and recording the tallies the board must then totally consume by fire the undisputed ballots, and the inspector must preserve, as héreinafter stated, the disputed ballots. : The board will then proceed to count the local ballots in the same manner.

The count ended, the board must fill up the election return papers, showing the total vote cast for each candidate, and immediately make a memorandum of the total vote cast for each candidate, and deliver a copy thereof to each member of such board. i

Returns.

The count being completed the board must place in a paper bag or envelope to be furnished for that purpose all affidavits made and taken during the election, which bag or envelope must be se¢urely sealed by the board. Each member of the board must indorse his name on the back of such bag or envelope, which mustbe directed to the clerk of the county, to whom the inspector must deliver such bag or envelope within three days. All protested and "disputed ballots preserved from destruction must be put in another bag furnished for that purpose, together with the seals of the ballot pacikages in the same condition as they were when the packages were opened at the beginning of the election. The inspector must seal this bag with wax and indorse thereon the number of ballots therein and the condition of the seals of the ballot packages, with the. name of the township and the number of the precinct. - And such inspector shall deliver the same at the earliest possible period to the clerk of the county. :

In the third bag. must be placed one of the lists of voters kept by the poll clerks and one of the tally-papers, which bag must be tightly closed and sealed with wax by the inspector in the presence of the judges; and the inspector ‘must deliver the same to the county clerk on or before the Thursday next succeeding the day of election, and make the affidavit required by section 4,713 of the revised statutes of 1881.

In addition to the report of the committee as given above, we reproduce from the law the following instructions to voters: Things Which the Law Says He Must Do and Some Others That He Must Not Do. WHAT THIE VOTER MUST DO. : If you are subject to registration, as before stated, you must register at the county clerk’s office at least three months before the election. On going Jo the polls on election day pass through the chute to the challenge window, and if challenged swear in your vote or stand asice. The necessary forms for affidavits will be supplied at the challenging window. If not challenged, or after swearing in your vote, pass on through the chute to the door, where you will be admitted in turn. When you enter the election room announce your name to the poll clerks, who will furnish you with a red ballot containing the names of 31l candidates for State offices, a white ballot containing the names of all candidates for local offices, and a stamp for marking them. :

If you do not understand how to mark your ballots ask the poll clerks. 1f you can notread English, or are physically unable to mark your ballots, the poll ¢lerks will mark it for you, and on request will read over the names marked.

Go alone into one of the uwnoccupied booths and mark your ballot with the stamp. ' If you wish to vote a ‘‘straight ticket” mark the square in front of the title of your party at the head of the ticket. If you wish to vote a mixed or “scratched”’ ticket mark the square in front of the name of each candidate for whom you wish to vote. . | If by accident you tear, mutilate, deface or spoil your ballot go at once to the poll clerks, explain how the accident occurred, and ask for another ballof. e

Before leaving the booth fold each of your ballots .so that thé initials of the poll clerks on the back will show, but 80 that no part of the face of the ballot can be seen. :

When your ballots are marked and folded come out of the booth. Give the stamp to the poll clerk from whom you received it and hand the folded ballots to the inspector, who will put them in the ballot-box in your presence. Then leave the room. - ; When you have voted, and before you are ready to vote, remain fifty feet away from the polls. : As the voter doubtless now understands pretty well what to do, he should now carefully read _ ; WHAT HE MUST NOT DO. . Do not attempt to vote if you are not a legal voter. You are not alegal voter if you have not lived in the State six months, the townshipsixty days and the precinct thirty days.. You are not a legal voter if you have lived in the county less than six months and have not registered: If registered you must have your certificate with you. - s Do not accept a ballot from any person outside of the election room. Any ‘ballot obtained outside is fraudulent, and it. is a penitentiary offense to have such a ballot 'in your possession whether you attempt to vote it or not.

De not attempt to'hold any conversation in- thé election room except with the members of the election board and the poll clerks. It is a pemitentiary offense to deeclare’ that you can not read English or can not mark -your ballet if in fact you can. . Do not mark on the ballot with the stampatany place except the squaresin front of the title of the party, or the names of the candidates for whom you wish to vote. .Do not putany mark of any kind on your ballot except with the stamp. Seiina ;

Do not tear, mutilate, deface or mark your ballot in any way so that it could be Identified: and if you should do soo accidentally do not attempt to vote it. Do not show the face of your ballot to any person; you will lose your vote and be subject to fine and imprisonment if you do. Do not attempt to see the ballot of any other person. e Do not attempt to vote any ballot except the ome given you by the poll

clerks. Do not injure or inter fere with any of the railings, posters, booths or any of the furniture used in conducting the election. : ; Do not advise, counsel or abet any vote buying, bribery or other violation of the election law. ¢ * Do not personate some one else in registering. . ’ Do not misprint ballots. Do not make a false affidavit. : Do not refuse an employe time to vote, as the law says he can have four hours at some time in the day for that purpose. Do not deceive an elector in assisting him to stamp his ticket. : Do not forge the clerk’s initialson a ticket. Do not counterfeit ballots. - Do not open or destroy ballot packages. Do not reveal the nature of ticket cast by voter. : i Do not try to persuade election board to violate the law. - s - Do not electioneer within the fifty feet limit. : . Do not show a marked ballot. Do not bribe. . Do not break open any ballot box. Do not alter a tally sheet. Do not import voters. Do not vote twice. Do not intimidate voters. Do not bet on the election. : |

Severe penalties are provided for aoing or attempting to do any of these acts. Any voter who attempts to leave the election room with a ballot or stamp in his possession shall be immediately arrested, and any person having in his possession outside the election room any ballot or stamp, whether genuine or counterfeit, during the election shall be guilty of felony, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years, and shall be disfranchised for any determinate period- not less than ten years.

e LUCKY METAPHOR. How a Wide-Awake Youngster Changed o His Father’s Resolution. ; It had been decided that Ben Hammond shogld do a little study through the spring vacation, to make up for time lost that winter in illness. Ben rebelled; he declared that such a decree was tyrannous, no matter who imposed it, and at last plaintively asserted that he really ‘didn’t feel well enough to work while the other boys were at play. His father and mother proved immovable; study he must, they declared, at least two hours every forenoon. ; On the first morring of vacation, Ben was heard soliloguizing as he dressed: “*Oh yes, harness me up! I'm nothing but an old cart-horse. Put me into a heavy.cart, load it up with coal, and then lick me along.” -

Now the one circumstance which could meve this family to wrath and vengeance was unkindness, of any sort, shown to dumb animals. Ben had chosen the most telling metaphor which occurred to him, and his mother, overhearing his remarks, was greatly amused by them. *‘Ben,” she said, slyly, at breakfast, *didn’t I hear something about your being a cart-horse this morning?” “I am,” said Ben, seizing upon the idea. ‘‘l'm a cart-horse and mnothing else. All my chums are kicking up their heels in the pasture, and I have to work all dyy long, with only a little musty hay in a nosebag three times a day.. I’ve got on an overhead check so tight that I can’t see where I step. ' My back is galled under the harness. My knees are all barked, where I’ve fallen down on the cobblestones. One of my shoes hurts me because I was shod by a poor blacksmith.” - | Oh, come, Ben,” said his father, writhing behind his newspaper. “We might as;well read Fox’s Book of Martyrs. at the -table as listen to such horrors.”’

“It’s all true,” said Ben, dolefully. “I’'m just such a horse. And at night after my day’s work is done, the boys of the family harness me into a buggy and drive me miles and miles. And they’ve bought a long, slim whip, and how it does tingle! Sometimes I see other horses in the street eating grain for dinner, but I don’t even know the taste of oats!” s

““Get along with you!” said his father, unable to bear more. ‘‘Go and have a gamé of ball—or skate—or go in swimming—or play marbles—but don’t work on my feelings any more to-day.”— Youth’s Companion. TO INSURE LONGEVITY. What Is One Man’s Food Is His Neigh- : bor’s Poison. Exceedingly ‘common is the notion that length of life is controlled by habits, and that a careful observance of what are called good habits must necessarily insure to every one longevity. Indeed, some appear to think that such self-denying persons ought never to sicken or die} 1t was my fortune, many years ago, to know a man who held to this idea and who-carried oug to the full such acourse of life with more than ordinary consistency and intelligence. His income enabled him to completely realize his ideal. He trained this body carefully and };egularly; he had no ‘‘small vices” nor great ones; he ate the plainest food, but it was always of the best, well prepared and abundant. Not one of those habits which are esteemed good was neglected, and those which are called bad were shunned with abhorrence. He boasted that he was never sick, and that he would live to celebrate his one hundredth birthday., He had a neighvor of the most self-indulgent kind. He also was a man of wealth, who took no exercise beyond an occasional pleasure drive, who unifermly ate a hot and rich supper at ten o’clock at night, and of whom it was asserted that, though never drunk, he was rarely, if éver, perfectly sober. The former of these gentlemen died at sixty-four; the latter at sixty-eight. Of the heredity of eitßer I have nogknowledge.—lNorth American Review. , How He Par.lyzed Her, o *Rambo,” sfifl Baldwin, as the two sat down at a table in a restaurant, “watch me paralyze that waiter girl.” He beckoned to the girl, and she obeyed the summons. : | “My dear,” he said, ‘‘you may bring me some rare-done chicken goup.” She went away and returned presently, bringing a bowl of lukewarm water with a chicken-bone floating about in it. . ~ ““This isn’t on the bill of fare,” she observed, putting down a check for twen-ty-five cents, ‘‘and itcosts extra. Any thing else?”—Chicago Tribune. : - Manager—‘‘How about that theater in your town?” Rusticus—“l tell you there gre no flies on our cpera-house.” ‘Manager—‘‘Then I shall have to make other arrangements. We need flies for thmowma;glemmmwwm” —Mupsoy's Weekly. s e s

STATE INTELLIGENCE.

- OVER §9,000,000 is paid annually by the Government to pension the Union soldiers of Indiana. There are 45,776 pensioners enrolled., Frep PASCHEN, an inmate of the sounty poor-house, Valparaiso, hanged aimself a few days ago. He was eighty3ix years old and was tired of life. MRr. Axp Mrs. MARTIN MELICK, of Martinsville, were badly hurt by their buggy upsetting. Mrs. Melick, it is feared, is fatally and Mr. Melick internally injured. S IN a drunken row at Decatur, Jacob Grim was stabbed several timesin the abdomen, and it is supposed he will die. Matt Snyder,.an old ditcher, is charged with the crime, and is in jail awaiting trial. - Wi CarrorLL and Louis Griggs stab each other with the same knife in a quarrel in New Albany. Carroll is'dead and Griggs will probably die. TureE weeks ago John Slough, a wellknown aged Elkhartan, stepped on a rusty nail, which passed through his foot. He lapsed into lock-jaw’ and died a few nights ago. , wl

PRESIDENT WRIGHT, of the Cambridge City council, was struck by a train and seriously injured. . FIvE horses, at Annapolis, afflicted with glanders, have been killed by the State Veterinarian.. The disease is spreading. , ' THE commissioners of Ripley County were in Martinsville,. the other day, viewing the new jail and sheriff’s residence. They expect to erect a similar building in their 6wn county. ABOUT a year ago Robert Lavender, a yardmaster at Greensburg, was thrown from the top of a box-car to a flat-car by coming in contactwith a telegraph wire stretched across the track. For the injury then received he sued for $lO,OOO damages. The other day a jury returned a verdict for $4OO against Wm. Goddard and his son Samuel. The wire was erected by the younger Goddard for the purpose of learning telegraphy.

Hox. Jou~ V. BENTZ was thrown from his horse at English, and the' animal stepped upon his face and then fell upon him.. .

~ Mgs. MicHArn RONAN, who lived at Falmouth, three miles south of Connersville, was killed by a collision in the road, a heavy wagon driven by Van Hood,demolishing the buggy and throwing the lady to death. - : WHILE hunting, near Martinsville, George Stroder was shot in the leg by the accidental discharge of John Smith’s gun. The leg will have to come off.

Mr. Tooyas HArT, preside'n%,df the National Window-Glass Asso@iation,was badly burned about the head’and face by a natural gas explosion in his works at Muncie. TeE Republicans of the/ Third Congressional District have nominated William J. Durham, boiler maker, of Sycamore, for Congress. MicHAEL MORIARITY, an eight-year-old boy, of Indianapolis, who was bitten two months ago by a dog, died of hydrophobia. L : Jonx ' HAxsoN Crale, of Danville, is one of the largest men in the world. Mr. Craig stands six feet five inches in his stockings and weighs over 600 pounds. He measures eight feet about the hips, and wears No. 10 shoes, seven and a quarter hat and a seven and a quarter ‘glove. His father and mother were of medium size. He is a great-great-grand-son of Governor Crittenden, fir;sb Gov‘ernor of Vermont. He is also a first cousin of Wm. P. Hepburn, at present Solicitor for the United States Treasury. Mr. Craig is connected with no show. THE other afternoon John Crawley, aged séven years, an inmate of the Feeble Minded Institute, Ft. Wayne, was drowned in the St. Joe river while bathing. His parents reside at Logansport. : : AT the recent reunion of the Thirtyfourth Regimentat Ossian, the survivors, 123 in number, held services at the grave of their old commander, Lieuten-ant-Colonel Swaim, who was killed in battle at Champion Hill. Brief remarks were made by W. T. Giffe, of Logansport. : ; .

THE stolen horse wanted by the Indianapolis police has been tound at Crawfordsville. It wasinthe possession of a man who had purchased the animal from the thief.

- FrANK MAGEE, a Pan-handle brakeman of Logansport, died the other night of lock-jaw. He had his arm badly crushed while making a coupling and died in great agony. ‘

Rev. J. R. DrEw, aged eighty-two, and Mrs. E. T. Drew, seventy-five, wers married at Evansville. The couple were early lovers. _ GrorGE ALLEN, of Brazil, was killed by the cars at that place.

~ Mnrs. ELmA C. WHITEHEAD is to bring suit for $50,000 against prominent persons .to whom she attributes the rumors of her supposed connection with the death of Mrs. W. F. Pettit. . ;

Tom O’NEILL, who was the confidential clerk of County Clerk John Sullivan, and was jointly indicted with Sullivan for issming fraudulent warehouse receipts, entered the Criminal Court at Indianapolis, the other evening and gave bond for his appearance for trial. The bond was $5,000, but was reduced to $2,500 by the court, and was promptly given. O’Neill has been in Indianapolis with friends for several days, but the fact was kept secret pending his efforts to secure bondsmen. He says that he knew nothing of Sullivan’s fraudulent methods, and left only because he did not believe he could geta fairtrial, owing to the prejudice against Sullivan. - :

Mgs.Cuas. HAss, a widow living alone in Ft. Wayne, was attacked by burglars the other night and beaten so badly thatshe was unconscious and doctors pronounce her injuries fatal. The burglars got nothing, and effected an entrance by shouting that her son, a switehman, had been killed in the railroad yards. . AT Huntington, Joseph Silhey has.entered suit against Louis Gausds, a saloonkeeper, in the sum of $2,000, for selling liquor to his minor son, - who, becoming intoxicated, fell into the Wabash river and was drowned.

Wuite CArs notified Fred L. Weil, of English, to either sober up or leave the county. He left the county. : THE other morning Jacob B. Turner, of Muncie, received a telegram from the President’s private secretary, Mr. Halford, tendering him the appointment of messenger at the White House, a position lately vacated by Mr. Edward M. White, of the same city, resigned. Joux B. WirsoN pleaded guilty of horse:stealing, at Covington, and was sentenced to five yearsin the penitentiary. ‘While the sheriff was returning him to jail he made a break for liberty, but was recaptured. ’ Sl - Jonx CuNNINGHAM, of Harrison County, sold the apples from his orchard of 800 trees for $1,600. . B e b e L

: OPEN WAR DEGLARED. - The New York Central Apnounces That It Objects to Ats Employes .Being. Knights of Labor. R ‘ NEW YORK, Oct. B.—Third Vice-Presie dent Webb, of the New York Central railroad, has issued a ecircular, which has been sent to the heads of the various departments, announcing that the road objects to its emvloyes being Knights of Labor. Officials are requested to call the attention of employes to the circular. The document states that the recent strike, the acts of lawlessness committed in connection therewith, the published correspondence between the leaders of the organization that ordered it, and the fact that'many men now seeking re-employment state that they quit work from fear of personal violence and did not dare to resume work for the same reason, force the management of the company to this decision, being satisfied that membership in this particular organization isinconsistentwith faithful and efficient service to the company, and is likely at any time to prevent it from properly discharging its duties to the public. Ly General Superintendent Voorhees said that the circular means precisely what it says. Knights must either give up their membership in the order or leave the road. Vice-President Webb said Thursday afternoon: : L

“We think we have done a wise. thing in taking this step. In the past we have always admitted that we have had no objection to our men joining labor organizations, but the developments made during the recent strike have led us to decide that if our men were allowed t 0 be members of the particular organi zation known as the Knights of Labor the re sult would be detrimental to our road and the public. Our action is in no sense an attack on labor, and we do not anticipate that any trouble will follow the issue of our circular.” =

_ President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, -said that Mr. Webb was a fool and that ‘‘whom the gods wished to destroy they first made mad.” | Mr. Webb’s success in the strike had intoxicated him. The, circular was cowardly,’ as it attacked a fallen foe. : s

SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 3.—‘“Will the order of the Knights of Labor resent this position of the Central road in any way?’ was asked of Mr. Powderly. . , “Most assuredly we will. I shall esteem it my duty,” -said Mr. Powder ly emphatically, ‘‘to call’ upon -the members of our order at once to notify their friends that there are better roads to ride over than the New York Central. We will go farther than that. We shall call upon business men, shippers of goods and others doing business with that company and request them to direct their -patronage into other channels.”

TRAIN-ROBBERS IN:- OHIO.

Bandits Pillage an Express-Car in True ~ Western Style — Daring 'Crime Neae Urbana—Messenger Scudder Bound and

Gagged and the Safe Emptied. SANDUSKY, 0., Oct. B.—Aftér the express north on the Cincinnati,- Sandusky & Cleveland railway left Urbana Thursday morning at 2 o’clock two men, who had boarded the train between the | exprcss and the baggage cars, 'énteredw the express car where Messenger Scud-" der of the Adams Express Company was arranging his way-bills. One held arevolver at Scudder’s head and the. other took a rope from his pocket and securely-tied Scudder’s hands and foet and threw him on the floor, face down. They demanded the key of the safe, threatening to shoot | him if he did not not tell them where it was. Scudder told them where to find the key. They opened the safe and took eleven packages of money. Scudder is unable to state the-amount. - One package contained $3OO and the others smaller amounts. When the train reached Bellefontaine, 0., the robbers left the.car and boarded a southbound freight. Two men were arrested at Bellefontaine on suspicion. Scudder succeeded in freeing himself after the: rotbers left the car. Mr. L. C. Weier, manager of the Adams Express Company, says that nothing will be known of how much money was obtained in.the robbery of the express messenger near Urbana until to-day, when there will be a casting up of accounts. It is also known that he lost his own salary, which he received before he left here.

CorumßUS, 0., Oct. 3.—Superintend‘ent Bimple, of the Adams Express Company, left here Thursday for Urbana to investigate the robbery. He states that the loss to his company does not exceed $5OO. sah e . HE ABUSED THE SULTAN. A German’s Hasty JT.anguage thé Cause of the Vitu Massacre. . = ZANZIBAR, Oct. 3.—Particulars of the recent massacre of Germans by natives of Vitu have just been received. Four men were killed outside.of the gate: of Vitu and three others after a pursuit of several miles. Kuntzel was the last to bo killed. Menschel was wounded, but escaped owing to the concealmentafforded him by some long. grass. The murderers then proceeded te Kumntzel’s camp and killed Horn, who had been left in charge, desiroyed all the German: plantations and murdered a planter named Dehnke. The bodies of all the murdered persons lie where they fell, permission for the burial of the remains being refused. It isstated that those who lost their lives were all in-_ offensive, industrious persons, with the exception of Kuntzel. The Spitan had summoned them to his presence and disarmed them September 14, the day previous to the massacre, when Kuntzel 'violently abused the Sultan, thus de-. termining the fate of the party. THE /GENSUS, - . . Populations of Various Western Cities and Towns Announced., = WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—The Census Bureau announces the populations of the foilowing cities and towns: : Illinois—Danville, 11,528; increase, 3,795. De-_ catur, 16,841; increase, 7,204. Champaign, 5,827; increase, 724, Mattoon, 6,829; increase, 1,092. Paris, 5,049; increase, 676. { ‘ lowa—Boone, 6,513; increase, 8,138. Marshalltown, 9,308; inérease, 3,068, .Sioux City, 87,862; increase, 30,496, it s Official census figures give lowa City, la., a population of 5,628, while more than 8,500-people were enumerated by a_ local paper. A recount was ordered Thursday. S

Deoath of a Prominent Maryland Gentleman. ‘ :

BALTIMORE, Md.,, Oct. 3.—Phillip Francis Thomas died Thursday. He was one of the best known and highly respected characters in the State. In. 1839 he was-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress. Later on he was Governor of Maryland; Secretary of the Treasury for a short period under President Buchanan, and at different times member of the House of Delegates, was.elected ‘United States Senator in 1866 but refused admission because of alleged disloyalty to the Union during the war, ' LR e Sedcnitad "-1} o %‘@:k»&g»,kfi«}%}@i‘m@%fi%fif%%

i~ “THE SESSION ENDS. Final Adjournment of the Fifty-First Cone gress—The Tarlff Bill Becomes a Law, WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—ln the Senate, after the journal had been approved, Senator Sherman (0O.) offered a’ resolu. tsion for :th& appointment of a committee of two Senators to join a like committee of the House to wait upon the President and inform him that unless he 'shall have any further communication to make the two houses are now ready to adjourn. : ‘The resolution was agreed to, and Senators Sherman and Harris were appointed the committee on the part of the Senate. At 2:55 p. m., the tariff bill; which had been signed by Speaker Reed. was presented to the Senate by the Clerk of the House,” Mr. McPherson. Two min« utes later Vice-President Morton affixed his sigrature to it. ; . Senator Harris (Tenn.) offered a resolution tendering the thanks of the Senate to Vice-President Morton for the dignified, impartial and courteous manner in which-he has presided over the deliberations of the Senate. Adopted vnanimously. i : : A resolution similar in its terms was offered by Senator Ransom (N. C.) in compliment to Senator Ingalls as President pro tempore, £nd it was also unanimously adopted. | - A message was received from the House that the adjournment resolution hdd been amended by substituting 6 o’clock for 5, and the amendment was concurred in. R i

~ Senator Sherman (in company with Senator Harris) reported that the com- - mittee of the two houses had waited on the President and had informed him that the two houses had concluded their business and were prepared to adjourn if he had no further commuaira‘tion to make to them, and that the President had answered that he had no - further communication to make. ~A message was received from the House announcing its concurrence with - the resolution as to negotiations with Great Britain and Mexico to prevent Chinese entering the United States. . Mr. Morton then rose and said: : “Senators: Before making the announcement that will leave Senators at liberty to return to their homes I express my most grateful appreciation of the resolution of approval ‘and confidence with which you have honored me. Assuming, as I did, the responsibilities of the chair without previous experience as ‘a ' presiding omc‘er.‘ ?t. is not necessary for Y me to 'say that if I have discharged the delicate and important duties of the po pition in a satisfactory manner it.is due to the indulgent consideration and cordial co-opera-‘tion'which I have received from: every Senator on this floor. I-influlge in the earnest hope that I may be permitted, upon the reassembling of Congress, to see every member of this body in his ‘seat, in renewed health and strength after a season of rest from the arduous labors of this, the longest-continuing session with one exception in the kistory of the Government. ‘I feel that I may with good warrant congratulate the Senate and the country upon the large number of important measures which have received the careful consideration of this body and have become laws, It only re‘mains for me to declare, as. I now 90,\ that the ‘Senate stands adjourned without,duy.” [Applause.] G : Pee i HOUSE. 4 : WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—ln his prayer the chaplain referred to the approaching end of the session and invoked the Divine blessing upon the members during the vacation. - « o Mr. Caswell (Wis.) presented to the House a letter addressed to the Speaker by Postmaster Wheat, A tendering his resignation. The Speaker laid the letter before the House. Later Mr. Spooner (R. 1) from the committee on accounts sibmitted a report on the investiga- ° tion into the conduct of the postmaster. "The report states that the charges in the Enloe resolution have been substantiallyrroved and, although the relations between the late Postmaster of the House (Dalton) and his ntraector (Culbertson) give rise to suspicion that some private arrangement existed between them . whereby Dalton during the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses derived personal profits from the mail contract, no absolute proof of this has been obtained. The report is ‘accompanied by a resolution ddclaring the office of postmaster of - the House vacant and directing the assistant postmaster to perform the duties of the office until a’ postmaster shall have been elected and shall have qualified.” o The Wheat resolution wasthen agreed : toin

Mr. McKinley (0.), chairman of the committee appointed to wait upon’ the President,” announced that the President had no further communication to make, and then the House took a recess. During the recess nearly all the members left the hall to make preparations for their departure from the city, and when the Speakerreconvened the House that official looked down upon a vast ‘array of emptyseats. He merely stated that according to the concurrent resolu= tion he declared the first session of the Fifey-first Congress adjourned without day. = . . SIGNED THE TARIFF BILL. . WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—The President signed -the tariff bill at 3:22 p. m. He was waiting at his room in the Senate wing of the Capitol to do so when the bill went to the House for Speaker Reed’s autograph. : L ~ A SESSION OF ROLL-CALLS. @ WasHINGTON, Oct. 2—The session of ‘Congress just closed has been, in the ‘House, a session of roll-calls. During the session there have been .435 rollcalls, or 200 more than at any other session .of Congress. This means about thirty-six solid days of roll-calling, and as it is estimated that each call of ‘the Toll costs the Government about $2,000, it will be seen what extravagance filibustering is. S

; OHIO TOWNS. o Official Figures from the Census Bureau L Showing the Size of Several. WAsHINGTON, Oct. -9. — Populations were on Wednesday announced by the Census Bureau Office of cities and towns as follows: c Akron, 0., 27,702; increase, 11,190. Alliance, 0., 7,598; increase, 2,962, Ashtabula, 0., 83865 increase; 8,871. - Canton, 0., 26,327; increase, 14,069. East Liverpool, O. 10,947; increase, 5,379. Massilon, 0., 10,068; increase, 3,332 Steubenville, 0., 13,363; increase, 1,270. Warren, 0., 6,036; increase, 1,658. 'Wellsville, O, 5,236; increase, 1,659. Youngstown, 0., 33,199 increase, 17,764. Also the population of the State of Georgia, 1,834,366; increase, 202,186, or '18.95 per cent. 4 : - INDIAN FANATICS. Members of the Sioux Tribe in South Dae . kota' Looking for Christ’s Coming: " Piereg, S. D., Oct. 2.—Reports from ‘the Sioux camps along the Cheyenne river state that the fanatical fever of the Indians over the expected coming of their Messiab is increasing daily. Incantations and religious orgies are kept going, and an aged medicine man called Red Shirt, whose age is said to be over 100, leads the programme with new and startling features of* worship, . They are perfectly peaceable, but do not like to have whites interfere or get too close. to fhelr moeting-places, ol N R S e e