Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 3, Number 42, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 19 January 1882 — Page 2

•JJappance ISMIg Jtma. NAITANKE. : ; INDIANA. THE NEWS. Compiled from Latest Dispatches, Trial ot Guiteau. the Assassin. Thk trial of Guiteau was resumed on the morning of the 12th, Mr. Davidge making the opening speech to the jury in behalf of the prosecution. In his opening Mr. Davidge disclaimed any intention of making any set speech, but expressed his simple desire to render the jury what aid he could in their present and solemn duty. Whatever of disorder and levity might have characterized the trial, there was but one sentiment in respect to the conduct of the jury. As Mr. Davidge traced the process of reasoning by which the prisoner gradually reached the conviction that " but one life interposed between himself and possibly great benefits,” Guiteau became restledß, and, for the first time since the opening of the court, indicated by his nervous twisting about the usual preliminaries to a series of interruptions, which in this instance quickly followed. “Not often,” said Davidge, **in the record of heinous crime, do we have such plain and pointed evidence as to the first conception of crime. In this case the suggestion came to the wretch in the night as he lay in his bed." A series of interruptions and interjections followed, after which Mr. Davidge said: "In the beginning it was sought to show that the prisoner was off his balance. Now the Court tells you to look for that degree of insanity that disables a man from knowing that what he was doing was wrong. This is the test you are to apply. Upon the question of inspiration, I think I will be able to show to your satisfaction how little there is in this claim. The only question,” he said, “ was that of insanity?” He then urgued that the prisoner had that.degree of intelligence, legal knowledge and the moral sense which rendered him responsible for his acts. In a telling passage he showed that the prisoner himself had the wit to see the fatal weakness of Scbville’s line of defense, and repudiated it, arguing in his own behalf that he was no im.becile, but a sane man, whose intellect and will had been dominated during a specified period of time, rendering him irresponsible - for this particular crime. He then reviewed the circumstances of the crime and the victim and the criminal. His analysis of Guiteau’s character was graphic and effective/ “ If,” he exclaimed, “ I were to sum up the moral and intellectual qualities of this man, I should Bay that ho had the daring of a vulture combined with the heurt of a wolf." In speaking of Guitcau’s plan, he remarked upon his greater fear of the inob than of, the law, and exclaimed: 44 We to our shame, that this estimate had a foundation. It rested,” ho added, 44 with the jury to show the world whether Guitcau’s opinion was well founded. If he had feared the law as he. feared the mob, our martyred head and chief would be atyve to-day.” Alter recess Mr. Davidge considered the question of insanity, and took up the case of each member of the Guiteau family. Even admitting the existence of collateral insanity, Mr. David/e said: 44 Hut the* unanswerable testimony of experts settles the question how much effect this collateral insanity could have upon the mental condition of the prisoner. It is but the merest mockery todiscuss this question,in view of the undoubted ability of this man to distinguish between right and wrong.” Mr. Davidge then recapitulated the leading incidents of Guiteau’s life and argued therefrom that while they showed that he was a bad man they did not indicate his insanity. The evidence submitted by the defense was carefully disintegrated and pronounced worthless. The argument was here suspended. An exciting discussion then ensued upon Judge Cox inquiring if counsel desired to say anything upon Guiteau’s request to be heard. 44 1 want,’’ shouted Guiteati, 44 to make the closing speech. I wouldn’t trust the conclusion of my ease to the best lajvyer in America." The DistrictAttorney, in a ringing speech, protested against Guiteau’s being allowed to take a seat at the counsel-table. Applause from the audience, with shouts of Guiteau, and cries of "Order” frojp the bailiff made an exciting scene for some minutes. Guiteau was finally heard shouting through the din: "The American people will read my speech, and they are greater than this Court. The American people are trying this case. If you undertake to put on the gag-law, the Court in bade will right me. My speech will make eight columns, and It reads like an oration of Cicero. It will go thundering down the ages, and don’t you forget it And as for you, Corkhill, President Arthur will soon dispose of you.” Mrs. Scoville was deeply affected and wept hysterically. Judge Cox finally told Mr. Scoville to read over the prisoner's speech and let the Court know in the morning if there was anything in it he desired to go before the jury. Without stating whether he would permit the prisoner to speak or not Judge Cox ordered adjournment Upon the opening of the on the 13th Guiteau said that ho had received abetter on the preceding day severely denouncing Mr. Davidge. and that his remarks against him (Davidge) were based upon that. The prisoner had found out however, thut he was mistaken, ahd thut Davidge was a high-toned Christian gentleman and a sound lawyer, and he desired to withdraw anything he might have said against him. He was wrong on Davidge, but right on CorkhlU. Mr. Davidge resumed hie argument and showed by the evidence of J. W. Guiteau and other witnesses for the defense the fallacy of Mr. Hcovl lie's theory that the prisoner was an Imbecile. Davidge passed to the examination of the prisoner himself, his appearance on the stand, what he had said, and what capacity of intellect he hail shown, proving, he said, conclusively that what had gone before had all been a sham and hollow fruud. Seville had dilated upon his morality, and had asserted that lack of Intellect was his failing. On the contrary, he had shown upon the stand wonderful memory, logic, reason and Intellectual , ability. Likewise, as the defense had claimed for him virtue and morality, the prosecution had availed themselves of their right to show the contrary, and what had been the result? He hud been shown to be such a monster of" corruption, dirt, depravity and wickedness that the country looked on with a shudder. Continuing, Mr. Davalge skillfully, and with marked effect, reviewed that portion of the testimony bearing Upon the prisoner’s moral character, as evinced in past life. 44 All this time,” said the counsel, rno one accused him of insanity. In the estimation of his friends and his family, he was sane enough for all transactions of life; but when his hand is red with blood, and'outraged law claims him as a sacrifice on the altar of justice, we first hear of insanity.” He alluded briefly to the testimony of Mrs. Dunmirc, the divorced wife of the prisoner. The prosecution were debarred from entering upon those confidences which exist between husband and wife. The defense could have done so, but they did not Mrs. Dunmire did not hesitate, said Davldgp, to testify emphatically that he was a sane man. Commenting on the testimony of Dr. Spitzka, Davidge fcaid that, notwithstanding some of his remarkable statements, Spitzka never denied the prisoner’s legal responsibility. Accepting U his evidence, even Spitzku brought the prisoner within the reach of law and punishment. Never before had so many men of eminence appeared upon a trial of this character. The Treasury had boen opened to secure the attendance of witnesses; more than twenty experts had been summoned for the defense, many of them inen whose names were known in every household. They came here; they watehea the prisoner. They listened to his evidence, and what was the result? With two exceptions, they vanished from before the light of evidence, like clouds before the wind, and not one of them could come upon the stand and swear that this man was legally Insane. They met and compared not**, and could not testify but to his sanity. "Now,” continued Mr. DavJqgu, 44 what has been the result of all this evidence? This alleged ford has grown before you to a man of ftirire than ordinary intellect. We have uncovered his moral nature. We have shown him to be In religion a hypocrite; at law a pettifogger; in uH things a

swindler; adentaenof jails and a depraved' aafTwicked wrefilh.** In aumfer to the prisonorfc claim cif Divine inspiration, Davidge read with impressive affect nm the first chapter of the Emistle of Jameftrthirteenth to fifteenth verses, inclusive, as follows: £ Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man; but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” After disposing of the insahity and inspiration theories Mr. Davidge continued: “There is not an element in this case that removes it from the category so carefully provided against in the courts. Here was a daring, audacious boy, who in the Oneida Community gave way to a life of lawless vice; later, as a man, a theocrat, who would overturn all law and churches; later, when he boasted himself to be of the firm of Jesus Christ & Cos., you see the legitimate outcome of his wicked egotism. It is just as legitimate and logical to find the true explanation of this crime in the same traits of inordinate vanity, desire of notoriety and reckless egotism. As I conceive it, the only theory of his crime is this; He conceived the idea of this monstrous crime, believing that others were as wicked as himself, and that those who would be benefited by it would in some way interpose to save him from the damning consequences of his most heinous crime,” Mr*. Davidge concluded his remarks without peroration, and the Court adjourned. Congressional. Mn. Dawes, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill in the Senate on the 10th to ratify the agreement made by the Crow Indians of Montana for the-sale of part of their reservation. Mr. Day aril, from the Finance Committee, reported, with th l- * recommendation that it pass, tilt* Morrill Tariff Commission bill, and also, with an adverse report, th Garland Commission bill. Mr. Bayard -said he favored'removing the tariff question from the arena of sectional feeling by selecting civilians for Commissioners. Mr. Heck opposed the Morrill bill as a scheme of monopolists to secure delay In the House the faith was administered to Benjamin Wood, of New York. Wednesday, 28th instant, was assigned for memorial services of the late Senator Carpenter. In the Ctah con-tested-election case, after an excited debate, it was agreed—lfW to 24—to refer the matter to the Committee oh Elections. In the Senate on the 11th a largo number of petitions’were submitted for a Commission to Inquire into the alcoholic liquor traffic. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution, which was laid over tq be printed, directing the Special Committee on Woman Suffrage to inquire into the matter of suffrage in Ctah, and report u bill to set aside any existing laws conferring suffrage upon women of that Territory/ The President pro tom. announced the Special Committee off the Rights of Women as follows: Lapham, Anthony, Ferry, lilair, George, Jackson and Fair. The Sherman Funding bill was taken up, and Mr. Vest claimed that the Democratic measure of lust year would have saved the people $ 15.000,000 (ttmuull.v in interest; that the payment of the public debt would wipe out National Banks, and the latter do not intend to surrender their charters. Mr. Sherman replied that the banks were subject to the will of Congress, und that it was fortunate that the bill of last year failed; he said the National Ranking system was not a monopoly, for banking was free; and he believed it supplied th-- best form of banking ever devised by man—one now being copied by other nations. ...Mr. Orth offered a resolution in the House instructing the Committee on Civil-Service Inform to report a different mode of appointing committees. Mr. Haskell, as a question of privilege, presented a resolution declaring that no polygamist is entitled to admission to the House as a Delegate, but the House voted that the resolution did not present a privileged question. A mix was pased in the Senate on the 12th to authorize u bridge across the Missouri River, within-five miles of St. Charles, Mo. Mr. Ingalls defended the Arrears-of-Pcnsion act, and offered a resolution against its repeal. which was laid over at the request <of Sir. Beck. A communication was presented from the Chicago Historical Society, asking co-operation in the celebration of* the two hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi by La Salle. A prolonged debate took pi act? on the Three-per-cent. Funding bill. Adjourned to the 10th—In the House Mr. Bayne introduced a bill to repeal all the bunkVyxcs, and Mr. Browne u measure for the issue and exchange of fractional Treasury notes. An appropriation of $540,000 for work on the census was passed. Mr. Browne offered n resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a statement of the amount annually required for pensions during the next quarter century. Adjourned to the 16th.

Domestic. The next lowa State Fair M ill beheld at Des Moines. The troubles of .the recently-suspended Pacific National Bank of Boston are ended and the institution is announced as being I’ready 1 ’ready for business again., A vein of petroleum Mas discovered at Pomeroy, Kan., a few miles north of Leavenworth, on the 13th. A terrible accident occurred to the Chicago express train wMcli left Albany, N. Y., at 2:40 p. m. *>n the 13th. Near Spuyten.Duyvil junction with the Harlem main line, the TarTvtown special train ran into it aud telescoped the last two Wagner palace ears, M'liich took fire and caused a loss of twelve lives. Among those who Were killed was Senator Wagner, the eminent palace-car proprietor. A disastrous fire in Galveston, Texas, on the 13th destroyed alniut a dozen large business edifices on the Strand. The lefss will not fall far short of £2,000,000. In the jail-yurd at St. Louis Thaddeus Baber und William Ward suffered execution on the 13th- A French Canadian, named Ahtoine Moreau, M-as hanged at Riinouski, Ont. At WentM-orrh, N*C\, a crowd of five thousand persons M itnessed the execution of Eldridge Scales, Matilda {Jailor aiiu Jic IlaT, ail Colored. In the Dead Letter Office at Washington a few days ago a draft for £25,000 turneir up. Nearly a year ago it Mas sent across the Atlantic, misdirected to JfcMfast, England, when Belfast, Ireland, Mas ito destination. The Secretary of t’..e Treasury has made another call—the 107th—for £20,000,000 in extended bonds, on which interest will cease on the 18th of March. The South Carolina State Legislature have been apprised that M ithin the past six weeks an exodus of 5,000 negroes occurred from one courtly. The ApaeheS are at their old work of murder in the neighborhood of Sonom, N. M. The State troops him! citizens of the Territory arc chasing the red-skins, Mho aro believed to number 200, under the leadership of Nana. There United State* during the seven days ended ou the 13th—the largest number in any one week for over a year. An alarming rise in the Cumberland River on the 13th flooded the lower i>ortioii of Nashville und swept away vast quantities of logs. Personal and Political. The loM a Legislature organized on the 10th by the election of G. R. Struble, of Louisa County, for Speaker, /and Colonel E. C. Hayne. of Appanoose Countv, for Clerk of the House. L. D. Jackson, of Butler, mus elected Secretary of the Senate.

-v Nearly 700 Mils Were introduced in tbs National House of Representatives *on the 9th, under the call of (States. The Ohio Senate oa the llfftadoptod a reso- ; lution to place a statue of Barfield In th® House of Representatives at Washington. The dead-lock in the New York Assembly continued on the 12th. The ballot for Speaker gave Alvord 58 votes, and Patterson 56with 61 necessary tocholee. A recent census of the city of Paris shows a population of 2,225,900, being an increase of 337,100 since 1876. In the South Carolina Legislature on the 12th Senator Miller (colored) introduced a resolution for an inquiry into the cause of the new exodus, but it was voted down. At Philadelphia the Independent Republican State Committee, numbering 200 delegatee, met on the 12th, and decided to hold a State Convention May 24 at Philadelphia. Governor B. R. Sherman and Lieutenant Governor O. H. Manning were inaugurated In a joint session of the lowa Legislature at Des Moines on the 12th. The Wisconsin Legislature was organized onjfehe ljth by the election of George B. Burrows as President protem of the Senate, and F. S. Gilson as Speaker of the House. On the following day Governor Rusk submitted his first annual message. The Legislature of West Virginia convened on the 11 th. In the Star-route"eases on the 13th counsel for the conspirators objected to the evidence which the Government proposed to submit, and claimed that the existence of a conspiracy had not been proven. An unsuccessful effort was made to reduce the amount of bail required in some of the cases. A Congressional sub-coniniittee was appointed on the 13th to consider and report on a system of postal telegraph in this country to be operated by the Government. The Cabinet session on the 13th considered, it is said, the case of Cadet Whittaker. The Judge Advoc.de General asserts that the court which tried him was Illegally constituted. Governor St. John, of Kansas, denies that the Prohibition law of that State is invalidated by a recent decision of the State Supreme Court. Assort.\TK-JrsTK’E Homer E. Rovci: lias ! been appointed Chief-Justice of the Venuoh£ Supreme Court.. Foreign. | Tiie Pope declines to comply with the Census law of Italy by giving an enumeration ol the persons employed iiMhe Vatican. | A jeweler in Paris was robbed on the 13th of 250,(XX) francs by Colonel Gaston and another man. representing themselves as Americans. The Bank of England on the 13th subscribed £SOO to the Irish property defense fund. Bismarck has resolved ljot to submit the i Imperial rescript to the Reichstag. The French Government will ask.for a pro : longation of the time for concluding the Au- ; glo-Fremih commercial treaty. Tiie Sultan of Turkey has commissioned a number of German officers to reorganize his f force of gendarmes. The Canadian Parliament was formally opened at Torouto on the 12th by the Lieu-tenant-Governor, in the absence of the Gov- • ernor-Gencral. the Marquis of Lorne. ■ Mu. Gladstone has again ten pel cent, of the rentals of his Hawardcn estate.

LATER XE^SVS. After battling with the small-pox for thirteen days, Mrs. Caroline Richiugs-Bernard’ the noted singer, died sit Richmond, Va., on the 14th. She positively refused to be vaccinated. Further particulars of the railroad disaster ou the Hudson River Rood at Spuyten Duyvil on the 13th slum- that eight persons were killed aiid eleven wounded. The halfburned body of State Senator Wagner, the palace-car proprietor, was taken from the wreck and sent to New York in a speeiaj couch. . The remains of the seven other victims Mere taken to the city by Coroner Knox., With the exception of Miss Mary Daniels, the injured Merc able to go to their homes. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs.* Valentine, the newly-married couple, were fonvarded to Vermont. George Melius, a brake-man on’ the Chicago express, was arrested on a charge of criminal carelessness. Mr. Blaine has fixed upon Friday, the 27th day of January, as the time for his eulogy iUpon the late President Garfield, before the United States Senate. Mrs. Aiuuham Lincoln is an inmate of a Turkish and electric bath establishment in Ncm - York. I)r. Sayre finds that she suffers from chronic inflammation of the spinal cpnfl and disease of the kidneys, and that cataract has appeared in both eyes. The special committee of the House of Representatives on the expense* attending the illness and burial of President Garfield, and the alloM anee to his willow, met on the i4ih and, after uiscussioii, adopted a resolution Instructing Chairman Taylor, of Ohio, to give public notice that all persons having claims for services rendered or materials furnished*, during the illness and burial of the late President Garfield should present the same to the committee for auditing on or before the 10th of February next. Secretary Hunt sent tlieioUowing cablegram from Washington on <3 tne 14th tb Lieutenant Danenhauer and Chief Melville, of the Jeannette, at Jrkutsck, through Hoffman at St. Petersburg: “Remain on the ground till the remainder of the expedition is found. Help the search by e\gry means in your power.” —* At the opening of the Guitea# trial on the 14th Mr. Reed commenced his argument for the defense, which occupied the entire day. He insisted that the prisoner was insane, aud, If scut to mu asylum, would, within six month*, become a driveling idiot When Mr. Reed finished, Guiteau remarked that he Mouldu’t 4£ive a cent a bushel for such rubbish. The prisoner also stated that he liwl received thirty cheeks, representing alxmt SIS,(XX), some of which were worthless, and that he wanted no more of the latter kind. When Mr. Scoville asked if the. prisoner übuld lie. allowed to speak to the jury, the assassin exclaimed that he wouldn’t trust his case ir. the hands of the beat lawyer in America. Judge Cox said it m us safe to assume that Guiteau Mould abuse the privilege of arguing in hisou n defense, for Miiieh reason it would not be granted. Adjourned to the ltitli.

A TERRIBLE RAILROAD JLCCIDEJfIT. NEW York, January 18. Hie Atlantic express left ' Albany at 3;20 p. m., nearly ttigee-quartefes of ah hour behind time. The * train was a heavy one, comprising thirteen cars. Next to the locomotive ware two mail-cars and a baggage-ear. Behind them were three ordinary passenger-cars. Five Wagner ing-rooin-cars completed the train. They were the Red Jacket, Sharon, Vanderbilt,Minnehaha aud Empire* The Empire Mas the rear ear. At Greenbush, on the opposite side of the river from Albany, the Wagner drawing-room car Idlenild, from Troy, was coupled to and became the last car of the train. Two stops were* made—one at Hudson and the other at Poughkeepsie. From this last point the train began to make up some of the lost time. A speed of at least forty miles an hour was maintained until the Spuyten Duyvil Creek Station was reached. Here the * engineer slowed down and the train suddenly came to a stop about midway between that station aud the Kingsbridge Station. Something, it Mas said by the train 41 attendants, Mas the matter vrith the air brake. For some reason it failed to work. It Mas then a few minutes past seven o’clock. The delay must have continued between five and ten mi’n&tes. Suddenly one shrill blast, from a locomotive Mas heard, when the sound of grinding -wheels from the rear grated harshly on the car. The next, instant there was a shock widely shivered the Icilewild to splinters, (hove it's heavy frame like a telescope into the Empire, and completely wrecked that car in an instant. Two minutes later the Idlewild was on fire from the stove iu the forward end, which had been thrown over by the shock. The fiamos leaped upon the splintered Empire, ami that, too, M as filled with o fire and smoke almost before the occupants could escape. At least a dozen persons who Mere in the Idlewild were cut off from escape, caught by the jagged timbers, and there held to be slowly roasted alive. Three Tammany Assemblymen had just, left a compartment at the rear of the Empire, where they had been making merry, and were going toM*ard the front of the car when the crush came, which splintered the very compartment they had just abandoned. Senator Webster Wagner liad passed them on Ids May to the Idlewild. He was not ten feet from the newspaper correspondent, and must have i'ust stepjied upon the rear platform of the Empire when the Idlewild shot forward and telescoped the Empire. The first indication that the Empire's passengers had of danger was the single whistle of the locomotive of the local train, the Tarrytown express. The shock hurled them from their seats, and they Mere flung along the ear floor. The swivel chairs, wrenched from their fastenings, were throWii after them and lay piled on top of the struggling occupants. A shoMer of glass came dou n from "over head, und the roof of the Empire M as crushed in upon them by the weight of the Idlewild’s"Poof, m hielv-seeined to have been lifted bodily and shot forward upon that of the Empire. To add to the yon fusion the lights began to glimmer and the darkness to deepen. Nearly all the occupants found their May out through uindmvs whose sashes had been shattered by the shock. The Indies M ere buried in a heap of debris, and Mere extracted Mifhout having received any severe bruises. Assemblyman Monk was pinned between timbers close to the roof. The roof m us pried off, and be was with gr<m£ difficulty released. v, Nearly all of the Tdlcwil<r*-fJas*en<rers M ore caught in the timbers, and Mere unable to move band or foot. Their shrieks MerO appalling. The flames were gaining headway, and there Mas neither hose, nor pails, nor water at hand to quench them. Water there was enough in the creek, not two hundred feet distant from the (banned ears, but in the absence of "Vessels of some description it could Hos be obtained. 1 Finally some of the neighbors, whose dud lings.fronted on the railroad track, furnished a feu: wooden pails. Valuable time hafi been lost, and the flumes u'ere now beyond control. The villagers continued to throw u ater through the windows nearest those spots m- here a human voice could be heard, until the beat drove them far beyond a point uhcre the primitive tire apparatus could be utilized.

LATER. New York, January 14—1 a. m. A survivor, speaking of the accident, says the warning whistle laid hardly effected a brake, and when her engine struck the Idlewild, it cut, through the ear like a knife, and burst into the Empire, till the glare from its broken headlight streamed upon the startled and affrightedpassengers there. The occupants of the last car were dashed hither and thither; some made for the doors and squeezed their way out; spine bursty through the. windows; some caught by the crashing seats and struggled to extricate themselves. A few were crushed to death at the moment of the collision. But those who were only disabled crawled Jo the openings and strove—with what despairing efforts the witnesses of that scene alone knew—to drag themselves out of reach of the terrible death that was Coming upon them. As the whistle of the Tarrytown express founded so fearfully close at hand, only one person in the Empire gathered its significance. “Sit still,” lie called. The crash drowned his words. They had scarcely been uttered before the tow-catcher of the locomotive was cutting through the timber of the ear, and the hot breath of the boiler was fearfully palpable to the affrighted passengers. The group of men that found themselves scattered about on the soft ground In a moment—dazed and bewildered every one of them—were presently do be witnesses of a t pectaele dreadful beyond conception. In a breath fire bail added its horrors to the other dreadful accompaniments of the disaster. The overturned stdves and the dropping ashes from the engine furnace had done their work, The wood and upholstery had burst into flames, and a blaze was now leaping up above the wreck, and sweeping along as if to swallow it. Dreadful cries rung upon the air. The hoarse calls of men were mingled with the horrified shrieks of women, and there was a depth of agonv about the tones that betokened too well how keenly those who uttered them felt the seiise of the fate that was overtaking them. All along the train the lights had been put out by the shock of thg collision, and now the long line of forward cars lay dark and sullen with the engine shorting in front, while there emerged from platform and window a throng of terrified and bewildered beings. The glare of the fire brought all swarming to the rear. Train hands hallooed and went rushing wildly about in ft futile quest for buckets. The more cool-headed passengers lent a hand where it could be of service. Assemblyman Robb crawled through a window and catne out bruised and bleeding. Senator Browning, shut up in a compartment of the Empire, smashed the window-frame and took out with him a couple of ladies Imprisoned there. It was then learned that from nine to twelve persons perished, among whom was State Senator Webster Wagner, who was burned to a crisp in one of his own palace-ears. The following list of the dead is as complete as it was possible to obtain last night: Webster Wagner, Senator from the Eighteenth District.aged sixty-five years; burned to death. I). L’.l Ransom, a guest of the Hoffman House, tills city. Miss Maud Brown, 443 West Fifty-third street. Oliver B. Keeley, Spring Valley, l*a. Mr. Park Valentine aiid wife, Bennington, Vt.; married on Thursday. Four other bodies lie in the KilcuUen Hotel at Spuytcn l)uyvil, and one other in the Thirty-fifth Precinct Station House, unidenti* fled.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. lload Superintendent*. Thtarw law enacted by the last Legislature regarding Road Superintendents has beca productive of numerous lawsuits and a very marked difference of opinion among legal au* thorities regarding its proper construction. There are at present a number of contested in the State, where men living in tow n have been appointed Road Superintendents of the townships fn Which the towns were situated. The matter was referred to AttorneyGeneral Baldu in for settlement, and he recently gave the following decision: Where an incorporated town or city is situated in whole or part in such township, it shall be exempt from all the provisions of this act. In such cases the town or city and township are each separate and distinct organizations, each exclusive of the other. The ease Is not like a Township Trustee, Justioe of the Peace, etc., who exercise jurisdiction throughout both town or city and township. While It true that the resident of the town is also a resident of the township, still, in case* of Hoad Superintendents, the town or city people cannot vote for the township Road Superintendent; neither can the countiy people vote for town or city road officers. While it may not always be the case, still, In this instance I think the right to vote is the test of the right to till the office. Ltherefore decide that a .resident of a town or city is not eligible to the office of Road Superintendent of the township iu which the town or city is situated. Indiana Items. A day or two ago Isaac Pattison, father of the present City Treasurer of Indianapolis, and a resident of that .city for thirty years, Mas found dead in an out-building at his residence. He Mas aged eighty-two; aud one of the pioneer Methodists of the State. He Mas the secoiid white man to settle iu what is now known as Rush County. George W. Shoemaker, formerly Chief of Police at Terre Haute, was recently arrested in Indianapolis for presenting a forged note, aud on the 3d killed himself M ith morphine. Four eases of small-pox were reported at North Manchester, in Wabash County, on the 3d. ‘ The Indiauapolis grain quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, sl.37'^/ CornNo. 2, 64(g (HL£c. Oats—4tt(/(.48e. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2Red, £1.40 (('1.42. Coni—No. 2, ((rift 1 .,c. Oats—No. 2, Rye—No. 2, ley— #1.04(61.05.' Superintendent of Public Instruction recently completed the schedules showing The, apportionment of the common school revenue for tuition, and the distribution to the various counties began on the 2d. The table hliom s : Number of school children in the State, 714,-' 343; amount, derived from school tax, £007.011.44; interest collected on common school fund since last apportionment, $93,122.4*. • The amount derived from other sources, with the above, gave a total collection from the eoßuties of £717,949.56. The balance in tiie treasury for distribution was $149,390.08, which, added to the comity collections, make an aggregate sum of $.307,345.64. The State Normal School gets a semi-annual allowance of $7,500. Marion County report the largest number of school "children, .38,104, and Starke County the smallest number, 1,889. Ohio County has 1,986. The increase of children over was 10,785 in the State, irntj) the amount per capita!- for each enumerated child Mas £1.20.

While Lewis Green, a farmer livingin Green township,' Grant-County, was digging a ditch on his farm, & few days ago, he unearthed portion's of a mastodon's skeleton. Seven years ago Green’s brother, while digging in the same place, found several teeth weighing over four pounds each. Green now proposes to search for the rest of the bones. This discovery is the third one of the kind made in the vicinity during the past three year*. Mrs. Mary Roland, a widow aged fifty-eight years, committed suicide at lndiauapolis re* eently. In the ease of the State vs. Creek, appealed to the Supreme Court for the purpose of testing the question as to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace to try criminal cases where imprisonment might be part of the punishment, it was decided recently that Justices have jurisdiction in such cases. The Court holds—Judge Worden delivering the opinion—that Justices haye jurisdiction in all cases where a fine is the only punishment that must be inflicted, though imprisonment in the county jail might, but need not necessarily, be imposed, but that they have no jurisdiction in cases where both fine and imprisonment must be assessed in, punishment. The Vision is a /uprise to lawyers generally, as it was sufljosed the Legislature, at its last session, had taken cases of the kind mentioned from the jurisdiction of Justices, and tljese officers were acting accordingly. The State Delegate Board of Agriculture concluded Its annual session at Indiana]M>lis a few days ago by electing the following officers: President, Henry C. Meredith, Cambridge City; Vice-President, B. Custer* Logansport; Secretary,''Alexander Herron, Indianapolis ; General Superintendent, Fielding Beeler, Indianapolis; Executive Committee, Robert Mitchell, John P. Barnes, J. K. O’Nei l and W. B. Seward. The State Wool-growers Association, at its annual meeting in Indianapolis recently, elected officers as follows: President, fielding Beeler, Indianapolis; Vice-President, R. J. Farquhar, Trenton ; Secretary, J. W. Robe* Greencastle; Treasurers. W. Dungau, Franklin. Madison County is to have,a new court* house, to cost $160,000. A young girl named Matilda Zucheck, aged fourteen, was fatally shot by a boy named Otto Hess at the residence of the latter’s father in Indianapolis, a few days ago. Tin. shooting w as claimed to be accidental. Frank Hamburger, a bookkeeper in the employ of Henry Herrman, at Evansville, was run over and killed by the cars a few days ago. A fire in Merritt A Co.’s woolen mill at Indianapolis a few did damage to the extent of $30,000. The store of Ben Nofscar, at Grant, Fulton County, wks totally destroyed by fire a few days ago. Loss on stock andbuilding, $4,000. Train-wreckers removed a rail from the Little Miami track, six A miles east of Richmond, a few nights ago, and the Dayton express was thrown into the ditch. The fireman, named Ellis, was fatally hurt. The engine and train were only slightly injured. Several attempts have been made to wreck trains at that point, and on two occasions the cars have been fired on with rifles and stones.