Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 October 1885 — Page 1

KNIGHT & BYNUM, Editors and Publishers, VOLUME XVI Democrat. ER OF THE COUNTY. OFFICE, oyer 0. E. MONTGOMERY’S Stow, Main Btnat. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1885. NUMBER 25.

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VKOFESSIONAt cards. *• A. foskt. -*•/» BONSrCDT*. POSEr & HONEYCUTT, ATTORMEYS AT LAW Petersburg, Ind. ■SSMW&iSSi. 0*“ ®- p- WCUABDSON. A. H. TAIXOn. , RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. J»otTTv'iN,?.Mr',ion KhTn to all b\.*iB©M. A ■'•jSwerXlim^JkS0 S 'in,,y ln the Office. Ulllco, Adams & bon s drugstore. *■ A' SLr' W. T. TOWNSEND, t W VKT rLr.ENKR. ELY, TOWNSEND & FLEENER Att’ys at Law & Real Estate Agts, Petersburg, Ind. A®?™ over Gus Franke's Store. Special at. Ink w^,fsrcn to Collections, l>,uying and sell. SbstnSts iitks *ad furnishing J. W. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Petersburg, Ind. Will prnetloe in all the courts. Special at mention.Riven to all business-intrusted to his cave. Office, in bank Building, corner ol Main and Seventh Street. 1L R. KIME, M. D., Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office, over Barrett & Son’s store; restou Seventh Street, three squares south Sight.CailS promin,y to, day oi T. S. & E. SMITH, (successors to Doyio A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, RealEstate, Loan&Insnrance Agts. second flour-Bank ^Building, ” Offioc, second jftocr-Bank'Buildingr» Petersburg, tud. The best Fire and Life Insurance Compa^presented. Money to loan on first mortgages atj|. ven and eight percent. □Prompt attention to collections, and all business intrusted to us. J. R. ADAMS. C. H. FUIXIN WIDER. f ADAMS & FULUSWIDER, iPbysisiagisi Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. ..Office over Adams & Son's drug store Office hours day and night. J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon j PETERSBURG, IND. '-DBee, over Bdrgcn’s City Drug Store. Office hours day and night.

A. R. BYERS, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. Office, In his New Building on Main St.*CE CARLHuN cv WILSON. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Calls tn tiie eity or country promptly responded to. day or nl-;ht. Office, over Montgomery, Hammond A Hudson’s store. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. . Parties wishing wbrk done at their residences will leave order 1 at the shop, in Dr -Adams’ new building, rear of Adams 4 Son’s drug* store. HOTKLS. LINGO HOTEL; I PETERSBURG, IND. The only first-class hotel in town. Now throughout, and first-class acoommonations in every respect. C. M. ROWE, Proprietor. XIY^VTT IIOUSE^ Washington. lad. 'Centrally Located,- and Accommodations First-class. -V_J. M. FAULKNER, Proprietor. SHERWOOD HOUSE, i • WM. SHERWOOD, Prop. * *. A. rnosT, Man. theo. rcssfi.l. Clerk. Cor. First and Locust Streets, EVANSVILLE, - - - IND. The Sherwood is centrally located, first o ars 4n all its appointments, and the best and cheapest hotel In the city. Kates, *2 per day When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respeots. Mrs. Laura Harris. Proprietress. Wn H. Njeau Manager. EMMETT HOTEL; One square east .of Court-house, oor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Prop’r. HATES! $1,50 Per Day, MISCELLANEOUS. photToajllery; OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kinds ot work done promptly and at reasonable rates. Call and examine his work. Gallery tn Kisert’s new building, over the Post-office, Petersburg, Ind. Great Reduction in the price of SADDLES, HARNESS, ETC., ETC. 1 will sen arnesa, my line, don’t fall to call on me as am I Oderlog special bargains. I; , FRED REUSS, PETBRSBURG. A, INDIANA

NEWS IN BRIEF, Compiled From Vtrio as Soureea. HBSOHAL AND FOIURKUT. A letter has been addressed by th® Civil Service Commission to the President calling bis attention to the attempt made by the Pennsylvania Republican Commit* tee to collect poliical assessments in the departments, and suggesting the pr-opri-e y of making an investiga tion of the matter. Louis Riel’s case was taken up for consideration by the Privy Council of Engl and on the SSd. On the 8)th the session of .tjhe Cabinet wits almost entirely devoted to matters relating to the Postal Union. Certain modifications of existing regulations were agreed to and the documents signed by the President. All the members of the Cabinet were in at‘endance. On the 2 )1 h, in the famous case of Belt vs. Belt in Baltimore, lid., t'ae court awarded Mrs. B -it a decree of separation and dismissed the cross-bill, the allegations, in which were not supported by proofllow Malcolm Hat was buried on the 22d at Pit sburgb, Pa. The soiree at Paris in honor of Prince Waldemar of Denmark seems to have been altogether tony and decidedly reclkercke. Cason Farrai spoke on “The Atonement” at the Episcopal Church Congress at Hartford, Conn., on the 21st. Judge B. F. Buckner, of Kentucky, has been offered the Chief Justiceship of New Mexico. W. A. McDowell, of St.'Louis, Mo., is reported to have eloped with Miss Mamie Donnelly, a clerk in a photograph gallery at New Haven, Conn. McDowell graduated at Yale in 1881. Miss Donnelly is a remarkably beautiful anil accomplished young lady. Banker Brainerd, of Winnipeg, Man., gives an account of his abduction and where he has been since. T he Secretary of the Treasury has made an important ruling on the question of shi pping Amerioan grain in Canadian bottoms. A.ioxz e Fuget, a,counter feiter, who has for twenty-five years puzzled the United States secret service, has at last been convicted at Louisville, Ky. Rev. Duncan MacGregor, sent by the Scottish Land League to Scotland to investigate the condi: ion of the crofters, has returned and gives a pitiful account of them. A number of musical celebrities, including Ambroise Thomas, Del ibas, Massenet and other composer.*, visited Mine. Minnie Hank on the 21st to bid her farewell on her departure for America at Havre. Judge Van Brunt, in the Supreme Court, New York, dismissed the complaint in the suit of Mrs. Mary Maud Watson,-a granddaughter of the late John Anderson, the millionaire tobacconist, to establish her claim to more of her grandfather’s money than she was awarded by the will. The Judge held that, a'though Mr. Anderson might have been fanciful, yethis mind was perfectly sound. The offleo of the First Assistant Post-master-General at Washington was closed from noon on the 22d out of respect to the memory of the late Malcolm Hay, formerly incumbsnt of the office. Morris Franklin, President of tike New York Life Insurance Company, died on

Right Rev. James Fraser, D. B., Bishop of Manchester, is dead. , Evan Long, of Indiana, has been appointed Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. It is rumored an4 denied that Attorney Bissell, former law partner of President Cleveland, at Buffalo, is to be appointed Governor of Dakota'. Scott Webber, of Keene, N. H., ex-Su-perlntendent of tlie Old Colony Railroad, who has been missing, showed up on the 2id, claiming to have been on an extended spree. A meeting of the Garrison Lyceum, a colored organisation, was held at Boston on the 221 to commemorate the fiftieth an niversary of the mobbing of William Lloyd Garrison. It is reported that Secretary Whitney has found the present status of the Pay-master-General Sm thcourt-martial a very embarrassing matter and solution is about to be reached which will afford relief to both the Secretary and officer interested. Mr. Smith is about to tender his resignation as chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing and be reinstated without any suspension of his naval rank. A verdict in favor of the defendant was rendered on the 221 in the case of Goldsmith against Jay Gould at New York, for information furnished in regard! to the doings of the Order of the Golden Garto *, This En dish Privy Counc'l has dismissed the appeal of R el. The Canadian Government officials say he will be hanged November 10th. On the 22 I the wedding of the two daughters of ex-Governor Alexander H. Shepherd took plaoe in Washington, D. C., Bishop Quin'&rd, of Tennessee, officiating. The contracting parties were Edward A. Qnintard, of Tennessee, and Miss May Shepherd, and Waiter M. Brodie, of Mexico, and Miss Sue Shepherd. The Fort ideations Board adjourned on the 22d subject to the call of its President The membirs, except Secretary Endicott, have gone on a visit to the largest steelworks of the country, Including the O .is Works at Cleveland, the Cumbria Ironworks at Johnston, Pa., and the vrorks at Pittsburgh. Mr. Jenks, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, has been assigned to the oharge of all matters which relate to the Paciiio railroads. A groat many subjects relating to those corporations are pending. Mr. Jenks says, however, that he can give no attention to them until after the 1st of November, when' most of the bureau reports now in preparation will |» before •him. An interview was printed in New York on the 22d, had with Assistant Secretary of the Ti easury Coon, in which he says that neither the President nor Secretary Manning have considered the Warner silver I ill, and that he believes it is seriously considered by no one save Mr. Warner himself. On the 221 the city of Boston,, Mass., paid its formal tribute to the memory of Generali U. 8. Grant by memorial servic is in Tremont Temple. Rev. Henry Ward Beeoher was the orator of the occasion, aud del ivered an eloquent eulogy on the life, cha racter and deeds of the departed hero. John McCullough, the celebrated tragedian, is said to be rapidity nearing his end. Externally but little change is noticeable in his physical condition, but the wreck is almost complete and death, the physicians say, may claim him at almost any moment, ‘ Oh the 22d at a meeting of the subscribers to the Orant fund of $250,000, held In New York,’!', was decided to transfer the fund to the United States Trust Company, and provisions were made for its disposition at (the dealt of Mrs. Grant It was developed at the meet ing that some of the subso if. t ions had never been paid. Chauhcey M. Dipkw reiterates his recent statements of an Inters lew with General Grant in regard to President Johnson.

IS a Job C. Wist, ex-Chief justice of Texas, died suddenly at Austin on the 28d. Mb. Stead’s trial at London on charges in connection with' the Armstrong abduction case began on the 231. This Canadian press gsncrally indorse the final sentence of Riel, even a French paper at Montreal saying it is right. Ex-United States Consul Denny has been appointed foreign adviser to the Corean Government M. Rochefort! in his paper, defends Riel, and makes a scurrilous attack upon Queen Victoria and the Prin ce of Wales. Ex-SenatOis Conkuno declined to make a speech to the New York negroes during the presont political campaign, saying that his professional duties would not permit him to devote the necessary tirn.’i Comptroller Durham has male a decision that the head of a department can not grant a third-class olerk leave of absence without pay and then appoint him to another position with a larger compensation. On the 231 Senator Van Wyck oalled at the Treasury Department and left a note for Secretary Manning, requesting that he would make a condition with con tractors for’tbe construction of public buildings in Nebraska that convict labor should not be employed. Simon Bounte, a liquor merchant of Indianapolis, Ind., is reported to have gone insane at Hot Springs, Ark. The Second Comptroller of the Treasury is making a thorough investigation of the accounts of Indian agents, which are reported to be in a Very bad condition, and has already referred about a. dozen cases to the Solicitor of the Treasury for suit to recover balances found due the Government. The latest rumor as to-the Civil Service Commission is that Judge Benjamin Buckner, of Louisiana, Ky., who has just declined the nomination of Chief Just ice of New Mexico, wishes to be a member of the commission. His friends say that he approves of the civil service policy, R. Satenstinb, a New York milk dealer owns ^ dairy farm near Williams Bridge, Westchester County, and a large number of his cows have been on the sick list. The Board cf Health made an investigation and found that the animals were sufferinjl'rom pleuropneumonia. Sixty-five of them were killed on the 23d. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. An east-bound coal train c<n the Lehigh Valley Railroad collided with a freight train at Black Creek Junction on the 19th and forty cars and the locomotive of the coal train were completely demolished, causing a loss of $25,0)0. Wm. Becker, a citizen of Ringtown, Pa., was ground to pieces on the Catawissa bridge of the Reading Railroad on the 18th. He was walking on the track toward his residence when a freight train struck and ran over him. An hour was occupied in picking up his remains, piece by piece, which were scattered in every direction. He was seventy-two years of age and was one of the founders of Shenandoah, Pa. . . On the 20lh Meinrod Huendiing, whose sister was outraged by a negro named Taskel at Indianapolis, Ind., some days since, shot Taskel in court. Chas. Grant,* a member of the Hess Opera Company, was probably fatally injured at Troy, N. Y., on the 20th, while IpAllinne nnf A# ■ no* min^anr La.J

striking an iron pillar. On the 20th Tom Muldoon, a fourteen - year-old bpy, robbed his mother of OTer 52.000 at Youngstown, O., and went to sleep in a woodshed, where he was captured and the money recovered. Willie Edgar, a chill, was accidentally killed with a toy pistol tit Cincinnati, O., on the 21st. One man was killed and three fatally wounded by falling derricks at Lowell, Mass., on the 21st. Engineer George Crawford was killed by an accident to the through express on Ihe Fan-Handle Hoad, from Louisville to Chicago, at Sharpsvill9, In<L, on -the 21st. A great fire broke out in Moscow, Russia, on the 21st, and caused enormous losses. Seven persons were killed and four injured. Leland Sclgrove, twenty six years old, son of Barry Sulgrove, the veteran journalist, was crushed to death on the list between the depot walls and a train while engaged in sealing cars, at Indianapolis, Ind. The body was horribly mutilated. ‘ Alexander Aikens, ninety years old, living alone near Stratford, Ont, was found horribly murdered on the 31st. rhere was a gunshot wound ,ln the abdomen, and his head bad been nearly severed from the body with a ranor. In the Criminal Court at Charlotte, N. D., on the 21st, two negroes, Nelson Sewirt and Anderson Davis, were sentenced io be hanged November 25th for burglary. By an expl osion of gas in a coal mine it Plymouth Junction,. Pa., on the 21st. me man was instantly killed and seven fatally injured. Eight more, who were in the mine at the time, had a narrow -scape. On the 221 one man was killed and three wounded by an explosion in a Virginia coal mine. On the 23d the ohain factory and marine shops of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Hinge »nd Chain works were destroyed by fire. Peter Brakebill, a wealthy farmer, was killed by his son-in-law on the 38d at Rockford, Tenn. MISCELLANEOUS. In Montreal a movement is on foot to close the ohurehes, theaters and other public institutions in order to aid in preventing the further spread of small-pox. it is, however, expected to meet with violent opposition from the French press and people. - A foot of snow was reported in Michigan on the 21st, impeding railway travel In some places. The American Institute of Architects was in session at Nashville, Tenn., on the list. The Porte will not send, troops into Eastern Konmelia without an European mandate. The filth annual reunion of the Supreme Lodge, United Order of Honor, began at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 21st A new whisky pool has been formed, ind whisky has gone up. Fumr-ONE verified new cases of smallpox were reported in Montreul on the 2Isf. Several witnesses whe were present in the Police Court were from a house in whioh ieaths from small-pox had occurred. Dispatches from Anoo, Peru, announces the defeat of the Montoneros under the celebrated priest, Rios, and the ieath of the latter. The banditti are nearly extinct in the northern provinces, which seem to be entering into a more peaceful era. There were eighty-one new cases of cholera and forty-eight deatlis from the lisease reported on the 21st; throughout Spain. There were forty-three new cases >f cholera and twenty-three deaths in Palermo, Italy.-. The twenty-second annuel convention >f the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers convened In New Orleans, I A., on the 21st About 900 delegatee were present Toe session was private. The convention was to continue in session for ten lays. Troops for the invasion of Bu'rmnh are being rapidly transported to Rangoon,

Thi number of hogs handled by Western packers during the week endod ibe 17th was 209,000, compared with 156,000 foi the same time last year. The total Iron March 1st to date was 4,375,000, against 8, 680,000 last year. The movement at th« principal points since March 1st is as follows; Chicago, 2,270.000; Kansas City, 736,000; Milwaukee, 204,000; St. Louis, 173,000; Indianapolis, 170,000; Cedar Rapids, 1,690,000; Cleveland, 132,000; Cincinnati, 114,00a TBs American Gas Light Association began its annual convention at Cincinnati on the 21st. Ths New York Fresbyterian Synod d*i plores the publication of Sunday flews pa: pers. sessions of the Monetary Confers ence have been resume! at Farts. On the 33d the seventy-third annual meeting of American Antiquarian Society was held at Worcester, Mass. The Porto desires a conference of th« - powers to be held .at Constantinople for the settlement of the Roumelian trouble. Thb movement started by the local Board of Health at Montreal in favor oi closing all churches is being strenuously opposed by the clergy. The bodies of the eight victim? of th« disaster at Hackensack Bridge, N. J., were buried on Hart's Island by the Emigrant Commissioners. The Baltimore & Ohio Railway refuse! to assent to any advance or to any pooling agreement until it is recognized as a New York line. On the 221 a section-house near Rock Springs, Wy., was bombarded and fired into by a mob, and twenty Chinamen were driven thence to the hills, where they remained all night The ohairman of the Nickel-Plate bondholders denies the report that the road is not earning expenses. The striking Pennsylvania nailers have decided to continue the struggle. An Albanian, who attempted to shoot the Montenegrin Minister of War at Cattaro, was summarily executed. The independent State of Congo has been admitted to the Universal Postal Union, to take effect January 1st next. . The delimitation of the Zulficar Pass region is-finished. England has secured for Afghanistan the control of the complete military frontier. On the 23d it was reported at Cleveland, 0-,that the five Vanderbilt fast freight lines were to be consolidated. The annual meeting of the managers of the Woman's Beard of Missions of the M. E. Church was held at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 23d. Three thousand men employed in the slate quarries at Llanberries, Wales, have been locked out because they committed • breach of the rules in holding a massmeeting during working hours. The Episcopal Churoh Congress, at New Haven, Conn., had under discussion on the 231 the subject of "Sisterhoods and Deaconesses.” Reoent conflicting reports as to the situation in tho-Carolines are disposed of by the fact that the German flag has been raised and German authority established. The two principal Japanese steamship companies have been consolidated undor the name of Japan Mail Steamship Company. The Denmark Landsthing (Upper House) indorses the policy of the President of the Council and denounces the attempt to assassinate him. On the 23d a wheat blockade was reported in the railroad yards at Minneapolis, Minn. The National Christian Missionary Convention at Cleveland adjourned on the 23d. The trouble between Texas cattlemen and New Mexico is in a fair way of settlement, and quarantine will probably be raised. On the 23J heavy weather was reported on Lake Superior and disaster to shipping was feared. The Shreveport & Houston NarrowGauge Road has been completed to Sabine River. The Chicago coopers have won by their recent strike, wages having been advanced from $2.50 to $3 per day. On the S3d an immense mass-meeting of citizens held at 8tockton, Cal., decided that the Chinese must leave the city. Burmsh is said to be willing to arbitrate her difficulty with England. A split in the ranks of the French Republicans is threatened. A decisive battle between the Cacerists and the Peruvian Government forces ia looked for.

LATE NEWS ITEMS' A new and fatal hog disease has made its appearance in Iowa. ' A heavy vein of natural gas has been discovered near Sharon, Fa. China has consented to the opening oi Thibet to Indian trade. Ex-Governor Page of Vermont died at Rutland, that State, on the 24tb, of bronchial pneumonia. Prince Bismarck will have a grand family reunion in Berlin, October 30th. An official footing of the official returns of the Ohio election from alt counties shows Foraker’s plurality to be 18,158. Wild rumors are afloat in Europe of a contemplated revolution in Ireland. Thk three Italian “trunk” murderers were sentenced on the 24th at Chicago to be banged November 14th. The Cork (Ireland) Packet Company is endeavoring to effect a settlement with the boycotters. An elevator conductor, named Marcelin, war crushed to death at New York on the 21th owing to his own nejlec\ A GBNKRAi. amnesty for political prisoners in France is expected from the new Chamber of Deputies. Serious trouble is apprehended in Mercer County, Pa., owing to a proposed reduction of miners’ wages. Tub Marquis of Lome was roughly handled by a mob at Erentford, Eng., on the 24th, while making a political speech. Th* charges of perjury against Julios Dex'er, Treasurer of the Committee of One Hundred at Cincinnati, have been liimissdde The Waikup case at Emporia, Kas., progresses very slowly. The evidence forthe State is in, and the defense opened on the 26th. The boat- race between Hanlan and Teemer on the 24th was won by the latter, Banian giving up the race at the turn and Teemer rawing leisurely home. W. E. Beach, of Cadillac, Micb., contributed $ ,4100 to the sawdust swindle Fund at New York. James Kelly has been arrested and identified as one of the swindlers. The issue in Bulgaria as it now stands is about this: Russia insists on Alexander being dethroned,- and England say a no, and will recogniae the Union o“ the-Bulga-rians. Austria and Geimany favor Russia. The order closing saloons on t-'unday was generally observed at Cleveland, O., cm the E5th. ° English coal for making patent fuel on F.ench men-of-war has been interdicted by the French Government. Rtv. John McNamara, a prominent Episcopal minister, died on t.e 25th ol paralysis at North Platte, Neb. The London Economist thinks the Liberals will, win in the ooming election, but but that th«Jr victory will be temporal/.

MINNIE WALKUP. The Great Poisoning Trial at Emporia. A Good Jury Selected—Evident* Introduced by the Prosecution to Pro re the Purchase of Poison—Great Interest in the Gases Emporia, Kan., October 20.—The trial of Mrs. Minnie Wallace Walkup, for the Alleged poisoning of her husband August 24, was taken up In the District Court yesterday. Both the State and defense signified their readiness for trial and Judge Graves ordered the defendant brought into court The following jurors were accepted and sworn: J. C. .Cooley, farmer, 60 years old; Charles J. Johnson, Swede, fatiher, 49 years old, naturalized; O. C. Cassler, fanner, 46 years old; J. K. Peterman,52 years old; H. C. Adams, farmer, 58 years old; H. T. Holmes, farmer, 47 years old; J. 3. Cook, farmer, 45 years old; Michael Myers, farmer, 43 years old; G. S. Clark, farmer, 58 years old; J. M. Ilenn, farmer, 44 years old; A. W. Bugbee, farmer, 52 years old; W. A. Boyaysinger, farmer, 48 years old. Second Pay. Emporia, Kan., October 21.—The Wait up case was resumed at nine o’clock yesterday morning with a full court room. County Attorney Feighan, on behalf of the State, explained to the jury the theory of poisoning alleged against the defendant, and what the State expected to prove. The first witness examined was Ebenezer Baldwin, of Lawrence. He testified fo acquaintance with Mr. Walknp; that the latter was a large, powerfully built man, over six feet high, broad shouldered and of cheerful disposition. He and Mr, Walkup went to the New Orleans Exposition last December and lodged at Mrs. Wallace's house and became acquainted with the family, including the defendant Miss Lizzie Walkup, daughter of J. R Walkup, testified that she went to Colorado five days after her father returned home with his new wife; that she returned on the 18th of August, and next day could not find her sister’s mantle and her own plush cloak.and jersey wrap; that she accused Mrs. Walltup of sending them away in a box; Mrs. Walkup had the box brought from the express office to the house and asked Lizzie to see it opened. Lizzie did not respond at once, and when she did the box was open and only a sheet and cup and saucer were In it A few hours afterward Mr*. Walkup toid her the servant girl,Mary Moss, had found the wraps in a closet; they were then on her (Lizzie's) bed. She ac-' cased Mrs. Walknp of sending her mother a silk dress; Mrs. Walkup denied this; Lizzie’s sister, Mrs. Hood, had told her Mrs. Walkup had sent the wraps away in a box; did not know who toid her about the silk dress: had been on very pleasant terms up to that time with Mrs^Walkuo; some hours afterward Mrs. WalKUp said Mary Moss had found the wraps in a closet; they were then on Lizzie’s bed; am interested in the case; Harry Hood and myself Tiave employed Mr. Lambert and Mr. Story on the prosecution. L. W. Carter testified that Mrs. Walknp toid him that previous to marriage she thought Walkup well off, but after his death she discovered all his property was mortgaged. George W. Newman testified as to goods sold defendant on her husband’s account. Dr. Mort testified to examining a powder deceased had, which w.as quinine. Mis clerk testified to examining the same powder at the request of the defendant It was quinine. W. R. Irwin, druggist testified that Mrs. Walknp called for fifteen cents worth of strychnine at his store August 12 or 13, stating that she wanted it for a preparation she was making. As she would not tell for what she intended to use it he would not sell it to her. Joe Murphy testified to overhearing part of the above conversation and heard Mrs. Walkup tell Irwin she had purchased strychnine in Cincinnati but had hpen given quinine by mistake. Charles Ryder, druggist, testified that she applied at his store August 14 for ten cents worth of strychnine but having none open he did not sell her any. Moses II. Bates, druggist, testified that he sold defendant eight grains of strychnine August 13 which she asked for for a preparation. She1 signed the record, but did not fill out the record as to the purpose for which it was wanted. His wife was a sister of Walkup's second wife. Tho colored servant girl testified as to defendant’s sending her for strychnine and of being instructed to say, if asked about it, that she went after butter. Dr. Jacobs testified as to Walkup’s illness and death, but nothing important was elicited. Court adjourned.

Third Day* Emtoria, Has., October 22.—'The Walkup trial was resumed at nine o’clock yes* terday morning with a packed court room. Mrs. Yickery, a neighbor, testified that just prior to and after Walkup’s death, she had conversations with Mrs. Walkup, in which she claimed to be innocent; that she did not know how people could believe the reports about her; that a child twelve years old would have had more sense than to hare bought poison as openly as she did if it was to be used to poison anybody. A STRANGE DREAM. Mrs. Julia Sommers, living next door to Walkup’s house, testified to having begun a conversation about dreams with Mrs. Walkup the Sunday evening before Mr. Walkup’s death, when Mrs. Walkup re-, lated a dream she had of Lizzie Walkup, dressed in crape and singing “flock of Ages” while playing the piano. Mrs. Walkup went down town the Thursday before Walkup died and got the oysters and pop he insisted on having. R. B. Kelly, a druggist, testified to selling SO cents’ worth, 340 grains, of commercial arsenic to Mrs. Walkup Sunday afternoon, August 16. She said she wanted it as a cosmetic and signed the record book. Mr. Bates, druggist, produced his poison record book. Be said he had frequently filled out the blanks to show the object of use. He did not fill out that of Mrs. Walknp’s purchase because she had said she would |md had not told him the purpose. The book showed a dozen such unfilled blanks. Ben Wheldon, druggist, testified to selling Mrs. Walkup four ounces or 2,000 grains of commercial arsenic on Thursday August 20. Two grains would kill. She said she wanted it as a cosmetic. He filled the blank as he had frequently filled them. Mr. Bill detailed the conversations of Thursday and Friday preceding Mr. Walkup’s death, in which Mrs. Walkup accused him of having been very cruel in t»liing Mr. Walkup she had poisoned him. She asserted her Inuocence; said she had no object; he was the best frieud she had on earth. She admitted the purchase of strychnine and arsenic, as related by the druggist, and said she wanted the strychnine to take the stains out of clothing and the arsenic as a eosmetic. L. Severy corroborated the same conversation and related how Mrs. Walkup spilled apparently by accident a box containing the arsenic she had bought of Mr. Weldon. L. Severy testified to statements made to him by Mrs. Walkup the day before Mr. Walkup died as to purchasing strychnine to take stains out of her clothing, and arsenic for her complexion. She told of an attempt of Mr. Walkup about tea days before to shoot himself in the head in consequence of despondency of aslad. caused by a. letter from his daughter, Mrs. Harry Hood, severely rebuking him for marrying Minnie Wallace. Mr. Walfcup the same day told Mr. Severy that the revolver went off accidentally and nearly shot him in the head. Witness described the hole in the wall made by the revolver shot and the (nan-examination revealed that the hole

feonld have been made by &f. Wklicuffa Standing up to shoot himself In the bead, if he stood where he had intimated, Or by liis sitting down on the bed to shoot himself through the head. The angle of the hole' could not have come by the accidental discharge of the revolver, either standing «r sitting, if the ball passed near his.. bead. The witness described the manner of Mrs. Walkup’s dropping the box ef arsenic, Which She .Mid she had bought at Wheldon’s, but had not tised, ahd would give to Dr Jacobs to hate weighed;. The dropping appeared accidental as she came past the spring screen door. , . D. 11. Kelly and Bgtt Wheldon, druggists, testified respectively to selling Mrs, Walkup arsenic, the first on Sunday, August 1#, and the latter on Thursday, August 20. Miss Lizzie Walkup testified as to Mrs. Walkup’s distress on Friday dt being charged with poisoning anil her denial of it. Mr. Walkup told her he did not say she wasgnlity but the evidence looked that way very much. Witness picked up the box of arseuic dropped by Mrs. Walkup on the poreh and burned it The Rev. W. C: ShOdgtasS; pastot Of tbs Methodist Episcopal Church, Swore that,he met Mrs. Walkup on the street near her home on the Sunday afternoon prior to Walknp’s death. She commenced talking to him; said Mr. Walkup was quite sick and desired that the minister should call'at the house Monday morning or afternoon, as she wanted counsel, as she was in trouble. He went to the house at the appointed time, iff. Walkup was better and had gone down tbwtl; Mrs. Walkup Said that Mr. Walkup’s eider daughter bad written him an angry letter, and that whenever the tatter was mentioned Mr. Walkup seemed to be almost out of his mind, and that be was se troubled he bad talked of committing suicide, and a day or two before that she had heard the explosion of a pistol up stairs, and on going up Mr. Walkup admitted to her that he had tried to shoot himself through the head on account of Mrs. Hood’s letter. She prevailed on him to give her the other pistol;. At the time of this disclosure she was in great dread of his still taking his own life;, and wanted his counsel as to going to Mrs. Hood and trying to reconcile her for her father’s good and the concern of the family. Font-th Day. EMroiUA, Kan., October 23.—The Walkup trial opened yesterday with John Thacher, member of the City Council, as the first witness. He testified to meeting Mr. Walknp on the Saturday and Monday previous to his death, and that he seemed to be in good health; Ho presided at the Council Monday evening. Dr. Jacobs then took the witness chair and gave a detailed description of his treatment of Mr, Walkup during the latter’s illness; His testimony agreed almost exactly with that Which he gave at the coroner’s inquest. He attributed the complaint to acute indigestion, aggravated by eating strychnine in vinegar and drinking pop on Thursday, until after ho had been informed by Mr. Bill Friday, going to show that Mrs. Walkup had been buying arsenic. He thus concluded that arsenical poisoning was the cause of the sickness, and this impression was confirmed by the increasing severity of the previous symptoms. He did not treat specifically for arsenical poisoning. He administered an antidote. He described the post-mortedi examination as showing arsenical poisoning and said, in his judgment, such poisoning was . the cause of death. His testimony was very carefully given and was not concluded at noon when the court adjourned. His description of arsenical poison explained that matter clearly, and his testimony was listened to with profound interest. The afternoon session opened with a com tinuation by Mr. Scott, of the cross-exam-ination of Dr. Jacobs. The doctor gave a detailed explanation of his reasons for considering until Friday that Walkup’s condition was an acute attack of indigestion. The impossibility of always making a correct diagnosis was explained, in explanation of his reason for thinking Mr. Walkup was poisoned alter Mr. Bill had spoken to him, the doctor said: “It may not be possible for a physician to diagnosticate the condition of a patient by the symptoms of the patient at any one time, bnt by the development of those symptoms and the circumstances under which they exist.” The doctor went on to give an illustration by relating several cases to substantiate this statement. His testimony was lengthy and gave in detail his treatment of the case and full explanation of arsenical poison. .Nothing in Walknp’s case, he said, was lacking to confirm tire theory of arsenical poison, and it would be absolutely impossible for any doctor under the circumstances to make a diagnosis of the case. Upon cross-examination Dr. Jacobs testified that a good many other substances than arseuic or its continuous nse would produce fatty degeneration of the liver. The greater part of the day was taken up with his examination. Dr. Gardner, chemist, testified as to the condition of Walknp’s stomach and vital organs. Their condition indicated arsenical poison. Pending the examination of this witness, the Court adjourned.

ANOTHER MINE piSASTER. Fatal-Explosion of Gas In a Pennsylvania Coal Mine. Wilkebakre, Pa., Oct 82.—A terrific explosion of gas took place on the slope of the Delaware & Hudson Coal Company at Plymouth yesterday morning. The greatest excitement prevailed there as the slope was full of men and boys, and one report had it that the number of killed would be large. The Coroner was notified of the accident and it was reported that of fifteen men burned fourteen had died, but it was subsequently learned that the loss was not so great The accident was caused by a miner who entered an abandoned portion of the slope which was marked as dangerous, with a naked lamp on his head, firing the gas and causing a terrific explosion. The miner who went into the abandoned opening and fired the gas that caused the explosion was Peter Zelintzky. There were two explosions. The first was that of gas which was soon followed by another sweeping everything before it, sending a flame of fire up the slope and above the fan house and sending the shingles and tinders from the breaker flying 400 feet above the earth. Zelintzky was not killed but was removed from the slope with his boots off and no hair on his head. -He was otherwise uninjured. Tire scene that followed was terrible. The victims of the disaster lay in every direction. Dennis Titus was instantly killed and when found lay 200 feet away from his kit of tools which he was examining at the time of the explosion. When the gas was ignited all the men in the slope were violently thrown to’the ground or against cars or ribs of the gangway. The lights on their heads were extinguished by the shock of the second explosion and all were in confusion, making their way through the flames and managed with great difficulty to reach a place of safety. The following is a list of the dead thus far: Thomas Collins, miner; Anthony Spinneti, laborer; John Levitsky, laborer; Dennis Titus, laborer. The y^unded are horribly burned, and breathed names to such an extent that their injuries aro considered fatal. They are: Frank Spinnetti, Thomas McDermott, Alexander Lane, John Colby, John Rirst, David Crimes, John Woods, Joseph Thomas, David Bryan, Frank Lamareaux, Thomas Howard, Edward Jones. The last three named aro in a critical condition and can not survive. The shaft at which the explosion took place is one of the largest operated by the Delaware A Hud, son Company. The average daily hoist ot coat is front three hundred and fifty to foul hundred ear loads. Over four hundred and thirty men and boys are employed in preparing this coal for the market. It Is feared that nearly all the ethers of the Injured wiil dtp

THIS COLOR LINE FADING. The Sfceii-in-TtTsd* at th« Republican Party TtircrttCninj; to OtnoM Republican plhtformsf, orators and orgiin?s for lack o>f any more vital and absorbing issue, ityteJli up John Sherman’s rallying cry which affirms that the colored race in the gontb is practicully disfranchised by fraud jiud violence. Of course very Jew Republicans lash themselves into sd hysterical a condition as to aver With Foraker that the Kn-Klux- have assassinated more men than were slain at Gettysburg, or to allege with Hoar that “in many of the States of the South, enough in number to change the result of the election of the Pfcfsrdent and to change the majority in the House Of Representatives, the Republican majority has been deprived by the Democratic minority of its fight to Vote and its right to free discussion.” These wild statements are generally toned down, diluted, triturated, but the Average Republican is persuaded that the hOgrd’s freedom is still grievously restrained in the South and that a lively agitation of the question is the policy which will restore the Republican patty to power. It is a fatuitous mistake,. Sherman, Hoar, Foraker,, and those Who echo them proceed altogether on assumptions. They assert, but they furnish no proof. They assume that several Of the Southern' States should give Republican majorities and they assume that every colored man is necessarily a Republican. The last census shows that only three States of th® Union eoutsin more negroes than white persons, and every intelligent man knows! that the charge (rf wholesale systematic intimidation is ridiculous and false. Since carpet-bag and bayonet rule ceased in the South the races have been drawing more closely together, The tradition of forty acres and a mule has been exploded. The darky is no longer apprehensive of being re-ensliived by the wicked Democrats, He realises that he has been duped in the past by scalawags and thieves who plundered the State and dishonored it The negro is shrewd enough to perceive that his true interests are identified with the prosperity of his white neighbors; he has learned somethings and forgotten others, and he is rapidly emancipating himself from the irksome] yoke of adventurers who Used him as a political chattel in the furtherance of disreputable schemes. That fraud and intimidation have been practiced in various parts of the South is undeniable, bar be it from the Graphic to justify such proceedings, even though it does ilot ignore the provocation given by the carpet-bag plunderers to the victims of their greed. Occurrences, of that sort, however, have been as rare during the past few years In the South as in the North. What vexes John Sherman and his kind is tho fact that the color line in politics is fading away and that the negro is at length beginning to cast a really free vote instead of merely depositing the ticket put into his hands by a Republican office-holder. The men who are trying to revive sectional and race lines commit an infamous crime against the welfare and happiness of their country.—,V. Y. Graphic. THE FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE.

I'oatmaster-tjrenerai Vilas Common-Sense Attitude Toward a Vexatious Question. It was not to be expected that any corporation would be deprived of what it found to be a particularly pleasing plum and accept the deprivation without a struggle. Exercising the discretion invested in him by Congress, the-Postmaster-General declined to place a subsidy at the disposal of the Pacific Mail Company. The reasons this official advanced for this action were sound, and, in the face of pressure, he had the courage to adhere to them. It was in the power of the company maliciously to cause some disarrangement of the foreign mail service involving delay and to provoke the complaint of patrons of certain of foreign mails, and the company did not hesitate to avail itself to the utmost of what temporary di$grunt)ement existed; neither did it lack organs to fan its small tempest, and to endeavor to make capital for an appeal to Congress next winter. But the Postmaster-General, whose action was not the result of caprice, but proceeded from disinterested deliberation, is not moved by such clamor as the corporation has been able to incite. ;The Chinese gong style of warfare has no terrors for him. * He has made ho attempt to soothe the company, but is actively engaged in the improvement of the foreign mail service. The relations of the Pacific Mail Company With New 'Zealand require its transportation of the [American mails across the Pacific. The [service in that direction is, therefore, ias good as ever. The Cuban mails will [be greatly expedited; and the result of [an upheaval, now so distasteful to a company which has been accustomed to rely upon subventions into which the element of corruption notoriously entered, will be tho saving to the Treasury of the sums which the company would have enjoyed under a less eon-: scientious Administration and the general improvement of a service which at great cost of money had not been fully 'satisfactory.—Chisago Herald. A Political Dialogue. During a period of fully fifteen years, whenever the Republican party was, called to account for any shortcoming, a dialogue something like the following took place: Voter—Why have yon converted the public service into a party machine? Republican Party — Because of the suppression of the colored vote at the South. V.—Why does it cost you so much to collect the revenue? R. P.—Because of the shot-gun policy of the ex-rebels. V.—Why do you not reform the tariff? R. P.—Because of tho use of tissue ballots at the State elections in the South. V.—Why have we no navy? R. P.—Because the negro is intimidated into voting the Democratic ticket. V.—Why do men like Robeson, and Chandler, and Brady,and Dorsey, stand so high among you? B- P.—Because of the Copiah massacre. V.—Have yon ever done anything to prevent the suppression of the negro vote? It. P.—Yes. V- What? R. P.—We disapprove of it on the stamp V.—Does this do tho negro sny good? R. F.—No. V. —What purpose, then, does it serve? K- P.—It keeps the Democrats from getting into offices-—Jf. I. Post.

A REPUBLICAN CRY. Aa Absurd Sdrostloa Which la Mad* by l^uaa. Tho idea of reducR!? the Congressional representation of sd.me or all of the Southern States on account of an alleged Yiolation of the right of suffrage, which negro male citizens possess. seems too ridiculous for discussion, and it certainly would not be noticed at all were it not for the absurd statements and arguments of %the Republican bloody-shirt fowlers. They cite that portios fit the Four teenth amendment to the Fatferal Constitution which declares that when the right to rote at any election “is atMjied, to any of the male inhabitants of Mm State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in the rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which tho number of such mate citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." At tho time of the introduction of this amendment In Congress the negroes in the .Southern States had not the right to vote, and the amendment was intended to reduce the representation of these Statos unless they conferred the right of suffrage on all male citizens- Before any action was taken or suggested under this amendment the Fifteenth Amendment was adopted, which prevented States discriminating in tneir suffrage laws against male persons on account of race or color, so that there' is some doubt whether the quoted clause of the Fourthteenth Amendment has any force at alL If it have application it is certainly to such States as Rhode Island, which prescribes a property qualification, and Massachusetts, which insists upon a slight educational prerequisite aud a poll-tax. At all events, the clause affects State action exclusively, and applies not at all to the performance of individuals-—Washington Post. " BLOODY SHIRT” SPEAKERS. All of Their Dim Evils Were Ferpetrmted Under .Republican Rule. Says the Chicago Inter Ocean : "The great fact is that there to apt a South, era State in which the industrial class is allowed to vote and to have its ballots counted, provided such voting would make any difference with the result. This is the central and indisputable fact in the case. The State* which rebelled in 1881 are now republican in their form of government, but in their form only. In reality they are so many oligarchies. Suehatftateof things can not endure with safety to the country at large.’ Now there is not only no proof of this; it isn’t true. But if it were true, in whole or part, what argument would it furnish for the restoration of the Republican party to power? It is as such an argument that the Inter Ocean uses it; just as John Sherman and Senator Hoar and other Republican Bourbons use it. Has it any weight when nsed for that purpose? Whatever the state of things may be at thq South it has grown up while the Republican party was in power at Washington. Not a single outrage, real or imaginary, has been perpetrated except under a Republican President. What earthly reason is there to suppose Jthat the restoration of tho Republican ‘party to power would have any effect upon the situation at the South? There is no reason, and the Intel Ocean knows there is none. So does Sherman. So does Hoar and Horr argl all the rest of them who are vexing the peaceful atmosphere of the North with their outcries about the suppression of suffrage at the Sonth. They simply*' hope by continued ontcry to arouse the party passions, not daring to appeal to the calm judgment of common sense.— Detroit Free Press. ,

THE POLITICAL TRUTH. ^ The Shrinkage of the Northern Republican Vote Elected Cleveland. Tho fact that the political changes which resulted in the election' ol Mr. Cleveland occurred in the North and not in the South seems to have been lost sight of in the uproar occasioned by the new sectional crusade. Mr. Blaine lost the Presidency not by the suppression of the Republican vote ill the'South,, but by its shrinkage in the North. The Republicans gained large* ly in nearly all of the Southern States, but they did not.hold their own in the Northern States- Cleveland received 463,000 more votes in 1684 than Hancock received in 1880, and Mr. Blaine received 392,000 more votes than were cast for Gartield. Of the Blaine excess nearly 200,000 were in the Southern States, whereas of the Cleveland excess all but about 100,000 votes were in the Northern States. In spite of the increase of population in four years Blaine received fewer votes in 1884 in Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont than Cartield did in 1880, while in the great States of News York, New Jersey, Michigan and Indiana Mr- Blaine did not receive altogether more thad 20,000 more votes than Garfield had four years before, though the Democratic vote was largely increased. These facts explain why Mr. Blaine was not elected. The “suppression” of the vote which might have elected him was purely voluntary.—Chicago Herald. False Assertions. - « 1 The official register of the Department of Justice shows that the state-1 ment made at the Republican State Convention of Massachusetts that “every faithful servant of the department, from the law clerk down to the oharwoman,” had been removed, in violation of tho CivA-Serviee law, is not true. The only changes made by the Attomey-Generai were in his personal staff, and even in these confidential places, where it is conceded that he had a right to make changes, many of the employes have been retained. Not an employe whose position is in the classified service has been changed. Out of sixty in the department roll only fifteen changes have been made, including three laborers, who were removed for cause, and a stenographer, who was urged to remain, but would not consent to do so, and, what is more, there is the best authority for saying that no further removals are contemplated save in one or two speeiai changes-—St. Louis Republican. t —Mules are noted* for their achieve, menta with the hind feet, but it has never been observed that muley cows kick over the milk pail any oftenerthan those with horys. In fact, not as often; because there are not many muley cowt extant—Detroit Post. —The egg crop of Maine is said to be more valuable than her apple crop. There are 10,000,000 bens in tfce slat*,