Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 January 1887 — Page 1

J. L. MOJJHT, Proprietor. VOLUME XVII. “Our Motto PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 6, 1887. . > - - ' ■ i NUMBER 34. *

c 1 A PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. TERMS or Si nsCHlPTIOX l one year. ..... •i* month* .... throe nmalln INVARIABLY IN ADVANCSt tlH a U ADVERTISING RATES I n U.a”'' °*£ ,n»ertX>n.ci 00 * additional loaenion. . ft) A intend nductlon tmRIeon edv*rt!*emenu oln^r three. *1*. smltrpire mouth*. Mlllolnj __ V*'1 t™n»'mt advotUsement* must be (Rla for in tdvucr.

PIKE COUNTY OEWQpTWT ~J"OB WORK OF All, SONltg greatly Baceouted BAT^S, NOT1CKI reirin* st copy or tM* paper with this notice < rcsserl in toad pencil ere notified that the tire 9 of their subiwnptioa lias expired. 5

1 V rmmsipm cards. A. * ■omrctrc-*. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW PaUntrarf, lad. wm practice Jn all therourU At! bau!ne*u £rum(*tj]f«ltw,t;e.l a Notary Public <«*• *■ ,♦*? OiJtco over Prank * Horubreok a dru« atone. l •. RICUAItMOS. a. a. »no.k v RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PtnasBtjRo, nox Prompt attrition Klven to all bnalaera. A Notary Puhltceotiitantly In the ortlcl-. Oflleo In Carpenter ISe.idmg, an and Main. wM. r. TOWICStSSll. MART FLEKXKk. TOWNSEND & FLKENER, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. " HI ppictlee In ail the court*. Other, orer Prank"* ktore. Special attention given *<> t "ollvritiona, I'rolmte Uuaineaa. Iluvln " and tSctlHigi^imla kx&minmg lltlce andPuriuahftng Abatracta. ». A- kl.r. j. w. wilaos. ELY & WILSON,

Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IHD. \ «yQ*aoo in the llank IloiMins-*?* T. R. * E. SMITH, (•twt'Wior* to Doyle Jk Thompson) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan MBsnranee Aits. - **cc. wsonil, llo: r Bank OuiUlni, I'crrn Ijunr. 'n l The h->*t Fine and 1 lie Jn'iiranec Comm mle* reprearnted. M«i.y to loan on first wortva^ alat »"ven and right ,ier cent IVornn! iut.•.■.il ,n to couaetknu, and all budme** Intr.rte.l to u*. li, H. KIMK, M. I>.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. iKD. Office, over Ram tt A A. a’r dorr; rrairlentn. on hevonlii Mrrrt, t.ireea-im-r r aourh nf Mii^n. Call* promjdljr attended to. day or "-A. a AD. an c. n murviMi ADAMS 4 FCLUN WIDER. Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG. IND. -Office over Adam. A Son'* drug atom tVbce boor, day and night. J. a DUNCAN, i Phvsisian and Surgeon PETERSBCRO, - ISU, Office on Aral floor Carperter Building.

;*• C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., ^ Eci^Ktrrio v Physician ami Surgeon, Ellice, U tin Mrtet, betvcfn^ttti an«r T*h opposite IIolet Drag MorePCTKUSUrBO, " 2 INDIANA. 'WH pr »•*!! «» Medlrl*)*. JMirwjr *n ! Ob*t*tr.c* io own j*ii«I c 'UJitry. a 4 will % i*«t any »>uit f tire u>rrv In e>n«:i;tuttoa. llmmit; sIukwv •ktc ^uUy 0. K. Shaving Saloon, ) J. K. TURNER. Proprietor. PETERSBURG, • IND. ParUr* vUhlr.f work- don* it »hr* r r rtd^nc* • will Irare ordrr.« W U»<* tb-ip. tm Ur Adamn' new tu W to/. r«**r of Ad.uni A ^oq • drug »to e IlOTKI.H. I LINGO HOTEL, * PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. Sw th ourh. u;. »n,I SK. Im accoinmo tlaonht in every CEORCE QUIMBY, Proprietor 1 lYATr II( )l ’SK, WoaMacto*. tad. Centrally Located. and\ Acrorntn«!rL<m» llmclui HENRY HTATT, PrtprUtar. CITY IK) ri:L,, I'n ler new man y, e neat. JOSEPH LORY, Prop. Cor. Mb an.) Main : U.«TP- Imin-kotu*. Prtmbnrx. Inti. The Cttr Hotel It eentrillj k-ca.-d. tpt Mu* in a t tt* appo ntm -ntn and the beat and rheapeat bntei in the cay. a. ^ Sherwood House, I’r.der New Mtaap meat. BISSELL & TOWNSEND, Prop'ra. First nod Locust .-treet*. Evamvlllr, t. : Indiana. RATES, $2 PER DAY. Sampla Rooms for Commorclol Mon. When at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. { Hrat-Clas* in All Respects. Vaa Latnu Hasan and Alsios Betuu rroprtetora C(tt t 1'WtllTtt, JK**B J tMOBU VX, Late of Cincinnati- Lata of Waaklneton.Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSKTER * MORGAN. Lessees. ' Indianapolis, Ind. Hoaac Elewart. Table. Perries and Genera Keep supeilor. Location best la city— aa tna tbcl,. MiaCKULAKKOrs. PHOTO GALLERY, OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. AB kinds of work done prompilr and at nanatMe nw Call and eza-nlao his wcrc-GallSfr-ta kuwst a nsw buUdin*. ordr tea Great Reduction

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. News from Everywhere. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. . Prince Nicholas of Montenegro has called out 3S.OOO troops. General Shekmsn's son, now an Instructor at the Detroit (Mich.) Jesuit college, will next )rear complete his fourth year as a scholastic, and will then spend four rears as a student of theology at Woodstock. Md. It is said tbo English Conservatives are opposed te the Marquis of Hartington at) a ^successor of Lord Randolph Churchill. Frank Weigh an. one hundred and Are rears old. who fought through the Napoleonic wars against the French, has just died at Cincinnati. The tomb of W H. Vanderbilt at New Dorp, Staten Island, was sealed on the Kth in the presence of'Mr. Geo. Vender-4 hilt. Wreaths of flowers were hung on the bronnq gate, but there wa| no ceremony. Representative Springer say* hein-, tends to secure, if possible, the passage by ■ the present Congress of his bill to provide an enabling act for the admission into the Union of Dakota. Montana. New Mexico and Washington Territory. Jobs A. Logan, sou of the late Senator. Is engaged to be married to Miss Edith Andrews, of Youngstown, O., and the wedding would have, occurred early in 1W. At the time of Senator Logan's death Miss Andrews and her mother were in New York buying the trousseau. k General Warren P. Edgarton, for a long time post-oBce inspector .stationed at St Louis, has been reduced from the position of division chief at Boston, with, a salary of K1.2G0, to a lower grade of inspector, with a salary of 91.6UQ. - President Eijot of Harvard will not confer the degrees on next commencement day. He will sail for Europe soon, accompanied by his wife, and will remain -abroad until next autumn, in hope of re-, gaining hi* full health. The President is suffering from a return of the rheumatic attack of several weeks ago, from which he did not recover. He is somewhat easier He remains in bed most of the time, although he occasionally sits up. Dr. O'Reilly said, on the 2Tth that the President was Improving, bultha: he "had ordered him to keep very quiet for a few days. / Sir John Pope Hexnes'T. /Jovernor of Mauritius, has been suspended from office. It has been agreed by the' British Cabinet that Lord Hartington should be asked to join a coalition ministry. Chas. B Far* ell. of Chicago, scorns to lead in the race for the Illinois senatorship to succeed General Logan. JcDOE Woods of the Federal-Court at Indianapolis, sustained the indictment of the Republicans charged with election frauds. Ms* Lotus C. Htatnton has been granted a decree of separation from her husband. Rev. Benjamin Stauntou, at Brooklyn. N. Y. President Cleveland's condition, though hardly to be conaidrred critical, is undoubtedly causing his physicians some

BOXlCiy. In the Federal Court at Indianapolis Judge Woods, on the 2Stli. refused to release Sam or 1 E Perkins* tho contumacious witness .in the election conspiracy case ■ , Gexesal'Loois'* funeral was arranged to take place in the Senate chamber at Washington bn the 31st. and the remains to be interred in a vault there until a place of final burial is determined. Jons H irvov, of New Mexico, and John G. Taylor, of Coktredo. have been appointed. under Ciril Hervice rules, special examiners in the Pension Office, at a salary of $1,000 per annum each. Jsmes A. Lioston, of Illinois has been appointed medpnl examiner in the Pension Office, at a salary of *tst» per annum. This appointment was made under Cint-Horvn-e rules. Tar. President and Mrs. Cleveland remembered their household servants very handsomely on Christmas day. Some of the gift* presented to the serving people were quite valuable. Jerry, the man of all work, receiving a neat sum of money and provisions sufficient to last his family .several' day*. LawtsD Hate*. for six years one of the editorial writers of the Indianapolis Jour. ■at, died on the a-th, after five works' illness. He was tlarty-scven rears of age. Oovxrnok Hill of New Yerrdfemes the statement, widely circulated, that he was about to visit Washington, where he would be the guest of PresidetR Cleveland. . f ■ M:« Gladstoxi has written fog^thc January number of the .VuaWe-afh I’wlmy an article entitled “Locksley -Hall and the Jubilee.” The article is a criticism of the * poem by the light of events of the past fifty years. The French officer Letellier, who was arrested recently at Carlsruhe on suspicion of his being a spy, has been liberated.. P. Henrt Droao. of Near York, the grand sachem «f Tammany Hall, has re- • signed. County Clerk James A. Flack has been selected to succeed him. Da Pit ten. an aged man who lived alone in Franklin. Me., was burned to death in his house. Dr. Patten was for- " merly a successful dentist, but lost his practice through intemperance, and of late i. he earned a Uving by cobbling. The origin of the fire is unknown. Speaker Cauhslx has filed his answer to Geo. H Thoebe s notice of cohtest of his election to the Fiftieth Congress* in

which he denies nil or Tboeag s allegations. t e Tbb 2Pth was the seventy-seventh anniversary of Mr. Gladstone's birth. Tns London Pott urges the return of Lord Churchill to the Cabinet. Tbs Ontario electioturtm the 3th resulted in a gain of eight seals for the meatColoxel L C. Wain, superintendent of the Adams Express, has stated that the amount stolen last October was between ' 181,000 and f SI.000. Be had charge of the payment of these losses at the*tune of the robbery. Distbict-Attoesbt Bliss was one of the guest* on the 39th at a tea given.by Bbs. Vilas, wife of the Postmaster-Gen-eral, in Washington, to introduce her daughter, who makes her debut this winter- • Moxb of the Illinois ladies in Washington intend to keep open house or hold receptions on New Tear's Day, out of respect to the memory of General Logan and in defe renoe to the sore affliction of Mrs. Logan. • Guvesal Miles called at the W ar Department on the 9th and had an ea tended interview with Secretary EndiootL The General left Washington in the evening lor New York to remain a day w two before proceeding to Prescot, An*., where ho will direct the removal of his headquarters to Los Angeles, Cal. Mni Miles will accompany her husband West Bpeaebs Caslislx says that he does not think there will be any legislation»this winter to reduce the surplus. The time is too short and there la too great a disagreement on both sides of the House. He says: ‘The American people can not be made to realize any situation uatfl it is actually . Janas A. MeMatm, the veteran editor of the New Tort Prtrmmm't Journal and the leading Catholic journalist, died in 8h Mary’s Hospital. Brooklyn, on the 9th, from disorders brought on by a fall some weeks ago. He was born in Duanesborg. K. Y., in 1830, and was the soa of a Pro! eataat minister. v; ■ Pan as Bathes, a well-known capitalist and sole owner of the hank of Bather ft Co., of Baa Francisco, died at hii residence at Oakland on the 9th, after • long

Geohge W. Childs and A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, hisve contributed *1.030 each to the fund for Airs John A. Logan, and John Wi A DC EL w:l» ico on the SKth Iturbide and are members weapons used wounded bis but not * at the San Ikor contributed *500. it in the City of Mexween Prince Augustin lor Carcedo, both of whom the Jocker Club. The swords. The Prince itagonist in the shoulder, IT- The duel took plaice to School of Artillery. CRIMES CASUALTIES. AT Springfield, O, the police had a general fight among themselves on the 26th, and about nine are to be suspended. Tns body of Miss Hull, which was stolon recently from the cemetery at Carlisle, la., has been recovered, being found in a medical college at lies Koines. Near Rushvilite, Neb., on the Sflth. Mrs Burger and three children were found dead, smj circumstances indicate that the mother killed the children and herself. The JJavis House, the Howlett block, tlie Harrison machine shop and Fowler A Connor's store at Berlin Heights, <X. were totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 25th. Fowler ft Conner kept a general stock valued at IJB.OUO; insurance, ran j . . The Temple Theater at Philadelphia was destroyed by lire on the 27th, involving a loss of half a million dollars and the lives of three firemen IVn K. SorTfTER. an ex-banker of New York, has been indicted for grand larceny. A irorxa man named Andrews fired three shots .jnto St. Edward's Catholic Church at Cincinnati, on the 27th. while services were ijbeing held. He was arrested. Frederick Wrrraocx, W. W. Haight. Thos Weaver. Edward Kinney and Oscar Cook are the names of the quintette arrested in connection with tho 'Frisco express robbery. i Jobs Daw.' a farmer, living on the outskirts of Mitchell Ont. was gored to death by a bull on the 27th. His wife ran Out to the barnyard, and on seeing the bleedi ng form of her husband on the ground, fell dead. Two of the officers and. two of the cadets convicted of conspiracy against tho present Bulgarian regency were sentenced on the, 27th. the former to two months' imprison/ m-nt each, and the latter each to twd years' imprisonment. / As unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up a church at Lyons, N. Y.. with

dynamite, out u nervy policeman put cut the fuse. i Aixvstts Pkchjt, while demented, 'hanged himself near Putnam. Conn., on the 28th. Fib* on the 38tb destroyed the steamer* City of Natchex and R 8. Hayes® at the Cairo (111.) wharf. Thomas Ford attempted suicide at Kansas City. Do . on the ‘>th. because he was discriminated against in the matter of Christmas present*. Thr bodies of John Johnson and John Uibson. the firemen who lost their lives in the theater fire at Philadelphia, on the37th, were recovered on the 38th. M*' Hrsdrioxso*, of Middleton. O., while sfiowing a neighbor, on the ‘28th, how she would treat tramps, accidentally shot and tolled her five-year-old daughter. A Mitm-rtitoLD daughter of Mrs. Jasper Smith, living near Lehrsville, Fa., shot and fatally wounded a burglar who forced an entrance to her bed-room. Owixo ,to the SUness of Judge Pratt, hearing of the motion for a new trial for ex-Alderman McQuade in New York,,.was postponed from the 28th to the 80th. Jobs Eton, Jr., in jail at Arcadia, La., charged with the murder of John Lnrelle, on the night of December 24. was taken out of jail on the night of the 27th and hanged. % M r. Ji hx BrsKE. of Scranton, Pa. while going bp' stairs on the night of the 27th with a lighted lamp feil to the bottom and was stunned. The lamp exploded and set her clothes on fire. Before she could be rescued she was burned almost to a crisp. '

r ike broke out on tne mu in im duhoing occupied by the Detroit, (Mich.) Alaska j Sock Company, and by hard work was confined to the building. Sevfral girls in i the third story narrowly escaped with ; their Urea. Loss, *37.003; insurance, *17,$00. 7 Rev. C. B. Scales, of East Lynn.. 111., who ran away with Miss Matthews, leaving his wife and .five children behind, was arrested at London Ont, on theSSth. The parties concerned consented to gto bock in charge of a detective. The door of the post-office at Eyeter, M. U.. was pried open with a spike on the night of the 27th. the safe blown open and robbed of a steel chest containing several hundred dollars' worth of stamps besides money snd valuables. The safe in the post-office at Wadsworth O.. was blown open on the night of the 27th. snd about five hundred dollars in money, sixty dollars in stamps and two checks were taken. Two of the participants in the great express robbery have squealed on Fotheringbum. stating that he was to receive tiaOCfl for alio wing himself to be robbed i in the manner he was. A large additional sum of the stolen money has been recovered, and the Pinkertons think they will ultimately secure the greater portion o£ the amount stolen. • As entire block of.buSdings at Greensburg. Pa., was burned on the -9th. Thom as LaschaS, of Brooklyn, S T-, stabbed his wife on the 29th so that it was thought: she would die. William Hi ttos. a farmer of Fillmore County. Minn., was bunkoed out of *1.000 at New York on the 29th. The steamer Sir John was burned off 8t John. Jt. B.. on the 29th, and five persons were fatally Injured by fire and one was drowned. , R. L Milleh and his son was indicted by the grand "jury of Tasewell County. W. V'a, qn the 29 th for having set fire to their hotel ait Pocahontas last October. George and Charles Baker, two worthy young men of Pocahontas, were burned to death in the hotel at the time of the fire. nSCELLAnOOfc The Secretary of the Treasury on the 26th issued a call for *10,000.003 of three per cent, bonds., * Hsaeiso in the famous Andover College' trial waa commenced at Boston on the 38th. Tub meeting of the. British Parliament has been postponed until February.' , Tub French Minister of War has consented to a redaction in the supplementary credit asked for the mil itary department. The Northwestern Traveling Men's Association held its annual session in Chicago on the 38th. The General Land Office has recently received reports showing the removal, under peremptory orders from special agents, of fences from twenty inclosures, embracing over 274,000 acres of land, principally in the Denver land district. / Ir is announced that the Illinois Central railroad has purchased the Chicago, Havana * Western. The commissions of sixty presidential postmasters will expire in January, 1887 Among the more prominent offices are Monterey, CaL; Monmouth. I1L; Hutchinson, Eus.; Salma, Kan: Eureka, Her.; East Portland. Ore.; Ogden, Utah, and ’ Prairie Du Oden, Win At the workmen’s congress at Brussels, on the 28th. a proposal to affiliate with the American Knights of Labor was disfavored. Tut celebrations by the Central and East Washington Christinas claim were held on the 26th, and the philanthopic efforts at the committees were rewarded with perfect success. Happiness was bestowed upon nearly 1.509 children, and the festivities were heartily entered Into ty beoetortwri fiadbeeefleiariee, a.;

The Bulgarian agent at Constantinople, in a note to the Grand Vizier, declares that the Porte has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Bulgaria. Tui cuairmanship of the Senate committee on military affairs, which General Logan has held for years, will probably goto Senator Sewell. A board of army officers has been appointed to meet at the War Department January 8 for the purpose of revising and condensing the regulations of the army and preparing a new edition of the same. The board consists of General S. V. Benet, chief of ordnance; Colonel E. S. Otis, Twentieth infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel Robert N. Scott, Third artillery, and First Lieutenant Edward Davis. Third artillery, recorder. Himto College received some 9400,000 by the will of John Q. A. Williams, which was filed in the Suffolk County (Mass.) Probate Court on the 20th. The American berk Lillian, from Bangor, Me., arrived at Grenock, December 27. She experienced heavy galea on December 10, during which thrg? men were lost. These was an accident on the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad on the 28th. by which two colliding passenger trains were pretty badly wrecked. - Tbe modern language convention of America met at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on the 28th. for a four days’ session. Nearly all the principal colleges in the United States were represented. A vti-tTART commission is at present engaged in translating the words of command used in the Bulgarian army from the Russian language heretofore used in Bulgaria. It is rumored in steamship circles that a conference to restore steerage rates to Europe has been proposed. Nothing definite has been announced. The rate continues at fifteen dollars both ways on English lines; the Continental lines are not

affected. The London ttportituj Lift is authority for the statement that Jem Smith, the English champion, would sail from Liverpool for New York on January 29 to meet Sullivan in America. / Most of the Baltimore glass-blowers, who struck several days ago, returned to work on .the 28th on the employers’ terms, who insisted on their right to work apprentices. It was thought the remainder would re turn to work soon. The annual statement of the savings banks ol Massachusetts is a gratifying exhibit. The number of open accounts is 9OS.O09, an increase of 57.253; and the amount of. deposits is (391,199.900, an. increase o!f (16,199.488. It is fe ared in Vienna that the Bulgarian deputation of notables at their recent meeting with Prince Alexander arranged with the latter to return to Bulgaria. This, in the opinion of Austrian Government officials, would aggravate the situation anti render Russian occupation of Bulgaria inevitable. Oxlt thirty-five applications from as many cities hare been received at the Post-Office Department for the free delivery system in cities entitled to the same under the recent law of Congress. Unless application is made by the cities entitled to it, the service will not be established The Ohio State Bar Association met at Springfield on the 28th. A hundred lawyers were present from abroad. President Hon. W. J. Gilmore, of Columbus, delivered an address of one hour's duration, containing among other things a powerful eulogium of the dead warrior and statesman, John A. Logan. Cuss. H. Ratxoxd. dealer in supplies, New York; has failed for (500,0tX>. Twelve eighty-ton guns are being constructed at Woolwich arsenal for the defense of Victoria, British Columbia. M. Clemexceac says there can be no war between France and Germany unless ! Germany makes the first attack.. ArsfitiA is becoming convinced that Ruasia means war, and the Vienna press -bewails the fact that Bismark will not join against the Czar. It is the intention of the Secretary of the Navy to appoint. ail ihe Washington Navy Yard by February Nj. a superintendent of the new gun manu faeSrryattbe yard, and he desi res publicity to be given to the fact and applications sent to him before January 15, stating the qualifications of the persons making application.

As an evidence of the carelessness of the public in addressing letters, officials of the dead-letter office, on the 29th. exhibited a list of the sixty-four letters, addressed to Pittsburgh, O., all but nine of which ’acre intended for and were subsequently delivered to parties in Pittsburgh, Pa- Snarly all of these letters were, to business Arms, nnd many of the envelopes bore business cards. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS, two thousand brewery employes are oa • strike at Philadelphia. Five persons were killed at a fire 'in Lisbon., the capital of Portugal, on the aoth. laa Picsel, of Waubeck, la, killed his father with a club on the 30th. Lord Haktisgtox has declined to enter Lord Salisbury's cabinet. Half of the town of Marlboro, Md.. was destroyed by fire on the 30th Jiltbail D AT ITT was married to Miss Mamie Tore, at Oakland. Cat, on the 30th. Gexkral Kat liiabs has been attached to the staff of the Grand Duke Vaiidimer at St. Petersburg. ■ A B ixqrrT was tendered Governor Charles Robinson by the Jefferson Club at Lawrence, Kaa, on the night of the Hot. W. H. Barra is to succeed Lord Randolph Churchill as leader of the Conservatives in the House of Commons. Peftixa La tori, s, an Italian, girt, fell in front of an Elevated railroad train at Kew York on the 30th, nnd was crushed to death. Jobs' Dttxos, has furnished the bail of £1.000 require 1 by the recent decision against him for agitating the “Flan of Campaign.” Mrs. Emboss, wife of Prof. Emmons, the geologist, who mysteriously disappeared at Hew York after her arrival from England, was found at Wormly'a Hotel, Washington. Paris diplomats consider the statement that G eneral Boulanger has not reduced his supplemented estimates as another evidence that war is not remote. The Paris correspondent of the London Tima claims to have information from an undoubted source that Germany and Russia signed n direct alliance nearly thro* weeks ago. Wjixiab A. Piskemtos, in an interview on the 83th, stated that <43,000 of the money stolen from the Adams Express Company had been recovered. The total amount of ^ cash obtained, according to Mr. Pinkerton,1 was fJ&OOO. Txli obams from Los Andes, Chili. report heavy falls of rain nnd snow. The cholera in Medozn 1ms somewhat abated. On the 2Sth fourty-four new cases and eighteen deaths were reported. A aiiroKT is current that Mexican troops and revolutionists have had a terrible j fight in Sinaloa, Mexico, and many were killed on both sides The report has not yet been confirmed. The marriage or Marshal Macllahon’s daughter to Marqsis He Ivin took place in Farm bn the 30th." Prince Marat was present on behalf of ex-Empress Eugenie. Prinenaa Mathilda signed the marriage contract. The church wss splendidly decA letter recently received from the wife of Mr. Justice Woods of the United Staten Supremo Court, who is spending the winter in Southern California on account of hia health,pistes that the justfe* , » u4 piMd iteM. I t _ a

LOGAN IS DEAD. Last Hours of the Famous Soldier and Statesman. Bb Demise the Result of Rheumatic Fen r. From Which Ue Bad Suffered Intensely for Two Weeks—Bn. Logan's FlUable Condition. WesmxoTOX, Deo. 26.—Senator Lognn died nt his home here a few minutes before three o'clock, this afternoon, surrounded by the members of his family and a great number of his political associates. His death adds another name to the already long mortality of Congressmen and other prominent public men, who ha re died during the past tiro years. Although the Senator had been dick for. some tin e, end his condition for the pest day or two was known to be critical, death was not looked for so soon. Everybody hoped that with his robust constitution he would . be able to recover. His case was regarded as hope

Tul ty bis physicians up tornday night, but then it became apparent that he wa3 sinking very rapidly. From that time on rheumatic fever affected his brain, and brought on frequent periods of stupor and unconsciousness. Yesterday his condition remained unchanged, but so critical was his condition in the evening that Hr. Hamilton, one of his attending physicians, remained at his residence over night. Early in the night he grew weaker, and his entire family, together with General Beale *nd Congressmen Byrnes and flail, remained by his bedside all night. At intervals during the night the Senator was conscious, and seemed to rally. About midnight, during a conscious moment, his wife leaned over and spoke to him. He murmured "Mary,” and this was the lost articulation that passed his lips, although he seemed to recognise some of these about his bedside, as late as five o'clock this morning. Ho sank gradually, and at three minutes before three this afternoor died, without a straggle.

About two weeks ago; Senator Lojran was confined to his home with rheumatism, and later on this was followed byrheumatic fever, affecting his brain. The fever made terrible inroad upon the patien^mnd early last week he was so reduced In flesh that his friends would hardly have recognized him. His suffering, up to within a day or two, was intense. Senator Logan complained of agonizing rheumatic pains white he occupied his seat in the Senate the first two or three days of this session. His disease, which at first was acute inflammatory rheumatism, was not considered dangerous until rheumatic fever set in. Then his pulse ran so high and the fever became so intense at times that he sank in stupor. Long before noon to-day Senators, Congressmen and other political associates and friends of the Senator, apprised by the morning papers of bis critical condition, began to arrive at Calumet Place to make inquiry about the condition of their friend, and by the hour of the death probably fire hundred friends had come and gone only to learn that his case was hopeless. Senators Sherman, Voorhees, and a score or more of Congressmen were among the anxious inquirers. Washixgtox, Dec. 37.—Hews of the Senator's death wa» at once telegraphed to Mr. Blaine and to distant friends and relatives, and late to-night scores of dispatches of condolence had been rece ived by Mrs. Logan. Mr. Blaine -telegraphed from Augusta, Me.: “The startling news of your husband's death ha* jest reached us. Never until this morning did we receive an intimation that he was considered in danger. I dare now only speak of my personal sorrow in view of your own inexpressible grief and of the general loss to the country which in peace and in war General Logan has served with commanding ability and courage. Mrs. Blaine joins me in deepest sympathy with you and your children.” Jab. G. Blaisx Telegrams of condolence from ex Hecrotary Lincoln, Governor Oglesby of Illi nois, Governor Koraker of Ohio, Senator Stanford, John C. New, of Indiana, and .many other warm personal and political friends also came to Mrs. Logan, each and all speaking of personal sorrow and grief over the sad news, and extending to the bereaved woman the heartfelt sympathy of those who sent them. Ala late hour to-night no arrangements had been perfected in regard to the funeral and interment The delay ia owing to the distressed condition of Mrs. Logan. Although the death was not unexpected to her, it proved a great shock when it filially came. She wits completely prostrated. Mrs. Logan had for three weeks been at work in the management of the Garfield memorial fair, of which she had been the leading spirit and went to the

bedside of her husoa.na wnen ms nines* ; began to assume a serious form. She was at that time almost worn out, and as he sank she became grieved and alarmed until. at the moment of his death, she completely collapsed. A kind of hysterics seised her, and for hours her condition caused her family great concern. The Senator was her Idol, and his death for the time seemed to take from her every spark of vitality she possessed. So sen ions has been her condition this evening that consultation respecting burial arrangements is out of the question. The Km at Sprlngfleld. BpancsriELD, HL, Dec. 35. —The words “Logan is dead” passed from lip to lip here to-dsy among the departed Senator's many friends. It was recalled that many of his greatest political battles were fought beneath the dome of the Statehouse in this city. All teemed to agree that the Ions to his party in Illinois was irreparable. Governor Oglesby was early in receipt of a telegram from Senator Cttllom. He immediately called Secretary of State Dement. Attorney-General Hunt and Auditor Swigert to the Executive Man sion, and a dispatch of eondoleacn wat transmitted to the bereaved #rife at her home in Washington: VtsincoTOX, Dot 25.—The news of General Logan’s death, although occurring on the Sabbath, spread rapidly Irr telephone and by word of mouth over the city. To most people in the city, who »n> posed he was suffering from an acute at tack of inflammatory rheumatism which his strong constitution could easily wit i stand, the announcement was startliatr in fact, they would have been no lma-, shocked had they heard of his deatt aft*; ax illness of in hour. President Cleveland was informedof tto Senator’s death early this evenirig. bi; being in bed—himself a safferar freisriwi

TOO BAD! Those Who Finned Their Faith on the I n* noeanee of Kxpreee Xtnra| »r Fothertnghnn» Hare it Rndeljr Shaken hr Betas Told That *10,000 Was Hi* Price—More Money Recovered. Kansas Citt, Mo., Dec. 80.—The center of interest in the great express robbery ftas once more shifted to this city. In all that hm been published heretofore on the case, there seems to have been nothing definite given to the public as to Fothoringham’s guilt or innocence. According to the confessions of both Wittrock and Cook Fotheringham was a party to t he great conspiracy, and was to have received $10.0J0 for the part he played. When Bob Pinkerton left Leavenworth at six o'clock yesterday morning he bad recovered,*22,000 of the money stolen from tto/Adams Express Company. He was not through, however. Accompanied br bis tliWte operatives and Wittrock and t he latter’s mother he came to this city. The party did not come np town, but remained at the Union depot, leaving 1,he impression that they were waiting for a

train, When the Missouri racine tram from St Louis pulled in two men got off, one of whom was Detective McGinn, and the other Oscar Cook, tlffe man arrested in this city Saturday for eompllcitv in idle express. Detective McGinn accompanied by Oscar Cook and Mr. J. H. Butler, agent of the Adams express, entered a carriage, and at half past nine stopped at the residence of John Cox, Oscar Cook's father-in-law. and with whom Wittrock had boarded, part of the time while in this city. The house ii a modest dwelling on Commercial otreet, near the distillery. The detective, dispensing with formalities, dived under the house and soon reappeared with a half-dozen beer bottles, in which were stowed a kit of crisp New Turk notes. Then (hey re-entered the carriage and were driven to the residence of Henry Cook, the father of tha man under arrest, They did tot enter at once, lout leaving the hack at the door walked to; a frame house across the street, under which they found some more beer bottles, likewise containing lucre. Then they rapped at the door of the Cook house, and on being admitted met Jack Cook, foreman of the distillery coopershop. and a brother of Oscar Cook, who was there by appointment. Detective McGinn informed Ccok that he would be pleased to have that #1, .50 Wittrock had given him. Cook, finding himself caught, weakened, and. going >o the cooper-shop, brought back 1611. wliich he had secreted in the cooper-shed. This was all that remained of his share of tie ioodle, the balancd having been spent bj^ook in bringing h:s mother and sister from Louisville and furnishing a house for them. After tell-^, ing him that- he would be given time to re< turn the rest, which Cook promises to do by mortgaging his property n Louisville, the detective drove tor tho city and reported to his chief. '■ \ The amount i-ecovered yesterday is known only to the detectives, as Mr. Pinkerton refused to say anything about it. That it is quite large, however, is certain. The amount recovered at Leavenworth, #22,000, tqgethe:- with that received from Haight, in Na-shviUe, #10,000. and the #7,500 given up by Weaver in Chicago makes the whole sum recovered in these places #39.500. As :he amount of. cash stolen was 161.0001 #41.500 remains to be accounted for. The detectives think that

comparatively little was spent by the robbers, and say they will get it all. It is thought? the amount found under the two houses in the East bottoms must approximate $10,000. This is the more probable inasmuch as w ien a search was made at the time of Cook's arrest no (honey was found. His share trust hare been considerable, front; - his Intimacy with Wittrock and the fact that he was taken into the It,tier’s confidence to the extent of being employed to mail the Jim Cummings letters. The money found under Cox’s house, with whom Cook boarded, probably approximated $10,000, less what Cook had spent, as that was about the amount each of the men received. This, less $1,150 taken from Jack Cook and the amount found under the second honse, leaves many thousand dollars yet to be accounted' for. Wittrock and Cook, while in this city, spent jboney lavishly. What , they, could not spend thev gave cway. Detective Pinkerton says that at least a dozen men in the East bottoms, acquaintances of Cook, received sums ranging from twenty-five dollars to one thousand dollars. Borne received-it in the shape of loans, while a few took it with a knowledge of where it came from. Pinkerton’s men spent the afternoon and night in looking up these. a Mr. Pinkerton said that he knew the names of all the parties, and that unless they came up with the money he would arrcet them. Those who had received the money as a loan would not be molested, bye those who had taken it with a guilty knowledge would not be allowed to compromise. When Whittrock was writing important letters to the press there were some who thought him a shrewd fellow. Those acquainted with the methods employed by detectives in following up dews give him credit for extraordinary stupidity. When his brief career as a train-robbtr ended with his arrest scarcely anybody doubted that he would confess. That was precisely what he did do. When he found that 0 sufficient evidence had been obtained to convict hint he made a clean breast of the whole affair. When Mrs. W ittrock’s letter, stating that tome of the money was at her house, was received at Chicago, Pinkerton and his operatives had already started for Leavenworth with Wittrock. The amateur outlaw did something more. He ‘■punched” on Fotheringham- His story is to t he effect that Fotheringham was to get $10,000 for the part he played in the fiasco. It was thought at -first that the robbety had been planned so carefully that suspicion would be diverted from the express messenger. In order, as be thought, to still further deceive the officials the first letter was written before the robbery, which wan planned to take place October 30, and was dated October 91. The robbery no* ■ taking place until the 95th. the ns changed, the same letter being used. Ii. was the fact, that the date, had been dunged, and that the old date was plainly risible, that furnished the strongest ev idence of Fotheringham’s complicity. and the letter more than anything else led to his indictment.

Telephone litigation. Witintsiox, Dee. SI—The American Bell Telephone Company yesterday Sled a bill in the United States Circuit Court at Fnrkersburj, W.Va, asking for an injunotion to restrain the limner Telephone Company from operating the Emneir Telephone in Ci arleston, W. Vs., and several: other places in Virginia and West Virginia, wheie the Bmner telephone has been in use for abent a year. The usual complaint at infringement on the Bell patent is j referred. Representatives of tiie Bmner Company now in Washington say they ar»not disturbed at the prospect of having the question of infringement brdtaghtto in issue. Prrrsnri »*, Pa.. Deo SB.—The AtliaiK* (O.) aceo imodation train on tie Ft Wayne we i, which left this citylsle yes. terday afto moon, was wrecked last night tear Hew Galilee, about forty mflei west of this city and nearly all the passengers o n board a ere more or less injure* L Toe train was : unuing at a high rate of speed and enconi tered a broken, frog- The engine passe l oyer the break safely, hut tne baggage ox and two P*8**0,^. *^^* > track and rolled <*

REPEALED AT LAST. TIm Tenar«-of-Offlre Aet, Oh at tk« B*nulu at Republican Matat, Stitokn from th« Statute Book*. The passage by the Senate of the bill repealing the Tenure-of-Ofltee net terminates a usurpation by that body which has' extended over a perky} of nearly twenty years. Under that law the power of removal was taken from the President and lodged in the Senate, and though the act has not been at all times enforced it has served at intervals as a refuge for the feudal lords of the Senate when they saw fit to set themselves up as a superior to the Chief Magistrate. This act was passed in 1867 by a Congress containing a Republican majority of more than two-thirds and was designed to keep in office the Republicans of whom Andrew Johnson sought to rid himself. ' Johnson's break with his party, which had hardly yet become warm in the offices, precipitated a factional quarrel of unexampled bitterness. His policy was not the policy of the great party chiefs who not long before had doubted the wisdom of re-electing Lincoln, lest he, too. might develop ideas not in harmony with those of the more extreme members of his party, and to prevent his carrying it out all the energies of the organization were directed. The possession of the offices being as im;K>rtaut a matter in the estimation of the various leaders as any other, they passed the Tenutv-of-Office act in 1867. for the purpose of depriving the President of the power of making changes in offices without the consent of the Senate. As it stood originally this act practically took from-the President his constitutional powers a..d lodged them in the Senate. Without its consent he could not even remove an official who was incompetent, corrupt or neglectful. Rxeept by its permission he could not change his own Cabinet. It was intended to shackle ah executive officer who could not otherwise be controlled. If he would not obey the wishes of the party which had elected him that party, having absolute control of both branches of Congress, would deprive him of the ability to execute the office which had been conferred upon him. Mr. Johnson vetoed the act, but it became a law by '.the two-thinls vote of a partisan Congress. and thus the usurpation began. j For the violation of this law Mr. (Johnson.- was impeached, and in its Siipport'A great party, mindful only of partisan advantage and the spoils of office, fixed in American history a page as dark as anv that is to be found there.

But for the removal by Mr. Johnson of j Secretary of War Stanton and the ap- j pointinent of General Lorenzo Thomas as Secretary adiuterim it is Hot likely that the impeachment proceedings would have been undertaken. Every thing else depended upon the maintenance of these charges, and as they failed all else failed. The furyof party-might be depended upon to pass laws overriding the constitution and degrading the Pres-: idential office to the level of a Senatorial append^, but when it was proposed as a penalty for the violation of such laws President

and put is who could hare no legal right to the place there was a revolt on the part ol several Senators of conscience and ability, and the country was spared the crowning infamy of witnessing the desposition of a Chief Magistrate whose principal offense had been the observance of his oath to support the constitution and transmit his office unimpaired to his successors. Immediately on the inauguration of General Grant flfe party necessity of a Tennre-of-Office act disappeared. Both houses of Congress were Republican, as was the Executive Department, and one of the first acts of the House of Representatives was to pass a bill repealing the laws which had been passed for the purpose of shackling Johnson, But the Senate, having tasted blood, was not prepared thus early to relinquish the power which it had usurped. It failed to act on the House bill. Ia his first message President Grant, who in Johnson’s day had supported the Tenure-otOffiee bill, attacked it in unmeasured terms, saying that “it was incompatible with a faithful and efficient administration of the Government.” Later on the House once again passed a bill repealing the act, this time voting mere than six to one in favor of its annulment. The Senate again refused to concur. It had gained the upper hand of the President, and it was not willing to retreat from its position. Forty years before this Webster, Clay and Calhoun had fought the same battle with Andrew Jackson and had' failed. The advantage gained as against Johnson was not to be abandoned without a struggle. The law might be permitted tp fall into abeyance during the administration of a friendly President, bnt it Was argued that it should stand l^nd be’revived as occasion might warrant. Under it Senators were made the dictators of Federal patronage. The President was helpless, unless he could make sure of their support General Grant had a way of dealing with men which soon convinced some members of-the Senate that it would be more profitable to them to fall in with him than to undertake to fight hint, and, after some caucusing, the Senate, in 1869, passed a bill so amending the Tennre-of-Office act as to repeal the section against which most complaint had been made. As amended, the la w permitted the President to suspend Federal office-holder* daring the recess of Congress, and to name successors, who were to be commissioned until the end at the next session of Congress, when, If they were not confirmed, the nomination ns to ML The clause which had been repealed provided that, in this event, the old officer should i mmediately return to his post, bat with that stricken out nothing remained for the President to do, under such circumstances, bat to name another man. Thus the law became practically Inoperative, though its retention upon the statute books fens been rightfully regarded by all Presideats since ictoett m m taper*

The repeal of the law by the Senate will be followed, as a matter of course, by similar action on the part of the House, and the Congressional usurpation which began in a spoils fight will end at a time when, under the administration of another party, a successful effort to in dee the civil service something man than a party machine is in progress. It will doubtless be urged ijn certain quarters that the willingness of some Republicans to support the repeal grows out of a hope that in two years they will control the White House, and it may then be handy to have the President unfettered in the matter of office-giving. When Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated it took him about sixty days to clean out every Democratic office-holder in the country. This great achievement could not be repeated with the Tenure-of-Office act on the books. Blit fairer men wilt give the Republicans who supported the repeal of a vicious law the credit foi doing so on conviction, without reference to the party coinsequences. The action taken is one over which all good citizens may congratulate themselves, as it is* step backward toward that system of constitutional government which was sadly disarm nged in the days of war and passion.— Chicago Herald. | REPUBLICAN WASTE. Swwtury Whitney** Reform* In the Nnvy Department—How the People's Money Was Squ tndereti Dorinf Former Admin* U; ration.. One mere step in the reorganization of the nas|' administration upon business prlicuptes has just been taken. The yard 3t Boston has been changed to an equipment yard, and placed in charge of Commodore Schley, Chief of the Bure; t» of Equipment and Recruiting. Under this same new policy of devoting the yards as far as practicable to specialties, the Washington yard had previous!. been turned over to the Bureau of Ordnance, and this will be tha great amf onlv factory for finishing naval guns. "“A third project is that of making »tue yanl a general supply depot for the navy, the one at Brooklyn being perhaps the most likely to be chosen ffc r this purpose. It is further probable (hat this or some other yard will be designated as the chief center of constr action and repair. Besidet this assignment of yards, to special b reaus, we find .a second system of re organization going on in tlw ccueentr tion of authority, responsibility, and < I (Kies hitherto scattered among all the 1 itreaus into a single bureau. This is il ist rated bv the reorganization

of tile Bi Tbaki^S counts a yet reeei ample w the reor Cousin*, tary, aft ment of stractor, cently tl did not; aeeordin Reorgan sion in t -eaa of l roYisions and ciotnr a new Paymaster-General, practically a Bureau of Aed Supplies, though it has not .'d that u:une. Another exis to have been furnished in animation of the Bureau of 1 ion and Repair; but the secrer long delaying the reappointMr. Wilson as Cheif Conwith this view, decided it under the existing law,,, ossess the needed power J ;ly awaits action on the ] nation bill now under .e House. g i

I The ft hi amenta! important ! reforms thus tVliitm". is very i-hgfl

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ista, whet the were the i Ivisers of 1 and had dminjsuati-e i Unties the system in the bey wing ol the present there w re in each of the nav^yards separate establishments for six or dieven bureaus As a consequence, the work was dti Jicated. Each organization had its own shops, storehouses anti gangs o laborers, besides its clerical force, \ hen much of the work was practical ly of a sort common to most of the lureaus. Secretary Whitney, on look lg over his department, was as touts! hI to find six bureaus in the same yt d, separately buying little lots of stafa *nery, instead of having the parch at s made in common for all the bureau* in each yard, and, in fact, for ail the ards, by a general contract, with SB sequent distribution on requisitions. He found that seven bureaus bought oal in one hundred and Sixtysix sept -ate open purchases, instead of by coni act in large lots. He found three b reaus buying oil for the diifferent par * of the same ship. These are ordinar examples of the want of system. Not i as remarkable was the waste of supplie after they had been purchased. This re alted largely from the fact that many s rts of work were done at each yard, a d that whenever a yard was tempor rily closed the material was usually left to take care of itself, often deterio sting, while perhaps in another yard k< pt, in operation exactly similar materi: 1 was purchased. Some of the illustrations of this fact given by Mr. Whitiu i are extraonlinanr: " “At th eight navy raids there have accumulated a1 wether of augers and bits 3S.SM. ot which S IM haw been lying for several J«ara at cfoeei raids, where no work has been or ia likely k be done; BUI gross screws aieoa hand. 10 *» gross lying at closed yards. There tre MM * flics ic stock, «.M8 of them lying at closed * rds. Store ate 11,814 paint brashes In ,» ' ‘* stock, > « of these in the stores at closed raids. Jt of there tools hie serviceable, mosty new. OS most 'of these articles some bureaus save it entiy made considerable purchases, md are wa dola* s® at the present time, while o the c edit of other bureaus there are very aige at mnttrin t«ore. There are found to be tverim 0 tots a! eaat and wrought iroo ljing D scrap .boot the yards, '.lilMlOO pounds of composition tad hrasi, 148,000 pounds ot old oopger sod lie, »pound> of ekl lead.” The HSwense to be looked for under the new order of things may be illustrated >y the Boston yard. All the material t that point not of use for the Bure* of Equipment will be collected end s* it to the yards-- *- 1All t! i equipment other ards will be collected to Bo ton. irith such a system prevailin everywhere, we are not likely to fint another report like that of Capami ‘ado’ft l n rectory Board, 1* ’ terial of three or miUio s ia ectAtered about, fast ortktii 'oralt9adyoi»p}^w4