Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 January 1889 — Page 1

NUMBER 37, NUARY 31, 1889

PROFESSIONAL Vi £ A. ELY. Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG IND. _ nm J K A Son's Drug 81 ■ He to alio a member of tke United Slate* Col- ■ Aaaoctatlon, »n<1 give* prompt attention •tier in which he t» employed. JR. P Ricmakmo*. a. H. Tawujw RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law, •J bn»l PETERSBURG, 1ND. Prompt nltention given to *11 Notary I'libIK- constantly In theomor In Carpenter Building, nth and Slain. ilnea*. A J. H W ILSON. Attorney at Law,

PETERSBURG, ISO. C UrOfflcf: Orer J. B. Young * store. ' 1 11 LaMA'^E Physician and Surgean- ' _T PETERSBURG, 1ND., TYtH -practice In’ Pike end adjoining roun • in. Of*or Montsnfnrrr', budding.' Often Sours dot and night- rtPltiineases at women ■ml children a Specially. Chronic aad difficult ittcltcd. HENRY FIELDS, t i Insurance & ReaLfstate m] AGENT, PETERSBURG, : \ INDIANA. Leading roAunie* repretented Prompt at bwSni lant'na to Imlm Notary buMneat attended to. Kenaonatile rate a. office: Hank Holding. KJJWIN SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Real Estate Agent rSTEftSBURU, INDIANA. OBIee, orer Gn« Krank’a more, special attention given lo Coffee* lima. Huy la g and eelltitles . dot ajnwla. Kinmintng titles and furnishing .Umtrai t« K. It K1MK. M. D.. Physician and Surgaan PETERSBURG, IND. Office; In Hank Building; residence or Seventh 81 tect, three u|U«re« sou.th of Mata. Calls promptly attended to, day or night . 0 J. a DUNCAN. ^ Physician and Suigaon &rv PETFeRSBraO, . IND. dMBc* on rtr*t floor Cwrfi€»nt*r Rnlldlni, . - * *****

Resident Dentist, PETERSBIUO. 1SD. ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, •t J. E. TURNER, Proprietor PETERSBURG, IND. Partn-* wt.hln* work ton* at ithAIr m|. deneea will leave order, at the .hop. ta l*r Adam.' new lu kl ni, rear ot AJhu A Non a dm* More CITY HOTEL. Uader Mew SSaaattamoat. H. A. Mo Ml? It RAY, Propriator. Got. Llghtb aa<t Mala m> . opp. Court-bouae, PRTKRSBUBtl. INI* ‘ < 1 The nn Hotel la centrally local e<l. flrat claaa In all ti* appotntraenta. and the beat an-1 cheapen hotel In tho city. Sherwood House, Vnder New Malta*, meat. B1SSF.1X & TOWNSEND. Prop’ra. Firat and Locu.t M recta. Etannlllr, : RATES, $2 PEB^DAY. Indiana. Sompls Rooms for Commoroiol Moo. HYJVTT HOUSE, VauUantaa. lad. Oaatrany Located, and Accommodation* F^retelaw „ HENRY HYATT. Proprtotar. NEW GRIST MILL! ■ME MEAL MV CMP FED. Orlnila’Krary SATURDAY at A. E. Edwards’ FariTK Mattelaction C.uaraatreA Year raAeaaco Solicited. E. EDWARDS. When at Wwhin^ot Stop at the MEREDITH HORSE. First-Class in All Respects. tea. Lara* lUaan and Aiatos Hoaaau. Proprtitacit Sido Circle Park. Owe of '•sett V«*j t»v«nM« FMf* f*r

THE WORLD AT Summary of the Da LARGE. y News.

Ik th a nata on fKnn.) 2"“hr. Fort Dodge Tariff bmwas ' J"* *** ,B »*« House a Joint resolution *■ a introduced requesting the President to ’■'*? ®*«oUaMona with Mexico !orthec*sk>n rf ^werOUUortUn. A *plm o I BLoustering tnu. dceelopad by several metnb rra. when Mr. <lla)’'Uhdpew hl* moifanto Bestead „'■?'**. mr‘<* $»« the Oklahoma bUl and If*1 voU ** ukM 00 xht W« »t *T*Ur*<s The motion wan Bnally t>m **’ passed O' ilhofizing the wHam JT*?1 r-*Uon* of I*d,a*» to lease land* ■jUtt* Mtelt boundaries tor milting pnrpaaea. ' * House adjourned. I" *i» Heuate on the 2M n ttdlcrouh pe1 /* ■“PfTM'Btr-d from h number of dent 1 * % Btklnir Dint a kot>n.u S_ ...» __ _a. As inking that a bounty be ___ toothed ranted to order 14 encxirage Amert TB !u,d » better market for a«cultural prcJneti. The Tariff bill was ’T<‘* ** .ea up aad coosldarat ion continued. TKK debate flnaltjr close,! and the te.I passed by » ayes to 80 nay,, a strict party rote. Adjourned. ..The House by a vote of W» ayes to 1« nays refuted to tike up the cob tested election case of of Knislli vs. Elliott and went into Committee of the IVbote 00 the River and Harbor MIL When the committee roee the Houte adjourned. Ik the Senate 00 the 8.1.1 committee-, reported and the eohcurrcni resolution for counting the eltetoral vote waa taken up and paaaed. The bill for tb» relief of the State National Bank of Lontalron caused quite n dehnte. bat Bnally passed On motion ,tf Senator Frye the Pacific Railroad Fending bill was given precedence over other special orders. No other business of importance ws» transacted before adjournment Immediately after the reading of the Journal the House went Into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry Civil bill, debate on vthtch continued at great length. When the committee rose the House adjourned Wmtn the Senate met on the 21th a mensage was received from the House announcing the sudden death of Representative Burner or Miaaoitri. and the pas, age of a concurrent resolution appointing three Senators aad seven Representatives do attend the funeral. The resotntUm was eokrurred in. aad Senators Vest. Coke and Cullotn 1 Senator Teller afterward substituted fbr Cvdiomi appointed on the com mtttee, and the Senate adjourned In the' House Mr. Dockery announced the death of Hon. James N. Barnes aad offered resolutions of respects which were adopted, and the House adjourned (The committee on the part of the House consisted of Representatives Say era. Morrill. Mansur, Wade. Bynum. Slone and ttonderson ) V the Renat* on the tUh the Consular had Diplomatic Appropriation toll was reported from the committee by Senator Hale. Oa motion of Senator Allison the Senate insisted on •to amendment to the Tariff bill 1 bring the Sen ate substitute for tbr House biili aad asked for a conference. A bill passed Increastogihc uai tmum of international money orders Irma $30 to M u Tb, Pension Appropriation bill and Military Academy MU were also passed. The bill de taring trusts unlawful was then taken up. considered and ordered printed with amendments. The bill to provide for the sale of lands a,lotted to certain Black Bob Indians, and the toll to authorise the conveyance of certain absentee Shawnee Indian lands In Kansas passed. Thirty pension bills passed. Adjourned until Monday ...la the House the Army Appropriation toll was reported and the House went Into Committee of the Wboleon the Sundry Civil bilk which was conside4fc until recess At the evening session twenty-nine pension bills passed.

WASHIMiTON NOTES. M«u r««*iss baa introduced • bill in 1 the Route of Representatives granting to j the Cherokee Central Railroad Company ' right away across the Cherokee Indian reservation. Th* National Woman’* Suffrage A*so- : rlatioo met at Washington on the 31st, being its twenty-first annual convention. Br the Electors not signing their nameon the envelope eontnining the Electoral j returns from Texas, the returns were re- ; fused by the President of the Senate. ; The messenger returned in all hast* to j Texas where the Electors would have to ! reconvene and go through the formality I again, with n possibility ot the returns not j being in time to be counted. Other States ' were reported in the same predicament. Tux Army Retiring Board, appointed to j examine Judge Adrocate-Oeneral 8* ami j tar retirement, hat found him not Incapacitated for active service, Th* President has approved the findings and the 1 status of the case remains unchanged. Coxorzksuax Bl asts of the Fourth ! district of Missouri, was stricken with j paralysis on th* floor of the House at | Washington on the afternoon of the 23d j and died soon after midnight at Willard’s Hotel. His health had been failing for a j year past Jl-po* Brkwkr, of the United States ! Circuit Court has relegated to the State j courts th* suits brought by th-> Rock Is- : land and other railroads to (r-t tbe valid ty of the Railroad law passed by the last General Assembly of Iowa. A sutho ot the National Council of the National Cuicn League ha* been called at Washiugton llarcb 2. for the purpose of strengthening the Republican parte, i especially in the Smith. Const* t. Willard, at Guay mas. ilex, j has sent a dispatch to th* State Depart- j ment denying the report that a number of ! Amer.can citizen* bad been kitied by j Vaijui Indians near Grits, thirty rai er from Guaymaa. He says the Indians , attacked a small force of Mexican soldiers ; and killed several of them, but no foreign- | ers were injured. Ta* Washington Sunday Herald, until j recently owned by the late Captain Bur- ; ritt. has been sold for ft0,000. Ta* Secretary of War has officially neti- j fled th* city of Frankfort, Ky.. that the’ old wooden bridge acroas the Kentucky river at that point must be raised as it is j too low for boats to pass under. The bridge has stood for over sixty years. Rccxtrr confirmations: George W. Heuset, ot Pennsylvania, collector ot Internal revenue, Ninth district of Pennsylvania; j John Tyler Campbell, of California, now Consul at Auckland, Consul at Fop Chow; John Marcy Connolly, of California, Con- 1 sal to Auckland; Robert S. Adkins, postmaster at Kansas City, Mo. RxraxKXNTaTiVK Sfrisgkr. chairman of the Committee on Territories, has reported another omnibus bill providing an enabling net for this admission into the Union ot th* Territories of Arttona, Wyoming and Idaho, Tr steal plant of the Glasgow Iron Company, of Pottatown. Pa., has been ‘dosed down for good because of lack of damand for the kind ot steel made. ’ It is reported in Pittsburgh that the Vanderbilts have purchased all tb* interests of the late Dr. Hostetter in the Pittsburgh ft Lake Erie railroad and have thus secured full control of the lino. A sen*** ot the employes of the Appraiser’s office ot the New York custom bouse have been removed because of recommendations made by Acting ApPfUHRf StMTMi Wiluax McKee, of Lock port. N.Y., railroad and waterworks contractor, who has large contracts, has failed with #30.000 liabilities. He had lost money in the lumber business. Mas. I)ajiixi. Dow nxt, ot Vineland, N. J.. has been fatally burned by the explosion of n lamp, which sat her house on flbm. DcoLKT’Muit for libel against tha New York Times and other papers for publishing tha “blocks ot five” letters prior to the Into election came up in Supreme Conti chambers before Judge Patterson at New York on the MU. Fine in New York City tha other night destroyed #100,000 worth of good* belonging toflbotit twenty wares,

- **s r :-; Tra other right an efcplostou occurred In slop* No. It at Nantiooke, heat Wilkeslaw, F», vthiri a nk| Of engineers were at weak making ivntja P. IS. Sharsus, one at the engineer*, wa» blown | to pi«*e and Chet Owen*, another, wit* distantly killed, and John Williams, a third, was fatally banted. Several others were more or 1*j« seriously burned. ffnuix Ritter's brewery at Chlcopse, Mass., and tOi barrels of lager beer hare been seised ty united Slates officer* because he had. used beer stamps a second Colokel Jacob 0»a*!», hrheldeht ot lbs Connecticut ftntual t.ifs Insurance Company, at Hartford. <»nn.. ha* (aided n Ctrtalar infoiming tbs policyholder* that Joseph A, Moore, for sixteen year* finar.cial correspondent at the company at Indianapolis. i* a defaulter to the amoeot Of about 550 >,0-0. Tn* my«teiry surrounding the sudden disappearance s^Thomas Conway, of Suffolk, L. I., January S. the day he ws* to hare been inairied to Mies Mary Sullivan, was cleared up by Henry Kneeland, a farmer, finding him in his haymow insane and nearly dead. Foe a thousand coal miners In and about Shenandoah, Pa., have bits thrown oat of work by Ike shut'ing down ot collieries because of overstocked markets. Dtrino a gal* through which the steamer Atualll, which arrived at New York recently from Hamburg, passed, three persons had limits broken and other damage was dona ' , Charles R Siiepard. the noted hook publisher ot Boston? Masa, died reuenUy aged sixty years, i The feather manufacturing firms of New York looked*out their glrla, numbering SOU, on the S»ti».

TI1E WEST. The 330 coil miner* at Boone*borough, Iowa, have struck against a reduction of half a cen t per bushel in their pay. • The Grand Opera House and adjacent buildings were burned at St Paul Mian., on the Sist. Loss, about $260,000. Fine in Si:. Paul, Minn.. recently did f.Yl OIK) damage to the Berrisford Baking & Confectionery Company's building and stock. ) Thk Kansas Legislature has chosen Preston B. Plumb to succeed himself as l' u ited States Senator. Thk crematory which was recently built in St. Louis burned on the 23d. . The lorn was estimated at $20,000. The Are is supposed to hare caught from the furnace utilised to reduce the dead to ashes. A body was being cremated when the lire was discovered. Miss Corns. the eccentric young Cincinnati heiress, who had annoyed Kyrle Beiiew. the actor, for some time past, has been taken to the Middletown (S. Y.) insane asylum. E. W. Rosenthal & Co., carpet dealers, of St. Louis, have failed with $00,000 liabilities and much smaller assets. The business portion of the Tillage of Matamoni, III., was destroyed by fire the other day. Loss $30,000. W. D. Washbvrn was elected Senator by the Minnesota legislature on the 23d. notwithstanding charge* of corruption and bribery tn manipulating the Republican caucus, the investigating committee declaring that improper influences had not been used by Washburn or bis opponent, Senator Sabin. Seven Mormons of 8L John. Aria., have beeu arrested on miscount of timber frauds and three Iwcause of land frauds. The Mormons w ho control the region were greatly excited. JrncE V:HJOg of the circuit court at Geneva. IIL, has refuted to grant a new trial to Bauereisen,. the alleged Chicago, Burliogtoo <fc Quincy dynamiter who waa recently found guilty and sentenced to two years hi tbe penitentiary. Mrs. Lot? Wright, a married woman, was whipped by Whitecaps the other night in Monroe County, Ind. The rebellious Polish priest, Father Kolasinski. has established his independent church at Detroit, Mich., and recently administered the first communion to 26.1 girls end boys. The ceremony took place in a chapel fixed up for the ocataiao in s back non in hit house. His following is said to be 2.000 families strong. Charles Lvhsdaller, formerly' a wealthy farmer nenr Fergus Falls, Minn., was arrested at Port Townsend, Wash., recently charged with haTingpoisoned his wife last spring. The Oregon Legislature in joint session has declared Host. J. H. Dolph elected United State* Senator to succeed himself. Aaoi'T 800 families were ejected from Oklahoma by Lieutenant Macomb recently. Tbs boomers had gone in from TexasOne man was fatally and three seriously injured by the falling of the walls of a building which win being torn down in Cincinnati lecentlv. The driver of the pattoi wagon had it leg broken. A Large oil can exploded in the basement of the Belridere block at Milwaukee, Wis., the other night, and after tbe fire was extinguished it was found that John SI. Clements, twelve veers of age. was burned to a msp and his brother Janies su ladlr injured that be would die. The Union Pacific road has w ithdrawo its circular announcing a change in tbs through rates on corn. This leaves St. Louis <n (ud possession Of its five-cent differential. and continues the alleged discriiuinittosis against Chicago. It is staled that the soldiers have once more cleaned Oklahoma of “boomers." The last ‘hound-up” numbered 6,000 persons. Kiv. Boro Vine Ext was consecrated at assistant Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ohio at Cmriuaatl on the iVh. In the Indiana Senata tbe Democrats unseated Carpenter. Republican, because of charge* of bribery. His opponent was not given the place.

tbi sotrru. It it rtport«4 that Hopkins and Jenkins, coioivd labor agents ot Vicksburg, Mist., have been lynched by a mob in north Louisiana. ' Sssator Coke has been re-elected in Texas. - Train No. S on the Louisville & Nathalie railroad. which left Montgomery, Ala., for New Orleans recently, was boarded at a point between Lotchatchee and Fort Deposit by two white men. who attempted to eater the postal car by force. They were unsuccessful, and made their escape when the train reached Fort Deposit. The Council Committee on Buildings and Grounds of Richmond, Va.. has decided to refuse to employ Republican mechanics and laborers on the new city halt Tax British steamship Brin has been abandoned off Cape Hatteras with a shaft broken. The crew was landed at Newport News, Vs. Tax Naihville Iron. Steel and Charcoal Company, located in West Nashville, Tenn, has made a general assignment. The assets are claimed by officials of the company Ho be about $400,000 and the liabilities rtio.ooo. Two thousand tons of gusno stare lost at Savannah, 6a., the other day by the collapse ot the wharf freight sheds. Sbebif* J. L. ICnuxa. of Bird County. Kv, has skipped out. Ho is said to be $14,000 short ia his accounts. Tux National Bank and three other buildings at Athens, Tenn., were destroyed by fire retdMtly. Laes $40,0001 Cocxskx. from Now York and Philadelphia, representing unearned parties, presented a ipetition to Urn State's AttorneyGeneral at Richmond, Va., asking for a writ of quo warranto against the Richmond & Weal J oint Terminal Company for the purpose of lortsiting its fraaphiaea.

Oh tha wim—MIih at »> Itow IMii> oral Callage terare critietan* were wad* on the action oI Sonata* Ingalls la liiaete ing th« flrst rorarnt shat to Washington bacalsa M alleged Informality. Till iw tiims, however, ware amaadad and fur

At 8t Patrick’* Church; Montreal recently, Father Dowd condemned the Cathollc Order of Foreeters of Illinoln, and cautioned the member* of hi* congregation to hare nothing to do with the order. tn Earl of Lacan ha* offered his tonant* in the County Mayo, Ireland, a release from all anrear* of rent It they fay one year’* back rent Beruk student* belonging to the AntiJewish Association bad a demonstration on the 22J. A Htutsou from Khartoum say* tlkat 8S.000 of the Mahdi’* followers left there in December last for a final attack; u|>oa Egypt. Advic-ss from Went Africa *ay that eleven native policemen headed by a British officer, in a conflict with a pttty of war boy* at Sulyma. kille-l 1S1 of the enemy with a Maxim gun and the rest of the party fled in dismay. William Boss, collector of the part at Halifax, N. 8., has resigned because he exceeded his authority in transmitting a shipment of fish to Boston contrary to the claims of Canada. Tbs remains of lima- dl Mursfca, the prims donna, have been cremated at Gotha, Germany. The Spanish Government has issued n decree granting amnesty to nil press and politknl offenders, including the soldier* who took part in the rising in Madrid In MM. A sxxsATiott has bean created throughout Holland by n pamphlet by Tiadal entitled, “The Netherlands in Danger.” The author condemns tbe country’s defensive organisation on both land and sea, and regards the fl.600.0h) spent yearly as wasted. Tax Csarins of Rassin is affected wllth a kind of palsy which began at tbe Borki railroad wreck and hat been steadily growing worse. Tbe anniversary of the Polish entente of lfl63 was observed in Poland on the *3d with numerous banquets nt which hopes for the future freedom of Poland wore expressed. A telegram from StornqjgAJ* in, the Hebrides, on the northwest const of Scotland say* the derelict American schooner, W. L. White, abandoned off Delaware bay March IS Inst during the great blisiard had gone ashore. The crew had, been rescued nt the time of the Missnrd and the abandoned vessel had been drifting evu» since. The Lord Mayor of London gave a banquet on the 24th in honor of Mr. Phelps, the United States Minister. There were 250 guests, including Lord Roseherry, Lord Salisbury, Lord Coleridge, Sir James Ferguson and many other literary and scientillc celebrities. The trial of William O’Brien commenced atCaurrick-on-8uir, Ireland, on the 24th. O’Brien made a start for the,, door during the proceedings, when a riot followed. O'Brien’s supporters csrrtad him through the town in triumph. Mafly persons were injured and a warrant was issued for O’Brien’s arrest The Pullman Palace Car Company has absorbed tbe Union Palace Car Company, which had absorbed the Wagner Company. The only other palace car company beside the Pullman Is the Wagner, which runs on the Vanderbilt lines. The Norwegian hark, Alf, Captain Bach, which sailed from Demerara October 2*. for Philadelphia with a cargo of sugar, has been given jp as lost A family by the name of Rudolph, consisting of six persona, have been suffocated by gas from a defective stove ia Saxony. Tbe correspondents of the Figaro and Nationals of Paris have been expelled from Germany, r J Distcrraxces were reported at Culebra on the Panama canal following a reduction of wages by one of the contractors. Bt’sinxss failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended January *4 numbered 342, compared with *87 the previous week and 209 the corresponding week of last The principal cashier of the National Bank Agency at Bologna, Italy, ha* absconded, having embesaied $190,000. > The Canadian Government has tanned orders to all the collectors of customs to suspend the issuing of farther licenses tp fishermen under the modus v ivsndi. An English missionary named Brooks and sixteen of his follower* have been murdered near Sedan! by members of the coast tribes and native* of Eanaibar.

THE LATEST. Tn Senate was not in session on tbe 96th-In the House, the Speaker laid before the bodr the Hills Tariff bill, with the Senate substitute therefor, together with the request of the Senate for a conference. The motion of Mr. Reed, of Maine, for immediate consideration of the measure, fare rise to a tong debate, and the Speaker finally. In deciding points of order raised, ruled that the bill must be referred to the committee on ways and means. Motions for unanimous consent for immediate consideration, and for a resolution making the Tariff bill a special order for February 3, were met with opposition, and the bill, with Senate amendments, went to the committee on ways and means. After a short discussion, the jointVesolutioa was passed appropriating $500,000 to the legal representatives of James B. Eads, and the House went into committee of the whole on the Civil Sundry Appropriations bill. Enrxaon William was thirty years old on the 17th. Lewis H. Tatlor, formerly editor of the Springfield (Maas.) Keening Union, died, on the 97th, aged sixty-seven years. He was at one time a member ef the Legislature. He was a large real estate owner and paper manufacturer. Mm Gladstone on the 97th, requested that the Album of Views subscribed by the English and American colonies at Rome as a gift to tbe ex-Premier, be sent to him in London, instead of being presented to him personally. Tn* London Times says Englishmen are curious to know the value of Bismarck's assertion that Germany is absolutely one with England with regard to the Samoan difficulty. David Kimball, aged sixty-three, a wealthy and highly-respected ciuxea of Omaha, Neb., white attempting to board a Union Pacific train, on the 97th, at the transfer station at Council Bluffs, 1e, slipped on the ice, fell under the train and was instantly killed. R. K. Pox received a telegram from Charley Mitchell, on the 96th. announcing his safe arrival at Liverpool, and stating that he would surely return in Kerch. Tn Central Stock Yard Company’# hog abattoir, on the west hank of the Hackensack river, near Jersey City. N. J., was burned on the 16th. Loss, $100JXX>; mostly covered by insurance. Over MN live hogs were in the building when the fire broke out, and only a few of them ee^rn State Department was, on the 98th, advised of the firing upon an American vessel on the Zanxibar ooast by a German war-ship. Guixal Bodlassb was elected to the French Chamber of Deputise, on the 27 th, by a majority of 81,»fi 91)^06 more than his most extravagant ante-election claim. Mas. William James, mother of ex-Postmaster-General Thomas L. James, died at her home in Ution, N. Y., 00 the JTth, aged eighty-tgo,

The LefUit iVOUS, JUl lft—Sbs ted accepting with i* by Congress for ng sn agricultural si t Purdue University 4W the «wnMt«nent docrheepers provoked a 1 It was adopted after being provide tliat the appointees erai soldiers. Horst -Rules were reporter’ eratic m njority of the Comm and adopted by a strict party that after a previous question O ded no member shall have a his vote, und that after the yea been ordered upon call of the! or amendment shall be permi temoon session Ret r isentati dured a bill providing a Bonn the city of IndianaiKilis. He a bill rhangtug the election la' a system simitar to Chat ia opei lla Represcatatire War rum an election bill embodying the of the Australian system. A b appropriation of 111,(00 (Or tl mmument to Governor Jent and referred. Iki>ianap< L'ft Jan. 17.— S business was transarted to-daj taken tbis morning regardir scene thnt closed yesterday's Deraocn tic caucus last nigh' brought up. but there is not n r of the majority to expel, two eesary. and so it was thought t being Senator Johnson would more along in the even tenor i Senate only remained in ses: morning, an adjournment belt and the afternoon being given work. A long petition was pr a tor Duncan, on request of friends, that the Legislature htbiting the manufacture and the State except for medicinal purposes. Hors*.—This wn» another " titude of thorn being iatrod therein were high license and islation; appropriating AM mat School and (90.000 for Pm making the wearing of G. A. B ert than members in good st» dera misdemeanor; punishin boycotting or ha trussing ptohibitiug the catching *>1 punishing all interference wit railway trains by tine and in Demo* e on Rules, te, providing as been seo* ;bt to explain id nays have ise no motion L At the at Curtis intro* d Control fof a introduced n the main to ion In Austro* o introduced tain features tailing for an erection of a js was offered at*. — Little No action was the exciting si on. In the te nutter was icient number rds being nee* . for the tints permitted to its way. Tbs a during tho had at noon to committee nted by Sene Society of act a law pr> le of liquor in d sacramental Tiding a State Boatf of Ch|, Stale Hoard of Insurance ini of ex-soldiers and sailors, t at the expense of the tow os 1 barbed wire fences: prohibit! subsidies by townships or cith terprises; making Deconiiioi and so on. Indian apolis, Jan. 1ft Senate this afternoon adopte same rule which was adopte tew days ago. cutting off all di of a heretofore privilege chi previous qu> s’ion has been day. n mat'd. Included at option Irgor State Nop* e University; mdges by ©thing in the ormployers tor red employes; t* by ferrets: he moving of sonment; props; creating a rising the bur- < arc indigent s; prohibiting the voting of o railway eaJay a holiday. sharp wrangk over the mat era minority fought drsperat adoption, but only one. Pern ed with them. Another and < new rule was adopted at the i iag that it the piesiding ofltc refuses to put a r o ion. or tsdl nay two Senators may call tlj of the Senate to put the quesi Hors*.—Representative D get through a resolution in e election law satisfactory to t! contained n registration cla voted down. Bills introdui the taking of lish with gig ot the rivers in the State, save Joseph; the creation of sUti mtssiooer; establishment rf Charities. Representative B treduced n MU which was a Southern laws relative to tl vict labor. The convicts are gangs not exceeding one hut must not be more than ten c Wgular wages for labor ot tht nobis, of Wayne, introduced relative to the sulo of intox became a law;one appropria peases of Genera! Assemb changing the time of holding euth Judicial Circuit. Indianapolis. Jan. 19—1 tioa was offered to amend as to provide for the election fire nor more than nine Supr HOPS*—A MU providing pay the cost of prosecuting ported adversely, but was dr other committee. Indianapolis. Jan. SI—S: Introduced creating a Supre sion; authorizing persons hoi the State to bring suit ther County Superior Court; lie may be charged by railroads and to create a State Oe licensing of stationary en Mutlinix introduc'd a mcasu study of the effects ot alcobc coties. Adjourned. 'KN ate. —The practically tho n the House n le or speeches cter after tho . There was a *, the RepuMlto prevent its at Senator votally important ic time, providof the Senate ory in doing so, the Secretary t to vote. T attempted to ■t declaring no House unless it ■, but this was : Prohibiting et from any ot ) Ohio and SL State Board of y, of Vigo, iff* ndifled form of leasing ot conbe employed la mL and the pay s less than the me hind. Reyjoiat resolution ats. Two bills ;ffcS.O»forexnnd the other urt In the Scv* tATS—A resol nconstitntion so ' not less than e Court Judges. .1 counties shall minals was rey reft r.x'l to su-it*-—Bills wore Court CommisI; claims against r in the Marion ng the rate that transportation, aission for the icers. Senator woriding for the drinks and nap*

Horss—Representative 1 'Wn offered a resolution that the Commits on Temperance be iustrucW to (mptn » bi or a local option liquor law. but on motion < Mr. Schmuck. of Marion. «h» resolution was t ed. Beasley.'ot Sol Iran. offered a joint rr ution providing for a cm .titinternal amen ™nt making the terms ol all county oncers ft years, and protabuing two successive te s tor the <samo man. Henry, of Floyd. a bll ^pointing separate boards oMruitrei for tb nsane Hospital, Blind Institute and Dear an >umb Institute. Mr. Zoe richer presented a 1 olution instruct nr the proper rommtttee to epare a bill tor the better enforcement of w regarding the returns o« property for laze Iyims tPoLis Jam «.—S im-Tkr Senate only remained in sesston nn»the morrlt* boors, when a number of Is were offered. The afternoon was given up emmittee work. To-nigtat the members of tb Jectioo Committee are eagaped la m iking nl inquiry with reference to the Ray-Carp er contest, and will matse two reimrte. a ma Ity and minority, to the Senate in the moratnj Hocsz—Among the bills ti educed was one making it a misdemeanor fo ny one to appear ta public wearing the nnifor it any society or company nnlesa specially fu lifted to do so by the authorities of such tr* -oily. etc. A bill was engrossed yeatlng a 1 5 Stock Sanitary Commission aad a State Ve inary. both to be choeen by the General A* tbly. There was also a bUL partially appro t, but sent back for correction, providing a f, alty for slander, aad patting the repeater ijit a slander on the same terms as the origins, slanderer. Bills passed: For the burial of indigent soldiers: appropriating *W03U for the State Normal School-, reducing interest on loans at school funds. —Mrs. Fite bad company to tecs. Little Fite had been told how to behave, and a good big bribe was promised him if be acted out bit part of the programme. Hia did rerj well until he saw the company beginning to eat some jam that was servod in small dishes. Then Using bis rtundeyes on a majestic old lady opposite to him. he bawled in tbe sweet tones of childhood: “Did you tub) the pill?”—Detroit Free Press. —Wellesley sophomore to Vassar ditto—“I do think vour class yell is just too lovely for any thing! How did you get it up?” Vassar sophomore— •■Oh, we went having a meeting for that purpose aad a mouse came gliding out of its hole. The yell was a kind of spontaneous affair.”—Burlington Free Press —“How droll!” is non- the proper

REMAINS OF THE FLAG*. The Flag Mutilated at Sunosi Bt* oeived at the State Department; * J.rttrr From Smntar; Whitney in Sea ■ rotary Uayard Reqaeatla* An An. Regard t* Samoa.

Wasimsgtox, Jan. 2\—At the State Department yesterday there were received a budget of dispatcher from Vice-Consul General Blaeklock, giving the full details of occurrences in the Samoan Islands up to the departure of the mail steamer that left Apia for San Francisco, January A The dispatches are voluminous, and substantially bear out in detail the special advices telegraphed from San F.ancisco a week ago. The bloody scenes described as having occurred ou the nights of December 16 and 18 do not lose any of their lawless ferocity in the cool, clear, matter-of-fact narration of Vice-Consul General Blaeklock. There was not tints after the receipt of the dispatches yesterday to properly examine and arrange them for the press, as they were not made public. Secretary Bayard spent the afternoon In their perusal, and stated last night that they would either be made public on Monday or transmitted to Congress as supplemental to the correspondence now before the Senate and House, In the latter case they will bt> given to the press within a few days. But of far more interest than the packet containing these dispatches, which in the main are repetitions of what has already appeared, was a curious little bundle that arrived in the same mail. It was perhaps ten inches long by four or five in diame - ter. covered in heavy brown paper, tied with stout twine, and bore four great seals of the United States Consulate-General at Apia, Samoan Islands. It was addressed to “George I* Rives. Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, D. C., United States of America,” and upon one side it bore this superscription: Remains of an American dig burned with an American house by the German man-of-war Olga, December U. 1#». The package also bore the postmark of Apia, together with $1.40 in postage stamps and a mark of registration. When it was opened it presented a sight calculated to make the blood boil in the veins of every patriotic American citiien. When the flag was new it probably measured 12x8 feet, and was made of stout bunting. Long flapping in the Pacific breexes had frayed out the ends and snapped them into little ribbons of red and white, but it was nevertheless a goodly flag to look upon, and the sight of it must have warmed the cockles of many a wandering American in that semi-barbarous clime before it fell to the hand of the lawless Germans, who. careless of American rights and indifferent to the dignity and majesty of the •‘Stars and Stripejs,” set fire to the building over which it proudly waved: As the package containing the flag was unrolled hits of charred burning broke ofl from the remnants and fell to the floor In showers, and when it was quite unfolded there remained nothing but a ragged, illshaped fragment of red, white and bine cloth, torn by the wind, pierced by the German bullets and half eaten by the hungry flames that lapped the flag-stall as it waved above the house it was intended to protect from the assaults of the lawless. Assistant Secretary Rives quickly gathered it up and took it for examination to Secretary Bayard, after which it was carefully laid away under lock and key. It was said at the Department that it would probably be sent to Congress with the dispatches narrating themauner of its destruction, oud would afterward And a place among the relics iu the State Department library. DBMAXUED A OXVIN'ITS rOUCT. Secretary Whitney some time ago addressed a letter to Secretary Bayard, as head of the State Department, asking for the announcement of a definite National policy in regard to Samoa. The State Department failed to respond to the request. The Secretary yesterday seut a letter to Mr. Herbert, and inclosed a copy of the written request for the definition of a National polic>a which he had addressed to the Secretary of State on the 5th of January, as soon as the news of Ger - many’s depredations reached this Government. * In these dispatches is the text both of Secretary Whitney’s letter to Mr. Herbert and of his previous letter to the Secretary of State. This correspondence speaks for itself. "There is no antagonism at present between the State and Navy Departments.” said Secretary Whitney yesterday. "This department has had ho direct reply yet from the State Department to the letter of January A bat then the State Department. or rather the President on the 15th insL, referred the whole question to the wiser and wider discretion of Congress, whirh of course renders a direct reply from the State Department unnecessary. My only object,” said the Secretary, "was to obtain such information as would enable me to know how to direct the officers of the Department in order .to renlixerthe purposes of this Government. If the intervention of the navy was wanted in the settlement of the Samoan difficulty, it was desirable that the Navy Department should know what was intended that we might know what to do. I could not help feeling this was a question which would arouse popular sentiment, and 1 was anxious that in case of any popular dissatisfaction or disappointment the Nary Department should not be put in a false light, because if the Navy Department was not heard from, and every thing did not go right, there can be no doubt that the Navy Department would have come in for abase all around. I didn’t want to hare he Navy D apartment kicked. That’s why I asked for the announcement of a definite National policy,” and that, it may be added (without haring authority from the Secretary for making the addition), is the reason why Secretary Whitney has thought it proper to make public the correspondence between himself and Representative Herbert. When it was reported that the German men-of-war war* playing havoc with American rights and interests in 8amoa, the question which first presented itself to the thought of all bat diplomats and those versed in the ways of statecraft' was not what will the State Department do, bat where is the American navy? Secretary Whitney knew that He knew that if a policy of inactioa or indecision were pursued by this Government and if the German m*n-of war continued their depredations in Samoa, and if the American people lost patience with the slowness of this Government that the Navy Department would come in for a large share of popular execration, aid that is why Secretary Whitney has taken the coarse panned by him, both in catling for a definite policy and in making pnblic the fact ho did so. It is not Secretary Bayard that is waited for now, bat Congress, and on an early day this week a distinct declaration of the intentions of the United States with regard to Samoa may be expected from tin Senate, which will be promptly followed by the Honse. •KCUTAKT WHIT .VST TO XKPR XS X XT ATTO Washixgtox, Jan. 17.—The following latter from Secretary Whitney to Con* gressman Herbert waa made public yesterday afternoon: * lion. U. A ffrtw. Root', of Bvrmmttllotf sia-I have the honor to aeknowledae the receipt ot your fetter of Jwaary *• few*****

request that then! (Slay W» transmitted to tht naval committed of tha HoiW elty rowht r» porta from the officers of tho vetsel* JttHlwOod on the Smrionti islands showier the eoBditW* of things, and the reddest » the Deptrtmen* for the snnonneemext ot a ttetolt# volicf Mb terred to try trie in my letter of tho SM iff»i« if partbtihe feoordaof the department There are no liter reports than those; copies of which were' transmitted trf QeafKWsi tat * message of the President of *wti*anr RWi printed In executive document Nc.fftCT the Be* ate. The communication of the Department t<f the Secretary of State in reference to the announcement of a definite policy is ©'itHafnad la a letter, copy of which ts inclosed. Your lettdfi also contains the fallowing request: 'T should be rlad to know It any further enlargement ot the approprlationsiot your Department should be made In slew of existing conditions." This inquiry upon its face scents to put upon this Department the rewoousibilliy of estimating for possible Ctp-ndilfire* arising out of conditions which it can not anticipate. Until a decision ts reached as to the policy of this Government regarding the independence ot the Samoan group ot Island! no judgment can be formed upoMhe subject Ot possible expenditures. Up to the present time the Department is iiot aware that we hare had ting National policy upon thC sfibject. Net her the Monroe doctrine nor any other expression of National policy is understood to apply to the islands ot the Pacific. One by one they havd been taken without interference from us. If there te to he no new departure affecting thin group of Islands, £ eoncoiVe that the Department is quite able now to perform every duty arising out of ex'sllng conditions, Unless there is a conflict between the policy of this Government and that of some other power, differences will doubtless be harmonised and extraordinary expenditures Will be Called for, Having brought to the attention of the appropriate department the circumstances specially within the observation of this Department seeming to call for definite instructions to its officers and the whole matter having subsequently been laid before Congress by ihe President- It would be preferable that this Department should not anticipate conditions beyond its authority. Very respectfully. W. C. WittTtfEY, Secretary of the Navy, Washington. D.jC. January 55. THE MOT* TO BAYARD. The following is the iuciosure above referred to: 7b Me Mm. That. iF. ®»y *r ?, StfrOwy of Sii*« Sir—Inclosed herewith I send copy of dispatch just received by wav of New Zealand, from the captain of the Nipsic, now at Samoa. The Department its able to send tmmedstely two additional vessels to Samoa In response to this request, and has given directions that they be made ready to receive sailing orders, and would be pleased to strengthen the force at the Samoan Islands by these and other vessels of the Pacific squadron it any useful purpose is to be served thereby,however, the purpose of the German GovrraHeut, now made entirely clear, imposes no Uuty upon she officers of tho squadron, to strengthen the naval force at those Islands, would only place the o® -era under Irritating conditions, with no duty to perform, end would in nil probability g.ve rise to trouble. The Nipsic Is entirely adequate for the protection of our Consulate and at an asylum tor noncombatants entitled to the protection ot our Government. In view of tho critical situation at the Samoan Islands, It seems to the Departmentthat the officers of the squadron, if further vessels are to be dispatched, should receive in•tructions of a definite character as to their i duty in the premises. From the correspondence heretofore held between the Department of state and the German Government, and from the reports received rrom our naval officers and the consular agent at the island, it appears clear that the ! eonquestof these: islands is intended by the German Government tn the Interests of a commercial company, add t* being consummated by overt acts. which are multiplying day by day There is no longer any other pretext upon which can he explained the inter ference ot the Getiman ntan-of- war In th8 contest in progress upon tho Islan 1 of op oto. I apprehend that the officers of the navy will not understand without definite advices to that effect what their duty mav be under ihe eirrumstanees as they are developing. Our anteredent relations to this group of islands and to the Sandwich Islands hare been of an exreptionaleharaeter. and will be likely ki give rise to doubts in the minds of the officers as to their doty under existing conditions In these two groups of islands by treaty harbors hare been reserved for the use of the navy of tho United States, and as to the Samoan group, the three Governments—Germany, Groat Britain and the United States—have up to recent date acted together upon the theory of mutual co- ! operation in preserving the autonomy of the | people ot the Samoan Islands, j A harbor at Samoa will become of National | Importance to us in the future as a naval pow- ; er, but If tho islands are to go under the dominion of Germany, it would cease to be of use to us. The Department has heretofore directed the officers of the squadron to act In accordance with the instruction which the eoosular agent at Samoa shall receive tram the Department of Slate, but in view otr the late advices and this request for an addtt onal force, the Department desires to be advised whether it fa the purpose ot the Government to announce | any policy regarding the Samoan group of I which the officers should be advised. Very ret epeetfully. W. G WHrrwxT, Secretary ot the Navy. Washington. U C.. January ».

Colonel Wade an the Oklahoma Invasion. Chicago, Jan. S7.—J. F. Wade, the youngest Colonel in the United States army, arrived,:wtth his sister, at the Iceland yesterday. Colonel Wade is the commander of Ft. Reno, in the Indian Territory, and is the man Pawnee Bill will have to cope with if he attempts to make any forcible entry npon Oklahoma.. The Colonel gives it as his opinion, however, that neither Pawnee Bill nor any one else is going ta do any thing so rash. He says he never heard of Pawnee BUI until recently, and that, with all the investigation he has been able to make, he can And no indSection of any snch raid being contemplated as the papers are continually publishing yarns about. Colonel Wade says he knows the people down there well; knows they are a roving, nomadic class, and would be willing at any time to jnmp in and grab land whenever there is a reservation opened; bat from what he has seen he finds2 it hard to believe that any unknown adventurer like Pawnee Bill could gather adherents enough to carry ont snch in scheme. “I heard that Wichita was the grand rendezvous of! Pawnee Bill’s troops, and on mv way here I stopped there to investigate, bat could find nothing to prove the truth of the report; and the more I think of the matter and the more I look into it the less fear I have of any demonstration of the kind.” j Senator Alllnoa Goes to Indianapolis. WasHlsGTOst, Jan. it.—Senator Win. B. Allison left this city bv the Pennsylvania railroad, yesterday, en route to Indianapolis. His departure was as unostentations as possible, and those friends who knew he was gone kept their own counsel remarkably well. “If he is gone,” they said, “we know nothing about it.” The Senator’s habits, however, betrayed him. When he failed to make his appearance in his committee-room at the accustomed hour a suspicion at once arose. Investigation proved conclusively that the Senator had left for Indianapolis, and it also developed the fact that he eipects to return on Wednesday or Thursday nest. Colonel Clarkson left here Thursday night for Indianapolis, and it is understood among Iowan* here that the question: “Is lown to be represented in the Cabinet*” wilt he settled before sundown to-morrow, _ ,__

Haul AnMwt. Jasesviuli, Wis., Jan. 38.—Maggie Hoi-* ligan and Nellie Roherty were thrown from a boggy while returning from a party this morning. Miss Hollvgan mi instant* ly killed and Her companion suffered internal injuries from which recovery is very donbtfnL__ —A pistol that is supposed to bo the weapon Wilkes Booth used when he shot Lincoln is preserved in the collection of the Philadelphia Police Bureau. It is a small derringer ornamented with silver and shoots a halfinch ball. On a silver plate attached to the butt ore words: sJ. Wilkes Bootft. / ^

THE INDIAN TERRITORY. A Memorial to Congress Wo*t«l *T tHo Fort Smith Convention tn Belatiao to the ronrlitton and Status of the More or lens Civilized Dettlaeae of the Indhto Terri, lore—Allotment In Severalty and Admission to Statehood Beeommended. YriRTSucmf, Ark* Jan. 35.-More than two hundred delegatee were present at ferJnt^Siarifi'p^th^civilised tribes <rf the Indian Territt?ry was represented. A memorial to Congress Ifas adopted setting *"rth that the Indian Territory is an nnoffliii' Id the United States, and its political and trihsit status is an obstruction to civilization and detrimental to the Indians, rendering their l*rtd tenure insecure and their condition one of semibarbarism. The country is an asylum for criminals of every hind, whose deed8 crime and violence make its name a byword and reproach and the Indians are the victims of designing whites, carrying with them the vices without the virtues of civilisation. JTo intention is expressed to deprive the Indians of their rights, but rather to allot them their lands by severalty and invest with their full rights under treaty obligations. The following resolutions wen adopted: if-zofr-tf. First—That the existence of thts harbor for criminals is a blgt upon public morals and a disgrace to our Government, nnd that the politieal status of the Indian Territory la • stay to the prosperity and commerce of the Southwest, and that its perpetuity ia detrimental to the interests of the Indians. Second-That the Indian Territory should bo admitted as a State into the Union; that the Indians should he nude oitisens of the United States, and that their rights to alt lands belonging to them should be protected and their ownership made absolute, either by alloiing the same in sereralty or alloting a pact and selling the surplus for their benefit. Third—That a copy of this preamble and resolutions be presented to Congress as a memo rial. Retold That in puttee to the Indians inhabiting the Indian Territory, and In furtherance of a sound policy of promoting einliaattom among them, as well as In simple Justioe and fairness toward the people of the States bordering on said Territory, suoh action should bo taken by the Congress of the United States as w 11 give to the Indians of the whole Territory the benefits of the protection Of the iaws of the United States for life, liberty and property, the same as accorded to the inhabitants of other Territories, and at the same time give to the citizens of the States the same rights and oiler them the same legal remedies accorded by law to them in other Territories of the Uoited States; that to that end such court or courts as are contemplated by the treaties of 1888, with the usual jurisdiction of the United SUtes courts should be at onoe established and such Territorial government be provided for said Territory as may be deemed necessary to.effeet the object before recited, and, under the laws of Congress, shall be adequate to the protection ot .person and property, giving to the Indians the right of election of office as is given the inhabitants of other Territories. ff «oW, That we recommend that Congress prorfde by law that any Indian who has adopted the manners and customs of civilized life may be admitted to citizenship by taking an oath before any United States Court' to support the Constitution of the United Stales and to faithfully demean himself as a citizen thereof; presided, that such Indian shall not. by itasoVbf so becoming a citizen, forfeit any interest he may have had theretofore or thereafter acquired in any land or money of hts nation or tribe, and further, that the United States Court having civil or criminal jurisdiction orer the nation or tribe of which such Indian so becoming a citizen mqy be a member shall he vested with civil jurisdiction over all qases where the amount involved shall not exceed *100 wherein one of the parties shall be citizen of the United States whether Indian or white. __ THE CROPS OF 1888.

Figure* Colttttd From the Annual Report of the Department of Agrlcslmre Showing the Extent of the Crops of Last W askisotoji, Jim. 35.—'The annual crop report of the Department of Agriculture shows that there is a larger aggregate product of eereals than has ever, before • keen recorded. It will amount to about 3.200.000. 0'*) bushels or fully 59 bushels per head. This is about three times the average supply per capita of Europe from home production, and receipts from other continents amount to only about one bushel per head. The aggregate potato production is 200,000.000 bushels, the sweet potato crop about 40,000,000 bushels. The production of cane sugar is small; sorghum a medium crop. Owing to the abundance of moisture and the moderate temperature of spring, the hay crop was very large. The cotton crop is of medium yield with Increased acreage. Fruits have been abundant, although variable in production locally. It is the “even year,” and apples are plenty for domestic use, while their cheapness has favored exportation. The wool clip of 1888 was slightly reduced in consequence of the reduction of flocks in Texas and elsewhere. The estimated product is 269,000,000 pounds. The meat supply has been very abundant. The area of maize,® estimated for the . crop of 1888, makes aWncrease of 3,280,-^ ■013 over the crop of 1887, and 13,304,389 acres over the census crop of 1879, indicating a gain of 21 per cent, in nine years. The estimates of wheat area make a reduction of .105,645 acres from the breadth of 1887. The aggregate is 37.336,138, an increase of only 1,995,805 on the area of 1879, or little more than 5 per cent. The exports will prebably be less than those of 1879-80, by at least 100,000,0Q0 bushels, a quantity more than ample for the annual supply of all the increase of population since 1880. There appears to be a further increase of the area of oats amahting to 1,077,• 376 acres, and about 41,600,000 bushel* in-^ crease in the quantity produced. The yield per acre is 26 bushels, against M.4 bushels in 1887. Another Strike. New York, Jan. 3A—The feather manufacturers have formed a combine to fight the Feather Girls' Union and the scale of wages the girls lately submitted to their employes. All but three of the firms notified the girls this morning that they would return to the old rate of wages, and in these factories the girls to the number of about one thousand went on strike. ___ Rot There With Bis Gam. ( Hhw York, Jan. 25-—Henry Schulhof, of Vienna, recently invented a repeating rifle, and spent all his money trying to sell it to continental powers. His attempt was a failure. Then he borrowed money enough to come to Hew York. He got Lawyer John It Dos Passos Interested in his invention. Dos Passos had it patented and tested by the United States Government. A stock company was formed .and Mt. Schulhof sent back to Europe to boom the rifle. The announcement is now made that the Italian Government has ordered 450,000 rifles, costing upwards of 16.000. 000. _ __ The Elector'*! Vote ol Texas. Washisotox, Jan. 26.—The Texans, according to the report telegraphed from Austin, are much exercised about the jeopardy in which the electoral vote of their State was placed when the presiding officer of the Senate refused to receive it in the eondition in which it was brought to this city. They are ignorant, apparently, of the fact thattheretonof the vote was not only sanctioned but practio* ally requested by Senator Coke and Senator Reiigaa. The Texas