Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 May 1889 — Page 1

Democrat. MOUVT & PITT8, Proprietors. ‘Our Motto is Honest Der^tioti to Principles of Right’ OFFICE, over 0. E. MONTGOKEBY’S Store, Main Street VOLUME XX. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. 11AY 23, 1889. NUMBER 1.

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PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT ~JOB WORK or xom Neatly Ebceouted. -ATREASONABLE RATES. XOT1CE! Persons receirtnft a cop* of tti« paper eltt this notice crossed in lend pencil »re notified that the time ot their subscription has expired.

POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tb’* pointer never varie*. A marvel of puntj, wtr* ru th and Sorv woooipiai than the ordinary kmli. amt c »n not be told in f»ti)|H iit;on with the multitude ot low-teat, khort wviyht kiun or phosphate powder* Sold <Mdy *■ c.*n». Unit Baking Powder Co.. It* Wall atrvet. New Vork. PROHNilOXAI. CARDS. K A. KLyT Attorney at Law, I KTERHBURtr, IND. Oflt M : Oner X R Adam* A Hon* Itrus Store. Hr t» also a m*‘m»w*r of the 1‘ntted Slate* t’ol* lection A* xv .allot*. and ir. ve* prompt attention to. : V m-ittor in which he t“ employed. K r. IlClAklffON. A. II TaYU)R R1CIIAKDSOK & % AY LOR, Attorneys at Law, •f KlEKSlirH.J, ISIV I Prompt nMentli^ given to all b’lslne-** \ Notary ivndu* e«»njHb%ntly tu thootffo-*. Office ^ tii « :up.'nfer IWi.u!Ua*v -lh and .Main J \§V \\ ILSON, • n .. '■ Attorney at Law, ■ti FKTE»MBl*HO, ISO. rm y‘. Ow J IV Yooni A Oa»’» Stork. . I ll|. I.aMARK, * Physician and Surgeon I'ETKllBBURG, I NO., Will practice l«i; Pike amt adjoining ©oua tl»* »».:■V it,; IX \ * buddttlA Office hours • ! »v amt n • it J#r'la*e» of women and children x spc.tjdly. . Chronic and difficult CAM s Mil toiled. HKNUY FIELDS, Insurance & Real Estate PETERSBURG. INDIANA. Ivadt** oompai tf' rttpmirBUd. Prompt at lent m lot'U>snv*T N.*i ;*rv buxine** attended Kk KttnvuaMti rid*’*. Ott»: Bnrtdta*. EDWIN sMH'llj ATTORNEY AT LAW, -ASHReal Estate Agent PETERSBURG. - INDIANA. Office, over Hue Prank** afore. Special at* •chiton Riven to Collect owna. Buying and >«l* n* i.anda, Kxntt inm4 TUlv* an 1 furnishing AbHracu. R. U. & J. T. KIMK, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, PETE ISBCRQ. IND. Offic<- la H.nk Hu Ulitic. rrsiJ'no* on kr.eniti Strrrl. Vine* *!«»«■» »oulh ol Mata, jwompily »u»;:uloa to. <l»y or aunt J. & DUNCAN, Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, . IND. Office on first floor Carpenter Bull din* Mil* nF (

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Dally News. WASHINGTON NOTES. The rumor regarding tbe loan of the United State* steamer Palo* is looked upon as a boas at tbe Nary Department. TRS Pension Office has decided to estal»tisb a board of examining surgeon* at Guthrie Oklahoma, it having been renrr•ented by Congressman Perkins, of Kansas. and others that a medical board to examine pensioner* eras necessary there. It is said that there are h'JQ old soldfcr* ..a the city of Guthrie. The followers of Anthony Comstock have decided to fight for the removal of President KdwsrJ Jienry Kent, of the Mutual Benefit I.ife™ ssocialism of America. Secretaries Blaine and Tracy have left Washington for General Augur’s country home at Kaicirma, near Baltimore. TBS clerks in the General Land-office are much exercised over the appointment by the President of R?v. Mr. Townsend, the colored minister of Indiana, to be recorder In that office. The clerks in the division nre almost entirely women aid they do not relish tbe idea of having n colored man as their superior. It was understood at Washington on ths IMhthat the resignation of Marshs) Jones would be called for. his explanation concerning his deputies wnd the gralrbing of land In Oklahoma not being deemed satisfactory. The Attorney-General of the United States has authorised tlie Marshal of Arisona to offer a reward of WOO each for tit* arrest and conviction of the robbers of Paymaster Wham. The President has accepted the resignation of (Solicitor-General Jeuks. of the Department of Justice, but he wilt bo retained as counsel in the telephone case. The President on the 18th made the foli lowing appointments: Solomon Hirsch, of j Oregon, to V*e Minister to Turkey; Clark K. CArr, of Illinois, to be Minister to Dea■ujjjHt; Henry W. .Severance, of California, jAdoe Consul-General at Honolulu; John ! J arret t, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul at Birmingham; Thomas 1L (Sherman, of the ; District of ColumlffiAo be Consul at Liv- ! *r pool, ^ Commissioner Stockslaukr has refund to allow the “Government acre" at Outli- . rie, Otlahimv to be used to build a ‘Arstclass theater” on. Tbe petition was signed J by i,t« mayor, City Council and prominent ; citisens Bolivia w di be represented at the conference of American nationa in Washing- ' ton next fall and will jdto soon send a Minister to Washington. Tttr LAST. Man. Mary E. Dickinson, mother of (Susan K Dickinson, tbe writer, and Anna | Dickinson, the lecturer, died at her home at-West Pittston. Pa., the other morning. She was over ninety years of age. The Ancient Order of Htbermans begun it«,tifty-»eveolh annual meeting at New York on the 14th with closed doors. About iao delegates were present froui ail over the country. The recent count of money at the New York sub-treasury revealed a discrepancy of $3T> out of a total sum of }lf'4.WX>,0W to l« accounted for The shortage resulted from the acceptance of a few counterfeit notes iu the hurry of business and' the loss of a few pieces of stiver. lac mother and wife at - Washington Irving Bishops tbe mind reader, declare their belief that he was not dead when tbe autr^isy was made They assert that he w as murdered in tlie name of science, and both were laboring under great excitement, bordering on hysteria. Thx New York Assembly ha* defeated the Local Inspection bill by an overwhelming votes & ts. Oliver, a Jersey Central station agent and operator at A'hbunr, N. J., lias d-appeared, leaving Jbis account* and other matters badly mixed. Alexander Batter, foreman of the Butler (Pa. I Hlectric Light Company, w as recently thrown upon the belt of a By w heel and instantly killed. Robert T. Lincoln and famity and Andrew Carnegie and family sailed from New York for England on the loth. Inspector Waters of the life savng station at Newport, K. L, reports that a two-masted schooner was ruu down and sunk off Braver Tail and .it was feared her crew was lost, as a dense fog prevailed at the time the accident occurred. The New York Tribune says: “KxPresident Cleveland has rented the house, 618 Madison avenue, for two years * ith privilege of purchase for General Adxa Anderson, of New York, shot end killed himself recently, in hie room at tbe Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia. He was a well known railroad man. Tbe cause of the suicide was unknown, ball he had latterly been drinkiug heavily. THE number of saloons in Philadelphia have beeipcul down no*.T the new license law from J, 773 to LfK COLONEL Frederick Gekker. collector of internal revenue for the Philadelphia district died recently of apoplexy. He was about fifty years of age. He was appointed collector by President Cleveland and assumed tbe duties of the office in Aug'ist 1SSS. ' Allen Thorndike Hies, lately ap-‘ 'pointed Minister to Russia, died at New York on the 16th. the day after he had intended sailing for bis new post of duly.

no w uui j bad mad* a literary reputation as editor of the North American Review. PniscaYos UsirxnsrrY will next year begin a two year*’ course,in electrical engineering. The course ot instruction will be full and freely illustrated. AT the South Glastonbury (Conn.) May festival the other night over one hundred persons were poisoned by eating ice •ream. Physicians in attendance expressed bat slight hopes for the recovery of thirty-four ot the victims. " A axcxiv *b has been appointed for the West End Mining Company, a corporation owniniug iron mines in Hunterdon Cosinty, N. J„ and in Pennsylvania. The lisibiiities of the company are reported to be from to ?JJO 0t» greater than its doctor* who performed an autopsy on Mind Reader Bishop's body so soon after bis supposed death have been held in 8,500 each to await the result oil the coronet's investigation. SavkxTkk.v able-bodied miners, heads ot familiee, recently applied to the poor board of Pleasant Valley, Pa., for ralief. They claimed to be on the verge of starvation. ’ _• Conor* rains have fallen over the entire Slates of Illinois and Indiana, and parts ot Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. Amoks tWO head of W. P. Fassig’s trotting and pacing horses sold at auction at Greeavill* rare track. Cleveland, Ot, was Guy. Guy after making a last quarter ia SIS was put up and started at iii.000 and ran np to at which prise the great hors* was knocked down to H. A. Stevens of Cleveland. BY the collapse of a building at Tacoma, Wash, Tar., on tha 13th daring n storm twenty men ware buried, Uve ot shorn were lolled, the rest being seuously hurt. G. R. Stxv»k*ob Brace has begun le**d action at -Cleveland. IX. to prevent the Be* Line and Big Four consolidation. Tam sixteenth annual session of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor began nt Indianapolis, lad., on the 1.4th with 100 delegatee, represeating every State in the Caioo. present. Two Miners war* killed and two rthert seriously injured by a fall of wit In a •haft near Uoughwn, Hick., U>* otbar

Two awn war® overcome by fowl gas It m old welil near Fatibamlt, Minn., recoct* It and killed. Between two and three inches of enow fell in parts of Dakota on the llth. Tub constitutional electiou of South Dakota occurred oa the 14tb. A light rote was polled, but it was largely in faror of the Constitution. North Dakota and Montana also Toted on the same day for the same purposa. Jems Forrester and watt*-* Mat, residents of New Hampton, Iowa, became drunk the other day. The former in his drunken stupor laid on the track and »a< killed by a passing train. The latter while on his way home drove off a bridge and broke his neck. A nisravca from Carthage. N- M-, states that George W. Richards. sUperlntandent of the Carthage mine, had been killed by two Mexicans, who stole $700. p«t railroad conductors of tbe country handheld their twenty-first annual convention at Denver. Locomotive engineers and firemen on many Western roads areexpectiug an announcement of a 10 per cent, reduction in wages. A strike of gigantic proportions it not improbable. Hexrt Simmcmmax. a Milwaukee blacksmith, had his face nearly kicked eff recently by a vicious horse he was shoeing. Focr Austi iau miners working at the Osceola mines near Ishpeming. Mich., were fatally injured by the explosion of dynamite the other morning. Later returns indicate that the constitutional election in Montana was carried by the Democrats. Tax lines of the Wabssh railway east of the Mississippi river were sold before Judges Gresham and Jackson at Chicago on thg 15th to Messrs. Ashley and Joy, representing per cent, of the bonds and acting in the interest of the Wabash Western purchasing committee, for $15,550.00a Tax lower house of the Illinois Legislature has passed a bill appropriating $50,000 for a monument to the late General John A Logan. Tax steamship Columbia, which arrived at Aftoria, Ore., on the 16tb, brought a report of the loss of the Oregou Railway A Navigation Company’s magnificent sidewheel iron steamer Alaskan, which is reported to have foundered off Cape Blanc, while on her way from Portland to San Francisco. Passesqkrs on striving trains at Ashland, Wit., oa the loth reported from three to five inches of snow all over Northern Wisconsin, Ox July II the Slate Treasurer will pay the last dollar of the Iowa State debt. Tnx Sioux Indians at the Yankton agency will negotiate silh the Government for the sale of seven townships in the north part of their reservation. The tract will furnish homes of 160 acres to L00O families. Dvrixu a severe sterm the other evening the home of Dayton Flagg, at La Prairie, Win, was struck by lightning. After tbe fire was extinguished Mrs. Flagg was found dud oh tbe floor. Her little child was baffiy burned but will survive. Bt tbe bursting of a mold filled with liquid iron in the Union works, San Francisco, recently, eleven men were badly burned. A nxRCE hail storm recently visited the section between Dewitt and Clinton, Iowa, doing great damage to crops and window glasa J. T. Stewart’s big packing house at Council Bluffs. Iowa, was destroyed by fire recently with all* its contents. Loss, $100,005; well insured. Cmairmax J. W. Goa horn, of the National Union Labor Executive Committee, has, called a committee meeting at Chicago June 13. It is staled that at tbe meeting tbe Union Labor, the Prohibition and other reform movements will effect a consolidation and that a call for a convention will bo issued for the inauguration of a reform party. Finals AriAxn, an Indian, was hanged at Tucson. Aria, on the 17th far the murder of Patrick Ford, a prospector. This was the first execution of an Indian in Arisona under the recent dreision of the Supreme Court, which gives to the Territorial courts jurisdiction over all the Indian criminals.

THIS SOlTll. Cion in Eastern Vnjiii* are reported to km bwi almost destroyed by a fierce hail storm. A garu of men surrounded the house of a farmer named Tom Phelton at Rogersville, Ky.. the other night and attempted to take him out. Pheitoa opened fire ou the ganj, killing two of them. The others fled. Tec Supreme council of the Catholic Knights of America met in Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 14th, every State and Territory in which theorder exists being represented except Montana. Comakcm*. Tex., ia agitated over the discovery of gold in the cave lately .reported in the papers six miles west of that place, Siao* 8. Walker, the negro who escaped lynching for a criminal assault upon a twelve-year-old white girl in Chester field County, Va., has been convicted and sentenc d to death. Bear Admiral Kdward Doraldsor died a* Baltimore, Md., on the IS;h, aged seventy-three years. He had beeu a long sufferer from liver trouble. He eutered the navy July SI. ISO. Tax Alliance and Wheel conventional Birmingham. Ala., refected the bagging trust’s offer of jute bagging at rates equal to five cents per pound, though cotton bagging costa no less than K'. cents per pound. The convention had no faith ia the trust. The wife and two children of Lewis fainter were burned to death at Bockdale, T*x . recently. The unfortunate woman dropped a lighted lamp, which set the house ou fir*. Tm Southern Freight Association has advanced rates on grain and hay to all Southern points, 1 cent pec 100 pounds, except to coast and Florida points which wore advanced 4 cents per 141 pounds. Rates on flour in sacks and barrels to last named points were also advanced 4 cants per 100 pounds. Sew rates to take effect June 1. Tim Stake Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in session at Lynchburg, Va.. lias determined that the word “white,” as pertaining to representation fay delegates ia the council, should find a place in the constitution. Th* monument to the Confederate dead eras unvailod in Mount Olivet cemetery at Nashville, Tenn., on the lfith- The orator of the day was Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky. Jvdok Jobs h. Milbirr. of the St Mary’s County (Md.) orphan court, was struck and instantly killed by lightning the other evening. It is stated that the Prince of Wales was present in the 'Field Clab when the London police made their said upon that establishment, but that some friend gave him the tip in time for him to escape. The Dutch garrison of Kdi. on the African coast, was attacked by natives recently and n severe ftrht resulted. The latter had Iff) killed. The Dutch loss was five killed and twenty-five wounded. The last story in circulation at Vienna is that tbetifaar was walking in the garden of the palace at Gatchina when he eras approached by an officer who fired a revolver at him. slightly wounding him in the forearm. Guards near at hand rushed forward to seise th# man, but before they coaid reach him he placed the pistol to kh tempts and shat himself dead. FITS brigands ware hanged in the coart yard of the prison at Sofia. Bulgaria, the other day. They were led separately to the soaffoil and wen hanged .n taocee

Tax French Royalist htdtn htt*» nounced that they will not attend the tele (ins by President Carnot la honor of the opening of the Paris Exposition. William O’Brien-, XL P.. has obtained a writ against Lord Salisbury' on the charge of libel In a speech at Watford the Premier accused O’Brien of advocating the murder and robbery of men tekiac farms from which the tenants had been evicted. It was for this speech that the action was brought. Tbxsx are signs that tbs worst of the trouble in the coal pits of Westphalia l« over. Hundreds of miners are returning to work. Vutiuv Reid, Minister to prance, has arrived at Paria The following roads are considered guilty of manipulation of rates by the board of managers of the Inter-State Railway Association: Chicago & Northwestern; Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul; Rook Isand. and Wisconsin Central.. A combination of glass fruit jar cap manufacturers has been formed and prices materially advanced. Tie sub-committee of the 8 imoan conference has decided that the municipal council of Apia shall comprise six members. Germany, England and the United States each appointing one, the other tbiee members to be elected by the residents of Apia. The decision displeases the British Commissioners, who call it the Phelps compromise. The public prosecutor in Bit boa. Spain, has instituted an inquiry into n recent demonstration at tbe Jesuit university in that city. It it stated that the Jesuits are working actively in support of the casiao of Dou Carlos. A large number of arrests were reported to have been made at St. Petersburg. Moscow and Croastadt on tbe litb, leading to the supposition that thaauthorities had discovered still another plot against the life of the Caar. The mass meeting advertised to be held at Vienna for the purpose of agitating movements against the Jews has been forbidden by Emperor Francis Joseph. Emperor \V iluam of Uermany is suffering from a trouble in his head, which has made him partially deaf, and fears are entertained that it wilt become serious. The American Meat Company, recently organiz 'd, of which ex-Ssnator Warner Miller ia president, has agreed upou terms with the officers of the American Cattle Trust by which the two corporations will work in harmony. Eight workmen were recently injured, three seriously, by a freight train ou tbs Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston railroad hacking out from a siding on which a work train was standing. St. Battive a suburb of Quebec, was seriously damaged by fire on the night of the IStb, .VW frame buildings being destroyed. In demolishing buildings to prevent the flames spreading, two soldiers were killed by an explosion. Referring to the report concerning the abolition of the Viceroy ship of Ireland, United Ireland says: “The Viceroyship although degraded must be maintained, as it is a sign of Ireland’s separate nationality.” - ' The powder magaxine of the fortress at Konigstein, Saxony, was struck by lightning the other day, which caused an explosion. The magazine contained thousands of sheila, hut nobody was hurt. The leading merchants and commercial associations of Berlin are debating a project for the formation of a sooiety to promote the settlement of German merchants and manufacturers abroad. The Berlin correspondent of the London Times says the American delegates must refer to Washington the points of detail, but on tbe general principles nil the delegates agree and that the next meeting ought to conclude the Samoan conference. The Tensa Central sngar grinding factory at Manzanillo, Cuba, has been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of <PM,000. The British House of Commons by a vote of 810 to 16) has rejected Mr. Labouchere’s motion to abolish hereditary seating in the House of Lords Much damage has been done throughout Austria by storms. At Boston its eight persons were killed and n number of houses were burned. Qt'SKN Mart, of Bavaria, mother of King Otto died at Munich the other night of dropsy*and cancer of the liver. The Chinese Government has settled for the Che Foo riots with both England and the United States and the flags of both countries have been restored and duly saluted* It it stated at Cettinje. the capital of Montenegro, that the Christians are being massacred by Turks on the Montenegrin frontier. The Pope was taken seriously ill on the 17th. < Business failures (Dun’s report) tor the seven days ended May Ifi numbered 2&1 compared with Si* the previous week and 189 the corresponding week last year.

me utm Boro 5. Millxr, who »u at one time in engineer on the New York. Lake Brie t Western railway, obtained a verdict lor $30,008, damages against the company it Mansfield, O, on the 18th. for injuries received in a wreck! Mr.Ronear T. Ltscona.the United States Minister to the Court of St James, has :aken a house iuCadogan Square, London, lor the season. Mrs. Harkisos’s mail contains every lay appeals from ofllce-seekers to use ter influence with her husband in faTor >t the writers. Jobs BogaRd, of Van Sue. Q.,took a doee >t arsenic, on the 18th, with suicidal inient, dying shortly afterward. He was to tare been married in two weeks to Miss Lola Beck, and killed himself because »he received calls from another gentleOs the 18th Mrs. Vice-President Morion and her daughter. Miss Edith, were among the passengers on board U» French steamer La Normandie, which sailed! for Havre. Loan Sausrcet has conveyed his (hanks to the American Government for its congratulations on the escape of the Calliope from the fate of the German and American vessels in the hurricane at Thk twenty-first anniversary of birth of the Csarewltch, Nikolai AlexRKdroritch, Grand Duke of Russia and heir-apparent to the throne, was celebrated on the mh. He it betrothed to Princess Alice Victoria of Hesse, daughter of the late Grand Duchess Alice Maud Maria, who is a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. The marriage will take place next autumn. Tbs Bulgarian Government has decided that it will no longer pay the Ronmelian tribute to the Porte, and has so notified the authorities at Constantinople. The Ottoman Government will appeal to the Powers to take cognisance of this deliberate violation of the Treaty of Berlin. Tu English syndicate has offered $10,000,000 for the Blats brewery, in Milwaukee, Wis-, and is trying to get options on other breweries in that city. Dumiso the week ended on the 18th the Treasury Department disbursed $11,380, 000 on account of pensions, thereby exhausting the appropriation for the current fiscal year, amounting to $88,750,000. A disaktboCS wind and hail-storm swept over a part of Seneca County, 0-, on the 18th. doing thousands of dollars damage to buildings and fences. Freight cars were blown from the track at Sew Riegal, and crops were badly cut by the la a speech in the Reichstag, on the Mh, on the Aged Workmen's Insurance ill. Prince Bismarck used the following igniflcaat language: “We wish to disuse of the bill before the next election, x nobody knows whether we tuny hare e much leMort n*»t yew M Wi

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Infirmary uV. COUSTT will I ding costing $16,500. Muucie game club has aktn theeot of tfca |uw law In band. H. 6*0- B Holsemak, c Wakarusa, of b'ood poisoning, arising from kidney trouble Tykst nming tfe« bad at tha L'ck iTilb naar Cambridge City, !■ dry, bat ih the aiorning tit ora ia a 1 »>ly flow of wn ar. FRID StEInMan, of Chat srfleid, kai baan caliad to Uarmany to prone bin claim to tba estate of bis faU«r, valued at Janes L Dcscij, of Han ock County, bat a hog nine months old, with six per(nc:ly formed feat; also a pig srith a nose resembling a tit’s Tax new electric Experimenting station of ihirdne University will be completed ia tinie for 'b» fall asssioe, and the building trill cost $3),000. lit o'd settlers of Kaox 'County will boil a reunion and picnic at Vincenaee fairgrounds on June A Hir 01 A. Foulks is f iresideat of tba society. Tub Board of Education of Lawrence County hat made a rule tliat a schooiteacher shall not attend a da ice while aba it teaching a term of achooL J rtrress-pound carp tmt caught in White i iver naar Muncta, a few days ago A g.eat many are being caught, weighing from flee to seven pounds The flab got into tha river a few yean ago by the breakage of several private : -ouds Wabash has organised a Citixea'a Gat Trust Company, with a capital stock of $100,000, for the purpose of supplying free gat to factories. Shares are put at $30, which entitles tba holder to free gas for on< stive. At Anderson, Wiilinm Keller cut his wile's throat with a Urge pocket-kaifa They had separated, and her retusnl to return to him is assigned as Ik cause of the act. Arthur Healer, n prominent young man living at Union Mills, Imports County, blew out his brains witb a shot-gun. Temporary insanity prompted tha act Jo ik Pckrt, proprietor of tha Sherman House at Kchmond, want to sleep witb Wtli under his pi low and the door locked. Wien he arose next mo-ninp lie found bit doer open and the roll gone. Joseph Market, a farmer living south of Crawford -viile, suicided ki te other afternoon ty hangiug himself in his barn. Illbentth is assigned as tha rea on. Il>waad Taylor, at He vport, while making a coupling on a freight train, was caught and badly crusher'. Ha bled to much before ha could receive medical aid thiit be died in a few ho&s Taylor is by occupation a carpenter, and was brakiag oa the road a couple of days to oblige a friend who bad 14ft to attend hit mother's funeral. Standard Oil Coupakt representatives art investigat ng the big oil well at Terre Haute. Itxv. C. W. Lee, of Indianapolis, will deliver the memorial address at the national cemetery in Hew Albray, on May II. At Orceneaste, lightning struck a barn ia which two boys, named Carhart and Jacobs, had taken refuge, Injuring both of them severely. “Old Chip.” a Chippewa Iadian residing in Crumston, claims to b» over one hundred years old. He Is very feeble. The twenty-fifth annua! session of the lndiaua Sunday-school Umoa will be held in Indianapolis on June 4, Sand & It is expected that between fiv - and six hundred delegates will be in attendance, representing all denomination s from ail parts of the State IWlt i.i.litii. in. w.ln. .1 Pnl>1 n.t.n.

hnsTbeea condemned a* dangerous to hfufth. James Thompson, of Crot'iersviile, while iqilintMiuat st, rests! hli gun under his uk It was accidentally i!uncharged, the ct arge of shot shattering t e bones of the arm and rendering amputation necessary. Citizens of Spencer hare organized a company for the purpose o ' sinking a wall to ascertain what ia beaeitlh the ground at a distance of 1,000 feet Mns. L T. Euridui suicided at the Insane Hospital at Logam port, the other morning. Indianapolis saloon-tee| era are excited over a pioposed Increase in the liquor license tax from 1100 to tSV . Johx Clements was acquitted of murder all Indianapolis. A sine-tear-old girl sits criminally assaulted by a negro near Kewburg. Chas. 8mall and Alonro Barrett were arrested at Sbalbysiile, charged with sUealing fllty doll era from is girt named Young. Dan KtNNZDT, a promti est young man cf Mich gan City, was mi .sing ten days. Ills body was found float in ; ia the harbor, the other day, and foul p’a r la suspected. A pat ax Hire a young tin of Bennett If ebb of Muncie, was ' brown from a horse, the other eveaiag, m ar Morristown, and killed. AT Hunttagburg Mrs. Vm. Zehr was kicked by a horse and fatal ly injured. Prop. Jontr Collett bus qualified as Mate Geologist of Indiana Dexisox & SxiDsa. merchants of Haaaa, tare failed. LtabUltie>, 1*000; assets, 11.000. Tmirtt-five figured son "What curiously ia the result of the rec* it city election ia Madison. A prelimiaa y poll of the city showed a Democrat e plurality of 13 on the total rota At th < primary election Cal Cisco, for mars ha . beat At Steele 1I\ and his majority orer 'rosier, Republican, on election day w* - 35. Roberta, Her water-work« trusts*, on whom the {•rest fight was made, bant Henry, RepubI icaa, Jnst 35 rotes; and all told there were fi candidates for the rnri« its offices. The Randolph County commissioners rre considering designs fur n soldiers* monumsat at Winchester. The last election at Cra’ tordarille forever settles the cow quei tion, and that animal can not roam at Is |;e there hereafter. Andrew F. Christian, aired sight years, tumbled Into an aleratar spenlng at hie .father's a'e-house in Ft W ayne; and was badly injured. Jl doe Wood*, of the F d.eral Court at Indianapolis, hat receive! n number of threatening letters dams tiling that ha change his recent rulings in the election law rlolatiou cases. Governor Hotet has ppointed Prof. Collett to succeed 8. 8 Got y as 8late Geologist of Indiana. The la Hr eras chosen under an act which has be n declared anconstitutions'. Secretary Rcu hat apt sin ted Captain D R. Alton, of JSicknell. Knox County. Agent of the Agricultural Apartment far the State of Indiana. James Milled, a farms living on the edge of Bartholomew Coi ity. one mile eoath of Platroch, teas hi udliag logs the other morning when he i ipped and fell. One of the heavy logs rolls, upon his head, killing him instantly. I » ia aboet fifty juri of aga and 1 oaves a f (ally. The Delaware County aumaratiea of persons between the ages t * tlx and twea-ty-oaa abows an Increase « rur last year at I M* and Muacie gains tli. 're total population of Muncie and its itbnrbs is eetimated at U 115. Tn commissioners of Union County ! have aooaptet a bd of fH ft for the speclion of a new latrmary. fofk will begin . ■MU:

EDITOR AND ARTIST. A Stwallm Caused In London bjr n Street Seen* Between Pilotel. the French Artist, and Henri Rochefort. In Which the Latter Dow a Pl-tol and Both were Arrested-A Caricature of Hon. laager by Pilotet at the Uottoia of the Aflhlr. Loxdob, May 19.—M. Henri Rochefort and M. Pilotel, the French artist, met face to face last night in Regent street for the Amt time since Rochefort’s arrival to: London. Angry words were exchanged, and Rochefort drew a revolrer. A bystander seized the weapon in time to prevent it from being discharged, and both disputants were arrested. The affair grew out of a savage criticism iu Rochefort’s paper of Pilotel’s caricature of General Boulanger. Pilotel challenged Rochefort to fight a duel, but Rochefort declined to meet him. whereupon Pilotel publicly declared that he would thrash Rochefort at the first opportunity. TBS SBSSATIOX QF THS HOC It. Loxdom, May 20.—The encounter between Rochefort and Pilotel in Regent street Saturday evening is the sensation of the hour. Both gentlemen have been besieged by interviewers and their statements concerning the affair are widely at variance with each other. M. Rochefort, who was first seen, gave the following Torsion of the encounter: “I was walking along Regent street about seveu o’clock last evening when suddenly I saw Pilotel walking along toward me. He stopped in front of me and struck a pugilistic attitude, at the same time threatening to 'punch my head.’ Now. fisticuffs are not in my line, although I am not a timid man as my dueling experience attests. Pilotel continued his threatening language and merely for the purpose of frightening him 1 drew a revolver from my breast pocket and pointed It at him. The pistol was in a leather ease, tightly clasped, so that I could not possibly have fired it. had I wished to do so. \^?n Pilotel saw the harmless weaoon he dropped his hands and ran way at top speed, bellowing ‘Murdert* In spite of toe serious view taken of the affair by the potiS and the. bystanders, they could not control their laughter at the fellow’s cowardice any more than thev could conceal their contempt for his conduct.” The version given by M. Pilotel differs in almost every particular from that of the fiery editor. He insists that the pistol was not only without a case, but that it was cocked, and manifestly intended to be discharged. M. Piloteliudignantly denies that he ran away, and, strictly speaking, he did not, for he had scarcely turned his back upon his antagonist and started to run when he was seized by the police. The belief is general that the magistrate before whom the two will be brought will treat both of the belligerents, and especially Rochefort, with all the severity warranted by the circumstances. A REGULAR BOTCH. The Public Holding at Baltimore, on Examination. Proves to be One of the Wur-t Batched Jobi In the History «•( Contract Bnlltlluts A Bad Showing tor the noverumeot Superintendent. Bzltmorx, Md.. May 29.—A local paper publishes an article directed against the contractors of the new post-office building In this city and the late superintendent. J. Crawford Neilsoa, who was appointed by President Cleveland four years ago. Neilson was removed three weeks ago, and his predecessor, Jackson Holland, reinstated. The building was begun in 1SSJ, and is nearly completed. Hollaud says the work was not done satisfactorily, but his predecessor accepted it. Several contractors were paid last fall; others have not, and will not, get any money until they fill their contracts according to specifications. He says the building is a botch from roof to cellar. According to contract the basement floor should have been gravel concrete, topped with two inches of Portland cement. Instead of this, coal ashes and shavings were used, covered with an inch of Cumberland cement The area ways are not graded and every rain makes pools of water six inches deep on the uneven surface. He haa condemned the sewerage also. Terra cotta pipe had been used instead of iron. The marble work, done by Davidson & Bra., of Chicago, is characterized as disgraceful, and tor the enormous snot the Government paid for it it has received the worst work of the kind probably ever done in the country. The arches over the doorways are made from odds and ends and are of erery variety of finish. The work In one room alone will have to be replaced at a cost of perhaps JS.WX The roof of the building leaks like a pepperbox. and the recent rains flooded the building. Basement windows have marble sills from two to six inches short, and the steps on the iron staircases are two 1 inches short.

A FIGHT WITH TOUGHS. rone* oarer* B»«ltr Maltreated by NorlhaioptU'i (Maaa.l roughs - The UU| Dt.pemeU with a Shotgun. NonTBAiirro-t, Hats., May *X—Police Officers White and Vance attempted to break np a carousal on West street, Florence, about one o’clock yesterday morning. They arrested two men. when they were set upon by a crowd of ruffians who beat and cut the officers unmercifully, White’s ear being almost severed from his head. The officers started for help and were pursued by the mob. They took refuge in ; the house of Ralph Bardwell, which was soon surrounded by the roughs, who demanded that Bardwell should ■ surrender the officers to them. | At Policeman White’s request, Bardwell • loaded his gun with bird-shot. White I then warned the men to leave, but they i responded with a shower of stones. He | then fired into the crowd. Patrick Tobin I was shot in the abdomen, and probably ' fatally injured. Thomas Anderson and j John Alvord were also shot, but. are not seriously hurt The mob then dispersed I without further trouble. Officer White is ! in a critical condition. For many months past these tough I have caused disturbances in the street, ; and the officers had determined to break np the gang. They had no weapons, how? j ever, except their clubs, and these were , taken from them in the fight The Spellbinders. Nrw Tons. May 19.—The members of the National Republican Spellbinders Association met yesterday and re-organixed tor permanent political work. Chauncey M. Depew was re-elected president; Mr. El well, secretary; John M. Thurston, of Omaha, president of the Republican National League, C. C. Shane and G. M. Goodlow. vice-presidents, and dps. W. Johnson, chief clerk of the United States Senate, corresponding secretary. A committee was appointed to devise a plan for the bringing of prominent speakers and audiences together. The executive committee appointed includes R. P. Porter, General G. A. 8. Land an, J. W. Jacobus and H. K. Thurber. Office-Seeker* Appealing for Mrs. Harrl- • son’s Influence. Wasmsgtos, May SX—Mrs. Harrison’s mail contains every day appeals from office-seekers to use her influence with h«r husband in favor of the writers. Some of the correspondents request Mis. Harrison to say, to the President that their applications remain unanswered; they have beard nothing about them, and fear the President has inadvertently neglected to act upon thorn. They beg Mrs. Harrison to look around the office' for the letters or petitions, nod pat them where General Harrison will be sure to •ee them. Some of the Utters are f?»m -i * i-feiS:

FACTIONS DOWN SOUTH. Radical Cllqu.1, White and Black. Fi»htiitjt top the Spoil* of Oflk*. The reports from W ashing ton that President Harrison is jaerplexed ovor “the Southern situation,” and that tht§ quarrels of factions in the Southern States is a cnronio condition, should, be understood as a characteristic radical misrepresentation. We do not deny at all that there are contentions in Louisiana. Alabama, Virginia and elsewhere, but they are the result of conditions created by Republican rule and the presence and schemes of the old carpet-bag brigade We heard very little of the "Southern situation” and of factions in the South during the last administration, and we only hear ot them now because the success of the Republican party last fall has given new vitality to the decaying carpet-hag element This element lias always been aggressive, quarrelsome and officehunting, and at no time and in no instance has it been representative of the South. Sindh its invasion of the Southern States during the reconstruction days it has been the plague and malediction of Southern society and Southern politics, and, although its control is broken and its power departed, it remains in diminished form tq work mischief and propagate slanders. , If there are factions in Southern States and local quarrels over Federal patronage, they all hairs their origin in this source and not in lust ot office or want of self-restraint among the Southern people. When our readers, therefore, hear of the President's perplexity over Southern factions, let it always be understood that it means he is contused and perplexed over the office-grabbing and mutual reviiings of radical cliques, whito, black and mixed, ail of which is quite apart from the great body of the Southern people. But there is another aspect of this matter that needs some passing mention. If Mr. Harrison really wishes to distribute the Federal offices among the class that truly repiosent the South and its permanent interests, then he must necessarily ignore, to a very great extent, the radical section of the population. We suppose he has found tnis out. or is fast discovering the fact, and he hesitates naturally in some perplexity. This is alarming to the aforesaid factions quarreling over offices yet to come, and increases their chronic ill-humor, and a situation is created. Southern so far as location is concerned, that may well worry the mind of the President. His only course, if he regard truth,, dignity and decency, is to leave the offices ‘where they ought to be—in the hands of honest and representative citizens, no matter to what party they may belong. The South Is Deinociatic and the exercise of Federal patronage can not change it Office-hunting is not a Southern characteristic, and nil the Southern people really want is full and fair opportunity to do velop their country and build up its varied industries. This they are doing quietly, steadily and effectively; and iti is the dijty of the Federal Government to aid. so far as appropriate, the great work in progress. This object will certainly not be advanced by thrusting into prominence the pestilential element which so long villiftat and misrepresented the purposes and principles of a loyal population,—St. Louis Republic.

BENJAMIN'S BROTHER. The Most Pronounced Act of Nepotism In American Dilatory. It has remained for President Harrison to make himself responsible for the most pronounced act of nepotism in the history of llhe Government General Grant's record in this respect was notable, but he never went so far as to give an own bi-other an official commission. The appointment of Major Harrison to a Federal Marshaiship is a particularly bold defiance of public opinion, from the fact that the popular disapproval of acts of that description has been so clearly expressed of late years. It comes directly upon the heels of the centennial celebration of tho inauguration of Washington, who condemned family appointments in ringing words which, jjust repeated, are fresh in the ears of the people. It matters not that the man was the supposed choice of the Republicans ol Tennessee, or that he may be well fitted for the position—the President has taken dirCSt ground indorsing the principle which is generally and justly repudiated. His action perhaps is a manifestation of the independence of character which, according to report, he has felt himself called upon to vindicate. It would appear that he has shown himself not to be afraid to do any thing in the appointing line that suits him. That he has placed numerous other men in office on account ol previous personal relations is in itsell a very prominent fact, but his nomination of his brother emphasizes his tendency to error in this direction in a most marked way. Fortunately, it is» not likely that he will break the force of the Washingtonian and Jeffersonian tradition. The csmnt of opinion is irresistibly against him and he has weakened himself seriously in the popular esteem.—N. Y. World_ Mixture of Snob and Cad. 'A report of the Union League Club farewell reception to ’Hon. Robert Todd Lincoln says: “Mr. Lincoln was more than usually gracious, his bearing being of too dignified a type to be called popular.” Yes. Mr. Lincoln is not popular at all; we have never heard anybody speak a real warm word for him. When he lived in Washington he was commonly called a snob and here in Chicago h« seems to be regairded by thoae who know him as a bad. It was of him that his sagacious father wrcde in a letter thirty years ago that he didn't believe Bob would ever amount to much. This letter is printed in Ward Lam on’s “Life of Lincoln.’'—Chicago Hewn

THE NEXT CONGRESS. How Ito Kepublieani rtepiM to Ctrooto* Took tike DmoenUt Minority. According to an organ of tariffbrigandage, “there is a great deal of astonishing talk of what the Democrats in the next Congress will not permit the Republicans to do, although it is not denied that the Repubmans will have a clean majority in the House." The Democrats, it appears, have declared that they will oppose to the utmost certain measure4 proposed by the Republicans. For example, they will resist with all their votes and influence an addition to the abominations of the tariff and any measure proposing to extend the interference of the Federal authority with elections in the States. These purposes are not only entirely within the legal rights of the Democratic minority, but they are just and proper as means for the protection of the people and the promotion of the general welfare. The possibility that the Democrats, haying only a narrow majority to contend against,' may be able to defeat the most cherished schemes of the other party, is particularly grievous to the chiefs of the latter, and, as a consequence, plans for increasing the Republican strength in the House are being prepared. One of the methods by which the opposition of the minority is to be circumvented. if the majority managers can have their way, is the adoption of a sort of “closure,” or "cloture” system, like that in use for gagging the Parneltites in the British Parliament. Another plan is—and it appears to be thought the most effective—to turn out the Democrats from every contested sca^and put Republicans in their plac^^In order to give this speedy effect, however, it will be necessary to get the “cloture” in operation, so that long speeches and other dilatory proceedings may be shut off. On the whole, taking the plans of the Republicans as their own organs describe them, the Democrats will be amply justified in contesting every step proposed to be taken in this utterly infamous programme and in deliberately and determinedly opposing all moves designed to reduce the voting strength or impair.the.constitutional privileges of the minority, oMo impose additional burdens on the * pie, by the new Congress. No harm can be done if the necessary appropriation bills are the only acts passed at the next session of Congress.— Chicago Globe.

CURRENT COMMENTS. -Civil-Service Keform is not dead. but she is in a fouryeara’ trance.— Louisville Courier-Journal. -At the end of four years Demo* cratic rul^ there were fifteen Republican railway .postal clerks in this cifjr and half a dozen Democratic ones; at this early date there are four Democratic clerks left.—Springfield Republican. Taxation becomes criminal whenever it fosters monopoly, pr when it tends toward the concentration instead of the diffusion of wealth, or when it promotes tyranny and despotism instead of equal rights.—National Economist ■A Republican exchange contains an article headed "Farmers, Think.” This is very imprudent advice for a Republican to give. When the farmers of the country begin to think to some purpose the days of the Republican party will be numbered.—Chicago Globe. -Edward Atkinson says that labor receives 95 per cent, of all it produces. This would be good news to - some of the laborers in the Tolling mills about Chicago—if it were true. But the trouble with most of Mr. Atkinson’s figures is that they accomplish the proverbially difficult feat of lying. —Chicago Leader. ——Twelve hundred men have been laid off at the car-shops in Pullman. They will, probably, have time to study the tariff question and its effect on the working-men before they go to work again. They may also amuse ^themselves by comparing ante-election promises with post-election results.— Chicago MaiL -The Standard Oil Company is credited with an intention to absorb the white lead trust. Perhaps the Standard people propose to wait until all the commodities of life are controlled by trusts and then absorb all the trusts, so that we may yet pay tribute to this great corporation when we buy our milk, socks and hair-pinn —Detroit Free Press. -Hon. John E. Russell, of Massachusetts. accounts for the very general reduction of wages in an ingenious manner. He says the protectionist manufacturers who contributed so liberally to elect President Harrison have no other way of making good their bank accounts. They have paid Paul, and now they are robbing Peter.— Philadelphia Record. The Chicago Tin Plate Combine. Organs whose duty it is to support the fraudulent industrial system now practiced in America are delighted to know that tin plate will be made ii^ Chicago. Without ascertaining what constitutes tin plate, the eager advocates have proceeded to show that "the new steel trust will soon be getting the tin ore, smelting it and rolling it into tin plates,” and all because of a tariff of 34 per cent. ' It happens that of the many infants this tin plate iniant has been the slowest to seise the fond teat of protection. For twenty-fiTe years the country has been using about ♦lS.OWWOO of tin plates a year, every scrap of which was imported. Without the war tax the cost would have been 110,000.000 a year. Now the steel trust wlii try to share this $5,000,000 of tax with the Federal Treasury. This is the cause f the Republican Joy. Such blessings, tor the tax-payer, tre precisely like the establishment of he poor-house, the insane asylum, the ounty hospital- Chicago will kstfl he of home-made tin ■ of tinplate ’ ire the mills a reason for