Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 July 1889 — Page 1

Pike MOUNT & PITTS, Proprietors. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principle = of Right.’ OFFICE, over 0. E. MOHTGOII XT’S Store, Maim Street. VOLUME XX. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1889. NUMBER 9.

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rKOl'KSMOXAL CAKUK. E A. ELY. Attorney at Law, J KIEHMJURG, INR Office: Over J. K. Adamt A Bob'* Drug Story. He i» aJ*o a m<>mt»er ot the United Suit-s Collection AuwN'iaUoa, and fivwi proont aiu nUoa l« wjrjr m %tt**r in which he is rnplojrrd. 11 I*. Rj* ii,u»h*)n. A. H. Taylow ! 4 KtCHAltDSOX & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law, • • PETERSBURG, I NO. Prompt attention trlven to nil business A j ^olan Pubtir coiiM uitlv in tlie office. Otttctf i An ( ar|M nu*r Ituttdin#. *tu am! Main. J. W. WILSON, Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG 1ND. CP-oltl.- Ovw J II You Hi A Co.’* Storu. I II. La MARK. 9 Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND., Will practice in Pike ud adjoining noun tics Ofllre: Montgomery's buMlig. thflee I- |yi>tMIW *of low’ll iinrt children a specialty. Chronic and difficult IIKNKY FIELDS, Insurance & Real Estate PKTERHBI ■ IRQ, : : INDIANA. l.ea«ii»-c rompanim rtpme&tod. Prompt at Vcnl n to l»(»sin- -v. N 'Ury bu*»ne»* attended s Vo. Reasonable rate*., Offlce; Hank Hut Mint:. EDWIN SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, .> ‘ . Real Estate Agent PETERSBURG. - INDIANA Office, over Lius F rank’s More * Special at kention feiven to Collections Buying and Selii^tnda. fc iamtn ns Titles and Furnishing Abstract*, •_. . it imr-F kiMK. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, PETERSBURG. IND. Offln: In Hank ll^Mnw; n-MiK-ncu on orvonlh Sir. '■«, thin noulb ot Main. Sail* prompilr alMuitnl lo. ilayof alum J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, . IND. Office on first floor Carpenter Building El. J. HARR IS.

Resident Dentist, PKTKRSBURO, ISO. ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, l*ropr.ator. PETERSBURG, - IND. wDhlntr work don* at thoir n *• d-'ni'• will order t at the .hop, m Dr A new tuildiai. rear of AJimt A Son* 4nir !tor»

THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the O&liy Nows. WASHINGTON NOTES. John Y. Stoss, Attorney-General of lows, baa boon appointed a, special as* aistant attorney of the National Depart* ment of Justice to brine suit cn behalf of the United States to quiet the title to the Des Moines riTer lands. Secretary Wikbom, of the Treasury Department, has decided to discontinue steam plate presses in the bureau of en* graving and printing and substitute hand presses. There will bs only weekly meetings of the President’s Cabinet during the heated term and these will bs on Wednesdays. President Harrison has respited to August 9 Prank Cspet, convicted of murder in the Indian TerritKy and sentenced to be hanged July 17. The President has appointed Horace A. Taylor, of Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of Railroads; Thomas C. Mendenhall, of Indiana, to be superintendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey; Henry W. Diedericb, of Indiana, to be Consul of the United States at Leipsic. Commissioner op Pension* Tanner returned to W ashington on the 9th from an extended Western trip. The following Consuls have been appointed: Emmons Clark, of New York, at Havre; Archibald J. Simpson, of Colorado at Acapulco; Roswell G. Horr, of Michigan, at Valparaiso, and James A. Hartigan, of the District of Columbia, at Trieste and all other ports in the Austrian dominions. John J. Chew, of the District of Columbia, has been appointed Secretary of Legation at Vienna. Tre annual report of the Civil-Service Commission for the period ended June 31). 1*88, has been made publics During that period S8 examinations were held in every State and Territory except Colorado and Kansas, The number of applicants exarainsd was of which an average of fct percent passed in the common branches and 89 per cent, in tbs special. Jt'DOE Tyner. Assistant Attorney-Gen-eral for the Post-oflice Department, waa reported seriously ill with liver trouble. It is generally believed tbat Congress will meet before December. Admiral Ghxrardi. Vx 8. N„ cables tba Navy Department iflMail is quiet in Havti, Legitime and Hippoiyte both being indisposed to move. Thk State Department will make no effort to induce the Persian Minister to withdraw his resignation. Don Fkrnandino Cat x the new Guatemalan Minister to the United States, was formally presented to President Harrison on the 11th. SRcaETART op War Proctor has been quite 111 at his borne in ltutlauil, Vt., but is now able to be about again. Some of the Washington butchers wbo have secured Government contracts have made complaint to the District Attorney.alleging that the agents of Armour & Co., Swift & Co, and two other Chicago dressed beef bouses w ho do a wholesale business there, have combined to injure them by instituting wbat is practically a boycott The Secretary of the Treasury has telegraphed bis approval of tbe course of the Emigrant Commissioners at New York in detaining the emigrants sent to Agent Nell, if the Southern Pacific railroad, by Wrighton A Son, of London, and ordered the immediate return of every man sent to Agent Nell, under the lawprobibiting tbe importation of contract labot ers. Thk President has granted a respite till August 9 in the cases of Jack Spaniard. Joseph Matin and Elsie Jayne, convicted in the United States court of Ihe Western district of Arkansas of murder iu the Indian Territory.

Tills IS AST. Two more men hare toon killrRfln Chir»gu by the falling of a trestle in the Milwaukee avenue cable railway power hou-e. 8iU<»:» Qitxlan, of Chicago, is the new Grand Ruler of the Elks. Use hundred and seventeen young In- ; diant belonging to tribes in Dakota. Mon- | tana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, tne Indian ! Territory, New Mexico and Arixona, having finished a five years’ course at the : Government school at Carlisle, Pa., have left for their homes. The young men have bad good training as mechanics and farmers, while the girlt have been woll instructed in household duties. A mrn.HT train on the Pennsylvania . railroad, twenty miles east of Pittsburgh, j was wrecked recently by a broken axle. Three persons were seriously injured, mostly tramps stealing a ride. Carvkcie. Phipps & Co., are taking steps to carry out their threat that unless the Homestead employes signed the firm's scale they would go into the open market and hire other workmen. Atalir I,ano. a German nurse girl, lost her life at Kondout, N. Y., recently. She jumped into the water to save a child from drowning, but both perished. ALttXRT Ohlawski, a German, aged sixty-four, hanged himself to the transom of his home in New York City the other day and then shot himself in the ' head with an army pistol. Rich a Kb Lewis, colored, of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently killed two colored woraeu, sisters, and then committed suicide. Thx Grand Lodge of Elks met in annnal session in New York on the 9th. Tnc retail shoe dealers’ national ; association met in Boston recently and j discussed matters of interest to the trade Bami'el L. Barlow, the noted lawyer of New York City, died recently at bit summer residence of apoplexy. Ttpboid fever was reported epidemic at Philadelphia. Jon it Kxi.lt, convicted of the murder of Eleanor O’Shea near Geneva November 6, RSS, was hanged at Canadaigua, N. Y., j on the 10th. MAvnicx B. Flvr.v. the noted New York j Citv politician, died at Long Branch on the 9th. The labor troubles at the Homestead mills (Carnegie’s steel plant) took active shape on the Uth. strikers maltreating an employment agent and three German workmen brought on to take their places. W hat is supposed to be gold, silver and j copper ore has been discovered in Warren County. N. Y., in the mountains. Fora big brewiag firm* of Brooklyn. N. Y., have been consolidated into a stock company. They are the Ochs, the Presto the Wets & Zerwich and the Schlitz. The company represents a capital of fl.200.OCM. The breweries do not pass into the bands of English capitalists but in other respects the scheme resembles those of reign syndicates. 8xcrstart Rusk has protested against is raising of the State quarantine against enro-pneumonia in New Jersey. Two men named Horner and Relfsayder are hilled in a barn ten miles south of sttysbnrg, Pa., recently, by a stroke of yhtnlng. The barn was set on Ore and •strovei L Tnn people of-the Titusville oil regions 1 Pennsylvania are making arrangements celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of ie striking of lbs first oil wall by Colons! rake, August 80, 183®. An the result of an investigation of the Mt-oaten at New Haven, Conn. Henry . Cummings, n oarrivr, was arrested .urged with soliciting political assessNmn side-tracked freight cars in Paterson, N. J.. ran down a grade suddenly the other day. jumped several switches and collided with an engine and train. One nun was faulty injured and great damage was dona Lanin Investigation showed only five persons drowned by the giving way of the bridge at Johnstown, S. Y.

IBS meeting tor the purpose ui totting t salt trust, “international in scope" did not late place at New York a* proposed, on the lltb, owing to the non-arrival of representitlves of the Kansas and Lotii.iauasalt inlet ots. Tub lastera in the shoe factories of Woi rboio. N. II, h re struck against a recent adjustment of wages. THIS WEST. Twit wholesale |>oigoning at Adair. Iowa. July 4, l»y ice cream, has been found to be due to tyrotoxicon, the poison formed by milt under certain conditions. L. J. .Ni.walp, a well known horse dealer of Chippewa Fall*, Wis., is reported to bare fl<d, a defaulter to'the amount of *70.000. WfOMINO is moving on toward Statebool The election of delegate s to the constitutional convention resulted in the cholieo of thirty-six Republicans, sixteen Democrats and three Independents. The convention will meet b'eptetn'ber 1 The desire for State Government it general. Yol’su Carlson fully identified the prisoner Burke, at Winnipeg, as “Frank William.,’' one of the men who rented the ■ottate in which Dr. Cronin was nmrJesnd. 1 UK man arrested at Atbirt Lea, Minn, under suspicion of being Cooney, the ‘ Fox,” wss not the much wanted Cronin conspirator, I, J. NkwaLD. a welt known horse lea,’or of Ci ippewa Falls, WTs., has disappeared with *70,000 of other people’s money/ BsrrKMBKR 1 the Washburn-Martin Company, < wnrr* and operators of the big lb ur mills <•( Minneapolis, Mittu., n ill go out of existence and will be succor do I I y the IVash burn -Cros by Company, just ■’organised. The principal change.ia ihe entire withdrawal from the business of Senator W. D. Washburn. W. K. Gordon's Got irotted an exhibition m le at Clevelan 1 O., recently in *:11\, beating bis record a quarter of a seroitd. itoBKKT IUbBKRRT, aged eighteen, and Wiitlie Wise, age t seventeen, were drowned near Alton, III, the otlidr night while swimming in tlie liver. Martin Er rkk. alias Frank Williams, connected with ih*> Cronin murder, was ordered fer extrsdition at Winippig on the 10th. lie had littern days in which to appeal.' Two weeks ago two men became involved in a tight at Eas4 Saginaw, M ch , during which Wdliam Fisher was bit on the thumb. Subsequently gangrene set In and later he died. He attempt! d to make an sn'e mortem statement hut before the name of his assailant pas el Iris lilts he ceasvd to breath •- • A pisxask resemtiling dysentery is epidemic at New Canton, 1 1. Se ven deal h< h ive already occurred, nearly all among children. 1HK steamboat Crystal City, plying between Sr. i»ui* and Grand Tower, 111., sank seven'y miles below Kt L mis Ihe ot her night. No one w as injured. Hop. Epmcnp Ktrt K-pre-etitative in the last Congress from the St. Pair) district of M^ytesot.-i, d ed recently at White Bear, Minn. Ik ciusequence of I be action of tho Chicago Alton in withdrawiug from the Inter-Kate Railway Association, the pe-ileuls of the other Kansas City lines were constituted a commit ee by the association at Chicago on the 11th, w ith the power to taiie such joint action as they might agree u|«>n at any t me in protecttig their inleterfs against the comiietition of the Alton. Th* live numbers of the 4 Pentecost bind" of 'Iii-cola. III., have been arrest'd (or bolding boisterous me tings. They are supposed to be Mormons. Eui-uivrs it the Chicago, llurl ng on A Northern have been at'work surveying a route from their line on tho Wi scons a side of the Mississippi river, across that river, westward. Thb grain elevator m >n of Mintieapo'K Miun, are exceedingly angry because the s t;y assessor t a< assessed the 8,t,dU,U0b bu«hels of wheat in ihe elevators. Thx St. Louis & C licago railroad will b« sold at master’s sale in Sprin t tie d. III., Kept. mber under orders of the United Stales Court ArrxB lifleen months of contention with the union, the employers of Indianapolis stone cutters hare acceded (o ihe demand lor eight tours as a day’.- woik. Kirk starting in a bakery at Fresno, CaL. the, other morning, destroyed ha f a block of trick luildtugs, causing *200,000 Ji'tM.r HotftON, of Chicago, refused habeas Corpus for lawyer Begs*. charged with complicity iu the murder of Dr. Cronin. Ed Furtx, a laborer,'waa lorn to shrols in the drum of the cable power house at Denver, Col., recently. A JAIL at Jacksonville. Ore , containing three prison-rs was discavetel 16 be on lire the olh-r morning and before the cells could be reached to libs rule them ihe prisoners die! front suffocation. The origin of the fiie ts a mystery. To ad I still further to the rai road complications it was anm uncnl nt Chicago on the 12th that the Grand Truuk bad cut •Tram rates.

nut (ourOi lit a collision at th- de|M>t at Oakdale. Tenn.. Ibn othrr dav, itti engines and a )K>atal rar were wmk d, but no damage was done. GovEason Uivrt. of Mis*i*-it pi. says tliat tin s» who are sneering at bis attempt to stop the prixi fight will learn' that be was in earnest- b»fore be gets through with them. He intends to prosccu'.o every one conioc eU with th- affair, especially timers! Huptriolendent Csrro l. oI the yu-ett & Or .-scent route. To avoid arrest the pugilist Sullivan crus ted into Texas. Kilrain. who was re* port'd set ions'y sick, went NorthMbs. Tuin. widow of ex-1'resident T\ ler. die 1 at R cbmond. ,Va.. on tbc 10th. 8i« «s< aU u seventy years of age. A smao was lyncheit by infuriated citilens near Ringgold. Os, the other day, 'fi r criminally £>*ault:ng a white girl. Oorttyot Rj/natGU I.tt will accept ihe »iii»iinhnWcy of the 1.-xington (V».) Military I/iyilute. wh c!i uas<ff-ird him by the boanQt-visitors at their recent meet mg. The Governor, it of cotrse. not i ligib'e unlit his term of Governor expires, which will be January L ltM. 1>R Carmichael, “of Kredei icksburg. Vs., was recently called to attend the sen of Mr*. Rustier Mi-ncure, who was apparently suffering from a troubles- me cou;h, and upon examining the child's throat fou id part of a watch chain protruding from tbc natal caual into the throat. Next day the chain, about -lx inches long with | nn acorn charm attached to one end of it. was taken from the nostril ml. boat injuring the nose. Joan L Sclutan, the pugilist, was ar- 1 rested on the arrival of his train at Nashville Tenn., on the 11 h to await a requisition from Governor Lowry, of Mississippi. Sullivan attempted resistance, throwing himself into a pugilistic attitude, but a revolver thrust into hit face queled him and he surrendered. Later he was reversed hv an order of the circuit court and received an oration from an immense crowd of admirers. A blight shock of earthquake was felt at • 'baric*too, 8. C, on the llthl John Malone, a prominent citis-n of Chattanooga, Tenn., was killed at Rising Fawn, Ga, the other nig ’t by being ran over by a train on the Great Southern read. Colonel Willi am K Zollinoxb. of Baltimore, Md., a well known merchandise broker, a form-r ci mmander of the Fit.h regiment of Maryland, and a leadingexConfede ate shot himself dead recently. The remains of Mrs. Tj*t were interred * eaule tto*- of fx-t rot deal Tjr-w at JUlHWBii, \%

Thk *»-ot cruiser Baltimore returned to Cramp’, yard at Baltimore recently after a satisfactory test of sea map covering. The engines averaged 19 knots on a Uevelop* ment of 9,709 horse power. IT was stated that Wiley Matthews, the escaped Bald Knobber, had killed two men in Boone County, Ark-, who had at* tempted his capture, GENERAL. Word has been tecetved at Cairo from Colonel Wolehouse, commander of the Egyptian troops that he had sighted the dervishes moving northward. Tbev were 5,000 strong and had 300 camels He said bis force was not strong enough to make another attack upon them, but lie was following them with all his available troop, in «tea*uers Qieen Victoria has donated $230 to the suit'rets by the railroad accident near A>magh. Ireland, in which seveutyfeur persons were killed. 1 nxFrench Minister of Marine, has »sk*d the Chamber of Deputies for 58.909.0JJ frnues for eitra war vessels at once. Jem Smith, the English pugilist, has challenged Su I.van io fight for £1,090 a I side. Bresidskt Scott of the Colorado Midland railroad has tendered his resignation to take effect on or before July 25. So cause for his action was known. The Fieneh Cabinet has decided to remove the remains of Carnot. Mat crau and liaudin from their present resting places to ihe Pantheon in Paris, August 4. Advices from Bucharest announce that a ser ous railway accident ba I occurred near there. Sixteen persons were killed and a large number injured. 'i lt* Prince of Mingrelia. once a candidate for the throne of Bulgaria, died recently in the Caucasus. Henry Chaplin has been offered tho ■•Dice of Minister of Agriculture in England without a seat in the Cabinet. Parnell announces ihat be has decided to form a tenants’ defense league, for the | purpose of opposing the Irish landlord a syndicate. A tassenoer nnd a guard were kilted Ii on the Mexican Central by tho train tun-,] ntng iuto a washout near Chihuahua recently. Nineteen of the injnred were taken to a hospital, where two died later. The ship builders of the Clyde. Scotland, have given notice of a lockout to force the slriWi ig riveters to return. The British Columbia Board of Trade has dec a-ed in favor of reciprocity with the Called States, The Snowdon mountain, the loftiest in u itain in Wales, has been sold for £5 574 It forms a piece of freehold estat ■. The French Chamber of Deputies has adapted a bill providing for the purchase of lel phone* by the State. Troops have been ordered to Egypt front M»lta by the Bri ish Government. The lockout against the Glasgow riveters has been withdrawn. In an engagement recently sixty dervishes werje killed by the Egyptians. The rai roads have refused to concede a rate of o le cent a mile to the Grand Ai my | Encampment at Milwaukee. Wis., and the meeting Ha* been ordered off. Lord Charles Hkki sumo ha* resigned his seat ill the British House of Comm >t»s I in order to resume his positiou as an of* fierr in the British nuvy. A sensational scene occurred in the | Fi cncl Chamber of Deputies on thell'h, | M 1c Hsrisse and M. Laguerre assailing i the Government fur the arrests at Angt u- ] hone. O.ipoaing partisans created disorder outside after adjournment. Several French newspapers announce that the Chamber of Deputies will not | vole a ciedit for the purchase of "The Angelus”and that the picture will go to Americans w ho are ready to pay JlP'.its.', J the amount for which the picture was sold at nucti n. Two thmsand bakers of Berlin have gone on a strike. The Kusgian Government ha* totally suppressed the Lutheran Church. The French Chamber of Deputies has passed the Bahama Canal K 1 ef bill in ih; form in which it was adopted by thle t> iiat% — A terrible storm raged at Vera Cm*. Mexico, on the 12th, creating much alarm for the safety of shipping. The Magdeburg sugar ring bdng unable j to meet the settlement was compelled to j ask a week’s grace, which the Sugar Export Association declined to grant- The collapse caused a fall of four marks in Hamburg. The Oiserva'ore lb mano *ays that should the Fope be foiced.to exile him-elf fiom Home bo will not ask sovereignty from any Bower, but will ie<|uest tempojr- | aiy hospitality, as he will certainly re- j tern to Kom-. Tbk strike among the sailors of Liverpool, Eng., his collapsed, the men a creptug the terms offered by their employers. I No disturbances were reported ou the I Orange celebration of the 12th of July.

TUB LATJtST t Joseph KurusCas, a tin peddler from New Orleans, was wnjrlaid and shot at Bayou Goula, La, on the 14th, by two ne- j groes. A owastic Boulaugist banquet was , held in Alexandria Palace, London, t>n ' the evening of the 14th. to celebrate the j anniversary of the fall of the Basttle. s Over 1,SOO delegates from alt parte ol Prance were present. General Boulanger s delivered an appropriate speech, whijch , was received with deafening applause.' Charles EscAsaiand Emanuel EscaSsi, > aged fourteen and sixteen respectively, ; were drowned while bathing in Harlem i river at New York on the 14th. At two o’clock on the morning of ths : ltili the in mi bank over the well of the ! Boho street sewer, in Pittsburgh. Pa., f gave way, and five workmen who were , trying to loosen a mass of debris from below were caught iu the rush of mud and , water and carried hundreds of feel 1 through the main, sewer into the valley j below. Two of them were killed and three j were terribly injured. Small streams in the vicinity of Balti- | more, Md, were overflowed by a water- i spout, on the 13th, resulting in the lost of ; many lives and the destruction of much | valuable property. Mil Thomas Sextos'* plan of organ tea-j tion for the new Tenants’ Defease League ■ of Ireland was submitted to the meeting j of the Parnellites on the 15th. It con- ! templates the union of all the Irish ten- j ante iu one strongs compact organization, | founded on the tines of the trades unions, [ and supported in the same way by assess- j meats upon the member* themselves proportioned to the amount of their hold- [ Inga. Harold Bewell, secretary of the 8a- ; moan Commission to Berlin, arrived in i New York, on the 14th, on the steamship , Etruria. A terrible collision occurred on the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad on a sharp carve near Petroleum I Centre, Pa, seven miles from Oil Ci’y, on the 13th. One man was killed and several others were severely Injured. Marsh Dcrcah and three of his children are known to have been drowned by a cloud-burst on Soldier creek, near Port Robinson. Neb, on the night of the 13th, and it is feared that many other Uvea were lost Lieutesaiit Busier, in charge of the Central police district of Baltimore, Mi, found a strange man sitting in front of the station-house at three o’clock on the morning of the 14th. He wns in a stupor from opium, and died soon after. The session of the South Dakota Constitutional convention, ou the 13th, lasted but seven minutes. Only thirty delegates were present—less than a quotum. The convention as a body will accept an invitation to attend the Water-way convention at Superior, Wis, August % and its work will be arranged so a* to ba

biA'iE inti ENCE. Alonzo WooiKn was 1 ami over at pern on a charge of poiso ng valuable horses belonging to a man lamed Lewis, j Edward Claiik, aged t enteen, was Shot and probably fatal y injured by the accidental dbehargt of a pistol, inear Marion. A PATKNT-5IKDICIXK v nder named (Pray was arrested at I>. idison on a charge of grand larceny. | Opebatoiis in tho lira* mining districts are taking steps t» introduce mining machinery. / Ltman K. WtixiAMS, t ])crintcndent ef schools in Steuben Cou ty.ccmmitted suicide by hanging. j A stable loft, tilled wi ,h wheat, fell upon IVm. Weaver, nelhr < orydon, a few days ago, and almost cr shed Ui'm to death. John Mooiik, of Indi ma, declared himself guilty of robber , paid a constable jwo dollars to at est l»im. and then hired a carriage for t tree dollars to take them to the county j tiiL E ver itiMKNTs with erm » oil at Terre Haute as a fuel eontin «, and several factories have abandon d coal altogether. Kit a s k Ii. Wkbreix wt i killed by an explosion in a mine at Co I Kind. A syndicate has leaf id 1.000 acres near Linton and will bor I'or oil or gas. Tuns German Luther? i Kvangi'lical Association of lluntingb< rr has accepted plans for a new eliur ill building, to cost fix.000. Eni.i isu sparrow pies i-e reported to be among tlie favorite i ibhes on New Albany bills of fare. Tits grand jury, at .afayette, has found forty-tlve indiettr nts for violations of the liquor law. Tiiir Salvation Army (iiartersat lndianapolis were nearly cstroyed with dynamite. Kkv.. Thomas C. ITc- itt. pastor of the McKinney Christian Church at Marion. died a few days sir ■<*, of cancer. New Amianv is cons! Icring the project of making an artit al lake near that, city. ' Thomas Levant. of ‘lainville, was struck by a weli-swee recently and dangerously hurt. ■ Ttu; Salvation Army of Crawfordsville has established an out- ost at Alamo. The Army lias abandon J Waynetown. Prtkii II. ItAtTDKPr, ef Clark County, reports an average of ft ly-three bushels of wheat from tw rty-Hve acres threshed the other day. I nor. K. W. Werst it, of Purdue I’r rerslty, has lieen in t he locality of Goshen the past few day inspecting the fields affected by "the green midge.’’ 11c declares that he fin s small black hugs following, destroy! mg the midges, ami; that the work of tic i>cst will soon lie stopped. Two men were fata ly injured at North Vernon by the pr mature explosion of a blast. Mils. Mahy Cais.yne Kill into a pool of water and was dr >«vned, in Clay County. Tin: Indiana Hijuor li nse law will be tested in the courts. Six men were arraign t?i at ltraxil. for ibmamiting fish. Tilt: Terre Haute wat i-works will issue $440,000 of bonds sh >i tly. two-thirds of the proceeds of whic) will be used in improving the plant. Tilt: gas well at Mud west of New Castle, day with very satisf; flow being quadruple Island Park A City, expects to Uave 'Ki t. Joseph Cook. Francis Murphy, Gencr ,1 G. ft Howard and Sam Small union: its orators this season. Ax attempt was recen tl y made to steal the body of Steve Willi ms. who killed himself at Ft Wayne. ; nd who was buried at Crawfordsville. llox. Isaac E. Lkydi j; has been appcinted a trustee of tin State I’niversity. in place of Judge Itanta. resigned. Edinxvuo has seeur d the aliolition of tolls on all roads on1 ting that point. Tm: town of Augusta, unee the eountyxke. three miles is hot the other lory results, the tnt.v, at Home seat of Nob verted into fi Joiix E. Fee Jones, of Slgrirest him. Was .Cojuntr has been recon- ■ lands. jsfti. f< r killing Sheriff vas trying to ar- " to life service in the penitentiary.

A i.onxo nnora-KHT wax arresw»a at Peru, charged with poisoning four horses, valued at a the iitand dollars, belonging to his brother lt-law. Tnw UuahvtUe city cuncil raised the saloon license* from $1' ) to fSO, and the saloon men who have 1 iken out license previously propose tor sist the increase, llut the courts having decided that a license is not a contract >nd that the license may be merer <d at any time, their legal proBests wi 1 not avail much. W.T. Pi'isotfr, an iwonaut of Portland. made a balloon : scension at Decatur. on the Fourth, iti *.he presence of ten thousand people In coming down he struck an ohstac e and received a very severe fracture <i ’ his right foot at the ankle. Tut: Zollinger Hath ry and the Zollinger rial's, of Ft. Wa; no will attend the Indiana Legion encap npment at Indianapolis on the 20th irn .. Samiki. Kni.I-K, an «U and respected citiiicn. residing (hr • miles fron Winchester. was found d i ad in a field near his house on the 5tl , Old age is suppissed to have been tl « cause, lie was seventy-five years oh: Ft.kii Wai-kkk, a <>ung man living ifcar ShelbyviUe, w:: * made a cripple for life recently by h < ing the needle of a self-hinder driven t i -ough his feet. fitnm Rivkks. of ShelbyviUe. charged with count tfeiting. has heen committed in defau , »f $10,000 surety. It is alleged that hi 1 as done time for horse-stealing in 0 in, Kentucky and Illinois, and has ser si tor counterfeiting in this State. Wuiu the two so * of Clarence But terfield, of .Spencer wnship. Harriso county, were out hu Sing. theelder sho. "and killed his broth' r , aged ten yean, by the accidental dfe i! large of his rifle. Kichakii Suit ns, tyed thirty, whose father lives at Fran rgham. Mass., was killed by the train P. Vincennes while attempting to boarc t ie same to steal a rido. At ConnersvUle piece of gas-pipe in ed it with powder Snyder, aged 16, at it failed to go down and tried cncker. Mowing i ter. It exploded, contents going inti was carried diome i sician says his strayed, and there of saving 1 < 'me boys placed a he ground and fillpaper. Willi* ited to fire it. but when he stooped it it with a firemake it bum blasting the pipe, the s face. He ms. The phyeye is wholly debut little dopes aih' electric J»« begun

INDIGNATION. indignation Meeting at Johnstown, Pn.— The Management of VITaii-s Purler Cop ernor Hrjtcr't Comnlolmi Unuounced In a «erie» of Resolution* that Speak lor Them .el res — The Militia Uone Home. Jobsstowx, Pa., July 14.—Tho indignalion meeting yesterday afternoon was largely attended. Speeches wore made by Colonel Linton, W. H. Hose, C. L. Dick, Hon. J. It. Rose, J. B. Horrall, Rev. D. Beale, J. A. Hawes and others, all denouncing the management of affairs under Governor Beaver’s Commission. Captain Kuhn, of the Commissary Department, stated that it cost more than twenty five per cent, of the value of the goods to get them distributed under thq> methods iu vogue. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: gteufrrrl, Thtt the citixens ot Johnstown and vicinity respectfully yet earnestly request that the fund contributed for the relief of the flood sufferers in the Couemuugh Valley be as speedily as possible distributed in money directly to the people, and that all purchases, contracts and expenses, to be paid lor out ot this fund immediately cease. JtaHdmf, That any hoarding up of this fund to meet problematical future wants wilt materially diminish its usefulness, and only result to delaying to a more distant time the restoration of homes, of business, ot industry and ot conttdenee. It will do more good in the hands of the people now than at any time hereafter. Jtwcfrerf, That we repudiate as insulting to the manhood and intelligence ot our cit teas inow that the avenues of trade are opened upl the imputation that they cau not und wilt not wisely and economically disburse any funds placed In their hands, and because ot this im potation the arrogant assumption that guardians must supervise our expenditures, control our disbursements, purchase our supplies and make our contracts. gmofrert, That the statement imputed to His Excellency that a million and a haltot dollars has already been expended in Johnstown and vicinity has no foundation in fact, and It ts the strongest possible argument that expending relief funds in contracting for buildings, quartermaster and commissary supplies is not a wise, judicious or economical way ot disbursing such funds wjmn the ordinary goatees of supply are open^Bip. Onfy by gross extravagance and carelessness could such a sum have been used here, and the peop'e have received no adequate return for the expenditure of so large an amofet. A Jfestdrrrf. That rae disbursement of the fund subscribed for relief directly to the sufferers will stimulate business, will provide work for our builders and trade for our merchants; will provide labor for our artisans, and wi|l tend u restore confidence in the community; and wilt thus directly and Indirectly help those for whom the fund was Intended: while any other coarse, at this day, savors of jobs, redounds to the benefits of non-resident contractors and business men having no Interest in this community. and unjustly discriminates against our own citixens ItwhreU. That it is unfair and unjust to exact an oath as to private income und relief before the bounteous chanty of our countrymen can be distributed to its hcneficinries. Awirnf. That we hereby appeal to the custodians of funds at Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, and other localities, to transmit the funds in tlieir hands intended for Conemaugh Valley sufferers direct to our local rinance committee.to be distributed bythat committee Immediately in cash upon requisitions of the Board of Inquiry upon such fair and equitable basis as may be adopted,, and we invite thcco-opciatton of such custodians in making such distribution. Krtohnl. That our citixens have entire confidence in the good faith, skill and judgment of theBoaid ot Inquiry appointed ot a citixens' meeting, and the local board which they catted to their ass stance, and this meeting can not look with favor on any attempt of strangers to supervise their work, perhaps reverse their findings, and by exacting extra-judicial oaths and Inquisitional inquiries as to income and other relief, reflect on the proceedings of the beard, and as we fear .delay tor an indefinite period, the distribution ofHhat portion of the fund graciously allowed foHBtwseut disbursement. p- " Ifrsolrrrf, That this meeting express its profound gratitude to the many thousands of people in our own mid other lands who have so spontaneously and generously contributed to the relief ot our people: and only now venture on this expression of opinion because those here assembled btlieve they’ are in this way expressing the sentiments. ot the generous donors ol so bounteous a fund, as they are sure they express those of the intended beneficiaries. The two companies or military left for home last night. Much satisfactory progress with the work has been made during the week. A WATERSPOUT. Lou or Life and Dost ruction of Property Caused by a Water-Spout In Marylaud - A Wall or Water Twenty Feet High. Baltimore. Md„ July 14.—A waterspout caused the small streams known as Herring run and Moore’s run, half a dozen miles northeast of Baltimore, to rise to an unprecedented height yesterday afternoon, bursting two dams, one called Reed’s dam and the other at Casper Botob’s place, on Bellair road. The water rushed down in a wail twenty feet high, sweeping every thing before it Several people were drowned. Their names, so far as known, are: two men on Bellair road, named Powell and Schillner, drowned in Herring run; George Lingenfeider and his wife and father, on More’s run. Lingenteldjr was coming to market at Baltimore und tried to cross the bridge, from which he was swept.

Horses and cattle werq ilrowneu in large numbers, and property and crops are swept away. It is reported that there is a scene of desolation and ruin along the streams named. The damage done can not be fnlly estimated, but will run up into the hundreds of thousands. Nearly every bridge cross - ing Herring run was swept away, including the flue iron bridge at Bobbs. Fields of grain were destroyed and trucking farms mined. The roads aro all wiped out. The tracks of the Hall’s Springs horse Railway were twisted and turned into utter rtfin. A large country store on Hartford road was swept away. There was a washout on the Maryland Central railroad at Guilford station, causing a suspension of travel. John McCormick’s barn on the Frederick road was struck by lightning and burned; loss, $3,000. Five people in it were stunned, but are recovering. A I>eath-I>i ahuc Cload-tlwrat. Foht Robissos. Sek, July 11.—A cloud-burst occurred in Soldier Creek Valley about eight o’clock last night. Four people—Marsh Duncan and three of his children—are known to have been drowned. It is feared that many other lives have been lost A Terrible Storm. Platts bubo, S. Y-. July 14.—A terrible hail-storm, accompanied with rain and wind, passed over Plattsburgh, Burlington, Vt., and along Lake Champlain yesterday afternoon. In this city, electric light, telephone and telegraph wires were prostrated, and trees were blown down on nearly every street. The hail-stones were quite large, and broke a number of windows. In the country, farmers will lose heavily on grain aud fruit. At Burlington, Vt., the Telephone Exchange was partly burned by lightning. The telegraph and other wires were prostrated. Damage to buildings, wires and crops is reported from nearly every place along the lake line. Tim Tall at the Hostile. Baltimore, MtL, July 15.—The local anions of, the German Central Union, the International Workingmen's Association of Baltimore, and the Socialist Labor party held a celebration yesterday of the centennial of the fall of the Bastile at tha Schuetzenpark. Fifteen hundred people were present. The Arbeiter Uederkranx and the Arbleter Mannaerohor sang German songs. An orchestra gave a concert of select music suitable to the occasion. A prologue on the "Fall of the Bastile” and to "Liberty” was read by a lady. F. Fritsche, a member of the German Reichstag, was the orator

HARI SON AND REFORM. Bow Btal '• Shadow Has Violated Kla S >mwly-SI*de Ptedgm. The St ouis Civil* Service Reform Associati numbers among its officers such p tninent Republicans as Messrs. <hn B. Henderson, Henry Hitchcoc and Emil Preetoriua. We congratu e these gentlemen on the high sen of duty which has led the associati to express' its disapproval of the H: -ison Administration. The statistics ollated by the association and publ bed in the annual report of its exe live committee show that while th< verage rate of changes in the fourth-cl s post-offices was only 4 per cent, gi .ter under Cleveland than under A bur, the Harrison Adminis - tration i making changes at the rate of 75 pe: ent a year, or from 1,000 to 1,600 a eek. The highest rate of changes sretofore in any single year, as the a .elation shows, "was in the year ei ng June 30, 1886, when it was 36$ per cent.; but the average rate un r Cleveland was 23 1*3 per cent,; i der Arthur, 18 per cent; under .yea, 16 per cent; under Grant’s cond administration, 19 per cent, ider Grant's first, 18$ per cent, a in the first year of Grant's about 2 >er cent” It mu be remembered in considering thi figures that Mr. Cleveland found t service entirely partisan. There i re no Democrats in it yet on areragi ; the changes made during his fou: ears, it appears that there is only small percentage of difference be een the average of changes mado b him in order to restore the equilib im in the service and the averagi made by Republican Presidents ii arranging their administration m hines. While this comparison i highly creditable to Mr. Clevelr L it is a strong condemnation o Hr. Harrison, who in a riot of sp< i bossism displaced 11.000 fourth- tss postmasters from March 4 to Jum & "Wfc then is responsible for this state o flairs?” asks the association, and in nswerihg its own question it says: It ms M istd test Hr. Ksrrtsoa raa aot have pe issl knowledge ot all the changes is the vast umber ol offices under the Government, at that he raa not be held accountable for ever et of his subordinates. And tela is true. 1 there is a homely fashion among the Am. -an people ot holding the President respons s for tee general conduct ot tee adminis lion In all Its departments, and ot looking him as tee authoritative head to correct abusev In this spirit we may well ask ot 1 President teat he pat a check upon this hei mas in his work of official decapitation, an tml his subordinates may be glvrn to undent 1, as be h mself has formally declared, st “only the Interests ot tee ■ ublic service >uld suggest removals from office,” and thi in appointments to every grade and departs it, fitness and not party service should the essential and diserimlnatingtest, and fidi y and effioienoy tee only sure tenure otofitcr We e confident that General Hendersoi ill fully agree with us when we assert .at the President is rightly to be hel responsible for this demoralization General Henderson, in the early < ys of the Administration, went* to the rhite House and remonstrated agaim the President’s policy of delegating o local bosses the Executive autho y to select public servants under t' different departments. The remoi ranee was useless. President Harri n has a deputy in every Congresli ini district in the country, and all tb ) deputies are actively co-op-eratii with him in using the offices in an tempt to control State politics from e District of Columbia, If 1 i Administration has done this while was new in power and while the i Jges it had made were still fresh, hat can General Henderson or any o sr friend of good government and e uent service expect of it, now that i its pledges hare been indecently vi< ted and the worst combination of bo is effected that the world ever saw? it. Louis Republic.

Pi TER’S QUEER EDICTS. Evi tend' view, lar p; Mr. ] suspi i fho Should Bo Clout/ Watched by All Uoont ClUmeam. thing that Census SuperinPorter does seems to be jrith suspicion, and the singuof it is that about eve-y thing ier does is calculated to arouse i. When he was appointed it was pi daimed all over the country that h appointment was solely in the inters at the monopolies, who relied ;o manipulate the census staas to make a favorable showthe protectionists. Possibly nation was unjust, yet it is that Mr Porter has done in his own vindication. On trary, every move that he i calculated to confirm the imthat went abroad when he , appointed. Not lc ng ago it '08tad to him that the census >utd be appointed in the way ed by the Civil-Service his suggestion was scoutr Mr. Porter, and he n elaborate argument to tat examinations for apit would be detrimental s in census taking. Just as try had made up its mind to jnsus superintendent have his ut it, he reverses his opinion ides that examinations are on hit tistics ing ft the ac certiii nothii the r make pressi t » prese law. ed t I show point to sue the « let tib way i and wher toke Port* an hr Glob y. But he doesn’t propose to s Civil-Service Commission to nger in his census pie. so he es that he will establish an tion system of his own, indeat the Civli-Servioe law and ust where Mr. Porter gets ority to establish a system of semination is not apparent, i to us that, if examinations la at all, the census supershould be governed by the which does not except his i its operations. This imination business is really of a sen of Africa being conthe census wood-pile someAt all events, it will be neepeople of this country skinned while Mr. taking the census. We want and nothing short of satisfy the people.—St Paul

CONCERNING WAGES. BimM Working of a Tariff for the Bw •fit of Monopolist*. In their campaigns the favorite argument of the friends of a high tariff has been the statement that protection increases the wages of workmen. and its absence acted with the opposite effect Such theories they have preached from one end of the land to the other, and they have often found it effective with people who do not care to investigate for themselves and discover the falsity of such a conclusion. England i^the highest type of a low tariff country, and it has not yet become generally known in the United States that wages are advancing greatly there, accompanying the steady improvement of trade in all parts of the United Kingdom. This has been accomplished so quietly that little publio attention ha3 been attracted to the matter, even in Great Britain herself. During the latter part of last year the coal miners of Lancashire, Yorkshire and the midland counties of England obtained an advance in wages of ten per cent Some time ago they asked for another advance of the same proportion, and, after a^ little delay, it was conceded them that they should have an increase of five per cent the first of this month, followed by five per cent on top of that at the first of October. These satisfactory conditions are not confined to the coal miners of Great Britain, but iron-workers, shipbuilders and employes in all kinds of manufactories are rejoicing in an increase of wages. These pleasant results have been brought about without recourse to strikes, and aro the natural consequence of Great Britain’s immense trade monopoly, secured by advantageous liberal commercial laws. In the meanwhile, things are not going so well in the highly protected United States. Thousands of workmen in the iron region of Pennsylvania are on a strike; the 2,500 employes of Carnegie must take a great reduction in wages; at Brazil, Ind., the coal miners will have to make a choice between starving on scanty pay or \ starving without it; at Braidwood, Hi., they are in the same condition; throughout the Union it is a'story of strikes and destitution, all under the sheltering and beneficent wing of the high tariff. Great strikes are of such common occurrence here that they have ceased to be news In England there has lately been only one—that of the seamen at Liverpool and Glasgow. As wages go up with the Enlish. they go down a corresponding distance with us. These baneful workings of the tariff are becoming so plain that the people can not much longer remain blind to the facts which aro every day forced upon their notice. Here are two nations of the same Anglo-Saxon race; one enjoys oveir the other immense advantages in the way of extent and free government.; they employ precisely opposite commercial systems; in the small, overcrowded country the masses are daily improving their condition and increasing their earnings;' in the other, where, under the same conditions, it is much easier to prosper, their wages grow smaller every yoar. How can we ignore these things?— Louisville Courier-Journal.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. ——^Ben Butler is reported to bo highly pleased with the Administration. Of course It is just the kind ■ of an administration to please Ben Butler.—Indianapolis Sentinel. ——We have now had four months of the Harrison Administration. Unless it does better during its remaining three years and eight months the historian of the future will not call it a pronounced sqpcess.—Epoch. •-The strike against a reduction of wages in Mr. Carnegie’s steel mills is still undecided, but Air. Carnegie is not hindered in his generous entertainment of royalty and nobility in England.—Philadelphia Times. -Ohio ought to be good fighting ground for the Democracy this fall, with Foraker renominated on a platform that even goes so far as to Indorse Corporal Tanner’s rampageous career >u the Pension Office.— Boston Glote. -One of the darkest pages in the whole history of Republican rule is the record of that party on the public s land question. It appears now that the ring of land-jobbers who grabbed the best of Oklahoma, if not actually protected by Government authorities, will not be mo lesteH by them .—Toledo Bee. —The removal of T. B. Fowler from the postmastership at Augusta, Me., in order to make a place for Mr. Blaine’s friend, "Joe Manley,” it is safe to say, is not in the line of the President’s professions with respect to the conduct of the civil service. Mr. Fowler’s term has not expired, and ho has expnsssed no desire to resign. The principle involved is that the country shall reward Mr. Manley for his affection for Mr. Blaine.— N. Y. World. --The history of monopoly never recorded a more brazen and atrocious robbery of the people than that now being engineered by the sugar trust speculators. The jeweled hand that clutches the poor man’s sugar bowl is insatiate iin its greed. The price of this necessity of the people has already been raised forty per cent, by the trust managers and the height of their avarice is fur from reached. The apparent apathy of the publio serves as encouragement to the schemers. Is there no limit to the patience of the people?—N. Y. Star. -Twenty-four hundred men have been thrown out of employment at the Carnegie Steel Works, but there is no information that Mr. Carnegie himself is reducing the expenses of bis annual European tour, nor that the wines he is setting up to royalty cost a whit less than when his poor men were getting steady employment at living wages. Yet Harrison was elected on a protection platform, and