Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 October 1889 — Page 1

Pike Demck :rat. I 3. L. MOUNT, Eiitor »nd Proprietor. VOLUME XX. “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right' PETERSBURG, INDIANA. THURi OFFICE, otoi B. YOUNG & CO.’S Store, M»fa Street tSDAY* OCTOBER 24, 1889. lu NUMBER 23.

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POWDER Absolutely Pure. Th»* powder new rant-*. Atoanrel of purity, •lrro> th and w!h»|. Mjn»n* ss/ More oroiumUcal tii.intho ordinary can not t*e sold in comp'.nt ion with tide o! low te*d. Miort weight alum jiowders Hold «»niy in can*. Ko>Powder 0o.# 1*C Wall street. New Yotrk/'N 1‘IUIKKSSIONAI. lARUi R A. KL Y, Attorney at Law, TETKllsnUKU, im Office; Over J. It. Adams d S<in’s Drill? SUm\ lie is also a »em»«er of the HJntted States Collection Association, and tr ve» prompt attention to every matter in which be is employed. E. P. IltCHAHIMO*. A. II. Taru>H RICHARDSON & TAYLOR Attorneys at Law, PETE US BUR 0, IN A & Prompt ntteuttod idven to nil business \ Notary l*n w.c eon-dmtiy m tbeoiHoe. Ofllo* In Carpenter Hoillin*, HU and Mai J. W. NJLSO.N. Attorney at Law, PETEU8BUUO, IND. f^omc.': Over J. R. VtejtKf A (U.'t Store. I. II. LaMAKR Physician and Surgeon I ETKK8BOHO. I NIK, iJ'Pik Will" practice uPPike and nd4'o<nlnjf s«un 11* s Oftre: M**ntipimervU» bu l litut. Office ht'iio d »y and nitfht. of women »»i«l children n **i**cialty. Chronic land difficult HUNKY FIKMIS, Insurance & Real Estate Aft ENT, rETEUSUUKU, Ecadi* k’ 'viupaii - » reprcvdvtod at Ml*TTS7«f* a 1 • K-a*onatd«* rate*. Offi e ltalnk Budding. KIRVIN SMITH. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Real Estate Agent PETEKBBUKO. INDIANA. HW, ovrrCa« Knifil;** More. special at* lion given to Collections, ltu> in: and >•!»• i.anls, Ktatnuun,' 'title* and faralalitng itracta. ' \J. R lL & J, T. K1ME. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, \ PETERSBURG. DiD. Office: In Hank Budding. residence on *M *enth Blond, ih;«e m;uuits south of Mam. Calls promptly attended to. day oif night. J. R ItLNCAX. Physician and Surgeon PETEHSBURO, . IND. Office on first floor Carpenter Building H. J. UiVRlElia.

.Resident Dentist, PKTKR8BUR8, INI) ALL WORK WARRANTED. 0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. TURNER, Propriotor. PETERSBURG, - IND. I'artM wbhlm work done it th»lr r> «t- *>>«> » will k-Hve onU>r< at thr rhop, a Dr. Adam* now I'U M iu. rear of Adam A Son I dmjc uto-n

THE WORLD AT LARGE Bnmmiwy ®f tin Dally News. WASHINGTON NOTES. AY the Interior Department it ia thought that 90,000 Indian* will be entitled to rote at the next Presidential election as a result of recent legislation Pol itician* consider them a Terr uncertain factor. Tbs United States Supreme Court assembled for the October term on the 14th. It it proposed to erect a permanent reviewing stand of whit* marble opposite the White House for future celebrations in Washington. Tbhss of the keepers of lifeboat station* who distinguished themselves on the-At-lantic during recent storms have be*u complimented and had their salaries raised to 4*00, the highest limit. It is widely believed In Washington that President Harrison will recommend to Congress a revision of the tariff. Tri Commissioner of Patents ha* decided that abandoned applications for patents are not public property and can not be examined by patent attorneys. Thk President has signified his intention to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the new Catholic University at Brook* Station, Md. The International Mai lt ini* conference met at Washington oo the 16th. Tlgptdel- ' egates were cordially welcomed by Secretary Blaine. Washington is beginning to boom itt World’s Fair project. The marine conference at Washington is devoted to the discussion of technical mi tiers. The death of General John F. Hartranft makes a vacancy in the Cherokee Commission, and nothing more can be done now toward securing the Cherokee Strip in the Indian Territory for settlement until the vacancy is Oiled The Pre.tdeut has appointed Richard K Sloan, of Arisona, t > be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arisona. The Attorney-General has decided that the appointment of J. M. Taylor, of Illinois, in the railway mail service on April 2!) was legal, even though Taylor did not take na'b until some time after the civilservice rule* went over that service. The Attorney-General holds that the appointment* are legal from dates when-made, and not when the appointee is sworn in. Lieutenant Schrader. in command ot the Vesuvius, has presented his report ol the result of the recent trial of the vessel to Secretary Tracy. Ihsr* was nothing in It different from the full reports of tbc trial alrrady published. Secretary Windoh has announced that he will retain the old rules governing the importation of Mexican sliver-lead ore*. TUB KANT. piPBTHERiA is ravaging GallaUin, Pa. The formal order remanding Kemmler, the Buffalo wife murderer, to the pri-oi at Auburn, fi. Y.. for execution by electricity has been filed. In case of an adverse decision in tbe New York Slate Supreme Court the sugar and other tiusts will probably apply for receivers and take other steps to bring the corabinution* within the pale of the law. % » ‘ George and Richard Hankins, brothers, while trying to rapture a tame decoy duck on Cayuga laka New York, the other morning, were accidentally wounded by a hunter, who shot at the duck. Fiiwarii Bennett, employed in thr powder mills at Scbaghticoke, N. Y., was killed by an explosion the other day. He was the only man in tbe building. Congrekshan Newton A. Nutting died at his home in Oswego, N. Y., on the 15th. The American Forestry Congress met : in convention at Philadelphia on the 15th. The Association bass-half pennant fell to Brooklyn. K. R. Schoen & Co.. importers of dry goods, N. Y.. have failed. Liabilities 4*11,000. 1 he New York Board ot Education bai i decided against permitting tbe teaching i < fej type writing in the public evening schools. The vole was 12 to 4. The opi posing commissioners gave as a reason that it wonld put too many young ladies in the typewriting business. The victims of the myeterious poisoning at Morgan's boarding house, Woodbury, N. J., were alt in a fair way of recovery. Tbe oyster soup was beinganalysed to determine tbe nature of the poison. n A Boston dispatch says the entire plant otibeBiUsh Electric Company has been sold to tbe Thomson-Houston Electric Company Iota cash consideration of IS - 2501000. OwoB. SqiiRE*. of Brooklyn. N. Y., special agent of tbe General Land-office, has been dismissed, (squires was formerly private secretary to Pension Commissioner Tanner.

i itk tniMHi conies man-oi-witr sensecola baa sailed from the Brooklyn nary yard for Angola, Africa. She carried twenty scientiflc men on a general explormg expedition, the main object of which it an observation of an eclipse of the tun. The Loyal Legion met at Philadelphia on the 16th. when ex-Presideut Hayes was re-elected Commander-In-Chief General UARTKAxrr, ex-Uorernor of Pennsylvania, died at Norristown on the ITth from a combination of kidney Uguldes. TPIt x American Board of Commissioners for Foreign M uioni in seaticn in Nee York elected officers aa follow#: President, It It S' or r a, D. IX; rice-president, E. W. Latch ford; recoidlng secretary, Henry A. Btimaon; assistant recording secretary, K N. Packard; treaaurer, Lahgdon S, Ward. ’ Ex-Mayor Law is, of New Haven. Conn., proposes as a WorldVi Fair feature to recogniae the 4Xnh anniversary of the discovery of America, by lighting great bonfires simultaneously on tbe hilltops all over tbe country. One man waa killed and three fatally injured by the fall of a scaffolding at tbe new water works at Bethlehem, Pa., recently. Amor J. Cvmmingb, the well-ltnown correspondent and member of the editorial : staff of tha New York Bun, has I seen nominated by Tammany to All the vacancy j in the Ninth district caused by tbe death i of “Sunset” Cox. The Atlas line steamship Alhoe, which : has reached New York after a terrible I voyage, report* that Hippolytc, of Huyti, j was busy pjuperrb'g for hit election. These cases of small-pox were reported ! in Boston recently, the Bret in over a year. Svran B. Anthony and Mnry 8.- Anj Ihouy have begun action against the ) American Glncoee Company of Buffalo, I N. Y„ to rtsmr $125,000 in stocks and ! t>ack dividends. Tbe defendant* claim that they never issued to Colonel IX K. Anthony and his sister the stock in question. The Brat of the series for I he world’s base-hall championship between Brooklyn ' and New York was played at New York i on-the 18th and was won by Brooklyn by a score of 1$ to 111 Tan coffin containing tbe remains of Ralph Waldo Emerson baa been placed in a securely bound box, which has ta turn been deposited in a grave composed of block* of granite, cemented together sad securely fastened with a granite covering. Taa cotton oil trust baa Bled application at Trenton, jf. J„ to Increase its capital stock to IS >,000,000 and form a corporation, thus avoiding the legal penalties to which it was liable in New York. - Joan I EWis, Jerome Race and Thomas Cooney, t<> e • youth* of eighteen, were instantly kill* I on the Hudson River track nearHndsoi', N. Y„ recently. They stepped from one reck to another to avoid a bain when a locnmn ive struck them. Oliver C. Hcaiiesiil. has been appointed sup ruitvudvat of tho Qpnt at rb.l'd.lpft*

rax wist. Lister Urkii;n, a prominent citisen of Bloomington. HU, has eloped with the wife of an engineer named Baker. 81X persons were killed and three in* jured by an accident on the Moant An* barn inclined railway at Cincinnati on the 15th. The machinery refused to act and a car was precipitated to the bottom and shattered to fragments. Gilbert L l.iws has been nominated by the Republicans to succeed the late Mr. Laird, Congressman from the Second Nebraska district It is understood that the Iowa Indians are willing to take their lands in severalty. The Indian Commission will shortly visit the Kickapooa and the Sac and Fox, Other tribee in i he Indian Territory, to induce them to accede to the term, of the i net. Tits Republican caucus nt Pierres R D., sel< c ed Frank Pettigrew, of Sionx Fells, Slid Judge IX C. Moody, of Deadwood, for United States Senators. Indianapolis- and Cleveland have declared in favor of Chicago tor the World’s Fair. Receiver Dter. of the Mormon Chore'! : projierty, has a*ke«l tlie Utah Supreme Court to give him n fee of $800 a month for caring for property worth $1,000,006. An infant ol a women named Mary Roup fell into a mass of lime at Mountain i Lake, Minn., arid met a horrible death. Eleven perrons were under arrest, at Asblan t, Wi<„ tor taking part in the : Curtis-Kin.inick nrixe-flght. By a collision b-tween a car left on tbe track at Heath, Ind.. and a freight train ' the other morning many care were : wrecked, one man was killed and several j others were injured. The Brotherhood of 1-ocomotive Engineers met at Denver, Col., on the 16th. The reported railroad collision in Colorado between Burlington and Union Pai cifie passenger trains was found to be ; falsa William Draper and John Olsen were hanged at I’lat ervilie, CaL, on the 1C h for the murder of John Lowell on hi* ranch March, 186S. John Myers was banged last November (or the same crime, his two accomplices escaping for a time by taking an appeal. The State of Kansas has been awarded a gold medal for the best agricultural report, also a silver medal for its labor report “Honorable mention" was awarded to the Conway Springs and Douglass Sugar Co,up uiies. The accident on the Mount Auburn inclined plane at Cincinnati was caused by a little piece of iron wbich got wedged in | the cut-off rais e. Ei bert E. Kimball, United States District AUornev, died at Kansas City, Mo , on the 16tb of congestive chil s. Thb Mission creek country in Minnesota was ravaged by Brea Much lumber was burned. Camden. CX, was badly damaged by fire ‘ on the 16th. The factory and .stock of tbe Pine D *>r A Lumber Company of Grant’s Pass, Ora, was destroved bv fire the other night. The loss was lf.T0.00a At the meeting oi the railway brakemen in Minneapolis Hon. L R C< flin, of lows, advised them lo urge Congress to lake acticn in ihe matter of safety appliances The five Apache Indians who were tried and convicted at Florence, Aria , for murder have been sentenced to bs hanged Three were charged with the murder of Diehl two years ago and two with the murder of Jones. Senators Moody end Pettigrew have been formally declared elected by tbr South Dakota legislature. The people of Indianapolis are refusing to pay for rid** on Ihe street cars w bich have dropp'd the conductors and put back | the old box system. Two ladies of Frankfort, Ind., were struck by a train at a crossing the othsi - day and fatally injured. Socialists decorated Ihe gr-resofthe Anarchist# in Waldheim cent*! ry, Chicago on the 17th. The Miss, uri Pacific road announces that it will quote established rates tell* eeu Chicago and Kansas City in connection with the Illinois Cmtral and Vandalia. This opens s not her line between Chicago and Kansas City, making eigh> i in all. Mhs. Hiram Wanriaa, of the town of Uieeubustn Minn., while engaged infighting a fire In save bar home was recently fatally burned. Her husband was some distance from her at tbe time the flames overtook her. He was also engaged in fighting the fire. The Rock Is and iiropen for business to Kingfisher, Olt. The following are.intermeitate stations: V. ankorals, Hennessey nnd Mandon. A decree winding up tbe Wabash receivership of Generiii John McNutts was entered by consent of all creditors and other interested parties by Judge Gresham at Chicago on Ihe IS h. The Western w hisky trust is said to be , scheming to bieak tip the outside distili teries. Half a million dollars wilt be spent i if neces arv. The inquiry at the Jefferson barracks, $tt. Louis, ban ended. The depositions i make 30 • pages. An immense pra rio fire was reported I ragiug a few miles from Bismarck. N. D. j on the 16 h. :Th- Til age of Menokin was entirely swept away. Jokei-h Paul a Chicago boy, mqt an awful death rre.-ntty. He was caught : between an immense fit wheel and the 1 belting.

IUK BOVT1L ti KN ERA I- H. D. l-LATTOK. president ol tbe University of AliU<m>, died at Tuscalooea recently. He serred with distinction in the Confederate array during the late war. Robert Behi&er. who ahot and killed bis mother-in.law near Lexington. N- C.. wai captured and lynched by the old lady’a friends. At Dothen, Ala., recently, a riot occurred between A liance men and townapeople which resu lted in the death of two Alliance men, t he mortal wounding of two city marshals and the serious wounding of Are other Alliance and townsmen. The trouble grew oat of the taxation ot Alliance property. Tax Karmen’ Alliance ot Georgia bar decided to build a buge warehouse ht Atlanta to handle the products of the farmers of the fiiatn. hx-GoTxnsoR E. A. Pskbt, of Florida, died recently in Texas. Less iso, Solomon A Koskxtb^C, a large dry goods Arm of Waco, Texas hart assigned. Notes and aceouata to the amount ot $4)0,0U0 hare been turned over to a lrus.ee. Three trainmen were killed, two being roasted to death. by an accident recently on tbe Texas 4; Pacific, sixty miles east of El Paso. Hbxbt Wiqiau., a Imrber ot Atlanta, Urn., swalloweiii a fish b me recently and died soon after in great agony from strangulation. AT a recent Democratic political meeting in Richmond, Vs., the principal ’peakers, ex-tienator Riddleberger and tx-OoTeraor Cameron, were intoxicated and failed in their attempts to speak Tbe audience hissed them and the meeting had to btftdjourned. Tbe North Alabama Lumber Company at Bridgeport, A'a., has made an assignment. Liabilities, fUUOOOi assets scheduled, >1140001. At Millsport, Lsmar County. Ala., a few days a|;os William Abercrombie, white, of Birmingham, Ala. held np the express agent and secured f6.UK), received by him ibat night. kJl’CH destitution is reported among the fore gn laborers at Lynch’s works, Kent County. Ud. The n SfflSSWKXr* . - , - s. - "X -

aiwwwwaWTr loving match between Matterson and Bubear on the Thames, Putney to Mortlske, London, was won by Matterson. The stakes were £400. Sir DiKttL Gooch, the noted British civil engineer, died in London recently aged seventy-four. The new British Minister, accompanied Fib WimJam MacGregor, Administrator of New Guinea, with a a party of twenty-two men, wae attacked by natives on the island of Deraarara The natives were repulsed, leaving eleven killed and wounded. 8, Viral of the whites. were wounded, H. 8. Wicker has resigned the past'iGn of general traffic manager of the Chicago Sc Northwestern railroad. Three leading German Anarchists have been ordered to leave Gwltserland. The Russian warmhtpNaar-ed-din-Shah has b?en sunk at Batoum and all her crew perished. 41 vch criticism has been expressed at the admission of Millet's picture, “L’Angelus,” free of duty. Lord Fiteuerald is dead. Wilfred Blurt, well known in the English Parliament, has retired from politics. Dvring a storm in the Cuttylmnk harbor Captain John Flanders, Arthur Borden and Samuel Feck ham, of New Bedford, Mass,, of the Ashing schooner (Juilp, attempt d to reach shore. The boat was capsised and all were drowned. Ix the railway station at Brussels, Belgium, the other dsy, a passenger train dashed into buffers at full speed, wrecking several carriages and injuring thirty persona The Long Hoi or Red river of China has t«en opened to commeroe. Fears areexprrssed that the tour of ihe Pan-American delegates has been overJone.many of them being positively weary of the rushing from town to town and the endless sight-seeing. As explosion occurred in a Staffordshire (England) cosliery on the 15th. Seventy-five miners were entombed. The first searching parties found sixty dead bodies. It >s b l'eved that the African explorer Monk has been killed by bit men on the Zambesi riTer. Rear Admiral Walker expects to sail with his squadron some time in November. He wiil proceed first to Lisboa and ibence to Fayal. It is announced that Mr. Gladstone will leliver an address at Manchester on December 3. • It is expected that he will issue a manifesto on the political situation in the United Kingdom. News has reached Constantinople that Turkish soldiers have mutinied at Canea, badly beating many of the officers who endeavored to discipline them. Germany has pub icly announced her refusal to recognise Matsafa as King of Samoa. The French Minister of War proposes to loubie the army corps at Nancy and to louble the railway facilities from Lilia, Lyons and Besancon to the German fronier. so that 30,000 troops can tench there in three days. Prince Bismarck has expressed hims^g as satisfied with the interview he had with the Csar, who he says, assured him that he was a mab of peace and would not make w ar upon Germany. Chief Justice Fuller says that the action of the Andrew Jackson League in Chicago in nominating him for President was entirely unautboris-d. He is welt enough satisfied with bis present position. The Austro-Hungnriau Cabiuet crisis | n ended and Von Tisxa’s Cabinet will ! continue in office. Harmony has been re--tored through the concessions of Emperor Francis Joseph, who has agree i lo the | designations “Imperial Austrian Army" and “Rival Hungarian Army." Business failures (Dun's report) for the -even days ended October 17 numbered 223. compared with 234 the corresponding week of last year. The fi-uroi include Canada, One of the scrub women at the Hamburg (Germany) xo Logical gardens was killed recently by a jaguar which managed to seise her through the bars of I is cage. Chili has abolished many import dalles m tools and material used in agriculture and the building of railroads, etc. The Emperor of China has authorised the building of a railroad between Pekin end Hankow. Mamhe Mitcbbll. the actres. has married her manager, Charles Abbott Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, it was reported, traveled strictly incognita durng his recent visit to the Paris Exposition, fearing that attempts would be made on bis life, It t* estimated that ‘.6 000,0H0 persons will have visited the Paris Exposition when it closes.

TUB UTB3I. Claus Spbckls, Uu sugar rentier, is making preparations for opening his big refinery in Philadelphia. In denying the report that he had Joined the Sugar Trust, he said: “As long as I am alive it is my intention to engage in business entirely upon my own account, and without the interference or co-operation of any other individuals. I do not need and never have needed assistance from others, and I certainly have no use for the Sugar Trust." A voutto man named Roberts, who was connected with Burke’s horse show, qufrreled with a negro helper at Greenville, Ala., on the 19th. who poured gasoline aver Roberts’ clothing, and another negro set fire to the fluid. Roberts was literally roasted, and was left in a critical condition. One of the negroes was arrested, the other escaped. Two men were killed and several severely wounded by the explosion of a boiler in a taw mill at Anderson. ln«t, on the 19th. Two of those injured will probably die. Mias Wissm Datis. daughter of Jeff Davis, left New Orleans, on the Slst, for New York, whenoe she takes a steamer for Rurope as the guest of Mrs. Pulitser, She has been in bad health of late, and the Journey, It is hoped, will restore her. Hot. W. C. Whittboexx. Congressman from the Seventh Tennessee district, was reported, on the 20th, as lying at the p .int of death at his home in Columbia. Tenn. Yale defeated Amherst in a game of foot ball at New Raven, Conn., on the 19th. by the one-sided soore of 43 to 0. Nsw Yob* won the second game of the world's championship series from Brooklyn, on the grounds of the latter club, on the 19th, by a score of « to 3, outplaying their opponents at every point. Sixteen thousand people witnessed the Govxnaoa-Genes al Janssen of the Congo Free State reports that eighty chiefs have recognised the authority of the State and promised to provide men to ess let in maintaining order. They also agree to suppress the practise of making human sacrifices. Bx-Cotutisaioirna or Phaeton Tanana is oat in a long statement in reply to Secretary Noble’s letter of July 84. on the subject of rerating pensions of pen-sion-office employes. Mr. Tanner denies that ha defied Secretary Nobis on the subject of re rating; and shows that he hat followed the example of the secretary when the latter asked and obtained a large additional allowance for a personal friend from Commissioner Black before Mr, Tanner's appointment Tub Albany Stove Works, at North Albany, K. Y, ware entirely destroyed hy fire on the night of the 19th. Lose, B. T. the well-know soaj ’ -vr

STATE INTELLIGENCE*

I he above is a view of the e icm Studebaker mansion ai South Bend* which was damaged by fire a few days ago. The dwelling was the finest Ik the West, and cost $800,000. Pclaski County has a citiien who ia loved and honored by everybody. This person is none other than Micigar Hancock, who was born in Sessex County, Del., on the 8th day of January, 1*88. He is the son of Caleb Hancock and the grandson of John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was a. soldier in the war of 1818 and was at Lewistown when that place was commanded by the Itritish for twenty hours. Mr. Hancock stood aloof from polities, even neglecting his right to Vote, until Andrew Jackson's time, when the hero of New Orleans won his admiration, which led him to the ballot-box In support of this great Democratic soldier. Since that time each political battle has found Mr. Hancock in the front ranks of Democracy. Lafayette has increased the liquor license to $250, the limit of the law. Wm. M Axn a cm. now a lunatic, confessed to his wife, before he became insane. that he was one of the murderers of Mrs. Foreman and her daughter, near Indianapolis. Joski’H P. Tititoor has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Seventh District of Indiana A verdict has finally been reached in the Snyder insanity case at Columbus. The trial occupied several ^fcs. and attracted wide attention. Mr^'atherine Snyder, the defendant, was declared by the jury to he of sous£ mindmuul capable of transacting business. ^iis decision gives the Ilartsville College the legal right to keep the twenty thousand dollar donation made the institution by Mrs. SnVder. The attorneys for the plaintiff have made a motion for a new trial. Inspector H. Wkm.van smoked a cigar while testing natural gas in a building at Fort Wayne. The gas ignited from the cigar, and caused an explosion. Wellman was horribly burned. Major George W. Steele, whose name hits recently been mentioned in connection with the Pension Commissionership. was thrown from a buggy near Marion and had an arm broken. Oscar Smith, living east of Montpelier, fell and broke his thigh some weeks ago. His mother, who lives at Dunkirk, came to see him. and when he was showing her how he broke it, he fell and broke it in the same place ..gain. There is a school district in 1’nion Township, Montgomery County, in which there are only two girls of school age, and neither one of them attended school, which is one composed of about thirty boys. Mrs. Wm. Eddy fell ir» a fit into a fireplace. near^Terre Haute, and was dangerously burned. Jos. SitAFrr.it, of Hanover To wnship, Jefferson County, has probably the oldest chicken in the State, it loing 18 years old last spring. Mr. Shafer set the eggs himself, and can certify to the fact. Horace Sebring, who poisoned an entire family at Three Oaks, for the purpose of securing possession of property in order that he might marry a girl who refused him because of his poverty, has "been sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment. Near Jeffersonville, the other night, James lllshop shot and killed Charles Phipps. They were at a dance. Itishop was abusing his wife and threatening tc beat her, when Phipps interfered, and the shooting followed. A cow belonging to Mrs. Brown, ol Scott Township, Harrison County, gave birth to a calf the other day which has four eyes, four nostrils and four ear% and a mouth like a fish. The monstrosity ia ali ve.

A kecext enumeration of the manufacturing industries of Muncie shows that since the introduction of natural gas as fuel there have been located there twenty-six factories, with an aggregate capital invested of $1,933,000, and employing 3,1»S persons. Thf. jury disagreed in the case of Exra Farr, one of the alleged White Caps charged with whipping a woman and her daughter, near Marion, last July. Cholera has become prevalent among the hogs in Steuben County, and they are dying by the hundreds. A GKAVRrY Alto insurance company of Elkhart is doing a land-office business in Richland Township, Steuben County. Fifteen thousand bushels of apples have already been shipped from Steuben County. The apple and potato crop there is enormous. The Washington County teachers have determined to erect a monument to the late Trof. James G. May, the famous old school master of Salem. Isham Hamms, of Knightsvillo, was seriously, though perhaps not fatally, hurt by a random ball fired from a gun in McUurdy's saloon. Itraxil. The general store of Rider A Swape, at Seymour, was robbed of several hundred dollars’ wort h of goods the other night Rtmtu. Bose, who a few days ago leftMarion. with a cross-cut saw. maul and wedge, belonging to Thomas Marks, also vrith the latter’s wife, has been arrested for grand larceny. Cox«re.«shax-ki.kct Cooper, of Indiana. has filed a suit gainst the Union Bail way Company, of Indianapolis, for §7,000 damages, for personal injuries. He charges that he was assaulted by the gateman while attempting to make a train one day last August. At Marion, Mrs. Catharine Lenfestey was declared insane, and was removed to the asylum at Indianapolis. Her insanity is the result of religious excitement Jas. Stalxbatch, aged sixteen years, who attempted to murder his father by splitting his head open with a hatchet, at Laporte, has been seat to the Michigan City penitentiary for six years. He Is the youngest convict in Indiana, and attributes his trouble to drink. Dr. Labix Palmep of Knightsville, celebrated his eightieth birthday a few days ago. The doctor is still able to attend to his practice, and very frequently ftIlls the pulpit in the Christian chore h, of which he is an active worker. W j bash College students have formed a foot ball club, and will enter the coip

THE PENSION OFFICE. Q«n«ral Green B. JUam, of Illinois, pointed CumnlMioiwr of Pension* SuttfiMl Corporal Tnnter—The Commissioner's Military nud Record. Wassuxotox, Oct. 19.—The Presii to-day settled the long controversy the appointment of a Commissioner Pensions to succeed James_ resigned, by the appointment of P~ B. Raum. of Illinois, ex-member of gress and ex-Commissioner of I: Revenue. The impression prevailed t days ago that Mr. Poole, of New To IronUl be appointed. This impress: was based on the hopeful eXpr. sions Senator Hiscock, who is 1 Poole’j principal supporter, a Who felt confident poiutmenb In none about the succession Tanner had the ”•">>« of Mr. Raum A of the a of the speculate » «o Commission

General Green B. Banin. nred prominently until lost night, an then the possibility of his appointmen was discussed by tew. It was at on time suggested that Mr. Masou, the Com mlsstoner of Internal Revenue, might b transferred to the head of the Pensio Office, and Mr. Katim succeed him a Commissioner of Internal Revenue. M: Ranm's appointment as Commission* of Pensions, announced early this morn iug, came as a geuuine surprise to mo; of those interested. Mr. Ranra was born in Gnleonda, Ills | December 3, 1820. He was admitted the bar in 1853. In 1856 he removed wit his family to Kansas, where he mat himself obnoxious to the pro-slaver taction. The following year he returns to Illinois and settled at Harrisburg. E § entered the armv as Major of the Kift sixth Illinois regiment. He was mai 8 Brigadler-Oeneral»f Volunteers on Fe ruary 15. 1865, which commission he r 4 resigned May 6. In 1866 he obtained ■£ charter tor the Cairo & Vincannep Rat 4 road Company, of which he was the fir !? president. He served in Congre from March 4. 1867, till Mar » 8, 1869. Iu 1876 he was pres dent of the Illinois Republican co. vention, and in the same year a delega to the National convention of the Repui lican party at Cincinnati He was ap pointed Commissioner of Internal Hj!’ enne August 3, 1876, and retained the o: fice till May 31, 1883. During this part he collected $3V<KK).00) and disbar* f 1 $30,000,000 without loss. Ou his retiremi I | from the Internal Revenue Bureau Ge eral Ilaum began the practioe of luw ?■ the District or Columbia, which he L continued until the present day. TriY sugar" king. Claus Spreckele Denim the stories of i IntoixM Co-Operation with the Su f Triut-lle Doe* Not Need As«lfttun«K ^ Run His Radioes*, and Uaa No U*e r the Sugar Trust. Philadelphia.Oct. 20.~Claus Bpreck , the sugar refiuer, will at ouce set to w t to make preparations for opening his g refinery here. Mr. Sprockets said :t night that false reports to the effeot t he will not operate his refiaery 1 e been put in circulation. , He coUtradi d these reports and said that the refi y would not be built to be sold, alth< h he had received several proposals tc at end; that so far as ho was conce d there has been no collnsiou, nor att. pt at collusion between the Sugar Trust id himself. He said further: “As long as I am alive it Is my It a • tiou to engage in business entire IQ. >u my own account, and without the' h inference or co-operation of any otht adividuals. I dp not need and never ve needed assistance from others, and I rtainly have no use for the Sugar 1 st The experience of the past two year as shown that those who refused to joi he trust have acted wisely aud fared ry much better than those who were f« ish enough to enter into such an illegal mbiuation.” ' _ Governor Foraker of Ohio Sr. ulj 11L Columbus, O., Oct 20. — Go- aoi Foraker is quite sick aud confined his

(ttni al iuc DwuuMfw Mansion. Ho was attacked with a mild form of dysentery on Thursday afternoon after his return from . Cleveland, ■ where he £ delivered an ad-^ dress. He was able to be at his office in

the State House,how- «;«remor ro ever, until Friday evening. when came more seriously ill. His phy ( state he is also threatened witl tonitU, but would probably esc damaging effects of that disease, was no change in his condition night last night. | be* ians mriany here Disastrous Explosion In a Choctaa Coal Slsa Fobt 8hith. Ark, Oct. 2L—-A trons explosion occurred yes ter coal mine at Bryant 8witcb, flft from here, lu the Choctaw Mat miner’s lamp came in contact wi of powder. The explosion of the caused an explosion of coal dn set the mine on fire. Sixteen r in the mine, the shaft of whic feet deep. The work of rescuinf fortunaies was completed abo yesterday evening. All of tht taken out more or less injure* were horribly burned, and at oounts were not expected to Daring Rubbery. Nashville, Team. Oct. JL—A lean special from Jackson says express robbery took place he day night. It was not discover yesterday morning by Sam transfer clerk, who sleeps in tl fer office. The amount stolen w The work was done by prof* They entered the building frost the floor, or white the express m. being pat in Saturday night, ere ted themselves. The’mono; an old safe which locked witl while Crecvy was asleep the tsken from his pocket, the looked, and the thieves had an tng time. neath The Congo Free I _Oct. -.. Bpfl Janssen of tne Congo Free I that eighty chiefs have recog. authority of the State and jut prey de men to assist in der. They also agree l~ practice of making human i the

FORAKER'S LATEST LIE. (be Arrant Falsehood with Which Be Triod to Deceive the Farmers. We quote from a report in the Com-taerciat-Gnzetto of A speech by Governor For&ker: Be then, with many homely and apt illnstra* 1‘ons, demonstrated that the protective tariff increased the purchasing power ot the farmer —had caused him to get more for his productions—whUo nearly ever^manufactured article that he purchased is aow much cheaper than under tree trade.What an utterly irreclaimable demagogue this man Foraker is! Many manufactured articles are now cheaper than they were when the high tariff policy was adopted. Of course they are. Every body know thia And every intelligent man knows, too, that the protectlvo tariff has had no more to do with cheapwing them than the gulf stream Ks had. The proof of this is at our handa It amounts to a demonstration. It consists in the fact that there is not a single article in the whole range of commodities—not one— whether it is “protected" or not— which has fallen in price in this country under protection, unless there has been an equal or greater decline in the price of the same article in England under “free trade.” Governor Foraker knows this fact Every man ot average intelligence knows it. Knowing this fact. Governor Foraker simply exhibits himself as a lying demagogue whon he tells the people that protection has cheapened the prices ot manufactured commodities. He also knows, as everybody else knows who can read, that the farmor gets very much less for his products than ho did in “tree trade times.” The following table shows (1) tho average prices of tho leading farm products in the New York market in 1860, the last year of the “free trade” epoch and (2) the quotations now current in tho New York markets for the same products: s pt. i s». f Anns', tam. 8 pt. fSW. Wheat..:.B.45 ~ Oats. 46* Butter.... 16 Cora. 81* CUeese... 11 Lard.. 10* The comparison might be extended through tho entire list of farm products with the samo result ’And yet Foraker tells the Ohio farmor that “the protective tariff has caused him to get more for his productions.” Is it possible the Ohio farmer is so ignorant as to bo deceived by such an arrant falsehood?—Indianapolis Sentinel. THE RECENT VICTORIES. 4 Connecticut Revolution Due to the Australian Ballot System. The revolution in Norwich, the Republican stronghold in Connecticut, is a triumph of the Australian ballot over bulldozing. For twenty years the Republican factory lords of Norwich have kept it Republican by the suppression of the Democratic majority. Nowhere in the Union has there been as much intimidation practiced as in these New England factory towns of which Norwich is typical. The factory foreman and the spies of the factory owners, following the operatives to the polls, have forced them to vote the Republican ticket under penalty of discharge. Under this system Norwich gained a reputation through New England as “the citadel of Connecticut Republicanism.” It had not given a Democratic majority since tho war until the other Monday, when, with tho secret ballot in us© for the first time, the pressure was removed from the suppressed majority and it asserted itself. The overseers aad spies were kept away from the polls. The votors wore securely guarded from espionage in close polling booths, and when the vote was counted it was found that class despotism had been overthrown and an end put to the long reign of Republican intimidation. Similar results followod the introduction ot tho Australian system in other towns. In Waterbury tho Democrats “made a clean sweep,” and In the light of such results there is no reason to doubt that with a free ballot, donnecticut will be as safely Dem

ocratlc as new jersey is. Tho usefulness of the Australian ballot has been demonstrated in Montana as well as in Connecticut. Though the vote subject to undue control is much smaller proportionately in the former State, there is reason to bolievo that the Montana Democrats owe the election of their Governor and of a Democratic Legislature to the secret ballot, which operates as a check on bribery as well as on intimidation. The strength ot the Democratic party lies in a “free ballot and fair count,’* in the education of the voter and in his protection in the exercise of the franchise. That the Australian ballot goes a long way towards insuring free and honest government there is no room to doubt after the result in Norwich. — St Louis Republic. THE PARTY" UNITED., Fidelity of the OemoeTaer Kverywhere to Its Political Fhlth. The Democrats in all the States stand together in this off year and as-, sert their fidelity to their political faith. The party, being Democratic, believes that all legislation should be for the good of all the people, and it opposes as undemocratic and unjust all taxation Intended to lay burdens upon the masses for the benefit of a monopolistic class. It believes in tariff reform as a measure of simple justice and pressing necessity, and a year ago it said so with emphasis in its National platform.. Having a conscience as well as a conviction, the party stands by that declaration of truth in spite of the fears of the timid and the counsels of tile corrupt. In New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Iowa, in short in every State in which a Democratic Convention has been neld this year, the platform has reaffirmed the utterance of the National Convention on this subject There is no “crawfishing," no cowardice, no turning backward. The party is not “getting together:” it is seeping together in defense of principle and of the right of the people as igainst the preteatloa* of

SOME TARIFF FACTS. Sasmtor Allison’s Frotostattoas and ka< a tor AlUsoa's Sonata B1U. Mr. Allison tells us that the rich pay the duties on woolen goods he* cause only the most costly goods are imported. That the Iowa Senator means to make this statement true, though it Is not quite true now, will appear from a comparison of some of the rates under the present law with those proposed by the Allison Senate bill last year. The ad valorem equivalents of the present and proposed duties are from an official computation based on the importations of the fiscal year 1887. Woolen cloths, cheapest, under the present law 89.84 per cent, under the Allison bill, 10^.66 per cent.; dearest, now 68.91 per cent., Allison. 73.04. Flannels, cheapest, now 67.65 per cent., Allison. 94.41.; dearest, now 78.02, Allison, 77.73. Blankets, cheapest, now 69.36 percent., Allison, 95.22; dearest, now 70.80, Allison, 74.65. Wool hats, cheapest, now 66.22 per cent., Allison, 92.03; dearest, now 52.07, Allison, 53.82. Knit goods, cheapest, now 83. S3 per cent, Allison, 253.33; dearest now 62.58, Allison, 70.80. Womens’ and childrens’ dress goods, choapest now 67.89 per cent, Allison, 8625; dearest, now 69.68, Allison. 7392. It will be seen that the Allison bill in every instance increases the rate on the choaper goads far more than on the dearest It is plain that Mr. Allison does not mean to have the masses ot the people, whose inoomes are small, pay anything into the Treasury on woolen goods. But he means to have thorn pay much more than they now do to the “infant” woolen mills. Thp house bill provided for a uniform rate of 40 per cent on all thaso goods. This is eight times as high as the duty under the first tariff, 1789; but just contrast it for a moment with Mr. Allison's 258.33 per cent on cheap knit goods! And yet the wco’en-mill industry is just a century older than it was, when the first tariff was enacted. Such is Mr. Allison’s poor ma«’» tariff.—Chicago Times. < FREE RAW MATERIAL. Sound Paragraphs Taken (Tom Iho Mult, ohnsotu Democratic Platform. We declare our continued and hearty support of the cause of tariff reform, for which we then contendecLand our firm conviction of its succeA in the future. Wo reaffirm our free We believe that ire^wool as vided for in the bill passed by the Democratic majority of the last House of Representatives is essential to the prosperity of the woolen industry, upon which that of the wool grower is dependent, while it will afford relief to all consumers of woolen goods. We call the particular attention of the farmers of this State, who have borne the heavy burden of high tariff, taxation without any of the prosperity promised them, to the reliot they wM receive through the reduction of customs taxes upon articles -srhich wo consume. .. We give our hearty support to thA\ petition of the prosent Republican Governor of this State, and other loading iron and steel manufacturers of both political parties addressed to the New England members of Congress, asking, for free coal and iron ore and lower duties upon pig Iron, and we commend their efforts to save this important industry threatened with extermination in our section of the country through failure to adapt tariff duties to the changed conditions of the iron market. We demand that all materials for shipbuilding, whether of metal or a wood, be relieved from tho heavy taxation now imposed upon them, and made free of duty, to the end that American shipbuilders may be placed in a better position to construct ships capable of competing upon tho ocean with those of foreign countries.—Platform of the Massachusetts Democracy

NOTES AND COMMENTS. -Grover Cleveland still lives and will live to carry out his brave and honest theories as the leader of the Democratic party. — Natchez Democrat. -Is there a laborer in all this broad land who can show that his wages have been raised in consequence of a protective tariff?—Sullivi (Ind.) Democrat. \ -“Wen I does a favor for a Si dern Democrat," remarked Uncle Zeke, yesterday, “he gimme a dime or a quarter and say nuttin. Wen 1 does a favor for a Nordern Republikin, he gimme some good advioe and say: •God bless yer, my brudder.’ ”—Jacksonville (Fla) Times-Union. -True to the conditions and practical politics of the party, the Republicans of Montana are now attempting to steal the recent election in that State. In their effort to this, end they are incited by the Republican press of the country. A party that once stole the Presidency will not have many scruples about stealing an election in an incipient State, and to that end their efforts are now directed. The election in Montana was closo, but on all the returns the Democrats have carried it Nevertheless, contests are to be raised aad doubts suggested, so as to keep Montana out of the Union unless itxcan come in as a Republican State.—Chicago Herald. iso- . vao^fl What Iowa May Do Next-Month. The sound old Republican Philadelphia Telegraph gives Harrison an uncomfortable piece of intelligence from the Northwest 'which is by no means calculated to conduoe to his personal comfort: . „ The political situation in Tows Menu to be gsttlng In s very remarkable shape. Governor Larrabee is undoubtedly one ol the strongest men in the State, and bis recent indorsement ot the views of the Democratic candidate for Governor on the transportation question, approved as they have been by other leading Republicans, has, naturally, sorely disturbed^the managers, and caused great throughout the that the Iowa granger has got this year, to: Democrats Gibraltar of the ■