Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 February 1890 — Page 1

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of tho Doily Nows. CONGRESSIONAL. A PETITION was presented in th® Senate on the lOtli from tho Indianapolis Board of Trade favoring the repeal of the Inter State Commerce law. Bills were reported and placed on the calendar for various public buildings, the aggregate appropriations for which amount to over $2,000,000. The Oklahoma bill was then taken up. Mr. Plumb offered an amendment bringing NbrMan'sland under the jurisdiction of the proposed Territory. Pending debate on the amendment the billl wa9 laid aside, and Senator Blair resumed his remarks on the Educational bilL Several bills, local In their character, passed and tlie Senate adjourned .... T£he House agreed to the conference report on the bill to remove snags from the Missouri river, (it appropriates $75/*) >)» «n(1 Committee on Rules reported. The rufes were discu-sed until adjournment. ; After the introduction of bills on the 11th the S«-u»tc resumed consideration of the Oklahoma bill, the pending question being Blr. Plumb’s amendment extending jurisdiction over No-Man’s l*and. A long debate followed and no final vote was reached. Mr. Hoar introduced a Congressional Election bill. The Senate bill appropriating *100,(4» for a public building at Beatrice, Neb., passed, and the Educational bill was debated until adjournment—In the Hoyso the journal was improved by the Speaker “seeing” a quorum, and the new rules were ag tin discussed. .After a lengthy debate the demand of Mr. Cannon (I1L) for the previous question was refused and Mr. Springer's motion that a final vote be taken Friday was carr'ed and the House adjourned. Wiien the Senate met on the 12th the joint resolution congratulating Brazil upon the establishing ota Republic was taken up and passed unanimously- A resolution requesting the President to invite the King of the b Hawaiian islands to select delegates tc the Pan-American congress also passed. Alter an executive session the Senate adjourned. ... .The House continued the debate on the ne w rules, no other business being in order until the rules are disposed of. The Senate on the 13th resumed consideration of the Oklahoma bill. After a lengthy ; debate Mr. Plumb’s amendment including No-Man’s-Land within the jurisdiction of the ^^irew-Territcry was finally adopted by a vote of 27 to 16. An amendment by Senator Plumb to attach the Cherokee Outlet to the n«*w Territory for judicial purposes was rejected. An Amendment prohibiting ftac issuing of bonds to railroads was adopted and the bill passed as amended...•.‘.The House unanimously passed the'Senate joint resolution congratulating the people of the United

fumes <•! llrazil upon tna adoption oi a repnblican form of government Tlio rules were then ilebated until adjournment. At the expiration of the morning hour the 3enate on the 1UU proceeded to the ronsideration of bills on the calendar ami passed sixty bills. . Among the hilts passed was that for the relief of soldiers and sailors who enlisted un* .del* assumed names, and the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases from one State to another. Most of the hills passed were local in tlii'lr nature. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. l’he House continued the debate on the new rules and at live o'clock the question was ordered and the rules adopted by a strict party,-vote, 11 to 115, and the House ad journed.___■ * WASHINGTON NOTES. Senator Inoali.s recently received a cartridge loaded with powder and buckshot accompanied with a threatening - note from Jackson, Miss. Henry .T. Fanz, the victim of theoutrage at Aberdeen, Miss., arrived at Washington on the 11th. Tin: President, it was said, was ready to issue a proclamation pardoning and restoring to citizenship deserters from? the army. The number of desertions since 1867, the period to he included in ;he proposed pardon, is about 97,090. Thomas J. Morgan has been con3rmed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, rhe vote stood 2S to 16. Secretary Blatne has resumed his official duties at the State Department. Senator Gorman is suffering from inluenza in Washington. The President has authorized the immediate expenditure of 53,000 for the relief of tho Devil’s Lake Indians. Dorchester, for Indian School Supers ntendent, has been confirmed by the Senate. The decision of the Inter-State Commcice Commission in the celebrated rattle case of the Rock Island vs. the Chicago & Alton was in favor of the Alton. _ TIIE EAST. G. W. Poode’s gelding St. Nick broke his leg in a race at feuttenberg, N. Y., and was shot 11 was a valuable horse, well known in Kansas.5 His rider, Soden, was badly jarred, hut not dangerously hurt The village of Camden, N. Y., was reported on fire on the night of the 12th. Presence of mind and coolness of the Mothey Superior of the Roman Catholic Orphfm Asylum, opposite the Vanderbilt mansion, New York, the other day saved the 414 orphan boys on a fire breaking out, which did 510,000 damage. New York City’s aldermen have unanimously passed a resolution for an opinion by the corporation counsel as to the legality of an issue of bonds for a World’s Fair without action by the State Assembly. The laying of the corner stone of Andre',v Carnegie’s library at Allegheny City, Pa., has been postponed at the request of President Harrison. A c.i<;antic miners’ strike throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois is thought probable. By tho explosion of the boiler of a moving locomotive on the McKeesport railroad, near Douglass, Pa., two men were killed and three badly hurt. Robert Garrett, late of the B. & O., has been spirited away from hisconntry ... seat in charge of two doctors. Relatives are ignorant of his whereabouts. Philadelphia merchants have adopted resolutions condemning the McKinley Customs bill. Application has been made by the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company of New York for the appointment of a receiver for the Missouri Central Railroad Company. __

THIC WEST. Tbf. body of Edward Grant has boon found under a manure pile near Edmund, Ok. He had been murdered for? his claim. Ho was a native of Canada. The election at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 10th went decidedly in favor dt the Liberal or Gentile party, the Mormons being defeated by two to one. Much bitterness prevailed, but no fights occurred. A North Dakota‘Senate special committee has begun the investigation of the charges of bribery in connection with the lottery bill. Nothing was developed at the first sitting. Andhew Gottscuai.h, ex-treasurer of Adams County, Ind., has been found to have embezzled $10,000. He had speculated with the funds. L J - , The Fish- Bros.’ Wagon Company, of Kacine, Wis., have refused to prosecute W. At Booth, the old secretary, who ran away in October, 18gS, with $10,000 and was lately found in California. The semi-annual convention of the National Electric Light Association commenced at Kansas City, Mo., on the 11th. The Superintendent of the Census Kumplains of St. Louis officials who are fetniw In furnishing Information*

Tuehk was a forest rush into *so Kiour reservation as soon as the President’s proclamation was announced on the 10th at Chamberlain, S. D. The Indian police stood amasied and powerless as the invading hosts rushed in. FntE in Fort Collins, Col., the other night destroyed property worth -$45,000. Suit has been begun at Des Moines, Iowa, to compel the Rock Island & Bui*' lington, Cedar Rapids & Northern railroads to furnish the State a list of stockholders and other lawful information. The engine of a construction train ran into a caboose at great spoed near Lagerville, Cal,, recently and three men. on the cowcatcher were killed. The accident was due to the engineer losing control of the engine. A boy broket his father's neck near Greasy Ridge, O., while* protec ting his mother from assault. The old man went for his son with a pokor, but a blow from a chair ended his life. Tiikee thousand persons were at Central Music Hall, Chicago, on the night of the 12th to celebrate the eighty-first birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Tub St. Louis, Indianapolis & Faatern railroad of Indiana and Illinois has been consolidated under one management. By the recent flood in Oregon a man named Turner was drowned and Mrs. John Andrews was billed by a landslide near Simslard. The damage in that vicinity aggregated Sol,000. James W. Sykes, the ex-Chicago seed warehouseman convicted of defrauding a loan company by false warehouse receipts, has been granted a new trial on technical grounds. The lqggo factory of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Jlrush Company took fire the other morning and a fierce wind soon swept the flames into the works of the Grand Rapids Parlor Furniture Company and both were destroyed. The losses were heavy. As aged woman was burned to death recently in a fire at5 Oliver Behway’s house at Central Lake, Mich. Bisnor Fisk, of the Leavenworth diocese, has issued a pastoral declaring that no Catholic can become a member of the Farmers’ Alliance. A street car was smashed by a Pan

handle train at Newark, O., recently. A man and a woman were fatally injured. A roRTJON of the great Farwell building, Adams and Market streets, Chicago, was destroyed by fire recently. The loss footed up nearly $500,000 and would have,been immense but for a fire-prodf wall. Lawlessness was said to be on the increase in the newly-opened Sioux rcsservation. Eugene Callahan, eighteen years old, at Cheyenne, YV'yo., recently unsuccessfully attempted the life of his sixteen-year-old sweetheart and then shot and killed himself. The engineer and fireman of a Monon passenger train were both killed at Mitchell, Ind., by a collision on the 14th. The mail agent was fatally, injured. Six or seven others were seriously hurt. The Denver (Col. ) police have arrested two men charged with conspiring to kidnap ex-Senatot Tabor and hold him for $50,000 ransom. The deadlock in the Iowa Rouse continued unbroken on the 14th. Milton E. Page, manufacturer of confections, of Chicago, has failed for $150,000. J The Sixth annual convention of the Electric Light Association ended at Kansas City, Mo., on the 14th. M. J. Perry was elected president. THE SOUTH. Twenty-two thousand negroes have been sent out of -North Carolina by labor agents. > • IIox. William Powelt, Clayton’s views on the race question differ widely from those entertained by the late Henry W. Grady. His idea is to give perfect freedom of action to the negroes in the South instead, of hampering them in many directions sis at' present. By a collision on tho Alabama & Great Southern road between a southbound special excursion train to New Orleans, on the 12th, and the northbound Tuscaloosa accommodation train, Engineer Edward Doolittle was killed and some ten or fifteen persons on the accommolation were hurt. The Saengerfest opened brilliantly at New' Orleans on the 12th. F-isom two t° fourteen inches of snow fell in Northern and Western Texas on the 12th. It was hailed as a blessing as the ground w'as very dry. Sam Jones, the evangelist, it is said, will locate on the valuable ranch he has bought for himself in Kentucky, near Eminence. An awful story is reported fromCrawfordsville,, Ark. A young man named Corvette outraged and murdered a young lady relative and was seized by an in-' furiated mob, who chopped him up and burned the remains. ,, A Mrs. Dana, of Tennessee, is the latest claimant tS the millions left by Thomas L. Bean, the mysterious Texas cattle magnate. She claims that he was her brother and his real name was Sanders. The long overdue steamship Domira, from Glasgow, December 81, for Baltimore, has reached port after a terrible experience. One seaman was lost. The citizens of Mobile, Ala., have sub

scribed 5250,000 to the preferred stock of the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City railroad. Work from-Mobile will be at once begun. A cyclone swept over the parish east of Carroll, La., on the 14th, injuring property and live-stock and hurting a number of people, but fortunately causing no loss of life. A young man named Tom James, formerly of Kansas City, was killed by another young man named Bazina in a pugilistic encounter of four rounds, while the Muldoon-Kilrain show was at Dallas, Tex., recently. James had received a terrific undercut blow and wan knocked senseless until his death. Bhown Brothers & Co., perfumers of Baltimore, have failed,, with 5100,000 liabilities. i W. R. Saunders, a deputy United States marshal, has lieen assassinated, in Gadsden County, Fir. GENERAL. An enormous meeting of Repute licans was dispersed by the police and troops at Lisbon on the 11th after some fighting. The dock-laborers of Dundee, Scotland, won their strike for .increased wages. The Bank of England will not issue one pound notes. The British Parlinment was convened on the llth. Nothing of particular interest was mentioned in the Queen’s speech. • V A flint gllass tableware-trust is forming. The Brazilian Minister of the Interior has resigned because of a disagreement with General FonseiJb

Hr a landslide near Alsea, Ore., Robert Brown was killed and three »ther persons were hurt. A ciphkl ■ letter has been received in Paris giving news of incredible outrages on political prisoners in Eastern Silieria. won ten being flogged and driven to suicide. A massacre of convicts was retorted afU r a revolt The Strain -s orchestra of Vienna, under engage ment for a tour in the United States, is thought to be barred out by the Con tract Labor law. The Emperor of Germany has forbidlon the exhibit'on of portraits Of himself, bis family or bis ancestors wSthdut his sanction. . The Catholics in Ontario, Can., aro taking united action against the abolition of separate schools. The Duke of Orleans, charged with entering France in violation of the Exclusion law, was sentenced to two years in jail. There was Some demonstration outside the court but the police dispersed the crowd. Owing to the rescripts recently issued by Emperor William to Prince Bismarck and Baron von Berlepech, Prussian Minister of Commerce, in regard to the labor question, and his Majesty’s censures of the doings of the political police, Geiman Socialists have withdrawn their decision to organize a universal labor strike in May. » It is said that King Mgwanda has regained his authority in Uganda, has destroyed the slavo dhows and is friendly with the Christians. Mount J5po, - near Fukuyama, Japan, was; in eruption recently. Only one man lost his life, but some stock was killed and fifty houses were destroyed The Count of Paris, who, with the Duke do Chartres^ was a passenger bound for Vein Cruz, arrived at Porjto Bico on the 12tli where he received intelligence of the arrest of his son, the Duke of Orleans. He immediately sent a cable dispatch saying: “My heart is with my dear prisoner.” It is reported in London that the Government will drop the subject of assisted education for this session of Parliament.

1HE report oi tne rarneu i ommission way laid before the British Parliament 09 the 18th. In substance it fully exonerates Parnell from the grave charges of the London Times, but condemns the Land Lea gate for being under the influence of those conniving at dynamite outrages. The European holders of Peruvian bonds have decided to accept the Grace contract recently made hy Peru. The fourteen-gun British steel and iron corvette Conquest has gone on the rocks of the island of Pemba, above Zanzibar, and will probably prove a total loss. The fugitive Walton, who stole 885,000 from the Pacific Express Company at Dallas, Tex., has been traced to Toronto, Ont. Portuguese Conservatives are of the opinion that danger of a Republican revolution has passed. Tjik Sultan of Zanzibar is dead. His death was sudden and gave rise to sinister rumors. He was succeeded by his brother. ■ Advices have been received that the troops of King Menelek, of Abyssinia, have had an engagement "dth the forces ifl A*, r, 1 Hnfl A Itlln n r, a of General Ras Alula. * battle was a severe one and Ras Alula was dangerously wounded and his army defeated. Dispatches state that Emin Pasha was reluctant to leave Bagamoyo and that now he is grieved and expresses amazement at Stanley’s statement. At Pontivy, France, the other day the vehicle conveying a bride and groom and a. number.of their friends was upsetand the whole party were precipitated into the river. The bride and bridegroom and ten others of the party were drowned. * , Business failures-(Dun’s report) for the seven days ended February 13 numbered 302, compared with 811 the previous week ami 289 the corresponding week of last year. TnE Earl of Sidney is dead. An unknown lumber laden ship went to pieces on Vancouver island, B. C., rertnnflv end oil illn nronr nmno lnaf * cently and all the crew were lost. Tiie death of the Sultan of Zanzibar was attributed to sunstroke. The great university at Toronto, Ont, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, 8500,000; insurance, 8164,000. TILE latest. The Senate was not in session on the i5th.:...ln the House the first 'application of the new rules was made against several Republican members, who, com* irig in late, were refused- permission to record their votes in approval of the journal of the previous day. The Senate amendments to House bill fixing duty on ribbons were concurred in. Senate bill providing for the ascertainment of the mortgage indebtedness of the country was amended and adopted. Publio businoss was then suspended, and the House listened to eulogies of the late Representative Richard W. Townshend, of Illinois, after which, as a mark of respect to the memory of deceased, the House adjourned. Cardinal Manning, writing in the Deutsche Revue, of London, on Emperor William’s labor rescripts, says: "I think this Imperial act the wisest and worthiest that has proceeded from any

sovereign in our times. The conditions of the wage-earners in every ^European country is such as to form a grave danger to every European state. The Supreme Court of Montana decided, «n the 15th, that the State officers may draw their salaries without any appropriation being made by the Legislature, as the constitution fixes the rate of their compensation. The State treasury contains 840,000. ^Repeated attempts have been made to burglarize the office of the Utah Commission, at Salt Lake City, supposed to be by Mormons anxious to procure the •egistration books. For the first time in tbe history of Denver, Col., all the liquor saloons were closed on Sunday, the 16th. This was in accordance with a recent decision of the Supreme Court. One or two restaurants dispensed liquors to their patrons, but the law relating to-the saloons was itrictly enforced. • The Edison Illuminating Company’s stock has been increased from $2,500,000 to $4,500,000. “Is TalmaSe a Humbug?" is the subject of a five-column article in the New York Sun of the 16th. Reports from Mille Lac lake, in adranco of the report of the visiting commission headed by Dr. Howes, are of a very alarming character as to destitution and disease, the latter largely “la grippe,” but singularly fatal, and equal to an epidemio of small-pox:. In some cases whole encampments have been down with not enough well Indians to feed the sick, even if they bad food, which they have not. The next Ssengerfest will be held at Cleveland, (X, in 18$3, >

STATE INTELLIGENCE. The drowning of Wm. Henthorne, some days ago, at Ivemps’ Mills, Brown County, is to be in vestigated, as there are suspicions of foul play. 4 Samuel Jackson, in a fit of desportdency caused by an attack of la grippe, tried to commit suicide at Huntington. A BNF.it H. Bowen, an old-time banker of Delphi, is dead, at the age of 75. lie was one of the wealthiest men ip Indiana Two men, on their way to the penitentiary, escaped from the sheriff at Newcastle. TiiA Bass murder trial, which had been in progress at Bedford^for a week, ended on the 11th in ^disagreement, after being out forty-efeht hours, and the court discharged the* jury. A majority favored acquittal, on the grounds that Lynn was killed because of threats he had made. Two-an d-oke-half ounces of arsenic were found in the stomach of Jacob Eborle, of Peru, who had been dead two years. Five of the assailants of Eli Ladd, at Blountsville, are in jail, and warrants have been issued for four others. A colored tough who tried to take the town of blountsville, was pursued and riddled with bullets. ■» The Supreme Court of Indiana hasdeclared the Barrett improvement law constitutional. Chapman Harris, the celebrated colored Abolitionist, died at Madison, agedfejghty-eight years. Superintendents of Departments were elected the other day by the Indiana Board of Agriculture. The other evening, at Fairland, dynamite was put tinder a frame building used as a saloon by a John B. Joyce, and an explosion occurred which shook the whole town. Joyce was selling by the quart, the commissioners havingrefused him a license:

Postmaster Uauntt, oi Marion, nas appointed John Watts, Noah lSurdon, Melvin Stow and Cooper Jay, mail-car-riers under the free delivery system, which takes effect March 1. Miss Susie Lew ark, a young lady prominent in society circles, Indianapolis, died from a fright which she received two weeks before. She was recovering from the grippe, whon one evening she saw a man’s face covAfed with a white mask at the window. The fright unsettled her mind. Brain fever resulted and death followed. Oscak Suable, aged seventeen, living five miles north of Montpelier,‘Hied from the effects of an injury sustained in playing in a base-ball game two weeks ago. He was hatting and struck at a ball with great force, missed it and sustained a violent wrench and rupture of the abdominal cavity. Jennie Bailey, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, committed suicide near Columbus. Disappointment in love was the oause. The citizens of Mitchell are offering inducements to somo persons who will establish a canning factory there. Mbs. Susan Recobd, a native of Ohio, died at the county asylum, Crawfordsville, with the grip. She was 110 years old and had been an inmate of the institution since 1840. Wonk on the foundation of the Hen- - dricks monument at Indianapolis has been commenced. The Irondatb rolling-mills, employing two hundred men, began operation at Anderson a few days ago. Kokomo has organized a driving-park association, with a capital stock of ?15,000. Forty-two acres near the city limits havo been purchased for the park, which will be fitted up in handsome style. A lunatic assaulted several persons with clubs and stones, and tried to cremate himself in his cell at Martinsville. Two hogs, a calf and mule, belonging to John Seward, a farmer living near Columbus, died of hydrophobia the other day, having been bitten a week ago by a rabid dog. Andrew Gardiner was fatally shot while hunting near Wabash. Manuel JIVieira, the learned barber of Indianapolis, is dead Of injuries received by collision with an engine on the Union railway tracks. He' was a Portuguese, and could talk easily in twenty different languages. The Indianapolis Board of Trade, by an almost unanimous vote, has adopted a resolution favoring tho repeal of the Inter-State Commerce law. Aszman, convicted at Indianapolis of murdering Bertha Elff, has been sentenced'to be hanged May 23. Sister Mary Baptiste died at Peru a few days ago. The free delivery system has been extended to Marion. Charles Miller has been arrested for shooting Geargo Purdy, near Lebanon. Near Anderson, John Lauff beat his wife into insensibility with a club, and she may die. H. W. Piel has been appointed receiver of the dry goods firm of Deiiert & Sudbrock, at Indianapolis. Wiley and Wick Stewart, brothers, quarreled at a dance near Martinsville, , and tho latter was fatally stabbed by the former.

UwiNio to the prevalence ol spotted lover in West Indianapolis the public schools have been ordered closed. Wsi- F. Robinson blew off the top of his head with a shot-gun, near Vincennes. Evansville farmers despondently admit that their wheat has flies on it of the Hessian variety. The infant daughter of Wm. Major, a prominent resident of Shelby County, was terribly, burned the other night while in her mother's arms by the explosion of a hanging lamp under which she was sitting. Henby Patty accidentally filled his body with bird-shot, while out hunting, near Geetihgsvillo, Clinton .County. He walked home, but died shortly afterward. Henry Williams and George Cones, the two professional thieves and confidence men, were sentenced by Judge Conner, of Wabash, to one and three years respectively in the Northern prison. Andbew.Gallaoheh, of Indianapolis, who burglarised the When clothingstore, at Brazil, a few nights ago, was, on confessing guilt, sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary by the clay circuit court on the 7th. S. James, who stole a set of stone-cutter’s tools, was sentenced for one year. By a tic vote the Brazil Cpuncil has tableu « preposition to raise the liquor license from S100 to SI35. Ezra Gabo, a deaf life convict at the prison South, died a few days ago. He killed his wife and tried to cut his own throat, at Lawrenceburg, ip potohep, 1878. I V.

HALF A I^LLION LOS& bt«uln Fire lei Oh of the Fine** BitslHess Blocks CthsKo-i'onrrcle Fir* Wall* Prove "fh$ ii- Value by Preventing a »l0,000,0(10 Co nflagration—Tero Flrojneu Uiwtmi. % ' Chicago, iPoi*.; 13.—About 8:50 this morning fire origina ted in the Adams and Market street corner of the Farwe9l block, and before the flames were under control that section of the building was completely gutted from the top floor to the bottom. A first alarm was speedily succeeded by a second, then a third, and finally a 4-11 alarm was turned in, bringing engines from ! all parts of the city. Tho fire-tug Geyser came tc> the rescue and, anchoring at tho Adams street bridge, throw a heavy stream upon the biasing structure. The fire started in the pressing department of Work Bros., manufacturers of clothing and uniforms, on the sixth floor, and spread from ope floor to another With rapidity. It requiced the greatest exertion on the part of the Bremen to prevent the spread of the flames throughout the entitg block. A firewall running through .the block sixtysix feet from- Monroe street and another running parallel with the river one hundred and seveWfcv-five feet west of Market street, saveShhe north end of the building, occupied byJ. V. Farwell & Co. The firms *5rhich occupied the burned end of the building are Work Bros., manufacturers.of clothing and '.uniforms, and Taylor Bros.,, manufacturers of ha ts and caps. Mendel & Co., dealers in gentlemen's furnishing goods, occupied the basement, but do not lose any tiring. - Mr. Work said to an United Press reporter that the totakloas would be about $485,009. He thought this amount was fully covered by insurance. The Farwel block was built in sena

rate risks, eai h divided by thick concrete walls. The burned portion is one risk, and cost one-ninth of the whole cost of the bu ilding, or $100,000. Had not the concri l,e wall proved effective a $10,000,000 blaze would have resulted. M. Gimbel & t ons, occupying the next section north of the burned portion, suffered no loss. Thirty-two engines, seven chemicals and the two fire-boats Chicago and Geyser fairly drowned out t lie fire, flooding the streets and sewers. The fire was under control by 8:30. It is thought the fire originated from an overheated steam coil. The losses are: W< irk Bros. & Co., $325,000; Taylor Bros., $50,000; building, $100,000; Mendel Bros., $10,000. Insurance hot yet known, bu t it is believed the losses are fully cove -ed. Wm. Sallander, of truck No. 3, fell from a ladder striking on his head on the stone pa ’ement lie was terribly cut, bis skull fractured and he will probably die. John Meyers, of truck No. 1, fell with tho crashing; in of the third floor and was dragged out, unconscious. It is thought he will recover. Three other firemen were badly cut about the face and hands by flying glass, but not dangerously hurt A GUNPOWDER PLOT. I«nd«l FIrewr od Creates Havoc In tha Home of A' Grass Widow In Detroit, Mich. —A Member i f the Family Seriously Injured—Suspicion as to the Author of the Mischief. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 14.—An outrageous attompt, presumably upon the life of Mrs. Lipmeyer, of this city, occurred yesterday. As a result her mother is seriously, if nc t fa tally injured, and her house is badly wrecked. A year ago last October Mrs. Lipmeyer procured a divorce from h >r husband afnd' received at the same time his interest in her present homo, of which Lip meyer’s brother owned the remaining portion. There has beei continual strife etween Mrs. Lipmeyer and her brothe r-in-law since then. Hi has frequently threatened her life, and one time v olontly assaulted her. Yosterday morni ig some wood was put into a stove a id a fire started. Soma time afterward the neighborhood i ras startled by a l explosion which w®s heard for blocks. It came from tho Lipmeyer roaidci ice, and investigation showed that tho s ove was blown to atoms, practically, a id Mrs. Lipmcyer’s mother seriously in. tired. The cause of the explosion was immediately investigated. It wi s found that a strong odor of powder pervaded the house; further search disclosed a block of wood which had bee a borel to a depth of one foot and then mdition of the cavity showed only to< plainly I the presence of powder. II was a miraculous escape for the whoh family, who wero in the immediate vi initycf the stove'. Mrs. Lipmeyer is it a loss to account for the occurrence e icept by the theory of her; trouble with her j brother-in-law.

Au Infernal Ml _him1. PinhABELPHlA, Feb. 14.—Jc in McBride, of No. 1231 North Fourtl Btreet, received by mail yesterday a package postmarked in this city, whicl proved to be a paste-board box contair ng guncotton, powder, a match and sai 1-paper, so arranged that the apparent i itention was to have the opening of the box cause an explosion. The ma eh had, however, been placed too low or had been displaced in transit, an no explosion took place. Mr. McBride says he does 1 ot know who could have planned to in; ire him. A law-suit is pending betweei himself and his brother, but he could 1 irdly believe that the two facts had »ny connection. The authorities art investigating the matter. Discharged From Costotl f ■ Trenton, N. J., Feb. 14.—The grand jury, after considering the evidence in the mysterious Kniffin murder caso, yesterday afternoon reported to Justice Beasley, of the Mercer County Court. They found no bill against Dr. Kniflln nor Miss Pur3ell, who were charged by Detective Rilger with the murder. Lawyer Barton movod for the discharge of tho bondsmen. Prosecutor Stockton consented to tho discharge of tho sureties on Dr. Kniffin’s bond, but not those on Miss Pursell. Justice Beasley, however, ordered the release of the bondsmen in both cases. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster Urge* the ruasage of the Dlngley BUI. Washington, Feb. 14.—Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of the W. C, T. U., y stcrday addressed the committee of the P'uise on the alcoholic liquor truffle in favor of the passage of tho bill introduced in the blouse by Mr. Dingley tc provide for a committee on the subject of the alcoholic traffic, and the bill introduced by Mr. Struble, prohibiting the transportation of intoxicating liquors from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia into any other State or Territory, contrary to or in violation Of tt>« l»ws $ ewQfc

THE SAWTELLE MURDER. & Chain or Clrcnrastantiml Evidence whirl i Points Very Strongly Toward Isaac Saw - telle as the. Murderer of Mis Brothel Hiram hear lebanon, K. H.—Whieit State was the Crime Committed In? Dover, N. H., Feb. 17.—Seth W. Cm - ton, of East Rochester, in an interviei t states that on Wednesday night, Fel - ruary 5, while on his way home fro; 1 work at Rochester, he saw a team nea r the Nutter wood, one and a third miles from Rochester depot, toward Eat t Rochester. Two men were in the wagon; one was taking excitedly. After tie team had passed by Corson several ro< s he heard a pistol-shot. It was then 5 x m. He thought nothing of it at ti e time, and it was not recalled to his recollection until he heard >t the bullet found in Sawtelle's body. Corson is certain that it was $mar ’a team and that the two men wore t' le Sawtelles. A man from East Rochester has give information to the officers that on" the Wednesday night in question two men drove past him on the road to Lebanon. Just before the team pass ed him he heard three shots from a revolver. The information was given to the dcctors, who, upon washing be blood away, found three bullet-hclos through the breast. Mr. Smart of Rochester found i:i a wood-chopper’s shanty, ahqut fifty ys.rds from the grave of the murdered man an old coat with considerable blood on the back of it, as if the head had teen wrapped up in the coat. In a stove in the shanty was found a number of b >nes which are thought to be portions ot the murdered man's skull. These have men turned over to the medical men. Tfhen Mrs.; Sawtelle was on the way fc> South Lebanon, she desoribed bjforc she saw them,; the socks that were iound on the hody. When the body wasun

covered in her presenoe, she fainted away, and fell into an officer’s irms. When she revived she immediately recognized some India ink marks < n the hand. The jury before adjournment viewed the spot where the body was fourd. It is understood that the physicians will testify that death was instantaneous from a bullet in the heart The examination of the fnetured bones has not been completed, but the fragments bee.r evidence Of havir g been broken up into small pieces with the indention of destroying them by firs. * Sin eh Depends on Which State. Rochester, N. H.. Feb. 17.—1 he physicians who have examined the charred fragments of bone found in a shanty near where Hiram Sawtelle's body was buried, do not believe that tlie bone formed part of a human sku‘1. The fragments will, howevpr, bo sent to lloston for analysis. The searc 1 for the missing head was continued all day, but was fruitless. The only events in tho case to-day were the identification of the body by Mrs. Sawtolle and the coroner's jury verdict of murder. The body has been brought here and placed in a vault. Mrs. Sawtelle has returned to Boston. Nothing has yet been learned of the whereabouts of “Dr.” Blood. There will be thousands of people out searching for the missing head to-day if thp weather is pleasant An important question on the trial of Isaac Sawtelle will be whether the murder was committed in New Hampshire or Maine. One witness will testify that he heard three shots fired (corresponding to the three bullet wounds found in the body) and that the place was just within the New Hampshire line. The body was buried just over the line in Maine. If it should bo proven that the murder was committed in New Hampshire conviction will mean hanging, if in Maine tho penalty will be life imprisonment. Isaac Sawtelle retains his coolness. He saw no one to-day but the sheriff and said but little to him. i ' A HOPELESS TASK. Fruitless Efforts to llaruionize the Differences Between the Line and Staff of the Navy. Washington, Feb. 17.—The committee composed of Pay-Inspector Kenny, Assistant Enginoer F. C. Biog, Commander C. M. Chester and Medical-In-spector H. M. Wells whfch has had in charge the work of harmonizing the line and staff of the navy, has dissolved. Tho committee, after several hopeful meetings, were unable to reach an understanding, the old question of rank interfering. A bill was considered which met favorable comment in both line and staff. It is virtually the Pythian hill, save that it includes more, giving all staff officers positive instead of relative rank. The dissolution of the committee, however, leaves the matter as heretofore—two distinct elements in the service, one antagonistic to the other’s interest, and each detrimental- to its own. 8

Destitution of the Indians of Devil’s Lake Reservation. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 17.—Indian Agent Cranzie, ot the Devil’s Lake Reservation . in North Dakota, says that the destitution of the Indians of that reservation has been understated. In his opinion if the 830,000 recently authorized fhr their relief by President Harrison had been delayed longer there would have been few Indians to receive any benefits from it. He further says that unless more help is quickly furnished it is doubtful whether any great number of the Indians on the reservation will live until spring. Already a great number of deaths have resulted from starvation. Feurfhl Fate of a Farmer’s Family. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 16.—About four four o’clook yesterday morning, J. W. Kerr, a farmer i living twenty miles southeast of here, was awakened and found his house on fire. He was in the' second story arid on the lower floor wero his three child ren. In the dense smoke he carried his wife to a window and dropped her to the ground. Kerr followed her and found that the children had perished. Every thing was burned. He put his wifo in a carriage and took her two miles to a neighbor’s. The exposure, it is feared will prove fatal to Mrs. Kerr. rhe Final Trial of the Dynamite Cruiser Vesuvius. Washington, Feb. 17.—The projecttiles for the new trial of the Vesuvius have arrived at Newport, to be filled with gun-cotton. The Navy Department has decided that a full complianco with tho terms of the contract demands that each gun throw two hundred pounds actual explosive one mile. The test of last October was made with that weight of sand and sawdust. Tne ordering of explosive gelatine from Glassgow would consume several months’ time and guncotton has been substituted. The final trial will taka place ip » tew week*

REPUBLICAN SCHEMES. tfce Ikau by Which tin O. O. ' P. Hcjua t*. liteamla In Power. The arbitrary rulings of Speaker ] Reed, and the unfaltering support given there by his party, are.well calculated to awaken indignation among Democrats and all others whoso eyes have not been blinded by party spirit to the enormities of which irresponsible partisanship is capable, 'Phis indignation Is wholesome. In it we find the best guaranty of the permanence of republican Institutions. In any government in which the appeal is not immediately to force, public opinion la the arbiter. Efforts to divide public opinion, as divisions arc made often in Congress, by strict, party lines, are successful in all but extreme cases. In such cases public opinion breaks down the barriers of party; not altogether, it is true, but to an extent sufficient to shift the balance of power from one side to the other, ft has become a sort of political axiom that when things are simply bad they will probably go on as they are, but when they become very bad a change may bo speedily exjiected. The course o' the majority in the House is an evidence of their desperation. They know perfectly well that they do not represent a majority of the pec pie of the United States; that the slender majority which is theirs was obtained by a combination of accident, false pretense and corruption. Their numerical superiority, apart from the means by which it was obtained, is too small to enable them to carry out the purpose which they have in view. Hence their determination to increase i'., without any reference to the merits of the cases in contest. Having resolved on one crime against popular suffrage, they feel they have resolved on all others necessary to the perpetration of

the first, To ignore the win ol tho sovereign people expressed in the choice of their representatives i3 the greatest offense possible in a republic: compared with this, rulings as to points of parliamentary law are insignificant. Most of the contested election cases have already been decided in advance of a bearing, on the simple ground that Republican interests will be subserved by depriving the eontestees of the seats to which they were elected. Having resolved to do this grievous and irreparable wrong, they can not be expected to harbor scruples as to mere parliamentary questions. The methods by which, in the elections of 1S88, the Republican party secured not only the Presidency but a slender, majority in the House are well remembered; and they account for the desperation which prompts their present proceedings. In that canvass they wore afraid, to meet squarely the issue tendered. They appealed boldly to the protected interests for a corruption fund on tho ground that those interests were the chief beneficiaries of the tariff laws. But in localities where protected Interests were not dominant, they refused to discuss tariff reform upon its merits. They appealed from that issue to the prejudices following a struggle that had been ended for nearly a quarter of a century. They told the people to whom the Mills bill would have been worth millions that they must not accept it because it had been framed by a committee of which Southern men formed a part; that there were among them rebel brigadiers that sought to kill by a tariff bill the country which they had vainly assailed with cannon and rides They rallied to their support all tho robust mendicants in the country who were offended because their demands to bo supported in idleness at the expense of the tax-payers had not been instantly granted. With all this obscuring of the real issue they won by a narrow margin, and the popular majority was against them. Thus, while restored to power, they took it, coupled with a vote of want of confidence from the country. - The men to whom the party was mortgaged for this means of corruption have marked the situation and realised that- now is the time to foreclose. After another election the party may he bankrupt. The lien must be enforced while there are assets in sight. Hence, the desperation with which measures are pushed to enlarge the Republican majority to a working basis, that the monopolists may get the legislation for which they paid their money eighteen months ago. There is material for encouragement in the suggestion that the outrageous character of these measures indicates that power is slipping from their authors. When things are at their worst they begin to mend. But we should not overlook the fact that, nevertheless, the country must pay for its mistakes. The stupendous mistake of restoring the Republican party to power in 18SS is sure to be a costly ono. The party is going to make the best of its opportiudties. It | will make the burdens of the people heavier, instead of lighter, and these burdens can not be speedily removed, no matter bow great the reaction may prove. If the Republicans are repudiated at the Congressional elections next fall, it will bo nearly two years, dating

from the present, before another oongross will meet. The Harrison Administration will last more than three years, no matter vvhat may fco the result of the next Presidential election. The Senate is now largely Republican, and changes in that body are comparatively slow. The mischief whichthe present Congress i will do will live after it. These considerations warrant the con-, elusion that, though the Republicans in Congress are playing a desperato game, there is a sort of method in their madness. Despairing of success in the future by any appeal to the reason of the people, they are obliged to bid for the continued "favor of the monopolies by satisfying their demands, at whatever sacrifice of even the pretense of fairness and justice. At the same time, they are scheming to keep themselves in power by new devices for distracting attention from their real purposes, by new appeals to sectional prejudices, and by new conspiracies against the purity of the ballot.—Louisville Courier-Journal. DEMOCRATIC VETERANS. A Good Organisation About Whose ParThere is No CRoeealinent There is a wide field usefulness before the Democratic Union Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Association, the National headquarters of which are at Indianapolis, and camps of which are being organized now in Central Illinois. The movers in tho matter in this State say: “It is the determination of tho Democratic soldiers of Central Illinois, and we hope of the whole State, to elect a Democratic Legislature -next year and send that grand old soldier and patriot, General Rainier, to tho United States Senate.” It is not doubted that snob an organization, giving free sgope to the energy and eutimi&SM of the veterans, should be a potepttel oeatHh'*#*# smew of

;he Democratic party in me on: 0 eieoion this fait There is nothing in the Dtr neratlo eldiers’ society, it is added, U it coniiets with membership in th? Grand tany of the Republic. Most of re men satiated in the Democratic cr - j* are il ready members in good sta ; Ing in the older institution. The Grar Army losts are supposed to he entire 1 nonpartisan, and their rules prohi ■ . partisan disc assions or action in the i places of meeting. These rules have r >t been si ways fully adhered to in apii t, perhaps, and Democratic members ! we experienced some' discomfort win t committed, by a majority of the ott •: party, to action they could not app:< e. In the new society, which is cot ssedly partisan, such annoyances will not ho pdssibTe, while the loyalty of a rubers to the bid order and its pr? aimed principles need not be forfeited. The Democratic order ought bare a rapid growth throughout tl 2 State and the West It is ,a good onest, straightforward society, about t 0 purposes of which there is no cone; I went The Republican veterans could not do better than follow the example by citing up a party organization of their 01 n, thus leaving the Grand Army posts t prosecute their beneficent work entir> y free from partisan influences or sugar stions, —Chicago Globe. OPPOSITION OPINIONS. What Ciarfield. Hawley and Be- 1 Said About minority Rights. Having such a man as Reel iahil mind’s eye, James A. Garfield 5 oke i» part as follows in the House of Re pro senta tines January 38, 1880, on propo sition to amend the rules to pei nit the Speaker, under certain circuit ranees, to declare that a quorum was 20nstitnted:

Aside man the insuperable objec i uni raised tc this proposition* as a thing t it ought not to bc> tried because of its vaguen t its uncertainty and the danger that mem) -a oi the House m ay be imposed Upon by an 1 scrupulous Speaker that may come hereaf r—Isay that aside from all that; and beyort all that, I ask members to consider one fact: Phis has been a House of Representatives * ce .1789. This House has been the theater of a sorts of political storms and tempests. We 1 ve lived through the times of great wars, o: a great civil war, when there were excitem; t » hardly paralleled in the history of parliame tarjr annals. Yet during all these years cc mitn before. so far as X know, no party before m3 eyer thought it necessary to introduce a uto that gives the power of declaring the pi senea of members by the single voice of one nion; a power that will, enable him to brln,- From his sick-bed a dying man and put him Ar n in this hall, so that the Speaker shall cr nt him, and make his presence against hit ill, and perhaps in his delirium count in orde to make a quorum, so that seme partisan me; ore may be carried out over the body of that I ng man. Sir, the moment you get over the ice, the moment yon cross the boundary of i nes, the moment you leap over the .iron fence c the roll, that moment you are out in the vagi , and all sorts of disorders may come on. Joseph R. Ilawley, of Coni id,ion*, said in the same debate: Now, the evil, if there he one in th existing system, that, of which gentlemen eo plain, is simply this, that we of the minor! : claim a right by sitting silent lo prevent le s than a majority of the members elected frox passing a bill. The worst that con be doi t by a factious minority, if that be the term ap: led to it, is to fight until the actual majority of he members elected shall pass the bill Wh e they arc present that friendly majority eoi til;ute a quorum of themselves-; they do not r luire the assistance of the minority: they run io House themsel ves and pass their hills. -I . case of what you call factious resistance we c' ive them only to that. **«*>* Now, we ore causing no hardship wl itever in taking the ground we do against this ew rule, and I think we do no serious wrCr to the country at any time when we sit to ur seats and decline to vote. If the majority -si res to have a hill passed in opposition to 01 wishes, then lot the majority come here ac pass it over our heads. At any rate, I de ic to be answerable to anybody but my const; ’.nets if I sit to my seat and decline to vote. 11 sold myself responsible to them and to the co dilution alone. I take my position with e it horse which is brought to the water bat a not be made to drink, and I should say that c Speaker and no House should compel me to a iwer yes or no on a roll call I think it very decidedly wrong, t the first place, that a Speaker should ho at iberty to recognize or declare a quorum withe a a formal •count, and, to the next place, that t any sort of combination of rules there shot i be a law put upon the statute book and lieela- 1 in force which can show, perhaps, only a qua or or ten per cent, of the members in f avor-of i And Thomas B. Reed, of Mai e, said, among* other thing3: * * * The constitutional idea oi quorum is not the presence of a majority of ne members of the House, but a majority oi lo members present and participating in tic business or the House, ft is not the visible p sence of members, but their judgments and t oir votes that the constitution calls for. POINTS FOR DEMOCR .TS. 1 -It is not recorded thatr. Foraker was dressed, in his best suit of c#>tb 03, but in other respects h ; case ia precisely similar to that of Ir. MeUinty.—Philadelphia Times. -If Speaker Reed can coir t Democratic as well as Republican otas in order to carry Republican meas reu, the idea Of government by part;- must be abandoned.—Macon (Ga.) Telej aph. -Chairman Edward Carre 1, of the Democratic State committee of Kansas, says that Reed should leart lesson from Foraker that even Re; ibj loans don’t always re-eleot their me a estemen to office, i

-tDanes amory ouinu, ui umucr phia, has been appointed Mi later to Russia. His qualifications tor replace are, first, he is the editor of a larrison organ; second, he has had the Russian influenza.—Chicago Herald. -The claim of the majo; ty that rthey have a right to govern tl House without attending its ses;s >ns. and taking part in the conduct of ts business is too preposterous to ret lire ref-utation.-rHon. John G. Carlls- < -Against the brains e' thirty Speakers, beginning , with I ederick Muhlenberg, and representin Federalism, Democracy, Whigglsm a' 1 latterday Republicanism, “Tom” feed, of " Maine, sets his backbone.—S[ ingfield Republican. -Mr. Farwcll shoots prett close to the bulVs-eye when he avers tl it President Harrison “seems to rega- tlio offlces as personal perquisite? ' ThfS much having been said, we ar& gratified to be assured that there is “nc juarrel” betviticn the President and th Senator froui Illinois.---N. Y: World. -Taxation in itself is-neve a blessing, it is always a bitTden. Sc long as taxation is limited to the nett slides of the government economicall.7 idrainistered, the people are willing ft liear the burden; but when a tribute s levied upon them beyond that, they lisilo cause for complaint.—Chicago T? iff Reformer. :, -The strongest rebukes yt printed in reference to the action of Speaker Reed are the extracts from th ' speeches of that gentleman. No on* has exceeded the Maine autocrat in nlming the right of the minority refrain from voting to prevent the app unoe of a quorum. A compilation of hi iseeohes would convince every oiti*<■: of the duplicity intolved tn the pr< at wsV* tiow,-=-Chipf^o Hewi ,, -4. .