Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 August 1890 — Page 1

OFFICE, owr J, B. YOUKQ & “Our Motto is Honest Devotion PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20, 1890,

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VebtTcai c vTSfntty treated. • .'ousnltntidWR^ *a-0;tJo«lii (croudstory •>f Hi-con lliiildtng, Main ulreot, between SeTevMa and Eighth. t ti-Ncis B. 1*oset. DhwittQ Cbafpkix. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Jnix Will practice in all the courts. Special attention g.vcii t» all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. li'OfflCi.Oj first floor Bunk Build in '. E. A. ELY, AyOffice ov« r J. R. Adam? A Son's Drug S ure. He is also a member of file United :States Collection Association, aud Rives ■prompt attention to every matter in which •he is engaged. E. I*. Kid HA KD SON. A. 11. TATLOR. * KICHAliDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ikb Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the uffl -e. Office in Carpenter Builiing, Eighth arul Main. R. R. RIME, j Petersburg, Ind. AiPOfficc in Bank Building. IS; rstdence oi fs venth street, three squares south «>f Main Calls promptly attended day or nig it. I. II. LaMAR, Physipian and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. Will practice In Pike and adj >ining conn *-es. Office iu Montgomery Building. Office Lours day and night. i DOT'Dm eases of AY« men and Children a specially. Chronic aud difficult cases solicited. EDWIN SMITH, Attorney at Law AND Real Estate Agent, Petersburg, Ind. *be*Offlce ever Gus Frank’s storit Special attention given to Collections,(Buying and Veiling Lauds, Examining Tildes, Furnishing Abstracts, etc. y / DENTISTRY. eTharms;

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' . CO.VGRKSSIONAIAfter dispos ng of routine business the Senate on the nth resumed consideration of the Tarlffbill, the questlin being on ScnAtor Plumb's amendment to reduce the duty on hat log Iron. The amendment was rejected, three Republicans, l\u:nb, Ingalls ltd l’addock. Toting in the afllrmnt to with the Democrats. The monotony of considering th ■ bill by paragraphs then proceeded and hut little progress was made. A conference was ordere 1 on the Indian hill ribd a b 11 reported granting additional r-ler-^ leal f-*c« In the Pension Office Adjourned. '....The House farther iqislderod the conference report on the Sundry Oiril bill. The report was agreed to and a further conference ordered on Items in dispute. Adjourned. Tax Senate on the lith passed the House bill to require unincorporated express companies to furnish statistics of business for the oensns report. Senator Edmunds presented the motion tor a change of the rates so as to limit debate on the Tariff bill, which Was laid on the table and ordered printed. Senator Blair’s resolution changing the rules was also laid oit the table, the Tariff bill Was Iheil debated ttntii adjournment. the tin-plate schedule being onler Consideration_The House passed a jolht resolution extending to August 19 the appropriations for the support of the Gov. -rniinmt. A r solution was adopted for the irrest of absent members. The proceedings of the Honse were unimportant, the attendance being light. TUB Senate on the iitta agreed- to the House Amendments to tbo biR to adopt regulations to prevent c. l isious at sea. After a short cxeeutfTo session the resolutions offered by Sent--r Edmunds to limit debate on the Tariff bill avas referred to the Committee on Rules. Senator Blair’s res tntion went the same way. Senator Quay’s resolution providing that only the Tariff bill. River and llnrbor kill and Appropriation bills should lie consider d the present session and for a vote on the Tariff 11.1 August 30. an 1 Senator Hoar’s amendment, to include the Federal Election oill. also went to the same committee. After passing the Joint resolution extending the appropriations tor the support of the GoVrrnmont to August 29 the Tariff bill Was further debated and tho House bill makl g appropriations for Additional clerical help n the Pension Office passed_The House agreed to the confcrene s report on the For Attentions bill. Inability to hold a quorum Dn an appeal from the Speaker’s decision resulted in an adjournment. ‘ ' When the Senate met cn the ltth Mr.Plumb reported the Joint resolution approprint ng money for th i Oklahoma destitute and it was passed. The 1 ar.ff kill was then taken up. Mr. Vest’s ruction to reduce tho duty on tin plate being under consi leration. Senator l’lnmb vigorously opposed the proposed duty on tin-plat -, as he was not willing to tax every tin cap, coffeepot and tin dish to protect some manuiacturer who might eventually wish to go into the business. Although Congress entered cn a sea that had no shore in offering a bounty, yet if snch an industry had to hr fostered It were b tier when the time cams to pay a bounty than to Impose a duty at present. Th ■ amendment of Senator V< st was rejected, Senators Dav s and Plumb voting with the Democrats. Pending further action tire Senate adjourned_Soon after assembling the Honso was left without a quorum and ad'ourned with >ut transacting any business. When the Senate met on the 15th Senator Quay made an explanation as to the report that he had mado disparaging al'uslonr tn Speaker Reed in the recent Rqnbliean caucus. He denied having made such remarks. The Senate then by a vote of Silo 8 decided to consider the River an<J Ilarhor bill and the entire day was tak n up in considering the hill_The H- use had a lively time over th r conference report on thr Indian bill, but tin-lly agreed to it. The bi.l known as the NatM Kay bill was th.-n taken up and the House got into a tangle, which continued until adjournment.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Marelf. busts of Vice-Presidents Hamlin and Hendricks have been placed in position in niches of the Senate chamber. Superintendent Porter expects that the work of counting the population of the country will be completed before the end of, the present month, and Congress, if it so desires, can proceed to pass an apportionment bill and so determine how many members shall constitute the next House. The population of the country is estimated at 64,000,000. ^.-Thk Secretary of the Interior has reBtved a telegram from Governor Hb'e, of New Mexico, asking for troops B^press Whitecap outrages. ■re Senate 'Post-office Committee has Sorted favorably on the Anti-Lottery HkEsiDKXT Harrison bas signed the Binal Package bill and the State regHon or prohibition of liquor dealing Bow be enforced. Brie House Foreign Affairs Committee Hs reported a resolution requesting the ^Ludent to report any possible informK in regard to the ill treatment of B by Russia. Hrikus have been sent from the Navy Fartment to the Uni1«d States steamBl Essex to proceed at once to the Biian station. H^Scnate has confirmed the nomiBuof S. M. Eaton as postmaster at ■T Orleans HFue new Silver law went into effect ■the 18th. B he President returned to WashingBkon the 13th from his trip to the ^Knd Army encampment at Boston. Fthe July statement shows the total tports of breadstuffs to have been $10,ft,669, beef and hog products59,820,338, Bry products 81,977,442. Bi'he Republican Congressional ComBittee has completed its organization ■selecting Thomas H. Carter, of MonBa, secretary, and Edward C. O’Brien, ■■New York, treasurer. After SeptemFr 1 Hon. James S. Clarkson, of Iowa, Kill participate actively in the management of the campaign as the representative of the Repubiioan National Committee. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Justice Abram X. Parker, of New York, to be Assistant Attorney-General, as provided by act of Congi-ess approved July 11, 1890; J. A. Williams, of Arkansas, to be United States District Judge fox the Eastern district of Arkansas; William Grimes, of Oklahoma, to be marshal of the United States for the Terri■tory of Oklahoma. ' .*■'. The memorial to Daguerre, presented by the National Photographers’ Association, was recently unveiled by Sucre! tary Noble in the rotunda of the National Museum at Washington. There are 4,878 insane patients in the Pennsylvania asylums. The first annual’report shows that of 1,842 abandoned farms reported in New Hampshire last August 301 are now ooTHe Maine Republican cam. Hgn Is to be confined to the last two weeks before the election. Mr. Blaino will not round numbers the present popnlaof Vermont is 882,000. The census ms of 1880 gave the population as vebal Schuylkill collieries will suspend operation! KHcwell & Co.’s great tannery, War

CoLOvKh Wi fcE1.0t-K G. VeAzey was chosen Conimander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic by the encamps ment at ikrston. The rolls showed 458,230 members. In 1889 the number was 410,683. Detroit was chosen for the next eioarapmeiik Theme were but few signs of a strikd on the New York Central on the 1-tb, trains running without interruption. COI-OTEl AVUKJEI.OCK G. Veaskv was chosen Coiamander-in-Chiof of the Grand Army of the Republic by the encampment at Boston. The rolls showed 458,330 members. In 1889 the number was 410.6S6. Detroit was chosen for the next encampment Tub apple crop of New England and Nova Scotia, AYestern New York and other Eastern States is reported an almost total failure this year. Grapes in the East nro heavy. Tnr.il e was a bad explosion recently at the Kendal soap factory. Providence R. 1. Firo broke out and acids were blown Over a number of men. To* population of Providence, R. 1»» is 133,043 against 104,887 in 1880. an increase of 8T.186. or 25.98 per cent Aurid LtfDitf«T»X and George D. Rossi n, two Pinkerton policemen from Philadelphia on duty at Albany, N. Y., Were killed by a passenger train While walking on the track, By the explosion of a centrifugal extractor in the cleans ng room of the Tillit silk .mills at rottsyille. Pa., a girl was killed and a'young man fatally injured* Unknown miscreants placed ties on the B. & O. track twenty miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., and wrecked an excursion train. Two engineers and a tramp were killed. In the business session of the Women’s Relief Corps Mrs. McHenry, of Iowa, was elected National president and Mrs, Elisabeth A. Turner, of Massachusetts! senior vice-president. THH WEST. Ex-GoyisP.xor Ciiaiu.es Foster has written a letter to a prominent Republican leader in^^blo, announcing that he would not acgppt a nomination for Congress. Tue Chicago & Atlantic railway was sold at Indianapolis, Ind., and was bought by the Erie, which will obta'n an entrance into Chicago by tho purchase. A conference of Original package dealers at Mason City, Iowa, resulted in an agreement that all would close and not attempt to contest tho legality of the new Wilson law. It is estimated that 15,001) saloons were in operation in Iowa, and nine-tenths of these have now closed up. Five San Franoisco Chinamen took the plstces of five Chinese prisoners held in jail for return to China, Two officers are accused of aiding the escape. The Supreme Court of South Dakota has decided in a test case that tho State Prohibitory law covers original package cases. AV. II. AValkbr, a leading merchant of Eugene, Ore., was accidentally shot and killed while hunting, being mistaken for a deer by a comrade. The election passed off quietly in the Chickasaw Nation on the 13th. The full bloods and squaw men voted at different polling places and thus the threatened bloodshed was averted. The contest will be carried to the United States courts.

JUItli A*. iMAltiO UUU » ivi Muno uuiu been nominated for Chief and ViceChief by the Downing party and George W. Bongo and Robert Bunch by the National ticket. Colonel Markham has boen nominated for Governor of California by the Republicans. Harry Wiiij>o and Miss Augusta Hoffman were drowned at American lake, near Tacoma, Wash., recently. Miss Hoffman was daughter of a Kansas City, Mo* distiller. There is considerable excitement at Pierre, S. D., caused by Indians filing on valuable platted property near Fort I*ierre on an island in the Missouri river, which has been held by a white man for ton years. The Indians take it under the severalty law. The Michigan fruit crop is reported a failure. Chippewa and Sioux Indians in tho vicinity of Lake of the Woods are reported threatening. The Democrats of the Eleventh Indiana district, have renominated Hon. A. N. Martin for Congress. Congressman Shively has been renominated by acclamation by tho Democrats of tho Thirteenth Indiana district. Tiie glass goblet works at Bollaire, O. , and the frame buildings adjoining were destroyed by fire recently. Loss {50,000. A speciai, to tho Los Angeles, Cal., Times from Azusa, says: “Bentley, the editor of t^“ ' tn out by an armed body ol***^. / tarred r«nd feathered for pubnSJfcng an artiole rer fleeting on the credit pf C. E. Frazier while teacher of a grammar school.” James Fitzpatrick, president of the Inter-State Base-Ball Loaguo and city treasurer of Terre Haute, Ind., is charged with being a defaulter in tho last two years for SO, 400. Mary L. Wei,don, of Sohwelnfurth’s “heaven” at Rockford, 111., gave birth to a girl baby. Schweinfurth claims that the Weldon woman was with child by the Holy Ghost The community was reported indignant. The spring wheat crop of the Northwest is estimated at 93,000,000 bushels— 50,000,000 in the Dakotas and 43,000,000 in Minnesota. There was a terrible cloudburst at Colorado Springs, Col., recently. A man and woman were swept away and drowned. The damage to the city and ! vicinity amounted to 8200,000. THE SOUTH. The rough official count of the population of Chattanooga, Tenn., is 39,109, an inurease during the past decade of 125.79 percent Robert G. Reynolds, a Walcott factioniat, has been nominated by the Delaware Democrats for Governor. The Democrats of West Virginia have renominated Judge D. J. Lucas for the Supreme Bench by acclamation. The town of Black Rock, Ark., has been almost totally destroyed by fire. There was a drunken riot at the iron : works in Shelby County, Ala., recently, among the negro laborers just paid off. Three men and one woman were killed and a number wounded. At a saw mill twelve miles west of Newberry, 8. C., there was a terrible 1 boiler explosion:' Four men—one white and three colored—were killed and two others wounded. Congressman Crisp was renominated for Congress by acclamation by the Democrats of the Third Georgia district Tins population of the State of Delaware 1* ldT.fitl. The population in 1800 was 148,008. The increase therefore, baa o»e» 1U**, or 1AW per cent,

Xwkjxtwivk thousand harit?l? of j whisky were burned in a Ore at khd Barkhouse distillery, LouiavilP, Ky.j on the 14th. The loss teas heavy, thh property destroyed being valued at SS00.003. The grand jury at Hazard, Ky., found two indictments tor murder against ihd Fugetts. It is believed that forty more indictments w 11 be found for murder, and that at least twenty-five, hangings will bo the result James St*phex Hoco has been nominated for Governor of Texas by the Democrats. In a coll sion between freight trains near Danville. Ky„ the other night two man were killed and much damage dona Ateriufic thunderstorm visited Brussels on the 11th. A number of housed were shattered by lightning. It is reported that a band of Russo2 Armenian volunteers mounted and well armed, has appeared at Ermeroum and is recruiting adherents fast The report has caused a panic among the Turkish authorities. Captain Hkalt, of the revenue steamer Rear, reports that the seals have failed to appear in numbers in their usual haunts this season and there is great doubt if the company can secure its quota of 60,000 skins this year. The floods in Hungary continue. The harvest is ruined. Many houses have collapsed and a number of lives have been lost It is asserted that the Wabash has passed into the control of the Canadian Pacific. The next international congress of Congregationalists has been fixed for London, July 13, 1891, to last a week. Tnx cholera is reported to he decreasing at Jeddah and Mecca. Posimasteb-GEnebal Raises, of Great Britain, has definitely refused, to reinstate S50 of tho London postmen who took part in the recent strike^ ' It is estimated that the fortifications of Heligoland by Germany will cost $7,530,009. The steamship Teutonic of the White Star lino has broken all records, making the run from Roche’s Point to Sandy Hook in five days, nineteen hours and five minutes. Celmax is reported to have run through $500,000,000 while acting as President of the Argentine Republic. At a meeting of the Quebec Board of Trade it was decided to send a deputation to Chicago, St Paul and other Western cities to set forth tho advantages of the port of Quebec for grain shipments. Both Nicaragua and Costa Rica have agreed to recognize Ezeta as Provisional President,in San Salvador. The many rumors that President 15a rri.llas, of Guatemala, had been deposed have booh proved to ho false. The great railroad 'strike in Wales ended in a virtual victory for tie men. Many lives have been lost by an overflow of the river Gauges in India. Smalt-pox is causing many deaths in the ranks of the Guatemalan army on the Salvadorian frontier. '%■ Five persons have died at Nicolaeff, Russia, from a disease supposed to be Asiatio cholera. Eleven cases of the disease have been reported there so far. The Porte has been asked to quarantine all arrivals from places on the Black sea,

The South Australia Legislature has voted want of confidence in the Ministry. The Emperor of Germany started for Bussia on the 14th. lie took with him a grand hunting chariot as a present to the Czar. The people at Buenos Ayres continue greatly excited over the financial situation. Investigation uncovers a vast amount of official rottenness. Emin Pasha denies that he is under contract with Germany, but declares hia present journey into the interior of Africa merely a private adventure. Cholera has appeared at Cairo, Egypt Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended August 14 numbered 197, compared with 208 the previous week and 213 the corresponding week of last year. Information has been received of the murder in the Soudan by Arabs of F. M. Gates, E. Kingman and John E. Jaderquist, Presbyterian missionaries, who left the United States in May last CJUC LATEST. In (he Senate, on the l#th, the Hirer and Harbor bill was passed with sundry amendments, and a conference was asked. The conference report on the bin to establish a National park on the battle-field of Chickamauga was agreed to..i...In the House the conference report on the Chickamauga Park bill was approved. The McKay bill was passed and some unimportant resolutions were adopted. The Anti-Lottery bill was then taken up and passed. A motion to reconsider the vote on the McKay Belief bill was entered, and the House adjourned. A very poor counterfeit of the $20 silver certificate has made its appearance in the South. It is of the act of 1878, series 1880, oheok letter C, R. K. Bruce, register, and A. U. Wyman, treasurer, with Decatur’s portrait The entire impression is very indistinot, and has the appearance of having been tampered with by the washing process. It is of photographic production. The same note has been counterfeited before. The entire force of the Cezisus Office, now comprising about nineteen hundred clerks, was, on the 18th, merged into one bureau in order to concentrate the wole working force of the office on the accounts of the fifty thousand enumerators, so that they can be settled rapidly and the enumerators be paid off. Superintendent Porter says that in the oount of the population of the United States, which was practically finished on the 10th, the female clerks were much more efficient than the men, doing an average of nearly one-half more work in a most satisfactory manner. Assistant Secretary Spaulding has instructed the collector of customs at the port of New York to admit without examination a package containing Holmes-Whitehead torpedo fingers, to be delivered to the Hotchkiss Ordnance Company, Providence, B. I. For several years the sermons of Cardinal Newman were reported verbatim without the knowledge of the CaidinaL The reports have been carefully preserved and will bh published. A general strike of olgar-makers, involving about 400 men, was Inaugurated in Cleveland, O., on the ttth, for an advance of one dollar per thousand for making all grades of oigara. Troops have been quartered at Denbigh, Wales, to accompany the tithes collectors on their rounds. The people are greatly licensed at ti?e proootfinf, .n4 traubll

'Js INTELLIGENCE. :ns of Seymour bavs pureKksecHrl&rgi/ memorial fountain, surmounted by the figure of a veteran soldier, which will bo erected in the ci ty park and formally dedicated during the progress of the soldiers’ reunion, which begins there September 13. Tub hardware store of Shirk Jk Stiller, at Pern, was burglarised, and about $300 worth of fine revolvers taken. A. J. Balfb, Republican, of Vermillion County, was nominated at Terre Haute for joint Representative. A SATVtAL gas well, whieh shoots fifteen feet, was struck in Worthington, a few days since. Robert MtNArsn, Republican trustee of Monro© Township, who lived near Delphi, is missing, and an examination of his accounts shows a shortage of {5,000. lie was last heard of at De catur, 111. - A very brilliant meteoriS shower was visible at Seymour a little before 11 o’clock, the other night, and a like shower of smaller magnitude was visible the evening before. A dog afflicted with rabies entered i the yard of Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes, at i Spencer, the other night, and bit the son of dames Simons. Mrs. Hayes, in endeavoring to save the child, was bit- ! ten in the arm. A madstono was applied to the wound, hut did not adhere. Mrs. Hayes and the child were taken to Terre llauto, for further treatment. Porter Vawter, aged about ten, son of a widow in destitute circumstances, while attempting to hoard a freight train at Tipton, fell beneath the wheels and lost his right leg. The Prospect Hill coal minors, Vincennos, are on a strike over a difficulty abont two weeks’ pay. It IS being arbitrated. Postmaster Douglass, of Plainfield, was fined $250 and sent to jail for six months for embezzlement. The Methodist church and Snm naey Bros’, block at Shipsewan, was destroyed by fire a few days ago, Willie Long, aged ten years, stabbed William Charley, whose age is about sixteen, at Mott Town, Harrison County, the other night. The wound is reported to be fatal. King Herod died a few days ago at Martinsville. He was a Baptist minister, and unliko King Herod of old, was noted for his love of children. Minnie, the flfteen-year*old daughter of Charles SmitlCof Madison, died the other afternoon after suffering untold agonies since the evening lioforo, at which time she was cooking supper, and raising the stove lid with her apron, became ignited and enveloped her in flames.

Hon. James P. Applegate, roresiient of the New Albany Fish and Game Protective Association, has received from the United States Fish Commission a large number of young fish for distribution ifi-Southern Indiana streams. The fish arc mostly bass and goggle-eyes, and were taken from^ the Illinois river. A Pan-handle wort trail) was derailed by striking a cow near Knightstown. Six men were injured. Johnny Hale, eight years old, was stolen from his home in Marion, by gypsies, and the other day returned, ragged, forlorn and five years older, but the parents knew the boy, and are wild with joy over his restoration. At Evansville, young Holiday found' his stepfather abusing, his mother; finding remonstrance of no avail the boy shot Van Busse, the stepfather, through the heart. The post-office at Edinburg, a town ot 2,500 inhabitants in Johnson County, was broken into the other night and robbed of over $200 in postal funds and stamps. Joseph Lowe, an employe in mine No. 1. at Coxville, near BrazM, while working in bis room in the mine the other morning, met with a terrible death, a large body of slate falling on the back of his bead, breaking bis neck. He leaves a wife and four children. Louis Miller was held up by two footpads the other night, and relieved of his gold watch and forty-six dollars. Tlio robbers started to take his cuff-but-tons also, but saw they were Pythias emblems, and threw them away. The robbery occured at Huntington. At Anderkon Lewis Moor, aged fifteen, quarreled with Rhoda Talbert (colored), aged fifteen. Talbert picked up a bowlder and struck Moor in the pit of tho stomach. Moor will die. Talbert is in jail. A peculiar case of mingled grief and joy was that which occurred to Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Griffett, of Nashville. In one room of their pleasant home lay their little sick hoy, and. in the other, the mother in confinement, and almost at the same instant the little boy breathed his last and died n little girl was born to the mother. By an explosion in a saw-mill thirteen miles east of Lafayette, James Shoemaker was killed, John Jacoby, the proprietor, fatally hurt, and others badly injured. Indiana’s indebtedness, according to the statement issued by Superintendent Porter, of the census bureau, is as follows: Bonded, $8,540,615.13; no float- . ing; assets, $4,878,892.57; increase of net debt, *3,153,079.35. The Prohibitionists of the Ninth District met in convention at Frankfort, selecting Miltom Handsome, of Hamilton County, .as their Congressional nominee. Emma Null, of Wabash, on account of unrequited love, attempted to commit suicide by taking a dose of morphine. Ah Anti-Horse Thief Association has been organized at Valparaiso, with over one hundred members. They agree to pay each member losing a horse, and not having it returned within thirty days, two-thirds of the appraised value of the animal. Dr. Lomax, of Grant County, has donated *100,000 to the Indiana Medical College, and the institution was a few days ago reorganized and will start on a new career under the name of the Medical College of Indiana. A movement is on foot at Crawfordsviile to raise *100,000 to secure a natur-al-gas pipe line. The line will also go throngh Thorntown and Darlington. Joe Winters, a glassblower, of Marion, was pronounced insane the other day. Winters insisted that-a mob of French glass workers are after him to lynch him. He attempted suicide the other morning. Miners, while prospecting, struck a valuable vein of coal on the farm of J. M. Monical, near Brooklyn. Morgan County, the other day. Great excitement prevails in that locality. John Lampbright, well-known farmer, of La ports, was founddead in an outhouse the other night He became definancial matters, and to end hia troubles,

TflAfN ROBBERS AGAIN. ••Bobber*’ Cat," m ike Mteumi FacitfA Hear OtterrUle, Me, Again »h#'«eo«* of a “Hold Up*’—The Pacific Expre** Car Bobbed by Masked idea -r The Amount of Booty Hot Tet Known, bo* Report Place* It as High as S90.000— The Bobber* Unknown. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 18.—The safe of the Pacific Express Company was robbed of $90,000 by train robbers os the Missouri Pacific? ailroad yesterday morning. The train, which was the Kansas City limited express, No. 8, left Tipton, Mo., at About 3 a. m. Two mysterious figures were seen by tho engineer .lurking around ^e forward end of the Crain, but no particular attention was paid to them. Just after leaving Tipton, the fireman turned toward the tender to fire up the engine ahd looked squarely into the muzzles of two revolvers in the hands of two masked men who were ljfng on their faces on the coal. One Of the bandits Covered the fireman with his revolver While the other took care of the engineer: They were told to hold up their hands and the engineer was ordered td tun the train to Ottei ville water tank, in “Bobbers’ Cut” jiist east of Otter* ville. When “Bobbers’ Oat” was reached the engineer waa commanded to go to the express car and tell tho messenger to open the door. ' He did so under threats of his life should he fail. When he reaohed the express car he found the two robbers had five confederates stationed at convenient places about the car, all heavily armed and their faces concealed behind masks. He walked to the door of the express car and called to the express messeriger, Sam Avery, to open the door. Avery, suspecting no danger, pushed back tho door-. As he did so, the leader of tho robbers and one confederate pushed j revolvers in and ordered the messenger to hold up his hands. The order was promptly obeyed, and three of the robbers jumped into the car. Avery was commanded to open the. safe, and at the point of a revolver did so- One of the robbers unfolded a sack, and into it were placed the entire contents of the safe. The robbers then made their escape without attempting to molest tho passengers. The engineer, pulled the train into Otterville, a half milo distant, where a part of the crew were left to arouse tho sheriff and organize a posse to pursue the robbers. The news of the robbery was al^o telegraphed to the headquarters at St Louis, and all the available detective force oif the road were sent to “Robbors’Cut” The sheriff’s posse and the detectives are now scouring the country for the robbers. The exact amount of money and valuables stolen can not be learned, but it is understood the money in the safe aggregated about $75,000, mostly in paper mfljey, and that the other valuable property amounted to about $15,000. The robbers Uro unknown.

THE CENSUS. The Rough Count rr.ictieally Completed, ahdjjill Show « Total Population Approiimttis; 64,000,000 — An Increase foe tho Deciile of About Thirty Pel Cent. v- v. Washington, Aug. 17.—The-fount ot the population of the United Stated teas practically completed yesterday by the Census-Office. Of forty-three thousand odd enumeration districts in which tlid country was divided, the returns from all but one hundred have been received and counted. As fast as the returns aro received of the districts still out they will be counted and added to tho total. The result of tho count as at present completed shows a population of 62, - 693.955, and when tho entire count is finished, the population of the country will be, as Mr. Porter estimated, about sixty-four millions. This will bo an inoreaso shown during the past decade of about thirty per cent, which is about equal to the percentage of increase of the period from 1870 to 1880. To-morrow tho entire force of tho Census-Office now com prisl ng abou t ni nc* teen hundred clerks will bemerged into one bureau. The object is to concentrate the whole working force of the offico on the accounts of the fifty thousand enumerators, so that they can be settled rapidly and the enumerators bo paid off. Daring tbis period while the general work of tho office is practically suspended, Superintendent Porter will I.e at Deer Park, where his family it spending the summer. Be. intends before bis return to prepare his annual report of what has been accomplished during tho year ended June 30. Be will also make a special, report on “recounts,” and will state that of the cities and towns, nearly fifty Jo. number, which, have asked for recounts, there have been only four or five cases where it was found that facts would justify such action. Mr. Porter will announce as his conclusion that the vast majority of these recounts wore prompted by motives of local pride and jealousy of rival cities. A Counterfeit *30 Silver Certlfle tte. Washington, Aug. 18.—A very poor counterfeit of the $20 silver certificate has made its appearance in the South. It is of tho act of 1878, series 1880. check letter C, B. K. Bruce, register, and A. U. Wyman, treasurer, with Decatur’s portrait. Tho entire impression is very indistinct, and has the appearance of having been tampered with by the washing process. It is of photographic production. The same note was counterfeited before. A Serious Shooting Affray. Log an sport, Ind., Aug. 18.—At four o’clock Sunday morning two hundred Pennsylvania trackmen arrived hero and in forty minutes laid a second trank onefourth of a mile on Canal street in the faoe of the protests of property owners and in violation of a restraining order issued in 1888. During the operation a property owner attempting to stop the work, throe policemen, it iS alleged, seized him and held him. The mayor yesterday afternoon oalled the police board: together and the officers were deprived of their stars and dismissed from the force. Wrecked by Dim Ulsflwl Employe*. Camden, S. C., Aug. 17.—A freight train on the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago railroad was wrecked near Lanoaster last evening by the engine jumping the track. Brakeman Jim Ueirald left leg was broken in two places and.be had to have it amputated below the knee. Bis condition is dangerous. Engineer Pierson was badly scalded and two others were slightly hurt. It is thought that the train was wreoked by dtesatisfled employes who have not been paid off for two months.

rULI I IbHi, IHWin. J Senator rtasnb oa to-i-aStticaulsa* V*tSB» > G*Tl teat teak \ 1 Senatof Mumb of Kaaian has tatfea ' hold oa the central feristh erf modern J political economy, astd i? he has the , courage and the intellect to make hint- < self its exponent it will make hita a ' reputation second to that &Z bo states- ! man in America annals. Instead of , pottering with truth and relying on . shrewd trickery o# rearimlng, as Mr. ] Blaine is doing, he lifts gens straight to the roots of the whole matter, 'The man who series oa xital and fundsmental truth and proclaims it uaSincbingly becomes great with its greatness. And in all tho range of modern polities there is no greater truth than that Mr. Plnmb has stated ia stating that it is the genius of civilisation to produce plenty and Cheapen price, while it ia the practice of the Plutocratic sJHes of the Republican party to demand laws to Check plenty that high prices may be maintained. Every lover of humanity wishes for it the least suffering and discomfort; the greatest possible plenty of the necessaries and comforts oi life.- Those alone are civilised who desire this, whose Work contributes to its attainment. Those Who seek to prevent it, who for iheM> Own selfish gSia perpetrate the discomforts, miseries and privations of their fellows, are the worst savages, because they have net the savage excuse of complete ignorance of » bat they are doing. Tho president and directors of every trust in the ‘country know that when they strive to prevent plenty and create scarcity they produce or perpetuate dearth, want and suffering, that these may result in high prices for what they have to sell. Some chemist, giving bis life to the service di mankind and asking no money reward, makes It great discovery) some mechanic makes a great improvement id productive machinery. Qhemist and mechanic are alike liberators — van leaders id the struggle for progress, iof freedom of mind and body; for a -higher life than that of perpetual want through which men by their deprivations and needs are tied down to brutality. Then when such men, tlSbugb self-denying toil, have found ways to lighten the labor and sufferings of mankind, making production easier, increasing plenty and lessening want, comes the Plutocrat With his money, feud with brains—not brains enough to see his eva kisi interest in the common welfare, bet only With that quality of brains Which can use good for selfish purposes All those plenty-producing inventions are good in tho highest degroo in themselves,- but

in his hands they become instruments for robbing labor of employment while ho is Using them dot ie increase plenty, but to che^k it. lie takes a machine that can furnish sois,e comfort of life-to 60,000,000 people. He agrees with other owners of such machines that the supply shall be limited to production for only 10,000,000. that the deprivation of the rest may keep up prices. And to carry out this agreement for artificial scarcity, he goes to Congress and procures the passage of laws under which those who suffer from the' artificial Scarcity produced by him and his associates are prohibited from supplying their useds from elsewhere, This is an 'iDfcisary business tran'ga€titm.'r It is done every day. It is the method of Plutocratic business, but none the less is every man who is the agent of deprivin'? bis fellows of the greatest possibility Of plenty a barbarian, an obstacle to progress, a stumbling block in the way of sirijizatioa, an opponent sf Providence, an enemy of the human race. A small class of o:en, in this country and. in Europe, are struggling to keep for themselves the great benefits of the new methods of creating wealth, which unselfish students and thinkers have wrought out during the century. The work was done ter the world;' it is the heritage of the World, that the world may suffer less privation, and, being rid of that oppression, advaneg to large intellectual and political liberty. Every invention, every new discovery, gives an added impetus to the forces which I are combining to crush this Plutocratic class, and give the world the benefit | of the plenty created by the mastery of ! mind over matter.' The Plutocracy will ] be overthrown. The time will come when I the world will stop troubling itself with i juggled figures and with percentages; i when it- will say: "This is right and it shall be done;” “This is wrong and it shall not be done.’’ And that time will come first here in the United States. It is not far off. The Plutocrats are showing the hardihood of their blind covetousness They are struggling for their unearned percentages in front of the | rolling wheels of the Juggernaut oar of ! civilization and progress, and if they refuse to see the tTuth, to hear reason and to do justice, they may expect to meet the rewards of their injustice. Senator Plumb has a partisan record which makes it surprising that he should be the one man of all others in his party li stand forward to tell the whole truth, but as he has dene it, all who love truth have only thanks and praise for him. He has stood forward In the leader’s place. If he has the leader’s stuff in him, ho will have not only the whole West behind him, but with it all those who hate oppression, who love freedom and progress.-—St Louis Republic. REED VERSUS REED. rhe Speaker’s Oa* K«ie 5a Opjxwltloa to His Former View*. O. Q. Stealy, the Washington eorrev jondent of the Louisville Courier Jourlal, has unearthed a copy of the Chauianquan of June, IS8S, containing an irticle by Thomas R Reed, now Speakit of the House of Representatives, on aarliamentary discussion. It shows how radically the Speaker has changed his nind during the past four ysars. ^ Bars ire a few extraots from Mr. Seed’s artisle that speak for themselves: The aim of some stateiBtea has Cess not todo kings good, but to prevent the doing of things ,Til. It can not be denied that ibis aim is quite >f ten a righteous one.. But the prevention of svil legislation should never bo by refusing (repositions a hearing, but by hearing and reluting. This brings me to remark that some egislntkm consists not £» whatisdoue than in whuff s refused to be done. Whoever thinks that the function at a legislative body in 1 free oountry is lull} performed by the mere passage of bills, good or ted, has little eoraprelengion of the scope soul reed usefulness of such k body. • * c The refonaution of She ■ules will remove a great sus ny obstacles to leg station. A great man.? remain So iatetligest legislation, using the word in tno broad sense n which it has boon employed ia this irticle. Among these tiOstuelec H the tendency which now ©lists to deuy dissuasion in many oases, and the tenlenoy to employ on nn-sait;,')!© tone of disonslion in others. A full, free, ftaefe dlscnssjoa is the very tee of iBtoiii®MH action. Nobody lows every thing: wnfc peck** -t<”» wane- ..... sat--gijpd 3k their know: ' K »«* mxMmdBfamBBSm - ■- - . - ■ ■

asfcceu la tha aouutty fin ttfenavtbait «*a*- :c ,ry so many subjects of btitar re*8ng, tavolrsg Sfttsr words, that U» tuadenoy »<> suppress Pm BKiSon fcs Congress by those who hare the ower Mstraacf apoiat where there oogM s he a fs&etSoa la favor irf freer debate. Itn 0 other eonutrtesta the worth Is so oh powsr 1 sh.itMusroafJeiwteshKlirO'J In the majority, rhe previous question las been employed ft thc*t reerey. it is in the memory of all hat unit! the last few yeaiB the House of Coiaoons never had such n thing ae the "prertots ioestioc- in our aease of the term. There wta to power fat the House to close debate. Tire Irish members, simply by talking, were eMe to prevent the passage of bills whWt had tire ijtproval of a vast majoritj of the House. Krea :i«ee the stronst provocation has caused tbo ntroduetion « the cloture debate can not be o v closed, except by the presiding officer, under inch circumstances and under such requireaents of support. from |he House as in that1 -S-jt! xiiy secKr^t^visht of delate, which is much treater thalre our House of Representatives. The hesitancy with which so slight a measure >t suppression was adopted in England strides irith a shade of surprise an American leg.sntor accustomed in Congress to see discussion irownod with as Ut*le remorse as if It were a rtghUess kitten, hat the English are right. tFnreasonable and capricious suppression of BsCTisskat ta tyranny, whe thor done by a King » a majority._-_-* / THAT JERSEY COTTAGE. T BarrUon's Ten-Thousand Hollar Story Is Evidently a Myth. The Cape May cottage was given to the wife of the President as a present So touch the official records of Capo May County, N. J., show beyond question. It Was bought for that purpose by Mr. William V. McKean, with money contributed by a number of well-known gentlemen, and the purpose was carried out. Since the matter was unfavorably commented upon by the press a number of efforts have been made to disguise the character of the transaction, and several newspapers hare published, with alleged authority, a statement that the vPresident bad never intended to receive tho present, bnt in fact had paid for the cottage after trying its fitness for his use. |-. That statement appears to be false. If the President has paid for the cottage his money must have gone to somebody. It can not have gone to the , original owner, Hamilton, for ho had been paid already by McKean. If McKean received the money he must, of course, have returned it to the gentlemen who' made the original contributions. He is not a man to keep mon ey which does not belong to him. Hut some of the gentlemen who contributed liberally to the fund have not re- - ceived their money back. This tho World is able to assert with positiveness. . k _ The cot tags was a present in the first place. Apparently it retains that character stilL—N. Y. World. , -l

THE SOUTHS RESPONSE. She Administration Ribnkeil by the Feepie of Ala bam* au-l Kentucky. Tho course of the Republican party in Congress has thoroughly solidified tho Democratic party, if ire may judge by the elections held in Alabama and in Kentucky the other day. Reports Iron! Alabama show increased ttemocratic majorities from all sections, with the Republicans controlling scarcely a county in the State. In Kentucky the Democratic majority is far ahead of any ttiiqgkijMin in jre;_ cent years. The "majority for General ltuckner three years ago is increased 135 per cent.; that given-for Cleveland in 1888 is increased 50' per cent. Even rock-ribbed Republican counties, just now penetrated by railroads and enli^htonecl by the Courier-Journal, join the Democratic ranks. These returns indicate the feeling aroused t.mong the p«K>ple by tho revolutionary methods of the Republican leaders. Men who havo never voted with the Democrats on any issue see that the Repulican party is a sectional organization, ready to sacrifice every interest i n the South to some temporary party necessity. They see the hopelessness of trying to build up the Republican party in the face of such tactics, ar.d so they cast in their lot with their neighbors and friends. This is the first response of the people to the challenge of Reed, McKinley and Davenport. Now for the Congressional - elections.—Louisville CourierJournal. DRIFT OF OPINION. --If Seed falls be falls utterly. rhere can be no stage at which he can top except the bottom. When he falls le will drag down the whole conclave n utter ruin. These be interesting imes.— N..Y, Telegram. -'a. —Senator Plumb has distinguished timself % the enunciation of the prinjple that the people have soma rights ,s well as the manufacturer, {it is gratfying to find that Blaine no longer, hands alone among Republican leaders n his denunciation of tho McKinley fill.—Chicago Globe. . -If the man who toils fourteen lOurs a day wears overalls and a ihecked shirt, and his wife wears a poo* luality of calico, how does it happen hat the fellow who never works at all vears broadcloth, and his wife wears iilk? Please answer, some one who bole ves in taxing the many for the on•ichment of the few.—Alliance Herald. -“Archduke Frans, of Austria, has i large and very interesting collection >f relics of criminals who have been :i b executed. Among the relics are potions of the ropes used in hanging the Chicago anarchists.” If he wishes to kdd to the collection he might send to McKinley for the pen with which be prepared his tariff hill.—Chicago Mail. -As an example of pure gall, there las been nothing lately to surpass the spectacle of Blair, of New Hampshire, proposing a rule to l imit debate in the ; senate. If there had been such a rule vhen Blair was making his three weeks’ ■peoch on the education bill there might save been some justification in putting t in force. There is not likely to be mother provocation so great as that. — Philadelphia Times. -The truth which Mr. Blaine it selling—that the protective tariff sys^ sem in no way provides a larger market for the farmer whom it so severely saxes—is snot new truth at all. It is the >ld truth upon which Democratic speaksrs and newspapers have-dwelt continrally for many moons. And the farmers are beginning to hinders tand; it, too, as Western elections and Western political movements clearly show.—N. Y, World. * --Th* Republican conventions ot Minnesota and Nebraska have declared against the McKinley bill. They both favor a revision of the tariff in the interest oi the producer and laborer. The attitude of Western Republicans on the ‘-riff is that of the Nebraska platform, sieh says: “The imported duties on t-oies in common uso should be with