Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 October 1890 — Page 1

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adjac 'nc country, to Chronic Diseases. «i»t*c„*Ksful!y treated. JrOBtein second story ding, Main street, between Eighth. i>'xi.\cu It. l*oset. DfcwnT Q. Chappell, POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Pktebsbubo, Ind. 'Will praetic i in all the courts, kention given t > nil business. (.Publicconstantly in tiie office. On first floor J»a,nk Building. Special at A Notary K. A. ELY, Attorney at Laws Pktkkssuro, Ind. lfl»3fc0 ov r J. R. Adams A Son’s Dru^ Store. lie is also a member of the United States Collection Association, and gives prompt attention to every niattcl* in which if€ is engaged. U. 1*. liICUASD3oy A. II. Tayloh. V RICHARDSON <fc T A A'LOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the ofiire. Office in Carpenter Building, Eighth tt,|d Main. EDWIN SMITH, Attorney at Law^ AND Real Estate Agent, l^TERSBURG, Ind. «IpOffiee over Gns Frank's store. Special etti-uliiiC given to Collections, Buying and filing L inds, Examining Titles, Furnishing Abstracts, etc. JR. R. JCIME, Phpoeian and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. *S-OHicc in Hank Bniluing. fi science on ^•ventli street, three squares south of Main. *Calls promptly attended day or uignt. 1. H. * LaMAR, IPhyskian and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. Will practicj in P.ke and adj lining cou«* .ties. Offi :*s in Montgomery Building. Office lionrs d^y uml night. f 4 CjjrDiceases of Women aral Children nspefi iliy. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. DENTISTRY. HARRIS,

ME WOULD AT LAMS. t5umn»»ry of the Daily News. Washington mnn. Director LfcftcH of the mint, who baa returned. Vo Washington from the West, reports great activity in all the mining ramps visited by him.' 0 Treasurer Huston expects to he able to issue silver notes of $1 and ft lenomiuations after November, in the purchase of silver bullion. This, it is believed, will meet the demand now general all over the country for a larger proportion of small notes as a circulating medium. Secretary or this Ivt eR ion Norte . has signed the cortHhSates for $15,000 such for the agricultural colleges of the jountry. Senator McPherson has discovered wars in the Tariff act whi ch he thinks fatal to its enforcement. Government officials, however, while admitting the errors, think they ban have no effect on tlie act SA a Whole. TftE‘committee having in charge the Section of a statue of President Chester A. Arthur has given the commission for Use work to tho sculptor, Ephraim Kyser, who iS now at work upon the model. The Census Office announces tho total population of the State of Florida tc be 300,8*5? increase 120,949, or *4.83 pet sent. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent ol the Census, bas returned from Kutttpe. The vacancy in the United Slates Supreme Court will, it Is now said, not be filled until Utter Congress convenes in Uecetnbfer.

TUB BAST. Dr. Joiix Farsi! am UbtitTOX died at Syracuse, N. Y., recently, aged fiftytwo. He invented the Babcock fire extinguisher. He had been married three times, the second time in a balloon in New York. He was divorced from the woman he married in mid air. One man was burned to death and a policeman severely > injured by a fire which broke out in the brick tenement house at No 57 Front street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Blakely Creighton, a banker of New York City, committed suicide in his office by taking poison. He left a letter giving as the oanse business reverses He was a son of the late Commodore Creighton, U. S. N. A Terrific storm raged along the Jersey coast all day on the93d and much damage was done by the surf. Vessels were reported ashore at Spfihg Lake. Several small boats were capsized off Long Branch. ONE of the fulminate departments of : the Union Metallic Cartridge Company at Bridgeport, Conn., was blown up tbe other day. One man was torn to atoms. There was a panic in the ma.n building. The woolen importing house of Bernheimer, Son & Co., of New York, has suspended, on account, as stated, of tbe change caused by the Tariff bilL Albert W. Oxnard, treasurer of tbe Johnstown (Pa) Lumber Company, has disappeared, and a shortage of @30,000 has been found in his accounts. East Pkpperei.l, Mass., was badly damaged by fire on tbe 34th, flames breaking out in -Leighton's shoe factory. The loss was @300,000. h The Brooklyn sugar refinery has (down and 450 men are thrown employment. It is rumored that he single exception of Havemeyfinery ail the Brooklyn refineries » closed down. About 2,000 men »affected.

THE WEST. - locating caissons in the Ohio incinnati found, fourteen feet the mud, what is believed to sk of the steamer Moselle, ■ty years ago. A large sum of mown to be in the safe and a ,dead in the cabin. ?vod that Frod Hubert and hire were drowned in Beaver |Wis, in the recent fierce [were bunting ducks. [low glass factory in Findkrae into the trust which lnized to control the proale of window g lass. This all the window glass le United States west of with the single exception of "Ina, which is owned by FindJa. [opulation of Wisconsin is 1,083,- , 308,200, or 27.99 percent x Henry Hastisos SlBUtY, [governor of Minnesota and the :rat who ever held that ofa stroke of paralysis at St list and was in a critical

in Kelson trotted a mile at Ity, Inch, recently in 2:10%, world’s recoid one-half e crowd witnessed the The time by quarters rter :SS%, half 1:05%, 1:88% and mile 2:10%. aftk and a bright day. . driver 26 pounds in ox- ' Eastern Illinois pasi derailed near Watseka, aduotor was seriously in£Vky, the most famous e United Staten died at Columbus, O., reied he was serving a t, for passing counterMM&w Orleans in 1888. ?ntatBAr, a Methodist 1 missionary to the Peooa bossing Cottonwood creek, kith of Outbrie, Ok., with Jbon in a wagon, was swept current and upset The among the horses was ally drowned. grand council of the ptists of the United Chicago on the 22d. convicted of murder in hasbeen respited byGovto November 28. Smith hang and had been vious respites. Addi''stablishing his innohave been discoveth mpany has again oil. this time to The Ohio prooccurred In a Southern near To add to the ught fire. The and the injured

Tub boiler of a thresher engine encoded near Litchfield, Minn., recently. Dennis Kelly, a lad of twelve, was killed and twelve persons injured, one fatally. , Two blocks of business houses in Leavenworth, Ird, including three stores, were destroyed by fire the other day! loss. $100,000. Thb excitement among the Northern Cheyennes in Sdlth Dakota is dying out, the stories of the coining of *h tnd an Messiah being Slotriy btit Surely disproved. In a collision between freight trains on the Union Pacific railroad at feairview. Ore., Engineer O'Brien was killed Slid his fireman badly hurt A NOir.vniJK wedding took place at Chicago on the 23d, tbo only son of Marshall Field being married to MisS Albertina Huck. Two candidates for the vacancy on the Supreme Bench have appeared in the Northwest. They are Senator W. F. Sanders, of Montana, and ex-Rcpresent-ative W. H. Calkins, of Washington. The sin engineering store house of the Mai-© Island navy yard, Vallejo, CaL, was on tiro recently. The loss amounted to $1Q0,C0A A. H. Harris, a millionaire mine owner of Montana. Was found dead in I his chair in his room at the West Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn. A frightful accident occurred oh the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis road at Oxford, a small town north Of Hamilton, O. Two freights 'collided Slid fehgi h’eer'Meyers was killed and six others badly injured, two of whom will die. Loss, $125,000. The conference between the officials of the Mackey system of railroads in Indiana and the employes has resulted in an amicable agreement. -The Roman Catholic priestsand monks in Milwaukee have all registered and, for the first time, will vote at the election against the Bennett law. nn: SOUTH. The Texas branch of the Commercial Travelers’ Protective Association has instituted a rigid boycott against the San Antonio & Aransas Pass road because of its refusal to sell 2,000 mile tickets at slight reductions The Alabama State fair began at Birmingham on the 21st with a promising outlook. The machinery was started at noon by Mrs. Cleveland, who pressed a button at Lenox, Mass. Great excitement prevails at Florence, Ala., over the discovery of natural gas seven miles from the city,

a XELP.ititAM irvui iuunarj v/uuuiy, Tenn., gives particulars of a horrible accident in which five men. were killed. The boiler of an engine exploded, and John White’s head was blown from his shoulders and hurled fifty yards away.' The bodj of the owner of the mill, H. E. Trimbull, was torn into shreds. Tub Mississippi constitutional convention has finally decided to have a L eutenant-Governor as one of the State officers. A terrible collision occurred on the Memphis road near Birmingham, Ala., recently. Though only two persons were killed many were injured. A southbound passenger train left Chattanooga, Tenn., on time and was running at a moderate rate of speed, ap- . preaching Chickamauga. As the train dashed out of a cut a covered wagon was upon a cros sing. The engine struck the 1 wagon and killed J. W. Jenkins, his wife and baby and Mrs. James Bowman, all of Walker County. At the annual election of directors of the Alabama Great Southern railroad at Birmingham, a majority of the new directors elected were East Tennessee, VirginiaWsd Georgia men. Senator J. S. C. Blackburn was severely hurt recently by being thrown out of his buggy in a runaway near Versailles, Ky. Colonel N. N. Cox has been nominated to succeed lion. W. C. Whittborne, the present incumbent, by the Seventh Congressional Democratic convention of Tennessee. GENERAL. The Evenment of Paris has advices from St Petersburg stating that as the train on which the Czar was returning to St Petersburg, from his hunting trip in Poland, passed Grodna, a shot was fired at it The United States Express Company has issued positive orders to all its agents to refuse to assist fn any way in the transaction of lottery business. In accordance with the Czar’s enforcement of the anti-Jewish law all the Jews in Kisbeneff were ordered to leavo that city. The Jews in Akerman, twen-ty-eight miles from Odessa, have also been ordered to leave the town.

The Canadian shipping trade is reported virtually dead. A vessel sailed from Montreal recently for England in ballast A tekkifk; explosion occurred in the Government powder mills at Waithatn, England, recently. No one was killed, but a number of persons were more or less injured and the damagoj.o property was considerable. During a recent ourney from Paris Baroness Alphonse Rothschild was robbed of jewelry valued at 60,000 francs. The striking dockmen at Melbourne, Australia, deny that the strike has oeased. A spasm of retrenchment has struck all the Western roads. The opinion is universal that thIW.is less manipulation of rates than at any time since the Inter-State 'Commerce act went into effect The Fenian Brotherhood has abolished its oath of secrecy. A committee was appointed to organise military and haTal companies to assist the United States in ease, of wilt. The Parliajnentiry election in the Eccles division of Lancashire resulted in a victory for the Gladstonians. Mr. Roby, the Liberal candidate, received 4,901 votes and Mr. Edgerton. Conservative. 4.696. In the preceding election the Liberal candidate received 8,985 and tho Conservative 4. 377. As a result of the recently reported attempts upon the life of the Csarall of the palaces and many of the official buildings, as well as the public squares and parks of St. Petersburg, have been closed to the people. Three locomotives made in Philadelphia and intended for a new railway from Jerusalem to Jaffa have arrived at Jaffa They arc the first locomotives ever used in tills ancient land. s The Czar’s adviser!! are said to be nonplussed by the wholesale conversion to Christianity of tho Jewish students at Odessa, who look the step in order to be permitted to remain in the university. No confidence is felt in the sincerity of the conversion. Tom Mann, the president of the Dockers’ Union, declares that the number of unemployed is England is not lesa than 700,000 and tbit an eight-hour law is the only rear-d*

The French Chamber ol: Deputies will discus* a proposal to place a poll-tar on foreigners. It ;s rumored in London that the British Shipping Federation is proffering for a general lockost in order, to settle the present uncertainties. Lord Dunt.o, the husband of Belle Belton, the concert hall singer whose matrimonial difficulties hate been the subject of much discussion, was thrown frOni bis horse Whiie riding recenii# and ono of his shod ders dislocated. ; f Tits Spanish Government Commission has decided that all future treaties of bommeree concluded by Spain shall have a minimum of five and a maximum of ten years’ duration, and that the maximum concession be 25 per cent of duties under the tariff of 1§7T. TilE Russian Minister of the interior has received alarming reports as to the state of the country. The prisons are crowded , with suspects, chiefly young men of the educated classes, and dsaf& lection is spreading rapidly. A great* deat of fighting between the peasantry and the military is reported in various sections. Mil Geahstokk, In a recent speech, approved combinations of workingmen, which had had much to do with improving their condition,* He deprecated appeals to PariiamenttO help workingmen out of difficulties ■ THE tfniversity Of Cambridge;, fingldfad, has conferred a degree on Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer; WiLi.iam O’Erisk, in an interview at Paris, said that the Irish party Was assured that the American tour of himself and Mr. Dilion would yield sufficient funds to last until the general^Kction. The finding of the body of artffrdered woman in London recently started more “Jack the Ripper” alarm. The locality, however, was remote from Whitechapel and the victim lacked the usual mutilations peculiar to the worlc of the unknown fiend. A >i*mi»kr of Berlin capitalists have prom sed to subscribe 15,000,000 marks to aid Baron Wissmann’s project to construct a railway in Africa. Three hundred officers have volunteered to jo.n Wissmann’s force. Chancellor Veil Caprivi discourages the idea. It is ramored that England is preparing & send another expedition to the Soudan to try to suppress the Mahdi. The work shops of the wood paving Company id Paris were burned recently. Loss, 2,000,000 frahes. The Tipperary sureties of Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien have sent a telegram to the latter, wishing' them God speed and saying they are proud to bear the responsibility of their exploit.

I he Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers defeated the majority report of the committee appointed to devise a plan of co-operation, vhich was in favor of a scheme to affiliate with the firemen, conductors and brakemen. The Alaska Commercial Company has sued the North American Commercial Company for $100,000, the value of 4,000 sealskins recently discharged by the revenue cutter Rush, which were Claimed by both companies. A HeaziuAX squadron has left Rio dd Janeiro to visit the United States in return tor the visit of the United States squadron last July. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended October 33 numbered 325, compared with 227 the previous week and 225 the corresponding week of last year. Business in Portugal is at a standstill because of the serious decline of Portuguese funds on the London market It it believed that a revolution will soon occur. Thk Sultan of Vitu, East Africa, has refused to give redress for recent massacres and is preparing for war with England and Germany. A party of 300 Poles while attemptihg to reach Prussian territory with the intention of emigrating to Brazil were fired upon by the Russian frontier guard, whose order to turn had been disobeyed by the Poles Six men, two women and one child were killed. Exsiex Rumsky, of the United States steamer Swatara was accidentally drowned at Yokohama August 27. Steamship advices from Japan are that cholera is gradually disappearing and Yokohama is said to be practically free from it. Thertf bad been 34,000 cases and 32,000 deaths up to Ootobar 10. Thk Secretary of the Interior has appointed Charles M. Dale, of Mattoon, 111.; J. Clifford Richardson, of St Louis, and Rockwell J. Flint of Menominee, Win, members of the Crow Indian Commission in Montana, under the act of September 25, 1880, with compensation of $10 a day and expenses.

lillQ VULU^UUim VI DUO VUllUUVJ, VU the 24th, declared an interest dividend of one hundred per cent, in favor of the creditors of the National Bank of Sumpter, S. CL, on claims proved amounting to $75,000. The bank failed in August 1887. Mbs. T. J. Sigus, a well-to-do widow of Boone, la., was murdered by some unknown person on the morning of the 25th. Austin Sigus, an adopted nephew, in whose favor Mrs. Sigus had recently made her will, is suspected. Jay Gould arrived at Denver, Col., on the 25th. He said his visit bore no significance, but popular suspicion attributed it to a desire to keep a vigilant eye on the recent Santa Fe combine with the Midland. This President has denied the application of Haywood Randall, of Illinois, for restoration to citixenship Randall. was sentenced to one years’s imprisonment for., counterfeiting, which he has servej and. is now free. Mb. Geo. Bl BatchelLok, the new Minister to Portugal, and Mrs. and Miss Batohellor expect to sail for Havre about the middle of November and proceed thence directly tb Lisbon. Mbs. Habbisor wishes to pay a visit to Indianapolis in November or early in December, as she has not been back to her old home since she left there a year and a half age for Washington. Receipts of wool at Boston, for the week ended the 25th, were 14,657 bales domestic, and 1,780 foreign. The sales were 2,911,200 pounds domestic and 781,060 pounds foreign. Or the 25th a vicious boar bit a piece of the leg, including the artery, from the twelve-year-old son of Ole Rhudy, of Crookston, Minn. The boy died in twenty minutes. The North Dakota Supreme Court has decided that the State Banking law ‘is oonstitionaL The case will be take to the Supreme Court of the United States. Steps will be taken by the Census Office aii an early day to dispose of the application for a re-count of the pop* latiom of Omaha, Neb. The population of, the Stele of Maryland, as shown by the Census Office, is i.040 SOi's an increase over the census ol

STATE INTELLIGENCE. The three-year-old son of James Niblick, a merchant of Decatur, was accidentally shot some time ago, the bullet passing entirely through the head. A tube for the drainage of pns was inserted. and the little fellow is now in a fair way to recover. This is somewhat similar to the noted ease, recorded ly the medical books; pf recovery by a matt through Whbso brain the ramrod of d gnp had passed. Jons Hamlet, of Valparaiso, attempt ed suiSide byehobting himself itt the head. Despair over the frightful death of his wifo and four children by fire d few months ago was the cause. Nelson, the stallion, lowered his record at Cambridge City, making the mile itt 2:l0?v Sylvesteb Johnson, farmer near Indianapolis, found raspberry bushes in foil bloom recently. He also found several clusters of ripe strawberries, Miss Josephine Price, of Albany, shot her sister, Mrs. Lina Zimmerman, in the head with a pistol she didn’t know w:ts loaded. John Quincy Adams, a widower, aged sixty-five, of Muncie, has for some time lived on the meat of rats, which he caught in the neighborhood. THE Uvo-montbs-old baby of Charles Avdilact, Oreettcastle; got, two finger rings down, its throat: Kemoved by a All the prisoners in, the jail at Vim connes, escaped, the other night, and depredations in that part of the country hare become numerous since, then. John Tapp, farmer, Crawlordsvillc, suicided by sending a ballet through his heart. James Stevenson lost three fingers in a brick-making machine at Montezuma. Allen Traver’s three-year-old son was kicked to death by a horse, at his heme in Elkhart County. Thomas Beelei:, who wasaccidentally shot in the back, with a shot-gun, by John Ware, while hunting, near Brooklyn, October 16, is improving and will recover. Hamilton Owens, of Seymour, was thrown from his wagon in a runaway and injured it is thought fatally. John J. Callahan is under arrest at Portland for. forging Samuel Harlan’s name. David Afekt, carpenter, Connersville, dropped dead while at work in a church. Silas Brown, a young farmer living near Middletown, was run down by a Pan Handle train and received injuries from which he died in a few hours

AUlSKHi OUCJittUinijrt » HWiAUd ann^uman whose home is at Indianapolis, was fatally injured at Terre Haute, his heel catching in a frog in the yards and the wheel passing over him. While John and William Sanders, brothers, were hunting near Columbus, John’s gun was accidentally discharged, tearing off his brother's right arm and part of the charge entering his body: He is in a criticl condition. Samuel Dorman dropped dead in the Snyder cooper shops of Mancie. He raised six violinists in his family. Rev. Isaac Fisher, minister of the Dunkard Church, dropped dead in his pulpit, at Peru. Heart disease. A train ran over and killed Samuel Bowers, near Middletown. At Shelbyville, Judge L. J. Hackney passed judgment on the following young criminals who belonged to the gang oi boy robbers: Geoige Burns, aged 15, sentenced to House oi Refuge six years; Harley Carleton, aged 13, eight years;Robert Clark, aged Iff, fire years: Noah Estus (colored), aged 15, sjx years; Charles Carter,* aged 16, five years to the House of Refuge; Jonathan Copple, a hoy of 13, was given a floater, or permitted to go on his good behavior; Albert Henry, a hoy charged , with receiving the goods, was acquitted'. Thomas Shannon was buried by the cave-in of a gravel pit, near Tipton, and very soriously injured. May 11kec», an orphan girl at Kokomo, attempted sulcido by poisoning, and her life was saved with difficulty. ; Deputy Marshal Bird, of Frankfort supposed to have been fatally shot byArthur Palmer,a youthful horse-thief, is recovering. Charles Cone, head sawyer at Maley & Col’s mill, at Sullivan, dropped dead, the other day. -Heart trouble is the supposed cause of his death.

XII Hi ujuicuyu lliuiouu its annual reunion at Martinsville a few days ago. More than 300 of its members were present, among whom were Generals Lew Wallace, Fred Knefler and McGinnis, Colqpel J. 'Elston, Major Pope, Major George Butler, Major James K. Ross and Gideon li. Thompson, alias "snacks,’ ’of the Indianapolis News. General Lew Wallace delivered the regimental address. Coi.okei) Caky Day, of Crawfordsville, is 100 years old. Christian Steckant, a prominent citizen of Michigan City, has disappeared and it is feared he has been foully dealt with. Robert Watson, charged with murdering WilUara C. Davidson, the Vandalia fireman, at Terre Haute, has been granted a change of venue to Parke County. Cases of malignant diphtheria and scarlet fever are reported at Stanton, Newberg and Carbon, and several deaths. Steps have been taken to prevent an epidemic. Carl Howard, aged twenty-live, was run down and killed near Zionville by a Big Four freight train. W’hen John U. Spencer had the rej mains of his father disinterred at South Waveland, for removal to another cemetery, there were many indications that Mr. Spencer had recovered consciousness after burial, and died of suffocation. •» ’ Clyde Lister, charged with larceny, sawed three bars from bis window in the Boone County jail, but was detected in time. Wh. BtfDD. ran his horse three miles to Lebanon, to prevent bis wife from applying for a-divorce, found the application had already been made, and carried his point by dropping from bis horse dead. Ik the circuit court at Madison, Bill Hyatt, an ex-convict, and bis pal, James Adams, better known as the “Blizzard,” were sentenced to the penitentiary for four years for robbing his uncle Jesse Gray, a well-known farmer of *100. The other night the Pleasant Valley Flour Mills, at Cambridge City, owned and operated by Mr. Leggett; were burned to the ground. Ah old landmark is gone, the victim, it is thought, of an incendiary. No insurance. Levi Heimah’8 house, valued at $3,500, and Henry Neinsinger’s, valued at 99,000, wove destroyed by fire at Warren

GOLD AS CURRENCY. It In a Nice Thing to U»e Plenty off, buf to the Man of Business It la Often s Source Inconvenience and Loss Owing to Kales Btganliag Its Reception by Bxuka. Washisgiok, Oct 27. — “Do you Snow that gold is the most unwieldy of all the different kinds of money now in circulation,’* skid a prominent hanker to a representative of the tTttijed Pres* “Why so?” was asked: “Because it is .not bankable Without careful sCrdtiny.” “How is that?” “Striiply this. Take a greenback, a Silver certificate, a gold certificate or a' National Bank note to your bank and it is received and placed to your credit without a moment’s delay. Not so with geld. A few ' days ago a gentleman brought to our hank upwards of 93,000 in gold of different denominations and was much provoked because we would not receive it forthwith and give him credit for the amount fhSfaces of the coin represented. This we conld not do because the law requires that gold shall be redeemed only at its actual value. Coins carried in the pocket for any length of time naturally lose something in weight by abrasion, probably but a fractional part of a cent on a ten dollar coin; but it is a loss, nevertheless, and therefore bankers can hot give credit for gold deposits until the Chin Shall have bceti Weighed, id the base in point my friend took hid gold to the Treasury Department and was competed to wait there neaiiyan hour before he could get notes for it, every coin -had to be passed through the scales, and after the weighing process had been completed three coins—two $5 pieces and one 310 piece—were returned to him as short in weight. Before returning short-weight coins the Department stamps on the face of each a cross. The owner is left to either send the coins te the United States Mint for redemption or to again put them in circulation. Eventually the coins with crosses on their faces will go to the Mint and be redeemed at their actual value. In many instances there may not he more than several cents shortage on fifty dollars’ worth of coin. Business men, however, naturally object to the inconvenience and get rid of theif gold as fast as possible.” LONDON’S LATESt:

Horrible Murder of a Woman that wii at First Attributed to ‘‘Jtek the Kipper,” but which Proves to be a Different Kind of Crime—A Missing Babe Come plicates the Case—A Bloody Sight at the Scene of the Mnrder. London, Oct 26.—The bod; of the woman found murdered in South Hampstead Friday night has been fully identified by a man named Hobbs, who says it is that of his wife. He. says his wife left home Friday with their child in a perambulator. The child has not been found. Hobbs is a porter employed in this city. It was subsequently learned that Mrs. Hobbs started to visit a woman named Nellie Piercey,an intimate friend of the Hobbs family. The Piercey worn* an, it appears, is married, bnt has sepa rated from her husband.Th police upon ascertaining this fact immediately proceeded to the residence of the Piercey woman for the purpose of searching the premises. A startling sight presented itself. On every side there were indications of a terrible struggle. The windows of the house were broken, the warns been ample evidence as to In what now appears to have double murder, as the child has not yet been found. The Piercoy woman’s husband has been arrested and is charged with having murdered both Mrs. Hobbs and her child. Hobbs is also suspected, under close surveil1 m? muruerer stole a gold ring belonging to Mrs. Hobbs, and also her purse. The child was eighteen' months old, and up to a late hour last night the police had not been able tq obtain even the slightest clew to its' whereabouts. So far as can be learned there had been no quarrel between the murdered woman and her husband. - Latek—The body of the missing child of Mrs. Hobbs, was found in a field a milo distant from the place where its mother’s corpse was discovered.

MAY PROVE A MURDER. • A Wealthy Widow’s Terrible Experience with a Pair of Burglars Intent on Se* curing Her Money, which She Defended at the Probable Cost of Her life. Reading Pa., Oct. 3&—Early yesterday morning two marked men entered the residence it Mrs. .Amanda Doebler, a wealthy widow, residing on the outskirts of Lebanon, and demanded her money. She refused, when they set upon her witii a knife and brutally stabbed her in ten places on her head, besides cuttin.; her .on her body and. arms. The woman, resisted and' a terrible fight ens led, until finally, scared by her scream i, the men dashed out of the window a id escaped without getting her cash. The struggle with her assailants too c place in Mrs. Doebler’s sleeping room, and this had the appearance of a -re rular slaughtering pen. The walls wer i cove red with blood, the carpet torn U]> and the bed and floor red with blood The woman is now in a critical cond tion and not expected to live many hot rs. The assailants have not yet been a rested. (f -- PI. ads Poverty. New Yoke, Oct‘96.—The trial of the suit brought by Work, Strong & Co., the stock brokers," against Judgb’ Beach for the recovery ot $15,000* acknowledged to be due on recount of certain BtOck transactions, was begun in the Supreme Court yesterday. The suit was brought in 1884, but at ;he time the judge agreed to pay the debt as soon as he wds able, and the case was dropped. From that time up to the iresent Judge Beach has paid nothing. Frank Sturges, of Work, Strong & Co., testified as to the facts in the casie. Judge Beach denies bin anility to pay. A Bootless Combine. Pams, Oct. 3T.—M. De Lonielo, a member of the budget committee in the Chamber of Deputies, said yesterday ia an interview on the report in circulation that Germany, Austria and Italy were forming a tariff union against the United States, that France conld • only join such a union in the event of Great Britain also entering. As this is highly improbable the scheme will be futile, would necessarily become, according to an expression of Prince Bismarck when sounded a year ago on sach an at* aliiy. » continental blockade.

our poo fejgeo cswsua. Startling fchargwt Madh* W •# ikMHSill New York Nn#«p»pcr. New York City Hit had 6 eacs ss 0i Its own which shows ths 5K>p<:lat;ori to bo tlioBt 180,90# pester th»« lepaiM by the officers of the United States census. This and other developmenfci recently made still further shake public soofidenee in the work of Mr. T’orte, and show It be valueless for any purpose Whatever. The New York Tribon* nm forced #eek6t tig6 tcf Condemn the Work Of M* Porter. The figures iffsnrvuirced for the country at large were of a fslfarwciwtf SO startling that they coaid. be explained on no other hypothesis than gross inefficiency, or a ffatedatent purpose to advance political ends. The Tribune adopted the first explanation, and made plain by its exhibits* that the returns were utterly untrustworthy. Then Mr. Porter's health broke down, and with a phrfafi^ate of character from Secretary Noble, fee want ts Europe for rest and recreation. The New York World claims to have evidence of fraud of a most extraordir nary character, and it declines to aecept the plea of incapacity or ill health. A special to that journal from Washington makes specific charges of systematic mutilation of the census returns The Washington correspondent writes: , “Astounded is tiie people of New York must be at ihe feveldtiotts of the police fe-CTitfasera-iion In that City, the people of the BepablSo at large must be prepared for a greater shock. If they wUl look over the country the honest nis2 of ail parties will discover that there Is a method in the census reports. Investigations set on foot by the’World more that a month ago confirm the most startling suspicions. The web of entangling evidence lias already enmeshed a Congressman from 3 rook lye, it Mace of political managers in thai fcity, dtut half a dozen clerks in various departments 6# the Census Office. The evidence sefar adduced dpi pears to show: "First—That there is a deliberate pci-pose on the part of the leaders of the dominant part; to retain the Congressional majority now in its grasp. “Second—That a secret office was fitted up in Washington at 306 D street Northwest, where a gang of trusted clerks was detailed to alter the true census returns—by scaling down the totals or increasing the same—that the growth of Democratic States should cot be honestly reported. “Third—That an order was given by an offil rial in the Census Office to scale dewu the population of New York City 133, OW. “Fourth—That Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Maine and Minneapolis were te be 'very liberaily counted.’ “Fifth—Five Southern States were to be ‘jumped upon.’ States thirt bad stowed ihe greatest growth were to suffer t# {he eUteat of 11 to 15 per cent. “When the researches Of the World frightened the conspirators they Moved the secret office from No, 80S D street. Washington, to Cathedral street, Baltimore, near, the monument. A certain Mr. Morton o-ganhied.tho disgraceful work. The World has in its possession names of all the men who have been active in this work."

mis i»-ii maiikvc iuaii uukuc **£!*«- ly put aside. These conspirators are altering the basis of representation and destroying the confidence of the people in the integrity of Congress itself The AVorld must Yerify or withdraw its charges.—Lonisville Courier-Journal. THE ELECTIONS BILL. An Exp'anatton of the. lately Measure Fathered ay Hypocrite iodse. Although it is made Very complex on paper, the force bill IS a very simple and easily intelligible measure. Here are its provisions: J. Full Federal control of Congressional elections in the States, with incidental control of the electoral votes of the States through the use of the This is as concise and simple a statement as we can make of the objects and methods of the bill. If at were now in force, any district in Illinois could be subjected to it. On demand for it, in any district, a “chief supervisor” would be appointed who would have absolute control of the election in the district. Supervisors appointed under him would manage the registration and would take charge of the polls. Any indefinite number—any number from ltitol0,oO0 partisans could be sworn is as deputy marshals, and placed around the polls, armed and empowered to arrest eitiaens of the State, who would be hold for trial in the Federal courts away from home, where they could neither give bail easily, nor easily establish their

good cuaraccer 07 me resuiaeoy 01 sueir neighbors. Any party thus commanding the polls, could command the result of the election, bat the force bill goes further still* After all this, it provides Federal returning boards to do the counting and make the returns. The clerk of the House of Representatives is to be compelled upder heavy penalties to reject -returns of State officers and accept the returning board certificate as evidenoe of election. Instead of being able to choose their own election judges as now, and to certify the Result under their own law as now, the people of Illinois under this law would have every thing decided by the party in power in Washington. Partisan supervisors, partisan returning hoards, and partisan deputy marshals by the hundred would decide the election. The ballots east would notcount It is declared that the law is intended only for Southern States. This is false. It can be put In operation iu every Congressional district in the country. If the ■ Republicans used it first .in Southern States, what difference would it make, if by partisan force and fraud under it they control Congress and the - electoral college which elects the President'* The object of the bill Is to perpetuate the power of the Northeastern corporations and of toe Wall street speculators who control the supplies and .the money of the country. It they steal the votes of South Carolina to control Illinois, the people of Illinois are as effectually oppressed as if the vote df their own State bad been stolen. —St. Louis Republic. QUAY AND BELKNAP. One Was Kutuad While the Other Sfab ushing ]r Conduct! Campaigns. The death of General W\W. Belknap, at one time Secretary of War, will call out from the press many rejections upon the deadly chii} east upon political hopes by political knavery, and the obscurity in which the fallen politician has passed his life since the day* vhea the whisky ring dominated the Republican party will he noted, with criticism of those who at time, dstfrsfc «* the blighted General mm

tad when Wasb'ngtc* twngea wiui ue ill odors of scandal t»he* exposure game his swift fall and his disgrace demonstrated that there was yet • conscience and a shame in the BepuMwjj* party, though they Aid not prevent its leaders from allowing the guilty Secre-’ £ary to escape the fall penalty of his misdeeds. One may tot a moment look hopeful.y at that sign of decency in Washington then existing, hut how shall he keep erect his bead when at the same moB«?nt h% beholds a Rauaa, smirched even mdre foully than was Belknap, administering the duties of office unrebuked by the President and whitewashed by Congress, and a Quay, contie ted as ho other pwblic man has been' convicted of heinous offenses, yet retain ingbis seat in Vae United States Senaf~ unblushingiy confronting the count ^ with the shield of the apologies of his ansensltive partisans, conducting a campaign ah the chief of the BepubUean parts for the intrenchroent in power of a privileged class, and welcomed at the White Honee, where lives a Republican President who makes an oetefltafkws parade of his church connections arid ltfct piety? One can afford in all charity to overlook and forgot the shame of Belknap. It has become the virtue of the Be publican leaders.—Chicago Times. ' „ I CLEVELAND HONORED. fftot a RejraMUsan Leader Tbluka of tht Popular Ex-Presldanc. At fho banquet given to Genera^ Boger A. Pry err in New York City on October 9 Mr. Chatmcey M. Depew Introduced Mr, Cleveland in the follow' words: “If I were asked to name the most forcible character in American life, the man who best represent^ the energy, the ahswerving determination and the con rags of the true American, the man who knows duty, and it alone, when public service commands it. the man woo wars in war and is for peace in peace, I would name General W. T. Sherman; hut if I am to name the typical American, the man who loves and believes in his country beyond every thing else, the man who, determining once in what direction his duty leads, can not be swerved from the path—the man who is doggedly pier; sis tent in what he believes to be right — the man who thinks not of self, botnl his country and its needs, I would name Grover Cleveland. What he has accomplished is the very highest attribute to the possibilities of- American

Citizenship A country lawyer in me city of Buffalo, be shed luster upon the high profession which he had chosen. As the mayor of his native city he presented as his record a clean and economical administration. Coming into the highest position in the land without previous experience and with scarcely a precedent to guide him in the conditions which surrounded him, he won the affection of his party and commanded the respect and admiration of his opponents. I find myself in one of the proudest positions of my Hi® in being permitted to present to you Grover Cleveland as the typieal Ameri; can.” __ PREVCA5CATOR REED. Probably the Walt Audacious Falsehood >«l (Titered by the Autocrat. The average Republican orator presumes a great deal, but perhaps not too j much, Spin the ignorance of bis bearers; Speaking in Rochester, N. Y., the other day Strong Man Reed said: “The majority of De mocrats live sonth of Mason and Dixon’s line,” What is the truth? At the list Presidential election the Hlttm»«l*VlsiW. ra“ as follows: Michigan. 213.U39 Missouri..:. Minnesota...... 104,383 N. Carolina. Nebraska.. 80,53? & Carolina Nevada:i.;.. 5,33* Tennessee., NewHampsUire 43,38! Texas.. New Jersey.... 151,418 Virginia^., New York. 835,737 West Virgil Okie.... ....... SeS,45» Oregon......;.. 30533 "WtaX...... Pennsylvania.. 448,833 Kioto Island.. 17.539 Vermont....... 16.788 Wisconsin..... 150333 Total........8,617,*69 There are almost twice as many Democrats, in the North as there are in] the South, but a little thing like that makes no difference to a man who prides himself on his “business” methods and whose cardinal , political principle is that the minority has no rights which the majority is bound to respect.—Chicago Hetald. 147.903 65,845 158,77*

CURRENT COMMENTS. -Vermont's population, according to the Porter process, has increased only 81 in the last ten years. Vermont is a reliable Republican State.—Chicago Mail. p„ Huntington is to decorate his New York mansion with carved heads ot the robber barons of the Rhine. McKinley ought to step in to prevent it and compel him to make use of the American product. — Chicago Times. --The Republicans,' for campaign purposes, have photographed the vacant Democratic seats in the House. If they want a void that aches right badly they might go right over to the Treasury and turn their camera loose on its vast and cavernous vaults. — Philadelphia Record. — - -The McKinley MU will foreclose e very farm mor tgage, for it taxes our payment for oara-fourth of. the farm crop oyer 60 per cent—or 15 per cent of the fall value of each farmer’s crop. Farming cap not pay this yearly tax and survive.—N. Y. World. --The only reciprocity really understood by the Republican leadens is that which has been established between them and the manufacturers. The manufacturers provide the campaign fund3 and the Republican leaders reciprocate by taxing consumers to enrich the manufacturers.—Louisville Courier-Journal. -Politics has become so vociferous down in Pennsylvania that Senator Den Cameron has contributed 8100,000 to the Repub) Shan cam paign fund. This is believed to he the largest individual campaign contribution ever made. Cameron is a candidate • for re-election- T ie “floater” business bids fair to be very prosperous in Pennsylvania this year.— Buffalo Express. --There ie an iaowaae in prices ill along the line since the passage of the MeKinley Mil until labor is reached. There is no ad vane* in the price of that commodity. Mow ot it is repaired in ’or other commodities since the passage o? the hill, and this advantage to labor in exchange is the “pro-fcoatk-sn” H receive*.—tirpud **