Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 December 1890 — Page 1

J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME XXI. Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.” OFFKIE, over J. B. TOUNO dc 00. t Store, Mids Qtmet^ -- - " P .. .. ..■■■■---- ._ . ''.....— ----- ----- t PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESD AY, DECEMBER 17, 1890. Nl MBER 30. .

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l'KOiE SIOXAL CARDS. M. M. POMEBOY, M. D., Phpieian and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in city and adjacent country. Fpecial attention'given to Chronic Diseases. Veuerea! Diseases successfully treated. Consu tation tree. 49-Office in secondstory < t (listen Building, Main street, between fceyonth and Eighth. Francis B. Posit. Dewitt Q. Chappell POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. WilFpraetioo in all the courts. Special at tention given to nil business. A Notary Public constantly la the office. jg^Office—* On first floor Baok Building. E. A. ELY, Attorney at Law, Petersburg, Ind. CV-Ofllce OT» r J. R. Adams A Son’S Drug Store, ile is also a memberrof the United States Collection Association, and gives prompt attention to every matter in which he Is en raged. (L 2>. Richardson. A. H. Taylor. RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. / Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpouter Building, Eighth and Main. EDWIN SMITH, Attorney at Law AND Real Estate Agent, Petersburg, Ind. SSpOIBce over Gus Frank’s store. Special attention given to Collections, Buying and Selling Lauds, Examining Titles, Furnishing Abstraiits, ote. EL R. KIME, Petersburg, Ind. ^saroffice in Bank Building. Residence os Seventh street, three squares south of Main. Calls promptly attended day or night. L H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in Pike and adjoining connties. 0 (See iu Montgomery Building. Office hours <1 ay and night. SSpDi.eases of Women and Children especially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. DENTISTRY. eTjThXrrib,

Resident Dentist, . PETERSBURG, IND. ALL WORK WARRANTED. W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms* and 7 in Carpenter BuildIn*: Operations first-class.. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. «m DENTISTRY Mr appliances are all new, and In direct conformity with the latest Improvements used in Dentistry. I hare located permaly over P. C. Hammond A Son’s, where I neatly over P. C Hammond A Son's, i Will do Bridge and Crown work a specially. DR. JOHN D. LOETZERICH, DENTIST. MODEL BARBER SHOP JOHN LEE, Prop. The only shop in town run by white men. Work first-class. Satisfaction guaranteed. We make a specialty of children’s and also at ladies’ hair cutting. Dyeing done to the satisfaction of all. CALL. % JOHN USE. TKI1S1KES’ NOTICES OP OFFICE DAT. XTOTICE to. hereby given that I will attend ie to tbe duties of tbe office of trustee of Olay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. AH persons who have business with the office will take notice that I will attend to business on no other day. . M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties Interested that I will attend at my office In Stendal, EVERY STAUBDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having-business with said office will please take notice. J. 8: BARRETT, Trustee. Ni ICiTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that 1 will be at my residence. EVEBY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. rCTICE is hereby given that 1 will be at I my residence _ EVERT THURSDAY To attend to bnslnese connected with tbe office of Trustee of Logan township. dW-Positlvely no business transacted except on office days _ SILAS KIRK, Trustee. J^CTICE Is herebjrgiven toallpertleeeontbat I will attend at my residence EVERT MONDAY To transact business connected with tbe office of Trustee of Madison township. SW-Positlvety no business transacted exeept office dey*- JAJ|M RUMBLE, Trustee. 8 is hereby given to all persons lasd that I will attend in i

THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily NewsCONGRESS. In the Senate on the 8th Hr. Jones (Ark.) offered a resolution of Inquiry as to the supervisors of elections appointed for the First and Second district* of Arkansas at the late election and the sums paid out, etc., which went over. Mr. Dawes had lead a letter written by the census Indian agent for the Pine Ridge agency showing that the Indians are not hostile because of a lack of food supplies. Quite a discussion followed on the Indian troubles. The resolution calling for Information as t o money paid to John I. Davenport (of New Tort) chief supervisor of elections, since 1871, was adopted. Mr. Gorman then .poke against the elections hill, followed by Mr. Gray. Adjourned—After disposing cl District of Columbia business Mr. McKinley reported and the House passed a bill providing for a rebate on tobacco. This cures a defect in the tariff bill occasioned by an omission. Adjourned. Is the Senate on the 8tli the resolution for the establishment of a public farm in each county in the Republic was reported adversely and Indefinitely postponed. The Farmers' Alliance sub-treasury bill was transferred from the Agricultural Committee to the Finance Committee. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to reduce the amount of United States bonds to be required of National banks and to provide for the free coinage of silver, and gave notice that if the elections bill were not disposed of soon be would mov6 to lay it aside antt take np the bill Introduced by him. Several resolutions were Introduced In regard to the expenses of supervisors of elections, and the Federal elections bill was debated until adjournment. —After disposing of minor business the House took up the bill fort lie removal of the. remains otGeneral Grant to Arlington and It was defeated by a vote of 92 yeas to IK nays. Many public buildings bills were considered and among those passed was the bill appropriating $1,200,000 for Kansas City, Mo., and $80,000 for a building at Beatrice, Neb. In the Senate on the 10th Mr. Reagan gave, notice of several amendments he proposed to offer to the elections bill. The House bill to authorize a rebate on tobacco (cor recting an omission In the tariff bill) was passed. The .elections bill came np and Mr. George spoke against it. The Senate concurred in House amendments to several public buildings tills, lion-con-curred in others, and appointed a conference committee. Tbe elections bill was ordored reprinted and the Senate adjourned. -But little was done in the House. The distribution of the President’s message was discussed and agreed upon, and in committee of tile whole bills reported from the Indian Affairs Committee were considered. IN the Senate on the litb a resolution was adopted directing the Post-offiee Committee to inquire into the feasibility and advisability of a law establishing postal savings banks at certain offices. Sir. Plumb’s resolution for earlier meetings of tbe Senate anj) for evening meetings was taken up and debated at some length and finally went over. The election bill was then further debated, Messrs. Wilson (Iowa) and Frye favoring the bill in . speeches of some length. Adjourned_The House considered the fortifications bill in committee of the whole, which finally passed; also a bill appropriating $400,000 for a deficiency in printing. Public lands bills were then considered until adjournment for want of a quorum. Mk. Plumb’s resolution for daily meetings at 10 o’clock and evening sessions came up in tbe Senate on tbe 12th and was amended by striking out theprovisioii for eveningsessions and then agreed to. Mr. ltolph’s resolution directing an inquiry by the Klectlons Committee into the abridgment of the right to vote in certain States (having reference to the new Constitution of Mississippi) was taken up and a sharp debate followed. Mr. Vest offered an amendment extending the inquiry to certain States that discriminated against colored persons in the right to labor on public works, (having reference to a State law of Oregon). The resolution went over. Debate on the elections bill took up the remainder of the session—In the House bat little was done, private bills being considered in Commniittee of the Whole.

WASHINGTON NOTES. James U Hathaway, of. Montana, will succeed Mr. Wheat, the present postmaster of the House. The Committee on Ways' and Means has offered a favorable report on the bill providing that the tariff law should not be construed to render the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty inoperative. The Democratic members of the committee opposed the action taken. The Secretary of the Treasury has transmitted to the House an est mate aggregating 934,509,000, submitted by the Secretary of the Interior, to supply a deficiency for the payment of army and navy pensions for the current fiscal year. Dr. 8. M. Burnett, of Washington, has received a cablegram from his wife, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, announcing the death in Paris of their son Lionel. The little fellow had found a very warm place in the hearts of the American people as the original of the character of Little Lord Faunt'eroy. The bill for tho reorgan ration of the army has been reported favorably to the Senate. Thf. House committee has virtually agreed upon reporting a ship subsidy bill. Hon. Thomas Ryan, Minister to Mexico, was in Washington on the lltb conferring with the State Department over a scheme of reciprocity. A bill has been introduced in the House for the appropriation of 84,000,000 for a new public building at Chicago, to be completed in a year. The United States Supremo Court reversed the ruling under which the convicted murderers of Sheriff Cross and posse had been sentenced to be hanged at Paris, Tex. The crime occurred in the Neutral Strip and the arguments turned on the question ol jurisdiction TUB EAST. Philadelphia cigar manufacturers are talking of advancing the price of cigars to conform’ with the Increased tariff on Sumatra tobacco. The Bethlehem (Pa) iron and steel works, which shut down a week ago. have rece ved large orders and 1,000 idle men w.ll have work nearly all winter. Roberts, Cushman & Co., New York, dealers in batters’ mater'a1,havo failed. Liabilities unknown. One hundred consumptives are waiting the arrival of aome of Koch’s lymph in the.Blockley alms house, Philadelphia Nightingale Bros. & Knight, silk manufacturers, Paterson, N. J., have assigned. Liabilities, 8400,000. Whitten, Burdett & Y dung, wholesale clothiers, Boston, havB failed; also Q. W. Ingalls & Co., shoe dealers The liabilities in both esses we ire heavy. Prof. Bancroft, of Biown University, Providenoe, R I., has been missing from his hotne since the morning of the 8th. It is feared that be has wandered away in a fit of depression and may have suocumbed to the severity of the weather. He iB about 55 years old. Senator Quay is said to bare lost seriously by the Delamater is Jure. The municipal elections at Boston went in favor of the Democrats By the fall of the high staging- on an

News has been received of the death at Dover, K. H.t of Colonel A. H. Young, Quartermaster of the United States army. Colonel Young had been in charge of the construction of the new military barracks at Newport) Ky., from the beginning. An indefinite closing down of all their mines has been ordered by the ooal department of the Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. Thousands of men will be forced into idleness. Chauncey Depew is cheerfully talkative over the semi-panicky condition, which he attributes to d strust Senator Hearst, of California, who has been sick in New York, has recovered. Venabi.e & Hermann, liquor dealers; New York, have failed for 6300,000; also Henry Seibert, tobacco, for 6250 000. Narr & Freund, brokers of Philadelphia, who failed some two weeks ago, have settled with their creditors by A New York green goods man who tried to bribe the postmaster at Albert, Mich., to receive letters for him was, through the postmaster’s report to the authorities, arrested with 500 letters on his person. Harry CL Kemp, the Reading railroad brakeman accused of causing the wreck at Shoemakersville, Pa., in which twenty lives were lost, was acquitted by * jury. A new brick dwelling in Brooklyn was blown over on a one-story frame occupied by Nicoli Delphino. Delphino’s daughtor was crushed to death. Tre tug Vandecook sank at her dock in Jersey City. Two men were drowned. George F. Work, who was the master mind of the Work-MacFarlane-Pfeffer-Dungan syndicate, which, it was alleged, wrecked the Bank of America and the American Life Insurance Company, has been arrested at Philadelphia. _ The total deficit of ex-County Treasurer Little, of Fayette County, 111., has been found to be 610,830. He resigned in September. John P. Crow, ex-pugilist, was shot dead in Murphy’s saloon, Denver, Col., by Frank G. Marshall in a dispute The Crow Indians of Montana have signed the treaty providing for the sale of 1,850,000 acres of their lands to the Government for 6946,000 E. Todd and w.fe of Sioux City and their daughter, Mrs. Slayton, were run down and killed by a Great Northern train near St Paul, Minn. Kittle & Ca’s linseed oil works, near Third and King streets, San Francisco were burned early the other morning. The loss was 8200,000; insurance, about one-hall The fire was caused by a vat of oil burning over. A special from San Francisco intimates that the Arkell exploring expedition to Alaska has possibly been lost A two months’ oldlettgr from one of the party has been received at San Francisco so much belated the party is known to be snowbound. The friends of H. B. Campbell, the missing Chicago millionaire, have information that he was recently seen in Detroit, Mich., and en route to Niagara Falls. Resolutions were adopted by the Illinois State Grange demanding the election of United States Senators by vote of the people, the placing of binders and mowers on the free list and the exclusion of liquors from the World’s Fair grounds One thousand ipen have been laid off at the Chicago* works of the Illinois Steel Company. The Mirfnffapolis flour trade is reported very dull. Judge Gresham, at Chicago on the 11th, refused roliet to Counselman for violating the Inter-State commerce law. The case now goes to the Supreme Court Charles Miller, the boy who murdered two young men in Wyoming while traveling in a box oar, has been convicted. the west.

The hostiles in the Northwest have divided into factions. In one of the fights twenty Sioux were said to be killed. Sam Pa in., the Chickasaw “statesman,” who mortally wounded h's son Joe over a woman, has fled to parts unknown. Major R. H. Hendershot, known as the “Drummer Boy "of the Bappahannock,” has been arrested at Portland, Ore., on a charge of passing a worthless check on a hotel keeper. He. refused to settle or give bonds and went to jail. Collier, Robertson & Hambleton, wholesale grocers of Keokuk, Iowa, have failed with $100,000 liabilities. The hank of J. W. Schnack, of East Ta was, Mich., has been closed. Schnnok is away and no details are obtainable. Da grippe is said to be proving fatal to the ghost dancers of Big Foot’s band of Cherry Creek hostiles. THIS SOUTH. The “three Cs” a Tennessee railroad, is in the hands of a receiver. A fatal plague is prevailing among the cattle of East Tennessee. Hundreds of them have recently died from some unknown cause. A tornado went through Walton County, Ga., on the 8th. Several persons were killed. There is great suffering among the striking miners’ families at Monogah, W. Va. Notices of eviction have been served on those occupying the company’s houses and it is probable that over 3,000 persons wi|l he homeless. A bun on the Farmers’ & Merchan ts’ Bank at Clarksville, Tenn., caused it to fail. Wadk Hampton was defeated for the South Carolina Senatorship by his Alliance opponent, John D M. Irby. The final vote was tOS to 43. Irby is only thirty-six years old. The Anchor line steamer City of Baton Bouge has been sunk on a snag in the Lower Mississippi. Two lives were lost The boat was valued at$7S,000 and the cargo at 8100,000; The Druid duck mills at Baltimore, Md., have failed. The liabilities were heavy. Three hundred, and fifty operatives were employed. Two small children were fatally burned St Jaokson, Tenn., from grate fifes The Talleyrand memoirs are said to be dry and uninteresting. , Over $8,000,000 in gold lisa, left Liverpool to relieve the stringency in New York, Signor Grimaldi has been appointed Minister of tbe Italian Treasury and Minister of Finance, to fill the vaoancy itt tbe Cabinet caused by the resignation of Signor Giolittl A modus vivendi has been conoludod between England and Portugal. Ma. Parnell arrived in Dublin on the 8th- He wm the guest of the mayor at the Mansion House. He Intended to i«e tbe National League.

Ik ttao cue against Siavin and Me* Auliffe, at London, charged with a breach of the peace in engaging in a prize fight a verdict ef not guilty was returned by consent of the proseention and the prisoners were released. A man shot and killed a bride and bridegroom at Clermont-Ferrand, France, just after the wedding procession had left the church, and subsequently committed su cide. The murderer proved to have been a rejected suitor for the lady’s hand. The total population of the country, including Indians, will reach 63,000,000 after alL Already the Census Office hu actually returned in round numbers 815,000 Indians and whites in the Indian Territory. This, with the population of Alaska, which Special Agent Petroff estimates at 88,000, will bring up the total population of the United States to 63,000; 000, a numerical gain of 13,000,000 for the decade since 1880. Six children broke through the ice at Tipton, England, and were drowned. Parnell signalized his advent in Dublin by seising the office of United Ireland, ejecting the editorial force and installing a force of his own. The antiFarnelllte party issued an address to the Irish people, but it fell flat Parnell was evidently en the popular wave in Ireland, his addresses being received with vociferous applause, while his opponents were hanged, gibbeted or otherwise deposed of in effigy. " A joint note has been sent to the Government of Holland by the European Powers with regard to duties in the Congo State. It is thought the collective note will have the desired effect Tax pressed glassware trade is in bad condition. Du Behrens, of Berlin, writes that thus far jiis experiments looking to a cure for diphtheria have not resulted successfully. He announces, however, that he will continue them. Du Welty is the name of the new President of Switzerland. He was formerly Vice-President The London Times says the whole monetary system of the United States is in a muddle. Parnell addressed a vociferous crowd at Cork on the 11th. At Marlow there were manifest dissensions, the leader being hooted. Owing to an accident to the starboard engine, the trial trip of the cruiser Newark was stopped after the engines had been running at full power for nearly three hours. The trial trip will be repeated. The vessel averaged 19% knots per hour. • The French) Government proposes to reduce excise duty on beet roots in order to encourage sugar making in the country. Henry Villard, in an interview, said he did not think the Wall street panic was as near over as represented. Its cause he gave as the McKinley bill and the silver bill. „ The Peninsular & Oriental €i»amship Company’s steamer Nepaul stranded at. the Plymouth (England) breakwater during the prevalence of a dense fog. After considerable troub’e all got safely to shore. \ Three women were killed by an explosion in the factory of the new explosive megalin in Zumdorf, Hungary. Boehm, the Engish sculptor, is dead. The Princess Louise made a call upon him concerning work upon j) bust and was horrified to find him dead in a chair.

SAMUEL UOMPERS tl&S 06011 re-elected president of the Federation of Labor. Portugal will attack any armed force encroaching on her territory in Mozambique. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended December 11 numbered 374, compared with 313 the previous week and 390 the corresponding week of last year. The porcelain factory at Cime'.ow, Russia, owned by Prince Lubesicky, was destroyed by fire. Eight employes were burned to death. Captain Hbaly, of the revenue cutter Bear, reports much suffering among the Esquimaux of Alaska. Pabsell’s tour in Ireland has been somewhat checkered In the small towns, priests and bishops leading the opposition. In the larger centers of population he met with a better recept on. Prominent New York Irishmen have pronounced against him. In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Reagan’s resolution inquiring about the purchase of safes for the Post-office Department was agreed to; also a resolution calling on the Secretary of Agriculture for a statement of progress in the irrigation investigation. Mr. Jones addressed the Senate in opposition to the Federal Election hill, and Mr. Evarts advocated its passage.In the House the hill providing that one person may act as engineer and pilot on steam launchesoof ten tons and under was passed. The Senate Cattle Inspection bill wap discussed and referred to the agricultural committee. The hill for the adjudication of private land claims in certain States was passed with an amendment striking out the name of Arizona. During a birthday, celebration at Buchtel College at Akron, 0., on the night of the 13th, nine young ladies were dressed as Santa Claus with cotton batting on their heads and dresses. One of th em danced too near a gas jet and the cotton took Are. In an instant she was enveloped in flames and the clothing of the other girls was soon on fire. Three of them were perhaps fatally burned. Eour other girls were seriously burned, as were two of the lady teachers while trying to extinguish the flames. James Johnson, a colored barber, was stabbed to death, on the night of the 13th, by John Robert Washington in a saloon in Baltimore, Md. The two men were throwing dice and the murder was the result of a dispute over the giame. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Colored Reform Tariff Bureau of Washington, on the night of the 18th, resolutions denouncing the Force hill as prejudicial to the happiness of the colored men of the South were Adopted. C. S. Stoughton, of New York City, was arrested by a United States deputy marshal at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 18th, and taken to New York, charged with swindling a Mrs. Zeitjr out of $1,000 in a pension transaction. More than 13,000 cases of cholera are reportedin the State of Guatemala, and it is said th at 1,300 deaths have occurred in the city of Guatemala in seven weeks. Governor-Elect Edwin B. Winans, the first Democratic Governor elected In Michigan since 1858, is dangerously ill with pneumonia. The United States steamer Ranger is at Corinth, Greece, with nmefc sioknefs on board

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Papula Ion of Indiana Cities. The followInf; is a list of the principal cities of Indiana, with their population by the list census, so far as heard from: • * .... 10,759 Loeansport..._18,798 Brazil... Columbus...... Crawfordsvtlie.... Evansville... Fort Wayne. Frankfort.. Franklin.. Goshen.m~..~ Greensburg...... Huntington. 5,9)2 8,71)5 60S'55.087 85.349 5,918 8.788 6,017 3,583 7.800 Indianapolis_M7.44S Jeffersonville_ 11,874 Kokomo. 8 884 LaPorte. 7, Lawrenceburg... 4,280 Madison..8,988 Michigan City... 10 704 Mishawaka_ 8,309 Mount Vernon... 7,710 New Albany.. *1,000 Peru. 6781 Plymouth_ 2.788 Princeton. MM Richmond..10.849 South Bend..81,7*6 Valparaiso... 5,803 Wabash. 5,190 Washington.. 6.058 Warsaw- 8,550 . J. Scott Davis, postmaster at Lett’s Corner, died from an overdose of strychnine prescribed for rheumatism. || W. H. Heath, of Fremont, has a German violin which he claims was made in »11. Fire, the other night at Montpelier, destroyed six business buildings in the center of the town. Loss, $25,000. THK.Peni.ion Department has appointed a board of examining surgeons for "4luntingtoi; County, consisting of Drs. Lagrange, Severance; £.* H. Layman, B. H. B. Gray Eton, of Huntington. The sixteen-year-old son of John Sog8telter, of Wabash, was sp badly bit-' >. ten by a boar that he will probably lose both legs. A colored baby show is to be hold at Crawfordsville between Christmas and New Years, and three presents are to be given. ElderM. M. Vancleve, of Crawfordsville, is eighty years old, and has married 681 couples. The schools of Swamp College, Hartford City, were closed a few days ago on account of scarlet lever. The county board of health has taken hold, and will do all in its power to prevent the spread of the disease, of which there are grave fears. The other evening Mrs. Daniel Eaton, of Tipton, gave birth to a pair of twins. Mrs. Eaton is but thirty years of age, and is the motbef of three pairs of twins. Eleven children have been bora to her, and all of them are alive, with one exception. She has a brother who is the father of two pairs of twins, and a sister who is the mother of one pair of twins. The Commissioner of Pensions has appointed Pension Examining Surgeons in Indiana as follows: Dr. Leonidas Mason, at Bluffton; Dr. A W. Mills, at Fowler, Dr. Jacob D. Hart, at Williams port. The State Association of Retail Lumber Dealers met at Indianapolis, on the 9tb. The question oP demurrage after the forty-eighl-hour limit now imposed by the Car Service Association was severely criticised. The association favors the idea that railway companies should be charged for unnecessary de- ■ lay- is-the. transDor tation of freight Diphtheria, in epidemic form, continues on the increase in Indianapolis and tbe health board now has 118 cases in charge, with additional ones being reported daily. John Payne, aged eighty, and a pioneer, living in Shelby County, ten miles north of Columbus, committed suicide by taking morphine. -A reward of fifty dollars has been offered for the arrest of the scoundrel who stole Miss Dora Jones’ hair while she was asleep, at Brazil. After joking a while in Schwein-' forth’s saloon at Marion the other evening Dave Hummer and James Douglass

became engaged in a row, during which Hummer was probably fatally shot. Douglass was arrested and is now in the city jail. Hummer was until lately proprietor of the “office” saloon, and is one of the best known men in town. Diphtheria in a malignant form is prevalent in the counties of Martin, Lawrence and Brown. Burglars tooks $50 from Postmaster Acberson’s pocket, at Odell, and left a bullet in one corner of his neck as a souvenir. Demented Wm. Bradford, eighty, made a funeral pyre for himself by set* ting fire to his own house at Crothersville. Isaac Jones, a young man living some miles north of Covington, had his right band crushed to a pulp in a patent-corn-husking machine. There are 31? inmates of Indiana’s School for Feeble-Minded Youth. The oost of the institution for the past year was $78,238. Anderson had a bonfire the other night, when a lot of “tcols” accumulated in recent raids on thegamblingden^ were burned. Indianapolis has many cases of diphtheria. iSfNiEL H. Gilman, of Terre Haute, has sued the C., Cw, C. & St L. Railway Company for $10,000 for the loss of a hand. At Rockport, while gathering corn the other day, Adam Gickemann, a. young farmer, was kicked to death by one of the horses bitched to his wagon. Eickemann was using a shucking-peg for a whip when he. met his death. A company known as the La ports County Transportation Company, composed of capitalistsof Laporte and Michigan City, applied to the board of county commissioners for a grant of the right of way for an electric railway to connect the two towns. The road will be twelve miles in length and will run in conjunction with the Michigan City street railway and the proposed Laporte street railway, which is already guaranteed. The commissioners will grant the desired right of way. Natural gas exploded at the residence of Dr. J. R. Rucker, of Sbelbyville, and Mrs. Rucker and her two small children were badly burned. The notorious Snyder gang the other night robbed A. F. Wilden’s general store in East Goshen and then set fire to it. Their tracks ir the snow betrayed them, and a short time after the fire they were traced to a school house and six of them captured. They had succeeded in burning much of the plunder before an entrance was effected. The building and stock' were a total loss. ‘ Lafayette West, who lived six miles west of Brazil,- fell from a hay mow and was instantly killed. In answer to an inquiry by the State Superintendent, Att orney General Smith .gave an opinion tha t children of school age who are inmates of the State reformatory and benevolent institutions can not be legally included in the enumeration which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the institutions which they occupy. Mrs. Mary Turp e, the aged mother of Hon. David Tirpie, was burned to death at her boms in Delhi, by her clothe* Igniting ftpig w> open fireplace

A FIERCE FIRE, Destructive Conflagration In the Bnd* ness Section of Providence. K. I.—Harrow Escape of the Erikplojres and Customers In the J. B. Barnaby Clothing Company’s Store—A Crushed Neighbor. Providence, R. I., Dec. 14.—Just before half-past two o’clock yesterday afternoon a cash-boy employed by the J. B. Baraaby Clothing Company, corner of Westminster and Borrance streets, saw smoke issuing from the cellar. He investigated and came rushing up the stairs exclaiming that the whole cellar was on fire. In a few moments flames burst from the floor of the first story in every direction. Even the occupants of the first floor had to hurry in order to escape with their lives, so quickly did the fire spread. Three alarms were sounded ipiquick succession, and the flames mounted upward with such rapidity that the occupants of the second and third floors had barely time to reach the fire escape. Women clerks in the cloak department and customers stood at the windows paralyzed with fright. But they were encouraged and hurried out by the firemen. The fire was so fierce that a fourth alarm was sounded, as it was rapidly communicating with adjoining buildings. It spread to the Root building on the west. The wall of the Bamaby building fell on the roof of the Root building, and it was soon in a mass of flame. f. The fire also jumped across Middle street to the Union Hall bnilding, opposite, but in this quarter the progress of the flames was stayed for the present. The loss of the J. B. Barnaby Company can not be fully stated at present; probably fully insured. The Root building, with its contents of hardware, was valued at $60,000. Every piece of fire apparatus in the city was at the scene of the fire. The Donrance bnilding (Barnaby’s) cost $75, - 000. It is a total loss and is insured for $60,000. NATURAL GAS. An Unexpected Strike of Natural Gas at Pittsburgh, Pa.—Pour Hundred Pounds to the Square Inch. Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 14.—As one of the attractions the management of the Pittsburgh Exposition Societycontracted with the Pittsburgh Oil SupplyCompany, to drill an oil well npon the exposition grounds during the' recent exhibition. Drilling was commenced early in September, and progressed with varying regularity until yesterday the drill penetrated the third sand at a depth of 1,985 feet, and proceedings were brought to a sudden stop by a terrific flow of natural gas. The location of the well is at the point of junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. During the day while preparations for confining the unexpected flow of gas were in progress the natural fnel belched forth with so great a noise that conversation within a block of the well was almost impossible.

i ne gas was comroiea last nignt ana a gauge taken. Theflow showed a rock pressure of 400 pouilds to The inch. This quantity of gas is sufficient to supply fifty puddling furnaces of the largest size. The gas is pronounced of the finest quality. Upon further development it is believed that the pressure will be much greater. The well will be drilled deeper at once. Several manufacturers within the city limits are arranging to drill for gas upon their property. This is the first time gas has been struck in paying quantities in the city, the gas being piped here from outside the city limits. The finding of the gas at the exposition ground has produced much excitement. A QUESTION OF ELIGIBILITY. The State of Nebraska May Have to Elect Another Governor, the Eligibility of the Governor-Elect Being Disputed. OmaSa, Neb. Dec. 15.—It has developed that there is a grave question concerning the eligibility of James E. Boyd, Democratic Governor-elect of Nebraska. Mr. Boyd was born in Ireland in 1834. In 1848 his parents settled at Zanesville, O. In 1849 his father, Jos. Boyd, declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States, bat did not take out his final papers until October 3, 1890. In the meantime James E. Boyd celebrated his arrival at majority in Zanesville and then came West. He has never declared his intention of becoming a citizen, and is therefore a subject of Queen Victoria. One lawyer consulted claims that the act ot the elder Boyd in 1890 will relate back to his former act of 1840, and thus give his son the rights of citizenship. Unless this be correct, the late election is null and void and a new one mustne held. ' James E. Boyd held the office of mayor of Omaha several terms during the days of the city’s great growth, and the present disclosure calls into question many important official * acts. There is great excitement here in political circles. The affair was dug up by the Farmers’ Alliance, which is contesting Boyd's election. Another Fight Between Indians. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 14.—The Journal’s Rushville, (Neb.) special says that the fight that occurred Friday was between two bands of Indians, growing out of a dispute as to whether they should go to Pine Ridge Agency and give up their arms. Several are reported killed. The dispatch sajs nothing about the fight between the whites and the Indians. Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 14.—Bridget Birkle, one of the oldest residents of Bromley, Ky., was burned to death Friday night. The charred remains were found in her house early yesterday morning by neighbors who were attracted thither by smoke issuing from the door and cracks in the windows. It is supposed the old lady’s clothing caught fire while seated near the stove. Nothing remained of the chair except the metal rollers. The deceased was possessed of considerable means. She leaves six children, all residents of Covington. The Sinking of the Steamer City of Baton New Orleans, Dec. 15.—A Baton Rouge special says: Captain Bixby, of the lost steamer City of Baton Rouge, in an interview says that when he attempted to land at Hermitage he was under the impression that the snag on which his boat was wrecked had been removed. The shock produced by coming in contact with the snag was hardly noticeable, and the landing was made before the boat began to sink. She went down in five minutes. All oo board with their baggage and valuable* walked ashore over the Burned to Death. Bouge.

—tW-l- ----■ FOB I REE WOOL A Kl*h froteeM* Paper WmU Free Wool —It W»«M* till WmI Grower to Stand From Pritor- ! it the iJenufictarer A'»o Shell Onfe. i. The Boston J irnal of Commerce is a high protection paper which does not believe ia a dut on woot In a recent a am her it coma .nts on the westward movement of p >ul»tion as shown by the census. and nds in that movement “an exeospUfic .ion of the course of settlement and eveiopmeat of a county-” That course f settlement and development it 4< cribes in words which it quotes fron somebody as follows: “After the h cm -r, trapper and prospector, tbeJherdsi in follows, and for a time the raan; of cattle is the chief industry. As s c.tlement ‘becomes less sparse, this is ! llowed by agriculture, which, in its tc a, as the population becomes mere i mse, is succeeded by manufactures.’1 The Journal makes this the text from which to ead the wool grower a hriefiesson fere is an expression of a fact,*" it says ‘that is entirely ignored by the wool- rower in his struggle against the im -itable course of natural events. He i made to believe that pioneer oceups ons can live and thrive by the side of rose that are fostered by density of por iation and a more civilised cider of urroundings. It is because of tbes false ideas that cause him to be con: antly clamoring for Government proU -.ion against the inroads of natural fori s that denote social and industrial pro; -ess." « In other wo .s, Massachusetts wants free wool for 1 »r mills, for she is smart enough to see vhat a great boo n to her industries fre wool would be. The recent election a that State, which resulted in a Ik locrat’c majority in the Congressional ielegation of the State for the first t le in more than thirty years, is aa e phatio expression of the New Kngiant demand for free raw materials, a hove ill for free wool. it will be nly a few years before wool is entire f tree, and-'tjjen the 63,006,900 peopi l of this country will at once have the ,d vantage of cheaper and better cloth ig—-an advantage with which the en re wool-growing industry of the countr; does not fora moment deserve to be et .pared. The wool product <il the couatr does not amount to more than two pel cent of our agricultural products; ani our native wool, is considerably les than half of our yearly consumption. In ifwgard to our woolgrowing ini istry, the one question which alwa; hits the bull’s eye is, why should i 000,000 people be made to pay a high t riff tax on wool for the benefit of tb insignificant number who grow wool ? The Banto Journal of Commerce is right; the di y on wool must go. But th6 Journal s a protectionist paper and on pro tec tit . grounds, can not make out a stroii case against the woolgrower. latter has a perfect right to the smr rotection that the Journal dSiuaudiFfc tbs manufacturer, and when the g >wer is put on a basis of competition nth the whole world he will not he ( ought unreasonable if he asks that th manufacturer should surrender some .f his protection also When thi Journal cries outaga nst the wool-grc rar for “constantly clamor

in? lor uov -nment protection against the intoads ; natural forces,” it must remember tl it the wool-grower is not alone in lat clamor. The tendency of t a time is toward the cheapening of all manufactured products as is result of invention and improved m hods of manufacture and transportati a. VF hen our manufacturers ask to oc exempted from the play of this che; >ening tendency, th&y, too, are “clamoi ig for Government protection again: the inroads of natural forces;” and t is only a matter of simple justice that vhen the emancipation of industry ci licences the good work should go fi ward along the whole line. Let us bar cheaper wool; but let us also have t -eaper coats—and no fear i that these « eaper coats will “necessa- ’ rily involve » cheaper man and woman beneath tb coat,” as our wise President has ex rossed it Tl E LEAD TAX. hundred extra men have at work at the smelter and ;ead mines (this mine has lown for three years) at *, and this result is but a »ny other places. A very estimate places the numn Arizona and New Mexle idle when the McKinley ed and are now employed, i that the output of their well the production 'to the .510,COO annually.” a the Press remarks: “The' il is working out practical itfr of the electiou.” what those “practical rathe case of load, tariff law there was a duty but no duty on the lead Thus a large lead, three been place; the Eagle bean shut S3. SC per di sample of i coaservativ her of men co, that vi bill was pa at 10,000, ai labors will amount of I Whereup McKinley 1 results in s Let us se suits” are i In the ol on lead orv con tamed i quantity oi ico in ail smelted in City and o ploytrtens t ores are w ! and are r lead ores. I ores, «nd a during sue! | have the hi , to come in There is, ful clique ‘tsarbocats : wiled. tu» i It was In keep out t secure thl> 1863 a ns Quay and I ruptiou fa oufcel&sra ‘ moo® pens tion aae J This la w ifc® Hatrii there trasi c&rbcnatc put an the Detartmes A deolsi silver ore a. aad ores came in from Mex>r ores, these ores being vast quantities in Kansas ier places, and giving emthonsands of men. These tt are sailed fluxing ores, eded in smelting our dry Most of our ores are dry the owners of mines proires were very anxious to cican fluxing cre3 continue ee. owever, a small but powerI Colorado, known as the, ;iag,” who own wbat are rbonate Lead Mines, he interest of this ring to ) fluxing ores. In order to result they coalfibuied in large amount of “fat” to id lay’s “fclocks-of-fl*e” cor1, it being understood by at the ring was to be duly when the new Administrate power at Washington, it actually happened. After a Administration came in squabble on the part of the lug to get silver-lead ores tillable list by the Treasury a was given by Secretary Wlbctets v don os ih< of lead bej the old S W me. ieh restricted the importaVtextcan ores, and the price » at once to advance from lire of m cants «» pound. ;e paragraph la the Me Kim jsing a duty cf XH cants a A of € IBS For Ibe Few and Lowes For the any—!3anip«taUn>m of the Trnsto an Rings-Prices Which Have Bs«m °3tv! nlejred-** The Nev York Press prints the following in a editorial to show the beneficial effect >f the McKinley tariff on lead: “At icorro, N. M., a town that was ruinei by free trade in Mexican

that if a tariff law should be enacuu it would impose suoh a duty. Thereupon the price again began to advance. Just before tbe vote on this paragraph the' price in Chicago and St Louis was to 4 cents. The following week it was cents. It is now about S cents Now the question for suoh high tariff organs as the Press to answer is this: Where is the. profit to the country at targe in paying 2J£ cents a pound higher for its lead in order that a few hundred or thousand miners in Ari-ona and New Mexico may get higher wages? Is it economy? Would any intelligent farmer or business man conduct his affairs on siich a principle? Tbe duty on lead played directly into the bands of the lead trust liy causing a scarcity of lead it .enabled the trust to put up prices. There was actually a lead famine. On October 4 the New York Engineering and Mining Journal said: Tbe lead famne still continues, and that It is owing to the shortness of supply in tbe United Slates of suitable smelting material and fluxing or s there Is no question of ioubt (io n the state of affairs now existing In leadvlllo, C >1. Th's district when the discussion was going on as to whether Mexican fluxing ores were admitted or not, was represent' d by Ih se opposing the admission as being capable of furnishing not only sufficient for 119 own smelting Industiy but s large surplus for smelters' established elsewh-re. Now Leadvllle Is actually Importing Mexican fluxing ores in spite of toe long haul and high pil.'e, to keep her own smelters going! # la recent years thore have been scarcely any importations of pig lead, the old duty being prohibitory; butnow that the home market price has gone so high, importat:ons bare again set in, notwithstanding the duty of two cents a pound. For tho week ended November 15 about 450,000 pounds were entered at New York. Tho lead duty is bearing its legitimate tariff fruit in building up trusts. A recent number of tho Metal Worker says: T in lend br s'i o s of tl:e country Is rapidly rl ting into the control of a few orga .ixati* ns. The evidences cf snee ss of the lead trus% the combination of the white lead In-1-tests, with two smel ing plants and one retlnery allied with it, has g v. n en oaragement to others. It is true that the grand Centralization s- h me of the other smelter# and r liners fell through completely, bnt since then th > two l< admg M< ntan t smelting wrrks at Great Falls and St Helena hove co nbinetl. and fus' d w th them Is the large new refinery which is Just being completed at Chicago. Sou e of th - g-cup of capitalists who era in ton'rql of this combfn tion own also the Colors loSmeltirg Company r* Puello i nd possess n iningproperty In that Sti e. Others are very larg dy id-ntifled with mining in'erests in Montana and the Ccstir d’Alene region, in Idaho. Tho white lead trust bas also been ‘ advancing the price of white lead, which is'used in making paint. About the first of October the price of white lead was 6% cents a pound against 4 cents in England.. Under date o,f November 11 the trust sont out a circular announcing “an increase In prices” It gives the rate of white lead purchased m kegs lq lots of less than 1,000 peunds1 at 1% cants net (that is without any trade discount). If bought in 25-pound tin pails cento per pound; if in 5-pound tin cans (0% cents The pricey of white lead in the Unitod States m the present time, if in kegs, is thefl

been placed at work” at Socorro, N. M. Would it not be a (food thing to tom loose a few bloodthirsty fool-killers, in fhis nniin rhe Secretary of State Permits a Stab at the lleKinley BUI to Go Into His Reports. The State Department at Washington issues every month a stout pampbletentitled, “Keportafrom the Consuls of the United States.” James Q. 'Blaine ~ being now Secretary of State is responsible for what goes into these reports. ,Tbe present attitude of the Secretary to his party’s tariff policy lends a curious interest to the report on the new Russian customs tariff decree, which was sent to the State Department by “George W. Wurts, secretory of the United States Legation at St Petersburg. This report is printed, evidently with the approval of Mr. Blaine, in a recent number of the Consular reports. \ In his report Mr. Wurts says: \ “Tub new tariff will be regarded abroafK^ as prohibitory f ir a number of Krtlclea already enormously taxed at the Russian custom house, and many of them snch as Russia cannot produce, or, It so, of a quality so Interim as s. arce'y-to be marketable; snch, f irex imp'r, aS wine, many articles <t luxury, considered by the educated e'ssaes as accessaries, and others. Bum a can not yet produce all her necessaries; and to practically exclude them by increase of t ir.ff Is a questionable policy In a country so greatly dependent upon importations from abroad." In condemning the tariff decree of the Czar in Russia Mr. Wurts plainly condemns the MeRinley tariff put through - by the “American Czar,” which is built entirely on the Russian principle of exclusion. Did Mr. Blaine permit these words to go into the official reports in order to express the same contempt for McKinleyisra which Jhe expressed so forcibly last spring when he crushed in his fine silk hat and dashed it against the wall? Mr. Wurts evidently knows Blaine’s opinion of McKinleylsm. Butterworth’s Sagacity. “In my opinion, no man could have made a successful race for the Presidency of the United States standing upon the issue of the McKinley bill. It was the most unwise policy any party could pursue to take the stand of favoring an inorease in the tariff when it is' and has been apparent that a reduction is what has been needed, and is wanted. I think I saw what was coming; at least my action showed what was a wiso oouree, and other Republicans know only too well the inevitable consequences of the McKinley bill’s adoption.—Benjamin But ter worth. It Benefits Vetmont. The bounty on sugar applies to the mapi.e-tree product as well as to the beet sugar and cane sugar. How to get the bounty on maple sugar is told in our market notes The crop being the product**! -a tree which takes years te grouvtt’ is easy. for the maple sugar produce* to co-operate in making and nantketlng tbejr maple sugar, so M to prevent ovei-producUon, preserve a well -regulated market, and obtain fair pr ops for an article that will entitle them to the highest bounty.-Farm and Hone._ - Before the McKinley bill passed the Omaha Bee, In referring to the binding twine trust, said: "When it is understool that theccst of binding twlneiaet year was two cents for every bushel of wheat, amounting for the entire oroptoj nearly ten mill i an dollars, and that thej fore, 93% per-cent, in excess of Ihefl sign price; if in 25-pound tin-pails^J per cent-, and if in 5-pourtd_U3j|^B|^B aver 159 per cent, less'a'fair allowance for the difference in the cost of the tin in this country and Europe. And in answer to facts like these the protectionist organ points us to the fact that “three hundred extra men have